Devouring Evil Martial Arts, Eliminating Demons from All Heavens

Chapter 29 Meeting a Villager in the Mountains

In the mountains and forests next to the town.

Chu Tianshu took the monocular telescope he took from the old eunuch's house and looked at the situation in the town.

"Uncle Ma, it's just like you said. He took up the stairs very quickly. It seems that the mayor and his gang have already started crying like old man."

Chu Tianshu retracted the telescope and sighed, "But I didn't expect this guy to be wearing heavy armor. He's really impressive."

"If I had a pair of good arm armor before, my arms wouldn't be so sore now."

Zhong Jinqiu leaned against the pine tree, stretched his neck, and gestured, "Give me another one."

Chu Tianshu helped him take out a dried radish from the small bag on his waist and put it in his mouth.

Compared to Chu Tianshu, whose arms only felt sore, the silver needles in Zhong Jinqiu's arms had not been removed yet.

Uncle Ma took the telescope and said, "The telescope I played with when I was young was not as clear and had such a long range. It feels better than my sparrow."

Zhong Jinqiu chewed on a dried radish and said, "This thing can only be used from a high position. If we really want to track and infiltrate, we still have to rely on magic."

Uncle Ma sighed, "It's hard to say. During the Tang and Song dynasties, only thunder magicians were adept at using gunpowder. Later, all sorts of gunpowder guns and cannons emerged."

"These machines may be more convenient than my magic in many areas in the future."

Chu Tianshu was interested and wanted to hear from the sorcerers of this era what the technological creations of the future would look like based on their own guesses.
Shopkeeper Ma was also happy to talk about this.

"For example, nowadays cars all burn oil, and trains all burn coal. They're too heavy. Will there be something in the future where a palm-sized piece of stone can burn for a long time?"

"Even if it's less powerful, we can shrink the whole thing down to the size of a skateboard."

"If someone stands on it, it will run on its own. Oh, and there should be a handle to control the direction, just like the legendary God of Speed ​​horseback riding, which is fast and effortless..."

The three of them chatted as they walked deeper into the forest.

If the three of them were to disappear, it would be a hidden deterrent to Adjutant Zhou.

It’s just that it’s not convenient to go back to live in the original town.

Zhong Jinqiu knew the way, and the three of them took food and money and prepared to walk more than a hundred miles to another town to stay temporarily.

The roads in the mountains are difficult to travel, and in some places there are no roads in the conventional sense.

Zhong Jinqiu is fine. Although his hand disability does not affect his legs, he can still walk briskly.

Although Uncle Ma was in good health, he was not a skilled boxer after all, so he found it a bit strenuous.

Chu Tianshu was carrying a bag and helping Uncle Ma, who was holding an umbrella for him.

We walked like this until evening.

Zhong Jinqiu took them to an abandoned tea shed.

Bamboo and wooden frame, thatched roof.

The tables and chairs in the teahouse were either overturned or had broken legs, and were covered in a lot of dust.

The earthen stove in the corner of the shed was half collapsed.

"I used to go back to my hometown to visit the graves, and sometimes I would stop here."

Zhong Jinqiu said, "I don't know when this shed was abandoned. The roof I have now was repaired by me two years ago."

"Let's sleep here tonight and continue our journey tomorrow morning."

Uncle Ma sat down on a bench without even wiping himself, panting and saying, "Do we have to run so far? Aren't there any other villages or towns nearby where we can stay?"

Zhong Jinqiu simply said, "Xiao Chu is still developing his Kung Fu skills and needs enough meat. Can he live in an ordinary village?"

"It's a prosperous enough town, but you can't say it's too close to Yuannan City, so we can only go there first."

Chu Tianshu agreed with this.

Now that he doesn't have enough food, he doesn't dare to practice martial arts.

I guess he has to wait until he has mastered the Dragon Entanglement and Food for Immortality skills, and his boxing skills have greatly surpassed the attainments of the psychic, before his training speed will not be as crazy as this month.

In addition, people who have truly achieved the state of "food as immortality" have more coordinated functioning of all their internal organs, and can absorb and utilize more nutrients even when eating normal amounts of food.

His need for food will be reduced when he practices boxing.

"Although I can't practice freely, it's good to familiarize myself with the boxing manual."

Chu Tianshu said, "Uncle Zhong, the sun hasn't set yet. It's too early to go to bed now. Please tell me the rest of your boxing manual."

Zhong Jinqiu paused for a moment, then nodded and said, "Alright."

Zhong Jinqiu practiced Tai Chi, but it was not the most famous one today. It was the one that was passed on to Yang Luchan in Chenjiagou, and Yang Luchan established a school of Tai Chi in Beijing and spread it.

His boxing style comes from the Wudang Golden Toad School. The ancients figured out the secrets of boxing with the hermit spirit of gazing at the moon and listening to the toad.

The Chenjiagou style blends battlefield and peasant life practice, creating a more profound, rigid, and unrefined atmosphere. "The human internal organs are closely connected to emotions. To achieve the best results from boxing techniques that target the internal organs, one must also capture the emotional context."

"When I was young, I thought all Tai Chi schools adhered to the principle of being as good as water and using softness to overcome hardness. My Jinchan School's Tai Chi is purer in purpose and definitely more profound than Chenjiagou's."

"After I got older, I thought about it over and over again, and I felt a little regretful that I didn't go to the capital to experience that lineage of Tai Chi."

"Because being a soldier and a farmer are both easy to cultivate and learn. You can see farmers almost everywhere you go. But being a hermit is really hard to learn."

Zhong Jinqiu sighed.

Not everyone who lives in the mountains is called a hermit. Someone who lives away from human habitation can also be called a savage.

A true hermit may not be free from worries, but most of them have forgotten them, experienced the world, and are able to escape from it.

This is really difficult and may even require a natural talent.

Zhong Jinqiu has also experienced ups and downs, and he still can't achieve that kind of mentality.

"I don't think you're a hermit. The effect of the Lingyang Gallbladder has almost been used up. I'm afraid you'll have to work hard to practice my Golden Toad Tai Chi in the future."

Chu Tianshu listened carefully and smiled slightly.

He is indeed not a hermit, but when he uses the token to deduce and optimize the boxing style he has newly derived, it may not necessarily follow the hermit's way.

[Red-tailed Swallow: A blade of cruel punishment, with years of red rust, gold energy and blood resentment, combined to form poison, with a sharp edge, choosing its prey to bite.

Characteristics: Sharp edge cuts iron, rust poisons and rots bones, becomes astringent when encountering crystal, and can be swallowed and exhaled through the lungs with secret methods, which can be used as the master.

[Gold-swallowing beast face (Five Devils Spirits): Buying lives with extra money, making fun of human souls, and offering sacrifices in accordance with the law to please the gods.

The Five-Devil God sent down a wisp of his spirit, imprisoned his essence, and transformed it into an invisible body armor.

Characteristics: It traps vital energy and is as hard as gold.

After the jade coffin was smashed, nothing was gained. Perhaps the magic weapon had not yet reached the standard of being "spiritual".

However, the old eunuch's gold and silver armor was an unexpected surprise.

This thing is not what is rumored. It can be transformed into armor by directly drawing essence from others using evil magic.

The most crucial part is actually a wisp of the spirit of the Five-Devil God.

When Chu Tianshu first saw the annotation on the token, he was also slightly surprised.

But after the old eunuch died, this spirit could only passively take the beatings. Even after being beaten to death, Wuchang did not react at all. It can be seen that although it is called a god, it must have certain limitations, so there is no need to make a fuss about it.

Just relying on this wisp of spirit, plus the red-tailed swallow, the standard for a deduction has been met.

After Zhong Jinqiu explained the contents of the boxing manual, Chu Tianshu recalled it and asked several times about the parts that were not clear in his memory.

The token displayed the new martial arts materials as expected.

Chu Tianshu chose the characteristics of the "Gold-Devouring Beast Face" as the main focus and began to deduce.

[…Deduction completed.]

"Toad Palm Thunder": The mind of the five internal organs is as urgent as thunder, and the toad's cry is the first of the four seasons.

The artistic conception of this boxing style is like a deep-seated mineral vein or a hibernating beast, quietly waiting for the right time. After mastering it, the essence of the internal organs will be preserved inside, becoming thick, tough and full.

Even if one uses the most rapid state to stimulate the internal organs to generate strength, there will be no damage. The heart and lungs can generate strength a hundred times, and only a short breath is needed to maintain vitality.

It was like the sound of thunder in the sky, startling the toads, and then the spring breeze arrived.

Chu Tianshu closed his eyes, feeling the boxing manual in his mind, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

When Uncle Zhong's hand is fully healed, I will find an excuse to tell him about some of the improvements.

At this time, the sky was dyed with night, but strange sounds were heard from the mountains.

Chu Tianshu opened his eyes and looked over in confusion.

Shopkeeper Ma also looked up and muttered, "Where does that donkey bray come from?"

It turned out to be the bray of a donkey.

Chu Tianshu remembered that he had heard donkeys braying in the town, but the braying he heard up close was very different from the one he heard in the mountains.

The drizzle in the forest has stopped, but the soil is muddy and slippery.

I saw two men in straw raincoats, wearing clothes with patches of coarse cloth, with their trouser legs rolled up to their calves and wearing straw sandals walking in the woods. One of them had a sickle on his waist.

The donkey was being led by the two of them.

Sitting on the donkey's back was a man with a sallow complexion and a conical hat on his head. He was hunched over and looked listless.

They looked like three villagers, but somehow it was already dark and they were still in the mountains.

(End of this chapter)