《To Conquer the World and To Win Women》 Prologue Within this Green Ocean continent, there are 3 big kingdoms that coexist with each other and having peace for almost one thousand years. Despite each emperor can live about around one thousand years, each emperor respect each others and live to strive eternal peace which is each of their last ancestor¡¯s wishes. On the eastern part of Green Ocean contient, Green Dragon Emperor is the king of Great Tree kingdom, On the northern part, Gray Serpent Emperor is the king of North Lotus Kingdom, and on the soutern part of the continent, South Sea Emperor is the king of South Sea Kingdom. Great Tree Kingdom is the biggest kindom on this contient and they have the biggest land and biggest territory while Gray Serpent Emperor has most river and numerous lake in the continent. As for South Sea Kingdom, they are the smallest kingdom with small territory that cannot be compared with the other kingdoms. Previous South Sea Emperor becomes king after he has united many fishing villages and small cities around and gained one of the ten ultimate artifacts. The ¡°Ultimate Scarlet Shield¡± Year 161, North Lotus Kingdom attacks South Sea Kingdom, with Gray Serpent Emperor leading the attack into South Sea Emperor. It is rumored that Gray Serpent Emperor wants to take the ¡°Ultimate Scarlet Shield¡± as his own and as it marks the change in history, it also attract many people in the continent to become adventurers and become treasure hunter. Because when the battle between South Sea Emperor and Gray Serpent Emperor, both emperor died in the battle and the ¡°Ultimate Scarlet Shield¡± is no where to be found. South Sea Emperor has declared before his death, whoever owns Ultimate Scarlet Shield shall become the next King of the South Sea Kingdom, with his death afterwards, South Sea Kingdom become Kingdom without a King but governed by senior minister that has been working with South Sea Emperor for decades.Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more. Author note about basic information in the story: - Cultivation ranked is ranked from Basic -> Iron -> Steel -> Black Steel -> Bronze -> Silver -> Gold Each rank has 10 level to achieve before breakthough into the more advanced rank There is a probability that tier/rank higher than Gold might appear, and if it did, it will be revealed inside the story - Expert/Practitioner is the same - Spirit core/Profound core is the same, it contains soul of the beast - Expert/Practitioner can absorb spirit beast when he/she reached Steel rank - Having one whole rank above enemy (Silver vs Bronze) does not guarantee a certain victory, it is possible to win against stronger enemy with better equipment/weapon / number of people fighting it / strategy and tactic Author note for all readers: Hi everyone, this is my first light novel, when making it I was imaging that I was making a manga, so you guys will find out that there are many conversation/dialogue that suits more into manga For readers that often read manga, this light novel should fit better than those who do not read manga Although the genre of this light novel is similar to ¡°Tales of Demons and Gods¡± and ¡°Against the God¡±, but you guys will see many differences when you read depth into the chapters For better experience, I strongly recommend everyone to read the novel while imaging the conversation, the battle and everything Thanks I hope I am not disappointing you guys! Chapter 1: Son of Blacksmith 30 years later Year 191, Iron Fishing island. South Sea Kingdom region In the morning, there are three middle aged man coming to middle sized house and knocking the door of the house Three middle aged man that came in look like an ordinary middle aged chinese, small eyes, very oriental face, they also wear leather armour set, but their skin is a lot darker because they live nearby the sea One of the middle aged man said ¡°Mr. Blacksmith are you open yet?¡± *door opened¡­. The door opened and there is a boy that looks 15 years old greeting three middle aged man ¡° Uncle Eh, Uncle Bi, Uncle Sih, dad has finished the equipment that uncles want, please come in¡± This boy looks very energetic, have an athletic body, not too muscular, and he looks smart and he wears clothes similar like a scholar but without glasses Uncle Eh replied while coming inside into the house ¡°Good boy, Yi Xiang, your father is a really great blacksmith, we are really blessed that he is residing in this small vilagge, if not for him, we may not be able to harvest Man-sized clam pearl from the nearby island¡± Uncle Bi continued ¡°That¡¯s right, Man-sized clam pearl on the nearby of our island is not that hard to find, but what trouble us the most is the water ghoul that is often nearby the man-sized clam pearl, if not for the equipment from your father, our village will not be able to prosper from those big sized pearl¡± Yi Xiang replied ¡°Uncle, although my father makes a decent weapon and equipment, it is the skill of all of Uncles here that make it able to harvest Man-sized clam pearl¡± Uncle Sih replied ¡°Haiya, we are just ordinary Iron rank practioner that used to be a fisherman, there is no way an ordinary low level Iron rank practioner like us can handle group of water ghouls. If it is an equipment and weapon from ordinary blacksmith, three uncles here will have only tomb and stone with our name Hahahaha (tombstone means dead) Uncle Eh continued ¡°Boy a, are you going to be a blacksmith too in the future?¡± Another middle aged man suddenly comes out from one of the rooms inside the house, he looks really similar to Yi Xiang except this older man has beard while Yi Xiang does not. This story originates from a different website. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there. He said: ¡°No, he never has that kind of dream, he wants to travel around the world and become a hunter, what a silly boy¡± Yi Xiang surprised and said: ¡°Dad, you awake?¡± Uncle Eh replied: ¡±Hahahaha, Yi Xiong, your son wants to become a hunter that travel the world, I guess his age now is the best age to go into Night Moon city on the mainland to develop his body and cultivation to become a true expert¡° Uncle Bi continued: ¡°Boy a, since you want to become a hunter in the future, do you want to hunt man-sized clam pearl with us? Do not worry, if you cannot defeat them, just stick with us, we will ensure your safety because we are very accustomed defeating the water ghoul¡± Yi Xiang is filled with hope and excitement Uncle Sih continued: ¡°Boy a, what is your cultivation level now?¡± Yi Xiang replied: ¡° I am now at Basic rank level 9, but about hunting water ghoul¡­¡­ About that¡­¡± while looking into his father Yi Xiong sigh ¡°Hah, I think it is a good idea too, I know you want to try hunting on something, with these 3 uncles and my equipment, I am at ease letting you go hunting man-sized clam pearl¡± Yi Xiong take bunch of weapons from the desk and said ¡°Uncle Eh, this is your sword and shield, the sword is made from the Iron Marlin Fish that you gave me, its sharpness will make you cut water ghoul like the butcher in the market cutting their chasio for you and here is your shield, it is made from 10 of 100-years iron turtles that you gave me the other day¡± *The language in this world is called world language, they have synonym Many synonym will appear and the translation will be after the parapraph (chasio: pork meat) The sword is gray coloured, it looks sharp, light and easy to handle while the shield has the colour of ordinary iron but with turtle shell patterns Uncle Eh receives the sword and swinging it ¡° Woah, this sword is really light, Iron Marlin Fish horn is even lighter than real iron, this is a really good sword¡± Uncle Eh putting the shield on and give the sword to Uncle Bi and said ¡°Uncle Bi, come and swing Iron Marlin sword into my shield¡± Uncle Bi nods and takes the sword and swings it into Uncle Eh¡¯s shield Clanggg!! When the sword and shield hit, Uncle Bi has been pushed back and all of them are shocked except Yi Xiong the blacksmith that made all of the weapons Uncle Eh said ¡°This shield¡­¡­ is very strong, the rebound force is too great for anyone that attack this shield with the same rank level, what grade is this shield level Yi Xiong?¡± Yi Xiong replied: ¡°Iron turtles shield and Iron Marlin sword are both only steel ranked weapon, but from the 10 of the iron turtles that you gave me, one has a really rare material called the beast plate, this beast plate is different from beast or monster core that found on every monster, this beast plate from the iron turtle is called ¡°iron turtle plate¡± it is a gem sized core and it emits a blue light coloured and when fusing it with the weapon made from its species will strengthen the weapon by tenfold, although this is steel leveled weapon, its quality is no less than black-steel ranked weapon which is one stage above its level¡± Uncle Bi replied with amazement: ¡°This is really great, what an awesome weapon, Yi Xiong, how about my weapon?¡± Yi Xiong: ¡°From all the ingredients that you all gave me, only one of the iron turtles that have its iron turtle plate, so other weapon might not be as good as that. Have assured, Uncle Bi, this is your weapon¡± Yi xiong lifting a sword and giving to Uncle Bi, that sword size that almost half of the size of Yi Xiong body, it is a Greatsword But this great sword is not an ordinary great sword, at the tip or the sword, the tip of the greatsword is asymmetric, one is curved sharp and the opposite side is gray coloured round shaped resembles iron seasnail shells. It is a dual-use Greatsword! Uncle Bi shocked and said: This is¡­. Dual-use Greatsword??? Yi Xiong replied in relax: ¡°Oh Uncle Bi you know it too? This sword can hit enemy with sharpness to cut and impact them with bluntness. The Giant Iron Seasnail that you gave me is a creature with solid shell, this greatsword main strength is not from the sharpness from the sea iron that found commonly nearby our village but the bluntness from the iron sea snail shell. Smack it into someone head, and he will forget who his parents are hahahaha¡± Chapter 2: Approval Yi Xiong continued and giving another weapon to Uncle Sih: ¡°Uncle Sih, here is your crossbow and its arrow¡± Uncle Sih received the sword and the crossbow and said: ¡°This crossbow looks normal but the arrow is not, is there anything special within it? I know you never made anything normal¡± The arrow is not sharp pointed like ordinary arrow but its point is round shape like the side of the barbell Yi Xiong replied: Hahahaha you know it well, why don¡¯t you try injecting your soul energy into your crossbow and its arrow and shoot it into the my front door over there¡° Just when Uncle Sih injecting his energy and shoot the arrow, Yi Xiong grabbed his blacksmith mask and wear it on Shingggg!! A white bright shining light emits from the crossbow ¡°Ahhhh!!!¡± Yi Xiang, Uncle Eh, Uncle Bi and Uncle Sih shout loudly and forcefully closed their eyes Boom!! Everyone was surprised what was that sound, how could a crossbow makes that sound ¡°Ah, the door is gone¡± Mr Eh said with surprised after opening his eyes Yi Xiong said while unmask the blacksmith mask: ¡°Hahahaha, Uncle Sih, since you destroyed my door, I hope you can compesate me with more gold to get a new better door¡± Uncle Sih replied: ¡°Hahahahaha, don¡¯t worry don¡¯t worry, money is not that important since we started hunting man-sized clam pearl, what important is, what is this crossbow and arrows? How can it be so strong? Yi Xiong replied with relax: ¡°Flashing Manta Ray tail that I asked from you earlier has a property that can shine upon danger, so it is normal for your Flashing Manta Crossbow to be able to shine like that, as for the arrow. This is iron sardine arrow, by injecting soul energy into the arrow, it can strengthen the iron sardine arrow speed upon launching from the crossbow, as for the impact, iron sardine body is quite tough, that is why wood made property like my doors can easily be destroyed by it¡± Uncle Sih replied: ¡°So that¡¯s how it it, how many arrows were you able to make?¡± Yi Xiong: ¡° You gave me 100 kgs of iron sardine last month, so I can make 100 piece of arrows for you, thanks to that, I always eat sardine meat from breakfast, lunch and dinner¡± Everyone laugh and they are extremely happy with their weapon Uncle Eh continued: ¡° So, how much shall we pay you for all this awesome weapon Yi Xiong?¡± Yi Xiong: ¡° 49 piece gold, but since you destroyed my door, 50 piece gold will be enough. You know I don¡¯t make anything cheap¡±Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there. Uncle Eh, Uncle Bi, Uncle Sih all laugh and they took out the money from their spatial ring and give to Yi Xiong Uncle Eh said to Yi Xiang: ¡°Yi Xiang, since your father allow you to hunt with us, tomorrow night we will go and hunt man-sized clam pearl, are you joining us? Yi Xiang looked at his father Yi Xiong nod as he is giving a green light to his son to join the hunt Yi Xiang replied to Uncle Eh: ¡°Uncle Eh, Uncle Bi and Uncle Sih, tomorrow I will be ready and I will try my best not to burden the hunt progress¡± Uncle Bi replied ¡°Hahahaha with all this weapon that your father made, the hunt will be a piece of cake, you should bring your weapon too tomorrow so you can defend yourself¡± Yi Xiang replied ¡° Okay Uncle¡± After that Uncle Eh, Uncle Bi, and Uncle Sih thanking Yi Xiong and left ¡°Son, what weapon you like to use tomorrow?¡± Yi xiong said ¡°Water ghoul is as fast as ordinary human, since I am only Basic rank, I think I will go with this Iron long spear¡± Yi Xiang said while touching the iron long spear in front of him He continued: ¡°Although I can use all the weapon type because you told me to try it after you made, but this Iron long spear will give me better range and more time to defense or evade the enemy attack¡± Yi Xiong : ¡° Since you choose it, so be it. Tomorrow is the day, today, help me and mom on today house work, tomorrow you can live your life to the fullest hahahaha¡± The next day Yi Xiong is practising his spear mastery, although he can use all weapon type but he only has the basic of attack, defense, parry without any profound arts. There is a woman coming in, she middle aged woman with long hair and she has really oriental faced chinese, she looks very gentle and from her face, it is easy to tell that she is very caring and said ¡°Yi Xiang, tonight you are going to hunt for the first time, do not do reckless thing okay, those 3 uncles are strong but you need to take care of yourself too¡± Yi Xiang replied: ¡°Yes Mom, do not worry, I read many bestiary books, so I know water ghoul moves and behaviour¡± The night has come Uncle Eh, Uncle Bi, and Uncle Sih is ready at the pier and waiting for Yi Xiang as they are ready to go into the fishing boat ¡°Sorry for the being a bit late Uncles, My mom is kinda unease letting me go¡± Yi Xiang said Uncle Eh: ¡°Ah, I guess it is normal for Ye Ling to be unease because his only son is now taking a first step becoming a world class hunter hahahaha¡± Uncle Bi replied: ¡°True that, its almost time, lets go everyone¡± Yi Xiang and three uncles board in the ship and their boat starts going north-east On the boat, Yi xiang ask: ¡° Uncle Eh, besides Water ghoul, is there any other monster or creature that we need to be aware of?¡± Uncle Eh replied: ¡°It depends on the island we go, this time we go at north-east of our Iron Fishing island, from what we scout previously, this island also has several Iron ranked beast and also several notable Steel ranked beast such as Giant Poison Dart Frog, Big Tarantula, and Big Black Sea Turtle¡± ¡°Oh Giant Poison Dart Frog and Big Black Sea Turtle are also there?¡± Yi Xiang replied with excitement ¡°Yes, Uncle Sih should remember the location that he met with those two beasts, why do you feel excited upon hearing them?¡± Uncle Eh replied Yi Xiang replied: ¡°My father told me to gather Giant Poison Dart Frog and Big Black Sea Turtle corpse that is why he gave this spatial ring so he can make a weapon for me before going to Night Moon city next month, he told me to ask for three uncles here to help me finding it¡± Uncle Bi replied: ¡°Hahahaha, Do not worry, we will help you find and slay those two beasts so your father can forge you an awesome weapon so you will not get bullied in Night Moon city academy¡± Uncle Sih said: ¡°I remember the spot where I see those two beast, after we get the pearl from man-sized clam pearl, we will help you hunt the remaining beast you want. Since it has been put that way, guess we will not return tonight and we will stay on that island for a while¡± Uncle Eh and Uncle Bi nod, Yi xiang said: ¡° Thanks all uncle, I will definitely remember your kindness on helping my development today¡± Uncle Eh replied: ¡°Hahahaha, so Yi Xiang, what is your attribute talent? Is it agility? Strength? Vitality? Yi Xiang shook his head and replied: ¡°No Uncle, my dad said I am a balanced type, how about the three uncles over here?¡± Uncle Bi replied: ¡°Uncle Eh is also balanced type, I am a Strength type that is why Greatsword really suits me and Uncle Sih is Agility type¡± Uncle Sih continued: ¡°Oh you are balanced type? You should be patient then, although your power and stamina is not as strong as Strength attribute talent, your speed and vision not as good as Agility type, your defense and resistance is not as tough as Defense attributes talents. When you achieve Steel ranked expert, as long as you can absord a better spirit beast than others, you can surpass them.¡± Yi Xiang replied in shock: ¡°Absorb a spirit beast, I read it in a book but I never see it with my own eyes¡± Uncle Eh: ¡°Iron Fishing Village is a small village, no wonder you never see it, once you go to Night Moon city, you will see plenty of it hahahaha¡± Yi Xiang continues to ask while the boat is moving at constant speed: ¡°May I know what level is the cultivation rank for all the uncles here?¡± Uncle Sih replied: ¡°Uncle Eh is at Iron rank level 10, he is half step into Steel rank, Uncle Bi is at Iron rank level 8, and I am at Iron rank level 7¡± Uncle Bi continued: ¡°Everyone, we have arrived, lets start hunting¡± Chapter 3: First Hunt The four of them get down and tie the boat and start to step into the forest, they fired up a torch and starts go deeper until they reached the swamp Yi xiang asked: ¡°Is this salt water swamp that man-sized clam pearl located in? Uncle Eh replied: ¡°Yes, the clam itself is not living in the ocean but in this swamp, that is why we need your dad weapon instead of diving equipment¡± Uncle Bi suddenly cut: ¡°Quiet, the water ghoul is nearby, it means man-sized clam is also nearby¡± Hah Hah Hah Hah, this sound is getting closer and closer, it is the sounds of water ghoul Uncle Eh replied: ¡°To arms!¡± Uncle Eh equip his swords and shield, Uncle Bi unsheate his Greatsword from his back, and Uncle is now pointing his Crossbow into where the sounds come from The group of water ghoul appear, they resemble zombie with dark blue skin, and they have better agility than zombie, the group of water ghoul consists of 13 water ghoul and charging into four of them (You can imagine the water ghoul similar to ¡°Drowners¡± from ¡°The Witcher¡± game from PS4) ¡°Eh protect me¡± Uncle Sih said while shooting the arrow from the crossbow without injecting his soul energy into one of the water ghoul body BOOOAAM! One of water ghoul flew into another water ghoul behind it and both of them crushed into the tree, the tree is quite big and it was impacted by the two water ghouls and water ghoul blue blood burst from the head after impact ¡°Such strong impacts without the soul force, what a great weapon, take this!!¡± Uncle Bi said while swinging the sword from left to right into the water ghouls in front Three of the water ghoul upperbody left their bottom part of the body after the sharpness part of the sword touch them they were cut in two After the first swing, another six of the water ghouls charging in into Uncle Bi, but Uncle Bi is very calm and shout ¡°Sea Snail Swing!¡± He swing it from right to the left where this time it is Sea Snail Shell that will be touching the Water Ghoul The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement. The Sea Snail shell that is at the tip of the sword is very tough and when it touch into sea ghoul body, it is really skullcrashing moment Crakkkk! 6 of the Sea Ghouls body are sent flying and cannot move as they are permanently disabled because their body has no bone connected remain inside their body Seeing this opportunity, Yi xiang run towards the six of the disabled Sea Ghouls and pierce his Iron Long spear into the head of disabled Sea Ghouls on the ground Chesh Chesh Chesh! Each of the piercing bursting our the blood from the head of water ghoul After Yi Xiang has killed 6 disabled Sea Ghoul, Uncle Eh and Uncle Sih have already killed the remaining water ghouls After confirming all of the sea ghouls death, Uncle Bi said: ¡°Its done, our weapon is too strong, what a blacksmith, 50 piece of golds are very cheap for this kind of weapon¡± Uncle Eh replied: ¡°Shall we continue moving?¡± ¡°Wait a minute, I want to collect all of the Water Ghoul corpse, and can Uncles wait for me a bit?¡± Yi Xiang replied Oh sure, just what is the use of the corpse of water ghoul use for you? Is that your father know how to make something from it?¡± Uncle Eh replied Yi Xiang replied while collecting the 13 corpses of Sea Ghoul into his spatial rings: ¡°My father does not know but maybe I know how I can make it useful later at home¡± After finish collecting the 13 corpses, they continued to go deeper into the swamp until they stop their steps and their face looked amazed Uncle Eh shocked and said: ¡°This is¡­.¡± Uncle Bi said ¡°Man-sized clam¡­.. And there are 5 of them in one place¡± Uncle Sih said ¡°What is going on? Is there a Kappa Ghoul over here?¡± Yi Xiang replied: ¡°Kappa Ghoul from the MythBook? Is Uncle telling me the creature that has a fierce nature of Ghoul and defensive ability of a Kappa?¡± Uncle Sih said: ¡°Yes, originally Man-sized clam is his treasure, whenever we hunt man-sized clam, we are stealing his treasure, but usually there is only one man-sized clam everytime we go to hunt, if there is 5 of them here means we are at his Den!¡± Hakkk Hakkk Hakkk! Suddenly after the sound, there is figure running from the west side of them The figure is like a fierce Ghoul with razor claw on its hands and its back has a turtle shell, it resembles a Kappa from the Mythbook! Uncle Bi shouts out loud: ¡°Boss battle formation!! Quick!¡± The Ghoul Kappa suddenly makes a jump and leap with its sharp claws pointing into their group Uncle Eh raises his shield and he injected his soul energy into his shield and his shield goes head to head with the Ghould Kappa Clang!!! The Ghoul Kappa body was pushed and flew over 3 meters and quicky get up into battle stance Just when it is about to get up into its battle stance, an arrow flew and hit into his body The Ghoul Kappa body flew another 6 meters And Uncle Sih quickly reloaded his crossbow ¡°Any idea how to finish him off?¡± Uncle Bi asked ¡°We should pierce him in the head, Bi you should disabled him first so we can land him a finish blow¡± Uncle Sih said When Uncle Bi nods, the Kappa Ghoul get up and make a quick jump ¡°Same attack pattern, I can handle this¡± Uncle Eh said and raising his shield and injecting the soul energy again Just when the Kappa Ghoul is about to hit with the Iron Turtle Shield, all the head, claws, legs went inside the Kappa shell Clang!! The Kappa Ghoul this time was not pushed by the effect of the Iron Turtle, this is normal because Iron Turtle is Iron ranked beast while this Kappa Ghould is late stage of Steel ranked. One whole big tier, the Iron Turtle shield should be praised because its toughness thanks to the Iron Turtle plate forged within it ¡°What!? It is late stage of Steel ranked beast!¡± Uncle Eh said Just when he is about to panic, head, hands, legs of the Kappa suddenly emerged from the Kappa Ghoul, the Kappa Ghoul turned around using his razor claw to attack Uncle Eh ¡°Watch Out!¡± Uncle Bi said in a hurry Chapter 4: Battling Kappa Ghoul from the Mythbook! Yi Xiang who is also behind Uncle Eh suddenly goes into Uncle Eh side and tries to defend the Kappa Ghoul attack using his spear Clang!! The Iron Long spear was bent in the middle and finally it was cut in half Yi Xiang was sent flying after the impact between Iron Long Spear and Kappa Ghoul Claw that he cant resist as he is only Basic level practitioner Just when Uncle Eh starts to become panic The Kappa Ghould give him a kick into his stomach which is under his shield After Kappa Ghoul foot touched Uncle Eh stomach and Uncle Eh started to fly by the impact, Kappa Ghould was also sent flying Boom! Kappa Ghoul was sent flying, as for the reason it was damaged It was Iron Sardine Arrow imbued with Soul energy! Kappa Ghoul left wrist was bent to the point it cannot be used anymore The impact from the Iron Sardine arrow is too great This is normal because Iron Sardine is quite uncommon species in the continent as it only appears in Iron Fishing Village And it took the whole fisherman a whole one-year to collect 100 kgs of iron sardine fish ¡°Eh, Yi Xiang, are you guys okay?¡± Uncle Bi shout in shock Uncle Eh and Yi Xiang both stand up and said ¡°I am okay¡± Uncle Eh said in rage ¡°Just one hit and I feel very exicted like this¡± He continued: ¡°Sih, cover me!¡± He rushed toward the Kappa Ghoul Clang! Clang! Clang! The two of them excanged blow like they are on the same level thanks to the super rare Iron Turtle Shield owned by Uncle Eh Uncle Bi, Uncle Sih, and Ye Xiang starts to get closer into the two of themStolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon. ¡°Sih, find an opening and use Flashing Manta flash and give us a signal when you want to use it, I will deliver the Sea Snail Swing as the killing blow¡± Uncle Bi said ¡°Understood¡± Uncle Sih said ¡°Yi Xiang, close your eyes, when the Flashing Manta flash is about to shine¡± Uncle Sih continued Yi Xiang nods The Kappa Ghoul continues exchanging blows with Uncle Eh, as they exchanging blows, everytime iron marlin sword slice kappa ghoul flesh, small amount of blood comes out, but as for its razor claws comes contact with Uncle Eh, not only his leather armour torn apart, moderate amount of blood also comes out. Although Kappa Ghoul has better physical strength, Uncle Eh determination is the one that keeps him going Crakkk! After numerous exchange of Kappa Ghould claw and Iron Turte shield Kappa Ghoul claw finally broken! Even though its Kappa shell is strong as Iron turtle shield, its claw is not black steel tier rank! ¡°Hah Hah Hah, at last it breaks¡± Uncle Eh said with heavy breath as he is now exhausted and injured to the point even standing is hard thing to do Ye Xiang asks ¡° Uncle Bi, shouldn¡¯t we help him out?¡± ¡°No, Eh is like that when he is enraged and he does not want anyone to disturb him, his sturborness makes him ahead of us in the cultivation because he likes to fight stronger monster¡± Uncle Bi said The Kappa Ghoul is now so desperate He is now jumping again and leaping towards exhausted Uncle Eh who is now no longer has the power to block its Kappa Shell impact power But at this time Uncle Bi suddenly rushed toward Uncle Eh and jumped to face the incoming Kappa Ghoul Just when Kappa Ghould wants to go inside its Kappa shell, Uncle Sih shouted: ¡°NOW!!!!!¡± Everyone closed his eyes, except the Kappa Ghoul The shining glow makes the Kappa Ghoul blind for a second and stunning it The Kappa Ghoul plans to hides inside its Kappa shell has been canceled! And it was left open airborne Seeing the only chance coming in, Uncle Bi who is also airborne is has opened his his eyes and concentrating his soul energy into his Greatsword TAKE THIS!!!! SEA SNAIL SWING!!!! CRAKKKKK! The Sea Snail Swing smashed into Kappa Ghoul Neck and made it flying into west direction about 30 meters until it hits a tree ¡°We did it!¡± Uncle Sih said with happy voice ¡°Sugeeeee¡± Yi Xiang said with amazing feeling in his eyes (Sugeee: Amazing) Uncle Bi is now helping Uncle Eh who is hard to even stand properly after delivering the finish blow ¡°Eh, did you just breakthrugh into Steel-ranked just now?¡± Uncle Bi said with amazement ¡°What?¡± Uncle Si said with shocked but also happy ¡°Uncle Eh, Uncle Bi and Uncle Sih combination is just too good, I feel really grateful that I come to hunt with you guys¡± Yi Xiang said with amazement Uncle Eh replied: ¡°Yes, it looks like my fight with this Kappa Ghoul has made me gone through a breakthrough, I can now absorb a spirit beast into my body. Bi, Sih, is it okay if I absorb this spirit beast into my body? We might be able to get 100 piece of gold from this Kappa Ghoul spirit core though¡± Uncle Bi: ¡°You take it, if you get stronger, we can get more money even easier, what is 100 piece of gold in the long term?¡± Uncle Sih said ¡°Hahahaha, true that, quick, take the profound core and absorb it¡± Uncle Eh nods and they all moving towards the Kappa Ghoul corpse The Kappa Ghoul is no longer breathing as its neck is completely broken from the skull breaking smash unleashed by Uncle Bi, making it unable to breath any longer Uncle Eh put out his knife and carves through Kappa Ghoul body and takes out it Spirit Core Yi Xiang suddenly said: ¡°Uncle, is it okay if I take this Kappa Ghoul corpse around too?¡± Uncle Eh said ¡°Sure, if not you protect me from that claw earlier I might have suffered even a fatal damage, take it home and make something useful from it¡± Uncle Bi and Uncle Sih both nod Uncle Eh is now meditating and absorbing the spirit core into his body while Yi Xiang has finished collecting the full corpse of Kappa Ghoul into his spatial ring After 15 minutes absorbing it, the Spirit core has already merged into Uncle Eh¡¯s profound veins Uncle Eh¡¯s body is now glowing and he opens his eyes ¡°Bi, Sih, you might not believe this, but you guys are so fortunate letting me absord this Kappa Ghoul spirit core instead of selling it away¡± Uncle Eh said and then smiled mysteriously¡± Chapter 5: Becomes a Predator Everyone was puzzled but they know that it is something good happened ¡°Why?¡± Uncle Bi replied ¡°Although this Kappa Ghoul transformation is defensive attributes enhancement, it also has another special ability, and that is Turtle Lungs and Deep Diving ability¡± Turtle Lungs is the ability to Kappa Ghoul to have extended breath underwater, it is said that the length of the duration depends on the expert cultivation level/rank Deep Diving Ability is the ability of any Turtle species to dive deep into underwater and resist the deep-water pressure, the depth depends on expert cultivation level/rank Transformation is a state where the expert integrates with the beast spirit soul within spirit core inside the expert body Not only it change their appearance to be more look a like the one¡¯s beast appearance, but it also grants the expert the one¡¯s beast ability However, Expert and practitioner with massive innate talent can transform only some of their body for efficiency and effecitiveness in fighting. This is called Partial Transformation! After absorbing the spirit core, it will also grants the expert the element of the beast After absorbing Water Ghoul, Uncle Eh is now granted with water element ability! Uncle Sih replied in shock: ¡°That¡¯s amazing, are you telling me now that we can try treasure hunting deep inside the ocean?¡± Uncle Bi replied: ¡°That is too amazing, that kind of ability is a dream for any treasure hunter team¡± Uncle Eh looks happy although he is injured and said ¡°Yi Xiang, I think you are somehow a lucky charm here, we have hunting Man-sized clam for straight two years but only this time we manage to find Kappa Ghoul. I think this is really fortunate for us to meet Kappa Ghoul only after we have many amazing weapon from your father. Now come, lets harvest the Man-sized clamp¡± Yi Xiang flutter and replied: ¡°Hahahaha, I think its really destiny Uncle Eh, all Uncle here wanted to help me hunt Giant Poison Dart Frog and Big Black Tortoise, Mother always told me kind people will be treated kindly by the heaven¡± Seeing Uncle Bi opened the clam mouth, and opens 5 of the man-sized clam He himself and the everyone was amazed You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story. ¡°5 Giant pearl!!!! We are RICH!!!¡± Uncle Bi shouted happily This giant pearl is indeed big for a pearl, each of the giant pearl size is as big as basket ball Yi Xiang touched and lifted the giant pearl and asked ¡° Uncle, how much each of this giant pearl can be sold for?¡± Uncle Sih replied: ¡°Boy a, we three become the richest people in the Iron Fishing Village because of this giant pearl business, each of these giant pearl can buy you 1 mansion sized house in Night Moon city, and 50 horse cart and you can still enjoy life for all of your lifetime hahahaha¡± Uncle Eh coninued ¡°As for today harvest, we three each take one, and Yi Xiang you take two, one for you yourself, and one for your father, if not for his equipment, we wont make it this far, Bi, Sih, any objection? Uncle Bi and Sih replied together: ¡°No problem¡± Yi Xiang: ¡°Thank you so much Uncle Eh, Uncle Bi, Uncle Sih, I will not forget the kindness today, I definitely will success in Night Moon city this massive amount of resources!¡± Uncle Eh continued: ¡°Good, now lets find some place to rest, tomorrow we still need to hunt another beast for Yi Xiang tomorrow¡± Four of them have seized all 5 of the Giant pearl from Man-sized clam After that, they make a way to a higher place and setting up a campfire With Uncle Bih cooking some of the meat stored in his spatial ring, they finally had their super late dinner and they talked happily for sometime before going to sleep The next day This time four of them is not marching into the swamp but forest Uncle Eh injured has been treated and he looks fine except he has some bandages over some part of his body After 3 hours walking to find their first target the Giant Poison Dart Frog Uncle Sih the one who lead them suddenly stopped his move and stops eveyone with his hand ¡°Stop, we found it, look closely¡± Uncle Sih said while hiding behind the tree with everyone What everyone see is kind of shocking The Giant Poison Dart frog is moving slowly like a predator that wants to catch its prey The Giant Poison Dart Frog is a Frog that is as big as the size of 3 normal cow combined, it has a striped skin, with the colour of purple and black Upon the direction it is heading, there is a reindeer The reindeer is almost look a like a normal reindeer but with a red nose on its face It is Red Nose Reindeer (You guys can imagine the Santa Claus deer) Suussssh! The Giant Poison Dart Frog jumped into the Red Nose Reindeer Poor Red Nose Reindeer, it cannot evade as the attack from the Giant Poison Dart Frog as it is too sudden Boom! Red Nose Reinder was tackled into the tree nearby (You guys can imagine the tackle attack is like pikachu used tackle attack) That reindeer is done for What kills it is not the impact but the poison from the skin of the Giant Poison Dart Frog Its purple coloured poison looks enourmous as it looks like almost devouring the skin of the Red Nose Reindeer Finally The Giant Poison Dart Frog can has its meal and start eating the poor Santa deer But it looks like it does not know that each predator has its own predator ¡°NOW!¡± Uncle Bi Shout with everyone jumping furiously toward Giant Poison Dart Frog ¡°Lemme show you who is at the top of the food pyramid!¡± Uncle Eh shout Sring! Uncle Eh has transformed into half human and half Kappa Ghoul His back is now has a Kappa shell, his legs are similar to Kappa, on his left hand he has Iron Turtle shield and on his right hand he also has Razor claw that belongs to Kappa Ghoul! Uncle Eh body parts suddenly goes in into the Kappa Shell It is the same move as the move that Kappa Ghoul previously used The Kappa Shell spinning towards Giant Poison Dart Frog ¡°SKULLBASH ATTACK!¡± BANG! Just like the poor deer that was tackled by the Giant Poison Dart Frog Now the ambushed Giant Poison Dart Frog was sent flying by the skullbash attack from Uncle Eh and hit the tree nearby DUSH!! After Giant Poison Dart Frog hit the tree Uncle Eh emerges all his body part and said ¡°Giant Poison Dart Frog, although its poison is terrifying, it wont do damage unless it touch the skin and flesh of the living beings¡± Giant Poison Dart Frog has a really strong poison, but as mentioned by Uncle Eh before, it cannot melt or damage anything other than skin and flesh especially Kappa Ghoul thick shell Just when the Giant Poison Dart frog was about to ready into its battle stance, it was sent flying again and hit the tree behind it Bang! The tree behind it was destroyed and the Giant Poison Dart frog is now heavily injured Chapter 6: Life Risking Battle! ¡°Bi, Yi Xiang, NOW!¡± Uncle Sih shout after successfully shoot the iron sardine arrow from his crossbow with spirit energy injected with it Uncle Bi and Yi Xiang jumped toward the injured Giant Poison Dart Frog ¡°SEASNAIL SWING!¡± CRACKKK! The Seasnail swing brutally hit the mouth of the Giant Poison Dart Frog One breath after that, Yi Xiang thrust his Iron Marlin sword into Giant Poison Dart frog forehead and finishes its life After absorbing the Kappa Ghoul, Uncle Eh can use his Kappa Ghoul claw as his weapon, so he gave the Iron Marlin Sword to Yi Xiang because Yi Xiang¡¯s weapon was cut in half before ¡°One is down¡± Uncle Eh said with ease ¡°Stay on guard! There is another beast coming to us¡± Uncle Sih cut The four of them regroup and standing in battle formation waiting for the unkown beast to appear Cesh Cesh Cesh¡­.. There is a sound coming from the east ¡­¡­.. Suddenly the sound is gone and everything is silence and four of them cannot trace the aura of the beast It just completely gone from their sense Crack! Suddenly a lance-shaped claw coming from the ground and it pierced through Uncle Sih right leg ¡°Aarrghhhh!¡± Uncle Sih shouted in pain The lance-shaped claw retraced and was pulled back from injured Uncle Sih¡¯s right leg The figure emerged from the ground, it is brown coloured and it has 8 lance-shaped legs, it also has six eyes and it has similar size as the Giant Poison Dart Frog, it is the Giant Tarantula!If you spot this story on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. (You can imagine the big tarantula from any movies, I imagine it that way) ¡°Sih, are you okay?¡± Uncle Bih helped Uncle Sih standing and was panicked after being ambushed by the surprise attack Uncle Eh said ¡°Be careful, this is Earth Burrowing Tarantula, this is Steel-ranked monster, and a natural predator of Giant Poison Dart Frog, it looks like we have stolen its prey and it wants a compensation¡± Earth Burrowing Tarantula is an Earth element based tarantula, it often prays on Giant Poison Dart Frog or any similar sized beast, and poison is ineffective to it, because all Giant Tarantula is a creature with strong poison resistance Uncle Bih said: ¡°Yi Xiang, you protect Uncle Sih, and act accordingly to the situation, do not risk death, or else I cannot face your father¡± Uncle Bih said with serious and enraged face Ye Xiang nods and is now holding Uncle Sih ¡°Lets go Bih!¡± Uncle Eh said with determination The two of them charged into the Earth Burrowing Tarantula Uncle Bih swing his greatsword and aiming to cut one of its leg using Greatsword sharpness Sriiikkkk The Earth Burrowing Tarantula cries in pain, it wants to evade he attack but could not The slash cuts Earth Burrowing Tarantula flesh but was not able to cut one of its leg in two Boom! Uncle Bih who has used Skullbash attack has impacted 6 of Earth Burrowing Tarantula eyes, and Earth Burrowing Tarantula was sent flying 6 meters When it gets up, everyone can clearly sees that Earth Burrowing Tarantula is now blind, and all of its eyeballs were broken, scattered in chaos after the impact ¡°The eyes, its blind, time to deal finish blow¡± Uncle Eh charged toward the Earth Burrowing Tarantula Upon desperate situation Earth Burrowing Tarantula facing in, its instict took over, it used all its 8 legs and burrow underground Hussshhh! Uncle Eh attack using his razor claw missed and Earth Burrowing Tarantula has dug underground and none of them can trace its aura Uncle Bih was panicked and shout loudly ¡°Sih, Yi Xiang be careful, it can sensor everyone from the underground¡± Uncle Bih is now rushing toward Uncle Sih and Yi Xiang Just what everyone expect The Earth Burrowing Tarantula is aiming towards Uncle Sih, its unfinished prey Crekkk! The ground was shattered and Earth Burrowing Tarantula emerged from the ground below Cushhh! 4 lance-shaped legs is charging toward Uncle Sih Ceshhhh!!! Srikkkk!!! The Earth Burrowing Tarantula unexpectedly was crying in pain As he was jumping from the underground to attack Uncle Sih His position is letting its stomach to be visible And now, on its stomach there is a sword piercing right through it It is Iron Marlin Sword! Yi Xiang took the initiative to counter the Earth Burrowing Tarantula because he knew it would attack the injured Uncle Sih that it has attacked before However, 4 of lance-shaped spider legs also penetrate into Yi Xiang body 2 legs penetrate into its stomach Another two penetrate its shoulder, one at his left shoulder, and one at his right shoulder Blood is everywhere around Yi Xiang body ¡°Yi Xiang!¡± Uncle Eh and Sih shout in panick Seeing the oppurtunity to land a finish blow, Uncle Bih who was charging toward Yi Xiang and Uncle Sih released full power Sea Snail Swing into Earth Burrowing Tarantula abdomen BOOM! Tarantula blood from Earth Burrowing Tarantula was scattered into 24 random directions Earth Burrowing Taratula is done for! ¡°Yi Xiang, are you okay¡± The three Uncles asked in hurry Yi Xiang has loss his consciousness due to injury made by the Earth Burrowing Tarantula ¡°Quick, lets head back to the village, this type of injury wont heal with just staying at the camp¡± ¡°Wait, let me take the Earth Burrowing Tarantula corpse and spiritual core first, I want to absorb it when I reach Steel ranked expert soon¡± Uncle Sih replied After looting the Earth Burrowing Tarantula and Giant Poison Dart frog into their spatial right, four of them return to the boat and head back into the village