Tianjihong didn't know yet at this time that spiritual beasts and monks could generally practice animal skills similar to martial arts. In essence, animal skills are not much different from martial arts. They all use the spiritual power in the body to transform daily decayed attacks into powerful moves. Since beasts do not have the intelligence of humans before they transform into spiritual beasts, except for very rare cases, it is impossible for ordinary beasts that have not cultivated spiritual power to use beast skills, and are even more capable than ordinary humans. The situation of martial arts is even rarer. After all, ordinary humans can still use their own wisdom to simplify and improve martial arts to suit themselves, but beasts obviously cannot do this.
If we really want to talk about the biggest difference between animal skills and martial arts, it is the requirements for military science. Since the application of monks' martial arts, except for fists and palms, most of them are based on the practice of their own weapons. The most obvious difference between beast skills is that beasts do not use weapons, and their beast skills are all aimed at their own strange attacks. They evolve based on their parts, such as claws, head, tail, body for melee combat, and even external breath, jet, sound waves, toxins, etc.; therefore, for monks and spiritual beasts, animal skills and martial arts can only imitate each other and For reference; if you want to achieve exactly the same thing, it would be impossible for a monk to practice all animal skills.
In the martial arts world, there are a small number of spiritual beasts who have awakened ancient bloodlines and are born with the ability to comprehend the spiritual beast skills inherited in their blood. Just like the secret skills passed down by the ancient martial arts family among monks, beings with such a noble bloodline are often destined to be able to crush other spiritual beasts of the same level from birth, and there is no need to spend a long time evolving the skills that have not yet been transformed into their own. Applicable spirit beast skills. Correspondingly, for other ordinary spirit beasts who do not have such talents, it is a very long and difficult process to deduce and master a unique beast skill; for example, the snake and turtle's claw skill in front of them is obviously an attempt to use their original skills. The attack form of breaking the enemy with claws evolved into his own natural beast skill through the method of spiritual power. However, even with its current terrifying power, this claw still has not reached the level of spiritual beast skills and is not yet complete. When one day this snake turtle truly masters his claw skills, he will probably be unable to resist an opponent that cannot even be called a spiritual beast.
Although the soil salamander could not make a sound, from the way it quickly curled up in a ball after sensing the huge paw prints falling from the sky, it could be said that it was well prepared for this move against its old enemy. Finally, at this moment, the huge paw prints with flowing spiritual power collided with the salamander below, which had rolled its body into a ball. The spiritual power spurred the sharp claws like blades to densely cover the salamander's back. The scales slid on it, making a tooth-aching "sizzling" sound. It has to be said that the scales produced by the mutation of the soil salamander do have some tricks, and they are not easily cut by the sharp blade blessed by spiritual power. This solid protection can be said to perfectly make up for the salamander's own worrying defense, making it It now has more room and means to maneuver when facing the enemy.
However, this soil salamander is not a spiritual beast after all. Even if there are scales to block such a terrifying attack, it will be difficult for him to remain unscathed. As the ear-piercing and deafening cracking sound gradually dissipated, Tianjihong saw that there were still three slender claw marks left behind the salamander, with traces of crimson blood flowing through them, and then dripping onto the surface of the scales below; Come to think of it, if it hadn't been for the obstruction of the scales, which took away most of the strength of this claw, I am afraid that the soil salamander would have been cut into several pieces at this time. The severe pain once again caused the latter to tremble uncontrollably. However, it had already been fighting with its opponent for decades, and it actually expected this result. As long as it survived the attack by force, it still had a chance to fight back.
In addition to the several paw prints that hit the soil salamander, because the latter shrunk in time, two more paw prints missed the target, and finally fell into the quagmire, forcibly cutting the surface of the earth into two holes for nearly two meters. Feet deep cracks. After displaying such a powerful beast skill, the violent fluctuations around the snake and turtle also temporarily stopped. It seemed that it had fallen into a short trough and was just waiting to re-concentrate its spiritual power. However, this was exactly the opportunity that his opponent was waiting for. Under the powerful impact of the claw just now, the snake turtle, which was still in mid-air due to the rapid decline in spiritual power in his body, was hit by the claw technique before he had time to resist. The force of the counter-shock sent it flying far away, and finally it staggered to a stop several meters away to the left of the newt.
The soil salamander would not miss this opportunity. Before the enemy landed, he had already endured the wounds on his body, unfolded his huge body again, and once again waved his powerful tail towards the place where the snake and turtle landed. The snake turtle, which had just landed on the ground and was still staggering, naturally sensed the approaching danger through its soul consciousness, so it swung its tail and rolled sideways, narrowly avoiding the vertically falling giant tail. . From a glance, both sides looked a little embarrassed at this time, and as the newt seized the opportunity of the opponent to lose strength and forced himself to the latter's side, a fierce hand-to-hand combat suddenly broke out between the two.
In the mud, two figures with huge differences in size, one large and one small, were twisting and bumping back and forth in a space with a diameter of only two feet. It looked a bit weird from a distance. Claws, webs, scales, shells, and tails collided fiercely in mid-air from time to time. From time to time, viscous liquid and broken scales were scattered and flying under the coercion of the mud. This continuous collision could not help but make Tianji beside him Hong was dazzled by what he saw, and for a moment he couldn't tell who had the upper hand on both sides. Fortunately, after about ten rounds, the two finally pulled away from each other. Only then did Tianjihong realize that under the brute force of the collision, before the snake and turtle had yet to mobilize its spiritual power, it was actually on the side. The newts gradually gained the upper hand. During the final collision between the webs and claws of the two sides, one large and one small, the snake and turtle finally suffered the loss of its size; even though its strength was not as good as its opponent's, it was pushed hard by the force of the shock due to its small size. He walked two feet away and rolled several times in mid-air before landing; on the other hand, his opponent was constantly losing weight in the quagmire due to his huge body, and he just trembled and stabilized his body.
At this time, Tianjihong even admired the tyrannical strength of the soil salamander. Although he still didn't understand why the snake turtle did not display the power that a spiritual beast should have in the whole process, but the soil salamander alone could The sight of the same spiritual beast competing against each other in terms of physical strength, and even suppressing it steadily, was enough to make him proud. Of course, Tianjihong, who had already figured out the situation, would not easily judge that Salamander would win the final victory at this time. Let’s not talk about what the snake turtle is doing and has never been able to exert its full strength. Just from the previous duel, Tianjihong knew very well that the snake turtle is best at defense rather than strength. Just now, it mostly relied on the power of the spirit beast. The physical body has only been fighting fiercely with the opponent for so long. But once it wakes up and starts to use its defensive advantages to deal with the opponent, it will be difficult for the salamander's attack to break through the defense and cause effective damage to it. At that time, it will only need to shrink its shell and defend until it regroups its spiritual power. You can easily reverse the situation and launch a counterattack.
Sure enough, as a snake and turtle who had already cultivated spiritual wisdom, when he found that he could not compete with his opponent with his physical body, he began to change his thinking. In fact, it stands to reason that in many years of competition with its opponent, it has already understood the opponent's strengths and weaknesses. The confrontation with the newt for so long just now was probably just a test of its own strength; after all, it has a very strong heart. It is clear that even if the opponent's strength can suppress him in terms of strength, he cannot really injure himself seriously. However, at this point in the fight, it was clear that the two sides were really going to fight over life and death; at this time, Snake and Turtle could not care so much. When he saw the other party coming at him with another tail whip, the former did not choose to fight with him anymore. Instead, it directly curls its limbs and long snake neck into the turtle shell, leaving only a snake tail outside to control the movement direction of the body.
This is no less powerful than the first tail whip when the two fought, which completely landed on the snake turtle's shell. At this moment, the terrifying impact that could have shaken the mud on the ground up to a height of ten feet hit the turtle shell that was only two palms in size, but it dissipated into the air as silently as a mud cow entering the sea. In the middle; the only thing that could be seen was the turtle shell. The scattered lines became brighter at that moment, forming an invisible barrier on the surface of the turtle shell. When the tail whip came into contact with the shell, all its force seemed to be resolved by the barrier, spreading in all directions around; but the barrier showed no signs of breaking, only ripples rose in circles, and The snake and turtle shrouded below were also unscathed.
Seeing that his attack was fruitless, the soil salamander was not reconciled. Driven by instinct, he swung his tail whip and launched continuous attacks against the hard turtle shell. At the same time, his webbed palms also continued to attack from time to time. He stirred the snake and turtle in front of him like a ball, trying to find weak spots in his opponent's defense in all directions. However, after dozens of attacks with no results, the twitching tail of the salamander began to slow down slowly. Looking at the snake and turtle that had rolled on the ground several times, it seemed that there was still no big change. ; Only the glowing snake tail that remained outside the shell showed a few scratches, but the shrunken snake turtle didn't seem to care about it at all.
