Chapter 27: The Willow Twig Method

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  The best defense is undoubtedly offense.

  A loud cracking sound.

  Mian Zhang and Chen Mo's Tota hands collided perfectly, with the soft and subtle power of yin and the strong and fierce power of yang engaging in a fierce battle.

  Chen Mo only felt a soft and powerful force exploding out, causing his arms to go numb, his knees buckling, the remaining energy surging through his arms straight into his internal organs, a mouthful of blood rushing up to his throat, making his face turn pale.

  But the masked man was also badly hurt, a faint cracking sound indicating that his arm had fractured. The powerful force of the Diamond Fist sent him tumbling down to land directly at Chen Mo's feet.

  Chen Mo ignored his own injuries, took a swift step forward, and launched a Golden Road Opening strike. The force was like lightning, the fist wind rising stealthily, and landed heavily on the black-clad man's chest. A blood-curdling scream escaped his lips as he spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, soaking through the layer of gauze.

  Chen Mo didn't stop until he was exhausted, sitting on the black-clad man's body like a mad beast, his fists flying like a storm, continuously pounding against the man's forehead until he himself was drained of energy. The black-clad man had long been thoroughly dead.

  If the black-clothed man continues to attack from the side, Chen Mo will definitely not be able to use the Vajra Pagoda, but he is determined to make his opponent disappear into thin air, and making him use this move is truly a self-destructive act.

  Exhausted Chen Mo, a mouthful of blood gushed out from his throat, swayed for a moment, and almost fell to the ground with a dizzy spell.

  This life-and-death battle lasted for a whole incense stick, with many twists and turns. It was an extremely severe test of physical strength, internal energy, and willpower. The blue shirt was torn to shreds under the opponent's fierce and overbearing attack, leaving it tattered and worn out.

  The injuries on his body were not just one place, but more were internal, those invisible internal injuries. The Mian Zhang door mysterious technique, seemingly not enough to be fierce and overbearing, but it was full of irresistible, ruthless and vicious hidden strength everywhere.

  It is said that when practiced to a high level, using the cotton palm on someone's body with a light brush can shock their internal organs into mush and kill them, without leaving any visible signs on the surface, even their clothes remain intact.

  The level of cultivation of this masked man is obviously still far from it.

  No need to rush to collect the bodies, first sit down cross-legged, turn on the mysterious trick and start treating the injury. After a while, his slightly pale face recovered some redness, and the internal injury was also controlled.

  It was a life-and-death struggle, and the result was a win, but the process was extremely perilous. If he had made one wrong move or if his overall strength had been slightly inferior, perhaps it would have been him lying here as a corpse, Chen Mo.

  This masked man's overall strength is stronger than Chen Mo, and his actual combat experience is richer than Chen Mo.

  This made Chen Mo involuntarily let out a sigh of relief, lifted his face cloth, and the face full of blood and ferocity stunned him. This person's face was very kind, thinking carefully, he should be one of the guests invited by his uncle that year.

  "Hmph, that damned guy! Chen Mo gritted his teeth and cursed. Birds choose trees to perch on, nothing wrong with that. But this person turned around and secretly plotted against their former master, truly a despicable act."

  After searching around, they got some spoils of war.

  Fifty taels of scattered gold, a few Wanluo Money House gold notes, totaling fifty taels. There is also a personally collected manual of the "Liu Xue Body Method", this secret book is a piece of exquisite silk handkerchief, on which is embroidered a vivid and delicate human movement pattern, accompanied by various texts explaining it, looking very elegant.

  "Middle-grade body method?" Chen Mo became excited after learning the news from the introduction. The Great Brightness Divine Technique he majored in, as well as the Vajra Fist he was currently practicing, were both lower-grade mortal techniques. But this Willow Leaf Body Method was middle-grade. Comparing the two, it was clear where the value of this secret manual lay.

  In comparison, more than 50 taels of gold is much less impressive.

  The Zong Zu Cang Jing Lou, the middle-level body method is not non-existent. However, it requires contribution value to exchange and cannot be privately taught to anyone, no one can make an exception. As for the "Liu Xue Body Method", according to Chen Mo's knowledge, this mysterious body method does not exist in the Zong Zu Cang Jing Lou.

  Thus, Chen Mo can not only cultivate himself, but also donate it to his clan after mastering it, making it a door in the clan's mysterious skills and earning considerable contribution points.

  I don't even know where this bastard got this secret manual of Liu Xiatian's swordsmanship from.

  All sorts of benefits made Chen Mo overjoyed, and he excitedly clenched his fist. This battle was worth it. Fortunately, he had fought desperately at the end and hadn't let him escape.

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  Heart belongs to the spiritual field at home, Chen Mo flies back silently.

  The entire spiritual field around was already brightly lit, and the tenants, men and women, young and old, all joined in to catch those winged demon insects. However, there were a large number of these insects, and they were extremely cunning, with their entire bodies burrowing into the Spiritual Valley, greedily sucking away.

  After eating one, it flapped its wings and flew to another one, really greedy.

  The thing moves very quickly, and the tenants can hardly catch it even with a fine mesh net, so they can only watch as the insects wreak havoc on Linggu Valley, crying out in distress.

  Just then, a demon insect flew over from in front of Chen Mo and he stretched out his hand to grab it, casually pinching it to death. A thick, sticky liquid stuck to his fingers, making him feel a pang of heartache. These were all spirit rice, extremely valuable.

  Fortunately, this time the thief was killed and an unexpected harvest was obtained. Especially that book "Liu Xue's Body Method", after donating it to the family, the contribution value obtained is absolutely several times more than the loss of spiritual rice this time.

  But being able to make up for the loss doesn't mean I can just sit back and watch as all the spiritual rice is devoured by pests. Even if I save half, no, even a third would be good.

  Although Chen Mo was diligent in killing the aphids, unfortunately most of them had burrowed into Ling Valley to enjoy the delicious food and were hard to kill. After half a minute, only more than ten were killed.

  Gulu gulu, a bluish-gray flat stone rolled down and stopped right at Chen Mo's feet. The stone had regular hexagonal cracks on the outside, but it suddenly "moved" twice, then suddenly stretched out four limbs and a long... uh, turtle head.

  It's Xiaobao.

  Xiao Ba followed behind Chen Mo, whether Chen Mo was fast or slow, he always followed behind without falling back.

  He tore open a rice ear and was shocked to find that inside, seven or eight strange insects were greedily and frantically sucking the fresh juice, which made Chen Mo extremely angry.

  A casual handful of spiritual grain, a few grains of spiritual valley, and yet they were ravaged by dozens of aphids. Chen Mo's anger shook, his bright mysterious energy suddenly exerted force, those just-filled demonic insects and withered grains were crushed together, and on his hand was an additional layer of pulp.

  "Ah...!"

  "Ah..."

  Chen Mo's ears moved, and he heard the rustling sound of chewing coming from nearby. His heart skipped a beat, thinking that some kind of monster was destroying the spiritual field again. He quietly activated his Xuan Qi, making his footsteps even lighter, then parted the stalks of spiritual rice to take a look.

  As he peeled off layer by layer, he listened to the sound and felt that the monster was nearby, but no matter how hard he searched, he couldn't find it. A small piece of spiritual heaven was turned upside down by him, and after three or four circles, there was not even a hint of a trace.

  He was depressed, he looked down and found several paw prints on the ground, which seemed extremely familiar. Suddenly, he seemed to have thought of something and turned his head back.

  Xiao Ba's body lowered down, until he was completely prostrate on the ground, his head half-hidden in his shell, a pair of green bean eyes staring at the towering Ling Suo, then his four limbs suddenly exerted force and he actually sprang into mid-air!

  This is still not enough, if it were just that, the height would only be half of the Ling Shuang plant, and it's still far from being enough.

  In mid-air, the head in the turtle shell suddenly stretched out, and that seemingly short neck shortened the distance by half. A mouth was only half an inch away from the rice ear, and at this moment, the body began to fall.

  Chen Mo stared at this scene, his eyes wide with wonder, and for a moment he even forgot to go and manage the rice ears. Just as he was about to sigh in regret that Xiao Ba had arrived too late, he saw Xiao Ba stick out his tongue, which was as long as a snake's tongue, and with one swift motion, he wrapped it around the entire ear of rice and sent it into his mouth with a satisfied "ah".

  "Crunch, crunch......" Ling Mi's rice ears were chewed up like this, with the entire head in its mouth. Xiao Ba's face was expressionless, his eyelids half-drooping like an ordinary turtle, his lower jaw moving, his eyes innocently looking at Chen Mo, as if nothing had happened.

  If it weren't for this spiritual crystal being bitten in its mouth, the connected branches that were pulled down from above would not have been broken off and still held in its mouth. Chen Mo really thought he was dreaming.

  Chen Mo suddenly thought back, this guy seemed to be destroying Ling Mi as well, and his anger didn't come from the same place, he stepped forward with a tight pace.

  As the master approached, Xiaobai seemed to feel something was off and instinctively retreated a few steps back, trying to create some distance. Seeing the master clench his fists and make a loud cracking sound, he finally realized that something was wrong. But at this time, the turtle suddenly turned around with incredible speed, without looking back, and took off running.

  Just as I hadn't run a step or two, I felt my neck tighten and couldn't pull it back no matter how hard I tried. My body floated for a moment, the scenery in front of me kept falling down, and then I saw a familiar face with the corners of his mouth obviously curled up, but there was no expression on his face, which clearly wasn't a smile.

  "At this time, you're still causing trouble." Chen Mo felt a wave of annoyance in his heart. With so many stalks still unresolved, this turtle came to steal the spiritual valley's food, wasn't that adding fuel to the fire? So he flicked both hands, and Xiao Ba was suspended in mid-air, stretching out its four limbs and head, drawing a beautiful arc under the moonlight and firelight.

  "Whoosh——"

  "Whoosh...whoosh..."

  When it fell to the ground, "swish" sound, all shrunk in, after landing on the ridge above "drip" rolled a circle before stopping.

  Xiao Ba stretched out his long neck, rolled his white eyes, and shook his head, feeling that everything above was full of golden stars. His neck stretched out again to eat, but suddenly he jumped up and down twice, feeling the sky spinning and the earth shaking, then his body felt light and heavy, and it wasn't until after a while that he realized he hadn't actually flipped over.

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