Chapter Twenty-Eight: The White Bone Messenger
Ordinary people kick and break a big tree with a thick bowl mouth, and the liliang of the countershock alone will shake the soles of their feet numb and swollen, but Yang Ji doesn't feel anything, and his body is full of qi and blood, this is the result of cultivation.
"My bones are about as dense as these trees, even if they are about the same as those tigers and leopards. I just don't know if I can reach the point where I can be as fast as a fox. ”
Yang Ji said secretly in his heart. He used to use the liliang of martial arts to reach the realm of "catching rabbits with his bare hands".
However, what the ninth stage of breathing requires is that without using any martial arts, it can reach a realm comparable to that of a fox rabbit.
"Go out and try it. ”
Yang Ji raised his head and slowly walked outside.
Spring has arrived, and all beasts have revived. In this kind of deep mountain, there is no shortage of birds and animals.
Out of the woods, before approaching, in the grass, a leopard was hiding behind a rock, hunting elk, suddenly smelling something, startled, and ran away.
Yang Ji knew that this leopard was not afraid of himself, but he smelled the breath of the poisonous snake emperor "Xiao Ji".
Although the leopard is a hunter among the beasts, when it encounters a highly poisonous emperor like Xiao Ji, he also retreats, and escapes as far as he can.
"That's it!"
Yang Ji was originally going to take a few rabbits or foxes as shiyan objects, but when he saw this leopard, he suddenly changed his mind.
Swish!
The wind suddenly rose, and Yang Ji's body swooped down, incredibly fast. This time, Yang Ji didn't use any martial arts, it was purely an explosion of physical strength.
"Whew!"
The leopard smelled Xiao Ji's breath on Yang Ji's body, fled faster, leaped like a fly in the mountains and forests, and pulled out an afterimage behind him.
Yang Ji was originally separated from this leopard by some distance, and this acceleration immediately pulled away a little.
"Good fellow, I don't believe I can't catch you!"
Yang Ji saw that this leopard was full of strength, and it also aroused his competitive spirit.
Rumble!
Yang Ji also exerted his whole body to the extreme, and his speed suddenly surged, chasing one person and one leopard back and forth, and the distance slowly shrunk, getting closer and closer.
"Roar!-"
Feeling the slowly approaching breath behind him, the leopard knew that it couldn't escape, and it also stimulated the ferocity in his bones, he roared suddenly, turned around, opened his bloody mouth, and rushed towards Yang Ji's neck with a mouth full of white teeth.
"Good time!"
Yang Ji was not surprised, after reaching the ninth stage of breathing, it was not only the speed that increased. At the moment when the leopard pounced, Yang Ji did not retreat but advanced, stepped in, and shook his hands.
Syllable!
was shaken by Yang Ji's weight, and the leopard howled miserably, and flew out directly, more than three feet away, and fell to the ground with a bang.
Rumble!
Yang Ji's arrows were flying, and before the leopard could stand up, a punch of Mount Tai smashed heavily on the leopard's back, only to hear a clattering sound, the dust was filled, and the leopard was motionless.
Yang Ji was as fast as lightning in one go, and when he killed the leopard at this time, he only felt a sense of exhaustion rising from his body, and after suppressing it for a long time, his chest rose and fell sharply, he gasped for breath, and his forehead was sweating like pulp.
"Although Liliang has increased greatly, there is still no way to keep up with the physical strength. If this leopard holds on a little longer, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up. ”
Yang Ji knew in his heart that although his current speed could catch up with the fleeing leopard on foot, to some extent, it could be called "fast as a galloping horse", but based on a large amount of physical exertion, there was no way to last at all, let alone "travel thousands of miles in a day and eight hundred in a night" like a galloping horse.
However, fortunately, the leopard's physical strength is also not good, and it will also decline after a hundred meters of rush, even if Yang Ji's speed cannot last, it can still catch up with it.
After skinning the leopard, Yang Ji made a meal of roasted leopard meat and enjoyed it.
The sun and the moon are not known in the mountains, Yang Ji only cares about cultivation, and he enters the country every day. Before you know it, it's approaching the Qingming Festival.
"It's time to go and worship your parents. ”
Yang Ji said secretly in his heart, packed his bags, and floated away.
The moon stars are scarce, and before you know it, it is already a child.
The people who had worked hard all day were already drowsy at this time, and they left one after another, leaving only the recklessness of the empty silence.
The night was silent, and there were bursts of strange cries of night owls in the air, and under the starlight, I saw two afterimages, one large and one small, galloping rapidly.
"Xiao Ji, hurry up. ”
Yang Ji smiled behind him.
"Phew!"
Xiao Ji screamed, his body turned into a black line, and he chased after him. Everywhere he passed, the blades of grass fell backwards one after another, and their bodies did not touch the ground, as if they were flying.
Yang Ji is not much worse, at first glance, the flexion and longitudinal expansion of the body is exactly the same as Xiao Ji, if you don't look carefully, you think it is a giant python in the dark night.
One person and one snake chased back and forth, integrating the practice of martial arts into the usual play.
Laugh at!
Just when they reached the halfway point of the mountain, suddenly the blue phosphorus fire flashed in the darkness, and the fire was fleeting, and it disappeared at the top of the mountain in the blink of an eye. However, at the moment before the light disappeared, Yang Ji vaguely saw a vague figure flashing on the top of the mountain in his pupils.
"Huh, someone!"
Yang Ji was suddenly startled, glanced back at Xiao Ji beside him, and saw that Xiao Ji also nodded. Obviously, this is not Yang Ji's hallucination alone.
"In the middle of the night, it's so desolate, what kind of person is this?"
Yang Ji was shocked, and a thought flashed through his mind.
At this time, most of them went back to sleep, except for characters like Yang Ji who practiced in the mountains and forests, where would serious people appear at this time.
"Go over and see. ”
Yang Ji's heart moved, and he took Xiao Ji away, and at the same time lowered his breath, his body was short, and he used the body technique he learned from Xiao Ji, and his body swayed like a smart python, and he rushed away in the woods against the ground.
The graves of Yang Ji's parents are on the mountain, and no matter what, he has to go and check them out.
Whew!Whew!
An afterimage snaked towards the top of the mountain. When he reached the top of the mountain, Yang Ji was suffocated, and his pupils suddenly contracted.
"Look for death!"
A touch of murderous intent burst out of Yang Ji's pupils, and his whole body trembled with anger.
Under the moonlit night, I saw a body half-kneeling in the grave of Yang Ji's parents, next to him, there were two bags, one large and one small, the small bag exposed shovels, pickaxes and other tools, and the large bag exposed a corner, which was densely packed with dry bones.
The phosphorus fire that Yang Ji saw was emanating from these dry bones.
The man knelt on the ground, waved his shovel in his hand, and had already dug up a small piece of earth.
"Hurt the heavens and reason, dig up people's ancestral graves", no matter how great the hatred is, there is nothing more than this. However, when he saw the dry bones exposed in the big bag, Yang Ji suddenly knew the identity of this figure.
"Cult believers!"
Yang Ji stared coldly at the figure.
In the frontier areas, there is only one kind of person who will dig graves and steal bones. That is the "cult believers" suppressed by the imperial court. These people collected bones, built altars, and obtained evil liliang, and became famous.
Now that Qingming has just passed, no one would have thought that someone would come to steal the bones. This person chose to act in the middle of the night, lightly, obviously not wanting to alarm the court, and did not know it.
"Who?!"
Suddenly, with a loud shout and a slick of airflow, the mysterious figure who was squatting on the ground and quietly digging the grave suddenly felt sensed and looked in the direction of Yang Ji, and a pair of eagle-like eyes came into view, cold and vicious.
Looking at each other, the figure shook and stood up suddenly. Without any panic of being peeped through, he patted the clothes on his body and looked at Yang Ji calmly.
"Little ghost, in the middle of the night, you don't sleep at home, what are you doing here?"
The man was a head and a half taller than Yang Ji, his cheekbones were prominent, and there was a cold aura all over his body.
"Today Qingming, I am here to give the ancestors a few incense. ”
Yang Ji said lightly, and a heavy murderous intent flashed in his heart.
In the past, the "cult believers" were too far away from Yang Ji, and the imperial court suppressed them on the surface, so there was basically no need for him to worry about as a scholar.
But this time is different, if it weren't for the fact that he had escaped from the eldest lady and came here in the middle of the night to worship, he was afraid that the remains of his parents had been dug up by these people to summon those evil things.
"Don't nod and bow your head when you kill people", but these digging up people's ancestral graves and insulting their ancestors are really intolerable. No matter what, Yang Ji will not let him go.
"Huh?"
The white bones made Cao Ge obviously stunned, and he was already very careful when he was ordered to collect the corpses this time. Especially after the annual Qingming Festival, it is to use the careless psychology of ordinary people to avoid being discovered.
"Digging people's graves and stealing people's corpses" is extremely taboo, and it is difficult not to find traces of theft and excavation, once it attracts the attention of the imperial court, it is a great shock.
He chose a tomb deep in the mountains, and after the Qingming Festival worshiped his ancestors, ordinary people would never notice that he was so bold. And no one will come here in the middle of the night.
However, "people are not as good as heaven", he obviously chose a tomb at random, but he didn't expect to meet the main owner in the middle of the night.
"Hehe, little ghost, there is a way to heaven that you don't go, and there is no door to hell for you to come. ”
After the initial stunned, the White Bone Envoy quickly reacted, and while smiling, he moved a few steps forward without a trace, invisibly narrowing the distance between him and Yang Ji to prevent Yang Ji from suddenly escaping:
"Since you're here, don't go. ”
There was silence in the night, and the strange cries of night owls from the depths of the mountains and forests were even more terrifying.
"Hmph! I didn't say I was leaving. ”
Yang Ji sneered and took two steps forward under the unexpected gaze of the White Bone Envoy.
In the past, he would never have been willing to have anything to do with these "cult believers." But now it's different, once these people are let go, maybe he will come again next time, and he can't prevent it, and Yang Ji will regret it at that time.
"Dare to dig up the corpses of my parents, I want you to die without a place to bury!"
A flash of murderous intent flashed in Yang Ji's eyes.