He had just been about to test it.
Then a commotion rose from the docks.
Coming back to himself,
Su Xinghe leaped down from the top of the rockery and headed straight for Niu Family Village outside the city.
The moment he got home, he eagerly began testing it.
Water Conception had evolved from the Listening to Tides Art. It was the secret art he had mastered most thoroughly so far.
To be safe, though,
he first tried activating just one silver figure.
The water in his Spirit Sea began to boil, countless waves evaporating into fuel.
"Splash..."
A domineering force field, perceptible only to the mind, descended. The whole room seemed to sink into a vast ocean.
A nest of rats huddled in the corner had no time to flee. Their life force vanished in an instant.
Can Psychic Power already affect the physical world...?
No sooner had the thought arisen than a prompt appeared in his mind.
"Diligence Makes Up for Dullness: one hundred repetitions a day." "Water Conception, experience +1"
Hearing his little nephew babbling outside, Su Xinghe hurriedly cut off the secret art.
That was terrifying...
If it had caught his family in its range, the consequences were unthinkable.
Fortunately, caution had led him to activate only one silver figure.
He rose and left the room.
After saying hello to his younger brother Haitao, he hurried away.
Scarlet Cloud Mountain had little else, but mine thieves and mountain bandits were everywhere.
Half an hour later, deep in the mountains,
a hazy pale-gold figure drifted into a crude mountain stronghold like a ghost. Every ordinary bandit within an eight-zhang radius was crushed where he stood.
They had not died outright, but they lay unconscious on the ground.
Only a few Grade Martial Artists barely