Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

For a moment, Lu Qingchen’s eyes turned darker than the night.

In the deepest part of his pupils, stars that Gus had never seen before were shining.

“The price…”

Looking at the deep eyes of the devil, Gus felt his heart palpitating. He did not dare to ask what the price was.

Right then, rustling noises came from the forest in front of them.

The sister stopped and took out two chain crossbows from her back.

The stench between the bushes and branches was getting stronger and stronger, as if blood was about to drip down from the sky.

CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!

Three to four boas that had lumps on their heads and were as thick as buckets crawled down from the branches. Their lantern-like eyes were glaring at Gus and Grey.

Vicious beasts.

The ferocious beasts in the periphery of Red Phoenix Mountain had long been wiped out by the hunting team made of strong fighters.

But deep inside the mountains, there were cracks leading to the abyss. New ferocious beasts were crawling out of the cracks every day for the hunting teams to train and kill.

Gus and Grey had entered the nest of the ferocious beasts without them knowing.

Besides, they were not qualified hunters, nor did they have the support of a large troop.

The only thing he could count on was his fists and perhaps the power of machinery and steam.

Shua! Shua! Shua! Shua!

Before the boa lunged at her, Grey took the initiative and fired more than ten arrows at the lumps on the boa’s head precisely.

The lumps exploded, and bright gold liquid flowed out. The boa was stretched taut in pain and hissing miserably.

The first round of arrows was soon emptied. The remaining boa was infuriated. Before Grey hit the second round of arrows, it had dashed close and tried to mince the girl into pieces like two thick nooses.

At the critical moment, Grey bellowed. The skin all over her body was shining like metal. Her ten fingers were like ten wrong hooks. She threw away the chain crossbow and aimed at the throat of the boa.

It was the ‘Vajra Iron Finger Art’ of the ‘Eagle Claw Sect’, a boxing school in town!

The throats of the two boas were torn apart like tofu that had been bitten by a ferocious animal. Two holes the size of bowls appeared.

The two boas could not even raise their heads. They struggled hard as if they were being boiled in an invisible frying pan.

Before Gus could cheer for his sister, he felt that his head was cold and sticky.

When he raised his head, all he saw was a bloody mouth that was lunging at him from above.

Gus was so scared that he crouched instinctively, holding his head.

The bloody mouth did not bite his head. Instead, it bit his backpack and made cracking noises.

Gus struggled hard and finally tore off the straps of his backpack. He crawled to a tree on all fours. When he turned around, he saw that a boa that was even more hideous than the one his sister had killed had bitten his backpack into pieces. Weapons and food were scattered on the ground, all of which had been chewed into pieces and twisted beyond recognition.

The weird snake had the face of a cool human.

His laughter was like a baby crying in the dark night.

It licked its dagger-like tusks with its long tongue that was full of thorns, as if it were trying to make Gus’s flesh more delicious with fear. Then, it swam close unhurriedly.

Her sister, Grey, tried to stop her, but a few dead boas tangled her with their last strength.

Gus’s heart almost stopped beating. He groped on the ground and finally found something familiar.

His hunting bow.

Gus’s mind went blank. Driven by his survival instincts, he started moving subconsciously.

Shivering, he opened the bow and shot an arrow at the bloody mouth of the snake.

The World of the Fist God was not interested in the production of weapons. The hunting bow was just a crude toy.

Since Gus was in the Iron Fist School, it was impossible for him to receive any formal archery training. In his extreme fear, his actions were completely twisted.

Naturally, the arrow was not very powerful or accurate. It brushed past the snake lethargically and flew to the back. In fact, even if it had not brushed past the snake, the arrow would not have been able to pierce through the scales that were as hard as iron.

But the weird snake was infuriated by Gus.

The scales all over his body turned blood red.

The tusks in his mouth started vibrating rapidly, reminding Gus of the miserable ending when he was ground into a pulp.

“Fist God…”

Gus wanted to cry but had no tears. He could only pray to the supreme ruler in his heart.

The next second, he heard a weird whistle.

An unbelievable thing happened!

When he heard the whistle, the arrow that brushed past the snake and was about to fall to the ground like a dry leaf was injected with a new ‘life force’.

Shua!

The arrow was ten times faster than before. It made a small turn in midair and darted at the back of the snake’s head again.

Besides, the arrows were burning at first, with spluttering sparks and burning wings. Then, silverish-white stuff spurted out of the sparks and the flames. Gus had never seen anything named ‘lightning’ before.

The weird snake sensed the threat behind it.

It was a strength that it had never encountered before. It was completely different from other ferocious beasts and also vastly different from human fist techniques.

It did not even know how to turn its head. Like a whip, it suddenly shook its head, trying to get away from the fatal blow.

But the arrows that were tied up by flames and lightning seemed to have eyes and could even predict the thoughts of the snake. The moment the snake shook its head, they adjusted their shooting direction and hit the back of the snake’s head precisely.

Pa!

The arrow tore through the scales, pierced through the skull, boiled the brain, roasted the eyeballs, and crawled out of the bloody mouth of the weird snake.

Flames and lightning were flowing everywhere inside the seven orifices of the weird snake. It turned into charcoal in the blink of an eye and then into powder, as if it had been made of black sand in the first place.

“…”

Gus was dumbfounded and could not calm himself down for a long time.

It was not until his sister killed all the remaining boas and Lu Qingchen coughed softly next to him that he was woken up from his nightmare.

“It’s… you?”

Gus looked at Lu Qingchen in fear and awe.

The young man was apparently a loyal believer of the Fist God, but he could not fool himself by interpreting what had just happened as the Fist God’s blessing.

“Rest assured. This won’t take up your quota of three wishes.”

Lu Qingchen smiled. “What do you think? Am I really a generous devil?”

Gus was silent. He looked at his sister and saw the same confusion and fear in her eyes.

“What kind of power is this? It doesn’t seem to be mechanical or steam?” Gus asked cautiously.

“Of course not. This is the force of lightning, or ‘electricity’. It is much more advanced and powerful than the force of steam!”

Lu Qingchen smiled. “I’ve said it before. I’m not a ‘steam demon’. If I have to put a name, I should be a ‘Flash Devil King’. Wait. Have I been infected by someone? When did my taste in names become so bad?”