Chapter 45

Ning Yue had been sent to the Ninth Heaven Realm by a fragment of the divine crystal for quite some time. He had also learned some basic knowledge about the Ninth Heaven Realm. Due to the rampant beasts, the people of the entire Ninth Heaven Realm were not good at farming and could not patiently tend to the fields. During the busy farming season, they also had to guard against the beasts' invasion, making it almost impossible to work diligently. Moreover, this realm was vast and sparsely populated, so the harvest from the fields largely depended on the weather. Therefore, their main source of food still relied on hunting and gathering wild fruits, as well as collecting eggs from birds and beasts.

The Huo Family Village was no different. The village mainly relied on hunting for food, and the crops they planted only made up a small part.

Ning Yue had been in the Huo Family Village for a long time and learned that the village not only had these people but also a group of young and strong men who had gone out hunting. It had been nearly twenty days, yet they had not returned, causing many families in the village to worry about their loved ones.

Although everyone in the Huo Family Village had learned some martial arts, the Hunyuan Pile was not a high-level martial art and did not even have a method to open the life soul. If they really encountered beasts, even with their large numbers, the people of the Huo Family Village would still suffer casualties.

Villages like the Huo Family Village always kept their gates tightly closed. Unless there was a large prey to be brought in or out, the villagers would use ropes to enter and exit. However, those who went out hunting had no choice but to face the danger each time, causing their families to worry that they might never return.

Although Ning Yue had learned all this, he could not help the people of the Huo Family Village. This matter was not related to martial arts, and even if his martial arts were ten times stronger, it would not help. He could only secretly remember it in his heart.

One day, Ning Yue and Bai Luoluo followed the villagers to gather wild fruits. Although he concealed his superior martial arts and supreme virtual phase, he still worked much faster than others. Fortunately, there was a large fruit forest near the Huo Family Village, which produced a very special fruit called Man Shou!

This fruit was sour and astringent when eaten raw, making it hard to swallow, but when roasted, it tasted like a steamed bun and had a slight fragrance. It was also abundant in the dark world and was one of the main foods for the people of the Huo Family Village.

Ning Yue collected a bag of Man Shou and found a place where no one was around. He had Bai Luoluo stand on her head and began to practice the second form of the Great Pagoda Method, the Yin Transformation Form.

He was eager to enhance Bai Luoluo's strength, so he would guide her in practicing martial arts whenever he had a moment to spare. Bai Luoluo knew that this was for her own good, so she never complained and worked ten times harder than ordinary people.

The Clumsy Fire Form generated clumsy fire, while the Yin Transformation Form aimed to eliminate all the yin energy in the body, allowing the clumsy fire to burn through the entire body, transforming it into a pure yang energy body.

The first six forms of the Great Pagoda Method corresponded to the first six levels of the cultivation method, and it only became more complex from the seventh level onwards.

If Bai Luoluo could master the Yin Transformation Form, she could fully cultivate the second level of the Great Pagoda Method, the Lion Pagoda.

The Treasure Elephant Pagoda could make the skin as tough as an old elephant's, while the Lion Pagoda mainly strengthened the muscles, increasing strength several times. Generally, if a disciple of the Esoteric Sect could master the Lion Pagoda and practice in the mountains and forests, they would no longer fear various beasts. Those with exceptional talent could even tear apart lions and tigers or fight off wolf packs. Even if their talent was slightly weaker, as long as they were not surrounded by a large wolf pack, they could still retreat from ordinary beasts with ease.

While Ning Yue was guiding Bai Luoluo in her practice, teaching her how to absorb the essence of heaven and earth into her body, he suddenly felt the ground tremble, as if a large group of people were approaching. He was slightly startled and had Bai Luoluo transform into a boulder to hide. He then leaped onto a nearby Man Shou tree.

Looking far away, he saw a group of dozens of people dragging two giant wolves, larger than calves, heading towards the Huo Family Village. Almost everyone in the group was injured, and the atmosphere was quite oppressive.

Seeing that it was not the pursuers from the Temple of the Army, Ning Yue relaxed and immediately let out a long whistle, calling out, "It seems our village people have returned. Look over there!"

Reminded by his shout, the women and elders of the Huo Family Village who were gathering fruits all ran out and soon met the group. Ning Yue saw them crying and laughing, some in joy and others in grief, clearly having lost loved ones. He knew his guess was correct, and this group was indeed the hunting party of the Huo Family Village.

Ning Yue did not mix with the crowd or pay attention to the returning people, as they were not his family. Joining them would only raise suspicions and be quite bothersome. Instead, he was quite interested in the two giant wolves, which were common Moonlight Beast Wolves. If their life souls were collected, they could be used to form a set of Moonlight Heavenly Wolf Swords, which could serve as Bai Luoluo's current trump card.

The two giant wolves were still alive, but their entire bodies were tightly bound like mummies, and their mouths were tied with hemp ropes, allowing them only to breathe and not even howl.

Ning Yue observed the two giant wolves for a while and could not help but feel a slight stirring in his heart. He then activated the Ten Directions Annihilation Method.

The Ten Directions Annihilation Method, a unique mental cultivation technique derived from the Great Clarity Heart Method, was hundreds of times more advanced than the Great Clarity Heart Method. Ning Yue had long since broken through the realm of illusion and reached the level of controlling matter with his mind. At this moment, he tested his skills, and a giant wolf with slightly reddish fur suddenly convulsed, its eyes glowing with a eerie green light, looking extremely terrifying. However, it was bound so tightly that it could not move, and the people of the Huo Family Village were too happy to see their loved ones to notice this brief anomaly.

The Ten Directions Annihilation Method could even deceive the senses of a virtual phase-level expert, causing various illusions. For a slightly weaker virtual phase-level expert, life and death were at his command, and ordinary life soul-level experts had no power to resist.

Although this giant wolf had exceptional talent, how could it compare to these top martial artists who had been tempered through countless battles and had indomitable mental strength?

In an instant, Ning Yue broke into the giant wolf's mind and discovered a highly concentrated energy in its chest. This energy seemed to have a life of its own and tried to escape the control of the Ten Directions Annihilation Method when captured by Ning Yue's mind.

Ning Yue sneered inwardly, thinking, "A mere beast dares to try to break my Ten Directions Annihilation Method? It's too naive to underestimate me, Ning Yue."

Ning Yue's Ten Directions Annihilation Method transformed into one of the eighteen killing moves, the Star Shift. The strange energy only jumped slightly and then lost its support, disappearing from the giant wolf's body.

Ning Yue casually turned his hand, and a green light appeared in his palm. He tucked the light into his sleeve and then looked at the other giant wolf, hesitating slightly. He could guess that the people of the Huo Family Village must have had some plan in capturing the Moonlight Beast Wolves alive. If he took both of their life souls, the Huo Family Village would gain nothing.

"Fine, I still have other types of life souls. I can return them in double when the time comes. The people of the Huo Family Village, who have not opened their life souls, can only use the most primitive method to extract life souls and probably won't care about the type of life soul."

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