The Demon-Slaying Grandmaster

Chapter 215 Battle
The four old Taoist priests were still a little worried and entrusted the zombie general to Li Jingxiao to deal with.

Li Jingxiao smiled, the lightning within his body surging, and a glint of blue light flashed in his eyes, making him appear as if the God of Thunder had been reborn.

Moreover, the sky, which was clear and sunny just a moment ago, became covered with dark clouds in just a dozen breaths.

Then came lightning and thunder, with booming sounds echoing through the air.

The many disciples of Maoshan and the farmers at the foot of the mountain felt a sense of oppression pressing down on their hearts.

Upon seeing this, the four old Taoist priests' expressions changed slightly.

Everyone knew that this strange phenomenon was caused by the young man in front of them.

Moreover, the lightning and thunder in the sky in just over ten seconds proved that Li Jingxiao's skill in the Lightning Thunder Fist had surpassed that of the sect leader.

When the four old Taoists looked at Li Jingxiao again, they were astonished, as if they had seen a rare treasure.

Li Jingxiao was secretly pleased. He had only been practicing the Lightning Thunder Fist for less than two years, yet he had already reached the point where he could influence celestial phenomena.

This talent is rare throughout history; if only I could be recruited to Maoshan.

For Maoshan, it will surely prosper for another one or two hundred years, or even several hundred years.

Unfortunately, Li Jingxiao was ultimately a member of the Zhenwu Temple, and to persuade him to switch sides would require an offer so great that he couldn't refuse.

Otherwise, he's not stupid; this is a world where there are cultivators and demons.

If I ascend to heaven in the future, I might be punished by the True Martial Emperor.

Moreover, the Three Mao True Lords are indeed much inferior to the True Martial Emperor.

If you really want to worship a founding master, of course you should worship the more powerful one.

Moreover, Mao Ying, the Great Mao Lord, received the teachings of the Queen Mother of the West, and was taught the Way of the Jade Pendant and Golden Bell, as well as the Scripture of the Supreme Ultimate Mystery. He completed his studies and returned home at the age of forty-nine.

Afterwards, he secluded himself to cultivate and attained enlightenment. When he ascended to heaven, his two younger brothers, who were officials, returned to their hometown and received the teachings from their elder brother.

After three years of cultivation and consuming the Nine-Turn Rejuvenation Pill, he also ascended to immortality.

No matter how you look at it, none of them have the same power or status as the True Martial Emperor.

Therefore, no matter how Li Jingxiao thought about it, he would never switch allegiance and join Maoshan.

Of course, the most important thing is that he has cheat codes.

Otherwise, the opportunity to cultivate immortality is something that people in the world would beg for, so how could they have the right to be picky?

He quickly changed the subject and began to talk to the four leaders about his plans.

The four old Taoist priests secretly sighed with regret. After carefully listening to Li Jingxiao's plan, they discussed it amongst themselves before nodding to Li Jingxiao.

"Junior brother, rest assured, we will take our disciples to Nanling right away."

If all goes well, we should arrive at the town you mentioned in five days from now.

Li Jingxiao frowned; the speed was much slower than he had expected.

Even if I were to use my lightness skill to travel last year, it would only take me a dozen hours to cover a distance of less than two thousand miles.

Using the sword control technique, it won't even take an hour.

But the Maoshan group actually needed five days.

And it's not even certain that they can arrive in five days.

This was far from the timeline he had planned, so Li Jingxiao had to consider whether to wait five days or simply go it alone.
Fortunately, he was still rational enough to know that he couldn't use his own superhuman standards to judge others.

In those days when road conditions were extremely poor, traveling more than 400 li a day was considered very fast.

Moreover, I can slowly grind monsters over the next few days.

Once the people from Maoshan have reunited with him, he will then engage in a final battle with the zombie general, the flying zombie, and a dozen or so hairy zombies.

Of course, if everything went smoothly, Li Jingxiao wouldn't specifically wait for the people from Maoshan.

However, after thinking about it, Li Jingxiao decided to go to the stable in the level 30 map of the game.

Take out 20 Akhal-Teke horses with +3 speed, +3 physique, and +2 stamina.

Seeing that Li Jingxiao could actually use the Pot Heaven Technique, or the Universe in the Sleeve, or other spatial magic or magical artifacts to conjure up so many Ferghana horses.

A look of shock flashed across the eyes of the four old Taoist priests once again.

Fortunately, they were all highly skilled individuals; although shocked, they quickly regained their composure.

He hurriedly bowed to Li Jingxiao to express his gratitude, saying that with these fine horses, they should be able to reach the meeting place in three days.

Moreover, these are Akhal-Teke horses, which are rare and valuable. Twenty Akhal-Teke horses would be extremely precious.

If they are raised properly in the future, Maoshan might earn tens of thousands of taels of silver every year just from selling the foals they breed.

The four old Taoist priests quickly bowed and thanked them.

Li Jingxiao nodded, set a time, and then flew back to the capital to visit his wife.

Although he said he was accompanying his wife, he actually spent most of the day silently practicing his internal energy to restore and nourish his meridians and dantian.

After a whole day, I was relieved to find that there were no problems with my dantian and meridians.

After dinner, we flew to the Dragon Palace of Dongting.

He received 4 gold beans and 400 gold beans engraved with the Great Strength Technique from the old Dragon King.

For the aquatic people of Dongting Lake, making pure gold beans is actually easier than making beans made of gold-copper alloy.

The process of carving runes is just too troublesome and intricate.

So even though only 400 rune beans were made, the manpower required accounted for more than 6% of the production.

The old Dragon King was worried that the production process was too slow and asked Li Jingxiao to wait two more days before starting.

Li Jingxiao nodded in agreement, but he wasn't in a hurry.

Anyway, I've already made up my mind. For the next three or four days, I'll just focus on killing ordinary zombies.

It put away the golden beans and flew to the Nanling Mountains, landing on a mountain near the Stone Forest.

Once midnight had passed, he took out two handfuls of golden beans, imbued them with lightning, and summoned about a hundred golden-armored, yellow-turbaned warriors.

Since Li Jingxiao was waiting for the Maoshan group, he naturally wouldn't be in a hurry to summon the rune-wielding Yellow Turban Warrior.

However, the warrior summoned by the golden bean was indeed much stronger.

The previous hundred gold-copper alloy warriors only consumed about 15% of his mana.

However, about 25% of the pure gold Yellow Turban Warrior has already been consumed.

But this time he didn't rush to take the blue medicine. The Sun Golden Wheel appeared in front of his chest, and he sat cross-legged to meditate and restore his true energy.

After mastering the Longevity and Immortality Technique, the speed of circulating Qi doubles.

When it reached its peak, it doubled or tripled in value.

Upon reaching the Grandmaster level, his skill increased two or three times over, which is why he previously said that he was best at prolonged battles.

In just twenty minutes, his internal energy was restored.

He then took out another hundred gold beans and summoned the Lightning Golden Armor Warrior.

Unfortunately, even after he summoned 5 golden-armored warriors, the zombies in the stone forest several miles away still noticed the commotion.

Several howls, like the howls of wolves, rang out.

Through the Xuan Guang Technique, Li Jingxiao saw more than a dozen hairy zombies roaring on the stone forest, and soon the zombies crawled out of the soil.

Then, surprisingly, they marched forward in what looked like a military formation, forming a dozen or so loose square formations.

While surprised, Li Jingxiao thought to himself, "This is a good thing."

These Mao Jiangs still have memories of the past, and might retain some of the rules governing battles between the two armies.

The clash between the Yellow Turban Warriors in Golden Armor and the regular zombies makes it easier to gain experience.

He commanded 200 golden-armored warriors to advance, when they were still a few hundred meters away from the zombie army.

One group of a hundred strongmen stopped, while another group continued forward, making provocative gestures. Anyone who had commanded an army would immediately understand that this was a challenge to a duel.

Li Jingxiao was just giving it a try and didn't have high hopes.

Unexpectedly, those dozen or so hairy zombies actually followed their habits from when they were alive, and with a few roars, the zombie army stopped.

Then about five hundred zombies stepped forward and continued to advance towards the hundred-man formation of the golden-armored warrior.

Li Jingxiao was overjoyed. Of course, he wasn't stupid; he could easily guess that these hairy zombies and that zombie king were likely also stalling for time.

But so what? My goal is to gain experience and level up. As long as I keep leveling up, my strength will also keep improving.

If I could reach level 60 or even 70, even if that zombie general really cultivated to the level of a drought demon in just two or three days, he still wouldn't be able to crush me.

Li Jingxiao is not afraid of attrition warfare.

The 500 zombies quickly clashed with the hundreds of golden-armored warriors.

Once the battle began, it was a crushing defeat.

Tonight's Golden Armor Warrior looks the same as yesterday's Gold-Bronze Alloy Warrior, but his strength has actually increased by at least 50%.

One punch can blow a zombie's head off, and when arranged in two rows to form a military formation, their fighting power is even stronger, while they receive fewer attacks.

As long as Mao Jiang doesn't join the battle, the losses are minimal, and Li Jingxiao doesn't care about the losses at all.

Before the two armies clashed, he had already recovered his true energy and summoned 100 strongmen again.

During the battle, his true energy recovered to more than 8%.

But out of a hundred golden-armored warriors, only a dozen or so were lost, yet they managed to blow the heads off all five hundred zombies.

人物等级从57级（8400/17万），一下子就升到了58级（15400/18万）
It gained a total of approximately 19 experience points.

The eighty-odd golden-armored warriors who were still alive roared under Li Jingxiao's mental command.

Sure enough, the dozen or so hairy zombies were immediately provoked.

They were whispering and growling at each other, not knowing what they were saying, but they were clearly communicating.

Soon two hairy zombies jumped out, leading 500 zombies forward.

This time, although the eighty-odd golden-armored warriors killed more than three hundred zombies and made the two hairy zombies roar incessantly, they were all eventually smashed into shattered golden beans.

Then the two zombies, in a victorious manner, roared at Li Jingxiao.

Li Jingxiao, however, was even happier.

Level 58 (133800/18)
I've gained over 100,000 experience points. If I play another game, I'm sure I'll level up again.

The second squad of a hundred warriors, who had been stationed at the edge of the battlefield, suddenly stomped their feet and then charged forward toward the battlefield.

Unexpectedly, the two zombies did not retreat.

He just kept roaring, as if to encourage himself or to intimidate the enemy.

They charged forward with two hundred and two remaining zombies to begin the battle.

The number of golden-armored warriors surrounding Li Jingxiao has increased from 300 to 500.

The flying zombie hiding high in the stone forest felt extremely anxious and uneasy upon seeing this.

Once you reach the level of a flying zombie, your mind has actually recovered to about 70-80% of what it was like in life.

Although it is impossible for him to have all his memories from his previous life, his intelligence has reached the level of a normal person.

It's easy to see that the dozen or so Mao soldiers were acting in accordance with some basic rules of warfare between two armies, which is equivalent to engaging in a war of attrition with the opponent.

But the opponent kept replenishing their troops, which was incredibly stupid.

He immediately thought of launching a sneak attack on Li Jingxiao.

Before he could act, a roar came from the underground palace, and the flying zombie stopped in its tracks.

Soon a figure was seen flying out of the underground palace and landing next to the flying zombie.

It was immediately discovered by one of the dozens of paper figures left behind by Li Jingxiao. Li Jingxiao looked into the distance and soon spotted the zombie general.

A slight smile involuntarily appeared on his lips. He, a modern man, certainly understood the principles of warfare: intelligence, logistics, and attrition.

Moreover, as the saying goes, all's fair in war, so Li Jingxiao simply stopped summoning the golden-armored warriors and pretended that he had discovered them, not daring to waste his magic power to summon more golden-armored warriors.

To avoid being ambushed or attacked, as my magic power is insufficient to deal with two flying zombies.

Seeing that Li Jingxiao was no longer summoning, the zombie general became even more wary.

Like Li Jingxiao, he stood still at the back.

Last night, he was struck by lightning from the flames spewed out by Li Jingxiao and the lightning he summoned.

They were still very wary of Li Jingxiao's strength.

He was also worried that if he attacked the golden-armored warrior, he would be ambushed by Li Jingxiao.

He could only watch as his subordinates—the hairy zombies, ordinary zombies, and the golden-armored warriors—fought each other.

As he watched, the zombie general grew increasingly wary of Li Jingxiao.

As soon as the 200 golden-armored warriors entered the arena, a hundred of them split up and ganged up on the two hairy zombies.

The remaining 1 warriors then focused their attacks on the ordinary zombies.

Seeing the two zombies howling in pain as they were being beaten by a hundred or so fearless golden-armored warriors, they were clearly at a disadvantage.

If we keep fighting, we might really get wiped out.

The zombie general wasn't stupid; in just a moment, he forgot all about the rules of one-on-one battles on the battlefield.

With a roar, the zombies launched a full-scale attack.

Li Jingxiao immediately started cursing.

However, at least 7% of the insults were just for show.

He paced back and forth several times.

He kept cursing as he walked.

Finally, possessed by the spirit of the movie star, he gritted his teeth, drew the 'Thunder Sword,' and shouted 'Kill!' at the 500 golden-armored warriors beside him.

In an instant, 500 strongmen charged forward.

Then another hundred golden-armored warriors charged directly at the two zombies who were being beaten up.

It's obvious they're taking advantage of your weakness to kill you; they're determined to eliminate these two scoundrels.

But in reality, Li Jingxiao's attention was mostly focused on the four hundred golden-armored warriors who had charged into the horde of ordinary zombies and were slaughtering them.

With just one charge, Li Jingxiao rose from level 58 (133800/18) to level 59.

Moreover, after level 59, experience points continue to increase rapidly at a visible rate.

A dozen or so zombies were constantly killing two hundred-man squads of strongmen in order to rescue the two zombies.

By the time the two hairy zombies were rescued and retreated, the entire zombie horde had been nearly wiped out by the 400 strongmen.

Li Jingxiao has also leveled up to level 62 (75800/32).
Li Jingxiao was overjoyed to have leveled up 5 times in one night.

Thinking of the slight swelling in his dantian last night, Li Jingxiao didn't hesitate and added all 5 attribute points to his physique.

体质35、根骨33+8、悟性36+4
With the strength of my meridians increased by 240% and my dantian also strengthened considerably, I immediately felt all the worries I had been having vanish.

My whole body felt refreshed and invigorated.

Moreover, the dantian has always been nourished with the power of thunder, and as the dantian widens and becomes more resilient, it also expands a bit.

Li Jingxiao instantly understood that the reason he felt something was wrong with his dantian yesterday was because the Lightning Thunder Fist had upgraded too quickly.

This has caused the amount of thunderous power nurtured in the dantian to reach its maximum capacity.

(End of this chapter)