stonecrandall Chapter 13: The Beginning of Kirishima
Chapter 13: The Beginning of Kirishima
"interesting".
The global headquarters of the Ultimate Martial Arts Academy, in the top-floor command center.
Hong stood with his hands behind his back in front of a huge, fully-screened light display. In the center of the screen, a green dot representing Luo Feng paused briefly before resolutely disappearing into the area covered by countless skull and crossbones symbols and blood-red warnings—Mist Island.
Around Luo Feng's light spot were countless red dots representing monsters.
"As expected, they still managed to sneak off to Kirishima."
Even Hong's serious face couldn't help but show a smile.
Just then, a sudden alarm broke the silence in the room.
"Beep beep beep! Warning! High-intensity life energy reaction detected in the core area of Kirishima! The energy model matches the characteristics of 'Spirit of Plants and Trees,' and its scale is continuously expanding!"
A completely emotionless electronic synthesized voice rang out.
A new window immediately popped up on one side of the main screen. A dazzling green spot of light was rapidly forming and expanding in the center of the fog island, and its energy reading soared at an astonishing rate, quickly stabilizing at an extremely high value.
"Oh?"
Hong raised his eyebrows slightly, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.
"This is interesting. I remember clearly that when I left last time, there wasn't a single blade of grass left for it. How long has it been, and it's already grown back?"
He retrieved the archived data he had previously collected from Kirishima for comparison. The peaks and characteristics of the two energy curves were almost identical, except that the total energy value this time seemed to be slightly higher than the last time.
Babata's urgent actions undoubtedly stemmed from sensing that Luo Feng, the spiritual master successor it had been waiting for for 50,000 years, was approaching. That's why it was willing to expend its treasured Wood Crystals to create enough temptation to lure Luo Feng to the underground location of the Meteorite Starship.
"Babata, you really are a very responsible nanny."
"You used your treasured Wood Crystal to forcibly create a new batch of plant spirits to attract Luo Feng, the spiritual master successor, to come to you. You really went all out to find a successor."
He could almost see through the screen the intelligent life form "Babata," hiding deep within the Earth, frantically jumping around.
"I just finished harvesting one batch of chives, and you couldn't wait to plant a new one, and even added some fertilizer. In that case, there's no reason for me not to harvest this second batch."
Hong slowly stood up from his seat, a strange look in his eyes.
He wanted to see for himself the quality of this newly sprouted plant spirit. Of course, most importantly, he also needed to take the Wood Crystal hidden beneath the roots of the plant spirit.
He looked at the red dot on the screen, which represented Li Yao's team. It had already entered the outer perimeter of Fog Island and was heading towards Luo Feng's location at an extremely fast speed. His eyes became increasingly profound.
When Luo Feng is driven to the brink and sends out a distress signal, I can then descend upon him under the guise of "rescuing a genius student." That would be perfectly legitimate.
……
On the other side, the moment Luo Feng plunged into the thick fog, he was completely shaken.
"Wow...such rich energy!"
He could clearly feel an almost liquefied energy of heaven and earth permeating the surrounding air. Each breath felt like inhaling and exhaling nectar, causing every cell in his body to resonate with joy.
Luo Feng dared not be careless in the slightest. He pushed his mental power to its limit, spreading it out carefully like an invisible spider web to explore the surrounding environment.
However, the next second, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
"There's a big one in this lake!"
In his mental perception, several powerful auras lurked in the seemingly calm, huge lake below. It wouldn't be difficult for Luo Feng to deal with a single monster, but getting entangled with one would be troublesome.
He immediately withdrew his mental energy, held his breath, and like a feather, silently skimmed the lower layer of the thick fog, flying towards the depths of the island.
He needed to find a hiding place as soon as possible to recover from his injuries, while also figuring out how to get rid of the persistent vulture behind him.
Just as he flew over a reed bed, the water beneath his feet suddenly burst open with a "splash," and a strange fish with serrated teeth leaped out of the water, opening its blood-red mouth to bite his ankle.
Low-level Beast General!
Luo Feng's eyes turned cold, and the throwing knife that had been hovering beside him transformed into a streak of cold light, striking first despite being behind.
"puff!"
The throwing knife pierced the monster fish's open mouth with pinpoint accuracy, penetrating its brain and drawing out a spray of blood.
The strange fish's enormous body stiffened in mid-air for a moment before crashing heavily back into the water, creating a large splash.
However, the commotion here was like a drop of water being poured into boiling oil, instantly igniting the entire body of water.
"Splash! Splash!"
More than a dozen identical strange fish leaped out of the water, their scarlet eyes fixed on Luo Feng in mid-air, rushing towards him one after another.
"Oh no! This is practically a monster's lair!"
Luo Feng's expression changed slightly. He immediately activated his mental power to rapidly increase his altitude, while simultaneously controlling the flying knives to create an impenetrable net of blades in front of him.
The clanging and clattering sounds were incessant, but even more strange fish fearlessly broke through the defenses of the net of blades.
"Perfect timing, Li Yao. Didn't you want to kill me? Well then, come on. I've prepared a big gift for you; I hope you'll like it."
He stopped fighting the strange fish and suddenly accelerated, flying rapidly towards the center of the lake. At the same time, the screen of his communication watch on his wrist lit up instantly, revealing his coordinates without reservation.
"Huh? This kid's not running away anymore? He's even deliberately revealing his location, what's he up to?"
Li Yao frowned as he looked at the light spot on his communicator that had suddenly stopped and whose signal strength had increased dramatically, but he was soon overwhelmed by the thrill of about to kill his enemy.
"No matter what tricks he tries, I have the Black God Set!"
Li Yao hardened his heart and chased after Luo Feng's coordinates.
Ahead, Luo Feng, having shaken off the swarm of strange fish, revealed a cold smile. He skimmed the lake's surface, his feet planted on his psychic weapons, moving like a ghost as he scanned his surroundings with his mental energy, carefully avoiding high-level monsters, and flew deeper into the mist. Behind him, countless throwing knives silently submerged into the water.
"boom!"
Huge splashes of water shot into the sky. One by one, high-level monsters sleeping at the bottom of the lake were "awakened" by Luo Feng's throwing knives.
As he sped forward, he desperately channeled his mental energy, stabbing one throwing knife after another into the massive, sleeping creatures at the bottom of the lake.
"Li Yao, this lake is where I'm sending you to your final resting place. I hope you like this grand gift I've prepared for you."