Chapter 54: Xuanyu City (1)

Wandering through the vast sky, Shen’s gaze only fell on the green forest. The greenery reached as far as his eyes could follow. The black bird glided through the sky, as it did various challenging moves even with the human on its back. Shen’s gaze was, however, as still as a tranquil lake.

It’s been half a month since Shen got out of the secret realm but he had yet to find any human settlement. He even thought, he was traveling toward the Giant Beast Mountains but that was one of his passing thoughts. He was on the Cang Lang City when he entered the secret realm. He could never be on the Giant Beast Mountains unless... unless the crack on the secret realm lead him there.

Shen closed his eyes, in a lotus position, this half month, he cultivated day and night. Even inside the Immortal Realm, he didn’t waste any second. After every round of cultivation, he practiced his control over Primordial Genesis Flame.

Once his try of refining Silver Wound Ointment failed miserably. Not only that they turned into black would ointment. What was funny, the Black Wound Ointment had a special effect.

Black Wound Ointment: Using this ointment on the wound will lessen the body's recovery process. Too many uses can poison the blood.

Speechless, Shen stored it in a corner of the realm, apologizing to the unlucky fellow, whoever will be the one to be his test. From then on, he practiced his control over the Primordial Genesis Flame alternating with Absolute Strengthening Technique.

After his breakthrough to the Martial King realm, he gained several new runes inside his dreamscape. In those, he found a strange rune that differed from the others greatly. It was pink in color and half of it was missing. The rune constantly strengthened his mental energy while it was almost negligible, in the long run, it was exceptionally useful. Not to mention mental energy can't be cultivated easily. He didn’t train any technique from the runes and completely devoted himself on cultivating and controlling the flame.

After such a long time of practicing, he finally reached a satisfied level. While it still took time for him to transform Absolute Qi to Chaos Qi, now he could control the flame at so-so level. Seven small balls of yellow flames formed above his head. The flames remained still as if they were not moving at all. The fast movement of the bird seemed non-existent to the fire. Even the air didn’t cause the streak of fires to wave a little bit.

The black bird’s eyes sharpened in interest as it backflipped in the air. Shen remained rooted on the bird's back, the flames over his head maintained the same distance. At the same time, the number of fireballs started increasing. The black bird didn’t remain still as it would do some unexpected moves from time to time.

By the time, there were fifteen fireballs over Shen’s head, his whole body was soaked in sweat. From time to time, his pores released black murky sweat. This was the effect of cultivating Absolute Strengthening Technique and Primordial Genesis Flame together. The technique absorbed the flame energy through his pores and purified his muscle and tendons. The flame energy obviously causes immense pain but it was killing two birds in a single move for him, or even three.

At the end of the second layer of the Absolute Strengthening Technique, Shen formed 12 strands of qi on his muscles, surrounding his bone structure. On the third layer, every grade will form twelve strands of qi surrounding his bone structure at the same time they will nourish his muscle and blood. That was to say if he didn’t use any external methods his cultivation will be harder than twelve times.

The first part of the third layer, however, was easier compared to the laters. To break through to the second grade Martial King, he had to strengthen the qi strands as strong as steel. They will continuously release chaos energy and purify his muscle and tendons. They also served a great purpose on his Absolute Physique for purifying his blood to Absolute Bloodline.

Screech

Suddenly, the black bird screeched in, the meaning was understood clearly by Shen. The bird found something, probably a city or village. The fire above his head slowly died down as his eyes slowly opened.

It was indeed a human settlement, to be more exact a city. The bird landed one mile away from the city. While it was not necessary, Shen didn’t want to attract unnecessary attention. More so, when he had no idea of his whereabouts.

Shen entered the city through the massive gate, the security seemed rather lax as the guards didn’t bother to stop Shen as he entered. The city was called Xuanyu City. Surrounded by the natural beauty of forests Xuanyu City was a rather bright one. Along with the long river, the city was more prosperous than Hundred Miles City. Just with the view from the sky, Shen knew it was at least twice the size of Hundred Miles City.

Right after he entered the city, he searched for clothing stores. Having Kaidi outside the Immortal Realm was essential but having a cat on top of head or shoulder makes him stand out. The more important reason was she keeps bugging him since it was boring all day inside the Immortal Realm. Now however she spent some time inside the mortal realm which made the time a lot shorter for her. It was something they both were grateful about.

Not long after the start of his search, he found a cloth store. He grabbed a white dress of Kaidi’s size and a long black cloak before entering a corner of the street. Soon, another person followed behind Shen. It was none other than Kaidi.

The simple white cloth hugged her petite body while the black cloak hid her ears and tail from public view. The white dress matched with her white eyebrows, eyelashes, and hairs. She was a divine beauty of white who walked out of the portrait and descended on the mortal world.

The black hood added a sense of mystery in her beauty. Cloth makes the man; Shen couldn’t help but nod. It was more true for ladies.

“Come on, you promised to do whatever I wanted.” Kaidi tugged Shen’s sleeve as she looked at left and right. Unlike her usual behavior how she used to give Shen cold shoulder and act lazy, she had a rather lively and cheerful smile on her face.

“Of course, I keep my promise.” seeing her so lively, Shen couldn’t help but smile.