True Martial World - Chapter 281: Crossing the Swamp

The black shadow was hidden within the mist, but Yi Yun saw through it using the Purple Crystal's energy vision.

In the energy vision, the black shadow was clearly a huge crocodile that was more than 10 meters long.

This crocodile had a dark hide, which was as strong as rock, as well as a single horn on its head. Thick eyelids covered most of its eyes and its body was covered in toxic and putrid black mud.

It was a Blackwater Ancient Crocodile.

The Blackwater Ancient Crocodile only lived in this corrosive swamp. It had great strength and its hide was extremely tough, making it invulnerable.

It had the peculiar habit of eating corpses, especially rotting corpses.

Yi Yun was still alive, but that did not matter. It did not mind occasionally eating something fresh. It could also kill Yi Yun and drag him into the mud to use him as a food reserve.

Seeing the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile, Yi Yun's mind lit up. With that, the corner of his mouth curled upwards.

The Blackwater Ancient Crocodile swung its tail as it slowly swam towards Yi Yun. The mud was being pushed aside by its gigantic body.

Although the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile was large in size, it was extremely nimble. Once it locked onto a prey, it would slowly approach it. Once the prey fled, it would then rush out quickly, issuing a strike that was as fast as lightning!

Against a prey like Yi Yun, who looked weak and small but had no intention to flee, the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile found it strange. Its amber eyes locked onto Yi Yun's every move. noveltranslationweb.blogspot.com

Yi Yun quietly drew out his Tai Cang Bow, with his energy vision, the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile had no way of hiding.

Yi Yun's retrieval of his weapon angered the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile.

It roared and with a frightening speed, charged to kill Yi Yun!

Yi Yun's quickly retreated and with a thunderous snap of the bow string, a cold whistling howl sounded as an arrow hit the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile's belly!

Boom!

The Yuan Qi contained within the arrowhead exploded, sending mud flying everywhere!

The Blackwater Ancient Crocodile felt pain. Although its belly was covered with scales, it still started to bleed from the violent explosion!

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Yi Yun continuously released arrows from his bow. The Blackwater Ancient Crocodile curled its body, trying to use its tough carapace to withstand the attacks.

Yuan Qi continuously exploded and the Wind Chasing Arrows stirred up a mud storm in the swamp.

In the mud swamp, the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile was greatly angered.

It had never expected the that seemingly weak prey it locked onto could make it turn into such a pathetic state.

It growled and its huge body leaped up from the swamp. It’s long tail crashed down like a stone column as it swung towards Yi Yun.

Yi Yun demonstrated his movement technique to an extreme and turned into a series of afterimages. And with a leap, he was more than 30 meters away.

The tail failed to hit, but when it crashed into the ground, it caused a huge bang, sending large amounts of mud flying!

Yi Yun used the Thousand Army Saber to withstand the flying mud before he then turned and fled. The Blackwater Ancient Crocodile growled and chased after Yi Yun. Its large body leaving waves of mud in its wake.

It quickly followed Yi Yun out of the Blackwater Swamp and into the Desolate Lands.

The Blackwater Ancient Crocodile was fast, but it was only so in the mud. Once it left the swamp, its speed clearly decreased.

After angrily chasing Yi Yun for a while, traveling a few kilometers, the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile started to feel a sense of unease.

It felt a tinge of danger, having distanced itself too far from the swamp.

It slowed down and thought of returning to the Blackwater Swamp, but at that moment, Yi Yun also stopped.

Yi Yun smiled. It was not easy to lure this big guy out here, so how could he let it flee?

Yi Yun took his Tai Cang Bow, took out an arrow from his interspatial ring and strung his bow.

Seeing that Yi Yun had no more plans of running and instead planned to attack it, the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile growled again and charged at Yi Yun.

Yi Yun gave a maleficent smile and released his fingers, shooting out the arrow like a shooting star!

Sou!

The arrow pierced through the air with a whistle!

The Blackwater Ancient Crocodile was aware of its strong defense, so it was not afraid of Yi Yun's arrow. It crashed with the arrow head on! But at the moment the arrow hit the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile...

Peng!

A terrifying explosion sounded. The hidden array bead within the arrowhead exploded! Strands of energy ripples, resembling spider webs, emanated with a mysterious frost power.

Immediately, wherever the energy ripples touched, that place turned into white ice crystals.

For his Divine Wilderness trip, Yi Yun had especially prepared many empty arrowheads. He had then placed different kind of array beads within them.

Yi Yun had prepared about 6 of this kind of frost energy array beads.

This type of frost bead was not considered strong, as it could not kill desolate beasts. But it was good at restraining and restricting desolate beasts. It helped warriors capture desolate beasts alive.

Ka-cha!

The Blackwater Ancient Crocodile was completely covered in fine ice crystals after being hit by the Wind Chasing Arrow. The Blackwater Ancient Crocodile was a cold-blooded animal so it had very low resistance against frost ice energy. Due to the Icy Strands array bead, its large body immediately greatly slowed down.

The Blackwater Ancient Crocodile frantically struggled as it shattered the ice crystals using its tremendous force. Although the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile was about to escape, this short amount of time was enough for Yi Yun.

Sou!

Yi Yun moved like a cheetah and leaped onto the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile's head. His body emitted a series of popping sounds!

With a grab, he took out a brick-like weapon from his interspatial ring.

This was especially prepared by Yi Yun before he came into the Divine Wilderness for training. It was easy to spill blood the moment the Thousand Army Saber was unsheathed, but most of the time, Yi Yun did not necessarily need to kill his opponent.

During the rookie ranking competition, Yi Yun had found the brick to be quite handy. Hence, he had prepared one for this training experience.

A brick that did not have any array engraved within it had only one advantage. It was heavy enough! And it was hard enough!

Yi Yun tightened his waist like an aquatic dragon. Energy surged into both his arms as he smashed the brick down onto the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile's snout!

According to the records in the "Divine Wilderness" book, the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile was covered in extremely thick scales that gave it invulnerability. Its carapace was even more so. Its belly was always stuck close to the ground, so many people lost interest in attacking it.

But, it had one weakness. Halfway along its snout, there was a spot which contained a large number of the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile's nerves. The Blackwater Ancient Crocodile would feel numbness once that spot was heavily attacked.

Generally, the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile would always pay attention to protect its weakness. It just needed to fling its head to dodge an attack which aimed for its snout. But, this did not include the situation of when a person would ride on its body and hit its snout with a brick!

Dang!

A metallic ring sounded. Yi Yun's attack was heavy with the force of a million pounds!

The Blackwater Ancient Crocodile’s mind became muddled after being smashed by Yi Yun. It never expected, even with its originally less agile mind, that a human that had been pursued by it would suddenly grabbed onto its head to smash it!

The Blackwater Ancient Crocodile was angered by having its weakness attacked. It roared and just as he was about to pull down Yi Yun with a bite, Yi Yun used his brick a second time!

Dang!

With another loud ring, the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile's roar muffled immediately.

This second hit had made the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile's brain to feel groggy. Its amber eyes were seeing stars.

It struggled with its last bit of strength, rolling its body, hoping to lose Yi Yun using the ground.

But Yi Yun's legs were like iron straps as he lodged onto the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile's neck. No matter how it tossed and turned, it could do nothing to Yi Yun.

This was also the reason why Yi Yun chose to lure the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile out of the Blackwater Swamp. If it were to roll in the Blackwater Swamp, it would cause Yi Yun trouble if his body was immersed in the toxic mud.

"You still have the strength to do this death roll?" Yi Yun chuckled and sent his third brick strike!

Dong!

The Blackwater Ancient Crocodile's snout was smashed apart by Yi Yun. Blood flowed out as the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile's body twitched!

Ever since its body was frozen by that arrow, its motions had been slowed down, allowing Yi Yun to easily attack its weak point.

Dong! Dong! Dong!

The fourth, fifth and sixth hit. Yi Yun got addicted to smashing.

From the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile's initial roar and tossing, to its whimper at the end, its large body had tightened into a clump as it trembled.

It had previously seen cultivators from the Divine Wilderness. It had previously eaten the corpses of cultivators and had also chased cultivators away.

But it had never seen such a brutal human that used such a method in beating it up.

Yes, this was not a battle, but a beating.

It also knew that it was no match against this terrifying human.

Seeing the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile turn into a sorry mess after being beaten up, Yi Yun slowly stopped. His legs were still lodged against the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile's neck. That golden brick was still hanging around the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile's snout. To the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile, it was a terrifying threat.

"You!" Yi Yun said, "I do not know if you can understand what I'm saying, but now, you will be my temporary mount and ferry me across the Blackwater Swamp. If you have any nefarious thoughts, such as diving into the swamp halfway, I will guarantee you that your snout will bloom immediately!"

Yi Yun held the brick in one hand and the Thousand Army Saber in the other. The cold saber blade landed onto the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile's snout.

"I may have to consume my Yuan Qi if I were to fall into the Blackwater Swamp, but I can easily last for about 2-4 hours. That will be plenty of time for me to kill you."

As Yi Yun said those words, the Thousand Army Saber slid across the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile snout. Although it did not cut through the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile's scales, it gave the snout a cold feeling that scared the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile out of its wits.

Desolate beasts had naturally higher levels of intelligence. Now, with its life being under threat and having been beaten up by Yi Yun, it seemed to understand Yi Yun's intentions.

If it did not resist and followed Yi Yun's intentions, then its life was not in trouble.

"Proceed!"

Yi Yun pointed with his Thousand Army Saber. The Blackwater Ancient Crocodile was stunned for a while before it finally barely understood Yi Yun's intentions. It then began crawling in the direction Yi Yun pointed.

Slowly, it began to crawl faster as it charged into the Blackwater Swamp.

With the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile as a mount, Yi Yun was able to prevent his body from entering the swamp and wasting large amounts of Yuan Qi. As such, Yi Yun just needed to use Yuan Qi to disperse the miasma.

This way, he could maintain his stamina as well as quickly cross the Blackwater Swamp.

True Martial World - Chapter 280: Mysterious Youth

Yi Yun retrieved the silk within the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm and a portion of its toxins as quickly as possible. After that he removed a few of its metallic teeth, stored them in his interspatial ring and used his movement technique to run deep into the wilderness.

Storage was a big problems for cultivators who went into the Divine Wilderness for training. One would only remove the most valuable parts of a typical large desolate beast, if not, the interspatial rings would quickly fill up.

While he was running, Yi Yun opened up his Purple Crystal's energy vision again.

The surrounding Power of Desolates appeared like waves as they rippled around. Yi Yun soon noticed energy light dots appearing in the distant Desolate Lands.

"One, two, three..."

Each of these energy light dots were naturally a Thousand Feet Black Silkworm.

Yi Yun quickly changed directions, avoiding the group of Thousand Feet Black Silkworms as he ran deeper into the wilderness.

Before the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm appeared, Yi Yun had already slept for four hours. This was already enough for him.

Although the nights in the vast wilderness were dangerous, Yi Yun had the Purple Crystal's energy vision to lead him, hence he could preemptively avoid any dangers.

While in the process of running at a fast speed, Yi Yun also started to feel out the Aspect Totem that was slowly condensing inside his body.

Just killing one Thousand Feet Black Silkworm was insufficient to condense an Aspect Totem.

However, Yi Yun could already feel it germinating.

A typical warrior's Aspect Totem would usually be determined once it appeared, but the "Myriad Beast Totem" Aspect Totem's appearance would be different from the desolate beasts that were used for it. It could have a variety of bizarre changes.

From its embryonic form to its formative state, and finally its complete form, it could go through mutations and evolve.

It was unknown what it would be like when an Aspect Totem mutated.

Yi Yun was looking forward to it, but he knew that in his current state, he was still far from being able to mutate his Aspect Totem.

He had only taken the first step in his long march.

In the darkness of the endless wilderness, Yi Yun ran for an unknown amount of time. He encountered some desolate beasts lurking in the dark, but avoided them in advance.

When the first ray of dawn broke through the darkness, the distant land was covered in a mist. This mist constantly changed as it emitted a terrible smell.

It was miasma!

Following that, Yi Yun heard the sound of bubbles popping.

A dark and endless swamp appeared before Yi Yun. The light mist shrouded the mud.

Reaching here, the pungent stench in the air had now reached an extreme.

"It's the Blackwater Swamp." Yi Yun recalled the record in the "Divine Wilderness" book. The Blackwater Swamp's rotting mud and miasma were toxic, and the deeper one went, the greater the toxicity became.

Especially the black mud in the swamp, which was similar to the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's bodily fluids, it was corrosive.

In principle, such a toxic swamp should not have any living organisms, but the weird thing was that there were actually fresh aquatic plants growing in the swamp. These aquatic plants bloomed beautiful and coquettish flowers, creating a stark contrast with the surrounding rotting, black mud.

Yi Yun knew that these beautiful and coquettish flowers were named Blood Corpse Flowers. They used corpses as nourishment and liked the miasma. The Blood Corpse Flower was also toxic.

In this situation, Yi Yun could use Yuan Qi to envelop his body, allowing him to withstand the corrosive nature of the mud, but over time, his Yuan Qi would also rapidly deplete.

The Blackwater Swamp also stretched into the distance. Yi Yun estimated that he would need at least a day and a night of walking to cross the swamp.

But in this toxic mud, Yi Yun estimated he could not last more than two hours.

Besides, there also existed a few desolate beasts, like the Blackwater Ancient Crocodiles, in Blackwater Swamp. If he met one, he would be in trouble!

"Do I have to make a detour?"

Yi Yun slightly frown. If he had to make a detour, he would have to travel a long distance before reaching Meteorite Abyss. With the occasional desolate beast encounters, the journey would then take him at least ten days.

As Yi Yun was thinking over it, he suddenly saw something.

That is...

Yi Yun looked incredulously into the distance. There, in the thin miasma, a youth in green was riding a green cow, walking over slowly.

The green cow's feet made apparent steps above the swamp, but none of the mud stained them.

On the cow's back was a youth holding a piccolo. He wore a bamboo hat and played a melodious tune, affecting the wind in the swamp. Stalk after stalk of Blood Corpse Flowers swayed in the wind.

The toxic swamp which was fraught with dangers, suddenly transformed into a sanctuary that radiated the brightness and charm of Spring. Even the beautiful and coquettish Blood Corpse Flowers seemed to soften up.

Yi Yun was shocked. A green shirt, a green cow and a piccolo...

This scene of a youth, dressed like a shepherd, left a great visual impact with his sudden appearance in the Blackwater Swamp.

This youth looked completely out of place in this endless Divine Wilderness.

He is...

Yi Yun looked at the green cow-riding youth in green approach. He touched the hilt of his Thousand Army Saber as he circulated his body's Yuan Qi.

He could not tell the youth's level. He felt like that person was a completely normal person. Even after checking with the Purple Crystal's vision, the youth did not seem to have immense amounts of energy within him. The only thing different with him, was that his body had a colorful life force within it that was both luscious and beautiful.

When the youth saw Yi Yun, he separated the piccolo from his mouth and smiled at Yi Yun, "Hi."

The youth's voice made people feel as if they were showering in a spring breeze.

Yi Yun did not lower his guard and nodded slightly as a form of reciprocation.

"Are you… a cultivator from the Divine Wilderness?"

Yi Yun instinctively felt the powerfulness of the youth. But the youth only looked to be about 16 years old. It was hard to imagine that there was such a proud son of heaven.

"Cultivator?" The youth was slightly taken aback before he laughed. He shook his head gently, "No, I'm not. I'm just a tourist, just passing through the Divine Wilderness..."

"Tourist? Passing through the Divine Wilderness!?"

Yi Yun was alarmed. From the direction from which the youth came, he had most likely crossed the Blackwater Swamp.

The Blackwater Swamp was extremely toxic, yet he could cross through it without flinching. However, this was not what made Yi Yun most alarmed.

He was alarmed because the direction the youth was heading in was clearly towards the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom. And from the northern parts he came from, that was an uninhabited place. Further north of the Divine Wilderness was the endless Desolate Lands. There were numerous strong desolate beasts dormant there. Even when human Sages encountered many of those desolate beasts, they had to flee!

This youth actually said he was just passing through the Divine Wilderness. If he really came from the north, then from exactly where did he come from?

It could not be the other end of the Divine Wilderness, right...?

Although Yi Yun's mind was chaotic, he still appeared calm on the surface. He did not say another word. This mysterious youth belonged to a world different from the present him.

Or maybe, he was not even a youth...

"Well… You are very interesting."

The youth looked at Yi Yun and chuckled. "We will probably meet again."

After saying that, he continued to ride his green cow and passed Yi Yun.

The melodious sounds from the piccolo started playing once again. The cheerful tune seemed to turn into reality. It flew into the blue sky that was littered with white clouds in an unrestrained manner.

The carrion birds in the sky were also attracted to the tune and began dancing in the air not far from the youth.

Far away in the swamp, a strange-looking toxic fish leaped out of the water and blew a bubble. It looked extremely happy.

These lifeforms that created fear and loathsomeness in people now seemed to turn into happy spirits. This scene left a deep impression on Yi Yun...

Yi Yun watched on as the youth disappeared from view. He felt that the youth's piccolo tune had a magical power that could control the thoughts of desolate beasts...

When the youth crossed the Blackwater Swamp, it was as if he was strolling through a garden.

He was an obvious target, yet the desolate beasts could not detect him, but… maybe it was that strange tune which prevented him from being attacked.

"This youth sure is weird. He has the ability to control desolate beasts… What is he doing heading to the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom?"

Yi Yun muttered. The path of martial arts had all sorts of strange things. It was no wonder for a person to have the ability to control beasts.

As for why the youth was heading towards the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom, or if he was just passing through the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom, Yi Yun could not be bothered to think about it. He was most concerned about how he was to cross the Blackwater Swamp.

It was too far to take a detour.

Yi Yun followed the edge of the swamp and after proceeding for about 15 minutes, he suddenly stopped.

Oh?

In his energy vision, a mass of black energy was lurking underground.

"Gulu, Gulu"

Deep in the misty swamp, there was suddenly a hint of unusual movement. The mud tossed as a large mud bubble blew up.

A dark silhouette appeared in the midst of the mist...

True Martial World - Chapter 279: Thousand Feet Black Silkworm

Deep in the silent night, the cold wind blew, which covered everything with icy dew...

Yi Yun suddenly woke up from his deep sleep.

A natural instinct for danger suddenly arose in his mind. Yi Yun immediately opened his energy vision and found a furry desolate beast that was slowly moving like a ball.

This desolate beast had a pair of black round eyes and its body was covered with numerous small tentacles. These tentacles would rub against the ground, but strangely it did not emit a single sound noveltranslationweb.blogspot.com

Not only that, the beast's presence was extremely well-concealed. There was not a single sign that it was present. As it moved forward, corrosive liquids flowed out from its pores. Everywhere it went, a trail corroded by this liquid was left behind on the ground.

This corrosive liquid also slowly seeped into the soil.

"Chi!" "Chi!" "Chi!"

The explosive disk arrays Yi Yun had set up previously gave off soft sounds that were nearly inaudible. Due to the corrosive liquid that had seeped into the ground, the disk arrays were corroded just before they could initialize.

Yi Yun's muscles tensed up and the Purple Crystal within his body swelled up with light. This desolate beast was a Thousand Feet Black Silkworm!

Yi Yun had previously read in the "Divine Wilderness" book that the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm was a desolate beast that was extremely difficult to handle. It liked to ambush its prey at night and it had an obtuse temperament. It completely ignored the feces of King-ranked desolate beasts. As the liquid that flowed out from its body could corrode the Ignition Disk Array, it could catch many cultivators by surprise. Hence, it was also the nemesis of many cultivators that traveled alone.

The Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's body hair was needle-like. They could be shot out, and due to the toxic bodily fluids within it, a warrior would die just touching a tiny bit of the corrosive liquid.

That was the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's most powerful move. When it shot out all its body's arsenal like arrows, it was almost impossible to evade.

A typical cultivator would often hide to avoid fighting it to the death if they met a Thousand Feet Black Silkworm.

Before Yi Yun came into the Divine Wilderness, he had made ample preparations. The Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's weakness was its speed. To deal with it, he had to first open up a gap from it, and attack it from far.

It was equivalent to committing suicide trying to attempt melee combat with a desolate beast that was full of toxins and that had spikes that were as solid as steel.

With the Tai Cang Bow in hand, Yi Yun suddenly burst up from the pit!

Peng!

Rocks and soil were sent flying. The sudden explosion stopped the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm in its tracks for a while.

At that moment, Yi Yun had flown more than a hundred feet backward. While he was in the air, he pulled the Tai Cang Bow to its fullest.

Yi Yun's Yuan Qi rapidly condensed and surged into the black arrow head. The cold beam of the Wind Chasing Arrow flashed in the night.

Whew!

Yi Yun's arrow flew and its light beam cut through the night sky. In the arrowhead of the Wind Chasing Arrow that Yi Yun had shot, there was an explosive array within it!

This arrow hit the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm at lightning speed!

Boom!

With a loud blast, the explosive array exploded. The Thousand Feet Black Silkworm let out a shrill and a large amount of bodily fluids splashed out.

Black blood covered the surround grass. With a dull "Chi Chi Chi" sound, the toxic blood bore holes into the ground wherever it landed.

At the same moment the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm was suffering, Yi Yun's eyes locked on the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm with hawk-like eyes. He flexed his arms as he continuously shot arrows!

Peng! Peng! Peng!

The bowstring emitted a sounds like muffled thunder as the sharp arrows cut through the air, leaving a visible Yuan Qi trace in its wake.

In the darkness, these arrows came raining down like a meteor shower, with the ability to tear everything apart. They rained on the wound that the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm had been inflicted with by the explosive arrow.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The few arrows pierced through the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's wound, and entered its soft flesh.

The arrowheads tore the weak stomach of the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm apart, till the flesh was completely penetrated through, before sticking heavily to the ground.

The Thousand Feet Black Silkworm made an earth-shattering scream and all its muscles contracted, sending out all its bristles out!

Usually the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm would only shoot out about tens of spikes for hunting prey, but now as it was threatened with death, the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm shot out all its bristles, and they fell in a dense downpour!

It was really an attack that was all-encompassing!

Cultivators, who fought against Thousand Feet Black Silkworms, easily died under this desperate attack as there was no way to dodge!

Yi Yun had anticipated that the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm would make a desperate attempt to counter at all costs. With his foot stepping on the ground, the ground beneath him exploded. Yi Yun's body seemed to be carried up by a strong wind as he charged towards the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's wing on its side.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Countless number of bristle needles flew and scraped past Yi Yun's body but he had dodged all of them.

Yi Yun's current position was where there was a sparse amount of bristle needles because this was where the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's wound was!

Yi Yun's attack had blown up a large portion of the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's flesh, leaving a few bristles left. Also, as much of the flesh had been damaged, the bristles could not be shot out.

This was the only flaw in the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's all-encompassing attack!

Yi Yun had already calculated beforehand because he would have found it hard to deal with the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's desperate attack. He had created this flaw for him to seek shelter!

Seeing the ineffectiveness its last attack, the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm was in a panic. It had shot out all its bristle needles from its body!

It's combat power had been greatly reduced in a short period of time.

It gathered the toxins within its body, hoping to spew it on Yi Yun to corrode his body, but at that moment, Yi Yun had stepped forward, and with a flash of his body, he had appeared right in front of the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm.

Cha!

The Thousand Army Saber was unsheathed and it sounded out. With a flash of the blade's beam, it cut through the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm's head. Before the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm could spit out its toxins, the huge Yuan Qi that had been condensed in the Thousand Army Saber exploded its head.

The shrills that the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm was making seemed like its throat had been pressed as the sounds came to a stop.

Its body twitched vigorously a few times before collapsing to the ground.

Yi Yun's entire attack process had been done in one fell swoop. He did not give the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm any respite!

Seeing that the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm was already dead, Yi Yun recalled the heart sutras of the 'Myriad Beast Totem'.

To condense an Aspect Totem, one had to first condense a beast mark from a desolate beast's corpse. A beast mark was the condensation of a recently-killed desolate beast's life essence and Power of Desolates!

Under normal circumstances, a desolate beast's life essence and Power of Desolates would slowly dissipate into the surroundings after it was killed.

The energy within the blood and flesh would dissipate the fastest while the energy within the bones dissipated slowly. It could then be used by Desolate Heaven Masters to refine desolate bone relics.

Warriors who were not Desolate Heaven Masters had great difficulty in using this energy.

Of course, after a warrior cultivated a totem mystic technique, he could usually borrow the worldly laws to a certain extent. They could make the desolate beast's life essence and Power of Desolates synergize with their own murderous Qi by slowly extracting that energy.

A warrior's murderous Qi could form such synergy only with the desolate beasts killed by the warrior himself.

By using the totem mystic technique, these separated energies would slowly form a light blob, and this light blob would have the imprint of the dead desolate beast within it.

This was the beast mark.

Actually, if a warrior were to use a totem mystic technique to condense a beast mark, he would only be able to obtain a tiny portion of the desolate beast's energy.

Hence, even if the beast mark was extracted, this kind of dead desolate beast could still be exchanged for dragon scale runes. Using the desolate bones from such a desolate beast to refine a relic would not had too bad an effect.

It was not easy to condense a beast mark. Many warriors had to kill many desolate beasts to be able to barely condense a beast mark, and the quality left much to be desired.

If the quality of the beast mark was low, the Aspect Totem that was eventually condensed would also have limited powers.

To successfully condense an Aspect Totem, many cultivators would try to choose the totem mystic techniques that were easier to learn.

It could be said that the quality of the beast seal condensed depended on the totem mystic technique's grade.

But a high grade totem mystic technique was impossible to learn. The beast mark condensed from killing dozens of desolate beasts was of questionable quality, so no matter how high grade the totem mystic technique was, it was still pointless.

For example, the 'Myriad Beast Totem' Yi Yun was learning was a high grade mystic technique.

Even the sages of the Tai Ah Divine City could only read through the 'Myriad Beast Totem' to ponder over its wondrous meaning. They would not learn a mystic technique that no one could master...

Standing in front of the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm, Yi Yun closed his eyes and thought deeply for a while as he sank his spiritual energy into the Purple Crystal...

The Purple Crystal, which was located in Yi Yun's heart, emitted a strange glow. Yi Yun felt like a whirlpool had appeared in his body and the the murderous Qi that he generated from killing the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm spread all over the whirlpool as it let out a light groan.

A large amount of life essence and Power of Desolates within the Ten Thousand Black Silkworm were sucked by this whirlpool and surged towards it!

Hum Hum Hum...

The energy created violent tremors in midair before finally condensing into a beast mark the size of a fist.

This beast mark emitted a reddish-gold light. Within it, there was a phantom image of a baby silkworm. With a thought, this beast mark flew into Yi Yun's body.

Sou!

The beast mark's energy entered all of Yi Yun's limbs and bones. An indescribable feeling transmitted throughout Yi Yun's body.

Although he had plenty of experience absorbing the essences of desolate beasts, none of them were similar to today's experience. It made Yi Yun's pores open up, as if his entire body's soul and flesh had elevated to a new level.

"So this is the process of condensing an Aspect Totem..."

Yi Yun felt as if his entire body was free of inhibitions. Every inch of his bones, blood, meridians were being nourished by the desolate beast's essence, as it went through a silent metamorphosis.

Yi Yun's body was surging with life force, and it rising like a growing seedling.

After about a dozen seconds, only when the beast mark's energy was finally fully absorbed by Yi Yun did he open his eyes.

It was so comfortable!

Yi Yun did not know what it was like when others condensed an Aspect Totem or what it was like to extract a beast mark from a desolate beast's corpse.

Would it be any difference from his using of the Purple Crystal to extract a beast mark?

But there was no time to ponder over this. According to the records in the "Divine Wilderness" book, once a Thousand Feet Black Silkworm died, it would emit a special smell to inform nearby Thousand Feet Black Silkworm to gather here.

Soon, more than ten Thousand Feet Black Silkworms would gather in this place. There might even be a possibility of a Thousand Feet Black Silkworm King appearing, and that was something Yi Yun was unable to deal with.

He had to leave this place immediately!

True Martial World - Chapter 278: Traveling Alone in the Divine Wilderness

To many Tai Ah Divine City cultivators, going out into the Divine Wilderness to hunt desolate beasts was a big deal. Their training expeditions would often last for about half a month. They had to make all sorts of preparation for the long periods outside.

It was insufficient to just be strong if one planned to go out alone into the wilderness. One had to know all sorts of skills and survival knowledge to survive out in the wilderness.

Before Yi Yun left, he spent another 50,000 dragon scale runes to buy a interspatial ring with a larger capacity than the ones he got from the Capital's Four Bully Lords.

Following that, Yi Yun used an entire day to buy various supplies.

It included bone relics, medicine, life-protecting disk arrays, spare weapons, etc.

Yi Yun also bought a detailed map of the Tai Ah Divine City's surroundings. He used some time to familiarize himself with the Divine Wilderness' terrain and every desolate beast that he could encounter. By the end of the day, he understood the beasts strengths, weaknesses, habits…

All this preparatory work had to be done perfectly. Every year, 99% of the Tai Ah Divine City cultivators who died, died while training in the Divine Wilderness. As for those who died accidentally in arena battles, those were few and far between.

Most of the time, this seemingly inconspicuous knowledge could save lives.

Yi Yun had recently overheard that a small group of three cultivators died a few days ago. The reason was that they misidentified a Heart Piercing Snake as a Golden Line Snake.

Both snakes are entirely gold in color, about two meters long, and have virtually no differences in their external appearance. But, a Heart Piercing Snake is more than ten times stronger than a Golden Line Snake. It also has a fatal venom. Even an early-stage Yuan Foundation realm warrior will die in five seconds upon being bitten.

The Heart Piercing Snake and the Golden Line Snake cannot be distinguished through their appearances. The only difference between the two is in their behaviors. A Golden Line Snake will meander sideways as it moves forward, creating a curved trajectory. As for the Heart Piercing Snake, it will move forward in a straight line.

Many of the cultivators in the Tai Ah Divine City not only died because of their lack of strength but also mainly because of their carelessness.

Yi Yun's current strength was not bad, but compared to the cultivators ranked ahead on the Earth roll, he was still far worse. Even cultivators ranked ahead on the Earth roll could die on their training expeditions, so Yi Yun had to be careful.

Yi Yun did not team up and was going to train alone. As such, his training expedition's risk increased a lot.

This day, the sky was clear and the Sun was shining high up in the white cloud-littered sky. Yi Yun brought all the items he had prepared and headed into the Divine Wilderness for training.

Yi Yun had previously left the Tai Ah Divine City to go to herb mountain #60 for herb-picking. Back then, Yi Yun used a teleportation array.

But today, Yi Yun was using the main gate to leave the Tai Ah Divine City.

When he reached the Tai Ah Divine City's city gate, he looked down from a height of 10,000 meters at the expansive wilderness below him.

The endless Desolate Lands connected with the sky, appearing both majestic and ancient.

Water-bucket sized black metal chains linked the jagged parts of the cliff to the plains tens of thousands meters below. It was a vast expanse of mist.

This was the path that led from the Tai Ah Divine City into the Divine Wilderness. To defend against beast hordes, the Tai Ah Divine City's entrance was a natural barrier, allowing one man to hold back all enemies.

Yi Yun took a deep breath and leaped up. He lightly landed on the chain.

Then, Yi Yun placed a stout rope over the chains and slid downwards with the help of gravity while holding onto the ends of the rope.

Using a rope to go down from 10,000 meters was almost at the speed of a free-fall.

Yi Yun could hear the howl of the wind by his ears as he saw the ancient desolate wilderness approaching him.

The Divine Wilderness had existed for an unknown number of years. Deep in the Divine Wilderness, there were unknown numbers of secret treasures. Similarly, it also buried an unknown number of bones that belonged to past elites…

But now, Yi Yun was going to use his own feet to explore this land.

"Boom!"

Yi Yun landed on the ground. Due to the extreme speed, when Yi Yun's feet landed on the ground, they stirred up a cloud of dust.

The Desolate Lands in front of him was covered with sparse patches of grass. The plains were black in color with many exposed rocks. There were also many strong and tall ancient trees that went way into the distant horizon.

Yi Yun locked onto a direction and began running.

A typical warrior would choose an appropriate speed while running in the Divine Wilderness. One could not be too fast, not because of stamina, but because one might not be able to discover desolate beasts lurking in one’s surroundings due to the fast speed. By not being vigilant enough, one could easily receive a surprise attack from desolate beasts.

It was not uncommon in the history of the Tai Ah Divine City's to have examples of cultivators who ran too fast, accidentally entering a desolate beast nest, resulting in there not even having a single piece of their corpses left.

But one could not go too slow either. As the Divine Wilderness was too vast, being too slow would waste plenty of time. One could only explore a tiny area if one did, resulting in many missed opportunities.

Yi Yun first used a normal speed to cover tens of kilometers before he picked up his speed. At the same time, Yi Yun opened his Purple Crystal energy vision.

In the energy vision, every embodiment of energy returned to its original fundamental state, leaving no way for them to hide.

With the Purple Crystal, Yi Yun did not need to spend too much effort in being vigilant.

There were not many desolate beasts that could be killed surrounding the Tai Ah Divine City. Strong desolate beasts were afraid of the Tai Ah Divine City's energy, so they would all flee far away.

Yi Yun's destination was the Meteorite Abyss. Legend has it that tens of millions of years ago, a huge star, that burned with Yang flames, fell from the sky, crashing into the Divine Wilderness. It broke up a mountain ridge that went on for thousands of kilometers, creating a huge deep abyss.

This deep abyss was the Meteorite Abyss!

Back when the star landed, its Yang flames swept through the Divine Wilderness, burning countless numbers of strong desolate beasts to their deaths. If they were close to the center of the explosion, even primordial strains would not survive. They too would instantly be turned to ashes!

After tens of millions of years, the destruction left behind by the fallen star had already been restored. However, the Meteorite Abyss left behind by it was like a huge scar left on the Divine Wilderness.

The star had merged with the Meteorite Abyss. Although the Yang flames that swept the Divine Wilderness had been extinguished, there were still rainbow Yang flames burning deep within the Meteorite Abyss. All the Yang Qi in a radius of 500,000 kilometers was gathered here!

Hence, there were a large number of pure Yang-elemental desolate beasts in the Meteorite Abyss.

Yi Yun's first attribute choice for cultivating the 'Myriad Beast Totem' was pure Yang.

Hence, the Meteorite Abyss was Yi Yun's first destination.

But, with Yi Yun's current strength, he did not dare to venture deep into the Meteorite Abyss. He could only kill the desolate beasts, in the exterior perimeter of the Meteorite Abyss, to condense his Aspect Totem.

Yi Yun flew forward with the wind ringing in his ears.

After crossing a large tract of the wilderness plains, he encountered grassland. The grass was about half the height of a person and was called Frost Star Grass.

The leaves of the Frost Star Grass had cold frost dew formed over the years. This frost dew's temperature was below freezing points, yet it did not form into ice. If a mortal were to cross into the Frost Star Grass grasslands, just a few steps would leave them frozen due to the frost dew.

Yi Yun gathered Yuan Qi and circulated his body's Qi and blood, creating heat that emanated from his body.

He then rushed into the Frost Star Grass grassland. The glistening beads of dew reflected the dazzling sunlight. It made Yi Yun's body wet, but Yi Yun only felt some slight cold at his exterior, it did not affect his movements.

With perfect movement techniques and the Purple Crystal's energy vision, Yi Yun traversed the complicated terrain like an eagle in the sky, and at times, like a lurking python.

On the way, Yi Yun also encountered some desolate beasts. For example, the Specter Python that hid ten meters underneath the wilderness plains, or a creeping Three Spotted Tiger on a hilltop. These were all detected by Yi Yun using the Purple Crystal's energy vision, allowing him to avoid them early.

Yi Yun's goal in this expedition was clear. It was to kill pure Yang desolate beasts, absorb their body's pure Yang power and blood, and condense an Aspect Totem.

Unless there were very valuable desolate beasts along the way, Yi Yun would not stop.

The Meteorite Abyss was very far away. Yi Yun managed to cautiously and stealthily make his way. Only when the dying Sun was swallowed by the horizon, and the star constellations in the sky began to appear, did Yi Yun have to stop.

He had come to a barren plain. The night breeze blew, causing pebbles to roll as it constantly shattered the quietness of the night.

Night time in the Divine Wilderness was even more dangerous. Yi Yun had to use sleep or meditation to maintain his stamina.

Yi Yun used the Thousand Army Saber and quickly dug a pit that he could sleep in. He carefully laid soft hay, suitable for sleeping, in the pit.

Although warriors are physically strong, the Desolate Lands' Frost Star Grass's cold dew was biting to the bone. It was inevitable for some of it to enter a warrior's body, creating a bit of unnecessary damage to his Qi and blood.

Yi Yun dug a few traps around the pit and placed triangular disk arrays within them.

Each disk array was about the size of a fist, containing a weak explosive energy within it. This was a necessity that many Tai Ah Divine City warriors would bring along when they went into the Divine Wilderness on a training expedition, the "Ignition Disk Array".

This "Ignition Disk Array" could not kill desolate beasts, but it could be used as a warning. After all, warriors would still lose some perception of the surrounding environment when they slept or meditated. On the other hand, there were also some desolate beasts who would be skilled in concealment. Many cultivators would often die while sleeping or meditating due to these surprise attacks.

Sleeping and meditation were indispensable. If one was high-strung and vigilant of one’s surroundings for a long time, one would end up becoming mentally exhausted even without being attacked by desolate beasts, greatly reducing their combat strength.

Hence, most of the time, these affordable "Ignition Disk Array" had the miraculous use of saving lives.

After setting up the "Ignition Disk Array", Yi Yun took out a cloth bag from his interspatial ring. He then spread all the powder within the cloth bag.

This was the powdered feces of King-ranked desolate beasts. This powder would emit a special smell that only desolate beasts could detect. This would make other desolate beasts mistake this area as the territory of a King-ranked desolate beast, hence they would avoid entering.

With two levels of protection set up, Yi Yun wore a fine scale armor, his Thousand Army Saber by his waist, the Tai Cang Bow behind his back and entered the pit.

To not separate from their weapon was a habit warriors had to have when they were out hunting desolate beasts. The moment there was any commotion, they could quickly enter a combative state.

There were all sorts of dangers in the Divine Wilderness. One had to be careful with everything.

But even with all of this setup, it was impossible to guarantee that nothing would go wrong…

True Martial World - Chapter 277: Heading into the Divine Wilderness

Luo Huo'er could only suffer in silence.

Seeing the group of girls look at her with concern, Luo Huo'er nearly flared up.

Especially the damned kid mixed in the crowd. He too looked at her with concern and puzzlement in his eyes.

Luo Huo'er found it unbearable to recall the experiences of the past few days. Everything was related to Yi Yun.

Yi Yun was like a jinx in her life. Anytime she met him, she would become unlucky.

"President, you must be careful. Experts can have accidents too. Never be careless because it would be terrible if you hurt yourself."

A few of the Luohuo Association members clearly believed that Luo Huo'er had lost control of the energy, which resulted in the explosion.

Luo Huo'er was nearly dying from anger. With my abilities, would I make such a simple mistake!?

She still had not figured out why the energy trap did not trigger in Yi Yun's hands, but the moment it came into hers, it exploded.

And since the Lin Bone Gall exploded, the energy trap was gone. She had no way of investigating what went wrong.

"Could that kid have tampered with it?"

Luo Huo'er looked hatefully at Yi Yun, but Yi Yun's expression was a third puzzlement, a third confusion, and a third concern. Besides that, there was nothing else that seemed odd.

"It can't be him…"

Luo Huo'er shook her head deep down. Yi Yun had just come into contact with the Desolate Heaven technique. Even if he had extraordinary talent in energy control, it would be impossible for him to tamper with it in such a silent manner. It was, after all, a trap she personally made.

Luo Huo'er's clothes were all dirty and the foolish state she was in made her unwilling to stay here any longer. She just wanted to leave and take a bath.

The Desolate Heaven Master Society grounds did not have a place for washing up or changing clothes. Even though Luo Huo'er had brought clothes with her, there was no place for her to change.

Returning to her own apartment was also a problem. Even if she used her fire elemental energy to dry the snake bile, it would still leave a big green stain on Luo Huo'er.

For Luo Huo'er who treasured her face so much, she would rather die than be seen by others while wearing such stained clothes.

Gritting her teeth, Luo Huo'er took out her clothes from her interspatial ring and wanted to wear them over her body.

But her feminine clothes were slim in her upper body, while her lower body's skirt was wide. It would clearly look odd to wear another dress over her dirty one.

"Miss Luo, I have a fairly large piece of clothing here. I am not sure if you will dislike it."

Yi Yun took out his Jin Long Wei flying fish robe from his interspatial ring.

When Yi Yun came to the Tai Ah Divine City, he also brought along his flying fish robe. When he gained the interspatial ring, he naturally threw the flying fish robe into it.

The lower hem of the flying fish robe was wide, and there was also a spare cape.

Luo Huo'er actually wanted to reject it, but just as she was about to say no, she noticed that his flying fish robe's cape could cover her body all around from the collar. If she wore the cape and a belt, it could be used as a cloak. She could then completely cover her body so that nothing could be seen from the outside.

She was indeed in extreme need of such a cape.

Luo Huo'er bit her lips and took the cape from Yi Yun.

She did not need the flying fish robe as the cape alone was enough.

Covering her body with the cape was perfect. The golden cape was embroidered with flying fish patterns, so it did not weird. In fact, it made Luo Huo'er appear heroic.

"Thank you…"

Luo Huo'er thanked Yi Yun slowly. She then left the Desolate Heaven Master Society with Dong'er.

She quickly walked back to her apartment in the central divine tower. On arrival she entered the bathroom and showered a few times, only then was she able to wash away the bitter smell. As for the clothes that had been stained by the bile, she threw them away as it was too difficult to wash the bile out of them.

As for Yi Yun's flying fish robe cape, it too had been stained with the bile. She wanted to throw it away as well, but upon further thought, she threw the cape at Dong'er and said, "Wash the cape. Make sure to clean it properly. I'll return it to him tonight…"

"Alright…" Dong'er obediently answered.

Luo Huo'er went into a slight daze and remained silent for a while. She then murmured to herself, "Dong'er, do you think I went a little too far?"

"Ah?" Dong'er went into a daze, "Miss, what do you mean by too far?"

"Nothing…" Luo Huo'er shook her head. Dong'er did not know the various incidents she had with Yi Yun.

Dong'er took the cape and left Luo Huo'er looking out the window with a pensive look.

Upon further thought, it was purely unintentional of Yi Yun to see her body and hear her words.

Yi Yun also won Teacher Yuehua's test because of his ability.

Yi Yun did nothing wrong, yet she wanted to seek revenge, leading her to reap what she had sown…

Just now when she was soaked in bile, Yi Yun did not gloat over her misfortune, he even offered her his cape, saving her from embarrassment.

Upon thinking of this, Luo Huo'er felt somewhat guilty. She said to Dong'er, "Dong'er before you wash the cape, go to the Ten Thousand Pagoda and exchange for a Lin Bone Gall. I'll give that to Yi Yun too…"

Luo Huo'er had exploded Yi Yun's Lin Bone Gall, so he naturally had no way of completing the energy extraction assignment. Buying a Lin Bone Gall to replace it was also a form of apology from Luo Huo'er.

…

That night, Yi Yun heard a knock on his door. When he opened the door, he saw Luo Huo'er standing in front of his door, holding a neatly folded cape.

On the cape, there was also a Lin Bone Gall.

"Eh…"

Yi Yun was slightly stunned. As he was about to say something, Luo Huo'er pushed the all the items into Yi Yun's arms. "For everything that happened today, thank you. The cape has been washed and I'm returning it to you."

After Luo Huo'er said that, she turned and left.

She left Yi Yun behind in a daze. He looked at the cape in his hands. There were still traces of a fire elemental law on it. Clearly, after the cape had been washed, Luo Huo'er also used her fire-elemental laws to dry the cape…

"Did I go too far…?"

Yi Yun looked at Luo Huo'er's back and stroked his chin and shook his head.

He and Luo Huo'er had both arrived at the same conclusion for the same matter. It was quite an interesting coincidence…

…

Clouds moved as the sun rose and set.

Life in the Tai Ah Divine City carried on. Every day, Yi Yun would be cultivating and then cultivating some more…

The Desolate Heaven technique, Saber truths, "Truth of the Laws", "Myriad Beast Totem", "Tai Ah Sacred Technique"…

There were too many things Yi Yun needed to cultivate, and every one of them was an extremely difficult path noveltranslationweb.blogspot.com

Many warriors would never dare to touch things like the 'Myriad Beast Totem' or the Saber Truth's 32 Words even as Human Lords, what more merely being in the Purple Blood realm.

Slowly, two months passed. Yi Yun had now spent half a year in the Tai Ah Divine City.

In these two months, Yi Yun continued to solidify his foundation. His cultivation level had risen too quickly. He had used about half a year to go from the most basic first rank of Mortal Blood to the middle stages of Purple Blood.

Cultivating too fast usually led to a shaky foundation. As such, Yi Yun took the time to make sure that his foundation would be strong.

As Yi Yun walked out of the saber tomb once more, Cang Yan came over. He knocked Yi Yun on the chest and said, "Kid, why haven't you challenged the Earth roll yet!?"

In his opinion, Yi Yun had almost reached the top 1000 of the Earth roll two months ago, so with two months passing by, Yi Yun should now have the ability to enter the top 1000.

For a Tai Ah Divine City rookie to enter the top 1000 in his first year was incredible.

If Yi Yun were to enter the top 1000 in half a year, he would shock the large factions till their eyeballs dropped out of their sockets.

But Yi Yun lived in seclusion for the past two months. He only cultivated, making Cang Yan feel slightly angry. Why was this kid not feeling any urgency!?

Yi Yun said, "I have too many things to cultivate. I'll leave the Earth roll on the back burner."

Yi Yun really did not mind. His strength may have grown, but it had not grown by much. It would not be too late to challenge the Earth roll when his strength increased by leaps and bound.

"Darn kid, can't you behave properly? Just walk slowly on the martial path. You have excellent talent. You just need to understand the saber truths and the 'Tai Ah Sacred Technique' well, get a good Aspect Totem mystic technique and your future would be boundless. Yet you want to learn the Desolate Heaven technique… With your talent, if you need resources, the Divine Kingdom will not leave you hanging. You do not need to earn them by yourself."

Cang Yan did not know what to say. Yi Yun learned too many things that were difficult. This made Cang Yan worry for him.

Yi Yun laughed and said, "Thank you for the senior's concern. This junior is quite interested in the Desolate Heaven technique, so I will still carry on learning it…"

Yi Yun knew that the Divine Kingdom's royal family would groom him once he showed sufficient talent in the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom.

But Yi Yun's goal was not the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom. In the future, he wanted to leave the kingdom and face an even wider world. When that happened, there might not be any factions that could support him.

With an additional skill, he could have another way out.

"Do you still want to learn the 'Myriad Beast Totem'?" Cang Yan still wanted Yi Yun to return the Aspect Totem mystic technique. The 'Myriad Beast Totem' was a mystic technique that even a sage could not master. What could Yi Yun learn from it while he was in the Purple Blood realm?

"Yes." Yi Yun nodded.

"You really do not intend to change? I can return the glory points from the 'Myriad Beast Totem' to you…" said Cang Yan "patiently". He had initially hoped that Yi Yun would give up after knowing the difficulty, he never expected that the kid would proceed on into the unknown.

Yi Yun shook his head. "Me coming to the saber tomb today is also for me to bid the senior farewell. I plan to… go into the Divine Wilderness and begin condensing my Aspect Totem."

Yi Yun's two months of cultivation was the last pieces of preparation before he would embark on his Divine Wilderness expedition.

Warriors who came to the Tai Ah Divine City for training would eventually enter the Divine Wilderness to kill desolate beasts!

This was also the Tai Ah Divine City's most important and dangerous training. Many cultivators died during this training experience.

"Condense the Aspect Totem?" Cang Yan was stunned. "You are prepared to condense the 'Myriad Beast Totem''s Aspect Totem?"

"Yes… I intend at attempting it…" Yi Yun said calmly and firmly.

He was finally going to enter the Divine Wilderness, an unknown and mysterious world…

True Martial World - Chapter 276: Life is Filled with Miseries

What was this energy node?

Yi Yun was surprised. The body of the Lin Snake was huge and its gall was about the size of a child's brain. If he tried to extract the energy from the Lin Bone Gall in the prescribed order, his body would be soaked in bile once it exploded.

It can't be an elaborate trap that Teacher Yuehua set up, right…?

Yi Yun felt that this was unlikely. Even if Teacher Yuehua wanted to test him, she would not do such a thing.

At that moment, Yi Yun suddenly came to a realization. In the corner of his eyes, he noticed that although Luo Huo'er appeared to be slowly extracting energy, her eyes were furtively looking at him.

With this, Yi Yun immediately understood that this was Luo Huo'er's prank.

Yi Yun was speechless.

"This girl is so vengeful. I embarrassed her once and all she wants is to take revenge, to make me make a fool out of myself..."

"No wonder this girl took the initiative to greet me when we met today. Also, all of these Luohuo Association members were probably invited by Luo Huo'er to be the 'audience' of this incident..."

Luo Huo'er probably felt that it would be more fun if Yi Yun made a fool out of himself in front of a crowd. It would not be as enjoyable to watch by herself.

These Luohuo Association members did not know that Luo Huo'er had tampered with anything. They would likely assume that Yi Yun had made a mistake, resulting in the Lin Bone Gall exploding.

Many thoughts flashed across Yi Yun's mind, but he was already very clear about everything that had happened.

Hence, Yi Yun placed the Lin Bone Gall back unhurriedly. Following that, he pretended to examine the other materials.

At that moment, Luo Huo'er could not concentrate on her energy extraction as she was secretly observing Yi Yun.

When Yi Yun picked up the Lin Bone Gall first, she became very excited, she was waiting to watch the mayhem ensue. She did not expect him to place the Lin Bone Gall back down.

Then, Yi Yun slowed down even more. One moment, he was looking at a material, the other moment, he was touching another material. It did not seem like he had any intention to begin.

Luo Huo'er was getting anxious. She could no longer hide her thoughts.

"This darn kid, why isn't he doing anything yet?" Luo Huo'er was pissed. She patiently waited for 15 minutes before Yi Yun finally began the energy extraction process.

Luo Huo'er's eyes lit up!

Hehe, the show is about to start!

She could not wait to see Yi Yun become drenched in bitter bile.

As she brightened her eyes and focused on Yi Yun, she also pretended to do her own thing.

She saw Yi Yun holding the Lin Bone Gall, oblivious to the difference.

Yi Yun stayed silent for a while before he began injecting spiritual energy into the Lin Bone Gall. He made some of the hand seals according to Yuehua's notebook, slowly extracting the Power of Desolates from within the Lin Bone Gall.

Actually, Yi Yun could extract the desolate bone energy even without a seal. But he still wanted to familiarize himself with everything in the Desolate Heaven technique, as it would further aid him in understanding the Desolate Heaven technique.

"As expected, this fool did not realize a thing. I do not know how he managed to get a perfect score for energy control, but how can this fool be better than me when it comes to energy? My tiny tampering would be enough for torture him. Hehe, it's going to explode soon. When that happens, it would be fun..." Luo Huo'er felt a sense of schadenfreude. This energy trap was designed by herself. It was tailor-made for Yi Yun. No doubt, Luo Huo'er was very clever and the energy trap she designed was ingenious.

She had brought along a large audience, and all of them were beauties. When Yi Yun make a fool of himself in the midst of all these beauties, these girls would spread the news of Yi Yun's embarrassing state, making even more people know about it.

Just thinking of this made Luo Huo'er feel delighted. As for whether the revenge method she employed was immature or not, Luo Huo'er did not care. She was such a petty person.

But… even after Yi Yun injected his spiritual energy into the Lin Bone Gall, five seconds passed without the Lin Bone Gall exploding.

Luo Huo'er was curious. What happened?

The energy trap should have been triggered immediately. Did she make an error, making the energy imbalance process need a longer period of time before activating?

Luo Huo'er could not exactly figure out what was wrong her designed trap. She comforted herself and carried on waiting patiently. But..

Ten seconds went by and the Lin Bone Gall was still silent.

Twenty seconds… The Lin Bone Gall was still fine.

"What the...?" Luo Huo'er was confused. The energy trap she set up should have exploded immediately. Yet, twenty seconds passed without it exploding!

After thirty seconds, the energy Yi Yun extracted grew more and more. He had already condensed the rune paths on a blank scroll, while the Lin Bone Gall was still being held in his hand.

Luo Huo'er was dumbfounded. Did her energy trap malfunction?

Luo Huo'er had always been proud of her intelligence, and she felt that she would never make such a mistake. But... the fact was laid right in front of her.

She really hoped that the energy trap within the Lin Bone Gall was just stuck and it would quickly "return to normal", but...

Half an hour passed...

Luo Huo'er finally gave up.

"This darn kid sure has good luck!" Luo Huo'er gritted her teeth and murmured to herself. She was indignant about it. All she wanted to know was, in what aspect did the energy trap she set up go wrong?

She thought through the entire energy trap's principles once more, but there should not be any problems...

Slowly, another 30 minutes passed. Yi Yun had completed the extraction of the Power of Desolates in the Lin Bone Gall. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and placed the Lin Bone Gall to the side.

"I can only extract this much… I am really lacking in cultivation level. I am unable to extract all of the Power of Desolates from it." Yi Yun pretended to appear tired. Actually, with the Purple Crystal's full horsepower, no matter how many Lin Bone Galls there were , they would not be enough for him to tire from extracting.

"Eh? Miss Luo, why do you look so bad?" Yi Yun looked at Luo Huo'er with a "puzzled" look.

Luo Huo'er's face was sullen. She could not understand why Yi Yun's luck was so good that he could avoid this disaster.

"I'm alright." Luo Huo'er replied stiffly. She also did not pursue the matter of Yi Yun not addressing her as Senior Sister.

"Oh..." Yi Yun shrugged. He ignored Luo Huo'er and said, "I consumed too much Yuan Qi, and I will need to recharge. You guys carry on."

After saying this, he went to the corner of the room and sat down. He swallowed a bone relic, closed his eyes and began mediating.

"This useless rascal. He's out of stamina just after extracting this tiny bit of energy..." Luo Huo'er despised Yi Yun, but what made her most pissed was that this trash had actually beaten her!

After hesitating for a while, Luo Huo'er looked at Yi Yun again. She noticed that Yi Yun had cut off all perception.

In a safe environment, warriors would often cut off their perception while meditating. They would isolate themselves from their environment as it increased the efficiency of meditating.

Now, Yi Yun seemed to be in such a state.

Luo Huo'er casually swayed around a bit to determine if Yi Yun was able to notice her or not. She then quickly walked over to the stone table where Yi Yun previously was, after which, she picked up the Lin Bone Gall that Yi Yun was using.

"Eh, Miss, what are you doing..." Dong'er asked curiously when she saw Luo Huo'er's actions.

"Shh!"

Luo Huo'er made a gesture telling her to be silent and furtively took a glance at Yi Yun. After determining that Yi Yun did not respond, she began probing the Lin Bone Gall.

She wanted to know what exactly went wrong with the energy trap she set up within the Lin Bone Gall.

She had perfected her Desolate Heaven technique foundation, so how did a trap that she set up not explode? What was wrong!?

Could it be that there was a fundamental flaw in the trap she designed?

If she did not know the reasoning behind the mistake, it would be dangerous. Who knows what sort of problems would happen due to a flawed understanding!?

Luo Huo'er calmed down and injected her spiritual energy deep into the Lin Gall Bone to examine its energy structure. She wanted to know where the mistake was.

Luo Huo'er was a person who had to know everything about the Desolate Heaven technique.

But at the moment Luo Huo'er's spirutual energy touched the energy trap, the energy balance was broken, and all of the four Power of Desolates erupted.

It happened at lightning speed!

"Peng!"

Luo Huo'er was originally focused on finding the flaw in the energy trap. She never expected that nothing happened when Yi Yun used his spiritual energy, but once she used her’s, the energy trap exploded!

What kind of reasoning was this!?

The sudden explosion left almost no time for Luo Huo'er to react. She jerked backward but the green snake bile had sprayed out everywhere due to the energy flow, drenching her entire body!

This was also part of Luo Huo'er's trap. She wanted to prevent any escape, even if Yi Yun were to realize something had gone wrong. But now, all those plans backfired on Luo Huo'er herself!

Too deep for tears!

Luo Huo'er stood there in a complete daze. The bile was dripping from her body and her hair was wet. There was even a large wet stain on her clothes. Her face was also covered in the green bile. She looked like a cat that had just fallen into a drain filled with dirty water.

Luo Huo'er was petrified. She just stood there in a daze as her mind went blank.

"Miss! Miss! What happened?"

Dong'er never expected the Lin Bone Gall to explode the moment Luo Huo'er picked it up. The other Luohuo Association members were also shocked. They all stopped their Desolate Heaven technique practice and rushed over to see if Luo Huo'er was fine.

"President, what happened?"

"President, are you alright?"

The girls asked with concern one after another.

Hearing these people's words, Luo Huo'er went mad. Can someone tell me what the hell happened!?

At that moment, Yi Yun also stopped meditating upon hearing all the commotion.

He walked over with an uncertain expression. Squeezing himself in amongst the girls and looked curiously at Luo Huo'er, "Miss Luo, are you alright? Was this an explosion? What happened? Did you lose control of the energy?"

When Desolate Heaven Masters refined desolate bone relics, an explosion might occur if there was a loss of energy control. It was similar to how alchemists' furnaces would explode if they made a mistake while refining pills.

But only incompetent Desolate Heaven Masters would make such a stupid mistake. For highly-skilled Desolate Heaven Masters, even if they failed to refine a desolate bone relic, they would not cause an energy explosion.

Luo Huo'er was of course not an incompetent Desolate Heaven Master. Loss of energy control was absolutely humiliating for her!

But now, other than failing to control the energy, how else could she explain it?

True Martial World - Chapter 275: Lin Bone Gall

The news of Yuehua taking in disciples quickly spread throughout the Tai Ah Divine City.

People thought that Yuehua took in direct disciples and did not know that she was just a quasi-master. If they knew that, it would be impossible to know their reaction.

When Yang Yuefeng heard that Yuehua took in both Yi Yun and Luo Huo'er as disciples, he received another devastating blow!

These days, Yang Yuefeng was completely listless. He locked himself in his house all day and did not see anyone.

For a person like Yang Yuefeng, who was one of the leaders of the younger generation in the Chu royal residence other than the Chu crown prince, what was most important in his circle was face.

But now, he had become the biggest joke in the Tai Ah Divine City.

In Yuehua’s first lesson, Yang Yuefeng had ridiculed Yi Yun in an extremely condescending way, but the next day he had been mercilessly suppressed by Yi Yun. The face he valued so much had been smashed to pieces!

Taking advantage of this opportunity, many of those who were not on good terms with Yang Yuefeng purposely spread and embellished the actions and the "impassioned" words he said in front of a crowd. Soon, Yang Yuefeng became a huge joke amongst the aristocratic circles.

Whenever Yang Yuefeng thought of this incident, he would go crazy. Many of the things in his house had already been broken by him.

"Yi Yun! I'll remember this!"

Yang Yuefeng did not dare to hate Yuehua, he could only hate Yi Yun. From his failure in recovering the 'Truth of the Laws' to the point of him becoming a clown in the Tai Ah Divine City, it was all because of Yi Yun.

He was determined to find an opportunity to settle scores.

...

Now, in the Wilderness Divine Hall.

Yi Yun was in the sixth hall of the Wilderness Divine Hall. He had already stayed in there for 16 hours.

The primordial strain statue in front of Yi Yun was a large, red firebird.

The firebird had its wings spread out. Its feathers were soaked in Great Yan gold, making it shine like the lustrous sun. It was burning in front of Yi Yun.

Yi Yun was standing almost right in front of the firebird, at a distance of less than three feet. The frightening heat made Yi Yun feel like he was being burned by flames, his entire body was scalding hot.

He perspired and soon his sweat evaporated to form steam. That feeling was extremely hard to undertake.

"This Rainbow Blood Feather is scary..."

Yi Yun gasped. He had already come to the sixth Wilderness Divine Hall, which contained the Rainbow Blood Feather, several times.

The Rainbow Blood Feather was chosen by the founding city lord of the Tai Ah Divine City. It was a primordial strain that had a vestige bloodline of the ancient three legged Golden Crow. Back when Yi Yun cultivated the 'Tai Ah Sacred Technique', he had chosen this hall in the Wilderness Divine Hall to cultivate pure Yang Qi. It made the process so much easier.

But till now, Yi Yun had only spend about 2-4 hours in the sixth hall of the Wilderness Divine Hall. He had never spent 16 hours in there like he did today.

This was a big challenge for Yi Yun.

Yi Yun kept using the Purple Crystal to control the pure Yang power in the hall. At the same time he also used the pure Yang power to think through the 'Myriad Beast Totem'!

To use the 'Myriad Beast Totem' to complete an Aspect Totem was an extremely difficult task. This was not only an Aspect Totem mystic technique prepared for sages, it was even a remnant copy.

Even Yi Yun, with the Purple Crystal's help, found it very difficult to gain much understanding in the 'Myriad Beast Totem'.

"Indeed, the primordial strain killed by others millions of years ago cannot be used to condense an Aspect Totem."

Yi Yun felt a sense of regret while enduring the torturous, high temperature.

Cultivating the 'Myriad Beast Totem' was best done by condensing the energies of primordial strains.

Warriors, who cultivates an Aspect Totem, had to absorb the energies of the desolate beasts they killed, only then could it be completed. The Rainbow Blood Feather in front of him had been dead for many years. So even with the help of the Purple Crystal, Yi Yun had no way of binding those energies to condense an Aspect Totem that belonged to him.

"The Purple Crystal may be heaven-defying, but at times, it will also follow certain rules." Yi Yun thought in his mind. The Purple Crystal had absolute control over energy, but it was not omnipotent. For example, the energy controlled by another living being could not be absorbed by the Purple Crystal.

Now, in the condensing of an Aspect Totem, the Purple Crystal also followed the rules of the Aspect Totem.

"It seems that I have to use the desolate beasts I kill with my own hands to condense an Aspect Totem that belongs to me. With my current strength, it's completely impossible for me to hunt a primordial strain. I can only instead use low-grade desolate beasts, but that will make mastering the 'Myriad Beast Totem' much more difficult."

The path Yi Yun chose was already much harder than others from the outset.

Not only in regards to the Aspect Totem, even the Saber Truth's 32 Words, the 'Tai Ah Sacred Technique' and the pure Yang Great Dao that Yi Yun chose were all extremely difficult types.

It was difficult to grasp it, and perfecting it was difficult. However, once it was mastered, it was obvious how beneficial they would be for Yi Yun.

Other people still had to switch mystic techniques midway, Yi Yun however did not need to do that. These Great Dao Yi Yun chose were sufficient for Yi Yun to reach an extremely high level.

After the 18th hour, Yi Yun came out from the sixth hall in the Wilderness Divine Hall.

All of his skin had been completely burned red. These 18 hours of cultivation had been a kind of torture for Yi Yun.

Although the Rainbow Blood Feather's energy could not be condensed into an Aspect Totem, Yi Yun still gained something. He had used the pure Yang power in the sixth hall to continuously deduce the 'Myriad Beast Totem'. Now, Yi Yun had a much deeper understanding of the 'Myriad Beast Totem' technique.

Thanks to this, when Yi Yun really went out into the Divine Wilderness to hunt desolate beasts, it would make his attempt at condensing of a 'Myriad Beast Totem' Aspect Totem much easier.

Yi Yun dragged his exhausted body back to his apartment, there he took a comfortable bath and meditated for about an hour before he slowly recovered.

At that moment, the door sounded.

Yi Yun opened the door and saw a maidservant of Luo Huo'er standing by the door.

She looked at Yi Yun and stuttered, "Teacher Yuehua has set up a lesson for you… The work… needs to be handed over to Teacher Yuehua… after you are done."

The maidservant said while passing a jade scroll to Yi Yun before she turned and ran away.

Yi Yun laughed. He injected his spiritual energy into the jade scroll and scanned it. Inside it, there were practices that involved energy extraction and basic Desolate Heaven Master seals. When Yi Yun completed it, he would then hand it to Yuehua for her to point out his deficiencies.

"I never expected Grandmaster Yuehua to guide me in such a painstakingly manner..."

Yi Yun was flattered by such painstaking educational methods. He kept the jade scroll and walked to the Desolate Heaven Master Society.

The Desolate Heaven Master Society had dedicated bone refinement rooms. On top of that, Yuehua had set aside an exclusive area for Yi Yun and Luo Huo'er. This exclusive zone had the best facilities for the Desolate Heaven technique.

Yi Yun opened the door to the bone refinement room. Luo Huo'er was already in there.

Besides Luo Huo'er, there were also Luo Huo'er's maidservant Dong'er as well as six other young girls.

These girls had clearly received Luo Huo'er's approval to enter. They too were Desolate Heaven Master apprentices.

"President, what do you think of my method?"

A girl with a ponytail asked Luo Huo'er after she took out a scroll that had energy runes condensed within it.

President?

Yi Yun was stunned. How did Luo Huo'er become a President?

On further thought, Yi Yun recalled that Luo Huo'er had formed the Luohuo Association, and it was a large association, only second to the Linxiao Association in the Tai Ah Divine City.

And Luo Huo'er was the President.

"This girl actually used her name to name the association. She sure is narcissistic." Yi Yun mused. He could not help but recall the first time he met her and the speech she spoke to the mirror.

"You came?" Luo Huo'er glanced at Yi Yun. She actually greeted Yi Yun with a face full of smiles. She casually pointed to a spot and said, "You can have that position. Xiaoling, give way."

"Yes President."

The girl named Xiaoling obediently gave up her spot to Yi Yun. These girls were clearly also from the Luohuo Association.

The room was full of estrogen except for the only male, Yi Yun. Yi Yun stroked his chin. Why was Luo Huo'er so nice to him today? She even smiled at him?

Yi Yun walked to his spot and took out a jade scroll. He was preparing to finish the work Yuehua assigned him.

"Everything has been prepared. Master got someone to bring them over." Luo Huo'er said and pointed to the stone table in front of Yi Yun. There was a pile of materials which were required for the assignment.

"Alright," Yi Yun nodded. He noticed that Luo Huo'er's eyes looked around when she was speaking to him. She never looked at him.

Yi Yun took a glance at the materials. They were the same as the pile on Luo Huo'er's table. For energy extraction, Yi Yun exceeded Luo Huo'er greatly, so their assignment was exactly the same.

Yi Yun recalled the things Yuehua said in class. He reached out his hand to grab the materials but when his hand touched the materials, he suddenly felt that something was amiss...

Oh?

Yi Yun was slightly surprised. As the Purple Crystal was within his body, he was extremely sensitive to energy fluctuations.

This material is odd...

Yi Yun examined the material. The material's name was Lin Bone Gall.

This was the gall of the desolate beast Lin Snake. The Lin Snake was very special. The surface of the gall was not made of flesh but was made of an inch-thick bone shell.

This bone shell enclosed the bile, so it was unique to the Lin Snake.

Such a Lin Bone Gall was the most valuable body part of the Lin Snake. It was not easy to extract the energy from a Lin Bone Gall, failure could come from a single mistake. This was also the reason why Yuehua used this material for the assignment.

By feeling something amiss, Yi Yun opened up his energy vision once again.

With the energy vision open, everything he saw turned into their original energy forms. All appearances disappeared.

Yi Yun finally saw the mystery hiding within the Lin Bone!

Inside the desolate bone, there was a strange energy node.

There were four different Power of Desolates mixed in this node. These energies were bound together by a seal, maintaining a delicate balance.

They canceled out each other's effects and was well hidden. If not for Yi Yun's energy vision, it would be difficult to realize its existence noveltranslationweb.blogspot.com

Yi Yun analyzed it bit by bit and understood that if he were to inject his spiritual energy into the desolate bone to extract its energy, he would break the balance amongst the four Power of Desolates. Following that, the Lin Bone Gall would also explode!

Because the energy was not strong, this explosion would not hurt Yi Yun, but it would drench Yi Yun with bitter bile.