Chapter 288: Join? - 288
Yao Mun was able to sense the two leaders' cultivations in an instant.
'One at the 1st level of the soul formation realm, and another at the 4th.' He thought to himself.
Without hesitation, his left leg disappeared and his sword flickered, severing the head of the 1st level soul formation cultivator before he could react.
The last remaining leader saw this and jumped backwards, attempting to get out of Yao Mun's attacking range.
Yao Mun flipped his sword and held it like a throwing spear, before his right leg disappeared and the sword was launched at the remaining leader.
The leader, who was the strongest of the three, saw a shadow and hurriedly moved to the right. Unfortunately, he was too slow.
The sword managed to hit his shoulder and completely cut off his arm.
The remaining leader almost fell to the ground from the pain, but managed to stand strong and retreat.
"Hmph." Yao Mun snorted.
He reached out his hand and his sword came flying back to him. He floated as a body with only his right arm, instilling terror into every soldier on the battlefield.
His incredible display of power, along with his horrifying appearance, managed to scare away the soldiers.
They ran away from him in random directions, fleeing like flies.
Yao Mun did not bother with them and looked towards the fleeing leader. He grabbed his sword in a throwing position once again as his left arm suddenly regrew, completely normal. At the same time, Yao Mun's Qi was fully depleted. In the next instant, Yao Mun's left arm turned limp.
Yao Mun gritted his teeth with a pain filled face, and managed to aim on to the fleeing leader again.
He then launched the sword with a power and speed incomparable to before. It was similar to the attack of a 6th level soul formation cultivator.
Without being able to dodge, the fleeing leader was pierced in the back as half of his body crumbled.
By the time he fell to the ground, he was dead.
Seeing his target fall, Yao Mun too fell to the ground. He sat down and observed his left arm. His arm was purple and unmoving no matter how he tried.
In order to launch the final attack, Yao Mun had sacrificed the left arm of his soul. As the arm became useless, it wouldn't have hurt to also sacrifice the arm, but Yao Mun kept it in order to study the effects of a soul sacrifice.
He also wanted to get used to the pain. If he had sacrificed the arm, he would have felt a dispersed pain throughout his body.
Since he kept the arm, the pain was condensed and was mostly felt in that arm. If he kept doing that, he would gain even more resistance to pain.
After a while, Yao Mun stopped gritting his teeth and only closed his eyes as he tried to tolerate the pain. The pain was like no other. Even being skinned alive over a hot fire was not comparable.
Nowadays, the most famous torturers were those who knew soul damaging techniques since there was no better form of torture.
After a bit longer, Yao Mun decided to stop his pain resistance training and heal his soul's left arm.
Since he had recovered his Qi, he used the technique that Zhou Fan had given him as a reward from the youth galactic assembly.
After using up all of his Qi, the soul's left arm was 2% healed. The healing of the soul was a very tedious and time consuming process.
Yao Mun spent a few hours recovering his Qi before repeating the process. After a few days, the soul's left arm was halfway healed.
The pain was also much more manageable. Only now did Yao Mun get up. For safety reasons, he decided to relocate underground until he was healed and could display his strength again.
He had long healed the rest of his body. Although others would struggle to regrow a limb, Yao Mun had spent a lot of time taking down fortresses, castles, and base's in order to find healing techniques.
The one he had used to regrow his left arm was a technique made from the combination of hundreds of quick healing techniques.
Using many other combined healing techniques, he was able to regrow his two legs without suffering the side effects of instantly regrowing a limb.
The side effects weren't noticeable on his left arm since his left arm's soul had disappeared causing many side effects that coincidentally coincided with the side effects of the instant healing technique.
Yao Mun's intention for attacking the current fortress, besides the fact that he enjoyed it, was because it was rumored to have the healing technique that Yao Mun was missing.
He would pillage the fortress after he was fully healed due to the likelihood of there being powerful traps.
As Yao Mun stood up, a presence appeared above him. He instantly retrieved his sword and looked up.
Above him was a masked man wearing white robes.
"Do no fear, Yao Mun. I have come with an offer." The masked man said. Only two purple eyes were visible behind the white mask.
"I'm not interested." Yao Mun stated.
"Even if I am offering you one of the three supreme healing techniques of the beast world, as well as a chance to deal a huge blow to the Heavenborns, and as a result, Heaven itself?" The masked man asked.
Yao Mun paid more attention as his interest was grabbed.
"Speak." Yao Mun said.
"You must have heard of the war. In simple terms, I am asking you to join the beast world's side." The masked man spoke.
Yao Mun lowered his head in thought for a moment.
After thinking, he agreed.
"Deal." Yao Mun said.
"Good. Consider this a beginning reward." The masked man said as he threw a book at Yao Mun.
"You came to this fortress for this technique, but it was in a different location. I retrieved it for you. If you truly want to cooperate, I expect to see you at the beast world camp sometime in the next ten years." The masked man spoke as he slowly vanished.
Yao Mun was left in the bloody field as he looked at the book.
Chapter 289: Healing Techniques - 289
Yao Mun dug into the ground below the battlefield and made himself a makeshift cave.
Once he was finished and settled in, he opened the book and studied the technique. After a week of studying, he had fully understood the technique.
In the next week, he combined the technique with his hundreds of other healing techniques.
As the two weeks passed, Yao Mun had finally created a complete healing technique like no other. Its power and usefulness could be increased and other things could be added, but it was a fully complete technique.
Yao Mun activated the technique and felt its power. It was twice as good at healing compared to before.
For the next period of time, Yao Mun went back to healing his soul. It took much longer and he could not increase the soul healing techniques effectiveness, but the job was soon done and Yao Mun was back in his peak state.
Yao Mun left the cave and arrived at the surface once again. He looked around the battlefield, but all he saw was corpses and dried blood.
Yao Mun clicked his teeth as he flew away. He hated absorbing dried blood. It was hundreds of times better fresh.
As he flew away, Yao Mun thought about the masked man's offer.
'I have ten years until the offer is void. To be safe, I will make my way there in 9 years. Until then, I should look for more healing techniques and cultivate.' Yao Mun thought to himself.
Although he hated working with others, the three supreme healing techniques of the beast world were far too tempting.
For the Heaven world, the number one healing technique was held by powerful Heavenborns and few even knew of it.
The beast world, however, held great pride in their healing techniques. Everyone knew of them. The three supreme techniques of the beast world were all equal or greater than the Heaven worlds greatest technique.
They were the supreme beast phoenix clans rebirth technique, the water fish clans flowing healing technique, and the earth mole clans egg healing technique.
The phoenix clans rebirth technique could only be used to its full potential by phoenixes. Otherwise, even with a fire affinity, the effect would only be at the level of a top grade healing technique. It wasn't exactly powerful enough to cause a rebirth, but it could essentially heal any phoenix as long as it wasn't dead.
Even if Yao Mun got that, it would be useful since he would only be pulling information and inspiration from it.
The water fish clans healing technique could be used by anyone, but a water affinity would greatly help.
The earth mole clans technique was the same but an earth affinity would help a lot.
None of these techniques would be of much use to Yao Mun alone, but with his new healing technique that could be ranked just below the three supreme techniques, they would be very useful.
Unfortunately, all of these techniques were out of his reach. He wouldn't dare burst into the phoenix clans territory if he had a hundred times the gut.
As for the water fish clan and the earth mole clan, they were just below the top tier beast clans in terms of strength and were valued and protected by all of the beast clans.
Yao Mun may be able to enter and steal the technique, but he would never make it out alive.
As for the Heavenborn healing technique, it was stupid to even consider going.
After looting the fortress and finding some spirit stones, as well as some materials, Yao Mun flew towards a certain area that held a certain tavern that had a certain secret organization's branch held within it.
After flying for an entire day, Yao Mun saw a small city not too far away. It was out in the open in the middle of a plains without any walls.
This was the peace held by the Heavenborns. The only places with walls were those that had enough money for decorations.
Whether it be beasts or supreme beasts, they had no thought of attacking a Heavenborn city. As for other Heavenborns, a wall would not stop them anyways since they could just slip right on in.
Yao Mun freely entered and walked towards a tavern in the south side of the city. The area was considered just above the slums, but below a middle class area.
As he walked in, Yao Mun walked to a table in the far right corner and sat down. Next to this table was a wall with a vent. Yao Mun knocked on the vent 7 times before a voice was heard.
"Good evening Yao Mun. The shadow information sect greets you." An old voice spoke.
Yao Mun knew it was a disguised voice but ignored it.
"I need more information on possible locations for healing techniques." Yao Mun said.
"We already have that information ready. Did you happen to grab the material we requested?" The old voice asked.
Yao Mun didn't speak and took a yellow horn out of his spatial ring. It was one of the things looted from the fortress.
"Just to let you know, your information turned out fruitless." Yao Mun said as he opened the vent and tossed the horn in. Luckily, the vent was affected by a formation, so the horn made no noise when colliding with it.
"As we said, our unconfirmed information comes with a certain risk of wrongness. I do apologize, but you know how this works." The voice said.
Yao Mun snorted but didn't speak.
He had worked with the shadow information sect for a long time and a lot of information had turned out correct.
After a moment, a letter in an envelope was handed through the vent.
"Good working with you." The voice said.
Yao Mun got up and walked out of the tavern. After renting a night at an inn, he opened the letter in the room.
'An underground fortress 10,000 miles from here has a small chance of holding a mid tier healing technique.' Yao Mun read.
There was also a map inside with a certain area marked with a red X.
Yao Mun memorized the letter and the map then burned it.
Healing techniques were divided into 6 basic levels. Trash, low, mid, high, top, and supreme.
At the supreme level, the power could vary. Supreme merely referred to the greatest techniques around.
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