Although it was June and July, the ancient snake castle was located in the alpine zone, and the climate change in recent years was somewhat abnormal, so a cold snap hit, and the temperature plummeted, bringing snow all over the sky, and the world was covered with ice and snow silver.

It snowed in June on the earth, that is, someone suffered a great injustice, and in this world, he just solved an unjust case but it snowed in June.

Most of the world's climate is still normal, but the less people there are, the more remote the area, the more prone the climate is to abnormal changes, and sometimes even the climate will be alienated within a certain area due to the battle of legendary-level powerhouses.

Compared with the earth martial artists, the law powerhouses of this dimensional world have a wider range of influence on the source energy of heaven and earth, but the control, delicate micro-manipulation, synchronization rate combination, and so on are quite different.

Whether this brings a cold wave of ice and snow, whether it is a simple climate alienation or the aftermath of the battle between the strong, these have nothing to do with Shi Yinghu.

He hid in the castle of the ancient snake, and felt at ease to temper his martial arts and control his qi and blood, if he encountered a catastrophe that even the castle of the ancient snake could not bear, then he could not bear it at this time, for this, Shi Yinghu was very clear.

There is no point in worrying about the sky, and the only thing that people can truly grasp is the present, only the present.

In the dense forest on the side of the ancient snake castle, Shi Yinghu had already practiced swordsmanship, and at this moment he was tying his clothes to his waist and abdomen, breathing and breathing, urging the qi and blood in his body.

Although it has only been half a month since he came to this world, Shi Yinghu was a master of the legendary realm of qi and blood in his previous life, so he cultivated in this life with ease, natural success, and speed.

Suck!

Shi Yinghu took a deep breath, swallowed slightly, and condensed this breath, causing it to sink into the dantian like a golden pill.

After three breaths, Shi Yinghu pressed his arms to his abdomen, and the pulsed air flow passed through the abdominal cavity and finally erupted from his throat.

"Roar!"

"Whew!"

What spread out was the sound of a dragon roaring and a tiger roaring.

Bang! Bang!

The invisible fluctuations spread, and the heavy snow on the surrounding trees was actually shaken and smashed to the ground.

And in this process, Shi Yinghu's exposed flesh and blood all changed color, iron and blue mixed with bronze, blue and black entangled, which made him move, and the sound of gold and iron was full of flesh and bones.

(After all, it was a re-workout, and in such a short period of time, I successfully broke through to the dark energy realm.) It's a pity that the soul body is not in harmony and the soul is damaged, this state can't be maintained for a long time, and can only be used occasionally to save an emergency. As the thought changed, the strength around Shi Yinghu receded, and the faint metallic texture quickly faded.

Qi and blood martial arts have an advantage, the concealment is particularly high, the overlap is particularly high, any world with a certain basic civilization of human beings, as long as the life unit of this plane world is still a human being, then the cultivation of qi and blood martial arts will basically not have any plane rejection reaction, because this kind of martial arts, the natives of this plane must also be faintly involved, Shi Yinghu has the qi and blood system martial arts at most is very deep, but the essence is still pure and does not involve energy changes in the physical system.

(According to the current cultivation progress, I will be able to break through to the Dan Dao Immortal Realm in half a year at most, and I can cultivate True Qi...... However, the problem of soul damage should also be solved as soon as possible, the essence of the human immortal refining method in the fetal chapter, the foundation of cultivation is the Dan Dao human immortal realm, without the control of that realm, it is easy to have a cerebral hemorrhage if you take the qi and blood at will. In terms of control, Shi Yinghu may not have it, but the basic qualities of the Qi and Blood Martial Artist Dan Dao Human Immortal Realm are much stronger than ordinary people, and the Qi and Blood Secret Technique that human immortals can cultivate, even if ordinary people have that control, their physical strength is not enough, and they are very likely to practice suicide techniques.

Today's cultivation is over, Shi Yinghu walked to the side to put on a cotton clothes, and at the same time took out a bottle of wine, bit a stopper, raised his head and drank a few sips, not because he was greedy for a cup, but because he was greedy for the auxiliary effect of wine on qi and blood.

Many people who do high-intensity physical labor often have to drink some wine during the noon break, if they don't drink this wine, they really can't work in the afternoon, which is called using wine to nourish their strength, with the help of wine, but Shi Yinghu is just using spirits to assist himself in practice.

A body of martial arts re-cultivated back to the realm of dark energy, and his strength increased greatly, Shi Yinghu was also a little proud for a while, but in the process of returning to the ancient snake castle with the long sword, he repeatedly warned himself in his heart: (Be calm, be calm, can't wave.) Shi Yinghu knew very well that his biggest talisman now was not a martial art, but a secret, but no one knew the identity of his alien descendant, the heavens, the earth, and the people.

The Ancient Serpent's Fort, a residential area for students.

Although, this is the highest level of witcher academy in this dimensional world, but in fact, the accommodation conditions are really terrible.

There is almost no door between the dormitory and the dormitory, pay attention to the point of a cloth curtain, do not pay attention to nothing, open and open, more than 20 dormitories are oval, each dormitory is only ten square meters in size, but also live three or four people, this is just a place to sleep, there is no other function, can not be expected to have.

If you want to work hard, go to the library, classrooms, and training rooms.

It's not that the school doesn't have the money to run the dormitory, but the school's top management believes that the dormitory doesn't have to be too comfortable, otherwise it is easy to cultivate the habit of laziness among students.

"Kate, someone in the Academic Affairs Office has just been looking for you. ”

As soon as Shi Yinghu returned to the dormitory, he heard George, who was in the same dormitory, say that this was originally a four-person dormitory, but because this year's students have graduated, there are only two people left in the dormitory, Kate Bryan and Georgner...... These are all fresh graduates who are relatively poor in their studies, not very good in their mixes, and good in their studies, and they have all gone out to work one after another in this month.

After all, two months after graduation, you have to pay the tuition loan of 100/70/60 gold coins per month, which is actually quite a lot of pressure.

A gold coin is equal to ten silver coins is equal to a thousand copper coins, if a copper coin is a dollar, then a gold coin is a thousand yuan, and a hundred gold coins per month is to repay 100,000 yuan every month, even if they graduate from a prestigious school, after graduation, after a two-month buffer, how many people can immediately earn 100,000 yuan a month?

So many demon hunters who had just graduated were quite poor that day, and they were forced to work hard by the school to make money.

Yoda, a forest ranger, has 50 gold a year, and only 50,000 yuan a year, and this is also the general income level of an ordinary worker.

"Thank you, brother. Walking to his cabinet on the side, Shi Yinghu took out two apples, one for himself to gnaw, and the other for Jogner.

"Haven't you found a job yet?"

"No, I'm going to sign a sales agreement and join the Snake Castle Guard, I don't have the confidence to earn a hundred gold a month with my own ability, it's better to go to the Snake Castle Guard, at least the tuition loan will be waived." ”

"Hmm...... After thinking about it carefully, after signing the contract, you can't get out, and your life belongs to the school. While nibbling on the apple and changing his clothes, Shi Yinghu suggested that although it does not mean that joining the Snake Fort Guard will never come out again, the death rate of this escort team is too high, and when he joins, he has to make a spell oath, and from then on, his own life and death are very much in his own control.

Of course, if you really can't repay the school's loan, and you are caught back after a few months of arrears, even if you can join the Snake Fort Guard again at that time, you will be bullied, then it is really better to join directly now, at least enjoy the normal benefits.

Changed into a robe, and then Shi Yinghu went downstairs and left the dormitory and went to the school academic affairs office. Along the way, I met some guys with non-human heads who were humanoid, and some of them were professors.

The mind of the ancient snake castle is very inclusive, as long as there is a skill, even if it is not a human race, it is willing to contain and grant positions, of course, in addition to the natural bloodline, there are also some guys with animal heads, in fact, in the process of conducting spell experiments, caused by spell backlash, this kind of person in the ancient snake castle professor group, there are also a lot of them.

............

The Ancient Serpent's Castle, Academic Office.

"Mr. Kate Bryan?"

"Yes, I am. As he spoke, Shi Yinghu gestured to a piece of his student card, and with the injection of magic power, the aura on the student card was warm.

"Well, first of all, thank you for your contribution to the school, the review team has confirmed that your mission report is generally true, and Diland has indeed been secretly performing dark rituals all these years, and using the power position of the village chief to cover up his crimes. ”

"Now, I'm going to announce the school's award to you. "The person in charge of this matter is a middle-aged male professor with dark hair, who is not handsome and beautiful, but has a cold demeanor.

"First, to take DeRank's house into the possession of the school, and to reward Kate Bryan with 50 percent of the auction value of the house. ”

"Second, Mr. Kate Bryan, you will have the authority to take an advanced course. At this point, the middle-aged male professor paused, and then continued to explain: "Dillanke's house has a good location and a large area, although no one should buy it as a residence anymore, but if it is converted into a grocery store, it is still very valuable. ”

"It can sell for at least four hundred gold coins, which means that Mr. Kate Bryan, you can withdraw two hundred gold coins at any time of the school now, and if the best auction value is more than that, it will also make up the difference. ”

"Thank you, Professor, but you don't have to, just go straight to the account to repay the loan from the university. ”

"You signed a ten-year deal?"

"Yes. ”

"That's really ambitious, but I suggest you think again, if you change halfway, the balance of the previous repayment will be wiped out. "If the ten-year agreement has been repaid for five years, but the economy can't be supplied halfway, and you want to change it to a twenty-year agreement, then the money handed over in the previous five years will be cleared, and you will continue to repay the school seventy gold per month for fifteen years, this situation is not unprecedented, especially the witcher is still a high-risk job, sometimes he is not killed in battle, he is crippled or seriously injured, then naturally he has no ability to continue to repay.

"It's better to pay it off as soon as possible, I don't feel comfortable owing a debt. ”

"Well, in that case, good luck. In terms of course selection, which one do you choose to continue your studies?I suggest you choose the White Bone Summoning Department to continue your studies, there are many powerful and practical abilities in the second-order spells, which are more in line with your previous research direction. ”

"Professor, if I can, can I take pharmacy?"

"Give up the research privileges of the second-order summoning system and transfer to pharmacy that you haven't studied before? Yes, you can, but I advise you to be cautious, pharmacy is very, very difficult to learn, which is why Snake Castle does not set it as its main course. ”

"First-order summoning spells, there are still many things I want to study, and I can't continue to learn new knowledge for the time being, but I'm very interested in pharmaceutics, even if it's just a beginner's pharmaceutic, just to learn an introduction, I think it will also be very helpful for my future hunting. ”

"But pharmacy, even if it's just an introduction, is not so easy. The black-haired male professor put his fingers on his hands and leaned back, and he looked the young man in front of him up and down.

"Still, I'm glad that someone would be interested in pharmacy. As he spoke, he stood up, and the male professor stretched out his pale palm and said, "Reacquaint, I'm Pharmacy Professor Akles, and thank you for helping me kill Dillanke, I've been friends with Lewin Pston for many years." ”

For the palm stretched out in front of him, Shi Yinghu hurriedly shook it, and at the same time he was a little surprised in his heart, this pharmacy professor Akles has always been elusive in the snake castle, but he didn't expect to get acquainted with him in this situation.

Of course, I'm afraid it's also because of his help to the Pston family that Akles will show up.

"Although I don't think you can still comprehend the mysteries of pharmacy without more than ten years of foundation, I will teach you what I know, and besides, this library card can be regarded as my personal payment to you, you can take it, you can read the classics below the third order in the library, but I suggest you only read one or two, after all, you only have a month or two at most, right?"

After becoming Kate Bryan's temporary mentor, Aklais's attitude was obviously more serious and cold: "Give you some time today to prepare the corresponding robes, utensils, and low-grade herbs, I have some things to do today and tomorrow, and I will teach you again from the day after tomorrow, let's go out." ”

"Uh, yes, Mentor Akles...... Tutor, ask again, do you know what this is?" As he spoke, Shi Yinghu took out the hexagonal crimson crystal nucleus dissected from the steel bone boss, Shi Yinghu had actually vaguely deduced and guessed what it was, but the pharmacy professor in front of him was obviously a powerful and well-informed master (who had lived for more than a hundred years), and there was no reason to let such a person go without asking for advice.

"Hmm...... Mutant crystal nucleus. It's no wonder you don't know it, this kind of thing only has a certain chance of condensing when killing mutant summons, although it's not too rare, but it's always been extremely rare among professionals, like this one in your hand, it's not in good condition, but it can also sell nearly 10,000 gold coins on the black market, and no one is willing to sell. ”

"Fuse this fire-attribute mutant crystal nucleus into one of your skeleton warriors, it may inherit part of the power of the condenser, and greatly increase the chance of mutation and evolution, this is a more precious and rare good thing than a flawless gem. ”

Those who graduated from the Ancient Serpent's Castle are basically first-order elite demon hunters, and if they major in necromancy, they often have three or four spells such as skeleton resurrection, clay stone demon, and damage amplification, and these demon hunters have been trained for ten, twenty, or thirty years, and as long as they haven't died, they often have the ability to advance to the next level.

However, if you want to gain advanced knowledge from the Ancient Serpent Castle, you also have to complete the academy tasks, or spend a lot of money.

Those academy tasks are either quite difficult, or they are particularly cumbersome and troublesome, but even so, most people want to obtain advanced knowledge, they will still complete the task, because if you spend money, the second-order advanced knowledge is 200,000 gold coins, and the third-order advanced knowledge is 300,000 gold coins, it can be said that just now Shi Yinghu gave up 200,000 gold coins in order to elect the primary pharmacy, of course, in fact, just such a buffer period of one or two months, it is impossible for him to learn too much second-order knowledge, and the school's reward for this mission is more beneficial and not costly, and it looks very generous。

Mr. Akles, a professor of pharmacy, looked very cold on his face, but in fact he seemed to be a cold-hearted person, he felt that Shi Yinghu's elective was too much of a loss, so he lent his library card to Shi Yinghu, like this, there would not be more than five library cards in the entire Ancient Snake Castle, although Shi Yinghu only had the power to use it for one month.

(According to the description in the classics, the requiem potion that can repair the soul damage, at least a high-level pharmacist can be successfully concocted, I obtained the foundation and inheritance in the ancient snake castle, and the rest, I will study it slowly after leaving, and the prescription of the requiem potion, the ancient snake castle should have a heritage, but that area, with the library card in my hand, I am afraid that I still have the permission to see.) It's not just that the soul and the body are not in harmony, resulting in the inability to perfect the physical body control, Shi Yinghu's most troublesome problem now is that the soul is damaged, if it only takes time to slowly heal itself, the ghost knows how much time it will take.

At night, in the dormitory, Shi Yinghu roughly counted all his current belongings: Kate Bryan had accumulated a broken emerald for ten years, and a pile of three-headed hellhound design drawings.

Shi Yinghu plans to help him complete this spell, and he can also complete one of his long-cherished wishes, so that Kate Bryan has no regrets.

A shattered ruby, a Treasure Whisper, a Treasure Magic Gear with a Flame Head, a half-mutilated forbidden book Whispers of Darkness, a Demon Hunting Silver Sword, and the remaining eighteen gold coins.

（...... Sell the 'Super Flame Head', magic equipment like this has always been sold for a high price, not to mention that the quality of this zombie head is still so good, whether it is bone armor or corpse explosion, it is an extremely powerful and practical necromancy. ）

(With my current magic power, I can use two skeleton revival in a row, and it will take a while to perform the third skeleton revival, and if I use level 2 white bone armor or level 2 corpse explosion, I can't summon all three skeletons in a battle, so it is better to sell the head of the zombie and exchange it for a good piece of equipment and two good demon hunting swords.) Moreover, studying pharmacy, even if it is just the basics, costs a lot of money, and it is impossible to support it with only eighteen gold coins. ）

Magical equipment, especially powerful ones, is high-end and can be sold at a good price, but in fact, a good ordinary piece of equipment is far more practical than a powerful piece of magic equipment, especially for low-level witchers.

............

Many fresh graduates who left the Ancient Serpent Fort didn't know that in fact, the Ancient Serpent Fort itself was the largest mystical item distribution center they could contact for a long time in the future.

It's just that because poor students are busy and have no money, they can't reach such places, if they are not forbidden to enter.

The Ancient Serpent's Castle has its own equipment manufacturing system: high-level blacksmiths, enchanters, and apothecaries, these masters and their own students have trained all kinds of equipment over the years, but as long as you have patience and are willing to brush slowly, you can always encounter excellent quality and powerful equipment.

Of course, whether you can afford it is another matter.

In an ancient snake castle, where ordinary students would hardly set foot in the alleys, many strong and vicissitudes of life filled the area, this alley is located in the southwest of the snake castle, and is very far away from the northeast corner of the student section of the teaching area.

Lich's Serpentine Staff (Treasure Tier Equipment), Magic Weapon, +2 Skeleton Revive, +2 Dominate Skeleton, +2 Lay Stone Demon - Bone Summoning is a necromancer's favorite, and is as powerful as a Rare Staff.

Cost: 248,000 gold

In the world of mages, the first value is related to spell knowledge, and the second value is probably powerful magic equipment.

Because the magic equipment that a mage can effectively use is limited, I haven't heard of anyone who can use two staff at the same time, since a mage can only use one staff well, then every point of strength of this staff, its value will skyrocket many times.

An ordinary necromancer has only one +1 skull revival effect, which seems to be only one-sixth weaker than the staff above, right?

However, such a staff can only be sold for 500 gold coins, and the one above can be sold for 248,000 gold.

Shi Yinghu knew that high-level magic equipment was very expensive, but he didn't expect it to be so expensive, so exaggerated and outrageous.

"No one should buy it, right?" Shi Yinghu had just moved his steps to walk away, when a white-haired necromancer walked into the storefront, and then handed out a check with a gleam in his eyes, and took the "Lich's Serpentine Staff" away.

He should be a pure white bone summoning necromancer mage, otherwise he wouldn't be so open-minded, although, that staff is indeed extremely powerful, below the legend, it can be said to be the best of the best, and the legendary level of the staff, directly a full system of ascension is the foundation of the foundation, but a staff like that is even more rare and unavoidable.

Bone, curse, bone, and toxin, directly a full boost, which is the basis of the legendary staff, and above is the +1 necromantic spell, and equipment like this will cause a stir every time it appears.

In addition to the sale of staffs, there is also a blacksmith shop, an apothecary, and a grocery/gambling shop.

There was a merchant named Kidd who had done all the bad things in this grocery store/gambling store, although he was also willing to fight and suffer.

This grocery store is full of all kinds of equipment sealed by spells, and it is impossible to tell the quality of this equipment and its enchantments with your eyesight, and each one costs hundreds of thousands of gold coins. After unlocking the spell seal, the professional can take a look at the true quality and value of this equipment, and most of the time, it is a piece of equipment worth tens of hundreds of gold coins that is spent hundreds of thousands of gold coins.

However, there are still many professionals who enjoy it as if they are crazy. Because in Kidd's grocery store, there is really a chance to open treasure-level, rare-level, or even legendary-level magical equipment, which is a powerful equipment that most ordinary professionals can't get in a lifetime.

To put it bluntly, in fact, it is a gambling stone, a knife down or bankrupt, a knife down or an instant rich, although the vast majority of people are a knife down the bankrupt, but the vast majority of people believe that they will be the one who gets rich in an instant with a knife, and there are even people who have slowly summed up the law over the years, but in fact, no matter what law they summarize, most of them will lose money in the end.

Shi Yinghu watched coldly in the trading market and Kidd's grocery store for a morning, and finally came to the conclusion that it is always the dealer who is making money, and how many well-paid professional witchers gamble here in Kidd, but Kidd dares to do this business in the ancient snake castle, he obviously has a background, and there are even snake castle guards in the store.

(If you have money to save slowly, you can always come across excellent equipment and equipment, even if it is a little more expensive, at least it is better to give it to Kidd for nothing.) After glancing at the smiling fat man, Shi Yinghu walked out of Kidd's grocery store and made up his mind that he would never come here again unless he had too much spare money to spend.

Shi Yinghu actually thought about whether he could break Kidd's sealing technique through the identification ability of the system and select the best equipment hidden in his many equipment, but Shi Yinghu thought about it and finally decided to forget it, he didn't doubt that the power of the system could break Kidd's seal, but Shi Yinghu also didn't doubt whether Kidd could sense it.

After doing this kind of business for so many years, Kidd can still mix well until now, which already shows that he is by no means easy to deal with.

There are very few fresh graduates in the trading market, and even fewer do business, but it's not nothing, Shi Yinghu originally peddled his zombie head in the wand shop, but the price offered by the wand shop was very low, only willing to give 4000 gold, this price is really a little low, Shi Yinghu's psychological estimated price is 8000 gold, at least 6000 gold, the super strong flame head is quite good auxiliary spell casting equipment, only 4000 gold is too low.

Leaving the staff shop and going to the blacksmith shop to peddle, the price was pushed lower, Shi Yinghu rolled his eyes and turned to leave, and then began to talk to the necromancers in the castle with his eyesight, the head of the super flame is almost the most valuable thing in his body, if it can't be sold at a price, it will have an impact on many of his future plans.

Magic equipment, the price is really fluctuating, but also depends on whether it can match the user's own ability system, sometimes, rare level equipment is not as powerful and valuable as treasure level equipment, the most important thing, is not as good as treasure level equipment to hand.

It's easy to understand, and it doesn't make sense for you to ask a necromancer who specializes in bone summoning to get a legendary-level staff that strengthens the ability of the curse system, unless he's willing to change his path for that staff.

It's not uncommon, but it's rare.

"Your zombie head is indeed very good, but I only have two complete rubies on me, I will make up for you another five hundred gold coins, if you are willing to sell me, you will sell, if you will not sell me, you can continue to find someone else." ”

"I'm a major in the White Bone and Curse systems, and you, the head of the zombies, aren't particularly worthy of me. The old mage in front of Shi Yinghu said this, as if he had really reached the limit of his patience.

A broken gem is worth 250 gold, a cracked gem is worth 750 gold, a complete gem is worth 2500 gold, and the value on the market can rise a little more, so two complete rubies plus 500 gold, the actual value is between 5500 ~ ~ 5700 gold, which is very close to the 6000 gold coins expected by Shi Yinghu.

Listening to the old mage's previous words, Shi Yinghu had already planned to agree, but when he heard his later words, Shi Yinghu suddenly had a number in his heart.

"The more you major in the two systems of white bone and curse, the more you need the offensive and defensive spells of the two white bone and toxin systems, the white bone armament and corpse explosion, right? ”

"......" Listening to Shi Yinghu's words, the old mage squinted and looked at Shi Yinghu for a long time. Then he suddenly said, "Do you know that if this weren't for the snake cave, you would be dead, and the corpses would have turned into water?"

"But isn't it in the Snake Cave now? Even a legendary mage can't mess around in the Ancient Serpent Castle, otherwise he will die a miserable death. ”

The old man and Shi Yinghu stared at each other for a long time, and finally the old mage took out three gems and money bags, but in the process of trading between the two, Shi Yinghu noticed that the old mage's nails seemed to be inadvertently scratched on the back of his hand, and he avoided it very smartly.

Just like the spell slot replacement of the summoning system, in addition to the traditional curse spells, some powerful curse necromancers can also remotely curse their enemies, and use some extremely weird and vicious spells to directly curse their opponents with the help of various mediums.