The head of the Moon bull struck the ground. However, no dust flew because the ground was filled with green grass. Its legs spread a little because of the impact.
After striking the head of the Moon bull, Yang Zhai jumped backward and stood seven meters away from it, preparing for the bull's counterattack. Now that Yang Zhai had angered it, there was no way to avoid the battle with the Moon bull. Even if he runs now, the Moon bull would simply follow it and of course, Yang Zhai would be in danger if the night arrives during the run. And he did not want to run to begin with, this was not what he had come for.
The Moon bull, on the other hand, raised its head, looking fiercely at Yang Zhai, indicating how angry it was at him. It struck its front right hoof on the ground, scrubbing the grass and causing the dust to rise. It was preparing to attack Yang Zhai. It wanted nothing more than to kill Yang Zhai right now. Not only that, but it was just eating peacefully when someone comes and punches its head for no reason. So, how could it not be angry?
It started to run toward Yang Zhai at a speed slightly faster than a normal bull.
When it was close to Yang Zhai, he jumped to his right and dodged. After dodging slightly to the side, he kicked the Moon bull whilst he was still in the air.
Yang Zhai was pushed back and the Moon bull lost balance and fell, whilst it went sliding on the ground because it was running when it lost balance and fell. On the other hand, Yang Zhai flipped backward in the air and landed on his feet.
The Moon bull stood up and looked at Yang Zhai with bloodshot eyes. It was extremely angry at Yang Zhai. It breathed air out of its nose and kicked the ground with its hoof again.
It ran toward Yang Zhai again with a powerful dash.
Yang Zhai had already sensed that it was a rank 2 beast, that was the reason it was slightly stronger than a normal Moon bull. And Yang Zhai was in no mood to test his strength against it by attacking it head-on. Therefore, he jumped and front flipped in the air and struck the Moon bull's head with the backside of his right heel¹.
The Moon bull's head lowered because of the kick, and it smashed against a tree. However, the tree did not break and only shook. It was not that easy to break a tree and the tree itself was thick enough to endure the power of a bull, which was only slightly stronger than a normal bull. The Moon bull turned around and looked at Yang Zhai again.
Yang Zhai stood in front of another tree. He was going to make the bull hit the tree again. Even though he could defeat the bull himself, he was not someone who would waste opportunities and would always take advantage of his surroundings. Thus, he was going to make its head hurt and dizzy before dealing with it. And during this time, he would always kick its head once whilst dodging. And just like this, half an hour passed.
The Moon bull's head was bleeding, and it was stumbling. Its horns were broken as well.
The Moon bull ran towards Yang Zhai again; however, this time, its speed was slow, and it was stumbling. Yang Zhai looked at it and decided that the time had arrived. Therefore, he ran towards the Moon bull as well to confront it head-on.
His hands had already turned brown because of the Wooden Fists Ka. They were hard enough to let him punch heavily without bleeding.
Both the Moon bull and Yang Zhai confronted each other head-on. Yang Zhai struck the Moon bull's head with a powerful punch. He was not worried that the Moon bull would die because he was aware of how tough it was. He knew its vitality was strong enough to bear Yang Zhai's punch. However, it would still get injured and weak from Yang Zhai's attacks. If it was someone who did not know about Moon bulls, then they would have stopped fighting fearing that the Moon bull might die from further fighting: but, that would be foolishness because if the moon comes out, then the Moon bull would become strong. The previous injuries would not matter to it anymore. Thus, Yang Zhai attacked it relentlessly until the Moon bull lay on the ground covered in blood. It was injured all over, especially it's head.
Yang Zhai was panting slightly because of losing some stamina during the fight. He only used one cultivation method during the fight, and that was the Wooden Fists Ka.
Yang Zhai tied the Moon bull's legs together, and its head to a tree. Following that, he looked around in the surrounding mile around this place and saw no one around. But he still did not rest and used the Dug Worm Ka again and again to dig a deep pit that was five meters wide and six meters deep. He had already untied the Moon bull from the tree and only left its legs tied. He had dug the deep pit beneath it. He had done this because he did not want to throw the Moon bull in the pit and simply dug a pit beneath the bull.
After that, he used the Dug Worm Ka and closed the pit's entrance. Dug Worm Ka had two abilities, one was to dig and the other was to refill the pit it had dug. As the entirety of the pit was dug by the Dug Worm Ka, it had no difficulty closing the pit's entrance. However, for breathing, he left a small hole above the ground but not directly above the pit. He had left the hole about three meters away from the pit and had connected the hole with the pit by using the Dug Worm Ka. All this process took him around three hours. And during all this, he had to beat the Moon bull, again and again, to not let it rest and recover its strength. But he made sure to not injure it heavily.
While he used the Dug Worm Ka again and again. Dug Worm Ka could only dig a pit one foot deep and one meter wide. But it could be used again and again. Yang Zhai created a six meters(19.5 feet) deep pit, meaning he used the Dug Worm Ka a total of thirty or so times, including the breathing hole he created, and the entrance he closed. This Ka could dig a pit ranging from one centimeter to one meter wide and one foot deep. And he used seven percent rank one essence water to activate this Ka, however, because he was at rank 2, this Ka took only three percent essence water. Meaning only ninety to a hundred percent essence water was used. And as Yang Zhai's essence water limit was sixty-two percent, he used only four extra low-grade essence stones for the Ka usage, as well as to refill his aperture to sixty-two percent. At rank 2 early stage, a cultivator needed four low-grade essence stones to fill up their aperture. He used only four essence stones because he already had sixty-two percent essence water in his aperture.
It took him this long because he gave the Dug Worm Ka rest sometimes to not injure it by using it without any rest. And he also scanned the area of one mile surrounding this place to be safe. These were the reasons that took him three hours
After doing this, he sat in the pit beside the Moon bull and used his aperture to absorb the spiritual energy from the outside world, opening a small black vortex on his abdomen.
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1-Heel: Heel here does not mean shoe, but the backside of the foot, which is also called the heel or calcareous.