Chapter 1171

At midnight, Shi Shi Lou closed his eyes, focused his mind, took the nail rake in his hand as if it were a sword, suddenly opened his eyes, swung it like the wind, and every movement followed a pattern.

Even the skilled rake masters of Mu Xue City, upon seeing Shi Shi Lou's actions, would have to say they were impressed; Shi Shi Lou's swinging was far stronger than theirs.

But Shi Shi Lou felt this was still far from enough.

Not fast enough, not fast enough, need to be faster, faster!

The nail rake left afterimages from his swinging; finally, he was out of breath, leaning on the rake to stand, barely maintaining his posture as a sword cultivator.

Fellow Daoist Lu had me practice the rake method; there must be a deeper meaning, certainly not just teaching students the rake method so simply.

Shi Shi Lou stared at the nail rake with handprints on its handle, his mind went blank. Nail rake, nail rake... Shi Shi Lou had a flash of insight, suddenly enlightened.

Ah, why didn't I think of this? When I swing the nail rake, its nine teeth attack the enemy together— isn't this exactly in line with the principle of one sword becoming ten thousand swords and ten thousand swords returning to the origin?

Can the nail rake simultaneously embody these two utterly opposite sword techniques? Could it be that these two sword techniques share something in common?

Fellow Daoist Lu must be hinting at this!

Thinking this through, Shi Shi Lou's thoughts flowed smoothly; early the next morning he blocked Lu Yang's room door to thank him.

"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Lu, for the pointer—I've understood." "..."

Last night, Lu Yang stayed late accompanying the Immortal Maiden of Eternity, so his head is still a bit dizzy—not, what did you understand?

"Not bad, understanding has come out well." The hunter Shi's household.

Shi Yi had a very long, very long dream; he dreamed he fell into an ice hole, swept away by a rushing dark river.

Logically, falling into the dark river should make him feel extremely cold, yet he felt unusually warm, as if he were born to live here.

Shi Yi suddenly opened his eyes, finding himself standing in the icy snow outside the house, bare-chested yet not feeling cold.

"Huh? How did I get here?"

Shi Yi felt his arm a bit itchy, instinctively scratched it, found something wrong, looked down, and saw several ice-crystal-like snake scales growing on his arm!

"Father, look at my arm!" Shi Yi rushed into the house to find his father; his father was a famous hunter, though a mortal, he had used traps to kill Qi Refining level one or two demon beasts, truly formidable.

The hunter Shi was chopping firewood; seeing the snake scales on Shi Yi's arm, his axe slipped and fell into the snow.

"Alas, you have finally awakened, haven't you?"

"Father, what's happening to me? You know, don't you?" Seeing his father's reaction, how could Shi Yi not realize his father had long anticipated this day?

"Is this related to my mother?"

Shi Yi had never seen his mother since childhood; although his father said she died in difficult labor, Shi Yi always felt his father's tone was off when saying this, there must be another secret.

Hunter Shi had Shi Yi go inside to put on clothes; father and son sat at the table.

"Originally, I wanted to take this matter to the grave with me, but since you've inherited your mother's bloodline, there's no need to hide it from you." Hunter Shi took a puff of welding smoke, recalling events from twenty years ago.

"Twenty years ago, I went out hunting, saw a woman in the snow, beautiful like a fairy; I saw the fairy was seriously injured, so I brought her back." "After the fairy woke up, she was hostile toward me; gradually, as we interacted more, her attitude softened, and she no longer held hostility toward me."

"The fairy told me she was in the Void Refining realm, her realm unstable, and during外出 training she was attacked, leading to her serious injury and coma."

"You should be able to guess the fairy's identity—it's your mother, Bing Wu."

"Later, we developed feelings, had you, and our family of three lived happily."

"Unfortunately, good times didn't last; your mother's clan came, wanting to take her away, and also to kill me and you."

"That's when I learned your mother wasn't human, but of the Ice Flood Dragon clan." "That legendary clan that spits mist to become ice—the Ice Flood Dragon clan?" Shi Yi's body shuddered violently.

"Yes, and your mother is the Holy Maiden of the Ice Flood Dragon clan, the one most likely to transform into a dragon in a thousand years."

"She married me and bore you, which violated clan taboos, representing ill omen."

"It was your mother forcing herself with death that made the Ice Flood Dragon clan spare our lives." "The scales on your arm are the symbol of the Ice Flood Dragon clan."

"I thought you would never awaken your bloodline in this life, live peacefully—this was also your mother's wish—but I never expected, you ultimately awakened the Ice Flood Dragon bloodline."

Shi Yi clenched his fists, nails digging into his flesh, joints whitening: "Where is my mother!"

Hunter Shi sighed: "Probably locked in the Ice Flood Dragon clan's forbidden land."

"Your mother warned me before leaving, saying you must never have the thought of rescuing her; even if the high officials of Mu Xue City saw the Ice Flood Dragon clan, they'd yield three points—how could you possibly contend with the Ice Flood Dragon clan?"

Shi Yi remained silent, his heart bleeding, deeply feeling his weakness. "Alright, it's this time already—go to class.".

The Ice Flood Dragon clan has an ice sculpture, in the form of an ice dragon, the ice dragon carving lifelike; suddenly, a scale on the ice dragon sculpture flashed, and the clan members guarding the sculpture immediately reported the situation to the clan leader.

The Ice Flood Dragon clan leader was persuading the stunningly beautiful woman: "Bing Wu, obediently marry my son; the strongest bloodlines combined—perhaps your child will be born with dragon blood."

"Daydreaming!" The stunningly beautiful woman coldly refused.

At this moment, a subordinate reported; the Ice Flood Dragon clan leader, hearing of the ice dragon sculpture's scale flashing, was somewhat surprised: "Oh, another clan member has been born?"

He had never heard of anyone in the clan being pregnant.

He came to the ice sculpture, calculated with his fingers, murmured incantations, his expression displeased: "It turns out Bing Wu left a wild bastard in the outside world."

"I never expected that wild bastard to awaken our clan's bloodline—how absurd, simply defiling our clan's bloodline."

"Where are Bing Wei and Bing Wu?" "My lord!"

Two flood dragons appeared, kneeling before the clan leader.

"Go to Mu Xue City and kill that wild bastard named Shi Yi." "Yes, sir!"

Bing Wei and Bing Wu are close confidants and brothers of the Ice Flood Dragon clan leader; after Soul Transformation late stage, their combined strength is invincible below the Combined Body realm.

"That wild bastard is right here."

Bing Wei and Bing Wu inquired about Shi Yi's whereabouts, studying boxing and rake techniques at a martial hall. "How pitiful, mortals' horizons are just this; they try every way to become strong, but in the end, they're just learning some fake techniques in martial halls."

Bing Wei and Bing Wu are extremely arrogant, swaggering into the martial hall; they don't mind killing people in public.

Rather, publicly executing Shi Yi would perfectly demonstrate the might of the Ice Flood Dragon clan.

They kicked open the martial hall door, arrogantly scanning the students; the students were holding nail rakes, hehehe hahaha, practicing some meaningless movements; Shi Yi was among them, drenched in sweat, practicing diligently.

The students all looked toward Bing Wei and Bing Wu. It seems the teacher here is only at the level of "Snow, snow..."

How could the Murder Star Shi Shi Lou be here!

Shi Shi Lou frowned, assessing the two Ice Flood Dragon dragons, somewhat displeased: "Who are you, and what are you doing here?"

When Ice Might and Ice Martial saw Snow Tower Ten, they froze in shock. Though the Ice Flood Dragon clan is naturally unafraid of severe cold, at this moment they seemed to become mortal, as if a basin of ice water had been poured from head to toe.

Smiles of obsequiousness appeared on their faces as they gradually retreated, going to support the door they had kicked in, attempting to restore the wooden door.

"We heard the martial hall's door was about to break, and sure enough, this door, long neglected, breaks at a touch—we'll fix it right away."

(There are more updates coming)