Chapter 113: The Houtu Tribe

  The Wu tribe, with the body as heaven and the tendons and bones as earth. This Wu tribe uses its physical body to absorb and spit out the spiritual energy of heaven and earth through its meridians. Every acupoint is a storm, every segment of tendon and bone is a universe. Through continuous strengthening of the tendons and bones, expanding the internal meridians, even changing the internal essence and blood, refining the physical body. With the strength of the physical body, shatter all obstacles in cultivation, merge the power of the world, and draw the way of heaven and earth!

  This cultivation method is the fundamental way to prove the Tao with power in the world, but if one does not cultivate and comprehend the original spirit of the Great Tao, nor understand the will of heaven, earth, and all living things, then going down this path will only gradually lead to deviating from the Tao. Even if one has divine powers that can destroy heaven and earth, it is still just a manifestation of brute force.

  Hou Yi pondered slowly, but his innate spiritual energy was weak and small, far from being compatible with the physical body he had refined. This congenital limitation was fundamentally unchangeable by later efforts, which was also a principle of heaven and earth.

  Hou Yi gazed up at the bright moon in the sky and let out a deep sigh.

  "Feng Xiong turned back to Yu Dao: 'Tribe leader, we have once again cleared out a mountain forest, and a large amount of spiritual energy has been absorbed by the Life God Vine. There are still signs of giving birth to our tribe's people, but the obstacles we encounter are getting bigger and bigger.'"

  "Indeed, we can't move with the Life Spirit Vine anymore. It may harm our tribe's fertility. I also expected that our progress wouldn't always be smooth, but I didn't think these cultivators' divine powers would be so formidable. We were too confident."

  "Feng Xiong said: 'Tribe leader, this mountain valley is still quite spacious and the spiritual energy is still decent. Why don't we establish our tribe here and first develop our people?'"

  "Alright, let me take a look and see if there's a more suitable place. Otherwise, we'll have to go hunt down the stronger cultivators among them, so they can provide our Life Spirit Vine with even more spiritual energy."

  Hou Yi gathered his thoughts, his eyes revealing a deep contemplation. After a long while, he formed a seal with his right hand and shot out a stream of dark energy, within which surged waves of bloody aura. The dark energy twisted and began to flash rapidly, rotating erratically in mid-air before suddenly shooting off towards the west of the valley at high speed.

  Hou Yi was taken aback, never expecting to find his ideal place in this mountain valley. The mysterious light mantra was a technique passed down by the Underworld River to help him find a place with yin energy, where a non-corporeal Blood God child was sealed, extremely sensitive to the evil forces between heaven and earth.

  Hou Yi followed the mysterious light as it flew away, and the mysterious light suddenly merged into the ruins in front of him. This was a boundless ruin, he couldn't see the end, and all he saw were the skeletal remains of living creatures, even the skeletal remains of large living creatures, with countless twining plants covering the entire ruin.

  However, there was no evil aura emanating from the entire ruins, as if it had been sealed by something.

  The ground cracked open with gashes like scars, and from a distance, it seemed as if strange gases were swirling around before being suddenly sucked into the cracks. The monotonous grayish-black color intertwined with the green of plants, revealing an aura of despair that made one's heart skip a beat.

  Hou Yi took a deep breath, but there was nothing special about this place, just a wasteland. At this time, the vampire vine inhabiting his body suddenly shook violently, stretching out its tentacles towards the center of the ruins, where something seemed to be attracting it with a delicious smell.

  Hou Yi carefully sensed the emotions of the vampire vine, and it turned out that this ruin was caused by a yin spirit. This place was originally a place of yin evil, where a yin fruit grew, which had a peculiar fragrance that attracted the surrounding living spirits.

  The fragrance emitted by the fruit is highly toxic, formed by the fusion of its surrounding evil aura, luring batch after batch of living beings' flesh and blood to become the fruit's nutrient, while their souls are also swallowed by the fruit, becoming its cultivated spiritual energy.

  Until then, the yin fruit refined the soul body and formed the master of this place's yin spirit.

  This vampire vine is a born killer, not even sparing the skeletons on the ground. The remaining essence in the skeleton was swallowed clean by it, losing its luster and turning into a withered bone, which was then crushed to powder.

  This underground has given birth to a yin spirit, which sees the vampire vine invading its own territory, transforming into a ball of spiritual mist. The mist suddenly swells and rolls in a strange, crawling motion.

  The vampire vine seemed to tremble with excitement, as if it had encountered a great tonic, and suddenly produced a number of tentacles that stabbed fiercely at the ball of spiritual mist.

  That mass of spiritual mist knew it had encountered big trouble, as a surge of evil energy was being unleashed by it.

  Released, they coalesced into individual crimson orbs, which suddenly shot out and collided with the vampire vine's tendrils.

  The vampire vine let out a mournful cry, and the tentacles that came into contact with it instantly corroded. The corroded branches instantly lost their vitality and turned into a withered branch.

  Rumbling

  Those blood cells exploded violently, and the Vampire Vine let out a mournful wail as most of its tentacles were blown off. The severed branches were invaded by the evil force, and their vitality was slowly devoured.

  The dark spirit saw the vampire vine begin to shrink and pounced on it, wanting to swallow the entire vampire vine.

  Hou Yi saw this and his heart suddenly stirred, he didn't think there was such a ferocious evil spirit.

  With a pair of fists like hammers, he fiercely smashed towards the crack, and instantly rocks and soil flew everywhere, a mighty force suddenly transmitted to that dark spirit.

  That surge of power drilled into the spiritual mist, and Hou Yi felt that the surge of power he had unleashed quickly dissipated, as if it had been absorbed by the spiritual mist.

  At this time, the Lingwu had undergone a drastic change in shape, shrinking into a ring shape, emitting a sharp light, floating in mid-air and rotating rapidly, with energy being generated around it. Strange flames formed in the air, emitting a cold and eerie force.

  These flames burst out of the ground fissures, drifting towards Hou Yi, and the cold energy transformed into a thin line that surged directly towards his primordial spirit.

  Hou Yi felt his fragile yuan Shen suddenly frozen, unable to even mobilize his own spiritual energy, a cold aura enveloped him.

  That mass of dark fog emitted a strange "giggle" sound and suddenly pounced on Hou Yi who was frozen in ice.

  Crack

  Hou Yi, who had already turned into an ice block, suddenly stretched out a fist and shattered the icy shell, grabbing the ball of spiritual mist. He said calmly, "With just this bit of coldness, you can still trap me?"

  As he spoke, his entire body's muscles convulsed, and a strange energy burst out from him, sending the ice blocks on his body flying in all directions, shattering into fragments in mid-air.

  That dark spirit let out a mournful cry, constantly struggling in Hou Yi's hand, but a powerful force firmly suppressed it, a feeling of self-destruction spreading, the more it struggled, the greater the pressure became.

  The spirit saw its own smoke transformation technique being sealed, and it was impossible to escape from that person's palm.

  Hou Yi surged with power throughout his physical body, this force rapidly rushed towards the yin spirit, directly erasing the yin spirit's consciousness.

  The vampire vine absorbed the yin spirit's entire essence, emitting a faint glow, and planted its roots deep within the crevices, absorbing the evil energy within.

  Feng Xiong also encountered an opponent, and Feng Xiong was also a Golden Immortal in the later stages of his cultivation. The strength of his physical body was almost comparable to that of Da Luo Golden Immortal. He was actually trapped by a dark black serpent with a length of three or four feet and horns on its head.

  The snake spat out a bright red snake core, its whole body emitting a foul odor that would not dissipate. As it opened its mouth, it spewed out strands of mesmerizing seven-colored aura that enveloped its surroundings.

  This seven-colored demonic energy has a peculiar and potent toxicity, directly invading the opponent's primordial spirit. Feng Xiong was corroded by this toxin, his entire fist speed slowing down to an extreme point, and his attacks became soft and mushy, making it extremely difficult to cause any harm to him.

  This is also the congenital weakness of Yuanshen's innate weakness. If other cultivators, condensing spiritual energy to form a protective mask, although it cannot completely block this poisonous gas, it will not allow the poisonous gas to spread recklessly in the body.

  The demon snake's eyes were icy cold, its body suddenly swelling up, transforming into a ten-zhang giant snake. Its enormous mouth was wide open, biting down on Feng Xue with its massive jaws.

  Crack

  Feng Xiong barely escaped being swallowed, but one of his arms was bitten off in an instant. Feng Xiong felt dizzy and a severe poison spread through his body.

  "Damn it! That beast is going to be the death of me!"

  Hou Yi rushed over and saw this situation, let out a loud roar, and punched the venomous snake with all his might.

  His fist transformed into a white awn, whizzing fiercely like a sharp blade towards the venomous snake.

  This poisonous snake was extremely agile and knew the pressure of Hou Yi, so it spat out a seven-colored pearl, emitting a dazzling treasure light, which actually blocked the white mang in front of its body, making them unable to get close.

  Hou Yi took a deep breath, his entire skeletal system crackling with energy, his muscles bulging out, transforming him into a giant ten zhang tall. At the same time, he sealed all the pores on his body and reached out with his massive hands to grab the gigantic snake.

  The seven-colored bead spun rapidly, shooting out rays of colorful mist that condensed into a strange power and violently collided with Hou Yi's large hand.

  But this strength was far from comparable to Hou Yi's great hand power, and it was directly slapped away. The seven-colored pearl was caught in his hand.

  "Dare to hurt my clansmen, I'll strip your tendons and peel your skin." As he spoke, he crushed the seven-colored bead.

  The giant snake let out a low hiss and transmitted its divine thoughts: "You slaughtered my tribe, I will eat you all."

  Hou Yi was taken aback, and those two large hands suddenly stopped.

  The venomous snake saw Hou Yi stop, its entire body shot out like a flash of lightning, wrapping Hou Yi around, and all its strength pressed down. The snake's tail struck Hou Yi's head violently.

  Hou Yi felt his entire body's strength being sealed, and a strange power wanted to seal his primordial spirit, confusing his mind and slowing down his reactions.

  Suffocating feeling, Hou Yi felt himself falling into a dark world, an icy world, thin air.

  Pain all over the body, feeling of pain.

  "Ah!"

  The meridians throughout the body began to vibrate violently, a strange energy fluctuation was produced in its tendons and veins, at first it was just a monotonous tremor, slowly becoming a rhythmic pulse, gradually gathering into an energy flow, followed by a violent storm of energy.

  This surge of energy coursed through his entire body, like a storm tearing apart all obstacles, and with one fierce struggle, the suffocating feeling instantly dissipated.

  In battle, they rise; in battle, they transcend - this is the advantage bestowed upon the Wu tribe by Heaven.