Daozhen was very calm.
As a rare cultivator with a natural spiritual root, who had even formed a Heavenly Dao Golden Elixir, he was naturally favored by the immortals. The Xiaoqian Sword in his hand was given by his master, Elder Qingyi, and it could transform a sword into a thousand swords, and a sword could become a sword formation.
But Xiao Qianjian is not his only magic weapon.
"Heart Demon Mirror." A precious mirror hung above his head, shining on the rain of swords in the sky.
The next moment, flying swords flew out from the mirror and gathered together with the thousands of flying swords from the outside world, totaling two thousand flying swords.
The two thousand flying swords were densely packed and spinning rapidly around Qiao Mu.
Not to mention using the Qin King Sword to block them, there were so many flying swords that even the vision in front of him was blocked.
Qiao Mu swept across with the King of Qin in his hand. With this attack, five or six flying swords were knocked away, and more than ten other flying swords that were hit were twisted and then turned into shadows and disappeared.
"The one in the mirror is an illusion? Now there are a thousand flying swords that are real and a thousand that are illusions?"
Qiao Mu frowned. He couldn't tell whether these flying swords were real or fake. He could only try his best to slap away the flying swords in front of him, while moving forward in Dao Zhen's direction.
Flying swords pierced through his body, and he could no longer completely block them. His body suddenly became covered with many bloody holes.
But he didn't care, he just frowned and walked forward, allowing his body to be pierced.
But when he slapped away another wave of flying swords and his vision became empty, he saw Dao Zhen's figure, who had already rushed to a height of several dozen meters in the sky.
"This Dao Zhen's style is completely different from Dao Fei's." Qiao Mu narrowed his eyes slightly.
Daofei is arrogant and is no different from mainstream immortal cultivators, with a very high opinion of himself.
Daozhen’s style can be summed up in one word: drag.
Xiao Qian Sword and Heart Demon Mirror were both means of delaying. Seeing Qiao Mu's injuries getting worse, he was not reckless at all, and did not have the arrogance of an immortal cultivator at all, and just slowly patiently endured him.
"Dozens of meters high in the sky..." Qiao Mu's mind flashed with thoughts. He was thinking about how to climb up, but he saw Dao Zhen in the sky making a move.
He just grabbed a handful of light golden round beans in his hand and scattered them in the air. The round beans quickly turned into several tall and round soybean soldiers.
“I heard that the Da Dao Sect excels in the art of refining Dao soldiers…” Qiao Mu’s eyes twitched.
He had dealt with the Daoist soldiers of the Da Dao Sect many times before and knew that if he fought them head-on, he would only be exhausted to death and drowned in the vast ocean of Daoist soldiers.
So...
"Hu..." He took a deep breath and leaped into the air. At the same time, he used the King of Qin to block in front of him and knocked away the rain of swords in front of him.
Although the rain of swords in front was dispersed, many flying swords, both real and fake, attacked from the side, piercing several bloody holes.
"Red Moon Blood Burning Technique·Blood Sword Technique!"
At this moment, his skin was bleeding all over, and the blood beads once again gathered on the golden body of King Qin, turning into a giant blood sword.
"Heaven-cutting sword technique!"
This is the sword technique of the exiled immortal Jian Zexian, which requires extremely high state of mind and fighting spirit.
Even the exiled swordsman who created this sword technique was unable to perform it during the decades when he was in a slump. He said that it was intangible and could not be drawn.
When Qiao Mu first learned this sword art, he was never able to master it. It was not until he faced Elder Qingzhuo in the vast desert that he was able to successfully perform it for the first time under the guidance of the Exiled Immortal Sword, who had transformed his body into a sword.
Strictly speaking, this was Qiao Mu's first time to perform the Heaven-Slaying Sword Technique by himself.
All the remaining internal energy exploded completely without reservation, transforming into a blood-red sword light that rose into the air.
The dazzling sword light flew out twenty or thirty meters through the air, but it quickly faded. The blood color became lighter with every meter it went, and in the end it just hit Dao Zhen's body.
The next moment, Daozhen's body twisted and disappeared from the spot...
This scene was exactly the same as the disappearance of the thousand swords just now. I don't know when this truth also turned into a projection in the mirror...
"Thousand Swords."
At this moment, Daozhen's figure was heard from higher up in the clouds.
His real body had disappeared into the clouds at some point, and he was seen making a sword gesture with his finger. At the moment when Qiao Mu was in the air with no support, a thousand flying swords turned into a dense rain of swords and fell down.
In just a moment, Qiao Mu's body was pierced by thousands of swords, and countless holes appeared on his body. He almost became a bloody hedgehog, and his corpse fell from the air.
"The Qiao family died after all."
Daozhen's face remained expressionless, without much emotion, and he just glanced around the city.
He has observed more than one member of the Qiao family and has long since summed up the first law of the Qiao family: once a member of the Qiao family dies suddenly, the next member of the Qiao family will arrive soon.
Besides, he didn't think that Qiao Miao could scare off Elder Qingzhuo. Even if he killed a Jindan-stage disciple in front of Elder Qingzhuo, it would be impossible.
"Is it as Elder Qingzhuo said, there are still great cultivators from other immortal sects in this city, or is there another hidden secret?"
He scanned the area with his spiritual sense but found nothing unusual. Finally, his gaze fell on a corner of the city, the edge of Caishi Street.
They were a group of civilians attracted by the Tianzhou.
Among them are devout believers of the Da Dao Sect, as well as some martial artists with great skills and courage who have not left the city.
At this moment, seeing Qiao Miao's body with swords all over his body falling from the air, the crowd immediately cried out in surprise.
"He is dead, he is dead after all..."
"For warriors like me who want to defeat the immortals with our martial arts, we will eventually have to pay a price."
"Even though he died, he died a hero. Look at the bodies around him..."
"Although I am dead, the heroic spirits of the Qiao family still live on."
Next to Qiao Miao's body, which was pierced by thousands of swords and almost no longer had a complete human form.
It was the golden body of King Qin, who had long been dead and had a crooked face and slanted eyes.
They were the corpses of dozens of Dao Sect cultivators.
The excitement in everyone's eyes gradually faded away and turned into sadness and regret.
Daozhen looked at these people silently, squinted his eyes, and recalled the past of the lonely city decades ago.
When he was a child, he had seen such eyes...
Every time after foreign invaders attacked the city, when the soldiers of the Western Expedition Army carried the bodies of their comrades into the city, the neighbors on the street all had similar looks.
Daozhen was silent for a moment, then turned into a ray of light and rose into the sky.
How could he, who had already summarized the first law of the Qiao family, stay here after killing a member of the Qiao family
I opened my eyes and was dreaming again.
Back to the original starting point, Qiumu had a blank expression on his face.
His mind sank into the Ouroboros Immortality Lock, and a piece of information immediately emerged.
This death rating: A (one against many, using martial arts to defeat immortals)
Lifespan lost after death: 80 (16*5) years
Remaining resurrections this week: 2/5
Current age: 295
Qi and blood: 60%
Eighty years is equivalent to a lifetime of sleepless life for ordinary people.
"That's great. I have plenty of time to practice." Qiao Mu said expressionlessly.
Asking yourself whether you regret it or not is one thing, but going to jail or not is another.
Occasionally, there are heroes in this world who are willing to risk their lives for the sake of justice. Even if they are stabbed, they will still grit their teeth and say that they have no regrets.
But that doesn't mean any idiot would like to be stabbed with a knife.
"This time, I just hope I can still be tough in words and heart, and not change my mind in the long years." Qiao Mu said to himself.
There is an old saying that every failure makes you wiser, and this is the truth.
But throughout one’s life, one will repeatedly step into the same river and make the same mistakes over and over again.
In the past, warriors who cultivated their spirits, such as the King of Qin and Arhat, were able to embark on the path of cultivating their spirits. So, they must have been strong-willed warriors when they were young and strong.
But later they retreated, regretted their decision, and chose the so-called "path of enlightenment through martial arts".
When you are twenty years old, you have high aspirations and think you are the best in the world. But ten, twenty or thirty years later, you may not be able to shout the same slogan.
“The human body will age, but just as terrible as the aging of the body is the aging of the heart.”
“If the heart does not age, the spiritual cultivation will not regress. Even if one is eighty or ninety years old, one can still remain at the upper third level of spiritual cultivation.”
"but... "
The difficulties Qiumu has to face are actually more difficult than those faced by an average elderly martial artist.
Warriors who practice spiritual cultivation like Luohan and King Qin, even if their hearts have grown old and they choose to take shortcuts, the most they can do is suffer from a lack of spirit and their spiritual cultivation will decline.
Because Qiaomu's lifespan is infinite, he will spend long years, lifetime after lifetime, in dreams.
As long as he retreats once, as long as he regrets once, regretting why he insisted on standing out and forcing himself to go to jail... then he will be swallowed up by the abyss of his own negative emotions during the long period of solitude.
Eighty years ago, Qiao Mu chose to pursue his true heart...
He was on a one-way street with no way out.
After each dream thereafter, he had to repeatedly question his true heart in the long dream until his mind collapsed or he reached the end of this one-way street.
The last time he entered a dream, Qiumu managed to hold on for eighty years, but that doesn’t mean he can get through this difficulty this time.
There is no such thing as sudden enlightenment in this world. Once you cross this threshold, the road ahead will be smooth... Difficulties always exist and are not affected by people's hearts.
"Next, let's practice. Once you enter the flow state, you will have the illusion that time passes faster."
Just like last time, Qiao Mu put these things aside for the time being. With a thought, he was already standing in the armory of Lonely City.
"If you want to cultivate the Human Dao Sutra to the next level, it will take more than two hundred years... Although this technique is the foundation of my current Qi and blood, and I cannot let it go, it is unrealistic to expect the Human Dao Sutra to make rapid progress in eighty years."
"To deal with immortal cultivators, you need to improve your Qinggong skills to a higher level."
"If you want to die more slowly, you can find a book on hard skills in the Lonely City Arsenal."
Qiao Mu spent half a day looking through the Lonely City Armory. The hard skills he found in it were not of high quality. Most of them were things like "Iron Head Kung Fu", "Overlord Elbow", "Iron Sand Palm", etc., which were basically hard skills used by martial artists below the fourth level of strength training.
After all, the mainstream of martial artists is the way of refining the spirit, and hard skills as external martial arts are basically out of date.
After searching for a long time, I finally found the only book that can be considered as a top-notch hard skill, "Dragon Tiger Vajra Kung Fu".
This "Dragon and Tiger Vajra Kung Fu" comes from a general in the Western Expedition Army. This general was once a great master in the Shaolin Temple. On the eve of the alien war forty years ago, he left the temple and joined the army... This man has died in the Hundred Miles Desert.
But before he died, he handed over this superior skill to the armory in the city.
In the ancient martial arts, the best hard skill in the world is called "Vajra Indestructible Divine Skill", which is the unique skill of Shaolin Temple and is as famous as Wudang's "Pure Yang Wuji Skill".
What the general was actually practicing was the "Vajra Indestructible Divine Art", but he had not yet reached the highest level of perfection.
Due to the prejudice of the previous generation of martial arts, the general did not hand over the Shaolin unique skill "Indestructible Vajra Skill", but handed over his own creation "Dragon and Tiger Vajra Skill".
In a sense, this "Dragon-Tiger Vajra Kung Fu" can also be seen as a lower level or simplified version of the "Vajra Indestructible Kung Fu".
"I have a lot of time, so I can learn a few more of these hard skills. As long as they are beneficial, I can practice them."
After finding the hard skills he wanted, Qiao Mu thought again, and this time he appeared in front of a hundred-meter cliff.
Qiao Mu leaped forward, but this time he did not jump onto the wet rocks. Instead, his toes lightly touched the cascading water of the waterfall.
The Eight Steps of the Heavenly Dragon are known as the eight steps of ascension to heaven from the fish leaping over the Dragon Gate.
After the waterfall climbing stage comes the fish leaping stage, where one has to use light skills to step on the water curtain of the waterfall and climb up the hundred-meter cliff to the top of the waterfall.
If one can reach this level, then the lightness skill has basically reached the pinnacle of ordinary people's lightness skill, which can be called incredible.
The light skills in this world, such as flying on water and crossing a river with a reed, are already unique. However, the Eight Steps of the Heavenly Dragon in the Fish Leaping Stage are far more advanced than them. Even if there is a little water flow to leverage, one can use it to leap to the sky.
...
When Qiao Mu woke up again, he was already in a deserted back alley of Caishi Street in Daqin City.
"Another lifetime has passed." He blinked, and his eyes gradually recovered from their calmness, becoming a little more human.
Without hesitation, when he walked out of the dark alley and rushed back to the Caishikou battlefield, he only saw his own corpse pierced by thousands of swords, but no trace of Daozhen.
"Where is Daozhen? Where did he go?" He frowned.
"Is it the senior from the Qiao family? The strange man just now has already run away." A young martial artist replied.