Space Element Prowess
With a cloak now to hide his identity, Xue Bai felt like he should be in the clear to make it outside the estate without catching any attention. Moreover, now that he had a cultivation base to use, his speed had been enhanced by more than ten times!
Thanks to that, Xue Bai managed to escape the estate without anyone giving him too many looks. Outside he saw the Wang twins on their Bear Griffin waiting for him.
Forgetting he was wearing the cloak Xue Bai stood next to the mount and waited for the twins to let him up. However, instead of a lift, he was chastised.
"Hey, you kid, this is the mount of the Young Duke. Move away. We are waiting for him. If you want to wait for your father to leave the estate, wait somewhere else." Big Wang shouted from above.
The two had assumed Xue Bai was the son of one of the soldiers in the dukedom.
Xue Bai was still only nine years old. So while the cloak covered him, it didn't magically make him taller.
"You cultivation fanatics, it's me. Let me up. We're on a tight schedule." Xue Bai yelled out before pulling his cloak back up above his head in case anyone was nearby.
"Young Duke, what happened to you?" The twins shouted out.
Why did the Young Duke wear a cloak suddenly? Who would he need to hide from in his own home?
"You fools, would I wear a cloak if I wanted the world to know?" Xue Bai berated, "Now, let me up before people start staring."
"But, Young Master, were you just using Spiritual Qi to run here? How could you do that? You're not even 11 yet." Little Wang asked stupidly.
Xue Bai felt an aneurysm coming.
Pinching the bridge of his nose, Xue Bai just jumped onto the Bear Griffin himself.
It'd be stupid for him to continue talking with the idiot duo.
"You two should cultivate your minds first. The questions you ask make me think of toddlers." Xue Bai spoke after landing.
But neither of the two could respond. When Xue Bai had used Spiritual Qi to jump onto the Bear Griffin, he had shown his cultivation to the two. And after sensing it, they were stunned.
At first, Little Wang had thought he was seeing things when he saw Xue Bai glowing in a purple hue since, from what Little Wang knew, no element of Spiritual Qi he knew was purple.
Moreover, Xue Bai hadn't even turned eleven. So how could Xue Bai have a set of Martial Veins which were required to cultivate?
However, he couldn't keep the same opinion after he saw Xue Bai jump 4 meters into the air.
Xue Bai had very noticeably revealed his cultivation base of the fifth stage of the Vein Transformation realm. And for a moment, the two were stunned into silence.
"What are you two staring at me for? I'm still the same person." Xue Bai said with a smile, trying to break the odd atmosphere.
The Wang twins regained their composure after hearing that.
"Young Duke, both me and my idiot of a little brother swear to the Heavens that we won't tell a soul about this!" Big Wang shouted as soon as he regained his composure.
The past two years have been the most peaceful stretch of time for the Wang twins since their childhood.
They didn't have to work intense hours like other soldiers or do the patrol's that even commanders weren't excused of. And they were even able to live in the Core Region and cultivate in a courtyard with denser Spiritual Qi than some Marquis homes.
It was a complete metamorphosis from their previous lives, and they were enjoying it to the fullest.
But they knew this life was given to them because of this child in front of them. Xue Bai had let them have everything they always wanted, but he could take it away just as easily.
So now, with Xue Bai showing them such a confidential thing Big Wang knew that he had to keep his mouth shut, or they wouldn't enjoy their positions much longer.
But since he was already tied to Xue Bai, he thought to make the affiliation even stronger with a Dao oath.
Which indeed worked.
Though Xue Bai didn't expect them to make a Dao oath, it made a smile appear on his face.
"You two should be this sharp all the time. It would make your lives much smoother." Xue Bai said as he took a seat on the mount.
"Young Duke, though we are merely your servants, can we know what's going on with you or where we are going?" Big Wang asked cautiously.
Thinking about how to phrase it for a moment, Xue Bai eventually got it.
"You don't need to know the specifics, but I can cultivate now. And for where we are going, here are the coordinates." Xue Bai said as he told them the coordinates.
Xue Bai memorized a large number of coordinates, and the secret realm where he was going was one of them.
However, a confused expression appeared on Big Wang's face after he realized where the coordinates led to.
"Young Duke, this isn't very far from Snowy Wind City. It's at most a few hundred kilometers from it. Are you sure that this is where you want to go?" Big Wang asked.
The place that Xue Bai gave them was in the forest just outside of Snowy Wind City. Moreover, it wasn't that deep into the forest.
The forest they were going into was named the Myriad Beasts Forest, a huge ecosystem of forests connected and spread throughout the Southern Continent.
And the deeper one went into the forest, the stronger the demonic beasts there would be.
Yet the place that Xue Bai gave them was only a few hundred kilometers inside the forest. Demonic beasts there would be at most in the Blood Exchange realm while the overlords would be in the Muscle Nourishing realm.
This was strong for Xue Bai, but for the two peak stage Law Engraving realm twins, it would be safer than taking a walk through a park.
Their confusion was granted.
However, Xue Bai just rolled his eyes at him.
"When have I ever been wrong? Just fly the bear to where I want you to." Xue Bai snorted before he closed his eyes.
Surprisingly after Xue Bai said that, the Bear Griffin under him cried out as if it was hurt from hearing that.
"Woah, you can understand me?" Xue Bai was pleasantly surprised.
"Young Duke, my mount is a demonic beast in the Law Manifestation Realm. Of course, it can understand you." Big Wang said proudly.
To which the Bear Griffin cried out again, this time though it was soundly prideful as if it were bragging in contrast to the offended cry it let out earlier.
Xue Bai was slightly amazed at that. Since he transmigrated, this was the first time he had tried to communicate with a demonic beast. He knew they were intelligent enough to talk to, but he ignored it since he didn't get anything from talking to them.
So Xue Bai tried to talk with the Bear Griffin as Big Wang flew to their destination.
Xue Bai managed to pass the time by asking simple questions like how life was in the enclosure and how Big Wang was an owner.
Reaching their destination didn't take long, as it was only a few hundred kilometers away from Snowy Wind City in the surrounding forest. And since Big Wang's mount was in the Law Manifestation realm, it could easily fly that short of distance within minutes.
"Young Duke, we have arrived at your coordinates, but what are we going to do here? It's just a forest." Big Wang asked as they landed.
"First, I need to train. Then we will find a secret realm!" Xue Bai said with a wide smile.
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In the forest outside of Snowy Wind City, Xue Bai stood face to face with a wolf that stood at about 1 meter tall.
The wolf had mity gray coated fur, but since it was a bloodthirsty demonic beast by nature, dozens if not hundreds of blood smears were splattered all over it, permanently staining it with a red color. Coupled with the ferociousness and madness in its eyes, the wolf emitted a murderous aura almost naturally.
But currently, its eyes were full of fear, and it was shivering as if it was facing a god.
This was somewhat true, as Big Wang was unleashing the full aura of his peak stage Law Engraving realm cultivation base onto the thing.
It was an extremely saddening day for the wolf, but what could it do but try and act tough? Maybe these Land Gods would become scared of it and let it go?
However, dreams were indeed dreams.
Xue Bai was in the middle of his first excursion outside of his home, and he had no desire to let this perfect training dummy go.
Moreover, this was the third beast that Xue Bai would fight against. The first two were stronger than this wolf being in the 6th and 7th stages of the Blood Exchange, respectively.
Because of that, Big Wang was forced to suppress them by unleashing his aura on them, thereby lowering their combat power.
But this was different. It had just recently advanced to become a demonic beast and was barely in the Blood Exchange realm, being at most at the 1st stage of the realm.
Xue Bai was excited to fight a demonic beast for the first time, and after he got the go-ahead from the twins, he started his first fight!
Big Wang saw this, and while he didn't want Xue Bai to fight a wolf this early, he also knew that his Young Master wasn't the same as he was a few days ago. And since he was confident he could stop any harm from coming Xue Bai's way, he retracted his aura and let the wolf defend itself.
The wolf felt ecstatic at the fact that it was free and thought that its growling had worked, but once he saw the child charging at it, something clicked within its mind.
While demonic beasts were dumb, they were a great deal smarter than normal animals. And since most animals had the intelligence of a 3-5-year-old, this wolf, in turn, had the intelligence rivaling an 8-year-old.
So once he felt the godly aura leave him and the child rush at him, the wolf knew that this child was his only method of escaping.
'Such a tiny boy isn't enough for lunch!'
The wolf also jumped at Xue Bai, planning to meet his lunge head-on. It wanted to bite his head off.
Xue Bai saw through this, imbued his weapon with his spatial element, and swung the sword at the wolf's neck, seemingly wanting to go blow for blow with the wolf.
The wolf also saw this, but since it was more than confident in its fur, it ignored Xue Bai's sword strike and continued on with its attack.
Unlike Wang Ye, who made the wolf feel fear from the bottom of its heart, Xue Bai's purplish blue sword made it feel nothing.
Yet this was its last mistake.
However, something incredible happened as soon as the sword made contact with the wolf's neck.
Xue Bai didn't swing his Deep Glacier Sword with power, but in spite of that, the sword, like a knife through butter, sliced cleanly through the wolf's neck, severing the demonic beast's head.
Even in death, the wolf still thought that it had won the battle and kept a smirk on its face.
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