Cao Zhe, wearing a white cloak, stood at the gate of the half-collapsed city and dusted himself off.
Passing through the streets that were mostly covered by wind and sand, the corpses that were originally scattered and covered with wind and sand along with the small town had already been taken away and buried nearby in the desolate slope behind the small town.
No one is more familiar with this city than Cao Zhe.
He once used magic to transform everyone in the city.
The traffickers and footmen, the common people in the market, the dignitaries in the city, the poor, the weak, the orphans and the widows, are all the fruits of the illusion that he transformed through the web of sentient beings.
These figures, taken from the people, originally came from the human world. They are mirages of various human lives cast into this small town.
Only he can maintain such a huge calculation and make the people in the entire city come alive.
All the people who were massacred by Xiao Ting in this city were fake.
The only one who survives is the real living person.
After crossing the main street and passing two courtyard walls that collapsed due to lack of maintenance under the wind and sand, Cao Zhe found the protagonist of this trip at the end of an alley.
He was practicing the Bull Demon Skin Refining Boxing Technique in the yard. This basic boxing technique had long been spread through some means, and now it has spread all over the world.
Cao Zhe's ban on the boundary monument could only stop some laymen. By the time he reached the Shenzang Realm, he could completely write and teach the basic martial arts on the boundary monument.
The boundary monument's current significance to Martial Arts Mountain is more symbolic.
I have been sending a message to the world... don't kneel!
Because I kneeled down, it was difficult to stand up again.
The young man Deng Xiaonian lives alone in this deserted small town. He relies on rummaging through some remaining old things in the city for daily necessities.
Lacking fresh meat, and without the flesh and blood of monsters to supplement it, every time he punched, the muscles on his body twitched in pain as his energy and blood surged.
"If you practice boxing like this, you will destroy yourself before you even reach the threshold!" Cao Zhe said.
Deng Xiaonian paused. The withered muscles on his body were twitching, as if there were little mice hidden under his skin.
"This is a ghost town. If you are not afraid, you can stay overnight." Deng Xiaonian said indifferently.
Cao Zhe laughed when he heard the words: "They are just some rumors! The methods of Demon Lord Xiao Ting are so amazing, it is difficult for those who are killed by him not to lose their souls. Although the evil spirit here is strong, it is just a little scary, but the ghost city is not at all As for it, it would be better to say... Ordinary monsters and ghosts smell the scent Xiao Ting left here and dare not approach it. On the contrary, it is a good place to settle down."
Deng Xiaonian raised his eyes and looked at Cao Zhe, this time his eyes were much more serious.
"Demon Lord Xiao Ting... do you know him?" Deng Xiaonian asked.
Cao Zhe said: "I have dealt with him before, so I am not too familiar with him!"
Deng Xiaonian gritted his teeth: "I heard that he is not dead yet, he was just exiled from the world by the Master."
"What is Exile?"
Cao Zhe said: "It means the same thing as driving out of the city."
Deng Xiaonian's eyes brightened: "Okay! As long as he's still alive! Sooner or later I will kill him with my own hands."
Cao Zhe did not dampen Deng Xiaonian's spirit.
The most important thing for young people is this spirit.
Only those who are young and frustrated will think they are smooth enough to polish this rare spirit.
"Yeah! You're very ambitious!"
"But you have to learn martial arts well first. I heard that Martial Arts Mountain is a good place. If you want to go, I can send you to a nearby caravan and ask them to take you to Martial Arts Mountain." Cao Zhe said.
Deng Xiaonian shook his head: "No! I won't leave. If I leave, the city will be gone, and no one will remember Uncle Scarface, Uncle Barbarian, Erniang Jiao, Brother Qiao..."
"I will stay here and guard this city. As long as people still see the fireworks in the city, they will know that this city is still there and it is still alive."
Cao Zhe did not continue to persuade him earnestly.
Young people are energetic and can endure loneliness. There is nothing better than this.
"Then let me teach you a set of martial arts!" Cao Zhe said.
"Although I'm not very capable, and in today's world, I really don't mean much, but I think I still have some skills, if you don't mind." Cao Zhe continued.
Deng Xiaonian's eyes were bright, he was a little confused at first, but then he became calm.
He is already like this, is it possible that he is still worried about being deceived or having something taken away?
"Okay! If you are willing to teach, of course I am willing to learn."
"But I must not have a good foundation, so I followed Master Liu of Yelang Mountain and learned half a set of boxing. If I can't learn your martial arts, don't be upset." Deng Xiaonian said.
Cao Zhe laughed: "Don't worry, you can definitely learn my martial arts."
"Watch carefully! The first move is 'The Cooking Ding Jie Niu'. This is a sword technique. Once you have learned all the sword techniques in the world, you will have them all under your control. You can disassemble and combine them at will."
After speaking, Cao Zhe reached out and grabbed a branch and began to wave it.
Deng Xiaonian looked at it very seriously. For some reason, when he watched Cao Zhe wielding the knife, he thought of Uncle Scarface cutting meat.
Comparing the two, he actually has a particularly clear understanding of this sword technique.
Subconsciously, he also made a knife with his hands and waved his arms.
As he swung the knife, the vitality of heaven and earth began to 'irrigate' Deng Xiaonian's dry body.
This sword technique passed down by Cao Zhe is essentially a combination of internal and external movements. Practicing swordsmanship is training Qi.
"The second move, the barbarian throws the elephant."
This is a boxing move.
"The third trick is to hide flowers under the leaves."
This is a palm technique and a body technique.
"The fourth move is to steal the beam and change the pillar."
This is Qinggong, and it is also skillful in capturing.
Cao Zhe taught him every move, and Deng Xiaonian also learned every move quickly.
These moves were tailor-made for him. Every time Cao Zhe made a move, a familiar figure would appear in Deng Xiaonian's mind, recalling the movements and postures that that person was used to. The combination of the two would naturally make him learn quickly.
After the thirty-six moves were passed, Cao Zhe hung a wooden sign on the courtyard wall.
"Whenever you want to leave the city, take it to Martial Arts Mountain."
"Of course, you can always stay here."
"Deng Xiaonian! Remember your current spirit, it is useless, but it is already your most precious thing."
"Don't lose it!" After Cao Zhe finished speaking, the figure had disappeared.
Deng Xiaonian was still immersed in those moves, but he didn't know if he heard Cao Zhe's words.
Cao Zhe made a special trip to see Deng Xiaonian, just to clarify the cause and effect.
Although the 'illusions' created by him are false, they can also be true.
Uncle Scarface's taking in Deng Xiaonian was an accident that exceeded Cao Zhe's original calculation.
For Cao Zhe, the city is fake and so are the people.
For Xiao Ting, it was just a 'copy' place to advance the mission.
But for Deng Xiaonian, it was all true.
He knows, he remembers, and is always recalling and missing it, refusing to forget or let go.
After leaving the small town and bidding farewell to Deng Xiaonian, Cao Zhe still did not go back to Wudao Mountain directly, but went to Rakshasa Sea City.
