Chapter 121: Demon Slayer
"Look at what you see, if you are weak, you have to eat meat."
"Eat your meat, don't keep looking at me, I'm sad now."
After begging for a piece of horse meat from Xu Maogong, Li Hongru began to gnaw on the extremely fishy and sour horse meat.
There is no boiling water, just an ordinary flame for grilling, and the demon horse meat needs to be left for at least half an hour before it can be eaten.
Xu Maogong mentioned that this is because the water is good at making the demon qi volatilize, and the fire will be stuffy, causing the demon qi to condense in the meat, and you need to wait for it to eat.
It's very mysterious to say, but Li Hongru feels that this is actually a similar problem of not being able to get hot after eating.
This piece of horse meat eventually added a little food to Taiwu, which was far less effective than the original demon elephant meat.
Most of the demon horses are passed on, and the demon energy in the meat is scarce.
Except for a few special existences, the quality of demon horses is far inferior to that of normal monster meat.
The two of them staggered along.
One person's buttocks and thighs were worn out, another person's body was poisoned, and the demon horse was pecked by the beak of the golden eagle to the point that its skin was open and covered in blood.
At this time, you need to go to the Yunzhong Post Station in the confluence place to meet several generals there.
The distance during this period is hundreds of miles.
Xu Maogong endured the pain and cut the horse meat, which is nothing more than that.
With a crippled combination like theirs, if they don't eat some meat to replenish their physical strength, they will most likely lie halfway through.
In this era, running is completely based on the direction of positioning, and there is no road leading to any road, crossing mountains and crossing water.
In the distance, a fire had spread in the woods.
At this time, it was far away, and the light of the fire could still be seen.
Xu Maogong chopped some dead wood sullenly, and when he had to rub it with the fat and flesh pieces on the demon horse, the simple torch was suddenly made.
"I tell you, but whoever follows me is another, and he must be cut off and get rid of a trouble."
"It's that I'm useless."
"Don't be presumptuous, you are somewhat clever and have helped a little, but this fire may cause some evil."
Xu Maogong sensed the direction of the wind at this time a little and was temporarily relieved.
At this time, the fire spread to the Khanate, and did not extend to the territory of the Tang Dynasty.
If there is no expert in calling the wind and rain to help extinguish the fire, this fire will probably burn to the isolation zone before it stops.
This year was extremely dry, and the fires inevitably made the grassland pastures close to the Tang Dynasty even worse.
This adds another fuel to the tension between the two sides.
But the Khanate and the Tang Dynasty have had years of border turmoil, but they don't owe Li Hongru this fire.
The khanates planted the Luotou clan in the body of the Tang generals, which can be regarded as retribution for counterattacks.
The grievances and grievances between the two sides are difficult to clarify.
All Xu Mao did was to strengthen the protection of the state and prevent the army of the Khanate from plundering in the south.
"It's a pity that we don't have large natural pastures in our territory, and it's difficult to have large horse farms."
Datang is good at planting, and animal husbandry is mainly based on breeding chickens, ducks, geese, cattle and sheep, and the status of horses in animal husbandry is not obvious.
If there is no need for war preparation, Xu Maogong suspects that the military horse will give up directly.
Horses don't just need to raise meat, they can go to war with some herbs.
Rush, cooperate, group matching.
Under many requirements, it is the vast terrain and abundant aquatic and grass resources that war horses need.
Compared with the vast territory of the Khanate, which was full of natural pastures, the rolling mountains and woodlands of the Tang Dynasty were insufficient.
Encountering a large-scale horse battle with the Khanate, Datang did lose mostly.
This also allowed the many dynasties that ruled the land to develop defensive warfare for thousands of years, using the walls as a defense.
"We don't have the great ability to move mountains and seas in our spells, and create a large ranch out of thin air?" Li Hongru asked.
"How can there be that kind of technique" Xu Maogong smiled bitterly: "If we can move mountains and seas, we must not bury the other party's kingdom directly." ”
It was only at this time that Xu Maogong was sure that Li Hongru was really new.
He robbed Wang Fuchou's students not long after he started.
The introduction time was too short, and Wang Fuchou obviously didn't have time to teach Li Hongru anything.
It's a shame that he has always used Li Hongru as a young general.
I thought it was Wang Fuchou's modest words, but I didn't expect this product to be really unconfident.
has been tossed by him several times, and it is not easy for Li Hongru to survive until now.
But Li Hongru's adaptability is really strong, and although he was a little flustered in many things, he finally adapted.
When facing the Luotou clan, he went from shouting to responding to the enemy.
When facing the golden eagle, you can also calm down and find a way to restrain the other party.
No matter how embarrassing the process was, in the end, Li Hongru survived, and this is the skill.
This is no different from war, only the victors are qualified to narrate, and it does not matter whether the course of the war is just and moral.
At this time, he also popularized some common sense in magic to Li Hongru.
Many of the big spells are just borrowing, borrowing, and harnessing the power of nature.
Just as a person can pry a heavy object with a lever, the lever of a cultivator is the primordial spirit.
The more powerful the primordial spirit, the stronger the power it can exert be.
The physical body has a limit, but it is difficult for the primordial spirit to detect the limit, and once the literati cultivator escapes from the primordial spirit, he can perform large-scale spell casting.
It's just that the power of nature is endless, and there are many possibilities for moving mountains and seas.
And literati like Li Hongru, who has just entered the threshold of cultivation, can only use the Confucian Haoran righteousness to release some techniques that have a small range of influence.
"Brother Fu Chou is good at yin fire, this kind of fire is sharp in removing ghosts and hurting people's primordial spirits, but when fighting with demons and people, the power is indescribable."
Both demons and humans have shells, and the yin fire is difficult to penetrate, not to mention hurting the primordial spirit.
The Nanming Ding Fire was of great use on some occasions, but on other occasions, Vaillon was in an extremely embarrassing situation.
"Then can you give me a book of Yang Huo's cultivation technique, I am very diligent and studious," Li Hongru asked in a low voice.
"Where did I get any yang fire cultivation technique" Xu Maogong said with a smile: "There is a law in everything, the Tao is not passed on to non-people, the law is not passed on to the six ears, each has its own inheritance, each has its own means, I don't have a yang fire cultivation technique here." ”
"Then you teach me something else, the cultivation of martial artists is also good, I can learn from the cheats."
"You took my "Pulse Sutra", and you have taken a big advantage."
"Don't pressure yourself with a lot of skills, you can give something else, "Pulse Meridian" doesn't have the strength to shoot at all."
"Your physical fitness is too poor, and you don't have the strength to shoot when you learn anything else, so it's difficult to play your sword skills to the best of your ability."
"You're going to hit me."
"If you have some thoughts about practicing martial arts, you have to start cultivating from the most basic content."
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Explaining his doubts all the way and solving many doubts in his heart, Li Hongru felt that the journey was not a torment.
It's easier to walk than to bump on horseback.
It's just that there is no horseback riding, and the journey back to Yunzhong Station is long.
When we get to the dawn of the day, there are at least fifty or sixty miles left.
At this time, the morning light is thin and some birds are foraging early.
The area near Yunzhong originally belonged to the territory of Datang, and there were also lofty mountains and mountains, and there were more streams and streams.
The bubbling sound entered his ears, and Li Hongru couldn't help but feel a lot more energetic.
Even the cloud-stepping black horse also raised his head.
Li Hongru untied the water bag, raised it to Xu Maogong, and motioned to get some water.
"Go ahead, I've been arguing with you all night, and my throat is dry."
Xu Maogong waved his hand, and the voice in his throat was extremely dry.
"You must hold on, don't die halfway."
Li Hongru's forehead condensed slightly, looking at the many gray colors on Xu Maogong's body.
Although the qi on Xu Maogong's body did not fall into black, it had spread from some gray and black colors to the gray and white colors of his whole body today.
This is a very bad physical performance.
"Crow's mouth, Lao Tzu has experienced nearly 100 battles in his life, which time was not dangerous, and which time did he not survive."
Xu Maogong snorted.
He was obviously very dissatisfied with Li Hongru's mouth, but the other party's eyes were indeed unique, and they could actually see through the state of his martial body.
He looked at Li Hongru's figure writhing away, and the cloud-stepping black horse also limped behind him, and couldn't help but sigh slightly.
In the past, there were big and small fights, and he didn't fall to the point of running away with a wounded horse and a waste of firewood.
This time the situation is really a bit bad.
If it weren't for the aggressive carving, it would be difficult for him to be exhausted for a while, and he was afraid of his desperate outburst before finally leaving, and the consequences might be even more serious.
The repeated attacks do cost physical energy.
Li Hongru has become a dead dog, and they have to consume part of their strength to resist tossing, and it is difficult to have perfect combat power.
When Xu Maogong was thinking about gains and losses, he saw Li Hongru, who was going to the stream to fetch water, make a big jump, and then turned around and ran.
In the middle of the stream, a half-meter-long fish jumped out of the water, only to turn into five or six meters long in an instant, opened its mouth full of sharp teeth, and swallowed at the people and horses on the shore.
"Good fellow, finally show up!"
"Quack, this one."
Xu Maogong was just about to throw a sword to the rescue, only to see a large net near the stream cast down on the big fish.
Three people in different costumes and shapes jumped out.
This is the demon slayer who is squatting here.