Qian Shan Peak (lower)

  Liu Zhi knew that he wanted to study the compass, which was completely stimulated by this trip to Shencheng. On the surface, Liu Zhi had already practiced Xingyiquan to the level of dark energy, and his hands had killed several people. However, Liu Zhi himself knew that in several matches, almost none of them could be considered opponents. The ninja was much stronger than others, but not good at frontal combat. Liu Zhi didn't have a true opponent, which doesn't mean he won't meet one in the future. In fact, his martial arts training had reached a bottleneck. This time, killing the ninja was mainly due to his unintentional cultivation of superhuman spiritual awareness, rather than truly reaching the legendary high-end state of "a fly cannot land, and a feather cannot be added". If he encounters an opponent with a similar level, rich experience, or modern firearms, he will definitely suffer greatly.

  But martial arts reach the pinnacle through actual combat training between life and death. After many years of practice, being able to reach this level is unimaginable for ordinary people. If national arts are to make progress again, they can only find a true opponent to hone their skills. In modern society, such opponents are not easy to find. Moreover, Liu Zhi has a feeling that he may have to deal with constant trouble in the future and needs to quickly improve his strength. This time, Lai Jixue gave him an awakening, allowing him to approach from another angle, namely, the cultivation of techniques like talismans and spells. He also mastered several legendary symbols, taking this opportunity to thoroughly organize and explore them, giving himself an extra killer move.

  Liu Zhi knew that this compass was the first thing he thought of, which was obtained from Li Yi. Li Yi didn't seem to have used it against himself, but being able to be appreciated by Li Yi should be good enough.

  Liu Zhi knew, as usual, ended his normal practice at night and sat cross-legged on the bed, habitually entering that state of heavenly connection. As the hour was about to end, Liu Zhi knew collected his energy and didn't sleep, but instead took out the Luo Pan to sense it with the same method he used for the Miao Dao earlier in the day. The moment his spirit concentrated on the Luo Pan, it suddenly shook violently and then flew up abruptly, hovering one foot above Liu Zhi's head. This wasn't like the previous time when he sensed its material properties; this was a completely new manifestation. It was clear that this was a magical artifact, far superior to Liu Zhi's sharp Miao Dao. At first, Liu Zhi didn't perceive the Luo Pan's microscopic structure; in his consciousness, it appeared as a bright moon, shining with a clear glow, its surface displaying a three-dimensional pattern of light and shadow that was extremely complex. When Liu Zhi tried to observe it carefully, he felt dizzy and immediately calmed himself, no longer examining the patterns.

  The sword sold by Liu Zhi had only a vague and simple pattern, but this compass was layered with dozens of layers, shining and flowing constantly. Liu Zhi didn't know what it was for, but the layered brilliance made him realize that this was an extraordinary thing, at least better than the artifact he unintentionally learned to make through his own method.

  Such a good thing, why didn't Li Yi take it out to deal with himself that day. Liu Zhi actually didn't understand, Li Yi didn't know the wonderful use of this thing at all, after getting it, he spent a long time, and finally managed to explore some wonderful uses, mainly used to track down enemies.

  Liu Zhi knew he couldn't understand this thing, so he concentrated his mind and the compass glowed. A strange phenomenon appeared. Liu Zhi was originally in a state of external scenery entering internal people's heaven feeling, but the range of perception was less than 20 meters. However, at this time, he felt that within a radius of about two miles around himself, there were many points that seemed to have a special fluctuation, like candles in the night. Liu Zhi focused on one point and found it was a nocturnal animal similar to a mountain cat. There was another fluctuation that seemed like ripples, and when Liu Zhi turned his mind to it, he sensed it should be a medicinal herb with a certain age limit, but what specific kind, he still couldn't distinguish.

  Liu Zhi's heart moved, this seemed like a radar, could it be a compass used to find treasures? What Liu Zhi didn't know was that this compass was originally used to find the spiritual axis of mountains and rivers, and within a certain range, it could determine the position of various spiritual treasures between heaven and earth. Li Yi had not discovered its wonderful use, and Liu Zhi unintentionally formed a divine consciousness with it, only then did he discover part of its wonderful use. Liu Zhi's power was still shallow, if his power were deeper, there would be more wonderful uses.

  Liu Zhi knew the location of the medicine, decided to go and take a look tomorrow. His mind weakened, the compass fell into his hand. Liu Zhi's consciousness had not yet fully exited, and he found that the sensing range on his hand was smaller than before, but it was also much more blurred. However, compared to not using the compass, the range increased by five or six times. This should be a treasure-seeking object. It seems that in the future, when going to pick herbs, you can use it to find medicine.

  Put away the compass, lie down and prepare to sleep. Suddenly, I thought of a medicinal herb from my earlier divination, and my heart skipped a beat. Since I'm not going out for a stroll, why not let my spirit go take a look at what kind of herb it is?

  As he thought of this, his spirit left his body and floated out of the house, no more than 20 meters above the ground. Before long, he arrived at the place where he had sensed something earlier, but it was a rather steep slope with several thorny shrubs blocking the way. In the middle was a yellow ganoderma, which looked like it had been there for many years and was quite a good medicinal herb. He reached out to grab it, but it was like grasping at a shadow - he couldn't get hold of anything. His spirit couldn't be seen in the first place, so how could he grasp things? In an instant, Liu Zhi knew this point, sighed, and prepared to return to his body, thinking that he would deal with it again tomorrow.

  Just turned around, feeling as if there was wind, looked up to see clearly, but it was myself bringing up a gloomy atmosphere, the leaves were shaking, and my heart moved, as if a spark of inspiration flashed, grasped something, but couldn't think of what, shook my head, turned around ready to leave, suddenly a creepy feeling appeared in my heart, looked around, not far away on a tree branch, a furry animal over a foot long was staring at me intently, it could see me, the thought that it knew me arose.

  That animal, which Liu Zhi didn't recognize, stared at him and suddenly opened its mouth to let out a strange cry. The air seemed to ripple with the sound, which wasn't loud but was very piercing.

  Liu Zhi only felt himself being struck by an invisible force, and the entire yin spirit seemed to be thrown into a huge speaker in an instant, with a feeling of being about to fall apart. He knew it was bad, and in an instant, his yin spirit returned to his body. His heart was still pounding non-stop, and he felt very tired, knowing that his yin spirit might have been slightly injured.

  The next morning, I still felt a bit dizzy, which is normally impossible. It wasn't until after finishing a set of qigong exercises that I felt back to normal.

  Liu Zhi understood that the spirit's excursion was not without danger, what animal was it? From this day on, Liu Zhi became a spirit and didn't dare to run deep into the mountains. He originally had an idea to use his spirit to roam the deep mountains.

  Although he didn't go out with the yin spirit, Liu Zhi knew how to grasp the compass very skillfully. Although he hadn't left school for a long distance, he found several medicinal herbs from last year, which grew in unexpected places and were covered by various things.

  Liu Zhi knew that the peach wood sword was not a magic weapon, but in the eyes of connoisseurs, it was better than ordinary Feng Shui artifacts. It wasn't made by Li Yi, but rather passed down from his school. The symbols and talismans carved on it were mostly different from those in Li Yi's book, which he had never studied deeply. However, Liu Zhi knew differently. In a calm state, he carefully observed the sword with his mind, discovering that when activated, the symbols would automatically absorb energy information from the air, forming a certain aura that allowed him to vaguely perceive the rules governing these talismans and their uses.

  It's the weekend again, and this time Liu Zhi is with Ah Li. He brings a compass and a sharp knife, but he doesn't hide anything from Ah Li. Instead, he tells her that he has discovered some uses for the compass, which can be used to find things with abnormal spiritual energy. Ah Li is also very interested, and the two of them enter the mountains, going much deeper than Liu Zhi usually does.

  Liu Zhizhi held the Luo Pan, concentrating his mind and spirit into it. Although not as good as entering stillness, where things within 2 li would appear in his mind, he could roughly capture the abnormal spiritual energy points within a range of over 100 meters around him. With Liu Zhizhi's help, Ali was somewhat unbelievable, but after half a day, a large amount of precious medicinal materials that had been aged for many years were basically filled with the medicine basket on his back.

  Two people stood at the top of the mountain, surrounded by rolling hills. Ali sighed and said: "Brother, I really can't believe it. I came here half a year ago and thought I had picked almost all of them, but who knew that most of the good medicinal materials were not discovered by me? Thank you so much this time, brother!"

  "Ari, do we still need to say thank you between us? I didn't expect that in the depths of the mountains, there would be so many good things!" Liu Zhi also felt a sense of wonder.

  "In the depths of the mountains, few people come, even those who pick herbs don't dare to enter so deep. I possess the art of Gu, others who do come in are usually in groups and still don't dare to recklessly venture into many places!" Ah Li's words actually pointed out the reason why there were many good things in these places.

  "So that's how it is, Ali. Do you think there really are goblins in these deep mountains?" Liu Zhi thought back to the night a few days ago when his yin spirit went out for a stroll and was startled by a small, fluffy creature that seemed like a squirrel but definitely wasn't one - Liu Zhi had seen squirrels at the zoo before. That one cry had dealt his yin spirit a bit of damage; could this little thing be some kind of goblin?

  "Of course, I once entered the mountain and saw a pangolin, which already had spirituality. Fortunately, I have the Gu technique, so it didn't dare to offend me!" Ah Li said disapprovingly.

  "Ah!" Yu Zhi's consciousness was still lightly connected to the compass, and he discovered a place with abnormal spiritual energy that was moving, which made him surprised.

  "What's wrong?" Ah Li asked.

  "There's something with an extraordinary aura approaching within a hundred meters, much larger than the spiritual fluctuations of those decades-old lingzhi!" Liu Zhi said, his eyes fixed on the compass. Looking in one direction, Ali also followed Liu Zhi's gaze, and from their vantage point at the top of the mountain, they saw a white animal like an ermine darting through the forest, its head raised as it looked back at the two of them. Although it was far away, Liu Zhi felt that the other creature's gaze seemed to pierce right through him, and after scanning Ali for a moment, seemingly hesitant, it turned around and disappeared into the woods.

  Liu Zhi knew had a feeling, that small thing seemed to have human-like qualities, revealing an expression of self-awareness. Although they were separated by tens of meters, it made him feel this way, and he couldn't help but find it strange: "A Li, have you seen such an animal?"

  Ali's face turned serious: "This seems to be a mountain cat, also known as a lynx, but the color is wrong. It looks like it has mutated and gives me a feeling that it has developed spiritual intelligence. It can be considered a demon beast. Let's go take a look!"

  A Li said, heading in that direction. Liu Zhi knew very few animals, and even the ones he did know were from the zoo. Seeing A Li chase after it, he immediately followed, using his compass to pay attention to the mountain cat's direction.

  The mountain cat suddenly accelerated, in the jungle, much stronger than humans, and soon disappeared from Liu Zhi's senses. Liu Zhi smiled bitterly: "Lost it!"

  A Li was somewhat dissatisfied, muttering to herself, her hands forming a seal as a faint fireball like a will-o'-the-wisp chased after the mountain cat's disappearing direction.

  "It's gone, so be it!" Liu Zhi knew that Ah Li was tracking the bug and couldn't help but comfort her by saying.

  "Brother, I'm not just being paranoid. These strange creatures often have a special talent for finding things that are unimaginable. Since they've appeared, it's possible there's something good around here!" Ah Li said this, and Liu Zhi knew was half-believing and half-doubtful, but he knew that Ah Li's bug-releasing range was much larger than his compass's range, although it wasn't as practical as the compass for searching a wide area.

  "Can't find it, where did that little thing hide?" Ah Li felt a bit strange and suddenly shouted: "What's that thing?" As she spoke, she led the way forward.

  Beyond the forest, Liu Zhi saw a strange scene. In front of him was a plant three or four feet high, and within two or three meters around it, there wasn't a single plant, as if it had been burned by fire. The plant itself was bare, without a single leaf or branch, its lower part only about two or three inches thick, standing upright like an iron rod, its entire body charred black, as if it had been struck by lightning.

  Liu Zhi knew of a legend that some special spiritual medicine would occupy all the nutrients within several meters, causing other plants to wither and die. Could this be it? He sensed it with his compass and felt a strong energy fluctuation.

  Ali had already gone forward, touched it and said: "I don't know what kind of tree this is, but it's dead. It looks like it was struck by lightning. Ah, brother, isn't the wood from a tree struck by lightning useful in your Han family's Daoist rituals? Brother, why not cut it down, maybe it'll come in handy!"

  After finishing, Ah Li used the medicine sickle to slash at the root, and a surprising thing happened. With a "ding" sound, not even the skin was cut, which shocked both of them. Ah Li frowned and said: "Is this a tree or an iron rod?!"

  Liu Zhi took out the sharp knife and cut at the base of the tree, using a lot of force before finally cutting out a small gap, revealing a light purple color, indeed it was wood, but it was too hard.

  Liu Zhi knew stood up, recalling the day Lai Ji Xue urged him to practice Miao Dao Fa Qi. He concentrated his mind and energy, drawing lines and dots in the air with his hand, not exactly like Lai Ji Xue's method, but still effective. The spiritual energy around him immediately gathered and flowed into the knife. With a thought, the sharp Miao Dao let out a whistling sound, and several meters of blade aura swept past the base of the tree, cutting down more than three feet of the trunk.

  Liu Zhi picked up the knife, and then picked up the tree trunk. It looked like an iron rod. Liu Zhi thought it would be very heavy, after all, it was so hard. But what surprised Liu Zhi was that it was light as a feather, feeling like holding a hemp pole. Liu Zhi felt incredible and couldn't help but say: "What kind of ghost thing is this? How can it be so light?"

  A Li took it and was also very surprised: "What kind of tree is this, so hard but so light, looks like a good thing, brother, I wonder if it can be refined into a magic weapon?"

  Liu Zhi's heart skipped a beat as he said, "I'm not sure either, but I haven't figured out what this thing is yet. I don't know if it can be found online."

  "I'm afraid it can't be found, I've never heard of this thing before, but it should be a good thing. Brother, you take care of it!" Ah Li said as he handed the tree trunk to Liu Zhi Zhi. Liu Zhi Zhi took it in his hand and swung it a few times, saying "It's just too light, otherwise it would make a great iron rod!"

  Liu Zhi knew that thing in his hand, the compass had been put away. Liu Zhi didn't notice that tens of meters in front of them, on a tree with dense branches and leaves, a white mountain cat was staring at both of them, as if it was deep in thought.

  "Brother, let's head down the mountain. Today's harvest isn't bad either. Let's go to the creek at the foot of the mountain and get something to eat first!" Ah Li said.

  "Let's go with Ali's arrangement!" Liu Zhi also felt a bit hungry and nodded in agreement.

  Two people walked down the mountain, just getting up. Ali turned back, looking at the big tree where the mountain cat was, and smiled slightly. She beckoned with her hand, a faint fireball swept across the branches and disappeared beside Ali. The white mountain cat was suddenly startled, its fur standing on end, like a flash of white lightning, fleeing far away.

  Liu Zhi knew that the mountain cat had not gone far: "Still, Ali is fierce, I didn't even notice!" Ali also felt a little proud.

  By the creek, the two of them started a fire, and the bamboo tube rice crackled. Liu Zhi Zhi stared at the flames, and couldn't help but think of the basic magic technique "Fireball" from the fantasy novels he used to read. In those stories, Fireball was the most useful and fundamental technique for killing people, setting fires, and destroying evidence. However, in reality, Liu Zhi Zhi knew some magic techniques, but not Fireball; instead, he knew how to use talismans to summon ghosts and drive away objects.

  Liu Zhi knew also flipped through some materials and found that the Taoist magic currently circulating and legendary, really did not have fireball techniques. What is fire? Liu Zhi naturally understood that in modern science, it was just a kind of radiant heat energy emission, without any such thing as a fire element, merely a manifestation of energy release, an appearance.

  But to emit light and heat, temperature is an important aspect, while temperature is only the external manifestation of the speed of micro-particle movement. If you accelerate the micro-particles in a region like air to a certain extent, will it appear as fire?

  Liu Zhi didn't know that as soon as he thought this way, he had actually started creating magic. As soon as he thought about it, he did it, concentrated his spirit and energy, and everything around him immediately responded clearly. He even felt countless tiny points in irregular motion, and under Liu Zhi's mental push, these points suddenly accelerated. About three feet in front of him, a fierce flame suddenly appeared, startling Ali, but it wasn't a fireball, just a normal flickering flame that went out in an instant.

  "Brother, is this something you've done?" Ah Li asked with some doubt, and there was no one else around.

  "Ah! That's right!" Liu Zhiyi shared his thoughts with Ali, who was also a university graduate and naturally understood what Liu Zhiyi said, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought as well.

  "How can I become a fireball?" Liu Zhi knew fell into deep thought again, is it that I just need to imagine myself becoming a fireball and give myself a hint? Mentioning hints, Liu Zhi thought of his hypnotic technique, which was a kind of psychological suggestion. It seemed that most spells had incantations, and Liu Zhi had memorized many, the content of which mostly related to suggestions as well.

  At this thought, Liu Zhi's heart moved and he recited: "The universe has no bounds, the law of yin and yang is borrowed, a fireball appears!" His spirit drove the molecules to move at high speed, and in an instant, a soccer-sized fireball appeared and flew outwards. However, it only flew for a few meters before extinguishing itself.

  A Li smiled and said: "Brother, how did you even get a spell from TV! Too bad you didn't make the gesture!"

  "The incantation should be a hint, I just borrowed it casually, Ah Li, what do you say? The trick is to pinch the key, ah, I didn't pinch the key! Thank you!" Liu Zhi knew from Li Yi's book of spells that the key was in the third section of the left middle finger of the left hand. Pinching the key with his left hand and reciting the incantation he had just spoken, operating as before, he felt an immediate difference. A hot flow burst out from the Hand Taiyin Heart Package Channel, seemingly pouring into the fireball, and in an instant, the fireball was smaller than before, shooting out two zhang away, igniting a broken wood."

  "Brother, we succeeded!" Ah Li exclaimed excitedly, but Liu Zhi knew still frowned, as if the temperature was not enough and the power was insufficient!

  "The fireball seems to be insufficiently powerful, the flames are not strong enough!" Liu Zhi knew fell into deep thought again.

  "Then raise the temperature and turn it into a plasma fireball!" A-Li said smoothly. When the temperature is higher than a certain degree, atoms will be ionized to form a mixture of ions and free electrons, called a plasma body. A-Li was a university graduate, so she still understood this knowledge.

  "Thank you, Ah Li!" A bright light flashed before Liu Zhi's eyes, and this time a plasma body was indeed formed, like a spherical lightning bolt, flying out and landing on the trees. With a loud bang, it exploded, splashing mud and stones everywhere. The two of them were startled, this was too exaggerated, was it a fireball or a hand grenade?

  Liu Zhi knew thought for a while and still felt somewhat dissatisfied, but he would improve it later and first went to eat.

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