171: Chapter 171 'Five Shocks', Huge Deep Pit

Li Qing went to the trade street and bought dozens of catties of meat, as well as a bottle of Essence Pills.

Essence Pills, as the name suggests, contain a large amount of food essence. A single small pill, once ingested, negates the need to eat for an entire day.

Of course, this was the standard for an ordinary Martial Artist, so Li Qing bought ten in one go. The price was quite expensive: ten taels of silver per pill, totaling one hundred taels.

Otherwise, Li Qing couldn't exactly head out carrying hundreds of catties of dried meat; it would look very strange.

Li Qing first wandered around the city for a bit, then stayed at Zeng Du's residence for a while.

He had done the same over the past few months. After confirming that no one was monitoring him, Li Qing left Longshan City directly.

This was the first time Li Qing had stepped out of the Dragon Snake Sect since joining seven and a half months ago.

...

An unnamed valley two hundred miles away from Huanglin City.

Mountains surrounded this place on all sides, with a small stream running through the valley. Nearby, fallen leaves fluttered down, and a sika deer quietly drank water by the stream.

Whoosh!

Suddenly, a gust of wind swept past, causing the flowers and grass to sway back and forth.

The sika deer's ears immediately perked up alertly as it raised its head, looking left and right.

Seeing nothing, it lowered its head and continued drinking.

Deep in the valley, there were precipices on three sides, making it a perfect place to test techniques!

A figure flashed into existence here; if an ordinary person saw this, they would think it was a ghost or a god appearing.

This person was precisely Li Qing, who had rushed over from Longshan City.

"It was worth spending two hours to get here," Li Qing said indifferently.

If he wanted to avoid drawing attention, he couldn't go to the Wolong Mountains. Not only was that Dragon Snake Sect territory, but there were also countless Disciples working and training there.

Although the Wujiao River provided excellent concealment, Yao Beasts frequented it, so it couldn't really be called a good place for anyone.

Li Qing could only stay far away from the Dragon Snake Sect's sphere of influence.

Boom!

Li Qing moved dozens of giant boulders to block the valley's only entrance and exit, and in this manner, he began to Cultivate the Five Vibrations Power.

"'Five Vibrations', let me see your power!"

This time, when Li Qing Cultivated, the feeling was completely different.

If his previous power was like a python wrapping around his arm, then now, his arm was like a towline pulling two ships—it was more than just explosive.

Li Qing held his arms out straight, and they hummed and vibrated incessantly. Centered on his chest and abdomen, waves of fluctuations continuously radiated outward.

Beneath his feet, the dust transformed into concentric circles due to these fluctuations, and each circle continuously expanded outward.

An unknown amount of time passed.

Thump!

Boom!

Thump!

Boom!

With every heartbeat of Li Qing's, a fluctuation erupted as well. Even the fallen leaves in the air were pushed aside by an invisible force.

Thump! Boom!

These two vibrations reached their peak, their frequencies becoming more and more synchronized until a certain moment.

The tremors disappeared—no! They didn't disappear; rather, the tremors vanished and transformed into a type of wave!

The three different forms of the Three Vibrations Power—'First Vibration', 'Second Vibration', and 'Three Vibrations'—unified at this moment.

Originally, this unification was called 'Four Vibrations', and 'Four Vibrations' was merely a prototype of 'Five Vibrations'.

Therefore, in Zhuang Jin's conception, a Core Formation Martial Artist could directly bypass 'Four Vibrations' to Cultivate the 'Five Vibrations'.

But he never anticipated that a Martial Artist below the Core Formation level could also succeed in Cultivating it!

Now, the 'Four Vibrations' had matured!

The tremors turned into a wave, but the speed of the wave was the opposite of what it was before resonance; it became slower and slower.

Boom—Boom——Boom————

The interval between each wave grew longer, but the duration also grew longer, until—it transformed into a 'Wave Layer' covering Li Qing's entire body!

Ding!

[Five Vibrations Power +1]

Li Qing looked at the panel.

[secret technique: Five Vibrations Power · Five Vibrations (1/7000)]

"I finally achieved a Breakthrough!!!"

Li Qing looked at his fists.

Now that he had just entered the 'Five Vibrations' stage, this 'Wave Layer' was still very weak and could only cover his fists. Even so, it made him feel a bit strained.

But along with this heaviness, Li Qing could also sense the terrifying, astonishing power within it that made even him feel a bit apprehensive.

Even with his own fists, the [Micro-Perception] trait instinctively made him perceive that this was extremely dangerous!!!

"As expected of a Core Formation-level secret technique!"

Li Qing was planning to finish up and go home.

Rumble!

Just then, a roar suddenly erupted from beneath his feet, and the ground caved in.

"Not good!"

Li Qing executed his Perfection-level Wind-Chasing Leg Technique, stepping onto a falling pebble to jump to the edge of the collapse.

Before his eyes appeared a giant pit dozens of yards wide. It was pitch black inside and seemed bottomless.

It was only because Li Qing possessed a Perfection-level Footwork that he escaped; an ordinary Huajin Martial Artist would have found it difficult to get away.

With the enhancement of [Micro-Perception], after only a few breaths, Li Qing adapted to the darkness and faintly saw something inside.

No, it wasn't 'something', but rather, a 'Yao Beast'!

Li Qing's pupils constricted.

What did he see? At the bottom of the cave were hexagonal scales, each a meter long and half a meter wide?

Moreover, this giant hole dozens of yards wide was only a part of its body!

What kind of monster could have such a size?

Li Qing almost couldn't stop himself from fleeing.

"However, this creature seems to be dead?" With the help of [Micro-Perception], he could see that it didn't look like a living organism, but more like a hard, dead object.

Furthermore, [Demon Heart] could not sense any Demonic Qi.

"In that case, should I go down and investigate?" Li Qing rubbed his chin.

Even as he thought it, Li Qing's feet had already stepped forward.

"If Heaven offers and you do not take, you will instead suffer the consequences."

Since he had finally encountered an Opportunity outside, there was no reason for Li Qing not to investigate.

"If I encounter trouble, I'll leave immediately!"

And so, Li Qing landed on the scales. These scales were tightly fitted and pale yellow, looking more like they were carved from stone than biological scales.

Li Qing touched them; sure enough, they had the rough texture of stone.

He looked around. There were dozens or even hundreds of small holes in the surrounding rock walls, leading who knows where.

"No wonder this place collapsed; the ground underneath has been hollowed out."

Li Qing thought for a moment, then—hum!

With 'Four Vibrations' enhancement, he threw a punch downward.

Thud!

Li Qing's fist was bounced back, leaving only a shallow little pit on the stone scales.

Wait, what? It's this hard?!

Refusing to believe it, the tremors on his fist suddenly turned into waves, forming a 'Wave Layer' on his fist like a transparent gauntlet worn on the outside.

"Break for me!"

Screech!

The fist pierced two inches into the stone and could go no further.

He managed to punch into it this time, but Li Qing found that his palm was still stuck in the stone.

Feeling his Qi rapidly consuming, Li Qing could only withdraw his fist.

"Since that's the case..."

Li Qing looked at the surrounding caves. Just now, he had smelled a faint trace of Demonic Qi; the threat wasn't large.

He carefully distinguished that Demonic Qi, then looked toward one of the caves.

"That's the one!"

Whoosh!

The figure vanished.