Chapter 87: Exceeding Limits

Chapter 87: Exceeding Limits

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Body as high as 2 meters and almost 5 meters long, the Eight-clawed Golden Salamander had its large body covered with dull golden scales that barely reflected the sunshine. Its back towards the group revealed a thick tail with protruding spines that grew more prominent as one gazed up the giant salamander's back. The spiked spine reached the highest point somewhere in the middle before turning shorter and shorter, hiding ahead of the thickest and longest white bone spike. Four sets of limbs stretched down connected to sharp claws giving this prehistoric-looking spirit beast its name: Eight-clawed Golden Salamander.

Xie Xan silently stared at this beast, his heartbeats turning a notch quicker and he suddenly felt nervous.

"It's gonna be alright," He suddenly felt a pat on his back as Ja Sun walked out. His martial soul already changing his body as his elongated black hair now turned silver and shimmered slightly while hiding his fuzzy ears and the green tattoo of a third eye appeared on his forehead once again.

The procedure was already discussed. Everyone wanted to see if Ja Sun could persuade a spirit beast to sacrifice itself for another spirit master instead of Ja Sun. In case it is unsuccessful, they all had already planned out their course of action. The best case would still be trying to persuade the salamander but if it doesn't come to be then assassinating it while it is positively responding to Ja Sun's existence would also be good.

The moment the large salamander felt Ja Sun's breathe, its scaly neck instantly tilted and revealed the profile of the beast with a bell-like large eye staring at Ja Sun's direction, and without thinking at all, it pounced on Ja Sun.

'That's new,' Ja Sun blinked but before he readied himself, the salamander turned its large body dexterously and landed one foot away from Ja Sun before stopping. Now facing the beast directly, Ja Sun continued to match the beast's gaze.

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A low, guttural growl echoed from the dark scaly mouth of the salamander followed by a terrible odor that almost made Ja Sun kill the beast, or at least, clean the beast. With a slight shudder, Ja Sun smiled and patted the nose of the salamander with a look of ease. Wearing the gauntlets, he could only feel the toughness of the scales and that made him realize that sneak attacking it at once will be much harder unless they strike its weak points.

Seeing Ja Sun easily befriending the Salamander, for a moment, others felt hesitant. Especially Xie Xan. They could attack a ravenous beast without a guilty conscience but as the Salamander crouched down, comfortingly lying on its stomach and closing its eyes while Ja Sun began to communicate with it, others couldn't help but feel a sense of lament.

Seeing this, Qian Daoliu could only shake his head slightly and exhale. This was the face of inexperience. If given the opportunity himself, Qian Daoliu would opt for what Ja Sun did and act without any guilty conscience. What's there to be guilty about? Humans have manipulated other humans since ancient times and if given the opportunity, they would do the same to dangerous yet simultaneously simple spirit beasts.

At this moment, Ja Sun's voice was transmitted to his group using the voice compression technique.

"This method is going to be too slow in the end. I'm going to try using my spirit bone and when I do, don't feel startled or cause any action that might make the Salamander cautious."

With that, a violet tendril of mist suddenly emerged from the middle of Ja Sun's brows silently and twisted around in a strange pattern over the tattoo of his third eye until it turned into a luxurious headgear attached to his forehead with the pattern of a vertical third eye in the center and gave a purple sheen with a bright emerald glow held in the middle.

At this moment, a purple domain spread out with Ja Sun as the center as he unleashed the major ability of his Spirit Bone: True Fantasy.

In reality, this was technically a domain ability but it did not boost oneself and had other supportive type abilities and instantly, everyone sensed the space around them fluctuate a little. Qian Daoliu was no exception. He observed everything silently and realized the spatial element hidden within the ability.

The body of the Salamander tensed but at this moment, Ja Sun connected with the salamander's mind and finally achieved true telepathy with it, using thoughts to convey one's intent without any form of misunderstanding. Under the gloomy violet domain, everyone looked at each other but none dared test its capabilities out. They could feel their senses being slightly suppressed when suddenly, the Salamander opened its large mouth and flicked its long tongue to give Ja Sun a dragging lick.

'Well... with telepathy, fooling spirit beasts are certainly easier,' Ja Sun thought internally.

His plan was simple to the extreme.

True Fantasy could deprive opponents off of their mental strength and suppress their five senses. Even if Ja Sun doesn't attack any opponent in this state, he can still reveal their most dreaded nightmare in the form of a real-life illusion that only he can see.

Meanwhile, to allies, once connected using his mental energy, they would receive the benefit of being able to communicate with one another telepathically. Of course, if he willed it, their pace of cultivation within the True Fantasy would increase additionally by 30%.

To Salamander, who was just exposed to the Bright Goddess Butterfly and Nightmare's Fantasy while explicitly feeling the effect of Ja Sun's special talent, it became a lot milder in its resistance. To Salamander, Ja Sun still conveyed that it would be a spirit soul. A being that would live with the spirit master until both of them part by death and for this very reason, Salamander was much more appreciative of the idea but the real deal was that it still thought that once it becomes a spirit soul, it can still cultivate quicker than before because Ja Sun shares this advantage with his teammates.

Well, they wish!

Ja Sun continued to work on the salamander but this time his pace was a bit quicker since the spirit bone ability drained his spirit energy quickly.

But the Salamander was much more decisive in nature than the rather ditzy Fantasy Beast who ended up being assimilated into Nightmare's Fantasy. With its ferocious nature and Three-eyed Silver Lion's increasing influence after being strengthened by the rather substantial effect of four black spirit rings, the Salamander finally agreed. It was ready to sacrifice its life but had been thoroughly misinformed.

Exhaling, Ja Sun removed the ability and the violet dome blocking the sunlight dispersed. Feeling the sensational effect of its heightened pace of cultivation disappearing, the Salamander's heart grew resolute. After all, many beasts with the age of cultivation greater than 10000-years have a chance to gain higher intelligence and adaptability and the Salamander displayed the effects clearly.

Gesturing Xie Xan to step forward, Ja Sun stared at him for a moment before whispering, "Give me a drop of your blood."

"Hmm?" Xie Xan looked startled when Ja Sun stated calmly, "The Salamander cannot understand human speech yet. Next time, don't reveal a confused expression. Do as I say. A drop of your blood."

"No worries," she replied.

On the other hand, Xie Xan silently without any movement for an hour before his body began to violently tremble while the spirit ring contracted around him as if trying to enter his body. With each contraction of the rotating spirit ring, Xie Xan's shoulder would shudder and veins soon began to bulge around his body. Yet, Ah Yin silently observed his situation. Absorption of the spirit ring is a delicate matter and the only reason why she acted during Ja Sun's time was that it was truly a desperate situation with both, his mental capacity and physical capacity on the verge of destruction.

But even if pushed against the limits, Xie Xan's injuries could be recovered once he successfully absorbed the spirit ring. If the situation truly took a turn for the worst, only then would Ah Yin act else complications may arise and instead of helping Xie Xan, she might accidentally end up harming him.

Hu Lana looked on from distance, her fists clenched and her stare extremely dangerous.

After another hour, one of Xie Xan's veins around his arm finally burst and while his blue-grey sleeve began soaking in blood, even two lines of blood followed from the corner of his eyes and the trembling lips finally bubbled with blooth filling his mouth.

"Ah Yin," Hu Lana called out but everyone stayed silent. Instead of risking Xie Xan's life by diverting their attention to console Hu Lana, everyone observed Xie Xan instead. The situation may look terrible but already being a Spirit Ancestor and stronger one at that with his mind and body tempered in the Disorienting Ghost Canyon and his physique also washed by poisons, Xie Xan's limit was already at the higher end of what an ordinary Spirit King could possess. What even Ja Sun could perceive was that unfortunately, there wasn't any soul shock and all Xie Xan had to bear was physical pain.

After going through all the trouble, Ja Sun, of course, didn't want anything bad for Xie Xan. Pain is the best medicine for the growth of mental energy and that is why his Mental Acupuncture Technique was so great. Of course, willingly accepting torturous pain without any benefit didn't suit Ja Sun and with Astral Combatant, his mental energy was already growing without losing the least bit of its sturdiness and condensation.

But, in the end, Xie Xan's physique was quite a bit away from Ja Sun's and such a bloodshed would have affected Xie Xan's future potential severely if Ah Yin wasn't present.

Seeing that none, including their teacher had moved, Hu Lana bit her lips and forcefully calmed herself down. Her mental aptitude, as being a charm casting spirit master, was high. Still, the sight of her lover's bloodied body was not something her sore eyes needed to spectate upon.

"Oh! It's done!" Ja Sun's eyes brightened as the spirit ring finally entered Xie Xan's body and Xie Xan broke through into rank 51 before the boost from the spirit ring stabilized.

However, after that, Xie Xan simply fell on his back, his legs still crossed but cushioning his fall was a blanket of thick blades of Blue-silver grass while they glittered in a silver-gold radiance that instantly began healing the worst of Xie Xan's injuries.

With relief sweeping her, Hu Lana almost collapsed on her knees weakly but was held promptly by Bibi Dong who helped her down gently.

"Search the corpse of the spirit beast," Bibi Dong looked at Ja Sun and Liu Erlong as they finally made their way towards the corpse of the spirit beast and stabbed the carapace in its limbs and torso but found no burst of spirit energy. Even the head of the Salamander had nothing to note.

"No spirit bone found," Liu Erlong grumbled while Ja Sun remained silent. He already realized the rarity of spirit bones but with his trait, he did hope to find a lot of good things.

"You should just share the spirit bones," Liu Erlong gave Ja Sun a sidelong glance as he stored the corpse of the spirit beast. After all, the spoil would naturally belong to him since it was purely his own effort why the salamander wasn't aggressive and died easily.

"Oh? Sure," Ja Sun smiled gently, "Then what do you offer to trade for the spirit bone of your liking? Your own bones? Or the body it supports?" Only Ja Sun's extremely suggestive calls or words would now incite Liu Erlong. Faced with such a low-effort provocation, Liu Erlong sneered, "With you? I'd rather die first."

But she, unfortunately, fell into a disgusting trap.

"So there is a way," Ja Sun mumbled and walked back while Liu Erlong's body shuddered. Ah Yin could talk about the toilet but Ja Sun couldn't joke about necrophilia? The world isn't so sweet.

"Drop dead!" Liu Erlong screamed.

"Woah, what? First, you suggest it yourself and now you want me dead? Your intentions aren't so straightforward, I see," Ja Sun shook his head. Only such a fiery mess would now be Ja Sun's joy in making fun and messing with someone. Even Bibi Dong and Ah Yin couldn't compare to Liu Erlong when it came to the reception of Ja Sun's words.

Liu Erlong was like a ball of fire that attracted moth-like insults and every time she devoured said moths, the fire would only grow brighter.

"Why do you even bother replying?" Hu Lana sighed, the sight of Liu Erlong flapping like a fat fish on a chopping board was truly a relieving one as she felt her tense nerves melt loosen a lot.

"Liu Erlong," Bibi Dong smiled calmly, "We're all adults. We understand."

"Aaaahhhhhhhh!"

The dark-haired Dragoness roared into the sky, unable to vent her frustrations.

"Teacher... now that I think about it. Maybe your poison can act as a lubricant to those interested parties"

"Alright, enough. At least, let me leave before discussing such infernal things," Qian Daoliu finally scowled.

"Right, right," Ja Sun grinned while Bibi Dong glared at him.

'Now Grandmaster may misunderstand I'm into some weird thing!' She whined internally.

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