noffsinger Chapter 357 Xuanwu Continent (9)
Chapter 357 Xuanwu Continent (9)
Fourth-tier demonic beasts are equivalent to the strength of humans at the Profound Spirit Realm, and below the same tier, demonic beasts are much stronger than humans in terms of physique.
"There are too many of these. Let's find a chance to run!" Xiao Ce said after killing a mountain demon.
“The mountain demon is extremely vengeful. If we escape today, he will likely keep hunting us down,” Xuanhe said calmly.
"This area of twenty miles is probably the territory of these mountain demons. No wonder it's been so quiet along the way. With so many of these things, it's not easy to kill someone by borrowing a knife," Wangyou said, catching her breath.
"Let's leave here first," Yu Bingqing said calmly.
Wangyou took some pills from the jade bottle and distributed them to the group. Although they couldn't mobilize spiritual energy, they could still help heal wounds.
After taking the pill, Wangyou suddenly found the suona she had taken out in the emergency earlier. She glanced at the furious mountain demons and decided to use them to practice her suona skills.
Wangyou took out her suona, then puffed up her lungs and started playing. She hadn't received any professional training in playing the suona, so how well she played depended entirely on her practice.
The piercing sound of the suona horn rang out, and Wangyou suddenly remembered the tune played by a funeral procession she had encountered on the road earlier. Thanks to her talent for remembering things she heard, after a series of stimulating sounds, the suona horn finally got into tune.
The piece "Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix" was originally played for the deceased, or rather, it works on the soul. In addition, Wangyou was deliberately targeting the mountain demons, so the mountain demons were in great distress at this moment.
"What an amazing instrument!"
"I'll try using the flute to accompany it." Yu Bingqing suddenly had an inspiration and tried to play the tune played by the Forget-Me-Not Suona on her flute.
For a moment, the entire peach grove was unusually lively, while the mountain demons felt dizzy and disoriented. Xiao Ce, Yan Tian, and Xuan He seized the opportunity to finish them off.
Although one cannot use spiritual power to play music here, playing continuously is still mentally taxing, so Wangyou and Yubingqing's complexions gradually worsened.
Listening to the intermittent music, Xiao Ce and the other two realized that the two had reached their physical limit. Their movements became faster and faster, and they would take a pill to replenish their strength when they got tired.
"Pfft!" Wangyou spat out a mouthful of blood, her head throbbing with pain. Before losing consciousness, Wangyou fed herself a Nourishing Essence Pill.
Yu Bingqing's face turned even paler, but she still managed to hold on for a while. After Xiao Ce and the other two quickly dealt with the remaining mountain demons, Yu Bingqing couldn't hold on any longer, vomited a mouthful of blood, and fainted.
The three quickly checked on the two and found that they were exhausted. After feeding them some Qi-nourishing pills, they sat down to recover their strength.
In the middle of the night, Wangyou woke up first, but she didn't feel well. She felt terrible, as if she had been beaten up.
"Who hit me?"
"Wangyou, you're awake. Is there anything else that's bothering you?" Xiao Ce asked with concern.
"I feel uncomfortable everywhere, it's so uncomfortable. Sure enough, musical instruments are not for ordinary people." Wangyou never expected that without spiritual power, this thing would actually consume mental energy. It's just outrageous.
"We owe you and Bingqing a lot this time, otherwise we would all be dead here," Yan Tian said, handing over a roasted rabbit.
"Thank you, I'm so hungry I could eat a whole cow." Wangyou took the roasted rabbit without ceremony and took a bite.
After taking two bites, she still felt dizzy and lightheaded. Suddenly, she remembered the mind-awakening pills she had made, so she decisively took one out and fed it to herself. Then she went over and fed one to Yu Bingqing, who was still unconscious.
"I've already given him the Nourishing Essence Pill," Xiao Ce reminded him.
"I gave her a Mind-Awakening Pill to restore her mental energy." Wangyou's complexion had visibly improved a lot.
"What? It actually restores mental energy? Are you sure?" Xiao Ce was extremely excited.
"What else? It's just a Mind-Awakening Pill, why are you all so excited?" Wangyou glanced at Yantian and Xuanhe, who were equally excited, and was very puzzled.
"Don't you know that the only thing in this world that can restore mental energy is the Cleansing Spirit Pill? I've never even heard of the Awakening Spirit Pill before."
"Well, I just figured it out myself." Wangyou couldn't find any relevant books in the academy's library, so she simply created her own. As it turns out, she seems to have done something extraordinary.
"Do you sell your Awakening Pill? I'll buy it with spirit stones," Xuanhe said with a smile.
"I already gave you some Awakening Pills, so you don't need to buy any more."
"Then we'll give you spirit stones after we get out." Since they had all said that, Wangyou didn't refuse.
After venting his anger by devouring the entire meat of a Swiftwind Rabbit, Wangyou finally felt less hungry.
"I'm going to make poison. If I encounter something like this again, I'll poison it to death," Wangyou said angrily.
Fortunately, she reacted quickly enough today and covered up her powerful mental abilities; otherwise, she would have been in trouble once she got out.
Poison is definitely safer. At most, she'll be called ruthless and people won't dare to approach her. This will save her a lot of trouble.
The peach grove was safe for the time being, so the group rested there for the night.
The next day, Yu Bingqing woke up. Wangyou examined the mandrill's corpse and found that the most venomous part was its claws. He then directed the others to chop off the claws from the mandrill's corpse.
Afterwards, Wangyou wandered around Yaolin and unexpectedly discovered a mysterious cave behind the peach grove.
Believing that surviving such a calamity would surely bring good fortune, the five decided to go inside and take a look. Then they discovered something interesting: the cave was actually a tomb.
"Sword Master Qingfeng, the one who astonished the world with a single sword strike five hundred years ago, and then suddenly disappeared a hundred years later, he was actually dead," Xiao Ce said regretfully.
"Let's search quickly, maybe there's some swordsmanship inheritance!" Wangyou said with a grin.
“The inheritance of swordsmanship may not exist, but the young mandrills definitely do,” Xuanhe said in a strange tone.
The group immediately stopped what they were doing and ran to where he was standing. Good heavens, this must be a kindergarten built by mandrills! It was full of little mandrills, about the size of a human three or four years old.
At this moment, the group of mandrill cubs looked warily at the group of outsiders.
"What should we do? Should we eliminate them completely?" Yan Tian suddenly said in a sinister tone.
"Why eliminate them completely? This is the trial realm of the Five Great Academies. If we kill all the mountain demons, wouldn't it be easier for the future students? Let's leave them behind and leave some soup for the future junior brothers and sisters," Wangyou said with a smile.
“That makes sense, let’s do it that way.” Yu Bingqing nodded in agreement, and the others had no objections either.
The group searched the entire cave and finally found a set of sword techniques carved on the wall, but nothing else of value.
"Qingfeng Sword Technique, the signature sword technique of Qingfeng Sword Master!" Qingfeng Sword Master was one of Xiao Ce's idols, and upon seeing this, he was extremely excited.
The sword techniques were all clearly engraved here, so it seemed a bit unreasonable not to learn them. Therefore, Wangyou and the other four all tried to understand them and at least memorized them.