That night when Yao Min hunted with other villagers. Huang Wen was sitting in the half lotus position and tried to focus his mind. He used his sense to seek the demon's location. Suddenly he could sense the demon's eyes on him.
It was almost similar to the feeling when Baihu preyed on him, but this time he didn't feel any threat coming out of it. It felt rather like when the two men were staring at each other, trying to decide whether they should fight or not.
Suddenly he heard a voice inside his mind, 'Human... I'm not looking for an enemy, here in your world. Don't look trouble against me and I won't bother you either.'
Huang Wen's heart pounded harder, mixed between caution and excitement. He was suspecting that when he tried to sense a demon, that said the demon will be able to sense him too. Similar like when Baihu tried to sense his presence. He could feel it too. Which mean using your spiritual sense, was a double edge sword. It helped him to detect others, but it also a beacon for others to detect him.
Huang Wen silently asked, 'Greeting.. How should I call you?'
'Shouldn't you introduce yourself first?', the demon replied.
'Huang Wen.', he answered shortly.
'Hmm... nice to meet you Huang Wen, you can call me Fengsu...', answered the demon.
'This demon seemed different compared to other demons he met before', Huang Wen thought to himself.
'So what do you say? Let's have a truce between us. I don't disturb you and you don't disturb me. Why should we risk our lives for a mere strength? I can assure you, from the way I sense your presence. If we fight then there is a good chance that both of us will be heavily injured.', Fengsu repeated his proposal.
'How do you know how strong I am?', Huang Wen asked.
For a moment, there was silence, after a while the demon answered, 'Hmm... you already know how to sense spiritual presence, how hard it is to measure it then? It only took experience, remember how strong each spiritual presence of the previous spiritual encounter you ever met and fought with. Now use that as a measurement.'
Huang Wen thought for a while and felt like he wanted to slap his own face, of course how hard it should be? A measurement is a measurement. It was nothing but comparing one thing with a certain standard of measurement. He fought against three demons in the past, each had different level of strength, he could use it as the standard.
He quietly focused his mind on his memories, brought up all the memories of his previous encounter. The demon patiently waited for him. Slowly an image, a feeling was formed in Huang Wen's mind. It wasn't accurate since he only had three standards to measure, but this demon was slightly stronger than Baihu. He couldn't tell how his spiritual presence was felt by other, so he couldn't compare his strength to Fengsu, but he wouldn't be able to defeat Baihu without help from Zhang Xuan. After killed Baihu he became stronger, now this Fengsu was slightly stronger than Baihu, it seemed that he didn't lie. If he fought against Fengsu, it would be hard to tell who was going to win, but one thing for sure, whoever win the fight would be heavily injured.
Huang Wen then spoke through his mind, '... the problem is, I need to fight the man who rules this village and I need a way to grow stronger as soon as possible. Killing zombies would waste my time.'
For a long time, there was silence. This time Huang Wen waited patiently for the demon to answer.
'Listen... I know this demon, she's only few levels weaker than me. I believe you could kill her easily and gain a lot of power at the same time.', Fengsu spoke into his mind.
'Really? Than how I can't feel her presence?', Huang Wen asked.
'Because she was far from your position. My position was much closer to her. But she couldn't detect me because my spirit was stronger than her.', said Fengsu.
'She can't sense you? How do you do it?', Huang Wen surprised and asked.
'What are you saying? Isn't that obvious? If one could count up to 10, he will know all number between 1 to 10. But those who only could count up to 6, wouldn't know 7 to 10....', Fengsu asked curiously then paused for a moment.
Huang Wen still tried to decipher its meaning when Fengsu spoke again, 'Human... it seemed you're lacking in knowledge. How about this, you leave me alone and kill that demon instead. It benefits both of us. You still get the power you want so much and I don't need to fight you. As a present, let me tell you the profound way of using your spiritual sense. What do you say about that?'
Huang Wen thought to himself, all this time he was having a hard time to hunt, because zombies and demons was running away from him but if he learned how to hide from those of lower levels while at the same time use his spiritual sense to find them, it will be easier to level up. Nevertheless, to negotiate with a demon, he wondered was it morally right?
'Hmm... why are you telling me to kill your own kind?', Huang Wen asked.
Fengsu answered with a hint of mockery, 'Aren't you trying to get power to kill your own kind? What's so different about it?'
Huang Wen couldn't retort and felt like he wanted to slap his own face for the second time, after quietly swore at himself, he answered, 'Okay, that's a deal. You tell me how to use my spiritual sense and I will leave you alone. But I want to ask you one more thing. Don't prey on the villagers.'
Fengsu asnwered, 'Okay... I won't, there are plenty other ways to be stronger, only lazy demon turn human into zombies. Of course, at first, when we entered this world, we're too weak to do the other method, but now we should be strong enough.'
Huang Wen asked, 'What about this other method?'
Fengsu answered, 'Why should I answer your question. I already agree to teach you the profound way of using your spiritual sense. Aren't you asking too much from this deal? Listen young man, I hate trouble and want to keep the risk as minimum as possible, but if you insist at pushing me into the corner, don't think that I don't have ways to kill you without harming myself.'
Huang Wen realized his mistakes and quickly said, 'You're right, I'm just asking. It's okay if you don't want to answer that. Now tells me about the way to use my spiritual sense and the location of the other demon. I promise I will leave you alone.'
'Good... now listen to me carefully.', Fengsu seemed satisfied and then he began to teach Huang Wen the way to use his spiritual sense.
Huang Wen stayed in his half lotus position until early in the morning, to learn from Fengsu. When they finally finished, it was already morning. He opened his eyes and saw Yao Ming and his wife were waiting for him to have breakfast together. After breakfast, he excused himself and he didn't waste time to practice what he just learned from Fengsu. It took a long time for him to train his mind and learn how to control his spiritual sense and it was almost night when he finished.
"So tonight, you will hunt by yourself?", Yao Ming asked Huang Wen.
Huang Wen nodded his head, "Yes, that's right, now you and your friends, each should find trusted neighbors to hunt together. I, my self, will go quite far, to hunt a demon."
"Demon?", Yao Ming and Chen Xiu Min asked in fear.
"Yes, they're stronger than zombies and gave more experience as a reward.", said Huang Wen.
"Are you going to be okay?", Yao Ming asked.
"Don't worry, I'll be fine. I just want to tell you something. In case I can't return safely. This is the signal to call for my friends outside and the rest of you and your neighbors must do it yourself.", said Huang Wen before he told Yao Ming the secret signal that was prepared to tell Zhang Tian Yi and the rest to execute their plan.
Yao Ming nodded, "Okay... I understand... but young hero, just please be careful. I know it is our responsibility to save our village and you've done much to help us but I'm sure everyone will feel better if you're here with us."
Huang Wen nodded his head, "Of course, I don't want to die as well. I'm leaving now, you two, be careful to okay? Your daughter needs you both."
With that Huang Wen quietly left the house, left the village, through the darkness of the night.
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He was traveling for more than 30 kilometers to reach his destination that night. When he closed to his destination, he stopped to rest. He lost half of his stamina to run at 70% of his maximum speed for 2 hours non stop.
He quietly used his spiritual sense, the way Fengsu taught him, he could feel the presence of his target.
It was as Fengsu told him, he could sense the demon, but the demon couldn't sense his presence. The principle was like he had a radio that could receive a wider range of radio frequency than his target. In order to sense someone without being sensed, first he needed to hide his presence and then use frequency that was beyond his target's range to detect it.
When his stamina fully restored, he quietly sneaked into his target's territory.
He needed to avoid zombies physically, since he didn't want to kill them and as such warned his target of coming danger. It took another 2 hours just to cover few hundreds of kilometers, but it wasn't for nothing. Now he was perched on a tree, right below him, was the demon. Just like Fengsu said, it was a she.
Huang Wen's breath was so gentle that even himself barely noticed it, more over the demon who was 4 meters away from him. Harder than controlling his breath was to control his mind, in order to hide his spiritual presence, but the fight was begun long before he reached this point. It was the most critical moment. He carefully lifted his sword.
One strike, he needed to kill or at least critically injured her in one strike.
He never killed a woman before. Be it demon or human. He killed tens of female zombies back then, but this female demon's appearance were much closer to the human rather than a zombie.
One moment of hesitation, just a split of seconds, but it was enough to warn the demon. She lifted her head, her eyes filled with terror.
Huang Wen cursed himself angrily and let out his frustration while he jumped to kill her, "DIE!!!"
His body and his sword, both became one existent within his mind, moved as one unit. If only he managed to hide his presence until the last minute, it would definitely kill the demon, but he didn't. The demon screamed in anger, while used her strength to throw her body out of the way of the sword.
She was quick, but not quick enough. A long gash was engraved on her left leg. Ran through from her hips down to her knee.
How could Huang Wen failed to learn from his mistake, he gritted his teeth and suppressed the pity he felt toward her. As soon as his leg absorbed the momentum, he lifted his sword with its sharp point directed at her. He was ready to leap when suddenly his eyes met hers and his mind reeled with the shock. She looked so alluring, her body lay powerless, her eyes shone with fear and her face filled with desperation.
"Please don't kill me...", she said.
When he heard her voice, it felt like his soul was torn apart by the sadness within that voice.
He stood there like a statue. Suddenly he felt his hand lost its strength and it took all his will just to keep it in his hand.
She tried to get up and grimaced in pain. Her eyes stared at Huang Wen, begging for mercy. She was the most beautiful woman he ever saw and the most pitiful as well. His heart filled with compassion, he regretted his hasty decision, why did he listen to Fengsu? He never asked whether she deserved death or not. The more he looked at her, the more he believed that she would never hurt anyone.
She staggered and almost fell. Instinctively Huang Wen released his sword as his body shot forward to catch her body.
"Are you okay?", he carried her on his arm and asked gently.
"Th... thanks...", she answered, her voice was soft, as soft as her body.
"Wh.. who ... are you? Why...", she asked in fear.
"Huang Wen, my name is Huang Wen, sorry I made a mistake, I should never harm you. Don't be afraid, I won't harm you. I promise, okay.", he tried to comfort her.
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"You won't? You promise you won't hurt me?", she asked innocently and her voice now carried warmth, as warm as her body.
"Yes, I promise you.", Huang Wen answered without hesitation.
"Oh... thank you... thank you... I know you're a good person.", said the demon as she threw herself to hug him.
Huang Wen found how soft and thin was the fabric of her clothes, the moment she hugged him, he could feel all the curved in her body, the soft bulging breast, her nipples, everything. He closed his eyes, struggling to focus his mind and control it, but the demon seemed unaware of his situation, she hugged him tight and rested her head on his shoulder. His nose could smell the flower like the smell of her hair. Her cheek, so soft and smooth, touched and rubbed his cheek and her body pressed hard on him.
He couldn't control himself, as his lower part grew harder and bigger.
"Aww... what's this?", she asked in shocked and innocently.
"Uh... no... this... sorry... we shouldn't be so close like this... I... I... it was nothing, sorry...", Huang Wen was blushing and tried to comfort her nervously.
It seemed in his mind, she was the purest, innocent soul and should be protected from any evil in the world.
"Why are you blushing? And what is this? Why your body changed?", she asked, her face showed no trickery or mockery, but pure curiosity.
Still innocently her hand gently touched and traced the bulging part of his, showing nothing but pure interest.
"Its... so big... and hard... look... it's trembling when I touch it.", she said and then giggled.
To Huang Wen's panic, she seemed enjoying more and more as that part of his body, reacted to her stimulation. As the result, her hand didn't stop just by touching it, she began to gently squeeze and caressed it.
"Please stop... Don't do that.", Huang Wen tried to stop her.
"Oh... sorry... Does it hurt?", she asked with doe eye, as if she afraid that she hurt him or anything.
"No... not like that...You didn't hurt me at all...", Huang Wen couldn't lie.
"Oh so why should I stop? Don't you like it when I stroke it like this? But its look so cute.", and she deliberately kissed it.
Huang Wen felt like all his strength was flowing out of his body. He could only watch as the demon deliberately played with his body. He washed by sensation over sensation. His mind no longer worked clearly. Otherwise it would be easy for him to see that she was toying with him. He was almost under her total control but she kept her acted innocently as she pulled his pants down, took off her clothes and many other thing that he didn't know anymore since he closed his eyes as soon as she pulled her clothes up.
Before he knew it, he already lay on the grass, with her on top of him. When he opened his eyes, he saw her face so close to his. His mind cleared a bit since she stopped doing anything for quite some time.
"Ung... why are you sleeping here?", she asked with her doe eyes, while lay upon his body without care for the world.
"What... what are you doing?", Huang Wen asked.
She was blushing and coyly said, "It felt good... I did this and it felt good..."
And then she showed him what she did. She pressed her bared private part on him and moved her hips rhythmically. Huang Wen grunted and flipped her down. Deep within his mind, he could see the malicious intent within her eyes, but his body already moved on its own.
She no longer kept all her pretense, she laughed maniacally, her eyes filled with sinister lust, "My foolish... hero... how strong you are... yes... yes... deeper... harder... let..."
But suddenly her expression changed, her eyes now showed fear, "How... how could it be... you... what are you doing? What have you done?"
Deep within his mind, within the sea of his soul, Huang Wen could feel the presence of the second demon, laughing maniacally, 'That's my boy...! That's my boy!'
His body no longer his, he retained all of his senses but he could only observe what he did. He could only watch his body did her, felt his body began to absorb her in a way he never imagined before. As her soul was absorbed, he could hear her scream and the perverted demon's laugh.
"No.....!", she screamed in fear.
"Yes..! Yes..! My dear ! Ha ha ha ha ha.... you think, you're so clever aren't you?", the perverted demon's laugh reverberated inside his head, while burst of pleasure sensation flooded his body and at the same time his heart cringed in fear.
"Ding! You got 419 points of experience."
"Congratulation, you reach level 20. You have 2 points to spend on your stat."
"You have 1 skill point to improve the mastery of one of your skills."
"Congratulation, you reach level 21. You have 2 points to spend on your stat."
He lay on the damp grass for an hour, when he began to gain control over his body again, he quickly got up and dressed. His mind and heart, conflicted with mixed feeling. Suddenly he bent over and threw up. He felt so dirty and he spontaneously throwing all things inside his stomach as if it would clear it out of his body.
He held his body with trembling hand and feet.
"CURSE YOU!! STOP HIDING YOU BASTARD! SHOW YOURSELF!!!", he angrily shouted to the demon that now he was sure, resided in his body.
Nothing happened, he shouted and cursed, but everything was quiet. He couldn't feel any alien presence within his mind, nor his body, nor his soul. He was so frustrated and ready to bang his head on the nearest tree when suddenly he heard a voice.
"Hey Kiddo!!"
Huang Wen was startled and he focused his mind on this presence, "Who are you? Are you possessing me?"
"This is Baihu and I'm not the one who was possessing you just then.", that presence answered.
Faintly Huang Wen could feel Baihu's presence, "So its true... you.. and him... you are living inside me?"
"Yes... kind of... but we shouldn't be able to possess you. We're nothing but weak existence within you. I plan to stay quiet until I'm strong enough to take over your body or at least to free myself from your body. But that idiot, just too weak-willed and couldn't control himself every time your sexual desire stirred.", said Baihu.
"And why do you call me idiot? If I don't act just now, he would be died, sucked dry by that bitch, okay? Or would you like to be weaker than now inside her?", suddenly a second presence was felt within him.
"You..!!!", Huang Wen focused intently on this presence.
"What? What? You want to kill me? Kill me then? You ungrateful bastard. Or do you still think she was pure and innocent, your angelic bitch!", the demon retorted.
"I... I... you... you don't have the right to possess my body!", Huang Wen angrily shouted.
"Oh hoho , sorry I thought you're angry because I killed that bitch. So you're angry because you want to fully control your body when we raped her.. Ah... my fault... its truly my fault... I should know. I shouldn't do that. How could I know? Maybe you want to do her from behind, maybe you want to work on her a**, or you want her to lick your d***? Yeah... you're right, I should let you do all you want to do with her before I suck her dry.", the perverted demon mocked him.
"Save your strength kid... there is nothing you can do against him. Besides he did save your life back then.", suddenly Baihu spoke.
Huang Wen closed his eyes, drew a deep breath and calmed his mind.
"If you don't have the strength to possess me, then how did he possessed me just then.", he decided to ignore the perverted demon and asked to Baihu.
"Simple, you fell under her spell. You already lost control over your mind. That was why he easily possessed you. She wasn't aware of his presence and you were not in control. As long as you are in control, we won't be able to possess you. We just lived in you but have no control over you.", said Baihu calmly.
Huang Wen felt better now. He could think calmly and had to admit that indeed the perverted demon saved him back then. He still hated it, but he no longer paralyzed by the fear of losing himself.
"What happened to her? That demon. Is she there with you two?", he asked.
"I ate her. End of her story. Quite tasteful too, heh heh heh.", said the perverted demon.
Huang Wen frowned and asked Baihu, "Doesn't it means you could eat that perverted demon too?"
Baihu asked, "Oh you mean this Youshe? Well, I could but I don't think I want to do that... he stink."
The perverted demon, who apparently named Youshe, hastily spoke, "Wait, wait, wait, you ungrateful bastard. I just save your life and you want to kill me?"
"You tried to possess me many times. Don't think I don't remember when ...", he couldn't continue as he remembered how he almost raped Zhang Xuan.
"Wait a minute... I just stirred things a bit. Don't blame me if you want her yourself. Are you trying to blame me for your own lust? What a hypocrite!", Youshe retorted angrily.
"Hmm... was it me?... Why should I care? Perhaps its me, but you already admitted that you're the one who stirred that desire in me. Baihu, would you eat him?", Huang Wen coldly spoke.
"Wait... wait...", now Youshe wasn't as arrogant as before.
"Wait.. look master... yes... good master.. why don't you let me live here, okay? I promise I would never try to possess you anymore. Look I lived for two hundred and sixteen years, I had vast knowledge, skills and spells. I could teach you all that. Not only that, just look at what happened today. I could save your life in times of danger.", Youshe changed his tone.
Huang Wen's heart was moved when he heard skills and spells, he carefully asked, "Baihu is that right?"
"Well. Most of us lived for hundred years and of course we knew a bit of this and that.", Baihu answered.
"Can't I learn it from you?", Huang Wen asked.
"No you can't.", Youshe interrupted.
"I know things he didn't know, even if he lived longer than me. He took the path of the warrior class. How could he know the skills and spells of an enchanter?", Youshe quickly explained.
"Is that true?", apparently Huang Wen trusted Baihu more than he trusted Youshe.
"Its true.", said Baihu shortly.
Huang Wen thought to himself silently, 'Hmm... I don't think I could make Baihu eat that bastard. Until I have a way to get rid them, off my body, there is nothing I can do. Better I pretend to show him some mercy.'
"Okay... I forgive you for now... you did save my life back then. I should thank you instead but don't ever try to possess me again. You got it?", he spoke to Youshe.
"Of course master... I will faithfully serve you from now on..", Youshe answered politely.
Huang Wen sighed bitterly, how could he trust him? But since there was nothing he could do for now, he decided to forget about it for now. Now he needed to distribute 4 points. He spent it all on his spirit. Last but not least, he needed to choose which skill he wanted to improve.
"1 skill point. Improves Bloodlust.", he said without any hesitation.
"Bloodlust Level 2. With improved mastery over the passive skill Bloodlust, the spirit point consumed to control Bloodlust and avoid Berseker state is greatly reduced."
Huang Wen sighed, "Okay, current stat."
"Huang Wen: Male"
"Level: 21 (93/348)"
"Class: None"
"Title: None"
"Strength: 10 (10)
Agility: 30 (30)
Vitality: 12(12)
Stamina: 3/15 (15)
Spirit: 1/23 (23)
Health: 9/11 (11)"
"Active Skills : Fireball lvl. 2."
"Passive Skills : 3rd eyes lvl. 1, Bloodlust lvl. 2, Martial Art (Style : Xing Yi Quan) lvl. 1."
"Equipment : Baihu's Bastard Sword, Generic boot (Agility +1)."