Chapter 173: Beaten to Death with Fists

The extreme north of the Qingyun world is already cold, especially after bypassing a huge mountain range, the drop in temperature is even more obvious.

The people in the delegation had already changed into cotton clothes and were still moving toward the Snow Territory in a state of concealment, crossing the wilderness and swamps until the horses were exhausted, and then resting in remote places with poor visibility.

Yesterday's swamp forest and today's yellow earth ridge were both excellent choices.

And at the location where they were today, cultivators with flourishing spiritual sense used their strong eyesight to penetrate the fog, but they still couldn't capture the outline of the Snow Territory Demon Court, but they could vaguely see countless black mountain peaks towering into the clouds, stretching as far as the eye could see.

Ji You once again took advantage of the night to walk into the mist, looking northwest alone.

At this moment, the golden light in his brilliant pupils was flourishing, like a meditation lamp.

He now understood one thing, that is, the barbarian transformation originates from bloodline and body structure, and is not any kind of cultivation technique, so it cannot be robbed.

What is somewhat shameful is that he had wronged those barbarians a few times before, saying they were stubborn and refused to share blessings even after being beaten.

Now it seems that only those who have been wronged know how wronged they are.

The purpose of developing customers was not achieved, but another thing was also completed, that is, the judgment of physical strength.

The human race does not cultivate the physical body in order to have less restrictions on spiritual sense, so there is no division of physical body levels.

This makes it very difficult for the sturdy Ji fierce bandit to clearly know how resistant his physical body is. He originally thought that he could test out a standard with barbarians here.

But until today, he still hasn't been broken through.

So he has to try again to avoid overestimating the defense of his physical body and encountering sufficiently fatal risks in the future.

At this time, under the hazy moonlight, Ji You's spiritual sense began to expand continuously, and after a long while, he finally discovered a barbarian scout.

Great, you are going to make a contribution.

Ji You couldn't help but feel happy for him, then walked out, facing the barbarian, the sword energy in the long sword in his hand ringing in an instant.

As expected, as soon as that barbarian soldier saw him, fanatical and excited flames instantly ignited in his eyes, and he pounced over in an instant, like a ferocious beast with a hideous face.

Clang!

Ji You swung his sword in layers, like a surging wave of sword light, and collided with the iron knife in the blink of an eye.

Amidst the sparks flying everywhere, the knife edge also reflected an incredible look, and then turned into even more intense excitement.

Thus, a fierce collision of knife and sword began under the yellow earth ridge valley, until a sound of sword intent hummed, and the opponent's iron knife was shaken out of his hand, obliquely inserted into the yellow earth.

After achieving his goal, Ji You threw the long sword in his hand to the side.

"Please transform."

"Damn human..."

After a low roar of panting, Ji You saw a familiar scene like the previous few days.

The barbarian soldier in the upper soldier realm in front of him suddenly leaned forward, and between baring his teeth and grinning, his shoulder blades suddenly began to bulge outward.

Ji You's spiritual sense was surging and expanding at this moment, feeling that the opponent's body temperature began to rise sharply.

Then there was a rumbling sound constantly coming from the barbarian's body. A moment later, he had already swollen all over, instantly becoming a whole size larger, and his originally wild and huge figure was even more massive at this moment.

The armor of these barbarian soldiers seems to be specially made according to their transformed figure.

The originally loose parts were now filled with flesh that bulged like an explosion, restraining the surging and bulging flesh, but still couldn't hide the majestic energy deep within.

"Boom!"

Amidst a loud noise, the yellow earth under the transformed barbarian's feet collapsed fiercely, and a deep pit suddenly appeared.

That figure, covered in long hair, suddenly sprang from the pit like an arrow released from a bow, pouncing with the force of a thunderbolt. His fist, the size of a cooking pot, carried a whistling wind as it smashed directly toward the face of the detestable human in his eyes.

Ji You raised his fist to counterattack fiercely. This punch contained endless power and anger. The fist energy was fierce, as if it wanted to compress the surrounding air to the limit.

Mountain-Shaking Fist.

This is the basic boxing technique taught to him by Instructor Wang, which belongs to the least valued kind of martial arts practice that is not valued.

After all, the human race that does not practice the physical body has never thought of fighting flesh to flesh with people, but Ji You has already swung it thousands of times.

Because every time after Dim Illumination, there will be some barbarian energy remaining in his limbs and bones that cannot dissipate, so he uses this fist to unload the energy.

However, at this moment, this ordinary boxing technique erupted with astonishing power under the control of the fierce bandit's strong physical body.

Every punch carried a whistling wind, hitting the front with a gust of wind. Amidst the interlacing fist shadows, it seemed as if it wanted to completely shatter everything in front of him, making the expression of that transformed barbarian become even more ferocious, as if he felt unprecedented pressure.

With two fierce splitting punches smashed down, the barbarian crossed his fists to block the fierce splitting energy, and his feet had already sunk deep into the yellow earth...

But just at this moment, another pair of fists penetrated his shoulders, and the heavy energy directly smashed Ji You away, making his pupils shrink suddenly.

At this time, the barbarian in front was already facing the sky with four arms.

And the two extra arms were the ones that grew out from his back.

What a beautiful innate talent.

The barbarian race is mixed with various ethnic groups, and after intermarrying, many inexplicable talents will appear, and this four-armed barbarian is the first time he has seen one.

But fortunately, what he wanted to encounter was actually this kind.

Ji You clenched his fists, and the scorching spirit began to penetrate his body, then stepped out a deep pit with a bang.

The spiritual light around his body wove and leaped like lightning, while the fist held before his chest roared like rolling thunder, carrying the force of ten thousand jun as it struck fiercely toward the four arms dancing toward the sky.

Bang bang bang!

The dull impact sound was continuous, like dense war drums, constantly echoing on this yellow earth slope.

The fierce fist wind constantly condensed and dissipated in the collision, making the surrounding airflow chaotic and unbearable.

The bad news is that four fists are indeed more advantageous than two, but the good news is that he is really sturdy.

Ji You used his broad chest to resist a punch from the opponent, then without the slightest pause, his right fist clenched and directly smashed him away. As the spiritual energy surged under his feet, he rose into the air and split his fist down again.

After a long while, the battle on the yellow earth subsided.

The barbarian's transformed form faded, his arms shrank back into his body, and his body temperature gradually turned cold.

Ji You's state now is even more embarrassed than yesterday. The corners of his mouth are slightly red and swollen, his chest is a bit stuffy, especially his shoulders, which are obviously sore after being hit unexpectedly.

Really... random punches beat the master to death.

He summoned the spirit sword back, put it back into the scabbard, and began to analyze and judge.

The power of the upper soldier realm barbarian after transformation is far beyond Chu He who used the 【Hun Tian Spell】. After all, when he fought Chu He, he had just completed the twelfth Dim Illumination, but now he is already at the fifteenth.

That is to say, if he hadn't continued to practice the physical body in the way of Dim Illumination because of his whimsical ideas, the punch with the suddenly born two arms would have really broken his two shoulders.

Damn it, the barbarians are really fierce.

Ji You looked at the soldier with a deep pit in his chest in front of him, denouncing his fierceness.

However, for the next encounter with the upper soldier realm, it should not be necessary to use the way of hand-to-hand combat to test it. The upper soldier realm barbarian really cannot completely break through his physical defense.

The golden light in his eyes slowly dissipated at this time, the meditation lamp that illuminated the way forward for the barbarians gradually extinguished, and then he fumbled around on the barbarian...

Well, as poor as myself.

Ji You grabbed the corpse and headed toward the garrison, but after walking a few steps, he couldn't help but wrinkle his brow.

Dealing with the corpse can indeed hide the whereabouts for a certain period of time, but the problem is that even if you don't see the corpse, the sudden loss of contact with soldiers is actually a kind of news, which may not necessarily not arouse vigilance.

Because when the barbarians discover that the missing soldiers all come from the same area, their whereabouts will eventually be exposed.

He thought while walking down the yellow earth slope and came to the garrison.

Jiang Yan and Yan Qiubai were in the garrison at this time, and seeing him walking over, they couldn't help but greet him.

"Are there any fish that slipped through the net?"

"No."

"What's wrong with the corner of your mouth?"

"The barbarians are really too cruel."

"The barbarians today... are very strong?"

"The physical body is about the same as yesterday, but the innate talent is to grow two arms on the back. They pierced through the top without me paying attention. They are innately gifted with divine power. I was almost hit in a hurry. Now that I think about it, it is indeed dangerous."

Jiang Yan and Yan Qiubai looked at him and couldn't help but look at each other.

The innate talents of the barbarians are various, and those with multiple limbs are rare.

Since this trip, only Huo Hong had encountered something similar, and according to him, that could be regarded as being besieged by two barbarians together.

The two came back to their senses, told him to rest well, and then dragged the barbarian corpse to the corpse pit that had been dug in advance.

However, they were not in a hurry to push it in, but drew their long swords, unloaded the barbarian's iron armor, picked open his clothes, and then fell into silence collectively, their expressions becoming very complicated.

In these few days, many people said that Ji You returned later and later, and his state became more and more embarrassed, already wandering on the edge of life and death.

Perhaps this time, perhaps next time, he will be defeated here.

But no one paid attention to how the barbarians he dragged back died, and they were dealt with in a hurry.

Some sank into the swamp, some were buried on the spot.

It wasn't until last night that Yan Qiubai accidentally checked it, which led to some speculation, but it made them feel unbelievable.

There might be some accident, there might be some elixir taken, there might be some magic treasure.

It wasn't until tonight that they checked the corpse Ji You brought back again and found that it was the same as the one yesterday.

It's not that the appearance is the same, but the method of death is the same, without sword wounds, only light or heavy fist marks all over his arms and shoulders, as if they were hammered out.

And the most fatal one is the fist pit that caused the entire chest to collapse.

Embarrassed?

Indeed embarrassed, when he came back, his clothes were messy, and the corners of his mouth were red and swollen, as if he had won a narrow victory.

But it wasn't until this moment that they confirmed that the embarrassment was because Ji You hadn't drawn his sword until now, but was fighting hand-to-hand with the barbarians who had strong innate physiques...

From start to finish, it was blow after blow, relying solely on the weakest physical body among the three races—the human—to then beat this barbarian to death with his bare hands.

【The barbarians are too cruel】

【The physical body is stronger】

【Almost hit】

【Really dangerous】

Yan Qiubai couldn't help but recall Ji You's evaluation of the barbarians, and for a time, she was speechless.

They had heard Brother Brother Gongshu Chou say before that he had beheaded eighteen practitioners in the Realm of Profound Understanding with a sword and also killed someone in the Realm of Merging with the Dao across realms with a sword, which sounded truly majestic.

But now it seems that those two figures seem to overlap.

The two got up in a trance and turned to look at the direction where Ji You was. And at this time, a sound of footsteps rang out in the dense forest. Then, Deputy Supervisor Peng Dongyang of the Immortal Supervision Bureau, who was responsible for leading the delegation, and the six Immortal Sect elders walked over one after another.

"Pack up your things, we are going to change the route and set off overnight."

"?"

Peng Dongyang looked at the night: "According to the barbarians' performance in recent days, we should be exposed, and we cannot continue to walk along this road."

Jiang Yan came back to her senses from her bewilderment and felt puzzled after hearing this: "How could we be exposed? There have been no fish that slipped through the net in these few days."

"We thought before that burying the corpses would not be discovered, but you should have noticed in the past few days that the barbarians we encountered were basically active in a small range, and did not patrol in a large range, and their range of activity was very close to us, which shows that they already have some clues about our whereabouts."

Peng Dongyang sighed: "I thought for a long time and felt that we should have ignored the strictness of the military orders in the barbarian army."

"They didn't see the corpses, but they could know that their subordinates were missing. It is estimated that they judged the places we might pass through based on the locations where they disappeared. However, the accuracy of this method is not high, and we can still make it if we set off now."

Elder Ge of the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan also nodded at this time: "We have already discussed that we want to abandon a few carriages to weaken the target and confuse the barbarians' sight."

Yan Qiubai opened her mouth after hearing this: "But the surrounding area has not been cleaned up. If we encounter barbarians on the road, we might be exposed in a hurry."

"We are also worried about this, so we need you two to go ahead and explore the road first, try to avoid the barbarians, and meet at that low mountain ahead in half an hour."

"That's all we can do."

Jiang Yan and Yan Qiubai looked at each other, then picked up their Dao swords and walked out of the earth slope.

Before leaving, they couldn't help but look at Ji You, who was still sitting quietly under the tree to recover, and focused on his fists.

"Sister Yan, he...?"

"I don't know either..."

The two whistled away, while the others left behind were quickly preparing.

At this time, Huo Hong, Jiang Chenfeng, Chu Butian, and others who went out to strangle the barbarians received the message and returned one after another.

They threw the barbarian corpses they brought back onto the ground, looking at the figures running in the silence, unable to help but wrinkle their brows.

"There is still more than a hundred miles to the Snow Territory. I thought we could go so smoothly, but I didn't expect it to be nervous again."

Jiang Chenfeng sneered: "If we could really reach the Snow Territory so smoothly, then the barbarians would not be worth fearing."

Just at this moment, everyone was attracted by the coughing sound in the corner of the earth slope.

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and found Ji You, who was dressed in a mess, sitting cross-legged, his arms and shoulders drooping, and the corners of his mouth were still red and swollen.

There are no wine banquets, singing and dancing, or beautiful scenery in the wilderness.

Along the way, except for comparing the number of barbarians killed, most people like to pay attention to Ji You's state.

After all, his realm is the lowest, and the probability of death is the greatest, and the shape he returns in is different every time.

Hearing this, Jiang Chenfeng couldn't help but look to the west, staring at the man dressed in a mess in the secluded forest and said: "Our team seems to be about to have casualties."

"You mean that practitioner in the Realm of Profound Understanding?"

"Otherwise, who else? Could it be you or me in the Realm of Merging with the Dao?"

Jiang Yue rou took back her gaze and said: "At the beginning, he could return without injury, but in these two days, he has been embarrassed, and now there is a risk of exposure, he really can't keep up."

Jiang Chenfeng looked indifferent after hearing this: "I really don't know what use he has coming here. I just hope he doesn't hold us back."

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but turn their heads toward Xiao Hanyan and Shi Junhao, who were also inner courtyard disciples of the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan, a bit curious about whether they would take action to save him if Ji You really wanted to have an accident.

And the two found themselves being watched, and couldn't help but wrinkle their brows.

Human nature is actually a very strange thing. Although they and Ji You are all inner courtyard disciples of the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan, they actually prefer to be with Jiang Chenfeng, Huo Hong, and others, belonging to this small group of "prodigies of various sects," feeling that such people are fellow travelers.

So even though they are in a foreign land at this moment, they are not close to Ji You.

Especially since they knew before coming that Ji You's behavior in Fengzhou was too irregular, or even could be said to be ignoring the rules, so much so that many people hoped he would not return, so they didn't want to cause extra trouble.

It's just that looking at the eyes of the crowd here, the two felt that if they really saw him in danger and didn't save him, it would make their Heavenly Tian Shuyuan seem to have no human touch, so they felt irritable.

This feeling is like adding a burden to them.

Don't want to care, but have to care.

It wasn't until half an hour later that everyone was ready.

Ji You just came back to his senses at this time, and before he could react, he was helped up from the ground by Brother Brother Gongshu Chou: "We are going to set off, hurry up!"

"Where to?"

"There is a risk of exposure, so we have to set off overnight and can't stay here."

Ji You looked at him, then curled his lips: "Without silver to fish for me, I won't follow you into this clumsy trap."

Brother Brother Gongshu Chou was stunned: "What fishing for you?"

Ji You was about to open his mouth, but noticed that there were rustling sounds all around, so he turned to look and found that many carriages had begun to drive toward the outside of the yellow earth slope.

He had worried before that when the barbarian soldiers began to disappear one after another, even if they couldn't find the corpses, it would probably arouse vigilance, but he didn't expect it to be fulfilled so quickly.

However, he still didn't understand why Brother Brother Gongshu Chou had to specifically come over and say a word to himself.

"Did I really stab your head?"

"No, it's the chest."

"Is your head in your chest?"

Brother Brother Gongshu Chou thought, what kind of thing, the head is in the chest, that doesn't become a turtle, but he still helped him and left, thinking that I must not let you die here, otherwise my gold content will be gone.

Then the carriage train drove out of the Yellow Earth Ridge, along the night, and began to move forward in the changed direction. The magic treasure operated non-stop, and the horses galloped like wind.

During this period, under the command of several elders, the three carriage trains abandoned more than a dozen carriages in different directions.

The barbarians have strong innate physical bodies, and the disadvantage they get is that they cannot release their spiritual sense like the human race, and can only rely on their eyesight to search, so shrinking the target is an extremely correct choice.

Thus, the horses galloped non-stop, sneaking into the night, and heard the whistling sound in their ears.

At this time, firelight had already begun to approach here on the yellow earth mountain slope under the night.

(Tenosynovitis flared up, less today, seeking monthly tickets.)

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