Chapter 37 Travel
There is still more than a month before the summer, and the weather at this time is still very warm, under the soft sunshine, a little cool spring breeze blows on the body to make people feel very comfortable.
As far as the eye can see, a group of rolling hills is covered with a thick layer of lush grass and trees, mixed with the emerald green of the stars and colorful colors, coupled with the fresh air that comes to the nose is also full of refreshing flowers and grass fragrance, as well as the pleasant sound of insects and birds from time to time, so that the people in it can't help but admire, a good paradise.
At this time, an unhurried sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, from a sheep intestine trail in the mountains that could barely be walked on, a snow-white horse with only four hooves was yellow called Claw Huang Feidian gradually approached, a young man dressed in coarse cloth clothes with purple and black complexion about sixteen years old, was lying on the back of the horse with his head pillowed with his bags and Erlang's legs leisurely, and his hands were unconsciously playing with a sharp blade, the blade kept flying on the young man's fingers, sometimes appearing and sometimes hiding, making people feel that the young man's fingers were extremely flexible at a glance。
The breeze blew his long loose hair that was draped casually, and a resolute and handsome face was revealed, especially the bright and clear eyes were a little unforgettable, but at this time, the young man's eyes were looking at the sky a little blankly, and his mouth was slowly chewing the preserved fruit snacks taken out of the bag placed on the side of the horse's back, which made the young man look a little lazy.
"Alas...... It's been half a month, when will I be able to get out of this mountain range? The map given by Uncle Xiao is so sketchy that I don't even know where I am now. ”
The young man who was staring at a map drawn in sheepskin and pouting incessantly was Muyang.
After he decided to go out three years ago, he formulated a three-year extremely detailed cultivation plan, at the beginning, in addition to the condensation of vitality that could not be shaken every day, he used the Linzi seal to dredge the meridians and practice those few unyielding swordsmanship and constantly exercise the dexterity of his fingers in order to seal the seal, and he would also go to Mu Tianhong from time to time to learn alchemy skills.
After taking that Soul Yuan Pill, Mu Yang's soul power increased a lot, and then he found that the effect was slightly different when using the four handprints of Linbing, Dou, and Zhi in his current state of soul power.
Among them, when using the word decision, Mu Yang found that the time to absorb the vitality of heaven and earth to dredge the meridians can be extended to more than a quarter of an hour, that is, about twenty minutes, and the amount of heaven and earth vitality absorbed is much more than the original, and its efficiency is naturally faster, it will take more than four years to dredge a meridian with all his might, and now with the soul Yuan Dan to help him get started, and after the soul power is enhanced, the effect of using the word seal has increased a lot, plus with the help of the Jiuyang vitality in the body, Mu Yang is sure to dredge another meridian within three years。
As for the other three handprints, when this soldier's character seal was made, it changed from the original embroidery needle to a knife about the size of an adult's finger, and Mu Yang could clearly feel that the sharpness of this transformed knife was higher than the original needle.
The Douzi Seal, which can increase the strength, originally changed Mu Yang, who was at the beginning of the air-induced mirror cultivation at that time, from the increase to the high-level of the air-induced mirror directly to the peak of the air-induced mirror, and his strength has increased a lot, but the side effects that followed have not increased much, which is also a happy thing.
Finally, the word seal with therapeutic effect, according to the effect of some healing pills refined by Mu Tianhong in Muyang, and after some comparison, it was found that the treatment effect of the word print at this time was several times the effect of the four-grade healing pill, and it was roughly estimated that it should be equivalent to the effect of the seven-grade pill.
Although he will still fall into a deep sleep after every time he seals with all his strength, Mu Yang found that he deliberately kept the time at the original quarter of an hour and stopped sealing at the time of sealing, although he still needed time to rest, but the rest time was slightly shortened, and he no longer needed to fall into a deep sleep to recover his energy, the difference was just that he couldn't use his full strength to fight because of his weak soul power, but he could also use this time to do something other things that didn't bother him, which also surprised Mu Yang.
After cultivating to the advanced level of the air-inducing mirror, Mu Yang would often enter the deep mountains near the village and town to find all kinds of beasts as opponents, in order to hone his actual combat skills, from the beginning of a day or two to come back, to later into the dense forest for ten days and half a month without coming out.
With the improvement of his own cultivation and actual combat experience, the opponents Mu Yang was looking for also changed from ordinary lions, tigers and other fierce beasts at the beginning to all kinds of first-order desolate beasts, until finally the first-order desolate beasts within a radius of 500 miles centered on Mujia Village were almost wiped out by Muyang, not only removing many potential hidden dangers for the villages and towns, but also getting a lot of good things from these desolate beasts that could be used as alchemy materials.
During this period, Mu Yang also encountered many life-threatening situations, especially when he was still a high-level air-inducing mirror, he accidentally encountered a first-order high-grade ghost pattern spider whose strength was comparable to that of the Great Perfection of the air-induced mirror, just its body size was several times larger than that of an ordinary tiger and the fluff that was sharper than steel thorns and full of poison all over the body, which made people's scalp tingle at a glance.
That time, relying on the Douzi Seal and the Jiuyang Yuan Qi in the body that had some resistance to the poison, he finally injured the four chelicerae of the ghost pattern spider with a sharp giant tooth dagger, which affected its movement, and Mu Yang escaped with serious injuries, if it weren't for this, I am afraid that Mu Yang would have already been buried in the belly of the spider and became a good meal for the ghost pattern spider.
With the experience of life and death again and again and continuous penance, Mu Yang became an ancient martial artist of the Great Perfection of the Qi Induction Mirror as early as a year and a half ago, but for some reason, he tried countless methods but was never able to gather the vitality in his body into drops, he also asked Xiao Wen, but Xiao Wen couldn't answer the reason, and finally Mu Yang had no choice but to give up, which also led to his cultivation being unable to advance.
However, his actual combat experience has improved rapidly, and he is also very handy with the fierce and incomparable Jiuyang Vitality, and the incomplete, unyielding swordsmanship of several moves has also been realized by him to the point of perfection.
Now if he faced Lou Chi, the black-robed man at that time, he believed that he could kill the other party with only a few moves, and because he often fought to the death with all kinds of fierce beasts and wild beasts, whenever Mu Yang used all his strength without scruples, there would be a fierce momentum on his body that would choose people and devour.
Originally, after the amount of vitality in the body could not be increased, Mu Yang no longer condensed the vitality, but when half a year ago, under the dual effect of the Linzi Seal and the Jiuyang Vitality and the stimulation of the life and death tempering during this time, the Zu Shao Yang gallbladder meridian in his body was completely dredged in advance, and after strengthening this meridian in the same way with the help of the word decision, Mu Yang was pleased to find that he could continue to condense the Jiuyang Yuan Qi in the Zu Shao Yang Gallbladder Sutra.
Although after continuing to condense, the amount of filamentous vitality in his body has exceeded the amount of vitality in the body of the ordinary air-induced mirror Great Perfection Ancient Martial Artist, but because he has never been able to gather the silk into drops, Muyang's cultivation realm is still stuck in the Great Perfection of the Air-Induced Mirror, but the actual amount of vitality available in his body greatly exceeds that of ordinary ancient martial artists in the same realm as him.
For this point, Mu Yang also asked Mu Tianhong and Xiao Wen, who occasionally came to visit Mujia Village, but the two of them couldn't explain this reason at all except for surprise, originally Mu Yang had such a rapid cultivation speed with just one meridian, not to mention that according to Xiao Wen's knowledge, the amount of silk-like Yuan Qi in a single meridian in the body of an ancient martial artist in the air induction mirror would rarely exceed five thousand silks, and it was unheard of to store all nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine silk Yuan Qi in one meridian like Mu Yang.
Now Mu Yang actually has more than 10,000 threads of vitality in his body when he is in the Great Perfection of the Air Induction Mirror, which completely breaks everyone's cognition, which also makes every time Xiao Wen comes, he will look at Mu Yang with eyes like looking at a monster. But on the whole, this situation is also a good thing, at least within the same realm, Muyang's combat power durability is definitely much stronger than that of ordinary people.
In this way, time passed day by day, and when there were still two months before the Guiyuan Sword Sect and Tianxu Yuan recruited disciples, Mu Yang decided to set off.
A month before his departure, Xiao Wen sent a horse with good foot strength and a simple map drawn by his hand, as well as a small bag containing ten crystal clear lower grade Yuan stones about the size of an adult's thumb and a sword with a four-grade mortal weapon obtained from the Dajiang Gang.
Yuan Shi is the hard currency of the exchange of things between the ancient warriors, which is rich in the vitality required by the ancient warriors to improve their cultivation, according to the quality of the three products are roughly divided into upper, middle and lower grades, of which the largest number of the most widely circulated nature is the lower grade Yuan Stone, the middle grade Yuan Stone is much less, and the upper grade is even more rare.
Among the ancient warriors, according to the vitality content and absorbable speed efficiency between the Yuan stones of each grade, the exchange ratio of the Yuan stones of each grade is divided into one to one hundred, that is, a high-grade Yuan Stone can be exchanged for one hundred medium-grade Yuan Stones, and in the same way, a medium-grade Yuan Stone can be exchanged for one hundred lower-grade Yuan Stones.
It's just that the vitality in the lower-grade Yuan Stone is difficult to be quickly absorbed by the ancient martial artists, unless it is with the help of the Gathering Yuan Array that the formation mage lays down to speed up the absorption, in order to achieve the cultivation effect similar to absorbing the Yuan Qi in the middle-grade Yuan Stone.
Aside from the various spiritual materials needed to set up the formation, the Yuan Stone is also needed to maintain the operation of the formation, if it is not for the ancient martial artists who are rich or have sects to rely on, they will never use this method to absorb the Yuan Stone, and generally the scattered ancient martial artists who have the Yuan Stone slowly absorb the Yuan Qi in the Yuan Stone by means of water mills.
Of course, for two ancient martial artists with the same qualifications, the cultivation speed of the ancient martial artist who used Yuan Shi to assist in cultivation was definitely faster than the one who did not use Yuan Shi.
As for the medium-grade Yuan Stone, its Yuan Qi content is not only dozens of times more than that of the lower grade Yuan Stone, but also the Yuan Qi in it is easier to be absorbed by the ancient martial artists, and the Yuan Qi of the upper grade Yuan Stone is more, and it can be quickly absorbed without the help of the Juyuan Array, but the higher the grade Yuan Stone, the more precious it is, and the use is greater and wider, so generally no ancient martial artist will use the high-grade Yuan Stone as an aid in cultivation, which is a money-burning loser.
Because of this, a medium-grade yuan stone can definitely be exchanged for a hundred lower-grade yuan stones, but a hundred lower-grade yuan stones may not be able to be exchanged for a medium-grade yuan stone, as for wanting to exchange a hundred medium-grade yuan stones for a high-grade yuan stone, unless the ancient martial artist who was exchanged is crazy, no one will agree to this exchange.
Even if the number of lower-grade Yuan Stones is extremely large, the number of many low-level ancient martial artists with poor ability may not exceed a hundred in their lifetime, and the purchasing power of lower-grade Yuan Stones is still quite good, for example, the five-grade mortal weapon sword in Xiao Wen's hand that can break through the defense of first-order lower-grade desolate beasts was exchanged for twenty lower-grade Yuan Stones.
Therefore, having a vein of metastone that can be mined not only represents an extremely huge wealth, but also represents a huge risk, if the family that owns the vein does not have a certain strength, then it will bring ruin.
The ten lower-grade yuan stones on Mu Yang's body are already the only yuan stones that Xiao Wen has at hand, for this favor, Mu Yang naturally keeps it in mind, and he will repay it twice when he has the opportunity in the future.
Although theoretically, it will not take more than half a month to rush from Mujia Village to Gutai City, but because Xiao Wen suddenly had something to do and could not accompany him, and Mu Tianhong needed to take care of Mu Mingli and couldn't leave, and the others did not have the conditions to accompany him, Mu Yang, who had never been far away, was afraid that there would be a delay on the road due to his unfamiliarity, and under the reluctance and worry of his family, Mu Yang took his packing and the giant tooth dagger left by Mu Tianhong, and rode off alone a month in advance.