Chapter 589: Local Captives (1/2)

Chapter 589: Local Captives

Translator: LawEditor: AntiGod

The gusts of wind that had been swishing around the elderly men seemed to sense danger, and within a single moment, the around ten visible thin gusts of wind multiplied into hundreds.

Those cyan-colored, thin gusts of wind screamed towards Ji Hao’s fingers like the sharpest steel wire, along with a slight, ear-piercing noise. If it was anyone else but Ji Hao, these thin gusts of wind would be powerful enough to cut that person into pieces.

Ji Hao put his hand upon the short sword, letting these thin and fierce gusts of wind come.

A sizzling noise could be heard endlessly. Over a hundred thin and fierce gusts of wind collided with Ji Hao’s fingers, letting out slight noise. Ji Hao only felt that his hand was a bit itchy. These screaming gusts of wind couldn’t even cut off a single finger of his.

The power difference was way too huge!

Shaking his head, Ji Hao clenched his fist and shattered all these gusts, then gripped the short sword, forcing his spiritual power in. Just like a tsunami sweeping across a city, the slight trace of spiritual power hidden in the magic formation formed from tens of simply and rough spell symbols contained in the short sword was destroyed directly by Ji Hao.

The slightly struggling short sword instantly paused, then was put into Ji Hao’s sleeve conveniently.

The elderly man, who was silently cultivating himself in meditation, suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Ji Hao in shock. Before he could shout out, a mouthful of green blood spurted out from this mouth, then thick blood streams gushed out from his ears, nostrils and eye sockets.

The elderly man had dove into the deepest layer of his soul to cultivate himself, but abruptly, a trace of his soul was destroyed, and he was forced to wake up from that mysterious state. Before this elderly man figured out what happened, his soul was severely injured already.

Ji Hao pressed his hand on the elderly man’s head, sending waves of spiritual power into the elderly man’s body. Within the blink of an eye, he clearly found out the body structure of this elderly man in detail.

This elderly man or his kind, who were local residents of this area, had especially exquisite and slim bones. Unlike the bones of human beings which were fistulous and had marrow gathered in them, the bones of these local creatures had a complicated structure, similar to honeycombs. Their bones were thickly covered in tiny holes, and those holes were suffused by marrow-like, green-colored, cream-like liquid. This honeycomb-like structure allowed their bones to be extra light yet strong enough.

Apart from their extra light bones, their neural networks and muscle fibers were especially large, and the number of their neurons and muscles was tens of times greater than the humankind. Additionally, the number of bones of this elderly local man was over a hundred more than the number of bones of any human being. This meant that these local creatures had more bone joints, more exquisite body structures, more complicated neural networks, more muscles, and hence it was not hard to imagine how nimble these local creatures could be.

”Very interesting!” Ji Hao looked at this elderly man who had obvious fear on his face, then sent waves of spiritual power into this elderly man’s brain.

What surprised Ji Hao was that this elderly man’s brain was well developed and had been releasing strong vibrations of spiritual power. This meant that his kind had the gift of using magic and a tight connection with natural powers in this world.

Besides, his soul was different from souls of human beings, which were divided into three souls and seven spirits. Instead, this elderly man’s soul was a jelly-like sphere, a unity. Through Ji Hao’s spiritual space, he saw that his elderly man’s soul was like a human-head-sized, dark-green, crystal clear jelly, and had tens of wind-like spell symbols that had been changing forms constantly. Ji Hao somehow felt that these spell symbols had been ceaselessly exchanging energies with the outer world, and every time these spell symbols changed, a certain amount of natural green power would merge with the elderly man’s soul to strengthen it by a slight little bit.

”a fascinating method of cultivation… simple indeed, but worth learning from. Directly forming spell symbols of Dao in soul? Interesting… truly interesting. This is just like using your own soul as the material and making it into some kind of magic tool!”