Chapter 69
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"Brother Wu Ji, run!" Bai Lang strikes with his sword aiming at the beast's rear legs, but before his attack connected, the Ashen Warrior Wolf already long gone from his attacking range. Charging at Zhang Wu Ji with the speed of a 140 km/hour, the Ashen Warrior Wolf need its jaw alone to tear him apart.
But using his own way to counterattack, Zhang Wu Ji injected ten strands of his Fighter Qi into the Longfeng Jade Ruler to activates the conversion ability to creates a liter of Pure Sapphire Water. Using that ten drops of water bullets, Zhang Wu Ji fired them at the incoming Ashen Warrior Wolf to deter its attack.
The ten drops of water bullet carry no killing intent within, leaving the Ashen Warrior Wolf to worry not about the damage it may deal. A slight swing of the head splatters the ten water bullets, but that's the beginning of Zhang Wu Ji's little tricks!
Even a drop of Pure Sapphire Water is extremely precious in the eyes of the Wild Beast because pure water like this helps them to remove their impurities. Although the Pure Sapphire Water is only the eleventh spot among the purest water source in Qing Long Realm, it was still a commodity that rarely found in the wild.
While the Ashen Warrior Wolf is still dazed with the sweet flavor brought by the ten drops of water bullets, Zhang Wu Ji attacked! Twenty strands of Fighter Qi entered the Longfeng Jade Ruler as the activation cost to increase it's damage points from 20 to 100! Taking the advantages of the Shatter-Strike, Zhang Wu Ji intention is to let his opponent crippled from his single strike!
"Pang!" the ear-piercing sound that only happened when metal strikes each another came out from the hit. But it did not carry the results Zhang Wu Ji was aiming for... This is naturally cannot be done, not because he was too weak, but it was because the Ashen Warrior Wolf, is an 11th Stage Inner Qi Warrior!
Zhang Wu Ji may succeed in shattering his second brother's old Four Season Swords, but that was because all of them is still in their Tier 1 materials! Fighting against a Tier 2 strength beast, how can the effect of a Tier 1 weapon bring out its full effect? Instead of achieving some results, Zhang Wu Ji's action end up inciting more anger from the wolf.
"ROAR!" the howl brings all the Ashen Fur Wolves together like they were trying to say;
"Kill all humans!!!"
Noticing that his attack is not going to bring the results he wanted, Zhang Wu Ji swings his right palm, which has a Basic Onyx-Class Spatial Ring slotted in his second finger. The swing delivered the five Qiyue Flying Swords to the five members close to him, along with a sentence;
"Escape, hurry!"
Zhang Wu Ji small action wasn't too provoking, but against an Ashen Warrior Wolf that got hit on its head, anything he did is provoking. That howl it did earlier is to summon all the Ashen Fur Wolves to ignore the others and attack this target alone. Carrying all the aggro from the pack of wolves, Zhang Wu Ji utilized his Orchid Assassination Art to sneak behind a few Ashen Fur Wolves before killing them with the same smack on their skull.
"It's working on the Level 8 Ashen Fur Wolf, but not on the Level 11 Ashen Warrior Wolf... Is that due to the differences in cultivation tier?" his attack verified his hypothesis, but looking at the situation now, escaping is the most important thing for him now.
He withdraws his Jade Ruler back into the ring and came out with the two Iron Thrusting Dirks again. This was the best method for him to fight against their pursuit while escaping. The understanding of Long Weapon is difficult to be utilized perfectly when surrounded by trees and foliage hits his mind.
"No wonder the team is all specialized in Batons, Swords, and crossbows. It was the most efficient weapon to be used when fighting in the forest, with so many trees, bamboos, and dense foliage everywhere!" Zhang Wu Ji blamed himself for not accumulating enough experience in the battlefield, which contributes to him for making such a mistake.
"Hahaha, Air Blades... What are their uses if the strikes end up hitting the trees and not the targets?" Zhang Wu Ji laughed at himself for being overconfident in his ability to form twenty air blades in a single swing. It may seem like an amazing feat amongst the human cultivators, but for a pack of Wild Beast?
He's literally a flashy swordsman that waste his energy to randomly swings his swords. Worst of all, the Wild Beast possess the acute sensitiveness that allows them to evade all these attacks, rendering them to be nothing but a waste of stamina to creates them.
While escaping, Zhang Wu Ji inspects his surrounding to make sure his teammates left. He was confident that he will not face too many difficulties in handling the normal Ashen Fur Wolves, but to make sure he's capable to do it, Zhang Wu Ji need to be careful to not landed into the attacking range of the Ashen Warrior Wolf.
He smiled when he noticed the last person in the team escaped. Five Qiyue Flying Swords carries the team of ten members away from the battlefield, leaving him alone to escape whenever he wanted. But his action left the sneaky Ashen Warrior Wolf to take the advantages and vanished from the battlefield.
"Shit! The big wolf is gone!" the sudden disappearance shook the core of his mind. He inspects his surrounding but failed to notice anything out of ordinary. Immediately tensed up, Zhang Wu Ji positioned himself by leaning his back on a cluster of grown bamboos and placing all his attention on his front.
"Shua..." a print gently appeared on the rotting leaves sitting on the ground. Zhang Wu Ji activates his final Yuan-Tie Hand Cannon and fired on that spot only to found that he missed his target! The hand cannon begin to decays as he remained dazed on his fail attack, allowing the Ashen Warrior Wolf to take that window of opportunity to attack!
"ROAR!!!" a lunge attack is initiated, with both claws and the jaw ready to devour the youth!
Zhang Wu Ji sneakily smiled. Letting go the decaying cannon in his grasp, Zhang Wu Ji lifted his right palm that burning with red hot flames circling between his palm and five fingers.
"I don't care what you do to disappeared from the battlefield, but this special trait is mine, not yours! If the Longfeng Jade Ruler cannot shatter all your bones, then I'm going to cook you instead!" as a human that used to live in a different world full of deceits, forgery, and crocodile tears, Zhang Wu Ji's tricks is a level completely way above what the sneaky Ashen Warrior Wolf can imagine!
The activated Fire Element from his Incense of Element sprays at the Ashen Warrior Wolf like a shower head spraying the water out. But the only difference is Zhang Wu Ji's Fire Element burns. It ignites all the oxygen surrounding the atmosphere to burn the target and wrapped the Ashen Warrior Wolf with fire.
As a Wild Beast, how can it not afraid of fire? The word "Ashen" in its name is because of the color of their fur, not because they're heat tolerant! Zhang Wu Ji rushes forward in order to execute one of the best chain attacks to strikes his target, and that skill is none other than the consecutive WUJI Long Fist!
Although his Tyrant Martial Body is yet to reach their transformation, the 55% changes are not something to be underestimated! Armed with the strength of the 6th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter, Zhang Wu Ji send his barrage of attack at the struggling Ashen Warrior Wolf, further treating the Wild Beast as one of his punching bags!
The cry of anger soon become pitiful. Later on, it turned into sorrow, anguish, and grievous. Few more minutes later, the cries of a wolf are no longer heard.
Filled with worries, the five fighters, and one warrior came back to look for Zhang Wu Ji. Using the direction came from the cries, the team under Bai Lang's leadership went to the spot in a hurry, only to notice a human is pummelling an Ashen Warrior Wolf until its dead.
"Brother Wu Ji..." Bai Lu called.
Hearing the call from his teammates, Zhang Wu Ji turned his attention up to the sky and waved at his six teammates that came back to provide him with supports. But what he did not know is because he was too busy pummelling the Ashen Warrior Wolf, he was completely covered with the blood of the wolf.
His appearance can be said as a bloody ruthless Cultivator. Even for the six members that know him for three days, his appearance gave them a fright, as if he will turn berserk at any moment and kills all of them without a bat from his eyelids.
"Brother Lang, Brother Lu, Brother Hu, the Ashen Warrior Wolf is done! We can start harvesting them now!" Zhang Wu Ji gives out his friendly characteristic once again when facing the other teammates, allowing them to feel at ease when approaching him. After a moment calm, he finally noticed how he looks at this moment and excused himself to a nearby river to clean himself from the stench of blood.
Although... He portrayed a friendly personality to the six members of the team, he has no control over their impression towards somebody as ruthless as he does. Zhang Wu Ji did not realize that in this world he's living, the acceptance of people with ruthless character such as him is still difficult for them to handle.
Each of them thought about the same conclusion... "Won't he killed all of us without a bat of his eyelids if he decided to clean all of us from betraying him in the future? He may not even feel anger nor sad when killing all of us." Such a mindset started to plague their mind. But as the leader of the team, Bai Lang took the initiative to clear their mind from such confusion.
"Stop thinking nonsense. If brother Wu Ji was this ruthless against those friendly ones like us, where will it bring him? He's capable, but remember that in order to save me, he attracts the aggro of the Ashen Warrior Wolf. To save everyone, he passes each of you with a Flying Sword that worth 300 Million Gold Coins just for the sake of saving our butt from a dangerous situation. If we're being inconsiderate from these gestures, let us stop working as a team from now!" Bai Lang reminded them about Zhang Wu Ji's earlier sacrifice.
It was true to the bone, that without batting his eyelids, Zhang Wu Ji simply throws the treasure worth 1.5 billion Gold Coins for them to escape. That's a treasure worth 1.5 million Qi Sensing Pills. With this kind of wealth, why would he need to endanger himself to hunt for some mere wolves? Even by spamming the pills day and night is enough for him to enter the Warrior Tier without wasting too much time.
While the six of them is having their own discussion to clear their mind, the dense youth is busy cleaning himself in the middle of the river. Since he was too dense to notice what other people may think, Zhang Wu Ji ends up having his own fun diving into the river and floating back up for a breath instead. He thought;
"I contribute in killing the Ashen Warrior Wolf, so I guess I am worth getting a short break?"
With the dirtied clothing is disposed of, Zhang Wu Ji prepared to come up from the river to put on a fresh set of clothing. But before he able to do that, the Longfeng Jade Ruler inside his Spatial Ring vibrates nonstop until it forces its way out from the ring and thrust deep into the base of the river.
The weird reaction gave him a small suspicion on the bottom of the river, and lead him to dive deeper. Once he reaches the bottom, Zhang Wu Ji gave out another smile again, as he stares on the small piece of blue gemstone stuck in between of the rocks.
He touches the gemstone again, only to notice that it was another grain of Water Sapphire. Putting some pressure on the rocks and dug the grain of a gem out, Zhang Wu Ji put the gem in his ruler and hand closer and found out a pulling reaction between the two. When they contact with each another, they formed into one single entity again, before Zhang Wu Ji received a new description from his system.
[Assimilation Success!]
[Congratulation in obtaining another piece of Water Sapphire Grains!]
Longfeng Jade Ruler
-Attack: 20 (Shatter-Strike ability is now passive)
-Defense: 32
-Durability: 102/102
-Special 1: Activated by user's will, by paying (20) Fighter Qi, Increase the damage dealt by the Jade ruler by fivefold.
-Special 2: Passively regenerates user's Strand of Fighter Qi by (1) every 60minutes.
-Special 3: Under the Sunlight or Moonlight, the Longfeng Jade Ruler will repair their Durability by (2) points every ten minutes (Upgraded)
-Special 4: Able to generates pure Sapphire Water through the conversion rate of 1 Fighter Qi: 200 ml of Pure Sapphire Water (Upgraded)
Smiling all by himself, Zhang Wu Ji noticed that the grain of Water Sapphire is now a little bigger than how it was before the assimilation process. What's more, each strand of his Fighter Qi is now worth 200 ml of the Pure Sapphire Water, which is the eleventh purest water source one can found in the wild.
"Unfortunate to myself, this world is lack of the technological advantages for me to research about the mineral components within the Pure Sapphire Water. I wonder what is the usage of this water actually." a question came inside his mind, which can only be answered in the future.
Returning to the group after he gets rid of the stench of blood, Zhang Wu Ji noticed that the others team members already returned to the group to help in handling all the corpses. When Bai Lang saw him coming back from the river, he took the initiative to get closer to Zhang Wu Ji and returned the five Flying Swords to the youth in order to not seems to covet his treasures.
Zhang Wu Ji knows that this kind of gesture was to strengthen the bond between them, and accepted the treasure back without any other pointless words. With all the corpses is handled, they're ready to leave. But before that, Zhang Wu Ji requested the team to listen to his few suggestions.
"Brother Bai Lang, as a Celestial Designer and an official Blacksmith, I have some need of the Level 6 Beast Core. I wonder if the team willing to sell the Fire Spitting Lizard's core to Wu Ji according to the market price?" Zhang Wu Ji asked them the first question.
"Brother Wu Ji, speak no further. How can you say purchasing them at market price! All you need is ask any of us here, we're more than willing to part with any of the Beast Cores because they're no use to us!" Bai Lu is the first to answer his question, followed by the nod from the other nine members in the team.
"Alright, then we can count as the matter of Beast Core is settled. What else do you need from the Wild Beast we hunted today?" Bai Lang tried to make sure that Zhang Wu Ji did not miss out in the thing he needs. After all, the loot for each day of hunting is belonged to the team, as a contributor himself, how can Zhang Wu Ji be excluded from a portion of benefits?
"I got a blueprint from the City Forge related to the creation of [Fire Lizard's Touch] which required the volatile sack of the Fire Spitting Lizard. I wonder if the team willing to let Wu Ji tried to forge the weapon that may protect us in danger?" Zhang Wu Ji asked as he cupped his palms together.
"Brother Wu Ji, I hope your attempt bears a fruit and experience to further yourself as a Celestial Designer. Here, take this two piece of Spatial Stone, all the Volatile Sack of the beast is kept inside." Bai Lu steps closer to him and delivered the two Spatial Stone into his hand.
Without anything else in mind, the team returned. Although their number of hunts for today is lacking compared to their previous two days, the success of bringing back a corpse of Ashen Warrior Wolf is what bring more fame to the Ash Wolves Chaser Team. With a record from two Ashen Warrior Wolf into three Ashen Warrior Wolf, the team now become the aim for all young cultivators to join them as an unofficial member.
And in fact, the Ash Wolves Chaser Team do have an additional ten members as their backup, but most of them belonged to the 2nd Stage and 3rd Stage members. As the team leader, Bai Lang's responsibility is not only to nurture his members to strengthen their team but also to make sure all of them is well fed. A team lack of strong fighting forces is a nuisance in the battlefield, and a team lack of financial support is even worst.
Added with the lacking of proper cultivation method stored in the Records Pavilion, this further increase the difficulties for them to increase the base of their strength in a short period of time. But one fact remains strong within the Willow Timber County.
They might be weak in the term of cultivation, but the County's forces are not weak in military strength. If a battalion of Yuan-Tie Hand Cannons can easily destroy the Fighter Tier forces, then the Battalion with Willow Crossbows can easily decimate any troops in their mid-Warrior Tier. If the members of Soldier Echelon in participating in the fight, won't a barrage from Thunderclap Seeds clear the battlefield in a mere few seconds of explosion?
Furthermore, with the Nature Law of Cultivators restrict those in higher position recklessly participates in a war, so where do the attacker find so many talented individuals to fight against the prowess of technology? It may happen to be a profitable war, but it wasn't an equivalent exchange.
Back to the Lotus Flower City, the team splits and continue with their own task, while Zhang Wu Ji headed straight to the nearby calligraphy store to purchase a large amount of Xuan Paper for his uses. Almost clearing the store's stock available paper, Zhang Wu Ji left the store happily but made himself known as the "Clearance Specialist" because of his insisting attitude to purchase all available material he needed.
Walking en route to the City Forge, his path is blocked by a lady standing right in front of him with her both hands supporting her waists.
"Zhang Wu Ji, how dare you to leave me alone back in the Peony Flower City!"
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"Brother Wu Ji, run!" Bai Lang strikes with his sword aiming at the beast's rear legs, but before his attack connected, the Ashen Warrior Wolf already long gone from his attacking range. Charging at Zhang Wu Ji with the speed of a 140 km/hour, the Ashen Warrior Wolf need its jaw alone to tear him apart.
But using his own way to counterattack, Zhang Wu Ji injected ten strands of his Fighter Qi into the Longfeng Jade Ruler to activates the conversion ability to creates a liter of Pure Sapphire Water. Using that ten drops of water bullets, Zhang Wu Ji fired them at the incoming Ashen Warrior Wolf to deter its attack.
The ten drops of water bullet carry no killing intent within, leaving the Ashen Warrior Wolf to worry not about the damage it may deal. A slight swing of the head splatters the ten water bullets, but that's the beginning of Zhang Wu Ji's little tricks!
Even a drop of Pure Sapphire Water is extremely precious in the eyes of the Wild Beast because pure water like this helps them to remove their impurities. Although the Pure Sapphire Water is only the eleventh spot among the purest water source in Qing Long Realm, it was still a commodity that rarely found in the wild.
While the Ashen Warrior Wolf is still dazed with the sweet flavor brought by the ten drops of water bullets, Zhang Wu Ji attacked! Twenty strands of Fighter Qi entered the Longfeng Jade Ruler as the activation cost to increase it's damage points from 20 to 100! Taking the advantages of the Shatter-Strike, Zhang Wu Ji intention is to let his opponent crippled from his single strike!
"Pang!" the ear-piercing sound that only happened when metal strikes each another came out from the hit. But it did not carry the results Zhang Wu Ji was aiming for... This is naturally cannot be done, not because he was too weak, but it was because the Ashen Warrior Wolf, is an 11th Stage Inner Qi Warrior!
Zhang Wu Ji may succeed in shattering his second brother's old Four Season Swords, but that was because all of them is still in their Tier 1 materials! Fighting against a Tier 2 strength beast, how can the effect of a Tier 1 weapon bring out its full effect? Instead of achieving some results, Zhang Wu Ji's action end up inciting more anger from the wolf.
"ROAR!" the howl brings all the Ashen Fur Wolves together like they were trying to say;
"Kill all humans!!!"
Noticing that his attack is not going to bring the results he wanted, Zhang Wu Ji swings his right palm, which has a Basic Onyx-Class Spatial Ring slotted in his second finger. The swing delivered the five Qiyue Flying Swords to the five members close to him, along with a sentence;
"Escape, hurry!"
Zhang Wu Ji small action wasn't too provoking, but against an Ashen Warrior Wolf that got hit on its head, anything he did is provoking. That howl it did earlier is to summon all the Ashen Fur Wolves to ignore the others and attack this target alone. Carrying all the aggro from the pack of wolves, Zhang Wu Ji utilized his Orchid Assassination Art to sneak behind a few Ashen Fur Wolves before killing them with the same smack on their skull.
"It's working on the Level 8 Ashen Fur Wolf, but not on the Level 11 Ashen Warrior Wolf... Is that due to the differences in cultivation tier?" his attack verified his hypothesis, but looking at the situation now, escaping is the most important thing for him now.
He withdraws his Jade Ruler back into the ring and came out with the two Iron Thrusting Dirks again. This was the best method for him to fight against their pursuit while escaping. The understanding of Long Weapon is difficult to be utilized perfectly when surrounded by trees and foliage hits his mind.
"No wonder the team is all specialized in Batons, Swords, and crossbows. It was the most efficient weapon to be used when fighting in the forest, with so many trees, bamboos, and dense foliage everywhere!" Zhang Wu Ji blamed himself for not accumulating enough experience in the battlefield, which contributes to him for making such a mistake.
"Hahaha, Air Blades... What are their uses if the strikes end up hitting the trees and not the targets?" Zhang Wu Ji laughed at himself for being overconfident in his ability to form twenty air blades in a single swing. It may seem like an amazing feat amongst the human cultivators, but for a pack of Wild Beast?
He's literally a flashy swordsman that waste his energy to randomly swings his swords. Worst of all, the Wild Beast possess the acute sensitiveness that allows them to evade all these attacks, rendering them to be nothing but a waste of stamina to creates them.
While escaping, Zhang Wu Ji inspects his surrounding to make sure his teammates left. He was confident that he will not face too many difficulties in handling the normal Ashen Fur Wolves, but to make sure he's capable to do it, Zhang Wu Ji need to be careful to not landed into the attacking range of the Ashen Warrior Wolf.
He smiled when he noticed the last person in the team escaped. Five Qiyue Flying Swords carries the team of ten members away from the battlefield, leaving him alone to escape whenever he wanted. But his action left the sneaky Ashen Warrior Wolf to take the advantages and vanished from the battlefield.
"Shit! The big wolf is gone!" the sudden disappearance shook the core of his mind. He inspects his surrounding but failed to notice anything out of ordinary. Immediately tensed up, Zhang Wu Ji positioned himself by leaning his back on a cluster of grown bamboos and placing all his attention on his front.
"Shua..." a print gently appeared on the rotting leaves sitting on the ground. Zhang Wu Ji activates his final Yuan-Tie Hand Cannon and fired on that spot only to found that he missed his target! The hand cannon begin to decays as he remained dazed on his fail attack, allowing the Ashen Warrior Wolf to take that window of opportunity to attack!
"ROAR!!!" a lunge attack is initiated, with both claws and the jaw ready to devour the youth!
Zhang Wu Ji sneakily smiled. Letting go the decaying cannon in his grasp, Zhang Wu Ji lifted his right palm that burning with red hot flames circling between his palm and five fingers.
"I don't care what you do to disappeared from the battlefield, but this special trait is mine, not yours! If the Longfeng Jade Ruler cannot shatter all your bones, then I'm going to cook you instead!" as a human that used to live in a different world full of deceits, forgery, and crocodile tears, Zhang Wu Ji's tricks is a level completely way above what the sneaky Ashen Warrior Wolf can imagine!
The activated Fire Element from his Incense of Element sprays at the Ashen Warrior Wolf like a shower head spraying the water out. But the only difference is Zhang Wu Ji's Fire Element burns. It ignites all the oxygen surrounding the atmosphere to burn the target and wrapped the Ashen Warrior Wolf with fire.
As a Wild Beast, how can it not afraid of fire? The word "Ashen" in its name is because of the color of their fur, not because they're heat tolerant! Zhang Wu Ji rushes forward in order to execute one of the best chain attacks to strikes his target, and that skill is none other than the consecutive WUJI Long Fist!
Although his Tyrant Martial Body is yet to reach their transformation, the 55% changes are not something to be underestimated! Armed with the strength of the 6th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter, Zhang Wu Ji send his barrage of attack at the struggling Ashen Warrior Wolf, further treating the Wild Beast as one of his punching bags!
The cry of anger soon become pitiful. Later on, it turned into sorrow, anguish, and grievous. Few more minutes later, the cries of a wolf are no longer heard.
Filled with worries, the five fighters, and one warrior came back to look for Zhang Wu Ji. Using the direction came from the cries, the team under Bai Lang's leadership went to the spot in a hurry, only to notice a human is pummelling an Ashen Warrior Wolf until its dead.
"Brother Wu Ji..." Bai Lu called.
Hearing the call from his teammates, Zhang Wu Ji turned his attention up to the sky and waved at his six teammates that came back to provide him with supports. But what he did not know is because he was too busy pummelling the Ashen Warrior Wolf, he was completely covered with the blood of the wolf.
His appearance can be said as a bloody ruthless Cultivator. Even for the six members that know him for three days, his appearance gave them a fright, as if he will turn berserk at any moment and kills all of them without a bat from his eyelids.
"Brother Lang, Brother Lu, Brother Hu, the Ashen Warrior Wolf is done! We can start harvesting them now!" Zhang Wu Ji gives out his friendly characteristic once again when facing the other teammates, allowing them to feel at ease when approaching him. After a moment calm, he finally noticed how he looks at this moment and excused himself to a nearby river to clean himself from the stench of blood.
Although... He portrayed a friendly personality to the six members of the team, he has no control over their impression towards somebody as ruthless as he does. Zhang Wu Ji did not realize that in this world he's living, the acceptance of people with ruthless character such as him is still difficult for them to handle.
Each of them thought about the same conclusion... "Won't he killed all of us without a bat of his eyelids if he decided to clean all of us from betraying him in the future? He may not even feel anger nor sad when killing all of us." Such a mindset started to plague their mind. But as the leader of the team, Bai Lang took the initiative to clear their mind from such confusion.
"Stop thinking nonsense. If brother Wu Ji was this ruthless against those friendly ones like us, where will it bring him? He's capable, but remember that in order to save me, he attracts the aggro of the Ashen Warrior Wolf. To save everyone, he passes each of you with a Flying Sword that worth 300 Million Gold Coins just for the sake of saving our butt from a dangerous situation. If we're being inconsiderate from these gestures, let us stop working as a team from now!" Bai Lang reminded them about Zhang Wu Ji's earlier sacrifice.
It was true to the bone, that without batting his eyelids, Zhang Wu Ji simply throws the treasure worth 1.5 billion Gold Coins for them to escape. That's a treasure worth 1.5 million Qi Sensing Pills. With this kind of wealth, why would he need to endanger himself to hunt for some mere wolves? Even by spamming the pills day and night is enough for him to enter the Warrior Tier without wasting too much time.
While the six of them is having their own discussion to clear their mind, the dense youth is busy cleaning himself in the middle of the river. Since he was too dense to notice what other people may think, Zhang Wu Ji ends up having his own fun diving into the river and floating back up for a breath instead. He thought;
"I contribute in killing the Ashen Warrior Wolf, so I guess I am worth getting a short break?"
With the dirtied clothing is disposed of, Zhang Wu Ji prepared to come up from the river to put on a fresh set of clothing. But before he able to do that, the Longfeng Jade Ruler inside his Spatial Ring vibrates nonstop until it forces its way out from the ring and thrust deep into the base of the river.
The weird reaction gave him a small suspicion on the bottom of the river, and lead him to dive deeper. Once he reaches the bottom, Zhang Wu Ji gave out another smile again, as he stares on the small piece of blue gemstone stuck in between of the rocks.
He touches the gemstone again, only to notice that it was another grain of Water Sapphire. Putting some pressure on the rocks and dug the grain of a gem out, Zhang Wu Ji put the gem in his ruler and hand closer and found out a pulling reaction between the two. When they contact with each another, they formed into one single entity again, before Zhang Wu Ji received a new description from his system.
[Assimilation Success!]
[Congratulation in obtaining another piece of Water Sapphire Grains!]
Longfeng Jade Ruler
-Attack: 20 (Shatter-Strike ability is now passive)
-Defense: 32
-Durability: 102/102
-Special 1: Activated by user's will, by paying (20) Fighter Qi, Increase the damage dealt by the Jade ruler by fivefold.
-Special 2: Passively regenerates user's Strand of Fighter Qi by (1) every 60minutes.
-Special 3: Under the Sunlight or Moonlight, the Longfeng Jade Ruler will repair their Durability by (2) points every ten minutes (Upgraded)
-Special 4: Able to generates pure Sapphire Water through the conversion rate of 1 Fighter Qi: 200 ml of Pure Sapphire Water (Upgraded)
Smiling all by himself, Zhang Wu Ji noticed that the grain of Water Sapphire is now a little bigger than how it was before the assimilation process. What's more, each strand of his Fighter Qi is now worth 200 ml of the Pure Sapphire Water, which is the eleventh purest water source one can found in the wild.
"Unfortunate to myself, this world is lack of the technological advantages for me to research about the mineral components within the Pure Sapphire Water. I wonder what is the usage of this water actually." a question came inside his mind, which can only be answered in the future.
Returning to the group after he gets rid of the stench of blood, Zhang Wu Ji noticed that the others team members already returned to the group to help in handling all the corpses. When Bai Lang saw him coming back from the river, he took the initiative to get closer to Zhang Wu Ji and returned the five Flying Swords to the youth in order to not seems to covet his treasures.
Zhang Wu Ji knows that this kind of gesture was to strengthen the bond between them, and accepted the treasure back without any other pointless words. With all the corpses is handled, they're ready to leave. But before that, Zhang Wu Ji requested the team to listen to his few suggestions.
"Brother Bai Lang, as a Celestial Designer and an official Blacksmith, I have some need of the Level 6 Beast Core. I wonder if the team willing to sell the Fire Spitting Lizard's core to Wu Ji according to the market price?" Zhang Wu Ji asked them the first question.
"Brother Wu Ji, speak no further. How can you say purchasing them at market price! All you need is ask any of us here, we're more than willing to part with any of the Beast Cores because they're no use to us!" Bai Lu is the first to answer his question, followed by the nod from the other nine members in the team.
"Alright, then we can count as the matter of Beast Core is settled. What else do you need from the Wild Beast we hunted today?" Bai Lang tried to make sure that Zhang Wu Ji did not miss out in the thing he needs. After all, the loot for each day of hunting is belonged to the team, as a contributor himself, how can Zhang Wu Ji be excluded from a portion of benefits?
"I got a blueprint from the City Forge related to the creation of [Fire Lizard's Touch] which required the volatile sack of the Fire Spitting Lizard. I wonder if the team willing to let Wu Ji tried to forge the weapon that may protect us in danger?" Zhang Wu Ji asked as he cupped his palms together.
"Brother Wu Ji, I hope your attempt bears a fruit and experience to further yourself as a Celestial Designer. Here, take this two piece of Spatial Stone, all the Volatile Sack of the beast is kept inside." Bai Lu steps closer to him and delivered the two Spatial Stone into his hand.
Without anything else in mind, the team returned. Although their number of hunts for today is lacking compared to their previous two days, the success of bringing back a corpse of Ashen Warrior Wolf is what bring more fame to the Ash Wolves Chaser Team. With a record from two Ashen Warrior Wolf into three Ashen Warrior Wolf, the team now become the aim for all young cultivators to join them as an unofficial member.
And in fact, the Ash Wolves Chaser Team do have an additional ten members as their backup, but most of them belonged to the 2nd Stage and 3rd Stage members. As the team leader, Bai Lang's responsibility is not only to nurture his members to strengthen their team but also to make sure all of them is well fed. A team lack of strong fighting forces is a nuisance in the battlefield, and a team lack of financial support is even worst.
Added with the lacking of proper cultivation method stored in the Records Pavilion, this further increase the difficulties for them to increase the base of their strength in a short period of time. But one fact remains strong within the Willow Timber County.
They might be weak in the term of cultivation, but the County's forces are not weak in military strength. If a battalion of Yuan-Tie Hand Cannons can easily destroy the Fighter Tier forces, then the Battalion with Willow Crossbows can easily decimate any troops in their mid-Warrior Tier. If the members of Soldier Echelon in participating in the fight, won't a barrage from Thunderclap Seeds clear the battlefield in a mere few seconds of explosion?
Furthermore, with the Nature Law of Cultivators restrict those in higher position recklessly participates in a war, so where do the attacker find so many talented individuals to fight against the prowess of technology? It may happen to be a profitable war, but it wasn't an equivalent exchange.
Back to the Lotus Flower City, the team splits and continue with their own task, while Zhang Wu Ji headed straight to the nearby calligraphy store to purchase a large amount of Xuan Paper for his uses. Almost clearing the store's stock available paper, Zhang Wu Ji left the store happily but made himself known as the "Clearance Specialist" because of his insisting attitude to purchase all available material he needed.
Walking en route to the City Forge, his path is blocked by a lady standing right in front of him with her both hands supporting her waists.
"Zhang Wu Ji, how dare you to leave me alone back in the Peony Flower City!"
"Brother Wu Ji, run!" Bai Lang strikes with his sword aiming at the beast's rear legs, but before his attack connected, the Ashen Warrior Wolf already long gone from his attacking range. Charging at Zhang Wu Ji with the speed of a 140 km/hour, the Ashen Warrior Wolf need its jaw alone to tear him apart.But using his own way to counterattack, Zhang Wu Ji injected ten strands of his Fighter Qi into the Longfeng Jade Ruler to activates the conversion ability to creates a liter of Pure Sapphire Water. Using that ten drops of water bullets, Zhang Wu Ji fired them at the incoming Ashen Warrior Wolf to deter its attack.The ten drops of water bullet carry no killing intent within, leaving the Ashen Warrior Wolf to worry not about the damage it may deal. A slight swing of the head splatters the ten water bullets, but that's the beginning of Zhang Wu Ji's little tricks!Even a drop of Pure Sapphire Water is extremely precious in the eyes of the Wild Beast because pure water like this helps them to remove their impurities. Although the Pure Sapphire Water is only the eleventh spot among the purest water source in Qing Long Realm, it was still a commodity that rarely found in the wild.While the Ashen Warrior Wolf is still dazed with the sweet flavor brought by the ten drops of water bullets, Zhang Wu Ji attacked! Twenty strands of Fighter Qi entered the Longfeng Jade Ruler as the activation cost to increase it's damage points from 20 to 100! Taking the advantages of the Shatter-Strike, Zhang Wu Ji intention is to let his opponent crippled from his single strike!"Pang!" the ear-piercing sound that only happened when metal strikes each another came out from the hit. But it did not carry the results Zhang Wu Ji was aiming for... This is naturally cannot be done, not because he was too weak, but it was because the Ashen Warrior Wolf, is an 11th Stage Inner Qi Warrior!Zhang Wu Ji may succeed in shattering his second brother's old Four Season Swords, but that was because all of them is still in their Tier 1 materials! Fighting against a Tier 2 strength beast, how can the effect of a Tier 1 weapon bring out its full effect? Instead of achieving some results, Zhang Wu Ji's action end up inciting more anger from the wolf."ROAR!" the howl brings all the Ashen Fur Wolves together like they were trying to say;"Kill all humans!!!"Noticing that his attack is not going to bring the results he wanted, Zhang Wu Ji swings his right palm, which has a Basic Onyx-Class Spatial Ring slotted in his second finger. The swing delivered the five Qiyue Flying Swords to the five members close to him, along with a sentence;"Escape, hurry!"Zhang Wu Ji small action wasn't too provoking, but against an Ashen Warrior Wolf that got hit on its head, anything he did is provoking. That howl it did earlier is to summon all the Ashen Fur Wolves to ignore the others and attack this target alone. Carrying all the aggro from the pack of wolves, Zhang Wu Ji utilized his Orchid Assassination Art to sneak behind a few Ashen Fur Wolves before killing them with the same smack on their skull."It's working on the Level 8 Ashen Fur Wolf, but not on the Level 11 Ashen Warrior Wolf... Is that due to the differences in cultivation tier?" his attack verified his hypothesis, but looking at the situation now, escaping is the most important thing for him now.He withdraws his Jade Ruler back into the ring and came out with the two Iron Thrusting Dirks again. This was the best method for him to fight against their pursuit while escaping. The understanding of Long Weapon is difficult to be utilized perfectly when surrounded by trees and foliage hits his mind."No wonder the team is all specialized in Batons, Swords, and crossbows. It was the most efficient weapon to be used when fighting in the forest, with so many trees, bamboos, and dense foliage everywhere!" Zhang Wu Ji blamed himself for not accumulating enough experience in the battlefield, which contributes to him for making such a mistake."Hahaha, Air Blades... What are their uses if the strikes end up hitting the trees and not the targets?" Zhang Wu Ji laughed at himself for being overconfident in his ability to form twenty air blades in a single swing. It may seem like an amazing feat amongst the human cultivators, but for a pack of Wild Beast?He's literally a flashy swordsman that waste his energy to randomly swings his swords. Worst of all, the Wild Beast possess the acute sensitiveness that allows them to evade all these attacks, rendering them to be nothing but a waste of stamina to creates them.While escaping, Zhang Wu Ji inspects his surrounding to make sure his teammates left. He was confident that he will not face too many difficulties in handling the normal Ashen Fur Wolves, but to make sure he's capable to do it, Zhang Wu Ji need to be careful to not landed into the attacking range of the Ashen Warrior Wolf.He smiled when he noticed the last person in the team escaped. Five Qiyue Flying Swords carries the team of ten members away from the battlefield, leaving him alone to escape whenever he wanted. But his action left the sneaky Ashen Warrior Wolf to take the advantages and vanished from the battlefield."Shit! The big wolf is gone!" the sudden disappearance shook the core of his mind. He inspects his surrounding but failed to notice anything out of ordinary. Immediately tensed up, Zhang Wu Ji positioned himself by leaning his back on a cluster of grown bamboos and placing all his attention on his front."Shua..." a print gently appeared on the rotting leaves sitting on the ground. Zhang Wu Ji activates his final Yuan-Tie Hand Cannon and fired on that spot only to found that he missed his target! The hand cannon begin to decays as he remained dazed on his fail attack, allowing the Ashen Warrior Wolf to take that window of opportunity to attack!"ROAR!!!" a lunge attack is initiated, with both claws and the jaw ready to devour the youth!Zhang Wu Ji sneakily smiled. Letting go the decaying cannon in his grasp, Zhang Wu Ji lifted his right palm that burning with red hot flames circling between his palm and five fingers."I don't care what you do to disappeared from the battlefield, but this special trait is mine, not yours! If the Longfeng Jade Ruler cannot shatter all your bones, then I'm going to cook you instead!" as a human that used to live in a different world full of deceits, forgery, and crocodile tears, Zhang Wu Ji's tricks is a level completely way above what the sneaky Ashen Warrior Wolf can imagine!The activated Fire Element from his Incense of Element sprays at the Ashen Warrior Wolf like a shower head spraying the water out. But the only difference is Zhang Wu Ji's Fire Element burns. It ignites all the oxygen surrounding the atmosphere to burn the target and wrapped the Ashen Warrior Wolf with fire.As a Wild Beast, how can it not afraid of fire? The word "Ashen" in its name is because of the color of their fur, not because they're heat tolerant! Zhang Wu Ji rushes forward in order to execute one of the best chain attacks to strikes his target, and that skill is none other than the consecutive WUJI Long Fist!Although his Tyrant Martial Body is yet to reach their transformation, the 55% changes are not something to be underestimated! Armed with the strength of the 6th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter, Zhang Wu Ji send his barrage of attack at the struggling Ashen Warrior Wolf, further treating the Wild Beast as one of his punching bags!The cry of anger soon become pitiful. Later on, it turned into sorrow, anguish, and grievous. Few more minutes later, the cries of a wolf are no longer heard.Filled with worries, the five fighters, and one warrior came back to look for Zhang Wu Ji. Using the direction came from the cries, the team under Bai Lang's leadership went to the spot in a hurry, only to notice a human is pummelling an Ashen Warrior Wolf until its dead."Brother Wu Ji..." Bai Lu called.Hearing the call from his teammates, Zhang Wu Ji turned his attention up to the sky and waved at his six teammates that came back to provide him with supports. But what he did not know is because he was too busy pummelling the Ashen Warrior Wolf, he was completely covered with the blood of the wolf.His appearance can be said as a bloody ruthless Cultivator. Even for the six members that know him for three days, his appearance gave them a fright, as if he will turn berserk at any moment and kills all of them without a bat from his eyelids."Brother Lang, Brother Lu, Brother Hu, the Ashen Warrior Wolf is done! We can start harvesting them now!" Zhang Wu Ji gives out his friendly characteristic once again when facing the other teammates, allowing them to feel at ease when approaching him. After a moment calm, he finally noticed how he looks at this moment and excused himself to a nearby river to clean himself from the stench of blood.Although... He portrayed a friendly personality to the six members of the team, he has no control over their impression towards somebody as ruthless as he does. Zhang Wu Ji did not realize that in this world he's living, the acceptance of people with ruthless character such as him is still difficult for them to handle.Each of them thought about the same conclusion... "Won't he killed all of us without a bat of his eyelids if he decided to clean all of us from betraying him in the future? He may not even feel anger nor sad when killing all of us." Such a mindset started to plague their mind. But as the leader of the team, Bai Lang took the initiative to clear their mind from such confusion."Stop thinking nonsense. If brother Wu Ji was this ruthless against those friendly ones like us, where will it bring him? He's capable, but remember that in order to save me, he attracts the aggro of the Ashen Warrior Wolf. To save everyone, he passes each of you with a Flying Sword that worth 300 Million Gold Coins just for the sake of saving our butt from a dangerous situation. If we're being inconsiderate from these gestures, let us stop working as a team from now!" Bai Lang reminded them about Zhang Wu Ji's earlier sacrifice.It was true to the bone, that without batting his eyelids, Zhang Wu Ji simply throws the treasure worth 1.5 billion Gold Coins for them to escape. That's a treasure worth 1.5 million Qi Sensing Pills. With this kind of wealth, why would he need to endanger himself to hunt for some mere wolves? Even by spamming the pills day and night is enough for him to enter the Warrior Tier without wasting too much time.While the six of them is having their own discussion to clear their mind, the dense youth is busy cleaning himself in the middle of the river. Since he was too dense to notice what other people may think, Zhang Wu Ji ends up having his own fun diving into the river and floating back up for a breath instead. He thought;"I contribute in killing the Ashen Warrior Wolf, so I guess I am worth getting a short break?"With the dirtied clothing is disposed of, Zhang Wu Ji prepared to come up from the river to put on a fresh set of clothing. But before he able to do that, the Longfeng Jade Ruler inside his Spatial Ring vibrates nonstop until it forces its way out from the ring and thrust deep into the base of the river.The weird reaction gave him a small suspicion on the bottom of the river, and lead him to dive deeper. Once he reaches the bottom, Zhang Wu Ji gave out another smile again, as he stares on the small piece of blue gemstone stuck in between of the rocks.He touches the gemstone again, only to notice that it was another grain of Water Sapphire. Putting some pressure on the rocks and dug the grain of a gem out, Zhang Wu Ji put the gem in his ruler and hand closer and found out a pulling reaction between the two. When they contact with each another, they formed into one single entity again, before Zhang Wu Ji received a new description from his system.Assimilation Success!Congratulation in obtaining another piece of Water Sapphire Grains!Longfeng Jade Ruler-Attack: 20 Shatter-Strike ability is now passive-Defense: 32-Durability: 102/102-Special 1: Activated by user's will, by paying 20 Fighter Qi, Increase the damage dealt by the Jade ruler by fivefold.-Special 2: Passively regenerates user's Strand of Fighter Qi by 1 every 60minutes.-Special 3: Under the Sunlight or Moonlight, the Longfeng Jade Ruler will repair their Durability by 2 points every ten minutes Upgraded-Special 4: Able to generates pure Sapphire Water through the conversion rate of 1 Fighter Qi: 200 ml of Pure Sapphire Water UpgradedSmiling all by himself, Zhang Wu Ji noticed that the grain of Water Sapphire is now a little bigger than how it was before the assimilation process. What's more, each strand of his Fighter Qi is now worth 200 ml of the Pure Sapphire Water, which is the eleventh purest water source one can found in the wild."Unfortunate to myself, this world is lack of the technological advantages for me to research about the mineral components within the Pure Sapphire Water. I wonder what is the usage of this water actually." a question came inside his mind, which can only be answered in the future.Returning to the group after he gets rid of the stench of blood, Zhang Wu Ji noticed that the others team members already returned to the group to help in handling all the corpses. When Bai Lang saw him coming back from the river, he took the initiative to get closer to Zhang Wu Ji and returned the five Flying Swords to the youth in order to not seems to covet his treasures.Zhang Wu Ji knows that this kind of gesture was to strengthen the bond between them, and accepted the treasure back without any other pointless words. With all the corpses is handled, they're ready to leave. But before that, Zhang Wu Ji requested the team to listen to his few suggestions."Brother Bai Lang, as a Celestial Designer and an official Blacksmith, I have some need of the Level 6 Beast Core. I wonder if the team willing to sell the Fire Spitting Lizard's core to Wu Ji according to the market price?" Zhang Wu Ji asked them the first question."Brother Wu Ji, speak no further. How can you say purchasing them at market price! All you need is ask any of us here, we're more than willing to part with any of the Beast Cores because they're no use to us!" Bai Lu is the first to answer his question, followed by the nod from the other nine members in the team."Alright, then we can count as the matter of Beast Core is settled. What else do you need from the Wild Beast we hunted today?" Bai Lang tried to make sure that Zhang Wu Ji did not miss out in the thing he needs. After all, the loot for each day of hunting is belonged to the team, as a contributor himself, how can Zhang Wu Ji be excluded from a portion of benefits?"I got a blueprint from the City Forge related to the creation of Fire Lizard's Touch which required the volatile sack of the Fire Spitting Lizard. I wonder if the team willing to let Wu Ji tried to forge the weapon that may protect us in danger?" Zhang Wu Ji asked as he cupped his palms together."Brother Wu Ji, I hope your attempt bears a fruit and experience to further yourself as a Celestial Designer. Here, take this two piece of Spatial Stone, all the Volatile Sack of the beast is kept inside." Bai Lu steps closer to him and delivered the two Spatial Stone into his hand.Without anything else in mind, the team returned. Although their number of hunts for today is lacking compared to their previous two days, the success of bringing back a corpse of Ashen Warrior Wolf is what bring more fame to the Ash Wolves Chaser Team. With a record from two Ashen Warrior Wolf into three Ashen Warrior Wolf, the team now become the aim for all young cultivators to join them as an unofficial member.And in fact, the Ash Wolves Chaser Team do have an additional ten members as their backup, but most of them belonged to the 2nd Stage and 3rd Stage members. As the team leader, Bai Lang's responsibility is not only to nurture his members to strengthen their team but also to make sure all of them is well fed. A team lack of strong fighting forces is a nuisance in the battlefield, and a team lack of financial support is even worst.Added with the lacking of proper cultivation method stored in the Records Pavilion, this further increase the difficulties for them to increase the base of their strength in a short period of time. But one fact remains strong within the Willow Timber County.They might be weak in the term of cultivation, but the County's forces are not weak in military strength. If a battalion of Yuan-Tie Hand Cannons can easily destroy the Fighter Tier forces, then the Battalion with Willow Crossbows can easily decimate any troops in their mid-Warrior Tier. If the members of Soldier Echelon in participating in the fight, won't a barrage from Thunderclap Seeds clear the battlefield in a mere few seconds of explosion?Furthermore, with the Nature Law of Cultivators restrict those in higher position recklessly participates in a war, so where do the attacker find so many talented individuals to fight against the prowess of technology? It may happen to be a profitable war, but it wasn't an equivalent exchange.Back to the Lotus Flower City, the team splits and continue with their own task, while Zhang Wu Ji headed straight to the nearby calligraphy store to purchase a large amount of Xuan Paper for his uses. Almost clearing the store's stock available paper, Zhang Wu Ji left the store happily but made himself known as the "Clearance Specialist" because of his insisting attitude to purchase all available material he needed.Walking en route to the City Forge, his path is blocked by a lady standing right in front of him with her both hands supporting her waists."Zhang Wu Ji, how dare you to leave me alone back in the Peony Flower City!"
