Chapter 296: Simple And Brutal 【goblin Paladin】 Initiation Ritual
A Sword Cultivator who can cultivate an Innate Flying Sword is equivalent to reaching the Foundation Establishment standard. In a Xianxia Novel, this would at least be between Foundation Establishment and Golden Core level.
For a professional Sword Cultivator, this achievement is only the starting point. If the quality of the Innate Flying Sword is poor or the path is flawed, it instead represents damaged aptitude, with a bumpy sword path ahead.
However, for a mere Goblin, having such fortune means their ancestors eighteen generations back can rest in peace. It is absolutely a tremendous opportunity, and Yuan Zhu is very satisfied with it!
“Being able to cultivate a Life Sword is already rare and valuable, so this one it is!” He immediately decided, pushing a pair of Sword Boxes to Nie Yin, and instructed, “Don’t forget to register both of them in your Anti-Law. A Goblin Sword Immortal is worth occupying two slots.”
Yuan Zhu granted Nie Yin permission for Anti-Law Group B. Spokesperson.
If Candle is understood as the villainous great demon from a fantasy movie who peddles Demon Contracts everywhere, then Nie Yin and the Yuan Tang siblings are at least elite trusted cadres of the demons, grand bishops and missionaries wandering and active in the Human World.
Responsible for bewitching hearts, spreading the glory of ‘Our Lord’, screening and recruiting quality clients, selling Anti-Law Contracts and signing them, ultimately incorporating them into their own ‘personal performance’.
Nie Yin, who was similarly familiar with the basic functions of Anti-Law. Shadow, naturally knew she had 4 ‘downline’ slots, and could even replace Yuan Zhu to casually grant downlines ‘opportunities and supernatural crystals’, treating them as experimental subjects for various creative experiments.
She was not particularly familiar with Sword Immortals and had little interest in them. Now suddenly required to occupy 2 slots to cultivate a Goblin Sword Immortal, she was somewhat unhappy.
If possible, she would rather use her Anti-Law slots to conduct some experimental attempts regarding Rune Inscription (Tattoo).
This was what she had single-handedly researched and developed over the past few years through relentless effort and trials, utilizing the academy’s free resources—a beginner-level Supernatural System with ‘independent supernatural intellectual property’, poised to open a ‘new path’.
Fortunately, after using two, two would remain. In the end, she compromised with a nod: “Fine!”
“Then these four Goblins are left to you! I’ll go upstairs to take a look.”
After settling the use of the ‘four healthy Goblins’ with Nie Yin, Candle dragged the remaining 6 Goblins, whose brains were blank from being scared by the Haunted House’s horrific aesthetic, back to his loyal Attic.
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Entering the Disease Garden again, he saw from afar five bruised and swollen Half-blood Orcs scattered and slumped on the ground, panting heavily. They kept reaching into a nearby tin bucket to pick up ‘live skinned Frog’ that had just died not long ago, stuffing them into their mouths.
“Crunch! Crunch!”
Yellowed Tusks mercilessly chewed, and the frog carrying dense Polluted Aura was immediately crushed with bones broken and tendons snapped, turning into minced meat swallowed by the Orc.
This ‘Polluted Frog Meat’ discarded by Nie Yin, when transported hot to the Garden, could spontaneously adsorb the dense ‘Disease Pollution’ in the air, further intensifying the mild mutations of the flesh, enhancing the pollution.
With the ‘Pollution’ of the Polluted Frog Meat further elevated, it meant the energy they contained increased, making them even more ‘nourishing’! When eaten fresh by the Orcs, it quickly converted into nutrients in the stomach, supporting muscle development—practically perfect.
As for the slight Disease Pollution, would it cause the Orcs to lose control and mutate?
That would be underestimating the super strong stability of Frog-Type Pollution.
A proper Extreme Warrior’s greatest feature is stability, tolerance, toughness… Even without Holy Light purification, they can hard-endure ‘Disease Pollution materials’, using their own Frog-Type Pollution to integrate, digest, and absorb them.
At this moment, besides the 5 Orcs sitting on the ground devouring regardless of hygiene, the Garden also had three short, skinny, small, clearly malnourished ‘Frog-Type. Shadow Goblin Warriors’ charging at Yuan Tiao with shrill cries, only to be knocked down with three punches and two kicks, then getting up unconvinced.
“Big Brother Yuan, you’re back!”
Seeing Candle dragging six clean and healthy-looking Goblins into the Garden, Yuan Tiao stopped his actions and greeted proactively.
Yuan Zhu pointed at the three Muscular Goblins: “What’s their situation?”
“These are experimental products from Sister and Senior Nie, sent together for my training. Sister said to have them participate in low-end ‘suicide bureau. Performance Matches’, not seeking to defeat opponents, but to fight spectacularly and bluff people. In short, she wants me to train them, not pursuing actual combat power, but flashy embroidery legs that look pretty and hot-blooded enough.”
Yuan Zhu nodded appreciatively: “Oh! Very correct idea. Keep working hard, and later I’ll add a batch of ‘hot-blooded cannon fodder Goblin Strongmen’ for you to form a ‘Martial Arts Training Class’. I permit you to teach some Insect City Martial Arts beyond Red Port Fist, without needing True Qi coordination, but seeking flashy moves, prioritizing good looks and prettiness. Not only pretty, but also sufficiently insidious and ruthless, targeting vitals, striking with tension, hot-bloodedness, and stimulation… That’s what the audience loves.”
Yuan Tiao was somewhat worried: “That way, casualties will be high.”
Candle: “Hmm… Do you understand Performance Matches? Throwing a Match, faking it. Attacks on vitals must be ruthless, fast, and fierce, but also measured, like traditional martial arts stopping at the point. Seemingly heavy fists landing, but actual damage is low. Cutting wounds for massive blood spray, but non-lethal, actually minor injuries… Things like stabbing eighteen times, each avoiding vitals, all minor wounds. Such training tests sense of measure, actually more difficult than real heavy injuries. It also tests your teaching ability, understanding of Martial Arts, and Control. Work hard, I hope you can comprehend higher subtle insights in the process of teaching them, which is said to be the mark of Heaven Rank.”
What could Yuan Tiao do? He could only nod seriously: “I’ll work hard!”
Candle then pointed at the six Goblins under him: “Remember these six’s appearances, I’ll cultivate them into Goblin Paladins later. Without mixing any ‘Disease or Shadow Pollution’, based purely on the purest Holy Flask. Goblin Human Pillar Force, teaching orthodox Holy Cough Knight Breathing Technique. You’ll supervise and teach, observing their body changes.”
“Now, whether Du Ling manifests in the Present World, or future possible contacts with Spirit Layer, Bubble Layer, Star Realm Layer, there won’t be Underground World pollution Miasma environments. And the more common ‘Kunlun Spiritual Energy’ isn’t suitable for you siblings. I hope you observe these Goblin Paladins closely, and from them, explore a new version of Breathing Method.”
Insect City’s Source Qi Breathing Method isn’t suitable for the outside world; orthodox Qi Refiners Shatter the Void and leave Eclosion World by first contacting new ‘Nightmare Pollution’ via Dream Hole to integrate into True Qi (Innate True Qi).
The purpose of this practice is, after leaving Eclosion World and losing ‘pollution Miasma’, to use the newly fused Nightmare Pollution to replace original Spiritual Energy, allowing it to persist long-term.
Unlike the niche, single Bubble World-applicable Qi Refining Technique; the Knight System Steel Breathing Method is universally applicable across myriad realms, requiring no external force (Spiritual Energy), just metal materials (Steel) nearby to continuously extract metal concepts via Breathing Method to reinforce the Physical Body, forging Steel Body.
The Holy Knights in Yuan Zhu’s plan replace ‘Steel Particles’ with ‘Holy Cough Particles’ produced by Holy Flask, integrating into flesh via Breathing Method to forge Physical Body strength.
As for Holy Light dissipation issues, they are naturally resolved and compensated by the Holy Cup’s Space Imprisonment Effect.
Therefore, once this Goblin Paladin project succeeds, the two siblings can reference Holy Light Breathing Technique to revise their own Cultivation Technique, continuing their stalled cultivation progress.
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With that said, Yuan Zhu didn’t hesitate, conjuring a handful of Pumpkin Ash empty-handed, hand-rolling 6 spherical Holy Flasks on site.
Then, from the Disease Garden’s nursery, he selected 6 ‘Disease Fruit Trees’ with trunks as thick as a grown man’s arm, as sealing targets.
Continuously casting six rounds of Demon Seal Wave, using Holy Light to imprison them one by one, uprooting them from the ground along with their blood-dripping Intestine-like Root Tendrils, sealing them all into the Flasks.
Soon, he crafted six Holy Cup Flask. Human Pillar Force Engines. Then, with a kind expression, he looked at the six trembling little Goblins, scared leg-soft and incontinent by the Disease Garden’s horrific aesthetic.
Originally, after being taken over by Yuan Zhu, they were all arrogant and untamed, believing they could seize a chance for a sneak attack and counter-kill to regain freedom.
But after being dragged into the Haunted House, seeing the gloomy dim, walls covered in vascular Root Tendrils’ cult decor, and fellow embryos everywhere, full in chambers, hanging from the Roof, their brains went blank, feeling they were going to die, die, die!
When Yuan Zhu dragged them into the Demon Realm of Disease Garden, the innate hostility to all Life here, filled with absolute malice ‘Power of Pollution’, directly pulled them into true Hell, scaring them to Mental Breakdown, bodies limp and powerless.
In contrast, the other three with dull eyes, Brain Eggplants plugged into their heads, diligently practicing punches one by one—’Muscular. Shadow Eggplant Essence’. One had to sigh, same Goblins, yet their constitutions were even weaker. But after receiving Shadow Irrigation + Way of Strength Reinforcement, they could resist the Disease Environment’s oppression, standing straight to practice punches diligently.
This is the difference between mundane things and Polluted Monsters.
Yuan Zhu continued compressing the Holy Light Barrier in his palm, condensing it into sharp arc-shaped Blades, lightly slicing the abdomen of the first ‘healthy Goblin’, instantly gutting it.
Before the contents could surge out, he preemptively stuffed that spherical Holy Flask inside. Then, his large hand pressed the spurting abdominal wound, immediately igniting Holy Light from the Soul Crystal.
Targeting this ‘flesh wound’, performing Holy Mark burning + Holy Light Healing Technique.
Actually, he had no intention of applying a true Holy Mark to it, more fantasizing in his mind about ‘welding’ imagery.
He had once severed an arm in the Haunted House, picked it up hot, shifted his own Holy Mark to the wound cross-section, ignited Holy Light to maximum, and ‘heat-welded’ the severed arm back.
Precisely because of successful prior healing experience, and Holy Light’s inherent ‘healing ability’, he treated the Goblin’s abdominal wound as a ‘welding target’, simultaneously viewing the wound as a Pseudo Holy Mark granting ritual.
To create a Holy Flask Energy Cycle for the Goblin.
Through a bout of painless welding treatment, Yuan Zhu successfully rescued this gutted Goblin with ‘Holy Light’—not only was the wound burned and fused by Holy Light, leaving a crooked, eternally unextinguished, constantly emitting red-hot Activity scorched black scar.
The Holy Flask buried in its body also began working, treating the Goblin as a Battery, continuously extracting Vitality as startup energy for the Flask, lighting the Holy Light inside, burning ‘Disease Fuel’, releasing more Holy Light Particles, establishing a cycle with its own wound scar.
Once the first experimental subject succeeded, he shifted his benevolent gaze to the second fainted Goblin.
