There is a small island in the East China Sea. It is named Nuanshui because of the warm climate around the island.

There are more than 2,000 families living on Nuanshui Island, but they can be said to have plenty of food and clothing on weekdays.

However, not long ago, there was a series of turmoil in the East China Sea. The monsters fled into the sea and often clashed with the fleets at sea, making life difficult for the rogues in the East China Sea.

Since he has no backer, every time he goes out to rob, he may encounter monsters. In a chaotic battle, he will get very little.

I also heard that the big bandits were wiped out by those who practiced the righteous way, while the small groups simply went to hide on remote islands.

Nuanshui Island was targeted by a group of nearly a hundred bandits.

They sent people to inquire about the situation on the island, and learned that among the country people, the most powerful one was a lonely old man. He only had the sixth level of Qi refining, and his only weapon was an inferior cold iron spear.

, there is no magic weapon nearby.

As for the other people on the island, most of them are only at the third or fourth level of Qi refining.

The bandits made a decision in their hearts and approached the island in the early morning, before the sun rose.

Given the current situation in the East China Sea, continuing to be a pirate will most likely lead to a dead end. If you stay in this remote place, it also has the advantages of being in a remote place.

After arriving on the island, first find a few unsavory ones and kill the whole family to scare the monkeys so that others will not dare to resist. Then all the pirates will marry more wives and concubines and have more children. After a few years, they can claim that they are the island.

The common people were lucky enough to get Taoism, and they transformed themselves into a small sect.

The rest of my life will be happy enough.

With this in mind, they went to the island either eagerly or in anticipation, and then...

They all died in the woods beside the beach.

A maze was laid out in this small forest. There was no magic weapon layout, and it only relied on the movement of wood and rocks, creating the illusion of reversing the direction, allowing these rogue bandits, who were originally small in number, to be temporarily separated.

The lonely old man they had heard about from the spies took this opportunity with a gun and walked and killed all the way.

The spear flew like a flying python, shuttling through the maze of woods without stopping the whole time.

Until the black tip of the gun penetrated the mouth of the one-eyed pirate leader, stabbed it through, and picked up the one-eyed leader's body.

The lonely old man is over one hundred years old, his name is Pang Tiezhu. He is said to be an old man, but in fact, except for his gray hair, his face looks about forty years old.

After killing the pirates, he sat down among the corpses, poked his spear into the ground, and took out a mask.

The mask is made of black iron, looks like Shura, and is ferocious and terrifying.

This mask suddenly fell from the sky and hit him at his feet while he was practicing kung fu at the beach two months ago.

At first he thought the thing had an unknown origin and did not dare to move it lightly, so he found a pile of sand and buried it among the rocks.

Unexpectedly, that night, a man in a mask appeared in a dream. In the mask was a person with a very young voice, but also with a deep and painful consciousness. He claimed to be some kind of Lanling cultivator, and was killed. His body was finally destroyed, and a wisp of it left him.

The remaining soul is freed, but is about to dissipate.

Only by being nourished by blood and infiltrated by mana can the remaining soul be preserved.

Pang Tiezhu thought to himself that at such an old age, he had never seen any deception. Although the remnant soul claimed that he could teach him advanced skills and guide him in practice, he...

He had no chance to refuse.

Because when he woke up the next day, he found himself lying on the beach, half of his not-so-rich mana had been lost, and the mask he had buried stood on the smooth reef, slowly

Rotate.

This mask can actually directly control his sleepwalking.

A ray of remnant soul still has this kind of method, no matter whether it is good or evil, it will definitely not work if it is carried on forcefully.

What makes Pang Tiezhu a little relieved is that this mask really guided his practice and taught him the skills. Recently, it also warned him in advance that pirates were targeting Nuanshui Island and taught him how to set up this maze.

"Thanks to the old god this time."

Pang Tiezhu had more trust in this mask, "If it weren't for the old gods and these pirates were really on the island, I don't know how many villagers would have been killed."

He respectfully put the mask in front of him and kowtowed, "I would like to thank the old god on behalf of the villagers. When I go back, I will offer incense to the old god and offer a pig's head."

There is a message from the spirit in the mask: "Don't say these nonsense, you can quickly take advantage of the situation to practice."

Pang Tiezhu nodded and quickly started the exercise.

Among the trees on the beach, strands of scarlet evil energy gathered together, like a long snake circling, and was slowly swallowed into his body.

"Although your qualifications are poor, you have practiced hard for so many years and never relaxed for a day. At over a hundred years old, you can still maintain yourself at the age of forty and at the peak of your physical strength with this clumsy Qigong method. It can be seen that

The hard work is so profound.”

A voice came from the mask, "In the past two months, I have taught you the "Shenhe Huanxiu Sutra" to help you transform your inner Qi, cultivate your magic power, and step into the eighth level of Qi refining in one go."

"If you kill these pirates today and defeat a pirate leader who is at the ninth level of Qi refining, with this murderous intention, you will be able to step into the ninth level of Qi refining in the Book of Serpent Repair."

Two quarters of an hour later, Pang Tiezhu slowly finished his work. Although his hair was still white, his face seemed a little younger.

He clenched his fists, with a bit of unbelievable surprise in his eyes.

I think he has been learning the Tuna skills on the island since he was a child, working day and night. When he was young, he went out to travel and visited almost all the large and small sects in the East China Sea. Either they didn't see him at all, or they bluntly said that his qualifications were not good. The chamber of commerce hired him as a handyman, and they all thought he was stupid.

, the aristocratic family is not qualified even for him to be a servant.

After practicing Qigong for a lifetime, I have only reached the sixth level of Qi refining.

But since I picked up this mask at the bottom of the sea two months ago, in just two months, I have reached the ninth level of Qi refining.

The progress in the past two months is simply greater than that in the past hundred years, and it is as fast as flying.

"It turns out that I have made progress in my practice and it feels so comfortable..."

Pang Tiezhu happily held the mask and said, "Old fairy, how to practice next, just follow what you taught before, practice hundreds of times a day, do you want to keep practicing?"

The mask was slightly silent: "With your qualifications, it may be the end of this level, unless you go out and find a job, get at least the level of the spiritual jade in the Wanfa Jade Coin, and absorb a lot of pure spirits day and night.

Use the energy to purify your body and mind."

"As for the cultivation methods behind the "Shen She Huan Sutra", I can tell you now."

He read out a spell.

Pang Tiezhu immediately practiced the exercises, and after a while, he said strangely: "Old god, is it normal to feel hot and hot all over your body?"

"Well, that's true."

The mask said, "To practice the Snake Joy Scripture, there is a level of desire that tempers the heart. It is not difficult to pass this level. You just need to find a few concubines to practice together."

Pang Tiezhu asked in astonishment: "Double cultivation?"

The mask said: "Yes, there are two ways. One is to find more wives and concubines, the more the better. The other is, if you happen to find someone you can fall in love with, then as long as you place your love on this one person, you don't have to bother anymore.

Already."

Pang Tiezhu waved his hands quickly: "No, no, no, I'm over a hundred years old. If I still have a wife at this time, wouldn't it mean that I'm still old?"

The mask said: "You are more than a hundred years old, but you are just a young man. Hey, why did you notice that your yang energy was strong when you first started practicing? It stands to reason that you are more than a hundred years old... You have never married a wife.

You’ve never been to a brothel, right?”

Pang Tiezhu nodded matter-of-factly and said: "I heard when I was a child that the best results are achieved when practicing martial arts while a child. If you want to achieve a state like those of the immortals, it is best to enter the Taoist body as a child."

The mask stopped talking, and after a moment, he said quietly: "If this is really the case, there probably won't even be a single immortal among the aristocratic families in the East China Sea."

"is that so?"

Pang Tiezhu thought for a while and shook his head, "But I am old after all..."

Mask said earnestly: "You are really a young man."

"I am the oldest in our village..."

"I'm ten times older than you."

"You are a god, not a human being."

Mask ignored him.

Pang Tiezhu chuckled, stretched, stood up, stuffed all the corpses into a cave, and then moved a big stone to block the cave.

Living by the sea, if all these corpses were thrown into the sea, the smell of blood would be too strong and might attract some monsters. It would be safer to handle them this way.

He went back to the village to gather the villagers, briefly mentioned what happened today, called on everyone to set up a maze on the island surrounding the whole village, and then taught them how to get in and out of the maze.

A few days later, he said goodbye to the villagers. The elders and juniors in the village were shocked and quickly tried to dissuade him.

"Brother Tiezhu, you are so old, where else do you want to go? Didn't you go out for many years when you were young, and you haven't been blown enough by the wind on the sea?"

"Uncle Tiezhu, what the village chief said is that people only say that young people go out to make a living, how can they go to sea at such an old age? How hard it is at sea!"

"Uncle, has something happened to you? If anything happens, we and the villagers can shoulder it together, but don't think of doing it yourself!"

"Xiaobao, please work with your great-grandfather to persuade Mr. Pang..."

Pang Tiezhu ignored their dissuasion and refused one by one, insisting on leaving. The villagers had no choice but to give him a ride.

The sails of the ship are raised, and the sea breeze blows gently.

The mask suddenly said: "Aren't you saying that you are already an old man and no longer young, so why do you want to sail away again?"

"If an old man wants to marry multiple wives, he is not ashamed of himself."
To be continued...