Fighting Beasts and Heavens

Fighting Beasts and Heavens

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Introduction

In the cave, the golden snake has two wings, and the sun and the moon in the pot are shining brightly. The dragon turtle bears a thousand feet of mountain on its back, and the three-inch toad dares to swallow the sky. This book tells the story of the rise of a disciple of the Beast Master Sect. There are thousands of monsters, all kinds of magical powers, countless worlds, and infinite avenues. Here you can see the disciples of the Imperial Beast Sect riding on the western giant dragon and driving the Behemoth beast, as well as the Taoist legends who manipulate the golden armored corpse and the flying yaksha to fight with the undead master...

Chapter 1

Chapter 1 Backdoor

"Clap clap clap..."

Above the court, the two yamen swung up the black and red boards in their hands and slapped the man's fair buttocks fiercely on the ground.

Because this kind of punishment requires undressing, it was obvious that the man's buttocks fell with the board, and red marks appeared in an instant.

"what……"

Lying on the ground was a young man who was suddenly subjected to this torture, and his mouth suddenly screamed in pain.

However, the yamen seemed to have not heard of it, and they did not soften their hearts at all because of the shouting from the people on the ground.

Even if they were beaten to death in court, they deserved it. So instead of reducing their strength, they used the strength to suckle and slammed it down.

Therefore, the thief below suddenly bared his teeth and howled miserably.

For a time, the butt was crippled and full of bruises, the screams spread throughout the court, and blood stained the clothes under him.

But outside the court, the people who watched the county master handling the case were all applauded. There were also a few men who were watching their bloodlines. flowering,

Qin Feng also stood in the crowd, silently watching the thief who was beaten crying for his mother and crying.

He didn't care about the life and death of such scourges, he was just waiting for his father Sanya to go home with him.

His father, Qin Long, is the inspector of the Kuncheng Inspection Division. He is responsible for training armored soldiers to patrol surrounding towns, arresting robbers, and maintaining local stability. Because he holds the largest armed force in Kuncheng, he can be regarded as a county in this county. Is the number one person.

After the yamen finished hitting the board, the county magistrate ordered the dying thief who was beaten to be pressed into the prison.

Qin Long, who was sitting on the side seat on the jury, got up and planned to return to the Inspection Division to handle some official business. Originally, he did not need to be a juror, but today the prisoner was captured by him, so he listened to the trial results by the way.

"Father, father..."

Qin Feng stood on tiptoe, raised his hand and opened his mouth to call.

He was only fourteen years old, and he was in the stage of the voice change of a young man. This loud shout suddenly became like a drake's voice, which quickly caught Qin Long's attention.

Qin Long looked up and couldn't help laughing. He got up and walked out of the courthouse and came to his son's side. He smiled and said, "Feng'er is not practicing at home, why are you here looking for daddy?"

He is more than eight feet tall, tall and burly, strong and powerful, and with the beard on his face, he is quite heroic.

"Father, I have opened my spiritual aperture and can sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth."

Qin Feng looked very excited.

My grandmother, who has been reincarnated for 14 years, finally completed the cultivation of the physical body, returned to the innate the day after tomorrow, and realized the wonders of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Ordinary people cultivate, unless they are talented people, or they have the support of family power, and they have penetrated the meridians with the treasures of heaven and earth since childhood, or just opening the spiritual orifice is enough to suffocate more than 90% of the mortals in the world.

"really?"

Qin Long was overjoyed when he heard this.

With a flash of light in his eyes, he immediately found that the aura of heaven and earth outside his son's body was faintly compatible with him. With Qin Feng's self-cultivation method, there were indeed traces of aura that entered his body.

"Hahaha……"

Seeing this, Qin Long immediately looked up to the sky and laughed with satisfaction, stretched out a slap like a bear's paw and slapped his son's shoulder twice, almost not slapping his precious son to the ground.

"Okay, okay, my son is really good, and I lived up to my father's expectations."

Qin Long was full of joy: "Now that you have opened the spiritual aperture, when the sect election is held at the end of the year, Daddy will definitely help you win a spot."

"Thank you dad."

Qin Feng gritted his teeth and rubbed his painful shoulder, and couldn't help but feel a little yearning in his heart.

If he can enter the sect, he may not have the hope of becoming an immortal in the future.

Qin Long seemed very happy: "Go, go home, there are some elixir from the owner, I'll go and ask you for a few.

The benefits that the family should give are also indispensable. Later, I will take you to the Tibetan Sutra Pavilion to choose a method suitable for your cultivation.

Daddy has also accumulated a lot of meritorious deeds over the years, and I will exchange them all for you to cultivate resources.

If you can reach the second level of Qi refining, even if you enter the sect, you will not start from the bottom. This will greatly help your future development and will save you a lot of cultivation time. "

"Don't worry, Daddy, the child must work hard to cultivate."

Qin Feng nodded again and again.

The reason why he came to his father just after sensing the spiritual energy was this idea. Although he has opened a spiritual orifice and can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, if there is no suitable cultivation method, the speed of cultivation is too slow.

As for the exercises he practiced before, they were all used to strengthen the body of ordinary mortals, and to open the spiritual aperture through the meridians. After the spiritual aperture was opened, it was no longer useful to him.

Originally, he could also go to the Tibetan Sutra Pavilion to collect the exercises, but he was only a teenager, and he was not born in the direct line. The third uncle, who was dealing with him, was fooled by a copy of the exercises.

Qin Long happily pulled his son and walked towards the family quickly.

His path has basically stopped, so he naturally pinned his hopes on his son, and wanted his son to join the sect and go further.

Kuncheng is not big, with a population of only tens of thousands, and the city is only a few miles in diameter, so the father and son quickly walked out of the city and walked towards the Qin family's mansion five miles away.

As one of the three families that control most of Kuncheng's livelihood, although the Qin family's property spreads all over Kuncheng, their family's mansion is not in the city, but built on the spiritual vein of a small mountain outside the city.

Even if it is just a small spiritual vein, it is enough to become a place for small families like the Qin family to live.

The Qin family has been based in Kuncheng for hundreds of years. After so many years of accumulation, the building of the mansion is not bad. It occupies a square area of dozens of acres, and there are hundreds of descendants of the Qin family living in it.

Of course, the descendants of the Qin family are definitely more than that, but this is an ancestral house built on the spiritual veins. Most of the people living here are ethnic groups who have opened spiritual apertures and can practice. The rest of the ordinary people are living In Qinjia Town not far away.

"I have seen the seventh master!"

When the two men guarding the gate saw Qin Long, they quickly greeted him respectfully.

Qin Long ranked seventh among the monks of his generation. Although he was born in a collateral line, his cultivation was profound. He was the top three powerful monks in the family, and also had the status of an inspector. These family members did not dare to offend him.

"Um."

Qin Long responded lightly, without stopping, he took Qin Feng into the mansion and went straight to the courtyard where the head of the family was.

"Patriarch, the seventh master is here, saying he has something to ask for."

A handsome maid of about fifteen or sixteen years old came to an old man with gray hair who was playing with leopards and reported softly.

This old man is Qin Guanbao, the head of the Qin family.

Patriarch Qin is one hundred and sixty-seven years old this year, and with the sixth floor of the foundation building, he can be regarded as one of the best foundation building monks in Kuncheng.

"Let him in."

The old master was sitting on the leisure chair half-lying and half-relying, without any intention of getting up. He still placed his palms on the black panther next to him, and gently stroked the smooth fur of the black panther. He quite enjoyed getting along with the black panther. of good times.

This is his natal beast, the Shadow Leopard.

It is also the biggest support for him to shake Kuncheng within a hundred miles.

Because the combat power of this shadow leopard is much stronger than his.

As a vassal family of the Imperial Beast Sect, every generation has its children sent to the Imperial Beast Sect for further study. Qin Guanbao was like this back then. Otherwise, even if the Qin family was a vassal of the Imperial Beast Sect, they would not dare to teach the methods of the Imperial Beast Sect to anyone. a tribe.

It's just that he didn't have the opportunity to enter the inner door back then, so Qin Guanbao finally chose to return to the family to spread the branches. Well, he has done a very good job in this regard!

The so-called old tree blooms, old and spicy, old and strong, old and cunning...cough.

In a word, Qin Guanbao's old patriarch is still quite enthusiastic about certain technical activities, and has devoted a lot of energy to the reproduction of the family's blood.

However, after returning to the family for the past few years, although he has lived a little indulgent in his private life, he has not lost the skills he learned in the Beast Master Sect. After all, this is the cost of a monk's life.

After years of cultivation, the strength of the natal beast, the Shadow Leopard, is also getting stronger and stronger.

"Yes, then I'll invite the seventh master to come in."

The handsome maid responded, twisting her slender waist and walking out.

The old master raised his head and glanced at the little maid's upturned buttocks.

Maybe, I should consider getting some medicinal pills that strengthen the foundation and cultivate vitality and come back to make up for it.

He is less than one hundred and seventy years old now, and there are still twenty or thirty years before the life and death of the foundation period.

For such a long time, the old man could not waste his time.

Qin Guanbao felt that he should find something more meaningful to do.

I heard that the Hundred Flowers Pavilion in the county town recently bought a few barbarian women from the far-flung western barbarians. Their breasts are as big as papayas. I don’t know if it’s true or not.

Hearing is false, seeing is believing!

Do not believe rumors without seeing it with your own eyes.

Maybe this is just a gimmick released by Hundred Flowers Pavilion, deliberately attracting the bait.

Hmph, this old man has traveled all his life, and he is well-informed, how would he still fall for you?

However, do you want to see it with your own eyes?

The old homeowner hesitated.

There seems to be no excuse for going out lately!

After all, he is the head of the family. As the most cultivated being in the family, he spends most of the time in the family, and it is not a good thing to go out frequently.

At this moment, the sound of footsteps sounded, awakening the old master who had fallen into contemplation.

Looking up, Qin Long brought his son to the front.

"Ninth Uncle."

Qin Long stopped a few steps away and respectfully saluted Qin Guanbao.

Although Qin Guanbao is the head of the family, the Qin family is only a small family in a remote place, and there are not so many rules, so everyone usually matches their seniority.

And Qin Guanbao was a relatively young one in his generation, ranking ninth, but he was the highest Taoist, and he was born in the direct line, so after the foundation was established, he took over the position of the head of the family as a matter of course.

"I have seen Grandpa Jiu."

Qin Feng also saluted very well.

He was very well-behaved since he was a child, and he rarely let adults worry about him, so he was very popular among the elders in the family.

It's just that since he knew that there is still practice to become an immortal in this world, he immediately put all his energy on cultivation, and usually doesn't like to play with other children of the same age, so he seems more withdrawn.

"Old Seven is here, sit down."

Qin Guanbao's palm still did not leave his beloved Black Panther, but pointed to the stone bench beside him with his chin.

Then he smiled and said, "Why are you free to come to me today and bring your son with you, what's the matter?"

"Ninth Uncle, it's like this."

Qin Long's face had a smile that couldn't be concealed: "My son has opened his spiritual aperture today and can already practice, so I thought of going to Ninth Uncle to ask you for some medicine pills, so that Feng'er can practice faster. Some, so as not to delay the sect selection at the end of the year."

"Oh?"

Qin Guanbao was slightly startled, looked at Qin Feng, and nodded quickly: "Yes, this kid has actually opened up his spiritual aperture. At the end of the year, the six children in the family will compete for two places. It's going to be fun."

"Ha ha……"

Qin Long chuckled lightly, he knew what the head of the family meant.

There were originally five qi-refining school-age teenagers in the family, but now adding his own son, there are six people.

But each generation of the family can only supply two people to join the sect. First, because the sect has a quota limit, and the other is that there are too many family children sent to the sect, and the Qin family cannot afford it.

Although it is said that once entering the outer gate of the Imperial Beast Sect, the Imperial Beast Sect will treat all disciples equally, but this does not mean that all the outer sect disciples will be at the same starting point.

Those big families can provide their children with more cultivation resources and help their children enter the inner door, which is not comparable to ordinary disciples without a background.

And the Qin family is just a small family. If the children of the family want to make a name for themselves in the outer gate of the beast sect, they will definitely not be able to do it on their own. This requires the support of the family. If they are lucky enough to enter the inner gate, then the family can developed.

It is a pity that there are not many disciples in the inner sect of the Imperial Beast Sect. With so many people competing, how can one get a small Qin family.

But even if you can't enter the inner door, it is not without the opportunity to mix up in the outer door.

Just like the old owner of Qin Guanbao.

Back then, he succeeded in building the foundation at the Outer Gate of the Imperial Beast Sect, and once took the seat of the Outer Gate Deacon, but later, for the development of the family, he had to return to the family and took over the position of the patriarch.

Because the output of the Qin family's Lingtian is limited, they can't come up with too many training resources to support their children's cultivation in the sect, so each generation can only supply two people to join the Royal Beast Sect.

What's more, the family itself also needs to develop. If all the children of the family are sent to the sect, wouldn't the family have to cut off the inheritance?

"It has been my wish for many years to let Feng'er worship the sect."

Qin Long said firmly: "This time, I will not back down."

"Ugh……"

The old patriarch sighed softly: "Well, you have paid a lot for the family over the years, and of course I will not break your thoughts.

However, the other children in the family must also have this idea. When the time comes, let this child compete fairly with them. "

"I know."

Qin Long said, "I didn't come to the owner to go through the back door."

"That's good."

Hearing this, the old master suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he didn't go through his back door.

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