Shi Zhu kept Shi Feiyang's instructions firmly in mind. He knew Divine Lord Giant Wood intended to stir up trouble, and whatever the man said, he was to ignore it.
But Divine Lord Giant Wood went too far and attacked him outright, leaving Shi Zhu no choice but to defend himself.
They had fought before, more than once. For the hundreds and thousands of years afterward, one had lived atop the ridge and the other below it, less than a thousand miles apart. They were bound to cross paths sooner or later and knew each other well.
Divine Lord Giant Wood had now perfected his Immortal Arts, and his strength surpassed even that of an ordinary Golden Immortal. He had assumed he could subdue his opponent without much effort.
Yet the moment they exchanged blows, he discovered that Shi Zhu's methods were entirely different from those of old!
Old Man Ku Zhu had practiced the unorthodox arts of the Daoist School, along with Buddhism's "Withered Meditation." In Divine Lord Giant Wood's eyes, these were merely the methods of fringe schools and crooked paths. Only his long years of cultivation and the fortuitous encounters of his youth had allowed him to develop such formidable magical power. In truth, his methods were riddled with openings.
When Divine Lord Giant Wood had first been banished to the lower realm, he had already spotted many weaknesses in Old Man Withered Bamboo's unorthodox spells and devised hundreds upon thousands of ways to break them. But Old Man Withered Bamboo knew his own weaknesses too. He covered them with other methods, weaving them together so that those openings either vanished in a flash before anyone could seize them or became traps. Once an opponent attacked, they would fall into another combination of spells.
Divine Lord Giant