Chapter 1: The Path of the Demon Lord, Beginning
It is endless, like mountains and rocks, like white bones, piled up into islands, and there are black and red rivers tumbling and surging in the gaps.
There are a thousand forms of poplar ghost locust trees, they twist and grow, under the reflection of this dim world and the gravel of the bone river, like a demon waiting for the flesh and blood of the living, just looking at it, people feel a cold feeling from the bottom of their hearts.
"Ah...... Where am I?"
"Granny Hades...... The crazy woman. This is a top-level martial arts boxing book, say no, don't want it, madman, madman!" scolded a few words in a low voice, Shi Yinghu patted his head to make himself sober, and then took the stiff book boxing book in his hand into his arms.
In this process, Shi Yinghu found that the sword wound on his chest had been bandaged and treated, and the wound had a cool feeling, and it was obvious that he had been dressed with good healing medicine.
"That little girl did it, right?But where am I now?" Standing up, stretching his body and muscles, Shi Yinghu glanced at it and knew that the place he was in was not a good place, but there was nothing to complain about.
Among the rocks in all directions, there are faint red veins and faint blue ghost fires floating and shining.
After Shi Yinghu was sure that his state was acceptable, he began to observe and explore this place, and in the distance, there were roars, screams, and roars from time to time, all of which were extremely poignant and terrifying, and the sinister was infinite.
Looking at the surrounding environment and the surging crimson river between the bones and stones, Shi Yinghu had an inexplicable thought in his heart: I shouldn't have hung up, this is hell, right?
"My life was short, but my hands were bloody, and if I fell into hell after death, I would have nothing to complain about. With a slight clenching of his fists, the bone joints crackled, and the fiery true qi and dark energy flowed, reminding Shi Yinghu of the fact that he was still alive.
While walking, but unable to determine whether he should shout in this strange environment, Shi Yinghu tried to open the Shenwu system in order to find something to do for himself, and the Shenwu system should be opened, which made Shi Yinghu subconsciously breathe a sigh of relief.
"No matter where you go, you will always be with me. ”
However, as soon as this happiness rose from his heart, a message popped up in the Shenwu system:
"Detect that the host is in the energy radiation area, and start a large chain of missions, which is currently the initial first step: Choice, the path of the Demon Lord. ”
"Task Reward: Known Martial Arts Direct Selection Permission:
1. Three Emperors Cannon Hammer
2. Tianshan folds plum hands
3. Qingcheng is brave and hard
4. Huashan broken jade fist
5. Iron sand palm
6. The white ape has a back fist
7. Eighteen axes are intertwined
8. Eight steps to catch cicadas
9. Huashan swordsmanship
10. Draw the pith palm
11. Actual combat Tai Chi
12. Quanzhen teaches the primary internal strength of the mind
13. Wudang School's primary internal strength method
14. Bagua knife method
15. Horizontal iron cloth shirt
Note: Your direct selection will cause changes in the future course of the large chain of missions, and you can consume 1000 Source Energy Points to get more relevant information. ”
"Hey, I haven't done anything yet, why did I get into the path of the Demon Lord?"
The Shenwu system is a stress carrier, and it does not have any self-intelligence, so Shi Yinghu's question cannot be answered at all.
And the system source energy on Shi Yinghu's body is only 5216 points in total, which is brushed out of the zombies when he was in the death town, followed by several martial arts competitions in succession, and there is not much time for cultivation, so the source energy is relatively large.
Anyway, I didn't have a clue for the time being, so I shut down the system.
Walking like this, finally, Shi Yinghu came to a larger and wider river, looking down from a high place, Shi Yinghu saw a gray-robed man crouching by the river to deal with something.
"I've finally seen people. Muttering to himself, he hurried over, but the closer he got to Shi Yinghu's pace, the slower it became.
A humanoid, furry creature with the head of a beast, was slicing a naked corpse with a stone knife by the river, and it was biting and devouring as it went: yellow skin, white fat, red flesh.
"Vomiting ......" faintly felt nauseous and nauseous, Shi Yinghu somewhat understood why the Shenwu system would open a series of tasks for himself on the "Demon King's Road" at this moment, in such a world, in such an environment, want to be a good person?
A good person needs quite high material conditions to be successful. Ru Mao drinks blood, and it is difficult to be a person.
Because fear was mixed with disgust, and the footsteps were heavy, the furry beast-headed monster found Shi Yinghu, it clenched the stone knife and suddenly raised its head, it was originally a protective posture mixed with fear, but when he saw the white and tender Shi Yinghu and the fear on his face, the fear of the beast-headed monster suddenly turned into endless ferocity!
The donkey is poor, but if the donkey doesn't show enough momentum at the beginning, I'm afraid it will be eaten by the tiger on the first day.
"Roar!"
With a beast-like roar, the beast-headed monster rushed towards Shi Yinghu, it was difficult to tell whether it was a human or a beast, the hair was not repaired, but the movements of the hands and feet were all human, and there were obvious traces of martial arts on the body.
But if it's a person, what was he just doing?
"If your courage is weak, your martial arts will be half ruined, whew. Adjust his mind and exhale gently, but at the same time, Shi Yinghu followed his panic and fear just now and retreated with gossip steps, if he encountered a mutant beast eating people, Shi Yinghu would only be angry, but when he just came over, he regarded the other party as a human being, and he was psychologically caught off guard.
The Bagua Xingyi Fist supporting the Bagua Step does not have a true qi operation method, so the utilization rate of true qi is extremely low, although Shi Yinghu has been pondering and studying, but he is limited to the lack of martial arts cultivation knowledge, so the progress has been very slow.
However, it also depends on who you compare with, at least compared with the one in front of you, Shi Yinghu's light skills can be called subtle and mysterious, and the dark energy combined with the Bagua Step itself has the explosive power that is not weaker than that of ordinary second-order martial artists, not to mention the weak bonus effect of health preservation trick qigong.
Between the staggered changes of the figures of the two sides, Shi Yinghu's body shape moved, kicked, kicked and kicked eight steps sideways to avoid retreating, and the distance did not move far, but he successfully avoided the beast-headed man's most powerful ferocious attack, and moved himself to the most difficult place on the outside of the opponent's arm, and he was at the point where he was most likely to exert force.
If you don't understand the Taoist truth of softness and firmness, Shi Yinghu can only calm his mind even if he is afraid, and use his fist and knife to forcibly meet the opponent's offensive, the opponent has a stone knife in his hand, and he has the upper hand in his mental momentum, so that even if Shi Yinghu's martial arts are higher than the other party's, it is also very dangerous in the process of fighting.
It is not impossible to be killed and cut down by the opponent, martial arts are martial arts, on-the-spot play is on-the-spot play, and martial arts rank is the accumulation of true qi and even the long-term embodiment of a person's actual combat strength, not the embodiment of a certain game.
However, after comprehending the Taoist principle of softness and firmness, Shi Yinghu was able to take eight steps back in a row according to his fearful mind, but instead urged the gossip footwork to the extreme that he could currently achieve through his mental fear.
In the eight steps, the mentality was reconciled and rigid, and in the most advantageous position that was most suitable for his own strength, Shi Yinghu slammed the five tiger palm knife and slashed at the opponent.
Just like ordinary people will give birth to shame and shame after fear, Shi Yinghu used this ups and downs and changes in his mental instinct to exert his martial arts power to the most extreme realm that he could exert.
To say slowly, in fact, the change of pounce, dodge, and counterattack was completed in an instant, and the upper part of the elbow joint of the beast-headed man was slashed by Shi Yinghu's hand knife with a double burst of dark energy and true qi, and it broke in an instant.
There will inevitably be a painful process for normal human beings or creatures and arms to be cut off, but Shi Yinghu didn't have the slightest reaction in front of him, and he continued to pounce on Shi Yinghu as soon as he turned around, his right arm was broken, and the stone knife couldn't hold it, but it opened its mouth and bit Shi Yinghu's throat, which was still a killing technique with one hit.
"Demon Gate Martial Arts!?"
With such a thought in his mind, Shi Yinghu retreated quickly with force under his feet, his left hand reached out and grabbed a large handful of the beast-headed man's hair, and dragged him in front of him regardless of the dirtiness along his momentum, and after a few steps, the beast-headed man's center of gravity was completely unbalanced, and Shi Yinghu smashed it on the bone stone rock with his own strength, and blood flowed in an instant.
But even so, the beast-headed man struggled for a while, trying to get up and continue the attack.
"Sure enough, it's the Demon Gate Martial Arts: Pain Shielding. "Shi Yinghu was born in a class, and ordinary hunters and martial artists can see the phenomenon in the clouds, and he can roughly understand what is going on with two glances.
Ordinary hunters and martial artists would only feel that the people in the Demon Gate were really bloodthirsty and crazy, and they were not afraid of death, and even faintly had some fear, but Shi Yinghu had this knowledge, but he knew very well that it was not the case at all.
Demon Gate martial arts like to take shortcuts, taking the Vajra realm as an example, the normal practice method is the sympathy between the true qi and the physical body, after the amount of true qi has accumulated to a considerable extent and is reconciled to a certain extent, the true qi penetrates into the body and is easy to wash the marrow for training, and finally the vajra is not bad, invulnerable.
If you want to achieve this level, the strong third-order cultivation is a foundation, and even if you reach the basic conditions, it will be difficult for the vast majority of people to do it.
And the masters of the Demon Gate, they can do it when they are in the first and second order, they can use various secret methods to cleanse their bodies, and then close the pain nerves: get it, and they have some characteristics of the Vajra Realm in the first and second orders.
There is no pain, of course, when he shoots, he is even more ruthless, even if his martial arts are not as good as others, he is captured, he forcibly breaks his limbs and fights back, and the masters of the Demon Gate have done it, and how many righteous martial artists have been killed in this way.
When Shi Yinghu was in high school, he heard one or two examples of this from the teacher, and he was very impressed, so he quickly recognized it at this moment.
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"I seem to understand, this is the hell of a ghost house...... Three Ways River!"
The realm of life and death, the three-way Styx.
Those who advance live, and those who retreat die.
In the Hell Ghost Mansion, one of the nine realms of demons, the three-way Styx in front of you is the place where newcomers are tested.
"It's hard to get food, and the trialists kill each other and never return, how long can even I hold on to my humanity? "The stomach is rumbling, the martial artist has a wide stomach and eats amazingly, especially Shi Yinghu has gone through a series of battles, and his physical consumption is also huge.
However, there are two lumps of meat at the feet of the side, which is probably the easiest food to obtain in the "Three Ways River". But after looking at it, Shi Yinghu felt that he couldn't get his teeth down for a while.
In the Three Ways River, the trialists fight each other, so they need to maintain enough physical fitness, and if they can't eat meat, where does the physical fitness come from?
Insist on not eating human flesh, and the physical strength will decline and be killed and eaten by other trialists, and once you start eating human flesh, you will have completed the first step of the Hell Ghost Mansion Santuhe Trial.
In the seriously injured beast-headed man, the only thing that has some value is the sharpened stone knife, Shi Yinghu took it and wiped it, and then he pinned the knife to his waist, the beast-headed man did not lose his breath at this time, but he was seriously injured in the environment of Santuhe......
"Grunt, grunt" The belly sounded, Shi Yinghu took a deep breath, ran the health recipe to suppress the hunger, and then continued to move forward.
Either way, find a way out there.
The white bone stone ground, there is no road in the conventional sense, the crimson or black Santu River water will overflow into a torrent from time to time to wash away the bone stone, fortunately, the Styx water here does not seem to have the effect of the legendary rotten soul, there are a lot of floating corpses in it, but there are always no ghosts.
A corpse that had been basically cleaned floated in the river, and when it was hungry, it was possible to taste human flesh and blood when it was picked up.
When Shi Yinghu waded through a black and red river overflowing between two islands, there was an uproar, and more than a dozen activated zombies suddenly gushed out of the water on all sides.
They stared at Shi Yinghu with green eyes, and Shi Yinghu stared at them with the same green eyes, or rather, at the clothes on the body and the package on the back of an animated zombie.
It was not cleaned, which means that there may be food on the body.
"There must be something to eat, there must be something to eat. In fact, Shi Yinghu had been less than twenty-four hours before his last meal, but his eyes were already green with hunger, and his stomach juice was burning in the empty stomach, and if he was really hungry, Shi Yinghu was not sure what he would do.
In fact, Shi Yinghu knew very well in his heart the significance of the Hell Ghost Mansion conducting the Santu River Trial, I am afraid that the entire Santu River and even the middle level of the Ghost Mansion who presided over and controlled the Santu River Trial did not have Shi Yinghu to understand clearly, because they were just mechanically executing the instructions of the Immortal Hades Emperor, and the wisdom contained in it was difficult for them to comprehend, and they didn't seem to need to comprehend.
Santuhe: Cleanse human nature so that it is no longer a human being.