Luo Kai was shocked. Even with his powerful perception, he didn't notice that someone was eavesdropping on them.
Tuoba Ye also turned his head and saw the old man's white beard. He couldn't help but walk up and grab it. He smiled foolishly and said, "Your beard is even longer than my grandfather's."
The old man angrily slapped his hand away. He glared at Tuoba Ye and said, "Little bastard, you still like to grab your beard. You haven't changed your bad habit!"
He couldn't sense any aura from this old man. It was as if he was an empty valley. He was obviously a very powerful person. Luo Kai hurriedly stood up and pulled Tuoba Ye, "Uncle, Xiao Yong is not very smart. Please don't mind."
The old man's clear eyes stared straight at Luo Kai. He said, "Little guy, you have reached such a realm at such a young age. You are Luo Kai, aren't you?"
Luo Kai paused and said, "You know me?"
"Of course I know you. Very good, very good."
The old man said with a smile. As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly stretched out his hand toward the ground. The steel plate and soil under the ground began to flow like liquid. Soon, it became a mud whirlpool. A figure wrapped in a black robe was pulled into the center of the whirlpool. The black robed figure waved his tentacles and screamed in fear. However, he couldn't get out of the mud whirlpool.
Luo Kai pulled Tuoba Ye back. The two of them were stunned by the scene in front of them. In the hands of the white-bearded old man, everything around them, including everything in the world, turned into liquid. Mud, steel plates, and cement flowed endlessly.
The strange creature under the ground was quickly pulled up. His black robe was torn apart, revealing his true appearance. He was an octopus with many tentacles. His mouth was full of sharp teeth, and he was constantly making sharp squeaking sounds. His small eyes were full of fear. The blood that flowed out of his body was blue.
The old man grabbed his head. The octopus monster was like a pile of mud in his hands. It couldn't resist at all.
"Little friend, we'll meet again when we're free. I'll take this back first."
This old man was too strong. This octopus monster was stronger than the average physique master, but it was like a clay doll in his hands. Luo Kai was shocked. He looked at the trembling octopus monster and couldn't help but ask, "What kind of monster is this?"
"It's not a monster. It's an intelligent creature from the deep sea. Sigh, it seems that deep-sea mutants have also appeared on land."
The white-bearded old man sighed and left the basement. The whirlpool of steel and mud on the ground returned to its original state.
Luo Kai frowned and was lost in thought. Before the Catastrophe, octopuses were known as the smartest species, even smarter than humans. The only thing they lacked was creativity, or in other words, imagination. The biggest difference between humans and other species was not intelligence. In terms of intelligence alone, some creatures had even evolved collective intelligence, which was more advanced than humans.
The difference was that humans had a vast and infinite imagination on the basis of intelligence. Imagination was the only power that was not limited by one's own life level. All creativity and even everything else came from imagination.
The species of life in the sea were far more abundant than those on land. Originally, humans could survive by relying on the sea, but if the intelligent creatures in the sea wanted to occupy the land, then human's greatest support would be gone, and they would be attacked from both front and back.
"This octopus is really big. It must be delicious." Tuoba Yong drooled.
The ban on the school was finally lifted. Luo Kai didn't like the dormitory life, so he returned to Ruifeng Valley. Unfortunately, his state of mind could no longer be calm. The sixth sense in the dark reminded him that he must quickly become stronger. Only by becoming stronger could he deal with the possible crises in the future. However, haste makes waste. Once his state of mind was disturbed, it was difficult to feel the majestic pulse of the earth.
Tuoba Yong came more frequently. Every time he came, he would stay here and didn't want to leave. No matter how Luo Kai drove him away, he would hug his thigh pitifully and wouldn't let go.
Luo Kai wasn't in a good mood, and now he was even more irritated. He simply compared notes with Tuoba Yong on body skills.
Tuoba Yong's temperament was like a child's. He liked to play, so naturally he was excited to fight. He only knew one kind of body skill, which was a bit similar to the spiral force used by Su Wenlin. When he attacked, his fist and even his body would rotate like an electric drill. The penetrating force was very strong. Although there was only one method, one force could defeat ten. If Luo Kai didn't speed up the circulation of his blood and Qi, he really couldn't beat him.
This kind of body skill was probably the "Tianluo Force" that Tuoba Ye mentioned. Obviously, Tuoba Yong only knew a little. In addition, he was stupid. He only knew how to rotate to exert force, but not to rotate to disperse the force. Even so, it was very powerful. He had preliminarily received the infusion of metal energy into his body. Metal energy was good at sharp force.
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One day, Tuoba Yong was practicing some fist skills in front of the hut. He suddenly said, "Master, can you teach me the Eighteen Dragon Palms?"
Luo Kai was just about to refuse. Suddenly, he thought of something. In this era, there were various kinds of body skills. Hands, legs, head and other body parts that could be used to fight the enemy were all body skills. However, there were no palm skills. Because the fist could exert the most sharp force, but the palm could only exert the most force. The force was relatively scattered. With the fist as the best solution, no one would study the palm skills.
However, if one thought about it carefully, the palm was actually not inferior to the fist, especially when one's own strength was very high. Not only could the palm be used to exert force, it could also be used to block and defend. If the fist was hard, then the palm would be soft. It was hard and fierce without any excess force. Once the attack failed, it would be very passive.
"Master, my father has a dragon. I want to learn the Eighteen Dragon Palms."
Luo Kai came back to his senses. He remembered that when Tuoba Yong fully stimulated his energy, he did transform into a dragon. It seemed that Tuoba Yong's goal since childhood was to defeat his father.
"Well, then I will teach you the Eighteen Dragon Palms. But I haven't figured out this set of martial arts. You are not allowed to come here for two days. If you disturb me, I won't teach you. I won't tell you stories in the future."
Tuoba Yong hurriedly nodded, "Well, then I will go now." After saying that, he hurriedly ran away.
Since he couldn't calm down and feel the energy of heaven and earth, then he would study the body skills. Luo Kai tried to wave his palm. At his current level, there was not much difference between fist and palm. The only weak difference was that the fist was sharp force, while the palm was flat force.
In the next few days, Luo Kai walked out of Rui Feng Valley and strolled in the surrounding mountains. From time to time, he waved his palm into the void, looking for the technique of palm force. Although the palm couldn't be compared with the fist in terms of strength, the soft force was better than the fist.
The foundation of his body skills was the Soft Forging Body Technique and the Mighty Dragon Fist. One was hard and one was soft. It was a combination of techniques. Later, with the Mighty Dragon Fist as the foundation, he figured out the Canglang force according to the track of the tide. The Canglang force method was to turn oneself into the source of the tide. With the soft force as a foil to the hard force, it could naturally surge out endless layers of tide force.
Now, it was not impossible to use the Soft Forging Body Technique as the foundation to simulate the track of the tide and exert the soft force of water to the extreme. The softest thing in the world was water.