Divine Tang Era

After listening to Xu Dan's lecture, Li Zhu and Zhu Yuxian did not keep it to themselves; instead, they wrote letters to their sisters and superiors.

These people then shared it with their relatives and friends. One person tells ten, ten tell a hundred. The Xue Family Trilogy thus spread throughout the Divine Tang Dynasty, and some people have already begun to make a living by telling stories based on it.

Although Xue Pinggui, Xue Dingshan, and Xue Gang are fictional characters in the book, ordinary people don't care about that.

Those who heard this praised the Xue family for their loyalty and bravery, calling them all heroes and fine sons of the Tang Dynasty.

The incense at the Xue family ancestral hall had inexplicably become much more abundant. One day, the old man guarding the hall discovered that the ancestral tablets were glowing and even whispering to each other. Unfortunately, it was too mysterious, and the old man couldn't understand what they were saying.

Jingning City, Blacksmith Lane.

An old man flipped through the books his children and grandchildren had given him, a hint of expression appearing on his usually cold face.

Because consuming the flesh of the Demonic Beast damaged his body, Xu Dan stopped cultivating the Establishing Cauldron and Sealing Furnace Technique for a few days to avoid further injury. Only after using his double pupils to examine him and finding no harm, did he resume taking the Golden Jade Double Lock True Essence Replenishing Pill to condense the ancient furnace.

The ancient furnace has now condensed three statues, each weighing 10,000 jin (approximately 5,000 kg), which is equivalent to 30,000 units of force.

With the strength of thirty thousand, they were finally able to lift the Crimson Flame Shield.

Even with his vast experience, he couldn't fathom what kind of troops could be equipped with such heavy shields. Those people must be the legendary, incredibly tall people of the Longbo Kingdom; otherwise, how could they possibly lift them?

Originally, he wanted to take some time to learn archery.

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But then I thought about it and realized that it's better to be good at one thing than to do a hundred things.

The most important thing now is to master the Seven Star Flying Steps. That way, even if you can't defeat an enemy, you can at least escape. If you can't escape, wouldn't you be doomed?

The most important aspect of the Seven Star Flying Steps is not practicing the footwork or visualizing the seven stars, but rather combining the two.

After practicing for a few more days, he prepared to begin integrating the Seven Star Flying Step.

The courtyard was too small to fit in, so Xu Dan went to the open wilderness outside Jingning City.

They found a secluded spot at the foot of the mountain, pitched their tent, ate dinner, and then it got dark. Stars began to appear in the sky. Xu Dan looked up and began to meditate on the Seven Stars, practicing his footwork. To meditate and walk simultaneously, multitask, is actually quite difficult.

But Xu Dan gradually overcame the difficulties and integrated the two.

The light from the Big Dipper shines down, flowing along my body and gathering at my feet.

Xu Dan felt his feet become lighter, and he was overjoyed, so he couldn't help but speed up a bit.

Instead of running across the wilderness, he circled the hill where his tent was pitched, faster and faster, his mind becoming increasingly blank, gradually losing himself in the process, his body and mind empty. Starlight continued to fall from the sky, and the starlight gathered beneath Xu Dan's feet, growing stronger and stronger, until it suddenly transformed into light.

From a distance, it looks as if he is not walking, but rather as if light is carrying him flying.

"roar"

Suddenly, a roar echoed through the mountains and forests.

The loud noise jolted Xu Dan awake from his reverie of the Seven Steps of Flying Stars. Turning his head, he saw a huge skeleton wearing tattered armor and a tattered blood-red cloak, wielding a rusty spiked club, and with blood-red ghost fire emanating from its eyes, roaring as it walked towards him.

"You flea, how dare you disturb my peace! Die!" The giant skeleton angrily grabbed a spiked club and swung it at Xu Dan.

Sensing something was wrong, he quickly took out the Crimson Flame Shield to protect himself.

"boom"

With a loud bang, Xu Dan was sent flying, shield and all.

Upon landing, Xu Dan examined the shield and was astonished to find it cracked. He had thought the giant shield was incredibly powerful, but it had shattered with a single blow from the skeleton.

Realizing the situation was dire, he quickly packed up his giant shield and ran away into the distance, abandoning even his tent.

The giant skeleton didn't give chase, but roared from behind, "You flea, if you dare disturb my sweet dreams again, I will tear you to pieces and cast your soul into the abyss of hell for eternal damnation."

Xu Dan didn't hear what he said after that; he just ran for his life.

Perhaps because of the urge to escape, his mind was blank, devoid of thought and intention, perfectly aligning with the essence of the Seven Star Flying Steps. Starlight shone down from the sky, entering his body and converging at his feet. The more starlight, the lighter his body became, and the faster he moved.

At that moment, Xu Dan's running figure swept across the wilderness like a shooting star.

I don't know how long I ran, but when I looked back and saw that the giant skeleton wasn't chasing me, I breathed a sigh of relief and stopped to rest.

He was amazed to find that after running for so long, he wasn't tired at all, nor was he as breathless as before. On the contrary, he felt energetic and in high spirits. It was definitely the right thing to do to practice the Seven Star Flying Steps; without them, he probably would have been finished tonight.

That broken skeleton was the same; it just circled around a few times before trying to attack and kill.

Who does it think it is, Guan Cheng's?

This isn't even in the city, isn't this meddling too much?

What's most important when you're out in the world? It's not being good at fighting, but having high HP and speed. High HP means being physically strong, like an unkillable cockroach; it also means having a sturdy shield to protect you, making you indestructible and unbreakable by enemies. Xu Dan isn't an unkillable cockroach, but he possesses the second one: a shield.

If it weren't for the shield protecting him, one strike from that skeleton would have sent him to meet his maker.

It's also fast.

Fortunately, he had mastered the Seven Star Flying Step, which the skeleton couldn't catch up with, otherwise he would have been finished too.

It's unclear what kind of strength the skeleton possesses, but with a single blow, it sent the massive shield, weighing 30,000 units, and itself flying. This attack shattered Xu Dan's pride; he had thought himself very powerful, but now it seemed he was just a pawn.

As the saying goes, the more you know, the more you realize how ignorant you are. This is what is meant by "there are always people more knowledgeable than you, and heavens beyond heavens."

Xu Dan didn't have this feeling before, but he does now.

Looking around and finding no one, I continued walking, intending to find a spot near a mountain to rest. After walking for a while, a cluster of lights suddenly appeared ahead, and I quickly ran towards it.

As you get closer, you realize it's a bonfire surrounded by people.

I never expected to encounter people in the wilderness. I wonder if they were digging for treasure.

Xu Dan quickened his pace, but stopped abruptly as he approached. The flames of the campfire were not the normal fiery red, but a ghastly green.

The night wind blew, and the embers of the campfire writhed like venomous snakes, hissing and spitting out scarlet venom.

Among those gathered around the campfire were an old woman and several poorly clothed children. In the firelight, they were completely obscured, with not a single shadow or sign of human presence.

Xu Dan's passionate heart seemed to have been doused with cold water, leaving him feeling chilly inside and out.

Feeling that these things didn't look human at all, I quickly flew backward.

At this moment, the old woman turned around, grinned at him, and said, "Young man, come here!"

With just one glance, Xu Dan ran for his life, disappearing as fast as he had come. The old woman's face, at first glance, looked like a skin and bones, wrinkled old woman over a hundred years old, but upon closer inspection, she resembled a young woman of about twenty. The shifting between these two appearances was eerie no matter how you looked at it.

If this is still human, Xu Dan wouldn't believe he's human.

Seeing that Xu Dan not only didn't stop but instead sped up to run away, the old woman chuckled and said, "Since you're here, why try to run away? Come here, my young man."

The hand, resembling a chicken claw, stretched out endlessly like noodles, bringing with it a chilling, bone-deep wind as it reached for Xu Dan.

The old woman's movements appeared slow, but were actually incredibly fast. She appeared before Xu Dan in an instant, giving him no chance to even take out his Crimson Flame Shield for protection. The amulets and exorcism talismans hanging on his body lit up, but quickly dimmed, until the talisman given by Li Zhu burst forth with a divine light, barely managing to block the monster's hand.

Xu Dan suddenly remembered a record he had read in a miscellaneous book. He counted the children gathered around the campfire: nine.

The old woman and those children were clearly the Nine-Child Demon Mother.

This is the most ferocious and difficult-to-kill of all ghosts; as long as one of its offspring survives, the ghost mother cannot die. I never expected to encounter her today; I don't know whether to call it good luck or bad luck. I must get some clean water to wash myself when I get back and get rid of the bad luck, otherwise how can I keep running into ghosts?