Chapter 13: Fireball

In the twelve years of young Shen Shi's life so far, this journey of apprenticeship in Haizhou in the south is definitely the most painful period in his memory.
For seven days, he had to follow the butcher into the teleportation circle at least three times a day, and sometimes even more often, because the butcher knew very well that the great sect of the High Sect had passed on for thousands of years, and had strict rules and regulations. Once the gate of the mountain is opened to accept disciples, it is determined to die once every five years, and disciples who are lucky enough to accept the entrance must arrive at the designated place within the specified days, and be taken up the mountain by the immortal master in the Lingxiao Sect. Once delayed, this hard-won fairy fate is broken.
"This year happens to be the year of opening and accepting disciples. Or I think you probably won't have such a good luck to get a place to worship the Lingxiaozong. But the date of their introduction is set on the 10th of April, you Say we want to hurry?"
Shen Shi, who had already had a great shadow on entering the teleportation circle again, was speechless after hearing these words. In the end, despite the pain, she gritted her teeth and nodded and agreed, and followed the butcher into the teleportation circle again. Once again, he endured the almost unbearable pain of ant biting at his age.
It was March 29 when they arrived in Blackwood City, Lanzhou, and it was only more than ten days before the appointment date set by the Lingxiaozong. Time was already very tight, and it was indeed impossible for Shen Shi to delay. It's just that, day after day, for seven days, he suffered more than three ant-eating pains every day, which really made him miserable.
And with his physical strength, three times a day, at most four times, he has reached a limit, almost to the point where he can't even walk on the road, even the butcher dare not force him to continue. If they could catch up, the two stopped and stopped like this, teleporting all the way.
This is true, even if Shen Shi was given time to rest and recover on the way, but after seven days, when the Butcher and Shen Shi finally passed the last teleportation circle and arrived in Haizhou, Shen Shi looked like he was already seriously ill. , Looks weak and weak, and looks like he will fall down at any time.
Looking at Shen Shi’s appearance, the butcher was also a little worried. He quickly took Shen Shi to find a secluded house to settle down and let him recuperate for two days. This made the young man’s face gradually look a little bit better. The color no longer looked like the living dead when he first arrived.
After regaining a bit of energy, Shen Shi still remembered the matter of apprenticeship, and asked the butcher carefully about the situation, and learned that it was the 8th day of April, and there were two days before the day when the Lingxiaozong took the lead. The location of the introduction is a place called "Bai Xianyan", just outside Liuyun City, Haizhou where they are now, on the shore of the sea, within an hour.
Knowing this situation, Shen Shi's heart was relieved, thinking about the difficulties and difficulties, and finally struggling to get here, thinking that in two days, maybe he can worship the top cultivation that is famous that day. The wealthy, Shen Shi couldn't help but be hot and yearning.
Apart from eagerness, when Shen Shi was chatting with the butcher, he asked about the Haizhou where the two are currently and the situation in this Floating Cloud City. The butcher was refreshed, and he said what he knew. Speaking of Haizhou, it is one of the most famous states in the ninety states in the main realm of Hongmeng. In terms of land area, it surpasses Yinzhou and Lanzhou. Hongmeng Mainland is known as the "Southern First State".
Haizhou is an important town in the world of Hongmeng for cultivation. It is extremely prosperous, with many heavens and blessings. There are countless cultivation gates in the territory. Among them, the most famous and the most famous is naturally the prestigious Lingxiaozong, which is ranked among the four elements of the world.
And now they are in Floating Cloud City, located on the shore of the sea. It is the largest city in Haizhou. It is huge in scale and prosperous. There are countless monks in the past like crucian carp who crossed the river, plus the teleportation array in Shanghai. Falling in this city, the number is even more nine, and it is the icing on the cake. The monks from the north to the south can be seen everywhere.
"Even if you look at the entire Hongmeng Lord Realm, except for the unparalleled Tianhong City, Floating Cloud City is regarded as the first-class prosperous place." At the end of the day, the butcher used such a comment to give their conclusion to Floating Cloud City. .
On the second day, on the 9th of April, Shen Shi, who woke up early, moved his body after getting up. He only felt brisk, and he seemed to be almost completely relieved from the pain of ant bite, and even his spirit was better. a lot of.
The house where he and the butcher now live is a private house on the outside, but it is actually a private house that a magical will secretly set up in Floating Cloud City. No one comes here on weekdays, but there are so many things in the house. Everything is complete. Shen Shi looked around at random in the bedroom, and found the pen, ink, paper and inkstone without much effort. He hesitated for a moment, then rubbed the ink and took the pen. Following the habits of these years, he began to draw the five elements of Yin and Yang and ten symbols on the white paper. Rune.
Since escaping from the Central Cang in Nanxilu City on that day, he has been like a dog in the family, panic all day long, not in the mood or the conditions to stick to this habit for several years every day, until then in Floating Cloud City, Shen Shi seemed to feel it A bit of peace that hasn't been seen for a long time.
The ink is even and light, and the handwriting is smooth and soft. Although he hasn't practiced after half a month, his persistent habit over the years has finally given him a deep instinct. The yin and yang runes drawn on the white paper are as complete as before. , There is nothing wrong with it.
After writing five sheets of white paper, put down the brush, Shen Shi's face showed a touch of satisfaction, he took a breath, rubbed his wrist, and he couldn't help but think of his missing father again, but that's it. It would be useless to think too much. After sitting in silence for a while, he got up and went out of the room.
The sky was already bright at this time. In the courtyard outside the house, the butcher stood there for some unknown time, facing the direction of the sunrise, with his hands emptied, his eyes piercing, deep inhalation and long vomiting, a faint red gleam appeared all over his body. Is practicing a Taoism.
With sharp eyes, Chen Shi looked at the butcher's palm, and he saw a spiritual crystal in the palm of his right hand. The light flickered, and the faint light was continuously drawn out of the crystal and absorbed into the butcher's skin. in vivo.
Because he was born in the home of disciples outside the Xuanyin Gate, and there were also many Xuanyin Sect disciples in Tianyi Building, Shen Shi had seen many similar scenes when he was young, and he knew that this was exactly the butcher's spiritual power cultivation in absorbing the spirit crystals. As for this method, it looks completely different from the way the disciples in the Xuanyin sect in the past cultivated, but it is not surprising. There are thousands of methods under the world, and they are not the same. The methods of cultivation are very different. .
I just don't know what the cultivation method in the Lingxiao Sect would be like?
Shen Shi stood aside, didn't bother the butcher's cultivation, just watched quietly. I saw the butcher kept this posture and practiced about a cup of tea, then he stood up, took a deep breath, only to hear the faint sound of the bones around his body, the muscles swelled, and the flesh looked tyrannical and scary.
After a while, the momentum slowly disappeared, and the butcher shook his neck, looking quite comfortable after practicing. After standing there for a while, he seemed to be a little bit excited, his right hand stretched out, five fingers empty. Grabbing, a moment later, I saw a low and deep "boom" in the palm of my palm, and a ball of fire condensed out of thin air.
Shen Shi condensed his eyes, staring at the fireball, a thought flashed through his mind, and whispered: "Fireball..."
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Since the war between humans and monsters, the immortal way of human cultivation has undergone tens of thousands of years of development. It has entered a heyday in the present world, with all kinds of magical powers and magic methods endless, but in rough terms, in the final analysis, there is only the cultivation There are two kinds of channel method and five element method.
People who practice the passages of various gods are now commonly called monks, and they are also the absolute mainstream of the present age. The Five Elements Spells is the spiritual power that manipulates the five elements of heaven and earth. It is divided into five elements: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. Complex spells to cast all kinds of spells can also be regarded as a very learned discipline.
It’s just that the five-element technique is too profound and complicated for most people. The lowest-level first-order five-element technique alone requires much more energy than a monk who practices ordinary god’s channel technique. However, the power of the five element magic technique is really smaller. For mortals, a fireball technique is naturally terrifying, and a fireball is enough to burn the human body into coke, but for a monk practicing the aisle method, the flesh is tough and strong, and a fireball hits the body at most. Inflicted some injuries on the low-level cultivators in the Refining Qi Realm, and if they faced the Ning Yuan Realm cultivators who entered the hall, they would almost be unable to cause harm.
The power is not great, and the cultivation is difficult. At this time, the five-element spells that have been prosperous for a while have gradually weakened in the world of Hongmeng. To this day, the five-element spells have become unsightly for the monks. A kind of legal system has completely become an accessory to the mainstream cultivation channel method.
Generally speaking, it is the monks who have some personal interest in the five-element spells while they are practicing. Only then will they pick up a few relatively simple five-element spells to practice at will, of which the lowest-level Qi-refinement monks are used. Mostly, because the cultivation in the refining realm is relatively simple, basically only the most basic absorption of spiritual energy into the body, solid cultivation of the essence, and all kinds of supernatural powers, most of which can only start cultivation in the Ningyuan realm. Therefore, many of the monks in this realm would choose one or two five-element spells, which can be regarded as a self-defense technique.
However, even so, it cannot change the decline of the five-element spell. Even though it is said that in the distant past, the five-element spell was once strong. Those high-level and high-grade five-element spells are said to be extremely powerful. However, for many years, No one has seen that scene long ago.
As for the fireball technique used by the Butcher Xingzhi, it is the lowest level of the five element spells, and it is also the most common one of the first-order fire spells. It is the same as the water-based "water archery" and the earth-based" "Rock Needle" is also called the three low-level five-element spells. It is the simplest and most common five-element spell.
The talisman practiced by Shen Shi on weekdays is actually a small method specifically for the five-element magic. Simply put, it is composed of various five-element spells and ten types of yin-yang five-element runes to form different talisman patterns, drawn in special On top of the talisman paper, a complete talisman can be made by injecting spiritual power into the talisman paper through a process commonly known as "injecting spirit".
As long as the monks learn a five-element spell and manipulate the same type of talisman with the same magical power, they can stimulate a complete spell with 20% of the spiritual power, and the casting speed can be much faster. It can be said to save time and effort, but there are also some shortcomings, but the power of the spells displayed through the talisman will be reduced a lot.
It is because the Tao of Talisman Shen Shi practiced is closely related to the five-element spell, so he has a good understanding of the five-element spell. At this moment, he suddenly saw the butcher cast this spell, and he recognized it at first sight This is the most common fireball technique.
The butcher seemed to have heard the movement here. In a blink of an eye, he saw Shen Shi standing on the side of the yard and staring at the fireball in his hand. Suddenly the palm of his hand shakes, and the fireball suddenly brightens. , Was suddenly out of the palm of the butcher, rushing towards Shen Shi with a whistling sound.
Even if a long distance away, a blazing heat wave has already hit his face. Shen Shi was stunned, standing still at a loss for a while, watching the fireball rushing to his eyes, the heat wave scorching his skin, as if about to It burns mediocre.