Towards Eternity
Ch 552's. Arriving at the Top
Weng Lou's eyes scanned the surroundings and discovered that there were countless traces of attacks on the ground. Clearly, this Pi Xiu is the one causing these scars.
"It is fitting that people choose to keep going even though it is going to be late afternoon, it turns out that this is the main cause. I did not find any information about this Pi Xiu on Border Island or in the harbor. Outsiders who are not part of the Jade Bamboo Sect must not know this because everything comes at noon" said Weng Lou, who began to rack his brains.
The strength of most Pi Xiu was the realm of stage 9 Soul Cleansing. There were some who were in the realm of Soul Unification, but they were very few in number. For Pi Xiu who was in front of Weng Lou, his strength was only at the early stage 9 Soul Cleansing realm, yet his immortal ice strength made him extremely dangerous.
Unlike the savage beasts that depended from the amount of their age to level up or the evolution that occurred due to outside factors, Pi Xiu purely absorbed the Yin energy to be able to rise to a higher level. The more they absorbed the Yin energy on the moon, the stronger they became.
At some level, their bodies will return as large as a Winged Lion, but they will still retain their distinctive features, namely their small wings and white fur.
"My only option to escape the cold was to attack from afar, but I didn't have any arrows at the moment, and also my two swords have been changed so I will instantly display their true form if I use them to fight against this Pi Xiu." Weng Lou stared intently at that Pi Xiu and then saw him moving forward towards him.
"If you don't have the choice, then I'll run!"
Just when that Pi Xiu took 1 step forward, Weng Lou immediately turned around very quickly and kicked the ground with all his might.
*Shelf!* The ground he was treading was destroyed, and his figure darted quickly leaving the place. In just a full second, Weng Lou was already twenty meters away from where he was before.
Pi Xiu who saw that did not want to let go of Weng Lou just like that, he immediately ran ferociously towards Weng Lou. His mouth once again opened, and pale blue-colored energies gathered in front of his mouth.
*phu-!* A ball of energy shot out and slid towards the direction Weng Lou was.
Weng Lou did not need to turn around to see the arrival of that energy ball. He immediately took another powerful step, and he darted back.
*bum!* The energy ball that Weng Lou was avoiding exploded in the air before it even touched the ground. The explosion immediately blew away ice powder as small as dust that instantly turned the land into a piece of land covered by ice.
That Pi Xiu did not stop there, he shot back a ball of energy from his mouth, but this time he did not stop when he had already fired his energy ball. Immediately within every second an energy ball was released by him and moved towards Weng Lou.
Like having eyes on the back of his head, Weng Lou nimbly leapt away from those energy balls. After five minutes of struggle to avoid the attacks that were considered threatening him, Weng Lou also arrived in the area overgrown by bamboo and other plants.
He no longer turned around to see if that Pi Xiu kept chasing after him, he chose to continue running into the mountain, instead, while at the place where Pi Xiu was located a hand immediately caught his back neck and raised his body.
*Hu..thud....* The body of Pi Xiu rolled on the ground for a while, before finally standing straight back up and staring at the figure of the owner of the hand that had thrown it.
It was a woman who wore a transparent face cover and had a very pretty face, yet looked extremely cold. The Pi Xiu stared silently at the figure of the woman and was like he was saying something before finally leaving immediately with a hasty death of the figure of the woman.
The woman looked at Pi Xiu with her sharp eyes before staring in the direction where Weng Lou had left.
"That boy, he surprised me when he found out that he dared to go alone up this mountain, especially when it was going to be dark. He had great courage and also great agility, he should have come to this place to enroll into the sect. I'm going to assess him further and find out if he's a spy from an enemy group," the woman muttered before then her figure turned into rose petals that were blown by the night wind and moved towards where Weng Lou was going.
***
At night, at this time the moon was about to rise to its peak and Weng Lou had passed halfway up the mountain peak where the Jade Bamboo Sect was located.
"I just realized it, when compared to the mountain where the Northern Heavens Sect is located, this mountain is slightly lower and also the climate is very different far. When I was climbing to the peak of that time, I only needed not an hour, but right now I've taken up to five more hours and will only reach three-quarters of the way."
After he passed through the territory that became Pi Xiu's lair, Weng Lou again had to cross paths with some other ferocious beasts that made him a little troubled.
For example, half an hour ago he had to circle the mountain only to escape from the pursuit of a flock of Stone Monkeys who have a body as large as an adult, but have hands that reach as big as Weng Lou's.
When clenched, the hands of these monkeys will harden until they become as strong as a stone. Every blow from them would be able to break a person's bones just like that. Although Weng Lou would not actually be seriously injured if hit by their blows, there were thirty more of these monkeys, and they had great climbing ability, he said, and a really agile body like a cat.
Weng Lou was patient enough to face these monkeys, he chose to circle the mountain before moving from their territory. According to him, playing chases with these monkeys helped him re-establish his physical abilities in dodging, or running.
"But after feeling it a few times, the blows from the monkeys were actually quite tasty as well. I felt the muscles in my back become a little relaxed after being hit several times," Weng Lou said slowly as he twirled his shoulders lightly.
"Perhaps if I have finished working on my goal of entering this sect, I will kidnap some of those monkeys. It would be nice to have a few of them when going from Fenshu Island."
When Weng Lou was running slowly, suddenly in front of him, a very transparent thread displayed its luster when exposed to moonlight and made Weng Lou stop before actually hitting the thin thread.
*Stt.....* A sound was heard when his hand stroked the thread and Weng Lou just silently heard it.
Not far from Weng Lou's place, several pairs of bright red eyes lit up among the trees that were not exposed to the light. The spy looked at a thread nearby and saw a slight vibration on the thread. Before long, a large black creature with eight long legs came out, and displayed the true figure of the owner of several pairs of red eyes.
It was an enormous black spider and had 2 extremely long fangs in its mouth. The stopping Weng Lou immediately turned his head as he listened to the tremors that were happening to some trees and was moving towards him.
Weng Lou's eyes moved to the right and to the left when he felt the vibrations that occurred at the two points alternately. The sword in his hand was immediately in his grasp tightly and he put up the horses ready for battle.
*Phuw-*
Suddenly, from in front of Weng Lou, a dark purple-colored sphere of liquid was fired and emitted a purplish smoke.
Seeing him, Weng Lou immediately closed both noses while tilting his head, avoiding the balls of the liquid. The ball landed on a tree, and immediately melted the tree trunk that was hit by the ball until finally the tree was uprooted because the bottom had been lost.
*bruck.....* Weng Lou did not turn to look at the tree, right now his eyes were focused on a huge spider that was rising out of the trees and staring at him with its bright red eyes.
"Well, is this mountain a zoo? These beasts are almost endless coming," cursed Weng Lou.
He then suddenly jumped up from where he was standing, and almost at the same time, a thread of transparent floss shot out from within the ground that he poked. Highlight Weng Lou's eyes looked gloomy looking at it, he then saw the huge spider had lunged towards him while he was still in the air.
"Currently, fighting insects like you is of no benefit, so I don't know!" Weng Lou's body spun in the air, and the two swords in his hands swung around in a twisting manner.
*SRAATT!!* The spider's head was cut off just like that, and its body fell to the ground causing a soft thump.
Weng Lou landed on top of the spider's body, and without any warning he thrust his two swords right in the middle of the spider's body to make it stop moving.
"Huh, this spider besides being poisonous, the web he had was also very pliable, but also sharp at the same time. Fortunately I noticed the vibration on the thread earlier, or else I would have suffered an incision wound because of it." Weng Lou casually opened the spider's stomach, and took something from it.
The first one he took out was a pouch the size of a child's body which was a poison sac belonging to this large spider, then the second he took something that resembled a roll of white rope that was none other than the spider web.
His smile appeared a little to see the two, and he immediately put them in a sack that he kept under his clothes.
Above the sky, the beautiful woman who had previously stopped Pi Xiu watched Weng Lou's brief fight with the slightest expressionless gaze. But when viewed carefully, there was a slight smile visible from his face while watching Weng Lou.
"It's really interesting.His physical strength is beyond sense, and his instincts are really very good. It would be very strange if he was not a high-level assassin sent by the enemy. But something strange, if he really was a murderer, he should have been able to enter this mountain without causing the slightest noise, and maybe I would not have noticed his presence either.
However, the fact that he blatantly showed his figure this afternoon, must have had the intention that he had come not to make trouble. I'll keep watching you, son. If you can make me believe that you have no evil intentions, then there's no reason for me to suspect you next time." He spoke with a serious face as he continued to observe Weng Lou.
It seemed like he really wished that Weng Lou had come with no evil intentions. Because if it were true, he would probably take Weng Lou as his disciple.
Meanwhile, Weng Lou who had finished mutilating the body of the giant spider that before, had now resumed his opponent. This time he no longer intended to stay any longer in this place, and he drove very quickly towards the top of the mountain.
A short time later, half an hour later, he arrived at the top of the mountain, where he was greeted by a statue twice the size of a standing adult looking down at the mountain. This statue is a statue of a middle-aged man who has a handsome face, but has a serious impression of his eyebrows and forehead that looks a little wrinkled.
In his hand, a paper scroll carved in such a way was held and there was an emblem that was the symbol of the Ryuan Empire on the seal of the paper scroll.
Weng Lou stared calmly at the statue for a while, before he finally began to step forward and arrived in front of the statue. Unexpectedly, he paid his respects to the statue, before finally stepping past it
The woman who followed Weng Lou nodded in satisfaction as she looked at the attitude that Weng Lou had shown. From his point of view, Weng Lou gave that respect with respect and sincerity, which made his assessment of Weng Lou even more positive.
He did not know, that in his heart at this time Weng Lou was laughing mockingly at the actual figure of the statue.
"Being strong just to rule ordinary humans? There is nothing more funny than that in the martial world. It was only natural for Martial Practitioners to distance themselves from the ordinary human world. But a Martial Practitioner who is famous for being very strong instead formed a government of his own to subdue the Martial Practitioners as well as ordinary people.
All that is in me is mockery and contempt for you, Great Emperor Ryuan."