Yunzhou, steaming cloud mountain.

  Deep in the mountains and dense forests, the fog is thick and the view is blocked.

  A cat with white and flawless fur like warm jade was lying on the back of a black and white wolfdog, with its head stacked on the dog's head, and a pair of eyes that seemed to be made of gold were looking ahead.

  "Meow!!"

  Duke shouted, and Thirteen slowed down and stopped under a tree.

  Duke, who jumped off from Thirteen's back, opened the Black Ding space, took out the Blood Food Pill and Qing Shui Pill from it, first took the Blood Food Pill to Xiao Ha's cat, and then put the Qing Shui Pill aside, letting him lick and replenish the water by himself.

  Immediately, he spread the bearskin with a hole under the tree, so that Xiao Ha could lie on it and not catch a cold by touching the cold ground.

  Duke, who was ready for everything, also took out a blood pill and stuffed it into his mouth, just like eating jelly beans, and his mouth rattled with a bite.

  Xiao Ha ate the Blood Food Pill, and licked it according to the Qing Shui Pill to replenish water.

  When Thirteen had eaten and drunk, Duke patted him on the head again and told him to lie down on the bearskin and rest.

  Xiao Ha guarded Duke and lay down, and while snuggling the cat, he also closed his eyes and began to rest.

  "It's been five days!"

  Duke looked at Xiao Ha, who was sleeping with his eyes closed, and couldn't help but sigh.

  It had now been five days since he had refined the Water and Fire Immortal Clothes and left the pit.

  In the past five days, he and Xiaoha have been spinning around like headless flies in the deep mountains, but they have never been able to find their way down the mountain.

  Sometimes, Duke ordered Thirteen to follow the slope of the hill and go down the mountain, but he would always come across a cliff or a mountain stream.

  And recently, the fog in the mountain has become more and more abundant, and when the clouds are thick, Duke took Xiaoha out of the fog, and when he stopped, a cat and a dog had already wet their hair.

  Even if Duke jumped on the tallest tree he could find, he would see a sea of clouds as far away.

  A thick white mist flooded the forest, and only tall trees could show their heads. From time to time there was the roar of wild beasts and the cry of forest birds in the clouds.

  But the direction was nowhere to be found, and the damned cloud would become thinner except at noon, but once it was past noon, the cloud quickly became thicker, and Duke and Ha were headless flies again.

  "When will I get out of this damn steaming cloud mountain!"

  Duke sighed in his heart, and he took out a blood pill, threw it into his mouth, crunched it, and swallowed it.

  The Blood Food Pill entered his abdomen and directly turned into a boiling hot stream to fill his physical strength, dispel hunger, and bring him temperature.

  A few blood food pills entered the cat, and then bit another Qingshui Pill to replenish the water, and then sank into the immortal martial arts that had been refined and swallowed by him.

  Although the Immortal Martial Technique given to him by Su Qiluo did not record any secret methods of large-scale killing, the description of the four realms of the day after tomorrow was very detailed.

  The details are outrageous.

  In addition, there is also some knowledge about exerting force, exerting strength, and how to mobilize blood and qi to form instant combat power.

  During this time, Duke has been exploring and experimenting with these contents.

  While reminiscing about the content recorded in the Immortal Martial Strategies in his heart, Duke's right paw was rhythmically stretched and then retracted.

  Stretch and spread your claws so that your toes are apart while your paws are exposed, and you close the paws of your forelimbs and retract your paws.

  The cat's paw is similar to the human hand, and it is also divided into five toes, but the human finger is the toe, and the cat's toe.

  Although the toe corresponding to the thumb will degenerate and become shorter as it grows, the kitten that is less than a month old can clearly see that the cat's front paws are born with five toes like a human hand.

  And now Duke is experimenting with the method of force urging in the Immortal Martial Strategy, mobilizing blood and qi, filling the meridians of the upper limbs, and exerting all the strength, which is the method of force urging.

  The cat's paws opened and then retracted, and the last paw pressed against the nearby tree, leaving a clear paw print on it.

  Like plum blossoms, the paw prints are three points into the wood, which is natural, and there is no trace of external force to do the work.

  "Now the strength is refined!"

  Duke opened his eyes to the cat's claws left at the root of the tree, and his ears twitched as he scratched the plum blossom paw prints with his claws.

  The cat, whose ears were shaking, suddenly stood up, as if it had spotted the intruder, and raised its claws and raised its head.

  "What's nearby!"

  Duke tilted his head sideways, listened carefully, and vaguely heard human voices.

  "Ahhh~~"

  "It's a human voice, could it be that there is someone nearby!?"

  Duke became excited, and if there were people, he should be able to find his way out.

  "It's a long distance, but it's a human voice!"

  Even if these people can't find their way down the mountain, it's okay to follow behind them and let them be the pawns of the pathfinder to help themselves and Thirteen avoid risks...

  "Silly dog, wake up!"

  A slap woke up Thirteen's Duke and put the bear skin away, and Xiao Ha opened his mouth and yawned, then lowered his body, cocked his ass, and stretched.

  But before Xiao Ha could dispel his sleep, Duke had already jumped on Xiao Ha's back, urging him to move quickly.

  Xiao Ha doesn't have any complaints, as a Northland spirit dog, it is his instinct to run and hunt. Xiaoha, who is already knee-high as an adult, is not slow to run, and runs silently, extremely fast.

  It's just that there are also shortcomings, that is, if you are not careful, let the dog run high, and it is easy to hit the tree with its head.

  Well, there was one time before, but before he hit the tree, he was slapped out by Duke, and that time he only rolled on the ground a few times and didn't hit the tree.

  Otherwise, Duke would now have only one cat on the road.

  In the mist, the faint human voice gradually became inaudible, but Duke remembered the direction from which the voice came from, and drove Thirteen to run in the direction.

  While breaking away from the thick fog, Duke's beard trembled, his expression became serious, and he bit Xiao Ha's ear to slow him down.

  Although Xiao Ha was a little puzzled, he still put his speed to the fullest, and under Duke's prompting, he turned to crawl forward.

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  Duke's nose twitched, and his hairy cat face wrinkled.

  It smells of blood!

  It smelled of blood, like a slaughterhouse.

  Duke searched left and right for a moment, jumped directly from Xiao Ha's back, bit Xiao Ha's neck, dragged the whole dog directly, climbed up the trunk of the nearest tree, and then put Xiao Ha on a horizontal branch.

  Xiao Ha, who was holding the branch of the tree with four legs, couldn't help but cast a complaining glance at the cat.

  Can you not throw yourself in a tree every time you find a problem?

  I am still young, and it is easy to leave a psychological shadow.

  What should I do if I am afraid of heights in the future?

  Duke didn't care about him, a dog cub who was just strong but had not cultivated, no matter how fast he ran and how good his endurance was, what could he do?

  When you encounter a fierce beast, you will be taken away.

  So in the past five days, every time Duke found something abnormal, he would first put the dog on the nearest tree, with the help of clouds and mist, to help him hide his body, and he went to check the situation by stealth.

  After the thirteenth was settled, Duke's figure jumped out of the branches of the trees, and disappeared in one step, apparently using the light and dust.

  Duke, whose figure disappeared in the vast mist, quickly approached in the direction where the smell of blood came.

  At the same time that the mist was left behind him, the cat also landed on the branch of a tree, stared down at a pair of cat eyes, and immediately gasped.

  The mutilated corpses lay on their backs on the cold earth, and there were more than one. There were twelve or thirteen corpses lying in the forest.

  The corpses were mutilated, some had their arms torn off, some had their thighs broken, some had their chests pierced alive, and some of their heads had sunk into their chests.

  Blood was sprayed everywhere, on the ground, tree trunks, and stones, a strong smell of blood permeated, and Duke also smacked his tongue.

  No wonder human voices could be heard from so far away before, but now I think it must be the screams of these corpses before they die.

  Only before death, the screams of the liver and gallbladder can be heard from such a distance.

  But what killed them?

  The cat fell from the tree, carefully avoiding the bloodstains and checking the outfits of the men.

  Some wore short cloth robes, some wore linen robes, some wore close-fitting leather jackets, and some wore cotton armor.

  At first glance, it looks like a group of guerrillas.

  As Duke shuttled between the corpses, he also stopped in front of a ghost-headed broadsword, which had very clear fingerprints on it, and even fingerprints could be seen.

  The fingerprint is no more than an inch away from the blade.

  The corpse holding the knife had a bloody hole in its chest.

  I just saw the fingerprints on the knife, and the blood holes that were transparent before and after.

  Duke could guess how the man had died.

  It was obvious that when this corpse was slashing with a knife before his death, the person who killed him pinched his ghost-headed broadsword, and the moment he left his fingerprints, a punch pierced the opponent's chest.

  Following where the man had fallen, Duke saw blood splattered on the trees and fragments of internal organs stuck to the trees or hanging from the branches.

  "Tsk, a punch can have such power, I think the most important thing is a martial artist in the root bone realm, or a martial artist in the inner viscera realm."

  "However, the possibility of the Root Bone Realm is a bit low, unless it is a person with extraordinary talents, innate bones as strong as an ox, and innate divine power, can punch through the chest, and under the pressure of power, the flesh and internal organs fragments will splatter out1."

  "But there are too few such people, it is more likely that the internal organs are complete, and the strength and blood qi and vitality are blended with each other, giving birth to a martial artist with internal strength."

  The cat silently analyzed all this in front of her.

  What the Immortal Martial Strategies said is very clear, the four realms of martial artists are just a process of gradually improving themselves from the outside to the inside and giving birth to true qi.

  The skin and flesh realm is to close itself, lock the vitality, blood and essence, so that the essence of oneself is locked in the body to form a circulation, and it can also close or open the sympathy with the outside world.

  Duke can do that now. After the water and fire fairy clothes were cultivated, even the feather arrows shot by the hard bow of five stones could not pierce his skin membrane, of course, there must be a distance difference.

  At close range, he burped on the spot.

  And once the Water and Fire Immortal Clothes are cultivated, it means that he already has a leakless body, locks the essence and solidifies the element, and the vitality and blood qi refined will not leak out.

  The root bone mirror is to quench all the bones of the whole body, refine the bones and wash the marrow, change the blood of the whole body, and fuse the blood, strength and vitality with each other to generate internal force.

  When the first trace of internal force is born from the viscera, it means that you have stepped into the realm of the viscera.

  At the same time, the combat power of a warrior with internal strength will also increase exponentially, and with fists and feet martial arts, you can fight dozens of armored warriors with the strength of one person.

  Causing such a terrifying lethality can only be done by cultivating the internal organ realm.

  With the blessing of internal force, a fluttering punch can kill even a cow.

  Not to mention the final true qi, the true qi realm can release the true qi, and those who have achieved the true qi will not be a problem to kill people in the air.

  The biggest difference between internal force and true qi is that internal force can only diffuse and conduct through the direct contact of the martial artist, but true qi can be retracted and released freely.

  The innate realm is even more different.

  "I thought it was a guiding light to be able to leave the mountains and forests, but I didn't expect it to be a group of unlucky ghosts, bad luck!"

  After seeing everything, the cat, which remained invisible, turned around and planned to leave.

  Not only do you plan to leave, but you also plan to stay away from here.

  The province was caught up in some mess.

  But as soon as he turned around, he saw a man dressed as a foreigner, holding an iron abacus in his hand, touching his chin, looking at the corpses all over the ground and groaning.

  Just one moment, the cat's hair exploded.

  When did this guy come here, and why didn't he notice it?!