chapter 35

Yue went back to sleep by midday, Hou had learned some basic details about formation design. Hou stretched himself after sitting up for the morning learning from Yue.

He flew outside his tent and looked down at everyone's preparations, everyone was packing their own equipment, into their bags and hand carts. There were also a few who were helping to disable the main pavilion tent, mostly relying on Hamar and Penn with their parasite strengthened limbs.

Overall it seemed a few people would have to focus on carrying all the luggage, leaving only a few remaining who would be free.

Hou glided down to a few men who were packing up their luggage onto hand carts and asked,

"Do you guys want to earn some points? I want to create a group responsible for translation of luggage, you boys want to be the leaders for 5 points a day of travelling? I'll give you each an animal companion and you can pull the carts for everyone."

The three boys stood for a second and then whispered to eachother and turned to Hou and nodded.

"Good, go to Penn and get your tokens, before we set off, ask a carpenter to fashion your have cats to larger carriages."

"Got it, thank you sir" the boys all bowed at the same time and ran off to do what they needed.

Hou flew over and asked Penn to issue the boys tokens and prepare another 20 points for the carpenter.

Hou then took initiative to leave the dome and look for a few wolves. With the parasites he had, he could implant them on wolves and create monsters he could control and hand over to the three boys.

Hou had to fly quite far since he had hunted nearby wolves and scared them away. Once he did find some, Hou shot a few flower petals and killed all but three wolves. The remaining ones were parked with cactus needles and condensed blood fog. Hou had been neglecting his other parasites and took the opportunity to show off his strength against normal animals.

Hou flew down and gave each of the wolves two simple strengthening parasites on each leg. This left Hou with only a few special parasites he would use later.

'this is more parasites then Da has, I should give a few of the remaining to him'

The wolves each had vines entangled then, borrowing into their muscles. They tried to struggle but the paralytic poison made them suffer silently as their body was pierced with thorns.

Then like a firework, How's wills were injected into their bloodstream causing them to gain higher intelligence and a link with Hou.

The paralytic blood poison wire of and they all woke up and became docile, Hou ordered them to follow him as he started running back. He decided to run so the wolves would be close by, although that did slow him down.

Before they ran, Hou gave each a few orbs of miasma so they could power their parasites. As Hou was running back he started ruminating,

'I wonder how there can be so many parasites, each parasite has a spirit will. It takes a lot to gain a spirit will his can I have gained dozens so quickly, there must be hundreds or thousands across the land... How is there so many?'

As Hou was thinking he saw he was closing in and stopped his useless thinking, focusing on speeding up as much as possible.

Half an hour later, Hou and the three wolves made their way there and passed through the blood dome into the commotion of everyone being packed but waiting for Hou to return to set off.

Everyone had put all their big luggage onto the carriages, with the trio standing Infront, waiting for Hou.

When they all saw Hou come running in at speed, the trio's face lit up with excitement but also apprehension. They would have a wolf pet each, this was a man's dream but they were also fully aware of how strong wolves are.

Hou slowed and the trio of wolves split up and sat in front of each boy.

"As you all might know, these men," Hou gestures for the boys to say their name.

"Sly"

"Grey"

"Barker"

The boys introduced themselves and carefully reach out to pet the wolves in front of them.

"From now on, you trust these men to carry your luggage, then and their trust wolf companions. Thur are under my control, I assure you these wolves will never hurt you, much like my Da."

Hou informed everyone and got them to set off. He had set up a placement, in the middle is the carriages of luggage, and behind it is everyone else matching along. In front is Armen, Hou and Hamar along with Da.

While travelling Hou would move his inner world keeping them hidden from the outside but if they walked into any enemies, the people at the front will be able to dispatch them quick and easy.

The group traveled far and encountered new land which Hou had not been to before, meaning monsters and parasites would be much more likely.

Once the sun was almost set, Hou ordered for everyone to set up temporary camp, meaning not everything just enough for night and the next day they would continue travelling.

At night, Yue had once again woke up and Hou could learn about formations, but he instead had a question from earlier on in the day.

"Master before we start, I've been thinking. Aren't there way too many parasites and therefore spirit wills? Spirit wills take a lot of effort and time so how could the cultivator with miasma qi have thousands?!"

"Yes I've had the same question. The spirit wills are too numerous but weak. But I have a theory, we will just need to destroy a few parasites to test it. I'm thinking the spirit wills and fake and are connecting to a stronger fuller spirit will. Meaning we are only using a fraction of their power split between thousands of parasites."