Chapter 40: Years in the Mountains
Ding Yu was in the thick darkness, there was nothing around him, and he floated quietly in mid-air. He didn't know how he got here, and he couldn't remember how long he had been here, maybe just for a moment, maybe a hundred years. But he didn't think about it, because the place made him feel at ease and comfortable, and made him just want to sleep forever.
But a sudden uneasiness woke him up—I'm dying?" He had barely felt the thought when he felt a shock to his body, and the thick black tide around him receded. When he opened his eyes, he saw that he was still in the tunnels of the Ming Sect, and around him, there were corpses all over the ground.
Ding Yu didn't have time to pay attention to the dead bodies around him, because he really felt that his life was really short: his heart was slowing, his limbs were weak, his head was dizzy, and bursts of itching continued to spread from the six wounds on his body to his whole body.
He immediately realized that he had been poisoned. And the source of the toxin is...... He patted his dazed head, and finally remembered that it was a crossbow arrow. The poisonous bolts caused six wounds on my body, which I suppressed at first with internal force, but then I could no longer suppress them......
These thoughts flashed through his mind, strange and familiar at the same time. He didn't take the time to investigate the source of these thoughts, but went directly to the bodies of Li Xiao and Wang Yao—he remembered that these two had also been poisoned by arrows before, and immediately found an antidote from his bosom and took it.
Fortunately, both of them still had an antidote in their arms, Ding Yu swallowed one first, and after a while, he was lucky, and then took another one, only then did he feel that the residual poison was gone, and his body was relaxed for a while.
At this time, Ding Yu finally had the time and a clear mind to think about Fang Cai's affairs, in fact, it was not difficult to guess at all: he remembered that he and Qiu Qianren were palms, and he lost his mind when he didn't remember the first few palms, and he was occupied by the demons on the spiritual platform, and the corpses were all over the ground. There is no doubt that it is the handiwork of the demonic possession. If he hadn't been poisoned by the crossbow arrow, he was awakened by the survival instinct at the moment when his life was in danger, and maybe he wouldn't have regained consciousness by now.
Looking at this Shura slaughterhouse-like cave, Ding Yu felt indescribably uncomfortable: I came back to repay the kindness and cause and effect of the Qingming Sect, but in the end I killed all the old benefactors. Shame, pain, anger, and hatred were like turning into a big hand, squeezing his heart fiercely. He couldn't help but scream and slammed his fist into the ground to vent all the emotions in his heart.
Just as his fist slammed the ground into the ground, a groan of pain interrupted him. Ding Yu jumped up and moved the bodies of the two crossbowmen, revealing Fang Qinghua, who was oozing blood from the corners of his mouth below, but still breathing weakly.
It turned out that Fang Qinghua was hit by the acupoint and couldn't move before, and a crossbowman was killed by Ding Yu's fist and knocked her to the ground, although the force was strong. But it wasn't enough to kill a top-notch fighter like her, and then another crossbowman slammed into her, knocking her unconscious, until the shock of Ding Yu hitting the ground woke her up. Similar to her fate are Hui Ming, Qing Song and Ma Lun.
Ding Yu was overjoyed, and hurriedly unlocked the acupoint for the four of them, but as soon as the monk Huiming acupoint was solved, he immediately came out with both palms and slapped him on the chest with all his strength. Ding Yu was like nothing. Hui Ming was shocked and bleeding from his mouth and nose. However, he didn't care about it, and he had to strike again. As a last resort, Ding Yu had to reseal his acupoint.
He looked at the other three, and although they weren't as impulsive as Hui Ming, the fear and hatred in their eyes were all clear. Ding Yu was speechless, and under the circumstances at that time, he just killed other people. But even Huo Wuxian was killed, and even he couldn't get through this level himself, let alone them.
Ding Yu opened his mouth several times, wanting to explain the reason to them, but he thought about it carefully. It has already been said before, and if they can understand it, they don't need to say anything more, otherwise it won't help to say a thousand more words. Thinking of this, he turned around gloomily, walked to the exit of the tunnel, and silently struck the big stone blocking the passage with his divine hand.
I don't know how long it took, he finally opened a hole enough to pass, and before leaving, he turned around and asked Fang Qinghua: "Deputy Sect Leader Fang, what you just said about expelling the Tartars and saving your compatriots is from the bottom of your heart?"
After a while, Fang Qinghua said sadly: "Yes, what are you going to do?"
Ding Yu shook his head and said, "It's nothing. After saying that, he dodged into the other end of the passage, and said silently in his heart: I owe the cause and effect of Mingjiao, so I will fall into this sentence. When I completely removed the hidden danger of demons, I went to assassinate the Mongol Great Khan, but I don't know how many Great Khans I have to kill before the Mongols can retreat...... Just thinking about it, he suddenly felt that something was wrong with the emptiness on his chest, and when he looked down, he saw that there was only a bare neck rope left between his neck, and only a little fragment of the spirit rhino bead he was wearing was left. Presumably it was shattered in the previous killing?, he smiled wryly and tore off his neck rope and threw it in the tunnel.
Time is like water, rushing to pass; in the Kunlun Mountains, several times of cold and summer, the grass and trees have withered and flourished several times, and in the blink of an eye, ten years have passed.
Under an old peach tree hugging several people, a huge beehive with a diameter of five feet hangs, and countless fist-sized bees go in and out of the hive, and the buzzing sound can be clearly heard within a hundred feet. These bees are covered in dark golden light, flying as fast as lightning, and the most terrifying thing is that the tail faintly reveals a barbed spike, which is black in gold and extremely sharp. Even the thickest and most greedy bears don't dare come here to steal honey.
However, in this forbidden place of beasts, a bald monk with a bare body appeared in the forbidden place. He walked slowly to the hive, and with ease he pulled out a fist-sized hive spleen, revealing a hole that reached the center of the hive.
Countless dark gold bees felt his movements, and leaned out of the hive one after another, but their attitude towards the monk was as plain as the old man who saw the courier brother, and most of them quickly retracted into the nest, only a dozen curious ones flew out and landed on the monk's bald head and shoulders, crawled back and forth a few times, and found that there was nothing interesting, so they went home again.
The monk put his hand into the hole, scooped a spoonful of milky white gelatinous royal jelly and put it in his mouth, and then put the nest spleen back to plug the hole.
The taste of royal jelly is not as sweet as honey, but it is sour and spicy, and for those who are not used to it, they may also feel stinky. But for Ding Yu, the rich aura contained in it alone is enough to compensate for its taste.
After he left Mingjiao that year, he deduced the fusion exercises in the Kunlun Mountains, searched around, and finally found the location of the dragon vein with a faint aura induction-that is, this nameless valley.
He was pleasantly surprised to find that there are actually two kinds of companion spiritual objects of the dragon vein here, one is this huge old peach tree, the canopy covers a radius of 100 meters, but it only bears twelve large peaches every year, and the aura contained in each peach flesh is equivalent to the snake gall of ten golden-scaled clemated snakes;
When he first came to the valley, the old peach tree had not yet borne fruit, and Ding Yu did not know the effect of royal jelly. He just sensed that there were a large number of spiritual objects in the hive, but before he could get close to the hive, he was stung by a golden bee, and with his internal strength, it actually took a stick of incense to force the toxin out. It is conceivable that if you forcibly collect honey and be stung in hundreds of mouthfuls, your life will definitely not be guaranteed.
Therefore, Ding Yu couldn't taste half of the royal jelly in the first two years, until he practiced the Jiuyang True Fire Technique to the fifth layer.
In the three years that Ding Yu was looking for the dragon vein, he had perfected the fusion of the two exercises of Jiuyang and the Wedding Dress Divine Skill, and he named it "Jiuyang True Fire Technique". Like the wedding dress, the Jiuyang True Fire Recipe is divided into nine layers, with the Jiuyang Yuan Qi as the fuel, the heart fire as the guide, and the Sun True Fire as the body, and the running lines are more complex than any known internal strength method.
According to his deduction, this Jiuyang True Fire Technique will inherit all the characteristics of the Wedding Dress Divine Skill: great power, divine fire forging body, and highly strengthening body perception. On top of this, some of the characteristics of Jiuyang Shengong will also be obtained, such as endless growth, enhanced poison resistance, etc., but the internal force in the body still needs to be cast in the external meridians to solve.
Once it was determined that the nameless valley was where the dragon veins were located, Ding Yu settled in the depths of the valley. With a ruthless heart, he dispersed the internal power of the wedding dress divine skill that had reached the eighth level of perfection, and rebuilt the Jiuyang True Fire Technique. With the help of the aura of the old tree peach, he had cultivated the Jiuyang True Fire Technique to the fifth level within two years. At this time, the anti-poison properties of Jiuyang True Fire Recipe had begun to show, and being stung by a golden bee was as inconsequential as being bitten by a mosquito, so he was finally able to taste the taste of royal jelly in the golden beehive.
Golden Bee Royal Jelly is not only a spiritual creature full of aura, but also a key food for the reproduction of golden bees. Therefore, Ding Yu comes to collect it every ten days, and only half of it can be taken each time. Rao is like this, with the double supplement of royal jelly and twelve peaches per year, his Jiuyang True Fire Recipe has also begun to improve by leaps and bounds.
And as he consumed more spiritual objects, he began to be able to truly feel the existence of heaven and earth aura in his body, if his original internal force was water, then heaven and earth aura was a fish, once there were fish in the water, a pool of stagnant water would become full of vitality. Every time you mobilize the internal force in your body, you can add a new sense of understanding of heaven and earth.
What made Ding Yu even happier was that the aura of heaven and earth could indeed be released from the body, and it could also be built into various shapes outside the body under his control, but unfortunately the accumulation of aura was still too little, and it was not enough for him to form the external meridians according to the internal structure of the Xuantie heavy sword, but this at least proved that his thinking was right, and what was missing was just the accumulation of aura.
In addition to being used to construct the meridians, the aura also has other wonderful uses, for example, when he spreads the aura evenly over the body, he will have a sense of harmony with the five-foot radius of heaven and earth, and all living beings in this range will regard him as a natural part of heaven and earth, swimming fish will treat him as aquatic plants, birds will treat him as mountains and rocks, and bees will treat him as flowers and trees. That's why he was able to take royal jelly out of the hive without being attacked - when would the bees sting a tree?
At the beginning of this year, Ding Yu had successfully rushed the Jiuyang True Fire Technique to the eighth-layer Dacheng realm, and after eating this year's peach and swallowing half of the hard work of the golden bee again, Ding Yu decided to go out of the mountain. (To be continued.) )
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