For the next few days, Huang Wen kept wondering what he had to do. The more he thought about it, the more they became a burden rather than helpful. How could he keep his family from Zhang Hu's reach with 30 of Zhang Hu's men following him wherever he went? He didn't show any changes to his 30 men though.

Every night he would be troubled by this problem. Part of him began to question Zhang Hu's intention, but another part of him reproached him for questioning Zhang Hu's good intention.

"He didn't do anything wrong. I'm just scared by my own thoughts. There will be no end of this if I started to doubt other people's intention. He sent 30 men to follow under my command and I'm thinking, is he tries to put a shackle on me? But say, he sent me alone, if I doubt his sincerity, then I'll think since he already has Nanping, he doesn't care about me anymore.", Huang Wen analyzed his worries.

"It would be unfair for Uncle Zhang, since whatever he does, I would suspect him.", Huang Wen concluded.

"I might convict a good man out of my paranoia. Doesn't mean that my fear is not possible to happen, but it is baseless. I don't have enough proof or reason to believe it is what happen here. So I shouldn't think of this 30 men as shackles, but just like the first time I heard about them, I will be better if I see them as an opportunity to learn more about being a leader."

He took a deep breath, now that he finally reached this conclusion he felt a bit better, "... but still there is one problem. It is also a fact that once my family lives in Nanping. Uncle Zhang Hu will have a greater hold on me."

"It might be fine as long as there is no conflict between us, but it will put me in a weaker position if we happen to be on different opinion in the future. What should I do then?", Huang Wen scratched his chin.

"Ah ... I wish I could talk to my father about this.", Huang Wen sighed.

"I'm wasting time by worrying this. I didn't properly meditate in the past few days.", Huang Wen shook his head bitterly.

He couldn't think any solution for now. He decided that he better spent the time to do things he could do for now. He took the half lotus position and closed his eyes. Slowly he breathed and observed. Since he didn't have any techniques to cultivate, he spent time in observing the nature of the force itself. As his spirit stat was improving, he began to notice how the force work. Be it when he killed a zombie or demon and absorbed their soul essence. Or when he formed the fireball out of nothing.

The similar essence that was absorbed when he killed zombie and demon, that was the essence, he was trying to extract from the nature. Through similar extraction process he used with fireball skill.

The problem was that he had little idea of the nature of soul essence that gave him an experience point. Killing zombies gave him one point of experience, he absorbed it so fast that he didn't have a proper chance to observe it.

If he had this idea when he killed Baihu, he might have enough time to observe and analyze it. Unfortunately, with two demon lords appeared in Changsha and Fuzhou. It wasn't easy to find mid level demon like Baihu. Most of them decided to join either Wang Yuxue or Wang Yuehei. Both with similar rule in distributing zombies, gave an advantage for the mid level demon over low level demon to grow stronger. Suddenly Huang Wen felt a spiritual being, trying to sense his location.

He was alerted.

'Who are you?', he coldly sent the question.

'Ah, it's me. Fengsu, long time no see young hero. I've heard of your action in Nan An.', said that spiritual being.

'Ah, it;s you.', now Huang Wen remember the sense of this demon, it was indeed Fengsu, the demon who used to live nearby Yuan Ge Village.

 'Yes, it's me. By the way, I have a proposal for you.' , said Fengsu.

'And what's that? I won't do anything that will harm other human being.', Huang Wen replied.

 'No, no, of course you won't. In fact, I'm asking you to work together, to help your own people. In exchange I will teach you several techniques that could help you to achieve that.', said Fengsu.

  'That doesn't make any sense. Until you can convince me that you're telling me the truth, I'm not going to cooperate with you.", replied Huang Wen coldly.

'I'll tell you the truth. I'm working for Lord Wang Yuxue and he wanted me to help you to ruin Lord Wang Yuehei's plan to conquer everything from Fuzhou to the east within three years.', said Fengsu.

'Who is this Lord Wang Yuxue and Wang Yuehei?', Huang Wen asked.

He had some guesses, but he wanted Fengsu to confirm it.

'Lord Wang Yuxue, is the demon lord who rules from Changsha. Lord Wang Yuehei is the demon lord who invades your city, Fuzhou.', answered Fengsu, confirmed Huang Wen's suspicion.

'Why would Lord Wang Yuxue ordered you something like that?', asked Huan Wen.

'I don't know the detail, but a few days ago Lord Wang Yuehei came to Changsha and broke into Lord Wang Yxue's office. He must have offended him by then. It is known that Lord Wang Yuxue's is arrogant, even among other demon lords.', Fengsu answered.

Huang Wen silently thought about it.

'So what do you say?', Fengsu asked.

'But I'm going to be your lord's enemy later. Why should I help him now?', Huang Wen asked in turn.

'Do you have a better option? If you want to have any chance at defeating a demon lord, then you should cooperate with me. I can help you grow stronger. I won't be able to make you stronger than a demon lord. But at least you will be strong enough to disturb his plan.', said Fengsu.

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'So you will help me to be strong enough to prevent the demon lord in Fuzhou to conquer the land in three years, but I won't be strong enough to defeat him. At the end, most likely, he will still conquer the land.', said Huang Wen.

'Heheheh, well, if you want to put it that way. But do you think you have a better option at this moment?', said Fengsu.

'Our leader Master Zhang Hu, has the backup of the fairies tribe. Even the grand elder of fairies tribe, imparts some of his knowledge for him.', said Huang Wen.

'The grand elder of fairies tribe is nothing in the face of our demon lords. Well, you might learn a thing or two from the fairies, but won't you become much stronger if you learn both from me and from the fairies as well? You might even have the advantage over this Master Zhang Hu.', said Fengsu.

'Hmm... so you will teach me techniques and in exchange, you want me to ruin Lord Wang Yuehei's plan?', Huang Wen asked.

'Yes, you see, you lose nothing in this exchange.', said Fengsu.

 'I'm going to fight against this demon lord anyway. So you can teach me anything you want to, I don't see any problem with that.', Huang Wen finally decided.

'Good, like I said, you lose nothing from this deal. I only need your trust.', said Fengsu.

'Alright, listen I have a problem, let's see if you can help me to solve it.', said Huang Wen.

'Let me hear it.', said Fengsu.

'You knew it already, that I absorbed two demons in the past and now they lived in me.', said Huang Wen.

'Oh..., so you have the ability to detect them in your soul realm?', Fengsu seemed surprised.

Huang Wen secretly cursed.

 He thought to himself, 'So you know about it all this time and you said nothing about it? Well, you have no reason to tell me about it in the first place. You're not my friend and I'm not yours. Thanks, for reminding me of this fact.'

'No, I couldn't sense him, but he accidentally showed his existence.', Huang Wen replied to Fengsu.

'Ah..., really? That demon lack of self control, couldn't be a mid level demon. But since he's strong enough to retain some of his consciousness he's not a low level demon as well. My guess, he is a low level demon at its peak or a low level demon who just broke through into a mid level.', said Fengsu analyzing it.

'Maybe, anyway, can you teach me a way to fully absorb this demon our of my soul realm. I find it disturbing to have him live inside me.', said Huang Wen.

'Oh... that would be easy, but once you learn how to fully absorb him, why don't you use this technique to extort him to teach you a thing or two? You can even use him as your servant, once he is strong enough to leave your soul realm.', said Fengsu.

'Won't he betrays me? When he grows strong, what if he possesses me instead?', Huang Wen asked.

'As long as you're stronger than he, he won't be able to possess you. Once I taught you how to confine him, within your soul realm. Which is the first step. If you want to fully absorb him. Then you can check his strength from time to time. When he grows too strong, absorb some of his power, that way you can keep him weaker than you and prevent him from possessing you.', said Fengsu, feeling satisfied with his answer.

'So there is a way like that. Is it hard to do that?', Huang Wen asked.

'It's depend on your talent in controlling your soul realm. The theory is simple and in general it won't be extremely complicated. I could tell you how to do it now. The problem would be how to apply it. That demon won't quietly let you confine him. He will try to run away. He will struggle. It's the fight of will.', said Fengsu.

Huang Wen delighted to hear that. It was one of his troubles. If Fengsu could teach him how to deal with Baihu and Youshe, who currently lived in him. It would reduce much of his stress. It was even better if he could force them to work for him.

'Alright, tell me now. I'll learn more techniques from you once I'm succeeding in confining him.', Huang Wen told Fengsu.

Fengsu began to tell him, how he could detect the demon's existence within his soul realm. First he needed to familiarize himself with his own soul realm. Since it was his own, he should be able to tell. Once he was familiarized with his own soul realm, he would be able to detect the demon's existence within his soul realm. Since they're not part of his soul realm, no matter how hard they tried to blend in, as long as he diligently look for them, he would be able to find them.

Once he could sense and locate their existence within his soul realm, then he could use the technique that was taught by Fengsu to confine them.

It was a restricting formation.

Once he succeeded in confining them within the formation, he would be able to absorb their strength as much as he wanted to. He could absorb them to nothingness. Or as Fengsu suggested, absorbed them just enough to make sure they wouldn't grow too strong to possess him.

If he wanted to be able to send them for a mission, then Huang Wen must improve his spiritual strength so much that even when the demon was strong enough to leave his soul realm, he could still able to control them, once they entered his soul realm again.

Next : Chapter 61.