Heavenly War God

Xiahou Lieh gently nodded his head. He had already fought many battles with this Toad Wood Ancient Snake, and he knew very well how terrifying it was.    

    

Now that he had reached the Peak of Sight Stage, he was only a step away from breaking through to the True Human Stage. Even he couldn't kill this Toad Wood Ancient Snake, so naturally, the other Sight Stage warriors in Lai Yuan City wouldn't be able to do the same.    

    

In his opinion, it must be Taoist, who was good at hiding the Cultivation Technique, who had deceived the Toad Wood Ancient Snake's senses and forced him to self-destruct.    

    

"Hmm?"    

    

But soon, Xiahou Lieh realized that something was not right.    

    

"Look, these are the traces of the battle." Xiahou Lieh pointed at some marks and said, "These don't look like the marks left by the Cultivation Technique of a True Human Stage."    

    

These people quickly started investigating. Every move of a True Human Stage was filled with Genuine Qi, and the marks that were left behind carried a fluctuation of spiritual energy. However, the traces in front of them didn't contain any energy ripples of Genuine Qi. Instead, it seemed like the energy of Sight Stage had merged into one part of his body and was unleashed.    

    

They looked at each other, carefully searching for other marks. Soon, they found even more marks.    

    

As this place had just been blown up, there weren't many traces left. However, based on these traces alone, they were basically able to determine it.    

    

"Young Master Lieh, it seems like your guess is correct. The one who forced the Toad Wood Ancient Snake to self-destruct wasn't Taoist, but a Sight Stage." The one who spoke was an old man. He spoke with a solemn expression.    

    

This old man wasn't very strong, but he had a meticulous mind. He was very good at guessing the truth from clues, which was why he was highly regarded by Xiahou Lieh.    

    

This time, Xiahou Lieh brought him here to ask him to help find the traces of the Toad Wood Ancient Snake.    

    

"It really is a Sight Stage." Xiahou Lieh said in surprise.    

    

"Young Master Lieh, look at these marks. This place had been through an intense battle, and there was a small team that wanted to capture and kill the Toad Wood Ancient Snake. However, they failed. The Expert that killed the Toad Wood Ancient Snake came here midway." This old man was indeed powerful. With these traces alone, he was able to calculate everything that had happened.    

    

The old man continued with a solemn expression, "If my judgment is correct, this Toad Wood Ancient Snake has already reached the half-step True Human Stage." He had even calculated the realm of the Toad Wood Ancient Snake.    

    

"Half-step Taoist?" Xiahou Lieh took a deep breath.    

    

If this Toad Wood Ancient Snake had really reached the half-step Taoist realm, he was afraid that he was no match for it.    

    

If the opponent didn't kill the Toad Wood Ancient Snake, then the people he brought along would probably die here today. This was equivalent to saving his life in a different way.    

    

However, Xiahou Lieh knew very well how difficult it was to deal with the Toad Wood Ancient Snake. It wasn't easy to deal with a half-step Taoist's Toad Wood Ancient Snake, let alone a Sight Stage.    

    

However, since when did the Lai Yuan City have such a Sight Stage Expert?    

    

Suddenly, Xiahou Lieh thought of something and asked urgently, "I have seen all these Sight Stage Sight Stages in Lai Yuan City. They are definitely not a match for a half-step True Human Stage Toad Wood Ancient Snake. Then, do you think this person is a young genius who came to Lai Yuan City to take a risk? "    

    

The Lai Yuan City wasn't a place where geniuses from different races would take the risk first. However, because there were a lot of Demon Beasts here, there were also some geniuses who wanted to use this place to train themselves.    

    

Right now, every race was looking for some powerful geniuses. This matter was related to the future of the imperial family.    

    

Currently, all the other clans basically had powerful geniuses guarding the place. Only the Xiahou Family had no suitable candidates for this task for the time being.    

    

The main reason was that those geniuses were basically the targets of their respective clans. They would rarely come to a place like the Lai Yuan City to take risks.    

    

However, if this young man who could force the Toad Wood Ancient Snake to self-destruct was a Sight Stage, wouldn't that mean that their geniuses would also be found?    

    

"I can't deduce that, but Young Master Lieh, regardless of whether he's a young man or not, under the self-destruction of the Toad Wood Ancient Snake, not to mention a Sight Stage, even Taoist's Expert would suffer a great loss of Yuan Qi. If anything goes wrong, it's very likely that he will die. You'd better not have too much hope." The old man shook his head and said.    

    

"Not necessarily!"    

    

Xiahou Lieh shook his head and said, "Since he can force the Toad Wood Ancient Snake to self-destruct, then he must have the confidence to survive."    

    

Xiahou Lieh was still unwilling to give up so easily, because this matter was of great importance. It was very likely that Xiahou's family's future would be tied to him.    

    

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When Xiahou Lieh returned to Lai Yuan City and started to gather information, Shen Yih had already returned to the inn.    

    

Tan Qi looked at Shen Yih as if she was looking at a fool and asked curiously: "Shen Yih, why did you become like this? Did you kill that wood element demon?"    

    

Shen Yih looked really miserable right now.    

    

The power of the Toad Wood Ancient Snake's self-destruction was indeed very strong. Even though Shen Yih had managed to resist it, he still looked a little embarrassed.    

    

Although this Toad Wood Ancient Snake wasn't like those plant-type Demon Beasts, which relied entirely on its own Demon Core, it was still very important when it self-detonated.    

    

The most terrifying part about this Toad Wood Ancient Snake's self-destruction wasn't its body, but the Demon Core within its body. This was because the energy contained within this Demon Core was the core of its self-destruction.    

    

However, before it self-detonated, Shen Yih had already been a step faster than it, directly extracting the Demon Core from its body. On the surface, it looked like the Toad Wood Ancient Snake's self-destruction was very powerful, but in fact, its destructive power was not as terrifying as imagined.    

    

Furthermore, with the Diamond Shield and the Buddhist Gold Filament's double protection, it was impossible for it to hurt Shen Yih.    

    

Shen Yih only looked a little awkward, and his body was fine.    

    

"He's dead." Shen Yih took out the Toad Wood Ancient Snakes from the Toad Wood Ancient Snake and some of the materials he had bought from the Chamber of Commerce Bailee. He reminded them, "Now that all these materials have been prepared, I'm preparing to go into seclusion for a period of time. During this period of time, try your best to stay away from this place as much as possible."    

    

"Alright, I know. You don't have to worry about us. Just shut yourself in." Tan Qi casually waved her hand and said. Then, she continued to fight with the water jar in front of her.    

    

There was a closed door room in the inn that was built for the Cultivation. Shen Yih paid the Spirit Stone and went straight into closed door cultivation.    

    

It hadn't been long since he broke through to the Sixth Layer of Sight Stage, and he was already making preparations to break through to the Seventh Level Sight Stage in such a short period of time.    

    

If the other geniuses knew about the speed of his Cultivation, they would probably be scared to death.    

    

...    

    

During Shen Yih's seclusion, Xiahou Lieh's inquiries became more and more frequent.    

    

In the beginning, Xiahou Lieh had been focusing on selecting the people who had received the bounty. However, after more than ten days, he still had no idea what was going on.    

    

However, it wasn't as if he hadn't gained anything.    

    

Now, Xiahou Lieh had found out that the Chamber of Commerce Bailee had a hunting record on the day the Toad Wood Ancient Snake self-destructed, so he personally rushed to the Chamber of Commerce Bailee.    

    

Wan Lingxiu personally received him. When she saw that Xiahou Lieh had come for the Toad Wood Ancient Snake, she told him everything that had happened.    

    

"What did you say?" Xiahou Lieh's face was filled with excitement. He tightly clenched his fist and said, "You said that the person who forced the Toad Wood Ancient Snake to self-destruct was a young man? What's his name and what does he look like?"    

    

"I only know that his name is Shen Yih. As for his appearance..." Wan Lingxiu sighed, "His back was always facing me. I did not see him clearly at that time."    

    

When she returned to Chamber of Commerce Bailee, Wan Lingxiu had also guessed that Shen Yih might be alive because Shen Yih was too calm when faced with the self-destruction of the Toad Wood Ancient Snake.    

    

At that time, he was actually in the mood to remind these people to escape. There was no reason that he couldn't escape.    

    

Wan Lingxiu even sent people from her own chamber of commerce to find her benefactor.    

    

But the Lai Yuan City was filled with people and Wan Lingxiu did not have the slightest clue. As for using a portrait? At that time, not only her, but the other people in the team also did not see Shen Yih's face.    

    

It was too difficult to find him with just a name. Furthermore, it was very likely that his benefactor had already died under the self-destruction of the Toad Wood Ancient Snake.    

    

"Alright." Xiahou Lieh sighed helplessly.    

    

This time, he still could not find that person. Xiahou Lieh felt a little disappointed in his heart. However, at least he knew that the person who killed the Toad Wood Ancient Snake was a young man, and he also had a name. He had gained a lot from this trip.    

    

Before Xiahou Lieh left, he didn't forget to tell the Chamber of Commerce Bailee to inform him as soon as they received any news.    

    

Slowly, the entire Lai Yuan City was inquiring about Shen Yih, but Shen Yih was completely immersed in the Cultivation.    

    

...    

    

Half a month had passed.    

    

In Shen Yih's seclusion room, a powerful Aura was rolling around all of a sudden.    

    

He opened his eyes, and a green light flashed across his pupils. However, it only lasted for a brief moment, and the corner of Shen Yih's mouth raised slightly, "The Wood Gun has finally reached the Perfection Stage."    

    

Shen Yih held the Broken Golden Spear in his hand and thrust out his spear. Dozens of vines could be seen rapidly spreading out from the tip of the spear.    

    

These vines were similar to the branches and vines of the Wyvern Demon, but at the top of these branches, there was a sinister and ferocious snake head. Furthermore, this snake head seemed to be alive as it headed towards the ground to devour it.    

    

The hard ground of the closed door room actually caused these snake heads to corrode and create deep holes that were one finger deep. It could be seen just how savage the poison was.    

    

"I never thought that the second style that this Wood Gun allowed me to comprehend would actually combine the characteristics of the Wyvern Demon and the Toad Wood Ancient Snake into one." Shen Yih nodded his head in satisfaction.    

    

The combination of these two not only made this technique have the effect of trapping the enemy, it also had an extremely great lethality. Moreover, the execution of this martial skill was quite strange.    

    

This martial technique could not only be like an 'ancient tree throwing'. Like that, it could cause branches to shoot out from the ground, and it could even directly extend out from the spearhead.    

    

"Let's name this move, Hundred Miles Cloud Spear." Shen Yih muttered to himself.    

    

Now that the Wood Gun had reached the Perfection Stage, and he had even comprehended a skill like the Hundred Miles Cloud Spear, it could be seen that his seclusion this time was very effective. Furthermore, Shen Yih had already used the Toad Wood Ancient Snake's Demon Core to break through to the peak of the Seventh Level Sight Stage in one go.    

    

Unfortunately, he encountered some problems when breaking through to the Eighth Layer of Sight Stage.    

    

"With my current foundation, breaking through to the Eighth Layer of Sight Stage won't be a problem for me. It's a pity that the surrounding spiritual energy isn't enough to satisfy my requirements. Looks like I have to go to the Chamber of Commerce Bailee to buy some more Chamber of Commerce Bailees." Shen Yih said in his heart.    

    

He had no idea what kind of crisis he would encounter in the outside world. Only by improving his strength as soon as possible could he deal with all the challenges.