Mortal bone

"boom!……"

Almost at the moment when he began to circulate Can Xia's mental method, there was a gust of breeze in the small courtyard, and traces of heaven and earth spiritual energy entered his body through his opened acupoints.

The meridians and acupoints that Xu Taiping couldn't sense in the past, but this time he sensed them very easily, even the process of guiding the spiritual energy into the meridians for refining was also very smooth.

In the end, Xu Taiping spent half a stick of incense and successfully sent a stream of refined Qi into his dantian.

"It takes half a stick of incense to refine such a true qi, which is nothing compared to the genius Ziyang Zhenjun said, but for me, I can really embark on the road of cultivation after all."

Xu Taiping was not too frustrated with his extremely slow refining speed.

"Grandpa said that hard work can make up for weakness. They practice for two hours a day, I practice for four hours, they practice for four hours, and I practice for eight hours. I will catch up one day!"

Xu Taiping secretly made up his mind.

"By the way, I still have this soybean spirit crystal. Fairy Lingyue said that holding it and practicing kung fu can achieve twice the result with half the effort."

He suddenly remembered the few soybean spirit crystals produced in the Ksitigarbha fruit, so he took out one on the spot, and started to exercise again.

With the help of Soybean Spirit Crystal, his speed of refining the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was more than three times faster than before.

"Sure enough, Fairy Lingyue didn't lie to me. This spirit crystal is of great benefit to me. In this way, maybe I can really break through the door-opening state within half a year!"

Feeling the increase in the speed of cultivation, Xu Taiping immediately had a look of joy.

With the help of this soybean spirit crystal, his cultivation speed is at least as fast as that of ordinary monks.

In the following days, Xu Taiping spent two hours a day tending the medicine fields, and the rest of the time was spent on cultivation, and he didn't dare to delay for a moment.

……

In the blink of an eye, three months have passed.

During these three months, Xu Taiping could clearly feel that the true energy in his dantian was getting more and more full, and he vaguely sensed that he should soon break through the condensation period.

The so-called dew condensation period is actually a saying in "Canning Xia Gong", which is a description of the true energy of a monk who has not yet broken through the door-opening state.

In the Cangxia Art, before breaking through the door-opening state, the depth of a monk's true energy can be divided into three levels: dew condensation, defrosting, and freezing.

Only when the depth of zhenqi breaks through the level of the "freezing" stage, can the monk try to break through the door-opening stage.

However, after breaking through the dew condensation period and entering the defrosting period, when the monk performs the Cangxia Kungfu, a stream of ice-protecting true energy will be generated all over his body, which is equivalent to putting on a layer of top-quality iron armor for the monk.

But even if he hasn't broken through the condensation period, Xu Taiping's physical changes are obvious as his dantian is filled with true energy.

For example, his eyesight and hearing are much stronger than they were three months ago.

In terms of eyesight, he can see clearly even a sparrow standing on a tree 500 meters away.In terms of hearing ability, he can tell what kind of beasts there are in the surrounding mountains and forests within a mile.

In addition, his physical strength and foot strength have been greatly improved.

Today's Xu Taiping looks thin and thin, but it is absolutely no problem to lift a stone mill weighing two hundred catties with one hand.As for foot strength, he once chased a wild deer in the nearby forest, and he did not lose the slightest result.

In addition, when he was in Niujia Village, he often went up to the mountains with his grandfather to hunt game, knew how to use bows and arrows, and made traps, so in the past month, he has been able to eat game every day.

Basil leaves are served with grilled venison and rabbit meat, and he never gets tired of eating it no matter how many times.

"Speaking of which, it's time to take a look at the trap we made in the back mountain a few days ago. Maybe we can catch another gazelle to eat."

At noon that day, Xu Taiping, who had practiced for three hours, rubbed his stomach and stood up from the bed, planning to go to the back mountain to see the trap he had set.

Because he wants to practice, he doesn't have much time to hunt, so he has set up many traps on several nearby mountains in the past three months, and now he can gain something by just visiting from time to time.

But before that, he has one more important thing to do——

Sell ​​medicinal materials.

It has been three months since the first batch of nine-leaf white perilla seeds were sown. Xu Taiping has harvested a total of more than 300 catties of perilla rhizomes and more than 60 catties of perilla seeds, which is just three times the harvest of ordinary medicine fields. .

"Based on two catties, this piece of nine-leaf white perilla can sell for at least 96 merit coins, which is three times more than what was originally expected."

After taking all the medicinal materials to be sold to the door and putting them away, Xu Taiping took out the bone flute given by Xifeng Pavilion, and then blew it vigorously.

"Hey!..."

After a while, a bald eagle with wings spread a foot wide came to the gate of the small courtyard.

"Uncle Bai Diao, please also send these medicinal materials to Baicao Hall for sale. Afterwards, you can draw three merit coins from them."

Xu Taiping bowed his hands to the bald eagle standing in front of him.

Let the spirit bird sell medicinal materials, which is also the method he saw from the Jade Slip of Passing Gong. It said that ordinary medicinal materials can be directly sold by the spirit bird, which saves time and effort, but you have to pay three pieces of merit afterwards. currency.

"I'll send the money tomorrow."

The spirit bird bald eagle didn't talk nonsense, and after a slight nod, it grabbed the batch of medicinal materials with its claws and flew into the air.

"By tomorrow, I will have the money to buy martial arts from Wanjuanlou."

Looking at the leaving figure of the bald eagle, Xu Taiping crossed his hands and stretched his waist.

Although he still needs to save money to buy a real fire talisman, it is still necessary to buy a martial skill for self-defense. When he was hunting in the mountains before, he was almost injured by a few wild boars.

The current him is full of true energy in his dantian, and he doesn't know how to display it at all.

In fact, for a monk, it would be better to buy a spell to cultivate, but he was so shy that he couldn't afford it at all, so he had to wait until he saved more money.

And before breaking through the door-opening state, even if he had practiced the "Remnant Xia Gong", the amount of true energy in Xu Taiping's body was not enough to support him to cast spells.

"The bow and arrow and the hunting knife should also be changed."

At this time Xu Taiping had already brought the bow, arrow and hunting knife from the hut, and was about to leave for the back mountain.

The bow, arrow and hunting knife were all left by the previous owner of the Green Bamboo House, the blade of the hunting knife was full of gaps, the string of the bow and arrow was also broken once, Xu Taiping managed to reconnect it.

A person lives on the mountain, and there are many wild animals around the yard. This is the most basic self-defense weapon.

……

After half a column of incense.

Back Mountain.

Although Xu Taiping called it Houshan, according to the map in the jade bamboo slips, this mountain should be called Yanglushan, because there are many gazelle and elk in the mountain.

But Xu Taiping went to the mountain several times, and found that there are not many yellow sheep and elk in the mountain, but there are quite a few wild boars in groups.

"It would be nice if we could hunt a wild boar, at least we won't have to worry about food for the next half month."

Xu Taiping, who was running in the mountains, looked around vigilantly and muttered something in his mouth.

Although monks can fast, but the premise is that they must at least break through the gate opening state. The current Xu Taiping is not only unable to fast, but also has to rely on a large amount of meat to supplement the physical strength lost during cultivation.