Liu Nan was terrified finding that all the qi in the surroundings was converging at Tian's dantian.
"You freak!!!", Liu Nan swiftly escaped from there at extreme speed. 'Never thought that this brat would choose to self-destruct!'
There were only a few cultivators who would choose to self-destruct using qi explosion even in the face of death. Although it would not be life-threatening for him as a sky realm expert, he'll still not be able to avoid the damage from it, and he might even lose a few limbs. The best thing was to escape as far as possible.
Liu Nan crossed a large distance and was expecting to hear the 'boom!', but there was only the silence of the night. He turned back only to find an empty spot, where Tian stood.
"Damn it! How's that possible?!", no matter who it was, once someone starts gathering qi in their dantian for self-destruction, there's no turning back. It's completely unheard of, for someone to stop it in between and face no consequence. He turned back and started to search the area.
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Somewhere deep in the Twilight Forest, Tian was panting as he approached a lake. There were many wild beasts in this region, but he was able to avoid them by hiding his qi.
Tian knew that he won't be able to face a Sky realm expert on his own, his only choice was to bluff his way out. At the final moments of the qi explosion, he diverted all his qi to his meridians. He then hid his qi and headed deeper into the forest. He knew that the trick won't work for the second time, he has to figure out something to escape the predicament.
"If only I had my artifacts, I would have at least been able to put up a front and escape unscathed", it was too bad that the Test doesn't allow anyone to carry any sort of artifacts to maintain fairness. The only things he had with him are some healing potions.
He suddenly got an Idea and swiftly took out the beast cores that he extracted from the earth realm beasts he hunted. Using a sharp claw, he started inscribing on the beast cores. The inscriptions were quite complex and soon the entire beast core's surface was covered with 3 layers of inscriptions.
He then gathered some dirt, molded it into the shape of an eagle. He then used beast blood to create a wind formation on the Eagle's wings. In the end, he inserted the inscribed beast core into the model's heart. He then started infusing his qi into the dirt model, it was covered in a blue hue. After a while, it started to shake and then the dirt eagle spread its wings and shrieked.
"Damn it! Shut your mouth!", Tian grabbed its beak and then looked around. He was afraid that the noise would attract the nearby beasts. After noticing that there are no moments, he released a sigh of relief. Although he was not afraid of Earth realm beasts, he was deep into the center of the forest where it was quite common for a Sky realm beast to pop up.
"Fly and scout this area, notify me if you find anything suspicious or dangerous", Tian spoke to the Eagle as he slowly released his hands from its beak.
The eagle bent its head and made a sound, "Cuk?!"
"Cuk your head! Ahhh.... You need to fly, you idiot!", Tian threw a punch on the eagle golem's head and then pointed towards the sky.
The eagle rubbed its head, as if it was pouting and then flew off into the sky.
Although this was not his first time making a golem, he always used Heaven-grade spirit stones to make them. Based on the complexity of the inscriptions, the golems will have a certain amount of intelligence. They were not particularly famous in his old life, as they required a high amount of Qi and they were not that powerful compared to the experts of his world.
This time, Tian replaced Spirit stones with beast cores. Although it was similar to a spirit stone, the golems made with beast cores usually have an ego, because of the lingering beast will inside them. There are even cases where some golems, made with beast cores, tried attacking the creator and wreaked havoc. But Tian was quite confident in his creations.
After assuring himself that the Eagle golem is keeping watch, he quickly slipped into sleep. He was too tired today.
Meanwhile, Liu Nan was enraged that a measly Earth Realm cultivator has tricked him and escaped his grasp. After returning to the camp, he ordered others to search for Tian and to report him once they find his tracks.
The next day, the sun rose as it landed on the face of a young man, as the light fell on his eyes, he wrinkled his eyes, stretched his arms, and yawned. He then suddenly heard the cries of a beast along with some strange sound.
"thump, thump, thump, thump, thump...."
When Tian looked towards the source of the sound, his eyes almost came out of the sockets with shock. He immediately grabbed a stone and threw it fiercely.
"Thud", the Eagle golem fell to the ground. It was actually the Eagle golem humping on top of a small pig beast. As soon as Eagle fell off, the pig shrieked and ran off into the forest with cries of woo.
"Oh my fuck*ng god! What sort of abomination have I created!", Tian was shocked beyond words. He never expected a golem to do such stuff. Obviously, it must be because of the beast core, it must have been one pervy Earth realm beast that he killed. How pervy must it have been to notice that it didn't have a stinger anymore, what was he humping at?
He decided to destroy the golem, else it only ruins his image. When Tian grabbed the neck of the Eagle golem, it started shrieking loudly like a chicken that was just caught for butchering. It kept flapping its wings and tried to resist.
"Cuk cukk cukkoo....cuk cuk coo, cukk cuk-kkk", the eagle kept resisting and then started pointing its's wings towards a part of the forest as if letting Tian know that there's something over there. Tian didn't know what to do and then finally decided to see what the golem was pointing at.
"You better be showing me something useful, or else I'll discard your beast core and burn it till nothing remains!"
Eagle started to stare angrily towards Tian and then flew northeast of the forest, and Tian kept following behind it. After a while, the eagle stopped near a cliff and then pointed towards a waterfall. Tian didn't understand why the eagle was pointing at the waterfall.
The Eagle flew directly into the waterfall and vanished. Tian was a bit skeptical but then decided to follow along and see what's going on.
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Shortie - 018 Alien cultivators?
Xin Long and Tian Zi were flying on a huge ariel beast, which spanned over 50 meters and heading towards the Pan Long headquarters.
"Brother Xin, look over there, it seems to be a human. Let's go down there and check", Tian Zi pointed at a large crater and requested Xin to descend.
Although Xin Long was reluctant in his mind, took lowered the beast towards the crater. Xin Long's only goal was to win over Tian Zi's heart one day and make her his.
As they landed, they were able to get a clear picture of the person. It was a male, lying at the center of the crater with many injuries. But that was not the main thing, they noticed that the dressing was quite foreign to them but it was elegant. The face of the man was like the personification of an angel, enough to trigger the hearts of all the women in this world with just his looks.
Tian Zi blushed a little and then asked his brother to carry him onto the ariel beast to save the young man by taking him to the headquarters.
Xin Long, who was oblivious to Tian Zi's expressions and thoughts, considered that it was just a kind gesture and carried him onto the beast. They then took off towards Pan Long headquarters.