Chapter 209-214, Slaying Demons and Killing Devils, Heaven's Net Is Immaculate
Ouyang Feng's current lightness skills have gradually transcended the scope of ordinary lightness skills.
When flying, the "Wuji Force Field" covers the whole body, constantly absorbing the essence of heaven and earth, offsetting the wind resistance in front of it, and at the same time using the repulsive force evolved from the essence of heaven and earth behind it to propel itself. As a result, its flying speed is almost like shrinking the earth and teleporting. With one step, its figure flashes and it is ten feet away.
The tiger demon seemed to have the ability to call the wind, and it fled very quickly under the strong wind. However, it was still much slower than Ouyang Feng. It only ran for ten miles before it was outpaced by Ouyang Feng.
Seeing that he could not escape, the tiger demon rolled on the ground and turned into a vicious man wearing black armor and holding a big knife. He roared wildly and swung the knife.
Ouyang Feng took out his snowflake iron knife and fought with him hard. Sparks flew and metal clanged. The tiger demon's body shook and it staggered back. Ouyang Feng did not stop and rushed forward to strike him with three consecutive slashes. The sharp knife light cut the tiger demon's neck, chest and lower abdomen.
The tiger demon roared repeatedly and tried to resist with all his might, and he actually blocked Ouyang Feng's three swords, but every time he blocked a sword, his body shook violently. After three swords, the tiger demon's mouth was already torn and blood was oozing from its mouth and nose, and it was obvious that Ouyang Feng's divine power and true energy had injured its internal organs.
Seeing that this person was ferocious and difficult to resist, the tiger demon roared:
"Mr. Xiong Shan, Mr. Te, why don't you come out to help me when I'm in trouble?"
As soon as the words fell, a bloody wind suddenly blew up from the forests on both sides.
A giant as tall as a mountain and over two and a half meters tall pounced out, holding a pair of large copper hammers that probably weighed no less than two or three hundred kilograms. He swung the hammers down at Ouyang Feng's head. When the hammers fell, the air vibrated and a muffled thunder sounded.
Another slightly fat man in green jumped out of the forest, holding a large iron spear. As the spear shook, cold rays like meteors shot out and covered Ouyang Feng.
Ouyang Feng chuckled, and the Snowflake Iron Knife instantly switched into the Blood-Drinking Demon Knife.
Then he twisted his wrist, and the blade, which was covered with battle scars and stained with blood, also spun rapidly, emitting layers of bright sword light, like a wall of snow that enveloped his body.
The two-meter-five giant smashed his two hammers on the heavy sword lights that were like a snow wall, making a sharp sound of metal clashing. Then he felt a surge of force rebounding back, shaking his arms so much that his bones and tendons were numb. His two hammers were also bounced high, and the space in front of him opened up.
At this moment, a knife light like a spirit snake slithered out, flashed around his neck, and the giant's huge head fell to the ground, with blood gushing out of the neck.
Although his head fell to the ground, the giant was not dead yet. He swung his two hammers and struck wildly for more than ten times before he fell to the ground like a golden mountain or a jade pillar.
On the other side, the iron spear of the fat man in green also stabbed at the snow wall where Ouyang Feng's sword lights were intertwined. After more than ten shots, it only made a series of clanging sounds and bursts of sparks. Not only did it fail to break through the snow wall where the sword lights were intertwined, but a biting cold current spread through the iron spear to the hands of the fat man in green.
A thick layer of white frost suddenly appeared on the hands of the fat man in green, and it continued to spread to his arms.
Wherever the snow-white frost marks passed, the fat man in green felt his blood and energy stagnate, and his skin and flesh instantly lost consciousness. In shock, he wanted to drop the gun, but the iron gun was firmly stuck in his hands and could not be let go.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the fat man in green turned around and ran. A knife light flew out from behind him and stabbed him in the back with a "puff". The fat man in green seemed not to notice and continued to run away. The collar of his shirt on the back was torn, revealing the flesh on his vest, but there was only a shallow blood mark where he was stabbed, and the injury did not seem to be too serious.
But the fat man in green clothes only ran more than ten feet before he opened his mouth and spurted out a stream of blood, which was full of fragments of internal organs that had solidified into ice.
As the blood spurted out, the sturdy man in blue fell to the ground with a bang, twitched twice, and then fell silent.
After just one or two encounters, Xiong Shanjun and Te Chushi died one after another. The tiger demon was terrified and was about to flee when Ouyang Feng smiled at him. He raised the Blood Drinking Demon Sword above his head and slashed down with it. The cold sword energy gushed out and transformed into a huge sword shadow of seven or eight feet long, which cut down the tiger demon on the head.
The knife came too fast, and the tiger demon had no time to dodge, so he could only bite the bullet and raise his knife to block. The huge knife shadow slashed on the steel knife in his hand, breaking the knife in his hand with one strike, and then with a "puff", it fell from the top of his head, splitting him in two.
Although the body was cut into two pieces, not a drop of blood was spilled. The wounds on the two halves of the tiger monster's torso were all frozen by ice crystals, and all its flesh, blood and internal organs were frozen.
He killed three monsters in succession and drank their blood. The blade of the Blood-Drinking Monster Sword trembled and made a joyful clanging sound. The old and mottled bloodstains on the blade flowed in a winding manner, like living strange talismans.
Ouyang Feng knew that every time the Blood-Drinking Demon Sword killed a demon, it would devour its spirit and energy, thus increasing its own power.
And the three monsters killed in this battle, although their strength were not as good as the tiger monster he encountered in the monster world, they could barely be considered strong monsters with vigorous blood and strong bodies. The Blood-Drinking Demon Sword was also considered to have received some tonic, and he was quite satisfied with the meal.
"You will have a good meal later."
Ouyang Feng chuckled, stroked the blade with his fingertips, communicated with it for a while, put the magic sword back into the storage talisman, and began to review the results of the battle.
At this time, the three demons have revealed their true forms.
The tiger demon was a ferocious tiger with yellow skin and black stripes. It was smaller than the one Ouyang Feng killed in the demon world, and its skin was not as indestructible as before.
Ouyang Feng did not despise it and put it into his paradise, intending to feed it to the flying dragon.
Then he looked at the other two corpses and saw that the giant with its head and body split in half had turned into a black bear, and the fat man in green clothes had turned into a green-skinned wild bull, both of which were much larger than ordinary bears and bulls.
“It’s all good fodder.”
The three monsters were just ordinary monsters with shallow cultivation and average martial arts skills. Martial Master Bi Xuan might be able to kill them all alone. Of course, there would be no good trophies after killing monsters of this level. Their corpses were only suitable for feeding flying dragons.
As for weapons, whether it is the copper hammer of the bear monster or the iron spear of the bull monster, they are just ordinary weapons. Although they are made of solid materials, they have no extraordinary powers and are of little use. They can only be collected.
After collecting the bodies and weapons of the two monsters, Ouyang Feng returned to the place where he had killed the little monster before. He collected all the flesh and blood of the little monster and threw them all into the flying dragon's nest.
Although Ouyang Feng did not obtain any useful spoils from this killing spree, he did not feel disappointed.
At least he had somewhat confirmed his own strength in cultivation and knew the true level of ordinary monsters in the world of Journey to the West.
"But in this world of Journey to the West, the gap between great masters and ordinary monsters is so huge that it can be described as a world of difference."
Ouyang Feng thought in his heart:
"With the level of these three monsters and their subordinate monsters, they can only survive outside the borders of the Tang Dynasty. If they dare to enter the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty border troops will probably be able to slaughter them and eat their meat without even the cultivators having to intervene.
"But the upper limit of the world of Journey to the West is extremely high. Sun Wukong and Erlang Shen's magic of heaven and earth can both transform into ten thousand feet long Dharma bodies. After Erlang Shen's transformation, the blade of his three-pointed, double-edged sword can be as big as Mount Hua... This magical power is simply unimaginable.
"Monkey Brother's stick weighs 13,500 kilograms. With my current strength, I can barely lift it, but I can never swing the stick with one hand like Monkey Brother does, and be relaxed and tireless no matter how long I fight.
"Among the monsters in the mortal world, there are actually quite a few that can block the attack of the golden hoop and fight back and forth with the Great Sage... Tsk, the strengths of the monsters vary greatly."
Anyway, Ouyang Feng thought to himself that even if he used his "Great Strength Technique", it would be difficult to block a casual blow from Monkey Brother.
If he first used the "clone" technique to release eight clones, and then used the "throwing beans into soldiers" technique to summon a giant in golden armor to help him resist and weaken the power of Monkey Brother's stick, and then used the great power technique to bless and resist, he might be able to barely block one of Monkey Brother's sticks. "When I can block Monkey Brother's sticks more than ten or twenty times, I might be able to travel to Xi Niu Hezhou. Now, I can only go to the safe zone of Datang, which is dominated by humanity."
After thinking for a while, Ouyang Feng did not rush on his journey. He found a place with quiet forests and clear streams to rest for the night. He practiced for a while the next morning before continuing his journey eastward.
After walking for another few dozen miles, we got down the mountain and looked east for another few dozen miles. We saw a majestic city wall in the distance.
The wall of the city gate was more than twenty feet high and as majestic as a cliff, reminding Ouyang Feng that this was not the ordinary Tang Dynasty, but the Tang Dynasty of gods and demons in the world of Journey to the West.
He went to the bottom of the city wall and mixed in with the crowd of people entering the city wall. When the city wall was opened, Ouyang Feng entered the city wall with the crowd. He saw that all the soldiers guarding the city wall were full of energy, strong tendons and bones, and their external skills were not inferior to those of the Wolf Riders.
And these soldiers were actually just small soldiers guarding the city gate.
As for the young general standing on the top of the city wall, gazing at the people below with eager eyes, his muscles and bones were so strong, and his blood was so vigorous, that he was comparable to Ma Yue and the other five tigers and thirteen braves.
"This Tang Dynasty is not simple..."
Ouyang Feng sighed in his heart, and browsed the notice board inside the city gate for a while. He saw that the latest notice was dated the eighth year of Zhenguan, and he couldn't help thinking in his heart:
"In the eighth year of Zhenguan, is there only five years left before Tang Monk's journey to the West? It looks like Monkey King will be released soon after serving his sentence."
After confirming the time, I went to Guancheng Market and strolled around for a while, trying to find some good stuff, but unfortunately I didn't find anything good.
On second thought, I realized that I was thinking too much.
Even in the world of Journey to the West, treasures that are beneficial to spiritual practice will mostly only appear in famous mountains and rivers, and it is impossible for them to easily appear in the mortal world.
Furthermore, there are cultivators in the mortal world as well. Even if there were treasures beneficial to spiritual practice, they would have probably been collected by the cultivators long ago. How could they easily end up in the mortal market?
After figuring this out, Ouyang Feng didn't waste any more time. He strolled around for a while, found a restaurant to taste the local food, and asked the waiter about the way to Chang'an. Then he left the city and continued to head east.
Although many place names in this Tang Dynasty are the same as those in the Tang Dynasty that Ouyang Feng is familiar with, the geographical details are very different and the territory is much vaster.
Ouyang Feng was not in a hurry on his way east. Every time he arrived at a city, he would visit the local scenic spots to see if there were any monks practicing there. As a result, he did not find any monks, but he did meet many famous martial arts masters from all over the place.
The people of this Tang Dynasty are just as martial as those in other worlds, and there are many martial arts experts among the people.
However, what surprised Ouyang Feng was that the martial arts masters here only strengthened their muscles, bones, qi and blood, and practiced external skills, without any method of refining qi from the outside to the inside.
Although due to the abundant and active essence of heaven and earth, martial arts masters can develop thousands of pounds of supernatural power, a physique of steel and iron, and extraordinary skills by only practicing external skills, but without internal strength, ordinary martial artists cannot embark on the path of "refining essence into qi, refining qi into spirit" and truly enter the Tao.
Considering that Sun Wukong had spent more than ten years traveling to several continents, mingling in the markets of various countries, learning the ways of people, but never found the way to immortality, until he found the Lingtai Fangcun Mountain and worshipped in the Xieyue Sanxing Cave, and then embarked on the path of cultivation, Ouyang Feng felt that this might be because the immortals and gods had monopolized the path of cultivation for mortals.
It is extremely difficult for a casual cultivator who has no background and cannot find a legacy to truly embark on the path of cultivating immortality.
Think about it again, the Heavenly Court even has strict regulations on the time and number of times the Dragon King makes it rain. If the rule exceeds the limit by even a little, the person will be put on the Dragon-Slaying Platform and be stabbed. In addition, there are mountain gods, land gods, city gods, and river gods in various places, monitoring everything in the mortal world at any time. You can imagine how tight the control of the gods and immortals over the mortal world is in this world.
It is true that the net of heaven is vast and wide, and nothing can escape it.
Therefore, Ouyang Feng had no intention of spreading martial arts in this world.
Even people with great supernatural powers like Sun Wukong were suppressed by immortals and Buddhas. If Ouyang Feng, with his level of cultivation, dares to teach martial arts that go from the outside to the inside, refining essence into qi, and refining qi into spirit, the end will probably not be good.
After all, with the pure and active essence of the heaven and earth in this place, if the martial arts that can give a glimpse of the path to Taoism are really spread, there will probably be an endless stream of cultivators in the mortal world who can embark on the path of Taoism. Over time, it will definitely have a profound impact on the order and structure of the Three Realms.
So it’s better to be cautious.
Ouyang Feng visited famous martial arts masters along the way, exchanged ideas with them, and learned many exquisite body-building methods and external martial arts, which greatly supplemented his foundation in body-building.
By the time he arrived in Chang'an, he had even deduced a way to reach the level of one of the three great masters by purely cultivating the body through external skills, without cultivating internal strength at all.
Just practicing external skills alone will not lead to immortality.
No matter how strong one's combat power is, even surpassing the three great masters, and cultivating an indestructible body, the Qi and blood will gradually dry up, and the soul will be worn away by time. Sooner or later, the Qi and blood will dry up, and the soul will decay and die, leaving only a solid body that will last for a hundred years.
"The three treasures of essence, energy and spirit are indispensable. Only by following the golden elixir path can one achieve immortality..."
In Chang'an City, in a residential quarter near the Da Ci'en Temple, Ouyang Feng sat in the backyard of the three-story compound he had bought at a high price, rocking leisurely in a rocking chair, enjoying the afternoon sun, and thinking silently:
“Although the Tang Dynasty is prosperous and martial arts are prevalent, it is difficult to find cultivators, and martial arts can only improve external skills… Although this place is suitable for living, it is not a real place for cultivation!”
After a moment, the rocking chair was still rocking, but there was no one in it.
Ouyang Feng decided to return to the world he could control to practice.
With his current strength, he can only travel in the mundane world in this Journey to the West.
But in the secular world, it is difficult to find monks, and there is no one to communicate and learn from. Martial arts can only help him improve his external skills.
With his cultivation level, there was no room for him to make great achievements in this world. It was a pipe dream for him to get a position in the Heavenly Palace and go to the Peach Banquet to ask for a peach. Anyway, it seemed that all the ripe peaches in the Peach Garden had been eaten by the Great Sage. The remaining half-green and half-white peaches would take thousands or hundreds of years to ripen.
So it’s better to go back to the place where you practice.
At most, you can visit the Great Sage often before he finishes his sentence and ask him for advice.
[The second chapter is done, please give me a monthly ticket! ]
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