Muscular Rabbits Legion: “No one can escape from the novice village!”
Chapter 573 - 543 The Weak and Helpless Rabbit

Chapter 573: Chapter 543 The Weak and Helpless Rabbit

Just a moment ago, the three of them had been chatting and laughing, but they suddenly froze in place. After exchanging glances, the elder asked, "Did something just fly by?"

One disciple said, "It seemed like a rabbit riding a bird."

The elder shook his head, "Was it holding a big flag?"

The two disciples nodded and then shook their heads, saying, "We must be seeing things... That flag seemed to have ’Wenqu Palace’ written on it."

"Impossible, those who enter the Wenqu Palace are all Great Scholars; they wouldn’t be so ostentatious. Besides, who doesn’t know that the road to Shushan is fraught with danger? Even powerful Great Scholars understand it’s better to have fewer troubles than more. Who would run around waving a big flag?"

No sooner had the elder’s words fallen than a rabbit riding a bird, holding a big flag, flew past them. As it passed the elder, the rabbit even shook the flagpole it was holding, and those few large characters were incredibly clear: "Swear to Enter the Wenqu Palace or Die Trying!"

At that moment, the three of them saw clearly.

After exchanging looks again, one of the elder’s disciples immediately charged forward, stepping out to block the rabbit’s path.

But before the rabbit could get close, he clutched his chest and screamed, "Ah! Master, he hit me... Save me!"

With practiced ease, the elder shouted, "Evildoer, with the vast sky and earth, you choose not to fly, but bump into my disciple and think you can leave? Stay right there!"

Yi Zheng watched the disciple who was bleeding from the mouth and laughing triumphantly, and grimaced, "Damn, even hit-and-run scams have made it to the Heavenly Court?"

Without giving him time to think further, the elder had already charged at Yi Zheng, his cyan hand reaching straight for Yi Zheng’s dantian.

This move was ruthless, aimed to destroy Yi Zheng’s cultivation in one strike and completely knock him out of the game!

Yi Zheng showed a terrified expression, "You... you... don’t!"

"Don’t? You have no say in this! Rabbit, meet your death!"

The elder roared, his big hand bursting with even greater power.

However, just then, the panic on the rabbit’s face suddenly vanished. He looked at the elder unhurriedly, his expression similar to his disciple’s...

In an instant, a fierce wind raged, and a murderous aura filled the sky. A beam of golden light rose, and within it, a giant bird appeared, its claw aiming at the elder’s dantian. The furious power left the elder no chance to resist, piercing his dantian with one strike...

At that moment, the elder realized he had been outsmarted, trying to catch a chicken only to become the fish on someone else’s hook!

"Damn... too underhanded!"

The elder cursed inwardly and was then torn in half by the giant bird, which casually tossed him aside.

The rabbit, meanwhile, casually caught a few drops of blood and then absorbed them!

Several Cultivation Technique Balls flew out, all taken into his pouch, turning out to be nothing but ninth-grade incomplete techniques...

"Not strong enough..."

Yi Zheng sighed inwardly and was about to crush them when a thought struck him: if they couldn’t extract complete techniques, could they extract the Dao itself?

As the thought occurred to Yi Zheng, he immediately began to extract.

The blood in his hands glowed and then the essence of the Power of Dao was extracted, but it was so frail that it dispersed with a gust of wind.

However, Yi Zheng was not disappointed; instead, he burst into wild laughter, "Just as I thought, just as I thought, hahaha..."

Amid the laughter, Yi Zheng grabbed the bodies of the elder and the two disciples, then with a wave of his hand turned the three corpses into ashes, simultaneously extracting a complete Dao Rune and two incomplete ones.

That was indeed the Dao Rune!

Yi Zheng was ecstatic upon seeing them, "As expected, it works!"

Watching this, Peng Demon King was dumbfounded, "You... you can extract their Dao?"

This was too shocking; Peng Demon King considered himself well-traveled and had seen many experts and Divine Abilities.

But shattering an enemy and extracting their Dao Enlightenment was not just perverted; it was incredibly so!

As everyone knows, at their realm, power increases very slowly, and it’s the enlightenment of the Dao that truly enhances one’s strength.

The more Dao Runes one contemplates, the more power of the laws of heaven and earth one can wield, and the stronger one’s combat power becomes.

But the Dao is vast and ever-changing, and everyday enlightenment is incredibly difficult. Some may not gain a rune for a thousand years, others may turn into withered bones without having a single enlightenment...

It can be said that every rune is extremely precious, even surpassing most elixirs.

Yet this rabbit could gain it effortlessly, directly extracting the Dao from others...

Such a method!

It’s simply cheating, a bug!

As Peng Demon King inwardly roared, the three Dao Runes before Yi Zheng suddenly trembled and quickly collapsed, leaving behind specks of Dao power that merged into Yi Zheng’s body.

After a moment of astonishment, Yi Zheng sighed, "Damn it, not strong enough to even retain the Dao!"

Hearing Yi Zheng’s words, Peng Demon King was once again sure that this rabbit was a freak!

At the same time, he realized that with such terrifying methods, as long as the rabbit didn’t die en route, his future was bound to be limitless.

At this moment, for the first time, the Peng Demon King felt a sense of reverence for the rabbit on his back.

He was confident that as long as the rabbit kept going, there would surely be a place for him under the heavens.

"Perhaps, serving as its mount wouldn’t be too bad," the Peng Demon King muttered to himself as his gaze towards Yi Zheng subtly changed.

In the past, he had been forced to obey in order not to be beaten, stewed, or dragged off to breed with pigs.

But now, he obeyed willingly, from the heart.

Yi Zheng was unaware of the Peng Demon King’s change, as he was currently engrossed in the wondrous feeling of absorbing the Power of Dao.

The Power of Dao he had plundered was completely different from what he absorbed from elixirs.

The Power of Dao in the elixirs, having gone through the Queen Mother of the West’s alchemy, was incredibly pure and devoid of any impurities.

However, the Power of Dao that Yi Zheng had extracted was a bit mixed, carrying some of the previous owner’s insights and stray thoughts along with it.

These things were considered garbage to the alchemy-practicing Queen Mother of the West, but to Yi Zheng, they were priceless treasures!

That old man was called Xilu Hermit, a deer spirit, but unlike other demons, he loved studying characters and composing poetry. Thus, the Dao he comprehended was also related to literature, the path of calligraphy.

The Power of Dao that Yi Zheng absorbed contained many of Xilu Hermit’s insights into calligraphy, including how to hold the brush, apply force, and infuse the power of heaven and earth into the characters, turning them into offensive and defensive tools...

These insights weren’t abundant, but Yi Zheng absorbed them promptly. And for someone whose handwriting resembled that of a scrawling cockroach, the gains were immense.

The two other incomplete runes transformed into Power of Dao also contained the calligraphy insights of Xilu Hermit’s disciples. Though not much, the combined insights of three people offered Yi Zheng a substantial harvest.

Yi Zheng opened his eyes, activated the Body Character Technique to turn into a brush, and slowly wrote a few big characters in the air: "Swear to enter the Wenqu Palace at the peril of my life."

These characters looked much better than his previous writing. Though not at the level of a grand master, he had certainly reached a basic level of competency.

Suddenly, Yi Zheng flicked his brush, and the seven characters burst into Fiery Flame, transforming into seven fireballs that hurtled towards the distance...

Yi Zheng cracked a smile and said, "Interesting, very interesting!"

The Peng Demon King looked at the seven fireballs. He naturally found the power of these fireballs negligible, but he clearly understood that this rabbit, whose handwriting used to be quite ugly, could now write characters that harnessed the power of heaven and earth. This must be due to absorbing those Powers of Dao.

"Others suffer and cultivate for a thousand years, yet this rabbit simply needs to kill its opponents to plunder all their gains. This is just too abnormal," the Peng Demon King inwardly exclaimed in utmost shock.

"Idiot, what do you think about my calligraphy?" Rabbit asked proudly, looking at the Peng Demon King.

The Peng Demon King shook his head and said, "The writing is not that great, but the speed of improvement is definitely divine."

Upon hearing this, Yi Zheng laughed joyfully, "Good eye! Haha... On to the next stop!"

"Where to?" Peng Demon King asked.

Yi Zheng waved the large banner in his hand and said, "Of course, to go fishing!"

What followed was a scene outside Book Mountain in the Earth Realm where a rabbit riding a bird with dull feathers, looking like a dispirited chicken, and carrying a banner declaring "Swear to enter the Wenqu Palace at the peril of my life" flitted about chaotically.

Then, continuously, people were drawn in and ultimately dissolved into a mist of blood with screams, vanishing between heaven and earth.

At first, the contestants didn’t take it seriously, but as the number of hunters increased, the stench of blood and death in the air grew thicker. Slowly, the contestants began to sense that something was amiss.

Just then, someone saw a blood-soaked rabbit running out of a grove, shouting as it ran, "Brothers of the Wenchang Palace, run! Someone is hunting us!"

The contestants from the Wenchang Palace heard this and were instantly enraged:

"We’ve always been the ones to trap and kill those from the Wenqu Palace, and now someone dares to kill us!"

"Candidates from the Wenqu Palace actually dare to resist? This is outrageous!"

"Rabbit, do not panic, we are here to lend you a hand!"

As they spoke, several of them charged towards the rabbit, who, as if terribly frightened, ran behind them and kept thanking them, "Thank you, my friends, for rescuing me."

However, they ignored him and focused on searching the woods for the one who was supposedly hunting the rabbit.

Right at that moment, a flash of golden light and a loud boom occurred. The three were thrown off without getting a clear look at the assailant’s face.

As a golden light was about to strike down one man, a rabbit rushed forward and released something that appeared to be a treasure, blocking the golden light with a loud thud.

The rabbit spurted a mouthful of blood and, dragging the other person, rolled and crawled away for hundreds of meters.

At the same time, shouts came from afar, "There’s a fight over there!"

"Let’s go have a look!"

The golden figure seemed to hesitate for a while and eventually gave up on finishing off the few men, vanishing into the forest instead.

Watching this, the three men and the rabbit each sighed with relief.

"Thank you, rabbit," the man saved by the rabbit said with a bow.

The rabbit returned the gesture, "No worries. If it wasn’t for trying to save me, you wouldn’t have been attacked."