Monster Spirit Crystal
When Zheng-Fu gained back his consciousness, he opened his eyes and felt a little dizzy. Then he slowly stood up and looked around…
“Where is this place?”
Beam!
All of a sudden, a purple light appeared and it came with a moan…
“Kill!”
“Kill!”
The purple light disappeared after a short while. It was only a short period of time that the light occurred. Zheng-Fu felt confused. And then he started to patch things up piece by piece…
“This must be the Split Dimension.”
When Zheng-Fu realized that, he started to sit down and took in all the energy in that place instantly. The act caused a tremendous amount of energy to flow into his Qi energy range very quickly. It was like a wild flash flood going on in him…
“Argh!”
Zheng-Fu felt like his energy range was about to explode at any minute. It was painful and rough so much that his face was covered with cold sweat…
“Kill!”
“Kill them all!”
The purple light appeared again all of a sudden and it came with an eerie moan too. The moan was to tell him to kill and kill. Everything sounded like someone wanted to let out their grudges and hatreds…
Zheng-Fu continuously circulated his Qi energy so that he could absorb the energy more and extend his Qi energy range. The longer he absorbed the energy, the larger his range became.
Boom!
Not long after that, there was a loud boom occurred in Zheng-Fu’s body. It was the sound of the breakthrough of his energy level…
“The fourth level of the Foundation Building stage!”
Zheng-Fu continued to absorb energy violently. He was like someone who had been starving for a long time and all of a sudden got to eat a big bowl of rice. He now looked like someone who would never stop eating even though he was about to choke…
Whoosh!
“Kill!”
“Kill!”
The moan telling Zheng-Fu to kill kept on going. The purple light was moving towards Zheng-Fu and about to reach him. Zheng-Fu could feel something approaching him, so he opened his eyes. When he did, he found out that the purple lights that he saw were actually spirits…
“Kill!”
Those spirits were the spirits of those who were killed and had too much dark Qi energy in them. They turned into grudging spirits (the Dark Force). The Dark Force waited to eat humans and even monsters from within…
“Poor spirits! If I knew Dharma skill, I would pray for them to go to a better place.”
Dharma…!
As Zheng-Fu thought of Dharma, he remembered the Buddhist mantra from the previous world. So, he started to chant to send love and kindness to those spirits. While Zheng-Fu was chanting, he poured out golden verses from his mouth towards the spirits…
Om Mani Padme Hum…
Zheng-Fu continued to chant the Buddhist mantra without stopping. And all of a sudden, he felt from within a deeper understanding of the meaning of the mantra. Then, other Buddhist mantras started to appear in his mind…
“That’s…!”
Zheng-Fu was a little surprised that the mantra that he chanted to send love and kindness to those spirits could become his new martial arts technique…
“These mantras could turn into martial arts techniques too?”
The mantra that Zheng-Fu could turn into his fighting technique was the Buddha Mantra. There were five of them. It began with…
[Mantra One: Sending Love and Kindness]
[Mantra Two: Soul Cleansing]
[Mantra Three: Fighting Devil with Dharma]
[Mantra Four: The Road to Enlightenment]
[Mantra Five: Nirvana]
Each verse was special in a different way. The one that Zheng-Fu was chanting was the [Mantra One: Sending Love and Kindness]. When it became his martial arts skill, it made the chant resonate and full of golden energy that sent out warmth. When the golden letters that came out of Zheng-Fu’s mouth touched the purple-light spirits, they all shook and let out their tears, slowly and slowly…
Spirit after spirit started to fall down to the ground. They were all crying while letting out smiles. The more Zheng-Fu chanted, the brighter their faces look. Their purple lights had turned into golden lights eventually…
The spirits’ grudges and hatreds began to subside. The spirit that was completely free from the Dark Force walked to Zheng-Fu with a great smile and then said…
Spirit: “Thank you for freeing us, Master!”
After that, many more spirits walked to Zheng-Fu too. They bowed to show their appreciation with peace of mind. Zheng-Fu wanted to know how they died, so he asked…
“How did you guys die?”
Spirit: “We were merchants and on our way to do our business. We hired a group of bodyguards to protect us from the monsters, but they attacked us. Who would know that they would lure us to steal from us? They also raped our women. Then they left us to get eaten by the monsters…”
One of the spirits answered with an angry face. Then it started to turn back into a purple light, so Zheng-Fu began to chant again. After that, the spirit changed back to a golden light…
“Don’t worry. I’ll guide you to where peace is. If you have something unfinished, please let me know.”
Spirit: “Would you really help me?”
“Of course,” Zheng-Fu confirmed while pounding his chest to give assurance to the spirit…
Spirit: “Thank you very much, Master. Could you do me a favor then?”
“Yes, I could. Tell me!”
Spirit: “I’m not sure how long I’ve been dead, but I think it should be a very long time now. I would like you to take something back to our clan and give it to the current leader of our clan…”
“Something!?”
“Of course. No problem. But which clan did you come from? And where is that something?”
Spirit: “I was with the Xiao Clan in In-See City. Our clan has been a merchant clan for so many generations…”
“Xiao Clan!?”
Spirit: “Do you know our clan?”
“Not really. I just happen to know someone named Xiao in In-See City. But I’m not sure if the person is from your clan!”
Spirit: “I see! That’s alright. I just want you to find the people in my clan. The thing that we would like you to bring back to our clan is our heraldry. I buried it somewhere, here…”
When the spirit finished telling Zheng-Fu where he buried his clan’s heraldry, an image of the place where it buried the heraldry occurred in Zheng-Fu’s mind. Zheng-Fu nodded to tell the spirit that he knew the place and then said…
“I’d bring your heraldry back to your clan. Please rest in peace. Don’t worry about anything.”
Zheng-Fu said while patting his chest with confidence. When all the spirits saw his gesture, they believed that he would be able to help them. It made the spirits relax, then their bodies gradually turned into lights. And then they uttered…
“Thank you very much, Master!”
Those spiritual lights started to turn into golden glares and floated around Zheng-Fu. It made him feel the warm energy from them, which was completely different from earlier. The warm energy also helped fill up his Qi energy range slowly until an explosion from his within occurred…
Boom!
Whoosh!
“I’ve moved up to the next level. It’s unbelievable that this place has this tremendous amount of energy. May you all rest in peace.”
Zheng-Fu said while bowing to pay respect to send those spirits to a better place until all spirits disappeared from the scene…
It had been hours and hours for Zheng-Fu to stay unconscious and covered by the black fog. And now it turned into a whole day…
Dan-Chun-Gu: “How is young master Zheng-Fu, brother Tong?”
Sigh!
Tong-Kuang: “I don’t know. I can’t get close to the black fog at all. I can only pray for young master to be alright…”
Boom!
After Tong-Kuang had finished the sentence, frightening energy was projected from Zheng-Fu instantly. The energy came with a deadly vibe and it pervaded the area with chilliness all of a sudden…
Wu-Xiao could not sit still and felt chilled. She crinkled her eyebrows and stared at Zheng-Fu who was still covered in the black fog. Then she asked…
Wu-Xiao: “What’s happening?”
Ji-Zhung-Gong and Yan-Yu also felt the same thing. Even though they were martial artists who possessed the mid-level of the Foundation Building stage, they could still perceive the deadly pressure. That made them slightly shaken…
Boom!
Then there was another explosion of energy occurred. However, the black fog gradually turned into golden light sending out the warmth and completely pure form of Qi energy…
“Wh…wh…what’s happening now!?”
Two different kinds of explosions happened within a short time. The first one was the explosion within Zheng-Fu that released black fog that came with an evil energy wave. It was very scary to the people who witnessed it. Then the black fog turned into a golden light that came with a warm energy wave that was so pure…
The group felt that the energy wave that had just been released slowly penetrated their Qi energy ranges…
Tong-Kuang was well aware that Zheng-Fu made all that happen, so he did not wait to sit down and meditate to absorb that warm energy…
When Dan-Chun-Gu saw that, he shouted, “Quick everyone! Absorb the energy!” Then he started to sit down and meditated…
After half an hour, the golden light started to disappear along with the warm energy. Eventually, everything disappeared. Zheng-Fu then began to open his eyes and saw that Tong-Kuang and everyone were in a meditation position…
Tong-Kuang could sense that someone was moving, so he opened his eyes immediately to see who that was. When he opened his eyes, he saw that Zheng-Fu had gained back his consciousness. The black fog around him disappeared by now. Tong-Kuang then rushed towards Zheng-Fu…
Tong-Kuang: “Are you alright, young master?”
Zheng-Fu turned to smile at him and then said, “I’m fine. How about you guys?” Then he started to look at everyone who began to stand up…
Tong-Kuang: “We are alright as well, sir. Did you know that you had been in that black fog for a whole day!”
“In black fog? For a whole day!?”
Zheng-Fu was a little shocked to hear that. He did not know what happened in the dimension that he just got out of. He remembered that he encountered a group of grudging spirits and helped them to find peace…
“Wait!”
Zheng-Fu realized that he was carrying something. He remembered that he had taken it from the corpse of the Iron-Horned Bison Monster that he killed. And when he took a good look at it, he had to gasp out of surprise…
“This is a Monster Spirit Crystal!”
“A Monster Spirit Crystal!?”
Everyone repeated the phrase ‘A Monster Spirit Crystal!’ at the same time out of awe. That was because such a crystal was so invaluable. It was not easy for a Monster Spirit Crystal to occur. It took one extreme grudging monster that consumed grudging spirits to make one Monster Spirit Crystal…
The crystal in Zheng-Fu’s hand came from that raging Iron-Horned Bison Monster. It was extremely angry to see its group get killed. The rage combined with the consumption of the grudging spirits in the forest caused the monster to create a Monster Spirit Crystal…