Chapter 86 - Power of Blood
Su Zimo laid on the stone bed motionlessly and listened intently to the weird sound that was reverberating through his cave abode. Feeling the sensation of the flow in his marrow, a series of realizations came through to him like seeds germinating.
This was the reason why The Mystic Classic of the Twelve Demon Kings of the Great Wilderness was getting more difficult to cultivate – it was a process of internalizing external qualities.
The skin was the first to be tempered, followed by the flesh, tendons, bones. After that sequence, the marrow would be refined – that was the Marrow Cleansing section.
External cultivation techniques were relatively easier to master.
That was because apart from sutra, breathing and expiration methods as foundation, there were other killing techniques used to refine one’s skin, flesh, tendons and bones.
Take the Tri Bovine Style for example. Continuous cultivation of it would result in refinement of the skin while the three styles of the Divine Steed would help to refine the bones.
However, from the Marrow Cleansing section onwards, the mystic classic no longer had any killing techniques – everything would have to depend on Su Zimo’s power of understanding to grasp the profoundness of the sutra.
He was letting them off just like that?
Even after a while, both beasts laid sprawled on the ground, obediently still like little kittens.
Su Zimo smiled and waved his hand. “Go on and leave. You’re not allowed to harm others from now on.”
This time round, the beasts could tell of the casualness in Su Zimo’s tone.
The human seemed as though he was truly sincere about letting them go?
The spirit leopard got up slowly and moved a little. Upon seeing no reaction from Su Zimo, it headed into the distance.
After taking a couple of steps, the spirit leopard turned around hurriedly and was only relieved after seeing that Su Zimo had not caught up to it.
Even so, the spirit leopard did not dare to run and merely trod further away in small steps, turning back from time to time.
The spirit tiger did not move and watched Su Zimo with slightly agape jaws.
Su Zimo asked, “Why aren’t you leaving?”
The spirit tiger grinned widely in a seducing manner and even wagged its tail.
The moment it did that, the spirit tiger’s heart skipped a beat as it scolded itself internally, “Bloody hell! I’m the king of the forest! Why am I wagging my tail like a dog!”
“If you’re not leaving, I am.”
With that, Su Zimo turned towards the fog.
Hesitating for a moment, the spirit tiger chased after him.
“Mmm?”
Looking at the spirit tiger behind him, Su Zimo smiled. “Why? You want to follow me.”
It nodded its head hurriedly.
The spirit tiger lamented internally, “What kind of a joke is this? This human is so perverted, asking me to cry out repeatedly. How would he let us go so easily? It’s a trap! He’s laying a trap! If we really run, he’ll definitely kill us!”
The spirit tiger turned and looked at the spirit leopard that was walking away warily and mourned in his heart. “Brother leopard, good luck. You’re probably about to die.”
There’s no way Su Zimo knew what the spirit tiger was thinking but since it was so resolute, he brought it with him through the fog formation.
Along the way, the spirit tiger waited for Su Zimo to turn back and kill the spirit leopard.
However, even by the time they crossed the fog formation, Su Zimo did not seem as though he had the intention of turning back.
It was then that the spirit tiger realized that Su Zimo had actually meant to let them off!
“F*ck my life!”
The spirit tiger cursed internally as he grit his teeth.
“Wait, so I was the one who dug a pit and jumped into it myself? I even covered myself in it…!”
“There’s still a chance! Another chance!”
The spirit tiger encouraged itself, ready to run away the moment the opportunity arises.
Right then, a Perfected Golden Core streaked through the air. When he caught sight of Su Zimo below, he murmured a soft surprise and changed direction, descending before the man and beast duo.