"Instructor Li, this disciple wants to go to Beilu Mountain to practice."
On this day, when Ye Chen finished his practice, he came to a burly middle-aged practitioner and saluted him.
"You want to go up the mountain?"
Li Cang, the chief instructor of the Upper Court, frowned upon hearing this. He vaguely remembered that this disciple seemed to have been promoted from the Lower Court to the Upper Court two months ago, and his strength should be quite weak. It would be too risky to enter the mountain so early.
"Yes, my disciple has already mastered the intermediate moves of "Tiger Leap Sword Technique". The Tiger Leap Double Slash is enough to protect myself. But I lack the herbs to temper my body, and my physical cultivation has stagnated. I want to go into the mountains to collect herbs and practice.
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Ye Chen said.
"You learned the intermediate martial arts so quickly?"
Li Cang frowned even more tightly.
It wasn't that he suspected that Ye Chen was talking nonsense.
He has mastered an intermediate sword technique in just two months, which means that Ye Chen is practicing extremely intensely... and it also means that if Ye Chen does not use good herbs in time,
Body tempering is used to treat the internal injuries accumulated in the meridians during the cultivation process. Ye Chen's physique is likely to become useless.
As the chief instructor of the Upper House, how could Li Cang not know the serious consequences?
Poor in literature and rich in martial arts. A child of a wealthy family, with the support of good herbal medicine provided by the family, generally will not have such problems. But as a commoner, if you don't have the money to buy good herbal medicine, you can only risk going to the mountains to collect medicine.
He was not optimistic about Ye Chen's future. There were many poor children, and although they seemed to be practicing fast in the early stages, they fell into disrepair in the later stages.
"Since you can perform the Tiger Leap Double Slash, you should have 800 to 1,000 kilograms of strength, which is enough to kill a giant tiger. Look for herbs on the outside of Beilu Mountain, and don't go into the deep mountains. There are swarms of tigers and wolves in the deep mountains. You
One person can’t handle it.”
Li Cang didn't have much interest in paying attention to Ye Chen. There were more than 200 disciples in the upper chamber of Beilu Academy, and he wouldn't put any thought into an unknown disciple whose name he couldn't even remember.
"Thank you, Coach!"
After Ye Chen got the permission from Coach Li, he went back with a bag of baked biscuits and bought a cheap new steel knife from the academy weapons store. He left Beilu Academy and followed the broken path in the mountain into the Beilu Mountains.
The Beilu Mountains are the largest and longest mountain range in the Wu Kingdom with thousands of miles of overlapping mountains. They are rich in resources, especially herbal medicines. In the hundreds of miles outside this mountain range, you can find about third-grade herbal medicines, and there is a small amount of wild beast activity.
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If you go deep into the mountains, you can also find higher-grade and rarer herbs. Of course, the level of danger will also increase greatly, and you will encounter extremely ferocious beasts.
Many herb collectors will risk their lives to go into the Beilu Mountains to collect herbs. Once they collect rare herbs, they sell them to large chambers of commerce and earn a large sum of gold and silver, enough to provide them with food and clothing for several years.
It is not without reason that Beilu Academy, the first academic institution in the Wu Kingdom, was built at the foot of this large mountain range.
To a large extent, it is also to facilitate the students of the academy to go into the mountains to collect herbs.
Of course, only students from the upper college who are above the fourth level of the body refining stage dare to go up the mountain to collect herbs. If you are lucky, you can pick them. Students from the lower college are between the first and third levels of the body refining stage. They are very weak in fists and feet, so they can only go into the mountain.
Feeding ferocious tigers and wolves is not allowed in the mountains.
Commoner students from Beilu Academy often go to the mountains to practice together.
Ye Chen didn't intend to do this.
"I am collecting about fourth-grade herbs hundreds of miles away from the Beilu Mountains for body tempering practice. As long as you are careful, there is not much danger."
Ye Chen thought to himself.
There is no need to worry about food and accommodation in the Beilu Mountains. Ye Chen can often hunt hares and pheasants, and make bonfires to roast and eat them. At night, he looks for caves on the mountain walls and stone walls, and covers them with weeds. He can sleep peacefully with a knife in his hand.
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There are not many wild animals outside the mountains.
Try to avoid places where there are footprints of beasts. As a warrior at the fifth level of the body refining stage, safety is not too much of a problem.
Ye Chen spent the morning searching for herbs in the mountains. In the afternoon, he practiced the third and fourth moves of the intermediate level of "Tiger Leap Sword Technique" in the open areas of the mountains. In the evening, he tempered his body.
Several months passed by in a flash.
After entering summer, the weather gradually becomes hotter.
"It has been three months since I entered the mountain... time flies so fast! There are only more than ten days left before the academy graduation exam."
Ye Chen stood up as soon as the sky broke. Every day, he drew a cross on the handle of his knife to count the number of days he spent in the Beilu Mountains.
He has been staying in the northern foothills for nearly three months. Although he bathes in the stream and is clean and fresh, his clothes have many tatters. The blunt edge of the steel knife has been worn and chipped, and it is stained with the blood of many wild beasts.
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His cultivation during the body training period improved slowly but surely. His martial arts moves also became more sophisticated day by day.
Being exposed to the wind and sun every day, Ye Chen's originally immature face also gained a calm look.
It's getting brighter this day.
After Ye Chen finished chewing the hare meat roasted last night, he searched for medicinal herbs in the mountains, cliffs, and steep and steep places. The common places had been turned over countless times by other herb collectors. Only in dangerous places would herbs remain.
Down.
Even medicinal collectors are unwilling to set foot in such a dangerous place.
"Ziwucao!... It's only four inches long and is about a fourth-grade herb. It can be used to increase the intensity of Qi and blood in the bone marrow!!"
Ye Chen pressed his body tightly against the cliff, searching around, and suddenly his eyes lit up.
On the cliff on the left, a small black grass swayed in the wind in the sunshine and rain.
Ye Chen grabbed the rock with one hand and carefully picked the black grass from the cliff with the other hand, showing a happy expression.
Ye Chen put the grass into the medicine basket, kicked hard on the rock wall with his toes, jumped up, and climbed up the cliff ten feet high.
"Although the grade of this black grass is not high, it is not bad. I am lucky today! I might not be able to find one for several days some time ago, but today it only took half an hour to find a nourishing one.
The herbs used for blood, I use them to temper the body!"
Ye Chen was surprised.
He came to a clean stone wall, sat cross-legged and meditated, washed the rhizome of Ziwucao with clean water, put it into his mouth, chewed it slowly and carefully, absorbing every drop of black juice.
This black grass is an extremely yang herb that nourishes qi and blood.
After Ye Chen took it, he soon felt a hot air flow in his abdomen. This air flow was transported along countless meridians to the bones of his body. A few minutes later, every part of his body's bones were constantly producing
New blood.
In the middle stage of a warrior's physical training, the most important thing is the concentration of qi and blood. The stronger the warrior, the higher the concentration of qi and blood.
When a warrior reaches the sixth level of the body refining stage, Qi and blood fill the whole body, and the Qi and blood in all the meridians in the body are extremely strong. At this level, it can no longer be strengthened.
Ye Chen spent two hours absorbing the power of the medicine, and he felt such a strong feeling that the energy and blood in every bone in his body was so strong that it reached a saturated bottleneck.
The strong qi and blood seemed to be burning in the body.
Ye Chen's whole body was on fire, and he wanted to vent a violent force.
"drink!"
He suddenly swung his fist, a lightning-like punch, and hit a solid rock protruding from the rock wall next to him.
"boom!"
A deep fist mark appeared on the solid rock of the rock wall, and a series of cracks spread to the surroundings. A one-foot radius in the center of the solid rock has been broken into countless gravels. Without the strength of 600 kilograms, it cannot be brought
Such power.
With such strength, it is easy to crack open monuments and crack rocks.
"Three months later, I finally went from about the fifth and a half level of the body refining stage to the sixth level of the body refining stage!"
Ye Chen glanced at his bruised fist and felt excited.
After three months of hard training in the mountains, he finally reached the sixth level of the body refining stage before the academy's assessment.
"I remember half a year ago, Shi Geng, the head coach of the lower courtyard, used his 'Shadowless Leg' to smash a stone pile that was one foot thick and ten feet high with one leg. Although my current strength is not as deep as that of the head coach Shi Geng, my strength is no less than that of the head coach Shi Geng."
Coach!"
"Among the entire 200 students in the Upper School of Beilu Academy, there are probably no more than 40 or 50 students who have reached the sixth level of the body refining stage!"
"It's time to go back and take part in the academy's appraisal and assessment!"
Carrying a blunt steel knife, Ye Chen strode away from the Beilu Mountains and rushed to Beilu Academy, a hundred miles away.
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Off topic.
Compared with the discovery of the gray egg in Chapter 20 of the Zi Mansion and the entry into the Qi training period in Chapter 100, the Ancient Painting in the Immortal Mansion is in Chapter 4, and the college graduation exam is taken in Chapter 10, which is simple and fast. The protagonist will not be delayed in the warrior stage, so it does not matter if he is not in the beginning.
Wasting time on petty fights.
During the period when the protagonist is a warrior, the academy's appraisal examination is a key plot point, and the battles are very "intense".
In addition, this book attempts a new style, and the plot is simpler and smoother. It will be somewhat different from the old book. After all, you cannot write a book in the same way all the time.