Martial Arts and Longevity: Starting from the Spiritual Beast Picture

Chapter 283
Nearly [-] mortals lived in Jueming Mountain, including the family members of disciples who had just moved from the small world, and some descendants of monks who had settled here for many years and had multiplied for several or even dozens of generations.

The environment in the mountains is beautiful, the climate is pleasant, and the land is extremely fertile. If you just sprinkle a few handfuls of seeds, you can grow strong crops without much farming.

Ordinary people living here are nourished by spiritual energy all year round, rarely get sick, and their life expectancy is ten or twenty years longer than that in the mortal world. It is not uncommon to live to an octogenarian age.

It can be seen that the town is quite prosperous.

The streets are wide and tidy, paved with bluestones, there are many shops on the street, oil mills and rice shops, schools and teahouses...

But by this time there was no one there.

Instead, there are dense katydids.

These katydids are more than a foot long, with two green eyes shining brightly on their heads, and their bodies are covered with shiny hard shells, ranging in color from light green to dark yellow.

The strong hind limbs are covered with serrations, and the two pairs of scales are covered with a rusty reddish brown.

At the moment, they are jumping around, looking for something edible, and once they find something, they will pounce on it, open their powerful upper jaws, and keep gnawing, as if they will never be full.

"This is a katydid? Why is it so big?"

"Yeah, I thought it was only as big as a fist."

It was the first time for many disciples to see demon worms, and they couldn't help but feel hairy.

Seeing everyone's fear, Elder Nie didn't say a word. He squeezed out a formula in his hand, and a faint golden light immediately shrouded his body.

In just a moment, golden light burst out in his hand, and dozens of flying blades like hooks and sickles shot out.

These flying blades seemed to have eyes, and they chopped off the heads of the dozens of katydids closest to the crowd, or split them in half, or pierced through their chests... all of them were wiped out in an instant!
When the disciples saw it, they all cheered.

Although the spirit beast map has been ashesed and dormant, Zhao Lin can still see the spirits of the dead creatures. Seeing dozens of spirits rising together, he couldn't help but shudder.

Swimming sickle flying blade is a first-order spell, but it is amazingly powerful in the hands of a foundation-builder monk.

The power of this move is not that it sends out dozens of flying blades, but that every flying blade can hit the target accurately.

You must know that the katydids are not dead objects, and many of them are constantly moving. You must have a strong sense of consciousness and be able to control these flying blades separately.

After Elder Nie finished casting the spell, he whistled.

There was only a sound of "beating edges", and seven or eight green sparrows and long-tailed pheasants flew over the heads of the crowd, and rushed towards the katydid locust not far away at low altitude.

Strange to say, after the crowd arrived, the katydids remained indifferent, but as soon as the spirit birds appeared, they started to scatter and flee like a mouse seeing a cat.

The katydid fled quickly, but the spirit bird was one step faster. It caught up in the blink of an eye, raised its sharp beak, and inserted it directly into its head like an iron pick.

A fatal blow, and then the next one...

Seeing that the spirit bird is so brave, the disciples were relieved.

At this time Elder Nie's voice sounded: "There are seven streets in the town, Wei Yi, Zhang Gong...Dong Lingcheng, the seven of you lead a team to wipe out katydids along the street."

"Zhu Shimao, Lan Jin, the two of you are responsible for cleaning up the farmland, and bring the spirit birds with you!"

"I'll go to the ancestral temple in the town to guard the emergency circle. If you are in danger, call me with a whistling sound."

When we were on the flying boat just now, Elder Nie had organized everyone into a team. An older senior brother led four or five young disciples.

Zhao Lin, Tong Mu, Li Sancai, and Zhu Cong were in a group. Since the four of them were just beginners, Dong Lingcheng, who was the most powerful among the Chuangong brothers, led the team.

Before Elder Nie left, he deliberately told the nine senior brothers: "Your priority is to take good care of the disciples, and the second is to kill the katydids. There must be no casualties, understand?"

"understand!"

The nine people agreed in unison, and each led their team to the streets and farmland.

Dong Lingcheng was the stern-faced and sword-browed brother who taught the Dharma in Yanfa Pavilion before. He led Zhao Lin and others to the third street from the north.

As soon as the five people entered the street, they saw hundreds of katydids scurrying back and forth between the ground, walls, and roofs, and there were chewing sounds from some rooms.

"You cast a spell first, kill a katydid for me to see."

Dong Lingcheng was not in a hurry to kill the katydids, but wanted to know the general strength of the few people before deciding on the next move.

"it is good."

Zhao Lin was the first to stand out, and with a sweeping gaze, he fixed on a katydid locust that was half-body leaning into a wooden barrel by the street.

Usually, he practiced spells against a target or an empty space, but today was the first time he had killed a living creature.

Zhao Lin stabilized his mind, and quickly formed the fifth-grade lotus flower seal on his hand.

Hold the middle finger and ring finger with the thumb, extend the index finger and little thumb upwards, and then swipe in the air.

"Wind knife technique!"

I saw the blue light converging, condensing into a wind knife, flying out in the air, hitting the belly of the katydid, splitting it in two.

"it is good!"

Dong Lingcheng praised, and looked at Li Sancai again.

Although Li Sancai is a low-grade spiritual root, he is very talented in controlling spiritual power. He also practiced spiritual sword skills, but he was driven by the spiritual power of fire.

He sent out a fiery knife, and chopped it on the head of a katydid sitting on the top of the wall.

With a sound of "stab", the flames ignited, and there was a burning smell in the air.

"bingo!"

Li Sancai waved his fist excitedly.

Next is Tong Mu. Because he has been grazing on the grassland for many years, he is used to driving sheep with a whip. When practicing magic, he chose a wooden magic: Ivy.

Ivy Art is a long ivy whip more than four feet long, full of barbs, twisting in the air like a snake.

After sending it out, it rolled back violently, hooked the body of a katydid, and directly crushed it.

In the end it was Zhu Cong's turn. He was practicing water archery. Although his spirit root was higher than the three of them, he hadn't mastered the spell yet, and his control power was still insufficient.

Coupled with his young age, he was a little afraid of katydids, so he fired two water arrows in a row, barely hitting the thigh of a katydid.

The katydid fell to the ground and jumped up in shock. It flapped its wings and wanted to fly, but Dong Lingcheng chopped it down in the air with a wooden flying sword.

"It's all good!"

Dong Lingcheng said with satisfaction that Elder Nie asked him to lead the four disciples who had just started. He originally thought it would be a burden, but he didn't expect his skills to be unexpected, and he could already help him share his worries.

"Follow me closely, remember not to be more than seven feet away... No, five feet away!"

After finishing speaking, he glanced at Zhao Lin, "You are the oldest, and you have martial arts, so please help me take care of it."

Zhao Lin quickly responded: "Brother, don't worry."

Dong Lingcheng nodded slightly, and rushed into the street first, leading the crowd to strangle the katydids they saw.

"Autumn leaves fall!"

Dong Lingcheng's cultivation was at the eighth level of Qi Refining, and his mana was powerful. Although he couldn't kill dozens of katydids with one move like Elder Nie, every time he made a move, several monster insects would land on the ground.

He dashed forward, and Zhao Lin and the others followed closely behind, taking turns to kill any fish that slipped through the net or undead katydids.

Zhao Lin has practiced martial arts for a long time, and his insight in combat is extremely keen.

After observing for a while, he found that Li Sancai's fire knife technique had the effect of setting off fire, and every time he hit the target, a ball of flame would rise.

"Sancai, leave the individual monster worms for us to deal with, you can find the monster worms that are close together and try."

Li Sancai tried it, and sure enough, a magic spell could kill two monsters at the same time, and he couldn't help but feel hooked.

Tong Mu's green vine technique was not far away, but had a wider range. Zhao Lin suggested that he clean up the katydids that had entered the house, so that there was no risk of missing.

Zhu Cong's magic skills were not good, and his accuracy was also a little off, but Zhao Lin could see the spirit of the dead katydid, and if he found no spirit floating out, he would go up to make up the knife.

The wind knife technique is light and nimble, Zhao Lin deliberately looked for the flying katydids, and practiced spell accuracy.

In this way, while fighting, several people experience various ways of spells. These are things that are difficult to learn in the Lingdao Academy.

Everyone covered up and killed all the way, and the corpses of katydids were everywhere they passed.

However, after all, the four disciples only had the first level of Qi Refining, and within half an hour, their mana was exhausted one after another.

Fortunately, Zhao Lin had no mana, and still had blood all over his body. He could still kill monster insects with martial arts such as splitting the air and Tianshuangquan.

But Tong Mu, Li Sancai and Zhu Cong could only stare blankly, and followed Zhao Lin, waiting for their spiritual power to recover slowly.

Dong Lingcheng also noticed that several people's mana was exhausted, but seeing Zhao Lin's clean and quick attacks, he was relieved and focused on killing katydids.

After walking for a while, everyone suddenly realized that they had been killed from the street to the end of the street.

"Stay where you are for a quarter of an hour."

Dong Ling confessed, sat down on the ground, closed his eyes and adjusted his breath.

Zhao Lin and the others followed suit and sat down cross-legged.

When the time came, several people got up at the same time.

The monster insects on the street just now were already dead, and at this time some katydids flew from other places, and some were still eating the corpses of their own kind.

Dong Lingcheng didn't speak, and waved the crowd to sweep back along the street.

This time, Zhao Lin and others felt a lot more relaxed. As a result, the number of katydids decreased, and they were no longer everywhere as before.

Secondly, the spells of the few people were more familiar than at the beginning, and the efficiency of killing insects was higher after recovering their spiritual power, and even Zhu Cong had improved a lot.

"There's one inside!"

When passing by a wine shop, there was a strange noise in the room.

Dong Lingcheng didn't want to waste time, so he let Zhao Lin and others go in to search, while he continued to kill katydids outside.

Zhao Lin responded, and led the three of them into the wine shop, and they all froze when they rushed into the living room.

I saw that the table in the living room was full of wine and food. It was obvious that the people in the wine shop were eating before the accident.

Lying on the table was a huge katydid, nearly three feet long and one and a half feet tall, more than double the size of all the katydids I had seen before.

That's all right, in a large group, there are always a few outstanding ones. What surprised everyone was that this katydid actually inserted its slender mouthparts into the wine jar.

It's drinking!

Li Sancai and Tong Mu raised their hands at the same time, but Zhao Lin didn't stop them, but pulled Zhu Cong to guard the gate.

Such a large katydid might not be able to be killed with one spell, so two people would be safe.

As a result, something even more unexpected happened to them: the katydid looked up at everyone, kicked its legs, and flew out of the window.

"Ran?"

All four of them froze for a moment.

Grasshoppers have almost no intelligence, and they don't know how to run when they see people. They only scurry around when they are attacked.

This katydid knows how to be afraid of people.

Something is wrong!
Zhao Lin felt that something was wrong, he was the first to react, turned around and rushed out of the room.

Just in time, Dong Lingcheng released the wooden flying sword and chopped off the head of this huge katydid.

"fine……"

Zhao Lin breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he seemed to be worrying too much.

Just as he was about to greet Li Sancai and the others, his eyes froze suddenly, the hairs all over his body stood on end, and he shouted loudly, "Senior Brother Dong, be careful!"

(End of this chapter)