Chapter 491: [ Days in the Passing Cloud Labyrinth (2) ]

As for Baishe and the others, due to their worry towards Allen, they actually ask Rena Lygos to send them to the Divine Martial Continent.

Thus, now, along with Rena and her two usual bodyguards, they were now on their way here. Learning all of this, Allen can’t help but sigh wryly—thus, he postponed calling Baishe and the others and summoning them right now.

In addition, for some reason, Allen was reluctant to give up his martial cultivation even after regaining his magic power. He has some feeling that it might be better to cultivate his current three powers—mainly, God Magic power, Chakra Ninja Arts, and Qi Cultivation.

What kind of state would he achieve if he managed to reach them all to peak…?

That was what Allen wondered. Aside from cultivating the two powers, what busied Allen these past few days was the creation of his own ‘Domain’ and reaching Mid God realm.

He wasn’t certain that before he could create his own ‘Domain’, he wouldn’t be able to pass through Mid God realm no matter how close he was.

Fortunately, he had the broken core of Hanjin in which he had studied and tried to gain insight into the creation of his very own ‘Domain’

Core—that’s what he had suspected.

He needed to create his own Core and since he was originally a human and not a monster, he doesn’t have any Magic Core—however, that doesn’t mean he couldn’t. He can replace it by using his Soul Core!

But summoning his Soul Core was extremely arduous and difficult. Fortunately, he had the help of the Firebird Bennu, which he had named, Fia, in short for Fiamma…

The Firebird Bennu seemed to have taken a liking to the name and accepted it.

With the help of Fia, Allen can somewhat control his Soul Core, bringing it out whenever he wanted. the only thing that he had a problem in doing was the creation of ‘domain’ as the Soul Core as its center—by pulling the essence of heaven and earth from the soul core itself and then mold it into a world using his soul as a medium…!!

Even though Allen had finally recovered his strength, Si Mulan seemed to have regarded the relationship between Allen and her in this way.

A master and the attendant.

Of course, Allen was the Master and she was the attendant. When fighting monsters first, she was the first one to step forward and fight.. .. not letting Allen do the fighting. Seeing this, Allen can’t help but smile wryly. Well, in any case, he wasn’t that interested in fighting right now…

Because the monsters they encountered were at least at King level realm, Si Mulan was eager to train and mold herself in desperate battles. So for all the fights up until now, Allen did not need to even step on the battlefield, Si Mulan could do it all by herself.

So a very frequent scene that occurred in the forest was this: a red-clothed female at the front cutting and slicing, fighting desperately against the monsters and a black-clothed man leaning against a tree with or sitting near a stream, idly passing the time without doing anything. And beside him was a beautiful beast who, when things don’t go as planned and Si Mulan was back into a corner, would appear and aid her, saving her in the process.

… …

Nevertheless, the scene on the surface still looked very fantastically romantic in a third person’s point of view. Especially when the red clothed girl would win a fight, she would be all smiles all day.

Because of how they passed each day, Si Mulan’s cultivation slowly skyrocketed. Right now, she was already on the verge of breaking through King Realm after just a few days of hunting. With it, she would be a step away to Foundation Building Rank.

There’s no need to explain what Foundation Building Rank means to Cultivators. It is a world-shaking transformation which includes an extension of longevity. Of course, longevity means life, and the lives of Foundation Establishment Cultivators are much more fulfilling than those of the Qi Condensation stage.

There are injuries which will kill someone of the Qi Condensation stage but can only hurt a powerful Foundation Establishment expert.

Thinking about how previously, there had only been a few hundreds of Foundation Establishment Cultivators in the entire Divine Martial Continent, Si Mulan itched with anticipation. She longed to reach Foundation Establishment and then be able to fly through the sky.

Mountains stretched out as far as the eye could see. They seemed endless.

During the day, the sounds of various wild beasts and monsters could be heard, and the deep blue sky stretched boundlessly. At night, the sky was filled with the soft light of the multitudinous stars and gentle moon, the sight of which enchanted the heart.

The two of them walked deeper into the forest. Besides Si Mulan, Allen looked like he was on a vacation, he did not seem nervous at all.

Unlike him, Si Mulan was slightly nervous as she had already confirmed that this place should be either the fifth domain or probably even the sixth domain. Realizing this, it was not an amusement park as any monsters that were over Emperor Realms were life-threatening to her.

As they ventured further into the forest, the monsters that attacked them were upgraded from third-ranked monsters, equivalent to Peak Grandmaster-level to the Fifth-ranked monsters which were equivalent to Mid King level realm.

It was six in the evening and the sky was dark in the forest. Suddenly, they stopped at a valley with thick spiritual energy. It was a good place to rest as it was covered by dense spiritual energy. The number of monster and magic beasts on this forest was really a lot.

They had just rested for a moment when a Fire-type land dragon appeared. Many bird-like monsters flew away from the fear of the roar.

Allen could tell that the monster was powerful that it could be at least sixth to seventh-ranked. It means that this monster should be, around Mid to Late Emperor level realm.

However, that did not bother Allen at all as he shrugged his shoulders.

“Mulan, if I’m not mistaken, that should about Mid Emperor to Later ranked Magic beast, or at most a Peak Emperor Realm. With your current strength, it's suitable for you to battle it.” Allen leaned on a willow tree and looked at the Fire land dragon while saying in amusement.

“... And it's also of the fire attribute. It's just in time for me to put my fire ability to the test.” Si Mulan responded with excitement.

If it was in the past, she would surely run away and hide but now, with Allen and Xinghong behind her, she wouldn't worry about being killed anymore. What she needs to focus now was to sharpen her skills and fighting techniques!

The Fire land dragon turned around and stared a deadly stare at Allen who was sitting nonchalantly under the willow tree with a ferocious beast at his side, with its tail moving left to right. It seemed to be thinking, it could tell that the man was the most powerful one among the rest. It could even feel the threat of death from him.

As one of the top monsters in the area, it did not allow itself to run away. To it, only the weak would run away when facing a powerful enemy. Then, suddenly its eyes found Si Mulan and the moment it saw her its eyes immediately shone brightly. It looked like a hungry dog that had seen a bone and wanted to eat her.

Its bloodthirsty eyes were staring at Si Mulan. It looked brutal, ferocious and bloodthirsty. Its pupils were huge and dark as its gaze pierced through Si Mulan.

This was because Si Mulan only had a weak spirit energy emitted from her body, meaning she was completely weak!

That Fire land dragon assumed that she was an easy meal. From the beginning, it did not plan to attack her using any magic based attacks and wanted to fling its long tail over instead.

It went without saying that this land dragon had an extremely hard exterior. This land dragon had merely flung its tail, but the stone that Si Mulan was initially standing on had exploded into pieces.

“What shocking strength!” Si Mulan who dodged from the side looked at the large rock that was blown into small pieces. She said with a little surprise, “It looks like this monster, even with just using magic power; it has quite a strong body. All my bones will certainly be broken if I was hot by that!”

The Fire land dragon was naturally strong, cruel and bloodthirsty.

Once it had reached adulthood, it would certainly reach the ninth rank due to its Dragon Blood. With Dragon lineage, this fire land dragon specializes in defense and its scale was as hard as a meter width steel plate.

It was a giant but sturdy ferocious beast.

Upon encountering a strong enemy, Si Mulan instead became especially excited. Since its strength was so huge in contrast to a person's weaker body, she decided to play to her strengths.

“This would be good training for my martial skills!" After saying this, she took out her thin sword from her pouch and began to gather her internal Qi and it slowly began to coalescence on her sword.

The Fire land dragon saw that Si Mulan began to gather spirit power and started to cry out. This time, it used its tail and aimed it at her. It appeared to want to disrupt her movements.

Si Mulan saw what the Fire land dragon was doing and quickly avoided it by dodging to the side. She had dangerously avoided that attack.

Bang!! A deep crater filled with spiderweb-like cracks appeared where the tail hit the ground.

If it was any other person, they would definitely be disrupted in the face of such an attack. However, even though she had only this moment of hesitation, she had not been disrupted and continued to gather her Houtian Qi on her hand.

“Lightning Sword!” Si Mulan made her move. A crackling sound echoed, and dazzling lightning burst out from the blade of the sword.

Bang!! A lightning bolt from blue sky struck the sword.

With her technique completed, Si Mulan rushed towards the Fire Land Dragon.

A red fireball also began to gather on the mouth of the Fire land dragon. At the moment where it had thrown the fireball towards Si Mulan, She had also already rushed towards the monster with her sword covered with lightning sparks. Both of them collided in the air with a sound that sounded similar to a bomb explosion.

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In the end, the battle lasted a few minutes before Si Mulan throws her towel and surrendered. The Fire land Dragon might be lacking in terms of firepower but its defense and innate strength were far from Si Mulan could compare!

She only managed to make light scratches and nothing more. Thus, Xinghong was sent to interfere. However, even still Si Mulan gained a high-level understanding of her techniques during the fight—especially, her [ Thousand Thunder Shaking the Void ] a top class movement technique without fixed patterns and yet possessing considerable strength in movement and speed.

Ironically enough, seeing her moving like this, for some reason, Allen managed to gain an insight and accidentally created a custom skill—[ Phantom Lightning Step ], a higher version of the [ Phantom ] Steps that contained the power of lightning.

His speed was now even faster and illusory, creating countless afterimages that were even more lifelike than before and with the difference of 2.5 seconds faster than the original!

"How did you that?!" Seeing Allen's skill, Si Mulan's eyes sparkled. It was clearly much better than her [ Thousand Thunder Shaking the Void ] martial technique.

Of course, Allen was not parsimonious to Si Mulan at all. In addition, he had already good impressions to her since they first met, causing him to impart the newly evolved; [ Phantom Lightning Step ] to her.

For this, Si Mulan was extremely happy and grateful. [ Phantom Lightning Step ] that Allen had taught her was not the least bit inferior to her movement technique and can even be said to be much more convenient and powerful in terms of fighting.

In addition to this, killing time, Allen helps her strengthens the control of her lightning energy.

One must say, Allen was the personification of lightning and thunder itself. Even thunder and lightning energy, he can sense them and even control them at will--in this, Si Mulan didn’t know if not she would certainly faint from shock!

Just by aiding her in her cultivation, Si Mulan’s power of lightning was strengthened by ten folds in an instant! Allen just calls upon the lightning energy within the surrounding, tamed it and let it be absorbed by Si Mulan’s body, then her power will slowly rise up—of course, this can’t be done by skin contact.

At first, Si Mulan was suspicious but since she had started trusting Allen, she gave in and was then startled the result. Although as for why he was able to strengthen her lightning cultivation, Si Mulan had a difficult time of asking—after all, this is considered Allen’s secret.

As a sign of respect, she could only keep her mouth closed and enjoy the refinement of lightning powers within her.

As for her Ice-type ability, unfortunately, although Allen has an extremely overpowered Ice Manipulation type ability from the Ice Queen herself. Unfortunately, his understanding of Ice-type energies wasn’t as strong and profound compared to lightning which was originally his entire body!

He can’t control the cold energy around them as much as he could with lightning energy. Thus, her advancement in terms of Ice cultivation, it wasn’t as faster compared to lightning—even still, for Si Mulan, such advancement was extremely incredible that left her in awe and admiration!

While Allen summons the cold temperature and surround Si Mulan, the latter would slowly cultivate within the cold field and absorbs the energy--it was like a personal snow world where cold energy was extremely rich.

She really couldn’t understand how Allen has such power and ability—!!

Even still, with him around, Si Mulan was certain that her martial advancement would become terrifying!

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