Food gives me an entry, I will be invincible if I stay alive

Chapter 365 Intricate Threads, Strange Beyond Strange

In the woods, the senior brother was terrified.

Chen Xu was also momentarily startled.

Because at the very moment his junior brother died, he suddenly realized that the person his junior brother was pointing at was himself!

Yes, in the brief moments before his death, his junior brother's gaze was fixed on Chen Xu.

In the moment before he died, he saw Chen Xu, who had been "transparent".

But he didn't have time to finish speaking before he died from a ruptured heart.

At the moment of his death, his eyes were filled with shock, pain, and disbelief, but the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, holding a strange smile.

This smile made the senior brother extremely uneasy.

He dared not turn back; his heart was in turmoil, he was both angry and anxious. He pointed his sword at his junior brother's corpse and asked angrily:
"Ding Chuan, what did you say? Explain yourself! Tell me what's behind me!"

But how could a corpse possibly answer?
Junior Brother Ding Chuan lay quietly on the messy ground, his body emanating a faint smell of blood.

The senior brother was panicking, and he was getting more and more panicked.

He kept calling out, "Ding Chuan, Ding Chuan! Get up, speak!"

Amidst the shouts, the senior brother raised his sword and suddenly swept it behind him.

Chi Chi Chi!
His true energy shot out through the magic sword, instantly creating several sword energies.

"Ahhh!" The senior brother swung his sword in the air, releasing bursts of sword energy that chopped the trees behind him to pieces, while constantly scanning his surroundings.

Chen Xu then realized, to his dismay, that he seemed to be treated as some kind of indescribable thing, and was being treated with extreme suspicion.

Of course, the reason he still had the leisure to make such remarks was because he also discovered that although his senior brother's sword energy could occasionally graz his body, those grazed sword energies seemed to be as if they were grazing air—

Senior Brother's sword energy could not harm Chen Xu.

As his senior brother's expression grew increasingly solemn, he shouted, "The setting sun shines brightly!"

brush!
A bright blue fan-shaped sword aura suddenly shot out from the tip of the senior brother's sword. The power of this sword move completely overturned Chen Xu's previous judgment that the opponent's strength was not even as good as Master Wu's.

It's easy to imagine that this senior brother had actually been holding back his true abilities when dealing with the wild boar.

If he had used that sword energy earlier, the wild boar would have been torn to pieces without even a single strike.

But now he suddenly erupted, and although Chen Xu subconsciously dodged, his speed was no match for the speed at which the sword energy was flying towards him.

In a flash, Chen Xu discovered once again that even such a powerful sword aura swept past him as if he were facing thin air, without causing him the slightest harm.

The feeling here is extremely strange.

Chen Xu pondered to himself.

He wasn't actually "transparent," because he could touch everything in this world, and when he made a loud noise while walking on the ground, it would be noticed by others.

That junior brother Ding Chuan could see him when he was on the verge of death!
However, his senior brother's attack had no effect on him. The ineffectiveness was not due to dissolution, but rather it was as if he had touched nothingness, passing directly through him.

What exactly is the principle behind this?
Chen Xu realized that this was actually a very powerful ability, and if he could understand even a little bit of it, he would have the greatest reliance when he traveled in this world in the future.

Unfortunately, he has no control over this ability, nor can he understand the reason behind it.

Chen Xu could only keep this in mind, and occasionally take it out to ponder it, hoping that he might get inspiration someday.

He glanced around and saw that it was as if a storm had passed through the area.

Within a radius of ten zhang, all the trees either collapsed or were chopped up.

The senior brother, holding his magic sword, stood there panting heavily. The sword strike he had just landed had clearly taken a heavy toll on him.

His right hand, which was holding the sword, trembled continuously. He took several deep breaths and, after confirming that there was nothing strange around him, angrily walked towards his junior brother, Ding Chuan.

"Junior brother, you truly live up to your reputation!" the senior brother sneered. "Even on your deathbed, you still manage to deceive me one last time. In that case, your senior brother will send you on your way one last time."

At this point, he carefully took out a talisman from his waist.

"Huh?" Chen Xu was surprised.

He walked over to his senior brother and carefully examined the talisman, discovering that it was remarkably similar to the talismans issued by the Qingxu Dao Palace of the Great Li Kingdom.

This appears to be a Fire Talisman?

Chen Xu had seen such a blazing fire talisman at Feng Yuanbai's place.

Feng Yuanbai purchased it from Qingxu Daogong.

However, compared to the talismans of Qingxu Dao Palace, the current Fiery Talisman seems much more conventional.

The faint, fiery energy emanating from it was also extremely rich, far surpassing the spiritual talismans of the Qingxu Dao Palace that Chen Xu had seen before.

Chen Xu memorized all the information and secretly compared it.

He discovered that although Dali was the kingdom depicted in the murals, many things within it seemed to have intricate connections to this world.

The senior brother raised the Fiery Talisman, intending to activate it to burn his junior brother Ding Chuan's body directly.

But just as he was gathering his true energy and bringing it to his fingertips, and the talisman was about to be activated, his senior brother hesitated again.

After hesitating for a long time, he finally gritted his teeth, raised his sword, and stabbed his junior brother in the heart.

laugh!
The sword goes in and out.

The senior brother let out a breath, confirming whether his junior brother Ding Chuan was truly dead. Once confirmed, he immediately squatted down and began searching through Ding Chuan's belongings.

Ultimately, the senior brother couldn't resist his desire for his junior brother's possessions. He wanted to take everything from him first before using the Fiery Talisman to destroy the evidence.

Then, at the very moment the senior brother reached into the junior brother's waist.

A streak of dark light flashed by.

This dark light was truly like a shooting star or an arrow, a flash of light in the blink of an eye.

Just a fleeting moment... no, even a fraction of a fleeting moment.

The wind blew past a withered leaf, and before the leaf could even be moved, the dark light shot straight into the senior brother's brow.

laugh!
It turned out that the junior brother had faked his death and spat out the pitch-black iron nail that he had been hiding in his mouth the moment the senior brother bent over!
This time, the senior brother didn't even have time to shout; only a very faint "You..." escaped his throat.

His head exploded instantly.

boom!
Red and white splattered, and the senior brother fell backward to the ground.

This time, he didn't even have the chance to fake his death like his junior brother; instead, he died cleanly and thoroughly in a single encounter.

Ding Chuan sat up abruptly, clutching his chest and laughing and crying at the same time: "Hahaha, great! Senior brother, Zhang Ming, did you think I was completely unprepared when you ambushed and killed me?"
I just never expected you would actually try to kill me!
Did you know that I actually found that copy of "The Immortal Journey of Jizhou" in the Ruins of a Hundred Battles through sheer luck? For that moment of luck, I even traded away thirty years of my lifespan.

I treated you with utmost sincerity, wanting to search for treasure with you and change our destiny, but who would have thought you would strike first against me?

Senior brother, thirty years ago, you picked me up from the pile of beggars and brought me into the sect. You also taught me carefully and guided me to practice swordsmanship hand in hand.

She brought me candy from the market, and we made a vow together to lead our sect to the eighth rank...

But you've forgotten all of that.

Ding Chuan sighed softly one last time, and removed his hand from his chest, where a broken jade pendant fell out.

This is no ordinary jade pendant; it is a healing pendant capable of withstanding a fatal blow.

Just now, his senior brother pierced his heart with a sword, and he was indeed on the verge of death.

However, the existence of the Healing Spirit Pendant gradually absorbed his death energy, prompting his wounds to begin healing.

That's how Ding Chuan managed to save his life.

Unfortunately, this life-saving trump card can only be used once.

Zhang Ming's second sword strike landed squarely on Ding Chuan's chest, but this time the healing pendant failed to work.

Fortunately, the sword only grazed Ding Chuan's heart, which prevented it from killing him again.

Ding Chuan endured the pain and did not flare up at that moment, but now he was in so much pain that his face turned pale and he was covered in cold sweat.

He reached into his waistband and pulled out a bottle of medicine, carefully pouring the powder onto the wound on his chest.

This was his last bit of medicine.

The wound was too deep, and there was too little medicine powder. Even if we used it all up, it would only stop the bleeding slightly.

Ding Chuan thought about it for a while, but still couldn't bear to throw away the empty medicine bottle.

He put the medicine bottle back into his storage pouch at his waist and carefully leaned over to search for Zhang Ming's body.

Half an hour later, Ding Chuan ate a pill he had taken from Zhang Ming's storage pouch, then set up a fire, chopped off a piece of wild boar meat, and started roasting the wild boar in a clearing in the forest.

Throughout this time, Chen Xu watched from the sidelines.

He noticed that Ding Chuan was seemingly searching for something with his eyes.

But his gaze swept over Chen Xu several times, as if he saw nothing at all.

Is it because he has already escaped the near-death state that he can't see Chen Xu?
Or is Ding Chuan still pretending?

This person's acting skills are superb, so Chen Xu is not in a hurry to draw conclusions.

But Chen Xu noticed that Ding Chuan's stomach was rumbling, clearly indicating that he was starving.

Zhang Ming had previously mentioned several times that he was about to starve to death.

This is really strange. How can a dignified cultivator be unable to afford food and be on the verge of starving to death?
Chen Xu found it hard to understand.

With the skills of cultivators, no matter how poor they are, just look at the vast mountains and rivers in front of them. Even if they go into the mountains to hunt, they can't just starve to death.
And Chen Xu found the answer to this question just fifteen minutes later.

Ding Chuan lit a fire and carefully roasted a piece of wild boar back meat.

The chunk of meat was as long as half an adult's forearm, sizzling and oozing oil, and was golden brown.

At first glance, the meat smelled delicious, but after Ding Chuan took a bite, his face suddenly scrunched up.

"Ptooey! Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey!" Ding Chuan hurriedly spat out the meat, his face showing a look of utter frustration.

"I can't eat it! I still can't eat this meat!" He was almost crying. "It's so sour and astringent, it must contain some kind of poison. No one can eat it! How hateful! Am I, Ding Chuan, a dignified cultivator, really going to starve to death in these mountains?"

Upon hearing Ding Chuan's words, Chen Xu suddenly realized that wild animals in this world should not be eaten easily.

Feeling something was amiss, he quietly took a few steps forward and carefully examined the raw pig and cooked meat on the ground.

In such a vast and boundless world, the cultivators within it actually find it extremely difficult to fill their stomachs.
Why is this?

(End of this chapter)