“Roar~”
The panda used the ability Li Mo taught it to inspect its body’s change. Who knew this would lead to it twitching a bit then falling face-first into the dirt.
Li Mo sprung into checking its body. He found its qi was a mess.
Inside the panda, there wasn’t just one type of qi, but three. The three were constantly crashing into each other and their release of power was too much for the poor panda to control.
Li Mo put his hand on the panda’s head.
The three qi rushed into the panda’s head and would’ve left him in a miserable state if not for the hand on its head.
Li Mo pushed his spiritual qi into the panda to help calm the qis.
The three chaotic qis soon regained peace.
“This happens because you did not form a demon core while devouring demon cores of different attributes. Without your own demon core, you are unable to purify them.”
Grasping the situation, Li Mo used his spiritual qi to help it purify the three different demon qi.
Only after a full hour did Li Mo managed to subdue the demon qis and turned them into panda’s powers to tap into as it wished.
Li Mo walked to the side to rest. The powerful Earth Fist hurt him good and now that he helped the panda purify its demon qis, he was beat. The only thing on his mind was a nice, long rest.
“Try and feel your demon qis. Control them and fuse them together to form your core.”
Li Mo closed his eyes.
The panda nodded and attempted combining the demon qis into a demon core.
Another night passed and Li Mo’s wounds were mostly healed. The panda had been hard at work all this time, to no avail.
Purifying was easy, while forming a demon core was hard. Without some help, the chance of success was one or two in ten thousand demons. The others’ fate, unable to advance ever again.
The panda turned its crestfallen eyes at Li Mo. It was resting all its hopes on Li Mo teaching it to form its core.
“Sit.” It complied.
Li Mo put his hand on the panda’s head.
Another day passed. Du Fei came back today, while Li Mo was sending his spiritual qi into the panda.
It got Du Fei curious at first, but as the time dragged on, boredom set in. So he ran around to pick on the small stone golems.
Du Fei was back five hours later with a haul of low earth qi jades. Only now Li Mo withdrew his hand.
This time, his spiritual qi strengthened the panda and purified its demon qis even more. As for the demon core, it was still unformed.
“I finally understand why master said that it is unknown if training one will be a success, so what’s the point of training a group.”
The first time Li Mo realized pandas were Pixiu’s descendants, he was struck with the idea to raise a few. To make them evolve and raise their side’s power. But his master vetoed that thought.
Only now he understood why.
The Fortune of Heaven and Earth Art brought about the purest spiritual qi in the universe, bar none. Forcefully forming a core with such pure spiritual qi would be a smashing success even in the case of a pig. While on the panda, it only purified its demon qis a bit but the forming of the demon core was nowhere in sight.
If one panda had him at wit’s end, what was to say about handling a whole pack of them. Impossible.
“The difference between an ancient sacred beast descendant and an ancient savage beast’s descendant is large indeed.”
The panda wrote in the air, “I’m so sorry.”
Li Mo chuckled, “This isn’t your fault.”
Li Mo’s first impression of the panda wasn’t quite heartwarming, but it grew on him with time. He found this panda was reliable to be his comrade.
Using a whole day to supply it with spiritual qi, Li Mo found, besides unable to form its demon core, that the panda had no ulterior motives.
Even Li Mo got bored inserting spiritual qi for so long, so he searched the panda’s memories. There he found something intriguing.
Its life as a panda, before Li Mo came about, was filled with bullying and loneliness. And because it was too plump, no female would spare him a second glance. It lived only in solitude.
Bullied, beaten, chased out, failing to win over a mate, made the life of this panda, before Li Mo chose it, a tragedy with a capital T.
Only when Li Mo showed up and won by playing dead did it get to mate, and with an unconscious partner at that. In fact, it was its very first time.
This was all bestowed to it by Li Mo. So, its gratitude for Li Mo was beyond words. Its act of covering Li Mo from the hail of stone was proof enough of how much it cherished Li Mo.
Without Li Mo, its life would’ve stayed the same, filled with loneliness and rejection, until it died of old age.
As its awareness grew, its gratitude for Li Mo grew equally, if not more.
“I will teach you how. Remember, you have to do it every day until you form your core.”
The panda bobbed its head repeatedly.
“Bro Mo, what earth qi jade is this?”
Du Fei ran over with a millstone sized earth qi jade. He had long entered the 9th layer of Spirit Driving Stage and left a common man’s power in the dust. Carrying such a jade came easy.
This large earth qi jade came from the humongous stone golem.
“That’s a high earth qi jade.”
Li Mo looked disappointed after checking it over.
He was somewhat hoping it would be a sacred earth qi jade.
“With just this high earth qi jade, we can set twenty long-distance Stellar Orientation Array.”
“Then what about the twenty tons of low earth qi jades we got? How many long-distance transferring arrays can we set?”
“Not a single one. Low earth qi jade can only be used in short-range transfer arrays.”
“What I mean by short-range is, in fact, a galaxy. I may not know the location of this golem planet, but one thing I do now. And that it is not in the Milky Way Galaxy.”
“I see. Then what of sacred grade? How does it fare compared with a high grade?”
“If we talk about a sacred grade, it doesn’t matter how far, it can reach it.”
Du Fei exclaimed, “Far out. So that’s how strong a sacred grade is. It’d be great if I can get one.”
“Bro Mo, a few days back I was sneak attacked by an expert calling himself Zhang Ding. He said he was Lei Tian’s man and went after me to get revenge for Lei Yan and Lei Fei.”
Du Fei gave a retelling of what happened that day.
Li Mo paused after he was finished, “With your power, Lei Tian is not your match. But Lei Tian has an immortal’s sword, an immortal’s robe, and the Immortal Killing Array. You have no chance if he knows the right way to use it.”
“Stay here for a few days. Just focus on your training.”
