《The Heavens Shall Fall》Chapter 7: Thief
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When he came out of the cave, the second sun was already starting to rise. "I guess I overslept." "Only one day and I have experienced countless things. I need to be extra careful or I'll surely die." He then proceeded gathering various herbs. Now that he has a cube, carrying a lot of herbs will be easy, so he just harvested whatever he felt useful. Inside of the cube, the time flows slowly, a food can last for several years so there was no problem in storing herbs in it. His harvest continued without a problem until the sixth sun sets. Night came and he saw no traces of monsters which made him slightly relieved. After a bit of careful observation of his surroundings, he decided to rest below a tree. The peaceful harvest lasted for four days straight. In these four days, he focused in harvesting during the morning and creating pills at the afternoon. While gathering herbs Ming Li stopped in front of a dilapidated bridge. Below the bridge was a bottomless cliff. Currently, he had no idea where he was and how to go back to the village. His only hope of going back was to find a local from the village possibly wandering in the forest. Without much option he decided to cross the bridge and swallow his fear. While slowly walking on the bridge, creaking sounds could be heard on his every step. When he was at the middle of the bridge and made his next step, the wood he stepped on suddenly cracked and his feet fell straight at the cracked portion. "I guess I'm not in the right path." Upon crossing the bridge, he went into the forest. The trees in the forest were extremely tall. So he thought of climbing a tree to confirm his location. Since he was five levels stronger than his previous self, he felt confident that he can climb the tree without a hitch. He started climbing the tree, then realized the incredible increase in his strength. Climbing the tree became an easy task for him. Upon reaching the top, he glanced at the surrounding and all he saw were trees and cliff faces, there were no traces of the village. "I think i'm on a mountain pass. Maybe I should climb those cliff to see the village." Ming Li thought while he continued to look around. As he was going down the giant tree, he thought that he should try jumping from one branch to another since one of the three rare ingredient in the pill he will make grows on trees. The tree leech flower lives off by feeding on the tree. It is a rare plant but could be found on highly dense forest. Ming Li hopped on different branches. He almost fell several times, but after repeated attempts he got used to it. He traveled for hours at fast pace aiming to go to the nearest cliff face, but something above him came falling at high speed. It's a good thing that he got used on movement on the branches, so he swiftly dodged the falling object and looked at it. The object suddenly grabbed a branch and stopped moving. It stared back at Ming Li and wildly screamed! "It's an iron palm monkey!" Ming Li said in shock. These monkeys got extra though and heavy palms. One direct slap from this monkey can kill an ordinary fifth level beginner's realm. While swinging on the tree, the monkey used the branch to catapult to Ming Li. Ming Li immediately created a water barrier which formed a spherical spinning water barrier around him. The monkey slapped the barrier and it immediately scattered, but Its hand recoiled as the barrier scattered. Ming Li fired seven water cannons as a counter attack! His water cannons improved when he stabilized his sudden growth. The water cannon hit the monkey on several spots, but it was only slightly injured. It became furious and leaped back at Ming Li waving its palm, Ming Li shot another water cannon directly on its incoming palm forcing it to change direction. He then jumped backwards trying to keep distance from the monkey. After being blocked twice, the monkey became cautious and did not approach Ming Li aggressively. It stayed hanging on a tree staring at Ming Li. "Ok Mr. Monkey, lets not fight since i'm not in the mood" Ming Li said in a tense tone. However, the monkey doesn't even care and kicked a branch to attack Ming Li. Every attack that missed causes tree branches that get caught in the attacks to be crushed. Ming Li dodged every attack while counter attacking, but the water cannons were starting to be slapped away by the monkey. "Seems like the water cannon can't do much damage individually." Ming Li created another set of water cannon and fired two at opposite part of the body of the monkey. The monkey slapped the two water balls on different side utilizing both hands. When the monkey's body was wide open, five water cannon fired simultaneously at one spot on its chest. The monkey shrieked and a bloody hole opened on its chest where bones became visible. With its life threatening injuries, the Monkey immediately turned to flee which made Ming Li smile as he chased the monkey. "I remembered while I was fighting, Iron palm monkeys are fond of stealing from people. Let me see what I can get from you. Since you attacked me I'll get back what you owe me." Time passed, Ming Li continued to keep his distance while following the monkey. The monkey did not notice him since it was badly wounded and only hoped to escape. On a tree not far away, a natural hole in a tree can be seen. Ming Li made a sinister smile as he said "Is that where you live? Then time to die Mr. Monkey." When the monkey was about to enter the hole on the giant tree, Ming Li increased his speed and fired seven water cannon at the back of the monkey. The Monkey shrieked as its back exploded and it fell slamming directly on the the ground. Blood oozed out from its body as the monkey slowly died. Ming Li didn't look back at the monkey and immediately entered the opening in the tree. Inside he saw several items, there were several rusty weapons and random crystal, but what caught his attention was some wooden slips. There were two wooden slips. He grabbed the one with words written "Green Woodlands Map". He used his consciousness to check the contents of the wooden slip. Since he already experienced his consciousness entering another world by the art given to him by Chao Shi, he can now easily understand that these wooden slips contains information imprinted on it. After a while, he pulled back his consciousness and said "Lucky~ This seems like a map of this place. Also the village is marked in the map. I can now go back to that village" He then kept the wooden slip in his cube. Also, he checked the second wooden slip with words written "ART" He remembered kids talking about art and skills. Art are the foundation of every skill, you can perform skills without an art but it will be less powerful. You can also create your own skill if you just know the art. The Plant knowledge Ming Li has is a form of art and his 'water cannon', 'water shield' and 'water healing' are a form of skill. He can perform this skills but he cannot actually control water in other ways. Most Clans have their own art derived from pure arts, but pure arts are rare and only Major Clans have them. Also the arts smaller clans uses are just derived from pure arts. Pure arts uses are very broad and it is not solely for fighting, also it cannot be learned by anyone, only those destined by fate or with extreme talent can learn them. So the major clans created a way to form a specific function of the art for it to be easily learned, this became the arts used by most of the clans today. The origin of pure arts is mysterious and records were lost because of the great war, only scraps on information can be found which detailed that it was from a very distant past created by beings above gods and originated from a place above the sky itself. It is said that ages ago there was no art and people only used pure natural energy, but as their civilization flourished, several people gained control over several elements and natural laws creating their own art based on their comprehension on different fields. Their comprehensions was then recorded and passed on to their successors thus producing the present arts. Some people also say that there are legendary experts who can comprehend the nature on their own and create a pure art based on their comprehension. Ming Li Held the wooden slip and inserted his consciousness on it. When his consciousness went inside the slip, he saw a vast blank space which spreads infinitely. ...
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