"Cloud-patterned mountain copper is an expensive immortal material known for its hardness. It is usually used to refine magical treasures such as protective copper bells for immortal cultivators in the foundation-building or golden elixir stages."
And the fact that Qiao Shui was able to destroy the Yunwen Mountain Bronze Taoist Soldier meant that this old warrior from the Qiao family could destroy the Taoist cultivator’s protective magic weapon with just one strike
Luohan's eyes twitched and he wanted to refute, but in the end he didn't say anything.
Qiao Canxue described him as cloud-patterned mountain copper in human skin, which really made him feel humiliated despite his high self-esteem.
But this is just the beginning.
"This is the first time I've heard of a living person being forcibly made into a Taoist soldier, but I don't think this method is going to be easy."
Qiao Canxue tells the story:
"This soldier is very tough and is not afraid of death. I think he thinks that even if his body is destroyed, as long as the immortal monks behind him come, he can get another bronze body."
"So tricky? Can he still survive after being beaten to pieces?" Hai Siyuan frowned.
He found the bean soldiers and generals in the desert extremely difficult to deal with, who knew that there were such bronze-skinned and iron-boned Taoist soldiers
"How can it be that simple?" Qiao Canxue shook her head.
"The eternal goal of the immortal path is immortality, which is just out of reach."
Qiao Mu: Oh.
Qiao Canxue continued, "Even a great cultivator from the Nine Heavens Immortal Sect cannot bring the dead back to life. He can only control the souls of the dead."
"If a body dies, it can be replaced with a new bronze body. This is equivalent to another kind of immortality. If immortality is so easy, then the Nine Heavens Immortal Sect will be full of such Taoist soldiers."
She lowered her head, staring at the bronze-bodied Arhat with her white eyes, and said slowly:
"Abandoning the physical body of a warrior to become a Taoist soldier is not the right way. A person without a physical body is like a rootless duckweed. How can he easily attach himself to the bronze man of Yunwen Mountain?"
"The spirit of a third-rank spirit-refining warrior is naturally incomparable to that of ordinary people. Although it can be restrained in a bronze body by immortal techniques, it cannot last forever."
"Not only can you not live forever, but from the moment you abandon your physical body, your life is like a candle in the wind, and your days are numbered."
The bronze arhat's eyes widened slightly, and his breathing almost stopped.
He didn't take Qiao Mu's threat seriously at all, because even if he was defeated, he still thought he was superior to ordinary warriors and that he could still be resurrected by immortal means.
But this Qiao Canxue was obviously an immortal monk whom he needed to look up to, and his words revealed the vague uneasiness in his heart.
Luohan opened his mouth to refute, but the uneasiness in his heart almost swallowed him up, and he was unable to utter a word.
After transforming into a bronze arhat, he more or less discovered something strange about this body and had some idea of what was going on.
Chapter 232 The truth about martial arts (4k
Verbal threats could not shake a martial artist of the third level of spiritual cultivation, but as an immortal cultivator that a bronze-bodied arhat needed to look up to, Qiao Canxue shook his mind with just a few words.
She obviously knew more, and with her identity as an immortal monk, she revealed the truth about Luohan's bronze body and his imminent death, and Luohan's defense was immediately broken.
At this moment, Qiao Canxue made a hand gesture and shouted softly, which was like a sudden thunder in winter, which shocked the dying Arhat and the expression on his face became confused.
"Qiao... If Mr. Qiao has anything to ask this person, you can ask more now." Qiao Canxue said softly:
"I used the Soul Shock Technique on him when his defenses were down. Now his mind is shaken and he is confused and will answer any questions I ask."
Qiao Canxue's interruption clearly showed that she wanted to help.
However, Qiao Mu did not immediately ask the Arhat about the inside story. Instead, his gaze fell on Qiao Canxue with a rather complicated expression.
If the memories of the dream world were included, the two had not seen each other for more than a hundred years, and Qiao Canxue actually embarked on the path of immortality and became an immortal cultivator.
The magic of immortals is so convenient. Qiao Mu is a little envious.
His Heavenly Demon Disintegration explosion could blow up the Bronze Body Arhat with one strike, but without targeted intelligence, it would be difficult to open the Arhat's mouth.
If we use Qiaomu’s experience of playing games in his previous life to speak, it is obvious that Xiandao is the son of the current version.
The way of immortality has been continuously iterating for countless years over a long period of time, and has become quite prosperous, spawning a wide variety of techniques.
Talismans, battle formations, refining Taoist weapons, refining equipment, refining pills... Just like the prosperous wizard in the game, many sub-professions in different directions have been derived.
And the warrior... Rather than saying that the warrior is like the warrior profession in the game, Qiumu thinks carefully and thinks that he is more like an assassin.
The human body has its limits. After practicing the fourth level of strength, a martial artist will develop four paths: power, strength, skills, and spirit... But in fact, the first three paths are almost dead ends for mortals. There is only one path that leads to the upper three levels, which is the path of refining the spirit.
The way of refining the spirit is the mainstream practice for martial artists today, but it is a different approach. It does not seek to break through the limits of the physical body, but instead pursues refining the spirit, and what is practiced is the intuition in the dark.
Even if one is at the first level of spiritual cultivation, he cannot withstand the bone-corroding fire talisman of the immortal monks and can only rely on his keen intuition to dodge.
Either there is no injury, or there is no body left.
Compared with the prosperous path of immortals, the way of martial arts is just a toddler, only up to the ninth grade, and the top three grades are still small paths like the way of refining the spirit.
"The human body has its limits. Compared with the magic of immortals, the body of a warrior is still a little weak and has not exceeded the limits of the human body. It is not unreasonable that immortal monks have always regarded warriors as ordinary people." Qiao Mu shook his head secretly.
It is common sense that the physical body cannot resist the magic of immortals.
Even if Qiao Mu, who had practiced martial arts for nearly two hundred years, could not fight against Luohan, who had a body of cloud-patterned mountain bronze, with his fists.
In the end, he relied on the extremely powerful internal energy of martial arts that was as powerful as a raging wave when the demon disintegrated, rather than relying on head-on combat with his physical body.
No matter how much one practices martial arts, human muscles and bones are not as strong as steel, let alone the immortal material cloud-patterned mountain copper.
"Unfortunately, the human body will age. Hai Wuya's "Sumeru Mountain King Sutra" is a method of training Qi and blood, but I have been practicing for more than a hundred years, and most of the Qi and blood have been used to fight against my own aging."
Qiao Mu's mind moved, and he glanced at the Ouroboros Immortality Lock in his mind.
The information flow emerged, and the Qi and Blood column was marked with 21%.
This means that Qiao Mu's total energy and blood volume is only about one-fifth of that at his peak.
Of course, this so-called peak period is a false proposition, just like the property of a smooth inclined plane without friction, which only exists in theory.
When Qiao Mu was young and middle-aged, his body was actually not as strong as it is now at the age of 210.
Qiao Mu had always treated the column of Qi and blood as nothing, because his Qi and blood did not decline with age, but instead increased with the breakthrough of the Sumeru Mountain King Sutra.
The path of immortality has prospered for countless years. This is the result of the development of generations of long-lived great monks. However, the four paths of strength, power, skills and divinity in the martial arts are still vast and boundless.
Qiao Mu originally thought that if the Martial Arts Alliance could really open up a path to enlightenment through martial arts, it would be a great good deed.
But now I see... it's all an illusion.
"How did you get the skills to cultivate Taoist weapons, and how did you cultivate into the bronze body you have today?" Qiao Mu questioned the bronze arhat who already looked confused.
"I was one of the first group of soul-refining warriors to join the Martial Arts Alliance, and also one of the first group of people to master the Golden Body Technique..."
The bronze-bodied Arhat fell into memories... .
His real age is actually over seventy years old, and like many warriors, he is in his old age with declining energy and blood.
Although he had reached the third level of spirit refining, a breakthrough was nowhere in sight. He was even hunted by assassins from the Wu Ji Society and became food for the Martial Saint.
In such a predicament, he made a decisive decision and became one of the earliest members of the Martial Arts Alliance.
"Golden Body Art... is a martial arts technique bestowed by the immortals of the Dao Sect. It is divided into three levels: bronze skin, iron bones, and golden body, corresponding to the third, second, and first levels of soul refining respectively."
"I am a third-grade soul refiner. I can only cultivate to the bronze skin realm at best. Once I achieve this, I will stay at the bronze skin realm for the rest of my life and will not be able to break through to a higher level."
"If you want to cultivate the Golden Body Technique... most of the spiritual warriors find it difficult to cultivate it on their own. The technique alone is not enough, you also need the elixir issued by the Martial Arts Alliance... If you practice alone, it is not impossible, but it is extremely difficult."
The elixir he mentioned should be the specially treated cloud-patterned mountain copper... This thought flashed through Qiao Mu's mind, and he lowered his head to glance at Luohan's smashed chest.
This Arhat still has some flesh and organs in his body. He is not a pure human, nor is he pure cloud-patterned mountain copper.
The Taoist soldiers he, Qiao Mu, Hai Siyuan and others met in the hundred-mile desert were also different.
Those paper figures and bean soldiers and generals have no intelligence, but this bronze arhat still retains his own consciousness and is not much different from ordinary people except for his physical body.
Without taking off his clothes to expose his true physical appearance, Luohan looks more like a tall and strong warrior with an extremely burly figure.
"Who is the leader of the Martial Arts Alliance?" Qiao Mu asked again.
"Yes," Luohan stopped talking halfway, and no sound came out of his mouth. His originally confused eyes suddenly froze.
At the same time, Qiao Canxue opened his eyes again. A faint light emerged from his white eyes, covering Luohan's whole body.
"There are restrictions from immortal monks... but it can be suppressed temporarily." She made a hand gesture, and a piece of talisman paper passed through her fingertips without any wind, turning into a faint green talisman fire that enveloped the Arhat.
As the talisman fire appeared, the originally frozen Luohan's eyes moved again and he continued:
"It's the King of Qin."
"King Qin?" Hai Siyuan, who had been listening quietly, suddenly became angry:
"The King of Qin who was recently appointed by the Great Yan court? The King of Qin of the Great Qin Palace?"
"Yes, it was the King of Qin. I was also ordered by the King of Qin to come to the imperial city to meet the Qiao family." Luohan continued with a dull look on his face:
"Prince Qin had already reached the first level of spiritual cultivation before he mastered the Golden Body Technique. His real name was Qin Shiqing, and his body died at the hands of Qiao Shuangsen of the Qiao family."
“It’s just that at the moment of life and death, the soul undergoes strange changes, so after the Dao Zhen Immortal of the Dao Sect detained his soul, Qin Shiqing became the first martial artist to reach the golden body level.”
"The Immortal Master of the Dao Sect said that he survived a great disaster and might be an extraordinary person with the luck of martial arts, and his Dao heart is firm, so they put all their efforts to cultivate him..."
After saying this, the clear light surrounding the Arhat suddenly shattered, the surrounding talisman fires went out, and the Arhat's head tilted, bleeding from all seven orifices and died.
Qiao Canxue opened her eyes and closed them again, but her face was as pale as paper. It was obvious that blocking the activation of the immortal restriction just now was a great drain on her.
But at this time, Qiao Mu, Hai Siyuan and others were already immersed in the last news revealed by Luohan.
King Qin, whose real name is Qin Shiqing.
He was once a first-grade martial artist who was "killed" by Qiao Mu.
However, the other party's "resurrection" method seems to be different from that of the Bronze Body Arhat who takes oral elixirs to assist in his practice.
He lost his body, and his spirit changed... He survived the disaster and became the "King of Qin".
Hai Siyuan looked bitter.
He had been holding back from speaking just now, but now he couldn't help himself.
"Mr. Qiao, do you still remember the imperial reward my father Hai Wuya read out after he went to Anxi Pass to pay tribute to the heroic spirits?"
The Great Yan court at that time was quite generous in giving out rewards.
Although they were not given real power, the three hundred veteran soldiers were rewarded with gold and silver, and their official ranks were promoted three to five levels. The lowest among these three hundred people was a fifth or sixth rank military official.
As for the people in the isolated city other than the old soldiers, the imperial court also made appropriate arrangements...
"The imperial court arranged for the people of Lonely City to go to the newly established Daqin Prefecture!"
After Hai Siyuan said this, his eyes were a little dull for a moment.
At first, they thought they had walked out of the isolated city, and there were still people in the outside world who were fighting against the immortals.
After learning the truth, he received a reward in the Golden Palace. Although it was not as good as he had expected, it was still a good result.
The old soldiers have fought for their entire lives. Although they have never seen the people of Jiuzhou resist the Immortal Sect, it is not bad now that they can return to their hometowns with the rewards of gold and silver.
Who knows....it's just an illusion.
The relationship between the Martial Arts Alliance and the Immortal Sect's Da Dao Sect is unclear, and it is obvious that King Qin Shiqing, Qin, has received help from the Da Dao Sect's cultivators and "resurrected from the dead" to become a martial artist who has transformed into a golden Taoist soldier.
Then, if the imperial court arranged for the people of the isolated city to be resettled in the newly established Daqin Prefecture, wouldn't that be like leaving the wolf's den and falling into the tiger's mouth
"No wonder the Dao Sect didn't react after the truth about the lonely city in the desert was revealed. It turns out they were waiting here!"
Hai Siyuan subconsciously clenched his fists, but he only felt a deep sense of powerlessness.
When they were in the vast desert, the threat posed by the immortal monks was clearly visible. They did not play any tricks, but only used strong attacks.
While he was in the outside world of Jiuzhou, the struggle between the Immortal Sect and the Great Yan Dynasty was going on in the dark, which made even this old soldier feel frightened.
He lived to be over sixty years old, and spent most of his life trapped in an isolated city and fighting on the battlefield, but he was completely confused by all the overt and covert conspiracies and intrigues.
"Mr. Qiao..." Hai Siyuan raised his eyes and looked at Qiao Mu.
"Mr. Qiao."
"Old Qiao." The other old soldiers had a similar reaction, and their eyes were focused on Qiao Mu.
They all wanted to say something, but when the words came to their lips, they held them back and hesitated.
Qiao Shui's actions made them subconsciously regard Qiao Shui as Qiao Shuangsen and others who had fought alongside them in the isolated city.
Although Qiao Shuangsen is an outsider warrior, he is also a comrade-in-arms fighting side by side.
If it were a comrade-in-arms like them, Hai Siyuan and others would naturally not be shy and would speak up immediately, asking the old man from the Qiao family in front of them to go with them to explore the dangerous terrain of the Great Qin Mansion with the Da Dao Sect standing behind it.
But Qiao Shuangsen was already dead, and the one in front of them was Qiao Shui.