Chapter 46 - Creature Creation

It was as if there were countless sharp blades cutting the flesh off his body and roasting it on a raging fire. The pain seeped into his soul and he was forced wide awake from his unconscious state by sheer pain.

“Stop now…” The middle-aged Daoist priest begged.

He rolled around on the ground desperately and grabbed at his body wildly.

His robe became torn, and his flesh became mutilated and bloody.

Within moments, he was completely covered in blood.

Xiao Ran relented and looked at him with an icy cold expression. “So you are willing to talk now?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about!”

“What’s with this bead?”

The middle-aged Daoist priest hesitated for a moment before saying, “It’s called the Source Consuming Pearl. If chance permits, it can devour ten thousand wisps of energy with just one swallow of a wisp of Divine Origin Propagating Energy.”

“You’re not being honest.” Xiao Ran gave a condescending snort.

The Heavenly Slave Divine Finger was activated again, and three more shots hit him.

He was in so much pain that he begged and begged for mercy.

After several minutes,

Xiao Ran relented and temporarily relieved the pain. “Are you still going to be stubborn?”

The middle-aged Daoist priest was scared sh*tless by now. He did not want to experience that torment again, and so he was much more honest than before.

“I’m not lying to you. It can indeed devour ten thousand wisps of energy, but it can only be used once. There’s also a fatal flaw. It can’t absorb a second type of energy. When it reaches the upper limit of what it can withstand, it will destroy itself.”

“What’s your relationship with the Yin Incubation Institute?” Xiao Ran continued to ask.

“I’m from the Supreme Pure Temple and I don’t know them. This attack was purely an accident.”

“At this point you’re still being dishonest.” Xiao Ran lost his patience completely.

“Wait! I’m really not lying to you.”

Xiao Ran rebutted scornfully, “You used the Source Consuming Pearl to absorb the Immense Righteous Energy of the Scholastic Incubation Institute, but the Yin Incubation Institute remained unscathed.”

The middle-aged Daoist priest’s pupils constricted in terror for the first time.

“Y-you know special eye techniques?”

With a wave of his right hand, Xiao Ran sent four more shots of Heavenly Slave Divine Finger on his body.

This time, he simply watched indifferently on one side for a full quarter of an hour before he relieved the torture.

At this point, the middle-aged Daoist priest was practically on his last breath. He wanted to die but wasn’t able to.

“Don’t continue to test my patience,” Xiao Ran warned him ominously.

“Yama’s men found me and made me a firm promise that I can absorb the Immense Righteous Energy of the Four Great Institutes with the Source Consuming Pearl. I don’t know anything else.”

“Yama?”

“Yes.” The middle-aged Daoist priest nodded.

“Wasn’t their branch in the capital city destroyed?”

“I’m not sure about the details. The person who came to me is a Profound Realm expert.”

Seeing Xiao Ran deep in thought, the middle-aged Daoist priest begged him one last time, “Give me a quick death.”

With the clap of a single palm, he finished off the priest.

The Golden Tome of Creation flipped open to a random page and displayed two items: 500,000 Mastery points and 50 years of Martial Arts Evolution.

“Only this much for a Level 10 Grand Master Realm?” Xiao Ran was surprised at the meager offerings.

He added the 500,000 Mastery points to the Phoenix Essence Sword Technique.

After the attributes were refreshed,

Phoenix Essence Sword Technique: Genesis

With the increase in purifying spiritual force, he was only 330 years away from advancing his martial arts by another step.

“So the Yin Incubation Institute is colluding with the Yama group. Why did they come to Great Xia this time?” Xiao Ran puzzled over this information.

On the way back,

Xiao Ran brushed past a woman and his gaze was attracted by the rabbit in her arms.

“Wait a minute! Why is this rabbit exuding Immense Righteous Energy?”

As he focused on her back profile, he activated his Spiritual Clarity Eye.

Billowing demonic aura surged and condensed into an illusion of a huge silver wolf.

The Immense Righteous Energy manifested itself, and there was a figure inside. However, it was suppressed by the demonic aura.

Sensing Xiao Ran’s probing gaze, the silver wolf illusion emitted a loud roar that charged towards him.

Before the sound wave could reach Xiao Ran, it was destroyed by the protective shield of golden light surrounding his body.

Sensing something amiss, the woman turned around and sized up Xiao Ran with her beautiful eyes. “Oh my, you’re so fierce!”

With a laughter that resembled tinkling bells, she sped away.

“Illusion Technique?” Xiao Ran ruminated silently.

He swiftly went in hot pursuit in a certain direction.

After leaving the capital city, she came to a stop more than 30 miles to the east.

The demonic aura manifested and condensed into a figure, gradually showing the form of that woman again.

“May I ask who you are? Why are you following me?” The woman asked with a stony countenance.

“Give me the rabbit,” Xiao Ran said.

“You can tell?” The woman asked with a frown.

“What do you think?”

The woman lifted the rabbit up by holding it by the neck, but in reality her hand was clamped tightly around it. She licked her lips seductively. “If you want it, come get it yourself.”

As she finished speaking,

she threw the rabbit into the air and reverted to her true form. It was a silver wolf demon that was hundreds of feet tall. Its demonic aura condensed and enveloped an area within the radius of a thousand feet. Within this zone, the terrifying demonic aura corroded everything.

As the evil aura swirled around it, it charged forward ferociously.

“Celestial Varg Manifestation!”

The silver wolf roared in rage and its demonic power doubled. Its huge wolf claws shot out and clawed towards Xiao Ran’s head in a flash, causing the space to explode from its might and speed.

“Lunar Howling Varg Tribe?” Xiao Ran thought to himself.

Using his finger as a sword, sword energy erupted and rushed into the clouds.

The wild violent sword energy transformed into a huge phoenix. As the Phoenix Essence Sword Technique unleashed its power, it slashed down mercilessly.

The impact sent the wolf demon flying backwards at twice the speed of its first charge forward. Its main body was instantly destroyed.

When the rabbit fell from the air, Xiao Ran raised his right hand and caught it neatly.

He then walked up to the fallen demon. “Are you from the Great Viridian Mountain?”

“I’m the consort of the Lunar Howling Varg King from the Great Viridian Mountain.” The wolf demon introduced herself arrogantly with a threatening tone.

“Are you threatening me?”

“The Lunar Howling Varg King is very spiteful. If you kill me, he won’t let you off even if you escape to the ends of the earth.”

“I don’t believe it!” Xiao Ran said and stomped down.

Bang!

The ground surface caved in, and the wolf demon was trampled hundreds of feet into the ground. Not surprisingly, its injuries worsened by a lot.

“Do you still think I don’t dare to kill you?” Xiao Ran asked again.

“You… aren’t you afraid of the Lunar Howling Varg King’s revenge?” The wolf demon screamed back in terror.

Xiao Ran laughed and attacked without warning. He grabbed at the air and yanked her out of the abyss. He smashed her violently onto the ground for more than a hundred times before stopping.

“What do you think?”

“Have mercy on me, sir!” The wolf demon cried out in terror as the cruel reality unfolded before her eyes.

“You’re quite bold. You have the guts to attack someone from the Dragon Lake Institute and even dared to use a creature creation technique to turn him into livestock. Aren’t you afraid that their old monsters will personally make a trip to the Great Viridian Mountain?”

“It was an accident, honest!” The wolf demon explained hurriedly.

“I came to the capital city this time under instructions from the Bear Tribe to capture their traitor, Xiong Kuotian. I never thought of doing anything bad.”

“What about him?” Xiao Ran asked.

“I-I…” The wolf demon was at a loss for words.

A flash of sword energy slashed down and finished her off.

He put the rabbit down. With a flip of his palm, Immense Righteous Energy enveloped it and dispelled the spell cast by the creature creation technique. A young man appeared on the same spot.

“Wake up,” Xiao Ran commanded.

Chen Wenheng had a strange dream. In the dream, he turned into a rabbit and was grabbed by a woman.

Just as his consciousness was about to dissipate, the dream shattered and he slowly woke up.

“You are?”

“Xiao Ran.”

Swish!

Chen Wenheng sprang up from the ground and grabbed Xiao Ran’s arm. He cried out in fear, “Run!”

After pulling his arm for a long time, he found that he still couldn’t make Xiao Ran budge an inch. He was so anxious that he began sweating profusely.

“If we don’t leave now, it’ll be too late when that woman comes!”