Chapter 779
I Can See Through Everything – Chapter 779
Chapter 779: Seize the Life Core, Settle a Minor Karmic Tie
“So it really is the mountain forest where we went into secluded cultivation back then!”
The moment Xiao Li heard that roar, it was instantly certain.
Because it remembered that roar—an exotic beast unique to the Gale Plains: the Wind Beast.
“That’s right. This is outside the Gale Plains, that stretch of mountain forest where we once cultivated in seclusion,” Lu Qing nodded.
And it was precisely because he had stayed here for a time that Lu Qing had memorized the spatial coordinates and managed to transmit here smoothly.
“Big Brother, you’ve been here before?” Xiao Yan asked.
“Mm. Perfect—let’s go see an old friend.”
Lu Qing lifted his hand, and a surge of Spatial power enveloped everyone as they vanished from where they stood.
In the next instant, when they reappeared, violent winds and yellow sand filled the sky.
Not far away, a massive figure was swinging its arms as though attacking something.
With only a flicker of thought from Lu Qing, the raging sandstorm within a radius of ten feet completely froze in place.
Even their presence blended perfectly into the surroundings, and that enormous figure didn’t notice their arrival at all.
“Ah Qing, it’s that Nascent Soul Wind Beast we ran into back then!” Xiao Li said at once when it saw the huge figure.
So the one that had just roared was the very same Nascent Soul Wind Beast that had once chased them down when they passed through the Gale Plains.
“That’s the one. That’s why I called it an old friend,” Lu Qing said with a slight nod.
And he could also tell that this Nascent Soul Wind Beast—one that had once fought him—had improved its cultivation.
The sand and stone that formed its body were extraordinarily solid now, and the way it swung its arms had clear structure and rhythm.
It had plainly stepped fully into the Nascent Soul Realm, and its intelligence had grown by quite a bit.
Lu Qing’s gaze shifted to the other side.
Facing the Wind Beast, seven or eight human cultivators had formed an array formation. Together they drove a treasure, creating a defensive light barrier as they struggled to resist the Wind Beast’s attacks.
But the light barrier shook without ceasing under the Wind Beast’s blows. It was obvious they couldn’t hold for much longer.
“Senior Brother, this Wind Beast has completely entered the Nascent Soul Realm. Its intelligence has soared, and it can perfectly control the wind-element laws of this Gale Plains. What do we do?” Inside the barrier, a late-stage Golden Core woman stared at the wavering shield of light, panic-stricken.
She had never expected the Gale Plains’ Wind Beast to have truly stepped into the Nascent Soul Realm and fully taken control of the Gale Plains—
Instead of being, as the rumors claimed, only half a step into the Nascent Soul Realm and dull-witted.
This time, when she and her senior brothers came to hunt the Wind Beast, they had been far too reckless.
If not for the mid-grade spiritual artifact their master had bestowed, the Xuangguang Shield, they would have already died here.
But now it seemed that even the Xuangguang Shield could only last for a while. If this continued, it would eventually be smashed apart.
“Don’t panic. Hold on a little longer. I’m preparing to use the Heaven-Piercing Spike. At most twenty breaths—just hold!” A white-robed young man at the front of the formation gritted his teeth.
“The Heaven-Piercing Spike! Senior Brother, you can’t!” another young man cried out. “Once you use it, all your mana will be drained. You won’t be able to move at all!”
The others’ faces changed as well. Here in the Gale Plains, they knew all too well what it meant to run out of mana.
“There’s no other way. This Nascent Soul Wind Beast is far stronger than we expected. Aside from the Heaven-Piercing Spike, we have no way to harm it,” the white-robed young man said urgently.
“Remember this: after I use the Heaven-Piercing Spike to blow its body apart, you must flee immediately. If the Wind Beast’s life core isn’t destroyed, it won’t die—it’s undying. Even if its body is shattered, it can recover in a dozen breaths at most.
“Whether or not I manage to destroy its life core, use that little window to run as far as you can. You must escape the Gale Plains as fast as possible!”
“Then what about you, Senior Brother?” the woman asked.
“Don’t worry about me. This is the only way. Otherwise, we’ll all die here!” the white-robed young man shouted.
At the same time, a golden long spike condensed before him, radiating a terrifying aura.
Sensing the threat from that golden spike, the Nascent Soul Wind Beast seemed to realize the danger. Its assault grew even more frenzied.
A fist of sand and stone, massive as a mountain peak, smashed down again and again on the barrier, determined to crush these little crawling insects to death.
Yet the Xuangguang Shield truly lived up to being a defensive mid-grade spiritual artifact.
Even under such violence, it held firm.
Though it warped, twisted, and shuddered, under the group’s desperate support it still refused to break.
Breath by breath, time passed, and the golden long spike before the white-robed young man grew brighter and brighter.
The Nascent Soul Wind Beast became more and more violent. Under the intense threat, it suddenly stopped caring about anything else—leaping high, clasping both fists together, and hammering down toward the barrier below.
It wanted to smash this group of insects to pieces before that golden spike was completed!
“Now!”
Yet at the instant the Nascent Soul Wind Beast leapt, the white-robed young man’s eyes snapped wide, a sharp brilliance bursting from within.
At the same time, the golden long spike before him became a streak of gold light, shooting at unimaginable speed toward the life core location he had sensed.
“Success!”
Seeing where the golden streak was headed, the white-robed young man was overjoyed.
In his perception, the Wind Beast’s life core hadn’t moved—it was about to be struck.
But in the next moment, he saw something that made his blood run cold: a crafty glint flashed in the Wind Beast’s eyes.
Then, at the very instant his Heaven-Piercing Spike was about to smash into the life core—
The Wind Beast’s entire body abruptly exploded apart, and along with its life core, merged into the endless wind and sand, vanishing without a trace.
The Heaven-Piercing Spike he had condensed with all his mana struck nothing at all, soaring straight into the sky.
“Run!”
What shook the white-robed young man even more was the roar he heard beside him, followed by several figures bursting out of the barrier and fleeing backward at full speed.
His junior brothers and sisters had assumed he had blown the Wind Beast apart. They didn’t dare delay for even a breath, and followed his instructions, sprinting to escape.
A surge of terror rose in the white-robed young man’s chest. He whipped his head around and bellowed, “Don’t—!”
But it was already too late.
The Wind Beast that had just exploded apart recondensed in the time of a single breath.
Then it swept one enormous hand—an immense palm like a mountain—crushing down toward those few figures who hadn’t fled very far.
“This is bad—how is its body reforming so fast?”
“It dispersed on purpose! It wasn’t hit by Senior Brother at all!”
“It deliberately sold a flaw… this Wind Beast has that much intelligence?”
“No—without the Xuangguang Shield, we can’t block this palm!”
“It’s over!”
The fleeing figures felt the overwhelming might contained in that strike, their hearts shaken to the core.
They never imagined the Nascent Soul Wind Beast’s intelligence had reached this level.
Its earlier frenzy had been an act—meant to lure their senior brother into using his killing move.
Now the Heaven-Piercing Spike was gone, and they had left the protection range of the Xuangguang Shield.
Before this cunning Wind Beast at the Nascent Soul level—able to command countless winds and sands—they were lambs awaiting slaughter, with no hope of escape.
As the sandstorm giant palm drew nearer and nearer, boundless despair filled every heart.
Just as they thought they were about to be crushed to paste—
…
A calm voice suddenly sounded.
“Freeze.”
With that single word, the entire world fell silent.
The enormous Wind Beast, the endless wind and sand, even the figures desperately fleeing—
Everything, absolutely everything, stopped. All was locked in place, frozen where it was.
“What… what happened?”
The white-robed young man twisted his head, eyes wide as he stared at the scene before him.
In his vision, the whole world had become motionless.
The massive Wind Beast was frozen in midair, its sandstorm giant palm halted above his junior brothers and sisters’ heads.
And his junior brothers and sisters could not move at all, terror plastered across their faces.
The same was true for him—suppressed in place, unable to make the slightest movement.
As the white-robed young man reeled in shock, his pupils abruptly contracted again.
Because he saw that before the colossal Nascent Soul Wind Beast, several figures had appeared out of nowhere.
To be precise: a young man in azure robes, a breathtakingly beautiful少女, and several small, compact exotic beasts.
Then he saw the young man smile at the Wind Beast.
“Old friend. Long time no see. Have you missed me?”
Lu Qing greeted the Wind Beast—whose eyes were filled with fear—with a smile.
At the same time, he felt a touch of surprise.
He hadn’t expected that after decades, the once-stupid Wind Beast had grown so much.
Not only had it stepped into the Nascent Soul Realm, its intelligence had risen considerably—and it had even learned to scheme.
The earlier scene where it deliberately sold a flaw and made that white-robed young man’s killing move miss was impressive even to Lu Qing.
The suppressed Nascent Soul Wind Beast shuddered the moment it saw Lu Qing clearly, rage flashing in its eyes.
How could it not recognize him?
This was the human from back then—the one who had toyed with it.
His appearance had changed somewhat, but that divine-soul aura… it could never forget it.
Back then, this brat had not only tricked it with schemes, he had also slaughtered many of its underlings.
That was what made the Wind Beast grit its teeth and cultivate desperately, until it finally mastered true Nascent Soul power.
It had even secretly observed human cultivators passing through the Gale Plains, learning their tricks and stratagems.
All for the day it met that brat again—so it would never be toyed with again, and could crush him completely!
Now that its enemy was right in front of it, how could it not be furious?
The sand and wind around its body began to tremble violently as it tried to break free of the invisible binding force and smash that human brat into meat paste.
“You still haven’t learned your lesson.”
Watching the Wind Beast’s furious expression, Lu Qing shook his head.
He had just thought its intelligence had improved, that it had learned to plot.
But now it seemed there had been no real transformation at all.
It couldn’t even read the situation in front of it. At its core, it still had no brains.
“Looks like you have no interest in reminiscing. Fine—then I’ll send you on your way.”
With a thought, Lu Qing withdrew the suppressive force from the Wind Beast’s body.
The Nascent Soul Wind Beast felt the invisible restraint vanish and was instantly overjoyed.
In the next moment, it roared, pretending it was about to pounce on Lu Qing.
Just as Lu Qing thought it was going to fight him to the death, the Wind Beast’s massive body suddenly dispersed, exploding into a skyful of sand waves.
Its life core also instantly merged into the endless wind and sand, disappearing without a trace.
It had chosen to flee at the very first moment.
Lu Qing paused, then laughed. “So you’ve made some progress after all—you even know how to bluff. But you think this will let you escape my grasp?”
He lifted a hand lightly and grabbed at the empty air below.
Then a roar of disbelief rang out.
Within the endless wind and sand, threads of faint yellow light rapidly converged toward Lu Qing’s palm.
Soon, they formed a single yellow point of light that dropped into his hand.
From within that yellow point came soundless, frantic roars—the voice of the Nascent Soul Wind Beast.
“It actually… forcibly seized the Wind Beast’s life core after it had already fused into the wind and sand?”
The white-robed young man and the others nearly bulged their eyes out at the sight.
For a time, they didn’t even notice that the suppressive force on their own bodies had already vanished.
They couldn’t be blamed—Lu Qing’s methods were simply too shocking.
After all, the Gale Plains was an extremely special land. Within its mysterious wind caverns, powerful Wind Beasts could be birthed endlessly.
Wind Beasts were the favored children of this region saturated with wind-element laws. Their ability to gather and disperse without form gave them frighteningly tenacious survival.
Even an ordinary Wind Beast, once its life core fused into the wind and sand, could not be dealt with quickly—even by a Nascent Soul cultivator.
But what were they seeing now?
A Nascent Soul–level Wind Beast had already fused its life core into the wind and sand…
And yet another human cultivator had forcibly dragged it out of the boundless sandstorm!
Staring at the yellow point in Lu Qing’s hand, the white-robed young man and the others couldn’t even imagine how it was done.
Even their master—an illustrious Five-Tribulation Nascent Soul—didn’t possess such a divine ability.
What level of existence was this mysterious young man in front of them?
“I told you—you can’t escape my grasp.”
Lu Qing looked at the Wind Beast’s life core in his hand. From it came waves of pleading, but he showed no mercy.
He gently squeezed.
Under that boundlessly terrifying strength, the yellow point had not even a shred of resistance. It was instantly crushed apart and completely annihilated.
After settling this thread of cause and effect, Lu Qing said, “Xiao Yan, let’s go.”
“Senior… Senior, wait—”
Seeing Lu Qing about to leave, the white-robed young man—now able to move—hurriedly shouted.
But before his words could finish, Lu Qing and the others had already vanished, leaving not the slightest trace.
“This is… Spatial Transference!”
The white-robed young man’s body shook again.
Anyone capable of Spatial Transference was, at minimum, a mighty expert above the fifth tribulation of the Nascent Soul Realm.
That senior was indeed an existence whose realm far surpassed his master!
Yet for some reason, he felt that senior’s appearance carried a faint sense of familiarity.
He racked his brain, and suddenly inspiration struck. His eyes flew wide open.
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