Chapter 237 What is Education?
When the [Cool Transformation] ability is activated, no matter what the transformation material is, the transformed armor can block the perception of outsiders.
Unless Ji Ruo reveals himself voluntarily, others would not be able to recognize Ji Ruo at all. Even if they heard Ji Ruo's voice, they would just feel that it sounded somewhat familiar.
The reason why Liang Shixian and the others recognized him so quickly was mainly because these guys had become accustomed to Ji Ruo's antics - if there was any special situation that they couldn't understand at the moment, they didn't need to think too much and could just guess that it was Ji Ruo, and they would be right 80% of the time.
At this moment, Jianke and Jinglan did not recognize Ji Ruo at the first time. Of course, Ji Ruo did not have time to explain to them. The situation was urgent, so Ji Ruo directly called "Uncle Jianke". Jianke was not a fool, so of course he could react.
After briefly explaining the situation, the white cat mobilized the little remaining power he had to bless the swordsman.
After a brief moment of confusion, the swordsman began to gather his strength again.
As for Ji Ruo, he combined the "Baozu·Zhukong" with the light skill of floating on water, and with a feather dragonfly on his head, he quickly rushed towards the star calamity thundercloud and pushed it towards the demon camp.
How heavy is the star-calamity thundercloud?
To be honest, it is still very heavy...
Even if it is just an ordinary cloud, all the water vapor it contains weighs at least several tons.
Of course, the weight of clouds cannot be calculated in this way - they are floating in the sky, so what if they really weigh thousands or tens of thousands of tons?
The difficulty in pushing or even lifting the star-calamity thundercloud is not the weight, but how to catch it.
Coincidentally, Ji Ruo has a pair of 'half-finger gloves with absolute friction'. As long as Ji Ruo wants, he can even catch 'love'... ahem, just an analogy.
In short, the star calamity thunderclouds moved.
Because of Ji Ruo's actions, the star calamity thundercloud, which had been unable to move on its own after it took shape, suddenly stopped paying attention to the person who had summoned it.
Not to mention the people present, even the star calamity thundercloud was a little confused - since its birth, it has never been pushed away by anyone!
“Boom boom—”
As the star calamity moved, rumbling thunder could be heard from within.
[Common Language] The meaning implied in the thunder was perfectly translated to Ji Ruo.
Star Tribulation Thunder Cloud said: "Ah, Tribulation Survivor, Tribulation Survivor... My Tribulation Survivor is over there... Never mind, it doesn't matter who I strike..."
Ji Ruo: “…”
I always feel that this star calamity thundercloud is a bit...
Although he has become a warrior in the Xingxuan realm, Ji Ruo's strength is limited and the speed of the star calamity's movement is not fast.
But don't forget the nature of the star calamity. Once a living being enters the range of the star calamity, it will be automatically identified as a secondary calamity survivor. Its power will be amplified and the fight will continue until death.
The growth of a star catastrophe does not obey the laws of physics at all, and is entirely determined by the number and quality of living beings within the range.
No one had ever seen such a scene before, so everyone was stunned.
By the time they reacted, Ji Ruo had already pushed the star calamity thundercloud to include several confused giant monsters and demons. The size of the star calamity had more than doubled!
Those who didn't have time to run were directly locked down by the star-level thunderclouds.
Not to mention, there is a group of four-star peak demons who are used as cannon fodder.
The thunderclouds of the star disaster spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred, and no one can escape.
The scope of the star disaster surged to tens of thousands of meters outside Daxia, and it was still spreading. It was difficult for the demons to escape now...
There was a loud thunder, and a bolt of lightning a hundred meters thick meandered down from the sky, illuminating the sky and earth as bright as day.
An ugly troll that stood tall was struck by thunder and instantly turned into charcoal. It fell straight down, its bones clanging, without a sound.
Ji Ruo smacked his lips and increased the strength in his hands.
"Damn it! Damn it!"
The Eye Demon was in the midst of a star calamity. It used some unknown means to shrink its body to half its size. Countless eyes opened and closed in the void, and it was able to even split and share the lightning that was striking it.
Although it was still inevitable to be injured, the damage caused by the thunder became weaker and weaker, and it could barely be endured.
Lightning flashed across the Eye Demon's soul, and its soul was shaking continuously - facing the thunder, it had no choice but to withstand it.
The swordsman began to gather his sword power again, and this time, the Eye Demon had no way to avoid him.
"Human, you can't kill me!"
The Eye Demon glared at the swordsman fiercely, and then looked at Ji Ruo with anger: "And you, die!"
The vast and intangible spiritual power burst out and transformed into countless invisible sharp blades that came towards Ji Ruoshen to kill him.
Ji Ruo was startled and was about to use 'Baozu·Zhukong' to dodge, but before he could act, he saw dozens of thunderbolts falling down, directly shattering the part of the Eye Demon's mental power used to attack.
“Boom boom—(Huh? You still dare to attack me? This is the first time I’ve encountered a person who dares to attack me… Why are you attacking me?)”
Ji Ruo was stunned for a moment, then he remembered that he was still under the effects of the [Disguise] and [Sense of Immersion] skills. Now it seemed that the Star Tribulation Thunder Cloud regarded him as a part of itself?
After hesitating for a moment, thinking of the magical characteristics of Xingjie, Ji Ruo tried to communicate with Xingjie Leiyun: "Ahem, well, Brother Xingjie, you have been homeless for so many years, and you rush to the scene as soon as possible when there are creatures undergoing the tribulation... How about this, I help you communicate with our Daxia and build a power station for you in Daxia?"
Xingjie Leiyun did not answer Ji Ruo.
Although it continues to make thunderous sounds, if you listen carefully, the meaning of the thunder seems to be repeating itself.
Those who did not understand the meaning thought that the thunder was the roar of heaven and earth, but those who could understand knew that it was just the continuous muttering of thunderclouds.
This star calamity thundercloud has a certain consciousness, but its intelligence doesn’t seem to be very high... Is there no way to communicate with it?
Although he was a little disappointed, it was better that there was no way to communicate. Otherwise, if the Star Tribulation Thunder Cloud was not satisfied with Ji Ruo's proposal and struck him down as well, that would be bad.
This was also fine in the current situation; the star calamity thunderclouds did not do anything unnecessary in pushing him and were very obedient. It was quite convenient to use the power of the star calamity to kill demons and monsters.
With this thought, Ji Ruo became more motivated, and continuously released the 'Eight Extreme Heavens·Five Styles·Shaking the Mountain' - according to martial arts theory, this style needs to be practiced in a cold area full of solid ice, which is the so-called 'Ice Planet'.
It is able to release its inhuman strength through the form of 'Tie Shan Kao'. When it has complete control, it can fall into a completely frozen lake and shatter the entire lake.
Theoretically, if this move is practiced to perfection, the practitioner can even destroy a space battleship single-handedly!
At this moment, this martial art, which was originally an instantaneous explosive type, was used by Ji Ruo to produce the effect of continuous strength enhancement, pushing mountains and shaking hills!
However, even though Ji Ruo was regarded as a part of himself by the star calamity thundercloud, the situation was not normal at the moment.
The star calamity thunderclouds would not actively attack him, after all, he had not really entered the range of the star calamity - strictly speaking, Ji Ruo's current location was at the edge of the star calamity, and his main role was to "push".
However, half-finger gloves are only half a finger after all, and 'absolute friction' is the characteristic of half-finger gloves. A small part of Ji Ruo's ten fingers are in direct contact with the star calamity thundercloud.
Thunderclouds are filled with tiny ice crystals. When these tiny ice crystals of different temperatures collide with each other, the ice crystals with higher temperatures gain electrons and thus carry negative ions. Similarly, ice crystals that lose electrons carry positive ions... The theory is a little complicated, so I won't go into details here.
In short, due to some special reasons, a distorted electric field is generated in the thundercloud. When the intensity of this distorted electric field is greater than the air breakdown threshold, it will break through the air, thus forming plasma clusters and positive charge clusters, which are then attracted by negative ions on the ground. The two collide and form thunder and lightning...
At this moment, the yin energy between heaven and earth is strong, and the power of thunder is greater than before.
Although Ji Ruo was not the main target, he was inevitably struck by the tiny lightning because of direct contact - the human body is conductive.
Driven by thunder, the protective energy cultivated by the Vajra Indestructible Magic Art slowly merged into Ji Ruo's body, strengthening Ji Ruo's physical strength and steadily advancing towards the second level, Vajra Body Training.
In addition, with the assistance of the seventh style 'Falling Listening' and the eighth style 'Following the Breath' of the Eight Extreme Heavens, the star calamity thunder did not make Ji Ruo uncomfortable. Instead, it allowed Ji Ruo to quickly digest and consolidate the power and realm of entering the Xingxuan realm.
And some of the lightning followed Ji Ruo's body.
"Big eyeballs! You did such a good thing!"
A great demon kept dodging the thunder that fell from the sky and roared, "If it weren't for your bad idea, how could we have fallen into the star calamity? You must be a spy sent by humans!"
The rest of the demons also roared angrily.
Just now, they thought that the Eye Demon had come up with a good idea, allowing them to finally threaten humans at the 'lowest' cost. However, before they could be happy for long, their imagined future was once again ruthlessly shattered by reality.
Humans can fly with the thunderclouds of star disasters! Do you dare to imagine it!
Therefore, they immediately began to shirk their responsibilities.
The Eye Demon shouted angrily, "Shut up! Death is no longer our end. Without the shackles of the flesh, life span is no longer limited. Isn't this another kind of transcendence? It's just death at most, why are you barking like dogs!"
A demon said coldly: "How dare you say that? You are about to be struck to death by the star calamity, how can you still have the nerve to - ah!"
As he was speaking, a bolt of lightning struck the monster on the head unexpectedly, killing it instantly.
The Eye Demon snorted coldly and said, "I don't have a face to begin with. My body only has one eye. Humph!"
The swordsman looked at the demons that had already started fighting among themselves, his hand on the hilt of his sword with a calm expression.
"Demons are just demons, uneducated creatures."
"Education? What is that?" The Eye Demon sneered, "You humans just like to study these useless things. Can education make you full? Can it keep you alive? Or can it make you gain stronger power?"
The swordsman shook his head slightly.
The Eye Demon continued, "When this star calamity is over, your situation won't change much. When all of these guys are transformed into ghostly souls, I wonder what you can do to stop them!"
Indeed, star calamity is not infinite.
With the heavy casualties of demons, the Star Tribulation has gradually begun to show signs of dissipating - the Netherworld soul is a rule that only appears after the Netherworld descends, and at present this world has not yet fully adapted to the Netherworld rules, so the Star Tribulation thundercloud naturally won't care too much, and once all the demons within its coverage have been killed, it will dissipate.
Generally speaking, there are only two situations when facing a star calamity: either you cannot make it through and die here, or you make it through and make a leap to a higher level of life.
And now, a third situation has emerged - after the demon dies, its soul returns to the underworld and reappears in the human world!
"It is indeed a bit troublesome to block it, but it is not completely unstoppable."
The swordsman said this, and his sword skills finally accumulated to the limit.
At this moment, the swordsman was extremely old and was about to die, but his eyes were brighter than ever before.
He slowly drew out the Sword of Heaven and Earth and walked towards the star calamity that was gradually dissipating.
"You asked me what self-cultivation is, and I'll tell you."
The swordsman chopped with every step, and the majestic sword energy seemed to create the world, shattering time and space, ignoring distance. Even the Eye Demon himself did not even have time to react how he was cut off before he was split in half vertically.
step.
“It is cultivation rooted in the heart.”
A sword.
The huge sword with a sharp edge was chopped out, and then broke into pieces, turning into small heart swords that accurately pierced into the heart of every demon, living or dead.
Especially for the demons of the underworld, those heart swords carried the white cat's divine power and aura, which caused the most horrible damage to them. One by one, their chests were dissolved by the divine heart swords, leaving a large hole that was transparent from front to back. They floated in the same place dully, as if they had no thoughts anymore.
The swordsman took another step forward.
“It’s the awareness that doesn’t need to be reminded.”
A sword.
The sword swept across and spread rapidly.
On the border, although the holy statues did not sense the situation that could awaken them, they were also activated. The golden barrier connected the sky and the earth, condensing the pure protective intention to the extreme, protecting the border of Daxia behind them.
The demons also suffered heavy casualties.
One more step.
“It is freedom based on constraints.”
Another sword.
This time, the sword energy inexplicably gave people a soft feeling, and it had an amorphous shape. It lifted up the bodies of all the dead garrison warriors, then turned around and rushed to the battlefield, strangling the demons.
The last step.
"Also, kindness that considers others."
This one sword turned into two, two into four... in an instant it turned into millions of sword shadows. Countless sword shadows combined into powerful sword formations, madly strangling the last demons.
In just a few steps, there were no survivors under the Star Tribulation. The Star Tribulation, having completed its mission, quickly dissipated. Ji Ruo relied on the feather dragonfly above his head to hang in the air. Looking at the devastated ground and the sword marks and gullies that were everywhere like valleys, he could not help swallowing.
So awesome!
All the demons that gathered this time died, and even the demons from the Netherworld were severely injured and could not recover their mobility for a while - it was not that the swordsman did not want to kill, but that the white cat did not have that much power to lend him.
As early as the second sword, the white cat had been drained of its divine power and dissipated again.
Five steps and five swords, combined with the power of the star calamity thundercloud, slaughtered nearly a million demons!
After five steps, the swordsman had arrived at the center of the battlefield. He looked down at the Eye Demon that he had cut in half. Although its soul had not yet been scattered, it could not recover again. He said with a haughty look:
"Do you understand? This is education. This is the power of an educated person. Do you see it clearly?"
The swordsman's voice became weaker and weaker. After five strikes of sword, he had become extremely old and was about to die. His originally tall and straight figure now looked a little hunched.
The voice became weaker and weaker until it was inaudible. The swordsman stood there and slowly closed his eyes.
"Uncle Swordsman!"
Ji Ruo was horrified and hurriedly controlled the feathered dragonfly to fly over. He took out various spiritual fruits stored in the Universal Mirror and, without caring about what their effects were, he pried open the swordsman's mouth and stuffed the fruits into his mouth.
"Please don't die!"
“Cough cough cough!!!”
The swordsman suddenly opened his eyes, coughed continuously, and said angrily: "How do you talk to your elders like that? What do you mean by life or death? You didn't even let me take a break after using your ultimate move!"
"Ah, this..."
If you are scratching your head, you look like you are exhausted and it is easy for people to misunderstand you.
"Anyway, I'm fine. Go check on that guy Gu Xingzhou first."
"Ah? Oh, okay, I'll look for Uncle Gu..."
It's like throwing your shoes to ask for directions, and after confirming the direction, you turn around and leave.
Swordsman: “?”
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First day of quarantine, feeling OK, there is only one chapter left to finish the third volume, I will think about it~