Cultivation

"Roar!"

In the forest, a striped tiger raced forward, letting out roars from time to time.

Yet the majestic roar that should have belonged to the king of the forest now held a measure of terror, as though it had encountered its natural predator.

If word spread that even the king of the forest had a natural predator, the common folk certainly would not believe it.

But it was true.

And its natural predator... was a human.

A disheveled girl in simple clothing, her forearms and ankles exposed.

This girl was none other than Lu Mingyue, now eighteen years old.

"Stop running!"

At this moment, Lu Mingyue followed more than a hundred meters behind the tiger, floating a dozen meters above the ground.

Beneath her feet was a cloud in five colors: gold, green, blue, red, and yellow.

They corresponded precisely to the Origin Power cultivated through the [Five Elements Eternal Spring Art]!

"Roar!"

How could the tiger obey Lu Mingyue's shout? Although it was the king of the forest, it also knew what could threaten its life.

This two-legged beast could actually fly, making her completely different from the two-legged beasts it had eaten before. It would have been a foolish tiger not to run.

Of course, Lu Mingyue had never expected the tiger to stop. What she wanted was to frighten it into using every means it had to escape.

"Wooden Caltrops!"

Seeing the distance close to within thirty zhang, Lu Mingyue immediately formed a hand seal and pointed a finger at the tiger ahead.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Trees were what Old Crow Mountain lacked least. As Lu Mingyue pointed, cultivation Origin Power rippled out of her Spirit Mansion and transformed into a spell, making the branches of the trees along the tiger's path grow wildly and reach toward it like tentacles.

"Roar!"

If it could speak, the tiger would certainly have screamed.

But it could not speak. It could only roar in terror as its muscular body raced and dodged through the forest.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

There were dozens of branches, but their aim was clearly lacking-or rather, they were not fast enough. The tiger dodged them, and every last one stabbed into the forest floor.

"Roar!"

Seeing this, the tiger roared even louder.

Although it could not think like a human, it still knew that it absolutely could not let those branches pierce it.

Otherwise, they would certainly kill it!

"Ah, my cultivation is still too low. I haven't mastered this yet!"

In midair, Lu Mingyue saw that every branch had missed and keenly felt how meager her cultivation was.

Another five years had passed. She had become a true cultivator, but her cultivation was only at the third layer of the Qi Refining Stage.

That was because cultivating the [Five Elements Eternal Spring Art] was simply too slow.

Perhaps because this cultivation method encompassed all five elemental attributes, every time Lu Mingyue drew Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi into her Spirit Mansion, she had to convert it into five-element Origin Power. This was five times slower than a single-attribute cultivation method, so even after five full years, she had only reached the third layer of Qi Refining.

And she had only managed that because, besides this cultivation method, she had also inherited three spells!

Wooden Caltrops, Fireball Technique, and Water Mirror Shield corresponded to wood, fire, and water, respectively.

As Lu Mingyue practiced these three spells, she naturally refined the Origin Power within her more thoroughly, allowing her to break through to the third layer of Qi Refining.

Without those three spells, Lu Mingyue estimated that she would probably only be at the second layer of Qi Refining now.

"Heh, you're a clever one! You even know how to divert the flood of trouble onto someone else?"

Coming back to her senses, Lu Mingyue looked up and saw a lake ahead of the tiger.

It was noon, and Old Crow Mountain was rarely visited by humans, so many wild beasts lived there.

Besides tigers, there were countless bears and wild boars, and even rhinoceroses and iron-eating beasts!

"Roar!"

"Awoo!"

Wild beasts could not do without water. As the temperature rose at noon, the shores of the lake were crowded with animals drinking.

By fleeing toward the water, the tiger was clearly trying to find other targets for Lu Mingyue so that she would give up on it.

But Lu Mingyue was not merely after something to eat. Her main purpose was to hone her spells on this tiger, so her target was quite clear.

"Perfect. You asked for this!"

Seeing that the water source was now within thirty zhang of her, with the fleeing tiger between them, Lu Mingyue immediately changed her hand seal.

"Water Mirror Shield!"

Splash!

The next instant, a mass of water rose from the lake and transformed into a mirror a full three meters across. Shimmering with blue light, it slammed toward the tiger.

"Roar!"

Sensing danger, the tiger tried to dodge, but it was a step too late.

Bam!

The mirror formed from water knocked it straight into the air, its four limbs flailing in terror.

"Wooden Caltrops!"

Whoosh!

Lu Mingyue changed her hand seal again. The Water Mirror Shield collapsed, and then branches stabbed toward the tiger like sharp spikes.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

"Roooar!"

This time, the tiger was in midair and had no way to dodge. Dozens of wooden spikes pierced its body, leaving it hanging in the air, looking utterly wretched.

"Don't worry. I'll make it quick!"

Lu Mingyue changed her hand seal once more. The fire-attribute portion of her five-element Origin Power erupted, and she opened her mouth, spitting a fireball over a meter across toward the tiger.

Lu Mingyue changed her hand seal once more. The fire-attribute portion of the five-element Origin Power within her erupted, and she opened her mouth, spitting a fireball over a meter across toward the tiger.

Whoomph!

Blazing flames engulfed the tiger's body. At last, it stopped screaming, for the fireball had ended its life in an instant.

"Whew..."

The cloud beneath Lu Mingyue's feet dissipated as well. Unable to sustain her Origin Power, she descended unsteadily onto a thick tree trunk.

"Ah, at the third layer of Qi Refining, I can only cast three or four spells, and each is weaker than the last. I'm far too weak!"

Lu Mingyue sighed and rubbed the spot over her Spirit Mansion in her abdomen, feeling deeply that her cultivation was still too low.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle...

The charred aroma of roasting meat wafted down from midair. The wild beasts around the lake had long since fled, and Lu Mingyue felt ravenously hungry.

"Tiger meat, huh? I've never had it before. I'll try something new today!"

After barely recovering a trace of Origin Power, Lu Mingyue released her feeble Divine Sense. Once she confirmed that the tiger was cooked through, she formed a large hand from metal-attribute Origin Power and lifted the tiger, its exterior charred black, over beside her.

Taking out the dagger she had brought along when she left all those years ago, Lu Mingyue sliced open the tiger's hide and cut off some meaty bones.

Only after eating heartily and satisfying her hunger did Lu Mingyue look up at the sun above the forest.

"Cultivating is far too slow while I'm staying here. It's time I left..."

Forming a cloud and jumping onto it, Lu Mingyue spent more than half a month flying out of Old Crow Mountain before she finally saw an unfamiliar city far from Yangguan City.

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