Three Realms Minor Shift

Compared with the magic treasures in the cultivation novels he had read before, however, magic treasures in this world were exceedingly scarce. The killing intent of heaven and earth was hard to find, as were natural treasures and rare objects. Even with all three, without a method to refine the killing intent and fuse the rare objects with the natural treasures, it was all for nothing. Thus, although rumors of magic treasures abounded in the martial world, genuine ones were rarely seen. In fact, apart from a handful whose crafting techniques were already mature and whose required killing intent and materials were relatively easy to obtain, no one even knew the specific names of other kinds of magic treasures.

Judging by how the Yellow Cloth on the little creature sprang into action at the slightest touch, it had to be some unknown magic treasure. To think he had actually stumbled upon one! How could he not be delighted?

Still, from the look of things, this magic treasure had a deep connection with the little creature. If he wanted to get his hands on it, he would have to start with the creature itself.

"Squeak, squeak-!" While Little Leopard was pondering this, the little creature suddenly cried out. He looked down and nearly spat blood. In its smug delight, the creature had actually turned its back on him and started wiggling its backside.

"You damned little bastard!" This time, Little Leopard nearly burst a lung with rage. Seeing that the creature held him in utter contempt, he decided to give it a scare and test just how powerful the Yellow Cloth was at the same time. With a flick of his hand, a Kunai shot straight toward it.

The little creature was startled by the flash of cold light and stopped wiggling its backside. When the Kunai came within a foot of it, that golden screen of light rose again and met the blade.

With a bang, a dazzling burst of golden light flashed, and the Kunai flew backward, embedding itself in the cave wall. The little creature was so frightened that it toppled backward and landed on its backside.

Now it was Little Leopard's turn to feel smug, and he burst out laughing.

Who knew what strange species the little creature belonged to? It had long since developed intelligence. Annoyed to see Little Leopard laughing at it, it squeaked at him, its forepaws clenching into fists like a human's and waving at him in a show of defiance.

Having vented his frustration, Little Leopard felt much better. Now, instead of getting angry at the little creature's claw-waving display, he found it extraordinarily cute.

This little fellow is interesting. It's much cleverer than the pets I kept in my previous life. Catching it and raising it would be fun, but it's awfully slippery. I'll have to find a way to tame it! At that thought, an image suddenly flashed through his mind: the scene of Wang She subduing Old One-Eye at West Mountain Pass.

When Wang She subdued Old One-Eye, Li Haoran had been suffering every agony of Wang She's torture, but his eyes had not gone blind. He had witnessed the entire process clearly. Because it was something he had seen just before his death, it had left an especially deep impression. After Little Leopard absorbed his memories, that scene had naturally become branded deep in his own mind.

Little Leopard also remembered perfectly the strange rune Wang She had drawn on Old One-Eye's head. Although he did not know what technique it was and had never heard of it among the martial-world rumors at Green Ram Market, with that scene imprinted in his mind, he could guess that it was some method of subduing demon beasts.

The creature before him was small, but it had clearly awakened its intelligence and could just about qualify as a demon beast. It also possessed a strange instant teleportation technique, so Little Leopard began turning over ways to subdue it.

For now, however, the little creature had the Yellow Cloth protecting it, and Little Leopard could do nothing about it.

Forget it. I know where it lives now, anyway. Relying on that Yellow Cloth for protection, it probably won't move away. There's plenty of time ahead. Once I think of a way, I can come back for it. It's already afternoon, and I still have fifteen blood-food animals to hunt. How do I have time to dawdle here with it? Thinking of his remaining task of hunting fifteen blood-food animals,

Little Leopard felt a surge of irritation. He stopped tangling with the little creature and turned to walk farther into the cave, intending to retrieve the Kunai embedded in the wall and leave.

Yet after turning and walking up to the rock wall, he froze.

Beside the Kunai, he happened to notice runes and pictures carved into the wall. His heart suddenly tightened, and he focused his gaze on them. Once he had made out the wall's contents, he could not help bursting into laughter.

Why, you ask?

It turned out that the runes and pictures on the wall recorded an unusual art called Three Realms Minor Shift!

"So that's how a little fellow like you has such amazing abilities. I thought you could even use the legendary instant teleportation, but it turns out it isn't instant teleportation at all-it's this unusual art!"

What was depicted on the wall was precisely an unusual art called Three Realms Minor Shift. Once mastered, its effect resembled instant teleportation: the practitioner could shift freely within a certain range, utterly disregarding the distance involved.

The writing on the cave wall recorded only the effects and origins of Three Realms Minor Shift. The method for cultivating the unusual art was contained in the pictures.

Since Three Realms Minor Shift was an unusual art, it naturally required refining killing intent. To master this marvelous art, one had to refine a kind known as floating light killing intent.

Floating light killing intent was an exceedingly rare variety among the countless kinds of killing intent between heaven and earth, and one of the hardest to find. The extraordinary man who had left this unusual art behind had obtained Three Realms Minor Shift in his early years, but had been unable to learn it because its killing intent was so elusive. In his old age, while seeking a quiet place to cultivate in peace, he had inadvertently discovered an earth vein in the Vast Cang Mountains that released floating light killing intent every day at midnight and noon. He had therefore carved the method of Three Realms Minor Shift onto the rock wall, leaving behind its cultivation method so that the art's lineage would not die out merely because its killing intent was hard to find.

Unexpectedly, after who knew how many years, not a single person had visited this godforsaken place. Instead, the little creature had claimed it. The creature was blessed with profound good fortune: occupying this tiny cave abode and looking at the stone carvings every day, it had somehow muddled its way into mastering the unusual art, gaining the perfect means of saving its life and escaping.

No wonder I couldn't catch this little fellow. So that's how it is! And here I actually thought it had an innate divine ability to teleport. Still, compared with an innate divine ability, its managing to master an unusual art is even more remarkable. Unfortunately, it isn't human after all. Although it has intelligence, it doesn't understand the true cultivation method. Once mastered, Three Realms Minor Shift allows free movement within a hundred zhang, but this little creature can only shift within ten!

Recalling the range within which the creature had moved while evading his attempts to catch it, Little Leopard raised his brows slightly. He carefully read through the method of Three Realms Minor Shift, engraving it deep in his mind, then casually pulled out the Kunai beside it.

Whew, it's past midnight. There'll be another chapter in a bit. I'm not going to bed until I've finished updating all three chapters!