Chapter 35: Wilderness Training
As the saying goes: Two fists cannot beat four hands, and even a vicious tiger is afraid of a pack of wolves.

In the ancient forest, in a relatively flat area where the trees were not very dense, the remains of hundreds of large trees were lying in a crisscross pattern.

It seemed that some ferocious beasts had fought here and destroyed the forest.

As soon as Li Zhi arrived at the area, he was targeted by a group of Nether Wolves with green eyes, two-meter long bodies, and fur that faintly glowed with a bluish-purple glow.

After discovering Li Zhi, the wolves split into two groups and quickly moved through the forests on the left and right sides, forming a siege.

It seemed that they wanted to hunt Li Zhi in that open space.

After hearing the noise, Li Zhi stopped, looked around, bent his knees and arms, and held a bone spur about a foot long in each hand, ready to fight at any time.

The bone spur in his hand came from the nine sharp spikes on the head of the five-eyed black buffalo, which had been chopped off by Li Zhi with a Luoyang shovel.

They can be used as the sharpest triangular spikes without sharpening.

Compared with the production tool Luoyang shovel, Li Zhi is actually better at using these bone spurs that are shaped like triangular thorns.

Although both weapons and production tools have lethality, weapons are more efficient in terms of killing efficiency.

"Hush Yuyo"

After observing and locking down the specific distribution of the group of Nether Wolves, Li Zhi suddenly blew a provocative whistle at the three Nether Wolves that were surrounding him in front of him.

But those Nether Wolves were much smarter than he thought.

She wasn't irritated by his whistle.

Instead, they continued to slowly narrow the encirclement at their own pace.

When Li Zhi saw this, he knew that these Nether Wolves were different from ordinary wild wolves and that they could not be dealt with in the same way as wild wolves.

While they had not really narrowed the encirclement, Li Zhi started rushing towards the dense forest ahead.

"Woo woo woo."

As Li Zhi began to move quickly, a very rhythmic wolf howl suddenly sounded from the outside of the encirclement.

There is actually a Wolf King commanding from the outside.

Before this, Li Zhi had not found any trace of the Wolf King.

Seeing that Li Zhi was about to run away, the dozen or so Nether Wolves immediately launched a charge.

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

"Swoosh, whoosh, whoosh!" Li Zhi, who was running quickly, suddenly turned around and threw six bone spurs in succession at the six Nether Wolves that were chasing him wildly.

The six Nether Wolves that were accelerating in a straight line didn't even have time to dodge before they were hit by the flying darts thrown by Li Zhi.

"Bang." There was a loud collision sound behind me.

Seeing this, Li Zhi immediately stopped and turned around and ran back.

The other Nether Wolves seemed to be angered by Li Zhi's actions. They roared and jumped towards Li Zhi.

Li Zhi took advantage of his short stature and cleverly used the obstacles on the ground to avoid the attacks of the Nether Wolves.

And when the opportunity arises, he shoots a flying thorn at the Nether Wolf.

With a force of ten thousand pounds in one arm and the blessing of the magic power of the bitter sea, every bone spur shot out by Li Zhi was like a saboted armor-piercing bullet fired from a gun, carrying huge kinetic energy and unparalleled lethality, and could pierce through those Nether Wolves in an instant.

In other words, he does not understand the method of refining magic weapons now. Otherwise, after refining those nine hard and sharp bone spurs into magic weapons, he will be much more calm when facing these Nether Wolves.

But even so, Li Zhi showed extremely high combat skills when dealing with the wolf pack's attack.

He kept dodging in a small area to avoid the sharp teeth of the Nether Wolf.

Then, he seized the opportunity and used the bone spur to end the life of a Nether Wolf.

When all nine bone spurs in his body were used up, only five Nether Wolves were left in the wolf pack.

Moreover, they seemed a little frightened and did not dare to continue attacking Li Zhi.

Even though Li Zhi now has nothing in his hands.

Seeing those Nether Wolves become afraid.

Now that the risk of being besieged was gone, Li Zhi did not take out his magic weapon to fight the enemy. Instead, he made his hands into claws and assumed the eagle-shaped fist stance of Xingyiquan, preparing for a hand-to-hand fight with those Nether Wolves.

This is to test his physical strength at the moment.

The strength penetrated through both hands, and the ten fingers seemed to turn into steel bones in an instant.

His eyes were determined and he shouted "Kill" loudly.

Then Li Zhi took the initiative to attack and fought with the five Nether Wolves.

“Ooo ...

Every time the Nether Wolf's flesh was torn apart with its iron claws, the Nether Wolf would let out a howl.

Soon the wolf's blood was all over Li Zhi.

This makes Li Zhi, who looks like a little boy, have a bit more wild beauty.

Especially after his tiger-skin dress was stained with wolf blood, his wildness was brought out to the fullest.

As the battle continued, blood seemed to begin to evaporate from his shiny bald head, faintly condensing into the shape of an eagle's claw.

"Crack!"

When Li Zhi crushed the spine of the last Nether Wolf, this close combat ended with his complete victory.

The wolf king, who had been hiding in the dark, seemed to have seen through Li Zhi's strengths and weaknesses. He turned into a faint light and appeared silently twenty meters behind Li Zhi.

Then he leaped up using all four limbs and pounced on Li Zhi from behind.

But what the wolf king never expected was that when its bloody mouth was about to bite Li Zhi's neck, Li Zhi suddenly squatted down.

Then, a huge black hole suddenly appeared where he had just stood.

"receive!"

After Li Zhi rolled on the ground to avoid the wolf king's attack, he decisively took out the snake skin bag.

He had no interest in engaging in physical combat with the wolf king.

The opening of the Qiankun bag quickly expanded and emitted a huge suction force, directly sucking the three-meter-tall and six-meter-long wolf king into the bag.

"Ouch."

The wolf king struggled with all his might, and even a ray of green light emerged from each of his hairs, in order to resist the huge suction force released by the Qiankun bag.

Unfortunately, with the blessing of Li Zhiyuan's magical power that was far superior to that of a cultivator at the level of the Sea of ​​Bitterness, the suction released by the snake-skin Qiankun bag was like a magic weapon offered by a cultivator in the secret realm of the Taoist Palace.

The wolf king struggled in vain and was eventually taken into the snakeskin bag.

Then Li Zhi took back the Qiankun bag and tied the bag shut.

Then, the snakeskin bag became the size of a palm and flew back into his hand.

"If you want to plot against me, you're still far away." Li Zhi shook the snakeskin bag and said with a smile.

If Li Zhi didn't want to use them to test the actual combat capability of the Xingyiquan he practiced, he wouldn't have fought a bloody battle with these Nether Wolves.

As he expected, the boxing techniques created by mortals were of little use against this ferocious beast that had already developed demonic powers.

Boxing cannot amplify his attack power at all.

It seemed like he used Eagle Claw Technique, but what really worked was his physical strength and his own power.

Perhaps it's time to upgrade this close combat boxing technique in all aspects.

Take the Eagle Claw Technique he used just now for example. If there was a real golden eagle for him to observe the hunting scene, perhaps he could make targeted extraordinary upgrades to the Eagle Claw Technique.

Of course, this is not something that can be accomplished overnight.

Afterwards, Li Zhi picked up all the bone spurs that were thrown out in that area.

Then Li Zhi returned to the ancient forest along the original route.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to continue crossing the ancient forest, but he is somewhat dissatisfied with his own strength.

Killing a few Nether Wolves that had not yet transformed into monsters left him covered in blood.

If we encounter a stronger beast on the way, we will get injured.

Moreover, Li Zhi always felt that the black water lake he passed by before was very unusual.

The fact that the five-eyed black buffalo with nine horns was able to transform itself through molting may have something to do with the black water of the lake.

The transformed flesh and blood was full of rich life essence. Li Zhi thought that maybe he could try to use the black water in the lake to train his body.

Now, there is still a huge amount of life essence deposited in his body, which has not been completely digested and absorbed by his body.

If you rashly enter the world of cultivation, you are likely to be captured by bad guys and used as a medicine.

Li Zhi felt that the strength of ten thousand pounds in one arm should not be the limit of his physical body.

The fact that the Sea of ​​Bitterness could be expanded to the size of a football field in one go was enough to show that his physical body was strong enough at that moment.

They are not even necessarily weaker than some monks in the secret realms of the Taoist Palace.

However, if one wants to develop the power of the physical body, simply absorbing the life essence is far from enough.

The body needs special training, and even requires constant fighting with ferocious beasts to develop the potential of the body.

Li Zhi walked carefully along the original path without encountering many obstacles and arrived at the edge of the forest.

After observing in secret for a long time and making sure that there were no other cultivators, he emerged from the ancient forest.

Then we came to the black water lake.

After observing for a while by the lake, Li Zhi directly released the Nether Wolf King from the snakeskin bag.

And the world threw it into the lake.

The wolf king who passed by Blackwater Lake immediately let out a painful howl.

But the lake water seemed to have a huge pulling force. The more the wolf king struggled, the faster he sank.

Soon they all sank into the black lake water.

Just when Li Zhi thought that the wolf king was beyond saving, the lake suddenly began to churn, and the bloody wolf king jumped out of the lake and headed for the shore.

Li Zhi, who had already opened his snakeskin bag and was waiting for a long time, instantly put the wolf king into the bag.

Then observe the condition of the wolf king.

It looked bloody and mangled, but Li Zhi sensed a more condensed vitality from its body.

It seems that after its injuries heal, its muscles and bones will become stronger.

Since it is not a place of death, Li Zhi feels relieved.

Then he ended the wolf king's suffering.

And threw the wolf king's flesh and blood into the primitive jungle.

Li Zhi began to observe secretly to see whether the flesh and blood was poisonous.

Li Zhi felt relieved when he saw that the animals that had eaten the wolf king's flesh and blood showed no signs of poisoning.

In the following days, Li Zhi captured many animals from the forest to conduct black water erosion experiments.

Finally, it was concluded that the more vigorous the blood and energy of a beast, the more it could withstand the erosion of the black water in the lake.

The beast that couldn't bear it was turned into slag.

After holding on, their energy and blood will become stronger to a certain extent.

A month later, after repeated experiments, Li Zhi finally decided to experience the power of the black water in the lake himself.

He first put his left hand into the black water.

Then he felt a tingling pain, but found no signs of the skin being dissolved, which made him completely relieved.

He immediately transferred his energy and blood to his left hand, and the pain was slightly relieved.

Five minutes later, when he felt that his left hand could adapt to the erosion of the black water, he pulled his hand out.

Apart from some redness and swelling of the skin, there was no blood on his hands.

Moreover, Li Zhi felt that the energy and blood in his left hand seemed to be more solidified, and he immediately showed a hint of joy.

Then, Li Zhi walked into the lake.

At first, he just soaked in the black water near the shore to condense his qi and blood.

Later it gradually moved towards the center of the lake.

As the corrosive force of the black water increased, he was able to withstand it.

Li Zhi's power also became stronger and stronger.

Ten months later, relying solely on his physical strength, he was able to exert thirty thousand pounds of divine power with a single arm.

Moreover, some bone blood with silver spots gradually appeared in his bone marrow.

At the same time, more and more silver spots were mixed in the essence and blood in his body, and the vitality rich in the essence and blood became more and more vigorous.

If Li Zhi hadn't practiced the "Eternal Life Locking Body Technique" every day to lock his own qi and blood.

I'm afraid that at this moment, a strange phenomenon of blood and qi smoke has appeared above his head.

During this period, although Li Zhi's sea of ​​suffering did not continue to expand, the life essence in the sea of ​​suffering condensed more than twice.

Li Zhi finally figured out where the divine patterns in the sea of ​​suffering had gone.

The giant silver island and the fairy tree that appeared in Li Zhi’s Sea of ​​Bitterness were condensed from divine patterns.

It is just different from what is recorded in the Wheel Sea Volume of "The Innate Longevity Art", which requires the cultivator himself to control the form of the divine pattern and forge it into a divine tree.

The immortal tree in Li Zhi's bitter sea seemed to be formed by nature, without any trace of artificial carving, and it had an extra giant island compared to the normal cultivators who practiced the "Innate Longevity Art".

During this period, every few days, Li Zhi would go deep into the depths of the ancient forest and fight with those ferocious beasts in order to enhance his combat capabilities.

Fighting with various kinds of snakes made Li Zhi realize the use of entanglement force.

Fighting with giant bears, tigers, and demon apes gave Li Zhi a deeper understanding of tiger pounce and realized a kind of penetrating power.

Chasing sheep and deer made Li Zhi faster and more flexible.

After nearly a year of hard training, he felt that the life energy accumulated in his body was about to be exhausted.

Recently, he has been eating more and more food.

But the growth of strength seemed to have stagnated.

After practicing boxing that day, Li Zhi once again saw the golden-winged Roc flying through the sky.

In its claws was a mammoth weighing tens of thousands of pounds.

Such terrifying claw strength made Li Zhi reveal a hint of envy.

Afterwards, Li Zhi took a look at the Black Water Lake, which was of almost no help to him, and then chased in the direction where the Golden-Winged Roc flew away.

Before going out, he planned to try whether he could learn some real claw skills from the golden-winged Roc.

When Li Zhi was chasing the golden-winged Peng bird,
Two young monks in their twenties also came to the small town outside the ancient forest.

The man and the woman looked very noble and did not seem to be local monks from Yan State.

The man and woman were both dressed in purple robes, with tall figures and excellent looks.

Moreover, the man has a gentle and elegant temperament, and the woman has a heroic look between her eyebrows.

When the two of them entered the town, some monks stationed in the town immediately reported the situation to their superiors.

The man and woman did not take the local monks' small actions seriously at all.

When they checked into an inn, the heroic woman showed a trace of worry between her eyebrows and asked, "Brother Shu Wen, are you really going to the ancient forbidden land?"

"What did I say about going to the ancient forbidden land?" The man said in surprise after hearing the woman's question.

"If you are not going to the ancient forbidden land, then why are you coming here? This time we have finally followed our uncle to the Southern Region for training. Instead of discussing and learning from the Southern Region's geniuses, you insist on separating from everyone and coming here alone." The woman did not seem to understand the man's purpose of coming here.

"Caihong, I think you should take action with Jiang Yifei and the others. If you follow me, I'm afraid you won't be able to achieve the purpose of training." Jiang Shuwen said helplessly.

"Then tell me the purpose of your coming here, otherwise I will follow you." Jiang Caihong stared at Jiang Shuwen and said.

Jiang Shuwen said, "Well, it's okay to tell you. When we traveled to Wei State before, I heard from a cultivator from Yan State that a golden-winged Roc recently appeared in the forest on the edge of the ancient forbidden land. The purpose of my trip is to come here for it."

Jiang Caihong was surprised and asked, "Brother Shu Wen, does your demon refining pot need to add the true soul of a fierce bird like the golden-winged Roc?"

Jiang Shuwen said with a bit of embarrassment: "Don't talk nonsense. It will be troublesome if the demons hear it. I am afraid that the demon soldiers under the old Peng King will come to trouble me. My purpose in looking for this golden-winged Peng bird is not to extract its true soul, but to take it as a mount and take it back to train it well."

Jiang Caihong laughed and said, "Brother Shu Wen, it turns out that you haven't forgotten about being defeated by the Golden Winged Little Peng King."

When his sister mentioned the unbearable past, Jiang Shuwen immediately said seriously: "The temporary success or failure is nothing. When I figure out the innate magical powers of the Golden Winged Dapeng Bird Clan, when I meet the Golden Winged Xiaopeng King again, that will be the time for me to put him into the Demon Refining Pot and suppress him."

　Warmly welcome Shu Wen, the character designated by book friend Qiong Zhu, to come online.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)