Moonlight Demon Tiger (2)

"What is the reason behind this sudden change? There is no news regarding the existence of this Moonlight Demon Tiger recently, so how can they appear?" the Tianyu City Lord vent his anger on the table.

His anger leads him to slap and destroyed the table. The secretary of City Lord quietly ordered the workers to bring out another table.

Meanwhile, the City Lord already made his way down from where he's seated. Looking at the urgent reports brought by his men one another, the City Lord slowly losing his patience.

"Half a year ago, Moonjade Tiger Nest is spotted inside the Demon Tiger Mountain's inner region. Why is there no action taken to verify the validity of this report?"

"Herb Trader also reported about seeing some immature Moon Fruit there. But there's no news about organizing a team to harvesting it. Why is that?"

"Three massive nests are found in Thousand Boar Forest, believed to be housing nine thousand Scarlet Eye Boars. A total of fifteen hunters reported this problem, and yet there's no action taken at all?"

"Is there anything else that I should know about?" the City Lord turned his attention at about hundreds of court officials that were tasked to handle court matters.

"Mi... Milord... There's something that needs to be added into the report." one of the court officials replied.

"Speak!"

"We found a few scouts that should be belonged to Hongyu Great Province. Subordinate afraid that..." the court official reported in worry.

"Hongyu Great City... Uncle Mang, Uncle Mang... In the end, I failed to make you reconsider your action..." the Tianyu City Lord clicked his tongue as he made his comment.

"Send five thousand soldiers to the Thousand Boar Forest and Emerald Serpent Swamp. Ten more battalions are to be sent to Earth Fort to help them defend the fort."

"I want..." the Tianyu City Lord tried to handle this matter by distributing his soldiers evenly between the two affected locations and sending additional help to the Earth Fort. But before he finished his instruction, a loud yell came into the hall.

"Report! The envoy from Earth Fort!" a horse carrying the rider gallops straight into the hall. There should be ten of them heading here, but only he knows what happened on their way here.

"What happened? Based on what I know about Commander Tian, he will not send a single man to deliver the battle report!" Tianyu City Lord had his men to bring the rider down from his panic stead.

"Milord. Commander Tian's message."

"Speak."

"Entrance is guarded. The door inside is not. Beware of the three sects."

"That's what Commander Tian asked us to deliver." the rider finished what he's supposed to do, and removes his armor.

"Tianyu Province, Glorious for eternity!" he stabbed a dagger into his heart, taking his own life after delivering the message.

"Milord... We found remnants of Martial Skills left on both the horse and the rider. Thunder Jade Finger from Polished Jade Tower, Steel Spear Technique from Steel Refinery, and Heartbroken Mist from Ten Thousand Pills Sect." an official came forth and report.

"Send my orders to the three sects. Tianyu City is under the cultivation beast's attack. All factions must engage in this battle. City Lord Office willing to take fifty million Soul Jades to reward them!" Tianyu City Lord ordered.

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Qi-Zhen Manor, Seventh Residential Wing

Inside one of the rooms assigned to the book-servants.

"No wonder brother Tian, brother Min Rong and Min Fang cannot give up on learning the theories." Yang Guang placed his hand together, forming a ball of Soul Qi that were condensed close to the level of Soul Jade.

"Still, I cannot believe that brother Tian went ahead and selected the Tyrant Theory for 550 Jade Coins. Unfortunately, I only had 218 Jade Coins with me, and I can only choose the Corruption Theory as my first book to learn."

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Corruption Theory

-Turning Mystic to corruption. The nature of a Soul Qi is based on surrounding, emotion, and creation. To corrupt them, one needed to understand the meaning of Good and Evil, Holy and Darkness, Affectionate, and Bloodlust.

Only by understanding them could one produces the Element of Corruption. Corruption damages an opponent's flow of Soul Qi, rendering them cracking upon formation. But the Element of Corruption is not poison. Poison drags an individual, Corruption haunts.

The Element of Corruption can be applied in three means. Corrupted Claws that inject into flesh, Corruption Palm that spreads outside the body, or Force Corruption, which corrupts the meridian.

This Theory also contains the method to save an individual from corruption. The essence of blood from a practitioner could reduce the speed of pollution, holding the force from spreading throughout the body. A recipe is also included as an All-Cure for temporary.

(One Seed from Seven Petal Water Lily)-(One fruit from Tianshan Essence Tree)-(One Beast Core from a Jade Assembling Realm Cultivating Beast)-(Ten drops of dew from Moon Praying Flower)-(One Piece of Hundred Year Show)

The pill concocted by this recipe is named by the creator of this Theory as Curse Pill. Because only those that were cursed will search for it, and only those he cursed will need it.

To cultivate, intensify the thought and borrow the available soul qi from nature or Soul Jade to start refining the Corrupted Qi. Best to be used with Finger, Palm, and sword forefinger techniques. The number of activation is based on the practitioner's Defensive Power multiplied by two.

Achievement:

Four additional activations of Corrupted Qi (small success stage)

Eight further activations of Corrupted Qi (large success stage)

Total activations increases to 16 (perfection stage)

Note:

Corruption may not be applied to those cultivating poison art. Effectiveness may be lost by half against poison cultivators.

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"My defensive power is at 3rd Layer of Jade Forming Realm, which allows me to activates the Corruption Theory by six times. But to create one Corrupted Qi, I'll need to spend the Soul Qi of three Soul Jades worth."

"The word about might comes from wealth is indeed accurate." Yang Guang laughed at how transparent is the Law of Equal Exchange. To be able to execute a greater force, an equal exchanging price is always needed to balance the account.

Some practitioners might have it worst. A poison cultivator could be placed in this category easily without a doubt.

"Dang... Dang, Dang!" one long and two continuous bells alarms everyone inside this Qi-Zhen Manor. It was the Gathering Bell Sign, used to inform all members of Qi-Zhen Manor to return and assemble in Main Square.

"Junior members inside our Qi-Zhen Manor, prepare to take your order!" an elder begins his speech after he got the approval from other elders.

"Elder!" the book-servants all cupped their hand together in reply.

"Report came from the City Lord Office. A Moonlight Demon Tiger is spotted in the Demon Tiger Mountain. This means we're going to face a Beast Siege in the next six hours."

"The office promised the three major Sects a great reward if we're willing to help. Although there's a limit for how much the City Lord Office can offer, the Polished Jade Tower decided that we will not underpay our own disciples."

"And we're has been given the task to control the numbers of cultivation beast in Thousand Boar Forest." the elder stopped in between to allow the book-servants to catch up with those announcements.

"Each complete corpse of the Scarlet Eye Boar is worth 5 Jade Coins! A pair of Thorn Beetle's wings can also be exchanged for 4 Jade Coins! Anything except the Stone Rabbit is all exchangeable for Jade Coins!" the elder finally brings out the word of attraction.

"WOAH!" the atmosphere on this Main Square heated up.