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Xue Liji walked slowly to the shot put on the left. He calmed down, breathed deeply in his Dantian, took three deep breaths, suddenly shouted loudly, raised his right palm and slashed towards the center of the shot put - everyone saw
The right palm sank into the shot put for more than a foot before it stopped.
Tiesong took a breath of air and slashed into the shot put more than a foot. My dear, if this palm struck someone, I'm afraid all four Lu Zhans would be chopped into eight pieces by him.
The nurses from the second team cheered loudly, but the faces of the nurses from the third team were not so pretty.
Xue Liji retracted his palm and walked back to his team, squinting at Lu Zhan proudly.
Lu Zhan did not panic. He walked to the shot put on the right calmly. He first touched the smooth ball of the shot put with his palm, one circle, two circles, three circles, five circles, ten circles...
The nurses in the third team all held their breath.
And the guards from the second team shouted: "Cut it quickly, kid!"
"It's such a waste of time, little kid, you should just admit defeat."
"Hey, can you turn this shot put into a tofu ball after you touch it for a long time?"
Among the second team, only Xue Liji's expression became serious. At this time, he could vaguely see clearly that Lu Zhan was actually using the circling movement of touching the ball to accumulate strength.
This seemingly gentle method of accumulating energy is much more advanced than the method of relying on the Dantian to gather brute force to explode. It is described at the end of the last article of the explanation of the exercise in "Langya Split Air Palm"
A very strange way of gathering Qi. I felt that the method was too mysterious and profound at the time, so I didn't spend much time practicing it to understand it.
I didn't expect that the young boy in front of me would actually reach this level of practice. Judging from this action alone, it's unclear whether he is just pretending to learn some superficial skills or whether he has actually mastered the essence of the Split Sky Palm Technique.
It exceeds one's own cultivation level.
Over there, when Lu Zhan was spinning to the twenty-sixth circle, he suddenly raised his right palm, and with all the energy in his body condensed, he slashed his palm downwards like lightning!
Everyone only heard a soft "snap" sound, and the shot ball split into two in an instant, turning into two semicircles, one large and one small. The fracture was so smooth and flat, as if it had been cut by an eighth-level sword.
After hearing and seeing, the whole place fell into silence.
After three breaths of silence, the three teams burst into enthusiastic cheers; then people rushed forward, lifted Lu Zhan up, and threw him into the sky to celebrate this proud victory.
As the leader, Tiesong also clapped his hands excitedly and looked at the second team on the opposite side with his head held high.
All the nurses in the second team were silent. Xue Liji's face turned livid, and he looked gloomily at the shot put that was split into two pieces on the ground. Then he let out an angry "hum" and walked away from the training ground dejectedly.
The second team of nurses also dispersed with their heads downcast.
Tiesong patted Lu Zhan's shoulder hard and gave a thumbs up: "Brother Lu, good job, let's go have a drink. We won't come back until we get drunk tonight!" As he said this, he waved to the nursing staff of the third team:
"I'm in a very good mood today. I'm going to give all my brothers a day off tomorrow. You can go out and have some fun."
The nursing staff responded with a roar and cheered like thunder.
That night, Lu Zhan accompanied Tiesong and several other black-belt nurses to drink and have fun, and they had no inhibitions;
By the time the banquet was over, it was getting very late.
Therefore, he decided not to go home and sleep, but to make do with resting in the lounge on his squadron for the night.
When he walked to the door of the lounge, he heard Xi Liuzi humming an off-key tune from the side room next to him, and the lights were still dimly on in the room.
He glanced into the side room and saw Xi Liuzi lying on the bed with his legs crossed and singing a tune. At a table next to him, Ma Lixiong and several nurses were gathered together and gambling.
The homes of these nursing homes are not local, so they all stay in the nursing home hall.
Xi Liuzi had sharp eyes. When he saw Lu Zhan, he quickly got up and shouted: "Hey, captain, why didn't you come home?"
"Oh, it's too late to have a good drink, so I'll just spend the night in the lounge." Lu Zhan walked into the side room, and the nurses who were gathering for gambling quickly cleared the tables and made room.
"Why don't you guys rest?" Lu Zhan asked with a smile.
Ma Lixiong replied with a smile: "Thanks to you, Captain, the Iron Chief will give us a whole day off tomorrow, so the brothers will gather together and play. Whoever is lucky enough to make more money will be rewarded with hundreds of flowers tomorrow."
Let’s go downstairs to go and have some fun with the girls, uh-uh, let’s have sex.”
As he said this, everyone laughed obscenely.
Xi Liuzi hurriedly explained to Lu Zhan: "The girls in Baihualou are all prudes and pretend to be cool all day long. The girls in Chunxiang Pavilion are better, they are all slutty and slutty.
You can do whatever you want. If Captain Lu is interested in sex, my brother and I will take you to your home tomorrow."
Another nursing home immediately retorted: "The girls in Chunxiang Pavilion are all old sluts with old age and sex. Only a guy like you, Liuzi, who is not picky about food and has no taste, would run there. Our Captain Lu is a young and talented man.
Wouldn’t it be a good idea to let those old sluts eat young grass and take advantage of it? Captain Lu, come with me tomorrow. I’ll take you to Yuyanfang. That’s a high-end place, Yunmeng City.
Princes from aristocratic families and wealthy businessmen from other places also often go there."
Hearing this, Xi Liuzi said angrily: "What's wrong with me if I have no taste and am not picky about food? No matter how tasteless I am, we can still have a good time, but it's not like you. All you do is smoke Fushou Dayang Ointment all day long, and all your hard-earned money is gone."
It turned into blue smoke..."
Lu Zhan saw that the two of them were arguing inexplicably about which brothel to go to, and found it funny. He quickly changed the subject. He saw that in addition to silver coins spread out on the gambling table, there were also some pills piled up. He couldn't help but curiously said: "These pills
Can medicine also be used as gambling capital?"
"Of course." Ma Lixiong explained: "In the market, the market value of a "Yuanyuan Pill" is fifty taels of silver. Some people don't have enough cash now, so they use elixirs to top up the amount."
Lu Zhan felt very regretful: "It would be a pity not to keep such a good elixir to myself."
"What's such a pity." A nurse sighed and said: "Unlike you, the captain, we have already achieved such high martial arts attainments at a young age, and there is still room for further improvement. We can quickly improve our cultivation.
The elixir I have is certainly valuable to you.
But we all know ourselves, and I am afraid that we will only be able to struggle in the realm of body refining in this life. These elementary elixirs are of little practical use to us. We might as well exchange them for money to buy more needed things, just to be relaxed and happy.
Affordable.”
When Lu Zhan heard what he said, his heart moved. His martial arts attainments had improved rapidly during this period, but the speed of taking two pills a day quickly made him stretched, and he was about to run out of pills.
Although in his monthly salary, in addition to money, there is also the benefit of six "Yuanyuan Pills" per month. But for him who has to take two pills every day, how many days can he last for only six pills?
Therefore, in recent days, he has been worried about the lack of "Yuanyuan Pill".
Hearing that someone was actually exchanging precious elixirs for money, he couldn't help but feel happy, and said to the nursing staff: "If you have extra elixirs on hand and want to exchange them for money, you can exchange them with me, and I will exchange them with you at the market price.
"
All the nursing homes responded one after another: "Okay, I have two here."
"I have one."
Xi Liuzi took out a porcelain vase, thrust it generously into Lu Zhan's hand and said, "I have three here. Captain, please take them all and give them to you."
The elixirs collected by the nursing staff were not even ten. Lu Zhan pushed Xi Liuzi's porcelain bottle back to him in disappointment: "Thank you, Liuzi, for your kindness, but these elixirs are still too few to solve my problem."
.”
Ma Lixiong said in shock: "Is the captain going to use this elixir as food? Why is the dosage so large? We only give out two pills every month. Some brothers go to the secret workshop to exchange for money as soon as they get the elixir.
, so I don’t have much inventory on hand.”
"The elixirs are exchanged for money in the secret workshop?" Lu Zhan became even more curious: "Where is this secret workshop?"
"Captain, don't you even know what the secret workshop is?" Xi Liuzi said in surprise: "You probably practice a lot, and don't go out much. The secret workshop - as the name suggests, is a secret trading place - that is, an underground trade.
So. In ordinary markets, the things bought in open shops are all legal and subject to tax, but the things bought there are generally high-end goods. And most of the good goods are sold by wealthy families and wealthy families.
The royal family has a monopoly. The secret shop is a bit of a secret transaction. Some shady and illegal transactions can be carried out there. Therefore, in the secret shop, you can buy all kinds of things that are available on the market.
There are amazing things that you can’t find, and if you’re lucky, you can even come across really good ones at auctions.”
Ma Lixiong took over the topic: "For example, the weapons, protective gear and elixirs issued by our Lufu have the Lufu's mark on them. According to our Lufu's family rules, these things are not allowed to be openly traded in the market.
So we had to take it to the secret shop to exchange for money."
"Oh, so that's what happened." Lu Zhan suddenly realized, nodded, and added: "My level five steel knife is of no use leaving it alone. It's better to take it to the secret workshop to exchange for elixirs. I just don't know where to go.
How should I get there?"
Xi Liuzi smiled and said: "Since it's called the Secret Workshop, the location is of course secret. Well, tomorrow we happen to be going to the market to play, so I'll take you old man to visit the Secret Workshop together."
"That's good." Lu Zhan stood up and said, "Then I will go back to sleep now and come to you with a knife tomorrow morning."
After saying that, he waved his hand to tell everyone not to send him off, and walked back to the lounge to rest.
Early the next morning, Lu Zhan went home first to pick up the fifth-level steel knife that he had received as a reward for passing the Yanwu University entrance examination, and then rushed to the nursing hall. After meeting up with Xi Liuzi and several other nursing students, they all headed to the market together.
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Yunmeng County is a large county, and Yunmeng City, as its county seat, is located at the strategic point of water and land, with frequent traffic and traffic, prosperous caravan trade, and numerous shops and busy traffic on the streets. It looks very prosperous.
But just under this layer of prosperity, there are so many heartbreaking and sad boils hidden.
I saw so many ragged beggars hiding in dark corners and lingering in the streets;
There are so many refugees selling their children and daughters in the market, struggling to survive;
There are so many people starving and brutally murdered in the wilderness, and no one cares about the corpses in the wilderness.
Lu Zhan was also a child from a poor family at the lowest level. Seeing the poverty and suffering, he was deeply touched and felt very uncomfortable.
"Why are there so many refugees and dead people?" He murmured in surprise: "I remember when I was a child, my father took me to play on the streets. The city was not like this. Have we been experiencing famine in the past few years?
"
"Let's not talk about the past few years. This year's harvest is not bad at all-"
Ma Lixiong, who was next to him, also sighed and replied: "But the world is so chaotic now. There are wars everywhere, and people are rebelling everywhere. The most famous 36th Route rebel army has risen up all over the empire, and the war with the government and the army is in full swing.
, plus the imperial officers and soldiers, like thieves, burned, killed and looted everywhere, leaving the people in dire straits, displaced, and countless dead and injured - alas, no matter how the world rises or falls, the people who suffer the most are still the common people."
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