Chapter 235 - 263: Xingyun! Wishful Size! The Staunchly Loyal Dog Demon
Bathed in the brilliant glow of the torches, Su Bai first began to extract Experience Points.
With a thought.
A huge black-and-white wheel slowly materialized before his eyes.
When the black-and-white needle gradually came to a stop, Su Bai had obtained 100 million Experience Points and two million Tier Two Experience Points.
’Not bad luck!’
Su Bai smiled to himself as he watched the wheel vanish.
A moment later, he poured all his Tier Two Experience Points into the [Fourth Immortal Golden Body Transformation], causing its Experience Points to skyrocket to nearly eight million!
It wasn’t far from breaking the ten-million mark.
Next, Su Bai began to extract Divine Techniques and Cultivation Techniques.
He started with the Black Dragon’s.
Countless orbs of light in various colors appeared before Su Bai’s eyes. In a moment, a massive black orb shot into his mind.
Su Bai continued walking deeper into the prison, watching the Black Dragon’s memories play out.
By the time he reached the next section of the prison, Su Bai had finished watching the Black Dragon’s memories.
’I actually got it.’
A look of delight appeared on Su Bai’s face as he neared the B-Class Prison.
The Divine Technique he had just extracted was—
[Divine Technique: Xingyun! (Eighth Grade!) Realm: 9th Layer! (20,000,000 Experience Points!)]
Cloud Formation and Rainfall!
He had finally collected the full set.
With a flick of his thoughts, he decided to give it a small test.
Su Bai tapped his finger lightly.
A wisp of crisp, cool wind slipped from his fingertip. With a WHOOSH, it shot forward.
In an instant, it swept through the entire prison, carrying away the heavy Evil Qi and Demonic Qi.
"ACHOO!"
"Where did that blasted draft come from!?"
The sounds of cursing and sneezing rose and fell throughout the prison.
Many Prison Guards were left shivering, hugging themselves for warmth, on the verge of cursing.
A sudden, whistling gust of cold wind in the dead of winter was certainly enough to infuriate anyone.
Su Bai smiled and retracted the Divine Technique.
He was quite satisfied.
This [Xingyun] Divine Technique could stir the winds of the world, summoning vast dark clouds and gathering immense volumes of water within them.
’No wonder Cloud Formation and Rainfall are a pair.’
’The gales gather dark clouds and immense water vapor, which makes it easier to use the [Rainfall] Divine Technique.’
’When used together, their power is multiplied several times over.’
’Not bad at all.’
The [Xingyun] Divine Technique that Su Bai inherited was also at a high Realm.
Having reached the 9th Layer in the Divine Power Realm, its effects naturally weren’t limited to just stirring up gales and gathering clouds.
Of course, since he was in a prison, it wasn’t a good place to unleash its true power.
But he had caught a glimpse of its potential from the Black Dragon’s inherited memories.
’The Black Dragon who cultivated this [Xingyun] Divine Technique had once frozen a thousand-mile river with a single breath. It had even extinguished the Divine Spirit of a Nine Tribulations Realm expert.’
’This shows that if cultivated to a profound Realm, the [Xingyun] Divine Technique, much like [Rainfall], is a powerful Slaughter Divine Technique.’
’But I already have enough Slaughter Divine Techniques. I’m not lacking for one more.’
His [Fourth Immortal Golden Body Transformation] could already achieve a similar effect, and was thousands of times more powerful.
Rather than its practical use, acquiring the [Xingyun] Divine Technique gave Su Bai more of a collector’s satisfaction.
In his past life, for example, he had enjoyed collecting things like bottle caps, marbles, and trading cards.
In this life, he collected Divine Techniques.
Ever since obtaining the [Rainfall] Divine Technique, Su Bai had wanted to get [Xingyun] to see if collecting both would grant him a Super-Grade Divine Technique.
But for now, it seemed that while the two Divine Techniques complemented each other in use, they had no intrinsic connection.
It was unlike when he’d obtained the [Golden Dragon Celestial Scripture] and the [Crimson Phoenix Celestial Scripture] from the Celestial Net Sword and the Mingfeng Saber; he had discovered the connection between those after just a few examinations.
[Xingyun] and [Rainfall] were two completely independent Divine Techniques.
’Still, it doesn’t matter...’
’Once I’ve accumulated more Merit Points, I’ll spend some and give it a try.’
’I’ll see if I can reverse-engineer a Super-Grade Divine Technique.’
Su Bai decided to put the thought aside for now.
After obtaining the [Xingyun] Divine Technique from the Black Dragon, Su Bai then acquired one of the Dragon Race’s Innate Divine Techniques from the White Dragon, whose Cultivation was a notch higher.
[Divine Technique: Wishful Size! (Ninth Grade!) Realm: 10th Layer! (30,000,000 Experience Points!)]
"The Dragon descends upon the world."
"It can be large or small, manifest or conceal."
"Large enough to swallow clouds and blot out the sun, small enough to be a speck of dust."
"A True Dragon can ascend to the highest heavens or hide within the mortal world for an eternity..."
As the name suggested, the [Wishful Size] Divine Technique allowed one to freely change their body’s size and even conceal their form.
It was a life-saving Divine Technique inherent to the Dragon Race.
’Alright, I’ll give it a try.’
Su Bai’s greatest pleasure in obtaining a new Divine Technique was trying it out for himself.
Since he was in the prison, he obviously couldn’t get bigger, so he could only shrink.
So, he murmured an incantation, and with a thought, he activated it.
Su Bai felt a mysterious energy envelop his body, and he began to shrink rapidly.
In a single breath, he had shrunk to half a foot tall.
He shrank again, quickly becoming the size of a grain of rice.
This was the current limit of the [Wishful Size] Divine Technique.
’How interesting.’
Now the size of a grain of rice, Su Bai looked himself over, a novel sensation washing over him.
This Divine Technique was far more powerful than Mortal Martial Arts like the [Bone Shrinking Skill] of the Jianghu; otherwise, it wouldn’t have been ranked as Ninth Grade.
Even his clothes shrank along with him.
Su Bai looked up.
All he could see were enormous black pillars.
They were the iron bars of the prison cell.
He also saw clusters of blazing suns hanging high in the sky.
They were the sconces and torches mounted on the prison walls.
With his body so small, everything looked immense, and a sudden sense of insignificance washed over him.
Like a mote of dust gazing up at the cosmos.
Su Bai slowly floated into the air, his gaze sweeping in all directions.
It was like a single grain of rice had taken flight.
He was just about to explore when a RUSTLING sound reached his ears.
Su Bai turned his head and saw a bared-fanged, ferocious Evil Beast. It was pitch-black and stared intently at him with two gleaming green eyes.
Su Bai was a bit surprised. After a closer look, he realized the "Evil Beast" before him was just a small black mouse.
Amused, Su Bai lightly raised his right hand.
Facing the mouse, he casually flicked out a glint of sword light.
It was quite incredible that his rice-grain-sized body could produce a sword light several feet long.
The little black mouse had never seen anything so terrifying.
It was scared stiff on the spot, lowering its head and trembling uncontrollably!
It was just hungry and had come out to find some food, alright?
It had seen a tiny, glowing thing on its path and had merely stopped out of curiosity to take a closer look.
It never expected this would happen.
After Su Bai’s sword shaved off a tuft of its fur, the little black mouse’s eyes filled with pure terror.
It turned tail and fled!
After the playful interlude, Su Bai collected himself and pondered for a moment.
’The size of a grain of rice is this Divine Technique’s current limit.’
’As my Realm in this Divine Technique improves, I should be able to shrink to the size of a dust mote.’
Su Bai looked at a beam of light cast down from the torches on the wall.
The crimson beam floated before his eyes.
He gently reached out to grasp it.
’Perhaps one day I’ll even be able to transform into light to travel.’
But whether he could get any smaller than that was uncertain.
All in all, this Divine Technique was great, both in terms of entertainment and practical application.
It was a good Divine Technique.
Su Bai returned to his original form and walked deeper into the prison.
He vanished into the hazy glow of the torches.
...
「The next morning」
Su Bai saw Pasture Captain heading deeper into the prison, carrying some demon-resolving tools.
Su Bai walked over, greeted him, and asked which demon was being dealt with today.
Pasture Captain told him it was the Dog Demon that had been brought in recently.
Su Bai froze. "She was sentenced to death after all?"
But Pasture Captain shook his head. "It wasn’t a sentence from above. The Dog Demon committed suicide."
"She was only being detained, so the watch wasn’t that strict."
"Late last night, the Dog Demon secretly shattered her own heart meridian."
"She should be hanging on by a final thread right now..."
"I’m going to take a look," Su Bai said after a moment of silence.
Without waiting for Pasture Captain’s reply, he headed for the Demon-Resolving Platform.
In the depths of the prison.
Su Bai walked into an execution chamber and saw the Dog Demon lying on the Demon-Resolving Platform.
Her body, originally over thirty feet long, had now shrunk to the size of a calf.
PANT... PANT...
The Dog Demon was taking huge, ragged breaths.
With every breath, torrents of blood gushed from her mouth and nose, flowing down the grooves of the Demon-Resolving Platform and into a large bucket below.
Su Bai glanced over; the bucket was already half full.
Pasture Captain hadn’t been wrong. The Dog Demon had shattered all her meridians and her heart was in pieces. She was truly on her last breath.
The only reason she hadn’t died yet was because of the tenacious Life Force inherent to demons.
The Dog Demon heard someone enter and barely lifted her eyelids before letting them droop again, resuming her wait for death.
Su Bai checked the Purification Tripod.
He found the small point of light that represented the Dog Demon.
He briefly skimmed through her memories.
The Dog Demon’s power was indeed not great. She had only just gained sentience and the ability to speak.
In terms of Martial Artist Ranks, she was only at the Qi Sea Realm.
Her own Sin Value wasn’t high either—only half a star.
Su Bai checked the memory of her crime. There was only a single scene.
It was the scene of the Dog Demon slaughtering the Patriarch’s entire family.
Coming back to his senses, Su Bai stepped forward.
He glanced at the Dog Demon, who was quietly awaiting death, and asked, "Your case hadn’t been decided. You had a chance to live. Why did you choose to die?"
The Dog Demon’s lifeless eyes shifted slightly.
A hoarse, low voice emanated from her blood-soaked throat.
It was the voice of a woman.
"I killed my master, after all..."
"How could I bear to live...?"