Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 64: Shadow

Out of conscience, Lu Yang didn’t take away all of Qin Yuanhao’s clothes, leaving him a piece of underwear to preserve his modesty.

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The storage ring was a widely known magical treasure among cultivators.

The Luodi Merchant Guild had conducted several surveys on the “Most Popular Magical Treasures,” and the storage ring consistently topped the charts with the highest number of votes. Regardless of whether one was out traveling, touring the continent, hiding treasures and their secret money stash, it was an essential household magical treasure.

Moreover, storage rings were very cheap; even Qi Training cultivators could afford it, though their space would be much smaller. Every year, many Qi Training cultivators would purchase storage rings, and the Luodi Merchant Guild would reap tremendous profits, making it a major source of revenue. The Luodi Merchant Guild even released upgraded versions of the storage rings annually, though the improvements mainly focused on enhancing the external aesthetics while the internal space remained unchanged.

For most cultivators, the first magical treasure in their possession would be the storage rings, so it held immense sentimental value. Both righteous and diabolic cultivators would use storage rings, and Qin Yuanhao was naturally no exception.

The aforementioned was Qin Yuanhao’s impression of storage rings.

In his several decades of life, he had never heard of anyone using a storage ring to capture away their enemy’s clothes!

Does this even make sense?!

It actually made perfect sense. Storage rings couldn’t store items possessing spiritual nature, such as living beings, ghosts, and spirit treasures. Clearly, Qin Yuanhao’s clothes didn’t belong to these categories.

Fortunately, as a proud cultivator of the diabolic path, Qin Yuanhao’s sense of shame had long vanished with the wind. Even if he was just wearing his underwear, that didn’t stop him from fighting!

Then he saw Meng Jingzhou take out a recording orb.

“What the hell?! Which creed are you from? What deep enmity do you have toward me?!” Qin Yuanhao was of the firm opinion that Lu Yang and friends were members from the other three diabolic creeds.

Even if they claimed to be from the righteous path now, there was no convincing Qin Yuanhao otherwise.

He just couldn’t understand why. Despite having made enemies, he had always been cautious to not go overboard in making sworn enemies.

Meng Jingzhou and Man Gu were also giving strange looks to Lu Yang, as if they hadn’t expected Lu Yang to come up with such a unique attack method.

“There’s no need to talk about the code of the jianghu when dealing with diabolic crooks! All together!” Lu Yang beckoned the other two.

With all three of them attacking together, even the Half-Step Golden Core Stage tiger demon perished, let alone Qin Yuanhao, who was just at the Advanced Foundation Establishment Stage.

They had even considered taking on Qin Yuanhao one-on-one. This was the confidence of geniuses in fighting someone above their level. However, for the sake of not taking any risks, they decided that it would be better for all three to act together.

Casting aside his embarrassment, Qin Yuanhao became embroiled in a battle with the three. The sword was brimming with a heroic aura, flowing like water and unfettered like ink. Qin Yuanhao was repeatedly forced to retreat, not daring to face them head-on!

Meng Jingzhou and Man Gu unleashed their fists together like falling mountains, pounding Qin Yuanhao’s chest until he coughed up blood incessantly!

Qin Yuanhao flipped his palm, revealing three cowhair poisonous needles at his fingertips. He pierced all three of their chests.

To his surprise, the trio seemed to be completely unaffected. Their sword and fists showed no signs of weakening, and instead, they fought even more valiantly. Lu Yang had already anticipated that the enemy might use poison, so they had taken Detoxification Pills in advance.

Strictly speaking, it would be more apt to call the Detoxification Pill a Poison Removal Pill. The principle of Detoxification Pills was to encapsulate the poison before it acted up and expel it from the body through sweat. However, if the poison never took effect in the first place, how could it be called “detoxification?”

Qin Yuanhao cursed under his breath. His opponents were too sufficiently prepared. He was unable to unleash his vicious methods. Even if he could unleash them, those methods were no match for his opponents in terms of viciousness.

Meng Jingzhou’s muscles bulged and his veins throbbed. From Qin Yuanhao’s perspective, the fists had grown in size so fast that he could barely react.

Something strange happened once again. Against Meng Jingzhou’s heavy and forceful fist power, an Advanced Foundation Establishment cultivator would be dead or crippled if they were lucky, yet Qin Yuanhao was unaffected.

Qin Yuanhao laughed sinisterly. Like I’ve said, they’re no match for me!

After exchanging blows, Lu Yang finally uncovered the truth behind Qin Yuanhao’s cultivation technique. He swung his sword, and reflected light rays danced about, his sword qi like a rainbow and unstoppable.

This sword struck right at Qin Yuanhao’s shadow!

“Damn it!” Qin Yuanhao howled in pain.

“Just as I thought, you were the one who killed the band of thieves last night. Your weakness is your shadow!”

Lu Yang recalled seeing Qin Yuanhao walking out from the brothel and receiving orders from the branch leader. He was most likely sent to kill those thieves.

With his biggest source of support exposed, Qin Yuanhao no longer wished to fight. His body disappeared from sight, and his shadow moved rapidly across the ground. Even if I can’t defeat them, I am fully confident in my ability to escape. No matter how sharp your sword is, can you possibly kill a shadow?

“I’ve remembered you three juniors! Prepare to suffer from my endless revenge, hahaha...” Feeling victorious, Qin Yuanhao couldn’t control his laughter.

Suddenly, a beam of light shone on the shadow. Instantly, Qin Yuanhao let out a heart-wrenching shriek, as if a piece of flesh had been forcefully torn from his body.

The Light-Gathering Array was a simple array that absorbed and emitted light. It was easy to pick up, but it was considered to be of little value. However, in this particular situation, its effects proved to be remarkable.

With no other choice, Qin Yuanhao’s body emerged from the shadow to block the white light, and the gap in the shadow also disappeared.

His injuries had healed.

“It looks like you came prepared, but so what? Were you so naive as to think that you could hurt me with a mere Light-Gathering Array?” Qin Yuanhao scoffed. “Don’t you know that the stronger the light, the stronger the shadow?”

Lu Yang was unflustered. He hurled out more Light-Gathering Arrays and similarly mocked, “Have you heard of a shadowless lamp?”

Qin Yuanhao hesitated for a moment. He didn’t know what a shadowless lamp was, but hearing it from Lu Yang, an ominous feeling rose from the bottom of his gut.

Lu Yang had no time to explain theories to his opponent in the heat of battle. Dozens of white light rays hit Qin Yuanhao, causing his shadow to sizzle. Regardless of how Qin Yuanhao revealed his body to block the rays or shrink back into his shadow, his efforts were futile in stopping this process.

The shadow grew increasingly faint until it was indistinguishable to the naked eye.

The principle of a shadowless lamp was not to make the shadow disappear but to make it so faint that it was almost imperceptible.

Qin Yuanhao roared as he darted out from the nearly invisible shadow; his physical body could no longer hide within the shadow.

Rays of sword light descended from the sky like a rainbow from beyond the horizon. It was so sudden that it caught Qin Yuanhao off guard, piercing straight through his body.

This was the moment Lu Yang had been waiting for.

“What a close shave, we almost let him escape.” Meng Jingzhou was relieved to see Qin Yuanhao dead. If he had gotten away, their preparations over the past few days would have been in vain. He thought that they were already well-prepared, believing that Qin Yuanhao had no chance of escape even if he grew wings.

Who would have thought that his cultivation technique is related to shadows and that he would be so hard to trap? Meng Jingzhou grinned as he bumped Lu Yang’s shoulder. “Good thing you proposed making the Light-Gathering Arrays before we set off.”

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“It was just luck. I suspected that his cultivation technique was related to shadows, but I had no concrete evidence. Anyway, let’s not be happy too early. It’s not too late to celebrate after destroying the corpse and cleaning up the evidence.”

At Lu Yang’s suggestion, the trio burned Qin Yuanhao’s corpse beyond recognition and tossed it into the tiger demon’s lair before destroying the entrance with an explosion. That way, no one would find the place unless they deliberately searched the mountain.