While Yuan Ming was concentrating on practicing his footwork, Toad Valley was still busy with people coming and going.
In a tree-shaded clearing more than ten miles away from Toad Valley, Wu Bao, the leader of the Green Wolf Gang, sat cross-legged, closing his eyes and breathing in.
Suddenly, there was a sound of rapid footsteps, and a figure ran in quickly.
"Zanbai, how's the investigation going?" Wu Bao asked without opening his eyes.
"Gang leader, as you expected, Yuan Ming went to Toad Valley not long ago. It's a pity that we went a step too late and let this kid slip away." Zanbai bowed and said.
"Hmph, even Bayin was poisoned by him. Do you think you can keep him if you leave early?" Wu Bao suddenly opened his eyes and said coldly.
"Gang leader, please calm down. I have gained nothing. When Yuan Ming entered the valley, he had transactions with two people." Zanbai said hurriedly.
Ubao just looked at Zanbai and said nothing.
"One of them is the registered disciple Zhao Tong. He is a little greedy for money. After stuffing some favors, he is said to have just sold a footwork to Yuan Ming. The other one is named Tule, and he is a member of the Tuxiong Society who specializes in secretly selling information. I I guess Yuan Ming may have learned from him about our pursuit of him." Zanbai laughed dryly and continued.
"I know, I will try my best to find Yuan Ming's whereabouts. I want to meet him personally. In addition, I will reiterate to those forces, especially the Hyena Hall, that if I catch Yuan Ming, I will not kill him. I want to live." Wu Bao. As he spoke, he closed his eyes again.
"Understood, I'll take my leave." Zanbai responded and withdrew.
"Yuan Ming... you can kill Bayin by yourself. I'm afraid you can't reach the second level of Qi Refining. You must have some secrets! I want to see what kind of fortune can make your cultivation level rise so much." Quick!" Wu Bao opened his eyes again, his eyes bright.
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The mountains and forests near Yuan Ming's cave residence.
A strange figure flickered in the forest, sometimes on the left, and then on the right in an instant. The shrubs and grass in the forest had no impact on it, and the strange figure did not touch any grass or leaves, as if it was not flesh and blood. generally.
The figure suddenly stopped and landed on a large rock, revealing the figure of Yuan Ming, breathing heavily but with joy in his eyes.
It has been three days since he came back here.
During these three days, Yuan Ming did not practice the Nine Yuan Jue, and spent all his time and energy on practicing the Shadowless Step.
Although this place is hidden, there is no airtight wall in the world. There is no guarantee that people from the Green Wolf Gang will not come, so we must improve our strength as much as possible.
He discovered that he was quite talented in footwork, and it only took him a few days to master the Shadowless Step.
The more he practices, the more he can understand the mystery of shadowless footwork. Once he uses it, his body will be as fast as the wind, and he can indeed achieve the word "shadowless".
Moreover, this footwork is good at maneuvering flexibly in narrow and complex environments, and is well matched with the white ape's transformation.
It's just that the Shadowless Step is very taxing on the body and consumes a lot of mana. With his current total mana at the third level of Qi Refining, even if he doesn't activate other spells, he can only last for a quarter of an hour at most. He wants to use it better. This footwork still requires continuous improvement and polishing of the body.
"The furry beast slaves will have the opportunity to acquire such wonderful footwork. I wonder how powerful the magical powers of the disciples of Biluo Cave are!" Yuan Ming looked towards the gate of Biluo Cave, feeling a little yearning in his heart.
Yuan Ming came back to his senses, sat down cross-legged, and began to run the Nine Yuan Jue.
After practicing for so many days, he discovered that the Nine Yuan Jue can not only quickly attract the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the body and improve the mana, but also can quickly restore physical strength as long as this technique is used.
He was able to master the Shadowless Step in such a short period of time, thanks to the recovery ability of the Nine Yuan Jue.
Yuan Ming quickly recovered all his physical strength and magic power and returned to the cave.
In the corner of the cave, Ha Gong was sitting cross-legged.
After these days of recuperation, the wound on Ha Gong's chest has become scarred, and his daily activities are no longer hindered. However, it will take some time to fully recover.
He held his green wolf fur in both hands and muttered something in his mouth, as if he was casting some spell, but it was not a fur-clothing spell. There was light flickering where his palms came into contact with the green wolf skin.
"What are you doing?" Yuan Ming asked curiously.
Ha Gong did not answer Yuan Ming and continued to recite Youci. After a full meal, he opened his eyes and the light on his palms disappeared.
"Sorry, I was just pregnant and raising the furry animal skin. This process cannot be interrupted." Hagon said slightly apologetically.
"It's okay, but what is pregnant furry animal skin? I've never heard of it." Yuan Ming had already sat down to practice and opened his eyes and asked.
"This matter is a bit complicated, and we have to start with the refining method of these furry animal skins." Hagon seemed to be thinking about the words, and after a moment of silence he spoke.
"Do you know the refining process of furry animal skins? I would like to hear the details." Yuan Ming said with bright eyes.
"I also heard from a disciple of Biluo Cave who runs a stall in Toad Valley. Biluo Cave puts living ferocious beasts into a secret formation. As the formation rotates, the flesh, blood, bones, souls, etc. of the ferocious beasts are released.
All the objects will turn into vitality and be refined into the animal skin. If there are no errors in the process, a furry animal skin will be born. The furry animal skin in our hands may look like a piece of skin, but it actually contains the essence of a ferocious beast.
All the essence of life," Hagon explained.
"Beast soul..." Yuan Ming heard this and recalled the situation when the incense burner strengthened two animal skins.
He had previously suspected that the furry animal skin contained the animal soul, and now it seemed that it was indeed the case.
"The flesh and blood of ferocious beasts and the vitality refined from bones are actually nothing. The most important thing inside the fur-covered animal skin is the beast's soul! Brother Yuan, you have been using the fur-covering technique for so long, you should be able to feel it more or less.
Beast soul?" Hagun continued.
"I'm slightly aware of it." Yuan Ming hummed.
"These furry animal skins are already dead objects, and the animal souls inside have been slowly weakening. In fact, the so-called breeding of furry animal skins is to use magic power to warm the animal skins and stabilize the animal souls inside." Hagun said then.
Coming to the topic.
"The decline of the beast soul cannot be reversed, right? So what is the purpose of stabilizing the beast soul?" Yuan Ming nodded first, and then asked.
"Pregnant animal skins can not only slow down the decline of the beast soul, but also make oneself more compatible with the furry technique, allowing for better control of the furry technique. With luck, it can also stimulate the potential of the beast soul and awaken one or two
This ability, of course, is something that can only be achieved, and it will take a very long time." Hagun said, with a trace of expectation in his eyes.
"Stimulate the potential of the beast soul and awaken new abilities!" Yuan Ming muttered silently in his heart and glanced at his right arm.
Judging from the previous performance of the mysterious incense burner in repairing animal skins and stimulating abilities, it also nourished animal souls to a certain extent, and its effect was far better than Hagon's so-called secret technique of breeding.
"Are you interested in the secret method of impregnating and raising animal skins? I also got this skill by accident, so I will give you a copy." Seeing Yuan Ming in a daze, Ha Gong thought he was interested in the secret method of impregnation, so he took out a piece and wrote
The animal skin with small writing on it was handed over.
"Thank you so much, Brother Ha Gong." Yuan Ming was indeed interested in the art of pregnancy and raising, and he was not polite.
"Brother Yuan saved my life, this little secret skill is nothing." Ha Gong laughed, and then gave Yuan Ming a few words of advice on the secret skill of pregnancy and childbirth, and then continued to practice his kung fu with his eyes closed.
Yuan Ming discovered that the content of this pregnancy and nourishment technique was not complicated. Its principle was roughly to convert the mana in one's body into some kind of energy that could warm and nourish the soul, and then inject it into the animal skin through special means to warm and nourish the animal soul.
The strength of the furry animal skin is closely related to the strength of the animal soul contained in it.
After he roughly understood it, he started running the Nine Yuan Jue non-stop, slowly injecting mana into the skin of the white ape, and running it according to the secret technique of pregnancy and nourishment. The place where the palm of his hand contacted the ape skin glowed with white light, and
It was the same as when Hagon cast the spell just now.
Seeing this, Yuan Ming nodded secretly and continued to use his magic power.
Time passed little by little, and in the blink of an eye, half a day passed, and he found that the feeling between himself and White Ape Skin had indeed strengthened.
It's just that the degree of enhancement is really limited. To increase the power of the fur-covering technique, you have to practice hard for many months. This not only consumes a lot of mana, but also affects daily practice.
"In the past, when incense burners were used to strengthen animal skins, it was all based on whether the skins could be absorbed by themselves. Now that we have this secret technique of pregnancy and nourishment, if we use this technique to encourage the heat flow in the incense burners to merge into the white ape skins, will it be more effective?
"A thought suddenly occurred to him.
Just as he said, Yuan Ming quietly came to a hidden place outside the cave, took out the incense burner and held it in his hand.
A stream of heat flowed out from the incense burner. Yuan Ming hurriedly used the art of pregnancy and nourishment, trying to draw the stream of heat and carefully converge it on his right hand.
"I hope this technique will be useful." He prayed secretly, pointed with his fingers, and injected the heat from the incense burner into the white ape's skin.
The white ape skin absorbed the heat flow like a sponge, and the entire animal skin moved automatically without wind. Then it performed the hair covering technique on its own, adsorbed on Yuan Ming's body, and transformed into the form of a white ape.
White lines appeared on the body of the white ape, flashing with bright white light, and the phantom of the ape soul appeared again, much thicker than before.
In addition, Yuan Ming found that his connection with Yuanpi had deepened a little, and conservatively estimated that it was equivalent to the results of two months of practicing the art of pregnancy.
He breathed a sigh of relief, and then continued to activate the heat flow in the incense burner and injected it into the ape's skin. The white lines on the ape's skin became brighter and brighter.
After continuously injecting heat flow for more than ten times, the white ape's skin no longer absorbed the heat flow from the incense burner, even with the blessing of pregnancy and nourishment.
At this time, the lines on the ape's skin became much thicker, shining brightly, and the white ape's shadow became half-real and half-real, letting out bursts of excited roars.
Yuan Ming's connection with the ape skin on his body has been greatly deepened, and he can clearly feel the flow of demon power in the ape skin. He can even detect that while the demon power is maintaining the hair-clothing technique, it is like mercury pouring down the ground, constantly attacking his meridians, internal organs, Dantian, and even his mind.
"This is how the erosion of furry art turns out." He put away the incense burner and narrowed his eyes.
Once you know how demonic power can backfire on you, you will naturally be more confident in resisting it in the future.