Raising Silkworms and Refining Gu from Mount Hundred Thousand

After Zhou Qing returned to Nanli County, he went straight to Wanbao Pavilion and spent thousands of taels of silver to buy a large amount of medicinal materials.

After that, he returned to his house in the outer city, followed Wei Sheng's advice, and chose to stay behind closed doors.

After consuming this batch of medicinal materials and making further progress in alchemy, he will return to Black Mountain Town.

Just like that, three months passed by in a flash.

The new year is approaching.

The county town has become more and more lively, and many products related to the New Year have appeared.

However, the excitement belongs to others and has nothing to do with Zhou Qing.

呲呲呲.

In the room in the backyard, Zhou Qing was sitting cross-legged in the wooden king cauldron. The cauldron was filled with blue-white medicinal liquid, and white smoke was rising.

"Gruck." Zhou Qing used his body to resist the terrifying coldness in the essence and blood of the Ice Soul Spider. The cold poison invaded his body. His whole body was shivering from the cold, his hair was covered with a layer of white frost, and even his nose turned into ice.

He felt as if his body was no longer his.

In the past, he used poisonous water to temper his body and cultivate the Hundred Poison Hunyuan Body. Although it was also very painful, the pain caused by those poisons was not as painful as the cold poison. It made his Qi and blood stagnant, and the body's resistance to severe pain was greatly improved. decline.

Of course, the pain has increased a lot, and the progress of cultivation has also accelerated visibly.

Just the diluted ice soul spider essence and blood has such a magical effect.

Once the physical strength increases and the body adapts to the cold poison of the Ice Soul Spider, the undiluted blood essence should be used directly, and the training progress should increase instead of falling.

"Kick-kick"

The long training process seemed to never end. Zhou Qing endured the inhuman pain until the cold poison in the medicine gradually weakened and the frost on his body melted into water.

"Crack crack!"

Zhou Qing opened his eyes and stood up from the Wooden King Cauldron. There was an explosion in all the bones in his body.

"Kaka."

He clenched his fists, and the muscles of his arms bulged high, with sharp edges and corners like stone sculptures. Between each muscle, there was a fascia as thick as a spiritual snake, connecting all the muscles.

A steady stream of power fills every corner of the body.

"Wow!"

As he exerted more force, Zhou Qing could even hear the sound of his own strong heartbeat, as well as the vitality that flowed like a torrent as the energy and blood circulated in his body.

"Is this a breakthrough?!" Zhou Qing's eyes narrowed. He felt that he was terrifyingly strong now. This feeling would appear when there was a big breakthrough in a skill. This was because the body had gained significant strength. of reinforcement.

The next moment, a line of text appeared in Zhou Qing's sight.

[Skill: Hundred Poison Hunyuan Shen]

[Progress: Second level (18/30000)]

[Effect: Invulnerable to all poisons; Qi and blood are doubled; the physical body is fused into one body, Qi and blood are like mercury and marrow is like frost, and the power is doubled; the chance of breaking through the blood exchange realm is increased by 20%]

"Sure enough, a breakthrough! Qi and blood are like mercury and marrow is like frost!" Zhou Qing was overjoyed.

The human body has an upper limit for Qi and blood. People with stronger bones can generally hold more Qi and blood.

After Zhou Qing practiced the Green Wood Sutra to the fourth level, he obtained the wood spirit phase. When practicing the wood-attribute skills, his root bones were equivalent to the upper-level ones, but his own root bones were still average to upper-level and were not upgraded to the upper-level ones.

Therefore, he can only increase the volume of the 'container' of his body as much as possible by practicing body training techniques and strengthening his physical body.

Generally, only martial arts masters who have perfected the Bone Refining Realm, or even great martial masters who have just entered the Blood Exchange Realm, can reach the point where Qi and blood are like mercury, marrow, and frost.

It only took about half a year for Zhou Qing to break through to the Bone Refining Realm. It was still early to complete the Bone Refining Realm. However, by cultivating the Hundred Poison Hunyuan Body, he had achieved the effects that could only be obtained by completing the Bone Refining Realm in advance.

At this moment, the total amount of his qi and blood has not changed, but it has become more condensed and purer. In this way, the same amount of qi and blood can exert much more power.

His strength doubled naturally for this reason.

Generally speaking, a warrior who first enters the Bone Refining Realm will have a pure physical strength of more than three thousand kilograms. After training and reaching the Bone Refining Realm, it is estimated that it can be increased to five or six thousand kilograms. With the increase in martial arts, it is possible to reach He has the strength of ten thousand kilograms.

The reason why the great martial arts masters in the blood-changing realm can form a crushing advantage over the martial arts masters in the bone-refining realm is because the weakest great martial artist in the blood-changing realm can easily exert more than 30,000 kilograms of power.

In addition, if you practice a martial arts to the level of blood exchange, the bonus to your strength is far beyond the previous four levels of skin, flesh, muscles and bones.

Therefore, it is almost impossible for the Bone Refining Realm to leapfrog and defeat the Blood Exchange Realm.

"My current pure physical strength is probably tens of thousands of kilograms. With the true energy stimulating my martial arts, I can crush bone refining realm martial artists at the same level in terms of strength. As for whether I can resist the blood exchange realm, it still counts. ”

Zhou Qing clenched his fists, as if he could squeeze the air.

However, although he felt that his strength had surged, he was still not sure about the blood exchange realm.

Moreover, the powerful enemies he is currently facing do not have a single blood exchange for the first time in the blood exchange realm, so the idea of ​​​​fighting beyond the next level by virtue of martial arts cultivation is unacceptable.

Of course, this improvement is undoubtedly huge.

The strengthening of his physical body and the improvement of his strength mean that his speed, explosive power, and endurance have all been improved.

The ability to escape and save life will naturally improve.

"If you want to deal with Mu Renjie, you have to find a way to refine the second-level Gu insect." Zhou Qing pondered in his heart.

During the battle, he only needs to be responsible for assisting and harassing from a distance.

The matter of dealing with Mu Renjie was naturally left to Zhimu Lingzhi.

Currently, the only helpers he can find and trust are Wei Hongyu and Wei Mingcheng.

The only one who can really stand up to Mu Renjie is Wei Hongyu.

However, the key lies in himself.

Zhou Qing stood up from the Wooden King Cauldron.

After resting for a while, he put away the Wooden King Cauldron and prepared to start making alchemy.

He placed the alchemy furnace in the middle of the room, then lit the silver charcoal and began to warm the furnace.

When the alchemy furnace was completely heated up, Zhou Qing took out a special jade bottle and poured out the diluted ice soul spider essence and blood from it.

呲呲呲.

A lot of smoke rose, and bursts of cold air hit my face.

When the blue-white blood inside gradually shrank and turned into blood beads, Zhou Qing added some medicinal materials ground into powder, then closed the lid and injected real energy into it from the air to control the refining of the medicinal materials.

After a while, a muffled sound came from the alchemy furnace, followed by a burning and unpleasant smell.

Zhou Qing opened the lid of the alchemy furnace, looked at the dark liquid inside, and used a jade shovel to clean out the liquid inside as usual.

Then, repeat the process just now.

In this way, after ten times, Zhou Qing stopped refining alchemy.

All ten failed without exception.

"Very good. Your alchemy skills are becoming more and more proficient. If you keep up your efforts, you should be able to refine the simplified Yuanhun Gold Liquid in a short time."

The Corpse Insect Gu King appeared next to Zhou Qing. Xuan Spider was afraid that Zhou Qing would be discouraged, so he encouraged him with words.

But what he said was not a lie. Although Zhou Qing kept failing, he was better every time than before.

A person who has just learned alchemy for less than half a year has become a first-level alchemist. Now he is refining a second-level elixir that is a simplified version of the third-level elixir. Moreover, this second-level elixir can only be made in theory, and there is no elixir. The teacher succeeded.

Under such a premise, Zhou Qing can still be neither arrogant nor impetuous, patiently sum up after failure, and make a little progress each time than before. Looking at the memory of Venerable Xuan Spider for more than two hundred years, Zhou Qing is also good in this regard. It's top notch.

Of course, Zhou Qing didn't know that Xuan Spider had gone through so many mental journeys in his heart.

After he failed again and again, all he had in front of him was +1 again and again.

[Your alchemy skills have been improved, progress +1]

[Your alchemy skills have been improved, progress +1]

[Your alchemy skills have been improved, progress +1]

[Occupation: Alchemist]

[Skill: Alchemy]

[Progress: Proficient (555/800)]

[Effect: Entering the room, the success rate of refining first-level elixirs increases by 20%; the success rate of refining second-level elixirs increases by half. 】

The most unparalleled thing about the profession brought by Jade Wat is that the progress is solidified and one certificate lasts forever.

As long as there is a slight improvement in the skills Zhou Qing has learned, even if there is no improvement next time, there will be no regression.

Continuous failure may make others despair and even give up.

In particular, Zhou Qing subdivided the medicinal materials for refining one portion of Yuanhun Gold Liquid into three parts. The number of exercises increased, and the refining process required more time and energy.

No matter how perseverant a person is, he will give up when he sees no hope after countless failures.

For many people, this is called stopping losses in time.

But in Zhou Qing's eyes, every failure is a +1 before success.

‘Next, seize the time to refine alchemy and strive to improve your alchemy proficiency to the next stage before returning. ’ Faced with the Xuan Spider’s comfort and encouragement, Zhou Qing turned a deaf ear and skillfully cleaned the alchemy furnace, then put in the Ice Soul Xuan Spider’s essence, blood and medicinal materials one by one.

It wasn't until he felt a little tired that he stopped.

After dinner, Zhou Qing rested for a while, but his mental fatigue still hadn't recovered.

Mental fatigue is more difficult to recover from than physical fatigue, which is also an important reason that limits his progress in alchemy.

However, even though Zhou Qing could not continue to practice alchemy, Zhou Qing was not without something to do at night.

After he returned to the room, he released the Zhimu Spirit Corpse and began to absorb the Aoki True Yuan from the Zhimu Spirit Corpse.

Cultivation of the Hundred Poison Hunyuan Body not only strengthens bones and strengthens Qi and blood, but also promotes the practice of Baiyun Spirit Snake Palm, which is a form of body training.

Refining elixirs not only consumes mental energy, but also plays a role in training the soul's strength. The Soul Refining Sutra has not been started yet, but the progress has been improving. This is the training of god refining.

No matter how diligent Zhou Qing was, he could not take into account the cultivation of internal strength at the same time.

Fortunately, there are wine bugs that help the Zhimu Spirit Corpse purify its true essence, and Xuan Spider controls the Corpse Insect Gu King to assist the Zhimu Spirit Corpse in its cultivation.

Although Xuan Spider only has one-third of the memory of Xuan Spider, and Xuan Spider is not a warrior, he is still a third-level powerhouse, and his advantages in realm and experience are indelible.

Therefore, even though Zhimu Spirit Corpse is not in the Musha land of Black Mountain Town, the progress of Qingmu Sutra's cultivation has not slowed down at all.

In particular, Wei Sheng also handed over the divine intention of the Green Wood Sutra to Zhou Qing, allowing him to constantly comprehend the true meaning of the Green Wood Sutra, further increasing the speed of practicing the Green Wood Sutra.

Now, Zhou Qing just follows the usual practice of absorbing part of the Aoki True Yuan from the body of the wood spirit once a month, which can greatly increase the progress of his Aoki Meridian.

Zhou Qing and Zhimu Lingzi came to the bed and sat cross-legged, palms facing each other.

At this time, the wine bug returned to Zhou Qing's dantian and quickly began to swallow.

At the same time, the Aoki True Essence condensed in Zhi Muling's corpse quickly moved towards Zhou Qing's body.

【Your Aoki Sutra has been improved! Progress +200]

【Your Aoki Sutra has been improved! Progress +200]

Lines of text continued to appear in Zhou Qing's sight.

[Technique: Aoki Sutra]

[Progress: Fourth level (6850/30000)]

[Effects: Ease muscles and strengthen bones, improve wood spirit appearance, prolong life, and long Qi pulse]

"According to this progress, within two years, the Green Wood Sutra will be able to reach the fourth level of perfection." Zhou Qing stopped absorbing the true essence of the wood spirit corpse and could not damage its foundation.

Crack, crackle!

Zhou Qing stood up, and there was a popping sound like fried beans all over his body.

At the same time, he felt as if there was a force pouring out of his body, and finally gathered in his arms.

"Hiss~"

Zhou Qing felt the muscles in his arms spasm, and there was a faint blue light flashing under his skin.

[Your silk-winding strength mutates, activating the ice-soul cold energy in the ice-soul black spider's bloodline. 】

At this time, a line of text appeared in Zhou Qing's sight.

"Bing soul cold energy?! Could it be..."

Zhou Qing's eyes widened.

Could it be that while cultivating the Hundred Poison Hunyuan Body, the body absorbed part of the ice soul cold energy when it was bearing the cold poison contained in the essence and blood of the ice soul black spider?

Thinking of this, Zhou Qing immediately returned to the courtyard and practiced the White Cloud Spirit Snake Palm in the courtyard while using the Silk Winding Strength.

Under the hazy moonlight, Zhou Qing's body was gradually enveloped in a layer of blue and white fluorescence.

Bang bang bang!

As he used the White Cloud Spirit Snake Palm, crisp explosions continued to be heard in the air wherever the palm wind passed. He fell into a special state, his mind was extremely clear, and he gradually became immersed in the palm technique.

Only when the sky in the distance turned white and the first ray of morning light entered the yard did Zhou Qing come back to his senses.

He actually spent the entire night practicing palm skills in the yard.

The jujube trees in the courtyard have long been frozen into ice sculptures, and the walls around the courtyard are also covered with a layer of white frost.

Not only that, the bluestone slab under your feet was covered with fine cracks and small pits, as if it had been cut with a knife or an axe.

Zhou Qing looked at his palms. After breaking through the bone barrier, his palms would turn purple when using the palm technique.

His palms were still purple, but there seemed to be a faint bluish-white fluorescence underneath the skin.

[Your White Cloud Spirit Snake Palm has been improved! The fusion of winding silk power! 】

At this time, a line of text appeared in Zhou Qing's sight. On the jade wat, the winding silk energy blended with the white cloud spirit snake palm.

[Skill: White Cloud Spirit Snake Palm]

[Progress: Reaching the Peak (1/800)]

[Effects: Forging muscles and bones, changing appearance and shape, winding silk with ice strength, spiritual snake appearance]

"Silk-winding ice power! Spiritual snake phase!" Zhou Qing did not expect that the ice soul cold energy was integrated into the silk-winding power, and he also awakened the spiritual snake phase during a night of palm practice.

Now, his bones have reached the highest level in all aspects.

"Since my body has absorbed the ice-soul coldness contained in the essence and blood of the Ice-Soul Xuan Spider, the silk-winding strength has mutated. If I continue to practice, will it happen?"

Zhou Qing suddenly had a bold idea.

If you can continue to change your shape with the help of the essence and blood of the Ice Soul Spider, it will not be as simple as awakening the superior bones.

Perhaps, he can use this to awaken his super root bones, or even his spiritual body!

"You have to practice alchemy more intensively!"

Zhou Qing felt that not only Zhimu spirit corpses and Gu insects could take the Yuanhun gold liquid, but he seemed to be able to as well.

Another two months passed.

Zhou Qing spent 25,000 taels of silver obtained from Shangguan Hong, and alchemy finally entered the next stage.

And he also refined Yuanhun Golden Liquid for the first time.

[Occupation: Alchemist]

[Skill: Alchemy]

[Progress: Mastery (22/800)]

[Effect: With thorough understanding, the success rate of refining first-level elixirs is increased by 30%; the success rate of refining second-level elixirs is increased by 10%. 】

"We can finally return to Black Mountain Town!" Zhou Qing looked at the pale golden liquid in the alchemy furnace and felt reassured.

Now you only need to return to the Wood Evil Land in Black Wind Mountain to start strengthening the Wood Spirit Corpse and refining the second level Ice Evil Gu.