manynovel Chapter 269: The Old Trees Have Strange Shapes
Chapter 269: The Old Trees Have Strange Shapes
Chapter 269: The Old Trees Have Strange Shapes
Hong Wendi was being dragged behind at this time. Everything he saw was upside down and reversed. He could only hear the extremely desolate whistling of the wind in his ears. The scenery around him was also blurry, as if it was shrouded in a dense black mist.
The one who grabbed him was actually a monster that looked like both a human and a beast. Its body was covered with scales and was mottled like an ancient pine tree. Its hair was fluffy like feathers. Its bleak appearance did not resemble a human at all. Instead, it looked a bit like an ape covered in moss on a tree. Its movements were strange and swift, and it was completely a non-human ghost.
Hong Wendi looked intently, and all he could see were layers of old scales and broken armor, like tattered books rolling in the wind. They were extremely rough and thick, and made rustling sounds due to the movement and collision, just like a fully equipped set of lacquered leather armor. A foul-smelling wind blew in his face, making people dizzy and nauseous when they inhaled it. It was like a strange mixture of tung oil and the stench of a corpse!
Hong Wendi's body was lying on the ground at this time, and ordinary boxing techniques could not be used. He only heard a low breath in his throat, and the internal force in his lungs was instantly poured into his arms. He forced his body, mind, qi and strength into one, and with his palms he slapped the ribs of the Lin Cun monster fiercely, and then used yin and yang together, and used qi to penetrate the strength, and hit the opponent right under the ribs!
An ordinary person who was hit by this move would definitely vomit blood and see stars. However, the Linchuang monster, which was showing off its power with a fishy and evil aura, seemed to be unaware of the pain. Instead, it summoned up a strange power and carried Hong Wendi to fly over the eaves and walls, through the halls and houses. In a blink of an eye, it was running along the towering battlements of Chong'an County, and crashed into the eye of the city wall like an eagle rushing into the forest.
Hong Wendi was secretly shocked. At this moment, he was trying to use "Two Hidden Tigers" to catch the enemy off guard and "Great Immortal Bowing" to target the enemy's vital points. However, before these two moves worked, he felt a strong force accompanied by the sound of hitting the city wall, coming to him like a raging wave.
Most of the strength gathered in his throat dissipated instantly, and he hadn't even finished his last move, so he could only hurriedly use "Jinghong Lianyi" to protect his upper chest. He was caught off guard and was slammed hard on his back by the Lincun monster onto the city wall made of solid rocks!
At the critical moment, it was still the true energy of the Heavenly Silkworm Divine Art that surged out from the acupuncture points all over the body to protect Wen Ding. It seemed that the more the fight was between life and death, the more it could stimulate the magical effect of this kung fu, like the heavenly silkworm spinning silk and breaking out of the cocoon and transforming into a butterfly. As the true energy of the Heavenly Silkworm condensed and spit out, rolling back like a silk thread, a series of soft energy forces suddenly blocked Hong Wen Ding's body, cushioning and dissipating most of the impact force.
The Lin Cun monster stretched out its arms, held Hong Wendi's feet upside down and continued to wrestle him, just like a mountain ape using a stone to deal with a hard drupe, but the more it wrestled, the slower its movements became, and its original brutality and roughness turned into a kind of sluggishness that came from being drunk and then tipsy, as if it was not holding a person in its hands, but a cattail leaf fan with huge resistance, and the harder it fanned, the more strenuous it became, until its arms became stiff and tired, revealing a flaw, and it was immediately kicked away by Hong Wendi's feet and suddenly broke free.
Relying on the Heavenly Silkworm Qi to dissipate the force into nothingness, Hong Wendi flipped twice in the air and stood firm again, standing firmly on the battlement. Not far away was the strange-looking unicorn. The crescent moon behind him was shivering, reflecting the blue frost on the ground.
Hong Wending had not yet started, but he first opened his horse stance, drew a semi-arc from right to left, and politely extended his hands. His eyes were bright, and with his arms shaking, he changed from the unique Shaolin boxing style that combined softness and ferocity, and used hardness to break through the hardness, to another completely different style of Jianghu boxing.
This posture was certainly not his way of being conservative, but a kind of etiquette used in fighting between people from the martial arts world. If the other party was also a person from the martial arts world in disguise, he would definitely have a subconscious reaction when he saw this action; and if the other party was some kind of corpse monster, then he would inevitably be confused by this action that only living people could have. With this opportunity, Hong Wendi could also weigh whether the other party was a human or a ghost.
But the strange monkey turned a blind eye, with its strange curly hair flying around its neck. It had neither the hesitation of a living person's prudent judgment, nor the habit of jumping up and down like an animal. Its wooden and old-fashioned appearance made it look more like a stiff corpse exposed outside a grave, without any behavior that a living creature should have.
What was even more bizarre was that the Lin Cun monster took two steps back, then suddenly ran outwards, swaying its body, and actually left Hong Wending behind, and was about to leave suddenly. This action caught Hong Wending off guard, and he immediately jumped up to chase after it.
The two men jumped down from the city wall using the help of a haystack, and then chased each other along the path outside the city. However, the monster, which was as mottled as an ancient pine tree and had hair as fluffy as feathers, jumped swiftly and was always faster than Hong Wendi. It was not until the sky was dim that it dodged and crashed into a dense forest.
There was a ground full of rotten leaves and smoke, and the air was still thick with fog. Faint Buddhist sounds were floating in the woods, and a strange monkey with a unicorn-like figure was hiding under an old tree, as if it was trying to climb up.
Seeing this, Hong Wendi rushed forward without hesitation. His feet stepped on the ground as fast as a meteor and in a blink of an eye he was approaching the Lincun monster. As the energy entered his dantian, Hong Wendi raised his fists like a hundred flowers blooming, and he attacked with a series of fighting, rolling, turning and blocking. His up, down, left and right movements were uncertain, and when he was at his fastest, they became one, which dazzled people and caught them off guard.
This attack was like a dragon diving into the river, leaving no chance to breathe. Hong Wendi's boxing was all-pervasive, and in a short time he had hit all the vital points on the body of the Lin Cun monster. However, the opponent was covered in black air, and he did not retreat at all while shaking.
"Iron bones are flawless... and yet they are so strong..."
Hong Wendi murmured, wondering why the Lincun monster in front of him had no reaction at all, and countless forces were like a drop in the ocean. So he put his palms together and connected his meridians. The Tiancan true energy instantly circulated to the extreme. He turned sideways and punched hard. Finally, under this punch, the Lincun monster finally took two steps back, rose and fell suddenly, jumped up, and fled again!
This monster was like a fish in water in the mountains and forests. Hong Wendi could only barely follow the footprints on the ground, until he suddenly heard a plop in his ear, and all traces of the monster disappeared silently. He was left standing alone among the towering ancient trees, looking around blankly in thought.
Hong Wendi seemed to see the outline of a temple in the dim shadows, but he was worried that there might be an ambush there, so he stood there and waited for a while, preparing to make plans when the sky brightened in the old forest.
Tonight's experience was too tortuous and bizarre.
Earlier, outside the Watergate Shop, he had already noticed something strange. Although the night watchman's behavior was strange, after careful observation, it seemed that he was reminding them to be more careful and trying to drive away something ominous with the sound of the bronze chime.
If this is the case, then Xiao Shitou and Zhao Erguan had been followed on their way home, and the real culprit should be the Lincun monster in front of them - the reason why Hong Wendi chose to be captured was to move the battlefield away from the two of them, so as to find a place where he could perform better.
Hong Wendi has thought this through clearly. Sometimes in a fight, the more people there are, the better. For example, his own master would often hide away for a few days, and when he came back, he would be able to solve various mysteries and cases with confidence.
In this regard, Hong Wendi felt that he was far inferior to his master Jiang Wen in ability. For example, although he knew a lot of martial arts, he still lacked the ability to win with one blow or the final word, whether it was fists or weapons. Unless he used the extremely treacherous secret Dragon Fist again, it would be very easy for him to be dragged into a quagmire of a long and undefeated battle when fighting against a strong enemy, and in the end he could only maintain a situation of neither victory nor defeat.
His senior brother, Little Stone, was far better than him in this respect. He relied on his iron shirt that was invulnerable to swords and guns, and when attacking, whether it was grappling techniques or iron palms, he always had a way to make the enemy suffer.
But his shortcomings are also extremely obvious, so that no matter how you look at it, he can only go alone to find the enemy this time...
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Late at night, in Chong'an County, Zhao Erguan stood in front of the hole in the door with his mouth shut, still not awakened from the shock. He could only mutter "there's a ghost" and "there's a ghost" until Xiao Shitou came out of the house vigilantly. Then he seemed to catch the flying soul and spoke to Xiao Shitou's shoulder.
"Not good! Junior Brother Hong... Junior Brother Hong has been captured!"
Little Stone patted the dust off his clothes, feeling a little sorry for the tattered cotton coat, and nodded gloomily.
"Well, I see it."
Zhao Erguan was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't understand the meaning of this reaction, so he emphasized it again in a louder voice.
"He was really captured!"
Little Stone also nodded firmly.
"Yeah, I really saw it."
Zhao Erguan slapped his thigh hard, as if all his courage had fled from his chest. This time he couldn't even utter a word. However, Xiao Shitou sat firmly on the stone steps in front of the door beside him, holding his chin and speaking calmly and depressedly.
"… Mainly because I can't catch up."
What Little Stone said was also true. When Jiang Wen taught him martial arts, he wanted Little Stone to have both a strong body and the ability to capture the enemy and win. However, he never thought of teaching him martial arts such as light footwork.
Leaving aside his posture and talents, just saying that Xiao Shitou is now stable at the short stature of a six-year-old, even if he has practiced light Kung Fu to the highest level in the world, it still takes him three steps to catch up with one step of others. This is a natural shortcoming. Instead of wasting time here, he might as well learn the other moves of the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms.
But today, Xiao Shitou is unable to catch up with Hong Wendi and the Lincun monster. He is good at defending but not agile enough, so he can only be excluded from the pursuit.
At this moment, several figures in black robes and green boots suddenly appeared outside the house, some standing on the roof, some hiding under the trees at the door.
They gradually walked towards Zhao Erguan who was collapsed on the ground, passing the small stone who was looking up at the sky in silence. A moment later, a group of people dressed as ordinary people appeared in the narrow path, beating drums and gongs and holding torches, rushing towards here. However, they all walked hesitantly and looked worried, for fear of seeing something terrifying.
Several people in black robes and green boots came over first, but didn't say anything. They just kept looking around vigilantly. They saw the night watchman collapsed on the ground and checked the messy shop. Finally, they looked at each other and spoke slowly.
"No, we are a step late after all."
The man in black robe and green boots holding the token looked serious and said to the two people beside him, "The man just now might have been killed. Only these two people escaped by luck."
The man in black robe and green boots with a command flag on his waist asked in surprise, "Brother, look, isn't that Erlang from the Zhao family in the City God Temple? How come he is so reckless and caused trouble again? And whose family is this kid next to him? Why has he never been seen in the city?"
"Alas, it's a pity that the young man, who had great martial arts skills, was harmed by a ghost...
At this time, a man holding a torch came up from behind and explained in a low voice: "This kid moved in two days ago. He seems to be from Fang's house. I saw him fall out just now. He doesn't know any martial arts. He can only show his teeth."
The person who was speaking was a person who lived nearby. He had only seen Xiao Shitou when he pounced on the night watchman just now. Xiao Shitou's fighting postures were always unsightly, far inferior to Hong Wendi's graceful and elegant skills. And when Xiao Shitou fought the strange monkey, it happened alone in the shop. It was dark and there was chaos everywhere, so he couldn't see anything clearly.
As a result, everyone mistakenly thought that Hong Wendi was the elder brother who took Xiao Shitou on a long journey, and this silly younger brother was so frightened that he didn't know what had happened.
Little Shitou didn't care what they were talking about. He asked stupidly, "What was that just now?"
The man in black robe and green boots holding the token explained to him fearfully, "This is Hanba, a beast with long hair and stumbling steps, in the shape of a monkey. You are so lucky to be so ignorant that you can escape from this monster!"
Then he raised the token and shouted.
"Everyone, rest assured. With the Jingqi Sect now stationed in Chong'an County, all demons and evil spirits will have to retreat!"
Little Shitou said "Oh" silently and stood aside without saying anything. Only the neighbors were left shouting for the Zhao family to come and take the people back, telling them not to take risks at night in the future.
Soon, another group of people in black clothes rushed over and carried away the middle-aged night watchman who had collapsed on the ground. Only then did they see the sky turn white and the sun rise, and some life returned to Chong'an County.
Not long after, Zhao Erguan's relatives also hurried over, and it seemed to be his eldest sister. However, Zhao Erguan refused to leave no matter what, and insisted on taking Xiao Shitou with him to his home.
Suddenly there were several quarrels on the street again. Only Xiao Shitou was still looking up at the sky with his chin in his hand in frustration. Until a man in black clothes flashed out from under a tree in the crowd, quietly came to Xiao Shitou, nudged him with his elbow and said.
"It's really you! Why are you here?"
Little Stone turned his head to look at the person in a daze, and found that it was a strange woman with a very distinctive appearance. After taking a glance at her, he turned his head back without any reaction on his face until the other party continued to ask.
"Take another good look at me. Do you really not recognize me?"
Little Stone stared at the other person for a long time, his face full of distress and thought, until a breeze blew, he suddenly moved his nose, and answered with a look of realization in his eyes.
"It's Junior Sister!"
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(End of this chapter)