Chapter Seventy-Three: Fireball Technique

  The old man in grey robes was taken aback and asked: "Brother, do you mean to say that finding this Wu Mu Dao person is more important than attacking the Jade Cauldron Sect?"

  Zhao Kun slowly opened the portrait in his hand, pointing at Wu Mu Dao Ren and said: "Junior brother may not know yet, but the ugly monster's Dry Heaven God Sword is by no means inferior to Yu Ding Men's five great divine soldiers. Moreover, he also has other treasures of Lao Tzu, plus this divine thunder that can easily tear open various sects' mountain-protecting arrays and casually kill Yuan Ying cultivators. This person is simply a walking treasure trove! It's precisely because of this that Mei Ji and Su Lun Ba must find this person as soon as possible, obtain these treasures from him, and thus disregard the safety of their disciples, mobilizing all their forces to attack!"

  Upon hearing these words, a thread of greed and excitement flashed across the eyes of the old man in grey.

  "This is not all, next to this ugly freak, there is a twelve-year-old child with a dual spirit root of mutual generation attribute, who already has the power of practicing Qi at level 4 or above. The future is boundless. For our Tianxin Sect, if we can get these two people, it will be even more beneficial than taking down Yuding Gate."

  After a slight pause, he continued: "The most crucial thing is that this ugly creature did not take advantage of the chaos to attack when the three factions were defeated. It must be as Master Qin suspected, it was already seriously injured. Mei Ji and Su Lun, although they didn't say anything, also understood this in their hearts and wanted to find Wu Mu Dao Ren as soon as possible. Lu and Chen, both masters of tracking skills, are actually the people Master sent to assist Master Qin!"

  Upon hearing this, the old man in grey suddenly looked enlightened and said: "So that's how it is. No wonder Master Shifu had to hide in secret."

  Zhao Kun's face sank, and he said coldly, "The news of Shifu Jian being alive should only be known to you and me. It can't be known by a third person!" The old man in gray robes trembled with fear in his heart and hastily nodded.

  After returning to the mountain cave, Wumu Dao people plunged into the stone room and devoted themselves to cultivation. Shui Sheng, on the other hand, didn't want to idle for a moment, either summoning Hei Hu from the spiritual beast bag to train it or running to the deep gorge where Qinglin Chou lived to play a tune on his flute. Unexpectedly, after more than ten days, Qinglin Chou finally couldn't stand Shui Sheng's harsh and piercing "soul hook" flute sound and began to churn and roar in the deep gorge, making Shui Sheng and Hei Hu excited and tense, and they quickly ran back to the mountain cave. Unexpectedly, although Qinglin Chou had jumped out of the deep gorge, it didn't chase after them.

  Rumor has it that Shuǐ Shēng can lure out the Qīng Lín Jiǎo, and Wū Mù Dào Rén is also excited. If they can subdue this fourth-level demon Qīng Lín Jiǎo and have it guard the cave, the two will gain an extra layer of security. After carefully exploring the terrain, Wū Mù Dào Rén meticulously set up the Tiān Yí Qián Kūn Array around a large stone cave next to a deep ravine, setting up a "trap". He had Shuǐ Shēng stay in the passage behind the array and focus on playing his flute.

  Although the cyan scale worm was ferocious, its intelligence was far inferior to that of the black tiger. Under the temptation of the water-born "gradually gentle" flute sound, it indeed angrily charged into the trap and pounced on the two small dots sitting at the entrance of the passage.

  As the large array hummed and tightened, the giant scorpion began to emit a series of ox-like roars, tirelessly charging towards the suddenly rising layer of prohibition light curtain in all directions.

  For a whole two days and one night, Shuǐ Shēng used all his skills to blow the flute, blowing until his lips were about to swell up. The giant centipede's "dancing" movements in the big array finally slowed down, and by the end, it even collapsed directly to the ground, foaming at the mouth. No matter how melodious the flute sound was, it couldn't lift its head again. Wū Mù Dào Rén carefully withdrew the spell array, seeing that the green-scaled centipede was covered in wounds, and even its eyes were too weak to open. Only then did he feel at ease returning to the cave, instructing Shuǐ Shēng to plant a seal within its body.

  That black tiger saw Water take great pains to catch the giant centipede, but not let it swallow, was extremely disappointed and walked to the entrance of the passage with a lack of spirit, lay down, and watched as Water took out the spiritual beast bag, trying to put the giant centipede in the bag. Even more dissatisfied, it let out an angry low growl at Water and the giant centipede! Clearly not welcoming the giant centipede as its partner. Fortunately, this giant python was five or six zhang long, and Water spent half a day's effort but still couldn't put it in the spiritual beast bag. The black tiger finally put down its guard and stopped its useless complaints!

  Shuǐ shēng mō chū yī lì xuě cān wán, sài zài jù xiǎo zuǐ zhōng, jìng jìng de zuò zài dòng kǒu chù děng tā huī fù fǎ lì.

  Unexpectedly, after a long time had passed, the giant centipede was still lying motionless on the ground. Shui Sheng went over and kicked it twice, seeing that its eyes could open, he felt relieved, then stuffed another Snow Ginseng Pill into its mouth, and brought Hei Hu back to the stone cave.

  On the second day, he ran over to take a look and found that the giant python had secretly hidden in the deep ravine. Fortunately, with the mark left by Shui Sheng in its divine sea, it didn't take much effort to summon the giant python out of the ravine. This time, the giant python, which had suffered greatly, was much more honest, and when it saw Shui Sheng standing in front of it, it did not dare to open its mouth wide and pounce on him like before, but instead slowly swam around his body.

  Seeing the giant centipede's pitiful appearance, Shui Sheng initially wanted to torment it some more. However, after a brief exchange of divine thoughts, he allowed it to swim back into the deep ravine to heal on its own. This green-scaled centipede was, after all, a fourth-grade demonic beast, and its spiritual intelligence far surpassed that of ordinary snakes. Knowing Shui Sheng had given it permission to leave, it dove headfirst into the depths of the ravine.

  Shui Sheng understood that he could subdue the Black Tiger and the Green Scaled Python, but most importantly, it was because of Wu Mu Dao Ren's prior setup of the Two Instruments Qian Kun Formation. Without the Two Instruments Qian Kun Formation to trap the two demonic beasts first, he would not have been able to single-handedly use the techniques recorded in "Taming the Beasts" to subdue them. Not daring to slack off, he began to diligently practice every day with "Taming the Beasts".

  On this day, Shui Sheng felt a rumbling in his stomach and took out several pieces of spiritual stones from his storage bag. He originally wanted to use one of the spiritual stones to "fill his hunger", but when he saw the black tiger lying beside him, he suddenly changed his mind. After giving the black tiger some orders, he opened up the seal on the cave entrance with a spell. The black tiger excitedly shook its head and wagged its tail at Shui Sheng before leaping out of the cave. Half an hour later, the black tiger returned from outside the cave, not only had it become fatter, but it was also carrying a plump wild rabbit in its mouth.

  Staring at the wild rabbit, Shuiguo's worry began. At the time of Yun Tai Guan, Wu Mu Dao Ren strictly forbade a few children from learning magic techniques from each other. Until now, Shuiguo still couldn't cast even the simplest fireball technique, and he didn't have anything like a lighter in his hand. He couldn't just eat the wild rabbit raw like Black Tiger, could he? In desperation, he had no choice but to go find Wu Mu Dao Ren and ask for a book on the cultivation method of fireball technique.

  Looking at the "Basic Skills Encyclopedia" in his hand, Shui Sheng immediately shifted his interest and quickly put away the "Beast Taming Scripture"!

  Although Shuǐyīng is a spiritual root of the two attributes of water and gold, it is difficult to cultivate high-level techniques of the three attributes of wood, fire, and earth, but it does not hinder the practice of the simplest five-element spells.

  Just less than an hour after getting excited, Shui Sheng became depressed again. With a casual flick of his wrist, a small fireball that didn't seem to be anything special turned the entire wild rabbit into a piece of charcoal. He naturally wouldn't know that with his current strength, which was not inferior to that of a mid-Golden Elixir cultivator, even if he only used 50% of his power, the fireball technique would still roast a mountain goat, let alone a wild rabbit, into charcoal.

  Hei Hu was initially very interested in Shui Sheng's fireball technique, but after watching for a while, he felt it wasn't that impressive and lay down on the ground to take a nap. Shui Sheng's stomach growled with hunger, thinking of all sorts of delicious food like beef, fatty chicken, and braised carp, when suddenly he remembered he still had a gourd of fine wine. His heart skipped a beat as he quickly cast a spell to summon the gourd, and then picked up a cup carved from jade from the table.

  A few mouthfuls of fine wine down the hatch, and suddenly I felt a lot more comfortable. Unexpectedly, the black tiger lying on the ground caught wind of the wine aroma, sniffed its nose, and suddenly stood up, ran to Sheng's face, excitedly let out a low growl, its tail wagging back and forth, just like a little black dog begging its master for a meaty bone.

  Shui Sheng saw the black tiger lose its dignity, looked at it with disdain, shook his head, and poured a cup of water wine for the black tiger as well. After drinking three cups, the black tiger was still wagging its tail, Shui Sheng unhappily hummed and said: "You've drunk it all, what am I supposed to drink? You're full, but I haven't eaten yet! If you want to drink, go catch a wild boar or a deer for me first!" He didn't care if the black tiger understood or not, and casually put away the gourd.

  Hei Hu thought for a moment, then flew towards the cave entrance. Shui Sheng was taken aback by Hei Hu's intelligence and chuckled as he dispelled the seal within the cave. Less than an hour later, Hei Hu returned once more, its mouth indeed holding a half-grown mountain deer! This time, Shui Sheng didn't dare to roast the entire deer, instead taking out his Frost Sword and cutting off one of the deer's legs.

  Waft after waft of burnt smell kept coming from the stone cave, Wu Mu Dao Ren stepped out of the stone room and saw that Shui Sheng was practicing fireball technique to roast meat. It was simply laughable and tear-jerking. Unfortunately, using fireball technique to roast meat was not easy to master the heat, one deer had already been used up more than half, yet not a single piece of meat was cooked to be edible, either it was undercooked or burnt to a crisp. By the time he picked up the undercooked deer meat and roasted it several times, after several attempts, it would turn into charcoal again.

  Fortunately, Shui Sheng's use of fireball techniques is also getting more and more trained, and the last large piece of venison was cut into strips, which were roasted for a few strips, and had a full meal.

  What Shui Sheng and Wu Mu Dao didn't expect was that this barbecue would unexpectedly attract a group of Bing Feng Gu cultivators.

  Three days later, sixteen monks stood quietly on a cliff with four secondary demon beasts Iron-backed Gray Wolves, looking around.

  "Leaf Shu, it's right here. The third-grade black tiger demon beast disappeared only after entering this mountain valley!" A thin man with a pockmarked face said to a tall, middle-aged man in white robes, pointing downwards at the deep valley below as he spoke.

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