I Can Merge Techniques

Chapter 451: Chapter 151: Time to Hunt, Divine Techniques Suppress Acupoint; A Cauldron Seals the Demon Fiend, Spiritual Light Illuminates the Secluded Valley

CRACK.

Mo Daozi closed his five fingers, showing no mercy as he crushed the exquisite Spirit Butterfly to dust.

The Spirit Butterfly instantly exploded into a shower of crystalline blue specks, which swirled before him and coalesced into a spectral image.

The image was of a beautiful woman with a frantic expression—it was none other than his junior martial sister, Mo Yunzi.

"Senior Brother!"

An imperceptible tremor of urgency laced Mo Yunzi’s voice.

"My mission has failed! I can’t answer to our martial uncle! Help me this one time, and I’ll give you a ’Seven-leaf Star Orchid’!"

Before she had even finished speaking, a simple, ancient Jade Box materialized in the spectral image’s hand.

The box opened, revealing a Spirit Grass lying quietly inside, its entire body shimmering with a vibrant, flowing light.

Its seven leaves, like fragments of stars, radiated a dreamlike glow.

"Useless!"

Mo Daozi’s gaze turned cold, and with a flick of his sleeve...

...an invisible gust of force swept out.

Mo Yunzi’s spectral image, along with the treasure in her hand, vanished without a trace, popping like a bubble with a soft "POOF."

The "Seven-leaf Star Orchid" was a rare Spiritual Medicine used by those at the Fifth Level of the Divine Power Realm to break through to the Acupoint Realm, and it was incredibly valuable.

He was now at the Second Heaven of the Acupoint Realm, so the item was of no great use to him anymore.

But the value of this Spirit Grass was enough to drive any Divine Power Realm Martial Artist to madness.

Mo Yunzi’s Cultivation was at the Fifth Level of the Divine Power Realm, making this Spirit Grass her key to reaching a higher Realm.

For her to be willing to offer it as payment for help, the trouble she was in must have been far beyond her ability to handle.

Mo Daozi’s expression was impassive. An object slid from his sleeve and landed in his palm.

It was a round, jet-black disc, engraved with complex demonic patterns.

On this "Thousand-Mile Soul-Chasing Disc," two pinpricks of light—one red and one green—were faintly flickering.

The red dot represented the woman from Medicine King Valley he was hunting.

Right now, the red dot had entered the Qing Province city limits, and its light had stabilized.

This meant she had successfully escaped back home and would definitely not be coming out again anytime soon.

If she did reappear, she would likely be accompanied by experts hired by the Medicine King Valley.

His gaze fell upon the green dot.

That was the target of Mo Yunzi’s mission.

When they first accepted their missions, the sect’s intelligence report had been clear: Mo Yunzi was only supposed to deal with some kid at the Spirit Awakening Realm.

Even if the kid had gotten lucky and broken through recently, he would be a newcomer to the Divine Power Realm at best.

But Mo Yunzi was at the Fifth Level of the Divine Power Realm!

A dignified master at the Fifth Level of the Divine Power Realm couldn’t handle a boy as insignificant as an ant?

And she was even forced to the point of begging for help with the "Seven-leaf Star Orchid"?

’Is some expert secretly protecting that kid?’

’Or does the kid have some heaven-defying Magical Treasure?’

’Absolutely useless!’

Mo Daozi’s brow furrowed slightly.

His own mission had failed, and he was being pursued relentlessly by his enemies. He was already simmering with frustration.

If he went to help Mo Yunzi solve this little problem and extorted a bit more from her, he could probably make up for some of his losses.

His mind made up, he put away the Soul-Chasing Disc. With a flash of movement, he was about to dart in the direction of the green dot.

But in the instant he moved—

A bone-chilling coldness shot up his back without warning, piercing straight to his soul!

It felt as if a pair of invisible eyes had penetrated the dense forest fog, locking onto the center of his back!

It was a cold, venomous gaze, filled with killing intent!

’The pursuers have closed the distance again!’

’Closer than they were at any point last night!’

Startled, Mo Daozi snorted coldly. He formed a sword-sign with his right hand and recited a Mantra.

WHOOSH!

A pale yellow Paperman flew out from his chest.

The Paperman then spun rapidly in mid-air, transforming into a perfect likeness of Mo Daozi.

Even the aura it emanated was identical!

The Paperman-turned-Mo Daozi immediately shot off to the northwest at incredible speed!

Mo Daozi watched the Paperman depart and smiled faintly.

His own body dissolved into a wisp of distorted black smoke and shot toward the green dot on the Soul-Chasing Disc.

...

Mo Daozi moved like a phantom, his Tunneling Light practically melting into the shadows.

Finally, following the guidance of the "Thousand-Mile Soul-Chasing Disc," he found the area where the green dot was located.

It was a hidden mountain hollow, covered in vines and moss.

Mo Yunzi was leaning against a giant boulder, sheltered from the wind, regulating her breathing.

Her face was as pale as paper, with a trace of dried blood at the corner of her lips.

Her aura was extremely weak.

Even when facing his heavily injured junior martial sister, whose strength was far inferior to his own, Mo Daozi remained cautious and did not approach.

He stopped several dozen feet away, hiding beside a massive, ancient tree, his sinister eyes coldly scanning the surroundings.

There was nothing out of the ordinary nearby.

"Useless!"

Mo Daozi slowly approached, his voice as cold as ice. "Martial Uncle sent you to deal with an ant from the Spirit Awakening Realm, and you ended up like this? You’ve completely disgraced the Yin Demon Sect!"

Faced with the rebuke, a flash of humiliation crossed Mo Yunzi’s eyes, but she still forced herself to explain, "It’s not that I’m incompetent! The boy had an Acupoint Realm expert with him! I... I was wounded by that person and barely managed to escape..."

"What?" Mo Daozi was slightly taken aback. His Divine Sense swept out like quicksilver, covering a radius of several hundred feet, but he found no trace of a lingering aura from an Acupoint Realm expert.

"Where is he?" he asked, his voice filled with suspicion.

"He... he’s already gone."

Mo Yunzi gasped weakly. "But the boy has an extremely powerful Profound Weapon! My injuries haven’t healed, so I didn’t dare to act rashly. That’s why I asked for your help, Senior Brother."

"A Profound Weapon?"

Hearing those two words, Mo Daozi’s eyes flashed brightly from under his hood, a greedy glint appearing and vanishing in an instant. "Very good! After we kill that boy, everything he has on him, including this Profound Weapon, belongs to me!"

A pained look immediately crossed Mo Yunzi’s face, but she still gritted her teeth and nodded. "...Fine. As you say, Senior Brother."

Having secured her promise, Mo Daozi finally turned his gaze in the direction Mo Yunzi was pointing.

It was the edge of a cliff.

A young boy in green robes was sitting cross-legged on a rock jutting out from the cliff’s edge, his eyes tightly closed.