Chapter 199: Fighting Beasts
The charred branch, which is about the size of your little finger, looks so inconspicuous that those who don't know it might think it is a dry branch left over from burning when cooking.
If it hadn't been placed on the white jade pillar that contains the fragments of the Immortal King's skills, no one would have thought that it would be an extremely rare lightning-strike wood that lasted ten thousand years. The reason why this wood is rare is because the conditions for its formation are too harsh.
First of all, it does not mean that a ten-thousand-year-old fairy tree will become a lightning-strike tree if it is struck by lightning. It is a tree that was struck by thunder from the sky. After the thunder burned the tree body, the tree was still alive and standing as before. After thousands of years, the scorch marks on the wood struck by lightning had already become spiritual and could gather automatically. The thunder and lightning elements between heaven and earth are like this, so they can be called the wood struck by lightning for ten thousand years!
"Hahahaha... It's really hard to find a place without even trying. It takes no effort at all!" Zhou Hao almost cried with joy.
"I didn't expect that the Ten Thousand Years Lightning Strike Wood, which is not even stored in the elixir pavilion on the third floor of Duobao Pavilion, would appear in a pavilion full of immortal martial arts on the fourth floor. This is really unexpected."
The turtle also sighed with emotion: "As the saying goes, flowers planted intentionally will not bloom, but willows planted unintentionally will create shade. The fate of the world is so wonderful."
"Actually, I don't think it's that exaggerated. Instead, I think it's reasonable. Although things like Ten Thousand Years of Lightning Strike Wood can indeed be used as medicine, they are more commonly used as magic weapons to ward off evil spirits." Green Snake said calmly.
"Well, what Qingqing said makes sense. It seems that we can't hang ourselves on a tree in the future. It just so happens that this level is over. There is still one last level. Let's try our luck and see if we can find it again. It's just a side medicine." At this moment, Zhou Hao was as if he had been given a shot of blood and his fighting spirit was high.
This trip to Duobao Pavilion was an eye-opener for him and he gained a lot. He thought he would be more confident when he met those foreign geniuses soon after coming here.
"It would be best if I could achieve some success in practicing the techniques from the first volume of the Dragon Elephant Buddha Sutra before the Golden Immortal Grand Meeting." Zhou Hao thought in his heart.
The more immortal martial arts he knows, the better his chances of winning. He is not stupid enough to think that he will definitely be able to enter the realm of understanding.
Over the past few days, he had already learned that this once-in-a-millennium recruitment event was unprecedented. Everyone knew about the star. Countless extraterrestrial visitors descended on this ancient star of life every day, like crucian carps crossing the river. They are all the younger generation of Golden Immortal monks.
As we all know, there is only one threshold for enrolling students in Mingshixiang: a golden immortal under the age of 500! Of course, the general scope of this five-hundred-year-old is still a human immortal, and the only requirement for other races is the younger generation of golden immortals. After all, some creatures of special races can live for a long time even if they don't practice cultivation. Who can explain this?
"Let's go, the last floor of Duobao Pavilion, here we come!" Hua Huo held Zhou Hao with one hand, clenched the other hand into a fist and raised it above his head, looking even more excited than Zhou Hao.
Immediately, the two beasts turned into streams of light and flew towards the colorful light pillar area of the Three Pillars Pavilion. After a while, they arrived at their destination.
The fifth floor of Duobao Pavilion, which can also be said to be the sixth floor, is strictly speaking the fifth floor above ground, that is, the highest floor. This floor is a large auction house, but it is also a colosseum.
The entire pavilion forms an oval, with a flat ground in the center as the performance area. The surrounding stands rise one by one, for a total of nine rows. A high wall is built between the first row of stands at the bottom and the performance area. Once the beasts are fought, When it leaps up to hurt someone, it will trigger the high wall protection mechanism to form a transparent column light curtain barrier.
At this time, Zhou Hao and his entourage happened to be sitting in the first row of the stands, and they were obviously honored by the VIPs of Huahuo Tianzi again.
The auction time here is fixed every day, and the rest of the time is for animal fighting performances. The audience can choose their favorite fairy beast to buy while watching. To put it bluntly, the main business on this level is fairy beasts. For example, monks need to buy them as their own mounts, and some fairy sects need to buy them to train their disciples as war beasts...
At this moment, a thrilling battle between animals is taking place in the performance area below: a golden-beaked purple eagle versus a black bear!
I saw the golden-beaked purple eagle spread its wings and pounced on the black bear from high to low from time to time. Its sharp claws were like iron hooks, easily grabbing large pieces of flesh and blood from the black bear, causing the latter to roar in anger.
But the black bear was not a vegetarian either. The huge bear paw hit it like a big millstone, sending the golden-beaked purple eagle and its claws flying away. It hit the high wall and left a pool of red blood.
It is worth mentioning that the physical body of this beast is very resistant to beatings and injuries. After fighting for hundreds of rounds, the black bear finally decided the situation with one palm.
It tried hard to pull the golden-beaked purple eagle's head over even though it was injured, and killed it with a single blow with its bear paw. It breathed its last and won the battle.
There are as many as a dozen shocking wounds on the body and face of the black bear. They are all holes and claw marks, either pecked by the purple eagle, or scratched by its claws, or even directly stabbed by the golden-beaked purple eagle before it died. Its two eyes turned it into a veritable blind bear!
When the beast fight ended, the audience in the stands cheered, as if celebrating the black bear. However, a moment later, an iron cage suddenly appeared out of thin air around the black bear, trapping it in it. Then a deep pit appeared on the ground, and the iron cage The black bear and the black bear fell down immediately.
Immediately afterwards, two figures appeared, wearing uniforms. They were responsible for cleaning up the battlefield. The golden-beaked purple eagle whose head was smashed by the black bear just fell into a pool of his own blood. There were bird feathers and bear fur everywhere. They were cleaned up by those two figures.
In fact, the invisible barrier built by the high wall is not only to protect the audience, but more importantly, it makes the fairy beasts in the performance area temporarily lose their fairy power and cannot use it. They can only fight purely with their physical bodies, allowing the audience to witness their most primitive battles. capabilities to determine whether it is worth buying at a high price.
"Watching two living creatures fighting, one was seriously injured and the other died on the spot in the blink of an eye. All they did was choose a favorite mount. This is really cruel!" Hanabi in the first row of stands. With an unbearable look on her face and a very bad mood, she lowered her head and murmured.
Zhou Hao nodded and sighed softly: "Who says it's not the case? When I was a mortal, I always heard how good it was to be an immortal, immortal and carefree. Now it seems that the immortal realm is generally different from the mortal world. There is no difference between the world, love, hatred, sin and suffering, desire, ambition, greed and ugliness... there are many of them. As the saying goes, Taoists are subject to birth, old age, sickness and death, but immortals cannot avoid the five declines of immortals. In order to live longer, we have become immortal monks , but when you become a monk, it becomes even more difficult to escape the law of the jungle. You need to constantly compete with the sky, the earth, all living beings, all things, and the great road... It seems that you will never be able to feel at ease!"
"This is an inevitable result. It is the same everywhere. No matter how invincible the strong man is, he cannot change it. At most, he can formulate new rules to restrict it, but he can never really stop it! The journey of the great road is irreversible, but the difference between the strong and the weak can be reversed. , just like today we feel cruel when we see the fighting beasts fighting in the field, but there is nothing we can do about it. If we can stand on the pinnacle of immortality in the future, we can change it with a wave of our hands. However, there are many such things, even if you can solve one Thousands of cases, ten thousand cases, it will still happen somewhere. In the final analysis, the source cannot be cut off. The lifelong ambition of the first-generation Buddha in the Purdue Immortal Realm was to save all living beings. For this reason, he established Buddhism, promoted Buddhism, and hoped that All living beings are equal and there is no more suffering. It can be said that believers are everywhere in the Immortal Realm now. However, when comparing the present world with the past, what difference can there be? It is not that you are fighting for it, the weak is eating the strong, and even the Buddhists themselves cannot save themselves. , how can we talk about saving all sentient beings?" The turtle's eyes were as calm as ever, as if he had already looked down upon everything and was aloof.
"All living beings suffer, the only way to overcome it is by yourself!" Green Snake said calmly.
