Chapter 129
But at this moment, he seemed to have completely lost his sense of smell, and lay crouched in the swamp...
Cheng Hui was covered in a thick layer of mud, which smelled... quite touching.
But at this moment, he seemed to have completely lost his sense of smell, and he was lying in the swamp, with only a pair of sharp black eyes exposed.
Less than five meters in front of him, a lizard was lying. The lizard was observing its surroundings vigilantly. After confirming that there was no danger, it dived into the water. After a while, it emerged from the water with a palm-sized black snake in its mouth.
Now is the time!
A gleam of light flashed in Cheng Hui's eyes, and he pounced out like lightning, holding not a long sword but a gray-black dagger in his hand.
The dagger flashed with a cold light, and the lizard was pierced by the dagger before it even had time to react, and let out a shrill scream.
Cheng Hui curled his lips in disgust, twisted his wrist, and the lizard's head fell off.
"Not bad!" Uncle Gui's satisfaction emerged from his wrist and praised: "You have a third of the talent I had back then."
Cheng Hui: ...
Emmm, okay, as long as you are happy.
Today is the thirty-second day that Cheng Hui has been receiving special training from Uncle Gui.
In just thirty-two days, Cheng Hui shed all his blood and tears...
Ahem, although this statement is a bit exaggerated, it is absolutely correct to say that Cheng Hui was tortured during these thirty-two days.
To be honest, he had been bullied as a child due to the absence of his parents, but these things never happened again after he learned the simple and effective method of physical persuasion.
He always thought that he had a talent for fighting, but he didn't expect that he would be taught a lesson by Uncle Ghost with a small lizard.
For a whole month, he was fighting with this four-legged snake, using various tricks to hunt it.
He didn't know if the monsters in the world of cultivation were smarter, but he tried to set traps using the techniques he learned from TV, but all of them failed. There was even one time when the lizard circled around his trap and left him a pile of smelly stuff.
Cheng Hui was stunned at that time and didn't come to his senses for a long time. When he came to his senses, the lizard had already run away without a trace.
He stared at Uncle Ghost blankly: "Could this four-legged snake have become a spirit?"
Uncle Ghost looked at him with disdain: "What are you thinking? If this four-legged snake becomes a spirit, do you think you can still stand here?"
Cheng Hui didn't understand what this meant at first. But the next day, when he found a lot of fresh...somethings left at the place where he had been hiding, he understood. This lizard was particularly vengeful. No wonder Uncle Gui said that if he became a spirit, he would definitely suffer the consequences.
After that, he understood that in the world of cultivation, you cannot look down on anyone... no, any snake, even if it has four legs.
Cheng Hui: ...something seems wrong?
Just when Cheng Hui was questioning his life because of killing so many lizards, Uncle Gui finally solved his mystery.
Of course, not all creatures in the world of cultivation are so powerful. In fact, this four-legged snake is a very special monster.
It is said that the Daping Swamp back then was not a swamp, but the entrance to a secret realm. Later, two powerful men fought in the secret realm. Their moves were so powerful that they directly blew up the not-so-big secret realm.
The spiritual energy in the secret realm is often much higher than that in the outside world, not to mention that in this underworld, it is filled with yin energy everywhere. The two collided with each other and formed the Daping Swamp.
The four-legged lizards were the ones that fell out of the secret realm. Their ancestors had once awakened their spiritual intelligence, but they could not withstand the erosion of the yin energy and gradually degenerated, falling to the bottom of the food chain in the Daping Swamp. They could only survive by relying on their strong reproductive ability.
Cheng Hui listened to Uncle Gui's introduction and was amazed. How powerful of a cultivator must he be to be able to shatter even the secret realm?
Nascent Soul? God Transformation? Or Mahayana?
He couldn't help but be curious and asked Uncle Gui about it. Uncle Gui patted him on the head and said, "Whatever it is, it has nothing to do with you. You are just a little foundation-building cultivator. Just practice diligently. Why are you thinking so far ahead?"
Cheng Hui: ...Okay, okay, you have the bigger fist and you are right.
"Well... Uncle Gui, do I consider myself graduated from killing lizards?" Cheng Hui asked while holding the lizard's tail.
This month, he was really sick of killing geckos. These creatures ran very fast and were very clever. Once they fell into a trap, it would basically be useless the next time.
Uncle Gui even forced him to mark a lizard specifically, and then he would keep an eye on the lizard, catching and releasing it. It was estimated that during this month, the unfortunate lizard had a more miserable life than Cheng Hui.
Looking at the mark on the back of the lizard in his hand, Cheng Hui curled his lips. He always felt that the lizard's scream before death had a sense of relief.
"Okay, the lizard has graduated, and the next target is the water monkey."
Cheng Hui, the water monkey, also knew that he had seen most of the swamp monsters during his hunting of lizards. The water monkey was a monster with four limbs and a somewhat human-like appearance.
This monster is huge in size, but its movements are light. Cheng Hui has even seen those water monkeys skimming the water like dragonflies. The lightness of their movements made him wonder if these water monkeys had practiced light skills.
Later, Uncle Gui told him that the limbs of these water monkeys are naturally endowed with the power of the five elements. As long as they want, they can not only float on the water, but even dance on fire.
Now that he is about to face this creature, Cheng Hui can't help but feel eager to try it.
After fighting the lizards for more than a month, I finally got to face a decent enemy.
Then he was taught a lesson by the water monkey again.
Cheng Hui: ...
After being taught a lesson by the first water monkey, he couldn't help but find a corner and squatted on the ground to draw circles.
I feel like I'm going to be sick.
I can't even beat a monkey?
He couldn't deal with the lizards before, but at least he was not in any danger, and Uncle Gui also gave many restrictions. Otherwise, he could have dealt with a large number of lizards just by force.
But this water monkey is different. Its limbs have the power of the five elements. When it punches, the fist is petrified. The force and hardness...only those who are hit by it know.
What's even more disgusting is that the power of the five elements in this thing's hands and feet can still change. When you are ready to face all the stones, it will give you a fire fist. Who can stand this?
To be honest, the water monkeys' cultivation level is not that high. Cheng Hui has evaluated their aura and found that they are at the foundation-building stage at most. However, this invisible change is very torturous. If it were Lin Qingyang, he might be able to use various spells to solve it remotely, but he is at a disadvantage in close combat.
"Idiot!" Ghost Uncle cursed with a look of dismay, "Is your head filled with stone? You're a cultivator! Do you really have to resist with all your might?"
Cheng Hui: ...
Cheng Hui looked at Uncle Ghost with resentment, thinking, "That's not what you said before. You said I was a zombie and I should take advantage of my defense and strength. Now that my body is at a disadvantage, you're going to let me use the methods of a cultivator to solve it? Don't be so fickle, Uncle Ghost!"
Uncle Gui felt his scalp tingle at Cheng Hui's resentful gaze, and said stubbornly, "What are you looking at! You're a zombie, but your brain is also frozen? Don't worry about being a monk or a zombie, you must make good use of all the power you can."
"But before you..."
"I restricted you before because your physical skills were too bad and I couldn't bear to watch you, but now you have learned it, right? So what can you do with it?" Uncle Gui said depressedly.
Speaking of laying the foundation, Uncle Gui was also quite puzzled. Obviously, this kid was very clumsy at the beginning, but after learning the body skills provided in the jade slip, his progress was rapid, which shocked him so much that he almost vomited blood.
He was considered an old hand in the world and had seen countless amazing cultivators, but no one had ever been able to cultivate a very sophisticated identity to the level of Cheng Hui within a month.
If Cheng Hui was already a Nascent Soul cultivator, he would not be surprised at all. After all, his cultivation level was there, and with a high-level perspective, he could comprehend things quickly. But Cheng Hui was clearly only a cultivator in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, so his comprehension was amazing.
No...it's not just shocking, it can even be said to be terrifying.
Don't be fooled by Uncle Gui's calm and steady appearance. He often criticizes Cheng Hui, saying that he only has one-third of the talent he had back then. In fact, he is very panicked inside. He feels that if he continues like this, he will be unable to teach him in two years... Wouldn't that be very embarrassing?
Fortunately, aside from his understanding of physical skills, Cheng Hui's other performances were generally comparable to those of an average cultivator—the more advanced kind. This was enough to make Uncle Gui breathe a sigh of relief, but he couldn't help but wonder, "Where did this monster come from? Why did he die in the first place? If he hadn't died, he could have inherited my legacy... Tsk tsk, it's a shame that zombies can't practice my own techniques, so I can only make up for it in other ways."
Cheng Hui followed Uncle Gui to practice in the swamp, and this practice lasted for more than half a year.
During this period, Lin Qingyang woke up once, and Cheng Hui told him about his experiences in the past six months. Although Lin Qingyang was worried that the ghost uncle would do something bad to Cheng Hui, he was in danger now and could only hold it back for the time being. In addition to reminding Cheng Hui to be careful, he also secretly made up his mind to digest the energy in his body as soon as possible.
After comforting Lin Qingyang, Cheng Hui continued to practice with Uncle Gui.
From geckos to water monkeys, from white-crowned eagles to blood-veined snails, he avoided places where ghost cultivators often appeared, and practiced in the depths of the Daping Swamp for a whole year.
During this year, he killed almost all the creatures here, so when he meets other people now, his first reaction is to use his murderous aura to intimidate the other person, and then look for possible weaknesses in the other person.
The ghost cultivator passing by: ...I’m so scared.
Looking at the ghost cultivator fleeing in panic, Cheng Hui pinched his nose in pain and said to Uncle Ghost, "This won't do. I feel like if I keep killing like this, I'm going to become a psychopath."
He lowered his head and smelled the smell on his hands, revealing a disgusted expression: "Really, I think my mental state is not normal now. I always feel that there is a smell of blood on my hands."
Chang Ling suddenly appeared and chuckled, "Isn't it because you just killed a blood snail?"
Cheng Hui:...Oh, yes, I almost forgot about this.
However, he still felt that his mental state was worrying and he could not live in isolation like this any longer. Although he still had Changling and Uncle Gui to talk to, he still felt a strong sense of loneliness after not having contact with other people for a whole year.
"That's fine." Uncle Gui didn't object.
This year's training time is actually a test for Cheng Hui. After all, he and Cheng Hui are partners. If this kid is as unmotivated as the previous one, he will have to consider changing someone.
After all, his ultimate goal is to resurrect himself, and there is definitely no future in following a useless person.
By the way, I learned the term "salted fish" from Cheng Hui. He thought it was very clever, so he used it directly.
During this one-year observation period, he was extremely satisfied with Cheng Hui, so he made up his mind to be tied to Cheng Hui and at the same time give him some real benefits.
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