Chapter 2: Project Shadow!
"Sous, you are lucky to be the only prince of the Giants." Josiah said to Thorne with a slight smile.
"Father, it's just the two of us here, please call me Thorne." Thorne said with a slight displeasure.
Thorne is three feet tall, with strong muscles, thick arms like two dragons, and a body covered with heavy black armor, and has been living in this way for ten years in the training ground of Kukabi.
"Good! Thorne, listen to your father and stay here, I know what you think, but now you can only accept it, because your brother is dead! Josiah said in a deep voice.
"Dead?! Didn't you say that my brother would go back when he went, why!! I'm going to kill that damn thing! Thorne, who clenched his fists subconsciously, overflowed with indescribable pain on his face.
"You have to learn to hide, but also to learn to disguise, not only to others, but also to yourself, only in this way can you avenge your brother!" Josiah said with a little hypocrisy, hiding his face and whimpering.
"Father, I know what you mean, and I know what I have on my shoulders." Thorne is now Josiah's only child and Josiah's only hope, and since he was a child, Thorne has been obedient to Josiah, loving his brother, and even blindly worshipping until the fall of his brother Thorke, which makes Thorne's spirit completely broken.
In his opinion, if he hadn't been playful and didn't go with his brother, his brother wouldn't have died.
"Thorne, do you know the giants' biggest secret? That is the eye of the giant, in addition to the physical strength, you must remember to cultivate the eye well. Josiah lowered his voice as he said this, for fear of being heard by the other beings.
"Didn't I let you come? Now is not the time to teach alchemy, how can you trespass into the Fire Yang Hall without permission, if you are found and you will be punished heavily, hurry up! Montto came over and told Josiah, who nodded and hurriedly retreated.
Monto then patted Thorne on the shoulder and motioned for him to go to the martial arts training ground with his eyes.
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After the catastrophe, the giant wizard found that his inner world had collapsed, and the inner world was a necessary element for the cultivation of the essence god, what does it mean?!
It means that the rest of Sous's life will stay in the essence god stage and cannot break through, until the time comes, he will die namelessly!
Sous's health is getting worse and worse, and he needs a lot of pills every day to maintain his life, but he still survives strongly, and with amazing perseverance, he cultivates a strong internal strength, and lays his foundation in this way, but unfortunately the height he has reached is far less than Kukabi's requirements.
Kukabi had no choice but to follow the Giant Wizard's suggestion and start the Shadow Project: to find a gifted child of his own age to take Sous's place! Thorne's body shape and demeanor are highly similar to that of Souss, and from a certain point of view, they are even the same, and when Ao first sees Sock, he looks at Kukabi suspiciously, thinking that Sock is Kukabi's son outside.
Thorne is not only very similar in size to Sous, but also very similar in personality, his mother is a witch under the Giant Wizard, and his father Josiah is the first alchemist of the Giant Clan, proficient in medicine and spell illusions.
Thorne's innate divine power is more than several times that of Sous, and his abilities are even more special, he can see through matter, have super spiritual sense, and can use illusions to make himself become other beings.
Thorne was sent to the Sanctuary where the Giant Wizard lived, where he underwent rigorous training. Here, Suoke's strength has grown by leaps and bounds, and in just over two years, he has completed the training of giant wizards, and mastered the secret method of powerful power, and broke through to become an essential god.
Sok's performance also pleased Kukabi, who gradually became Kukabi's heir, and when Thorne reached adulthood, he could announce this decision, and Thorne would lead the entire Giants on a glorious path.
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On the endless grass of the martial arts training ground, hundreds of teenagers are fighting desperately, each of them is using all his strength, these teenagers are the brothers of Sous, the youngest is only 4 years old, and the oldest is 12 years old, the same age as Sous.
At this moment, Sous was already sweating profusely, covered in wounds, and there was blood hanging from the corners of his mouth, but he was still gritting his teeth and holding on.
Suddenly, he felt his wrist being grasped, and when he looked down, it was Sophie who took his hand and said, "Thorne, you can rest!" ”
"No, don't touch me, I can still hold on."
"You ......"
Sophie just wanted to dissuade her, but at this moment, a loud noise came, which suddenly silenced the entire martial arts training ground.
Immediately afterwards, I saw a young man in a black robe and a golden crown with a gloomy face walking slowly from a distance with Kukabi. This young man's cultivation is unfathomable, although he does not exude momentum, but it gives people an extremely depressed feeling.
The hundred people in the martial arts training ground all stopped what they were doing and saluted Kukabi and the black-robed young man: "King! Your Highness! ”
Kukabi didn't have the slightest expression on his face, just nodded slightly, and his gaze fell on Soas in a circle, and then he looked straight ahead.
"Father is here too......"
Soas wanted to blurt out a word about his father, but he couldn't help it.
The black-robed young man walked straight towards Sous, stretched out a hand and said to him, "Thorne, let's give it a try, let me see how good you are?" ”
After Sous got up and stood up straight, he rubbed his hand on his pants, wiped away the sweat, high-fived the black-robed young man and said, "Okay, Your Highness." ”
Sophie looked at Sous and saw that he was going to fight against the black-robed boy, her eyes flickered for a moment, and then she stopped talking and stepped aside to watch the battle.
The strength of the black-robed young man was very fierce, and he signaled with his eyes that Sous could start, and Sous didn't dare to be careless, he took a deep breath and kicked his legs violently, and the whole person rushed out like an arrow from the string, and his right hand was clawed into a claw and grabbed Saus's chest.
The black-robed young man snorted coldly, waved his right hand lightly, only to hear a crisp sound of "boom", and Sous's arm was broken by Qi Gen, and blood splattered everywhere!
"Ah!!h
Sous howled in pain and fell to the ground and writhed.
Seeing this, the black-robed young man pretended to be concerned and walked up to Sous to investigate his injuries, then raised his eyebrows and whispered to Sous, "How are your injuries, my Highness." ”
"You ......"
Sous glared at the black-robed boy angrily, hating to swallow him alive, but he knew that he was no match for him now, so he could only get up from the ground in pain.
"I didn't ...... It's okay, I'll just go to Orange Springs to repair my injuries. ”
"Thorne, today's training is over, you go and get 10,000 magic crystals, remember, don't be lazy."
Sous was indignant when he heard this, but when he saw Kukabi's cold eyes, he nodded and prepared to turn away.
"Thorne, your arm is broken!! How can my cousin be so too much to you! ”
Sophie screamed behind her back, and Sous froze and turned to look back at Sophie, her mouth open but she didn't say anything, and then turned away.
Goo-doo ~ Goo doo ~ Goo Dot ~
"Ah~~" Sous threw his head back and let out a cry of pain.
His face was covered with beads of sweat, his expression was very hideous, and when he took the position of his arm, he almost fainted in pain, and he jumped into the orange spring.
The Orange Spring is the first healing spring pool in the Giants, named after the orange color of the spring. The orange spring water automatically regulates the temperature and sends the surrounding aura to the soaker, helping them to recover from their injuries quickly.
Moistened by the orange spring water, Sous is now filled with strength in every inch of his body, and new skin is slowly growing on his injured arm.
Immersed here, he relaxed, and the cells in all parts of his body were cheering, as if they were about to break away from their shells.
"Ha~"
As Sous took a deep breath, a white mist rose from his nose.
"Huh?"
Suddenly, Sous noticed something unusual, and the white mist seemed strange, in the shape of fleshy claws. It was slowly converging on Sous's head. Thaus's brow furrowed, and he stretched out his left palm to press against the white mist.
The white mist dissipated into invisibility, and then re-coalesced and appeared above Sous's left palm.
"Just now...... What's that? ”
Thaus looked around, but found nothing.
"Is it a delusion?"
Sous shook his head, putting aside the distractions in his mind and continuing to soak in the Orange Spring. Time passed, and it was the next morning.
"Boom~Bang~"
As he broke out of the pool, the wounds on his body had long since disappeared, he looked at the sky and thought, "It's so good, it's time to practice." ”
The Wuding Mountains are the places where Sous often goes to practice.
At this moment, the fog is thick and the smoke is vast, like a fairyland. I don't know how many monks on the mountain do penance here, or look for opportunities, or experience the mind.
All in all, every day, thousands of congenitally perfect monks shuttle between the mountains and forests, hunting the magic crystals on the bodies of strange beasts in tandem to prepare for their future ascension.
The most strange thing about this mountain range is that it is full of aura, and there are many rare beasts, there are countless five-star beasts, and three-star and four-star beasts are commonplace. Ordinary elemental cultivators can only fight against two-star alien beasts, so it is difficult to survive here.
Therefore, the cultivation resources in the mountain were extremely abundant, and even the elemental cultivators who had attained perfection were not willing to take risks here.
Growing up in the neighborhood, Sauss is all too familiar with the place. He was like the wind, and he ran rapidly through the clouds, and disappeared into the vast fog in the blink of an eye.
After a few moments, he came to the top of the mountain, stepped on the soft grass, and looked down on the misty mountains in the distance, his face was heavy, and his hands were on his back, and he did not move for a long time.
Then Soas tried to stand, his feet flat on his shoulders, his hands drooping, his shoulders and elbows down, his arms and chests, and his eyes level.
Slowly inhale a breath forward, feel a slight bulge outside the abdomen, and enter the sea of qi under the umbilicus.
When I breathe, my lower abdomen is slightly convex, and I find that there is still no feeling of anything pressing against my belly.
"Still no, my inner world is still in a state of collapse...... What if you try to swim outside the body? Failed~"
Sueus deduced over and over again, failed over and over again, but he was never discouraged.
"There must be a way, my life is up to me!"
Suddenly, Suas had an idea, and he thought of a solution.
"The inner world itself is a heaven and earth, since I can't absorb the aura of heaven and earth, then I can try to close myself, like a cocoon, not letting anything in, and not letting everything in the outside world affect me.
Will the qi of the inner world itself circulate in the body? ”
He kept thinking and deducing in his head, and since everything was unknown, he decided to practice it himself and see the effect.
"Whew, whew." Suus gasped hard, while quietly feeling the flow of qi around his body.
Sous felt the change in himself and nodded with satisfaction: "That's right, you can finally use "qi". “
The essence of God is only that the understanding of a certain element has reached the top level, and the possession of qi is equivalent to having a hard "container" of understanding of the element.
Qi is the purest energy of the essence of the divine life, which can form a protective film on the surface of the body to protect the skin from attack.
It allows the body of the essence god not to lose muscle or excess fat due to long-term exercise, and can even make the bones extremely strong. This is a very scary ability. It can transform the constitution of the essence god to a more perfect level.
As a child, Sauss was physically weak, so it took a lot of time to practice.
"Huhu~~~~"
Sous stretched, a sigh of relief.
"My strength has improved again, but I am still some distance away from that realm, and I still need to work hard to cultivate." "The next time I fight, my arm shouldn't be broken, so I'll have to give it a try." ”
Suahs was very excited. He felt that every cell in his body was filled with powerful and surging power. He even doubted that he could directly break through all obstacles, break through himself, and become a real powerhouse.
His heart was full of yearning.
"Before I knew it, it was getting dark, and I had to hurry down the mountain."
Soaus's vision was not good, and it happened to be late in the descent, and he couldn't find his way through the mountains until it was dark, so he could only rely on instinct and feeling to find it.
Halfway through, a gust of wind blew and the leaves rattled, and Sous became vigilant and wondered, had he been attacked by some monster again? He couldn't help but speed up.
Suddenly, he heard a trembling voice in the distance.
He paused and listened carefully.
Sure enough, it wasn't long before I heard someone shouting, "It's Steppenwolf!" Six-star beast! Run, run. ”
"Ah......h
This was followed by screams.
Sous was so frightened that he didn't dare to go any further, so he hurriedly turned around and went back.
After running some distance, he realized that the wolves were not chasing, so he relaxed and continued on his way. At this moment, a fishy stench came to his nose, and he hurriedly turned his head, only to see two huge wolf beaks open towards him.
"Ah......h
He was so frightened that he shouted out of control and ran wildly, but the wolf behind him was so fast that he could catch up before he could run ten meters and fall to the ground.
He struggled with all his might, but the wolf's claws were sharp, scratching his skin and bleeding.
Sous felt the pain, and finally couldn't take it anymore, and screamed in pain. The sound of his roar attracted more wolves, and the wolves surrounded him, their fangs on the flesh, bloody patches.
Sous's face turned pale. He knew that today he would surely die.
He was not reconciled! He doesn't want to die! He doesn't want to die! He doesn't want to die! He closed his eyes in despair. He saw the wolves staring at him condescendingly, their eyes full of banter.
Thaus propped his hands on the ground, slowly retreating step by step in horror, and the wolves opened their bloody jaws, baring their sharp fangs, and rushed towards him......
Suddenly, the ground loosened, and he felt his body fly like an arrow from a string.
The next second, Soas felt as if he had hit something. Then, a sharp pain spread throughout the body......
He couldn't help but scream, and he felt as if his bones were shattering.
He kept rolling and struggling in the air, his face contorted with pain, his eyes bulging out of his sockets, his mouth constantly opening and closing, but no matter how loud he moved, he could not make a sound from the darkness.
It was dark in front of Sous's eyes, and he couldn't hear the sounds around him. It's just that in the dark, it seems that someone is talking to him, but unfortunately he can't open his eyes anyway, and he can't hear what the other party is saying.
"No...... I don't want to die......! The words came to the mind of Sous.