Due to deal restructure text to speech player is currently unavailable. Will find a solution soon.

Chapter 12

Ling Jiu arrived before an abandoned shop and heard a noise inside . Peeking through a shattered window, he saw a few kittens the size of toy poodles playing inside .

The kittens had fluffy, fire-red fur, and they were cute to the max . Girls would surely love them .

3

Nonetheless, Ling Jiu knew that they were not ordinary kittens but Firecats, which looked adorable when they were young but became blood-thirsty demons once fully grown .

“Should I kill them?”

A meow entered his ear while Ling Jiu mumbled to himself .

1

He looked sideways as a sharp pain hit his face followed by four bloody streaks .

1

“Damn it!”

Ling Jiu became furious, and he glared at the attacking Firecat .

It was one meter tall and two meters long with fiery-red fur as well as a pair of ruby eyes; that was the Firecat .

1

The Firecat was a Class 1 Direbeast . Not only were its movements as quick as lightning, but its claws were also incredibly sharp . Its combat strength was a notch higher than that of a Sabretooth Hound .

1

“How dare you scratch my handsome face! I’ll kill you!”

12

Ling Jiu attacked it by thrusting his stone spear forward .

The Firecat dodged it easily and struck its claws at Ling Jiu’s throat .

Its claws were so terrifyingly sharp that they could easily slit his throat open .

“Go to hell!”

Ling Jiu hissed, stomping his right foot on the ground . An earthen wall rose and blocked the Firecat’s attack .

3

The Firecat leaped onto the earthen wall and easily scaled over it . Then it pounced on Ling Jiu, who greeted it with three pomelo-sized marbles .

True to its reputation as a speed-type Direbeast, the Firecat dodged the marbles . But little did it expect that the three marbles would make a one-eighty turn in the air .

1

The move shocked the Firecat, but it was too late to dodge .

Dush! Dush! Dush!

The three marbles hit the Firecat in its waist and abdomen, causing it to lose its balance in the air .

Seizing the opportunity, Ling Jiu gripped a stone spear in his hand and thrust it at the Firecat’s belly, the softest part of its body .

The stone spear penetrated its belly, and the Firecat struggled for a moment before it dropped dead to the ground .

1

Ling Jiu breathed a sigh of relief . Speed-type Direbeasts were nasty because of their speed . Lucky for him, his skills were good enough to kill the Firecat .

He cut out the Firecat’s heart, then shot a glance at those Firecat kittens in the shop and snapped his fingers .

1

Boom!

The shop collapsed instantly, swallowing those few kittens, which were too young . Those Class 1 Direbeasts and their hearts were of no value to him, but they had to die because they were Direbeasts .

11

“Help! Help!”

Ling Jiu moved on, but before he could make it far, he heard a distressed voice calling for help .

Following the voice, he ran over and witnessed something terrifying .

A python as thick as the thigh of an adult with patterns on its skin was wrapping itself around a teenager .

The teenager was trying to fight back frantically and calling out for help . However, the python was too strong for him, and his struggle was futile .

2

As the python squeezed tighter, the teenager’s voice became weaker, and the bones inside his body crackled .

“Help-Help me!”

The teenager spotted Ling Jiu . Knowing that Ling Jiu was his last hope, he screamed at the top of his lungs .

1

Ling Jiu knew that he could not let the kid die . They could compete with and rob each other of their harvest later, but watching the other die without lending a helping hand was a no-no . It would reflect badly on a person’s character and be detrimental to a person’s career development .

“Eat this!”

Ling Jiu raised his hand, and the rocks formed a stone hammer in his hand . He wielded the colossal hammer and smashed down the python’s head .

1

Dush! Dush! Dush! Dush!

Repeated blows smashed the python’s head, forcing it to gradually ease up its squeeze, and the teenager escaped .

“Thank you so much for saving me!”

The teenager looked at the python with its smashed head . “I would have died if it weren’t for you!”

“You’re welcome . Just be careful next time!” Ling Jiu reminded the teenager, patting him on the shoulder .

He suddenly froze . The moment he lay his hand on the teenager, a few lines of text appeared in his vision .

Name: Fu Changan

Race: Human

Special ability: Gravity Manipulation (Awakened, replicable)

Gravity Manipulation? This chap’s special ability is gravity manipulation! Holy moly, this is a terrific special ability! Not to mention, it complements my Earth-element Arcana well!

2

Ling Jiu could not have been more excited .

He had replicated Earth Manipulation, Shadowing, and other special abilities over the past six months .

12

With the exception of Earth Manipulation, he could not use Shadowing and the other special abilities on a whim . He was worried that others might find out and associate them with his special ability of replication .

1

However, it was a different story with Gravity Arcana . He was not afraid of being found out because it belonged to the Earth-element Arcana .

In fact, many Earth-element Arcanists would naturally acquire the Gravity Arcana once they reached the pinnacle of the Earth-element Arcana .

1

I am of the Earth-element Arcana . Even if I demonstrate the Gravity Arcana, no one is going to suspect me of my replication ability but think that it’s just a natural ability that comes with the Earth-element Arcana .

With that thought in mind, Ling Jiu quietly replicated Fu Changan’s Gravity Arcana . After some pleasantries, he left .

2

He wanted to find a relatively inconspicuous and safe place to assimilate the Gravity Arcana so that he would have one more ability up his sleeve .

What came in abundance in the county city were shops and residential buildings . Ling Jiu quickly found a safe and inconspicuous place .

1

Half an hour later, Ling Jiu was back on the street, resuming his hunt for the Direbeasts as if nothing had happened before .

There were many Direbeasts hiding around the place, but most of them were Class 1 Direbeasts .

With Ling Jiu’s current strength, those Class-1 Direbeasts were no match for him . He killed a dozen Direbeasts along the way .

“Caijiapo Zoo!”

Ling Jiu ended up in front of a zoo . Hearing a heated fight, he followed the sound and arrived to see a group of people attacking a giant alligator-type Direbeast .

The ten-meter-long alligator-type Direbeast looked like a van .

3

Lumpy and hard scales covered its back, and one-meter-long spikes grew on both sides of its ribs . The Direbeast appeared extremely hideous .

“It’s an Ironspike Gator, a Class 2 Direbeast!”

Ling Jiu immediately recognized the alligator . “These guys have guts! Aren’t they afraid of that Class 2 Direbeast?”

As Ling Jiu pondered about it, he looked at those who were attacking the Ironspike Gator . It startled him to see Li Kai among them .

“Why is Li mingling with these people?” Ling Jiu furrowed his brows .

Li Kai aside, the other guys looked older . One was even a middle-aged man . If he was not mistaken, these people were either the Arcanists who had awakened independently or the rejected from the previous years .

Li Kai was with them?

“Come on, guys! This beast is getting weaker now!” a young man dressed in a sports suit shouted as he leveled up his attack .

He was a Fire-element Arcanist . His Fire-type abilities looked impressive with a fire spear, fire blade, fireball, and fire bullets at his fingertips . Plus, his range of attack was over three meters .

2

Apparently, he was a Level 2 Arcanist .