Chapter 117 - Irregular Monkeys
Three days later, a shadow moved inconspicuously and swiftly across an inn, and it headed towards a room where Qin Yi was staying.
Meanwhile, Qin Yi is currently busy with something.
Over the past three days staying in the inn, Qin Yi had already started his study of his second Secondary Profession, Formation Master.
As you already know, Formation Master is a profession for someone who can create a Formation. Meanwhile, the so-called Formation is simply a unique method of resonating spiritual energy. It will activate the spiritual energy within the world, affecting both offensive and defensive measures.
However, it is somewhat complex and challenging to trigger this sort of resonance.
First of all, a Formation can only be created using the unique linguistic characters called Rune Language. Therefore, the first step to learning Formation is to master the Rune Language. As long as one could master this language, one would touch the basics of the Formation.
After successfully mastering the Rune Language, the next thing to learn is to create Spiritual Nodes.
Generally speaking, the more powerful the Formation is, the more Spiritual Nodes you would require. At the same time, the difficulty of creating it will become harder.
Currently, Qin Yi is busy holding the Magic Pen to create a Rank 1 Formation.
Speaking of Magic Pen, it is an artifact pen that serves as a medium for writing Rune Languages.
However, this only applies to newbies. Once one reached a certain point in setting up a Formation, the Magic Pen would become negligible.
About fifteen minutes later...
"Aah, fu**, I failed again!"
Currently, Qin Yi is trying to create the Wind Blowing Formation; it is the most simple and easy Formation to make.
The Wind Blowing Formation required twenty Spiritual Nodes, and yet, in three days, Qin Yi was only able to create five Spiritual Nodes.
Qin Yi couldn't help but fiercely hold his head with his hands. He was a bit frustrated.
"Master."
Yin Cheng finally revealed himself out of the shadows.
He had arrived in this room fifteen minutes ago. However, he didn't want to disturb his Master, who concentrated on making the Formation, so he decided to watch and wait silently.
"You're back. How about your mission?" Qin Yi turned around and saw Yin Cheng.
Yin Cheng replied respectfully, "Master, I have completed my mission."
"Tell me!"
With his Master's permission, Yin Cheng began to report his findings.
According to the informants' information, the Monkey Mountain only has one type of Magical Beast: monkeys. The monkeys weren't powerful as they were all only Rank 1 Magical Beasts.
"So that's why this mountain is called Monkey Mountain?" Qin Yi spoke in intrigue.
"Originally, this mountain also had several other types of Magical Beasts. However, they were too weak to fight the monkeys' constant harassment, and they eventually left and moved to another spiritual mountain. Therefore, all the remaining Magical Beasts in this mountain were just monkeys. When you enter the mountain, you will see a lot of monkeys at every corner of the mountain. But don't worry, Master. According to the people of this town, those monkeys never harmed any mountain visitors. It just…" Yin Cheng wanted to finish his sentence, but he was a little hesitant to finish his sentence.
Qin Yi frowned and repeated, "Just what?"
"These monkeys are harmless, but they are very naughty and like to rob the people's possessions, especially space rings or space bags. However, suppose people intentionally don't carry possessions when entering the Monkey Mountain. In that case, the monkeys will do something even more extreme; They would forcibly strip people and rob them of their clothes. Regardless of their gender." Yin Cheng explained
"..."
Qin Yi was utterly speechless.
"Are you for real?"
"For real, Master."
Well, if that's the case, the monkeys are no longer naughty but shameless. As robbing the victims' treasure is not enough, they also strip their victims.
However, their peculiar behavior did not matter to Qin Yi.
As long as he goes there now, at night, those monkeys won't be able to see him because of the Hidden Night Cloak. In addition, he also used the Turtle Breathing Technique to suppress the breath to its lowest point.
What's more, if Qin Yi has no other choice, he can also use this bloodline ability that he just got.
With so many tricks, how could those shameless monkeys be able to rob him?
On the contrary, Qin Yi might easily take the Monkey Wine from them.
Seeing his master silent for quite a while, Yin Cheng couldn't help but suggest: "Master, why don't you let me go over there and take the Monkey Wine for you. With my bloodline ability, I can easily avoid the sight of those monkeys. "
Yin Chen already knew that his Master's purpose here was to steal the Monkey Wine. Therefore, as a subordinate, it was his duty to complete his Master's mission.
"..." Qin Yi remained silent.
It's a good idea.
Qin Yi can relax in his room while his subordinates work hard to complete his mission...
However, on second thought, he is against this idea.
"Let's go together. Your Master is quite confident in his art of concealing." Qin Yi said proudly.
"Yes, Master."
"By the way, did you get any information about the Mystic Beasts?"
"Master, I have two bad news and two good news regarding the information you want. Which one do you want to start first?"
Qin Yi groaned for a moment, and then he answered: "I like good things, so let start with the good news first."
With a solemn face, Yin Chen spoke, "I got this information from a loose cultivator from Black Water City who only recently arrived in this town. He said that the Black Water Auction House would soon be holding a huge auction. Coincidentally, one of the auction list items is a strange egg suspected to be a Mystic Beast Egg. However, there is no direct information from the Black Water Auction House whether it is true or just a wildly fabricated rumor by random cultivators."
Qin Yi was silent for a while.
He naturally knew Black Water City. After all, it was a large city comparable to Ancient Dragon City. Furthermore, it is more prosperous than Ancient Dragon City.
Meanwhile, the Black Water Auction House is a group of merchants who often hold an auction. However, the large-scale auction is usually only held once every three years.
This means that the auction once in three years falls this year.
Since it is a large-scale auction, there's bound to be a lot of good stuff popping up there. Even if he didn't get his actual objective, he could still get a lot of treasures that might be no less valuable than the Mystic Beast Egg.
Therefore, he had to go there no matter what.
Qin Yi said, "It doesn't matter whether it's true or false. I'll confirm it once I get there. How about the other good news?"
Yin Cheng blinked and replied, "People in town suspect that the monkeys in Monkey Mountain are the work of a Mystic Beast."
Qin Yi was confused and asked, "What do you mean?"
"Ordinary people may think that the monkeys in Monkey Mountain are only ordinary Magical Beasts. However, some savvy cultivators found something odd about those monkeys when they tried to kill the monkeys; they didn't shed any blood. Instead, they were just disappeared like a puff." Yin Cheng explained.
Qin Yi frowned and asked, "Disappear like a puff? You mean they disappear into a puff of smoke?"
"That's right."
"...If those monkeys disappear like that, it means they are not real. In other words, they are just like a bunch of clones."
Yin Cheng nodded and explained again, "Cloning is a challenging thing. Even Nascent Soul Realm cultivators can only do that unless they have a clone-related technique. Even so, they can only create one or two clones at best, and yet those monkeys can create multiple clones. No one knows the exact number of their clones, but it should be more than a thousand. This absurdity can only explain that this irregular monkey is a Mystic Beast that has the ability to clone itself into many."
Listening to this rationale, Qin Yi immediately fell into deep contemplation.
If that was the case, it added more reason for him to enter that mountain personally.