BoucettaAmr

Chapter 58 Soul Syphoning Beetles

Xi Son’s current look wasn’t something to envy, he no longer had that haughty presence, and was more of a meek and docile kitten, instead of the confident lion presence he gave earlier. Whatever he faced didn’t seem so intent on keeping Xi Son’s mental integrity in mind, that and probably the taste of his flesh. He had a few bite wounds on his arms that had yet to heal as a few cuts on his robes.

He had fought on the last leg, and somehow managed to escape unharmed, t...

Chapter 55 Soul Stairs

Chapter 55

Thinking things through, I found myself in more of a bind than I thought could be possible. X’s presence was comforting but with so many Soul Formation level puppets standing right outside the barrier, I felt like a mouse being watched by a pack of hungry cats. Not the best feeling in the world.

Still, I gotta admit, there was a sense of security inside this barrier. And where Xi Son tried to force his way through this barrier with might, these puppet...

Chapter 54 Conscious Transfer

Only to have hope re-ignited as the soldier dropped on its face when X showed up behind him. His head was torn in half, and his right arm dangled uselessly against his side, where thousands of cuts littered his body, X still stood, while a Soul Formation Puppet was laying on the ground. And this was all thanks to the fact that I had X working with five brains instead of one, as even though the gaping hole in his chest that destroyed his spiritual Stone, or the destroyed right arm, ...

CHAPTER 53 Overwhelming Odds

As I swam in the embrace of the universe, I came to a slight understanding of what space was. Emptiness, yet fluffiness, the Universe was empty, but at the same time, it literally had everything in it, a conflicting duality, unlike life and death, this was the existence and none existence at the same time. For even if the majority of the Universe was empty space, there literally was everything in it.

Food for thoughts I believed, and I saw through the universe, discovering mo...

Chapter 52 The Primordial Serpent

We arrived at a new floor, yet again a bit smaller than the one under it. But on this floor, there didn’t seem to be anything of note besides the massive pillar in the middle of it. It was a square pillar made of an obsidian-like substance.

Before I could consult the poison god’s book, Xi Son hurried towards the stone, trying to pocket it into his pouch but was soundly denied.

“Damn, I can’t take it, nor can I refine it for my own use.” Xi Son said.

“Pardon my la...

Chapter 51 The Bane of Man

The riders charged at us with ferocious impunity, if not for one final linked rope to cause a few to stumble I would have died right there and then, trampled by a warhorse.

The horse that fell in front of me, delivered its rider to my feet, concussed obviously but still looked whole, I dove my sword right at the small opening between his helmet and chest armor, I didn’t need to do more, the strike slit a major artery and he would die within minutes, nor could I afford to ma...

Chapter 50, Against The Odds.

“Spears at the ready!” the captain shouted at the ten tightly packed lines holding the entrance to the enclosed space.

“Archers! Loose!” he called as the backline shot arrows that arced their way into the incoming cavalry. A few of the arrows fell harmlessly on the sand, but a good portion struck rider and mount, causing the horses that were rushing at breakneck speeds to falter or outright fall.

A horse’s tumble was nothing if not catastrophic, as the whole b...

Chapter 49 Battle

I didn’t move, nor did the clone.

I didn’t need to act, first of all, I need to understand what the hell is going on. I’m in some Laughing Slaughterer’s pagoda, perhaps his trial area where he tests the cultivation noobs for lack of a better term. And the first test is a fight against one’s self, so I’ll need to prove that I can be better than who I currently am to proceed forward.

Right, now, the clone is not attacking, probably waiting for me to attack fir...

X

Chapter 47

The train-sized snake wasn’t too keen on greetings and immediately dove at me, head first, fangs ready to gouge me whole in a best-case scenario, at least it would beat being chomped on and chewed to bits before turning to a gigantic cultivating serpent poop.

I urged my frail old body to dodge to the side, say I urged here because against mortals like back at the bandit’s cave, I was strong and all-powerful, the disparity between a cultivator and a ...

Trials and Tribulations

I moved through the large swaths of grass and open fields, trees rose ever so sparingly in this enclosed area, though I have little understanding of if this whole place was a part of this world, or from the stuff I read when I was back on earth, a separate enclosed dimension. Though unlikely, this place could probably be on some other side of this continent instead of a secret location. But it’s never wrong to be careful.

This place might be the resting place of an Ascendant cultivato...

Into the Cave

Once we came down, we were stopped in our tracks while we gazed at the rocks. There was no seeming entrance to the said caves, if it weren’t for Xi Son’s confirmation that these rocks weren’t natural, no one could ever be able to convince me otherwise.

I thought high hard and low on where the entrance to these rocks could be but came to no favorable answer.

“Should I break them?”

“And risk the probability of destroying the entrance? There are too many variables a...

Back Dealings

Chapter 43

The three of us stood up and Xi Son didn’t let us pay for our own lunch, we followed after him until we reached the city’s pavilion.

With Xi son’s identity as a high ranking noble married to an imperial consort, he has the right to access most of the Pavilion’s floor, and when we arrived to the seventh floor of the pavilion, he took us inside to a small room where there was a small metallic bronze square placed neatly on the table.

“This...

Restaurant Friction

Chapter 42

Once we entered the Fu Shi restaurant, which by the way was an impressive ten-story tower building in the middle of the city, it looked prominent and amazingly decorated. The people within it were all high figures, the big wigs of the Empire.

Generals, high-ranking officers, great scholars, and even imperial entourage, from young princes to princesses and their attendants to some royal guards. This whole place stank of rich pockets and cocky attitude. I...

Chapter 43 Making Friends

“Master Craftsman Shen Bao? I never heard of that name, still, what do you think about this,” the bald man said as he threw the gourd my way.

Immediately, my eyes began processing the gourd, it felt as if it was the most natural thing to do, especially after those months of work in my study.

“Pretty intricate, but faulty,” I said.

“You too!” the homeless man said, “I swear I saw a man flying using it, he gave it to me in exchange for a bite. I’m no...

Chapter 41 Procuring Resources

Several days went by as I continued to study the symbols. I even went around the city for a couple of days to clear my head off, had a few drinks, and practiced Star Cultivation, then resumed my work. I had great hopes for puppet making and I had great ideas to integrate into it so I wanted to be thorough while making the symbols.

One day though, I happened to walk across the street and saw a man selling some goods, and among them was a specialist tool for puppet making, I as...

Chapter 38 House Lu

I came upon the city lights in the distance, the lit torches and lamps gave the whole city a serene calm and peaceful image. A great contrast to what went on in the nearby forest.

Once I arrived to the city gate, a man flew to meet me. He seemed to be on a greater cultivation realm as he stopped me mid-way.

“Fellow cultivator, this city prohibits entering it using flight, I’ll have to ask you to come down with me.” The man said.

I nodded and went down to the city gate ...

Chapter 35 Among wolves

Chapter 35

I rode through the wind as fast as I could, flying is far faster than traveling using the bumpy slow ride of the carriage. The journey took less than an hour when I saw a prominent palace standing atop a city so wide that I couldn’t think it would exist even in modern-day life.

The city was clearly far bigger than New York. And didn’t seem to be in contrast against itself, as the buildings were well organized and built like circular rows surrounding...

Chapter 35 Damsel in Distress

Two of the bandits drew their bows and shot at me, no warnings issued, they had a rather calm expression. Honed by years of constant faces with death. Fight or flight. And in a case where a cultivator is upon them, they knew that death was inevitable, so they would rather risk their lives for a lucky shot in the dark and kill the cultivator rather than try and escape from a man that can bend the laws of the world.

The two arrows were to me as slow as a snail. Apparently, my b...

Chapter 33, History

I walked towards the palace’s massive gate while avoiding getting trapped by the spider webs that were covering everything. Not even the ground was safe from the white blanket. I had to cut my way through in some areas, where the webbing was just too much. And once I went past a certain point, I found myself at the door of the palace which was speckless.

The palace carved into the volcano was untouched directly by the webbing. It was as if the spiders knew better than to de...

Chapter 31 Treacherous

I walked through the doorway, and inside was a man-built tunnel that led further down into the deep. The tunnel was large enough to allow only one of the spider's passage, and if only one of them comes at me I could handle it myself. The problem lays in the fact that I can’t use my poison breath here, mainly due to the strong wind coming from within the tunnel.

This reminds me of the cool wind that the Ice Yeti had been releasing as his breath, but only here, it was far less powerful,...

Skittering Problems Chapter 29

I placed my feet on the sword and it easily carried my weight without it dipping back into the ground. At first, I stayed standing on top of the sword-like an idiot for a few moments. Mainly because I had no idea how this thing would even move.

Yet, the moment I thought about the tree a few hundred meters in front of me, the sword shot forward, threatening to fly from under my feet and loge itself into the tree, yet there was something in play that kept my legs glued in place...

Gifts Chapter 28

Packing the library proved to be far easier than I thought would be.  Thanks to the poison god’s book having a dimensional pocket, it was able to suck in all inside it just as I thought about how I was going to start gathering the books.

The only thing left was what was left beyond the closed door frames.

Once I opened the doorway, which came out easier than I thought it would be. The hinges had actually rusted overdue to the passage of time, and when I used my s...

Chapter 27 Vow

Chapter 27

Nothing remained of the once glorious Cloud sect. All I could see were the smoking remains of burnt plazas and buildings. Caves that were no longer occupiable, and the sect master’s palace that seemed to have been rooted out of its place. And was no longer there.

What the hell had happened in here? I fumbled to find an appropriate answer, but nothing came to me. I slowly began by walking towards the sect, only to be assaulted by the rotting stench of ...

Chapter 26 Destruction

The days kept on going, slowly but surely, I managed to fully remove the ice from around the sect master’s body.

“Now, try and move,” I asked.

And the sect master did, she first started by wiggling her fingers and then her hand. Then slowly increased the range of motion until her whole arm was moving freely.

“You’ll probably feel slight pains over the following days, but don’t worry they are normal. I’ll treat the rest of the poison in the following ...

Chapter 25 Star Technique.

Morning came and my cultivation session has ended, I thought it would be best if I were to see elder Lao about the Star Weaving technique manual. He had promised to go and handle that affair for me.

Once I went down, I saw a small purple-colored book on the book stand that was not there. I approached the table and took a look at what seemed to be a cultivation manual. It read Star Weaving Technique.

“This must be it,” I thought to myself.

I opened the book and read :

Chapter 21 Grand Elder

It wasn’t hard to find disciple Han’s house Actually, he was the only disciple of the only Receptarier elder of the Purple Cloud sect. A grand Elder named Lao Bofan. A new thing I learned. Apparently elder and grand elders are two different things. An elder is someone who is responsible over a certain activity in the sect. Like the Hall master Yun of the Cloud Pavilion, or Elder Hu Tian of the punishment hall. But for the Purple Cloud Grand Elders, there were only three.

The Grand E...

Chapter 20 Creeping Demise

Once I got the kid to the pavilion a couple older disciples came to carry him, they noticed the injuries and assured me with the following words “We’ll take care of him Shen Bao, Elder Yun requests your presence.”

“I’ll go check with him, please take good care of Meng Hao.”

“We will,” replied the disciple and left with Meng Hao for treatment.

As I walked up the stairs of the Pavilion uninterrupted by elder Zhang, who I became a regular and daily guest of his....

Chapter 15 Interrogation

The group landed at the gate’s entrance, and soon came a horse carriage, only the horse had six legs instead of four and the carriage seemed to be floating instead of having wheels. There was no one to drive the horse so it seemed to be able to know what it was doing.

“Get on, Shen.” Duan Lin said.

He opened the carriage’s door and sat down, there was place for only two people and I was the second, I sat in front of him in the well decorated, and definitely much more comfo...

Chapter 13 Inner battle

I crouched down, though I had no idea why I did that, it’s not like if I crouched the monster will sense me less. Still, it felt like the right thing to do in such a situation. I continued crouch walking forward until I was next to the monster. Right as when he decided to breathe out.

The extremely cold temperature dropped like an anvil being thrown in a deep ocean. Thankfully the foci of the breath were not directly on me, I was a few steps away from it and this with the fanatic circ...

Chapter 12 Teachings

***
You have continued your journey and reached Middle Lower Qi condensation, to which I congratulate you my disciple. But do not gain a shred of pride or arrogance, because for your current self you’re nothing but a speck of dust in an endless sea of sand. You have just begun you journey and I shall be your mentor.

In the middle Lower Qi condensation, your poison Qi will be able to course more meridians, and thus, giving you more power and better physique. The ability to use the P...