Chapter 24: Ease
The night in the jungle is always extraordinarily quiet, and when night falls, darkness envelops the dense and deep green sea, leaving only one or two colored rays of light that penetrate through the layers of trees, adding to the mystery and charm.
It's been ten days since the battle that shook almost the entire jungle.
For the rest of life in the jungle, wherever this battle is covered, the animals and plants will usher in a catastrophe.
Vast tracts of dense jungle disappeared in the war, and most of the animals that lived in it were killed. They either become food for the few survivors or are buried in the soil, where they become nutrients for the fertile soil, and new vegetation grows at a rapid rate to fill the void in the jungle.
In the distance, in a jungle that had not yet reached the Behemoth Battlefield, a bonfire appeared.
A huge rat struck a strange pose next to the campfire, sitting cross-legged on the ground like a human, its slender tail slightly cocked, and swooping down with the shaking flames.
Ten days ago, Ning Hao escaped from the battlefield, and because he was afraid of being affected, he ran for a long distance before stopping.
As he left the battlefield far away, the coercion from the giant beast gradually disappeared, and Ning Hao finally relaxed, and seemed to be able to choose a place to rest for a while.
A crackling explosion came from the flames, and Ning Hao let out a long breath and stopped the operation of the exercises.
These days, Ning Hao has devoted almost all of his time to cultivation. At the beginning, it can be said that the progress was very fast, and three major acupuncture points were broken in one day, and the progress gradually became slow starting from the fifth acupoint.
It took Ning Hao half a day to break through the fifth acupoint, it took a day to break through the sixth acupoint, and it took two full days to break through the seventh acupoint. According to this progress, before his cultivation reached a high level, Ning Hao had already turned into flower fertilizer and died of old age in the jungle.
At this moment, the seven big acupoints are neatly arranged in Ning Hao's body, if you can look through the fur, you will find that these seven acupoints are slightly shining in Ning Hao's body, like stars in the sky, suspended in the human universe full of mysteries.
The first part of the Heart Sutra of Impermanence, the impermanence of the physical body.
"The body of impermanence can transform all things in the world, absorb the blood of all living beings, and achieve the impermanence of the physical body, impermanence in the world, destroying the heavens and the earth, the upper can ladder the clouds, and the lower can shrink the earth. At the fingers, the mountain wall cracks, and when the breath is blowing, the stone walks away and the sand flies. Hide and change your appearance, and take ghosts to summon spirits. Wind and clouds and thunderstorms can be used at any time, and water, fire, knives and guns dare not hurt. ”
This seems to be the reason why Ning Hao was able to transform into other forms at will after practicing the exercises.
Interestingly, according to the Heart Sutra, if you want to achieve an "impermanent physical body", you must draw on the blood of all living beings, and you must eat all the living things in the world at once.
Ning Hao hadn't figured out the meaning yet, but now that he had broken through the seven great acupoints, his cultivation speed had slowly slowed down, and if the progress couldn't be raised, Ning Hao really had to think of some way.
Ning Hao tried to transform into his original human body at the beginning, but the naked human body was really not suitable for life in the jungle. Moreover, every time he changed his form, he needed to consume a lot of impermanent power, which made Ning Hao dispel the thought, instead of consuming the impermanent power that had been gathered in his body with great difficulty, it was better to maintain the form of a mouse and work hard to cultivate.
After nearly ten days of cultivation, Ning Hao basically completed the transformation from a jungle novice to a monk who knew how to cultivate.
With continuous cultivation, Ning Hao's body has undergone great changes.
The body in the form of a mouse is already more than a meter tall, and when it lies on the ground, it looks like a calf with tight fur without looking at the tail that is more than three meters long.
With continuous cultivation, Ning Hao's body has to expand every day, and this is not fat, from the head to the body, from the tail to the teeth, the entire body of the mouse is growing in an extremely harmonious state. Maybe one day, Ning Hao will also grow to the level of those giant beasts.
Compared with Ning Hao, those giant beasts did not know the acupuncture points, and they did not have enough wisdom to practice any of the exercises, and when Ning Hao's size grew to the level of those giant beasts, he couldn't imagine what kind of powerful strength it would be.
Ning Hao came to the fire, and he was not afraid of the heat, so he directly stretched out his paws and took out a big fish roasted black in the fire. This big fish was bigger than Ning Haodu, and I don't know how the rats were caught from the nearby lake. I saw Ning Hao's claws flexibly tearing open the black skin of the grilled fish, a fresh and hot aroma came out, and the snow-white tender meat trembled, smelling the mouse's saliva.
The rat was not afraid of being hot, and after a while ate the fish, which was much bigger than himself, into his stomach. The strange thing was that Ning Hao's stomach didn't bulge at all, as if in this short period of time, Ning Hao had digested all the things he had eaten.
A pair of green eyes appeared in the darkness.
Perhaps attracted by the campfire in the dark, or guided by the aroma of grilled fish, a predator in the dark came here.
In front of it seemed to be a huge mouse, the predator slowly approached, its body harmoniously melting into the darkness it was, its strong muscles crumbling tightly, like a large drawn bow, as if it was about to eject at any moment.
Rise!
There was a faint sound in the darkness, and even if it was an all-out attack, as a hunter in the dark, the sound was very subtle.
A dark shadow sprang out of the jungle and swooped down on the huge mouse.
"I haven't eaten yet, so I'm going to find something to eat!"
The strange sound coming from the rat did not seem to be the language of the jungle, nor was it the rat sound that had been heard before.
After that, the dark shadow saw the last sight of this life.
It was a pair of blood-red eyes, and it seemed that there was an infinite terror coming from there, and a suffocating feeling wrapped in blood surged into the brain, and the entire body of the black shadow slowly stiffened in the air.
Ning Hao turned sideways slightly, dodging the black shadow's attack, holding it down with one claw, and piercing the black shadow's neck with another claw.
It was a black feline, especially like a panther on Earth, with strong muscles that had not relaxed until death, and a pair of green eyes full of fear.
With Ning Hao's current strength, it was too simple to kill such an animal.
Ning Hao grabbed the black animal and threw it into the fire.
It's better to eat cooked food.
Ning Hao stretched his waist, ready to wait until he finished eating this animal before cultivating for a while, this seemed to be a species that he had never eaten before, eating it, would it be regarded as absorbing the bloodline of all living beings and allowing the exercises to enter the realm.