Chapter 362: Chapter 263 Jing Mountain Demon Cave_2
Moreover, the attack power is now excessively high, and with such strong Turbo Power, the burden on oneself is equally tremendous. The Heavenly Ruin Sword Qi has been refined to perfection repeatedly, enabling one sword to counter the opponent’s five swords, but one’s meridians equally suffer from massive sword power vibrations.
That it hasn’t fallen apart until now is already due to Tie Dan relying on the miraculous effects of the Blood Jade Technique for self-repair. But now, continuing to increase the attack, trying to integrate the Heavenly Ruined Thunder Flash into the output cycle, is indeed unsustainable.
So Tie Dan also sat on the lake’s surface, grabbed a handful of salt, wiped the bloodstains off his sword, and caught a breath of Qi while doing so,
"This cultivation technique of mine is too strong; using it excessively harms myself. Do you have a solution?"
"No."
No, what the hell are you asking then...
However, Xing Yuanzhi provided a solution.
"There is an Inner Soft Palm in our Qingtang Sect, not a combat cultivation technique, but a physical exercise to strengthen the body. It’s a blend of hardness and softness, which can relieve muscle strains, misaligned bones, and nourish blood to dissolve stasis. How about I teach it to you, Senior Brother, to slightly relieve your injuries?"
"You speak, I’m listening. White Tiger Leaping Over the Stream!"
So Tie Dan, while killing monsters, also divided his attention to listen to the Soft Palm taught by Xing Yuanzhi.
Indeed, this is not a battle technique; it’s more like yoga exercises for stretching the sinews, moving the limbs, and correcting the body shape, combined with a bit of Inner Boxing Palm Breathing Skill. It’s a designed set of exercises that, accumulated over time, pulls and trains the entire body’s muscles to avoid large, sudden movements causing strains or cramps when one retreats into closed-door cultivation for too long.
Tie Dan turned out to be a natural genius. Listening to her method, he also had some insights, gradually attempting to convert the palm techniques into sword techniques, on the spot inventing a set of sword dance. He only used Heavenly Ruin Sword Qi focused on the sword blade, generating a sword wind to slice heads, relieving strains and stumbling in various parts of the body, and conveniently continuing to kill monsters, feeling that it had some effect.
Thus, he continued slaying the entire afternoon, killing until sunset. Even Xing Yuanzhi sighed in admiration,
"Senior Brother is indeed a born sword seed, with exceptional comprehension and astonishing physical strength. From morning till night, you’ve killed over a hundred demons, and you still don’t need a rest. Are you going to fight through the night?"
Tie Dan was more helpless, looking at the continuous demon waves streaming from north to south past the Salt Pond,
"I can kill a hundred in a day, but there are five thousand going across. There’s no way to stop them. Where are they all coming from?
Wasn’t it said that the Immortal Venerable had already exterminated the demons, leaving only remnants in the Returning Ruins?"
Xing Yuanzhi replied,
"Demons are different from humans. When cultivators reach the True Realm, their Dao bodyforms become completely different from ordinary people. Having formed a Nascent Soul, they’ve transcended the pain of reincarnation and can no longer bear children. So discussions of marriage and forming Daoist companions all happen in the Golden Core Realm, and even then, few are willing to delay cultivation and deplete their Essence Blood to produce offspring.
But when demons reach the Nascent Soul Realm, they can still reproduce, and their demon bodies grow even stronger. As long as their Essence Blood suffices, they can incessantly lay eggs and produce fetuses day and night; some mutants can lay tens of thousands of egg capsules at a time. As long as there is enough nourishment for these demon fetuses, they are virtually limitless, like a tide, making it impossible to completely exterminate them."
Tie Dan couldn’t help but be curious,
"Then how did the Immortal Venerable win back then?"
Xing Yuanzhi shook her head and said,
"I don’t know. Reasonably speaking, the combat power of the Immortal Palace at the time shouldn’t have been enough to win. Maybe there was internal division among the demons?
After all, indeed, a large number of demons joined the Immortal Venerable’s side back then, collaborating to destroy the Demon Clan’s Royal Court. Later, they were treacherously suppressed by the Immortal Palace.
But the time is too long ago, and many ancient secrets have been concealed and destroyed by the Immortal Palace."
Was it the Immortal Palace’s war strategy, using brute force? Using thunder to bomb? Or perhaps there was some Secret Technique to control and weaken the demons with some magic treasure or Beast Taming?
Can’t figure it out; clearly, they are usually so inept and weak, but all of a sudden, they can accomplish the impossible.
Immortal Palace, truly worthy of its name...
Tie Dan couldn’t figure it out; he only knew that the first day’s attempt at slaying demons with a sword yielded unsatisfactory results.
For one, the Salt Pond is way too large, and there are far too many demons. Moreover, these monsters are only clustering together and far from being an organized army. Even when attacked, they care for themselves, lacking any system for mutual assistance or aid. If you dare to kill it, it dares to die, not caring about this bit of casualty.
Secondly, the demons seem eager for Tie Dan to take action. While they are restrained by some force from killing each other, this doesn’t apply to dead bodies. Therefore, every time Tie Dan finishes a batch of demons, before he can burn the corpses, a swarm of demonlings rush to devour the bodies, madly snatching blood and flesh to grow and evolve.
It seems as though the demons killed by Tie Dan are instantly absorbed by other demons, reincarnated in another form.
As a result, just on the first day, Tie Dan witnessed dozens of little demons achieving Core Formation breakthrough on the spot, and this speed is already considered slow.
Because all the spiritual vegetation around Jing Mountain has been devoured entirely, the Demon Tide continues southward to eat, grow, and evolve. Clearly, if this momentum isn’t quickly halted, once the ice field and mountain barriers are breached, the demons will eventually evolve to a point of sweeping across the land without control.
Such reasoning is clear to Tie Dan; why then do the Mystic Sect People ignore this demonic catastrophe?
After all, he’s been slaying demons all day; someone at Jing Mountain must know he’s out there on a demon extermination, yet there’s been no reaction at all.