The Legend of the Great Desolation: I Am the Fortress

Chapter 109 A Woodcutter on Fangcun Mountain
The Three Realms Palace fell into silent peace again.

Ji Dian was still lying on the recliner, half asleep, and his snoring of varying depths echoed in the open space outside.

suddenly.

Like the whispers in a dream, he muttered casually:
"This little junior brother is really bold. After choosing Hou Yi's Archery, he also chose this top-notch magical power."

"But...it's suitable."

……

It is still the rugged mountain road on Fangcun Mountain.

Leizhan's real body was not wearing the black robe he usually wore. Instead, he was wearing straw sandals, cloth clothes, and a straw hat, looking like an ordinary woodcutter.

If he tied a yellow gourd around his waist and carried an axe, he would even have some of the demeanor of the eldest brother, the woodcutter.

"This... Junior Brother Leizhan?"

I saw a handsome man in a white robe walking towards me from a distance, holding a feather fan. He looked at Lei Zhan with a look of surprise on his face.

"Junior brother, why did you imitate Senior Brother's outfit today? Could it be that Junior brother is also going down the mountain to chop trees?"

"I went to the Three Realms Palace today and chose a body protection magical power, the 'Eight-Nine Mysterious Art.'" Lei Zhan suddenly smiled, "And the test for Junior Brother to learn this magical power is just one sentence."

"Oh?" Silver Moon Celestial God suddenly became curious. "Could this test be related to chopping wood?"

"That's right," Lei Zhan said. "The first page of the Divine Power Manual records 'To obtain eight or nine, go down the mountain to chop wood for a hundred days, and every day you will collect a hundred thousand catties of firewood.'"

"One hundred thousand jin a day?" Silver Moon God laughed, waving his feather fan. "The big trees at the foot of the mountain are not easy to chop! Don't look at how easy it is for Senior Brother to chop trees, but those trees in the forest are all ancient and exotic species, and they are very hard. To reach one hundred thousand jin, you must chop down at least ten giant trees that are as thick as a man's embrace!"

"Huh?" Leizhan was stunned.

Ancient alien species? Very hard?
"Senior brother has also chopped it?"

There was a hint of curiosity on Lei Zhan's face. The fact that Silver Moon Celestial God knew all this in detail even made him suspicious. He knew that Silver Moon Celestial God also knew the "Eight Nine Mysterious Art".

Could it be that the test when Yin Yuetianshen learned the "Eight-Nine Profound Art" was also like this?

"When I first learned this magical power, it was relatively easy compared to you, but it still took me several hundred days." Silver Moon Celestial God said leisurely, "My master's test for me was to descend to the lower realms and slay one hundred sinful cultivators with bloody bodies."

Lei Zhan suddenly realized and muttered to himself:
"Brother Yin Yue's goal was to kill a hundred sinful cultivators, while I chopped wood for a hundred days... It seems the tests required for each person to choose their magical power are somewhat different."

Silver Moon Celestial God glanced at Lei Zhan and said, "Master teaches his disciples in accordance with their aptitude. I believe there must be a deep meaning behind asking Junior Brother to chop wood."

Leizhan nodded.

"Brother, I will leave now. When I have mastered the Eight-Nine Mysterious Arts, I will ask you for some elixirs."

"Go away!" Silver Moon God shook his head and laughed, "If you want the elixir, you have to exchange it for a magic weapon. Don't even think about hitting your Silver Moon brother Qiu Feng."

"gone!"

Lei Zhan also smiled, and with a flip of his hand, a black axe suddenly appeared in his hand. He carried the axe on his shoulder, turned around and walked down the mountain.

"Junior Brother Leizhan is really a wonderful person! I believe that the monkey will be very happy to meet this little junior brother!" The Silver Moon God watched the figure go away, and immediately shook his head and laughed.

……

In the mountains and forests.

Leizhan stood in front of a tree that was as thick as a man's embrace, and felt a little troubled.

"The requirements don't prohibit the use of divine power or magic, nor do they require only brute force like archery. So let's try chopping with an axe first."

Lei Zhan muttered, tightened his grip on the black axe, and chopped it down directly.

The axe was as fast as the wind. Although it looked like an axe and was actually chopping down with an axe, the axe was like a spear with incredible power, and it seemed to be surrounded by flames and water.

The hand rises and the axe falls.

Instantly, he chopped down the huge tree in front of him.

boom!
A shallow axe mark suddenly appeared on the giant tree that was as big as a man's embrace, just cutting through the thick bark and revealing the wood texture inside.

Immediately afterwards, a powerful recoil force was transmitted from the axe handle. If it were not for the amazing strength of Leizhan, he would have been almost shaken backwards.

"Hmm?" Leizhan was stunned. "This hard lump is really an ancient species? With such a hardness, it can at least be used to refine a heavenly-grade magic weapon, right?"

Lei Zhan is so powerful now that even if he has not used all kinds of magical powers, he is still an extremely powerful Return to Void God and Demon who has practiced the "Chi Ming Jiu Tian Tu" and broken through to the Return to Void level. With his pure physical strength, he can easily abandon a mountain as if it were a game.

"Come again!"

Lei Zhan looked at the big tree in front of him, with an extremely complex star-picking divine pattern faintly appearing in his hand. He tightly grasped the big axe in his hand, and above the big axe, there was an astonishing power of Tao lingering.

Raging water, blazing flames, time, space, and the gleam of a spear...

All of them gathered on this black axe, and even tiny cyclones spontaneously appeared on the axe blade.

boom!
When it touched the tree trunk, there was another strong impact sound, and at the same time there was a click, followed by a loud bang. The big tree in front of him fell down with a loud bang.

"Well. This tree died a worthy death." Lei Zhan looked at the fallen tree and smiled.

Lei Zhan was well aware of his current strength. This time, he had used almost all of his power. Even his Star-Grabbing Hand was only at the third level.

But the palm itself is comparable to the Pure Yang magic weapon, not to mention how terrifying the explosive power is.

Although he had never formally fought against a powerful being at the level of a Heavenly God or True Immortal, he thought he was not much different. At least, he had surpassed the threshold of an ordinary Heavenly God or True Immortal.

After all, there are not many people in the entire Three Realms who have just broken through to the level of Heavenly Gods and True Immortals and have mastered two or three great ways in one breath, and at the same time mastered the two original forces and the power of time and space, and even their mental strength has reached the second level.

"After learning the Eight-Nine Profound Art, I practiced all the magical skills I had to the extreme level of Return to the Void, and then began to practice in seclusion, preparing to overcome the heavenly tribulation." Lei Zhan suddenly thought in his heart.

Even though including the cultivation in the place where time and space were disordered, it was only about a thousand years, but no matter whether it was the original body or the second soul, the difficulty of the heavenly tribulation would not be any easier.

No matter if one has learned the top magical powers of Taoist Sanshou and True God Qushui or has become a disciple of Patriarch Bodhi, this heavenly tribulation will be terrifying.

Leizhan's second soul is essentially also a possession of another body, so the difficulty of the heavenly tribulation will be raised to another level.

"There are also Qi training methods. I have a master to help me. My second soul has been comprehending the secret art of time and space, and occasionally comprehending the Qi training methods of those Chaos alien races."

"But if I want to cultivate a second-grade Celestial Golden Elixir, I have to combine it with the method created by my master and deduce it myself. This way, I can overcome the heavenly tribulation and cultivate a powerful Celestial Golden Elixir at the same time, and my chances of success will be better."

"So, we also need to figure out the pattern of the black beads' ability to accumulate energy."

Lei Zhan shook his head. There were too many things to do, and now was the critical juncture for Wuxian Sect to return to the Three Realms.

Although a large-scale war is unlikely to break out, small-scale local fights or disputes over territory will definitely occur.

Collecting his thoughts, Leizhan's gaze fell on the big tree in front of him.

"Firewood... This whole tree can't be used to make firewood." Lei Zhan smiled, and this thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

"Let's try that secret technique of space cutting? But this wood is hard enough... let's just use 'sawing'!"

As the thought came to his mind, endless silver-white sharp edges emerged from the air.

As these many sharp edges appeared, the surrounding space began to shatter slightly. This was the power of the origin of space that Leizhan had comprehended.

Sniff～～～
Sniff～～～
The silver edge began to cut along the grain of the tree. Even though the wood was extremely hard, the force of space was like a saw, and a large amount of wood chips appeared.

"It's too slow." Lei Zhan said softly.

With a wave of his hand, an inexplicable force completely enveloped the tree, like an upside-down cover.

Wow~~~
As if speeding up the progress bar, the silver edge cutting through the transparent cover became faster and faster...

"Through my understanding of the laws of time, I've been able to accelerate this object a thousand times, which is practically my limit. If I were to engage in combat with someone weaker than me... it would be fine, but if I were to engage someone stronger... I'd probably be much slower."

"However, I've only been exposed to the secret art of time and space for less than half a month, so there's naturally a lot of room for improvement."

In the blink of an eye.

The big tree in front of him was broken down into pieces of standard firewood and a pile of debris.

Lei Zhan nodded slightly, waved his hand, and collected the wood that had piled up like a mountain in front of him.

"I'll try cutting through space again later, this time to see how sharp it is..."

The figure gradually walked away and the sound gradually stopped.

moment.

boom!
Boom~~~

After a while, bursts of rumbling sounds were heard again in the mountains and forests.

……

"This sound seems to be someone chopping down trees?"

A woodcutter, also wearing straw sandals, cloth clothes and a straw hat, carried an axe and walked down the rugged mountain road. He followed a well-traveled path beside it and entered the forest.

"This is quite rough." The woodcutter showed a faint smile on his face.

Having cut down trees on this Fangcun Mountain for billions of years, he naturally knew the origin of these trees.

Thinking back to the time when that towering laurel tree had not yet completely fallen, he felt sad and simply broke off a few branches from the laurel tree and planted them on this small mountain.

The laurel tree is magical. If you cut off some of it, it will grow back again. You can never cut it off again.

The few branches that were planted at the beginning have multiplied over the ages and grown into a lush forest.

"Chang'e..."

The woodcutter thought of those ancient times again. Everything that happened afterwards made him sad, but those beautiful memories would never fade.

"The past is like dust, but now it seems that I still can't let her go."

The woodcutter shook his head, carrying his axe and came to a towering tree.

"Boom~~~"

The axe fell and the tree broke.

Just like in ancient times, the old scenery on the moon reappears.

"The power of my mental energy is attached to the axe, and its power has almost reached its limit," the woodcutter said softly. "But, can divine power and mental energy be combined?"

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(End of this chapter)