Chapter 144
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Chapter 144: The Spirit Monster of the Great Lake
Yun Ye encouraged the three siblings, Tian Jing, and then left Tomorrow Village to do his own things.
After a year of hunting, his level had nearly reached ten, and it was time to complete this puzzle.
The entry-level Combination Spiritual Law was lacking in many areas and relied mostly on luck. He urgently needed to improve further.
"Swish!"
Yun Ye moved swiftly through the forest, maintaining the Eye of Invisible Light and Spirit Sense to avoid missing any environmental information.
The Great Disaster Transformation had persisted for a year, showing no signs of stopping.
Yun Ye could see the calamity energy becoming increasingly dense; a Great Disaster-level monster was about to be born.
Under these circumstances, he had to increase the frequency of clearing out monsters.
If a powerful monster were to break into Tomorrow Village, the demonic energy unleashed upon its death would attract other monsters, leading to a vicious cycle.
…
In the forest, filled with the sounds of birds and flowers, a clear large lake lay nestled, where many animals came to drink.
Some left unscathed, while others vanished without a trace, devoured by creatures lurking in the water, leaving no blood behind.
That day, in addition to the various animals visiting the lake, a horse-drawn carriage arrived.
The coachman, wearing a straw hat, was unable to be seen clearly, except for the fact that he was a man.
From the carriage emerged a frail young man, his complexion pale and appearing somewhat sickly. After surveying his surroundings, he said, “Ah Shu, let’s stop here and rest for a bit; it’s just right to refill our clean water.”
“Alright, Young Master Dong, come down,” the coachman said, helping the frail young man disembark. He then easily used his hand to chop down a tree, making a wooden stump for the young man to sit on.
Then he added, “Young Master Dong, there might be monsters in this lake. I’ll get the water by myself.”
“Go ahead.”
With the permission granted, the coachman took the water bag and strode toward the lake.
He had successfully led the young master through multiple cities to escape, so he was naturally unafraid of an ordinary lake. Even if there were monsters inside, they would only be high-level monsters and could not be his opponent.
As he approached, many animals scattered in fear, fleeing from the human presence.
He paid them no mind, scooping some water and sniffing it to ensure it was fine before opening the water bag and starting to fill it with a “glug glug glug” sound.
One bag after another, when he was filling the third bag, the water suddenly erupted. Transparent tentacles shot out, wrapping around him.
The coachman had anticipated this. He struggled with his arms, and a strong golden light enveloped his entire body.
However, to his surprise, even with his effort, he did not immediately break free from the tentacles; instead, both his arms and feet sank into the water, losing their footing.
“Ah Shu!”
The frail young man, watching from a distance, stood up in worry.
“This monster has some strength, but don’t worry, my young master. It’s just a high-level monster, and I can handle it!”
“Spiritual Roots revival!”
The coachman responded, as golden light spread across his forehead, dramatically increasing his power, allowing him to stand firmly on the shore.
With his muscles tensed, he shouted and pulled on the transparent tentacles, attempting to force the monster out of the water.
However, after just a few steps, the coachman felt something was wrong; the monster’s power was surging.
In the blink of an eye, the strength he had awakened with his Spiritual Roots—multiplied tenfold—was immediately countered and overwhelmed!
What shocked him even more was that the water’s surface began to boil as a mass of tentacles erupted from the water, filling his field of vision.
“Golden Spirit Technique—Golden Array!”
The coachman dared not hold back any longer. He poured all his energy into casting the spiritual technique, and sharp golden blades emerged from his body, aimed at cutting through the restraining tentacles—
“Not cutting? How is that possible!”
The coachman was horrified.
He realized with disbelief that the golden blades he had gathered simply merged into the water, completely unable to cut through the tentacles!
In the next moment, he soared into the air and was yanked into the water.
“Ah ah ah!”
With his screams, the coachman vanished beneath the water’s surface, unable to even struggle.
“Stop!”
The frail young man witnessed this scene and shouted, his brown hair instantaneously engulfed by darkness, even his pupils turned black. Immediately, the air and ground before him exploded, creating a massive hole in the lake.
However, he still did not see his coachman’s figure.
After this strike, the frail young man felt his legs weaken and he collapsed to the ground, coughing painfully as the darkness in his pupils and hair quickly faded.
Seeing his own power rendered useless, he knelt in despair, tears streaming down his face as he helplessly pounded the ground. “Damn it, damn it, damn it… Why… It’s just a normal lake, why!!”
“Swish!”
“Who?”
The frail young man suddenly lifted his head and looked around, sensing something approaching—and it was very close.
Was it a monster?
“Swish!”
The sound flashed again, and a young man in water and fire-patterned clothes appeared suddenly on the ground.
As soon as the young man landed, he looked at the frail youth with a surprised expression. “A carriage? You must be an outsider!”
“What if I’m an outsider? Do you want to stop me?” The frail young man shouted angrily, rising from the ground.
In that moment, he felt that the entire world was filled with malice, and even the usually rational side of him struggled to control his emotions.
“Of course not. It’s just that up ahead lies a Dao Domain caught in the moment of rotation. If you run into their people, you probably won’t fare well,” the young man in water and fire-patterned clothes replied.
“Moment of rotation!?” The frail young man regained his composure instantly. He looked towards the Great Lake and clenched his fists. “The monsters in this lake also came into being because of the transformation?”
“It seems I don’t need to explain anymore. You should take a detour; who knows what kinds of ‘things’ you’ll encounter up ahead.”
“Then it’s time to take action.”
The young man in water and fire-patterned clothes turned and walked towards the Great Lake.
Clearly, he was targeting the monsters.
“Wait, let me help too! There are monsters in this lake that swallowed my family… I can assist you!”
The frail young man suddenly spoke up.
“Help me? With a body like yours?”
The young man in water and fire-patterned clothes looked at him in surprise.
“You can’t judge by appearances; I possess a special power. I can definitely help you,” the frail young man insisted.
“…”
The young man in water and fire-patterned clothes shook his head. “Although I didn’t use Spirit Sense to check your condition, I can tell just by looking and feeling that you’re weak. You can’t use that kind of power anymore.”
“…”
The frail young man didn’t expect the newcomer to already know about his power, and he fell silent.
Seeing this, the young man in water and fire-patterned clothes continued with his hunt.
With one step, he appeared at the water’s edge.
Looking at the Great Lake, the young man in water and fire-patterned clothes summoned a jade disc-like artifact. As the jade disc expanded to the size of a house, pure white cold air surged forth, immediately freezing the entire lake.
Artifact: Extreme Cold Jade Disc.
“A dual attributes artifact!”
The frail young man’s pupils constricted, and he blurted out.
This cold air was clearly Ice Element power, something a normal Water Spiritual Root couldn’t achieve!
“Explode!”
The young man in water and fire-patterned clothes glanced at him and recited the spell, causing the entire lake to explode into countless shards of ice.
“Freezing the entire lake? Is he trying to force the monsters out? No… the whole lake is his target!”
As the frail young man thought this, the entire lake began to boil, and thick demonic energy surged into the sky.
Demonic energy filled the air.
Thousands of transparent tentacles erupted from the ice, thrashing about wildly and shattering the cold air.
The entire Great Lake was a single monster, and it was at the Chaotic-level, far stronger than the average chaotic being.
As a domain-type monster residing in one area, the lake spirit demon possessed a size that surpassed most other monsters, unleashing powerful abilities when it moved.
It was roughly like the Wind Tree, which was at a lower level and did not have dual attributes.
“Has it shown itself? It seems to sense danger.”
“Spiritual Roots revival!”
Yun Ye’s aura surged as he cast the spell, further activating the Extreme Cold Jade Disc.
The compressed spirit energy transformed into cold air as it entered the jade disc, then erupted overwhelmingly, continuously freezing the lake spirit demon’s tentacles.
This made the lake spirit demon sense danger, leading to a full revival as its increasingly massive demonic energy broke through the cold air.
The lake spirit demon usually transformed into a lake, with only a small amount of Demonic Power in motion. It hunted sparingly and remained in a dormant state, only reviving to hunt when it encountered delicious prey or faced a large-scale attack. The driver could hold his ground at first because of this; otherwise, he wouldn’t even have the chance to scream before the Chaotic-level monster struck.
“Aaaaa!”
The revival of the lake spirit demon came with a piercing scream that seemed to penetrate the soul, as if countless voices layered one on top of the other.
In the distance, the frail young man showed a pained expression, covering his ears and stepping back continuously.
Yun Ye remained expressionless, continuously infusing cold air.
However, as the lake spirit demon fully revived, this cold air could no longer suppress it and quickly began to collapse.
A massive orb of water shot up like a fountain, arching toward the sky and then overwhelming everything beneath it.
The shadow covered the sky, unstoppable.
Yet, a glint of red appeared in Yun Ye’s eyes as he saw the various weak points of the lake spirit demon.
At once, the jade disc began to spin, releasing cold air that froze a large area.
However, as the lake-size water orb descended from the sky, the frozen area created by the jade disc was still too small, quickly shattering under the weight, merely slowing it down for a moment.
Yun Ye didn’t care; he raised his hands, and flames and water surged upward to the sky, intertwining like a shower of flowers, transforming into hundreds of streams of fire and water that covered the entire descending water layer.
While the frail young man wondered what Yun Ye was doing…
“Boom!”
An explosive force covered the entire sky, and the tidal wave crashed down with the weight of a mountain, instantly shattering.
Combination Spiritual Law: Liquid Hydrogen Explosion!
“…”
The frail young man watched the splashing water, opening his mouth in confusion.
Can a Water Element and Fire Element work together to perform Combination Spiritual Law?
Was he ignorant?
As the lake spirit demon’s assault was shattered, Yun Ye brought his hands together, and a massive amount of spirit energy began to gather.
“Extreme Spirit Water Law: Peeling!”
A water net spread out, capturing all the fragments of the lake spirit demon scattered across the sky.
Then, impurities were filtered out, and the essence was extracted.
Hundreds of tons of liquid were distilled down to only one hundred pounds of essence, which were glimmering water beads resembling precious gems.
Yun Ye waved his hand, covering the beads with his sleeve and storing them in the Secret Realm.
The battle was far from over!
What was destroyed was merely a part of the lake spirit demon’s body, not even one-tenth, unable to harm its core.
“Swish, swish, swish!”
The sounds of breaking through the air erupted, colliding with the cold air.
Overwhelming it with numbers proved ineffective, so the lake spirit demon changed its strategy.
Transparent tentacles transformed into water blades, piercing forth in their thousands. The highly compressed water blades were so cold that even the cold air struggled to freeze them, forcing the cold air back until it stood before Yun Ye, unable to block the attack of the water blades.
“The lake spirit demon’s spirit energy is truly powerful; it cannot be matched with just a magic tool.”
After all, Yun Ye was only in the mortal realm, and the magic tools he created being able to contend with Chaotic-level monsters was already remarkable. Even a celestial phenomenon would likely struggle to deal with such a large target.
This was also one of the reasons he sought to hunt the lake spirit demon.
As a Water Element Chaotic-level monster, the lake spirit demon had a unique body composition that could allow the extreme cold jade disc to further empower itself, reaching the realm of manifesting the Combination Spiritual Law: All Things Silent!
A jade disc that bore All Things Silent wouldn’t be as half-hearted as it was now; it would elevate Yun Ye’s strength to another realm, and he was determined to obtain it.
“Heart Fire!”
Yun Ye put away the extreme cold jade disc and vanished from his spot.
“Aaaaaaaaa!”
The water blades released by the lake spirit demon sliced through the ground, cutting through the forest and leaving behind countless tiny scars.
A few even grazed the frail young man, forcing him to drop to the ground immediately to reduce the chance of being hit.
When Yun Ye reappeared, he stood directly before the lake spirit demon. He tossed out eight formation flags that floated in the air, emitting gray-white spirit energy. The extreme cold jade disc surged with energy, connecting with the formation flags, becoming the core of the great formation as the spirit energy of heaven and earth began to gather wildly.
“Extreme Cold Great Formation!”
Yun Ye’s Weapon Forging techniques were undoubtedly rough, unable to fully maximize the material’s effectiveness.
However, he could still pile up the numbers.
If a single magic tool wasn’t strong enough, then combining it with formations and Talismans would boost its power!
The cost was merely the materials from monsters, of which there was no shortage during this Great Disaster Transformation.
With the boost from the formations, the power of the extreme cold jade disc increased significantly, directly suppressing the lake spirit demon.
Yun Ye also absorbed a massive amount of spirit energy from heaven and earth for conversion, then activated the Extreme Spirit Water Law: Peeling.
The frozen lake spirit demon was rapidly decomposed, visibly diminishing.
Peeling was the ultimate spirit quality of flow and dissolution, allowing water law to swiftly immerse any material it touched, disrupting the connection with the main body. This disruption was clearly impossible to reconnect.
Once Yun Ye dissolved it, he immediately swept away the useless materials, leaving only a substance called water spirit essence.
As a large amount of tissue was peeled away, the power of the lake spirit demon weakened accordingly, leaving it with no strength to resist.
However, as time passed, the lake spirit demon struggled even more, while sweat began to bead on Yun Ye’s forehead, and his breathing became unstable.
Formations could automatically draw spirit energy from heaven and earth, not causing the cultivator to expend too much spirit energy, and when paired with magic tools, it was a beneficial strategy to enhance combat power.
However, formations were not something that could simply function on their own; they required various calculations and manipulations to maintain their effectiveness.
If we were to use an analogy, the eight formation flags were like eight large nets that needed to be closely connected to sustain their function. If any gaps appeared, the effectiveness of the formation would greatly diminish.
Yun Ye had fought numerous battles over the past year, and his combat experience had advanced significantly, but these formation flags were only recently forged, and he had only practiced for a month, making him far from skilled.
Now, facing a Chaotic-level monster directly, he was left feeling overwhelmed, heading towards collapse.
At that moment, a formation flag suddenly dimmed, and the entire area’s formation became ineffective.
The lake spirit demon may not possess high intelligence, but having been trapped in the net, it naturally sensed when a portion suddenly broke free. It immediately seized the opportunity to unleash its inherent abilities.
Water Explosion Corpse Resolution!
“Boom!”
A portion of the lake spirit demon’s transparent body exploded with sudden power, far exceeding its usual might.
