Let’s split the story into two parts. Let’s look back at the city of Jining.
Let's say that Xie Xuanzi took his four hall masters and ran all the way towards their main altar. The journey was smooth and extremely smooth.
Of course, that's what it should be: firstly, there is only one main road from the Dharma platform to their main altar, without any turns, just run in a straight line; secondly, because today we have to "collect offerings", so the people in the city Almost no shops were open, and the people living nearby also went to the market entrance to see how it was done, so the road was already deserted.
The five of them were running on this empty street. Although the distance was not short, they were not out of breath. After all, the five of them were all skilled in martial arts and their physical strength was better than that of ordinary people. many.
Just like that, I ran for seven or eight minutes. I saw that the main forum was almost there, but unexpectedly, suddenly! Xie Xuanzi, who was running at the front, exclaimed: "Ah!"
The four hall masters who were following him just had time to turn their heads following the sound, and saw that Xie Xuanzi had already fallen face down, falling and chewing the mud.
"Leader! Are you okay?"
"Master, let me help you!"
The reaction of the four people was not slow, and all of them wanted to be the first to rush forward to help the corpse.
But Shi Xuanzi lay there and immediately shouted: "Leave me alone! Be careful of ambush!"
Unfortunately, before he could say the word "bury", dozens of hidden weapons flew from high places like flowers scattered by a goddess.
His four hall masters were all paying attention to him at the moment, and the martial arts of these four were average, so this sneak attack was enough to cause serious damage to them...
Tong Gu, the leader of the Blue Lotus Hall, the "Invincible King Kong", stood closest to the direction of the hidden weapon, and his back was completely turned to the attacker. Therefore, he was hit by the most darts. He fell down first and could not stand up again. .
The leader of the White Lotus Hall, "Little Hansheng" Huang Zhong, is the oldest among the four hall masters. He has extraordinary arm strength and is good at using bows and arrows. He can be regarded as a master who is proficient in long-range attacks. However... he is only proficient in long-range attacks, not Long-range defense... He was obviously the only one facing the hidden weapon, but he failed to make any dodge and block moves. Although he only received one dart in the throat and one in the chest, he died immediately. .
The leader of the Black Lotus Hall, "Black Wind Overlord" Jiang Ba, is luckier. Although his martial arts skills are about the same as that of Huang Zhong, fortunately, the weapons he carries with him are a pair of Xuanhua board axes. The blocking area was relatively large, which just helped him block a few fatal darts, so he was only hit by the darts on his legs and did not die immediately.
In the end, the remaining leader of the Red Lotus Hall - "Mountain Top Arhat" He Yi, is the one with the highest martial arts among all the hall masters (including the deceased leader of the Green Lotus Hall "Green Face Patriarch" Chen Zu). The origin of his nickname is because he once became a monk and learned a set of Arhat Boxing and an introductory Zen method in a small mountain temple from an old monk who came out of a dog hole in Shaolin Temple in his early years.
Maybe you may think that this is nothing special at first. Let alone him, even the monk who taught him, wasn't he a man who couldn't even penetrate the bronze man formation and had to dig through a dog's hole to get out?
Then you are wrong.
The person who taught him had no talent and couldn't bear the hardship, so he slipped away. If the person who practices Kung Fu is not good, it does not mean that the Kung Fu he teaches is not good either.
The authentic Zen boxing techniques of Shaolin and the corresponding Zen mental techniques, even for entry-level people, will never be weak if they are practiced to perfection.
He Yi was more talented than his master, so he practiced this skill and soon surpassed his master.
Of course, it's not much better, because Zen martial arts has its own special characteristics...
Most of the martial arts of other sects only focus on "moves" and "internal skills (mental skills)" that complement each other. Only when one reaches mastery or great success will the so-called "artistic conception" appear.
Although there are some that require "moves", "internal strength" and "artistic conception" from the beginning, such as Zhang Sanfeng's Tai Chi Chuan and Tai Chi Sword, but those are mostly "magic" level martial arts, which are rare. .
As for Zen martial arts, it requires "moves", "internal strength" and "Buddhism" to complement each other. The rules are generally as follows -
When learning entry-level martial arts: the moves are simple and easy to learn, but most of them are clumsy and have average power; internal skills are difficult to develop, but the foundation is solid; even if you don’t understand much about Buddhism, the impact will not be great.
When learning advanced martial arts: the moves gradually become more complex and powerful, but the hostility also increases; the internal strength grows steadily, and even a person with dull qualifications at this stage has an internal strength that is not inferior to the internal strength of most other sects of the same level; Enlightenment is needed in terms of Buddhism in order to suppress the hostility that grows along with force.
When learning stunt-level martial arts: the moves are exquisite and powerful, and can easily cause death or disability; the internal strength is strong and can steadily increase with the passage of time; in Buddhism, it is necessary to achieve certain attainments, firstly to resolve hostility and prevent anger. Being possessed by a demon, the second is to be able to freely control martial arts.
On top of these three stages, there is also the "Dacheng" stage, which is the realm that can only be reached by top masters, but it is difficult to generalize.
Taking these first three stages as an example, it is not difficult to see that after reaching a certain bottleneck in Zen Kung Fu, if you want to break through, you must first have a certain understanding of "Buddha Dharma", otherwise it will be easy to become obsessed with it. Jiumozhi in "The Ministry" is a good example.
Even with Jiumozhi's extreme intelligence and qualifications, he couldn't force it, let alone He Yi, so his kung fu was stuck at the upper limit of entry-level.
But no matter what, with this little effort, He Yi managed to dodge this wave of hidden weapons and was unscathed for the time being.
at the same time……
"Taiyi True Immortal helps my soul, Yin guards Yang Guan and moves the sky to listen... Get up!" The corpse lying on the ground also quickly chanted the incantation. After reciting it, he paused for a second and then used a He climbed up with a seemingly strenuous movement.
"What kind of rat! You actually set up a formation to assassinate me, why don't you show up quickly?" After getting up, Zhi Xuanzi shouted loudly in the direction from which the hidden weapon flew.
And the person who attacked them did indeed lean out from the roof in that direction.
Not surprisingly, that person was Huang Donglai.
"Hmph! It's really you!" Shi Xuanzi also guessed that it was probably this guy, and this sneak attack made him even more convinced... When he was destroying the temple a few days ago, this "Old Immortal Xudong" was indeed just a bluff. That's all, because a person whose cultivation is higher than his own, there is no need to set up an ambush formation here, let alone use hidden weapons and other tricks.
"It's me, what's wrong?" Huang Donglai looked up from the roof and saw that after his first wave of attacks, two of the opponents were dead and one was injured. That made him feel relieved and his attitude became arrogant.
"Ha..." Shi Xuanzi said with a ferocious smile, "Boy, I don't care if you are Xudong Old Immortal or Xudong Little Immortal. Just with the power of your formation, I can tell that your cultivation level is better than mine." Now, if you dare to fight me like this, I think you are getting impatient, right?"
Huang Donglai understood this without him having to tell him.
The "Hundred-Step Magic Array" that Huang Donglai set up here today has a very simple mechanism. Its advantage is that it takes a very short time to set up and does not require too many props. As for its power, it mainly depends on the way of the caster. force……
If a master like Mianyinzi were to set up this kind of formation here today, when Xi Xuanzi stepped into the range of the formation, he would not be "a dog chewing mud", but "a man turned into mud". But the formation set up by Huang Donglai, Xie Xuanzi Just one "breaking technique" can offset 60 to 70% of its impact. At most, you will feel a little heavy when you stand inside.
"Who will die and who will live? How can you know if you don't try?" After a breath, Huang Donglai replied while taking out a kit from his arms.
This kit was not something else, it was one of the two things that Jiang Muchan "smuggled away" from Shi Xuanzi's body that day.
When Xi Xuanzi saw Huang Donglai taking out this object from a distance, he frowned and said something bad in his heart.
So what exactly is in the bag?
In fact, it is a "curse" refined by Shi Yanzi using the heavenly materials and earthly treasures he has collected over the years, and it is called "Piluchou".
"Vairu" is the name of the Buddha. Adding the word "sorrow" after it means that as long as this thing is used, even if the Buddha comes, it will be difficult to understand.
Of course, that's all. If there were immortals and Buddhas alive, how could they be afraid of something made by a mortal like you?
Furthermore, as we mentioned in the previous article, although Shi Xuanzi’s master was very good at refining magic weapons, Shi Xuanzi didn’t learn much in this area, so the “Piluchou” he refined, It's not that powerful. According to the familiar grade classification, it can be considered a "blue quality" item at most.
Originally, Shi Xuanzi was going to find an opportunity to make up a lie and ask Zhu Xuan to wear this thing as a talisman. Then he would use his own magic method to cooperate with this charm to slowly enchant the young prince over time. Mind, he didn't expect that before he could even mention this problem that night, Jiang Muchan came to disrupt the situation.
Now that he saw this thing falling into Huang Donglai's hands, Shi Xuanzi couldn't help but be a little scared, because he knew that if he knew how to use it, the other party could use this thing to perform a very powerful "mind-terrifying technique".
And Huang Donglai... Since he has taken out all these things at the moment, he naturally shows that he can use them.
"Xi Yuan Xie Mo Sui Dao leads, Liu He Ba Desolation is in the heart of the devil, Tai Qing Xuan Sage, help me carry out my execution, as urgent as a law or order!"
Soon after speaking, after taking out the kit, Huang Donglai immediately chanted the formula quickly. At the same time, he picked up the village sword in his hand and pointed the tip of the sword at the kit in his hand.
call--
The next second, a ball of blue flame ignited on the "Piluchou".
Before the fire burned his hands, Huang Donglai flicked his arm and threw "Piluchou" into the street.
When Xi Xuanzi saw this, he turned around and ran away.
He is also a cultivator, so he naturally knows that such a method of casting a spell by directly "burning and sacrificing" the cursed object is tantamount to squeezing out all the potential of the magic weapon at once, in order to exert an effect that exceeds its normal power.
For Huang Donglai, this is a quite normal choice: First, his moral conduct is not as good as that of Shi Xianzi. Even if he sets an ambush here in advance, he is still not sure of victory, so it is necessary to use this Secondly...this thing originally belonged to someone else, and it was an evil thing. He didn't feel bad if it was burned.
"Ah!" On the other side, the corpse turned around and took two steps before he shouted again.
This time, it was not because he fell, but because he hit an invisible wall.
"You!" Shi Xuanzi understood at this collision that the opponent had more than one formation here. Before he stepped into the "Hundred Steps to Entrap Demonic Formation", he had actually stepped into another formation a few steps earlier. In a larger formation besides the "Hundred-Step Demonic Array", that larger formation, to put it simply... is a barrier that "can only be entered but not exited".
Although it is not difficult to break this barrier based on Shi Yanzi's Taoism, it still takes a little time.
But right now...he doesn't have that time.
Just a second after he hit the "wall of air", the "Piluchou" thrown by Huang Donglai onto the street had already landed and turned into a burst of blue powder that exploded.
Shi Xuanzi looked back, his heart sank, big beads of sweat were dripping from his temples: "It's over..."
When he muttered these two words, the scene in front of him began to distort.
The sky in front of him instantly turned red, and the earth under his feet also looked red under the red sky. A strong smell of sulfur rushed into his nose, making him almost vomit.
In a moment, the streets around the corpse no longer existed, replaced by stretches of wasteland covered with volcanic ash, and rivers of fire rolling with lava.
Of course, in this strange and wild land, the most terrifying thing is not the environment, but the countless... terrifying local creatures that the zombies have never seen before.
