Chapter 114: Revenge! Great Completion of the Waist and Horse Skill
Chapter 114: Chapter 114: Revenge! Great Completion of the Waist and Horse Skill
Countless Demons, Ghosts, Spirits, and Monsters were alarmed!
These members of the Demon Race saw tens of thousands of their kind chasing a single member of the Human Race.
And that member of the Human Race was even holding a hedgehog!
"A Martial Artist?! How can a Martial Artist have that much Blood Qi?!"
"I heard an old demon mention that there used to be a type of Martial Artist who practiced Body Refinement."
"Heaven-defying!"
"Who in the world is that member of the Human Race?"
Countless Transformed Demon Beasts grew curious.
But the most crucial part was that just as the sun was about to rise, the young Human Race Martial Artist being chased vanished!
Just like that, he disappeared before their very eyes at a speed beyond any of the Demon Race’s comprehension.
By this point, there weren’t as many of the Demon Race chasing Zhu Ge, but the ones remaining were all quite fast.
But Zhu Ge suddenly surpassed them all!
"Go back! Go back and report to the Giant Axe Mantis King!"
A transformed hawk’s voice was filled with fury. "We chased him for six hours! Not only was it a waste of time, but he was toying with us!"
"That’s right!" a tiger roared, its eyes bloodshot with rage. "I’m going to eat him!"
"Kill him!"
"Hunt him down! We have to kill that Human Race brat!"
"He dares to toy with us?!"
"I’ve memorized that kid’s aura!"
"Me too!"
The remaining few dozen Demon Beasts turned back, taking some time to return to Jianshui City.
However, Zhu Ge had already circled around and returned to the mountain valley.
"Hooo..."
Zhu Ge let out a long breath.
How invigorating!
He had to admit, he still hadn’t found the limits of his own speed and endurance.
But for now, he knew at the very least that ordinary First and Second Realm Demon Beasts had no hope of catching him.
’The Raincoat Fisherman’s stuff really is top-notch.’
Zhu Ge was full of praise for *Kindling Incense* and the *Xu Family Rain Swift Fist*.
Without the Cultivation Techniques carefully selected by the Raincoat Fisherman, Zhu Ge wouldn’t have escaped so smoothly.
"That was such a long chase. It scared me to death."
Upon seeing the valley, Liu Jianjian leaped down from Zhu Ge’s arms, transformed into her human form, and stretched lazily.
"If there’s nothing else, I’m going back to sleep."
Zhu Ge had been carrying her the entire way. At first, Liu Jianjian had been a nervous wreck, ready to support him at a moment’s notice.
But in the end, seeing that Zhu Ge looked like he was just out for a stroll, she relaxed and fell asleep.
"You lazy thing," Zhu Ge said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
Just then, Hua Liusha spoke in his mind, "Husband, I’ve had an insight while reading the *Gusu Silk Annals* recently. I think I can try weaving a Soul Clothing now."
’Weaving a Soul Clothing?’
Zhu Ge’s eyes lit up.
"Alright." Zhu Ge immediately went into the house, blocked out the sunlight, and took out some furs he had saved in the grass bowl.
The largest and most energy-rich among them was the pelt of a leopard he had killed previously.
That leopard had possessed an innate soul-type attack talent, and its pelt retained this strange quality, making it perfect for Hua Liusha to use for her Soul Clothing.
"Okay."
Hua Liusha’s Yin Qi manifested in the room, and then, like a normal woman, she picked up the pelt to examine it carefully.
A moment later, Hua Liusha began to form hand seals for a Technique, driving streams of red mist into the pelt.
Seeing that Hua Liusha had begun in earnest, Zhu Ge also started cultivating the *Great Sun Glaze Body*.
This escape wasn’t just thanks to *Kindling Incense* and the *Xu Family Rain Swift Fist*.
After all, if he had relied solely on Blood Qi, he estimated it would have been depleted long ago.
Body Refinement!
His body was like a tireless machine, able to keep running on its own physical power.
This was his greatest asset for survival!
Soul out of body!
The next second, his cultivation began.
And while his main body was practicing Body Refinement, deep beneath the valley cabin, the Bone Monster was adapting to its own body.
’So this is what it feels like to divide my attention...’
Zhu Ge could feel the pain of his main body cultivating the *Great Sun Glaze Body*, yet at the same time, that pain felt distant and unreal to the Bone Monster, as if in a dream.
’It seems I still have a long way to go...’ Zhu Ge knew that multitasking like this was extremely difficult.
Right now, he even struggled to make his two bodies perform different actions simultaneously.
It was like trying to draw a circle with his left hand and a square with his right.
It was hard enough now, let alone adapting to fighting with both bodies simultaneously in the future.
If he were to put his main body and the Bone Monster Avatar on a battlefield against two Demon Beasts right now, the result would probably be worse than if Zhu Ge fought alone.
Fortunately, the Bone Monster also grew stronger while it "slept."
The Bone Monster’s instinct was to devour and refine bones.
However, the Bone Monster’s own body was too sturdy, so this refinement process was incredibly slow. It was mostly refining the bones it had consumed when Zhu Ge took it out earlier.
When Zhu Ge finished his *Great Sun Glaze Body* cultivation, he took out all the Demon Beasts he had hunted on this trip, sinewing, skinning, and deboning them.
He threw the bones to the Bone Monster to devour and refine, while the flesh was hung up to air-dry, ready to be stored as cured or smoked meat.
He couldn’t help it. Zhu Ge normally preferred fresh meat, but there was simply no more room in the grass bowl!
It would be a shame to throw it away, so he decided to make it into preserved meat products.
After hanging the meat to dry, Zhu Ge began his martial arts practice once more.
Body Refinement was certainly important, but too much of a good thing could be bad.
His body needed to recover; he could only practice it for a total of ten minutes a day at most.
After all, the *Great Sun Glaze Body* tempered the entire body, from the strands of his hair to the tips of his toes, from his skin to his internal organs.
He couldn’t practice this kind of Body Refinement for too long, or his physical body might just collapse.
Fortunately, Zhu Ge could still practice his martial arts in his spare time.
"Waist and Horse Skill!"
Zhu Ge had been trying to fuse all his martial techniques, combining the life-nurturing *Five Animals Qigong* with the animal behaviors he had observed, in order to forge his own Martial Dao.
And after today’s long-distance run, Zhu Ge’s understanding of his waist and thighs reached a new peak.
’Waist, legs, feet...’
Zhu Ge quietly stood in a horse stance, feeling the burning heat and blood circulation in his lower body.
The circulation grew faster and faster, until the searing blood rushed upward, turning his entire body crimson.
The *Waist and Horse Skill* had reached great completion!
If he wished, he could use the *Waist and Horse Skill* as his Martial Dao right now, step into the Second Realm, and condense a Martial Arts Heart.
A Heart of Waist and Horse, that is.
But this was not Zhu Ge’s Dao.
So, Zhu Ge slowly exhaled and immediately began practicing the *Five Animals Qigong*.
After that came other Cultivation Techniques.
He even attempted the Great Python Strangulation Technique.
He trained like this for the entire day.
Liu Jianjian and Sword Hero also cultivated on their own.
During breaks, Sword Hero would spar with Zhu Ge using his Six-Staff Style, while Liu Jianjian would take the opportunity to go out and "pick wild fruits."
After a day of this, Liu Jianjian returned with news that a scholar from Jianshui City had been severely injured while forcing the Giant Axe Mantis to retreat.
Furthermore, everyone in Jianshui City now remembered one person.
The person who held a hedgehog and led away ten to twenty percent of the Demon Beasts, which in turn led to Jianshui City’s victory.
Of course, any discerning person knew the victory wasn’t that simple, nor was it solely thanks to the so-called "man with the hedgehog."
But the Demon Race were not discerning; they weren’t even human.
And so, the Giant Axe Mantis’s revenge began.
"Search! Find that Martial Artist and bring me his head!"
"I will reward you with one hundred gold coins and one spirit-level, top-grade Ba Yuan Fruit!"