Chapter 385 - 190: Divine Abilities

He couldn’t help but ask, "Will the commotion they’re making really be enough to affect the Spiritual Monkey and draw it out?"

"Demon Mark’s Sound Technique makes the Spiritual Monkey’s blood race. Paired with the disruption from the Iron Hammer, it’ll make the monkey incredibly agitated. Once it can’t control itself, it will run out and try to leave the valley, and the Iron Wolf Eagle in the sky will be able to spot it."

Mo Shan explained.

"I see."

Chu Lingguang nodded slightly.

He suddenly remembered something. Back at Master Yan’s house, he had used the Turtle Breath Technique to commune with heaven and earth, and in doing so, had accidentally overheard a conversation between Guo Wei and Master Yan.

Now, he had mastered Spiritual Sense.

He could envelop a fifty-meter radius, making everything within that range appear with perfect clarity. It was like having countless pairs of eyes, able to notice the slightest disturbance in any direction.

However, it was different from the Turtle Breath Technique’s skill for communing with heaven and earth.

Spiritual Sense was a top-down view.

Communing with heaven and earth was becoming one with nature.

With this in mind, Chu Lingguang sat in the middle of the valley and activated his Turtle Breath Technique, letting himself merge with his surroundings. Mo Shan was just about to ask what on earth Chu Lingguang was doing when he suddenly realized that Chu Lingguang’s aura was rapidly disappearing from his senses, until it vanished completely.

As an expert who had reached the Perfection level of the Qi Sea Realm, Mo Shan was stunned. Chu Lingguang was sitting right there in front of him, yet it was as if he had vanished into thin air. His aura was gone, his physical body like a fossil. If Mo Shan couldn’t see him with his naked eye, his Spiritual Sense would likely have failed to detect his presence.

"Is that the Turtle Breath Technique?"

Mo Lei asked in astonishment.

The Turtle Breath Technique could conceal a person’s aura. Typically, only sentinels and assassins would cultivate it. Yet Chu Lingguang also knew it, and had clearly achieved a considerable degree of mastery.

As Chu Lingguang closed his eyes, his visual perception of the valley blurred, but his other senses sharpened immensely. Every sound, every gust of wind, and even the subtle stirrings of the weeds on the ground were now within his range of awareness.

Communing with heaven and earth meant becoming one with nature.

It allowed his physical aura to fluctuate along with the natural world, making him as unnoticeable as a fossil, almost impossible to detect.

Having cultivated the Turtle Breath Technique to the level of Perfection over a long period, Chu Lingguang could now use the skill to its absolute limit, allowing him to merge effortlessly into the natural environment.

At that moment, it was as if he had become one with the entire valley.

He heard the swaying of grass blades, felt the crawling of insects in the soil, and could even catch the scent of the greenery.

To Mo Shan and Mo Lei, Chu Lingguang looked like a stone statue shrouded in weeds, completely integrated with the valley. If they weren’t able to physically see him, neither would have sensed the presence of a fifth person there.

RUSTLE!

Chu Lingguang heard a poisonous snake slithering through the grass. The commotion created by Demon Mark and Mo Shuang was unbearable for the small animals, and they were all fleeing the valley.

CLANG!

Mo Shuang continued to hammer away.

RUMBLE!

That peculiar rumbling sound from Demon Mark echoed through the valley.

SQUEAK!

Finally, a monkey with fur that blended into the grass, which had kept its head buried in the soil, lost control. It pulled its head out and began crawling slowly along the ground like a sloth, trying to evade the Iron Wolf Eagle in the sky, escape the valley, and get away from the piercing sounds.

It moved quietly, but its expression was frenzied, its heart was pounding, and it bared its teeth. Several times, it wanted to burst from the grass and flee the valley at top speed.

But having already attained Spiritual Wisdom, it knew such an action would be extremely dangerous. It could only suppress its frenzied impulse and continue to crawl slowly out of the valley.

Yet, despite its faint, sloth-like movements, Chu Lingguang was one with the valley and could perceive even the sway of a single blade of grass, to say nothing of the monkey’s crawling. Moreover, the Spiritual Monkey was in an agitated state. Though it was holding back, it couldn’t control its racing blood and pounding heart.

To Chu Lingguang’s senses, it was like a glowing red dot—impossibly conspicuous.

Chu Lingguang opened his eyes.

He shot to his feet.

He quickly drew his bow, nocked an arrow, and extended his Spiritual Sense to cover the area of the red dot.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!

He fired four arrows in succession—a Four-Star Linked Pearls—all whistling toward the Spiritual Monkey.

SHIIIING!

The Spiritual Monkey was already agitated, and when the sudden wave of danger washed over it, it was too scared to hide any longer. It shot out from the grass, desperate to escape the valley.

It was famously as fast as lightning.

But no matter how fast it was, it couldn’t outrun Chu Lingguang’s arrows. Besides, Chu Lingguang had the element of surprise. He didn’t dare aim for its vital points with his four continuous shots, but he landed them all around it. The arrowheads grazed its fur before plunging into the ground, the arrow shafts pressing against its body in an attempt to form a cage and pin it down.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!

Four arrows, then another four.

Although this didn’t pin the Spiritual Monkey down, it drastically reduced its room for movement and slowed its speed.

"There it is!"

Mo Shan and Mo Lei followed the path of Chu Lingguang’s arrows and spotted the Spiritual Monkey.

FWOOSH!

Large black nets shot out from the bamboo tubes held by the two men. Demon Mark and Mo Shuang stopped what they were doing as well, aiming their own bamboo tubes at the Spiritual Monkey and firing their nets.

With the interference from Chu Lingguang’s archery, the Spiritual Monkey’s speed was limited and its room to maneuver was drastically reduced.

Finally, it was ensnared by the black net fired from Mo Shuang’s tube. The five of them, working together, had successfully caught the Spiritual Monkey.

SQUEAK! SQUEAK!

The Spiritual Monkey struggled inside the black net, letting out squeaking cries as it tried to rip the net apart with its sharp teeth. But unfortunately for it, the net had been specially developed to contain it, and the Spiritual Monkey was completely unable to break free.