Chapter 112: Traps Covered the Mountains and Fields

Just like the miserable experiences of Cech and Brook after they took the Hulk Potion, Pierce, Drogba, and the others still could not fully digest the potion inside their bodies right away. Even though the intense pain had gone away, their skin still had a pretty clear green color. Because they were not as strong as Brook and the others, the green on their bodies was even more obvious. The big guys stood there looking at each other, like more than twenty green cacti had suddenly grown in the stone hall.

“Do not worry. After you fully digest the potion’s power, this side effect will go away for good!”

Sun Fei called Essien, O’Neal, and Kahn out from the group. He threw each of them one Aura Manual and one water element Chipped Sapphire. These three all had water element Battle Qi talent. And in the royal book collection of Shampoo City, there were exactly three One-Star Level water element Aura Manuals. They were just right for these three big guys to practice. After being tempered and changed by the Hulk Potion, the Qi Channels in their bodies were much wider and tougher than normal people. You could even say they had special natural gifts. With the help of the same attribute blue element gemstones, they should be able to make a breakthrough in a short time.

The other fellows who did not get any Magical Equipment or Aura Manuals could only scratch the back of their heads and stand there drooling with silly grins. They tried hard to open their not-so-watery eyes wide. With pure and innocent looks, they stared at Sun Fei like babies wanting milk looking at their wet nurse.

Sun Fei had black lines on his forehead as he waved his hand and chased these cute ‘cacti’ out of the stone hall.

Actually, these strong men understood in their hearts that the foundation a Sixth-Class Vassal State could have was really poor. For Your Majesty the King to be able to take out these equipment and potions, he must have used up everything he had. They probably just squeezed out His Majesty’s money to get a wife. So they did not complain. At least they all got the Hulk Potion and became much stronger. Besides, the people Sun Fei just rewarded by name were the companions among them with the most outstanding battle achievements. So they only felt envy, and were not jealous at all.

Luckily, on the Azeroth Continent, potions like the Hulk Potion that could boost power instantly were not unheard of. Plus, these big guys were all violence maniacs, used to being too lazy to use their brains. So no one dug for deeper answers.

After doing all this, Sun Fei stood quietly in the stone hall.

Suddenly, his heart moved, and Sun Fei switched to Assassin Mode.

A kind of energy different from the Paladin’s ‘holy power’, the Sorceress’s ‘magic power’, the Necromancer’s ‘death energy’, the Barbarian’s ‘physical might’, and the Druid’s ‘nature power’ gently spread and surged in the stone hall.

The Assassin was a very special class in the Diablo World. In Sun Fei’s memories from his previous life, Blizzard Company supposedly designed this character based on the martial arts of a mysterious ancient eastern country. Now Sun Fei confirmed this, because under Assassin Mode, the power flowing in his body was a kind of energy called Zhen Qi.

This Zhen Qi energy felt to Sun Fei very much like the internal strength described in many wuxia novels from his past life. To put it more simply, using Jin Yong’s words, it was like countless warm little mice were now playfully drilling around inside Sun Fei’s limbs and entire body.

“There are eighteen channels in total!”

Sun Fei closed his eyes and carefully felt the Assassin’s Zhen Qi flow state. He found that the so-called Zhen Qi moved along eighteen routes in his body. Each route could achieve an independent cycle, but they were also connected to each other, like a maze opened up inside his body. A gentle breath circulated back and forth in this maze, constantly nourishing his own body.

And these routes where the Zhen Qi moved were actually very similar to the ‘Qi Channels’ where Battle Qi moved on the Azeroth Continent.

Sun Fei thought for a moment, then picked up a handwritten copy of a One-Star Level water element Aura Manual from Shampoo City’s collection from the stone table. This was one he specifically copied for his own use. Sun Fei read and studied it carefully, and found that this Aura Manual only described 8 Qi Channels. And these 8 Qi Channels were all included in the eighteen channels where Zhen Qi moved in Sun Fei’s body, without any exception.

“Could it be that the so-called Qi Channels on the Azeroth Continent actually refer to the meridians of the Assassin’s Zhen Qi inside the human body? And the more Qi Channels an Aura Manual contains, the higher the grade and quality of the manual?”

This discovery made Sun Fei vaguely realize something.

If it really was as he guessed, then Sun Fei felt he might be able to create sets of more perfect, higher level Aura Manuals out of thin air based on the Zhen Qi flow routes under Assassin Mode. A One-Star Level Aura Manual contained 8 Qi Channels, but Sun Fei’s body already had eighteen moving meridians. Sun Fei could imitate these eighteen Zhen Qi moving routes, open up eighteen Qi Channels, and create at least a Three-Star high level Aura Manual!

If that was true, then for Shampoo City, which lacked Aura Manuals, it would be like receiving help in the nick of time.

“However, this matter still needs further verification. It’s a shame that the best Aura Manual in Shampoo City right now is only One-Star Level, so there’s no way to deduce…” Sun Fei gently closed the handwritten Aura Manual in his hand, and his eyes suddenly lit up: “Right, Uncle Lampard is a Three-Star expert. He must know about other Qi Channels. I’ll ask Lampard later, and everything will naturally be revealed.”

Thinking of this, Sun Fei could not help but feel great joy in his heart.

He stood up and slowly walked to the center of the stone hall. He moved the Zhen Qi inside his body, feeling the specific locations of each moving route. Suddenly, his waist sank, and with a bang, he threw a punch.

“Roar——”

A roaring phantom of a fierce tiger, vivid and lifelike, suddenly shot out from Sun Fei’s fist with an angry roar.

Boom!

The large stone block on the ground that was previously split in two by Paul Pierce using the Sacred Sword Excalibur was pierced through by the tiger phantom. With a loud crash, it exploded and turned into a pile of broken stones. The air was filled with a scorching heat.

This was the Assassin skill Tiger Strike.

A power application technique that used Zhen Qi to continuously stack strike damage. Its power was stunning.

Next——

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Shadows flickered in the stone hall. Fierce red flames covered Sun Fei’s fists. His fists were like meteors, his feet like scimitars. His movements became faster and faster. In the end, his whole body turned into a black whirlwind. It was impossible to see his form and movements clearly. Only after ten seconds, with a whooshing sound, the whirlwind dispersed. He stopped, and more than ten stone chairs on the ground had completely turned into black powder.

Sun Fei had already fully experienced and understood all the skills of Assassin Mode.

Next, it was time to start his own plan.

The Assassin skill Burst of Speed activated. A faint mist covered Sun Fei’s body. His figure flickered, and he disappeared from the stone hall like a ghost.

In the Underground Grotto Labyrinth, no one noticed when Sun Fei left.

Two hours later, a gentle whirlwind suddenly rose in the stone hall. A faint mist spread in the air, and Sun Fei appeared again in the stone hall.

He quickly walked to the stone table, grabbed a quill pen, and started drawing swiftly on a piece of parchment scroll. As the quill pen continuously moved, Sun Fei’s sketching skills from his previous life once again showed their value. The terrain of Shampoo City’s Back Mountain gradually appeared vividly on the paper.

Sun Fei carefully checked the drawing, and after confirming there were no problems, he switched to a red quill pen. He began carefully marking various strange symbols on it.

More than ten minutes later, Prison Warden Oleg was summoned to the stone hall.

“Remember this map carefully, remember it firmly! At various dangerous locations and intersections on the Back Mountain, a large number of traps with shocking killing power have been set. All the dead angle zones that the soldiers cannot defend have been sealed off. Only three correct paths are left for entering and exiting, which are the places marked by the red routes…” Sun Fei pointed at the terrain map on the parchment, his expression serious, explaining everything carefully one by one: “This symbol represents fire, this symbol represents lightning… Remember, any place marked with this kind of symbol means there are many traps there. Tell the soldiers to avoid these places when patrolling. The specific patrol routes and inspection schedules will be planned and designed by you. This matter is very important. You must finish it before tonight. Temporarily pull the soldiers back to avoid accidental injuries!”

Prison Warden Oleg hid the shock in his heart. He carefully held the map and began silently memorizing the trap marks on it, designing the most reasonable soldier patrol routes.

Sun Fei directly rode the Big Black Dog and left the Underground Grotto Labyrinth.

Under Sun Fei’s direction, the Big Black Dog continuously leaped among mountain stone cracks and forests, moving forward slowly in a strange route. It had to carefully avoid some terrifying traps hidden here.

The entire Back Mountain of Shampoo City was now a land of death.

During the more than two hours he was out just now, Sun Fei used the trap-laying skills possessed by the Assassin under Assassin Mode to set up a large number of lightning and fire traps in the forbidden area of Shampoo City’s Back Mountain. At this point, the forbidden area of the Back Mountain was filled with a large number of Magic Traps like Lightning Web, Lightning Sentry, Wake of Fire, etc. Each trap contained terrifying energy. If anyone invaded the Back Mountain again and triggered these Magic Traps, large amounts of lightning and fire would immediately gush out. A One-Star Level Warrior would be instantly killed. A Two-Star Level could barely hold on for a while. A Three-Star, if lucky, could escape from these traps.

These were all necessary measures Sun Fei took to prevent problems before they happened.

The magic mechanism trap-laying skills of the Assassin character were a great help to Sun Fei. They solved the current difficult situation of Shampoo City’s severe shortage of experts and military strength. For Sun Fei, this way he could free his hands to prepare for the coming stormy clouds. Shampoo City was facing an unknown great danger. Sun Fei had to go all out.

And setting traps was only one of them. Tomorrow was the day the coronation ceremony would officially arrive. Riding on Black Whirlwind’s back, Sun Fei looked towards the majestic peak of East Mountain standing magnificently under the setting sun in the east. That was exactly the location where the coronation ceremony was to be held.

He felt both anticipation and nervousness in his heart.

If he was not mistaken, all the mysteries would be officially revealed tomorrow morning, at the Eastern Peak Summit—that would be the moment when the real intention is revealed.