Chapter 18
[In the first year, you devoted yourself to studying swordsmanship, but you still couldn't understand the secrets.】
【In the seventh year, you practice hard day and night, determined to repeat each action thousands of times, and your sword skills become more and more skillful and smooth, entering the realm of proficiency.】
【In the sixteenth year, your efforts have not been in vain, Ba Wu Sword has achieved a small success!】
【In the twenty-third year, you feel like a natural swordsmanship prodigy. The use and control of swordsmanship seem to be natural. In just a few years, you have surpassed the mastery and reached the state of great success.】..........
【In the 38th year, you feel very lost. After practicing sword swinging for more than ten years, you still cannot make any further progress. You begin to doubt yourself.】
【In the thirty-ninth year, after a year of rest, you regained your confidence and no longer deliberately pursued progress. Instead, you faced your heart and enjoyed the fun that knife skills brought you.】
【In the fortieth year, one morning, you were practicing swordplay as usual under the first rays of sunlight, and a subtle change quietly occurred.】
【Ba Wu Sword, perfection!】
【In the fiftieth year, ten years after you perfected your swordsmanship, you are not satisfied with stopping here and try to continue exploring higher unknown areas, but unfortunately you get nothing.】
"Ten years were wasted........"
Lu Ren had no time to regret, and continued to pour all of his remaining 40 years of demon life into the Seven Killing Fist.
【In the first year, you successfully grasped that ethereal inspiration and integrated the boxing skills.】
【Seven Killing Fists, Perfection!】
【In the second year, you continued to pursue the ultimate in boxing, but to no avail.】........
【In the thirty-first year, you were watching an ordinary street fight and something dawned on you.】
【In the thirty-third year, you began to return to basics and no longer pursue extreme power and explosiveness.】
【In the thirty-ninth year, your boxing skills have undergone a qualitative change. A punch you throw out lightly is enough to split mountains and crack rocks. You named this new boxing style"Mountain Shocking Fist"】........
【End of deduction】
【Monster Lifespan: 0】
【Current Martial Arts:】
【Mountain Shock Fist (First Level)】
【Archery (beginner)】
【Tyrant Blade (Perfect)】
Lu Ren looked at the content on the panel, paused, and a trace of doubt appeared in his heart.........Does it mean that after the Seven Killing Fist is upgraded to the Zhenshan Fist, it has officially become a high-grade martial art?
The predecessor knew very little about this aspect.
In his vague memory, it seemed that someone mentioned the term"initial feeling" to him.
This is the first realm for ordinary people to embark on the road of martial arts.
In this way, the first-level martial arts Zhenshan Fist corresponds to the realm of initial feeling, which is equivalent to the transformation period of demons.
Yangliu Town is too small, and the ordinary martial arts that can be accessed are only a handful, not to mention the high-grade martial arts.
Originally, Lu Ren was worried that he could not find suitable skills and high-level martial arts.
Unexpectedly, the deduction function of the panel can optimize and improve an ordinary martial art without limit.
Of course, the premise is that you have a certain talent.
Otherwise, relying on only a Seven Killing Fist, you want to deduce a peerless martial art that can reach the sky and become a saint?
It's not impossible, but I don't know how many demon lifespans I have to pile up..........
Lu Ren collected his thoughts and focused his attention on a mound not far away.
That was where the field mouse left its traces and disappeared.
If nothing unexpected happened, the mound should be the lair of the field mouse spirit and the middle-stage transformation demon.
Lu Ren stood in front of the mound with a diameter of more than ten feet, walked back and forth, and did not find the passage to the underground palace.
Suddenly, he laughed.
"A visitor is a guest, and a gift of welcome should be presented."
Then, he punched the mound.
On the plain under the night, mud and sand rolled, and smoke and dust lingered.
After everything calmed down, a vertical passage leading deep underground was revealed.
Lu Ren listened carefully, and there seemed to be bursts of sharp cries approaching rapidly from below.
He stepped back a few steps and waited calmly.
It would be best if they were willing to come out.
If not, he didn't mind setting the rat's nest on fire.
After a while, a black mass of field mouse spirits poured out of the cave and surrounded Lu Ren.
The field mouse spirit in the lead was the one who had issued the order to silence Wu Xin in Wang Fugui's yard before.
It stared at Lu Ren's face, and a puzzled look gradually rose in its dark green pupils.
Lu Ren looked at it, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly:"Don't understand why I am still alive?"
The field mouse spirit nodded.
These spirits have not yet acquired the ability to transform into humans, so naturally they cannot speak human language, but they have basic wisdom and thinking ability.
Its four claws kept rubbing on the ground.
This was a warning.
If Lu Ren answered honestly, perhaps he could die more easily.
However, it obviously miscalculated.
Almost instantly, a cold light flashed in front of its eyes.
A head covered with black fluff splashed dark red blood and flew out.
How could this field mouse spirit leader... I never thought that this mortal constable could use such a fierce and domineering knife technique.
Seeing this, hundreds of field mice around began to retreat, fearing that they would end up like their leader.
At this time, a strange sound came from the underground palace, containing infinite anger and murderous intent.
Then, a young man in a black robe, with a gloomy face and green eyes flew out of the cave.
After landing, he looked at Lu Ren silently, and the steel knife that he held tightly in his hand and was stained with the blood of his descendants.
"Who are you?"
Lu Ren's eyes were firm and calm."Yangliu Town Constable, Lu Ren"
"Nonsense! How could a small town constable have such a sharp swordsmanship? Are you from the Demon Suppression Division?"The black-robed young man's face became more and more gloomy.
"Then...Thank you for your good wishes. I hope that I can become a member of the Demon Suppression Division one day."
Lu Ren stopped talking nonsense with him, stepped forward quickly, and swung the steel knife towards the young man's vital point.
The young man's eyes were solemn, his feet were fast, and he easily avoided the fierce knife.
After missing the first blow, Lu Ren quickly let go and tightened his grip, changing from a straight grip to a reverse grip, and then quickly raised it, directly to the young man's chest.
The blade was cold and full of murderous intent.
The young man shouted coldly, and a wisp of fishy black air surged from his sleeves, which once again neutralized Lu Ren's killing move, and took advantage of Lu Ren's vision being blocked, turned his palm into a claw shape, and suddenly reached forward.
His five fingers were slender, and his nails were gray and white, and extremely sharp.
If he succeeded, Lu Ren would definitely suffer a serious injury.
"After all, you are just a mortal, how can you go against me?"The young man sneered, but his eyes were filled with murderous intent.
Lu Ren's eyes were dark, but with his quick reaction, his abdomen suddenly shrank, and at the same time, he kicked his feet backwards, and his body suddenly retreated.
"With a"sizzle", his clothes were torn, leaving five terrifying claw marks near his chest.
The black air dissipated, and Lu Ren's vision was restored.
He looked down at the torn constable uniform, and a smile gradually appeared on his face.
However, this smile was filled with coldness and suppressed anger.
"This set of clothes costs money." Lu Ren stared at the black-robed young man with a look of disdain on his face, and slowly raised the steel knife in his hand:"You, have to pay!"
"Haha, it's really ridiculous!"The young man said with contempt:"What if I don't pay?"
"Then, die!"
Before he finished speaking, Lu Ren had already rushed out, the steel knife in his hand was even more powerful, as if it was indestructible.
"My children are hungry, so I'll use your flesh and blood to feed them!"
The young man no longer held back, and reached forward with his right hand, grabbing the unstoppable blade in his palm.
A wisp of black air lingered in his palm, instantly annihilating the overbearing blade energy.
Not only did the steel knife fail to break his flesh and blood, but it made Lu Ren, who was holding the knife, feel numb in his palm.
The next moment, a crisp sound suddenly rang out.
The young man's face turned fierce, and he broke the steel knife into two pieces.
He grabbed the broken half of the steel blade, licked his purple-black lips, and then stabbed it towards Lu Ren's neck.
However, the scene of blood splattering did not appear.
The young man's movements froze in mid-air, his eyes widened, and there was a look of disbelief in them.
He slowly lowered his eyes.
A fist was imprinted on his chest.
He looked unharmed, but the young man knew very well that this sudden punch had shattered all his internal organs.
This..........This is definitely not an ordinary martial art!
It is a first-class martial art!
"I......."
He wanted to say something, but his broken body and rapidly fading vitality made it difficult for him to speak.
The young man knelt on the ground, his body seemed to be exhausted, and he fell forward.
When he was dying, he still refused to close his eyes.
Because he still had many reluctances and confusions in his heart.........
He was originally a field mouse that became a spirit. Later, he got some���He successfully advanced to the Transformation Stage, and also raised a large group of descendants.
Fearing the crackdown by the Demon Suppression Division, he roamed around and did evil all year round.
Every time he arrived at a place, he assigned his descendants to steal the food of local farmers and bite off the roots and stems of crops.
He did this simply to help his descendants quickly grow to the Transformation Stage so that they could be used by him.
He once accidentally learned an evil skill, which required ten Transformation Stage demons of the same origin as medicine, which could help him advance quickly and enter the ranks of the great demons in the Spiritual Realm.
He thought that he had acted cautiously over the years and had never taken the initiative to provoke a powerful opponent. He had developed until now with the belief of keeping safe as long as possible.
Seeing that several of his many descendants were on the verge of breaking through the Transformation Stage, and he was one step closer to his dream, Lu Ren appeared.........
After the young man died, his body began to change and gradually returned to its original form.
Lu Ren stepped forward and kicked it:"What a fat black rat!"
As if he had thought of something, he looked around and saw the cowering field mice.
"Your master is dead, why don't you go down and accompany him?"
Lu Ren picked up the broken knife and quickly shuttled among the rats.
Every time he swung his knife, a large number of field mice would bleed to death on the spot, with their legs facing the sky, deader than dead.
Without a backbone, the field mice were obviously in disarray.
A few fought back, some timidly dug the ground and fled, and most stayed where they were numbly until they were harvested by Lu Ren.
Soon, there were no more living things around.
Lu Ren sat on the collapsed mound, breathing heavily.
Clearing monsters is more tiring than fighting a boss.........
Unconsciously , Lu Ren closed his eyes. It was not until the morning light shone down from the other side of the mountain that he woke up with a hint of warmth........Forgot something.
He quickly opened the panel
【You successfully killed a mid-stage metamorphosis field mouse demon】
【Vole Yaozishu: Total life span 227 years, remaining life span 132 years before death, absorbed】
【Name: Lu Ren】
【Current life span: 20/38】
【[Demon Lifespan: One Hundred and Thirty-Two Years]
Lu Ren looked at the numbers on the panel and couldn't help but laugh at himself.
"A mouse lives several times longer than me, so it's better to be a demon........"
That's right.
He suddenly looked at Zishou, the body of the big black rat.
The two pages of scriptures that Wu Xin mentioned!