Demon God

Chapter 2.2 – The Walking Targets

Translated by Qiling Lin

At this moment, Qi Shi waved his hands in a bluff again, “What do you know? Gain the mastery? A skyrocketing rise? You are as blind as a bat! Those body layers are just laying a basis! Only after you open acupoints, receive Zhen Qi into your body, and reach the Zhen Qi Layer, can you gain the mastery and have a skyrocketing rise!” He squinted his eyes, “At the Zhen Qi Layer, you will ride the rosy floating clouds freely. You can cultivate any divine skills you want. You will have numerous skills and infinite power. You will be able to move the mountains, fill up the sea, catch dragons, throw elephants, and roar at the stars to make them drop in less than a second! On a whim, you can kill demons from thousands of steps away! I want to reach the Zhen Qi Layer. That is the real joviality!”

“Zhen Qi Layer… How amazing would it be if I could reach it…at that time, only I would beat others. Would anyone be able to beat me? Wow wow, if someday I can be as respectable and powerful as Brother Fong, I would not have live in vain.” Xiao Han closed his eyes, and dreamt.

“Brother Qi is genius of geniuses. No need to mention that he will smoothly reach the Zhen Qi Layer soon.” Those novice disciples kept on flattering Qi Shi.

You will never wake up a man who was being flattered. Although Qi Shi was miles away from the Zhen Qi Layer, he was puffed up with pride, lost in fond dreams, and nodded saying, “If you want my advice, I can do that now. Otherwise, when I reach the Body Purifying Layer, becoming an outer disciple, you won’t be able to see me easily.”

“Brother Qi, please give us advice!” The novice disciple who said he made a few mistakes when practicing stepped forward, rolling up his sleeves, pointing at a few walking targets on the edges, saying, “You, you, you, and you, come here. Get over here!”

Those walking targets being called panicked, but they did not dare to disobey. They clenched their teeth and kowtowed, “Yes, yes.”

Each picked up a rattan armor on the ground, and put in on. The rattan armor seemed to to be woven by special grasses and rattans, and soaked in oil. It was dark and extremely hard.

A few walking targets wore rattan armors, helmets and masks. They wrapped themselves so tightly that even wind couldn’t get in.

Next, that novice disciple held up his head high, advanced with long strides and walked to the center. A few walking targets in rattan armors followed him immediately.

Both the novice disciple and walking targets stopped at a distance of several steps between them.

Instantly, those walking targets in rattan armors screamed, scattered, jumped, ran in the dojo, running around that novice disciple.

“HOO!” That disciple roared. His became more and more imposing, looking strong and mighty. He stamped his foot and shot away like a sharp arrow. He shot his right fist out and beat the vital chest of a walking target.

The punch was overbearing. It pierced the air, leaving a ‘WOO WOO WOO’ sound.

The walking target was beat down to the ground. He rolled away, escaping awfully from being beat again. He seemed to have been beaten frequently, so he knew how to run for his life. He rolled a circle, standing up suddenly, running right away to the opposite direction.

“Great!” The novice disciple said in a grim smile, “Explosive Bone!”

“BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!” That novice disciple’s body burst out firecracker-like sounds, raising the dust. The walking target’s liver and gall were frightened. He stopped running.

Next, the novice disciple arched one foot forward, kicked one foot backward, held his chest high, sank his waist and hip, drew a circle with his left hand, and hit forward with the right hand!

The air around the fist was whirling, as rough as a storm and as heavy as a mountain. Suddenly, he hit the back of the walking target.

“POOP!” It sounded like a blunt tool bitterly hit a piece of leather. The walking target did not even have time to give a groan before he got hit away several steps. He fell down hard on the ground.

One could imagine if without the rattan armor, the walking target must have been beaten to death. But even though he was wearing the rattan armor, he felt great pain and cried out on the ground, wriggling and twitching like an earthworm. He could not stand up for half a day.

Then, the novice disciple running like a whirlwind. With a fist and a kick like giant axes, he beat the other walking targets.

“Trash! You can’t even escape! Get lost!” The novice disciple said proudly. He seemed not to treat those walking targets as human beings. He smiled and fawned on Qi Shi, “Brother Qi, what do you think of my strength…”

Qi Shi disdained and waved his hand. “It is just so so. You are at 20th or 30th Bone Refining Layer at most. After three or five years of hard practicing, you may have a chance to reach the ‘100th Bone Strengthening’.”

“Bother Qi, let me have a try.” Another novice disciple stepped forward aggressively. He called out a few walking targets randomly. Those walking targets did not dare to hesitate. They put on rattan armor promptly, wearing helmets and masks, following the novice disciple to the center of the dojo.

The situation was the same. This novice disciple stood as still as a pine tree, but moved as violent as a tiger. The walking targets– who covered their faces and creeped away like a rat, were beaten by the novice disciple in two or three strikes.

But Qi Shi shook his head. “You will never reach the ‘100th Bone Refining, unless you get something like medicinal pills which clean your meridians and purify your marrow. But they are rare.

Then, novice disciples called out walking targets one by one, making them wear rattan armor, treating them as human sandbags, beating them away with fists, and kicking them down.

Qi Shi was giving comments while watching.

At last, all walking targets got beat except for Xiao Han.

Qi Shi clenched his fists, bursting his bone joints, shaking the air. He had a grim smile, saying, “Juniors, you had your power of strength wrong while beating those walking targets. Now, let me show you what is the power in the perfection of Bone Refining Bull Fist!”

“Great! Brother Qi, please!” All novice disciples stirred up.

Qi Shi stepped forward, pointing at Xiao Han who was on the edge of the dojo, saying, “You, come out! Oh? Xiao Han! It’s you! You are an unique walking target! You are as slippery as an eel. Your rattan armor was beaten and broken but you did not die. Those walking targets said you are ‘undead Xiao Han’, hah hah hah hah, interesting, very interesting. I will see how durable you are! Come here!”

Xiao Han’s eyes had a light of grievance and resentment, but more helplessness. He did not say anything. He bent down to pick up the rattan armor, helmet and mask,  put them on and got on the field.

“Juniors, look carefully. I will beat Xiao Han’s protective rattan armor into pieces with just one fist! You guys take a close look at how I manage my power of strength!” Qi Shi roared, walking into the field like tigers and lions.

Now, Xiao Han and Qi Shi stood opposite in a distance of around ten steps.

Qi Shi looked at Xiao Han in a grim smile. His manner became more and more imposing. He seemed to grow a few inches higher. He was surging an aura of dignity as if he could swallow the mountains and rivers. A slight move of his body would burst out bone exploding sounds, which was like a dull thunder.

All helplessness, grievance and resentment in Xiao Han’s eyes faded away. Instead, there was alertness and seriousness. His muscles were tightened, like an antelope encountering a violent tiger. His natural survival instinct gradually made him calm down.

Qi Shi’s body burst out rough sounds, condensing power. He jumped instantly, and his strong body pierced the air. He completely ignored the several-steps distance, jumping at Xiao Han in the blink of an eye. His right fist was like a huge hammer, which could split mountains, hitting Xiao Han’s head heavily. The surrounding air was smashed by the wind twirling around his fist with the sound of tearing hearts and lungs.

All novice disciples who were watching this acclaimed Qi Shi’s amazing power.

As fast as could be, when Qi Shi hit his fist, Xiao Han pulled his head backward and fell down on the ground to avoid the attack.

Next, Xiao Han rolled and crawled with his hands and feet to run away for several steps in panic.

He was quite agile.

“Haaah~~Haah~~” Escaping from death seemed to have cost lots of his energy. He stood up and stared at Qi Shi, panting.

“EH?” Qi Shi thought he was very strong now and beating Xiao Han down should be as easy as blowing the dust off a table. However, Xiao Han escaped from his fist with an abnormal move. Qi Shi was confused.

Those who were cheering all dumbed.

There was an unwritten rule regarding beating walking targets. Generally, if the novice disciple did not hit the walking target after three fists, he had to stop. This was a matter of reputation. If the disciple kept beating the walking target, it was not good for his reputation. Other would think they were like rogues fighting on the street.

Xiao Han thought, Qi Shi was at 90th Bone Refining Layer, the top figure among novice disciples. He has to restrain himself. Now that he did not beat him with his last fist, he should not continue.

Qi Shi’s dark face suddenly turned red. The corner of his mouth twisted a few times. He looked at Xiao Han grimly.

Just now, Qi Shi boasted to those novice disciples that he would beat Xiao Han’s rattan armor into pieces. But, his over-confident fist failed. He felt shamed.

“Good, very good!” Qi Shi licked this lip with rough tongue. He became angry from embarrassment. He roared, rushing into Xiao Han with legs and arms.

“Brother Qi! Beat him down! Beat that damn walking target down!” Novice disciples all shouted loudly to encourage.

Qi Shi was using a basic skill of the Cloud Rain Sect, the Bone Refining Bull Fist, which refined the novice disciples’ bodies. It did not have many attacking skills or strikes. It was aimed to refine the skin, the meridians and the bones. When facing the enemy, the disciple needed to rush for running and beating, smashing the opponent with his powerful body strength.

Qi Shi beat Xiao Han blisteringly on his vulnerable parts. But he did not know Xiao Han was agiler than a leopard cat, quicker than a mud fish. He jumped to other sides, leaned back, rolled on the ground, or played a back somersault…

Qi Shi stormed his attacks, four fists and two kicks in total. But Xiao Han escaped all of them unexpectedly.

Xiao Han exhausted his energy at that time. Sweat poured off his forehead, dropping to his eyelashes. But he did not dare to close eyes for a second, nor to wipe sweat. He still stared at Qi Shi, bending down a bit and panting.

There was a dead silence.

Xiao Han was panting while staring at Qi Shi, and thought, “Bastard! Enough! More beating? Do you have any shame?”

“Go to hell!!!!!!”

Suddenly, Qi Shi’s body burst out thundering bone exploding sound! The air was boiling in smoke and dust. His strength became more and more and powerful. His bodies strength was cultivated to the perfection! It was overwhelming and stormy! Behind Qi Shi, a flow of Qi seemed to surge into the illusionary figure of a bull!

“Brother Qi is in real rage! He refined his bones! The 90th Bone Refining Layer! It is almost the highest layer of Bone Refining Layers! That Walking target Xiao Han must be beat into pieces without anything left!”

In the moment of fires and lights, Qi Shi’s speed also reached the perfection. In the blink of an eye, he flew to the front of Xiao Han. His right fist shot towards Xiao Han like a mountain!

Xiao Han knew there was no way to hide. In that instant, Xiao Han twisted his body in a weird posture, pressing the tip of the tongue to his palate and his body relaxed. Then…

“BOOM!”

Xiao Han’s chest was bitterly hit. He was beaten away.

“Ga la!”

In the air, Xiao Han’s rattan armor was cracked and ruined.

Xiao Han fell on ground bitterly, lying straight and still, with eyes closed. They did not know he was dead or alive.

“Hah hah hah ha!” At this time, Qi Shi burst out laughing hysterically. “I told you, I will break your rattan armor with one fist! Xiao Han, you walking target! This is the ‘Bone Refining Bull Fist’ power! I cultivated it to the peak of perfection! Xiao Han, you walking target, even if you do not die instantly, you will be maimed! Hah hah hah ha!”

Xiao Han, lying on the ground, suddenly opened his eyes to see Qi Shi, and pretended to close his eyes shortly. He lied straight, without a single move.