The Great Wild God - Chapter 125

Chapter 125 Shadow Separation Technique
Chen Xun had cultivated the Cloud Escape Technique for more than ten days, and he had already reached the realm where Yiye Fuping sent waves to the sea.

At this moment, he was traveling through the dense forest and following the wind. In an instant, he was several zhang faster than when he used the Wind Harnessing Technique.

However, the demonic toad seemed to be clumsy, but its movements weren’t any slower than Chen Xun’s. Its legs were made of divine iron, and it stepped on trees and branches. It jumped thirty to fifty meters away. It bit behind Chen Xun tightly, threatening to kill this evil thief who had indiscriminately killed its descendants before it was willing to give up.

What made Chen Xun even more headache was the long and seemingly endless aura of the demonic toad. It only paused for a few seconds before it opened its mouth and a formation of ice arrows covered a radius of more than ten zhang. The rocks collapsed and the trees collapsed. There was actually nothing in the mountains that could escape its devastation.

Chen Xun had also used the Shadow Separation Technique several times before he was able to escape.

The demonic toad had lived in the Frost Spring Swamp for countless years, and had also grown spiritually intelligent. Although he did not know how the little thief in front of him managed to escape from its killing blow, he opened his mouth and spat out the Frost Arrow Formation after several times of failure. His long tongue immediately stabbed out like a spear.

The demon toad was only two meters tall when it stood up, but the long tongue it shot out was ten to twenty meters tall, causing Chen Xun to be unable to escape at all. This truly took Chen Xun’s life.

The Demon Toad opened its mouth and spat out the Frost Arrow Formation, stopping for a few seconds, and Chen Xun’s use of the Shadow Separation Technique wasn’t unlimited.

When he used the Shadow Separation Art, apart from separating out a divine soul mark, he also had to extract nearly a third of Chen Xun’s blood vitality and divine brilliance. Using the Shadow Separation Technique twice in a row, coupled with replenishing the consumption of the Diamond Profound Armor, would be enough to drain Chen Xun’s blood vitality.

In the past, after his Qi and blood had been squeezed dry, it would take him more than ten seconds to recover his Qi after consuming the pill.

Fortunately, Chen Xun had succeeded in cultivating seventy-two Sanshou. Even if he was holding his head and fleeing with a mouse, his posture, hands, and feet were still in line with the Dao Condensation Fist Momentum.

One of the advantages of cultivating Qi and Blood to perfection was that once the medicinal power boiled into a hundred bones, it would transform into Qi and Blood Divine Splendor more quickly than before.

Even if he counted this, Chen Xun would still need three to five seconds to execute the Shadow Separation Technique twice in a row.

Seeing his long tongue piercing towards him like a spear, Chen Xun had nowhere to hide, so he could only swing his body and slash with his saber.

The fierce frost saber light Chen Xun slashed out could even cut off the giant spear forged from the Divine Mark Cold Iron. However, slashing the demonic toad’s long tongue sideways was like slashing onto a soft, unstressed cord.

The incomparably fierce saber light could not break the demon toad’s tongue. Chen Xun felt a bit of tremendous force penetrate from his waist and abdomen. After a ball of golden light burst out from the secret armor engraved with the Third Stage Diamond Profound Talisman, it was unable to completely block the long tongue’s piercing force. Two bloody holes were immediately pierced into his right abdomen.

Chen Xun used the Cloud Escape Technique and escaped more than ten zhang in pain. However, before he could breathe, the demonic toad flew over like a shadow. He was so anxious that he held his breath at his throat and then used the Shadow Separation Technique to dodge the ice arrow formation.

Fortunately, Ah Qing saw that Chen Xun was in danger and didn’t only care about escaping. He saw the demonic toad shoot out its long tongue again and pounce from the side, biting the toad tongue that looked like a giant rope.

Ah Qing’s teeth were as sharp as blades, but she could not help but bite the demonic toad’s long, tenacious tongue. The demon toad immediately rolled its long tongue and wrapped Ah Qing’s enormous body tightly, about to swallow it.

Ah Qing rarely displayed divine courage and loyalty to protect his master. Chen Xun could not abandon it either. He turned around and slashed several rays of saber light at the root of the demonic toad’s tongue in an instant.

The demon toad’s long tongue was outside, unable to release the ice arrow array. Even eating a few saber lights made it so painful that it roared and was forced to let go of its long tongue.

The demonic toad retracted its long tongue, and its abdomen shrank abruptly. Chen Xun didn’t care about squeezing out all of his blood and qi, and then he used the Shadow Separation Art to dodge.

Fortunately, the extreme cold profound energy in the Demon Toad’s body was not endless. This time, the frost arrow formation’s momentum was slightly smaller, and only a single ice blade swept across Chen Xun’s calf.

Chen Xun lowered his head and saw that a piece of his calf had been cut off, revealing a thick white bone. However, he was not afraid. The thorn in the tongue of the demonic toad could not be undone. It could only hit the fork of the long tongue in a critical moment, and it would be able to dodge the killing blow by clashing head-on.

The demonic toad did not attack again, but instead turned around and jumped back into the Frost Lake Swamp.

Chen Xun heaved a sigh of relief. He knew that the Frost Profound Qi in the Frost Toad’s body was exhausted, but since the Frost Toad had jumped back into the Frost Lake Swamp, he was unable to chase after it.

The demonic toad’s long tongue had barbs. Although Chen Qing had avoided becoming a nightmare of delicious food in the stomach of the demonic toad, his body was curled up by the barbs. His skin and flesh were torn off, and his bones and muscles were exposed in blood. He was so painful that he was standing beside Chen Xun and screaming.

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Chen Xun and Ah Qing fled to the stone depression thirty to forty kilometers away and climbed up a giant tree exhausted to recuperate.

When he came out this time, he took three hundred True Yang Origin Cultivation Pills from the Immortal Seeking Temple and brought them with him, wanting to consume them with Lou Shiyi.

Chen Xun hadn’t expected that before he could fight the demonic toad, he had already used up nearly a tenth of his medicinal pill reserves in less than a cup of tea.

As for the three-level talisman armor that he had won by risking his life and killing Lou Jiao, if he placed it in Azure Water City, there would be people who would snatch the three thousand talisman coins and destroy it just like that, which made Chen Xun even more anxious to cry.

However, Chen Xun was also fortunate that this profound armor had dodged a fatal blow. Otherwise, his body would be pierced through by the demonic toad’s long tongue in a hurry, and it would be difficult for him to escape the doom of losing his life on the spot.

The Lake Wilderness was truly a dangerous place that ordinary rogue cultivators could not enter.

No matter how mysterious the Shadow Separation Technique was, without the support of medicinal pills, it would drain one’s blood and qi after two or three times, making it very difficult for them to escape the pursuit of powerful desolate beasts.

Even with enough medicinal pills to support it, the Shadow Separation Technique was not omnipotent.

If the interval between the Demon Toad releasing the Frost Arrow Formation two times could be shortened by another second or two, or if the Demon Toad began to learn how to be smart and combine the Frost Arrow Formation with the Longtongue Assassination to attack, Chen Xun knew that he would never be able to escape today.

Chen Xun wasn’t mad. Martial Cultivators had to fight to the death before they could truly grow.

After this battle, Chen Xun was well aware of the mysteries of the Shadow Separation Art, and it was worthy of further digging.

Cultivation of martial arts is easy to be ignored, it is not without reason.

At the late stage of the True Yang Realm, the divine soul cultivated and nurtured spiritual sense.

No matter how exquisite a battle technique was, as long as it was locked down by the opponent’s spiritual sense, apart from the fact that the spiritual sense was several times stronger than the opponent’s and was able to break free from the spiritual sense lock, no matter how ordinary a technique was, it was extremely difficult to dodge it. Normally, one could only fight head-on to the death with the strength of their opponent’s spiritual sense!

This caused late-stage True Yang Realm cultivators to pursue the powerful might of battle martial arts and techniques without thinking of cultivating their techniques to be more exquisite.

This also caused the weak to tremble in fear in front of the strong. They had no dignity at all. Once the strong were angered, the weak would have little chance of escaping.

Chen Xun took out the beast hide ancient book Tie Xintong had given him. He didn’t know who created the Shadow Separation Art. This beast hide ancient book was written in the ancient characters of the bird seal, and it was so old that it couldn’t be verified.

The Shadow Separation Technique was based on the cultivation of one’s soul and spiritual sense. After cultivating it, one would be able to separate out a phantom image with a soul mark, replacing one’s true body to withstand the spiritual sense of an opponent. Divine Sense Locking Kill was a miraculous technique that relied on weakness to avoid strength.

If he hadn’t used the Shadow Separation Technique to escape through the center of the Frost Arrow Formation several times earlier, he would have long ago turned into a pile of ice residue.

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Twilight was approaching, and the Twin-Headed Scaled Vulture had yet to fly back. However, Chen Xun knew that the time left for him was truly limited. When the injuries on his body weren’t serious, he jumped down from the tree crown, packed his belongings, and wanted to touch the swamp again.

Ah Qing bit down on Chen Xun’s trousers.

“Are you afraid that I won’t be the opponent of that demonic toad?” Chen Xun asked with a smile.

Ah Qing nodded, indicating that she understood Chen Xun’s words.

Although he didn’t know what secret technique Lou Shiyi could use to avoid the senses of these evil toads and quietly walk to the stone ground in the middle of the swamp, Chen Xun sighed emotionally. “But when Lou Shiyi fought against the Twin-Headed Vulture, the evil toad in the swamp didn’t move. I presume that there must be something in that stone ground that the evil toad didn’t dare to approach or dare to approach.” We just need to think of a way to get on that rocky ground and we’ll be safe. “We can’t let Lou Shiyi subdue the Twin-Headed Vulture and chase after us from all over the world …”

Since the Twin-Headed Vulture could build its nest in the stone ground in the middle of the swamp, Chen Xun guessed that it was very likely that the Phoenix Blood Wood growing on the stone ground could restrain these giant toads.

Although he couldn’t kill the demonic toad with his current strength, the other giant black toads didn’t move when the demonic toad chased after him and Ah Qing. He thought to himself that he could only escape the demonic toad’s pursuit and still had a sliver of chance to charge into the stone ground.

Ah Qing nagged Chen Xun to take off the tattered armor and threw it at his feet.

Chen Xun touched Ah Qing’s bloodstained neck hair and smiled, “That demonic toad is not terrifying. If I were stronger in the last few moves, or if the weapon in my hand was more handy, I might be able to cut off that annoying long tongue-”

Chen Xun had only cultivated the Shadow Separation Technique and Cloud Escape Technique for a short period of time. It could only be said that he had just entered the sect. Although he had just fought with the Demonic Toad for a short time, it had given him a profound understanding. If he could combine these two techniques with the Fierce Frost Saber Technique and control the fighting rhythm more subtly, his strength would definitely rise to a higher level.

Chen Xun thought for a while. He didn’t have the Profound Armor to protect him, so he couldn’t deviate at all. Fortunately, Ah Qing was much smarter than ordinary desolate beasts. He could tell that with Ah Qing’s cooperation, he wasn’t unable to break the Demonic Toad’s offensive.

However, Ah Qing was young before, and Chen Xun hadn’t expected to use Ah Qing’s strength to fight against the enemy. The coordination between humans and beasts wasn’t very tacit …

The heavily injured Twin-Headed Vulture could fly back at any time. If it could not sneak into the stone ground before then, it would lose the chance to ambush and kill the Twin-Headed Vulture.

Chen Xun didn’t have time to practice the tactics with Ah Qing, so he could only use the demonic toad to practice while fighting …