Chapter 267: Feng Shui Geomancy Determines The True Vein
【Tiger Demon】 liberated its nature, sometimes shadow-shifting rapidly through the shadows, sometimes switching to Mountain Lord Stance to charge straight ahead, smashing all the obstructing trees, venting and squandering its inexhaustible physical strength.
When using its tiger body to smash one human-arm-thick giant tree after another, it felt no pain at all, only finding the sensation of breaking trees extremely pleasurable and stress-relieving.
After ravaging the surrounding forest into a complete mess, 【Tiger Demon】 then acted like a kitten, propping its forelimbs on the ground to lower its shoulders, comfortably stretching its waist.
Then it realized that it was not some ordinary tiger at all, but a demonic monster polluted by 【Shadow】. After silently absorbing and refining shadow spiritual energy for several more months, its physical strength was so formidable that smashing one big tree after another was as stress-relieving and easy as an ordinary person crushing a bag of crisps barehanded.
“Hoo!”
Thinking of this, 【Tiger Demon】 opened its mouth and roared once more, using its not-yet-proficient 【Summon Wind Supernatural Ability】.
Before 【Innate Talent: Summon Wind】 had formally refined and absorbed the first type of 【Strange Wind (Wind System Pollution)】, the power of ‘Summon Wind’ was not strong.
It only conjured gusts of shadow wind out of thin air in front of it, mixed with some black mist-like ‘shadow pollution’, transforming into a small chain of wind blade tornadoes that crashed forward. After slicing through large patches of weeds, it continuously chopped into the broken tree stumps, leaving deep cutting marks.
Evaluation: Not as useful as its powerful physical body.
The snake tail emerged with a ‘crack crack’ sound of bone joints colliding. The skeleton snake head aligned with the Tiger Demon’s line of sight and raised an objection: “King, your physical body is so strong not only because of innate talent, but also the combined effect of the three innate divine abilities 【Shadow Manipulation + Claw + Universe Within The Belly】. Naturally, it is stronger than the underdeveloped 【Summon Wind】.”
Although 【Tiger Demon】 had no cultivation technique and had never trained its body, its daily formula of absorbing 【shadow pollution】 to increase mana bar and health bar was silently tempering and reinforcing this physical body.
And the 【Claw】 innate talent, polluted by 【Snake Demon Inheritance】, began to reinforce bones instead. It could not only construct a set of ‘exoskeleton armor’ for the Tiger Demon; it could also continuously temper and improve the strength of the ‘tiger bones’ inside, forging a body of steel muscles and bones.
Finally, the 【Universe Within The Belly】 from the Snake Demon, as long as it kept eating and digesting and absorbing, could continuously grow, making the body constantly grow stronger, ultimately refining into 【Law Heaven Image Earth】.
When the Tiger Demon inherited the Snake Demon inheritance, it did not fully inherit the 【Law Heaven Image Earth】 carried by 【Universe Within The Belly】. But the properties of digesting, absorbing, and continuously reinforcing body strength were retained.
Under the stacking reinforcement of these supernatural abilities, the ‘magic system Tiger Demon’ that was not good at close combat produced destructive power from charging around that was stronger than the combined magic system talents 【Summon Wind + Ghost Companion】.
Getting excited, the 【Tiger Demon】 that was propping like a kitten one second suddenly acted like a hyperactive cow cat, pouncing toward a rock cliff ten meters away.
With the blessing of its strong hind leg power, the Tiger Demon leaped there, using 【Fierce Tiger Hard Climb Mountain】 mid-air, relying on its heavy body weight + sharp claws to tear and smash a huge dent into the rock wall.
Then the Tiger Demon reared up on its hind legs, like a cat scratching a sofa, frantically cutting and digging at the rock with a pair of sharp 【Claws】. Instantly, crushed stones flew everywhere, but it felt no hand pain or nail pain, only endless numb pleasure, and the joy of its bone claws becoming sharper and sharper.
“Roar!”
After a satisfied roar, the mentally ill-like Tiger Demon lay on the ground full of crushed stones again, suddenly twisting its body to expose its belly, using its massive weight to press against the sharp stones all over the ground, rubbing against its thick tough tiger skin for an acupressure massage.
Skin too thick, completely unbreakable, no pain or itch but instead very refreshing.
The snake tail was flung around by it like a whip lashing back and forth on the ground. Little Spicy Stick, whose consciousness occupied the snake head, now had a deadpan expression, forced to spin dizzily and whip mud back and forth.
She deeply suspected that her boss’s 【Tiger Demon Template】 had burned out during the crossing, and was temporarily patched by 【Old Immortal Scripture Master】 with a 【Cow Cat Template】. It was having so much fun playing alone! I want to join too.
Snake Snake struggled to stretch its skeleton snake body, like immortal-binding rope, trying to coil around and bind the Tiger Demon body, and loudly called out: “Boss, image! Mind your image!! You are a 【Mountain Lord】, snap out of it, don’t get addicted to spazzing games. Don’t forget our goal, select a site to open 【Mountain Lord’s Domain】. Once the cave dwelling is built, you can play in your lair then. What you’re doing now will all be future black history!”
Under Yu Jingzi’s earnest persuasion, 【Tiger Demon】 finally overcame the demonic monster instincts, stood up again, stood tall with restraint, and tried hard to suppress its nature wanting to let loose.
It raised a tiger claw, popped out a sharp nail, and once again carved a deep mark on the rock, Tiger Demon said: “This 【Tiger Demon Body】 of mine is so much stronger than when I first descended!”
At the initial descent, the 【Boss Template】 had just activated. Although it had all five organs intact, it had only just bound brand new 【Shadow Spiritual Energy (Pollution)】, knocked down to Foundation Establishment Stage, like a cub with all the experience and knowledge of an adult demonic monster, only having the power of self-preservation.
Now, after months of pollution soaking, through 【Universe Within The Belly】 refining and absorbing numerous pollutions, constantly growing and adapting to the Du Ling environment. All qualities
This power, he could wield it like an arm’s extension, controlling it perfectly. But Yuan Zhu, who had never fought using Tiger Demon Stance, lacked cognition of his own strength.
Thus, at this moment, he was in a state of shock, surprise, and pride…
“Snake Snake, I’m too strong! I suddenly realized that I have great talent in ‘Body Refinement, close combat, and Fierce Combat’. Do you think we’ve taken the wrong path? Should I focus more on this aspect?”
[Shadow Tiger Demon] is fundamentally an Innate Combat Saint Body, why bother day and night tempering the Ghost Companion minor technique?
Snake Snake poured a basin of cold water on him: “Calmness, your [Mountain Lord Spiritual Root (Boss Template)] in the [Immortal Path Universe], although physically strong and superior to other demonic monsters. But that is the Tiger Demon’s racial talent; at the same realm, there is no animal stronger or more fearsome than the tiger.”
“But among the numerous Tiger Demons, your ‘Mountain Lord Spiritual Root’ fierce combat ability is not outstanding. You are a natural, and moreover a Undead among Tiger Demons. Actually, your 【Boss Template】 in the magic system (Summon Wind) aspect is also not particularly outstanding. It’s just that this Tiger Demon is exceptionally ‘insidious and vicious + cunning, relying on the ‘Ghost Companion Banner route’, learning Magic Array knowledge + winning by quantity (resentful souls), with the foundation in the 【Ghost Companion】 Supernatural Ability!”
“As for why you now feel that your talent in physical body is exceptionally outstanding, that is all due to the influence of my [Snake Demon Supernatural Ability]. Even so, the [Claw (Mutation)] and [Universe Within The Belly] brought by the Snake Demon, from a long-term perspective, will ultimately enhance your ‘magic system abilities’.”
Under Snake Snake’s patient and earnest persuasion, Yuan Zhu gradually comprehended. At the current stage, [Claw] manifested on the Snake Demon’s [Bone]. Internally strengthening muscles and bones while externally forming armor, but as [Tiger Demon] further grows, [Ghost Companion] absorbs [Yellow Springs Pollution], refining more ‘Ghost Companion’ to wind around the bone claw for enchantment, wind around [Summon Wind] for enchantment, stacking [Universe Within The Belly]’s spatial cutting…… all are magic damage.
And the ‘Law of Heaven, Earth Phenomenon’ brought by 【Universe Within The Belly】 had long been cut down; this supernatural ability cannot turn 【Tiger Demon】 into 【Ba Snake】; it can only continuously expand the ‘digestion space’ within the belly. Besides increasing 【Spatial Power】, it is to increase the refinement efficiency of the 【Ghost Companion Furnace】, devouring, digesting, and absorbing various ‘pollution sources’ to enrich the 【Shadow Database】, ultimately still amplifying the ‘magic system’.
Snake Snake: “Your [Boss Template] is destined to follow the magic route, don’t delusionally struggle. A powerful physique is merely a beautiful misunderstanding, just a side effect. Give up on that idea, you have no talent in this aspect. A purely strong physique is useless; close combat melee also requires a large amount of related [Combat Talent] cooperation.”
The Tiger Demon lowered its head and crashed through a Big Tree blocking the way, then moved straight ahead in a line……
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In this way, constantly going up the mountain and then down, driving the not-yet-proficient demon wind to leap over the mountain streams, trudging across river water and streams, advancing through the canyons, wandering in the mountain forest surrounded by thin mist.
Just like that, the Tiger Demon exchanged words with its own Snake Tail while wandering aimlessly for about 40 minutes. It became completely lost in the depths of the Misty Mountains.
When it came back to its senses, Yuan Zhu only felt that he was completely lost, unable to distinguish the path he took to get here, lost in the depths of these mountains amid clouds he knew not where. He couldn’t tell directions, looking dumbfounded at the identical cloud-shrouded peaks and forests everywhere.
“Damn it, I’m lost!”
Snake Snake perked up and comforted, “Don’t panic, I’ve got you!”
Although Candle lacked experience on the first mountain patrol, human thinking and knowledge reserve were completely unable to cope with the Misty Mountains, and he panicked badly after realizing he was lost.
However, the 【Shadow Tiger Demon】 comes with unparalleled beast talent, possessing the instinct to patrol the mountains. Wherever it passes, it leaves behind a unique polluted aura, marking the paths it has traveled. Even if truly lost, it can reverse track the ‘shadow pollution’ traces from the way it came and walk out all the way.
In addition, the Great Desolation Immortal Scripture came online again. The Immortal Scripture, which had always been very low-key, finally rose to the occasion once, drawing a 3D stereo map throughout based on the Tiger Demon’s movement path + direction sense positioning + real scene footage captured visually.
With these two methods mutually verifying each other, there is absolutely no need to worry about not finding the way home.
Tiger Demon: “Now I’m relieved! However, we’ve been wandering for so long; where exactly should we establish our lair? How far is our current location from Running City?”
Yuan Zhu was full of confusion and distress about where to place the Mountain Lord’s Domain. If it was too far from Running, he was not too willing. The Misty Mountains not only had heavy mists, but the roads were also hard to traverse. Along the way, although he had not encountered them head-on, he perceived and detected a large amount of polluted aura moving.
This indicated that in the deep mountain, there existed a large number of polluted creatures, and coupled with the mist itself being a pollution source, it was full of dangers. If he formally opened a domain, traveling back and forth to Running every day, just the journey alone would be too tormenting.
However, if it was too close to Running, that was equally unacceptable. The domain, as its foundation and lair, if it was too close to Running’s sphere of influence, once perceived or detected, it was very likely to be treated as a demon, dangerous pollution crisis and dealt with!
Of course, shadow, this kind of garbage pollution that he even felt was low-class, perhaps did not even deserve such attention.
But thinking about it, at the sacrifice ritual during his initial descent, a shadow evil god had descended, and it was even freebie-ed by the Great Desolation Immortal Scripture.
So shadow pollution was indeed low-class, but that did not mean the shadow faction had no demons. In fact, precisely because it was too low-class, it frequently produced garbage evil gods. Perhaps the Security Bureau liked dealing with such soft targets…
Facing the question posed by the Tiger Demon, Snake Tail thought for a moment and said: “Our current position is about 25 kilometers in straight-line distance from the Frog Factory construction site. Taking advantage of the mist shielding effect provided by the mountains, we have already left Running’s maximum perception range, entering a deep mountain rarely visited by people. But from a macro perspective, it is not very deep, still grazing the edge of Running City’s deterrence range, so the danger level is not high. In my view, this distance is quite suitable for claiming the mountain as king and building a domain.”
Tiger Demon looked around: “How to choose a site? All these mountain roads look the same, just pick randomly?”
“Of course not! According to the Immortal Scripture’s installation instructions, the Immortal Scripture Server needs to be unpacked and installed in the spirit vein mines of the Immortal Path Universe. Now that we have crossed over to Du Ling Star, even if we follow local customs and use the polluted version shadow domain to substitute for spirit veins, we still must follow some old customs and traditions of the Immortal Path Universe.”
Tiger Demon was puzzled: “What old traditions?”
Snake Snake: “Naturally, it’s the Feng Shui Knowledge of the Immortal Path Universe, the trends of mountains and rivers, earth vein geomancy, and array formations!”
Actually, not only did the Immortal Path Universe emphasize Feng Shui geomancy, Du Ling’s native immortal path also had it, such as the underground root tendrils in the Eclosion World, which formed a unique set of array knowledge.
However, named ‘Feng Shui, geomancy, array formations’, for these two different universes, it was merely the ‘names’ that were the same; the core was completely different and not comparable.
Tiger Demon: “You know Feng Shui Knowledge?”
Snake Snake shook their head: “I don’t know it, but in the mutated spiritual root, there are recorded many rigid ‘Feng Shui geomancy methods’. I think we can thoroughly search the mountain, use comparative methods, combine the mountain and river trends of the Misty Mountains, and screen out terrain positions that conform to the Immortal Path Universe. Then select sites on these auspicious lands to open domains! What do you think?”
Tiger Demon had no choice but to compromise and nod: “Then let’s give it a try, it’s better than just picking a random spot.”
Snake Snake immediately got excited: “Boss, you handle the traveling, I’ll direct the way. You run as much as possible, record terrain data, and I’ll screen and filter through the Immortal Scripture’s database.”
Tiger Demon turned to look at the thin, long, weak, but twisting so fast it was almost flying snake tail bone. He muttered inwardly that he had no way to ride Snake Snake, so he could only helplessly serve as the tail’s mount, carrying it as he began to sprint wildly.
