Taiping Inn

Hu Liang originally dominated the northwest with the Tianque Gong he learned from the Bu Tian Sect. Although he was not good at shrewdness, he was already a leader among the masters of the Xiantian Realm in terms of the strength of his Qi. His weakness was martial arts. However, after he entered the army in the tenth year of Wude, he created the "Lie Huo Yuan Jian Fa" in the battlefield attack, constantly checking for loopholes and shortcomings, taking essence and using it in a grand manner. In addition, he learned the "Grand Master" from the Wu Dao Sect, and he was already a rare rival in the Xiantian Realm. If he had not participated in the battle of Dijing and was injured, he could actually find an opportunity to break through the first realm of the three realms of perfection, the Return to the True Realm.

After the battle of Dijing, Hu Liang was taught the "Zuowang Zen Gong" by Li Xuandu, and exchanged experiences with Li Xuandu. With this deep accumulation, Hu Liang quickly returned to the top of the Xiantian Realm from the bottom of the valley, unlike Chen Guhong, who only barely maintained the bottom of the valley of the Xiantian Realm even after several years of recuperation.

But even so, when Hu Liang met Wu Shifan, he still couldn't get much advantage.

Wu Shifan's aura was almost the same as Hu Liang's. He had several rare treasures, but they were far inferior to the magic weapons of the "Grand Master". Logically speaking, Wu Shifan should be far from being Hu Liang's opponent. However, the fact was not so. Wu Shifan had practiced for many years. Although he could not step into the realm of returning to the truth because of his own qualifications, he collected a lot of unorthodox techniques, including forbidden techniques such as "corpse refining array". Even though his eyes were destroyed because of his three disadvantages and five deficiencies, he was still very difficult to deal with when fighting with others with various secret techniques that were difficult to guard against.

The two had been entangled and fighting with each other before, and Hu Liang was deeply touched by this. So this time, Hu Liang was determined to win by speed. He seemed to be ordinary and casual, and the knife without any smoke was handed out, parting the rain curtain, and silently approached Wu Shifan.

This knife seemed to shrink the earth into an inch.

In Li Xuandu's eyes, only a bright white light flashed. In the eyes of Wang Lie, He Jin and others, Hu Liang's afterimage was still in the same place, but in fact, the blade of the "Grand Master" had already slashed in front of Wu Shifan. If it were someone with a weaker realm, he would probably not know how he died until his head fell to the ground.

Although Wu Shifan was blind, he still felt that there was a sudden whiteness in front of his "eyes", followed by the sharp knife energy that cut the skin.

Facing this knife, Wu Shifan was pulled by the knife energy, and the qi in his body automatically circulated the "phaseless Gangqi".

This kind of skill, as the name suggests, is formless and traceless. As long as you practice this skill, a layer of invisible and intangible qi will be generated around your body. With this qi protecting your body, you can stand under a torrent of waterfalls or walk in a storm without getting your clothes wet. When facing an enemy, no matter it is a sword, spear, sword, halberd, hidden weapon, poison, fist, palm, or air-blocking machine, you can resist it. It has already left the category of medium-level skills and can be classified as a high-level skill.

The blade of the grandmaster approached Wu Shifan's forehead in an instant, but this three-inch distance was like a natural moat. It was extremely difficult to move closer every inch, so he could only move forward slowly.

Wu Shifan raised his head, "looked" at the tip of the knife so close with his dark eyes, and stretched out his skinny fingers to draw in front of his eyes.

He first wrote the word "gold", then the word "real", and the two combined to form the word "Zhen".

This seemingly real and unreal word "Zhen" fell down with a bang, and landed right on Hu Liang's body. Hu Liang suddenly felt as if he was carrying a huge weight. Not to mention moving forward an inch, even standing up straight was difficult.

As the saying goes, when the fake is made real, the real is also fake. The magic lies between the real and the fake. If you believe in it, it will work. It is restrained by masculine things. Because of this, there is a popular saying among the people that evil ghosts are afraid of evil people, or that black dog blood can break magic.

Magic can be roughly divided into three levels. The first level is to make the fake become real. For example, the bone-breaking curse and the body-fixing method that Li Xuandu used before are the most superficial applications of this level.

Most of the magic in this realm is not much different from deception, which is suitable for deceiving people but not for killing people. To give a simple example, it is not difficult to make ordinary people see the false scene of heavenly soldiers and generals descending to the earth. People like Bai Chouqiu can do it, but it must not be used when two armies are facing each other or fighting with others, because the blood of warriors and the evil spirits of swords and weapons on the battlefield are the most interfering with magic. Therefore, evil spirits harm people, mostly in this realm, making the victim appear all kinds of illusions in front of their eyes, and their minds are taken away, or they die of fear or suicide. There are even more powerful evil ghosts, who will use illusions to deceive people and kill them, and a passing scholar who stays in an ancient temple at night and meets a beautiful woman, and finds that his yang energy is sucked after a night of romance, which can also be attributed to this realm.

If one's own blood is vigorous, or there is murderous aura on his body, it will interfere with or even break through the illusion. People who can do evil are mostly strong or have blood debts on their hands, so the saying that evil ghosts are afraid of evil people comes from this.

The magic that can be truly used on the battlefield belongs to the second level, such as calling the wind and rain, snow in summer, and melting ice in winter. It belongs to this category, but it requires communication with heaven and earth and the power of heaven and earth to do it, so it cannot be used by masters who are not in the Return to the True Realm.

As for the third level, it is possible to change the weather with human power, turn yin into yang, turn illusion into reality, and turn virtual into reality, which is even more real than the real thing. For example, throwing beans to make soldiers, the weapons and armor are no different from real people, and the magical powers of immortals are just like this.

The three levels of realms are progressive, and finally turn the false into the true, which is one of the origins of the word "cultivation".

The art of magic can be said to support the lineage of alchemists, and the reason why warriors can suppress alchemists in terms of combat power is that magic is restrained by the most yang and strong blood, and the blood of warriors who have tempered their bodies is the most abundant in the world.

According to legend, there was a martial saint in the Wudao Sect a hundred years ago. His blood was as abundant as that of ancient beasts. He could eat nine elephants in one meal, and his punch was as heavy as nine tripods. He could break thousands of magic with a shout. He was the ultimate warrior. At that time, the Zaoge Sect was also prosperous. Its leader was a scholar who created a ghost country with magic. There were many illusions in it, and it was difficult to distinguish right from wrong. After detaining countless living souls, he actually created a small six reincarnations and tried to create his own world.

When the two fought for the position of "Saint Lord", it was the leader of Zaoge Sect who could not defeat the Wudao Sect Martial Saint. After the Wudao Sect Martial Saint personally entered the Ghost Country, the Ghost Country could not withstand the surging blood and qi and directly collapsed and disappeared. The leader of Zaoge Sect was even killed by the Ghost Country. After this battle, Zaoge Sect has been suppressed by Wudao Sect until now.

This is one of the reasons why the warriors are so powerful. Even after the death of the Martial Saint, the vigorous blood and qi condensed and did not dissipate, and still rushed to the sky, making it impossible for the Wudao Sect masters to carry and fly, let alone transport them through magic. They could only transport the coffin step by step back to the sect, which is in line with the saying "carrying mortals is like carrying a heavy mountain".

However, everything is relative. Although water can overcome fire, once water is weak and fire is strong, fire can also overcome water. The same is true between the blood and qi of warriors and the magic of alchemists. If the magic is stronger than blood and qi, it can also suppress blood and qi.

At this time, the "Zhen" character used by Wu Shifan is the pinnacle of the first level of magic. How can a talisman move a mountain? Even a master in the Heaven Realm does not have such magical power, so it must be fake, but Hu Liang really feels that he is like carrying a heavy mountain, and he can't get rid of it. This is making the fake real. Even Hu Liang's blood can't break it, which is a very clever method. Just like evil ghosts harming people, some evil ghosts will melt the ice and snow when they meet the Taoist priests who catch ghosts, but some evil ghosts can turn around and harm the Taoist priests who catch ghosts. This is the difference in the depth of Taoism.

In terms of realm, Hu Liang and Wu Shifan are almost the same, otherwise the two would not have been entangled for so long without a clear winner, but after the battle with Chen Guhong, Hu Liang was injured and his blood was seriously depleted. At this time, he is not as good as Wu Shifan. Even if he knows that the magic is fake, he can't get rid of it.

The force of the sword was exhausted, and the heavy rain that was briefly split in two fell again.

In such a situation, the only one who had the ability to break the situation was Li Xuandu.