Cthulhu Mythos In Cultivation World novel Chapter 3

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The Green Lakeshore - Afternoon

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On the lake shore, there are two people, a boy and a girl in early teens talking and giggling with each other while waiting for the fish to take their bait. They are Zhu Wushang and Xiao Lan; the bucket at the boy side is full of fish until there’s no space to put any more fish.

A boy quickly set the hook and swung it up in one strike. At the end of the cord; a big delicious looking jade fish has been hooked up from the water and falls to the half empty bucket at Xiao Lan side as she is cheering loudly for the boy.

“Here the spirits jade fish. Now you won’t lose face, and you won’t get teased by godmother when we return.” Zhu Wushang said with a carefree smile.

“Thanks, Wushang” Xiao Lan hugs Zhu Wushang before carrying her bucket that’s full of fish and waits for Zhu Wushang who is cleaning up the site where they are fishing.

“I’ll make spirit jade fish for supper, stay and eat with us Xiao Lan,” He tells Xiao Lan after finishing with the cleanup and keeps all of their fishing gear in the bamboo basket on his back.

“Um! Definitely!” Xiao Lan accepts without thinking, Who’s going to miss the food from the chef that has a skill equal to the most celebrated spirit chef in the capital.

This is the regular interaction between them for more than 6 years since the first time they met. Zhu Wushang thought that this light heart and carefree life would continue on a bit longer, but the reality proved to be otherwise.

Both of them walked hand in hand together until reaching the small passageway between the forest and the lake, but Zhu Wushang frowned and stopped in his tracks.

“Hm? What’s the matter Wushang?” Xiao Lan asked.

He didn’t answer but picked up the small stone at his feet and threw it at the air in front of him.

The invisible spirit qi wall obstructs the throwing stone path, and he frowned even deeper, he slid his hand in the pocket inside his chest and brought out the poisoned dagger. He looks at the forest and brings Xiao Lan to move away from its border.

“Xiao Lan be alert, stay behind me.”

He whispers to Xiao Lan and looks at the black substance at the edge of his dagger. It’s the potent poison that he concocts without the spirit qi by the pure alchemy skill of his. He is confident that his poison can kill even the Spirits Commander realm expert If... he manages to wound that expert with his dagger.

Fortunately, his dagger is a King Grade dagger that his father gave him to protect himself, that means he can cause a wound to Spirits King expert even if that wound is just a scratch, but it’s enough for his poison to do their job.

He might not have spirit roots, but his perfect inner qi cultivation makes his battle power to be no less than the peak of the Spirit Warrior realm.

He heard the sound of many light footsteps from the forest border and many grey wolves appeared from the forest followed by the Spirits dire wolf. It seems like the Spirits dire wolf is the leader of this pack.

He looks at all of the wolves that try to surround them; thinking about the area restriction formation that he discovers a moment ago, surely this is the human-made disaster. Fortunately, he already secures their back by turning their back to the lake. And if no one interferes with the lake, there should be no dangerous creature within.

The Spirits dire wolf howl in command and three of the grey wolf paunch at them. Zhu Wushang quickly intercepts these three wolves. He quickly slashes at the first one before he kicks at the second one and stabs at the third. Within five breaths two of three wolves stop breathing and the one that survives has a minor injury at its neck.

He sheaths his dagger and unsheaths it again to re-coated the poison that was already used on the two wolves. He never thought that the safety protocol that he always prepared all the time will be of use today.

In this situation, he really wants to escape and bring Xiao Lan along with the life-saving treasure like those experts in the story that his father usually told him. But unfortunately, those kinds of treasure need spiritual qi to activate, and he didn’t have that.

Unknown to him that if he had one and has spirit qi to use it right now, he can’t use it because Xiao Lan has been sending the SOS to everyone in Zhu Manor at the start when Zhu Wushang discovers the area restriction formation with her communication seal. But, She can’t contact them at all. And all of the teleport and life-saving treasure in her body also didn’t render useless by this formation. It’s like her connection to these treasures has been interfered by stronger spiritual qi.

The Spirits Dire wolf sees this, and its intelligent eye looks at Zhu Wushang dagger before releasing its spirits qi aura.

[Peak of Spirits commander realm spirits beast!!]

The alarm inside Zhu Wushang heart rang, the pressure of this Spirits Commander realm spirit beast pressures him to kneel to the ground and all of the wolf pounce at him.