Charcoal opened his eyes and glanced at him, but couldn't be bothered with him, and closed his eyes again.
'He's still going all out!' Miao Yi didn't move his feet anymore. This guy's skin was thick, so it was useless to kick him twice. Instead, he moved his mouth, and squinted, "Going out to play, are you coming?"
Whoosh! Charcoal let out a sneeze, and opened his eyes. He was instantly energized, and stood up with a huff. He immediately rushed into the courtyard, shaking his head and wagging his tail in high spirits.
Miao Yi chuckled coldly, and a small brown mantis immediately flew out from his sleeve. With a whoosh, it scurried under Charcoal's abdomen. That was Charcoal's weak spot. The other parts of his body were thick, and some parts even had tough armor that swords and spears couldn't penetrate, making it difficult to attack.
The small mantis hanging under Charcoal's abdomen raised its sickle and jabbed.
The cheerful Charcoal immediately trembled, and couldn't be cheerful anymore. Its head swayed a little, and then it froze in place.
Miao Yi flashed in front of it, and saw that Charcoal's eyes were unfocused. He reached out to touch it, and found that its body was cold.
It seemed to be effective! Miao Yi grinned, and quickly invoked his arts to dispel the chill in its body.
Charcoal's gigantic body shuddered. Before he could even react to what was going on, he had just taken two steps in a circle when he lowered his head to look at his abdomen. As a result, he felt another sharp pain in his abdomen, and a terrifying cold aura instantly filled his entire body. He slowly froze on the spot.
"Haha! Interesting. " Miao Yi shook his head and laughed, and once again reached out and pressed on its body, invoking his arts to dispel the chill in its body.
Having recovered, Charcoal quickly looked down at its abdomen, and saw the small mantis hanging below. It immediately lashed out with its tail.
Unfortunately, its tail was too short, and it couldn't reach it. It was jumping around, and its front hooves couldn't reach it either.
This guy was a little anxious, and immediately jumped up, rolling on the ground.
Miao Yi flashed his palm, and the small mantis quickly darted out, dodging the attack, and landed on his palm.
Charcoal widened its eyes, looking at the slowly crawling mantis in Miao Yi's palm. With a huff, it quickly rushed over, and opened its mouth full of sharp teeth, biting down.
Miao Yi's lips curled into a smile. He knew this guy was vengeful, and was already prepared.
Almost instantly, a swarm of small mantids flashed out from his sleeve, buzzing their wings.
Whoosh! With widened eyes, Charcoal hurriedly came to a halt and turned around to run. Unfortunately, he was surrounded and intercepted by the group of little ones, and there was nowhere to hide in the courtyard.
With a whooshing sound, Charcoal, who had no other choice, suddenly soared into the air. In an instant, he leaped tens of meters high and over a hundred meters away, landing outside the courtyard. Then, he hurriedly galloped away.
Escaping was Charcoal's forte. The little fellows that were swarming out to chase after him were still unable to catch up to his speed.
From outside, Charcoal's neighing sounds could be heard, as though he was cursing!
Laughing heartily, Miao Yi flashed his palm, and the little ones quickly flew back into his hand.
One by one, they rushed into his Storage Ring. Soon, the group of little fellows disappeared without a trace, all of them stored in his Storage Ring.
Miao Yi quickly imbued his transcendence energy to check the situation inside the Storage Ring. He saw that once the group of little fellows entered the Storage Ring, they immediately climbed onto the wall. One by one, they retracted their wings and stuck to the wall, motionless. They were silent, as though they were slowly entering a state of hibernation.
Miao Yi clicked his tongue. It seemed that Lao Bai was right. Normal animals could not be stored in a Storage Ring, because the inside was in a vacuum state, unable to survive. However, the Hell Mantids were different. They would enter a state similar to hibernation, a state of suspended animation to protect themselves.
After quietly observing for a while, Miao Yi once again used his will to summon the little fellows that were quietly climbing onto the wall. One by one, they immediately began to move and rushed out of the Storage Ring. They circled around Miao Yi, and then, one by one, burrowed into Miao Yi's sleeve.
Miao Yi shook his sleeves, which had increased in weight, with a smile on his face. It seemed that he didn't have to worry about the inconvenience of carrying them around.
As he thought of this, he felt a little rueful. He realized that Lao Bai really knew a lot of things. If it wasn't for the fact that cultivators were unable to enter the Boundless Secular World, he would have suspected that Lao Bai was also a cultivator. He wondered what kind of person the Great Immortal that Lao Bai followed was, to actually be able to train a servant to become as knowledgeable as Lao Bai.
He turned to look at Xue'Er and Qian'Er. The two girls were looking at him curiously, not knowing what he was doing.
"Do not mention the matter of the mantids to anyone." Miao Yi suddenly became expressionless as he warned them.
"We understand!" Qian'Er and Xue'Er both replied.
Miao Yi shook his head and walked towards the house. He didn't know when he would be able to train his two handmaidens to be as graceful as Lao Bai.
As soon as he entered the silent quarters, the little fellows in Miao Yi's sleeves flew out again, and landed around the inner side of the stone door frame.
Miao Yi treated the little fellows as his protectors while he cultivated. He turned around and floated across the pool, and slowly landed on the stone couch with his legs crossed. He took out the Orb of Will that East Arrival City Lord Xu Xinliang had consecrated.
Right now, the most important thing was to raise his cultivation as soon as possible.
However, after some thought, he put away the Orb of Will. He decided to save it for when he needed to recover his transcendence energy.
He then took out the Orb of Will that had gathered the power of will from ten thousand people for a year. That alluring figure once again flashed through his mind …
"She doesn't even care to reveal her identity to you. You're not even worthy of her attention. Why are you still thinking about her …."
Miao Yi mocked himself. He put away his emotions and threw the Orb of Will into his mouth. He closed his eyes and concentrated on circulating his arts to refine it.
Eh! Miao Yi slightly refined the Orb of Will. He opened his eyes, then slowly closed them again.
He realized that the speed at which he refined the Orb of Will had obviously increased. However, he quickly realized that this had something to do with his cultivation breaking through to White Lotus Second Grade.
He focused his mind and looked at the art source within his body. He realized that the art source that was rotating like a chaotic cloud had not only grown in size, but the energy it contained had also increased by quite a bit.
What was an art source?
When he was on the island, Lao Bai, with his long hair and cloak fluttering in the wind, had once pointed at the raging hurricane on the sea and said that it was like the center of the hurricane. The greater the energy in the center of the hurricane, the greater the force produced around it. It could turn the boundless blue sea upside down, change the color of the heavens and earth, and topple the mountains and overturn the seas in an instant.
Lao Bai said that the center of the hurricane was like a cultivator's art source. The great force produced around it was like the transcendence energy that the cultivator exerted. The stronger the art source, the more powerful the transcendence energy you exerted. When your art source was as powerful as the center of the hurricane, you could move your heart and change the color of the heavens and earth with a snap of your fingers!
Lao Bai's words had never disappointed Miao Yi. Miao Yi's heart was filled with longing for the cultivation realm that Lao Bai spoke of!
However, Miao Yi quickly realized that even though the speed at which he refined the Orb of Will was fast, after carefully observing the art source within his body, he realized that the space needed to advance from White Lotus Second Grade to White Lotus Third Grade was at least twice as large as when advancing from First Grade to Second Grade. This meant that advancing from Second Grade to Third Grade would require a much longer time.
In other words, if he were to cultivate diligently under normal circumstances, he would need twenty years to advance from White Lotus First Grade to Second Grade. The lowest grade Orbs of Will would require four to five orbs, and even if he were to use five orbs, he would still need forty years to advance from Second Grade to Third Grade. The lowest grade Orbs of Will would require ten orbs.
The mid-grade Orb of Will in his mouth could only be equivalent to ten low-grade orbs. It was more or less enough for him to break through to White Lotus Third Grade. However, if he continued to multiply his cultivation like this, who knew how many Orbs of Will he would need to break through to the Blue Lotus realm.
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