Cultivation : I'm an Ancient Giant Bear-Chapter 528 - 499: The Mastermind Behind the Scenes
The low tide period of the Vast Ocean Tide is uncertain; sometimes it lasts two to three days, sometimes four to five days, and the longest can even reach half a month.
Of course, this problem is not significant because Great Cold and Minor Cold together span twenty years.
This time, Wang Wu did not set up the White Tiger Heaven and Earth Needle, but returned to the ship’s cabin and chose the largest and best cave dwelling. Hmm, there was still a faint fragrance lingering in the air.
It was Shuang Liuyun’s.
Alas, a beauty born, but a thief!
Sitting cross-legged in meditation, Wang Wu sealed the cabin cave dwelling, yet here he built the White Tiger Heaven and Earth Needle. Without this thing, he truly felt uneasy.
Only after diving into the Heaven and Earth Needle did the corners of his mouth finally curve slightly upward.
This time, he was testing the waters, and the results were excellent.
Indeed, today’s success was not due to his luck, nor was it Qingluo’s blessing.
It was purely his trickery.
Earlier, when he leaped out, he secretly caught a Little Cold-Crying Bird and threw it into the flock of hundreds of Cold-Crying Birds. For some unknown reason, it triggered a great devour, forming a Cold Roar Beast, which immediately drew away the attention of all the hunters who, one by one, stared wide-eyed, hoping to catch a Cold Roar Beast themselves.
This inadvertently reduced much trouble for Wang Wu.
Some stray Cold-Crying Birds were even left unchased.
This was a major premise, to prevent anyone from tracing back.
Next came Wang Wu’s performance. He would craft a semi-finished Little Cold-Crying Bird to attract a real Cold-Crying Bird, and at the moment it completed its devour, he would capture it.
It is worth mentioning that during the outbreak of the Vast Ocean Tide, many Cold-Crying Birds could not be constantly observed. They would suddenly appear at a position and then disappear abruptly, which is the hardest part of capturing them. Otherwise, with the strength of those at the Taiyi level, as long as they could continually lock onto them, what technique could they not achieve? Capturing Cold-Crying Birds would not be such a crucial and highly technical industry.
So, when a Cold-Crying Bird appeared by chance, even those Cricket Dragons could not detect anything amiss and could only attribute it to sheer luck.
At this moment, Wang Wu skillfully took out two medium-sized Cold-Crying Birds, allowing them to naturally fuse and devour, transforming into a Great Cold-Crying Bird. He then attached an Immortal Talisman and packed it up, which counted as standard Trait Spirit Tax.
He managed to create fourteen Great Cold-Crying Birds in one go. Wang Wu used Spiritual Essence Micro inspection to confirm there were no flaws before nodding in satisfaction.
The Frost Domain’s annual Trait Spirit Tax totals five hundred Great Cold-Crying Birds or Great Fire Spirit Guards.
Now he had already gathered sixteen, so he continued his efforts.
However, just thinking about handing over all these brilliant spirit taxes made Wang Wu feel a loss, oh, my virtue!
For the next three days, Wang Wu dared not enter meditation, nor study the Five Elements Cat Array, this miraculous Tier Four Foundation Establishment Array, which seemed to possess the wonder of making him forget time.
As long as he dared to actively operate the Five Elements Cat Array, he would undoubtedly gain some insight, and then in the blink of an eye, months or years would pass.
Unlike previous seclusion and meditation practices.
Even creating Great Cold-Crying Birds might lead to sudden enlightenment, so he switched methods, only crafting semi-finished Little Cold-Crying Birds, letting wild Cold-Crying Birds chase after and devour them, then capturing them, allowing natural devour and fusion, all processes wild.
Just like this, three days later when Wang Wu sensed the Vast Ocean Tide was stirring again, he put away the White Tiger Heaven and Earth Needle, and upon emerging, saw the Spiritual Little Dragon restlessly pacing back and forth outside his cave.
Seemingly worried about something?
"Qingluo, please stop pacing. Also, retract the blessing you gave me!" Wang Wu said righteously.
"Blessing your uncle, there’s no such thing, damn Dog Bear, you must be tricking me!"
This Spiritual Little Dragon had already evolved into a Short-tempered Little Red Dragon, after all, it needed to warm up.
Wang Wu cast her a deep glance, said nothing, turned, and jumped out of the Spirit-Catching Ship, plunging into the Vast Ocean Tide. At this moment, the fluctuations of Azure Sea Cold Qi were not too intense, thus many Cold-calling Insects could be seen wriggling below, on the brink of hatching, with everyone waiting for the moment of reaching the critical point.
This might take ten minutes, or an hour or two.
At this time, Wang Wu heard Qingluo’s voice, "A Spirit-Catching Ship is approaching us. It’s a newcomer, seemingly attracted by the news of a Cold Roar Beast three days ago, trying to join the fun. Milord, please be cautious, don’t let them capture you with a True Yang Immortal Talisman, as no one could redeem you now."
"What if no one redeems me?"
"What else? Detained, held until the Frost Domain can buy you back; there’s no fear for your life."
As they spoke, a Spirit-Catching Ship, comparable in size to Frost Domain’s, passed dominantly from thirty thousand miles away, then steadily stopped there.
That was already the smallest agreed traditional distance between all sides.
"Milord, they request communication."
"Refuse! Move our ship to maintain a distance of fifty thousand miles."
Wang Wu had neither time nor interest in tangling with them. Wasting time was meaningless.
"Understood!"
The Spiritual Little Dragon was obedient, or rather, as long as it was serious business, she was more reliable than Wang Wu, never losing focus, discerning the importance.
After leaving space, the other Spirit-Catching Ship made no further moves, and after a while, without any warning, countless Cold-calling Insects fully hatched at this moment, and numerous Cold-Crying Birds hatched and took flight instantly, devouring madly while racing towards the set direction, akin to the great migration of wildebeests.
They are changing along with the transformation of Yin and Yang Qi!
This was Wang Wu’s first intuitive feeling.
And these spirit-catching ships and teams they were on were intercepting and ambushing lions, hyenas, leopards, and crocodiles along the way.
At this moment, on thousands of spirit-catching ships, thousands of spirit-capture teams launched a full-scale hunt. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎
But compared to all the Cold-Crying Birds and the Vast Ocean Tide they formed, it was still very tiny.
Insignificant.
Because Wang Wu could clearly feel that on the migration path of countless Cold-Crying Birds, hundreds of giant Cold Roar Beasts had formed in a short time. Their speed was faster, and the Vast Ocean Tide they stirred up was more intense. No spirit-capture team dared to rush up to hunt them; they could only hunt on the periphery.
Of course, this was already enough.
Wang Wu howled and rushed forward, while the Cricket Dragons controlled the spirit-catching ship from the rear to maintain distance. The Vast Ocean Cold Qi Tide was advancing, so the spirit-catching ship also needed to advance.
However, the impact of the Vast Ocean Tide was too fierce. Alone, without being able to use the Fire Escape, relying solely on the Demonic Wind Escape Technique, Wang Wu was progressing extremely slowly.
Meanwhile, the neighboring spirit-catching ships had already rushed out fifty to sixty thousand miles away, while Wang Wu was still hovering a few thousand miles away.
But there’s no need to rush; now was the moment of the Vast Ocean Tide’s main force bursting out. Only the true experts dared to be trendsetters. Not only Wang Wu was constantly being flipped and repelled, but many other spirit-capture team members, overestimating their abilities, had rushed to the near-central position of the Vast Ocean Tide, only to be smashed back tens of thousands of miles away.
Quite normal.
During this process, a large number of Cold-Crying Birds would also be brought over, and each spirit-capture team rushed in, competing for them as True Yang Immortal Talismans flew all over the sky.
What a lively scene.
Wang Wu kept wandering around the periphery and managed to catch two Little Cold-Crying Birds without relying on luck.
"Sir, do not deviate beyond a hundred thousand miles from the spirit-catching ship. The power of the Guardian Immortal Talisman cannot sustain over such a distance, and we cannot recklessly advance the spirit-catching ship! You might encounter bandits!"
The Spiritual Little Dragon warned.
The bandits are those sneaky ones throwing True Yang Immortal Talismans.
Hmm, Wang Wu followed the advice and stayed within the corresponding area of their spirit-catching ship.
According to the rules, the minimum safe distance between spirit-catching ships is thirty thousand miles. Adding up the left, right, up, and down, it makes a safety airspace of sixty thousand miles in diameter, which is actually quite large.
Can’t catch the big ones, can’t you at least catch some small ones?
Besides, under normal circumstances, other spirit-capture teams would not intentionally enter a neighboring spirit-catching area.
Unless—
A Vast Ocean Tide surged in, quite large in scale, seemingly caused by a Cold Roar Beast. Several powerful spirit-capture teams collaborated in trying to hunt it, but this Cold Roar Beast was too powerful. It swept through like a greedy snake, flipping and repelling these teams, and the aftershocks even reached Wang Wu’s outer area.
It also brought hundreds of Little Cold-Crying Birds and several Great Cold-Crying Birds to his region.
Wang Wu certainly wouldn’t miss this opportunity. Without needing luck, he seized the chance and caught three Little Cold-Crying Birds.
But almost at this moment, he suddenly felt a slight movement in his heart, sensing something.
He had been tagged by a True Yang Immortal Talisman.
Last time, he was inexperienced and didn’t notice the sly tactics of those bandits, but this time he wouldn’t let them have their way.
He had already plucked a strand of fur for a true-false switch.
Sure enough, the next moment, due to the effect of the True Yang Immortal Talisman, two Great Cold-Crying Birds came bursting out from the Vast Ocean Cold Qi one after the other, freezing Wang Wu into an ice lump with a swoosh.
But just as the mastermind rushed over, intending to collect the spoils, the real Wang Wu, who had been lurking nearby, swiftly unleashed ten identical True Yang Immortal Talismans and manually made a Little Cold-Crying Bird to lock onto the mastermind and rapidly close in from behind.
That mastermind was indeed formidable, immediately sensing something amiss, and used a special Immortal Talisman along with some kind of Divine Technique with a dodging inducing effect.
No way that’s happening!
Guests must be treated well!
Wang Wu was well prepared, having charged up Spirit Essence Perception, which suddenly burst out at this moment. At the instant of perception, the mastermind’s consciousness and Spiritual Pills all paled for a second.
The connection was broken.
Wang Wu didn’t need to seize the opportunity to attack; it was enough for the surrounding Cold-Crying Birds, big and small, to rush over and freeze the mastermind along with the previous ice lump into a larger ice lump.
Even though this person was of Taiyi Fifth Tier, and even though his companions were nearby, even though they were already in swift rescue, it was still too late.
Because the timing was just perfect.
Wang Wu stepped forward and slapped down a Sealing Spirit Immortal Talisman, directly putting it into the Qiankun Bag, then teleported directly back to the spirit-catching ship the next second.
Grandpa’s done playing!
