Chapter 4 Evolution of Fist Momentum

Having obtained a sufficient amount of mermaid tears, Leng Tian and Li Dongqing drank heartily. Guoguo and the other young women, along with the fox sisters, were also tempted by the rich aroma of the wine. They grabbed a barrel of mermaid tears, sat together, and chatted, laughed, drank, and ate roasted meat.

Until everyone was thoroughly drunk, the remaining roasted meat was completely devoured by Max the giant dragon. With Leng Tian's permission, Max drank a whole barrel of mermaid tears. Each barrel contained a full hundred catties of mermaid tears, and this completely knocked out a Saint-tier giant dragon.

Leng Tian finished the remaining mermaid tears in his flagon and looked at the drunken crowd, a warm smile appearing on his face. "If in the days to come, I can have all of you by my side, what would it matter even if I, Leng Tian, were to give up on climbing to the highest peak!"

Casually picking up a jug of wine, Leng Tian stepped out of the Purgatory realm. Emerging along with him was the great tiger Qiongqi. As soon as they were out, Qiongqi stared at Leng Tian with its fierce tiger eyes, unable to understand why it had been released, wondering if Leng Tian wasn't afraid that it would simply run away.

Leng Tian said nothing. He floated up and seated himself on the great tiger's back. Taking a sip of wine, he said in a deep voice, "From now on, follow by my side, and there will be no shortage of benefits for you. Max is the best proof of that. Are you willing?"

The great tiger Qiongqi remained silent for a moment. Then, it suddenly tossed its tiger head, and a mighty roar echoed across the wilderness. With a stamp of its four hooves and a shake of its feathered wings, it carried Leng Tian high into the sky, stepping through the air as it ascended.

"Hahahaha..." Leng Tian understood that Qiongqi had truly submitted to him from the bottom of its heart. Sitting upon the giant tiger's back, Leng Tian looked down from on high at the earth below, a surge of heroic spirit condensing in his heart.

Qiongqi carried Leng Tian, soaring through the azure sky and flying far into the distance. Leng Tian gazed at the blue sky, admired the earth, and drank the fine wine from his flagon. That surging heroic spirit within his chest continued to gather, waiting for the moment of eruption.

Qiongqi's speed was not much slower than that of Max. With every beat of its massive feathered wings, dozens of zhang of distance flashed by in an instant. As several more jugs of wine went down his stomach, Leng Tian's consciousness gradually drifted into an indescribable realm.

Gradually, a flash of light crossed his mind. This was an empty world, where heaven and earth were in primordial chaos. The ground was cracked, towering mountains had collapsed, and great rivers had split and changed their courses. Leng Tian stood quietly in the sky of this chaotic world.

"Boom!"

The entire chaotic world trembled. A colossal, awe-inspiring figure that could not be fully measured stood within this world. A body ten thousand zhang tall was shrouded in seven-colored light, making its appearance impossible to discern.

Behind the giant stood a black mountain peak equally ten thousand zhang tall. That ancient, primordial, and heavy aura could no longer be described simply as terrifying. It transcended the laws, broke free from the shackles of rules, and existed on a par with the supreme will. With a wave of its hand, heaven and earth would be obliterated; though it stood as still as a monolith, it possessed the mighty force to pierce through the ancient primordial eras and crush the primordial burial voids!

The ten-thousand-zhang giant stood with its back to Leng Tian. The majestic aura it emitted did not affect Leng Tian in the least. One stood facing the ten-thousand-zhang body and watched quietly, while the other possessed a body of ten thousand zhang, raising its head to gaze up at the firmament.

It seemed to be just an instantaneous moment, yet it also felt as if ten thousand ages had slipped away like fleeting smoke. The ten-thousand-zhang giant let out a roar that seemed to split the heavens, "Tai..."

And Leng Tian, standing behind the giant, followed with a shout, "Tai..." Both sounds were resonant and profound, as if this single voice was the invisible will controlling the operation of the laws of this heaven and earth. With the utterance of this sound, the entire dead and desolate world burst with vitality. The power of various laws derived and nourished the earth, giving birth to the various rules governing heaven and earth.

The giant moved. Its fist techniques were extremely simple, ordinary, and streamlined. With every punch the giant threw, the ten-thousand-zhang peak behind it would release various forces of heaven and earth, driving the evolutionary progress of the laws.

While the giant was evolving its fist techniques, Leng Tian followed every movement of the giant's fist stances. Between heaven and earth, there were only the two of them executing these plain and ordinary fist techniques. As the giant's fist techniques continued to evolve, the entire heaven and earth underwent earth-shattering changes. The powers of the various laws followed the trajectories of the fist stances, evolving and giving birth to all living things in the universe.

The law of earth poured into the ground, causing peak after peak to rise from the earth. Continuous mountain ranges, like sleeping giant dragons, constantly filled the empty land. The cracked earth began to heal, and vibrant vitality instantly filled the vast expanse.

The law of water was guided into the earth by the giant's fist stances. Patches of lush green rapidly carpeted the land. The high mountains were adorned with towering trees, and great rivers rolled with turbulent waves, like winding divine dragons piercing through the boundless earth, nourishing all living creatures and allowing them to multiply and thrive.

As the giant's fist techniques continually evolved, the powers of the various laws were channeled into the vast earth. Time seemed to pass by ten thousand years in an instant; heaven and earth were now a scene of lush grass, flying birds, and boundless vitality.

Leng Tian continuously followed the giant in evolving the fist techniques, sensing the various great forces of heaven and earth. Traces of the Dao condensed and operated between heaven and earth, and a trace of the Great Dao was imprinted into Leng Tian's body, influencing the trajectory of his fist stances.

In this new world evolved by the Great Dao, time seemed no longer able to affect the living and breathing of all things. As the giant's fist techniques grew faster and faster, the operation of the laws also evolved at a rapid pace.

Over and over again, Leng Tian followed the giant in practicing the fist techniques, mastering the derivation and operation of the great forces of heaven and earth. From beginning to end, the giant's fist techniques were ordinary and simplified, without the accompaniment of any laws or Dao, yet they could influence and control the operation of the great forces of heaven and earth. This was a portrayal of returning to simplicity, just like an ancient divine being or mighty figure who could command the law with words and control a small world. However, the giant's fist stances transcended the law, rising above heaven and earth like the existence of the Heavenly Dao itself—capable of obliterating all living things with a wave of the hand, and equally capable of making heaven and earth reopen and reshaping all living creatures with another wave.

When the operation of heaven and earth had stepped onto the right track, the giant stopped evolving its fist techniques and stood quietly between heaven and earth, as if admiring the world it had recreated.

Leng Tian also stopped, quietly gazing at the giant's back, without a single ripple of emotion, as if he had turned to stone.

At the same time, a set of fist stances imprinted itself into Leng Tian's mind: 'Derivation' could take the essence of all things for one's own use, and could also use the vitality of all things to nourish and instill life into a realm!

The moment this set of fist stances imprinted itself into his mind, the ten-thousand-zhang seven-colored giant faded and vanished, and the entire world likewise faded into nothingness, as if it had never appeared at all.

Leng Tian slowly opened his eyes, two substantive rays of sharp light shooting out before retracting back into his eyes. At this moment, Qiongqi had already carried Leng Tian over a thousand miles away. Below them lay an endless expanse of primeval forest. Gazing at the boundless sea of trees, he recalled the fist techniques evolved alongside the giant.

"Ah..."

A sky-shaking roar resounded through the firmament. Leng Tian stepped lightly on the giant tiger's spine with one foot, his figure flashing high into the air. A gentle breeze blew, billowing his white robes. He closed his eyes and recalled those ordinary and simple fist techniques move by move.

Then he opened his eyes wide, his figure moving slowly in the void. He threw punches devoid of any fierce energy, stepping lightly upon the void, every step taken executing a movement of the fist stances.

From initially slow, the entire sky eventually became filled with Leng Tian's figures practicing the fist techniques. As his consciousness gradually immersed and thoroughly understood them, invisible forces were drawn from the forest below by the fist stances and gathered around Leng Tian's body.

"Derivation." Leng Tian's fist stances returned to slowness. Every punch he threw could cause the forest below to emit a vibrant vitality, which was drawn into his body to nourish his flesh and meridians.

"Derivation Transformation..." Another fist stance was executed, and the massive amount of vital energy that had been attracted was guided by Leng Tian's fist stances toward a towering ancient tree below.

Under the infusion of this massive amount of vital energy, this towering ancient tree actually grew several meters taller, and its branches and leaves became even greener, making this ancient tree stand out like the highest banner of the entire forest.

"A tree that stands out from the forest will be battered by the wind! Derivation, transform again..." Leng Tian's fist stances shifted once more, each punch carrying a trace of the mysterious Dao. As the fist stances were executed, the vitality on this ancient tree was drawn out. As its core life essence was pulled away by the fist stances, the entire ancient tree miraculously and slowly shrank, finally stopping only when it was about two zhang in size!

Leng Tian shifted his fist stances, channeling the vital essence surrounding his body into his own body to be absorbed by his flesh and meridians.

"This 'Derivation' fist technique is truly a heaven-defying technique to save the dying and heal the wounded. It's just that the Dao imprint imprinted into me is pitifully small; otherwise, the vitality of this entire forest could be drawn by me for my own use!"

Leng Tian muttered with a hint of regret, but then he smiled happily. "With this heaven-defying technique, as my cultivation grows stronger in the future, as long as my soul remains undestroyed, I can snatch anyone back from the jaws of death by virtue of 'Derivation.' But of course, this is merely a wonderful thought."

Wanting to bring someone back from the dead required an enormous amount of vital essence. Unless Leng Tian's cultivation returned to the state it was in during the battle with the demons, this was merely an unrealistic dream, terribly far out of reach.

Leng Tian withdrew his fist stances, sensing the trace of the Dao in his mind, and discovered that this trace was slowly fusing with his soul.

"Roar..."

Floating in the distance, Qiongqi saw that Leng Tian had stopped his fist techniques, tossed its tiger head, let out a low roar, and flapped its wings to arrive close to Leng Tian, rubbing its tiger head against Leng Tian's body in a very affectionate manner.

Leng Tian exhaled a breath of stale air, reached out to stroke Qiongqi's tiger head, and smiled. "Let's go, we'll return the way we came!" He leaped onto the tiger's back, a thought flashing through his mind as a flagon of mermaid tears appeared in his hand.

"Roar..."

Qiongqi let out a tiger roar, spread its feathered wings, and flew back along the original path. Leng Tian sat on the tiger's back, took a sip of wine, and continuously recalled the towering, awe-inspiring figure of the giant in his heart.

"In the future, will I become that huge? If that were the case, which woman would dare follow me! No, that must have been a Dharma Form True Body. That kind of mighty presence capable of turning the universe and shaking the heavens—when will I, Leng Tian, ever be able to achieve it?"

Drinking the fine wine in his hand, his mind began to practice the giant's simplified fist techniques over and over again with unwavering patience. Before he knew it, the flagon of wine had been completely emptied.

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