The Legendary Master’s Wife - Chap 175

Chapter 175: Shapeshifting and a New Team Member

Fifteen days later, the time since they entered the Paradise Realm had already been twenty days. At last, only one third of the time limit of one month remained.

At this time, a lot of the forces had already started to assemble back together. All of them were headed in one direction. That direction was the Paradise Realm’s highest peak, the magnificent palace on top of Demon Beast peak.

It was said that the palace was originally sealed. But for some reason, there was a chance that the palace would open once a month for one day. That timing fell on the latter part of their one-month time limit.

Due to this, when Ling Xiao and You XiaoMo came across Lei Ju, they were not the least bit worried that they would miss the opening of the palace, since even if they rushed there immediately, they could only wait outside. Furthermore, it was not certain that they would even be able to make it to the palace on the Demon Beast peak.

The Demon Beast peak was named thus because it was occupied by countless powerful demon beasts.

Not only that, but those demon beasts were all the rare kind of grand demon beasts. The lowest was level six and the highest was said to be level ten. Any higher was limited by the restriction of the Demon Beast peak so the strengths of the demon beasts stopped at level ten.

With that many demon beasts of such formidable strengths, if they really came across them, there wouldn’t be enough people for them to trample on even if all the sects were added together.

Luckily, if these mighty grand demon beasts were not provoked or alarmed, they were usually holed up in their own territories. They wouldn’t venture out for no reason.

Since the road to the Demon Beast peak was arduous with all sorts of obstacles, most of the sects and forces would plan to arrive five to six days in advance.

Although there were numerous Qing Cheng Sect’s disciples, their strengths were all over the place. Groups of five charging in was not possible, so they already agreed before entering that Luo ShuHe and they would meet twenty days later at some small valley.

Luo ShuHe’s group of five was the first to arrive. They first cleared the small valley of all the demon beasts and then started waiting inside.

However, because they arrived early by half a day, they saw no signs of their brothers even after waiting for over four hours. When everyone was about to get restless, Elder Li proposed that he goes to check out the situation…

On the grasslands that stretched as far as the eye could see, a human figure was sitting quietly, cross-legged on the grass.

This person was You XiaoMo. In his vicinity, three demon beasts of uneven sizes were encircling him. One looked like he was deep in thought. One was expressionless. One looked indifferent but was rolling his deep green eyes as if saying ‘Why do I have to follow you guys doing this kind of stupid thing?’

Right at this moment, the one that appeared deep in thought suddenly howled, and was the first to jump up. Its white tail wagged cheerfully at top speed, while its pair of eyes shone as they looked at You XiaoMo.

The other two pay no attention to its excitement, continuing to lie lazily on the ground.

However, their eyes were fixed on the one they were encircling, You XiaoMo. The spiritual energy surrounding You XiaoMo suddenly started to stir fiercely, as if it could no longer be held back. Faint whitish strands surrounded him, forming a vortex. Suddenly, these strands of spiritual energy were sucked into the space between the person’s eyebrows.

The faint seal that appeared when he was cultivating in the dimension appeared once again between his eyebrows. This time, because there were three demon beasts watching, they clearly saw the seal flash in the space between his eyebrows. However, the seal was still indistinct.

But if they had seen the seal when it first appeared, they would have discovered that the seal between You XiaoMo’s eyebrows this time was a little larger. Furthermore, it slowly expanded sideways from the center of his forehead. When the seal disappeared once again, the waves of spiritual energy in the air finally calmed down.

You XiaoMo opened his eyes and heaved a deep sigh of relief. Finally, he had broken through the third level to become a level four mage.

Heaven knew that he had been waiting for this moment for almost half a month. Being stuck at the pinnacle of level three left his heart suspended in mid-air.

What he didn’t expect was that it took more than twice the spiritual energy than it did before to go from level three to level four. Clearly it was not so easy to break through to level four. As for the second level for the Heavenly Soul Scripture, he already managed to break through. That was the reason why he tried to push through to become a level four mage.

Since he just had a breakthrough, his soul force was full.

You XiaoMo took stock of the soul force of a level four mage. The strength of the force was much more than that of a level three mage. He was confident that if he were to come across a level nine magic herb, he wouldn’t have to drink spiritual water to dig it out completely.

Seeing that the Master was not paying them any heed, PiQiu howled at him.

Only then did You XiaoMo react. He laughed as he rubbed PiQiu’s head, “I know. Don’t make a fuss.”

Saying this, he stood up and then disappeared from the sights of the three demon beasts.

The three demon beasts did not panic because this kind of thing had happened many times. You XiaoMo didn’t really disappear, he just entered his own dimension. That’s right, the place he went to be his own dimension. The place he was in before was Ling Xiao’s dimension.

In principle, the two dimensions could not be superimposed on each other.

However, You XiaoMo’s dimension was not a dimension in the true sense, refined from a spatial rift, his dimension was rather special. To put it into words, it could be explained as a dimension carved out from a spatial rift. So even if he was now inside Ling Xiao’s dimension, he could still enter his own dimension.

Half an hour later, You XiaoMo reappeared in front of them.

However, this time there were three stalks of magic herbs in his hand. These three stalks of magic herbs were none other than the Shapeshifting herb.

Half a month ago, he planted the Shapeshifting herb in his dimension. To speed up the maturity of the Shapeshifting herb and to hasten the dropping of seeds, he watered it with spiritual water once every two hours. He finally succeeded in making the Shapeshifting herb mature. Not only that, he also used the seeds that fell to cultivate a few more stalks of the Shapeshifting herb, all high-quality ones at that.

Thus, the Shapeshifting herb in his hands was not the fiery red of before. Instead, it was a deep, deep red, as if the color had been precipitating for many years.

Seeing You XiaoMo reappear, PiQiu and Xiao Hei leapt up from the ground. A pair of red and a pair of golden eyes fix desperately on the Shapeshifting herbs in You XiaoMo’s hand.

There was no longer any resistance left in Xiao Hei’s heart because PiQiu told him that Master could cultivate the Shapeshifting herb, and high-quality ones at that. As one that had grown up inside the dimension, PiQiu was the second most familiar with his master’s secrets.

Once he heard that there would be the Shapeshifting herb, and a high quality one at that, Xiao Hei was very shamelessly bought over by a stalk of the Shapeshifting herb. From the heart in his body to his soul, if there was the Shapeshifting herb, other than handing over his life, everything else, he would do.

But, not only did You XiaoMo hold the Shapeshifting herb, he also brought his Jin Ming Cauldron.

For demon beasts, once the Shapeshifting herb was mature, they would immediately find a favorable time and place to gobble down the Shapeshifting herb, because if they delayed, it was very probable that other demon beasts would get wind of it and come and snatch it.

Therefore, even though demon beasts knew that the Shapeshifting herb shouldn’t be gobbled up carelessly, each one of them was too eager to wait.

However, even though the Shapeshifting herb was a level seven magic herb and couldn’t be compared to magic herbs of level eight and above, the medicinal power it contained was so strong that even demon beasts wouldn’t be able to handle it. Therefore, many demon beasts might not be able to shapeshift successfully even though they had the Shapeshifting herb.

However, this might also be related to the quality of the magic herb.

Low and mid quality Shapeshifting herbs were considerably inferior when compared to high quality Shapeshifting herbs. On top of that, demon beasts did not understand the correct way of using the Shapeshifting herb. All these resulted in the high rate of failure seen with demon beasts when it came to shapeshifting.

What You XiaoMo wanted to do, was to help PiQiu and Xiao Hei refine the Shapeshifting herb into magic pill form.

Simply gobbling down the Shapeshifting herb would cause the medicinal energy to riot in all directions inside the body. Although the flesh of demon beasts was quite resilient, they might not be able to withstand it. Furthermore, it might cause the power of the Shapeshifting herb to leak out.

So, one just needed to refine the Shapeshifting herb into magic pill form, gently wrapping up the medicinal power by using the soul force. That way, the chance of successful shapeshifting would be increased.

Not long after, You XiaoMo succeeded in transforming the three stalks of Shapeshifting herbs into three magic pills. Refining magic pills from a single stalk of magic herb was much easier than blending multiple types of magic herbs. The time he took was less than fifteen minutes.

PiQiu and Xiao Hei used their teeth to lightly grip the Shapeshifting magic pill that You XiaoMo handed to them. They then took off running to find their own place to prepare to shapeshift.

After the two of them left, You XiaoMo just kept the other Shapeshifting magic pill before turning to look at the Nine-Winged Unity Serpent. Speaking of the Nine-Winged Unity Serpent. This fellow woke up to discover that he had been bonded by a despicable human and that despicable human was the mage in front of him. Not only that, he also found out that his bonded master was only a level three mage. Most importantly, this puny level three mage didn’t form a life-bond with him. He was furious.

The dignity of a high-level demon beast was sacred and inviolable. Especially when it was a puny mage.

However, he had yet to flaunt his power in front of the puny mage, because there was an even stronger force coming from a unique blood lineage pushing him down with immense pressure. So, the Nine-Winged Unity Serpent finally came to realize what was called, there were heavens beyond heavens, beasts beyond beasts.

This puny mage in front of his eyes had such a noble emperor demon beast. No wonder he didn’t form a life-bond with him who was merely a high-level demon beast.

The Nine-Winged Unity Serpent used his pair of enormous snake eyes to look at the body of the puny mage.

It must be said that this was blinding to his demon beast eyes. A level three mage managed to bond with an emperor demon beast and a life-bond at that. What the hell, this kind of luck was just an embarrassment of riches.

Seeing that the puny mage had an emperor demon beast, the Nine-Winged Unity Serpent no longer quibbled about the matter with the bond. Of course, not quibbling did not mean he identified with him.

However, the problem with the injury on his body was solved by this puny mage in front of his eyes, healing him seventy to eighty percent in just two days. He was beyond delighted that he made such an astute decision at that time. He hardened the resolve in his heart to hang on to the large tree behind this small tree. A certain narcissistic snake harbored that thought.

But if you wanted to talk about some regrettable flaw, that would be…

“SheQiu, why did you become so small again? I almost stepped on you.” You XiaoMo squatted down and picked up the mini version of the Nine-Winged Unity Serpent.

The Nine-Winged Unity Serpent, also known as SheQiu, used his pair of profoundly green eyes to glance at You XiaoMo dispiritedly. Anyone given the name SheQiu would also most probably feel unhappy. Furthermore, enlarging and minimizing oneself was an innate ability for most demon beasts.

As for why You XiaoMo chose the name SheQiu, the fault was his own.

He should not have curled up into a ball when he woke up, giving him the inspiration. Saying that if his name had the word qiu, he could be PiQiu’s companion. Later they could also form a Qiu team and so, this was how SheQiu came to be…

His balls were really aching, ah!

Furthermore, what was this joke about a Qiu team?

The Nine-Winged Unity Serpent, ah no, SheQiu, even though his face was rather expressionless, the agitation in his heart was quite spirited. You XiaoMo had no idea. You XiaoMo had even less of a clue that the reason why he changed into a mini snake was because he didn’t want You XiaoMo to find him. It was intentional!

The clueless You XiaoMo was still thinking that something must have happened to SheQiu’s body when he had his breakthrough.

Just as he was about to examine SheQiu, a wave of energy fluctuation could be felt coming from the direction where Xiao Hei was cultivating. You XiaoMo felt that this wave of energy was rather forceful. Turning around to look, he discovered that Xiao Hei’s shapeshifting caused a turbulence in the energy of heaven and earth. No wonder the hurdle between level eight and level nine was known as the hurdle of despair.

The turbulence of energy affecting heaven and earth continued for a whole quarter of an hour and still doesn’t stop. Before it could subside, something started to stir in PiQiu’s direction, a sign of impending success in shapeshifting.

For a while, the two energy forces affecting heaven and earth seemed to be competing, forces of tremendous strength.

Only after two hours did the two waves of heaven and earth affecting energy subside one after the other.

SheQiu: snake ball