On the night of New Year's Eve, Sun Zikai was sitting on the top of a dangerous peak. The "Ansheng Pass" under the white snow was covered with red lanterns. His mind was still on cultivation. Looking at the people below who were laughing and laughing, he turned to look at Outside the customs. It was pitch dark outside the pass, and something always seemed to be running out of the darkness. He picked up a stone and threw it with all his strength.
The stone disappeared into the darkness and disappeared. He turned over and jumped directly off the dangerous peak. He quickly landed in the middle. He saw the right moment and grabbed the gap in the stone wall. His body stopped suddenly, but his arm was dislocated and his shoulder was bloody. Torn apart, only a few tendons and bones managed to hold the body together.
He then crawled on the stone wall, leaned on his legs, and jumped down little by little. Enduring the pain, he ran into the pig pen, sucked the life out of a pig, and restored his physical body.
Walking into Lao Yang's room, he saw the knife that Lao Yang was playing with, and asked, "Lao Yang, have you found it?"
Lao Yang said: "I dug out the bottom of the box. There is no weapon you mentioned weighing two hundred kilograms. You kid, you can't carry it, so what are you doing with it?"
Sun Zikai did not tell anyone about his enlightenment. He shook his head helplessly and said: "Forget it, I'll just use my own sword."
The sixth daughter-in-law came in and said, "Lao Yang, there is a pig in the pen that is dying, but it was still alive and kicking in the morning."
Lao Yang said: "That's a good relationship. Tell Liuzi to kill it and stew it tonight."
Sun Zikai walked out of the room, and Yang Youshi came over with a bowl of fried spring rolls, his mouth dripping with oil, "Brother, can't you eat it?"
Sun Zikai grabbed one, chewed it, and said disgustedly: "It's too greasy."
"I think it's so delicious. You haven't seen Sixth Aunt fried white meat yet. I'm so greedy!" As soon as New Year's Eve passed, she was six years old. When Sun Zikai took her wandering, she was only two years old. In fact, , compared to Sun Zikai, she did not suffer much.
Since the beginning of last year, Sun Zikai has been teaching Yang Youshi medical skills, but his talent in Youshi is not as good as that of Sun Zikai. He has not memorized even a tenth of the more than 460 books.
"Brother, what are you worried about?"
Sun Zikai tilted his lips and said, "It's okay." He walked up to the wall. Lao Zhang was the sentinel tonight, and he left the opportunity to have the New Year's Eve dinner to the young people.
Lao Zhang was wearing a sheepskin, holding a knife in his left hand and a hot wine bottle in his right hand. He was lying next to the wall, and a plate of fried spring rolls was placed on the wall.
Sun Zikai turned over and sat on the wall, with his legs hanging out.
Lao Zhang said: "Why don't you wear thick clothes?"
Sun Zikai replied: "It's not cold."
The two talked for a while, and not long after, the woman climbed up with a large plate of stewed meat and placed it in front of Lao Zhang, "The black pig in the pen was slaughtered. There are plenty of them. Eat hard. Call me when the wine is gone." ." The woman called Sun Zikai back to eat, but Sun Zikai said that he would stay here for a while.
The two generations of gatekeepers, one old and one young, chatted for a long time over a large plate of meat and a jug of wine. Sun Zikai pointed at Lao Zhang's face and asked: "Old Zhang, where did the scar on your face come from?"
Lao Zhang kept his eyes fixed on the outside of the gate and said with a smile: "When I was two or three years older than you, in order to save face among the children, I cut myself out with a knife. The pain made me cry and howl all night long. "
"Haha, I heard Lao Yang tell me that he is your kid and he knows everything about you."
Lao Zhang said displeased: "It was his Sangmen thing that tricked me into doing this in the first place!"
"How many years have you been guarding the prison, Lao Zhang?"
"The second year after Lao Yang came, I became the gatekeeper and have been guarding it for seventeen years. The first group of people died in the third year after I came, and only Lao Yang was left. With me, Lao Yang was twenty-four at the time and I was twenty-three, so we took the lead. It was the two of us who were lucky enough to always escape from death. Lao Yang had a harder time. He was the team leader, and he had to do everything. "
Sun Zikai glanced outside the pass and comforted Lao Zhang: "Stop staring outside, there is no one outside." Now he can not only feel life, but also energy. He knows best whether there is anyone there.
But Lao Zhang didn't dare to relax. He said: "Even if no barbarians come overnight, someone has to lean on me. Leaning here is to give the group of young people below a reassurance. It is not easy for everyone to spend the New Year in peace and contentment." ah."
Lao Yang yelled under the wall and asked Sun Zikai to go back for the New Year's Eve dinner. Sun Zikai jumped off the wall, said a New Year's greeting to Lao Zhang, and walked off. Lao Zhang and Lao Yang looked at each other and nodded. , The tacit understanding from childhood to adulthood does not require too much expression.
The gatekeepers tonight are all drunk. Although the war between the gatekeepers and the barbarians has been going on for so many years, there is very little friction on New Year's Eve, because the barbarians also celebrate the New Year. Night has a special meaning both inside and outside the pass.
Sun Zikai drank a lot of wine and was drunk even with food. After everyone fell asleep, Sun Zikai climbed to the top of the mountain again and lay on his side on the edge of the cliff. The moon in winter was sinking slowly. He was drunk and could not imagine the feeling of "absorbing" in his mind, even when he was awake. , let alone drunk. He had no choice but to get up unsteadily and perform the same set of moves. After a long time, he touched the "feeling" and fell to the edge of the cliff.
He looked at the moon and "absorbed" it vaguely. After a long time, the essence of the moon was condensed, and he raised his hand to grab it.
The pain of the second tempering was more intense than the essence of blood. Sun Zikai jumped up and almost fell down. I'm not drunk at all, I'm soberer than ever.
The pain reached a certain level and he couldn't scream anymore. He kept stomping his feet until his feet were numb, and then he started to roll. When the pain subsided a little, he yelled out, but his voice was buried in the wind and snow. , did not disturb the sweet dreams of the gatekeepers below.
He lay face down on the ground, covered in sweat, then jumped up, took off his pants and peed, shaking his head, thinking that he didn't want to experience it again.
But the spot on his skin that had been tempered twice by the essence of the moon did not show any difference.
"I have to find the essence that enhances the body's hardness first. What will it be?" He sat next to the cliff, wondering if it could be the stone under his seat. Can the stone condense the essence? The stone is not like the sun and the moon, and is not releasing energy, but Sun Zikai also feels that since blood can condense essence, it is not impossible for the stone to do so.
He casually grabbed it on the ground and picked up the soil. Suddenly he was stunned. He smelled the smell of the soil, looked at the soil, and then looked at the stones. He started the same set of movements. After a long time, came " "Feeling", he pressed the "feeling" on the soil. During this period, he suddenly felt the decomposition of the soil, and at the moment of change, he seemed to be aware of a huge energy released into nature. He was confused when his hands felt warm. He looked down and saw that the soil was gone, leaving only a mud-yellow earth essence.
He patted the palm of his hand and immediately noticed the change. He struck while the iron was hot and grabbed handful after handful of dirt...
In three days, he did not come down from the dangerous peak. The first round of tempering with the earth essence was easy and painless, and the improvement brought to him by the earth essence was exactly the hardness of his body that he had been thinking about. The skin, organs, even blood vessels, eyes... were all tempered by him.
On the fourth day, he hurriedly said goodbye to the gatekeeper and ran out of the gate. This time he didn't even take the donkey with him, and found a secluded place. Unlike other essences, the essence of earth was everywhere, so he immediately opened it. After the second round of tempering, this was the lightest second round of tempering pain he had ever endured. However, the tempering of earth essence improved the body very slowly, and there was no clear upper limit. After the fourth round, , Sun Zikai felt that his body was not much hard. It was not until the eighth round that he felt that his skin had a distinct hard texture.
Five days later, he reached the twentieth round of tempering. The pain of tempering at this time was even higher. After being "hammered" again and again, his body could finally bear his own strength. However, he was still not satisfied and continued to temper with the essence of earth. At the twenty-third level, the pain was unbearable, as if his skin was beaten iron. The new round of tempering was to use this piece of iron. The chisel was broken into pieces bit by bit, and then the fire was hammered again.
And his body tempering speed also slowed down. It took ten days to temper to the thirtieth round. At this time, Sun Zikai's body was already invulnerable. Even when he jumped from a height of thirty feet, his legs could land firmly on the ground. . With sixty-four times the strength of an adult, his speed has been greatly improved. However, although his ankles are hard, they are not soft enough, and many of the movements made under extreme conditions are not smooth enough.
On the thirty-fourth level, he failed to temper his body because the pain had surpassed the second tempering of the essence of the moon, which made him give up halfway and start practicing body skills instead.
The strength is there, the physical strength is there, but the knife is useless. When he slashed with all his strength, the blade broke. He could only abandon his weapons and use fists and kicks instead. The set of killing skills accumulated by killing barbarians for a long time came into play again. He reduced the redundant moves again and again. In the end, only a few simple killing moves were left. As for Jian, although he no longer has those gorgeous moves, he seems to have gained a new set of skills, and he uses his mind to stop them, which is quite effective.
He did not stop exploring the path of spiritual practice. The essence of the soil can be condensed from the soil, and he realized that the essence of everything can be condensed. From the perspective of energy, it also proved that everything The energy or energy form of an object can be manipulated or converted.
His whimsicality was once again proven. He captured the wind and fire, and condensed water under the waterfall. One day, his hand touched the iron tool. Suddenly, he had a whim, and the essence was actually condensed on the iron tool. He said It is the essence of gold, and the essence of wood is condensed on the grass and trees.
After the first round of tempering, his body incorporated the essence structures of the sun, moon, metal, wood, water, fire, earth, and blood. In the second round of tempering, he developed the special abilities brought by the essence.
He specifically called the original things like essence elements. What surprised him the most was that the essence of earth greatly increased his physical strength, causing the other essences that were tempered twice to greatly weaken the pain caused to him.
The essence of wind made his skin very sensitive to the flow of breath. After the third round of tempering, he began to be able to "see" "qi". This "qi" is not just wind, it emanates from different people. The "qi" that comes out is different, and the "qi" that the same person exudes under different emotions is still different.
After the third round, the Essence of Water still did not show any special abilities. It was not until Sun Zikai used rocks as sandbags and beat them for a whole day, leaving two wounds on his fists, that he discovered that the Essence of Water had brought him The changes in the body, all things born in water, and the ability of water essence are exactly "repair" and "healing". His two wounds were quickly repaired, and the consumption of his own vitality was almost zero. It is an evolution. Finally, the skin structure repairs itself.
The second round of tempering the wood essence failed directly. It was not because it was too painful, but because his body did not respond to the second coming of the wood essence. It did not integrate or reject it. It seemed that it could only be tempered. Practice once.
Among all the elements, the essence of gold and the essence of fire were the two that benefited Sun Zikai the most, and they essentially changed Sun Zikai's fighting style.
The second tempering of the two essences made Sun Zikai's skin structure extremely unstable, but the results were different. The essence of gold allowed the special structure of Sun Zikai's skin to "soften" and "spread". In layman's terms, In other words, when he holds the knife as light as a willow leaf, the knife in contact with his body will be assimilated into the same structural texture as his body. How hard his body is, how hard the things he touches will become. It was hard, but once separated, it quickly returned to its original shape.
The essence of fire is a very direct and violent release of texture, and the way it is released is flame. He has never practiced magic before, and he can summon large flames with a wave of his hand. This is also his favorite result of practice. The hot flame burned in his eyes, and he was obsessed with it. What a beautiful thing, flame, a masterpiece of God.
In another year, he completed the second tempering of the essence of the sun and the moon, but the two essences still did not show very special abilities. It was just the essence of the moon that made Sun Zikai's body much smoother. Actions that cannot be completed at high speeds can now be completed easily.
By the end of Sun Zikai's tenth year, he had tempered the essence of earth to the forty level, with two levels of sun and moon essence, three levels of blood, and four levels each of gold, water, fire, and earth. At this time, the texture of wood in his body It showed its unique ability. It turns out that the effect of the essence of wood is "evolution".
Perhaps his body had strengthened to a certain level. The grains of wood spread out and spread out, wrapped in the textures of all elements, and led the entire body to complete an evolution, making the body forging of earth reach the standard of the sixtieth level, the body forging by the sun and the moon for three levels, and the body forging by blood for five. There are six layers each of gold, water, fire and earth, but since then, his body training practice has almost stagnated, and his body has reached some undefinable limit. Even if he keeps using essence to temper his body, there is no other effect except pain, and The pain caused by the earth essence tempering process can already be fatal.
But at this time, his physical strength has become immeasurable, and his strength has reached one thousand and twenty-four times that of an adult.
