The reputation of the Wooden Man Alley is well-deserved; inside, there is indeed a group of wooden figures. However, it’s unknown how that Dharma disciple Hui Ke crafted them, as their bodies are as durable as third-grade Divine Weapons, withstanding even Jiang Dali’s fierce assaults consecutively.
Moreover, each Golden Monk Woodman specializes in a Shaolin Ultimate Skill, and the seventy-two wooden figures excel in seventy-two Shaolin Ultimate Skills. With the increasingly potent Dharma Power enriching the cave, each figure exhibits destructive power at the Heavenly Human Level.
These wooden figures lack any spiritual power, but in terms of physical strength alone, their destructiveness is even more terrifying than Heavenly Human Level beings of the sa realm.
And precisely because they lack Primordial Spirit Power, the wooden figures are not afraid of Primordial Spirit damage at all.
Furthermore, with Jiang Dali being suppressed by the Dharma Buddha Power against his Primordial Spirit Power, facing the combined Arhat Formation of the seventy-two wooden figures, he couldn’t dismantle this resilient formation using only his fist and foot skills for a while.
Jiang Dali initially intended to draw the Great Strength Fire Qilin Saber, using the advantage of the Divine Weapon to quickly dismantle the Arhat Formation. However, as the battle prolonged and he repelled the wooden figures, he gradually discovered he increasingly comprehended the Shaolin Ultimate Skills techniques these wooden figures displayed, integrating them into his own martial arts, gaining profound insights.
For instance, the wooden figure using the "Shaolin Broken Monk Skill" engaged by waving its sleeves, displayed extraordinary skill in sleeve techniques, known as the Shaolin Iron Sleeve Skill.
Take, for instance, the wooden figure deploying the "Kasaya Demon-Suppressing Technique," wielding a qi-filled kasaya as a weapon, deepening his understanding of utilizing a cloak to unleash powerful attacks.
Then, there was the wooden figure employing the "Great Shifting Body Technique" — its movent technique was uncanny, shifting back several feet on flat ground without moving its feet, furthering his comprehension of movent techniques.
The wooden figure using the "Shaolin Thirteen Grabs" emulated claw skills of thirteen animals such as "dragon, snake, tiger, leopard, crane, ape, eagle," displaying varied ferocity and harmony, aiding his mastery of the Great Strength Divine Claw.
The wooden figure employing the "Shaolin Divine Palm Eight Strikes," with techniques such as the Decomposition Palm, Sealing Palm, and Heart Splitting Palm, also broadened his horizons.
All these profound martial arts skills appeared before him like a grand display of Arhats teaching martial arts, a myriad of wonders unfolding as if imparted by Buddhas. With each fight, he dived deeper into understanding martial arts; the system panel started showing notifications of continuous increases in his martial arts proficiency.
"You have repelled the Dragon Subduing Wooden Man in the Shaolin Wooden Man Alley, increasing your ’Mighty God Fist’ proficiency by 0.3%!"
"You have injured the Tiger Subduing Wooden Man in the Shaolin Wooden Man Alley, increasing your ’Great Strength Divine Skill’ proficiency by 0.2%!"
"You have countered the Demon-Suppressing Wooden Man in the Shaolin Wooden Man Alley with your divine might, gaining insight into the Shaolin Vajra Demon Suppression Circle technique, increasing your ’War God Chronicles’ proficiency by 0.1%."
These frequent notifications clearly proved that these wooden figures, much like the Heart Shadow Stone Sculptures in Ying Country’s Holy Tomb, are "Leveling Monsters" that rapidly boost martial arts proficiency. This phenonon is entirely normal because the Wooden Man Alley is a Shaolin Blessed Land; any similar Heart Shadow-like entities born within such a land can rapidly increase martial arts proficiency through combat.
By now, Jiang Dali had dispelled the impulsive urge to clear the field using the Great Strength Fire Qilin Saber, instead solely wrestling and battling within the Arhat Formation using fist and foot skills against the wooden figures.
However, as the battle continued, the oppressive Dharma Buddha Power within the cave grew stronger, imbuing each wooden figure’s body, causing the golden Buddha power enveloping them to beco increasingly resplendent and powerful. So broken-limbed figures even recovered rapidly under this Buddha Power.
Amidst booming thunderous noises, frequently resounding from the corridor, the intense battle raged to an extre.
In the midst of an intense fighting trance, Jiang Dali let out a long shout, exerting the Absorption Skill to propel seventy-two wooden figures spinning right and left like a spiral within the passage, engulfing the whole passage into a terrifying atmosphere as if heaven and earth were collapsing.
A hundred yards outside the Wooden Man Alley, Hui En’s eyelids twitched slightly upon hearing the long, fighting spirit-filled shouts and raging sounds from within. Lowering his head, he clasped his hands together, reciting a Buddhist na, then took a wine jug from his waist, uncorked it, and took a swig. Sighing with a "Ha," he mused, "Master Jiang’s power indeed has significantly increased from before; it seems the Wooden Man Alley also poses little difficulty for him. However, it’s uncertain just how potent the Mahavira Unlimited Power he can evoke, for the stronger it gets, the harder it is to endure. If he cannot withstand it, he’ll be severing his ties with my Buddha..."
Upon finishing, Hui En took another gulp of wine and then lay lazily on the ground, drinking wine with one finger propping him up one chi from the ground, practicing the One Finger Zen Skill.
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Ti never waits for anyone.
Neither do opportunities.
To seize ti and opportunities, one must be prepared, or else both will fleetingly pass away, never to return.
While Jiang Dali was seizing ti and opportunity to enhance his strength, his enemies wouldn’t wait for him, offering no reprieve.
This day marked the third day of the collective disappearance of the Abnormal People, and it was also on this day that the clear, deafening sounds like sudden thunderclaps erupted almost simultaneously from the skies outside nearly half of Black Wind Village’s 97 sub branches!
Over forty different locations heard this sudden thunderclap—could storms be brewing simultaneously over all these places in clearweather skies?
No!
That was the sound of fireworks exploding!
Almost simultaneously, beautiful and resplendent fireworks erupted outside the headquarters of Black Wind Village in ngyin County, scattering even the clouds in the sky.
Fireworks typically signify joyful celebrations, but even ordinary families celebrate; fireworks are beyond their reach. The sudden fireworks exploding in many places didn’t bring joy but instead instilled sheer terror among the bandit mbers remaining at Black Wind Village!
Simply because, at that very mont, fireworks over forty Black Wind Village sub branches and the headquarters’ skies overwhelmingly spelled two shocking words — Attack and Kill!
Attack and Kill what?
The answer would soon be revealed.
Sure, here is the translation of the provided Wuxia text:
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On the mountain roads, plains, river channels, and deep forests outside the forty-plus sub branches of Black Wind Village and its headquarters, suddenly appeared hundreds of burly n with beast-like panting breaths and vacant expressions. In so areas, gigantic war puppets—Blood Transformation Divine Sovereign’s Dharma Body Puppets—also appeared!
Heavens!
All those at the sub branches and headquarters of Black Wind Village who encountered this calamity turned pale, with shock and anger mixed with a touch of terror.
Have the powerful enemies the village chief ntioned already arrived?
An unyielding dragon can’t suppress a local snake. Which force is it that dares to take on the Black Wind Village, now renowned throughout the land?
"Danger! Grab your weapons!"
"Clear them out!"
"It’s flooding! It’s flooding! Get the buckets and brooms!"
Within each mountain village, the usually fierce and brave mountain bandits, after the initial chaos, imdiately sprang into action, kicking awake those who were sleeping, and quickly prepared for battle. The situation was tense.
This was a scene Jiang Dali had anticipated.
It was also a scenario that all mbers of the mountain villages were bound to experience.
However, at this mont, apart from imdiately enhancing his strength, he couldn’t join the battle and fight alongside the mountain village mbers.
He was the marshal of the mountain village. Once the battle comnced, it wasn’t yet the ti for the marshal to lead the charge until the mont of greatest certainty. Likewise for the Undying God in the God-searching Palace.
The chessboard among the two—or rather, among three—had already been laid out.
Initially, his strategy was to remain unchanged and wait for the right opportunity, counting on the contribution of nurous players to steadily enhance his strength within one or two months before the final showdown, allying with Demon Lord Bai Suzhen to eliminate the Undying God.
But with the Wan Family’s intervention and the sudden disruption by the Four Great Families, the foundation of nurous players he possessed was shattered, thus losing his greatest advantage. Continuing to wait would be tantamount to awaiting doom; he had to swiftly change the strategy to seize an opportunity to overturn the situation.
This chessboard was no longer just between him and the Undying God; behind it was the Saint Dynasty Wan Family.
The imnse pressure he was under could be imagined!
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Roar!!!!—
Several thick golden dragon qi forces burst from Jiang Dali’s hands, consecutively striking against the wooden figures forming the "Eighteen Bronze Man Formation". It was as if seven or eight explosive thunderous sounds erupted in the narrow corridor, and the strength of the qi forces cracked the walls that had remained intact for hundreds of years. As the ferocious qi forces exploded, they scattered like a riotous dance of demons, shooting in all directions like arrows.
"Dragon Subduing Divine Leg!"
Jiang Dali shouted angrily, and as his feet moved, his form spun rapidly, creating two intertwining golden dragons with powerful qi forces, dazzling and violent, charging into the "Twenty-four Dharma Array" ford by another twenty-four wooden figures.
Boom boom boom!!—
His legs kicked out with ferocious dragon-shaped qi forces, aggressive and powerful, directly tearing the formation apart. The twenty-four wooden figures were shattered and blasted into the walls, disintegrating instantly as he landed proudly on the ground.
However, as these dozens of wooden figures fell, the Dharma Power in Wooden Man Alley seed more concentrated, focusing instantly on the remaining thirty wooden figures. These thirty figures emitted a radiant golden glow, with dazzling "卍" symbols appearing on their bodies, suddenly pressing forward towards Jiang Dali.
The Thirty Monks Array!
The thirty wooden figures were enveloped in Buddha’s light, their montum greatly increased, as they advanced, the space around them seed to heat up and condense from the pressure, with each figure chanting Buddhist scriptures, causing the corridor to shake as if the world was spinning, as if it were about to crush, bind, and squeeze Jiang Dali to death.
A powerful and familiar force of "nothingness" that made Jiang Dali shudder suddenly brewed from the thirty wooden figures, forming a swirling golden force field, like a bronze gong or a massive Buddha hand, descending from above.
"Yuan-level Mahavira Unlimited!?"
Jiang Dali’s tiger-like eyes narrowed slightly as he looked up at the golden vortex above his head, feeling his essence, qi, and spirit being oppressed, and his montum unable to rise any further. An enormous pressure, as if heaven and earth were collapsing, grew ever stronger as the thirty wooden figures approached together...
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(Can’t add more in the early morning, feeling sleepy, update at noon)
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