‘Even if he’s a caster from the Humans, he couldn’t have achieved this at such a young age.
‘I must catch up to him and seize him to find out what’s going on.’
With that, Ghost Mo arched its body many times and flew forward like an arrow leaving its bow.
‘I mustn’t let it run away. No matter what it takes, I mustn’t!’
Chapter 601 - Counterattack
A yellow figure ran on the rugged mountain road as though it was flying. The figure was extremely fast, such that it passed over mountains and ridges thoughtlessly and vanished in the blink of an eye.
Nonetheless, Big Yellow stuck out its tongue at the moment. As Ghost Mo spared no effort in pursuing it and Ou Yangming, it became exhausted.
A flash of light was seen in Ou Yangming’s eyes. He retrieved braces, then a flickering light was seen on his wrist as he attached the Devouring attribute to it. Following that, he fit the braces on Big Yellow’s sharp teeth. It was almost a piece of cake for the young fellow to smith such a small thing, hence he completed it without wasting much energy at all.
Big Yellow blinked. Before it could figure out what was going on, it felt something cold in its mouth as a large piece of a spirit beast’s flesh was stuffed inside.
The big yellow dog’s eyes lit up, and it chewed the meat eagerly. As it pierced the sharp braces deep inside its food, the food disappeared quickly from its massive mouth. It would seem like the yellow dog had swallowed its food, but it and Ou Yangming knew that the food was directly absorbed into every cell in its body and turned into energies to be stored.
It was worth noting that absorbing energies from blood and flesh using the Devouring ability was incredibly effective, so much so that it was 100 times greater than digesting them in one’s stomach.
With that, Big Yellow became energetic again. It no longer panted nor had jelly legs, and it became so confident that it was bursting with an unparalleled fighting will.
Even so, just as Ou Yangming thought Big Yellow would turn around to challenge the spirit insect, which was pursuing them closely, it darted faster than before.
Ou Yangming smiled as he sat on Big Yellow.
Big Yellow was still the same as it used to be; even with a heroic spirit that could overturn the world, it would still make the wisest choice when it encountered an undefeatable opponent.
“Woosh…”
The peculiar yet familiar sound was heard coming from the sky again. Without turning to look, Ou Yangming knew Ghost Mo was pursuing them again as it was unwilling to give up.
A fierce look was seen in Ou Yangming’s eyes as he retrieved a dagger and attached the Devouring attribute to it too. Next, he took another piece of a spirit beast’s flesh and stabbed it hard.
The pieces of meat were the Insects’ flesh that he had obtained in the lower realm. Although he had used them several times, he was nearly an invincible being in the lower realm, thus even the imperial family sent him more without any conditions.
Needless to say, after coming to the Spiritual Realm, Ou Yangming believed that he would not lack spirit beasts’ flesh anymore.
As Ou Yangming took a deep breath, cold air flowed upward against the current through the gaps between his teeth. When the air filled its mouth, he naturally looked like he was immersed in the moment.
Absorbing energies from the flesh and blood of a spirit beast was very much enjoyable. In particular, after entering the Spiritual Realm, where Ou Yangming was not restrained by the world’s power anymore, he understood the wonders more.
All of a sudden, he looked up at the enormous creature in the sky behind him.
‘Eat it up!’
Ou Yangming suddenly had a strong thought that could not be suppressed.
Nevertheless, he was realistic as Big Yellow was. Even though he planned to devour his opponent, he would not act rashly if he was not confident about it yet.
He shook his wrist gently to release 3 different spells according to an order.
The 3 spells were not powerful, and 2 of them were mainly assistive spells. Despite that, once the spells were released, Ghost Mo somehow paused in the sky. Taking advantage of the spirit insect’s moment of hesitation, Big Yellow turned its body abruptly and lunged to the other side. It changed its angle, but it managed to avoid being hunted down by Ghost Mo.
Having said that, Ou Yangming did not stop this time. He moved his hands quickly, and his pieces of equipment began to glow at the same time.
Ou Yangming’s greatest reliance was not his strength. When he first arrived at the Spiritual Realm, his bit of strength was far from presentable. However, he was a blacksmith—a potent blacksmith.
He attached skills to every piece of his equipment, and he had plenty of substitutes and backups.
Moreover, the young fellow could gather rune marks in his sea of consciousness for every skill he learned, and he could release them as he wished. Therefore, he was not inferior to anyone in terms of the number of Rune Skills.
After using the Devouring attribute and gaining sufficient energies from flesh and blood, Ou Yangming became more unrestrained.
Forceful or queer runes formed around Ou Yangming, and they poured down on Ghost Mo as if they were omnipresent. The runes could not harm the spirit beast, but it made it feel deeply troubled.
It had just destroyed with brute force a rune that slowed it down, but the floor became exceptionally slippery. While it had countless legs, it experienced the feeling of ice skating. As soon as Ghost Mo pierced its legs deep into the ground to stabilize itself, the floor suddenly softened as though it turned into mud in an instant, causing its body to sink in.
Ou Yangming stood on Big Yellow’s back in a high spirit. At this moment, they became further from Ghost Mo, but the young fellow still stared at the spirit insect with strong fighting intent.
A caster.
Before he entered the Spiritual Realm, he found out that there were 2 kinds of human Spiritualists.
One prioritized martial arts cultivation and mainly cultivated one’s physical power, where most cultivators were warriors.
As for casters, they were human cultivators with notable mental power. They could learn various Rune Spells to grasp unique methods to shift the universe’s spiritual power.
A caster might not be able to defeat a warrior but with a caster’s help, a warrior could unleash greater powers.
Ou Yangming had not joined any sects before this, thus he naturally did not obtain Rune Spells from them. That said, he adopted a different approach by smithing pieces of Skill Equipment for different families and sects. Since they were also customized, he needed to understand the innate abilities of the people or the spirit beasts.
Even if ordinary blacksmiths were given such an opportunity, given their title, it would be difficult for them to convert innate abilities into Rune Skills.
On the other hand, Ou Yangming had the help of his mysterious Military Fire, so he made everything possible.
When top-grade spirit beasts faced low-rank spirit beasts, the former would surely crush the latter. No matter how low-rank spirit beasts struggled, they would not be able to escape from top-grade spirit beasts.
Nonetheless, Ou Yangming and Big Yellow were not ordinary Rudimentary Spiritualists. After having the Devouring power and gaining sufficient energies from flesh and blood, though the young fellow was the only person, he could release hundreds of dissimilar spells.
Since past generations, there was not another caster like that.
As such, Ghost Mo was not dealing with 2 Rudimentary Spiritualists, but tens of human casters.
Rudimentary Rune Spells and Intermediate Rune Spells released by Ou Yangming could not severely injure Ghost Mo but as were used alternately, they gave it more than enough trouble.
“Boom…”
Ghost Mo’s body shook. It drilled out from the mud and roared, then it made frightening hisses. At last, its eyes became bloodshot.
Its abdomen began to expan
d, and a black line extended upward quickly to its mouth. Subsequently, its body bent again as it jumped once more.
Deadly poison—this was intense toxicity inside its body. It did not plan to use the ability when it previously attacked and pursued Ou Yangming; the poisonous liquid was significantly precious to it. In spite of that, it could not be bothered anymore at this moment.
Just as Ghost Mo leaped into mid-air and opened its mouth to spit the poisonous liquid at Ou Yangming, its eyes suddenly glowed.
Ou Yangming raised his hand and aimed his palm at it from afar. It was not much, but the light in his palm almost blinded it.
Lightning—it was definitely lightning, and it came from the most fearsome punishment between Heaven and Earth.
Ghost Mo twisted its body in mid-air without any hesitation and forcibly bent its body to one side.
It clearly sensed that it was a thunderbolt power.
‘Did this young fella actually grasp the thunderbolt power?’
At this point, Ghost Mo felt like it had shot itself in the foot.
Being a top-grade spirit beast, if there was something that it was the most afraid of, it was certainly the Heavenly Thunderbolts. Wherever the thunderbolts were at, it would not go.
Ou Yangming was somehow controlling the thunderbolt power.
It was not powerful and would unlikely draw the Heavenly Thunderbolts if it struck Ghost Mo, but none of the top-grade spirit beasts would ignore the thunderbolt power nor would they resist it.
It was better to be safe than sorry—not only the Humans, but spirit beasts understood this very well too.
Ou Yangming had a look of ridicule on his face. He did not hide the fact that he was mocking the spirit insect.
Ghost Mo was infuriated for being treated like that by a Rudimentary Spiritualist. It sprung up again but just as he wanted to open its mouth, a stream of water was formed and was shrouding it.
Without being threatened by the thunderbolt, Ghost Mo would not be bothered at all, but it dared not let the water touch its body at this time.
After pursuing Ou Yangming and Big Yellow longer, Ghost Mo was mournful because instead of going after its targets, it had turned into a puppet with strings.
At the spur of the moment, Ghost Mo stopped and looked around it in shock.
Big Yellow stood firmly, whereas Ou Yangming laughed out loud on its back. “Did you just realize? What a pity; it’s too late now.”
As he shook his wrist, every rune that he learned gushed toward Ghost Mo like a stormy rain.
Chapter 602 - Perished
Surging energies were released at Ghost Mo endlessly. Based on the top-grade spirit insect’s performance earlier, it would charge at them mercilessly to cut off the spells’ source.
Nonetheless, Ghost Mo suddenly changed its direction and let those spells attack it.
The spirit insect moved its legs frantically while its body flew toward where it came from at the speed of light. It was not as fast as when it arched its body and bounced off, but it was a secretive and nimble approach. In particular, Ghost Mo could turn as it wished and was not inferior to Big Yellow at all in terms of agility.
As for the spells that struck it, they could only delay its movements but could not hurt it.
Ou Yangming’s eyes turned dark. ‘Top-grade spirit beasts are top-grade spirit beasts indeed; their powers are far greater than mine. Even when I and Big Yellow joined hands and replenish our energies with spirit beasts’ flesh, we couldn’t harm it at all. Besides, we’ve been escaping all the while. If we went against the spirit insect head-on, we would’ve been killed long ago.
‘Power—I need more and greater power!’
“Roar—”
All of a sudden, an extremely furious roar was heard. A figure much more enormous than Ghost Mo descended as though it was a mountain.
Ghost Mo sped up abruptly. It was well-prepared after it recognized the environment around it. Its long body twisted and turned on the ground, then it changed its direction and dodge the humongous figure’s attack as if it was a ghost.
Ou Yangming narrowed his eyes. He knew he had finally escaped.
Throughout Ghost Mo’s pursuit, it seemed like Ou Yangming and Big Yellow were forced to flee without being able to counterattack, but they had secretly taken a big round when they changed directions during their flight.
Normally, Ghost Mo would have noticed it.
Nevertheless, when Ou Yangming agitated Ghost Mo using numerous runes and caused its efforts to be in vain, its rage finally masked its rationale. The spirit insect was determined to get rid of the young fellow and the big yellow dog, but it neglected its surroundings.
By the time it reacted to the situation, it had returned to the 10,000 Beasts Ridge.
Although this was only the border of the 10,000 Beasts Ridge, given how much 10,000 Beasts Venerable controlled its territory, it must have noticed the spiritual power fluctuation here.
Despite having noticed Ou Yangming’s intention and wanting to turn to escape, Ghost Mo was too late.
A massive six-armed beast had arrived, and it was charging at Ghost Mo ruthlessly.
Ghost Mo twisted its body and did its best to get away, but the gigantic beast was rather agile. Each time the beast jumped, it could block the spirit insect’s escape path and forced it to stay inside this area.
The spirit insect feared the Six-armed Giant Beast very much. Its aura was not inferior to that of the beast, but it dodged the beast carefully and dared not resist it.
Ou Yangming and Big Yellow had retreated far away long ago and were watching quietly. It was great that they could watch a fight of this level.
Even though the spirit insect and the giant beast were only fighting with physical powers at the moment without using their innate skills, every move that they made during crucial moments was reasonable. It was more than the disparity between power levels; they had reached the wonderful state of being compatible with Heaven and Earth.
Big Yellow widened its eyes while Ou Yangming watched with bright eyes too.
From their perspectives, every movement made by Ghost Mo and the Six-armed Giant Beast was not simple at all. Whether it was the giant beast’s casual attacks of the spirit insect’s mysterious and unpredictable dodges, they seemed to be unimaginably reasonable.
Every attack made by the Six-armed Giant Beast seemed to be able to split Heaven and Earth, but while the attacks were violent, its defense was impenetrable. As it stomped its large foot firmly on the ground, forceful spiritual power from the universe spiraled its body as if the space around it was vaguely being controlled by it.
On the other hand, Ghost Mo was incredibly fast. It kept dodging, but its body sometimes turned and sometimes curled up. Even Ou Yangming and Big Yellow could tell that the spirit insect was brewing its power to counterattack while it avoided the giant beast. Once Ghost Mo found an opportunity, it would certainly launch an earth-shattering and fatal attack. Moreover, there was also a cyclone around it as though its moves corresponded perfectly with the universe’s spiritual power. The marvelous feeling could not be put into words.
Ou Yangming moved his lips and mumbled, “Space, space…”
“Yes, the fight between top-grade Spiritualists is a competition for space. It’s not easy for you to perceive that.”
A faint voice was suddenly heard beside Ou Yangming.
Ou Yangming and Big Yellow were appalled. When they turned to look, they instantly noticed the 10,000 Beasts Venerable One’s thin figure. It had unknowingly stood beside them.
The young fellow twitched his mouth as he glanced at the 10,000 Beasts Venerable One, then he looked at the majestic Six-armed Giant Beast. No matter how he tried to hide it, a strange look could be seen in his eyes.
While the 10,000 Beasts Venerable One had not done the introduction, Ou Yangming knew the Six-armed Giant Beast was from its bloodline. When the young fellow recalled Multi-armed King Kong’s monstrous body, he could not imagine how the
Venerable One had the 2 mountainous creatures as its sons.
The 10,000 Beasts Venerable One looked at Ou Yangming. Its eyes were as clear as water, but they carried indescribable powers as if it perceived the young fellow’s thought.
Ou Yangming quickly lowered his head and responded, “Thanks for your pointers, Venerable One.” He felt guilty at this moment.
“If King Kong cultivates to become a Venerable One, you’ll understand.” The 10,000 Beasts Venerable One scoffed.
Ou Yangming was stunned, and he broke out in a cold sweat. The 10,000 Beasts Venerable One really saw through his thought but fortunately, it did not seem like it wanted to make a fuss about it.
“You reacted very fast and didn’t disappoint me.” The 10,000 Beasts Venerable One laughed and expressed, “I was thinking how long you could hold on being pursued by Ghost Mo. Who knew, you persevered and even lure it back to the 10,000 Beasts Ridge. It was quite unexpected for me too.”
“Venerable One, you… Saw everything?” Ou Yangming was dumbfounded.
“This is my territory, so it’s not strange that I saw everything, right?” The 10,000 Beasts Venerable One grinned.
Ou Yangming pointed at the fight and asked, “You were aware of Ghost Mo’s every move too, am I right?”
“Hehe, Ghost Mo left in such a hurry after it met you. I’m not blind, so how could I not know?” The 10,000 Beasts Venerable One spoke in a plain tone as if it was talking about the simplest thing ever.
Struck with a thought, Ou Yangming asked, “Venerable One, how are Elder Bai and the others now?”
“Given that you remember them, you’re not an ungrateful person.” The 10,000 Beasts Venerable One nodded. He chuckled and continued, “Ghost Mo wanted to go against you, but it dare not hurt anyone here, so it only made them unconscious. At most, they’ll wake up after a day.”
Ou Yangming finally sighed a breath of relief. If Bai Zhiyi, Fat Antelope, and the others died because of him, it would be a mental burden for him.
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