My schedule will be 3 chapters of TRoaC during the week, and 4 chapters of TuTotTN. I don't have the time to upload daily for two wns so I've split my week between em, the one that's most fun to write getting more chapters, and rn, the unsung tale of the trash noble has taken that place
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Jiang Yi POV
I started running as fast as I could, scouring the forest for low-level beasts, and trying to avoid the general direction Elder Ji went in. After a short while, I found one. A dual-element bird, its elements being fire and wind. I started out with using wind to force it to stay down, imbued my fist with Qi and punched it. It defended by covering part of its body in flames, and I noticed the way they reacted, but the ice part was cancelling it out. I tried focusing on trying to feel normal wind, as it was my only element in my 2nd life. I felt normal wind for a split-second, but couldn't use it long enough for it to be an option YET. In the future, I might be able to.
Well, back to the fight. During the time I was attempting the separation of my element, the bird, more specifically a chicken, had readied fire and wind qi, and was about to use it to attack. The wind would feed the fire to make it expand and grow stronger, and due to my current abilities, being hit by that would be a guaranteed insta-kill. I managed to dodge, but it grazed part of my arm, and heavily scorched it. It hurt like hell, but I'd have to persevere if I wanted to live.
I managed to get a hit with my Ice-Wind, and the bird was frozen. I was about to go in for the kill, when I noticed it moving. All of a sudden, it broke out of the ice it was encased in, and started morphing- no, evolving. Wow. Just wow. A FUCKING BIRD IS A SHOUNEN PROTAGONIST?
Well, that just means more rewards for me. I felt like laughing. The way beasts evolve is by morphing their bodies into eggs, and they would have to stay like this for an hour. But there's one key detail: They're very vulnerable during this stage. And that was a detail I would exploit the hell out of..
I casually walked closer at my own pace, it's not like the bird could break out of its shell by force, right?
Wrong. It only took a minute for this giant chicken to peck its way out of the egg, and it had evolved into a higher chicken, with a golden-yellow body. A golden cock, huh? Well, enough joking, if I don't play my cards right, I'll die right here.
It charged at me, coating its body with flames, whilst propelling itself faster with wind, making sure they didn't touch. I barely managed to dodge, but this dumbass chicken hit a tree. I started taunting it, hoping it would get back up. You see, you know how I mentioned that there were higher-cultivation level beasts in the center of this forest? Well, they'll be playing a crucial part in my plan.
I lead the cock to the middle, and screamed as loud as I could, before running for my life. I heard a few beasts running, and grinned, before I saw the large Light snake in front of me. It seemed smug, but it looked to be a juvenile, which meant that I had a chance. It went on the attack, blinding me before hitting me in some sort of way I couldn't see, but I used my wind to push and keep myself high in the sky, to avoid any attacks. After a few seconds, I began to be able to see again, and wanted to test something…..
I grabbed a few tree branches, froze it, and then broke it into tiny pieces, propelling all of them into the snake. It managed to break off a few scales, which I would need. Due to the fact that I had an opening, I tried freezing it, now that I had the ability to have actual contact with its skin. I froze it from the inside out, managed to get closer and stomped on its body, shattering it to pieces. Sadly, it wasn't a wind beast, so I couldn't level up. But it seems like it had been a while, so let me check if it was time to collect the 'boss' drops. After all, the chicken was basically a boss with how stupidly broken it was. A fucking chicken being a shounen protagonist? That's not something you see every day. Well, at least it most likely doesn't have plot Armor. That would've made this a whole lot harder, if not impossible..