Dual Cultivation God Returns-Chapter 838: In the mist valley

Chapter 838: In the mist valley

They soon arrived in a valley between two long mountains on the exit from the mountain range, filled with dense mist.

“You’re in luck, Fairy Cai Yin”, Wu Long said observing the area ahead which was obscured by the mist, “We’re going to meet quite a bit of Soul-oriented Demonic Beasts”

The three ladies instantly raised their alertness at his words, as Soul Power was hard to detect, and could be extremely dangerous if one was caught off guard.

“This mist… it’s made of Soul Power…”, Cai Yin’s eyes widened as she sensed it.

“Close, but not entirely”, Wu Long nodded, “It has Soul Power mixed into it very thinly, while most of it is Water Qi and regular Spiritual Qi”

“No wonder it’s hard to penetrate with Spiritual Sense”, Gong Liwei nodded, “I can’t see further than that lone tree ahead.

“What lone tree?”, Hong Yue furrowed her eyebrows in confusion, “There’s a whole forest…”

“I see… it’s messing with Spiritual Sense…”, Cai Yin nodded, as she saw that there were neither a lone tree or a forest, but boulders of different sizes. ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com

“Yes, running into this mist would be a suicide for those who are not versed in Soul Power”, Wu Long nodded, “It’s not exactly illusions induced by hallucinogenic smells and smoke that Yuhan uses or dream phantasm space Baihu creates, it is more of simply disorienting Soul Power, you should have no problem clearing it out”

Cai Yin nodded, concentrating as once again illusory smoke-like translucent whitish energy spread around her, and as they stepped forward, began clearing out the mist of the interfering Soul Power, leaving harmless mist in its place.

Soon, they stopped, as all three beauties ‘felt’ that something was lurking in the mist beyond the boundary of what Cai Yin cleared of Soul Power.

A relatively quiet, somehow low and high pitch at the same time, hissing screech soon resounded from behind them, and then another to their side, as the beauties realized they were being surrounded, the screeches continuing to come from multiple directions.

Wu Long simply observed, as Cai Yin understood it was the best opportunity to analyze how beasts which used Soul Power, were utilizing the same power she possessed, and trying to counter it.

Soon came the first loud high-pitched screech, carrying Soul Power.

And though Cai Yin defended that, as if by command, several of those screeches resounded.

Her concentration wavered, but held out as wisps of her Soul Power spread in different directions, breaking down the attacks.

It took some time, but she began stabilizing her defense, her response time getting faster and the way she used her Soul Power was also getting more elaborate, the skill with which she weaved it beginning to increase.

The reason Wu Long let her try was because these were 5th to 8th tier Mortal Grade beasts. They held an advantage in numbers and the natural way they used Soul Power in the most efficient for them way, creating a sufficient challenge, but not one she could not overcome.

Instead, her control got progressively better as she got more and more experience with the techniques and skills that Wu Long gave her, and which she comprehended with some help from Luo Mingyu.

At the same time she understood that these creatures were using sound to transmit their Soul Power precisely because they did not have the capacity she had, to use Soul Power in its pure state. The difference was not even in the potency or strength of the Soul Power itself. It was a qualitative difference of one specific aspect of her Soul Power.

She now also understood, that while it seemed that Wu Long did the same, he was actually layering Soul Power atop an imperceptible, masterfully concealed Spiritual Qi.

‘So this is it… this is what he was speaking about…’, she thought of how confidently Wu Long spoke about her ability to become a rare true Soul Cultivator.

This was the fundamental difference, as 99% of all beings who used Soul Power had to use something else to deliver it.

She now realized that her teacher, the one who sought to control and manipulate her, was subtly mixing Soul Power into his voice, and when he taught her, he taught her to use visual eye contact techniques.

Even the techniques she received from Wu Long before were based on the same principle he used, having the Soul Power ride on Spiritual Qi, though in her case he did not teach her to conceal the Spiritual Qi for that.

And when Wu Long gave her the knowledge on techniques and skills of Soul Cultivators, she was surprised it used Soul Power in its pure form, but didn’t realize it was something only a tiny minority could do, just thinking it was the natural next stage.

This was why her Soul Power was able to so easily overpower the one sent atop the screeches of these beasts.

“Good”, Wu Long nodded, when she stabilized, taking out Shadow Crescent and slowly walking into the mist.

For him, these beasts were simply weak and vulnerable creatures, with underdeveloped, thin bodies and large elongated heads without eyes, as his resistance against Soul Power rendered their whole ability set useless.

The whole area around him was visible to him as clear as day, making their lurking within the mist quite a comical sight.

He came up to them as they increasingly used more and more Soul Power to try and stun him into a trance, but none of it worked as he simply swept the Shadow Crescent’s black blade.

He was collecting translucent quartz-like crystals from their heads as he went around cutting them down, making sure to dispose of the bodies, burying them in the ground with the Earth Rune so their grotesque appearance wouldn’t be visible to the three ladies with him, and most notably Cai Yin.

After all, she still had to use those crystals, and he didn’t want her knowing exactly how they were extracted, and how the creatures looked. He learned from the previous time with the 3rd-tier Profound Grade Beast.

Thus, they proceeded further into the misty valley, encountering more and more challenging Soul Power-using beasts, as Cai Yin got increasingly better at dealing with them, not realizing that unlike before, now she had far more wisps of that translucent whitish energy around her at the same time.

This culminated in her confrontation with a 1st-tier Profound Grade beast where Wu Long had to initially shield Gong Liwei and Hong Yue with his own Soul Power, as Cai Yin struggled to even protect herself.

Eventually, she was able to hold her own against it, and then even overpower it, making it an easy sitting target for Wu Long to come up and extract the prized crystal.

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