Shi Mu's heart was shocked, and he pulled out the black meteorite sword with a "swish" sound.
"Ouch!"
The gray ape roared low and suddenly pounced forward. It was so fast that it almost transformed into a gray shadow and arrived not far in front of Shi Mu in the blink of an eye.
Two furry claws grabbed it up and down, one on the lower abdomen and the other on the throat.
The claws formed by the nails are like sickle hooks and can expand and contract indefinitely. It turns out to be an exquisite claw skill.
The golden light in Shi Mu's eyes flashed away, and with a flick of his wrist, two black knife shadows emerged and struck the claw shadows like lightning.
"Clang", two sounds of gold and iron clashing, sparks flying everywhere.
The two sword shadows seemed to strike the iron pillar, but the gray ape's body was knocked away again.
Shi Mu's face changed color slightly. The gray-haired ape's claws were as hard as iron, and he could actually block the black meteorite knife with his bare hands.
While thinking about it, he stepped forward and jumped out, catching up with the gray ape from behind.
The black meteorite sword flashed and transformed into thirteen rays of sword light, enveloping the gray ape's figure in the sword light and cutting it into several pieces in the next moment.
But at this moment, a look of surprise appeared in Shi Mu's eyes, and the meteorite black sword suddenly turned around, turning the blade and slashing the ape with the back.
A loud bang!
The gray ape flew out like a fallen leaf, broke several big trees in succession, and fell to the ground.
The beast bared its teeth and struggled to get up. Suddenly, a foot stepped on the ape's back and pinned it to the ground.
Shi Mu looked at the struggling gray ape beneath him with a cold expression, and then his eyes fell on the black meteorite sword.
The weight of the meteorite black knife has increased a lot in the past two years, and now it has reached nearly 700 kilograms. Otherwise, it would not be possible to defeat this gray ape in two or three strokes.
Shi Mu waved his arm, and the meteorite black knife turned into a black light and passed by the gray ape's shoulder.
A long gray fur was shaved off, revealing a piece of blue clothes hanging on the body.
"really……"
Shi Mu stepped on the ape's palm with his other foot. The gray hair was spread out, and he could faintly see that the palm was wearing a fingerless black steel glove.
Suddenly, the gray ape stopped struggling, let out a loud cry, and trembled like chaff.
There was a trace of surprise on Shi Mu's face!
At this time, the gray ape was shaking more and more violently. Not only that, the long gray hairs on his body disappeared into his body, exposing the skin and ragged clothes underneath. The sharp claws on his hands also quickly faded away and turned into human hands.
After a few breaths, the gray ape turned into a human man, lying on the ground breathing heavily.
There is a dark red barbarian totem pattern on the back of this person. It looks like an ape but not an ape, and it is squirming slightly, as if it is a living creature.
"Barbarians!"
Shi Mu frowned.
He raised his feet and turned the man's body over, but he suddenly lost his voice.
"Feng Li"
The person transformed by the ape at his feet turned out to be Feng Li.
At this moment, the blood in his eyes was fading quickly, and he was gradually returning to clarity.
Shi Mu's pupils shrank slightly, and with a movement of his arm, the back of the black meteorite sword was placed across Feng Li's neck.
After a while, Feng Li's eyes trembled, he completely regained his consciousness, and his body moved involuntarily.
"Don't move, otherwise don't blame me for being unkind!" Shi Mu's arm sank.
Feng Li's eyes bulged, and he felt that his shoulders were as heavy as a mountain, as if they were being pressed down by a huge boulder. His shoulder bones were about to break, but he finally saw clearly that the person stepping on him was Shi Mu, and his face turned pale and bloodless.
Showing a look of begging for mercy:
"Brother Shi... show mercy..."
"Have mercy?" Shi Mu's face was expressionless, but his arms sank again.
"ah"
Feng Li let out another scream.
"Brother Feng, I didn't expect you to be a barbarian spy. What else can I say now?" Shi Mu said coldly. The iron black knife tilted slightly and could cut his throat with just one stroke.
"Brother Shi, you have to believe me... I can swear... Do you think that if I were really an undercover barbarian, I would definitely hide carefully... How could I come here so late at night... to do such a thing..." Feng Li gasped for breath
, the cold blade next to his throat stimulated the hair on his neck to stand on end.
When Shi Mu heard this, there was a look of thought in his eyes, but the iron knife in his hand did not move at all.
"I do have the totem of the barbarians on my body, and my body is a little different from ordinary humans... But I can explain these..." Feng Li saw that Shi Mu's expression was a little relaxed, and said hurriedly.
"Okay, I'll give you a chance. Tell me, who are you?" Shi Mu frowned slightly and raised his iron knife slightly.
Feng Li showed a struggling look on his face. After a moment, he slowly said: "I am a mixture of human and barbarian. My mother is human and my father is barbarian..."
Shi Mu didn't show too much surprise. He vaguely guessed some clues from his observations just now.
Feng Li slowly revealed his life experience. His mother was originally from the Qi Kingdom, but was captured by a barbarian tribe during a barbarian invasion and became a female slave of his father.
Originally, there was no way for human beings to survive in the barbarian tribes. Only when Feng Li's mother became pregnant did she barely survive. Although she gave birth to Feng Li with barbarian blood, mother and son were still ostracized everywhere.
Later, the mother and son finally took the opportunity to escape from the tribe and returned to Daqi after many hardships. The mother finally passed away a few years later because she was depressed all day long.
Feng Li recounted these experiences with a look of struggle and pain on his face. When he mentioned the barbarians, there was deep hatred in his eyes, which was definitely not disguised.
The coldness in Shi Mu's eyes had greatly diminished. Feng Li's childhood experiences were somewhat similar to his, but far more miserable than his. He couldn't help but feel pity for him.
"So, you can be considered half-human, so what's your plan for joining the Xuanwu Sect?" Shi Mu pondered for a moment and asked in a deep voice.
"I need strength! I must become stronger. Those barbarians owe my mother too much, and I want them to pay with blood!" Feng Li's face turned red and he couldn't help roaring.
"Then why did you lose your mind just now and why did your body undergo such a change?" Shi Mu asked again noncommittally.
"Brother Shi, you just saw the totem on my body. It was implanted by a priest in the clan when I was very young. I don't know what the sealed beast soul is. In the past few years, this totem had little effect.
It's just that a sudden mutation occurred two years ago, which would erupt every few months, turning me into an ape monster, eroding my sanity, and becoming bloodthirsty and manic, requiring me to drink blood to calm down." Feng Li's face showed a trace of pain.
Sex, he gritted his teeth and replied after a moment.
Shi Mu looked at Feng Li quietly, with a thoughtful look in his eyes. After a moment, he suddenly retracted his foot and put down the black meteorite sword.
Feng Li felt relieved and sat up, looking at Shi Mu with some anxiety.
"Even if what you say is true, how can I believe you?" Shi Mu asked calmly.
Feng Li was startled at first, but after his face changed several times, he seemed to have made a decision in his heart. He suddenly stamped his foot, reached out and pulled at his neck, pulled out a strange-looking necklace, handed it to Shi Mu, and said so
:
"This is a magic weapon that my mother gave me before she died. She said that it has a great connection with the totem on my body. She asked me to take good care of it. Once it is damaged, it will put me in a desperate situation. I didn't feel anything before, until two years ago.
From now on...I have kept this thing close to my body, as precious as my life. I know that my words are empty, so I gave this magic weapon to Brother Shi for safekeeping, to prove my innocence."
When Shi Mu heard this, his heart moved. He took the necklace from Feng Li's hand and looked at it carefully.
This necklace seems to be made of some kind of nephrite. Judging from its appearance, it must be quite old. It has a strange beast that looks like an ape but not an ape engraved on it. It is very similar to the totem pattern on Feng Li's back!
And when Shi Mu released his spiritual consciousness to invade it, it was like touching a layer of restriction, and his spiritual thoughts bounced away. However, at the moment when his spiritual thoughts came into contact, he could still faintly feel that there seemed to be a force in it.
He was full of bloodthirsty and furious, as if he wanted to break out of his restraints.
What surprised him even more was that at the same time that he triggered this restriction, Feng Li from the opposite side screamed and fell to the ground with his head in his hands, his eyes bloodshot again and full of madness.
When Shi Mu saw this, he was greatly surprised, but he immediately took his spiritual thoughts back from the necklace.
At this time, Feng Licai gasped for breath and regained his consciousness, and slowly got up from the ground with a wry smile on his face.
"Very good. Since Brother Feng is willing to give this thing to me, I will trust you for once." After Shi Mu thought for a while, he raised his brows and sheathed his sword.
"Thank you, Brother Shi." Feng Li stood up and bowed to Shi Mu.
"No, if you have any abnormality in the future, I will not let you go. Apart from that, what you want to do has nothing to do with me, and I have no interest in it." Shi Mu looked at the gradually whitening sky with a calm expression.
He turned around and walked towards the stronghold.
Feng Li watched Shi Mu's back go away, exhaled a long breath, and quickly followed him.
…
Time flies so fast, three months have passed by in a blink of an eye.
The battle between humans and barbarians is still in a stalemate, with wars breaking out between the two sides from time to time, with each winning or losing.
Because Mouse Nest was in the rear, it was not affected by the flames of war. Apart from the increasing number of talisman-making tasks, life was relatively peaceful.
Due to the soul-suppressing spell, Shi Mu's pain was greatly reduced during the marrow cleansing, and he actually practiced the rebirth art to the fifth level in one go.
At this time, Shi Mu's physical body had reached an incredible level of strength, and his strength had nearly doubled compared to before he practiced the Reborn Art, weighing six to seven thousand kilograms.
Nowadays, even an iron rod made of fine steel can be easily broken into twists by it. One of its gravel punches can easily smash a boulder several feet in size into pieces.
At the same time, the toughness of its physical body is far from what it used to be, and ordinary swords and guns can no longer easily damage it without using true energy.
In addition, because every time Shi Mu increases the level of the Reborn Technique, the more demonic energy is needed to temper the body, the cold power in the body is already quite powerful, and the potential cannot be underestimated.
Shi Mu was naturally overjoyed by this, but unfortunately, further training in the Rebirth Art required the blood of the demon ape, so he could only suspend the subsequent training.
Just when Shi Mu was very happy because of his great cultivation, an accident quietly came.