Chapter Fifty-Eight: Otherworldly Elements
"Could it be that the nobles here are going to war? Otherwise, how could these poor ghosts be allowed in? Hami muttered to himself, no stranger to the scene in front of him, but he couldn't erase his uneasiness, after all, this was not their territory, and no one could predict what would happen.
Mercenaries are a group of homeless people who do not want to farm or lose their land, they have no skills, no talents, and can only exchange a rotten life for money and food. So stealing chickens and touching dogs, fighting and making trouble, inciting right and wrong, anyway, as long as they can mess up, they will do everything they can fish in troubled waters and take advantage, no matter how much loss it will cause, even if they are caught, it will be a rotten life, and there is nothing to lose. Therefore, they are deeply disgusted by the nobles, and they are not allowed to enter the territory at all, and once they find out, they will send guards to drive them away, and some nobles will even hang these guys and hang their bodies on the roadside outside the territory, warning those same bastards to stay away from here.
However, there were exceptions to the exceptions, when mercenaries would swarm whenever they heard of a fight, and the guards who usually drove them away would allow them to enter the territory temporarily and enjoy the bad wine and the lowest prostitutes, which was the only pleasure they had left in their lives.
When it's time to start the war, they will rush to the front, fight the same mercenaries or waste the strength and arrows of the opposing soldiers, and if they survive, they can get a small amount of money or food, and then the next round of wandering, which is called mercenaries.
Because of the existence of these guys, the local drunkards who originally mingled in the tavern disappeared except for the drunk and unconscious.
Hearing the sound of pushing the door, after seeing someone come in, these wild dog-like guys stared at Yan Xu, who was neatly dressed and obviously wealthy, with green eyes, and did not let go, which made Hami a little uneasy, because he couldn't call the guards here.
But Yan Xu didn't pay attention to this at all, these people didn't even have the level of box soldiers, and they didn't even have the qualifications to let him take a closer look.
"Give me a ····· Well, clean food, hear it, is clean food. Finding a seat without vomit, Yan Xu, who had just sat down and was about to order, saw a mercenary eat and lick everything like pig food on the plate in a blink of an eye, and then spit a mouthful of thick phlegm into the plate, so he immediately said in an aggravated tone.
"Forget it, Hammy, you go to the kitchen and watch them do it, if there's something in there that shouldn't be there, I'll cut off their heads with a sword and kick your ass, I'm sure Baron Sal won't blame a lord for a little rudeness." Yan Xu is not afraid of trouble, but he doesn't like trouble either, so he simply disclosed his aristocratic identity, and the province will perform a bloody plot next.
Sure enough, when Yan Xu showed his noble status, not only did the service improve by an unknown number of grades, but even those blatant eyes became hidden. For mercenaries, nobles are only a threat when they are in their territory, and if they don't have enough guards outside their territory, they are just fat sheep.
The tavern owner took out the tin cutlery and the potted tin jug, put the food and the best ale that had been roughly pressed into the sink and washed the cook, and then told the maids, who were still in a special profession, to get out of the way and let his daughter serve the food herself.
After hesitating for a moment, Yan Xu finally reluctantly ate some food, which proved his aristocratic status. Because of the relationship of productivity, the vast majority of commoners were accompanied by hunger from birth to death, and only the nobles at the top were in the mood to care about whether the food was clean and delicious.
Yan Xu put down the knife and fork, but couldn't find anything to wipe his mouth, so he had to give up, rinse his mouth with ale wine, and push the rest of the food to Hami, who was squatting next to the table and swallowing saliva.
Quickly picked up the plate, stuffed the remaining barbecue into his mouth, and his eyes were still threatening to be attracted by the smell of some commotion mercenaries, they ate no better than pig food, and the barbecue was not small to them, enough to make them take some risks.
Hami is not a nobleman, the other party does not dare to snatch the food of the nobles, but snatching it from a servant is another matter, the nobles do not care about these little things at all, but will feel funny and laugh, and by the way give the loser a kick in the ass.
Skillfully stuff the rest of the food into his mouth as quickly as possible, and then secretly hide a piece of gray bread in the corner of his clothes. As a servant, leftovers are their main meal, but the nobles do not necessarily leave enough food to fill their stomachs every time, after all, most knights and minor nobles are not wealthy, they can only barely maintain decency, and wasting is not a good habit they can maintain. Therefore, a good servant must learn how to store some food that will not starve him to death, after all, stealing the food of the nobles will not only result in whipping, but also expelled from the territory, which is no different from death.
Barbecue, vegetables, soup, bread, ale wine, and a full lunch cost only dozens of copper coins, which was too cheap in Yan Xu's opinion. But in Hami's opinion, this is a very luxurious meal, because it is enough to feed a family of three for a month when it is replaced with cheap black bread.
In fact, it was also a very luxurious meal for the original lord, because in order to buy this equipment, as well as the gem for tuition, the money that could be used for living was too small to be wasted. But for Yan Xu, supplementing this new body with nutrients is the most important thing.
Throwing the recovered copper coin to Hami, Yan Xu said to him: "Find out what happened here for me before dark, and the rest of the money will be yours." ”
"Don't worry, master, Hami is your most capable servant!" The advantage of being a noble servant is not only to be able to eat the best food left by the nobles, but also to get some reward money from time to time, which is something that a farmer who can only dig in the soil for a lifetime can never think of.
However, not everyone can be a servant, not only must you have thick skin, good eyes, but also have enough ability to at least help the master solve some small problems, otherwise what use do you want.
At the moment, Yan Xu had no choice, and under the leadership of the tavern's daughter, he went to the best room in the tavern, and the only room with a table and a bed. The other rooms are really just rooms, except for a bunch of bugs and rats on the floor, and you really don't know what it's for.
The tavernkeeper's daughter diligently took away the damp straw from the room, brought back a large pile of dried straw that still smelled of the sun, and spread a large piece of linen on it, apparently for sewing new clothes, and finally brought a jar of boiling water.
Yan Xu saw the girl's reluctance to the bed sheet when she left, obviously this is the fabric that the girl prepared for herself, maybe it was for sewing the wedding dress when she got married, it was impossible for a nobleman to pay attention to these carefully, let alone give the cloth to the girl, but as a nobleman, he could give a reward for satisfactory service.
The girl clutched the silver coin in her hand and ran downstairs with cheerful steps, evidently to make up for the wound in her heart, and she could buy a better roll of cloth with the silver coin, and perhaps exchange the money she had saved up for a long time for a roll of dyed cloth instead of a gray linen.
Yan Xu naturally didn't go to take a nap, he wasn't so idle, but planned to study the energy he absorbed.
The energy of heaven and earth in this world is unexpectedly sufficient, comparable to the ancient period, but the trouble is that these energies are not the aura of heaven and earth that Yan Xu is familiar with, but more distinctive elements, just like the difference between pure water and soda.
The history of the earth is long and the laws are perfect, the five elements have long been precipitated and stabilized, and there is a mountain god land and river Bo management, it is very difficult to comprehend, and there must be mana to establish the foundation in order to cultivate according to the law. But this place is different, this is obviously a new world, all kinds of elements are lively to death, and some places where the elements are rich will even occur supernatural phenomena, even if the elemental spirit Yan Xu is generated, it is not surprising.
Habitually sitting cross-legged, Yan Xu carefully identified the elements absorbed into his body, his realm was there, although he was not good at spells, but after cultivating the Lux Mountain Movement Sutra, even if this was the law of refining the body, for the sake of future cultivation Yan Xu also found a lot of monks' exercises to see. I can't talk about being proficient in the basic Five Elements Dao technique, but I also have some understanding, so the process is relatively smooth, after all, except for some extreme worlds, most normal worlds are inseparable from these basic elements, and there are traces to follow.
Feng Shui, Fire, Earth, Light and Dark, Six Elements, and One Element Should Be a Fusion of the Six Elements, which can trigger the Six Elements, which Yan Xu calls magic.
Although the five elements are complete, Yan Xu is a witch, even the ancestral witch is the extreme embodiment of a certain law, and it is better for him to be a mere witch and not be ambitious, so Yan Xu readjusted the energy system that did not have a fixed one, and planned to specialize in cultivating the elements that were in line with his own bloodline.
It's a pity that Yan Xu can't do it at present, not to mention the mixing elements that are part of it, there are too many things involved. However, Yan Xu is good at many exercises, and it is no problem to make some initial modifications based on internal strength, and then slowly revise them in the future.
Mixed Yuan Tongzi Gong is known as the source of a hundred merits, regardless of external energy or different kinds of true qi, he is the best at returning to the sect, and at the same time cultivating the mixed yuan true qi can urge all kinds of martial arts, although the power is worse than the internal strength of the original matching, but it should not be underestimated.
However, even if it borrows from the Tongzigong method, which is known for its purity, the Mixed Yuan Tongzigong cannot get rid of the shortcoming of not being pure enough. However, Yan Xu also has a pure yang boy skill of the same origin, and the degree of purity alone is not under the Jiuyang Divine Skill, which is enough to make up for this shortcoming.
Absorb the initial purification of external elements with the mixed yuan boy gong, and then use the pure yang boy gong to carry out the final purification, although it is not sure what elements will be obtained in the end, but it is finally a way.
Finding a new pleasure, it was dark before he could even notice it, until his servant Hami arrived with the food he had personally supervised.