Fox Demon: This is the Guardian Blade

After the man left, Fanyin looked around the store curiously.

Most of the shops are dark brown wooden buildings and the decoration is also very good.

The entire store has two floors. The lower floor is used for business, and the upper floor has two rooms for rest. The middle one also serves as a living room where you can eat.

Overall, the store space is good. After all, Chen Gou chose from many stores before he found one that satisfied him.

"You might have to live in Floating Cloud City for a long time. Fanyin, go upstairs and choose a room for yourself."

Chen Gou came to the waist-high counter, stretched out his hand and gently stroked the dark brown wooden counter along the carved patterns on it, while speaking to Fanyin.

"Ah? Can Fanyin live alone? Master, do you no longer want Fanyin's service?"

When Fanyin heard Chen Gou's words, she was slightly startled at first, and then panicked, thinking that Lord Chen was unwilling to let her stay by his side.

"Serve me! I'm not disabled. I'll call you when I need you. Go ahead!"

A dark line appeared on Chen Gou's face, and he turned around and hit Fanyin's head with a smack.

Boom~!

The sound was crisp, but also very painful. Fanyin covered his forehead miserably in pain and squatted down unconsciously.

If Fanyin looked in the bronze mirror at this time, he would find a gray handprint on his forehead. This was Chen Gou's masterpiece.

After a long while, he finally ran upstairs as if escaping.

At this time, Fanyin had taken off the hat. She only wore it when she went out, and also when there were other people around besides Chen Gou.

After seeing Fanyin go upstairs, Chen Gou also patted the dust on his fingers with his other hand. Feeling that something was wrong, he patted the side of his leg again before he was satisfied.

Looking at the dusty furniture in the room, I was thinking about asking Fanyin to clean it up, but thinking about the workload...it shouldn't be too exhausting, right?

Um…….

Chen Gou pondered for a moment, and suddenly thought that since it was dust, could he use the Sand Control Technique to gather the dust and clean it up?

I think it's possible! I just learned the Sand Control Technique from Fanyin and haven't used it yet, but controlling tiny dust particles should be possible, right?

[Founder: Chen Gou

Lifespan: 25/52 (Varies depending on the person, perhaps the protagonist didn't take care of their health before!)

Spiritual roots: Five spiritual roots.

Cultivation: Qi Refining Level 1

Existing functions: exploration, analysis, fantasy creation (main), calculation, conversion.

Available Energy: 431 (Levels: White, Green, Blue, Purple, Orange, Red, Black)

Creations: Breath Control (White) (Proficient), Fireball (Proficient) (Beginner), Sand Control (White) (Beginner), Shadow Step (White) (Beginner), Longevity Technique (Green) (Proficient)]

Talisman progress: 10.2%

Alchemy progress: 0%

Reaching out his hand towards the counter, Chen Gou tried to circulate the spiritual power in his body according to the method of controlling sand.

As Chen Gou's spiritual power was running, the dust on the counter suddenly vibrated slightly, and then the layer of dust on the counter slowly floated up.

A layer of light brown gauze was formed in the air, which was visible to the naked eye, but it seemed a little inflexible.

When Chen Gou saw this, he had an idea, and the layer of "gauze" slowly flew towards Chen Gou's palm, and soon gathered into a sand ball slightly smaller than a ping-pong ball in Chen Gou's palm.

Then Chen Gou did not stop his movements, and once again attracted the dust in the surrounding room to gather towards the sand ball above his palm.

While using the sand control technique, Chen Gou walked towards the backyard.

The Sand Control Technique was not an extremely difficult spell. Chen Gou only tried it a few times before he found the trick. His technique and control were also improving rapidly.

It seems that it can transform sand into other forms?

As he became more proficient in the sand-controlling technique, visible sand and dust continued to flow from all over the room and even from the cracks, turning into streams of brown sand mist and merging into the sand ball controlled by Chen Gou.

And with every step Chen Gou took, the sand ball in his hand grew bigger, until it reached the backyard.

The sand ball in Chen Gou's hand was two meters in diameter, with countless fine sands slowly flying around in it and forming the shape of a ball.

This is the dust collected from the entire store. It looks large, but actually there is not much.

As Chen Gou lightly clenched his palm in the air, the sand ball with a diameter of two meters gradually shrank and solidified at a slow speed.

Finally, the sand ball floating in Chen Gou's hand became noticeably more solid, and its diameter also changed from two meters to the size of a basketball.

It was easy to control. Then Chen Gou looked around and found that the backyard was unexpectedly large.

The height of the wall seemed to be more than two meters, so no one would see what he did in the backyard. Chen Gou had also seen that the people living around were mostly ordinary businessmen.

Even if he had cultivation, his level would not be that high, and he would not have discovered Chen Gou's cultivation.

Putting his two fingers together and making a sword-pointing gesture, Chen Gou aimed his gaze at the thickest old tree in the courtyard.

The moment Chen Gou made the seal, the suspended sand balls began to move, and scattered around Chen Gou and turned into five arrows made of sand.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Bang!

With a thought, five sand arrows flew out like wild horses, attacking the tree trunk as thick as a basin at an extremely fast speed.

There were a few bangs, and several sand arrows hit different positions on the tree trunk.

Five fist-sized craters of varying depths appeared. The sand arrows could not withstand the impact and dissipated, turning back into sand and dust and flowing out of the pits in the tree trunk.

Chen Gou frowned slightly, as if the effect was not very ideal. When he got closer and took a look, he stretched out his hand and brushed across several pits of varying depths on the tree trunk, then touched his chin and thought.

"The speed feels decent, but it needs to be improved. The Sand Control Technique currently has an optimal control range of approximately fifty meters. Beyond this range, the control and cohesion of the sand will rapidly diminish, resulting in insufficient destructive power. Cohesion must also be strengthened to allow for the ability to kill enemies at will."

Thinking of this, Chen Gou's understanding of the Sand Control Technique improved rapidly, and he had more ideas to expand the use of the Sand Control Technique.

"Master Chen, Fanyin has already selected the rooms! Fanyin has also arranged your room for you."

At this time, Fanyin suddenly stood on a chair and leaned against the wooden window on the second floor. She poked her little head out and shouted to Chen Gou who was still thinking in the backyard.

"Got it... Could you please clean up the shop? I'll be there soon."

Chen Gou turned his head and listened to Fanyin's voice and nodded slightly. Then he used his spiritual power to amplify his voice and spoke to Fanyin.

"Okay! Fanyin will be there right away!"

After receiving Chen Gou's instructions, Fanyin smiled and nodded in response, saying that she somewhat liked the feeling of being reused, which made her feel more at ease.

Just as Fanyin jumped off the chair and left the window, the dust at Chen Gou's feet turned into a cloud of sand smoke and condensed behind him in just one or two seconds.

The sand and dust condensed into the shape of the previous sand arrow, and shot towards the tree trunk behind with faster speed and power than before.

With a loud bang, a hole the size of a bowl appeared on the tree trunk. The sand arrow was as powerful as ever, and just when it was about to hit the wall, it suddenly turned into a pile of useless sand and dust and fell into the corner of the wall.

All this happened in an instant. Chen Gou silently retracted his sword and left with his hands behind his back in satisfaction.

Unpredictable and move as your heart desires.

Sand Control Technique (White) [Beginner → Proficient].