Talisman Reincarnation - All My Clones Are Dao Ancestors-Chapter 166: Thunder Lake
Fu Xia bid farewell to the group, rising into the air with his spiritual power. ๐๐ฃ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐๐ง๐ ๐ง๐๐.๐๐๐บ
The skies were bright and the lake truly looked beautiful, like a blue expanse.
Yet in the depth, there was a dark power, whirring through the darkness, occasionally sparking light.
He looked at it for a moment before he fell right into the water โ
As a wood and water cultivator, he had long learned the Water Escape Technique!
His hand made a slight gesture when he entered.
Right away, he felt like a fish in water or a bird in the sky, truly free of obstruction.
"Blub, blub, blub," fishes blubbed in the lake, seemingly surprised at his sudden appearance.
They made space around him, looking at him like he was danger.
Confused, Fu Xian looked around and saw an eel actually moving around in the water, lightening swirling around.
The eel looked at him for a moment then it swam around him, looking like he met a fellow eel in the vast lake...
Fu Xian could only chuckle as he followed his intuition.
He moved around rapidly through the lake, disrupting several groups of fish.
Surprisingly, he didnโt see any cultivators.
It was like they had disappeared from this lake...
Although curious, he didnโt care to stop and look for a reason.
The distance he swam in several hours was quite a lot, yet he still didnโt see any edge.
โThis lake is extremely large, how many hours longer should I move? And why are there still no people?
And the fish... the highest Iโve found was of the second stage.
Hmm...
Well itโs common in water bodies that stronger sea life usually hangs around in the depths...โ
While thinking so, he continued to swim through the blue water.
Occasionally, a lightening would hit him, but he simply continued to swim.
Any lightening below the third stage couldnโt even pierce through his body.
In the foundation building stage, cultivators refine their body to truly surpass mortals.
From then on, with each stage, their body would slowly follow behind.
This is a true upgrade in the level of a lifeform, not just a simple upgrade in spiritual power.
...
Hours passed until Fu Xian finally felt the direction become lower.
โAlas, I hoped it would be in the higher levels...โ
Although an opportunity in the lowest region would mean it would be higher, in the end, the danger involved was higher too.
With his long lifespan and clones, Fu Xian was very unwilling to take any risk.
But since the food is right in front of you, how could you just walk away?
At worst, heโd just run away.
His running ability had always been great!
Time passed again as he gradually swam into a lower position.
At one point, he could even see a difference in colour of the water around him, from light blue to dark blue.
This signified a drastic change in depth.
Pressure formed around his body, seemingly wanting to compress him from all directions.
But his body at the peak stage of the second stage was able to withstand it.
Several more hours passed, by now, Fu Xian realised that he had been moving for nearly a whole day.
Fortunately, his spiritual wood and water spiritual power had the aspect of being extremely vast and recovery extremely fast.
"Tssss"
Just as he went lower, he suddenly saw a thunder eel at the third stage!
It looked at him curiously, approaching him from a distance.
"What are you?" it suddenly asked!
"A spiritual beast?!" Fu Xian exclaimed in shock.
Beasts are animals who have entered the path to immortality, just as cultivators are the way people call humans who entered immortality.
But among beasts, there is a general difference โ because unlike humans who require spiritual roots to cultivate, beasts can cultivate as long as they are in a spiritual rich environment or consume spiritual materials.
Naturally they also have restrictions, such as their bloodline.
If their bloodline concentration doesnโt reach their respective levels, then their continued cultivation will only be a raw increase in power.
In that case, the raw power strengthens their instincts, which overpower their intelligence, making them Wild Beasts.
Once a beast enters that path, there is no coming back.
Wild Beasts are the beasts cultivators usually hunt, for their strength, raw and unrefined, can often be countered by the humanโs Creation Arts.
On the other hand, there are beasts whose bloodline concentration is as high as their cultivation.
In that case, they grow gradually and cultivate spiritual power just like humans with spiritual roots.
Their intelligent increases with each rank โ
At the first stage their intelligence is at the level of human children, at the second stage itโs like human teens, and at the third stage their intelligence is comparable to adult humans.
Naturally some beasts, such as foxes and cats, have higher innate wisdom and their intelligence is one rank above that of other beasts.
Generally, the proportion of Spirit Beasts to Wild Beasts, depending on the environment, ranges from 1:100 to 10:100!
So seeing this beast in front of him truly shocked Fu Xian!
"Indeed I am a Spirit Beast, and youโre a human, arenโt you? How come you enter our Thunder Lake?"
"Your? Isnโt this Thunder Lake in the ownership of the Leihu Kingdom?"
"Leihu? Hehe, those weak human clans, how can they control our Thunder Lake?
Our lake goes deep into the underground water, controlling an endless expanse of thunder!
There is a contract with the kingdom that they can use our surface waters in exchange for trading items with us Spiritual Clans!
But entry into the deeper waters isnโt part of the deal!
Arenโt you scared to be attacked by wild beasts of the third and fourth stage?"
"There are beasts of this stage? Hmm... then what are you doing here?
Spiritual Beasts donโt have a dominance over Wild Beasts except when their bloodline is higher, and your bloodline... should be capped at the peak of the third stage, right?"
