Taishang said in the chapter on Qi that the first step of cultivation is to refine and refine qi, essence naturally refers to the essence of heaven and earth, and qi has two interpretations, the qi of ordinary people refers to blood qi, and the qi of cultivators is vitality, but the more he reads, the more Chen Qingniu is secretly frightened, shocked by the strength of the cultivator, and even more shocked by the wisdom of the ancients.

Soaring clouds and fog, pointing to shattering mountains and rivers, palms of the sky, picking stars and taking the moon, this is far beyond the extraordinary desire of his heart.

As long as he dares, it will no longer be a sunrise and a sunset, no longer a chopping wood, carrying water, planting seedlings and plowing the land, and the world ahead is an unknown wonderful.

Gradually, thirteen years after coming to this world, Chen Qingniu gave birth to a sense of belonging for the first time, and he liked this world a little.

Of course, the premise of all this is still to be alive, and the first step in life is naturally to eat.

Chen Qingniu came to the tiger corpse, and now in his eyes, the tiger in front of him was no longer a majestic mountain and forest overlord, but hundreds of kilograms of refined meat.

There are no knives, it doesn't matter, there are stones everywhere on the ground, Chen Qingniu naturally knows what kind of stones can become sharp after being broken, and after a while, he made a stone blade from local materials.

Because half of the tiger corpses had already been shattered, Chen Qingniu did not encounter the embarrassing situation of having no way to start when he dissected the tiger corpse, and then it was decomposed.

It may also be that Chen Qingniu is really hungry, and the entire hundreds of kilograms of fine meat have been removed by him without a trace of waste, and then, naturally, the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys.

After doing all the work, Chen Qingniu was so tired that he sat on the ground, and now his mind was a little relaxed, and he felt that his stomach was already empty and hungry.

"These meats are three hundred pounds!"

Looking at the half-human-tall pile of fine meat in front of him, Chen Qingniu finally understood why Ye would say that this tiger was already a great blessing for him, but even so, it still made him face a huge problem - how to deal with this meat.

Picking up some dead branches everywhere and building a bunch of fires, Chen Qingniu thought about this problem while roasting meat.

Go back to the village and tell your parents in this life, and then bring the meat back home together?

Chen Qingniu immediately rejected the idea.

He can make up reasons for falling off the cliff and not dying, after all, no one will get to the bottom of this kind of lie, but how should this tiger explain, could it be that he fell off the cliff and just fell to his death? Not to mention whether anyone believes it, even if it is believed, the news of the meat hidden at home must not be hidden, but he knows that if people are hungry, they can even swallow the bark, let alone hundreds of catties of fine meat.

Of course, Chen Qingniu is not a selfish person, he has a deep understanding of the hard life of the villagers and the lack of food, although he has not yet stepped into the cultivation path, the road has been found, and his ambition is not in this rural place, even if he lets his fellow villagers take advantage of it.

However, it is precisely because of this that Chen Qingniu is even more afraid to be exposed, when the new door of cultivation is erected in front of him, he is now like a beggar holding a gold ingot, he needs to exchange this gold ingot for food as soon as possible, instead of taking a pile of tiger meat out to arouse suspicion.

As for how to exchange this gold ingots for food, it is naturally practice, and the first step in cultivation is to refine and refine qi.

The oil droplets made a sizzling sound on the flame, and soon, a smell of barbecue meat came to his face, and Chen Qingniu held back the gurgling sound coming from his stomach, and he had already made a decision in his heart.

Picking up a piece of barbecue, Chen Qingniu didn't wait for it to cool down and threw it into his mouth, even if there was no condiment, he felt that it was extremely delicious, so hot that his tongue rolled, and he opened his mouth and exhaled.

"Sure enough, it's the coolest thing to eat meat!"

After half a moment's effort, several catties of barbecue meat had been swallowed into his stomach by him, until he had a few full burps, and he couldn't hold it anymore, and he was still unsatisfied.

Full of wine and food, well, just a simple meal, but if you can lie down and sleep beautifully or for a while, it will be the best.

Chen Qingniu didn't dare to be so slack, he wanted to change his ordinary life again and again, and now that a smooth road was in front of him, how could he dare to slack off.

After eating, he hurriedly meditated and sensed the blood qi in his body.

Taishang's sentimental chapter floated in his mind.

Everything seems to come naturally, and everything is so strange.

However, cultivation is so easy, until the sky is about to break, the distant sky has already revealed a piece of fish belly white, Chen Qingniu still did not grasp the trace of human blood mentioned in the Taishang Qi chapter in his body.

He opened his eyes suddenly, and he didn't find nothing, he didn't sleep for a day and a night, if ordinary people were physically or mentally, they would probably have collapsed long ago, but Chen Qingniu felt that the whole person was full of energy, and his body did not have the slightest sense of exhaustion.

Chen Qingniu stood up, seeing that the sky was getting brighter, and knew that he couldn't delay any longer.

He walked to the pile of meat, took off the clothes on his body, and then stacked the pieces of meat one by one, and after about one-sixth of the stack, he stopped, fifty or sixty pounds, which was the extreme of his current body.

"Huh?"

He hesitated as he picked up the flesh wrapped in his clothes.

Not too heavy, but too light.

"How can this be? I haven't cultivated my vitality now, and I haven't even sensed the blood qi in my own body, but this strength ......," he tried to lift it with one hand, "how can it be so much?"

Since I can't figure it out, I won't think about it for the time being.

Chen Qingniu put more than ten catties of meat into his clothes and trotted in one direction, at this moment he wanted to say that he was not excited, it was fake, in just one night, his strength was dozens of catties.

The distance is not long, it is also still in the mountains and forests, and it is not even far from the place where the children of the same villagers cut firewood, about two miles away.

There is a hidden cave here, the entrance is small, the space is large, and the cave is seeped with water, which is a good hiding place. This cave was discovered by Chen Qingniu a few years ago when he went up the mountain to cut firewood, but because it was close to the depths of the mountain forest, he had only visited it once.

There was no time to clean up the fallen leaves and dead branches in the cave, Chen Qingniu spread the meat on the stones on the side and then hurriedly ran out and ran down the cliff, after experiencing the benefits of cultivation, he realized more and more the preciousness of these fine meats, and even the previous thought that even if he was separated from his fellow villagers, it was already gone, at this moment, even if he was selfish in his heart, it was not too much, but fortunately, these meats were his private property.

According to Chen Qingniu's original estimate, he had to run at least six times for more than 300 catties of meat, and he had to stop to breathe and rest during the period, which would take at least half an hour, but now he only took less than two quarters of an hour.

Looking at the refined meat full of caves, Chen Qingniu was very happy, if these refined meat were for him to practice, they could last for at least a month, and at that time, even if he did not cultivate his vitality, he could no longer imagine what kind of physical strength he could reach.

But at the same time, another problem was placed in front of Chen Qingniu, that is, how to preserve the meat from decay and not be taken away by the wild beasts and birds in the mountains and forests.

"Smoky?"

Chen Qingniu quickly gave up on this idea, and he moved the meat to this cave so that it would not be discovered, and if it was smoked, it would be seen from miles away.

pickling, then naturally it is even more impossible.

Fortunately, Chen Qingniu was a human being in two lives, although he was only a mediocre person in his previous life, he liked some outdoor live videos, and he still knew a lot about some wild survival manuals.

Soon, he began digging into the ground with a huge branch, and he planned to build a few simple smokeless stoves and dry all the raw meat.

Although this method is not 100% effective, and even the preservation time is not as good as the previous two, but for Chen Qingniu, this is obviously enough, he is not here for long-term survival, all he needs is time, a time that allows him to refine these refined flesh without being disturbed by outsiders.

For two days, Chen Qingniu was baking jerky, during which he sensed the movement of his body's blood and qi in the way mentioned in the Taishang Sense Qi chapter, and on the other hand, he had to control the heat at all times to prevent the jerky from becoming charcoal, and his progress was slow in the past two days.

Two days later, after Chen Qingniu stacked all the jerky properly, he moved a few large stones from the outside to block the entrance of the cave, leaving only a few small vents, and only then did he really start his cultivation.

There are no years in the mountains, and there are no days and nights in the caves.

Chen Qingniu ate when he was hungry, and meditated and refined his qi after eating, and such days lasted for nine days.

"Huh, this is ......."

In the dark cave, a light sigh full of excitement and joy broke the peace.

"Is this the blood in my body? No, it's the vitality. ”

Chen Qingniu hurriedly closed his eyes to perceive, silently recited the method of controlling qi in the Taishang Sense Qi chapter, and controlled his mind to feel, only to feel that there was a hot breath in his body swimming around his body, although that breath was very small and weak, but it was extremely real.

Such a surprise should have been celebrated with wine, but all Chen Qingniu could do was eat a few pieces of dried meat, and he once again immersed himself in the joy of cultivation.

In the blink of an eye, it was nine days again, and Chen Qingniu opened his eyes again.

He could clearly feel that the originally faint and vague qi in his body was now the size of a hair, and it was very real.

Of course, he woke up not because he was content with this, nor because he had eaten all the jerky, which was more than a fifth left, although it did not live up to his original estimate.

He woke up because he heard movement outside the cave, and the sounds were very chaotic, at first hearing like a wild beast gasping, and on closer listening there was the faint voice of a human being.

Chen Qingniu got up and came to the entrance of the cave, the long-term solitude and cultivation brought not only the strength of the body, but also the strength of the heart, at this moment, he did not have the slightest fear.

So, through the tiny air holes between those stone crevices, Chen Qingniu squinted his eyes and looked out.

In a scarlet curtain of light, he saw a pair of green eyes looking at him.