Chapter 294: Startup Group Gets On Track
Accompanied by a series of wails and neighs, Yuan Zhu forcibly controlled White Deer’s movements through Anti-Law, then yanked the heads of two brownish fanged fawns from its snow-white furred neck.
During this time, not only did the two fawn heads struggle frantically, twisting their necks in resistance and trying to bite and gnaw his arms. Even White Deer, this dad deer, repeatedly begged and pleaded for Yuan Zhu to spare its babies.
Accompanied by a large amount of blood spurting and splashing, he finally pulled the two deer (sheep) scorpions out from White Deer’s neck. Leaving two wounds that quickly closed into vertical lines.
At this moment, his two palms each gripped a deer head by the neck, and his mouth erupted with harsh, unpleasant cries. Although unintelligible, the curses were very foul.
The slender spine below the neck of the Deer Head Sword transformed into a soft sword that could be soft or hard with extreme elasticity, coated with a layer of sharp Sword Qi, subtly and swiftly stabbing toward Yuan Zhu’s heart and other vital points. The speed was fast and concealed, utterly insidious.
Unfortunately, he remained on full alert throughout. Just before the ‘sword blades’ could touch him, a layer of ‘Holy Light Barrier’ appeared on his body surface, blocking all the continuous bursting chain Sword Qi.
The Holy Light Barrier in front of him then instantly wrapped around in reverse, forcibly suppressing, confining, and compressing the two Deer Head Swords in his hands into straight ‘white bone flying swords’ state, tightly wrapped by a thin-as-cicada-wing Holy Light Barrier. Like ‘deer head + spine bone’ lollipop handicrafts wrapped and packaged in transparent preservative film.
“Yoo yoo!”
At this moment, the ‘male mom’ White Deer, having had two parasites removed, still could not bear to part with its babies.
It struggled to get up from the ground, ignoring the blood gushing from the neck wound, continuously letting out mournful neighs toward Yuan Zhu, and rubbing its body against Yuan Zhu’s legs, desperately wanting to reclaim custody of its ‘babies’ from him.
Yuan Zhu ignored this brainwashed fool dad whose mind had been washed by ‘parasitic deer fetuses’, kicked it aside with his foot. Then he took out a pair of precious sandalwood sword boxes from his Soul Space, suppressed the temporarily sealed Deer Head Swords with Holy Light Barrier inside them, and pasted a talisman on each side of the sword boxes.
The sword boxes and talismans were custom-made for the Deer Head Swords when he purchased Blessing of the Sword. The sword boxes themselves weren’t valuable; the essence was concentrated in the two Sword Talismans.
This was the entry-level element of the Sword Immortal system, the solidified Blessing of the Sword.
Even before tearing, it had the effect of sealing various flying swords; once slightly torn open and pasted on one’s forehead, it could absorb the contained ‘Sword Dao blessing (pollution)’, granting Sword Qi blessing like Lu Rang had obtained initially.
Even without a sword in hand, one could raise a sword finger enchanted with Sword Qi for attacks like ‘Six Meridians Divine Sword’. Its status was equivalent to his Holy Mark.
“Yoo yoo yoo!”
Seeing its two babies suppressed and locked into the sandalwood sword boxes, the fool White Deer anxiously circled around him. Its pair of huge majestic forked antlers poked sparks from the Cave Dwelling floor.
Snake Snake: “According to the data feedback from Anti-Law, that pair of deer heads were constantly secreting special hormones while parasitizing the host, to achieve control, utilization, PUA…… and other effects. Now that you’ve removed these two deer scorpions, this White Deer seems to be experiencing withdrawal symptoms, suffering greatly in body and mind. But it signed Anti-Law, selling its life to you, and doesn’t dare to turn hostile and resist.”
Yuan Zhu snapped his fingers, and the Nine Palaces-1. Eight Trigrams Array in the Cave Dwelling activated, with numerous black root tendrils like capillaries emerging from the ground, firmly binding the restless White Deer, dragging it to a corner of the room, piercing its skin to connect with internal blood vessels, and beginning to inject pure Shadow Spiritual Energy to forcibly calm it.
Having lost the two flying swords to suppress the internal Sword Qi pollution, it was now perfectly replaced by the Shadow Magic Array, completing the pollution conversion from ‘White Deer Sword Qi’ to ‘Shadow Sword Qi’.
Recalling Snake Snake’s report, Yuan Zhu suddenly asked: “Can you use Anti-Law, brain eggplant, or the root tendrils of the shadow magic array to replace the Deer Head Swords, simulate the hormones they secrete, to soothe, comfort, control, and PUA White Deer? If feasible, can it be mass-copied and engraved into brain eggplants, applied to more eggplant goblins or new hosts? Achieving total mind and body PUA!”
Snake Snake: “This…… I can’t do it now, but give me some permission, and I can try to summarize the relevant traces from White Deer, replicate them as much as possible, and promote them widely.”
After dealing with this pair of Deer Head Swords, Yuan Zhu no longer lingered. He planned to quickly transport the remaining Worm Pillars, set up the subsequent ’72 Earthly Fiend Formation’, claim ownership of the entire mountain as soon as possible, push the magic array to ‘Domain’ strength, and secure the Landlord God status.
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A quarter of an hour later, Tiger Demon escaped into the shadows again, rapidly traversing.
No words along the way. When he smoothly returned to the Frog Factory construction site, he didn’t greet the person in charge, but found the waiting taxi and directly returned to Running.
After entering the urban area, he suddenly remembered his long-forgotten younger brother and decided to stop by home to visit. So the driver turned around as ordered, heading toward the old rundown residential area.
But when he returned to the long-absent home and pushed open the room door, seeing the empty house, he belatedly remembered that today was Wednesday, school was in session, and there was no one at home!
However, from the brand new household items in the house, water cups, kettles, a bicycle locked at home…… and the new bedding in the bedroom, it was clear that little brother had been living well lately and was willing to spend money.
Hmm, he pushed open younger brother’s bedroom for another look, and the bedding was still old. Only replaced his own with new ones; looks like the awareness to spend wasn’t high enough!
By the way…… what grade is his younger brother in this year? Whatever, no need to think about it; as long as he lives a good little life, that’s enough.
After staying at home for a moment, feeling bored with nothing to do, Candle stuffed a thick stack of money into an envelope. He also left a note on the envelope, instructing little brother: Don’t save money, don’t waste time and energy on working, selling vegetables, or housework. Eat well, drink well, play well, spend money where it counts, and study with full effort!
Finally, he left the envelope on younger brother’s pillow. Feeling he had fully fulfilled his ‘elder brother like father’ responsibility (sending money), Yuan Zhu proudly closed the door and left home.
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Back in the car, he gave the driver the address and headed to the Haunted House.
When he arrived, it was around 2:20 PM. As soon as he pushed open the door, he heard wails filling the house. Cries of “Lonely! Lonely!” endlessly, like a grand chorus.
Looking up, Yuan Tang was standing beside Nie Yin at the moment, listening attentively to big sister’s teachings.
Two full baskets of frogs were placed beside them, looking slimy and sticky, densely packed and squeezed together, emitting harsh noisy calls. The scene was very stimulating and intense; those with trypophobia please look away.
Hearing the door open, Nie Yin glanced up at him, nodded, then ignored him. Continuing to teach little Tang the tricks of tormenting frogs and sharply skinning them.
Yuan Zhu didn’t interrupt, just stepped closer and listened for a moment.
The two were conducting the most basic skinning lesson of the Frog School, as well as basic experimental operation procedures. Including how to clean and disinfect, how to use surgical tools, how to properly skin, confine them on the suffering shelf, then perform electric stimulation, salt stimulation…… and obtain ‘consciousness blessing’ in front of the Frog God statue, secreting the most basic Frog-Type pollution, and other series of professional knowledge.
When discussing how to torment little frogs, Nie Yin’s emotions were particularly high. Unusually active and enthusiastic, a change from her usual introverted low-key style, she said a lot, seriously pulling Yuan Tang into her accomplice and instilling the same values.
And Yuan Tang, who had never seen ‘frogs’ such strange creatures, listened with great interest. She was innately immune to Nie Yin’s ‘three views pollution’, full of curiosity only toward the mysterious unknown ‘frogs’.
Her gaze toward Nie Yin was full of amazement + admiration, giving full emotional value. Fooling the Frog Killer Girl into teaching everything she knew, who efficiently absorbed this knowledge.
Seeing this ‘harmonious master-disciple’ scene, Yuan Zhu didn’t disturb them further. Instead, he quietly bypassed the makeshift laboratory in the modified kitchen and headed to the attic.
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Soon, he saw Younger Brother A Tiao in the Disease Garden, teaching (beating) guiding (hitting) the half-blood orcs.
He had escaped into the Misty Mountains early to open his ‘Mountain Lord’s Domain’, and Nie Yin hadn’t been idle either. Not only did she return to Rain Courtyard once, taking two ‘blank legal identities’ from the Frog School side, but also bought two baskets of experimental frogs from the academy, planning to impart knowledge while making a ‘stewed frog pot’ for the little sister.
Finally, she secretly transported the ‘five half-blood orcs’ fostered in the warehouse to the Haunted House, handing them over to Younger Brother for cultivation.
Yuan Zhu opened his Anti-Law panel, observing the status info of the five orcs in Group A.
After these days of conditioning, they had gradually adapted to the Frog-Type pollution modification in their bodies. Combined with the original ‘alienated mutated tissue’ base of Shadow modification, forming a brand new Shadow-Type. Extreme Warrior System (Supernatural Muscle).
With the comprehensive alienation upgrade of muscle tissue, the muscle contours under their skin appeared even more prominent and obvious, giving a visual impact and condensing an inexplicable strong aura (momentum).
Before accepting surgical modification, although they looked tall and sturdy, robust in physique. They lacked this intimidating presence, instead appearing as docile as large herbivores, giving a soft and bullyable feeling.
In fact, they had always been submissive, picking fruits in suburban farms and orchards from young to old.
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Because he remembered Yuan Zhu’s instructions, Yuan Tiao was now full of responsibility, patiently teaching the five orcs how to practice the most basic Red Port Fist routine.
Probably due to muscle pollution gradually eroding the brain, the originally not-so-smart orcs now had even worse comprehension, thinking, and learning abilities, making it worse. Simply put, stupid and slow.
No matter how much A Tiao explained, they remained impermeable, stubbornly practicing the fists mechanically in their own way.
It was called fist practice and martial performance, but actually fully reliant on the ‘gourd brothers’-like brain eggplant CPU on their heads. Forcibly hijacking the nervous system, assisting the brain and motor nerves for standard fist technique output.
Again and again, without spirituality, without the slightest variation, precise like robots, stiffly repeating the same set of martial arts, without any progress or comprehension.
It could also be said that perfectly and precisely replicating the same fist technique was a miracle; no ordinary person could imitate it. Even Yuan Tiao couldn’t achieve such precision.
Yuan Zhu watched A Tiao sweating on his forehead but still patiently and gently explaining move essentials, tirelessly correcting errors for the brain-dead orcs over and over. Yet the five half-blood orcs showed no appreciation, stubbornly practicing the same template fist technique.
Yuan Zhu couldn’t help but speak: “No need to teach them thoroughly. After these orcs undergo Power Path modification, their brains are inevitably damaged, leading to declined learning ability and insufficient comprehension. Just spar with them hands-on, help them form muscle memory, teach them how to take hits, defend, and deflect force. Hold back, don’t cripple them!”
Long annoyed by this group of idiots, A Tiao nodded, only replying “Good!”, then eagerly assumed stance, using only physical body power, only the same Red Port Fist for sparring, without mixing in any True Qi.
Although verbally called stupid, with intelligence, emotional intelligence, thought pattern fully preserved, and even enhanced by external brain eggplant CPU, feeling more spiritual and insightful, the five orc brothers weren’t truly stupid.
If truly stupid, they wouldn’t have signed Anti-Law, been included in Group A, and cultivated as elite monsters.
Therefore, the five orcs naturally understood Yuan Zhu and the others’ conversation. This racial discrimination-filled disdain deeply enraged the five orcs, wanting to prove their strength.
These days, they either ate or crazily practiced fighting routines, as well as pooping and sleeping.
Even if their brains hadn’t fully comprehended Red Port Fist, even if without relying on brain eggplant their limbs wouldn’t coordinate when trying to perform the routine. But through day-and-night repetitive rigid practice, their ‘bodies’ and ‘muscles’ had already learned this fist technique and formed corresponding muscle memory.
Put it this way: as long as subjective consciousness doesn’t deliberately control the body, use the brain to fight, analyze situations and execute corresponding moves; but naturally adapt on the fly, empty the mind, leave everything to instinct. Then, they could perfectly execute rigid moves for combat.
In just these few days, the five brothers had already proficiently mastered the extremely complex Red Port Fist, sparring with each other, getting more and more into it, feeling like martial arts experts from novels!
You damned humans actually look down on us ‘orc martial saints’?
Capturing through Anti-Law that the ‘anger values’ of the five Group A users were rising sharply, Yuan Zhu subtly stoked the fire again, then yielded the stage to A Tiao and the five orc brothers.
“Damn brat, taste my Dark Pirate Fist!” (Dark refers to black skin, Pirate refers to Red Port.)
With an angry roar, orc boss couldn’t endure the inner humiliation, charging fiercely at the head-shorter 8-year-old child, opening with a rigid ‘grabbing hand throat crush’, disrupted by Yuan Tiao’s ‘hand knife diagonal chop’, exposing his opening.
Ka!
A muffled sound, intense pain from orc boss’s chest. Younger Brother only lightly tapped a finger in the passing moment, then walked away without looking back, reaching out a grappling hand toward the following half-blood orc number two.
As a martial genius who stole the full set of ‘Running fighting skills’ from Yuan Zhu in an extremely short time and could apply them live, Younger Brother beating orcs was pure crushing.
