Volume 1: The Beginning of the Edge Chapter 7: Penance
In late autumn, the frost falls, the autumn rain gradually decreases, and the air is a little more cold and dry.
"Death to the master!"
"Poof!"
A knife slashed through the mountains and forests, bringing up countless fallen leaves and flying in a whirlpool, and the knife arrived, and blood splashed three feet.
"The knife was too slow, the force was too heavy, and it didn't hit the vital point. Also, don't yell, the aura is turbulent, and it is difficult to exert your true strength. ”
Liu Chen held his sword in both hands, leaned on an old willow, and watched Xu Yan fight with a sentence-shaped porcupine with two adult male heads and kill him, and commented lightly.
"I'm tired, I'm already much stronger than before, okay! You think everyone is like you pervert, killing those beasts like chopping melons and vegetables. Xu Yan retorted unhappily.
Wiping the sweat from his forehead casually, Xu Yan glanced at Liu Chen, who was meditating cross-legged beside him for some time, and recalled the past few days after entering the deep mountains.
After entering Hupo Mountain that day, the two did not stay too long on the periphery of the mountain range, and entered the depths of the mountain forest after a little trimming.
Spending the night in the mountains is far less than staying in a big bed in an inn, or even a ruined temple where you used to beg, at least there are not so many mosquito bites.
From time to time, the small beasts that scurried by, and the hoarse chirping of all kinds of birds and birds, constantly disturbed the two. On the first night, the two of them did not enter the state of cultivation at all, and they stumbled all night, so that the next day they were in a trance, and they both had dark circles under their eyes.
On the second night, the two drove away the birds and beasts on a big tree early, applied some ointment made of plants and trees with mosquito repellent effects on their bodies, lit a bonfire, and meditated on the tree, so as to avoid the recurrence of the "tragedy" of the previous night.
In the past few days, the two of them fought with fierce beasts during the day, and meditated and cultivated at night, and their cultivation progress improved rapidly in the experience. In less than ten days after entering Hupo Mountain, the number of Xuanmen opened by the two of them has broken through to forty, and their strength has increased greatly.
However, the more difficult it is to open the Xuanmen, and whether the ninety-nine Xuanmen can be fully opened in the next month or so is still unknown to the two.
Since he was a child, Liu Chen has liked to practice and fight in the fierce beast fantasy realm of Qingcang Sect, and has obtained a lot of valuable fighting skills and information on fierce beast spirit beasts.
Therefore, in the experience of these few days, except for the beginning, because I didn't use the sword for a long time, I was a little rusty in fighting. After killing a few fierce beasts, a three-foot sword was like a swimming dragon in his hands, and killing a fierce beast was like chopping melons and vegetables, often unable to resist his sword, and his soul returned to the sky.
Seeing that this kind of experience no longer had much effect on Liu Chen, Liu Chen began to guide Xu Yan in the fight with the fierce beast, and learned a lot of his combat skills.
Liu Chen became more and more mysterious in Xu Yan's eyes, and the tacit understanding between the two of them day and night made Xu Yan curious, but he didn't ask too much about it.
"Let's go and pick some herbs."
After a while, Xu Yan dismembered the carcass of the porcupine on the ground, removed its hideous teeth and the longest spikes on its body, wrapped it and put it in a simple basket woven of rattan, and asked Liu Chen, who was meditating.
Hearing this, Liu Chen stopped the operation of the Cangxuan Heavenly Spirit Technique, slowly opened his eyes, and exhaled a breath of turbidity. looked at Xu Yan, and the corners of his mouth curled.
"No, there is no threat to us here, and the experience is of little use. The purpose of the experience is to grow between life and death, and we will go to the main peak now! ”
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When you come to the main peak, the human tracks are even more rare, and the birds and beasts seem to be gone, making it even more terrifying. The main peak is full of ancient trees, covering the day, and the sunlight is difficult to put into the gaps between the branches, evaporating light water vapor, and it seems that the forest is foggy.
The two of them walked through the dense forest, beware of threats that might arise at any time. This main peak doesn't seem to have any birds and beasts, but Liu Chen knows that this is the appearance.
The more powerful the fierce beast territorial consciousness, the heavier the consciousness, so although the fierce beast birds of the main peak are indeed rarer than the rest of Hupo Mountain, this represents the extremely powerful and domineering fierce beast of the main peak.
It is even rumored that there are traces of spirits in the depths of the main peak of Hupo Mountain. Spirits are similar to human spirit-enlighteners, and if they are blessed, they can generate spiritual wisdom and turn into monsters.
"Roar!"
A black spotted tiger with a fishy head with black spots and a brown king stripe on its head slowly walked out of the woods in front of it with steady steps. Six feet tall, one foot long, with eyes the size of a baby's fist, staring at the two fiercely, the tiger saliva that kept dripping from the mouth hit the ground, and there was a "ticking" sound.
"The Black Spotted Tiger, one of the kings of the beasts. Looking at its teeth, it is more than a foot long, and this physique, if there is a chance, will definitely become a spirit. You look at it well..."
Before Liu Chen finished speaking, the black spotted tiger brought a gust of fishy wind and pounced on the two. Seeing this, Xu Yan immediately jumped on a big tree beside him and began to carefully observe the fight between this man and a tiger.
Liu Chen drew his sword, urged the aura, his footsteps moved, and the thunder snake stepped out, dodging this wave of attack.
Seeing that he missed, the black spotted tiger no longer made a move, three or four feet away from Liu Chen, and slowly swam around it, looking for opportunities.
Liu Chen naturally would not sit still, he urged the Thunder Snake step again, approached in an instant, and stabbed out with a sword, although the power of the Flying Crane Sword Technique was mediocre, but the sword move was erratic, and it was difficult to resist and dodge.
After some fighting, there were a few more shallow sword marks on the black spotted tiger's body, and Liu Chen was intact, but his clothes were a little messy.
"Roar!"
The wound on his body aroused the ferocity of the black spotted tiger, and he roared angrily at Liu Chen, and the black spotted tiger pounced on him again, and at the same time slapped down with its sharp claws.
Liu Chen's face did not change, and when his spiritual power surged, the thunder snake step brought a faint thunder, blocking the sight of the black spotted tiger, and his person was no longer in the same place. With a flash of cold light, a sword appeared from the side of the giant tiger and slashed at its front legs.
After all, the black spotted tiger was just a fierce beast, and he was overwhelmed by anger, and he actually raised his right palm and slapped the long sword. When the two touched, Liu Chen's arm trembled, and the sword almost fell off his hand. And the black spotted tiger's entire forepaw was directly cut off by the sharp blade, blood spurted out, staggered back, and roared in pain.
Feeling the soreness of his right arm, Liu Chen didn't stop, and stabbed out a few more swords, leaving several fist-sized blood holes on the black spotted tiger's body, and blood continued to spurt out from it, and the painful black spotted tiger fell to the ground and kept struggling.
Coldly watched the black spotted tiger gradually weaken under the loss of blood in its body, with more air in and less air out. Liu Chen didn't delay, and slashed at the black spotted tiger lying on the ground with its belly facing up.
A "bang" sounded, and the belly of the black-spotted tiger was cut open with a large opening more than one meter long, and the intestines and organs flowed to the ground. At this time, the black-spotted tiger had no strength to roar, and after a few gasps slightly, it ran out of breath.
"It's amazing, killing such a big-headed tiger is the same as playing" Xu Yan jumped down from the tree and trotted in front of Liu Chen, with a look of sigh and admiration.
"Time is pressing, help cut off the valuable things on this black spotted tiger, the smell of blood is too strong, and it will attract a lot of fierce beasts when it is late"
Without further ado, the two took out their daggers and began to gesture at the corpse of the spotted tiger. After a while, a relatively intact tiger skin, two sharp tiger teeth, and a piece of tiger leg meat for food were loaded into the back basket.
Although it is okay for a monk to go without food for a few days, his training is different from that of normal days, and his physical strength is very high. Therefore, the two of them still often choose some delicious beast meat to treat their five internal organs.
"Let's go, the wolves are coming"
Before they could take a short rest, the two of them saw wolves rushing towards the place from a distance. These wolves have gray bodies, about a dozen, and the one at the front has a snow-white coat, and its size is even comparable to this black-spotted tiger, which is obviously the king of wolves.
The sharp-eyed Liu Chen saw a prismatic sarcoma on his forehead, his face suddenly changed, he pulled up Xu Yan, who had not yet reacted, and ran in the opposite direction to escape.
Fortunately, the wolf king didn't seem to be interested in the two humans who didn't have a few catties of meat, and roared a few times to stop the few gray wolves in the wolf pack who wanted to chase Liu Chen and the others. Slowly walking to the corpse of the black-spotted tiger, the wolf king showed a humanized longing and feasted...
"It's so dangerous, I met a spirit so quickly, a snow spirit wolf, it seems that he will soon be promoted to a demon beast. Once that snow spirit wolf becomes a demon beast, the sarcoma on its forehead will turn into a vertical eye, which can emit freezing light, delaying or even freezing the enemy. ”
"If the wolf king has evil intentions towards us, it will probably be dangerous for the two of us to join forces. Add to this the wolves he commands, and if we are against them, we will surely die. This wolf pack definitely belongs to the overlord level in Hupo Mountain. ”
"The wolf king is about to be promoted to a demon beast, and promotion requires a lot of flesh and blood aura. In this way, it also explains why some of the fierce beasts here fled to the outskirts of Hupo Mountain, and the snow spirit wolf would personally lead the wolves around to hunt for food. ”
The two ran for about three or four miles, jumped on a leafy tree to rest for a while, and Liu Chen had the opportunity to explain the reason for the escape to Xu Yan.
"It's so dangerous, is this the spirit on the main peak, it really can't be underestimated, that breath is really palpitating. Unexpectedly, the black-spotted tiger died and caused such a big trouble. ”
Xu Yan wiped the cold sweat on his head, gasped slightly, and said with palpitations.
"We just want to be like this, there is great terror between life and death, and there are even greater opportunities, if the experience is not dangerous enough, it is better to do penance in the city. From today onwards, our experience has just begun. ”
Liu Chen also wiped the sweat from his head and said to Xu Yan with a smile. It can be seen that he is also a little scared when he has just escaped from danger, but more than that, he can't hide his excitement and eagerness.
"When I embarked on the path of cultivation, life and death have long been put aside by me. Those who enter live, those who retreat die, would rather be the bones on the road than be slaves who steal life! ”
Xu Yan was alerted by Liu Chen's words and was a little ashamed. Now that his life is getting better day by day, he subconsciously forgot the ambition he told Liu Chen when he was begging.
"I see, thank you for the reminder, Liu Chen. I will do my best, not afraid of life and death, and step to the top. ”
"Okay, you and I have lived and died together for several years, now it is better to worship as brothers with different surnames, and the road of seeking the Tao will be the same as you, and you will not be lonely again! Hahaha"
The two looked at each other and smiled, arrogant.
Young chivalry, befriended by Wuduxiong. Liver and gallbladder holes, hair shrugging. In the conversation, life and death are the same. A promise is worth a thousand dollars!
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