Chapter 36: Sourceless Fire
The reason why there were still seven or eight survivors was because the three flying knives were of low quality and could not withstand more than two hundred piercings, as well as the special true qi infused by Liang Zifeng, and had been completely shattered into powder.
Liang Zifeng, who was in the sky, frowned and looked at the furious man below. After thinking for a while, he took out the purple crystal dagger that had not been used for a long time. Although there was some hesitation in his eyes, when he thought that the Venerable had the strength of a fourth-grade and was on guard at this time, ordinary flying knives would hardly be effective.
The White Dragon Sect leader who was still cursing below suddenly felt a palpitation in his heart. He subconsciously took a step sideways and slashed the sword in his hand in the direction he sensed.
"Crack."
The venerable felt a shock in his hand, followed by a sharp pain. When he came to his senses, he found that his limbs had been cut off and his precious sword had broken into two and fell to the ground.
The few believers of middle-rank strength around him had already turned into corpses and fell to the ground. There was no living person around except him. The crackling sound of burning torches and the strong smell of blood made this venerable feel fear for the first time.
At this moment, a series of footsteps sounded behind the Venerable. He turned his head and was suddenly shocked, and at the same time, deep regret surged in his heart.
"No wonder Ma Rulong didn't dare to attack you. Although he thought that you would be very strong, he still underestimated you. Alas." After seeing Liang Zifeng, the venerable said with sudden enlightenment, but there was a strong sense of unwillingness in his tone.
Liang Zifeng did not respond, but glanced at the White Dragon Sect leader on the ground with cold eyes, then waved his hand and sent out a stream of energy to hit the opponent's heart, while wrapping the opponent's hippocampus with his mental power. After 5 seconds, he probed into the hippocampus and read the opponent's memory.
When Liang Zifeng left, there were more than 6 secret books floating behind him, including internal power secret books, and the rest were about martial arts. Unfortunately, they were all yellow-level secret books.
What surprised Liang Zifeng the most was that among the secret books he obtained, there was also a rune secret book called "Basic Rune Encyclopedia".
"I didn't expect to get such an unexpected gain. This White Dragon Cult is not simple." Liang Zifeng began to feel a little wary of the White Dragon Cult.
“It turns out that the levels of secret books are divided according to the levels of heaven, earth and yellow. There are also saint level and god level above that. I really don’t know how powerful the secret books of other levels will be. My “Nine Shadows Magic Steps” should be a mid-grade Xuan-level martial art.” Ma Rulong learned about the division of the levels of martial arts from the memory of that venerable.
"Ma Rulong is indeed holding back. He must know the level of my martial arts. I thought he was really generous." Liang Zifeng thought of the time when Ma Rulong was telling him the common sense of martial arts. He was grateful to him in his heart.
Tonight's actions made Liang Zifeng realize his own shortcomings, especially his means of attack. Weapons like flying knives are not concealed enough. If he had very thin and short flying needles, tonight would not be so troublesome.
Although he really wanted to order a batch of embroidery needles, unfortunately, ancient embroidery needles were too expensive and he could not afford them. Moreover, his ideal weapon was even smaller than embroidery needles and had higher quality requirements. He had not heard of anyone who could make it yet.
The next morning, the entire Yichun County was in an uproar. More than 200 people died in the slums overnight, which frightened the people in the county. At the same time, all kinds of rumors were spreading.
After the family had breakfast on the first floor of the inn, they checked out and left. While leaving the city, Liang Zifeng and his friends heard about the tragedy in the slums.
In fact, Liang Zifeng wanted to fly to Majiazhuang last night to settle accounts with that hypocrite. After all, no one wants to be targeted by a poisonous snake. However, after sorting out the memory of that venerable, he found that Ma Rulong was no longer in Majiazhuang. It seemed that he went to Tiandaomen to find his elder brother.
As for the fact that Ma Rulong went to find his elder brother, Liang Zifeng guessed that it was related to himself. There must be something about him that Ma Rulong liked, but unfortunately he could not figure out what it was.
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In the following days, Liang Zifeng and his companions traveled all the way eastward, and all they saw along the way were dilapidated scenes, so he usually studied the secret books in the carriage, and would only pay attention when he encountered something.
As for the third brother and his friends, they were very excited. Neither the dilapidated village nor the beautiful scenery affected their happy mood. They were especially happy when they encountered injustice. This earned them a certain reputation along the way.
In less than a month, Liang Zifeng made a breakthrough in his research on fire-attributed martial arts. In fact, it was an accident.
On the evening of April 2nd, Liang Zifeng and his friends were camping in the wild. Liang Zifeng sat in front of the campfire thinking about fire-attributed martial arts. According to the secret book, he channeled his true energy through several yang meridians, and finally through the Shaoyang Triple Burner Meridian of the Hand to reach his palms, and then he successfully emitted a blazing palm force.
The hot palm force hitting the firewood can form a charred palm print, but it cannot ignite the firewood. This is far from Liang Zifeng's goal, so he has been thinking about how to increase the temperature of the palm force.
He also tried to let the third brother emit a fiery palm force, but failed. He tried it several times and used his mental power to track the situation of the internal force.
Only then did he understand why attribute martial arts were so difficult. Only for someone like him who had all the meridians open would it be relatively easy, or he must be a master who had opened up the meridians throughout the body.
Later, Liang Zifeng tried several other Shaoyang meridians on his arms and found that the effects were similar. Yesterday, he divided his true energy into three streams and ran them through the three Shaoyang meridians on his arms at the same time. Finally, he merged them into one palm force in his palm, and actually ignited the firewood, which made him extremely happy.
During the day, he experimented with the effects of various meridian qi circulation methods, and finally found a qi circulation route that he believed was the most effective and produced the highest palm force temperature.
He was moving his Qi in such a random manner, but fortunately he was lucky and nothing unexpected happened, otherwise he would be doomed even if all his meridians were open.
Liang Zifeng was sitting next to the campfire. At this moment, there was a ball of hot power on his palm, which was constantly spinning. Others could see a ball of transparent substance on his palm, which was the heated air.
Although the palm power cannot be seen by the naked eye, Liang Zifeng's mental power can sense the approximate temperature of the palm power, which is about 800 degrees.
"This temperature can only light a fire. It's far from enough to melt steel." Liang Zifeng shook his head and said with some disappointment.
Just as Liang Zifeng was staring at his palm in a daze, suddenly a small dry branch stretched into his palm. With a bang, the branch in the vortex of palm power was directly ignited, causing an explosion.
"Ah~" a childish cry was heard, followed by excited laughter.
"Naughty boy!" Liang Zifeng looked at the little girl beside him helplessly and scolded with a smile.
"Lululu~" The little girl stuck out her tongue and made a face at Liang Zifeng, then suddenly opened her eyes wide and looked at Liang Zifeng's palm in shock.
"Hmm?" Liang Zifeng also sensed something unusual and shifted his attention to the palm of his hand.
It turned out that after the explosion, a large orange-red fireball appeared on the palm of his hand. Because the branch was pulled away by the little girl, this fireball had no branch as fuel, that is to say, this fireball was a fire without a source.