Situ walked off without looking back at all. He covered a distance of a hundred meters in a step and the most surprising thing was that he didn't have to intentionally use the Deer movement.
It was more than that, as he seemed to be moving without leaving any traces, stepping on the ground without leaving marks.
It seemed all natural, and he couldn't help but become happy about this development.
"The movements from the deer has become an instinct and can be utilized at will. That is to say the others are the same. As long as I grasp the remaining two I should be able to have five methods. Wait! Breakthrough beyond body refinement couldn't have anything to do with this could it?" He suddenly seemed to have gained some enlightenment.
But if this was the case, that would mean that once someone went beyond the Body refinement realm, they might each posses strange means.
"No! I have to be careful from now on and work extra hard to make sure I grasp the other two soon." He felt a sense of urgency.
He couldn't be content with his speed of practice and had to seek more opportunities.
Those that had been cultivating longer than him are clearly stronger.
"Let's locate Xiaohe first and then make plans on how to quickly breakthrough." He threw all the thoughts out of his mind.
He headed towards a certain direction based on the broken branches he could see and finally a cave appeared in his sight.
"Is she the one that is hidding in this place?" He didn't know for sure about this. But it has a higher chance to being the one.
He still took a step foward, and reached the entrance of the cave.
Indeed, he could see a figure lying down, when she heard movement she looked over with difficulty.
"Xiaohe! That's great. It seems like you managed to escape." He commented casually as he walked closer and looked at her.
But he couldn't see the usual self in her eyes anymore. The eyes were staring at him blankly, and he didn't know what to say.
"What happened?" He asked as he lowered his head as he asked this. He didn't feel guilt or anything, be just wanted to see clearly what was going on.
"Who are you?" Situ just didn't expect her first question to be this.
He at least expected her to ask about the snake that he diverted away.
But he didn't dwell on that after hearing her question.
He gave her a second glance just to confirm it was the Xiaohe he knew first. Situ didn't answer her question as it seemed unimportant at the moment.
Even if he told her who he was, she wouldn't know anyway..
He then shifted his sight all over her, from the head to the feet.
"Huh?" Situ was slightly after realizing something.
He could see that her head was swollen and guessed the problem in an instant.
The only problem was it would be difficult to convince her to follow him, if she didn't remember him.
"I hope this is temporary amnesia or it might lead to a problem." He thought to himself secretly.
"A concussion?" He didn't continue looking at her, as he guessed the source of the problem.
Situ finally shifted his gaze on the bag at his waist as it was shaking as though something wanted to rush out and escape.
The moment he opened it to see what was causing all this, a golden stream of light rushed out faster than he could react.
The direction was clearly Xiaohe and he failed to stop it.
But what happened next shocked him as a massive vermillion bird manifested itself before rushing into Xiaohe's body.
"Phoenix?" He exclaimed.
He even had taken step forward after it but he ended up colliding with the wings of the Phoenix but he couldn't retreat either.
He didn't even dare to approach again, he could feel it would be useless..
It was a shame, the phantom of the Phoenix didn't intent to let him off just like that, and flapped its massive wings arrogantly causing a strong force to be unleashed, that threw him backwards.
He crushed into the wall, and turned to look over with some difficulty.
"Pu!"
He thew the sand he had just bitten out of his mouth.
"My body is indeed stronger than before! From this attack, I haven't suffered any injuries." He thought as he stoop up.
He then looked closely and started to feel Xiaohe's change was not a small, from her aura to the rising temperature.
Her originally black hair formed red edges with mostly golden rings.
"What is happening?"
The issue of her having a concussion was not a big deal as he assumed it might take time to heal.
But the golden crystal with fire burning inside had been with him all this time and didn't even react.
At the moment though, he actually rushed to fuse into her body and even her aura was changing rapidly.
It would be a lie to say he wasn't envious of this, but he didn't have anything he could do about this situation. He only watched as her aura dropped drastically to the third stage of body refinement, before it sprinted upwards.
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Fourth
Fifth
Sixth
Seventh
Eight level of body refinement.
When that happened, he even doubted his life.
In just half an hour, she had completed his two year entire year's journey. He had accomplished this sue to having the Five Animals Boxing and many opportunities, but she did it with one opportunity.
The situation didn't stop, as be saw real flames burning on her body surface and with his sharp sight from having attained perfect body refinement, he realized her body was changing and even injuries from the snake were recovering at a speed vissible to the naked eye.
The aura on her body kept rising towards the Ninth stage of body refinement without any hindrance.
The temperature in the cave kept rising along with her aura.
That was not all, rather a trace of noble aura kept emerging from her body, clearly her bloodline was being transformed.