Black Bear

  Yang Jian's eyes were slightly closed, his body was on the top of Yueshi Mountain, a gentle breeze blew by, and the surrounding immortal energy poured into his body continuously, merging with that ball of immortal energy inside him.

  Forget oneself, this is a state! All the worldly disputes and troubles are eliminated from the heart! The world has wind but seems to have no wind, has clouds but seems to have no clouds. Everything is just oneself, oneself is heaven and earth, heaven and earth is oneself.

  Yang Jian hadn't reached that state, but after running for several hours, the turbid air in his body seemed to have been expelled. He opened his eyes and looked at the scenery on Mount Tai again, feeling even more refreshed!

  "It seems that the Duobao Taoist's Xuanmen Dao is indeed an extraordinary treasure!"

  He glanced at the valley below the mountain, suddenly thought of "Tengyun Jia Wu", and hurriedly flipped through the "Xuammen Zhi Dao" in his hand, searching back and forth several times, but still couldn't find the "Tengyun" technique. He let out a disappointed sigh.

  He immediately revealed a smile, greed is not a good thing after all. After learning the above breathing method, Yang Jiaolong was completely refreshed, with a hint of pride in his eyebrows, his eyes were like bright stars, and his face was like jade!

  "It's fine for today, Bi Xiao should have finished cooking by now."

  Just as he was about to leave, "Roar!" A loud roar suddenly came from the foot of the mountain, shaking the mountains and fields. Countless small birds flew out of the valley with a "rustling" sound, chirping and scurrying around in panic. Yang Jian's whole body shook! He thought: "Could this roar be a monster?"

  Curiosity surged, Yang Jiaolong took off and ran down the mountain, his feet generating wind, his speed was incredibly fast! More than ten times faster than an ordinary person, although not flying through the clouds, he was practically flying.

  A moment later, Yang Jian walked into the valley! The valley was extremely quiet, and the birdsong had completely disappeared. Had the roar just now scared all the birds in the valley away?

  Yang Jia carefully recalled the voice from just now, it wasn't a tiger? A lion? Or a leopard? What was it exactly? He didn't know why, but whenever he heard the words "monster", his heart would feel a thread of fear.

  When he met the mouse spirit, this feeling was strongest. Now he no longer had such a feeling! His eyes scanned the surroundings tightly. The surroundings only had that towering tree, and lush grass covered the ground! Apart from these plants, Yang Jiaolong couldn't feel any vitality here.

  He walked slowly, looking around in all directions, and listening carefully. The mountains and valleys were vast and seemed to stretch on forever, but Yang Jian had been walking for a while without hearing any animal calls, and even the sound of insects was a rare luxury.

  "Roar!" Suddenly, the roar appeared again! Yang Jian only felt a chill rising from behind, and hastily turned his head, shocked and pale. A one-zhang-tall black bear was waiting with lantern-like blood-red eyes, its nose still spraying air! Its palms slapped against its own chest. "Dang dang dang" like the collision of mountain rocks.

  The giant bear saw Yang Jian, its eyes emitting a strange glow! Saliva also flowed from the corner of its mouth. Yang Jian couldn't help but say: "It seems that you beast is taking me as your delicious food? If you want to eat me so much, let's see if you have this ability."

  Yang Jian didn't know where his confidence came from! He clenched his fists tightly, and the giant bear seemed to understand him. With a loud roar, it swung its paws as if Yang Jian had slapped them away.

  The bear's paw hasn't arrived, but the wind from the palm has already come. Yang Jiaolong glared and took a look! He pulled up his feet and jumped lightly, he was thought to be able to jump only one or two meters away, who knew that with one jump he would be two or three zhang away, now he can also feel the ball of immortal energy inside his body. The immortal energy is like a treasure sword hidden in his body.

  Always gazing from afar, today I can grasp this precious sword! The giant bear slapped the air with its palm, staring at Yang Jiaolong and letting out a loud roar, already in a state of fury. Lifting up those seemingly heavy feet, it swung its palms and pounced towards Yang Jiaolong.

  Yang Jian looked at its massive body rapidly moving towards him, glanced around and saw that they were all big trees! He hastily ran up, his feet pushing against the tree trunk as he climbed upwards. This vertical climb was already beyond his previous understanding.

  But there's a kind of indescribable thrill! He had once dreamed that one day he could fly and walk on walls, at that time he knew these were unattainable, even non-existent things. When you have these things, you will feel an unprecedented thrill.

  "Bang" The giant bear slapped its palm on the tree that Yang Jia climbed, and Yang Jia tapped his toes, his body jumped up to another tree. His arms tightly hugged the trunk.

  A loud "crack" was heard, and the tree where he had just been was slapped into two pieces by a giant bear. Yang Jiaolong exclaimed: "It's so powerful! If it hits me, I'll be minced meat!"

  No time to think, the giant bear turned around, stretched out its palms and slapped Yang Jian again. Yang Jian waited for the right moment, just as the bear's palm was about to slap him on the tree, Yang Jian kicked his feet, "slapped" onto the back of the giant bear's head, stepping on its head.

  Yang Jian furrowed his brow and patted his own forehead. At this moment, a scorching sensation came from the Heavenly Gate, Yang Jian was overjoyed, lowered his head, and faced the giant bear's skull.

  That giant bear felt Yang Jia jumping on its head, and the bear's paw slapped towards its own head. This beast's fighting style was no different from that of street thugs, completely lawless and unscrupulous.

  This is either extremely high cultivation, extremely high martial arts! Or it's really lawless, the giant bear obviously belongs to the latter, Yang Jian felt its bear paw was about to slap towards himself.

  His heart grew even more urgent! Suddenly, from the heavenly eye, a silver light shot out! The silver light pierced into the giant bear's skull, passing through its throat and chest, and then shot into the ground! Just like a precious sword, it stabbed the giant bear, which didn't even have time to let out a miserable cry! "Plop" and it fell to the ground.

  Yang Jian slowly fell down, and in his heart, there was still an indescribable excitement. This could be considered his first real victory since he was reborn into this world. It wasn't too arduous, but it was also fraught with danger. Was the feeling of having abilities like this?

  Yang Jian patted his heart and asked himself! This world is not one that speaks with laws, but one that speaks with power. He had only read the books of Duobao Dao people and listened to a bit of advice from Bi Xiao, this doesn't even count as skill! This is still tens of thousands of miles away from the ability needed to rescue his own mother.

  Yang Jian thought of this, and the pleasant feeling in his heart also disappeared. He didn't like to be safe but think about danger, but now he had no choice but to do so.

  Looking at the giant bear, a faint light slowly floated on its body, and the light became smaller and smaller! The giant bear's body also shrank accordingly.

  Finally only three feet tall! Yang Jiaolong curiously measured this giant bear and said, "Why did it turn into this shape after killing it?" Yang Jiaolong smiled and didn't think much about it.

  He reached out and grabbed the black bear, slung it over his shoulder, and headed straight in the direction of Bixia Palace.

  ……

  "Halt!"

  As they approached the front of the Green Mist Palace, a loud noise suddenly rang out, startling Yang Jian so much that he jumped and almost dropped the black bear on his shoulder. Yang Jian looked up with some anger.

  Only Zhao Gongming stood in front of the palace with his eyebrows standing upright, still holding onto his black tiger steed, but the black tiger's gaze towards Yang Jia was no longer ferocious, instead there was a hint of fear.

  "Why does he want to block my way again? Look at him, it's like he's fighting a battle! Yang Jiaolong looked at Zhao Gongming, knowing that his current skills were still far behind Zhao Gongming."

  But he won't be intimidated by the gap, no matter what, he'll try again with all his might! Yang Jia asked politely: "Daozhang, what do you mean?"

  Zhao Gongming coldly said: "You injured my mount, you should be killed. But since your master's sister pleaded for you, I'll spare your life! Let you linger on this mountain for a few more days. Now that your injuries have healed, if you dare to set foot in Bixia Palace again, I will..."

  His words had not finished, only to see a green figure running out of the palace, Bi Xiao stepped forward with a smile and said: "Yang Jia, you're back!" Her voice was like an oriole singing in the valley.

  Zhao Gongming glared at Yang Jian fiercely, as if warning him not to tell Bi Xiao what he had just said. Yang Jian smiled helplessly in his heart, never expecting Zhao Gongming to be such a person.

  He didn't want Bi Xiang to be unhappy because of this small matter, the happy Bi Xiang now is the most beautiful.

  Bixiao jumped between the two of them and asked curiously: "What are you talking about again?"

  Zhao Gongming feared that Yang Jia would take the lead and hastily said, "Yang Shizhu just came back and brought a black bear. My brother is currently praising him."

  Flattery? He's truly a two-faced person. Yang Jian didn't care, smiling and saying: "Right, I just got back and saw Dao Zhang welcoming me."

  Bi Xiao looked at Yang Jian's black bear on his shoulder in surprise and pointed at it: "Did you catch this?"

  Yang Jian nodded heavily, and Bi Xiao suddenly shouted out in laughter, saying: "I didn't expect you to learn so quickly, able to kill a bear in less than a day."

  Zhao Gongming furrowed his brow, looking at Bi Xiao, and said: "What are you teaching him?" His eyes suddenly widened, and his face turned red with anger, shouting: "You're teaching him magic?!"

  Bi Xiao only felt a chill rising from behind, if Zhao Gongming knew that he had given the book his master gave him to Yang Jiaolong, he would probably kill Yang Jiaolong immediately.

  Bi Xiao smiled awkwardly and said, "How could that be? He's just an ordinary person. If I were to teach him magic, it would take at least a day for him to defeat a black bear. I only taught him some hunting skills, so with this ability, he'll have no problem making a living when he leaves the mountain."

  She smiled at Zhao Gongming and said, "You think so too, Brother?"

  Zhao Gongming took a look at Yang Jian, and Yang Jian could only nod. He didn't want Zhao Gongming to see through Bi Xiao's lie.

  "Alright, you two! I've already prepared the meal, just waiting for you to eat! Come!" With that, she stretched out her hands, her left hand pulling Zhao Gongming and her right hand pulling Yang Jian as they rushed into the palace.

  What surprised Yang Jian was that Bi Xiao, a young girl, could actually cook a table of delicious and fragrant dishes. The small Eight Immortals table was filled with all sorts of dishes, with over a dozen courses in total.

  Stir-fried meat with green vegetables, braised chicken, red-braised pork ribs, spicy fish... and several other dishes that Yang Jiaolong couldn't name. Looking at this table of food, the unpleasantness that Zhao Gongming had just brought to Yang Jiaolong was swept away.

  Zhao Gongming sat there also somewhat surprised, looking at Bi Xiuzhu uncomprehendingly: "There are no guests in the house, why is it prepared so lavishly? It's not quite like you."

  Is there no guest in the house? These words made Yang Jian feel somewhat uncomfortable.