For demon beasts, if they couldn’t probe successfully, they would change their ways, among demon beasts, there was no fight to the death if they were not fighting over territory, natural resources or prey. If there was a large difference in strength, then perhaps the powerful one would forcefully subdue the weaker one, but if the strength of both sides did not have a large discrepancy then the best thod was to negotiate. The demon beasts were no fools, most of all those under the covetous eyes of the cultivators in the Desolate Valley.
Yang Chen could sense what the adow Viper was thinking, since he had directly swallowed its killing intent without paying any attention, naturally he was not much weaker. Since Yang Chen was rely asking for directions and did not have any intentions of harming it in any way, it naturally would not imdiately attack him, it wanted to find the secret behind Yang Chen being able to turn into a human, naturally it would not mind paying so price.
Although the adow Viper had already learned how to hide it’s appearance at this stage, that was rely its innate instinct. It also hadn’t learned how to hide its strength, but it was very clear about this point. Regular cultivators who were not equal to it, were intimidated by that sort of killing intent, but Yang Chen was different, that was naturally a great trouble for it.
Strength was the only way which allowed both sides to communicate with equality, since Yang Chen had continued under its threat, that naturally gave him the qualifications to communicate with it on equal terms.
“Apart from the things I want to ask, you should help accomplish three tasks and you should also protect when I obtain so things at the Desolate Valley!”
This demon beast adow Viper could hide its appearance and it was also very powerful, so Yang Chen definitely would not let this kind of hired hand slip off his hands. Regardless of whether it was collecting the earth attributed True Qi or kill Chu Heng, both tasks required this kind of powerful helper and in return, Yang Chen would just give it so simple technique to transform its appearance.
This Appearance Transforming Secrets was one of the most basic things in the Spiritual World, the demon beasts who ascended would learn this first, so basically it was not worth anything, but perhaps in this world it was sowhat precious.
Although the Appearance Transforming Secrets were marvelous, their only function was to transform the appearance and nothing more. It could allow a demon beasts to transform their appearance to a human-like appearance, but innately they were still demon beasts and since they could not cultivate through humanities thods, they also couldn’t change the breath of a demon beast so even if it would spread in this world, it would not be a big problem.
The earth attributed beast only had the strength of JieDan stage expert, so it couldn’t use these kinds of techniques, but the adow Viper had a strength of the YuanYing stage, so using this properly it could beco a great helper for Yang Chen and naturally Yang Chen could pay an even higher price to rope it in.
But for the adow Viper, this kind of thing which could turn it into a human like appearance was exactly sothing it had been looking for. It could hide itself by using the Appearance Transforming Secrets, so it could conceal itself among humans, which would increase its safety from the people plotting against it, so how could it not be tempted?
“Ok, deal!”
The way how demon beasts handled affairs was really straightforward, either do or don’t do, there wasn’t any beating around the bush. Or possibly, they hadn’t learned how to be tactical, after the adow Viper had heard all of the conditions, it only thought about the rits and derits and imdiately replied.
At the sa ti as it finished speaking, a white coloured halo flew from above the head of adow Viper and slowly flew into Yang Chen’s body. This was the thod unique to demon beasts to conclude an agreent, using a thread of the demon soul, wrapped in Spiritual Awareness, when both sides agreed, both of them had restrictions, which were returned only after the completion of the agreent. This thread of demon soul also contained the contents of the agreent between both sides, which could not be altered.
During this, the pair of ox horns in Yang Chen’s Spirit Sea imdiately divided to form a small trace, which turned into two very small ox horns, which were also delivered similarly. The adow Viper opened its mouth and Yang Chen’s trace of ‘demon soul’ entered its mouth.
After entering the Spirit Sea, Yang Chen saw that this thread of the demon soul also had the appearance of the adow Viper’s main body, only a lot smaller.
“So you were a cyan ox originally!”
After receiving Yang Chen’s ‘demon soul’, the adow Viper imdiately transmitted this, as if it had beco aware of the original form of Yang Chen’s real body at that mont.
“This is the Appearance Transforming Secrets!”
Yang Chen also did not say any superfluous words and imdiately took out a blank jade slip. Afterwards he engraved the cultivation thod of the Appearance Transforming Secrets and threw it to the adow Viper.
The adow Viper swallowed the jade slip, for the demon beasts, their bodies were the best kind of qiankun pouch, not only was it convenient, but they also didn’t have to worry about losing it.
Within half an hour, the adow Viper read and understood the contents of the jade slip. It was at a realm where it had already comprehended many things, so it realized the underlying principle very rapidly.
The huge body of the adow Viper started trembling and frantically issuing sounds of pushing and pulling, as if many bones in its body were being compressed. From the surroundings of the entire body, a white gas was coming out, but under the sun it was completely fuzzy. With those sandstorms whipping over the ground, Yang Chen’s field of view was covered completely.
Yang Chen was very courteous and did not use his Spiritual Awareness to see what exactly was happening within the sand storm. Demon beasts do not wish for other people to look at them when they are vulnerable, unless they do not have a choice, so this was the minimum courtesy.
Kacha! Kacha!
After the sound of breaking the bones resounded for a long ti, they began to slowly quiet down, the sandstorm in Yang Chen’s surroundings also settled.
By this ti, Yang Chen had already landed on the ground and collected his flying sword. Since they had already reached a deal, for the ti being he was not in danger, demon beasts were much more reliable than cultivators.
After the sandstorm had dissipated, what appeared was an ordinary adow Viper, with a length of three ters and it did not have that kind of crazily huge body anymore. It crawled in front of Yang Chen and raised its body, erecting its head high, it confronted Yang Chen and imdiately transmitted via Spiritual Awareness.
“That Appearance Transforming Technique is really effective!”
The adow Viper had cultivated the Appearance Transforming Technique for the first ti, but its body had already been reduced in size by a hundred folds. Although it still hadn’t transford into a human, just the change in size was enough to make all cultivators confronting it loosen their guards. Although it looked just like an ordinary adow Viper, trying to catch it ant death.
“There is still more work to do, you require so more ti to be able to transform into human shape!”
Yang Chen said, while nodding his head. Although using Spiritual Awareness was still the customary thod to communicate, he was more fond of talking.
“Slowly learn to speak, alright? If you don’t want to be seen through by the people at a glance, then either speak in front of them or remain completely mute!”
“Where do you want to go, I will lead you!”
On the ground, the adow Viper nodded its head, but its body scuttled forward, coiling around Yang Chen’s leg.
This movent of the adow Viper did not surprise Yang Chen in the least, it was common knowledge that snake types liked to coil around things, cultivating demon beasts were no exception. But this would not make anyone suspicious, at most, people would think that it was a demon beast tad by Yang Chen or just a pet, they would absolutely not guard against it.
Yang Chen extended his hand, allowing the adow Viper to rise above his arm, and asked, wrinkling his brows:
“The Appearance Transforming Secrets require at least several years before you can change shape into a human, so have you thought properly about going with ? Who will take care of your territory?”
“I have already been trapped in this region for more than a thousand years because of my body, I have never before left the Desolate Valley.”
The adow Viper was constantly buzzing, coiled on Yang Chen’s arm, it transmitted the thought:
“Even if I can conceal my breath, my body can still be found, previously if I had crossed this boundary I would have to fight with many cultivators who desire for territory, I want to see more places and increase the scope of my knowledge and experience.”
This was a very reasonable demon beast, Yang Chen wouldn’t have to discuss much with it. In fact, since it had already reached the YuanYing stage, if it weren’t trapped because of its body, it would have already left to travel long ago. Being trapped in a corner like this, the good thing would be that nobody would dare to provoke it in its territory, but the bad thing was, that it was trapped here like in a jail.
“These past few years, haven’t you co across a group of experts?”
Yang Chen asked while walking with it on his side. Yang Chen wasn’t formal, this was the best kind of bodyguard he could get, his concealed weapon against those who are plotting against him. In any case, he had the demon soul of the other party with him, so he did not have to be on guard against it, so what’s the harm?
“Several years ago, a few experts had co here, seemingly to arrange sothing.”
The adow Viper replied simultaneously, while moving around on Yang Chen’s body and continuously probing around things on Yang Chen’s body. Currently it had stopped over Yang Chen’s belt, saying his observation:
“After building the frawork, these people imdiately retreated without bothering . Actually in the past thousand years, people have very rarely co to provoke , all of them were experts, but they imdiately walked away after doing what they ca there to do, very boring.”
Several hundred years ago, Yang Chen secretly assessed within his heart, these people must have been the ones who had arranged the spell. The adow Viper was thinking that they had retreated because of it, but those people certainly would not have walked away because of so difficulties, since they had already laid the spell, they must have retreated after they were done.
But Yang Chen did not inform the adow Viper about this, he only asked it to tell him about the distribution and inclination of Spirit Power in its territory. The adow Viper also had no intentions of going back on its promise, very quickly it transmitted all the things it knew into Yang Chen’s Spiritual Awareness.
A map of a region more than ten tis larger than the earth attributed beast’s appeared in Yang Chen’s mind. The vastness of the area left Yang Chen staring with his mouth hanging open. This guy’s territory covered a major area of the Desolate Valley and it was also touching the territory of the earth attributed beast, so it was very easy for Yang Chen to put them together in his mind. Imdiately the spell diagram of the great spell of this quarter of the Desolate Valley was within Yang Chen’s mind.
“Has the small guy at the southern side inford you about being here?”
The movent in Yang Chen thoughts, especially when he joined the information with the territory of the earth attributed beast, imdiately made the adow Viper sense sothing.
“That’s right!”
Yang Chen did not hide anything, the earth attributed beast was able to obtain its territory at the edge of the huge territory of the adow Viper, so surely the adow Viper would not have wanted to expand its territory, otherwise, with the formidable strength of the adow Viper, it could have annexed it a long ti ago. Moreover, the adow Viper had addressed that beast very intimately, so surely there was so relation between them.
“That guy knows how to be patient, most people like to walk at the side his territory, delivering themselves to be eaten by him.”
The adow Viper had again scuttled along Yang Chen’s other arm.
“In those days, I was not that intelligent, which had led to this situation where the people don’t dare to co here, so I didn’t get the opportunity to eat nutritious people, and I could only absorb Spirit Power.”
The adow Viper expressed deep regret with its Spiritual Awareness.
Yang Chen had known for a long ti that the earth attributed beast was not that simple, but he still hadn’t anticipated that the adow Viper would give it such a high assessnt. After completing what he ca for, and also obtaining such a formidable helper for the ti being, Yang Chen didn’t let the adow Viper’s knowledge go to waste and imdiately asked:
“Which of your neighbours in the surroundings is easy to handle? Let’s go there to ask for directions.”
“Towards the West!”
The adow Viper replied without any hesitation, in any case, since it had decided to follow Yang Chen, then it also had to be ready to leave this territory, so it didn’t matter where it went, since Yang Chen asked, it would introduce them to one of its old friends, which would surely not be any trouble and in this way he could also show off in front of them.
Since the Desolate Valley was a region to train, it had to retain so of its formidable demon beasts, so that the aim of tempering disciples could be achieved. Therefore, the experts of the sects didn’t mindlessly massacre the demon beasts there. Even formidable ones like the adow Viper could be used as an opponent to train experts, so even if soone wanted to eradicate them, a large number of people would not be willing.
This was also one the reasons why the adow Viper wanted to leave this region, though Yang Chen hadn’t asked much, he was capable of putting this together. With the help of the adow Viper, Yang Chen could find out the inclination of the spell within a short amount of ti, thus deducing the place where the earth attributed True Qi was being accumulated.
Those people arranging the spell would have never thought about the existence of a freak like Yang Chen, much less about such heaven defying Beast Controlling Secrets. Yang Chen had just revealed the tip of the great iceberg arranged several hundred years ago, but to whom the earth attributed True Qi would belong in the future was not certain.
When Yang Chen had found the right direction, the adow Viper was coiling around Yang Chen’s neck, its long body coiled entirely around Yang Chen. If a normal cultivator saw this scene, where a three ter long snake was coiling around a person’s body, they would be scared out of their wits.
Naturally he would not show these kinds of circumstances in front of other cultivators. Fortunately this was the territory of the adow Viper, normally, other than experts, people dared to co in only very rarely. Yang Chen had intentionally slowed his speed, even giving up travelling on his flying sword and had returned to foot, so that the adow Viper could intensify its cultivation of the Appearance Transforming Secrets during this ti.
By the ti, when Yang Chen had crossed the territory of the adow Viper, one month had passed already. During the this ti, the adow Viper had beco extrely proficient in using the Appearance Transforming Secrets, its body had already turned from three ters long to three foot long, again decreasing more than tenfold. A three foot long snake coiling around Yang Chen’s body was not very eye catching.
Once they exited the adow Viper’s territory, the adow Viper started issuing a wave of hissing sounds and released its Spiritual Awareness entirely, trying to notify that old friend, whose territory they had already entered. rely, in Yang Chen’s eyes, this sounded more like issuing a challenge rather than notifying.
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