Chapter 172 - Devour Again
Chapter 172 Devour Again
When Ou Yangming’s Qi and blood dispersed, he fell from mid-air.
Nonetheless, he instantly found his footing, but he looked pale as if he was seriously ill.
Although he did not know the origin and the intention of the mysterious person, who approached him quietly, there was something that he was sure of.
Most of the strong powerhouses who approached him covertly were ill-intentioned.
Therefore, once Ou Yangming confirmed that the powerhouse was not someone he could defeat, he immediately escaped through the Blood Flight.
Inside the prefecture, he only had the guts to repeatedly contradict the Supreme Great Ancestor because he knew that the Ni family’s Three Great Ancestors would not ignore the matter. If Ou Yangming really encountered a dangerous situation, he had a powerful backup.
On the other hand, what kind of backup did he have in the wilderness?
He would simply die soundlessly if he was killed and buried.
Such an unremarkable death was not the kind of ending that he wanted.
Ou Yangming panted heavily and shook his wrist to retrieve a dagger.
Afterward, he burned the intense Military Fire to envelop the dagger with it. The fire went away after a brief moment, whereas he entered an intangible and spiritual state.
Under that state, everything around him was within his sense and control.
Ou Yangming flashed and arrived at the bottom of a small hill.
A small village was located there, and tens of families lived scattered.
Ou Yangming scanned the place and entered one of the houses at the speed of light.
In a village, every house would raise some poultry to help out with family expenses.
Before Ou Yangming entered the house, he had channeled his essential Qi to close his pores so as to not give out any smell.
With that, even a pet dog could not smell him.
Sure enough, about ten birds were reared in the house. Ou Yangming’s eyes lit up, and he quickly entered the henhouse.
A flash of cold light was seen as the roosters, hens, and chicks in the henhouse were slit by their throat before they could make a sound. Subsequently, Ou Yangming stabbed his dagger into one of the dead chickens, and he watched as the dead chicken disappeared after a few breath counts.
The efficiency and speed of Devouring +2 was far greater than only 1 point of the attribute. This was also the thing that Ou Yangming was the most delighted about.
He transformed the Qi and blood of all the carcasses in the henhouse without any hesitation, then he retrieved a piece of silver and tossed it inside. The silver’s value was beyond the worth of the poultry in the henhouse, so the residents would probably not disclose the matter.
Ou Yangming did a light leap over a wall to visit the next residence.
His eyes glowed as he wondered, ‘God is helping me.’
He figured that the family was a rich family in the village because not only were there chickens and geese in their courtyard, but there were also two fat pigs. The well-fed pigs probably weighed around 400 kilograms in total.
Ou Yangming was initially worried if the poultry here had insufficient flesh and blood, but he was instantly at ease after seeing the two big fellows.
He obviously could not bring himself to kill living humans, but he was not bothered about poultry and fat pigs.
After a short while, Ou Yangming left a piece of gold and went over the wall again.
Once he visited four residences, he fully recovered his energy. Ou Yangming was not concerned about the gold and silver that he gave because based on his smithing skills, he could easily acquire money. Ou Yangming was completely calm. Even if the fearsome powerhouse pursued him this far, he was confident about activating the Blood Flight again.
Nevertheless, Ou Yangming found it strange that there was no news whatsoever about the powerhouse. The person had not chased him down at all. Even when Ou Yangming secretly employed the integration of Heaven and man and the thoroughly meticulous state, he did not find any trace of that powerhouse. All of a sudden, a middle-aged woman pushed open the door of a residence and walked out to the side of the henhouse. She carried a big round bowl and made “cluck” sounds, but she screamed with a ghastly expression on her face when she arrived at the henhouse.
“Why are you shouting? Are you not going to let us sleep? The baby’s awake now because of you!”
A thin man scolded as he walked out.
“Husband, husband, quickly look!” The woman cried, “Our chickens are gone!”
The man was shocked, so instead of reprimanding the woman, he immediately ran toward the side of the henhouse to take a look. Just as he was going to yell as well, he noticed an item.
Feeling surprised, he reached out his hand to grab the shiny item.
When the man turned around and heard his wife wail, his face changed, and he rebuked her softly, “Shut up, or I’ll beat you up!”
The woman was appalled, thus she stopped crying and dared not make a sound.
“Mrs. Zhang, what happened?” Outside the door, someone asked out loud.
The man answered at once, “Nothing happened, she was eating a lot but was too lazy to work, so I scolded her. It’s fine now!”
Laughter was heard, but nobody persuaded him.
“Husband, what are you talking about? If you don’t explain it today, I’ll… Ah, w-what’s this?” The woman reproached with a red face, but she suddenly widened her eyes and stared at the item in the man’s hand. Her mouth was also opened to the extreme.
“I found this in the henhouse,” The man waved his hand and said with a soft voice. He glanced around him before he continued, “Our chickens are gone, but we gained a piece of silver. T-this is probably a reward from the fox fairy, and if you keep shouting, the fairy might take back the silver because it’ll be mad!”
The woman was taken aback, hence she mumbled, “Husband, was it really the fox fairy?”
“Other than the fox fairy, who could secretly take away our chickens? Ah, only the kind and generous fox fairy would give us such a blessing!” The man responded.
The woman nodded as she believed him.
They kowtowed a few times before they carefully took the piece of silver to hide it.
Ou Yangming, who was hiding in a high spot, did not know to cry or to laugh when he watched them. They actually think I’m the fox fairy.’ After an hour, all four families who suffered the loss noticed it, but they kept quiet after seeing the gold or silver left by Ou Yangming, and they pretended to not know a thing. Ou Yangming did not sense any crisis as well.
He shook his head because he knew that the powerful being probably did not pursue him.
Despite that, Ou Yangming pondered and decided to not return to where he came from for the time being. He flashed and ran toward the west side of the prefecture.
The prefecture was naturally situated in the middle of the plain, so its roads extended in all directions.
That said, due to their population and productivity, they could not attend to every location.
A mountain range could be found roughly 15 kilometers away from the prefecture. There was obviously an ancient forest, as well as threats like tigers, leopards, jackals, and so
on.
Since Ou Yangming suspected that a powerhouse wanted to sneak an attack on him to harm him, he would likely be attacked if he traveled back to the prefecture right away. Even though Ou Yangming was rather confident about his strength, the powerhouse, who appeared without a warning, gave him quite a frightening impression, so he decided to avoid the figure for the time being.
As Ou Yangming traveled at the speed of light, he believed that even a tracking master could not locate him.
At last, when Ou Yangming arrived outside the mountain range, he inspected his surroundings for a moment before he entered with his little dagger.
He was not equipped with pieces of personalized equipment at the moment, but the forest was not like the dangerous immense forest, where half-spirit beasts were born.
Moreover, Ou Yangming had become incredibly skilled and bold, thus he would not be concerned about the dangers in the forest.
However, his eyes glowed a while after he entered the forest.
Ou Yangming walked toward a bamboo pole. He pulled it out and removed its ends, then he lit it up with his Military Fire.
It only took an instant before the Military Fire enveloped the whole bamboo pole, but even under the high temperature, the bamboo did not burn, and it became shinier instead.
Ou Yangming moved his wrist to place his dagger on one end of the bamboo pole.
Next, a simple and crude spear was made. Ou Yangming grinned as he held the spear, then he ran inside the mountain range.
As Ou Yangming flashed, he had released his power to the extreme. When he wielded the spear with his hands, it gave out cracking sounds, which were similar to sonic booms, and he slashed his spear hard.
Consequently, a small unknown beast was hit, but before the tip of Ou Yangming’s spear contacted its body, its chest was already penetrated, and it was very much dead already.
With that, Ou Yangming ran around the area without being restrained at all. He had fully let go of his mental conception to allow himself to become one with the magnificent world.
When he ran around madly, his conception spread out like quicksilver spilling all over the ground, causing his spiritual world to be clearer than ever.
Ou Yangming’s mental state underwent a slight change when he previously found out about Jiang Jiumei. As such, he did not hesitate to kill and even fought a Supreme Great Ancestor when he tried to seek justice.
He was forgiven in the end, which was surprising, and he also learned many extraordinary skills from Chen Dishou.
Nonetheless, during the period, especially when Ou Yangming exchanged blows with Chen Dishou, the enormous pressure from the Supreme Great Ancestor made it hard for him to breathe. When he was later sneakily attacked by an unknown powerhouse, the mental pressure on him grew.
Finally, Ou Yangming completely released his mind.
He came to a sudden realization that this side of the world was beautiful and wonderful.
Following that, his essential Qi began to agglomerate and flowed quickly through his meridians, then it gathered inside his dantian.
Ou Yangming’s essential Qi was no longer an airflow. It seemed to have transformed into the spear in his hands as it could communicate with Heaven and Earth.
Afterward, Ou Yangming leaped up abruptly to mid-air and roared as he pricked with his spear.
The spear contained his essence, energy, spirit, as well as his apprehensions from his difficult learnings in the past few days.
When Ou Yangming stabbed, the accumulated power in his dantian burst out and broke through every obstacle to soar into the sky…
“Boom!”
Inside Ou Yangming’s body, there was a rumble in his mind. He flashed and landed steadily, and his aura surged and boiled-he had finally advanced again!