Night without Borders

Chapter 21 Harmony with light
Early in the night, Qin Ming, carrying a long-handled black gold hammer on his back and a short sword, rushed into the dense forest at an extremely fast speed, as if he was about to fly off the ground.

He had a sense of urgency. The nobles from Chixia City were coming, and once they set foot in the mountains, they would definitely go looking for all kinds of spiritual materials.

He didn't want anyone to get to the Blood Bamboo Forest first, as it was related to his second rebirth.

The night fog dissipated, and the forest was still a little dim, but with his eyesight, he could clearly see the scenery in the distance.

"It's not that easy to enter the Blood Bamboo Forest. There must be danger."

Otherwise, Feng Yian and Shao Chengfeng would have taken action long ago. Why wait until they die and leave behind regrets?

"I'm a little impatient."

Cold snowflakes fell on his body, and some even penetrated his neck. This chill gradually calmed Qin Ming down.

The way he was eager to get on the road just now was no different from Old Man Liu last night. He wished he could grow wings and fly into the blood bamboo forest to pick up the frozen blood snakes.

"Calm down." Qin Ming slowed down his pace and adjusted his breathing in the forest.

Isn't it just a second rebirth? Even if he didn't get the spiritual substance, he could still break through smoothly with his own conditions.

"If you're not at peace, you're prone to making mistakes." Qin Ming walked forward slowly, slowly but surely on the thick snow. He gradually became steady and calm.

The Blood Bamboo Forest must be extremely dangerous. The fact that the patrol team was hesitant to take action despite having a second-time reborn like Fu Entao is enough to explain the problem.

Qin Ming walked silently through the dense forest and finally dug out the sword manual from a place. The old leather pages were curled and worn, indicating that someone had often read it in the past.

The whole book is not thick and has an ancient style. I wonder where Fu Entao got it from.

"Reading the hard work of my predecessors can calm my mind." Qin Ming sat down in the woods.

After a moment he was completely absorbed and immersed in the book.

Before he knew it, he stood up from the snow, holding a leather book in one hand and a long-handled black gold hammer in the other, swinging it like a long sword.

This was originally a heavy weapon, but in his hands it was like a light wooden hammer, swung around at will, and gradually acquired a sense of natural beauty.

If you want to be reborn, you need to practice the corresponding scriptures, such as night meditation, Qigong, etc., which can improve your physical fitness in various aspects such as strength, flexibility, and speed.

The various fighting rules are skills that utilize the body's strength, speed, etc. to achieve the purpose of efficient attack.

Qin Ming's physical fitness is very strong, surpassing the gold foundation, but his fighting methods have not been systematically trained, and most of them are practical and scattered.

Some of them were derived from the wild methods he had practiced for many years and were quoted from those special movements, while others were learned from some old hunters in the village.

He has strong combat skills, which were honed in the mountains.

The forest is very dangerous at night. When hunting in such an environment, you have to face attacks from all kinds of ferocious birds and beasts. If you are slow to react, you will die.

Although most of the techniques he practiced were scattered, and could even be called wild, they were extremely lethal. Fighting with wild beasts did not follow any rules but relied on strength, speed, and the ability to respond on the spot.

It is precisely because of this that Fu Entao felt extremely difficult to deal with when facing him. He could not find any "pattern" in his attack and there was no trace to follow.

Now, when Qin Ming was reading the sword manual, combined with his own experience in fighting wild beasts and his understanding between life and death, he was immediately fascinated. He unconsciously held the book in one hand and the hammer in the other, constantly changing his "sword style" based on his perception.

Qin Ming appreciated the efforts of his predecessors in the sword manual, and when he was satisfied, he increased his strength in dancing. Although there was no sword light, there was a sword intent permeating, driving the snow on the ground to fly into the air. The long-handled black gold hammer turned into lightning, breaking the tranquility of the forest.

He "swung his sword" at a big tree, and the thick trunk exploded instantly. This kind of "chopping" was really too violent. Some alien creatures nearby had been eyeing him covetously and had been watching him in secret for a long time, but now they were all scared and ran away with their tails between their legs.

Among them was a mutated black tiger that was more than four meters long, but it turned around and ran away.

"You still dare to peek here and won't leave, right?" Qin Ming saw a human-faced vulture whose size was much larger than its peers. It was circling close to the trees, about twenty meters above the ground, and was reluctant to leave.

He had just learned the "throwing knife style" from the book and immediately put it into practice. The heavy "hammer knife" in his hand instantly disappeared into the night and flew high into the sky.

"puff!"

Blood splattered in the air and feathers fluttered in the sky.

The mutated human-faced vulture's wingspan was several meters long. It was originally quite ferocious, but now it was as fragile as porcelain and was chopped to pieces by Qin Ming's "throwing knife style"!
His arms were as strong as a thousand pounds, so there was no doubt that the blow was successful. The long-handled black gold hammer smashed the huge ferocious bird into pieces, breaking it beyond recognition. Large pieces of flesh and blood and feathers fell to the ground.

Some alien species saw this scene from a distance and immediately ran away, feeling that this two-legged beast was extremely ferocious and they had to stay away from him and could not stay in this area.

"Great swordsmanship!" Qin Ming praised, picking up the long-handled black gold hammer and practicing again.

To him, this sword manual was like a beacon in the night fog, illuminating the way ahead and integrating his various practical experiences and wild fighting methods, rapidly sublimating them.

Qin Ming was so obsessed with it that he almost forgot himself in the end and couldn't extricate himself. He practiced all kinds of sword styles from beginning to end. Although he didn't achieve enlightenment, he did improve his fighting skills and his strength significantly.

This sword manual is worth studying. It gave him deep insights and is extremely valuable!
"It would be really troublesome if Fu Entao could master this sword manual thoroughly." Qin Ming said to himself. However, if Fu Entao could fully comprehend the book, he would not stop at his second rebirth.

This is not only a sword manual, but also some research on new techniques, which is very inspiring to him.

For example, the book mentions "sky light", which first appears during the third rebirth, but will run through the entire rebirth field. Even after the rebirth is complete, in-depth research on sky light is still necessary.

Skylight, in this age when the sun has disappeared, carries people’s good wishes and infinite longings.

The sky light mentioned in the book is naturally not the light of the sky that people long for, but a kind of light in the body, which people have given a beautiful name.

When a person is reborn for the third time, he will begin to show this "heavenly light". It is born in the body, which is a manifestation of the improvement of his life level.

At this time, the strength of the newborns will be greatly improved, and they can fight against various dangerous monsters with their bare hands, and all this is naturally given by "heavenly light".

This is because once the body gives birth to the skylight, "skylight force" will appear. This is a special force with extremely strong penetrating and tearing capabilities.

Otherwise, compared with the giant beast, the newborn's body is too delicate and short, how can it fight against such a behemoth?

The emergence of Tianguang Jin allows the newborn to tear open the scales of the mutant monster, and that kind of force can penetrate its tough and strong flesh.

However, in the new field, Tianguang Jin can only be distributed on the surface of the body, spreading a little beyond the fists and feet, and cannot expand to weapons.

In fact, Tianguang Jin is just a general term. If you break it down, there are many types. This book should have had many owners. There are various insights, notes, annotations, etc. on the pages, all from different people.

Among them, some people highly praised a kind of Tianguang Jin, and sighed: I wish I could practice Tathagata Jin!

For a newcomer like Qin Ming who came from a wild background, the various records and descriptions in the book made him fascinated.

Unfortunately, although this sword manual mentions some strange and powerful names of Tianguang Jin, it does not record how to practice it.

Qin Ming was a little absent-minded and pondered for a long time.

Turning the page further, the sword manual was no longer suitable for him to read as he had not yet reached that level.

However, he discovered a very practical secret method from the insights left by his predecessors, called "harmony with the world", which can help him keep himself safe.

After reading it carefully, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and at the same time he felt somewhat fortunate to have discovered this record.

According to what predecessors have said, the vision of higher-level creatures is terrifying. They can see through the strength of vitality in other creatures at a glance. Even in the middle of the night, they can "see" those biological fields that are strong or weak.

This is scary. Lower-level creatures have no secrets from higher-level creatures.

In particular, when the heavenly light is born in the body of a newborn or alien, to higher-level creatures, it is like a bunch of fire in the dark night.

"I must practice it quickly!" He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and suddenly felt it was very dangerous in the mountains.

Fortunately, "harmony with the world" is just a practical secret method, not some difficult and hard to understand classic book.

“Visualize emptiness and tranquility, with the body like a dead tree and the mind like cold ashes. It can conceal vitality and gradually weaken it, and can also make the spirit dim.” He gradually gained some understanding and was considered to have entered the door.

Qin Ming sat here quietly for a long time, silently comprehending and pondering, and gradually found out more ways. Blending in with the world can conceal some of the vitality and allow himself to blend in with ordinary people.

Moreover, this "degree" can be controlled. After practicing to a certain level, even if the body is born with heavenly light after three rebirths, it can be covered up if necessary.

At this point, Qin Ming breathed a sigh of relief.

But he thought about it carefully and laughed again. Maybe he had too strong a sense of crisis. Even if a higher creature passed by here and could see through his vitality at a glance, he probably wouldn't care, right? After all, he was only reborn once. In the eyes of those aliens, he was just one of the "living creatures" in the mountains.

Then he thought of the senior officials of Chixia City. Since they could negotiate and confront the mysterious creatures in the mountains, they should have the same abilities.

"You can't digest so much as to chew it. What I have learned today is enough. I need to consolidate, master, and grasp it all firmly!" Qin Ming stood up, found a secret place, and buried the sword manual again.

There is no doubt that he gained a lot today. After studying those sword styles in depth and incorporating his own insights, his strength has improved significantly.

Qin Ming said to himself: "If I were to meet Fu Entao, Feng Yian and others now and fight them again, I think it would be much easier."

Most importantly, this book broadened his horizons and enabled him to understand many things that he had not been able to access in the past.

"Fu Entao is actually a good person. He gave me a good book."

After he walked out of the dense forest, he headed towards the blood bamboo forest.

(End of this chapter)