“Roar~”
The panda leaped headfirst into the golden golem, making it stagger and release Du Fei from its mortal clutch.
That panda may look selfish, and vulgar, at any given time of the day, but when it was sink or swim he would come through for his comrades.
The golden golem flew into a rage and threw itself at the panda, trying to squeeze its neck this time.
Du Fei slowly came to, sitting cross-legged on the ground to catch his breath. Sacred Light Physique didn’t need him to meditate to absorb yang spiritual qi, but this would speed it up many times over.
Du Fei jumped to his feet ten seconds later and assaulted the golden golem.
Dazzling light exploded into the golden man, but once the glare passed, Du Fei was shocked to find the golem unscathed.
The golden golem was just too damn hard!
The panda’s beady eyes had long rolled into his head and frothing at the mouth. It wouldn’t be long now before it breathed his last.
“I’ll kill you!”
Du Fei roared and jumped like a monkey on the back of the golden golem. He covered its eyes and gouged.
The golden golem was hard all over, except the eyes. Wailing from pain, it released the panda and punched behind him, into Du Fei, once, twice, trice, until Du Fei started screaming as well.
“I’ll kill you!” Du Fei cried again as he put more strength into it.
The golden golem’s hits were heavy, but Du Fei’s grip was relentless. His fingers sank deeper and deeper until the golden golem’s eyes were gouged out.
The golden golem covered its eyes as it rolled on the ground from pain. Du Fei sprung up to the side and dashed away with the panda.
In his run, Du Fei noticed the golden golem get on its feet and a pair of fresh eyes appearing in its sockets.
“Ka~!”
“Holy Mother of God…”
A bolt of fear ran through Du Fei as he cried out while hauling the panda even faster.
The golden golem got pissed when it couldn’t catch them after a long time chasing, and jumped, slowly gaining on them.
Du Fei was exhausted and the panda couldn’t even stand straight. In their most desperate hour, they closed their eyes to await their doom.
“Thunderstorm Palm!”
Crack~
Ten bolts of lightning hammered the golden golem, throwing it back ten meters.
Li Mo came!
“Bro Mo!”
“Roar~”
What a sight for sore eyes Li Mo was for the pair.
The golden golem glared with its new eyes at Du Fei but didn’t go for him.
The thunderbolts weren’t life-threatening but their power was enough to leave cracks along its body.
Lightning Palm wan orthodox lightning art, and among elemental arts, lightning was the strongest. In Body Tempering Stage, Li Mo could not use spiritual qi and had to overcome this fault with the Blood Boil Technique to release an imitation of the Lightning Palm. This, in turn, led to a great decrease in lightning’s power.
Lightning arts needed spiritual qi to be effective and unleash their true might.
“Ka~!”
The golden golem wailed in anger and pounced Li Mo.
Ten lightning bolts struck the golden golem, flinging it in the air.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
The golden golem tried its luck ten times, but Li Mo repelled it at every turn with the Thunderstorm Palm.
Looking at the golem now, it was covered with cracks all over.
The golden golem glanced at itself then turned tail.
Li Mo then stomped and threw himself 20 meters forward. Lightning Palm was primed and hit the golden golem squarely once again.
The golem kept running while Li Mo was casually chasing. After a dozen or so more Thunderstorm Palms, it blew up.
Traveling 20 meters in one step was only possible because Li Mo knew the magical art called Warp. It was an ancient and incredible art that once trained to its peak, it allowed traveling billions of light-years in one step.
Li Mo walked to the golden golem’s remains and took out an egg-sized pearl. It was perfectly round and gold in color.
This was the golden golem’s demon core.
“I never thought this stone golem planet would have gold essence. Be careful the next time you venture farther.”
Li Mo gave the pair spiritual medicine to heal.
The golden golem was made from gold essence. This being was quite rare, but if it cultivated, it could one day become nigh unstoppable. It was lucky that it was still quite young, merely 700 years old. Or not even if Li Mo used all his energy could he deal with it.
Everything in the world had spirituality. When this spirituality was activated, it came alive. If time and location were on its side, it would bring forth the birth of a demon, an elemental, a monster, or a devil.
Only demons and elementals could learn natural magical arts by themselves. They thus formed the source of their magical art – an inner core; also known as demon core. Monsters and devils did not know natural magical arts, nor they could form a demon core. Assuming for a second that demons and elementals were like mages in a game, then monsters and devils were warriors.
Li Mo gave the demon core to the panda.
“Eat it.”
The panda swallowed it in one gulp.
Hum~
The panda’s body flashed goldenly and scared it into jumping all over the place.
It didn’t last long and the panda was no longer glittering.
Li Mo swung a few times at the panda’s chest and each time a golden light appeared protecting it from harm.
The panda was dumbstruck.
It was indeed the descended of Pixiu, one of the ten ancient sacred beasts. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have gained a special ability simply by eating whatever.
Li Mo laughed.
The Pixiu’s natural ability was devour. Whatever it ate it would absorb. In ages long passed, the races of the universe banded together to drive the Pixiu into extinction because of this ability.
Clank~
The panda drummed its chest a few times and the golden light sprung back up. Understanding what was happening, it started dancing in joy.
Li Mo said, “Try and see if you can use the golden elemental’s ability.”
The golden elemental had a plain ability, a shallow earth escaping art. It had to not move for a good ten seconds to use it and, once underground, it could not travel through the earth.
The panda tried it for a long while but only shook its head in the end.
Li Mo patiently taught it how to use the golden elemental’s ability for over an hour before he gave up as well.
There was no point in trying anymore since the panda just ate the core and absorbed only 5% of its demon qi. As for the magical art, it didn’t get it.
After all, it wasn’t a pure-blooded Pixiu. It would’ve been stranger if it could display the devour’s full potential.
“Ahhh~”
In Li Mo’s disappointment of the panda’s damaged natural ability, Du Fei’s shined like the sun, once, twice… a total of nine times!
The 9th layer of Spirit Stage!
