Chapter 68: Endure to Death
For three years, Xu Yang's cultivation has not improved, and he still stays at the third level of physical training, the bone and muscle realm.
It's not that he didn't work hard, but there is something wrong with the technique.
The fish dragon transformation technique was created by him based on the martial arts classics and referring to his own experience. There are many deficiencies. Previously, he only introduced the three levels of qi and blood, skin and flesh, and bones and muscles, so he could only practice to the bone and muscle realm.
Fortunately, after three years, he referred to the changes in his own blood and the path of the green fish returning to its ancestral home and turning into a dragon, and finally deduced the fourth level of physical training, the fish dragon transformation technique.
The fourth level of physical training should be the rebirth realm!
Rebirth is no longer ordinary, it can be called a demon cultivation.
The fourth level of martial arts, the state of concentration, requires "concentration of mind and harmony with the Tao" to achieve.
The fourth level of physical training, the state of rebirth, does it also require "concentration of mind and harmony with the Tao"?
Yes!
Because this level was created by Xu Yang based on the martial arts classics, it is naturally impossible to deviate from the central idea.
Martial arts require concentration, and physical training also requires concentration, so that the spirit of heaven and earth can be attracted to merge into oneself.
The power of the soul is also crucial for physical training of demon cultivators.
This is also the reason why the giant turtle can be far ahead among the five overlords.
It is a natural species, born with spiritual wisdom, and its cultivation speed is far faster than other spirits. After other spirits enter the third level and turn into monsters, they will be blocked by the "spiritual calamity", and it is difficult to transform and turn into demon cultivators.
Only it can pass through unimpeded and enter the fourth level directly, becoming the only demon beast in the Black Water River!
It can be seen that the importance of spiritual wisdom to demon beasts.
Human cultivators need to "concentrate their minds and merge with the Tao" to enter the fourth level of martial arts.
Demon cultivators need to "open their spirits and awaken their wisdom" to enter the fourth level of physical training.
In essence, it is just four words.
Unity of man and nature!
Only by seizing the essence of heaven and earth and invading the mysteries of the sun and the moon can one have one's own Tao fruit.
The creation of the skills is completed, and the next step is to practice.
This is not a difficult task for Xu Yang. After all, he has the experience of "concentrating the mind and merging with the Tao". Even if the system changes slightly, it is easy to re-cultivate.
This is the change of cultivation and skills.
Just mentioned, it is not the focus.
The focus is on the skill characteristics.
In three years, many skills have changed again.
In terms of eating, eating one cow a day has been promoted to eating ten cows a day, and the ability of eating, digestion, absorption, etc. has been improved.
In addition, there is a new characteristic of "returning to the ancestral source", the effect of which is to purify the blood power of food and absorb it. For example, if other monsters eat a dragon carp, they can only get a little mottled dragon blood, but Xu Yang can purify it and get a little pure dragon blood.
The quality difference is at least ten times!
This is the eating skill.
Looking at the breathing skill, there is also a new characteristic-pure blood into qi.
This is also a characteristic related to "blood", which can purify the blood in the body through breathing, thereby improving the purity of blood.
Although the effect of one improvement is very small, almost nothing, breathing is something that happens day and night, without interruption. When the number accumulates, the effect is also quite considerable.
With this, combined with the "return to the ancestral roots" of eating, Xu Yang's bloodline power has been purified and strengthened a lot during this period.
But this is still not the key.
The real focus is still...
Breeding (breeding of exotic beasts, enlightenment of spirit beasts, strong body, thriving growth, Dragon King's command)
Xu Yang transferred his breeding skills to the original body, and used three years of hard work to brush out three new characteristics-spirit beast enlightenment, thriving growth, and Dragon King's command.
Spirit beast enlightenment, as the name suggests, is to enlighten spirit beasts.
Xu Yang can consume the power of cultivation, blood, aura, etc. to enlighten the creatures, accelerate growth, enhance strength, and even open wisdom.
Thriving growth, as the name suggests, is to make the cultivated spirit beasts thrive, and combined with the original strong body, it can greatly improve the overall quality of the spirit beasts.
As for the final Dragon King Order, it allows Xu Yang to "command" all the aquatic spirit beasts with lower ranks than him, so that they can communicate with each other and do whatever he wants them to do.
In addition to the original domestication of exotic beasts, Xu Yang has been engaged in breeding and development in the Black Water River for the past three years, which has rapidly increased the size of the aquatic creatures in the Black Water River, greatly increased the number of tribes, and raised a large number of spirit beasts, which is more than several times the number of those he swept away three years ago.
It can be seen that the breeding skills are powerful and the black water spirit is magical.
A good cook cannot cook without rice. Breeding skills can only improve the breeding effect, but cannot change things out of nothing. Without a good environment and sufficient resources, he can't raise anything good.
The black water spirit is the best environment and the best resource. It can even replace food. Many fish species don't even need to eat. They can meet the needs of survival, growth, and reproduction by relying on the pure vitality emitted from the restricted area.
With such resources, Xu Yang's breeding business is naturally very rapid.
At present, there are 13,485 types of aquatic creatures in the Black Water River, 5,617 types of group breeders, 35 monsters, 560 spirits, and 2,352 exotic beasts...
This is the effect of breeding skills plus the spiritual energy of the black water.
The breeding was a great success, but Xu Yang did not use all the breeding results as a meal. Instead, he carefully selected various monsters, spirits, and exotic beasts to form a navy and began to train.
That's right, he also needs to train!
Without training, how can we build a strong defense and clear the fields to complete the food blockade of the giant turtle?
Now, Xu Yang's navy has been formed, and "sentinels" are sent to monitor the movements of the giant turtle at all times.
As long as the sentinel sent a message to inform the giant turtle of its unusual movements, Xu Yang, the "Dragon King", would move with his navy and the fish school to ensure that the giant turtle could not eat the big fish of the monster level, and could only eat some small fish and shrimps.
In this way, after a while, the giant turtle was no longer willing to consume its physical strength, and completely gave up hunting and eating. It shrank at the edge of the restricted area and lived on the black water spirit.
Now that Xu Yang's great cause has been completed and his men are strong, should he immediately attack the giant turtle?
Of course not!
Three years of accumulation is not enough to defeat the giant turtle.
Neither Xu Yang himself nor the newly formed navy can pose a threat to the giant turtle.
So, we still have to endure!
...
In this way, time flies.
Spring goes and spring comes again, flowers fade and flowers bloom again.
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is fifteen years later.
In the Black Water River, at the edge of the restricted area.
"Ang!!!"
A loud roar, like a dragon's roar, carrying boundless anger, shook the waters of all directions.
A giant turtle, with a body as big as a mountain, roared to the sky.
"Green loach, dead fish, get out, get out!"
"If you have the guts, get out and fight me to the death!"
A strong mental wave broke out, rushing in all directions with the water flow.
But there was no response.
This made the giant turtle even more angry.
It can be seen that it is no longer as calm as before.
A pair of eyes are bloodshot.
The head is full of burn marks.
The black tortoise shell on its back, the hardest part, is also scarred at this moment.
Between anger and mania, there is fear and helplessness.
How could it become like this?
"Get out!!!"
The giant turtle roared, shaking the ten directions, but there was still no response around.
Helplessly, it could only give up the useless provocation, angrily urged the water flow, and carried its body out.
At this moment...
"Crackle, crackle!"
In the black water, lightning flashed, and an electric net fell down, covering the giant turtle.
Seeing this, the giant turtle quickly retracted its head, and its limbs and head were all in the turtle shell, resisting the bombardment of the electric net with the strongest defensive posture.
"Bang, bang, bang, bang!"
Instantly, the electric current raged, the fire splashed, leaving several scorch marks on the turtle shell, and a lot of ashes and debris scattered in the water.
In this way, after a while, the electric net dissipated.
The giant turtle stretched its head and looked up, only to see a golden light in the distance above.
That was...eels, golden and electric eels, one after another, hundreds of them.
The hundreds of electric eels were all monsters, and more than ten of them had reached the limit of monsters, just like the electric eel king at the beginning, with bulges on their heads, tumors on their abdomens, and horns and claws that seemed to burst out.
But all of this was not as dazzling as the green light in the formation.
The green jade light was dazzling.
Looking closely, it turned out to be a... green fish?
It was thirty-six feet long and seven feet in circumference.
On the top of its head, there was a single horn, like a jasper.
Above its lips and jaws, six golden whiskers flashed with lightning.
Under its two fins, between its chest and abdomen, two claws were dancing.
The claws had three toes, which meant it was a dragon, a green dragon-fish dragon.
The green dragon-fish dragon commanded the eels, and lightning flashed all over its body.
"Pah pah pah!!!"
The green dragon pulled out the electricity, and the eels responded. A monster beast, along with hundreds of monsters, stimulated the current in their bodies to form an electric net.
"Boom!"
Hundreds of electric currents became thunder, bombarding down, and the giant turtle quickly retracted its head and used the turtle shell behind it to resist.
But the power of this thunder and lightning was so terrifying that even the black turtle shell was hit by a bang, and a terrifying gap was blown out.
"Ang!!!"
The giant turtle felt pain and cried out in grief, and angrily urged its innate magical powers, and the earth-yuan heavy water went straight to suppress the green dragon and the eels.
But what happened was...
"Ang!!!"
The green dragons roared together, stepped forward, and swam rapidly, forming a whirlpool, stirring up the earth's heavy water.
Seeing this scene, the giant turtle was filled with hatred.
He was careless!
Fifteen years ago, he was careless!
He didn't realize the conspiracy of this little thief, and actually relaxed his vigilance, allowing it to grow in the Black Water River, recruit troops, and practice military formations, and become such a climate.
When it first discovered Xu Yang's behavior, it was very disdainful, because it didn't think that a mere green fish could stir up any momentum. Even if it could, it would have found the God's Mansion, taken over the God's Seal, and controlled the entire Black Water River.
So, at first, its attitude was to treat it as a joke, watching him build a high building, and watching him collapse...
As a result, the building not only did not collapse, but it became higher and higher, and the God's Mansion it was looking for has not yet been found.
As a result, the other party is well-managed and has strong troops and horses, but it is alone and has no help.
How could this happen?
You are a fish, and you can raise fish?
Raising fish is fine, but how did you raise these things?
Is this black water aura really so effective that it can easily raise a large number of monsters?
Why were there only five overlords in the deep water area before? Didn’t other monsters absorb black water aura?
I don’t understand, I don’t understand, the giant turtle doesn’t understand at all!
It only knows one thing now.
That is... it is in danger.
This damn loach has raised fish for more than ten years and raised a lot of monsters. The most terrifying one is the hundreds of monster-level electric eels around it, calling themselves the "Electric Department" navy. Each of them is like the original electric eel king, with terrifying power to control electricity.
In this way, hundreds of naval forces of the Ministry of Electricity, plus the monster that successfully broke through and became a demon beast, set up the "Ministry of Electricity" formation, and together activated the power of electric current, turning it into thunder bombardment. Even though its tortoise shell was hard, it was also bombarded and numbed.
After several sieges and bombardments, it was already scarred and injured inside and outside.
If it continues like this, it will definitely not be able to bear it.
What to do?
Escape, where to escape?
Its movements are so slow, and this green loach is clinging to it, where can it escape?
Blackwater restricted area?
No, this green loach is extremely treacherous and cunning. This time, the siege is to catch it when it enters the restricted area, absorbs full of spiritual energy, and exits without bearing the heavy load. Now its body is full of unrefined black water spiritual energy. If it enters the restricted area again, it will die.
What to do?
Is there no way out?
No, even if it dies, it can't let this green loach feel good!
The giant turtle roared and was about to fight for its life.
But he didn't expect...
"Retreat!"
Xu Yang swung his tail and led the electric navy to avoid the sharp edge.
Destroy everything together, thinking too much.
"You...!!!"
Such a shameless fighting method made the giant turtle's eyes burst and almost spurt blood.
Xu Yang didn't care about it, and was determined to use the kite tactics to pull and consume, and wear it out to death.
It would rather not have the spoils and force the giant turtle into the black water restricted area than take the risk and fight it to death.
The giant turtle was helpless about this. Its own speed was slow, and the earth element heavy water was cracked by the opponent. It had no means to fight for its life.
This went on for three days.
"Boom!!!"
Under the electric shock, the giant turtle's body fell to the ground with a bang.
Its eyes were wide open, as if it was dying with its eyes wide open.
A thousand-year-old turtle, a ten-thousand-year-old tortoise, it is a black water black turtle, a natural alien species, and now it has been killed by a fish!
How can it close its eyes in the underworld?