A look of reminiscence appeared on Old Master Su's face. "At that time, I thought that I would definitely die, but heaven never bars one's way. Although the Cloud Dream Mountain was high and dense with forests, there was a deep pool at the bottom of the cliff. I fell into the pool and survived, but I was swept into a cave by a whirlpool at the bottom of the pool."
"A cave at the bottom of the pool?"
Ding Ning asked in surprise.
"Yes, it was a cave at the bottom of the pool."
Old Master Su said with lingering fear, "It was dark in the cave and I couldn't see anything, so I groped my way out along the cave wall. When I gradually got used to the light inside, I found that the ground was densely covered with decaying bones, which turned into ashes as soon as I stepped on it. I didn't know how long these people had been dead. Although I used to kill enemies on the battlefield and saw many corpses, I was still scared to death when I saw so many corpses together."
Old Man Su laughed self-deprecatingly. "I was alone at that time, so you can imagine how scared I was. Looking at those corpses made my scalp go numb, and my strong desire to live made me run forward without a care for anything else. I don't know how long I ran, but when I was about to collapse from exhaustion, I ran into a huge cave with fewer corpses. Perhaps it's because humans have a strong adaptability. After seeing thousands of corpses, after seeing dozens of corpses, I didn't feel anything. Those dozens of corpses were different from the ones outside, they were all in a kneeling posture."
Ding Ning's spirit was lifted. Here came the meat show. This was the key to the origin of the punching method.
"At that time, I was still in shock and found that these corpses were strangely kneeling in the direction of a stone statue, so I plucked up my courage to go up and look at the stone statue."
Speaking of this, Old Master Su frowned. "I'm an atheist, so I'm naturally not afraid of these gods and ghosts. However, that stone statue was very strange. It was a humanoid creature carved on the wall of the cave. Well, it's not exactly a humanoid. To be exact, it should be the shape of a monster with four limbs. It had no nose, eyes, or even facial features. It was more like an unfinished statue."
Ding Ning blinked and listened with great interest. "What happened next?"
Old Master Su furrowed his brows and pondered for a moment. "Then … I realized that the stone statue seemed to be holding something in its hands. I touched it out of curiosity and felt a flash of light before my eyes. Then, I fainted. By the time I woke up, I was already at the top of a mountain. There was an incomplete ancient book and this stone in my hands."
Ding Ning was tongue-tied and asked urgently, "And then?"
"After that, I returned to the army according to the contact marks left by my comrades. If it weren't for the fact that the ancient book and the stone really existed, I would have thought that it was a dream. At that time, I felt that this experience was quite magical. I even thought that the ancient book was some kind of secret martial arts manual, so I kept these two things with me. When I was free, I would imitate the pictures and movements in the ancient book to practice."
Old Master Su smiled bitterly and said, "I didn't expect that the ancient books didn't make me a martial arts master, but they can really strengthen my body. As for that stone, I've studied it for decades and found nothing special about it. So I just put it on the desk as a stabilizing stone."
After that, Old Master Su asked with great expectation, "You want that stone. Do you know its origin?"
"I don't know either."
Ding Ning shook his head. "I just feel that I have a predestined relationship with it."
Old Master Su obviously didn't believe this explanation. He thought that Ding Ning must know something and was afraid that he would go back on his word and not give it to him, so he was unwilling to say it.
He had studied this stone for decades and found nothing. He didn't care whether Ding Ning told him or not. Since he had promised to give it to him, he would not go back on his word. "Here, it's yours."
Ding Ning saw that Old Master Su didn't believe him, but he was also helpless. What he said was the truth, but he couldn't explain it. He couldn't say that the Mermaid Totem gave him a hint.
He took the stone and played it in his hand for a long time, but he didn't find anything unusual. Unfortunately, the Mermaid Totem didn't respond anymore. Otherwise, he must ask the Mermaid what it was.
"Take a look. Do you need anything else?"
Old Master Su asked nervously.
Ding Ning secretly laughed. This old man was too stingy, but he could understand. These things could appear in his study, which meant that they were all his favorite things. Giving any of them away was like cutting his flesh. In order to reassure him, Ding Ning shook his head with a smile. "I don't need anything else. By the way …"
"What?"
Old Master just breathed a sigh of relief, and his eyes instantly became vigilant.
"Can I have a look at that ancient book?"
Ding Ning didn't know whether to laugh or cry. The old man's posture was simply to guard against Ding Ning.
"No problem. I'll get it for you."
Old Master immediately breathed a sigh of relief, smiled embarrassedly, and took out a dilapidated ancient book made of an unknown beast's skin from the drawer of the desk.
The book only had a few short pages, but because it was made of animal skin, it looked extremely rough and thick. Ding Ning opened it and looked at it. On the first page, there were three strange characters written like tadpoles, which made him tremble all over.
He didn't know any of those characters, but he could understand them. The three words "Barbarian Transformation" were written on it, which showed that his previous guess was right. This punching method was indeed created by the people of the Jiuli tribe by observing the movements and living habits of the wild giant beasts.
No wonder Ding Ning always felt that this punching method was more lethal and aggressive than the Five Animal Frolics, which was similar to the Five Animal Frolics. What a joke! The living habits and ferocity of the wild giant beasts and the modern animals were not on the same level.
If the Five Animal Frolics was a set of body movements for health, then this Barbarian Transformation was a set of fighting punching method for hunting prey, and at the same time, it had the effect of health.
It was a pity that this Barbarian Transformation had been around for many years. The unknown animal skin had been tattered, and many of the movement patterns were incomplete.
While he was feeling sorry, the stone man on his chest suddenly felt hot. A giant man appeared in his mind like a projection, imitating the movements of various wild giant beasts and slowly punching, which made him overjoyed. It was the complete Barbarian Transformation, which made him quickly immersed in it and learn it constantly.
"Little Ding, Little Ding, this child? Why is he so absorbed? "
All this happened in his spiritual world, so Old Master Su didn't notice anything. He thought that Ding Ning was studying the ancient book carefully, so he shook his head with a smile and walked out quietly.
"Grandpa, where's Ding Ning?"
Seeing the old master go out of the study, Su Ningxiang, who had been waiting outside, hurriedly went up and asked nervously.
Grandpa Ji gave her a meaningful look. "He's reading. Don't disturb him. Well, Money Bag, right? I don't think he'll be able to finish it in a short time. You can stay here for the night."
The old master had never let anyone stay here for so many years, so he treated Ding Ning and Yagyuu Asamayu in a special way, which made Su Ningxiang smile happily. "Come on, Money Bag, I'll help you clean up your room."
"Thank you, Old Master!"
Yagyuu Asamayu didn't want to live here, but she remembered that she slept with Ding Ning every day when she lost her memory. If she went back to the hotel tonight, she would definitely sleep with him.
At the thought of this, she was flustered and hurriedly agreed. "In the old master's place, that bastard won't play rogue again, right?"
If Ding Ning knew her thoughts, he would definitely feel that he was more wronged than Dou E. Obviously, it was she who pestered him to sleep with her shamelessly, but how could it be that he played rogue? But women were complicated creatures, and as long as he was a man with a normal mind, he would never expect to reason with them.
The old master shook his head with a smile. "Don't just clean up their room. You and Zhengnan can stay here tonight."
"Thank you, Grandpa!"
Su Ningxiang was overjoyed and jumped up and down like a little girl.
"Is there anything special about this shabby siheyuan? Is it necessary to be so excited to live here for one night? "
Yagyuu Asamayu glanced at her in confusion and muttered in her heart, "How could I know that Su Ningxiang is not excited to live in the siheyuan, but so happy because she can have close contact with her son?"
Everyone went to clean up their rooms. In the study, Ding Ning's mind kept flashing through the habits of those primitive beasts and their attacking methods when they hunted, forming various unique fighting methods.
As the stone man became hotter and hotter, Ding Ning, who was immersed in the Savage Change, did not notice that the stone in his hand was constantly twisted and deformed, gradually began to shrink, and finally turned into nothingness. However, under the mermaid totem, a yellow stone tattoo appeared.
Coincidentally, at this time, Ding Ning learned the fighting method of the ancient mammoth, War Trample, and unconsciously stamped the ground with his feet.
"Bang!" With a loud sound and a khaki light flashing, the whole siheyuan seemed to have an earthquake. Everyone was so shocked that they hurriedly ran out of the room to see what was going on.
With a face full of horror, Ding Ning climbed out of the half-meter-deep pit under his feet with his head and face covered with dust. He just dodged his foot lightly. "This Savage Change is too terrible, isn't it?"
"Ning 'er, are you okay?"
Su Ningxiang's nervous inquiry came from outside the room.
Ding Ning could not help but complain in his heart. "How can I explain to the old master's study to such a mess?" He hurriedly said, "Aunt Xiang, I'm fine."
"It's good that you're fine. It's good that you're fine. I don't know what happened. Why did the ground shake inexplicably?"
Su Ningxiang muttered in a low voice. Afraid of disturbing Ding Ning's reading, she left reluctantly.
Having no time to feel Aunt Xiang's concern, Ding Ning was shocked to find that the stone in his hand had disappeared.
After a careful search, he found that there was a stone tattoo on his body. Ding Ning was instantly stunned, and then he was wild with joy. Even his heart and liver were trembling. "This broken stone turned out to be a f * cking totem? No wonder the mermaid transmitted a strong desire to him even in her sleep. "
"You can wear out iron shoes in fruitless search, but you find it by chance." If it were not for the fact that there were people outside, he could not help but want to laugh wildly.
Not only did he spend a Green Ivy Pearl to exchange for a strong Martial Technique, he even managed to obtain the Thick Earth Totem by chance. He had made a huge profit from this transaction. The Su Clan was really a blessed land for him.
Ding Ning grinned so much that his mouth almost reached the back of his ears. He tried to communicate with the Thick Earth Totem, but found that its IQ was obviously low. It was not at the same level as the mermaid at all. After communicating for a long time, there was no response at all.
But Ding Ning could also understand that the totem needed to absorb a lot of faith value. According to Master Su, the cave was full of corpses, which meant that the Thick Earth tribe had encountered some disaster, and all the people who worshiped it had died. Without the support of the power of faith, the Thick Earth Totem lost its power and fell into silence, which was reasonable.
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