Chapter 9: Martial Will
When Jiang Nan landed this kick, he galvanized the tremendous power of the Dragon Tiger Elephant Power Skill, his small body contained a huge power that was unimaginable to ordinary people, and in one step he rushed to the front of the bear demon, his palm raised and viciously jerked forward!
His arm is like an elephant trunk, a palm thrown out, snapped the more than a thousand pounds of the black bear raw, flying into mid-air, fell four or five feet away, fell to the opposite bank of the stone bridge, will be a large tree clicked and crashed to break on the spot!
The tree fell, dust and smoke rose in all directions, the bear demon hissed, rolled over and leapt up, frightened and angry.
Thud!
Jiang Nan's second foot fell, this foot's step was even bigger, directly scurrying out from the bridge, a step was taken to the bear demon's front, once again a palm pumped away. The bear demon was in the midst of fury, spreading its paws to hold the broken tree, and with a whirring sound, it greeted Jiang Nan!
Jiang Nan's palm on top of the broken tree, the broken tree exploded with a bang, wood shreds shot down in all directions, and among the wood shreds, a black pouncing bear's palm huffed and puffed at Jiang Nan's head!
The bear demon's palm slapped on top of Jiangnan's brain, and blood immediately flew across the room, almost slapping the teenager like a nail, slapping the whole person into the mud beside the river!
At the same time, Jiang Nan's other palm fiercely swiped at the bear demon, sending the black bear weighing over a thousand pounds flying with another slap!
Jiang Nan was slapped by the bear demon into the mud, plunged into the mud half waist deep, after a palm jerked away the bear demon, ignoring the fact that he was deep in the mud, he lifted his leg, and with a bang, he kicked the mud in front of him to explode, seemingly without any obstruction, and with a single step, he once again came in front of the bear demon!
The Divine Elephant Treading Mountain had a total of thirteen steps and thirteen strikes, which was the most ferocious and overbearing style among the moves Jiang Nan had learned so far, thirteen consecutive steps and thirteen strikes, without any pause, without any respite!
In the middle of the mountain forest, there was the sound of thumping footsteps, the sound of snapping and jerking, as well as the hissing of elephants and bears!
A large tree fell down with a click, after a moment, suddenly the violent rattling stopped, Jiang Nan held up the corpse of a giant bear with both hands, covered in blood, and walked out of the mountain forest step by step.
Behind him, there was already a mess, with trees falling and broken branches and leaves all over the place.
His thirteen steps and thirteen strikes, has been this bear demon into the mountain forest more than seventy feet away, along the way there are more than ten fallen trees, finally this bear demon killed alive!
However, he was not good, although the bear demon was still only a demonic beast and had not completely cultivated into a demon, but it had infinite strength and was an extremely difficult opponent, slapping Jiangnan's body for six or seven times, where the bear's paw landed, it almost slapped his small body into a meat paste!
If Jiang Nan hadn't cultivated the Demonic Prison Xuan Tire Scripture today, and had practiced the Dragon Tiger Elephant Power Skill, a master skill, to the fifth level of the realm, I'm afraid that he wouldn't have been a match for this black bear at all!
"Sister, how did I perform?" Jiang Nan crossed the stone bridge and threw down the bear's corpse, gasping for air, only to feel that all the muscles in his entire body were aching, he forced himself to endure the pain and asked with a smile.
The battle had not lasted long, but it had exhausted his physical energy, and if not for the truly marvelous Demon Clock in his body, Jiang Nan would have lost this battle.
His physical quality was too poor, although he had already cultivated to the realm of Bone Refining, his diet had not kept up, and after some exchanges, his physical energy was somewhat insufficient.
By the stone bridge, a sable fur white woman shadowed Zhuozhuo Yangchuan River, a light voice came: "Zichuan, you are already barely a martial arts practitioner, much more mature than when you fought with Wu Sijiang. However, in front of a true martial arts expert, you are still a rookie."
"Don't worry sister, I understand this."
Jiang Nan catalyzed his true qi and ran through his entire body, thinking, "Sister Jiang Xue is right, just now, that bear demon had a demonic aura, but it was not considered a true demonic beast and could not change into a human. Moreover, although it has weapons, it is not proficient in martial arts and only fights with brute force, it should be spiritually undeveloped, and there is a huge gap between it and a true martial arts expert!"
As things stood, he finally understood why Jiang Xue would say that a battle with a demonic beast was suitable for a rookie like him. Bear demons and other demonic beasts possessed innate fighting skills, but after all, they were not as proficient in martial arts as humans, and if the demonic beasts were proficient in martial arts again, it would be no less than ten times more dangerous!
If this bear demon was also proficient in martial arts, when the first blade fell, it would have taken his life!
Inside Jiang Nan's body, his true qi was whistling and rushing around for a long time, his true qi was like a pair of invisible palms, massaging the injured parts of his body, energizing the meridians and activating the blood, discharging the blood and dirt from the pores of his skin, and even the fragments of the bones that were broken inside his body could be discharged from his body by the true qi.
Martial Dao cultivation into the four realms of Skin, Flesh, Tendon, and Bone would be able to do this, and self-repairing bodily injuries was not exclusive to Jiang Nan.
He cultivated the Devil Prison Xuan Tire Scripture, and his true qi was extremely overbearing, and he even repaired body damage one or two points faster than others. However, if he wanted to completely recover and leave no after-effects, he would need to recuperate for at least ten or so days before he could do so.
The light in Jiang Nan's eyes flickered, the gain that battle just now gave him was not just as simple as making his mind leap from an ordinary person to a person in the martial arts, but likewise it was a great baptism for his fighting sense, reaction speed, fighting skills, ability to improvise, as well as refining his mindset.
He had gained a great deal from urging various killing moves in battle, allowing him to understand these moves more thoroughly and become more skillful, while also being able to recognize his shortcomings.
Similarly, his true qi was applied like never before in the midst of battle, his true qi becoming purer and purer, operating at a faster speed, and shortening his reaction time!
"A desperate battle is better than a hundred years of hard training, although this saying is exaggerated, it is not without reason."
Jiang Nan pondered over the changes in his moves from the battle just now, speculating on his shortcomings, and it didn't take long for him to discover the many flaws in the Dragon Tiger Elephant Power Technique and fix them.
"Sister, how is my strength nowadays compared to those family members of the Qi King's Mansion?" Jiang Nan asked with a stirring in his heart.
Jiang Xue walked up to the bridge, her pretty face looking at him, and shook her head, "The children of the Qi King's Mansion have top quality ginseng and deer antlers as ingredients every day, and the blood and flesh of demonic beasts as their staple food, and they even have qi nourishing spirit pills to replenish their physical energy and consolidate their realm. Your diet was so poor that your body is far less powerful than theirs, and now that you've only been cultivating for a long time, how can you beat them? You don't need to be discouraged, in the future, if you hunt demonic beasts and take their blood and flesh, your physical energy will naturally be incomparably vigorous, and your physical body will grow stronger and stronger, surpassing them will be a breeze."
Jiang Nan nodded silently, he was working in the Qi King's Mansion, he had long heard that the diet of these royal children was so good that it was scary, in the morning, they first got up and drank a cup of human milk to replenish their physical strength, and the royal palace also specialized in purchasing some ginseng bird's nests, antlers, ganoderma lucidum, and other top quality medicinal herbs, to boil up a great tonic soup for the consumption of these children of the world's families!
Even more horrifying was that the royal mansion's catering room would consume ten huge sized demonic beasts a day, using the blood and flesh of these demonic beasts as ingredients!
"Zichuan, it's getting late, let's go back."
Jiang Xue transformed into a white fox again, jumped onto his shoulder, and softly said, "There are many demonic beasts in the Lok Ha Mountain, especially at night, it is the time when the demonic beasts are on the rampage, your strength nowadays can still win against a single demonic beast, but against the hordes of demonic beasts, there is only one way to die....... By the way, the bear meat has a great flavor! , replenishes deficiency and strengthens the muscles and bones, so it shouldn't be wasted."
Jiang Nan answered in the affirmative, went up and cut off the two front paws of the black bear, and cut off a dozen or so pounds of refined meat before leaving.
After returning to the residence, Jiang Xue took out a few large silver ingots and stuffed them into Jiang Nan's hands, "Since you are already my younger brother, how can you work as a slave for other people? It would be a disgrace to your sister if you were to spread the word. Here is some money, you go to Qi Wang Fu to redeem your contract of sale, in the future is a free body."
Jiang Nan wondered, puzzled: "Sister, where did you get this silver?"
Jiang Xue pursed her lips and smiled, "I'm a Fox Fairy, how can I not be proficient in some of the five ghosts' means of transporting money? This money, naturally, was carried from the vaults of large families."
Jiang Nan suddenly realized, he had heard Tie Zhu mention similar things, legend has it that there are fox demons to charm the readers, in addition to beauty, is money, take out a lot of silver to lure the scholar, if the other party accepts, it is to sell his life to the fox demon, the fox demon will be eaten by the fox demon that night, the heart and liver.
"Don't worry, sister won't eat your little heart." As if Jiang Xue had seen through his thoughts, she giggled and said.
Jiang Nan blushed slightly, received the silver toward the Qi Wang Mansion, the steward of the Wang Mansion to see him actually can come up with such a large sum of money for their own ransom, asked about the source of the money, Jiang Nan only said that their own lost sister to find, that the steward did not have suspicions.
Jiang Xue saw him redeem the deed of sale, and said: "Poor learn literature and rich learn martial arts, all day long for the livelihood of running around, will delay the martial arts practice, your martial arts progress is slow, I will also recover much slower. I still have some money here, you go and buy a property, make sure you are clothed and fed, and focus on your cultivation."
She took out some more silver taels for Jiang Nan to purchase a courtyard house in the city, added furniture, and bought two maids to serve food and living, moving in with Jiang Nan.
Jiang Nan stared blankly at his new home, shaking his head, still somewhat incredulous. This all came too fast, earlier he was still a servant boy in the Qi Wang Fu, a poor poor boy, and now he has changed into a lord with a family and servants, with clothes to stretch out his hands and food to eat.
Tiezhu heard Jiangnan get rid of slavery, and purchase real estate, carrying jars of wine to come to say goodbye, Jiangnan ordered the maid to take the bear paw and bear meat to go to cook, the two brothers feasted on the food, drunk, as happy as possible.
"What sister Jiang Xue said is really good, after I got rid of my slavery, I have no worries about food and clothing, and my cultivation is even better. However, I ate too poorly once upon a time, and my body still needs some time to recuperate."
In the past few days, Jiang Nan and Jiang Xue traveled together, heading to the Falling Cloud Mountain, searching for demonic beasts that had fallen behind, and after a series of battles, Jiang Nan deeply realized that his physical ability had become the key to limiting the improvement of his cultivation, however, he gained a lot from every battle, and taking demonic beasts' blood and flesh allowed his physical quality to gradually improve and get stronger and stronger.
"Although my body is improving, it's still far from enough, with my current strength, if I were to fight against a Qi Royal House disciple who is also at the bone refining realm, if I can't take down my opponent in the first twenty moves, the one who loses will definitely be me. My physical abilities are simply not comparable to those lineage disciples of the Qi King's Mansion." Jiang Nan sighed and thought to himself.
