Chapter 1159: Making Up for Never Having Fought Qi Training Demon Beasts
“Your Exalted Majesty’s exalted bearing remains as splendid as ever, and your talent is as high as the heavens. To have created a classical tale of your own by building upon the foundation laid by predecessors, you are truly a model for all scholars in the world.
“Upon returning, your subject shall ask Senior Qing He to inscribe Your Exalted Majesty’s newly coined idiom into the annals of history, so that the glorious reputations of we sovereign and subject may be passed down through the ages.”
As the Imperial Tutor, Lu Yang had initially intended to correct the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s misuse of the idiom. But how could Her Exalted Majesty, in all her greatness, ever make a mistake? She didn’t use the wrong idiom—she created one of her own.
This deserves to be recorded in the history books.
“Hee hee hee, you can praise this immortal more if you'd like.”
Having been showered with so many compliments from Lu Yang all at once, the Everlasting Immortal Fairy felt a bit embarrassed. She scratched the back of her head and chuckled sheepishly.
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“Tiger Roar Fist!”
Young and tender tiger roars rose and fell in succession, soft and lacking menace.
At first, the one-eyed, lame lone wolf facing the students’ siege thought nothing of it, dismissing them as mere mortals and nothing more than delivered meals. But after taking a couple of Tiger Roar Fist strikes, it began to realize something was wrong.
Although one or two punches were useless against it, there were thirty-two people here—sixty-four fists. If each person landed a punch, there was no way it could withstand them all.
The lone wolf went berserk, trying to break through the encirclement. Gong Che and Shi Yi stood ready, prepared for exactly this move.
Gong Che’s parents were cultivators, and Shi Yi came from a family of hunters. Both had been raised in environments that exposed them to dealing with wild beasts and demon beasts.
“Tiger Roar!”
The tiger roars continued ceaselessly. Every single student’s fist technique had now reached a significant level of mastery.
Gong Che was gradually coming to understand Lu Yang’s painstaking efforts. Teacher Lu deliberately makes our Tiger Roar Fist sound immature so that enemies will naturally let their guard down. Prepared against the unprepared, the battle is already three-tenths won before it even begins!
The lone wolf let out a mournful howl, and its soul departed to the underworld. The students were initially stunned, unable to believe they had accomplished something even their parents couldn’t, then erupted in cheers and jubilation.
This is a Level Two Qi Training wolf demon! Although its fur had been torn to shreds in the fight, it was still wolf demon fur. They could sell it for money.
“You have to cut the wolf hide along the grain," Shi Yi explained as he skinned the wolf. As he came from a hunter’s background, he had the most experience in such matters
Just then, Fang Zhige returned, his face and body covered in blood.
“Success?” Lu Yang asked with a smile, crossing his legs.
“Success!”
Just as everyone was basking in the joyous atmosphere, Lu Yang’s expression suddenly shifted. He struck without warning.
A mass of white burst forth from the snow and lunged at the students. Instinctively sensing danger, the students screamed.
Bang!
Lu Yang stood before them and dispersed the white mass with a single punch.
It was a rabbit at the Qi Training Stage.
“It’s a Gnawing Demon Rabbit!” Shi Yi cried out in terror.
One demon rabbit wasn’t much of a threat, but Gnawing Demon Rabbits always appeared in droves.
Fang Zhige’s expression also changed. Based on everything he had learned about demon beasts, the first thing to do upon spotting such demon rabbits was to flee for one’s life.
Sure enough, demon rabbit after demon rabbit came tumbling down from the snowy slopes, fixing their red eyes on Lu Yang.
Moreover, the leader of the demon rabbits was at the Foundation Establishment Stage.
A bead of cold sweat trickled down Lu Yang’s forehead as a chill ran down his spine. One Foundation Establishment demon rabbit and nearly a hundred Qi Training ones—even a Golden Core cultivator wouldn’t fare well against a lineup like this.
And right now, my cultivation is fluctuating at the Foundation Establishment Stage. How could I be a match for the demon rabbits?
I’m afraid I’ll perish here.
It doesn’t matter even if I perish here, but nothing must happen to the children!
“Run, all of you! I’ll hold them off!” Taking advantage of the standoff with the demon rabbits, Lu Yang turned and shouted sternly, his eyes already flickering with the resolve to die.
A demon rabbit seized this moment of distraction and pounced at Lu Yang, only to be sent flying by Lu Yang’s fist.
“Teacher Lu!”
“Go! Can’t you see we’re the ones holding Teacher Lu back?!”
“We’re utterly useless here. Teacher Lu is a good person blessed by the heavens. He’ll definitely be fine!” Gong Che and Shi Yi spoke with reddened eyes, tears threatening to spill.
The other students knew that Gong Che and Shi Yi were right. As they retreated, they called out for Teacher Lu.
Deep down, they had a faint premonition that this parting might be their last.
Only Fang Zhige wore a peculiar expression. Unless my eyes are playing tricks on me, the demon rabbit that Teacher Lu just killed with a single punch seems to have been the Foundation Establishment one.
Lu Yang’s eyes turned bloodshot as he threw himself into the fray, slaughtering the demon rabbits.
If only Ao Ling’s and Jiang Lianyi’s auras were still present, that would have scared these demon rabbits away. But I’ve been in the Extreme North for so long that their scents have long faded.
I can only rely on myself.
“I’ll fight you to the death!”
Lu Yang dared not underestimate these Qi Training demon beasts. In all his years of cultivation, there was one type of demon beast he had never faced—demon beasts at the Qi Training Stage!
Against a demon beast I’ve never encountered before, no amount of caution is excessive!
The moment the demon rabbits saw their leader killed, they turned tail and fled in terror.
Lu Yang gave chase relentlessly. The commotion in the distance caught his attention. He noticed mist and billowing snow in the direction the demon rabbits were fleeing.
A horde of demon beasts was swarming toward him.
Leading the charge were Icefield Wolves, followed by what seemed to be colossal demon beasts obscured by the swirling snow.
So these demon beasts couldn’t beat me and called for backup?
“Immortal Fairy, what’s going on? Why are so many demon beasts charging over?” Lu Yang finally understood why he had been unable to find any beasts earlier. So it’s because they have all been lying in wait for me.
Draped in her white wolf pelt, the Everlasting Immortal Fairy sat on the throne regally. “This is probably a beast tide. They form for many reasons, such as a new demon king establishing their authority, something in the city attracting them, or their original habitat being encroached upon.
“Back when the Nine-Layers Immortal captured golden crows for breeding, it was just as chaotic. Birds were flying everywhere.”
“I’m just trying to organize some outdoor activities. Why won’t they let me teach in peace?” Lu Yang sighed. “Never mind. Let’s deal with these demon wolves and rabbits first.”
The demon rabbits moved with agility, weaving left and right through the wolf pack and disappearing into the depths of the beast tide.
Lu Yang kept up the pursuit. The Icefield Wolves’ leader was a Golden Core great demon, and its head was blown apart the instant it came face-to-face with him.
The Icefield Wolves demonstrated backbone, determined to avenge their leader, and they were all smashed to a pulp by Lu Yang’s fists.
Behind the wolves came a horde of bears three zhang tall. They were immensely strong with thick skin, and their numbers were even greater than the wolves, with several Nascent Soul demon bears among them. With only cultivation at the Foundation Establishment Stage, Lu Yang was truly at a disadvantage.
He activated his wooden swords, sweeping through the battlefield. The bears fell like wheat harvested by a scythe, cut down mercilessly before even letting out a howl.
Each wooden sword shattered after releasing a wisp of sword qi and couldn’t be reused. Lu Yang had no choice but to continuously take out new ones from his identity jade tablet.
Growing tired of retrieving the wooden swords one by one, he emptied his sack of wooden swords and willed them to hover behind him, forming a forest of wooden blades.
A beast tide spelled catastrophe for the cities of the Extreme North, not only because of the great demon kings presiding over them, but also because the endless waves of demon beasts themselves were enough to make the scalps of humans tingle.
However, no matter how many demon beasts there were, they were no match for Lu Yang.
Lu Yang strolled through the beast tide as if he was taking a leisurely walk. With a light flick of his finger, the wooden swords flew forth, and swaths of demon beasts collapsed.
By the end, even the berserk demon beasts regained their senses and were too terrified to charge again, staring in horror at this seemingly weak human.
“Where are those demon rabbits?”
The demon rabbits had fled too quickly, blending into the beast tide, where they were hard to spot. Since Lu Yang was sweeping with his wooden swords, the demon rabbits’ small sizes made it difficult to hit them.
“Found them.”
Lu Yang shielded his eyes with a hand and spotted the demon rabbits not far away.
Swoosh! The wooden swords flew out and shattered, shredding the demon rabbits to pieces.
Lu Yang wiped away the non-existent sweat from his forehead. I’ve finally killed them. That was truly no easy feat.
Boom!
A leg of an elephant dozens of zhang thick slammed down, shaking the earth and mountains, drawing Lu Yang’s attention.
Those humongous silhouettes emerged from the snowy mist, revealing their true forms.
The Frost Elephant, as vast as a mountain; the White Snake, gliding across the ground and carving riverbeds in its wake; the Sword-Toothed Tiger King, leaping from peak to peak, with each claw shattering a summit; the Northern Whale, treating the snowy plains as an ocean...
Even the generals of Muxue City’s garrison would tremble at the sight. These were the legendary great demon kings of the icy plains!
The Frost Elephant exhaled white mist. All that snowy mist was actually its breath!
Lu Yang instinctively flicked his fingers again, but no wooden swords flew forth. He turned and saw that he had run out of them.
Roar, roar!
Hehehe!
The great demon kings made various sounds, mocking Lu Yang’s predicament. The wooden swords—the only things that can threaten us—are gone. What else could this puny Foundation Establishment cultivator do to us?
Their laughter was contagious, spreading through the beast horde.
Lu Yang let out a resigned sigh and took out another sack of wooden swords from his identity jade tablet.
The previous swords had been forged when he was at the Fusion Stage, whereas these wooden swords were forged when he was at the Transcendent Tribulation Stage.
The great demon kings’ laughter came to an abrupt halt.
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