Beginning with the Ubume Bird-Chapter 274 - 14 Ready

Chapter 274: Chapter 14 Ready

After exhausting Wu Zhiqi’s inheritance for about four or five minutes, Li Yan took several breaths and suddenly glanced at the kettle full of boiling water on the stove.

With a bang!

The kettle completely exploded, flipping over, with its lid being flung quite high into the air. It clattered as it hit the ground.

Not to mention Cha Xiaodao, even Li Yan himself was startled.

“Accident, accident.”

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Li Yan felt a bit embarrassed as water spilled all over the floor, yet it strangely flowed back on its own, eventually gathering into a water orb, spinning round and round at his feet.

“Is this Wu Zhiqi?”

Cha Xiaodao cocked her head.

Li Yan roughly explained the ability of Wu Zhiqi to the two people. After Cha Xiaodao was amazed for a while at the sheer volume of ninety tons of water, she reacted, “Where’s the lethality? Ninety tons of water sounds impressive, but can you actually flood someone to death with it? It’s not even enough for a swimming pool. If it was a solid mass coming down from the sky, it might be able to smash someone pretty badly.”

Li Yan shook his head, “I can’t do that. I can only use ninety tons of water from around me. As for lethality—”

He clenched his fist, and the water orb zipped to the table, bouncing as it simultaneously shrunk from the size of a human head to a fist and finally to the size of a walnut. The color also turned darker, becoming dense and muddy, and rested in Li Yan’s palm.

Li Yan gently exhaled, weighing the murky water orb in his hand, and gave Cha Xiaodao a hinting look, “Want to give it a try?”

“Sure.”

Cha Xiaodao puffed on a cigarette, sitting boldly, “Bring it on!”

No sooner had she spoken than the murky water orb burst towards her. When it was still two feet from her face, Cha Xiaodao raised her hand to draw her sword and slash diagonally, with a flash of light scattering the air; the water orb was cleaved and exploded, with droplets splashing everywhere.

“Honestly, the power’s a bit lacking.”

Cha Xiaodao shook her head and casually set down her kitchen knife, “With your current arm strength, you’d do better with a rock.”

“I disagree.”

As soon as Li Yan spoke, the air suddenly turned colder, and the half of Cha Xiaodao’s sleeve that had gotten wet instantly froze into ice, numbing her arm and sticking it to the table.

Before Cha Xiaodao could react, a sharp icicle flew towards her face.

Cha Xiaodao kicked at the table leg and twisted her head back, barely dodging. The tip of the icicle stabbed into the cement stove, instantly melting into water and leaving behind a black hole.

Gu Huo Bird, Nine Phoenix Power.

“I still think it lacks a bit of oomph,” said Cha Xiaodao. “Others won’t have your ‘Nine Phoenixes’ to complement it. How would they use this inheritance then?”

Li Yan was quite relaxed about it, “After all, there’s only a 9% Awakening Degree; I can’t expect too much. I’m actually quite satisfied with ‘Wu Zhiqi’.”

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Wu Zhiqi could summon water, and Gu Huo Bird could turn water into ice; if used well, this was actually very practical, both for offense and defense.

Li Yan thought up two or three moves in his mind and was eager to try them out, but the setting wasn’t right, so he had to let it go.

Because of the Feather Class “Gu Huo Bird” and Luo Class “Wu Zhiqi” inheritances, after consuming three food pots, Li Yan could freely allocate a 15% Awakening Degree.

Now that Gu Huo Bird was entering the stage of its peak breakthrough with an Awakening Degree of 69%+5%, adding more wouldn’t yield an actual increase. Li Yan was ready to gather thirty units of Dragon Tiger Qi to break through the second peak of Gu Huo Bird, so naturally, he added all 15% to “Wu Zhiqi”.

Wu Zhiqi’s Blood · Calamity Spirit: 24%.

The capacity to store water had reached 240 tons, and the ability to manipulate airborne water had also improved. This concept was too abstract for Li Yan to describe, but when dealing with water vapor, he felt as if he had grown an extra hand. It was very flexible.

“Oh, right!”

Li Yan remembered the matter of strengthening the inheritance and took out the Taiping Document that had been enhanced.

Strengthen, the first inherited skill of Wu Zhiqi’s Blood · Calamity Spirit, Calamity Wave!

Yan Fu then sent a prompt.

“This enhancement requires a thousand Yan Fu points, as well as twenty-one Yin Skills from the Taiping Document, including ‘Red Calamity Curse,’ ‘Pestilence Insect,’ ‘Filthy God Taishuai,’ etc.”

After Li Yan confirmed, Yan Fu sent another prompt.

“The Yin Skills in the Taiping Document are highly compatible with [Calamity Wave]!”

“The effects of this enhancement are increased!”

Enhancement complete!

The results are as follows: The 240 tons of ordinary water in [Calamity Wave] can now be turned into “Disaster Water” cursed with spells at any time. However, the conversion process will cause significant loss, so please use it cautiously.

After checking several times, Li Yan was satisfied and put away the Taiping Document.

“With this, you’ve achieved perfection. Take some time to relax, and just wait for the next Yan Fu event. Ah…”

Cha Xiaodao peered down and took a glance; Lady Dan was not in the room at the time, so he continued to say, “I know a Summer Lotus Hotel, it’s membership-based…”

“I still have two things left to do.”

Li Yan said, “My sword broke. I put up a message at the auction house for a repair, and I don’t know if anyone has responded yet. Moreover, today is the ninth day; the medicinal bath with the Quanlang Sea Ghost should show its effects.”

As he spoke, Li Yan patted Cha Xiaodao’s shoulder: “Enjoy yourself, yeah.”

After speaking, he walked out the door and shouted toward Lady Dan in the hallway, “Hey, what are you looking at?”

Leaving Xiaodao alone in the kitchen.

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The Ring Dragon Sword was eventually repaired, costing fifty points—not much, but five times the price when he had first bought it. And because it had been damaged, its sharpness had dropped from fifteen to thirteen.

Even with the two special attributes Li Yan had added later, plus an empty attribute slot, the strength of Ring Dragon was now actually holding Li Yan back. And as he faced more and more dangers in the future, Ring Dragon would only become more and more worn, even broken.

Keep in mind, the Gold-engraved Tiger Head Spear with a sharpness of one hundred had also sustained significant wear and tear during the Heavenly Mother Crossing the Sea encounter, but thankfully it was not serious and had already been maintained back to condition.

The word ‘handy’ really had no rationale to it; Li Yan had blocked several lethal attacks with his reactions using the Ring Dragon, so the sword being handy had played a significant role. If he were to use the new Azure Phoenix Sword he had acquired, he would probably suffer some losses.

Moreover, Li Yan was sentimental with his belongings and truly could not bear to put Ring Dragon aside.

The urgent matter of the Weapon Coating with the Mud of Yazi was pressing.

There was also another matter, which was the medicinal bath with Quanlang Sea Ghost.

Strangely enough, Li Yan had soaked for a full eight days, but he hadn’t felt any change in his physical condition, only that these past two nights, he was either unable to sleep or dreamt of a majestic, vague figure amidst the sound of ornaments and light veils—most likely the visage of Lord Heavenly Mother.

But that was it.

Only after Li Yan had soaked in the last batch of the medicine and dressed himself, apart from a slight reddening of his skin, there was nothing unusual until the status of Quanlang Sea Ghost appeared, and then Li Yan understood.

Quanlang Sea Ghost: The guard of the Heavenly Mother, the blessing of Lady Mazu. The strength of the blessing is based on the density of the surrounding water vapor. If one is by rivers and lakes, one feels light as a feather; blades and spears cannot touch them. If in the great ocean’s waves, they may obtain an unbreakable spirit. Not even brutal winds, true fire, divine weapons, or curses can shake them by the slightest bit.

After reading this, Li Yan suddenly slapped his thigh.

This Wu Zhiqi, his arrival is indeed wonderful.

Creak~

Li Yan came out of the small stone house in Yan Fu, freshly dressed in comfortable clothes. With nothing particular to do at the moment, he had intended to go through Yan Fu to the Red Flag Gang to take care of some business, while also testing his skills. It was remembering Lady Dan, though, that made him want to let her know first before leaving.

“But…” Lady Dan furrowed her brow after hearing him out, “Didn’t you say you were taking me to meet that drummer teacher this afternoon?”

“Ah,” Li Yan slapped his forehead. “I forgot about that. I’ll do that later. Speaking of which, I have to tell you, this teacher is quite something. There aren’t many good drummers in the country, and she’s one of them. I specially invited her from Beijing. The tuition is more expensive than our rent; I even had to sell things to pay for it.”

Lady Dan watched Li Yan turn to pour water, resting her cheek on her palm, without revealing that he had been making private phone calls stating, “Setting aside skill, she must be a woman.”

“Also, last time I met that person—one of the Ten Masters—he implied that many travelers are not pleased to see you with me.”

“Because I have a scent on me like that person named Feng Yi,” Lady Dan said pointedly.

“I’ve already dealt with this matter; it will be resolved in a while. However, I must put you in an awkward position. During this period, you can’t accompany me to Yan Fu again. We have to wait for the news.”

“Okay.”

Lady Dan nodded briskly in agreement.

Li Yan pursed his lips and scratched his head before saying, “I interact with these people often, so communication is easier, and it’s not that I’m taking the liberty of deciding for you. It’s just that, under those circumstances…”

Lady Dan did not interrupt Li Yan and waited for him to finish before speaking slowly, “I haven’t thought about it like that. Although I didn’t join you to meet that person, I can imagine that, for my sake, you had to endure some manipulations.”

“Eh, not really.”

Lady Dan got up and walked to her room, “Just promise me one thing: if you ever have the chance to return to Great Ming with that fruit, you must take me with you.”

“No problem.”

Lady Dan turned around, smiling, “In that case, you don’t need to accompany me to meet the drummer teacher this afternoon. Go ahead with your work.”

With that, she entered her room; the door was left half-open, revealing a pair of bright eyes: “Considering the drummer teacher is a woman…”

Bang~

The door closed tightly.

Li Yan blinked outside the door and let out a sigh. He slumped onto the couch, his mind in disarray.

“Next time in Yan Fu, who knows what kind of mess it will be…”