Chapter 2: Origin of Martial Arts, Survival(1/2)
"Roar, roar!"
Accompanied by the roar and the sound of river splashing, Shi Yinghu and the revived zombie group hedge, collided, and fell to the ground.
“…Source energy has been collected 5.”
“…Source energy has been collected 7.”
“…Source energy has been collected 14.”
“…Source energy has been collected 18.”
I was not so unlucky that I encountered some zombie bosses, and how could a group of first-level zombies who acted purely on instinct be the opponent of Shi Yinghu who was already hungry?
The small stone sharpening knife changed many exquisite tricks in Shi Yinghu's hands: throat, back of neck, and side of neck. As long as the residual connection between the brain and body is broken, the seemingly terrifying and tenacious revitalized zombies will die in an instant.
The best thing is that they have no sense of protecting their own vitals. For mutant beast hunters like Shi Yinghu, who are about to kill zombies, revitalizing zombies can be said to be the best type of mutant beasts to kill.
Soon, more than a dozen active zombies fell into the cold river.
Of course, the point of source energy obtained by killing mutant beasts at this moment is not the point at all. When Shi Yinghu knocked down the last revitalized zombie, he quickly walked to the revitalized zombie with a wrap around it.
After picking up the package and searching for it, he actually found two boxes of canned food: one is canned meat and the other is glutinous rice.
"Production date... in 2048, can this be eaten?" The shelf life of these two boxes of canned food is two years and one year respectively, but now, no matter which one is, it has expired for a long time.
"I remember that as long as it is sealed canned food, it can be eaten even during World War II."
"Without having no choice, being poisoned is easier to accept than being starved to death, not to mention that I am not so easily poisoned to death." After breathing, calming down, Shi Yinghu found a relatively secluded and safe place around him. He opened two boxes of canned food, and ate them all after confirming that there was no obvious deterioration.
The glutinous rice is a little sour, but the canned meat tastes normal. The amount of the two canned foods is relatively large. Even with Shi Yinghu's appetite, he feels full after eating both boxes of canned foods, which at least relieves the painful burning and burning feeling of the stomach.
He was not sure whether these two boxes of expired canned food were encountered by him by accident or intentionally put in by the Hell Ghost Mansion... The latter is not very likely.
The meaning of the Sanhetu Trial is to allow the new blood of the Demon Sect to complete the abandonment of saints and wisdom, to spiritually abandon all acquired morality, etiquette and law constraints, and to transform into humans and demons, and to deliberately put food in to reduce the difficulty of the trial.
………
Surprisingly, it will rain even in this ghost place where the sky is completely invisible.
The storm that blew from nowhere swept up the river water of Santu River, and the wind slammed the stone and lowered the pouring red and black rain.
At this time, Shi Yinghu had just finished eating two cans. When the heavy rain fell, he had to shrink into the stone wall and pick up some rainwater in an empty can box. While swallowing in small mouthfuls, he endured the cold wind and rain that kept blowing on himself.
"When I heard Teacher Wang talk about the origin of martial arts, I remember that the most primitive meaning of martial arts is just one word: survival."
"In the wilderness forests, stroll through the snow-capped grasslands, trekking through the desert Gobi, fighting with tigers, leopards, wolfs and bears, seeking survival in wind, snow, sandstorms, and experiencing countless days of loneliness and danger, only then can we experience the indomitable heart of the ancients who stood in the world, competed for courage with animals, and compared with heaven and earth."
"When I was listening to the class, I felt very passionate, but when it really fell on myself, I still wanted to go home and lie on my own electric blanket to brush my phone." Curled up in the cracks of the rock, Shi Yinghu tried his best to use the health preservation technique to spread the true energy and body temperature throughout his limbs.
As time goes by, the rainstorm gradually fades.
According to the operating status of the true qi in the body, Shi Yinghu judged that the current time is about midnight, because the true qi of the Health Preservation Law tends to exist and does not spread vigorously. This is the physical memory accumulated over the years.
Shi Yinghu was half asleep and half awake, and was in a state of rest and recovery while using the health preservation technique, but suddenly there was a faint crying sound from his ears. He seemed to have the dead souls he valued most. They were sometimes far away and sometimes near, sometimes murmuring and sometimes roaring, asking him to die and accompany them.
If Shi Yinghu was completely awake at this moment, he could see some huge qi that could be swallowed and operated by the naked eye. If the source energy that Shi Yinghu's health preservation technique could be affected is single digits, then the source energy that the huge qi was sucked by the sucking power was billions.
The terrifying energy was swaying and shaking the earth. The entire Sanhe Road was turbulent, slow and static due to the traction and change of the qi. Many dead corpses in the river that had not been transformed into living zombies were opened. At this moment, they opened their eyes and stared at their palms blankly, as if countless dead people were collectively resurrected.
They even cry, scream, scold, stare at their rotten bodies, unable to accept the fact that they are dead...there are extremely absurd and terrifying.
As the powerful man's true energy was circulating, the boundaries between life and death seemed to be forcibly broken with extremely strong power.
Shi Yinghu's divine martial arts system was also affected and stimulated to a certain extent. The health-preserving technique, which had already reached the level of 89, no longer had the twelve serious merits. Instead, under the guidance of the surrounding life and death qi mechanisms, it began to impact the surrounding eight extraordinary meridians. The three words of health-preserving technique gradually faded on the surface of the magic martial arts system, and a new set of qigong techniques is about to emerge: the life and death proof.
However, at this time, Shi Yinghu suddenly woke up. He spit out a large mouthful of hot blood, then sat cross-legged and condensed his mind, forcibly stabilizing the true qi of the health preservation qigong again.
Originally, the level 89 health preservation qigong was about to be transformed into the level 117 life and death qigong, but at this moment, Shi Yinghu was reluctant to endure internal injuries and forced to reverse the attack.
"Shenwu System Tips: Health Preservation Tips: Level 89 for entry into the room, internal injury status, reduced by 20. Currently, it is level 69. The forced reduction will recover as the internal injury recovers."
"Ahem... This ghost place doesn't even sleep well?" The health preservation technique Qigong is peaceful and simple, and the twelve serious merits are the most stable. Shi Yinghu practiced it all the way to now and has never suffered internal injuries. Now, not only has internal injuries, but also almost has a broken qi, causing the qi to break. If he woke up in time, he would not know what the true qi he had cultivated through hard work, he would not know what it would have been transformed into.
However, what Shi Yinghu, who was still in shock, didn't know that at this moment, there were countless monsters who looked like humans and ghosts in the three rivers experiencing and experiencing the changes in the qi of heaven and earth, including mutant beasts.
From time to time, outstanding people have great changes in their own aura and have learned the brilliant internal skills and martial arts techniques, and often they are ecstatic and bow to the ground, shouting: "The kindness of the Emperor of the Underworld will be bound to the ages!"
The breathing and cultivation of the Immortal Emperor let the influence of the Qi and the Ghost Mansion cover the entire Hell. The famous Taoist saying: "Learn from nature."
For the demons in the Hell Ghost Palace, the Immortal Emperor is the world, and it is natural. Those who follow it will prosper, and those who go against it will perish.
The next day, Shi Yinghu, holding the stone knife, began to find the way out.
No matter how, no matter how you deal with it, only those who find the Hell Ghost Mansion can be called how to deal with it.
Shi Yinghu's mood was also irritable and anxious. He didn't know whether it was because of the expired canned food yesterday, the cold wind and rain, or because of the changes in the qi movement last night and his own internal injuries. In short, Shi Yinghu found that he had a fever.
However, there is no condition just to drink more clean hot water.
"Smooth my mind, I don't have the conditions to drink hot water and treat it now, so I can't consume too much energy by negative emotions." After walking for a morning, my stomach started to be hungry again. Shi Yinghu tied a metal can box around his waist and held the stone knife tightly in his hand. He had martial arts skills but didn't know where his next meal was.
All he can do at this moment is to stabilize his mind, run health and maintain his true energy, and preserve his physical strength until variables occur.
Variables happened soon.
Shi Yinghu was trekking through a hill and saw a woman. Shi Yinghu had seen many women in the days before, but the difference in front of him was really different: she was not dressed, and the literal meaning was naked.
The woman's skin is smooth and fair, and she has no body hair except long gray-white hair. But what she is doing at this moment is enough to make 99% of men unable to have any other thoughts except fear.
The corpses were covered with her feet, and at this moment, the human corpse was being cut. Blood spread all over the ground and splashed onto her cheeks from time to time. The woman took down the ointment of the corpse and threw it aside, accumulating in piles.
Shi Yinghu saw her, and at the same time she also saw Shi Yinghu, looking at each other, with bright black and white eyes full of vitality, facing a pair of dead and dark gray eyes. Shi Yinghu had not lost his humanity yet, and the woman in front of him had completely transformed into a human demon.
"If you are willing to stay here, I can pick up the meat here and eat it as you like." Yan Huang said, and also had some local accents.
"……What are you doing?"
"Making a fire, I want to drink some hot water, eat some cooked meat, and change some things that I can get."
Gradually, Shi Yinghu understood what the other party meant. It was not easy to drink some hot water in Santuhe and eat some cooked meat. The poplar and ghost locust here are all alien species, and the yin and moisture are heavy and not easy to burn, so it needs enough oil to help ignite, otherwise it will not be lit, and even if it is lit, it will be extinguished quickly.
The woman in front of her has very high martial arts skills. On the one hand, the corpses on the ground show her combat power. On the other hand, she has obviously been cured by Santuhe and has completely escaped from the constraints of acquired morality and ethics. If a normal person kills people, there will definitely be some psychological obstacles. She has not. At this moment, even if there are clothes and fabrics on the ground, she is too lazy to take off one and put it on her body.
If a master of the righteous path wants to cultivate artistic conception, he needs years of long practice, repeatedly temper his mind and firm will, and finally form an extremely stable outlook on life, values, world outlook, and a unique understanding of the world.
Compared with ordinary people, an expert in artistic conception is a giant in spiritual thought, an immortal, a demon god, and a mortal in distracted mind. His thoughts change rapidly and it is difficult to be firm and stable in the end. However, a master in artistic conception has a heart like an immortal, Buddha, god and demon, and is stable and unmoved.
This kind of spiritual artistic conception is very terrifying whether it is used in cultivation or even in battle. The artistic conception characteristics are not as clear and obvious as innate and Vajra realm characteristics, but in fact it is the most difficult to cultivate, and it is also the most strange and terrifying after cultivation.
This is the method of practicing the righteous artistic conception, and the method of practicing the evil artistic conception directly erases human nature through various cruel means, killing people, cutting off the heart, eating human flesh, and drinking blood. The evil and demon masters trained in this way are gloomy and mysterious, like demons, and like this woman in front of you... or like a monster.
Shi Yinghu felt that he was gritting his teeth and holding on for two days after entering Santuhe River. The man in front of him no longer knew how long he had been in the Santuhe River. She was a woman again, and it was even more difficult to survive. I don’t know how much cruelty it would take to develop a demon-like temperament like now: he was naked in front of the opposite sex, dismantling the corpse, and trading indifferently.
"I want that stone knife." After estimating for a moment, Shi Yinghu was a little confused whether he could beat the other party, but what is certain was that even if he could win, it would never be easy.
As soon as his eyes turned, Shi Yinghu saw a thick-backed stone knife among the pile of corpses handled by the woman, which looked thick and easy to use.
Hearing this, the woman turned her head and looked at Shi Yinghu up and down, and then said, "I want the iron can on your waist."
"Change." There is no nonsense. Shi Yinghu threw an iron can box over. In this ghost place, this iron can box is definitely a rare resource.
After receiving the iron can box, the woman picked up the stone knife and threw it at Shi Yinghu. Shi Yinghu caught it sideways, feeling a strong force and quite impressive internal force. However, he secretly tried his best, danced a knife and took it steadily.
In the afternoon of that day, the woman put on her robe and clothes, and the fire with human oil and branches was built.
Because of the fire, gradually, trialists from nearby areas will be lured and gathered.
Except for Shi Yinghu, people later needed to pay offerings to the gray-haired woman before they could be allowed to roast fire or even eat meat. Not only did anyone not want to refuse, but all the people who refused were taken out by the gray-haired and gray-eyed witch demon.
The reason why Shi Yinghu was looked at by another person was because he was the first person to come here. The gray-haired woman needed his presence to help gather people and prove to others that this place was protected and relatively safe.
A small fire with several corpses, the gray-haired woman sold her human flesh goods around the fire like a landlord. However, she was obviously smart, because when the person who came was really unable to come up with anything, she would ask the other party to practice her own martial arts, so that she could stay if she felt satisfied, and that if she was dissatisfied, she would drive it away or even kill it.
Sitting in small sips of hot water with fishy smell and oil flowers, Shi Yinghu tried his best to control himself and not think about what oil flowers it was. At the same time, he concentrated on feeling the feeling of warm current entering his body to restore himself little by little.
"Brother, let me use your bowl, I'll give you half."
At this moment, a dirty young man with disheveled hair came to Shi Yinghu, looked around, and then pulled open his clothes to signal Shi Yinghu.
Shi Yinghu had already grasped the handle of the stone knife at this time and looked over with vigilance. He saw that the young man's clothes were a corpse of a snake.
"You have a bowl, I have meat, let's cook it and eat it."
"Why don't you look for the owner of this, but instead look for me?"
"I've paid the protection fee to the master, but the master may not be able to suppress them alone, and you should be fine." The man was very careful. He waited for the people around him to eat meat and eat enough before he came to Shi Yinghu who was holding the stone knife.
Although a bite of snake sashimi is worth a lot of lives in Santuhe, it is not as tempting as people who have adapted to eating human flesh and are already full. But even so, this man still needs to add double insurance.
"One person, half."
There was no seasoning, and the snake meat should have been roasted and eaten, but neither Shi Yinghu nor the young man chose to cook it. They divided it into several pieces and cooked it in a canned iron box, and then chewed it greedily.
Because of the young man's double insurance, although the people around him were swallowing their saliva and their eyes were green, no one came to grab it.
The gray-haired woman needs to maintain the basic rules here for a short period of time. Shi Yinghu is wearing a clean and powerful outfit, and there is a thick-backed stone knife on his hand. He can maintain such a cool state in Santuhe and not die yet, which means he has two brushes on his hand.
Keep alert, calm and refining Qi. Shi Yinghu has a strong constitution and has supplemented this snake soup tonight. The wind-cold symptoms caused by cold and internal injuries last night were gradually suppressed. At the same time, he was forced to maintain level 20 and recovered to level 5, indicating that the internal injuries have been partially recovered.
However, as the bonfire gradually became smaller, Shi Yinghu estimated that it was almost midnight again. However, unlike himself, who was facing a great enemy, Shi Yinghu found that the people around the fire were getting more and more energetic, and his face also showed concentration.
At the same time, they vaguely distanced themselves from each other.
"I understand. For me, the huge change in the qi of heaven and earth was a very deadly negative impact, but for them, it seemed like an existence like a 'Di Liujiu'."
To be continued...