My cards can be infinitely combined.

Chapter 567 The Mountain Guardian

"Master, you've descended the mountain!"

"Greetings, Master! We are ashamed of our incompetence!"

"Master, you must do us justice..."

The mountain god of Chiyang Mountain, the Flying Bear Immortal, and the Jade Fairy could not recognize that the person who had come down the mountain was just a King Overlord True Lord that Zhou Nan had created. They hurriedly bowed to him and tearfully complained to him.

Zhou Nan's King Overlord True Monarch was named Mountain Guardian. He waved his hand, signaling the Mountain God of Chiyang Mountain and the others to step back. With a smile, he said to the two-headed demon lizard player, "Junior brother, it's been a long time."

The two-headed demon lizard player laughed and said, "According to the seniority of our sect, you are my fifth senior brother, so there is no problem with you calling me junior brother. However, in terms of qi cultivation, I should be far superior to you now. Aptitude is a thing of the past."

The two-headed demon lizard player was overjoyed to see Zhou Nan in the world of Fengshen. With a smug look on his face, he circled Zhou Nan twice, scrutinizing him carefully, and then said, "You haven't changed at all! According to those three NPCs, you're the Crimson Sun Immortal? Looks like you're doing quite well, becoming a famous immortal. Do you still play card games?"

The mountain guardian, Wang Ba Zhenjun, replied, "Yes."

"What a pity, what a pity!" The two-headed demon lizard player shook his head. "Senior brother, you should understand that cards are just game items created by the core concept. No matter how strong the attributes are, they can't deal real damage. You really shouldn't be so fixated on cards. Your Qi is almost nonexistent; I can't even sense it. It seems your Qi cultivation has been completely neglected. You should really focus on cultivating your Qi; that's real skill, enough to fight even a cosmic emperor."

"Actually, they're all pretty much the same."

The mountain guardian, Wang Ba Zhenjun, had a glint in his eyes. He possessed a powerful aura of dominance and was quite intelligent, able to discern that the two-headed demon lizard player was only in the Heavenly Soul state.

In reality, even with only a Heavenly Soul, the Qi Gong cultivated is merely a mirage. Its destructive power is ultimately the result of core simulation calculations, essentially similar to cards created using the core, except for some additional effects such as true damage and true attack.

Qigong is special because it can refine qi into spirit, thus strengthening the celestial soul. However, without a life soul and body to rely on, once you leave the world of imagination, without a core power to interfere with the outside world, it is all for naught.

Therefore, expecting players of the Heavenly Soul faction to deal with a real being like the Cosmic Emperor is simply unreliable.

This was Zhou Nan's enlightenment after he cultivated the Supreme Bone.

However, it is clear that the two-headed demon lizard players do not understand this point. They think that cultivating qigong makes them advanced, and they look down on using cards. In fact, this is just the pot calling the kettle black.

The two-headed lizard player continued, "I'm so glad to see you here. Back in the day, I was the chief warrior of the lizard clan, invincible within the clan, roaming freely and gloriously. But I suffered repeated defeats at your hands, senior brother, which made me both angry and helpless. However, now that I think about it, those are all good memories. Do you have any wine here? Let's go to your lair and have a drink together today."

Wang Ba Zhenjun shook his head and slowly said, "If we're talking about wine, there should be some down the mountain. You can take it yourself. But if you want to go up the mountain... I am the mountain guardian. If you want to go up the mountain, you must defeat me."

"What do you mean? There's treasure hidden on the mountaintop, and you don't want me to see it?"

The two-headed demon lizard player clenched his fist and said, "Senior brother, if you say that, I'll take it seriously. How about we have a match right here? Let me get revenge for what happened back then?"

"Alright!" Wang Ba Zhenjun, the mountain guardian, gestured for them to proceed. He was also interested in seeing the strength of the two-headed demon lizard player.

The two-headed demon lizard player rubbed his hands together, saying, "Senior brother, are you going to use cards to fight me? Let me tell you beforehand, card summons can hardly withstand my attacks. Besides, I created the Cloud Step technique, which is incredibly fast; ordinary attacks can't hit me."

The mountain guardian said, "I only have four palm techniques. Consider it a contest with you using the Light Radiation Technique."

"Radiance Technique?" The two-headed demon lizard player laughed. "I heard you, like Zhang Daqian, also practice the Radiance Technique. That guy Zhang Daqian cultivated it into an atomic dinosaur, becoming a monster. Judging from your appearance, your Radiance cultivation level probably isn't much higher. Can you even fight me?"

"Try it and you'll see."

The mountain guardian, annoyed by the two-headed demon lizard player's dawdling, flipped his hand and struck first, using the [Subduing Heaven Profound Yellow] technique.

With a single palm strike, a massive handprint, seemingly cast from pure gold, descended from the sky with incredible speed and force.

The two-headed demon lizard player reacted quickly, retreating to avoid the attack range of the giant handprint, but he clearly underestimated the power of the giant handprint.

The giant handprint wasn't large, only slightly larger than a small car, but it was incredibly powerful. It slammed into the ground, creating a huge crater and causing a massive earthquake. The ground was riddled with gullies and dust billowed up. The two-headed demon lizard player was caught in the shockwave and ended up sitting on his backside.

He opened his four eyes, quickly stood up, and clouds appeared beneath his feet as he flew into the air.

This is the Cloud-Stepping Step he created himself!

Qigong does not involve moves or martial arts techniques. With sufficient cultivation, one can condense qi into a somersault cloud, release qi waves, lock onto the qi of others, and teleport instantly. At higher levels, one can even separate one's primordial spirit from one's body and create an external avatar.

However, the two-headed demon lizard player didn't just focus on cultivation level. He researched the Somersault Cloud technique and developed the Cloud Stepping Step, which gave him a faster movement speed than ordinary Qi Gong cultivators.

"Excellent palm technique! Watch this!"

Once in the sky, the two-headed demon lizard player felt invincible, reached out and pointed at the mountain guardian, condensing energy at his fingertips and unleashing a burst of energy.

This was a small-scale qi blast; he was afraid that if he used too much force, he would kill Zhou Nan instantly.

You should know that if he were to seriously unleash his ki blast, he could blast the dragon in mid-air into several pieces.

The mountain guardian also rose into the air at this moment. He dodged the energy and flicked his hand to unleash the [Nine Scales Creation]. The energy within his body transformed into nine scales, each of which was growing rapidly. In the blink of an eye, they transformed into nine shimmering, angry dragons, advancing side by side, baring their fangs and claws, and pouncing on the two-headed demon lizard player.

The two-headed demon lizard player felt a sudden tremor in his heart and instinctively dodged. His speed was indeed extremely fast. He flew through the air, sometimes up, sometimes down, sometimes left, sometimes right, barely managing to evade the nine angry dragons' attacks. But before he could catch his breath, another golden handprint descended from the sky, covering his head.

"The attack was so fast?"

The two-headed demon lizard player intended to withstand the golden handprint before counterattacking, but he instinctively dodged, his figure flashing as he retreated ten feet away.

This retreat was just the beginning. Although the giant handprint didn't hit him, another golden halberd came hurtling towards his chest.

The two-headed demon lizard player could only retreat again, only to see nine angry dragons charging towards them, so they retreated even further...

In just a few breaths, the two-headed lizard player had retreated a full kilometer.

He realized that his senior brother's attacks were too fast. The Great Handprint, the Golden Halberd, and the Raging Dragon were thrown out one after another. He could only dodge with all his might and dared not be distracted in the slightest. How could he have any chance to counterattack?

That's only possible because of him; anyone else would probably not even have a chance to retreat or dodge.

The mountain guardian is the one who repeatedly wields the [Subduing Heaven and Black Yellow], [Nine Scales Creation], and [Destroying Divine Halberd].

Zhou Nan had assigned him to be a ranged attacker, so he would stand still and focus on unleashing skills as quickly as possible to suppress the enemy with firepower.

That's his fighting technique.

After a while, the two-headed demon lizard player had retreated to a distance of three miles from Chiyang Mountain, but was still being attacked by the Great Handprint, the Angry Dragon, and the Divine Halberd. He was so angry that he finally decided to withstand the attacks and unleash his Qi Gong wave to exchange energy with his senior brother from a distance.

"This guy's weird. Is this some kind of light radiation technique? It looks like he has more nuclear energy than Zhang Daqian. I'll go head-to-head with you..."

The thought popped into his mind, and the two-headed demon lizard player spread his legs apart as if standing on solid ground, assuming a horse stance in mid-air, and began to gather his energy to release a wave of energy.

However, the attack he withstood was the [Destruction Divine Halberd]. The golden halberd directly blasted off one of his heads, and along with it, sent his body flying. Soon, with a loud bang, he crashed to the ground more than a hundred meters away.

The mountain guardian at the foot of Chiyang Mountain stopped. He had already gained some insight. He turned around, faced the mountaintop, bowed, and then sat cross-legged in mid-air, earnestly becoming the mountain guardian at the foot of Chiyang Mountain.

At the summit of Chiyang Mountain, Zhou Nan, who was cultivating, opened his eyes. As if he had gained some insight, he casually glanced down the mountain.

"This guy does have some talent. If he had a real physical body, his combat power should be quite good... His internal energy should be able to cause slight damage to my Imaginary God..."

After muttering to himself for a while, Zhou Nan closed his eyes again and continued his cultivation.

He is now primarily practicing Haoyang Qigong, constantly refining his Qi. Combining the Supreme Emperor's Technique with Master Wu Tian's seven thousand years of Qigong insights, his cultivation is progressing rapidly.

As for the Supreme Emperor's Skill... once one reaches the Tathagata realm, one's body is like the sun, operating on its own and constantly changing, no longer requiring deliberate cultivation.

In this constant flux of energy, Zhou Nan's understanding of energy change deepened day by day, like slowly parting the fog to glimpse some ineffable mysteries.

Half a day later, the Crimson Sun Mountain God, along with Flying Bear Fairy and Jade Fairy, arrived at the spot where the Two-Headed Demon Lizard player had crashed.

The two-headed lizard player wasn't killed; he had two heads, one of which was blown off, and he still had one.

The world of Fengshen pursues realism. There are no damage numbers displayed here, and there are no health points to measure whether someone dies or not. Anyway, the two-headed demon lizard player was seriously injured and fell into a mud pit. He couldn't get up and felt like his body was falling apart. He could only groan.

However, after half a day, the guy's head, which had been blown off, grew back, but he was still not in good condition and couldn't stand up.

"Now you know how powerful that is!"

"They even dared to try and fight a real person! They're overestimating themselves!"

"Speaking of which, what kind of spirit is this guy? Is he perhaps a junior brother of a True Immortal?"

"I reckon he won't dare to do anything reckless!"

"Then let's dig it out and take it back to the small temple at the foot of the mountain to see what the immortal will decide..."

The mountain god of Chiyang Mountain dug out the two-headed demon lizard player, and the little fairy Flying Bear carried him back to the foot of Chiyang Mountain. Fairy Jade Maiden then summoned most of the mortals of Chiyang to take care of him...

A moment later, the two-headed demonic lizard player suddenly jumped up and quickly ran to the mountain guardian who was sitting cross-legged in the void, saying, "Senior brother, what kind of evil technique have you practiced? How about we have another match?"

The mountain guardian shook his head: "You pose no threat to me now. Go back to your cultivation. With your current strength, if you were to fight me again... I wouldn't be able to stop myself, and I'm afraid I might accidentally kill you!"

"Fine! I'll train right here. I refuse to believe I can't beat you!"

The two-headed lizard player has a proud spirit.

In his perception, Zhou Nan's qi was very weak, and his qigong cultivation must be extremely poor. His own qigong cultivation was much higher than Zhou Nan's, so he lost because of his martial arts skills. He had to create a powerful martial arts technique to get back at Zhou Nan today. Otherwise, he was afraid that he would never achieve enlightenment in his entire life.

After that, the two-headed demon lizard player really settled down at the foot of Crimson Sun Mountain. As the player who activated the Holy Sword quest, he was not very interested in the Holy Sword, nor did he participate in the war between the Lich Kingdom and the Demon Kingdom.

He understood very well that although he had some strength, he was still far behind Wu Tian, ​​Xing Lun, and Zhang Daqian. He had no hope of winning the Holy Sword, so it was better to focus on cultivation.

He set himself a goal: to create a powerful qigong martial art and defeat Zhou Nan first.

Day after day, the mountain guardian sits suspended in mid-air, guarding the front of the mountain. Occasionally, a powerful monster will attack, and he will take action, often defeating the enemy in one or two moves.

The two-headed demon lizard player couldn't understand his tactics, but he diligently cultivated at the foot of the mountain, pondering deeply all day long. Occasionally, he would also help most of the Chiyang tribe repel some invading monsters.

Time passed, and a year later, the two-headed demon lizard player created the Heavenly Demon Fist and fought the mountain guardian again, but was still no match for him and was sent flying three thousand meters.

Despite being outmatched, the two-headed lizard player felt even more confident.

Six months later, he occupied a mountain near Chiyang Mountain and called it Tianmo Mountain. He cultivated on the mountain and every ten days or half a month, he would go down to the foot of Chiyang Mountain to fight the mountain guards. Although he was defeated every time, his Tianmo Fist became more and more powerful.

Three years passed in the blink of an eye. Zhou Nan, who was sitting cross-legged on the top of Chiyang Mountain, opened his eyes again, and his cultivation period came to an end.

Zhou Nan took out his combat power detector to examine himself and found that his Qi Gong combat power had exceeded nine million, approaching ten million.

"This combat power detector is still somewhat useful. Once my combat power reaches ten million, I estimate I'll be able to separate my primordial spirit from my body and achieve the 'refining spirit to return to emptiness' technique."

Zhou Nan silently sorted out his insights.

"The so-called primordial spirit should be the celestial soul. When the primordial spirit leaves the body, it means controlling the celestial soul. When the primordial spirit returns to its sheath, the celestial soul is in the body! The 'emptiness' in 'refining the spirit and returning to emptiness' refers to the void, illusion, or even daydreaming... Only when I reach this level will my teleportation be truly useful."

Zhou Nan understood immediately. He glanced down the mountain and saw that the demonic lizard player had come to challenge the mountain guardian again.

"This fellow is quite amusing. Did he use my mountain guardian as a sparring partner? He certainly exhausted quite a bit of the guardian's resources."

Zhou Nan smiled, not wanting to interfere. He was about to continue cultivating when he sensed something and turned his gaze to the distance.

He sensed the aura of the Deep Sea Demon God Tu Sanjia, and could vaguely see an old monk with white eyebrows next to him. That old monk with white eyebrows should also be a player.

Both of them are currently fleeing.

They were being chased by a humanoid creature whose appearance was obscured; the creature's body seemed to be composed of countless flowing, cubic particles.

Zhou Nan immediately recognized it and exclaimed, "Cosmic Emperor! This must be the work of the core. Did he create the Cosmic Emperor as a BOSS?"

(End of this chapter)