"You're right," he muttered with a dazed expression as his light blue irises reflected only the wing shaped cloud, "my wings are still inefficient to grant me flight in order to achieve freedom."
Bam!!!
Looking down at the empty, two[2] ft deep crater formed due to his attack, the two[2] meters tall giant quickly swung his Qi covered club behind him.
Boom!!
Sliding backwards while supporting his huge frame with his club, his eyes glittered as he stared at the brown haired middle-stage male youth with a halberd in his right hand.
"Shung Fang!" he said as he recognized the Byui Village's soldier who attacked him, "it's great that I was noticed by you. I can finally find out if the three[3] acknowledged strongest standard soldiers of the Byui Village is qualified to be placed together with me and Quing Ouyang."
Ignoring the two[2] meters tall giant's words, Shung Fang dashed forward before smashing his halberd towards his right shoulder.
Boom!!
Taking a couple of steps backward, the two[2] fighters stopped their retreating at the same time before dashing towards each other with their spiritual supporting their limbs and their weapons.
"I'm fine," Shung Kai said to the one who moved away from the two[2] meters tall giant's club attack.
"You should battle according to your level of strength," Shung Xu said to her friend as she helped him to his feet.
"I….," pausing his words as he swung his sword out, deflecting the spear thrust towards his chest, Shung Kai quickly followed up with another attack as he forced the attacker to retreat.
"I know," he said to Shung Xu as he completed the words he planned to say to her before been interrupted by the spear attack.
"Rescue the injured," Byui Tang, standing a few meters from the battlefield, said to the standard soldiers reserved for emergencies.
"Should we order a retreat?" commander Ming asked commander Nai who stood beside the Village Chief, Byui Weng.
"Not yet. They can still hold on," commander Nai said as he stared down as the battle from the village's wall.
"I hope Zhen Zhu will figure out what Quing Village is relying on to seek war against us," chief Weng said as he watched his village's soldiers and the Quing Village's soldiers dying every few seconds.
"There's no need to fear, chief Weng. In regard to tracking and infiltrating, no one in the village is better than Zhen Zhu," the Zhen Clan's head said to chief Weng while looking down at the geniuses of his clan, hoping to take action to save their lives.
***
"Have a seat," Zu Dai said warmly to the newly arrived upper-stage female youth as he motioned for the seat across him.
"The board outside indicates that you perform divination. Is that right?" the upper-stage female youth asked Zu Dai as she sat down on the seat across him.
"That's right," Zu Dai said as he kept a warm smile across his face, "how may I address you?"
"You can call me Xui Haiyue," the upper-stage female youth said as she looked at Zu Dai, "I wish to divine about my upcoming marriage. I want to know if it will take place."
"Divining about one's future might cause some effects on how one view things during the nearest future," having his words advise Xui Haiyue while his hands continue carrying out her wish, Zu Dai removed the material covering the items on the table.
"I have no choice. I won't be able to go through the days to come if I don't know about the outcome of my marriage," Xui Haiyue said softly, almost muttering to herself.
"It's alright. I can understand the state you're in," Zu Dai said as he passed a long needle to Xui Haiyue, "make a little injury on the surface of your index finger before dropping the blood on the crystal ball."
"Do you really need my blood to carry out the divination?" Xui Haiyue asked nervously as she hesitated in taking the needle from Zu Dai.
"Your blood will give me a clear view of your nearest fate," Zu Dai said as a friendly expression hung on his face.
"….Al…alright," Xui Haiyue stuttered as she accepted the needle from Zu Dai before pricking the surface of her index finger and dropping the exiting blood on the foggy crystal ball on the table in front of her.
Having dropped her blood on the surface of the foggy crystal ball, she watched as the thick fog in the crystal ball slowly receded before revealing a pink squirming brain with a black colored tongue extending out of the mouth in its middle.
!!
The symbol on the surface of the black colored tongue glowed as a soundless wave erupted from it before gushing into Xui Haiyue's consciousness.
Staying motionless after been hit with the soundless wave, a dazed expression hung on Xui Haiyue's face as her pupils receded to the back of her head, leaving only a white colored veil in her eyes.
"Greet a lot of people on your way home, Xui Haiyue. That will show your appreciation to the tree goddess, Hiba, for supporting your fate to be married to your dream partner," Zu Dai said to the dazed upper-stage female youth with a grin on his face.
"Okay," Xui Haiyue said as her pupils took back its place, hinting at her regaining consciousness.
Watching Xui Haiyue leave, Zu Dai retained his grinning expression as he kept the once again foggy crystal ball into his storage ring.
"Time to head for the next destination," he said as he left the hired tent previous used as his base.
***
"Whoa! An inscribed reinforced ship," a middle-stage male youth exclaimed as he pointed at a ship a few meters north-east from him.
"What's that?" an upper-stage male youth sitting on a crate a few feet beside the middle-stage male youth asked him.
Becoming aware that he has said something above the knowledge he's been revealing, the crew member said, "I don't really know much about it. I saw a drawing that looks like it. The name that was written below the drawing was [Inscribed Reinforced Ship]"
Staying silent after hearing the response from his crewmate, the upper-stage male youth continued staring at the ship sailing at a faster pace than theirs.
"A craftsman is really interesting," inside one of the cabins in the ship, Shung Yun muttered as he turned through the pages of a manual containing the basic principles of inscription.
*
Inside the inscribed reinforced ship…..
Sitting cross-legged on a bed, Nuo Long's master smoked on smooth wooden pipe inside his private cabin as he eyes stared out the window and towards the light fog blanketing the sea.
Taking out the smooth wooden pipe from his mouth and releasing the smoke accumulated in his mouth, he muttered, "if it isn't that an otherworldly eye and a terror speech cannot remain at the same spot for a long period of time, I wouldn't have chosen to lend it to anyone."
Putting the smooth wooden pipe back into his mouth, he accumulated a certain amount of smoke before releasing it together with as much worries he could release.
***
Arriving at the port in Yuhan Town where he boarded a ship on his journey to search for the location of his opportunity, Shung Yun perceived a tensed aura after stepping his feet on Yuhan's soil.
"What could've occurred to cause such a tensed aura to permeate the air of Yuhan Town," he muttered as he walked into the fishing community directly opposite the Fog Sea.
"Nyyhh!!" not having walked for a while, a blacked colored horse neighed from a distance away before dashing to his owner.
"It's nice to see you too, Haru," he said as he smoothened the black furs on the horse's head and face, "what happened here?"
"A powerful skeleton emerged from the sea before killing more than half of the people living here. The skeleton was only able to be dealt with when sky-walking realm humans arrived at the scene," Haru explained as he enjoyed Shung Yun's smoothing action.
"A pity I missed such an interesting scene," Shung Yun muttered as he leaped onto Haru's back before taking hold of the halter on his neck, "let's head back home."
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