Chapter 43: The Dog and the Dragon
After a night's rest, everyone will set off early in the morning and continue to walk north, coming to a location with many mountains and rivers in the Guling Mountains.
Unlike yesterday, everyone in the team was very attentive and acted with extra caution.
Suddenly, Wang Tiehammer, who was walking in front, stopped and raised his left hand. After the rest of the people saw Wang Tiezhu's gesture, they also stopped and looked around vigilantly.
Ming Fan closed his eyes and concentrated on improving his hearing in the five senses.
The faint footsteps of a few monsters came into Ming Fan's ears.
"In the northwest direction, there are monsters!" Ming Fan reminded everyone, "Judging from the movements I heard, the size of the monsters is not very large, and the number should be more than two and less than five." ”
"Everyone on alert!" Wang Gangtan shouted loudly, "Brother Mingfan, can you tell what kind of monster is from the sound?"
"The pace of the monster's footsteps is two times each time it moves, and it should be the wurm species. Ming Fan carefully recalled in his mind, the few monster guides he had read in the Four Elders' Collection, and then speculated on the types of monsters based on the information at this stage, "This area is dominated by mountains and rocks, and the subdragon species who like this kind of environment.... The sand dragon is huge, judging from the sound, it shouldn't be, then there is only one left, the Inusaurus. ”
Sure enough, as Ming Fan thought, several dragon roars came from the northwest direction of the team, and then three beast shadows appeared in front of everyone.
Smaller than the size of the dragon type monster, the forelimbs have become short, and they can no longer be used for walking, so the usual series of actions rely on the thick and strong hind limbs, a typical wurm type monster, the dog head has a long tail, and the head has a crowned bonet, which is undoubtedly the canusaurus.
Wang Gangtan originally asked casually, he didn't have much hope, if Ming Fan could judge what kind of best it was, it would be normal not to be able to judge it, but he didn't expect that Ming Fan not only judged the type, but also analyzed what kind of monster it was, which made Wang Gangtan very admired in their hearts.
However, in the face of the three-headed dog dragon beast, now is not the time to bow down to Ming Fan and say, "Please accept my knees".
As the captain, Wang Gangdan immediately arranged, "Little sister, weigh you in two teams to deal with a canine dragon beast." ”
"Got it, big brother. Wang Tiehammer shouted.
"Hmm!" Brother Liang still said nothing.
Wang Gangdan continued, "I'll deal with one myself, Sister Yunling, you support me from a distance, Lao Xia, you are still responsible for protecting Yunling, and observe if there are other monsters around you."
"Good. ”
"Leave it to me, Captain!"
"The last one, it's no problem to hand it over to you, Brother Mingfan. Wang Gangdan looked at Ming Fan.
"Actually, there's nothing wrong with handing over all three of them to me. Although Ming Fan thought so in his heart, he didn't say these words.
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Last night, Wang Gangdan and Ming Fan had a conversation between the two.
"So, Brother Steelball, are you trying to let me hide my strength?" Ming Fan sat next to the fire and asked with a puzzled expression.
"yes. Wang Gangdan, who was beside him, nodded.
"Why?"
Wang Gangdan smiled and explained, "I know that as a cultivator, you don't pay attention to ordinary monsters, but for us ordinary beast hunters, monsters are very dangerous existences. ”
"What about you, Brother Steelball?"
"It's true that your shot will allow us to reduce our damage and even hunt successfully without it, but you can't help us forever. Wang Gangdan said meaningfully, "Hunting operations without injuries and casualties are chronic poison for hunters, which will gradually paralyze the hunter's mentality until they lose their lives because of this frivolity." ”
"Brother Gundam, you ......"
"What I just said is not only for beast hunting, but also for heavenly hunting. Wang Gangdan patted Ming Fan on the shoulder and said in an extremely serious tone, "Brother, a hunter can die because his skills are not strong, but he must not die because of his carelessness, because the latter way of death is a shame for the hunter, and I don't want you to die unjustly with shame on your back." ”
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Ming Fan understood Wang Gangdan's intentions, so he obeyed his command and went to deal with the last canine dragon beast.
Ming Fan took off the fishbone bow from his back, this bow was bought by him with silver from the hunters' union, the bow body is made of the bones of a relatively common fish monster, which belongs to the mass goods of medium to low quality, but it is enough for Ming Fan, after all, he has the "Heavenly Introduction" that he gave himself a stringless bow ten years ago.
The corners of Ming Fan's mouth raised a smile, and he shouted excitedly, "I've only seen it in books before, but now I've finally seen it alive, come on!
Ming Fan shouted the lines of the second middle school like this and rushed towards the dog dragon beast.
Naturally, the Inndrake couldn't understand what Ming Fan was saying, but when it saw food (in the eyes of the Inudrakemon) running towards it, it naturally opened its mouth and wanted to swallow Ming Fan into its stomach.
"Hmph!" Ming Fan jumped from the top of the Indrake to his back, and as he took off, he took out an arrow from his quiver and shot it at the back of the Inudrake.
"Whew!" The long tail of the canine dragon beast that was hit by an arrow swept violently, but Ming Fan had already expected it, and leaned over and lowered his head to dodge.
"The four elders also have a book of "The Guide to the Argonian Monsters", which introduced that the sub-dragon species metamorphosed into the degenerated dragon monsters, and the so-called degeneration refers not only to the body, but also to the wisdom. While dodging the attack of the Inudrakemon, Ming Fan muttered to himself, "The sharp teeth like a dog in the mouth bite the opponent, and the long tail sweep, are the two most commonly used attack methods of the Inudrake, the tooth bite is more often used to fight monsters, as for the tail is long, but thin, as long as you lower your posture slightly, you can easily dodge, so you need to pay attention to its third attack method." ”
The Inudrake suddenly lowered its head and ran towards Ming Fan with the crowned skull of its head.
"That's it!
In the face of the indus and dragon beast that rushed at a fast speed, Ming Fan did not use the true qi in his body, but hurriedly dodged to the side with his own body strength!
The dog dragon beast attacked quickly and fiercely, and crashed into a boulder behind Ming Fan with the momentum of breaking the wind, and then in the deafening impact, the stones shattered, and the flying gravel shot around, Ming Fan, who had just dodged the attack, immediately blocked it with a fishbone bow, but there were still a few gravels that scraped Ming Fan's clothes.
"Is this the third attack method of the Inudrakemon, as the book says, it is not small. Ming Fan said in his heart, "However, I have understood the principle. ”
Taking advantage of the fact that after the dog dragon beast crashed into the boulder, the beast body had not yet adjusted, Ming Fan took five arrows at a time, wound the bow and opened the bow, and shot out in unison, and the dog dragon beast had five more wounds on its body.
"Gain speed by leaning forward with your center of gravity, then attack your enemies with the stiffest crown of your head, achieving equal speed and attack power. Ming Fan recalled the picture just now and analyzed, "However, the disadvantages of this attack method are also obvious, first of all, the degeneration of the front paws is too serious, so that when the center of gravity is forward, it can only rely on the hind limbs to carry out a straight line impact, and cannot change the direction, and in addition, if you attack with a crown, you have to lower your head, so you can only rely on the target position observed before launching the attack, so as long as you react quickly enough, or at the moment when the dog dragon beast lowers its head to attack, you can easily dodge by leaving and changing your position." ”
Ming Fan looked at the Inn Dragon Beast that was about to rush towards him again, took out a hunting knife from the Qiankun bag, and leaned forward, "I already know about the battle, let's end it next." ”
"Whew!" The Inn Dragon Beast did not attack with the crown on its head this time like it did just now, but opened its mouth and ran towards Ming Fan.
Looking at the canine dragon beast that rushed towards him, Ming Fan was still calm and calm, "It seems that the collision just now was not light, so give up the crown bone attack and choose the most secure attack method?"
Just as the canine-toothed giant mouth was about to bite Ming Fan, his figure suddenly disappeared in front of the dogsaurus's eyes, and then the dogsaurus's beast brain fell to the ground.
The last scene that the dog dragon beast saw in front of its eyes was that Ming Fan appeared on its left side at some point, and the hunting knife in his hand was stained with blood and broken in two.
This canine dragon beast also became the first monster that Ming Fan hunted.
And in the process just now, Ming Fan did not use a trace of the true qi in his body, and completely relied on his physical quality that was different from ordinary people.
Cultivators, with the improvement of their cultivation when cultivating the exercises, their physical fitness will also be strengthened, so it is normal for them to be able to do some things that ordinary people cannot do without using the true qi in their bodies.
Different exercises, the effect after cultivation is also different, use Xuanqingmen's "Taizhen Dao Qi" to make a more understandable analogy:
"Taizhen Dao Qi" is to absorb the aura of heaven and earth to oneself, and then practice according to the exercises for a week, you will get ten attribute points, due to the characteristics of the exercises, eight attribute points will be taken out to improve the purity of the true qi in the cultivator's body, making it more full, and the remaining two attribute points will be added to the body.
But Ming Fan is different, although his cultivation is also the genuine "Taizhen Dao Qi", but his attribute points are five points added to the true qi, and five points are added to the physique, and because he has been different from the physical quality of ordinary people since he was a child, the effect of the five attribute points he added to the physique is equivalent to the ten attribute points of others.
Therefore, Ming Fan also became the only person in Xuanqing Sect who had practiced the exercises for ten years, but he could not control the air.
Needless to say, Zhu Xin and Yan Yunxiao were talented and intelligent, and even the four elders of the Xuanqing Sect, who were qualified by passers-by, could barely vacate for ten minutes after ten years of penance.
However, this does not mean that Ming Fan's qualifications in cultivation talent are average, on the contrary, if you talk about it seriously, Ming Fan's talent is better than anyone in the door, and even not inferior to Xuanyang Zhenren.
The path of cultivation in Lingzhou is divided into three steps, the first step is to feel the qi, close your eyes and meditate to feel the true spiritual qi.
As long as you can feel a vague trace of true spiritual energy, it means that you have the qualifications to cultivate the truth, but if you can't feel it, then you are embarrassed, and you are destined to have no chance with the cultivation of the truth.
From vague perception to full feeling of true spiritual qi, the less time is spent at this stage, the higher the cultivation talent.
At this stage, Zhu Xin took a month, Yan Yunxiao took a month and ten days, and among the four elders, the Great Elder, the Third Elder, and the Fourth Elder took more than three months, but the Second Elder only took one month and seventeen days.
And Ming Fan counted the three days that the Great Elder of Shanling Mountain had taught him "Taizhen Dao Qi" at the beginning, and Shangwu City cultivated for one day, and it only took seven days to add up intermittently.
The second step is to refine the qi, inhale the true spirit qi into the body, and cooperate with the exercises to refine and transform it into true qi with different attributes. For example, Xuanqingmen's "Taizhen Dao Qi" is to refine the true spirit qi into Dao qi.
This realm is the most difficult at the beginning, and there are many people who are stuck in this realm all their lives.
However, as long as you can successfully refine a part of the true spirit qi into a trace of Dao qi first, the rest will be a matter of course.
It took Zhu Xin and Yan Yunxiao more than three years to successfully refine a trace of Dao Qi, and it took the four elders more than five years.
And Ming Fan, it only took a month, and he asked if you were afraid of such talents.
The third step, luck (not the luck of buying a lottery ticket), this realm is very simple, that is, to release the true qi in the body, and when you have completed the above three points, congratulations! Your path to cultivation has only taken a small step.
On the way to cultivate the truth, the immortal road is far away, and how many people can really reach the end of the long time.
Compared to the Qi Refining Realm, the Luck Realm was much simpler, Yan Yunxiao took half a year, Zhu Xin took nine months, and the four elders also took a year to a year and a half.
And Ming Fan took a full eight years.