Novel Full Chapter 916 Mist Shaping Technique
In the end, the Mist Guards just accepted that Lin Fan had to do this alone.
Even though it was clear that they wanted to come along with him, they seemed to have no choice but to accept this.
Instead of dwelling on this, it seemed like they were focused on helping in other ways.
Such as giving as much information as they could about Weeping Mist Forest.
“The Weeping Mist Forest is made up of many different zones, but there are three layers to the different zones of the Weeping Mist Forest. The deeper that you get, the more powerful the spirit beasts become.”
The leader of the Mist Guards was the one that explained this.
Everyone just listened to him explaining, giving deference to him.
There was a reason why he was the leader of the Mist Guards after all, he had the most experience out of all the Mist Guards that were here.
He went on to describe the different zones of the Weeping Mist Forest, but it didn’t give me the information that I wanted.
While he was doing this, Lin Fan compared the map that he showed him to the map that Grandma Pan had shown him before. He was able to find some similar parts and find the location that he was looking for.
When Lin Fan found this spot, he suddenly cut him off while he was in the middle of explaining and pointed at this spot on the map to say, “Can you tell me more about this place?”
The leader of the Mist Guards was surprised to hear him suddenly cut him off like this.
It took him a few seconds to come back to his senses before he looked at the place that Lin Fan was pointing at on the map.
When he saw this spot, he couldn’t help slightly knitting his brows.
Then he slowly said, “The place that you’re pointing at is known as the Valley of Mist.”
“Valley of Mist?” Lin Fan asked in a confused voice.
The leader of the Mist Guards slowly nodded before saying, “That’s a very dangerous place. It’s a place that even we don’t dare go to that easily.”
This time, it was Lin Fan’s turn to knit his brows.
He looked at the spot on the map again before asking, “What’s special about that place?”
The leader of the Mist Guards gave a sigh and remained silent for a bit before suddenly saying, “That place is considered a forbidden zone because of the mist that keeps coming from that place. It’s much thicker than the mist in the rest of the Weeping Mist Forest.”
Then after a pause, he continued by saying, “When I was younger, I was part of the expedition to explore that place.” He turned to look at the city lord before saying, “With the city lord here.”
With a sigh, he continued, “There wasn’t even a tenth of us that survived that expedition. The mist in that place was so thick that it was impossible for most of us to make it out of there, let alone get any further into the valley. The ones that were lost that day are said to still be wandering around in that mist.”
The city lord gave a somber nod at the end of this as if he agreed to what the leader of the Mist Guards said.
Lin Fan silently looked at them for a bit before saying, “But that is where I need to go.”
The two of them looked at Lin Fan with a strange look for a bit before the leader of the Mist Guards said with another sigh, “I can’t just let you go there and sacrifice yourself…” Gritting his teeth, he said, “How about I come with you? I promise that I won’t tell anyone about what we do there, I think that I really can be of help to you if you allow me to come.”
Though he said this, it was clear by the look on his face that he was hesitant.
It seemed that whatever this Valley of Mist was, it had left a very deep impression on this leader of the Mist Guards.
The city lord looked like he wanted to offer to go too, but he was in a different position than the leader of the Mist Guards.
But in the end, Lin Fan just shook his head before asking, “Why do you think that you’ll be able to help me?”
The leader of the Mist Guards and the city lord were both surprised by this question before he said, “We have the Mist Shaping Technique, we can help you control the mist to a certain extent.”
“Mist Shaping Technique?” Lin Fan asked in a confused voice.
This time, it wasn’t just the leader of the Mist Guards and the city lord that reacted when they heard this.
The looks on their faces were as if they were completely shocked by this question, while also showing traces of disappointment. It was almost as if something that they had believed in had been crushed for them.
But this look only lasted for a bit before bitter smiles appeared on their faces.
The leader of the Mist Guards said, “Of course it’s only a small matter to the royal family. They are powerful and have all kinds of different techniques under their control, they wouldn’t think about the small Mist Shaping Technique that they gave us.”
Hearing this moment of self pity, Lin Fan realized what they were talking about.
When the leader of the Mist Guards told him about the origin of the Mist Guards, he had mentioned that the royal family had given them a special cultivation technique that they used to go into the Weeping Mist Forest for resources.
This Mist Shaping Technique must have been it.
As soon as Lin Fan realized this, there was an awkward look that appeared on his face before he said, “It’s not that they’ve forgotten about it, it’s just that I didn’t hear anything about this before coming here.”
The Mist Guards and the city lord all looked at Lin Fan with looks of doubt when they heard this.
If it wasn’t for the fact that he had shown them the token of an envoy earlier, they might have even started to doubt that he was indeed an envoy from the Mu Empire.
But that token was the best proof that one could show, so they didn’t continue to doubt him.
In the end, the leader of the Mist Guards broke the silence by saying, “The Mist Shaping Technique that we use allows us to mold the mist in ways that we want and push them away from us. It’s what we use to clear the mist around us when we enter the Weeping Mist Forest.”
Then after a pause, he added, “Of course, since we can control the mist, we can also use it how we want. Namely, we can use it to confuse the spirit beasts that try to attack us. However, it only works on them if our control of the mist is stronger than their defenses. These are spirit beasts that have made their home in the Weeping Mist Forest, so naturally they have defenses against the mist that is there.”
Lin Fan gave a nod to show that he understood before saying, “Then can you teach me the Mist Shaping Technique?”
“Huh?” All of them were shocked by his words.
They looked at him almost as if they thought that he was crazy.
But then the leader of the Mist Guards said in a stern voice, “The Mist Shaping Technique is not something that can be learned that easily. Do you really think that you’ll be able to learn it just because we teach it to you? If so, you’re taking this too lightly.”
Once again, Lin Fan gave a simple nod to show that he understood before saying, “I just want to get a better understanding of the Mist Shaping Technique. With a better understanding of the technique, then I’ll be able to understand the limits of what I can and can’t do. When that time comes, I’ll know if I need your help or not.”
The leader of the Mist Guards suddenly knitted his brows when he heard this. Enjoy exclusive chapters from empire
There was still a part of him that didn’t seem convinced by what Lin Fan said, but there was something that Lin Fan said that resonated with him.
It was that he would need their help if he understood the limits of what he could and couldn’t do.
This was what they had wanted to do all along, so this was the best way to achieve his goal.
That was because he was certain that Lin Fan wouldn’t be able to grasp the Mist Shaping Technique.
Not to mention that this Mist Shaping Technique wasn’t some kind of secret in the first place.
It was the core of the Mist Guards and was something that was given to them by the Mu Empire’s royal family. If Lin Fan really wanted this technique, it would be easy for him to go back and get it from the royal family if he wanted.
So there was no harm in teaching him this technique.
With a sigh, the leader of the Mist Guards said, “Be sure to remember what you said.”
Lin Fan gave a simple nod in response without saying anything else.
The leader of the Mist Guards gave another sigh before saying, “The Mist Shaping Technique is like this…”