Chapter 18 Purple Mist

Zhou Wuji stared at Xiao Yi, clasping his fist with a wide smile on his face.

"I know you, Zhou Wuji, an unrestrained bear; it seems offending Spirit Hall and Tai clan made you too confident in your powers; are you sure about offending me?" Xiao Yi asked calmly, looking at him,

Instantly, Zhou Wuji's pupil shrank, his smile became solemn, and he then stared at Xiao Yi solemnly and asked, "Who are you?"

Force step!

Next moment, everyone's eyes widened seeing Xiao Yi land beside Zhou Wuji and patted his shoulder lightly.

Xiao Yi channeled all the force he gathered before through Zhou Wuji's shoulder toward the ground.

Force release!

Thud!

Crack!!

Instantly, Zhou Wuji's knee touched the ground with a horrified expression on his face. A light cracking noise spread from his shoulder and knee. 

'What kind of monstrous raw power is this?' Zhou Wuji thought in horror, feeling his half body completely paralyzed.

"Teacher Zhou," Instantly, Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun wanted to step forward, but Tang San raised his arm and stopped them.

"Brother San." Instantly, Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun asked confusedly,

"Look at the direction of the ground below them," Tang San spoke; instantly they glanced at the ground below Zhou Wuji and Xiao Yi.

Their eyes widened looking at the direction of cracks spreading through their feet, and these cracks are widening as if something is forcibly opening them.

'He is not just simply putting his hand on teacher Zhou's shoulder; he is channeling some kind of power through teacher Zhou. It's not the soul power but rather looks like pure raw strength; what kind of technique is this?' Tang San thought to himself while observing the Xiao Yi and Zhou Wuji with his purple demon pupil,

Gulp!!!

Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun gulped; their bodies tightened; they removed the thought of going up against Xiao Yi.

While Ning Rongrong eyes flashed with inexplicable light looking at Xiao Yi calm purple gold pupils through his covered face,

'This force channeling took a lot of time; it seems using force technique on my soul power made me almost a superman today.'

Xiao Yi thought he removed his hand from Zhou Wuji's shoulder and then walked past him calmly, even passing by Tang San and others; no one stopped his way; he left toward the star dou forest area.

…

Next Morning, 

On a wide tree branch, a white, long-bandaged object was lying similar to a large pupa.

Instantly, it shook and teared open.

Xiao Yi sat up through it and stretched his arms, then turned his head and looked at the sun rising from a corner.

"It was really a comfortable sleep."

He muttered and glanced around at the edge area of Star Dou Forest without any dangerous beasts except a few ten-year-old worms and ants.

He then jumped and landed on the tree branch and swiftly moved toward the deep forest.

After a while,

Xiao Yi, sitting on the tree branch, was looking at a tall purple flower with a light mist condensed around it and a lot of stems protruding out from the middle hanging out through the thirteen petals.

Then he glanced at the green vine surrounding the tree with a lot of thorn around its surface, and it's tip is a flat, round leaf shape that can be opened as a mouth.

'Purple mist poison flower, also the poisonous demon vine, both are perfect soul ring for me right now; although my second soul ring supports me spiritually, it can also be used as a control department attack combined with both of these plants,' Xiao Yi thought to himself. He knew the properties of both plant soul beasts.

Both are poisonous plants; the purple mist poison flower emits poison through the petals and condenses it as a mist around it, while the demon poison vine emits its poison through its thorny surface.

After thinking for a while, he decided to absorb the purple mist poisonous flower as his fourth soul ring because it's age is higher than the demon poison vine; it's thirteen hundred years old.

"After evolution it will become a thirteen thousand-year soul ring; it doesn't matter what type of soul ring I absorb; in the beginning they may look unimpressive, but when surpassing the higher age of hundred thousand and million years, they will reveal their true potential," Xiao Yi muttered thoughtfully.

After releasing his white ivy martial spirit, three rings appeared around him.

Fast Healing!

Lotus Wrap!!

Star Gazing!!!

Instantly he activated all three skills, and white ivy spread around the purple mist poison flower and engulfed it inside.

Burst!

With a dim burst sound, the white ivy lotus wrap loosened a bit, and a mist of purple poison spew out. 

'You are underestimating my white ivy healing ability,' Xiao Yi thought, and a playful smile materialized on his lips.

Instantly another layer of lotus covered the previous one, enclosing the whole purple mist poison flower.

Xiao Yi grabbed the white ivy and retracted, backed away, and jumped down from the tree.

While the white ivy rubbed on the tree branch like a rope and picked up the engulfed purple mist flower like an animal in a cage.

Force Technique x3

Xiao Yi tightened his fist, clenching the white ivy tightly, passing his force through the main vine like a wave.

A small crack spread through it; even the tree branch above cracked. Then the lotus wrap shook, and three pulses spread around it like a sonic boom.

'It's possible for me to control the force externally now; it's like a force transfer from the handle to the tip of the whip when flickering it, but I can transfer the force with the same damage without flickering it.'

Xiao Yi thought to himself, looking at the purple ring condensing around his lotus wrap,

Xiao Yi jumped above, landed on the branch, and retracted his lotus wrap; instantly, purple poison spread around in the lower area of the tree.