Free Web NovelChapter 1330: Chapter 1316: Ice Wind
Yang Xiao was taken aback for a moment, then opened the box containing the Flying Leopard Divine Skill, and was completely dumbfounded.
Inside the black box was only a jade dishware recording the Flying Leopard Divine Skill, but not the Flying Leopard Jade Pendant.
"Damn, there’s a problem, without the Wind Eagle Jade Pendant, I can’t obtain the Wind Eagle Divine Beast, without the Wind Eagle Divine Beast, how am I supposed to cultivate?"
Yang Xiao always understood why every cultivation technique involves a divine beast appearing within the body.
He very much wanted to ask Gu Bo and others if they also had a divine beast appear within during their cultivation.
However, Yang Xiao suppressed this question for a long time, always controlling himself not to ask too much.
According to Yang Xiao’s intuition, it’s likely they did not receive a divine beast for each cultivation technique; otherwise, their cultivation wouldn’t be so difficult.
Yet, Yang Xiao’s inner doubts became more numerous: why was he alone capable of acquiring a divine beast with each cultivation technique?
When Gu Bo and others cultivated the White Elephant Divine Skill and Heavenly Dragon Divine Skill, they must have also played with the pendants in the boxes. Why did they not obtain a divine beast within?
Moreover, why did the pendant for the Flying Leopard Divine Skill appear in the Flying Leopard Empire, casually lying on a bookshelf, rather than in the box of the Flying Leopard Divine Skill?
Now, where has the jade pendant for the Wind Eagle Divine Skill gone?
Flying Leopard, Heavenly Dragon, White Elephant, Wind Eagle, these four divine beasts entering the body, there must be something peculiar.
Now that there’s no Wind Eagle Divine Beast jade pendant in sight, what should be done?
Yang Xiao called Gu Bo to the Secret Technique Manual room, opened the four boxes, and said:
"Elder Gu, there’s a question I’d like to ask you: why are there two extra jade pendants in the White Elephant Divine Skill and Heavenly Dragon Divine Skill boxes, but none in the Flying Leopard Divine Skill and Wind Eagle Divine Skill boxes? What’s the use of these things?"
Yang Xiao deliberately asked while holding the jade pendants.
Gu Bo was slightly taken aback and said with a smile:
"I have asked the same question before, but no one could tell me, and I also don’t know what these two jade pendants do.
Why? Do you think there’s something wrong?"
"Don’t you think there’s a problem?"
Yang Xiao said, bringing the Flying Leopard Divine Skill and Wind Eagle Divine Skill boxes to Gu Bo and pointing to a groove inside:
"Looking at the size and shape of the groove in this box, there must have once been a jade pendant in it, but now it’s gone.
Think about it, as the four major genetic evolution techniques on the Witch Star, how could the jade pendants in here be useless?"
Gu Bo thought it over and said:
"Yang Xiao, your question has actually been discussed before, but these two jade pendants have been studied and no issues could be found.
Or maybe these are just decorative items."
"Can the jade pendant for the Wind Eagle Divine Skill be found?"
Gu Bo thought for a moment, shook his head, and said:
"Difficult, these four major genetic evolution techniques have been passed down on Witch Star for thousands of years, gone through unknown numbers of cultivators, and we don’t know when they were lost, truly impossible to trace."
Yang Xiao was helpless; since this was the case, he had nothing more to say.
The cultivation of the Wind Eagle Divine Skill was conducted within a large wind tunnel.
The wind tunnel was located within a special instrument in the backyard of the Heavenly Book Pavilion.
When Yang Xiao saw the wind tunnel instrument, his inner self was still deeply shocked.
On Earth, there were also similar wind tunnel testing facilities, generally built within mountains, almost hollowing out an entire mountain.
All developed satellites, spaceships, and fighter jets must undergo wind tunnel experiments.
Witch Star people possessed technology surpassing light speed by a thousand times; naturally, their wind tunnel technology far surpassed that of Earth’s civilization.
On Earth, wind tunnel speeds could reach around 100 meters per second.
Yang Xiao glanced at the specifications of the wind tunnel device and was immediately stunned,
"Damn, highest wind speed of 600 meters per second?"
Yang Xiao thought, such a powerful wind speed is definitely sharper than a knife, capable of instantly lacerating ordinary human skin, tearing flesh directly from bone.
Gu Bo laughed and said:
"This is just a small wind tunnel device; large wind tunnel instruments can reach wind speeds of over 1000 meters per second, and our interstellar spaceships all undergo strict wind tunnel testing."
Yang Xiao couldn’t utter a second word beyond "Admirable."
"Yang Xiao, when you enter the wind tunnel, there’s a wind speed controller inside the instrument. You can sit there and adjust the wind speed yourself. Remember, when adjusting the wind speed while seated inside, there’s some lag; don’t make it too high all at once, or you’ll bear the consequences."
Cultivating the Wind Eagle Divine Skill requires the body to withstand speeds exceeding 500 meters per second within the wind tunnel.
Although Yang Xiao had undergone body refinement through the previous three divine skills, his skin was beyond being described as copper-skinned and iron-boned, surpassing ordinary human biological skin.
However, without the protection of genetic techniques, resisting such a powerful wind speed is definitely not easy.
Only the Wind Eagle Divine Skill’s technique could be operated.
Yang Xiao entered the wind tunnel, closing the wind tunnel instrument’s door from the inside, walked to the specially made chair in the center, and sat down, securing himself with the seat’s safety belt.
The armrest of the chair had a wind speed control instrument.
Yang Xiao took a deep breath and pressed the switch.
With a "buzz", a strong wind started blowing inside the instrument.
The initial wind speed inside the wind tunnel was 50 meters per second, equivalent to a strong typhoon or a Category 3 hurricane on Earth.
Each press of the accelerate button increased the wind speed by 10 meters per second.
Yang Xiao directly accelerated to a wind speed of 100 meters per second, a terrifying speed on Earth.
The strongest super typhoon on Earth is only Grade 17, roughly 60 meters per second.
"Whoosh——"
A piercing sound swept past Yang Xiao’s ears, feeling like a whip snapping against his skin, faintly painful.
Yang Xiao sat bare-skinned in the chair, all skin exposed to the knife-like wind.
In an instant, Yang Xiao’s skin began to turn crimson, his whole body burning, feeling as if being roasted by fire.
Yang Xiao forcibly remained calm, operating the Wind Eagle Divine Skill technique.
A breath rose inside, flowing through every muscle, bone, and cell, igniting immense power to resist the terrifying hurricane.
Yang Xiao concentrated, observing the Spiritual Power Sea within,
White Elephant, Flying Leopard, and Heavenly Dragon divine beasts floated above the Spiritual Power Sea, seemingly asleep, without any movement.
"Alas, lacking the Wind Eagle Divine Beast, otherwise, I could directly push to 200 meters per second, astonishing Gu Bo and the others."
Yang Xiao gritted his teeth, resisting the super hurricane.
Suddenly, he sensed something unusual about the hurricane, the cold airflow felt as if freezing the world, scraping over his body.
If the previous hurricane felt like a whip lashing the body,
then now,
the hurricane felt like a knife slicing Yang Xiao’s skin.
In an instant, hundreds of thin, long wounds appeared on Yang Xiao’s skin, bleeding profusely.
At this moment, standing before the wind tunnel instrument, Gu Bo laughed heartily, his fingers just withdrawing from a button labeled "Ice Wind".
"You little rascal, let you experience the taste of the Ice Wind, let’s see if you’re still so magical, haha..."
