Legendary Dragonic Fox'S Disciple
Ep.1 Darkening(4) - Swamp and Holy Water

'This forest is very strange.'

That was how Yinghua thought with a grim face, with the corpse of a level 2 Demonic Beast that was the form of a large pig being her seat.

During his journey to meet the second Demonic Beast, this huge pig, Yinghua felt a powerful energy through her Spiritual Instinct, that powerful energy could not be seen by the eyes, it was yellow and increasingly black as he walked through the forest.

If his guess was correct, he might be able to get out by heading towards the part of the forest where this powerful energy was getting yellow or until this powerful energy was getting weaker and eventually lost, that place should be his way out.

Having discovered what he had to do, Yinghua did not spend any longer and began to walk through the forest in a different direction.

Even so, no matter how he turned, left, right or forward, the powerful energy only became increasingly black, which made Yinghua mean to stop walking and start thinking.

'Seems like it's not that simple, there must be something similar like an illusion array that makes people stray and go blind here, I have to find something that controls this and destroy it anyway. This powerful energy must have come from the Mystery Swamp, there was no other energy or soul around me controlling suspicious things that I did not understand like in this increasingly blackened yellow energy, that is, maybe I should go to that swamp.'

Yinghua pondered and weighed indecisively, before finally deciding, she would risk everything and go to this Swamp, she had to find the source of this powerful energy that she did not understand.

His feet again walked down the ground, where the more black patches he found. After a long while of walking, Yinghua sensed another Demonic Beast 30 meters in front of her.

'It.. Demonic Beast fly.'

The Demonic Beast is in the form of a bird but like a chimera, where the head, body, tail and legs like coming from different creatures, but still included in the type of bird species.

Just as humans have dantian to store Qi, or mana heart to store mana that makes magic, or body and mind to form aura, Demonic Beasts have a 'heart' in the form of red gems where they could store any kind of energy that existed except the aura, because the aura came from the sharpness of the mind, this heart was called the Demonic Core.

The energy they stored within the Demonic Core depended on its surroundings, the energy that Demonic Beasts most easily possessed was Qi because Qi was abundant in nature and they did not need to have already sucked open the Meridian pathway or opened dantian like humans, either, so that the Demonic Beast could absorb Qi as they pleased his Demonic Core origin had matured. While magic is required to open the heart which requires mysterious techniques, so most Demonic Beasts do not cultivate magic.

The 2 Demonic Beasts Yinghua encountered earlier used Qi, and so did the Demonic Beast birds in front of her.

Yinghua tightly held onto her sword, then shot extremely fast towards the Demonic Beast while slashing out waves of sword intent from the green-colored Qi that was already burning at the tip of her sword. The Demonic Beast immediately flapped its wings and the wave of the sword did not touch it at all, then the feather of the bird that was sharper than the blade began to fly towards it.

Yinghua managed to dodge or fend off all the feathers that attacked her, but then 3 waves of energy from the bird's claws shot rapidly towards her, even finely cutting off all the feathers that blocked her path.

After 1 minute Yinghua survived the wave of the bird's attack, the number of scratches on her body did not increase as much and as strong as any wave of Qi and as wild as any wind that was incised on her. So in the end, the bird gave up on its attack and began to use its body directly to attack Yinghua.

Yinghua had been waiting for the bird to dart towards her after her successive attacks had not injured her as she wished. Yinghua channeled a lot of Qi into her sword and began to perform a series of swirling and complicated sword movements very quickly, at the end of which her sword tip was directed right in front of her, where the bird darted with its sharp beak.

Looking at Yinghua who was about to launch an attack, the bird instantly changed its direction, but the moment the sword was pointed right in front of her, the air distorted and a howl appeared exactly where the tip of Yinghua's sword was pointing at, and again the sound of 'crack' was heard and the bird fell helplessly to the ground.

The move Yinghua made was Piercing Wind, a sword technique that Yinghua had accidentally learned as a child and had him perfect in such a way, that his attacks would arrive very quickly at the end of his piercing movements. This technique is actually for a novice Aura user or Aura Beginner because a series of complicated movements before the piercing movement is done must be very precise and done in a fast and relatively short time, thus requiring sharpness of mind, yet Yinghua who had yet to awaken the Aura could wear it due to the mental enhancement provided by the Spiritual Instinct.

After the Demonic Beast bird fell to the ground, Yinghua let out a tired sigh before heading to the corpse of the bird and took out her Demonic Core, then stored it into a spatial ring.

Yinghua continued her journey. The longer he walked, the more powerful energy he felt had turned black and started to become increasingly concentrated. Until finally, he reached the end of the black trees, and the vast and gloomy view of the swamp greeted his sight.

'Mystery Swamp.'

Yinghua reminded herself and steeled her resolve, then she walked amidst the black land that guided her to the middle of the swamp, where a tree so enormous that its leaves covered the entire forest and its roots became the support for the entire ground that was planted within the Mysterious Dark Forest, stood so haughtily, it stood, with a pitch-black mysterious energy that shot out from the small hole at the bottom of his tree trunk.

Yinghua prepared to swing her sword, also prepared to risk her life.

Then he looked at the gap where the powerful energy was coming from, where a clear, spotless puddle of water that was in sharp contrast to the surroundings, was flowing quietly.

The water was so clear, that one would assume it was a kind of Holy Water, a holy water that healed all diseases, yet Yinghua knew because she could see 'Spirit', as dirty as the water that cannot be seen by ordinary eyes, behind the holy appearance.

At that moment, something that never happened happened to him. His Spiritual Instincts and his Qi whispered simultaneously to him, 'absorb that energy,'

Then without him noticing, his hand had grabbed the clear water.

Instantly, Yinghua felt that such an abundant powerful energy was beginning to be absorbed by Yinghua at a terrifying speed, until she instantly worried that her body would explode instantly.

Those thoughts and worries only lasted a fraction of a second, because after that, the excruciating pain that never happened was felt by him, a child who had not even turned 15 years old.