Poison God's Heritage

Chapter 759: Beast Flow

*** As some of my old readers remember, I usually take inspiration from some of the games I play and enjoy and use some of the beasts or bosses (of course I change a lot) that I enjoy playing against and add them to my story. Today's Chapter is Sponsored by Thundering Mephis from Wuwa. I hope you enjoy the first part of this fight.***

While half of my focus was dedicated to going alongside the Blue Sun and Tao Yang into the bastion, the other half was preoccupied with more important matters.

When and once the Rakshasa comes into the beyond, things will become ugly.

The Rakshasa themselves are already powerful enough inside the bastion to be deadly to Void Stage and Void Shattering Stage Cultivators. As for the Brutes and Silver ones, they're deadly unless one is in the Origin Realm and Shattering Realm.

I on the other hand am incredibly incompatible and weak against the Rakshasa on open terrain. Because they'll have access to their Qi when they're outside and no amount of poison I can spit out will be enough to stop or halt their movement.

It is very simple actually, since they can coat themselves with loads of Origin Qi and just spit out or exhaust out the poison, I become irrelevant. Unless I have enough firepower to penetrate their hide and poison them from the inside, all my abilities are useless.

So, I thought and thought, and came to the realization that there is only one way out of this.

Basic combat. Learn, improve, and adapt.

Having fighting experience against powerful foes is the best way to learn how they move and fight, and only by knowing one's foe can you improve yourself.

I was standing in the white space where the Silver Rakshasa was sealed up. The fact that the Lord of Lords pagoda is able to sustain with ease the power coming from an Origin Shattering Cultivator is a good boon to protect it from inner destruction.

The Silver Rakshasa though sealed to the point of being at the Void Stage was still dangerous, but it is incomparably easier than when it has its full power.

Just as I was about to unlock its first locks and seals so I could begin my fighting practice, the Automaton appeared next to me saying, "Master, you have a guest."

"A guest?" I frowned.

"He is a friend of the Lord, he has asked for permission to enter the pagoda," the Automaton said as he showed me a visual representation of the person he was talking about.

It was a man wearing a full set of black robes and a conical straw hat.

He smiled wide as he noticed the 'spying' device and said, "You can't keep me out waiting, Shen Bao."

"Oh, the Dusking Sun, get him inside," I said.

After all, if he truly did want to get inside no one could stop him.

A portal opened up and the Dusking Sun showed up inside the white space next to me.

He took a good look around the space as he removed his hat and sat down by calling out a chair from his own holding bag.

"The Blue Sun called me saying that you need my help with your small serpent," he said. "But, what the hell is that?" he said as his eyes were locked on the Silver Rakshasa."

"Oh, I thought I showed you this before," I said.

"You did, you showed me a dead one. You never said anything about you having one that is alive," he smiled.

"Well, I need it…" I said.

"I can see you're trying to use it for practice, but what you're doing is futile," he said.

"How so?" I asked.

"Because it has no urge or need to fight you as you want, it is trapped, sealed, and captured, with no hope of escaping. It will never fight you to the best of its ability it will probably act meek and weak and will not give you the excitement of a real fight."

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"Then what do you suggest? I drug it with rage-inducing poison?" I asked.

"That will make things even worse, it will no longer act with rationality as it fights you and completely throws you off when you fight the real thing. Learning bad habits will get you killed."

He wasn't keen on giving me the answer, he wanted me to figure it out for myself.

It took me a second before I said, "I need to promise it release if it wins," I mumbled.

"Right on the money, if not given a goal or an objective it will never give you what you want, but getting it to understand you is the harder part."

"Not really, they are semi-sentient," I said as I turned to the massive four-meter-sized creature.

"You there," I said as it growled at me, "I can set you free," I said.

It clearly didn't believe me as it was still jerking in its place, but the weights on it and the Qi disturbing formations were stopping it in its place.

I pulled up the Lord of Lords pagoda token and waved it next to me. It opened a small portal where it showed the Silver Rakshasa the outside world and it tried to rip the chains on it to escape.

But it couldn't budge or move.

I placed the token around my neck and said, "If you want to get out, you have to beat me."

"That is incentive enough, you can see intelligence in its eyes, it understood you," the Dusking Suns aid.

"I guess I should set it at a one-hundredth of its ability and test the waters," I said as I released the seals.

Not one second later, the Silver Rakshasa lunged at me, it was fast, incredibly so.

I moved back as I dodged its half-meter-long claws. The wind blades from them were enough to rip a man apart but I had thankfully moved aside from them.

Creeping Demise was already in my hand. It was a weapon that would grow alongside the user, so for now it was at the stage of Void Stage cultivation and should be enough to handle the weakened Silver Rakshasa.

The creature then jumped forward, momentarily flickering in and out of existence. It was probably trying to enable its stealth, but failing because of the inscription and Qi inhibitors I injected and placed in it.

However, one would almost wish that the creature was able to go into stealth and invisibility instead of this flickering.

Due to its already incredible speed, it was feeling as if he was teleporting and it never moved in a straight line.

It moved from side to side, using the power and balance of its body to trick the eye into following nothing but an afterimage. It dashed to the right, and flickered out of existence, making you look for it on the right, but it had already used that small flickering time to dodge and appear on my left.

If it wasn't for the hair on the back of my head rising, I wouldn't have seen the incoming frontal flip that was above me.

I threw myself aside as I watched the spiked and barbed tail of the Silver Rakshasa strike down on the ground. Creating a powerful shockwave that ruffled both my and the Dusking Sun's robes.

The Silver Rakshasa for some idiotic reason took note of the Dusking Sun and stepped toward him. The Dusking Sun's eyes looked like a fading sun in the distance, they were still however bright and threatening. Though the Sun may dusk, it still is as hot as it is in its zenith if one gets close enough.

The Rakshasa stopped, he realized the danger in front of him in an instant and decided to calmly back away, it never turned or allowed its back to be pointing in the direction of the Dusking Sun, it always kept its distance and attention on the Dusking Sun.

It then lunged at me, its claws aimed to take away the token hung as a pendant, but I swatted it away, roughly and difficulty so with Creeping Demise.

The sword grip dug into my palms and blood splattered out of them, the shockwave was enough to send my entire body into a shivering vibrating shock.

The weight of that simple looking blow felt like I was struck by the base of a mountain. And this was just one percent.

"You'll break your sword if you try that again," the Dusking Sun said.

I knew that, and he was right, the sword was already chipped and cracked. Another frontal block will definitely destroy it.

This is just one percent of the Silver Rakshasa's power when it has its Qi. The Bastion was severely limiting their ability, completely sealing them and stopping them from showcasing a fraction of their true might.

No wonder they devastated an entire planet.

I needed to switch my strategy, going into a frontal combat mode against this creature will humble me real quick.

The Rakshasa was not going to give up the moment it bought itself, as it crossed both claws forward and swung at me in an X-like move. Blocking would mean instant death. And dodging back will have me suffer through the following wind blades.

An idea popped into my head and I took a forceful step, pushing myself back from the claws.

Without missing a beat, I gripped my fist and instantly used the Heaven Swapping Ring's ability changing my and the Silver Rakshasa's position where he was now the one about to receive his own claws.

The Silver Rakshasa was struck and blown away by his own wind blades.

I took a deep breath and noticed the disappointed look on the Dusking Sun.

"I know, it is cheating, but I really didn't know what to do then," I said.

"You shouldn't keep relying on your tools to save you. Use them only in desperate situations. Though it was a decent application and use, now it learned that you can do that so it will be more tame with its abilities. Shen Bao, try and limit your use of your tools. To gain experience fighting beasts you must always think like a beast," he said.

"How can I do that?" I asked.

"Didn't the Blue Sun teach you how to use the Primordial Serpent God's eyes? Use those, they are now a part of you. Watch how it breathes, its muscles, and how they move. If you always play on the defensive you will sooner or later be exhausted, you must take initiative in fights. Flow, beat, and tempo.

A fight of beasts is like a play with different elements together that end up harmonizing into a tune. You must find your tune and then play it until one of you loses."