Chapter 63: Underground Giant Tree


    Two monthster, inside a cave somewhere within the Silvermoon Forest, Huang Xiaolong was sitting in a cross-legged position. Battle qi glowed in the cave for a long time when suddenly, the space behind him vibrated as a ck dragon emerged, floating behind his head.


    Seconds after this ck dragon appeared, it disappeared with a sh and was reced by a blue dragon. And the blue dragon also floated behind Huang Xiaolong.


    Two months of persistence and hard work finally brought results! Huang Xiaolong could now summon his martial spirits individually!


    That’s right, a separate, individual summoning!


    After two months in the forest, Xiaolong had grown strongerpared to when he left the Tianxuan Mansion, and even his aura changed. His battle qi cultivation had advanced from early-Sixth Order to the peak of the early-Sixth Order.


    Moonlight shone down, resembling water, and the cave’s surrounding was quiet.


    In the cave, the ck light and the blue light continued to flicker alternately.


    About an hourter, the lights stopped flickering in the cave as Xiaolong sent his twin dragon martial spirits back into his body; his eyes opened and he stood up and walked out of the cave.


    Outside the cave, in the quiet moonlit forest, he did not see the little violet monkey which made Xiaolong shake his head. This little guy surely took the opportunity to sneak out again while he was practicing.


    Leaving the cave area, he jumped down while the des of Asura were already in his hands. His feet tapped the ground and his body leaped up– the des in his hands swung out and des’ attacks fell downward, akin to a cluster of stars. Sometimes it was violent like an angry roaring storm, sometimes it was soft and gentle, minuscule and hard to detect by the eye.


    An Asura’s wail echoed and drifted in the air as if it had a mind of its own.


    In the past two months, he had also focused on training the Tears of Asura and the level of power he could disy had increased significantly.


    With his progress and persistent training, Huang Xiaolong estimated that in six months’ time he could achieve majorpletion for the Tears of Asura technique.


    Suddenly, while Xiaolong was engrossed in training, the ground below him shook with “Hong! Hong! Hong!” sounds. Violent tremors snaked closer to his position.


    Huang Xiaolong turned around and saw that some distance away, a huge thirty-meters tall gori was chasing a half-meter tall little monkey, and the gori and monkey were heading towards his direction.


    The gori was in hot pursuit and his hands mmed down repeatedly on the ground, in an effort to smash the little monkey, but each attack was a failure. Just before the big palm wouldnd a hit, the little monkey shed and its figure avoided the danger of being squashed into mincemeat. This made the gori roar with fury.


    Looking at the hrious scene before him, Huang Xiaolong couldn’t help but chuckle. This little guy!


    The one being chased by the huge gori was the same little violet monkey that had sneaked out to y.


    Every time Xiaolong focused his attention on training, the little violet monkey would run out. And every time it returned, there would be a big guy chasing behind him. This wasn’t the first time the little violet monkey came back this way.


    Sometimes, it really gave Huang Xiaolong a headache.


    “Hoo Hoo Hoo!” From far away, the little violet monkey’s eyes lit up when it spotted Xiaolong. Immediately, it quickly gestured at him, obviously saying there is work to do!


    At this time, the huge goriunched another attack, its big palm mmed down at the little violet monkey.


    “Bang!” A loud sound rang out and the spot where the little violet monkey was earlier sunk in with crushed stones scattered about, showing a huge palm shaped imprint. The little violet monkey jumped away clutching its butt; it turned and squeaked angrily at the gori. Just now, that big guy’s attack nearly destroyed its small butt.


    Huang Xiaolong shook his head whileughing at the little guy’s actions; his silhouette shed and when he reappeared he was already in midair with his des, swinging at the huge gori.


    Seeing that Huang Xiaolong had started to attack, the little violet monkey stopped running and attacked the gori together with him.


    This huge gori was a type of beast with a body as hard as steel. Not only did it possess a great amount of strength, its body also had a high defense; its hard skin was like ayer of iron and usually sparks broke out when normal iron weapons shed with it.


    Normally, was hard toe across a Steel Gori– one really had to wonder where the little guy ran into it.


    Luckily, this Steel Gori had yet to breakthrough to Grade Seven and was still a peakte-Grade Six. With Huang Xiaolong’s des of Asura, the hard, steel-like skin was like mud and in just a few minutes, its throat was shed by his des.


    Blood spurted out and the Steel Gori crashed down to the ground.


    After the little violet monkey was sure the Steel Gori could no longer move, it ran up to the corpse and his small hands began to search for battle trophies.


    It wed open the corpse’s head and fished out a beast core and its mouth opened and swallow the beast core whole.


    Huang Xiaolong couldn’t figure out how the little monkey could distinguish between beasts that had cores and those that didn’t; in general, it was rare for demonic beasts below Grade Seven to have a beast core. However, every demonic beast the little monkey provoked was guaranteed to have condensed out a beast core.


    After the beast core went into the little monkey’s stomach, Huang Xiaolong walked up to the corpse. Both of his hands formed into ws and he began sucking out the blood soul qi from the Steel Gori’s corpse– he sucked it out and the ck threads were absorbed into Huang Xiaolong’s meridians through the veins in his hands.


    When every trace of the Steel Gori’s blood soul qi had entered Xiaolong’s body, he leaped up and wed at a big tree twenty meters away.


    Moonlight disappeared from the area as if swallowed by darkness.


    Two ck w imprints appeared in the air.


    “Bang!” A loud sound resounded in the darkness. The big tree twenty meters away had two half-meter long marks with a half foot depth ripped out by Huang Xiaolong. This left two ck w prints on the tree trunk and the deathly aura of ghosts around the tree, exuding a dark energy that caused the tree’s leaves to gradually turn yellow and then ck.


    Looking at the result of the Asura Demon w’s first style – Lament of Thousands of Demons, Huang Xiaolong nodded to himself in satisfaction.


    While training in the Silvermoon Forest for the past two months, not only had he seeded in individually summoning his martial spirits, but all his battle skills had increased in power, including the Body Metamorphose Scripture.


    He wouldn’t have been able to progress at such speed if he remained training in the Tianxuan Mansion or the Academy.


    Suddenly, the little violet monkey beside him squeaked.


    “Are you saying that in this Steel Gori’sir you found some treasure?” asked Huang Xiaolong when the little monkey finished gesturing. The little violet monkey nodded its head; it turned around and beckoned Huang Xiaolong to follow it as it scurried off in the direction it first appeared from when it was being chased by the Steel Gori.


    Roughly twenty minutester, a boy and a monkey arrived at a section of lush forest and saw the entrance of an enormous cave.


    “Hoo Hoo Hoo!” Entering the giant cave, the little monkey grew even more excited and it squeaked cheerfully. It was the first to rush in with Huang Xiaolong following from behind.


    As they walked into the cave, a light scent wafted towards them.


    And soon the fragrant scent became stronger as they went in deeper into the cave.


    Some timeter, Huang Xiaolong reached a spacious underground part of the cave that looked to be about a thousand square metersrge. From the ground to the ceiling was a height of about thirty meters. In this underground cave, there was a giant tree, so big that it needed seven to eight people to fully hug the tree. Branches stretched in all directions of the cave and some roots were crawling along the cave wall.


    Between the dense leaves of the giant tree were little sparkling lights.


    Huang Xiaolong was dazed for a moment when he saw the giant tree, and soon it was followed by a feeling of ecstasy and disbelief, “This, this is a Cycad tree?!”


    A Cycad tree bore a strange fruit called cycad fruit. For those who cultivate battle qi, not only could this fruit enhance one’s battle qi, it also could enhance the physical body – from strengthening all the muscles and bones, the flesh, and even the internal organs. Eating cycad fruits on a long term basis could increase the body’s defense, making it be as hard as steel, just like the Steel Gori. Common swords or des would find it hard to prate through the skin.


    “Hoo Hoo Haa!” At this time, the little violet monkey dashed towards the giant tree and was already climbing up the trunk; tiny hands plucked a cycad fruit and swallowed it whole with a ‘gulu’ sound.


    Huang Xiaolong smiled. Sometimes he wondered if the little violet monkey’s nose was a dog nose, probably its nose was even better than a dog’s. If not, how could it smell out treasure fruits within a hundred li?


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    Cycad (possible) appearance