Chapter 8, Black-Striped Python, First Soul Ring
Chen Xilin wiped away his tears, life had to go on.
Chen Xilin could only move on the trees, like a monkey. There were wolves everywhere below him, and he couldn't move at all, not even to get his own knife.
The day passed quickly and
it was already dark. Chen Xilin sat on a thick branch, looking at the waning moon in the sky, feeling extremely desolate.
At this moment, Chen Xilin seemed to hear the sound of "Snowflakes are flying, the north wind is whistling" in his ears.
"If my strength reaches that of a red-level pagoda, it wouldn't be so troublesome. A mere thousand-year-old soul beast can be easily defeated! Damn the cultivation rules! Why do I need a soul ring to break through?
Which lunatic created this cultivation system! I really am %#￥&."
Chen Xilin complained endlessly about the cultivation system in this world. The Yi Jin Jing that Chen Xilin practiced had been stuck in the first cycle and could not break through.
Chen Xilin can only continue to temper his spirit, energy and vitality now, although tempering his spirit, energy and vitality will make it easier for him to break through the white-level pagoda and the black-level pagoda in the future.
But now he has no substantial fighting power
. When the Yi Jin Jing reaches the third week, the red level pagoda absorbs nutrients from the air directly through the pores. His spiritual perception is clear, his body is glowing red, his ears and eyes are sharp, and he is full of energy. He can easily break a giant tree with one palm.
Chen Xilin felt that he was a red-level pagoda, so the previous Netherworld Demonic Dragon would have been beheaded long ago.
After Chen Xilin finished cursing, he could only continue practicing. Practicing is also a way to relax and rest. Strengthening your own life is more important than anything else.
The real challenge comes after the red-level pagoda. It is enough to lay a good foundation. It is actually very difficult to truly reach the black-level pagoda.
In the past, Bodhidharma named the top of the Yi Jin Jing as the Black Level Pagoda, implying that the power of this Buddhist martial art can make people suffer the seven severe tortures equivalent to the Avici Hell.
The Yi Jin Jing exercise not only harms the human body, but also corrupts one's mind and consciousness, causing external and internal invasions, with incredible power.
The seven punishments are: boiling oil, burning, freezing, cutting flesh, beheading, gouging out eyes, and hooking the tongue.
Of course, these seven punishments are just metaphors. Anyone who seems to have nothing to do in practicing martial arts will have his flesh cut off. However, the pain of breaking through the black level is probably even worse than cutting flesh.
In order to kill Qin Yang, Chen Xilin used poison to stimulate the potential of his body and forcibly opened the black-level pagoda, and sacrificed his own life with blood to open the second battle pattern.
Although his combat power was strong, Chen Xilin's body also collapsed. Chen Xilin didn't know when he died. He felt as if he was sitting down, and when he closed his eyes and opened them again, he found himself in a dark world.
The night passed like this.
The next morning, Chen Xilin woke up again and prepared to look for a suitable soul beast.
Chen Xilin checked how many weapons he had: two daggers, an iron wire more than ten meters long, a bow, and a dozen feather arrows.
"How about I use this wire to set a trap? That's a good idea!"
Chen Xilin immediately wrapped the wire around two trees that were close to each other.
"If the speed is fast enough, this iron wire may be sharper than a knife. Does this involve the knowledge of force? Unfortunately, I am a crude warrior with no culture and only know how to do my own thing."
Chen Xilin said to himself with a smile.
After a few minutes of preparation, Chen Xilin completed the trap. Then he took out the bow and arrow and tried the feel of it.
Although Chen Xilin has a bow and arrow, his accuracy is not very good, and this iron arrow may not cause great damage to the soul beast unless it is shot into the soul beast's eyes.
Chen Xilin doesn't have this ability at the moment. He can only achieve a hit rate of 70% within thirty steps. If he wants to shoot into the soul beast's eyes, he has to have a hit rate of at least a hundred steps.
Chen Xilin began to look for soul beasts around, and by the way, he killed a few ten-year-old soul beasts to vent his negative emotions from yesterday.
When Chen Xilin was several hundred meters away from the trap, he felt that he was being targeted by something.
Very scary stuff!
"Does this coldness regard me as its prey?" Chen Xilin did not move, his eyes scanning the surroundings for any abnormalities.
Soon, Chen Xilin discovered the source of the coldness. It was a giant python. It was coiled on a branch, hissing from its mouth, with its body in an "S" shape, which is the attack posture of snakes.
The length of this giant python could not be seen because it was coiled on a branch, but it could be seen that its body was as thick as a bowl and it could swallow a little kid like Chen Xilin in one bite.
The python's body is mainly gray and black, with large areas of gray scales and black mesh patterns, which looks very scary. There is a raised tumor on the snake's head, which is indescribably weird.
"Black-striped python! Damn it!" Chen Xilin turned around and ran. Just kidding, he couldn't beat this black-striped python from now on. If he got entangled by it, he would be really screwed.
The black-striped python is a python-type martial spirit and is a close relative of the dark-striped python, but the black-striped python has a trace of dragon blood, and the tumor on its head is actually the prototype of a dragon horn.
Generally, only black-striped pythons of ten thousand years old can grow complete dragon horns. It is said that a black-striped python will transform into a dragon when it reaches one hundred thousand years old, becoming a black-striped dragon.
The reason why Chen Xilin ran was that although the black-striped python was a python, its speed was extremely fast, comparable to that of the Mandrake, but it was more dangerous than the Mandrake!
Because of its amazing defense and thick scales, if Chen Xilin had a big sword, he could still fight it. But now with two daggers, can he just scratch it?
The only hope now is that trap! Chen Xilin ran towards the trap as fast as he could, because only the proper use of the trap could save him.
Hiss hiss hiss!
When the black-striped python saw its prey running away, it chased after it instantly. Although its body looked bulky, it was extremely fast!
'Oh my god! So fast! 'Chen Xilin looked back at the black-striped python, which was not far away from him.
Chen Xilin moved like a serpent, taking the black-striped python for a walk. Although the black-striped python was very fast, it might not be good at turning.
Who doesn't speed up in a straight line? Fast on the curve is really fast!
Chen Xilin's feeling was correct. Since the black-striped python was too heavy, it would easily drift out when he entered the curve at such a fast speed. In addition, due to his own weight, he could not resist the inertia at all. "Almost there!" Chen Xilin has already seen the iron wire he had laid out, and there are still dozens of meters to go!
The black-striped python behind is still following closely! The
hissing
sound really scared Chen Xilin. Snakes are really scary creatures.
Twenty meters, fifteen meters, ten meters! Five meters!
Near the iron wire, Chen Xilin kneeled forward, leaned his body backward, and slid over the iron wire with a perfect kneeling motion.
Hiss, ha!
The black-striped python only had Chen Xilin as its prey in its eyes, and it opened its mouth wide to swallow him in one bite!
When its mouth touched the iron wire, the black-striped python's body passed through the wire directly and split into two!
The bright red blood splashed all over Chen Xilin.
Chen Xilin wiped his body and looked at the black-striped python that was broken into two halves, its body still hanging on the iron wire, its eyes still moving.
"Soul beasts are indeed very tenacious. I'd better keep a distance from snakes."
Chen Xilin took out a bow and arrow, drew the bow and shot an arrow at the upper jaw of the black-striped python!
It pierced through the black-striped python's brain.
A deep yellow soul ring condensed from the body of the black-striped python.
"This black-striped python looks more than seven meters long. It should have a soul ring of more than seven hundred years. I wonder what its soul skills are?"
Chen Xilin thought as he walked towards the two big trees in the trap. He punched a tree hole in one of the trees where Chen Xilin could sit cross-legged. This was a natural tree hole that was not so big originally, but was expanded by Chen Xilin.
Chen Xilin really didn't dare to absorb the soul ring on the ground. If he encountered a soul beast during the absorption process, he would be doomed.
This tree hole, which is some distance from the ground, is just right and can hide one's body.
Chen Xilin sat in the cave and used his soul power to attract the soul ring.
Chen Xilin sat cross-legged in the tree hole and focused his attention on his martial soul. At this moment, with the approach of the black-lined python soul ring that was more than 700 years old, he felt a good pressure, and even the bones in his body made slight sounds under this pressure.
This kind of bone creaking made Chen Xilin feel indescribably comfortable!
Soon, a deep yellow halo came above Chen Xilin's head. The deep yellow halo was wrapped around Chen Xilin's body, and a stream of hot energy rushed in crazily. The heat flow instantly rushed into the body, and Chen Xilin felt the energy of the soul ring.
Although it was huge, it was within his control and had not even reached his limit. When he absorbed it, he felt the pressure of the soul ring's tremendous energy, but it was only 30% to 40% of the pressure.
Chen Xilin's Yi Jin Jing internal force seemed to be ignited by the energy of the soul ring. The bottleneck of the first cycle was broken, and Chen Xilin immediately broke through to the second cycle of Yi Jin Jing!
At this moment, a lot of black things suddenly appeared on Chen Xilin's skin. Black things like impurities kept pouring out of Chen Xilin's body.
The second cycle of Yi Jin Jing! It produces a detoxification phenomenon, makes the blood flow smoothly, the energy becomes round and strong, the spirit becomes strong and full, and there is an indescribable comfort.
After absorbing for a long time, it was already noon. A deep yellow soul ring on Chen Xilin's body was slowly rotating, very calm and stable!
Chen Xilin's breathing was also exceptionally calm, without the slightest ups and downs.
"Huh!" Chen Xilin exhaled, his eyes gradually opened, and he felt his own strength.
"Is this the soul ring? So that's it, I'm possessed by the Dark Holy Dragon!"
Chen Xilin was possessed by the Dark Holy Dragon martial spirit. A dark aura emerged from Chen Xilin's body, and a dark line appeared between Chen Xilin's eyebrows.
A deep yellow soul ring was circling around Chen Xilin, and the first-ring combat soul master Chen Xilin took part!
Chen Xilin felt himself and found that he seemed to have grown taller, his shoulders became broader, and his clothes were a little tight.
"Let me see my first soul skill!" Chen Xilin sensed the power of his soul skill.
"The first soul skill, the power of the black dragon, is an amplifying soul skill that increases strength by 70% and speed by 70%. After the soul power reaches level 10, the amplification effect increases by 1% with each additional level.
My current soul power is level 16! As expected, the internal force that I have tempered before will erupt with the absorption of the soul ring
. At level 16, my strength and speed will be amplified by 76%! Not bad, but only two abilities are waiting to be amplified, and they are not yet 100%, which is a bit low. Forget it, let's go and leave this forest."
Chen Xilin didn't care whether his soul skills were good enough. He didn't want to stay in this soul beast forest at all.
Chen Xilin started his journey home.
. . . . . .
On the other side, in Fasno City,
at Chen Chen's house.
Old Chen Chen pushed open the door of his house, walked in and shouted, "Xiao Lin, grandpa is back! I bring you good news!"
A gust of wind blew,
"Huh? Not at home? Where did he go?" Chen Chen was a little confused and entered the living room. He found a piece of paper lying there, pressed down by a cup.
Chen Chen saw the paper and picked it up.
[Grandpa, I am going back to Tianhun Village to play for a few days. I will probably be back in ten days or so. If you arrive home earlier, you will see this letter and say hello to you. Anyway, the road is short and I will be there in half an hour, which is fast. [Written by Chen Xilin]
"Forget about this kid. He's old and has already awakened his martial spirit. Why should I, an old man, care about him?
Let's go to Yiyue Tower for a stroll." Chen Chen put down the note and went out.