Journey to the West: Cultivation Begins at Jindou Mountain

Chapter 71: Heaven and Earth Qi
After hearing Uncle Wu Tie's words, Liu Dongchen hurriedly looked in the direction where the bamboo stick came from.

But I saw a middle-aged Taoist priest with a medicine box on his back, wearing a gray Taoist robe, black hair and beard, and a square face walking slowly towards me with a serious expression.

Just by looking at this, Liu Dongchen, who was a little panicked at first, suddenly felt relieved. Although he had never seen this Taoist before, he felt that this Taoist was very familiar and kind.
When the Taoist heard Wu Tie's voice, his expression relaxed slightly and he nodded towards Wu Tie.

At the same time, in a bandit stronghold eighty miles away.

Sitting cross-legged on the altar, a big man with a black beard and wearing a black Taoist robe suddenly changed his expression, his face flushed, and he spat out a mouthful of blood!

"puff--"

As the blood spurted out, the black-bearded man on the altar began to stagger, and finally fell directly from the altar, lying on the ground holding his chest. The fear in his eyes had not faded, and his face was extremely ugly!

The black demon soul that he had cultivated for three years was shattered by a single blow!

“Damn it! Who on earth is that?!”

Niu Yi, who destroyed the black demon soul with one blow, did not accept Wu Tie's invitation to visit Shangtang Village, but asked him to take Liu Dongchen away first.

Niu Yi looked at Liu Dongchen, who was being dragged by Wu Tie and kept looking back, and smiled with some emotion.

"It's true. It feels like I've grown so big in the blink of an eye."

He has been practicing peacefully in the mountains for the past six years. Although he occasionally comes down the mountain to check on the child, he has never shown up on his own initiative again.

Beside Niu Yi, as a breeze blew up from the ground, the figure of the land god of Jindou Mountain quickly appeared.

He leaned on his wooden staff and looked at Niu Yi, who had transformed into the Taoist Jin Lingzi, and said with emotion:
"In the past two years, many people from the outside world have entered the mountainous area to avoid disasters. With so many people, the situation has become complicated, and it's a mixed bag."

Niu Yi nodded in agreement and said with a smile:

"It seems that the threat of the demonic disaster caused by the Tiger Roaring King in these mountainous areas has gradually dissipated with the passage of time. I think it won't be long before the demonic disaster will become just a legend."

As Niu Yi spoke, he waved his palm towards the green bamboo stick on the tree, and the green bamboo stick immediately flew back to Niu Yi's hand with a very faint black aura.

Niu Yi summoned the black air into his hand, and the lines of cause and effect quickly emerged and woven in his eyes, revealing a picture in his eyes.

In the picture, a big man with a black beard and a Taoist robe was crawling on the back of a black horse, constantly moving through the forest and galloping towards the outside of the mountains.

Soon, the image in Niu Yi's eyes dissipated and his eyes became clear again.

"Just like that Origami Taoist back then, he also learned a few tricks of the underworld and came out to harm others. This person has a lot of sins on his body, and it's obvious that he has done a lot of harm to others."

At this time, he already knew the location of the black-bearded man. He calculated the man's location using the theory of cause and effect. Unless the black-bearded man had the help of gods to help conceal the secret, even if this person hid to the ends of the earth, he would still be found out by him!

"Please ask the Earth God to help look after the Liu family. I'll be back soon."

"Okay, don't worry."

"We must leave here as soon as possible!"

The big man with black beard covered his chest with his hands. Although he had a splitting headache, he still whipped the horse's butt from time to time to make the horse run faster!
His Black Demon Soul was forged from the soul of a deceased wolf demon at the Great Demon Realm. It could normally travel hundreds of miles and devour souls. It was with this Black Demon Soul that he gathered a band of bandits and thrived in this chaotic world. He had heard that many villagers had fled into this mountainous region to avoid disaster, so he decided to find more nourishment for his Black Demon Soul. However, he never imagined that his Black Demon Soul would be shattered by a single blow!

The black-bearded man was filled with fear. Not to mention that the blow had shattered the terrifying existence of his black demon soul. All his skills were dependent on that black demon soul. Once the black demon soul died, he would suffer a severe backlash. Once the bandits under his command found out, they would immediately rebel and cut him into pieces!

When he gathered these horse bandits, he used many extraordinary means!
"Hurry! We must do it!"

"boom!"

At this moment, the black-bearded man only felt a flash of green light before his eyes, and then he completely lost consciousness and fell off his horse. The horse continued to run fast and soon ran into the jungle and disappeared.

Niu Yi retracted the green bamboo stick and looked at the black-bearded man in front of him who had completely lost his life.

Now that he has mastered the Five Elements Escape Technique, he can use the Earth Escape Technique to escape three hundred miles in a moment. No matter how fast this big man runs, he cannot escape from his grasp.

Anyone who dares to attack Liu Dongchen will surely die.

A cold light flashed in Niu Yi's eyes, and he stretched out his hand, and used his Heaven-stealing Hand talent again, which had not been used for a long time.

I saw unspeakable rays of light flashing on Niu Yi's palm, pulling something out of the body of the black-bearded man in front of him, and falling into Niu Yi's hand, it turned into a ball of white light that was constantly rising with spiritual energy.

At this moment, Niu Yi's expression changed slightly, and he looked around in surprise and doubt. The magical power of the cause and effect hexagram theory and the cause and effect hexagram money began to operate on their own.

"The energy of heaven and earth has actually changed?!"

Although he still couldn't directly see the energy of heaven and earth at this time, after so many years of practice, with the help of the theory of cause and effect hexagrams and cause and effect hexagram coins, he could already clearly sense the changes in the energy of heaven and earth.

Just when he used the Heaven-Seizing Hand, the energy of heaven and earth in his perception clearly became slightly targeted at him!

Niu Yi stretched out his hand, and three cause and effect hexagram coins appeared in the air. As he used all his strength to activate the cause and effect hexagram theory magic power, the three cause and effect hexagram coins suddenly began to vibrate and flip in Niu Yi's hand.

There was a faint light flickering in Niu Yi's eyes. As he used all his strength to activate his magical power of cause and effect, a series of past scenes connected by cause and effect appeared in his eyes.

Outside the bamboo forest, he killed the ghost Taoist priest with his palm and obtained the cloud-reincarnation magic.
Kill the leopard monster in the rock cave and gain the talent of Bear Heart and Leopard Courage
Kill the python monster on Moon-Watching Peak and get the talent of Bewildering Black Smoke
As these lines of cause and effect were connected together, the last scene that appeared was actually the thunder tribulation that Lingtai had experienced in his mind that day!
"Boom!!!"

At this moment, in this bright sunny day, a thunderclap suddenly exploded! It directly shook Niu Yi out of his causal hexagram theory magical power!

Niu Yi's face turned pale, the light in his eyes faded, he staggered back, and even the three cause and effect coins in his hand fell to the ground!

Fortunately, there was only this one thunder sound in the sky, which shocked Niu Yi out of the cause and effect hexagram theory, and then there was no other movement.

"I can't continue to calculate."

Niu Yi looked at the clear and cloudless blue sky with lingering fear, waved his hand, took back the three cause and effect coins, smiled bitterly and shook his head.

The thunder tribulation that struck him in his spiritual state of mind was actually related to his talent of the Heaven-stealing Hand!
"Heavenly Hand, Heavenly Hand. This gift can forcibly seize the mysteries of creation from heaven and earth and integrate them into one's own body. How could it be so simple? Back then, I was truly looking at the stars from a well, with limited knowledge."

"Fortunately, I have always been cautious. In recent years, I have received guidance from my ancestors to cultivate my character. The great way is ahead of me. I have practiced wholeheartedly and have never abused the Heaven-stealing Hand. Otherwise..."

(End of this chapter)