Sam was horrified by his own thought. He had read about this horrifying ability of some demonic beasts. They could form a clone which had at least seventy percent of their battle prowess. But the most horrifying thing was that they could instantly change their position with their shadow clones with a thought which could save them during most precarious situation.
Sam had problems dealing with just the two rank 4 shadow wolves but they even had shadow cloning innate ability. That would be like fighting against four shadow wolves with extra lifelines. Sam felt a headache coming when he thought about how to defeat these wolves.
Sam was wounded and did not have a suitable technique to counter the attack of the wolves. He felt like he had no choice but to use his treasure.
As he made his decision he formed a plan. He had to activate the murderous intent of his sword at the right movement so that he could kill the two shadow wolves both in a single blow. He didn't want them to escape as he knew that these shadow wolves were demonic beasts who hold grudges. Then, they would probably tail and hunt him. He would have no peace and had to live predicting the moment when a claw would come to claim his life.
Sam executes his movement technique as he flashed around the open areas leaving behind after images. A claw would always hit his afterimage. Sam kept dodging as he waited for the right moment to counter attack.
He felt his movement technique getting faster and smoother as he easily dodged the claw attack of the demonic wolves.
As Sam was dodging and flashing between the claw attacks of the shadow wolves, they stopped attacking as the four shadow wolves surrounded him from all direction. They also wanted to kill this annoying cultivator in a single blow. They were annoyed by his dodging. Furthermore, he had already killed their pack. They had to take revenge for their pack.
Sam kept his eyes on then as they instantly disappeared from their position. Sam felt the air being cut in his four directions but rather than getting alarmed, he happily smiled.
This was the moment he had been waiting for. He instantly activated the runes in his murderous sword as the murderous intent locked onto the four shadow wolves. The shadow wolves were originally coward creatures who always fought creature weaker than them in packs. This could already describe how much they feared death.
Just as the murderous intent locked on them, the shadow wolves hesitated to attack due to fear just for a moment. Due to the momement of hesitation, the speed of the claw attack was slowed down. Sam clutched his sword tightly as he performed a whirlwind slash as he rotated at his fastest speed.
His sword cut through the bodies of the four shadow wolves as two of them turned into shadows. The other two shadow wolves were cut into two killing them. Sam heaved a sigh of relief as his sword returned to normal. He felt relaxed likesome kind of pressure was lifted from his body.
But at this movement, two claws came from his left and right side. Sam's eyes flashed as his his previously relaxed expression became sharper. He didn't think twice before he pushed his left and right hand forward and the two shadow wolves were pierced. At this movement, on Sam's right hand was a sword while a curved black saber with red sharp edge was on his left hand.
Sam was always vigilant about the possibility of another shadow wolf hiding in the dark. Thus, he revealed a opening purposely after killing the two wolves to check whether his doubts were real. A sly demonic beast like shadow wolf would never miss such a opening. Sam calculated the possibility of a shadow clone too so, he was ready to attack with his saber if necessary.
Sam finally heaved a sigh of relief but no attack came this time around making him finally let out the actual sigh that he was holding. He hurriedly started to collect the demonic core. The shadow wolves had a unique shadow attribute so their demonic core were rare and more precious than others.
As he was collecting all the demonic cores, he found a small white, crystal like bone with two runes like shadow that were moving along the bones like fish swimming in water.
"Is.. Is this a dao bone? Wait..could this two floating runes might be the two innate technique of the shadow wolves. The last shadow could not destroy it's dao bone at the moment of death due it being surprised by sudden attack. Hahahaha.... Am I Sam Desvons a lucky person favored by heavens? "
Sam laughed with happiness while looking at the sky. How could he not be happy after experiencing the terror of shadow merging and shadow cloning. He felt like he was on floating on clouds due to happiness.
As he was laughing, he felt a sharp pain from his chest, and shoulder bringing him back to the reality. He only remembered now that he was injured. He needed to quickly get out of this area to prevent from running into other powerful beasts as that killing intent and smell of blood would attract other demonic beasts.
As Sam came back to his senses, he quickly left using his moment technique to find a safe place to rest and heal his injuries body.
After running back from where he came, Sam finally found a large tree with a hollow area at its root. He had noticed this tree while he was passing through this area earlier. He entered inside the hollow root with vigilance but found out that the area was safe. Thus, he decided to use this place to rest and heal his injury.
right after Sam left the areas, the sound of ground shaking was heard. A large demonic ape with a body as large as mountain came to the area Sam was fighting earlier.
Quiii...quiii...
A large peacock with seven coloured feather like a rainbow also descended from the sky. It was beautiful but it had a body almost half as large as the demonic ape. This demonic peacock had arrogant eyes as it looked at the demonic ape with disdain.
Roar.. Roar..
A loud roar of a tiger was heard as a large white tiger with red stripes appeared on that battle field. This demonic tiger had two large wings extending from it back giving it the ability to fly. The winged tiger was almost as large as the demonic ape.
As the demonic winged tiger, demonic ape and demonic peacock was gathered at a place, a earthshaking battle started between the three demonic beasts. These demonic beasts were the king of their respective areas. As their battle began, the mountains were destroyed and river ran dried. The other weaker demonic beasts were killed by the aftershock of their battle.
However, this had nothing to do with sam who was now using his breathing technique to quickly absorb the medicinal energies of the medicine which was prepared before hand for him by the elders of his sect. Being the sectleader of the heavenly martial sect, he was provided with the best healing pills refined by the alchemist of his sect.
Finally after several hours of eating and refining medicinal pills, he was fully healed as body returned to his leak state. But Sam was too excited to check his body condition.
He took out the dao bone he obtained from the shadow wolf. He could still see the flowing runes in the white bone.
"According to the records I read from my sect, demonic beasts absorb the runes from the bones with their own bones and comprehend it to learn the technique inscribed in the bone. So, I just need to carefully absorb the rune from the bone and plant it inside my own bone. Since it is the chest bone, I will absorb this rune in my chest bone too".
Sam said as he looked at the bone in his hand. With that he closed as eyes and formed hand seals with his hand. The dao bone slowly floated and hovered between the two palms of Sam as it started to lit up.
If one looked closely, they could see the runes of the dao bone slowly disappearing from the bone as similar rune was slowly appearing in one of the bones inside the chest of Sam.
When he finally finished absorbing the rune, he had two similar rune floating inside his chest bone. With that Sam closed his eyes as he started to observed the rune to comprehend it.
Sam opened his eyes two days later. When he looked at the chest bone through his spirit sense, he could feel that two runes were drawn in one of his bone like a natural tattoo as if he was born with them.
Sam guided his essence energy to one of the rune as it lit up. Another Sam which looked similar to him appeared beside him sitting cross-legged like him. He felt that he could control his movement and speech of his shadow clone with just one of his thought.
With a thought, another Sam disappeared like a shadow. With a single though the other rune in his chest bone lit up as Sam disappeared by melding into the shadow. He appeared from the shadow again.
"This shadow merging and shadow cloning techniques are too awesome. I can fool and ambush other people easily using this technique. It's just melding inside the shadow is rather odd like I am immersing myself into the mud. I need to get used to that feeling sooner".
Sam said after testing out his new-found abilities. Right now Sam had a crazy thought which was rather hard to accomplish but he wanted to accomplish it.
"What if all three hundreds and sixty five of my bones had different runes each representing a different technique? "
He was excited as his blood boiled just thinking about such a possibility.