Beginning with the Five Animals Fist to Become a Saint

Luoshui Lake.

The rising sun shone on the lake, the mist gradually thinned, the sun slowly rose, and the temperature between heaven and earth continued to rise.

Fishing boats have already appeared on the lake along the shore.

That's how fishermen start their day's work.

Relying on mountains to eat mountains, relying on water to draft water.

The people living along the riverbank rely on the abundant water resources of Luoshui Lake for their livelihood.

Just then.

Suddenly, a wave burst open on the distant lake surface.

"A big fish!!" someone on the fishing boat exclaimed instantly. Looking in the direction of the sound, they saw a figure appear on the lake after the waves burst open.

A figure stands on the lake, suspended in mid-air, tall and slender, with glistening water droplets slowly falling from the sky.

"That's a person!" someone exclaimed.

At this moment, Jiang Ning stood on the lake and opened his own interface.

[Source Point]: 167.3
Looking at the accumulated energy points on the panel, he nodded in satisfaction.

Although the lake was full of rare and precious materials, they were of ordinary quality, but the sheer quantity of them still allowed him to accumulate over a hundred source points.

With these hundred-plus source points, he can also consider breakthroughs in cultivation techniques and skills.

"But there's no rush. Accumulating experience points for cultivation techniques takes time. Even though the efficiency of gaining experience points from martial arts training has increased since I achieved the Nascent Soul stage, it will still take some time! Right now, there are other things to do!"

He turned his head to look into the distance.

That was the direction of the God of Flesh and Blood that he had sensed earlier.

He shares the same authority as the god of flesh and blood, and there must be a struggle between the two.

Previously, the reason was that the strength was insufficient, and there was no confidence enough to defeat that resurrected god.

Secondly, it is not a place where ordinary flesh and blood gods reside, so understanding this matter is not so simple.

This time is different.

After achieving the primordial spirit, the greatest improvement was not in his strength, but in his perception of the universe and all things.

The world he now sees is far less vast and boundless than it once was.

Instead, it became much smaller.

Especially when he exists in the form of a primordial spirit, the world appears to be a hundred times smaller in his eyes, like a pond. He can reach the north and south of the Great Xia Dynasty in a dozen breaths at the speed of a primordial spirit.

Even with a physical body, the required speed would only be ten times greater.

His perception was no longer the same as before, relying on the five senses of an ordinary person to perceive the world, but rather on his primordial spirit.

His primordial spirit's keen perception allowed him to sense unusual auras from afar.

"God of Flesh and Blood, it's time!" Jiang Ning muttered to himself, looking towards the southwest.

next moment.

To the astonishment of the fishermen.

Jiang Ning instantly transformed into a dazzling black and white streak of light and rose into the air.

The streaking light pierced the sky, and just as it appeared in the eyes of the fishermen, it formed a perfect arc on the distant horizon.

There was almost no transition in time between the beginning and the end, nor was there any movement or sound, as if the black and white parabola had always existed.

The speed was so fast that it completely exceeded common sense.

The fishermen on the fishing boat only saw a blur before their eyes, and the figure hanging on the lake surface disappeared, leaving only a black and white rainbow stretching across the sky.

"Gods! Gods!!" An old fisherman knelt down on the bow of the boat and kowtowed repeatedly in the direction Jiang Ning had left.

Other fishermen followed suit, and the lake was soon covered with people kneeling down.

However, Jiang Ning was already a hundred miles away and could not hear these ordinary people's exclamations and worship.

He was enveloped by the Yin-Yang escape light, like a streak of light cutting through the sky, completely surpassing the ability to capture visual energy.

The moment anyone saw that black and white rainbow, it had already pierced through the skies of the northeast and southwest.

Connecting at the two ends of the line of sight, it resembles the straightest ribbon.

Mountains and rivers, heaven and earth, and all things in nature, were piled up together in Jiang Ning's perception at this moment, like fleeting shadows.

He could not handle such a dense flood of information in the past, but now he could handle it with ease.

Time seemed to slow down dramatically as his mind raced.

The mountains and rivers receded as if in a stream of light.

In just a moment, following that scent, Jiang Ning arrived at a remote town nestled among mountains.

The city was small, only half the size of Luoshui County.

He hovered thousands of feet in the air, looking down.

The houses in the city are low and the streets are narrow. It is early morning, and wisps of smoke are rising from the chimneys. The people in the city are beginning their day's work, and the market is gradually becoming lively.

On the surface, it looks no different from any other small border town.

However, in Jiang Ning's spiritual perception, this small town exuded an indescribable eeriness.

The distribution of life in the city is extremely uneven.

Most areas are sparsely populated with life, except near the central square of the city, where life fluctuations gather in far greater quantities than usual.

Moreover, those fluctuations contained an aura that was both familiar and repulsive to him.

That was the aura of the God-Worshipping Cult, the aura of the flesh-and-blood god after it entered the body.

Moreover, beneath the central square of the city, a vast, deep, and filthy energy is slowly surging.

The sheer magnitude of that energy was almost comparable to a small spiritual vein, but its nature was completely different from the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, filled with a sense of bloodshed, madness, and devouring.

“Found it.” Jiang Ning’s eyes turned cold.

Without further hesitation, he transformed into a streak of light and swooped down toward the central square of the city.

It moved so fast that to the average person it was just a blurry black and white afterimage streaking across the sky.

Most of the people in the city were still busy with their work, and those who occasionally looked up were just like birds flying by and did not pay any attention.

However, just as Jiang Ning was about to reach the airspace above the square, his aura suddenly surged.

"Om-"

An invisible force suddenly spread out from him.

This force is not an attack, but a gentle push, like a spring breeze or a rolling tide.

The square was bustling with people buying and selling goods; vendors were setting up stalls; children were playing; and even elderly people were squatting in a corner basking in the sun. Under the influence of this force, they all involuntarily retreated to their surroundings.

"Ouch!"

"what happened?"

Who pushed me?

Exclamations and doubts rose and fell.

The people felt as if they were being carried away by a gentle yet irresistible force, their feet leaving the ground, and they floated lightly towards the outside of the square.

In just a few breaths, the once bustling central square had been cleared out to create a circular open space with a diameter of over a hundred feet.

In the center of the open space, only the goods left behind by the vendors and market-goers remained.

Jiang Ning looked down at the square below.

He knew that beneath the square lay a hidden world.

Then, he raised his right hand, flipped his palm, and pressed down.

boom!!

An invisible force descended, causing the earth to rumble and collapse.

Outside the square, many people swayed from side to side, unable to stand steadily, and some even sat down.

In the center of the square, the ground collapsed with a crash as he pressed down with his palm.

Smoke and dust billowed into the sky, obscuring half the heavens. When the smoke and dust cleared slightly, a giant crater with a diameter of over fifty feet appeared before everyone's eyes.

The pit wasn't filled with mud and rocks, but rather a churning, surging pool of dark red blood!
The pool of blood was viscous like paste, with fist-sized blood bubbles constantly rising to the surface. Each bursting bubble released a nauseatingly sweet and pungent odor.

The blood in the pool was not still, but constantly churning, sometimes bursting into crimson waves.

What's even more chilling is that above the pool of blood floats an indescribable, terrifying creature.

The creature was about five zhang tall, and its entire body was dark red, as if it were made of congealed blood and twisted flesh.

It has three heads, each facing one of the three directions.

The left side of the head resembles a human but is not; the face is distorted in pain, and the eyes are empty and bleeding.

The middle head resembles a beast but is not quite a beast, with protruding fangs and a single horn on its forehead.

The right side of the skull was a constantly writhing tumor, its surface covered with eye-shaped protrusions, each eye rotating with a frenzied greed.

Six arms extend from both sides of the torso, each with a different shape.

Some resemble human arms but are covered in bone spurs, some resemble beast claws covered in scales, and some are simply a constantly deforming mass of flesh and tendrils.

Its four legs, like pillars, are deeply embedded in the pool of blood, as if drawing nourishment from it.

Three heads, six arms, and four legs!
This was the divine body of the flesh-and-blood god he had seen before.

However, compared to what I saw back then, this body has clearly undergone new changes.

At this moment, its body was clearly still being nurtured in the blood pool and had not yet fully formed, but even so, it still exuded a terrifying pressure that made people suffocate.

The oppressive aura, a mixture of divine majesty and filthy depravity, was enough to shake the hearts of the people who had not yet left, causing many to collapse to the ground, foaming at the mouth.

What's even more chilling is that in the pool of blood, corpses are floating up and down!

There were men and women, old and young, and even the corpses of birds and beasts.

Most of these corpses were mutilated, some with their skin peeled off, revealing bright red muscle.

Some had their internal organs removed, leaving their chest cavities completely empty.

Some of them appear to have been forcibly distorted by some force, with their limbs folded at bizarre angles.

Their eyes were wide open, their faces frozen with the fear and pain of impending death, rising and sinking with the churning of the blood pool.

The number of corpses was so great that it almost filled half of the blood pool; there were probably no fewer than several thousand, or even more!

"I see……"

Jiang Ning stood at the edge of the pit, looking down at the terrifying three-headed, six-armed, four-legged divine body below, and the countless corpses floating in the blood pool. He instantly understood.

"What I sensed was the divine body of this flesh and blood god."

"It is not yet fully formed and cannot fully bear the will of the God of Flesh and Blood. That is why it needs to rely on this blood pool and the essence of the flesh and blood of these creatures to continuously nourish and perfect this divine body."

“I drove the God Worship Cult out of Luoshui County before, but with the power of the flesh and blood god, they can easily cultivate more members. In less than a year or two, they must have been hiding here, secretly capturing, deceiving the people, and even hunting wild animals, all to support this god’s body.”

Thinking of this, a cold glint suddenly appeared in Jiang Ning's eyes.

His expulsion back then allowed this scourge to continue harming other people.

He wasn't strong enough to handle things now.

But things are different now that I've reached the realm of a Primordial Spirit Immortal.

With a leap in strength, our perception of the world has become more acute.

His gaze swept around the blood pool.

They were men in black robes, and their aura clearly indicated they were followers of the God Worship Cult.

These people had by now recovered from their initial shock.

Far from being afraid, they knelt down in unison, frantically kowtowing to the divine body in the pool of blood, chanting incantations:

"Flesh and blood live on forever, all spirits return to their origin!"

"Offer my flesh and blood to forge a divine body!"

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Amidst the fervent prayers, a faint crimson light began to emanate from their bodies, resonating with the energy in the blood pool. It seemed as if they were sacrificing their life force to the divine body through some kind of ritual.

They had already felt it; they had felt the invincible power of Jiangning.

They all sacrificed their own power to hasten the descent of the God of Flesh and Blood.

Seeing this scene below, Jiang Ning couldn't help but snort coldly.

"Since you want to make a sacrifice, then so be it!"

He was too lazy to say anything more at the moment. He had only one goal in coming here: to completely eliminate the God of Flesh and Blood and understand the cause and effect between him and the God of Flesh and Blood.

This will also ensure the complete eradication of the religion from Bactria, preventing it from harming more lives.

Just from the pool of blood below, he knew that at least tens of thousands of people had been harmed by the God-Worshipping Cult, and perhaps even more.

If we stay, even more people will die.

He raised his hand and spread his five fingers.

at the same time.

Below, in the pool of blood, a man in black robes stared at the figure in the sky, his pupils widening in shock.

He recognized Jiang Ning; Li Hong, the county magistrate of Luoshui County whom he had lured into the sect years ago, had died at Jiang Ning's hands.

The aura Jiang Ning exuded as he hovered above the small town at this moment was completely different from the Jiang Ning he remembered.

He could clearly feel that, as the leader of the God Worship Cult, he was exposed to Jiang Ning's eyes from above, and a terrifying aura of death was washing over him like a tide, leaving him nowhere to escape.

"Die!" Jiang Ning uttered the words.

His five fingers suddenly tightened.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!..."

A series of muffled thuds exploded like popping beans, and blood gushed from the black-robed cultists, their blood vessels seemingly bursting at that moment.

In an instant, blood and flesh flew everywhere, and bone fragments splattered all around.

Their lives were taken away in an instant, but the remaining essence of their flesh and blood was drawn by an invisible force, flowing into the blood pool like rivers flowing into the sea.

The blood pool churned even more violently, and the three-headed, six-armed, four-legged divine body trembled slightly, its flesh and blood writhing faster, as if it had received considerable nourishment.

Jiang Ning remained expressionless, as if he had merely brushed away some dust.

His gaze swept over the remains left after the cultists exploded, and suddenly his eyebrows twitched slightly.

Among that pile of mangled, bloody corpses, he sensed a slightly powerful aura.

With a sweep of his divine sense, he locked onto a mutilated corpse.

That was the aura of a fourth-grade martial artist; his skin, flesh, and bones had long been tempered to an extraordinary level.

The corpse was dressed in a dark red robe with gold trim. Although it was tattered, its luxurious and unique quality was still evident.

The corpse's head was still intact, its face was aged, its eyes were wide open, and its expression was frozen with shock and resentment.

"Such strength, such attire, could he be the legendary leader of the God Worship Cult?" A thought flashed through Jiang Ning's mind.

"It's probably eight or nine out of ten!" After making his judgment, he slowly withdrew his gaze.

A slight ripple stirred within me at that moment.

The leader of the God Worshiping Cult, who once held sway over Dongling County and secretly controlled the entire county, now died here like an ant, dying so easily and so insignificantly.

He didn't even pay special attention to this person when he made his move.

It can only be said that times have changed.

The enemy he once had to be treated with caution is now no different from roadside weeds in his eyes.

Jiang Ning looked away and waved his hand.

A gentle breeze swept by, carrying the remains of the cultists, as well as dozens of corpses scattered around the edge of the blood pool that had not yet been thrown into it, into the blood pool.

"Thump, thump, thump..."

The sounds of bodies falling into the water echoed one after another. (End of Chapter)