Floating Immortal Order

Chapter 54 – Patrol Disciple

A butterfly flapped its mottled blue and silver wings, alighting upon a pale, slender finger.
But just as it was about to fold away its delicate wings for a brief moment’s respite, the fair finger twitched, startling the butterfly and prompting it to hurriedly fly away.

When the owner of that finger slowly opened his eyes, the first view that entered his eyes was the fleeing figure of that silver and blue butterfly.
The sky above was clear and blue, and the three massive suns were perched up high in the heavens.
The earthy fragrance of flowers and plants filled his nose.

Feeling that it was a bit difficult to breathe, he lifted his hand to feel his face.
His face, ears, and nose were covered with dried, scabby blood, which had long since seeped into the surrounding dirt and solidified.

Xu Disheng stood up and went to the creekside to wash the dried blood off of his face.
After casually casting a clothes cleansing technique, he gazed calmly into the water.

His jet black hair hung down loosely, and his eyes that were resplendent as stars were half-closed, an apathetic expression upon his fair, handsome face.

When he perceived his sea of consciousness, the black Soul Force Flute was no longer in a semi-transparent state, having become more opaque and condensed.
When he lost consciousness, the black Soul Force Flute had clearly been absorbing the essence of the sun and moon nonstop, recovering his body.

Above the Soul Force Flute, there was a long cyan jade flute, slowly revolving as it constantly spilled forth cyan light.
Around this cyan flute, there was an extremely concentrated black light orbiting it, which would occasionally let out howls filled with bitter resentment.
It was that wolf demon’s soul.

The Swallowing Soul Mantra was an extremely overbearing technique.
Xu Disheng was forced to use the Swallowing Soul Mantra when he was on the brink of death, which allowed him to swallow the soul of that wolf demon, who had cultivated for hundreds of years and was a higher cultivation realm than him by far, sucking it directly into his sea of consciousness.
The cyan jade flute suppressed the soul, causing it to be forcefully separated from its body, which spelled an instant death for the wolf demon.

However, the Soul Force backlash was extremely frightening.
After all, the difference in cultivation realm between Xu Disheng and the wolf demon was far too great.
If it wasn’t for his Xiantian Companion Artifact, that cyan jade flute, he wouldn’t have been able to suppress the wolf demon’s soul even if he swallowed it with the Swallowing Soul Mantra.
At that point, he would have had no choice but to self-destruct his sea of consciousness.
In the best case scenario, that would have turned him into a brainless idiot, and in the worst case scenario, it would have directly killed him.

Xu Disheng tried to move the cyan jade flute, but it was just as inert and unresponsive as before.
This cyan jade flute had gone through a change, but in the last ten or so years since he was born, he had never been able to consciously use the jade flute.
All that he knew about it was that it was always slowly raising his aptitude, and it contained the seven scriptures of Soul Song within.

His black Spirit Cloud was floating in the air not far away.
As long as the spiritual power of the spirit stone in the array wasn’t used up, it would never land by itself.
He called the Spirit Cloud over using the jade slip, then looked at the black cloth bundle that was on it.
The dozen or so Beauty’s Demise Herb were still in good condition just like before, completely untouched.
This meant that Xu Disheng had probably only been unconscious for about 1 or 2 days at most.

“”

The wolf demon’s gigantic corpse was sprawled out over the crushed trees.
It now no longer had any human component to it, and its entire body had reverted back to a wolf form.
Its original appearance was that of a wild wolf covered with gray and black fur.

Xu Disheng thought for a moment.
He didn’t go to try and move the corpse for the time being, and instead turned around and headed deeper into the valley.

It had been indicated that this mission was repeatable, so he would be able to receive 15 spirit stones for every 20 Beauty’s Demise Herb that he gathered.
This area was the wolf demon’s domain, and now that it had been taken out, there was practically no danger.
If he headed to the depths of the valley, there was a chance that he would be able to sweep the entire place clean of Beauty’s Demise Herb.

The deeper he went into the valley, the more spirit fruits and spiritual plants there were around.
Some of them even exceeded the low-grade spirit fruit category, reaching the level of middle-grade spirit fruit.
Xu Disheng no longer hesitated, picking the spirit fruits that had a more concentrated halo of light surrounding them.
When he picked them clean, he would put them on his Spirit Cloud.

His Spirit Cloud was somewhere around 10 meters in diameter, and it was covered with a protective light barrier, so it was extremely convenient for storing items.

In about an hour, Xu Disheng swept the entire valley clean.
He managed to pick over 10 medium-grade spirit fruits and spiritual plants, and over 50 Beauty’s Demise Herb.
To an outer disciple like him, this harvest was very bountiful.

At the deepest part of the valley, there was a den, which was most likely the resting place of that wolf demon.
Xu Disheng went in and looked around, but there were only heaps of bones, without anything worthwhile to harvest.
But this was more or less what he anticipated.
To cultivate, the wolf demon also only had to absorb Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy and essence of the sun and moon.
Once it awakened to the spirituality deep in its meridians, it could cultivate and learn a lot of Demonic Spells without needing the assistance of a teacher.

Even though this wolf demon was just an ordinary wild wolf that had gained spiritual awareness for cultivation, it had learned 2 or 3 astonishingly powerful Demonic Spells, so it was evident how formidable demons could be.

Xu Disheng turned the Spirit Cloud around, and in a few breaths’ time, he returned to the creekside where he fought the wolf demon.
He looked at the gigantic corpse and pondered to himself.

According to the information he had so far, the corpses of the demons killed in the Mountain Ranges could be brought back and traded in at the Spirit Weapon Pavilion of Spirit Origin Hall for spirit stones.
The Spirit Weapon Pavilion was supported by the Refining Hall, which was in charge of collecting these kinds of demon corpses.

However, the corpse of this wolf demon was too large and heavy.
After it reverted back to its original form, it was now around 10 meters long, so he didn’t really have a way to carry it on his Spirit Cloud.

Xu Disheng took his identity jade tablet out from his chest pocket, feeling a bit hesitant.
When doing sect missions, every disciple had the ability to use their jade identity tablet to reach out to the patrol disciple nearest to them if there were any special circumstances.
But these patrol disciples were only responsible for patrolling the Mountain Ranges, and they had no obligation to help with completing the sect mission.
Even if you were killed by a demon before their eyes, they still might not even care.
Only if you agreed to give them a cut of spirit stones might they help you get through the life and death crisis.

Xu Disheng didn’t feel comfortable with leaving the gigantic wolf demon corpse here.
If someone passed by, they could easily just take it.
In an unhurried manner, he activated his identity jade tablet, causing it to lightly glow.

In the deep blue sky, a blazing white trail of light streaked towards him from beyond the horizon, accompanied by the clear sound of a sword cutting through the air.
The blazing white longsword arrived in front of him in a flash, hovering in mid-air.
Standing on top of it was a white-clothed youth with a cold expression, giving off a thick aura around him.
It was a Sea of Qi stage patrol disciple.

He glanced at Xu Disheng and asked, “What is it?”

Xu Disheng replied, “Greetings, Senior Martial Brother.
I managed to kill a wolf demon, but unfortunately, I don’t have a storage-type Spirit Tool, so I can’t transport it back to the sect.
I would like to request Senior Martial Brother’s assistance.
I can offer you a portion of spirit stones for your assistance.”

The white-clothed youth looked over and noticed the gigantic corpse of the wolf demon.
After carefully sensing it, his expression changed slightly, and his tone turned cautious.
“A half-transformed wolf demon, which even I might have trouble with, was actually killed by you?”

Xu Disheng was silent.