Heavenly Dao Engine-Chapter 109 - 0 Huang Liuyans Little Thoughts

Chapter 109: Chapter 0109: Huang Liuyan’s Little Thoughts

Chapter 109 -0109: Huang Liuyan’s Little Thoughts

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Qi Tian knew this was not the time to decline. The Demon-Banishing Stick, although only an earth-grade top-quality spiritual weapon, wasn’t even comparable to the Wind-chasing Soul Piercing Spear he gave to Zhao Qian, let alone the Hell Cold Star Halberd he seized from Cai Wenzhi. However, intuition tells him, this was a spiritual weapon must suitable for him than the Wind-chasing Soul Piercing Spear and Hell Cold Star Halberd.

Now he didn’t lack good spiritual weapons, he had all kinds of weapons such as knives, guns, swords, and halberds, and all of them had a high-grade. However, because of the time constraint, he didn’t master the corresponding martial arts for each spiritual weapon. Without systematic learning and practice, it would be no different from seeking death to rush into battle rashly.

On the contrary, the Demon-Banishing Stick doesn’t demand much in terms of martial arts. Although there are staff skills, even without martial arts, he can still unleash potent combat power with his mighty strength, which wouldn’t be much worse than using the Demon-Banishing Stick after mastering martial arts.

“Thank you, Uncle Master, for this valuable gift.” Qi Tian extended his hands and respectfully took the Demon-Banishing Stick from Huang Liuyan’s hands.

Huang Liuyan was quite satisfied with Qi Tian’s attitude. She didn’t see the common faults of young men his age, such as being arrogant and disregarding others. Although she didn’t care much about etiquette, she was pleased if someone who was supposed to be respectful was polite enough.

Huang Liuyan took out a small booklet with a flick of her finger and handed it to Qi Tian, saying, “Here is a staff skill of the Yellow Grade Top Quality — Thirteen Demonic Strokes. It’s useless for me to keep this, so I might as well give it to you.”

“Thank you, Uncle Master.” Qi Tian gripped the Demon-Banishing Stick and thrust it onto the ground, creating a pit, and the stick stood there stably. Then he extended his hands to take the guide to the staff skill from Huang Liuyan.

“We will rest for another hour. During this time, you two should familiarize yourselves with the Wind-chasing Soul Piercing Spear and the Thirteen Demonic Strokes. No matter how much progress you make, we must depart after an hour.”

Huang Liuyan was well aware that allowing Qi Tian and Zhao Qian more time would benefit their skills improvement, but she was more conscious. If they continue to stay here, the native cultivators like Jiang Xiong, Ma Li, who were backed by the Jade Phoenix Sect, might send more people to kill them, and the pursuers may not be far from them now. If they don’t leave now, they might get surrounded by the pursuers.

Qi Tian was skilled, but he revealed some shortcomings in the fight against Jiang Xiong, Ma Li, and the others. If there were more pursuers with stronger abilities, the three of them might not fend them off.

Qi Tian knew the situation was urgent. The safe house was not far from here, which would be a little over a day’s journey at the speed of the Red-eyed Demonic Wolf, or even shorter if it was the Golden Flur Tiger. It’s entirely possible to encounter a large group of native cultivators here. They didn’t encounter native cultivators last night because they were lucky. One can’t rely on luck all the time in the martial world, they have to leave when they should.

Qi Tian didn’t waste time and started to peruse the Thirteen Demonic Strokes. Due to time constraint, he didn’t read the specific combat techniques but focused on the general framework and some basic introductions to staff skills.

The basic staff skills include many moves, like chopping, swinging, poking, lifting, hanging, crashing, dotting, sweeping, piercing, blocking, flicking, holding, supporting, clouding, lifting, smashing, spinning flower,etc.

Qi Tian picked several common basic staff skills like chopping, dotting, sweeping, flicking, and other four or five moves, and practiced them over and over again for an hour. It seemed like he was naturally suited for the staff. When he held the Demon-Banishing Stick and practiced these staff skills, he felt as if the Demon-Banishing Stick was part of his body. Ordinary people might need to practice one basic staff skill hundreds of times to master it. In his case, he was able to make it look decent after practicing a few dozens of times.

Huang Liuyan watched Zhao Qian and Qi Tian silently. She used to focus on Zhao Qian, thinking she was good material. She always intended to cultivate Zhao Qian. Or else she wouldn’t make Zhao Qian her guard and accompany her to travel around the Lianying Realm. The last time she met Qi Tian in Guchuan City, Huang Liuyan only thought Qi Tian was a bit smart, seemed to be pretty good at making money, and was willing to spend money. Apart from that, she didn’t feel anything special about him.

The shock that Qi Tian gave her this time around was huge. He was at the fourth stage of Qi Cultivation, yet he managed to battle against eleven local cultivators like Jiang Xiong and Ma Li, whose cultivation levels far exceeded his and emerged victorious in the end. There were many factors contributing to this, for instance, Jiang Xiong and his people underestimated Qi Tian at the beginning, and committed the fatal mistake of spreading their forces too thin. Furthermore, their tactics were rigid; they clearly could have adopted a flexible strategy to evade Qi Tian’s force, but instead chose to confront him head-on. Nevertheless, it was undeniable that the key factors were Qi Tian’s considerable strength and his fearless attitude towards hardship.

It was then that Huang Liuyan felt it necessary to reassess her understanding of Qi Tian. Her perspective and experiences were far superior than Zhao Qian’s. Although she did not have an in-depth exchange with Qi Tian, she had discovered some secrets about him.

The simplest question, from where did Qi Tian’s robust strength come from?

The source of strength a Qi Cultivation cultivator can utilize is very limited. On the surface, she did not find any special treasures on Qi Tian that could provide power, yet Qi Tian was able to unleash super-ton strength. This indicated that Qi Tian’s meridians were extraordinarily noteworthily strong. He could provide formidable True Essence Power, and presumably Qi Tian’s accomplishment in body cultivation was also not low. Otherwise, when such a tremendous power was released, it could recoil and destroy his body from within.

Not mentioning other aspects, merely these two unusual factors were enough for her to fish out two massive secrets from Qi Tian. She didn’t even need to interrogate Qi Tian; she could guess that the number of meridians Qi Tian had unlocked was not small, and a significant number of them probably reached the legendary perfectly unlocked state.

Why could Qi Tian do this? If she could dig these facts out, it would be enough for Huang Liuyan to exchange it for many cultivation resources she needed.

However, Huang Liuyan did not do this, nor did she plan to. She was Qi Tian’s senior in their sect, and she understood that in order to avoid a succession crisis in the sect, freedom for growth should be provided to gifted disciples like Qi Tian. If they had any secrets, she wouldn’t deprive them of it. Moreover, despite whether she was willing to admit it or not, Qi Tian had not only bought a Red-eyed Demon Wolf for her as a mount but had lent her ten million coins. Plus, he had saved her life yesterday. Huang Liuyan had not descended so low as to be ungrateful. On the contrary, she was trying to think of ways to help Qi Tian, so he could stand at higher positions and earn better status.

Huang Liuyan’s mind had already formulated a plan. She was waiting for an appropriate opportunity to implement it. Nevertheless, when she saw Qi Tian swiftly gain accomplishments in staff skills, Huang Liuyan hesitated.

Qi Tian showed the potential of becoming a powerful cultivator in every aspect, and his future accomplishments were unimaginably high. At the least, surpassing her senior brother and Master Xiao Xiaowu of Imperial Master Mansion was not a problem for him. A person like him, who crushes his peers in all aspects, may not all be good.

Just like a person with advanced thinking who runs to a feudal society to advocate for democracy and rule of law, it would already be fortunate if they weren’t burnt as a heretic. It was lonely at the top. Introducing Qi Tian to a field of fame and fortune too early, and making him the center of contention might not be a good thing for him. Some people’s ways of doing things were even unbearable for her, not to mention Qi Tian, who was relatively weaker than her.

In an instant, Huang Liuyan made up her mind to no longer interfere with Qi Tian’s life path. She would let Qi Tian be like flowers in the wild, growing freely, what he will eventually become, depends entirely on his efforts and fate.

In a blink of an eye, an hour passed. Qi Tian and Zhao Qian simultaneously stopped practicing. Zhao Qian was over the moon as yesterday Qi Tian handed her the Wind-chasing Soul Piercing Spear. She always wanted to test how strong the spear was. After using it, she found that it was far stronger than her former Sunset Snow Python Spear, her combat power had at least increased by ten percent. This was even when she was not very familiar with the Wind-chasing Soul Piercing Spear. Once she got complete control over it, she was confident that her combat power would increase by half again.

Huang Liuyan’s gaze swept over Qi Tian and Zhao Qian, and said, “From now on, until we enter the Safe House, we likely won’t have a moment of rest. Waiting for us is a series of tough battles. Because of some special reasons, I’m not able to fight. So, among the three of us, the main force would be you two, especially Qi Tian, you are to be the arrowhead. I won’t say much more, but I hope you can remember that the safe house is our only way back to the Imperial Master Mansion. Therefore, if you want to return home, you have to fight to the death.”

Qi Tian nodded heavily, nearly three months ago, when he first came out from the safe house, he was already aware of today’s moment and had been mentally prepared for a long time. All this time he had been desperately collecting all sorts of cultivation resources, enhancing his strength, a significant reason was for today.

As for Zhao Qian, it goes without saying. Ever since becoming Huang Liuyan’s only guard and entering the Lianying Realm with Huang Liuyan, her nerves had always been taut, never slackened. Like Qi Tian, she too had fought numerous battles, big and small here. But her gains were not as big as Qi Tian’s. Her battles were basically close-quarter combats, unlike Qi Tian’s which were mainly battles of extermination.

Huang Liuyan first climbed onto her Red-eyed Demon Wolf, Qi Tian and Zhao Qian also got onto their respective mounts. Qi Tian led the way towards the direction of the Safe House.

It was quiet in the morning. But by noon, Qi Tian and the others met the first wave of people. The first wave was not local cultivators of Lianying Realm but cultivators of the Imperial Master Mansion just like them.