All Things Are Contracts

Chapter 176: The Marvelous Avatar

While humans have the talent to acquire contract objects, other races don’t. However, each race has its own innate divine abilities. For example, the Mountain Yao Clan has earth tunneling and skin petrification, and the Ghost Shark Clan naturally has its own abilities.

Zhanyue controlled his avatar and felt the innate talents it possessed: ‘Whale Swallow’ and ‘Water Crevice’.

The Ghost Shark Clan Zhanyue avatar slightly opened its mouth and instantly swallowed the Zhanyue in front of it. Zhanyue felt he wasn’t inside some creature’s body, but in a pitch-black, silent space. This mysterious space seemed to be slowly depriving him of his five senses. This was the ‘Whale Swallow’ ability, but at Zhanyue’s current level, swallowing a living person was about the limit.

Then, the Ghost Shark avatar turned into a puddle of water. This water moved rapidly on the ground surface, slipping through the door cracks. Curiously, Zhanyue ran into Baizhi’s room. She was still concentrating on refining pills, completely unaware of his presence. He then retreated and went to Holy Maiden Lixi’s room. MuMu Lixi was sitting cross-legged on the bed, cultivating, seemingly also stimulated by today’s events. Without disturbing MuMu Lixi, Zhanyue quickly moved to Nangong Weilai’s room. At this moment, this puddle of water could still see the outside scenery. In a water barrel, a beautiful young girl was gently stroking her jade-like arm, her shoulders exposed above the water surface. She was bathing.

“Who’s there?” Nangong Weilai seemed to sense something. She turned her head but found nothing. She blinked in confusion. However, the courtyard had long been protected by Alchemy Daoist’s Dao Gate Array. Any intruder would be immediately detected by Alchemy Daoist, so she didn’t suspect anyone could break in. “Could it be that bastard Zhanyue sneaking in to peep at me bathing? No, that’s not right. With earth tunneling, he couldn’t expose his head. If he exposed his head, I would immediately notice. Underground, he could only perceive the outside world with soul sense and wouldn’t be able to see anything.”

Water Crevice was naturally different from earth tunneling. Firstly, Water Crevice moved on the ground surface, almost without volume, able to pass through various cracks to different places at extremely high speed. Secondly, when using Water Crevice, the Ghost Shark Clan could see the outside scenery, unlike earth tunneling which could only rely on perception. These two abilities naturally had their own advantages and disadvantages. Now Zhanyue’s main body mastered earth tunneling, while his avatar mastered Water Crevice, bringing his mobility to a new level. Moreover, Zhanyue’s main body was now in the avatar’s internal space, and this Water Crevice could carry him while moving.

“So this is how I was captured by that Ghost Shark Clan person before,” Zhanyue instantly understood how he had been taken from the academy before.

Returning to the room, the avatar spat out the main body. Zhanyue was very satisfied with the Ghost Shark avatar in front of him. No wonder that Ghost Shark Clan person wanted to make an avatar with Ghost Shark bloodline; these two innate divine abilities were truly powerful. Then Zhanyue withdrew the avatar’s soul body, and the avatar instantly turned into a purple wood held in Zhanyue’s hand, stored in his divine ability space. Unfortunately, the divine ability space couldn’t store living things with souls.

Suddenly, he had an idea. He quickly ran to Baizhi.

Baizhi had just finished refining a batch of pills when she saw Zhanyue rushing in. She asked puzzledly, “What’s wrong? What happened?”

Zhanyue said, “Come help me with an experiment. I’ll put this piece of wood into the divine ability space, and you try to take it out.”

After saying this, Zhanyue returned to his own room and put the purple wood into the divine ability space.

In another room, Baizhi naturally sensed an extra piece of wood in the divine ability space and then took it out. Sensing that Baizhi had taken out the wood, Zhanyue activated the External Avatar method. His soul body awakened on that avatar at a speed surpassing everything. The wood in Baizhi’s hand suddenly turned into a Ghost Shark Clan member, frightening her. Just as she was about to scream, Zhanyue quickly stopped her.

“It’s me.”

Baizhi looked carefully and indeed saw Zhanyue’s features on the Ghost Shark Clan member. “You… you… you…”

Then Zhanyue’s main body also came to her, explaining the External Avatar situation. “In the future, I’ll put the purple wood in the space. If you encounter danger, just take it out, and my avatar can protect you immediately.”

A trace of joy appeared on Baizhi’s pretty face. This divine ability space was the most important bond between her and Zhanyue, irreplaceable by anyone else. Zhanyue hadn’t forgotten her, thinking of using this ability to protect her as soon as he learned the External Avatar technique. This already showed her position in his heart. She walked forward and hugged Zhanyue tightly, her pretty face against his chest, listening to his heartbeat.

“I’m happy that you’re becoming stronger, but I’m so afraid of not being able to keep up with your progress speed, being left far behind by you all,” Baizhi said with some concern.

Zhanyue stroked Baizhi’s head. It seemed she still hadn’t figured it out, but her worry was natural. Even he and the Holy Maiden felt great pressure seeing those geniuses’ performances, let alone her. “It’s okay. You have the South Ming Leaving Fire inside you, and your contract object is the Heavenly King Copper Furnace. Believe me, once they all awaken, your strength will quickly catch up. Besides, even if you stay at this level and only cultivate the Alchemy Daoist, I won’t mind. I will protect you. I won’t let anyone bully you.”

Zhanyue’s words made Baizhi smile. She looked up and kissed Zhanyue lightly. Then she asked, “Have you kissed the Holy Maiden yet?”

Zhanyue looked embarrassed. He couldn’t say he had just kissed her tonight.

Not answering was an answer. Baizhi pouted, “No matter what, at least I was first.” Although the Holy Maiden knew Zhanyue before her, Zhanyue’s first kiss was naturally hers. Unfortunately, she didn’t know that Zhanyue’s purity had already been lost, although that wasn’t Zhanyue’s initiative but an accident.

“Don’t think too much about it. Just focus on learning alchemy techniques. I’ve already talked to Elder Alchemy Daoist. I can pass on to you all the alchemy techniques he taught me. Although I cultivate both alchemy and martial arts, my alchemy talent is obviously not as good as yours. I’ve just become a fifth-rank alchemist recently, and you’re about to advance to sixth-rank alchemist. How can those old men bear this?” Zhanyue laughed.

Alchemists need soul power, and what Baizhi had most was soul power. She was a three-life being. Although her strength hadn’t recovered, her soul power far surpassed ordinary people. When her three lives merged, her strength would definitely reach the peak. So Zhanyue didn’t actually care about Baizhi’s current strength, just hoping she could be happy. For the upcoming trial, Zhanyue had been a bit worried about Baizhi, but now he had a way to deal with it. Moreover, the Heaven Book Trial shouldn’t be life-threatening, after all, even Mi Xiaodie, that ten-year-old girl, was sent in. If it was too dangerous, Alchemy Daoist and others would have stopped it long ago. According to the Heaven Book Spirit, the book would give each person entering the trial a separate trial route, finding their own path for each person. This was also why each force dared to send their future into the Heaven Book world. After all, Alchemy Daoist and others knew the secret behind the Heaven Book.

Time flew, and the venue on the second day was still as packed as yesterday. With yesterday’s eye-opening experience, everyone was more excited about the upcoming matches.