Starting My Cultivation With Time Management

Chapter 790: Chapter 27 Peacock Luo Yan

The two hurriedly retreated, and Luo Yan was also at a loss for explanation until he heard Shi Liuli suddenly say in vexation:

“I’ve figured it out. It must have been when I used Art Calculation to spy on her fate; she noticed something amiss.”

So it wasn’t my fault?

Luo Yan paused for a moment before asking:

“Art Calculation… can be detected by the opposition as well? I thought that method of calculation was undetectable.”

“Using Art Calculation to spy on someone is bound to leave traces.” Shi Liuli explained, “The difference is, most Cultivators who don’t understand Art Calculation are completely unable to detect this kind of trace.”

“Judging by her reaction, she probably hasn’t cultivated the way of Art Calculation… My guess is that she sensed someone calculating her fate through some kind of special Magical Treasure or Secret Technique.”

“Since it’s a Magical Treasure or Secret Technique providing the counter-surveillance, she won’t be able to lock onto us for long. As long as we create enough distance or buy enough time, we should be able to shake her off.”

“Even so, we’ve ultimately been noticed by her…” Luo Yan had just begun to speak when he suddenly exclaimed in shock, “Damn, she flies so fast!”

Riding the clouds and commanding the mist is a Bloodline Supernatural Power unique to the Dragon Clan, which involves gathering Water System Essence under the body to negate weight and using Wood System Essence to summon demon winds that propel the body forward.

Although that’s the principle, the actual effect largely depends on the Bloodline Rank setting the upper limit and the Cultivation Level determining the lower limit.

On the other end, Shi Yao’s display of riding the clouds was undoubtedly a manifestation of her high proficiency—god knows how many years she has researched this Supernatural Power. The momentum of her cloud riding might not be conspicuous, but her speed was astonishingly fast. In Luo Yan’s scanning vision, she almost dashed straight toward them, covering a third of the distance in an instant.

Luo Yan was so startled that he was nearly out of his wits. Don’t let the seemingly gentle and approachable appearance of this bargain mentor against Long Long fool you. After all, she was born in the perilous lineage of the Jiaolong, surviving who knows how long among the Azure Dragon Clan, perhaps concealing three or four secret deadly techniques. Any moment now, she could unleash all of them without hesitation and bomb me and Liuli into oblivion!

He quickly began to flee with Shi Liuli, but the other party was just too fast; where could they possibly escape to? The dragon had yet to arrive, but its attack was already approaching—it was the boundless Dragon’s Might!

This invisible Dragon’s Might pressed down like a cover over the heavens, and Shi Liuli instantly felt like a small animal facing a fierce tiger, her heart almost skipping a beat.

However, having previously received Shi Yao’s guidance, Long Xiaoqi had predicted that this cheap mentor would prioritize Dragon’s Might, followed by Spells and Divine Skills. He had already anticipated her opening move, so he immediately released Ah Jing from the control, simultaneously embraced the immobilized Shi Liuli with his left hand, and grabbed the Heavenly Weaving God Shuttle with his right hand, injecting power fiercely and disappearing a great distance in a flash.

Any other Cultivator from the Human Race might have been caught off guard by Dragon’s Might. How could Luo Yan, with his alias Long Xiaoqi, not understand Shi Yao’s tactical intent?

The other party arrived from afar riding the clouds, flying above the forest rather than through the trees, for if they were obstructed by trees, they certainly wouldn’t be so swift.

Flying above the forest canopy, one’s vision would inevitably be obstructed by layers of tree crowns. Since Dragon’s Might is a wide-scale Spell and Divine Skill mysteriously connected to a dragon’s body, once the target felt intimidated, an instinctual sense would arise within oneself, revealing the target’s exact location.

It seems like a control skill, but its true nature is for surveillance!

On Luo Yan’s side, using the Heavenly Weaving Divine Shuttle to teleport instantly was also to immediately leave Shi Yao’s locked position.

Indeed, less than a second later, the next attack from the opponent came one after another.

Suddenly, a biting cold and frosty rain came down from the sky like a cold tide, instantly covering the forest with a vast frost, causing flowers to wither, and trees to whither, as if it were the silence of deep winter.

This move… Luo Yan’s pupils once again shrank sharply.

This move was not a commonly practiced spell of the Dragon Clan, but a unique and special divine skill recorded in the Jiaolong Secret Scroll called the “Eternal Night Tidal Wave Technique.”

According to the scroll, if a Jiaolong of the Demon King level fully activated it, it could create an extremely vast environment of wind and snow, which could even completely obscure the sunlight in the sky.

Although the wind was violent and the snow fierce, the real killer move was not the cold but…

Luo Yan dared not slacken his efforts for a moment, he brought his palms together and rapidly activated the Innate Five Elements Great Chaos Divine Light.

Before him, within the forest sea, suddenly exploded a great number of frost edges and ice flowers, towering several meters tall and exceptionally sharp, piercing and tearing everything around them!

This Eternal Night Tidal Wave Technique, with its wind and snow, were all illusions, disguises, merely a front. The real killer move was the hidden Demon Essence Bomb, extremely low in temperature and colorless and transparent to the point of invisibility to the naked eye. Scattered around by the blizzard, then it would explode violently—with the frail flesh of a Human Race cultivator, being hit by it would make remaining intact a rarity.

After all, it was the war-torn Eastern Emperor Realm; the demon arts and divine skills that have been passed down to this day were certainly not particularly powerful, but absolutely cunning and filthy.

The Five Elements Divine Light that Luo Yan timely activated was also worthy of being an Immortal Rank secret technique. It met the vast ice edges and frost flowers and immediately swept through them like a hot knife through butter, clearing a swath.

Shi Yao had been on guard; they had caught one with the Dragon’s Might and one had escaped—clearly, the opponent understood Dragon Clan tactics, and it was highly likely that they would rapidly vacate the area.

That’s why she used the Eternal Night Tidal Wave Technique, a spell of even greater range than Dragon’s Might, to force the other out from the cover of the forest sea.

However, at the edge of the cold wave, out of nowhere flourished the Five-colored Divine Light. Its colors were as intense as the positive sun, its force as vast as the rivers and seas, rapidly rolling upwards from below. It broke through the wind and snow and lunged towards her at great speed!

Shi Yao hurriedly drove the clouds and mist, twisting her body to retreat rapidly while also casting various powerful spells forward, hurling them without regard for any cost to stop the Five Elements Divine Light.

However, the Jiaolong clan was most proficient in the Water System divine skills and spells. No matter how powerful these spells were, once they met the Divine Light, they were like a clay ox entering the sea, instantly becoming formless and dissipating.

It wasn’t until the old dragon and Long Xiaoqi arrived from behind that the former spat out a Dragon Ball, aiming it straight at the Five Elements Divine Light.

Suddenly, a large swath of gray barriers appeared in midair, holding off and stopping the Five-colored Divine Light. The latter was already far away from Luo Yan. Although it was not getting replenished with True Yuan, it had not dissipated and kept changing colors, continuing to struggle against the barrier.

“Innate Five Elements Great Chaos Divine Light?” the old dragon exclaimed, “Someone from the Peacock Clan is here?”

“I don’t know,” said Shi Yao quickly, “There were two of them. One was contained by my Dragon’s Might, and the other broke free on time. Their cultivation level doesn’t seem high, but this Divine Light is truly troublesome!”

“Of course, their cultivation level cannot be high,” the old dragon snorted coldly, speaking in a low voice, “If it were a Demon King level Peacock using this Five Elements Chaos Divine Light on you, you would have perished right there and then.”

He looked forward again and took back the Dragon Ball into his mouth, muttering,

“The other party is hit-and-run, unwilling to engage in battle.”

“Your Majesty, this is not a good time to delay any further,” Shi Yao reminded him quickly, seeing the old dragon starting to lapse again.

“Hmm,” the old dragon responded after a moment, coming back to his senses, “That Peacock, retreating with its companion, I wonder if they are going to get reinforcements.”

“We should resolve the battle quickly and find the Divine Cauldron sooner to leave this place!”