Chapter 307: Collecting Apprentices and Dogs

On the second day, Ling An was still asleep, and the noise of a group of children outside woke him up, Ling An got up and went out to check, and found that Ah Dog was being bullied by five or six children slightly older than him, led by a child of about twelve or thirteen years old, tall and fat, two of them tied Ah Gou's arms, so that he could not break free, and the rest surrounded him.

"Will you hand it over?" the child led by him slapped Ah Dog.

"I don't even know what you're talking about, how to pay it?"

"Less garlic, I saw it just now, you caught a hare and came back, it must be hidden somewhere!"

"You—" The dog glared at each other.

"What, don't you have anything to say, hand it over quickly, or don't blame me for being rude!"

"Don't pay!"

"Kind, call me!"

"Stop!" Ling An shouted and walked out.

"Run!" The child led by the child saw that there were adults there, greeted him, and ran out with a few people, Ah Gou picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at them, but did not throw any of them, Ling An saw clearly, it was Ah Gou who deliberately did not throw it, just to scare them, and also to vent the anger in his heart.

"Ah Gou, are you okay?" Ling An looked at the slap marks on Ah Gou's face and asked with some distress.

"Engong, I'm fine! We're going to have another bite to say today!" Ah Gou ran to the kitchen and lifted a pile of firewood, which contained a hare, and Ah Dog lifted the hare's ears to Ling An, with an innocent smile on the corner of his mouth.

"You got up so early in the morning to catch hares?"

"Well, luck is it today, as soon as you set the trap, one of them will be hooked! You must be hungry, I'll go cook now!" Ah Gou took out his knife, cleaned the hare, and prepared to make a fire to cook.

"Dog, that group of kids bullied you because of this hare?"

"Well, Ah Fu saw me catch the hare in the morning, so he called them and wanted to rob them!"

"Then you're not angry?"

"What's so angry, their parents also gave me a lot of food, so if I'm lucky and catch a lot, I'll give them some, but if I don't catch much, then I'll hide, and they're stupid enough to find it every time. Ah Gou still looked a little smug in his words.

Ling An smiled and didn't speak, but in his heart he appreciated Ah Dog more and more.

After the meal, Ah Gou put away the dishes and chopsticks, and the two sat in the small courtyard basking in the sun, Ling An suddenly spoke: "Ah Gou, my injury is almost healed, and I am ready to leave, do you want to go with me, I will take you to see the outside world!"

"The outside world?" Ah Dog looked ignorant, he had only been to a small town sixty miles away from the village at the farthest, and occasionally heard them talk about how wonderful the outside world was, but he had never seen it.

"Yes, our world is very big, there are four domains in the east, west, north and south, each of which is incomparably vast and colorful!"

"Is that still what they call the Source Master?"

"Yes, there are many source masters out there, and some of them can soar through the clouds and fog and turn mountains and seas!"

"Then Engong, are you the source master?"

"Sort of, it's just that I can't use the Source Technique now, just like an ordinary person! If you come with me, I can teach you the Source Technique in the future and make you a Source Master, but you have to open up the Qi Mansion and condense the Star Source first!"

"Qifu?Xingyuan?" Ah Dog was extremely unfamiliar with these.

"I can't explain these things to you in a sentence or two, but when you get in touch with them, you can understand them yourself. Now it's up to you to decide whether to come with me or stay here!"

"I'll go with you, but I need to talk to the village chief first. Ah Gou made a decision without the slightest hesitation, and he didn't have a vision for the outside world.

"Okay, then I'll go with you to the village chief!"

The two were about to set off, but they saw the village chief walk in, which is not unfortunate!

"Grandpa the village chief, why are you here?" the dog greeted him quickly.

"I heard from Ah Fu that you have a guest at home, and you specially brought some wine and food!" The village chief handed Ah Gou a basket of things he was carrying.

"Grandpa the village chief, you don't have to bring me food every time, I'm grown up now, I can support myself, and I won't die of hunger!"

"Yo, our dog has grown up and can say this! But in the eyes of grandpa, you will always be a child, take it quickly, and be polite to grandpa!"

Ah Gou took the basket, and just as Ling An came over, the village chief asked: "This is the guest that Ah Fu said they said, right?

"Senior Ling An, I've seen the village chief!" Ling An took the initiative to say.

"It turned out to be Ling An's son, I don't know what your relationship is with Ah Gou? I don't seem to have heard Ah Gou's parents mention you!"

"Grandpa the village chief, Prince Ling An is my benefactor, yesterday I accidentally fell off the cliff while collecting medicine, it was Prince Ling An who saved me!"

"Why are you so careless, the next time you want to collect medicine, you will go with the adults, it is too dangerous to be alone!" The village chief scolded with love, and then bowed down and thanked Ah Gou: "Thank you Ling An Gongzi for saving Ah Gou, Ah Gou's parents died when he was a child, leaving him alone, don't dislike his family for being simple and inconsiderate, please forgive me!"

"Village chief, you're polite, Ah Dog is a sensible child, and heals me, I was just about to tell you, I plan to take Ah Gou as an apprentice and take him outside to break in!"

"Really, that's great!" The village chief tugged on Ah Gou's hand with excitement on his face, he could see that Ling An's words and deeds were not ordinary, and the clothes he wore were even better fabrics, which were not something that mountain people like them could wear, Ah Gou would definitely not be sad in the future if he followed him.

"Of course it's true, no, you can ask Ah Gou himself!"

The village chief looked at Ah Gou, saw Ah Gou nodded, his face was even more happy, and he hurriedly said excitedly: "Hurry up, Ah Gou kowtow to the master!"

Hearing this, Ah Gou knelt on his knees and respectfully kowtowed to Ling An three times, Ling An stepped forward and helped Ah Dog up!

After bidding farewell to the village chief, Ah Gou cleaned up a little, except for some food sent by the village chief, only brought two sets of changes of clothes, packed them together, carried them on his shoulders, and prepared to leave.

"You put things in here!" Ling An took out a purse-sized bag and handed it to Ah Gou.

"Master, what is this?"

"This thing is called a storage bag, specially prepared for ordinary people to travel, although it can't be compared with the space ring, but it can also hold a lot of things, and it doesn't need to be driven by source qi!"

Ah Gou heard the words in the clouds, space ring, and source qi were too new to him, but what made him care more was that this small cloth bag could hold his big bag of things?

Ling An saw that Ah Dog looked puzzled, put the storage bag on the table, then took Ah Dog's package, and put it down, only to see that the package was three inches away from the storage bag, and it instantly became smaller and entered the storage bag.

"Master, it's amazing!" Ah Gou was dumbfounded.

"This storage bag will be given to you, and when you open up the Qi Mansion in the future, and then give you a space ring for the teacher, that is really magical!"

"Really, thank you, master!" the dog happily took the storage bag.

"Let's go, let's go to the nearest town and buy some things for you!"

The two figures walked towards the outside of the village, and Ah Gou looked back at the thatched house he lived in from time to time, with some reluctance in his eyes!

Qingshuang Town, the closest town to Agou Mountain Village, is not big, but compared to Agou's mountain village with only more than 30 households, it is already very lively! Ling An found an inn, asked for a room, and then ordered a few signature dishes from the store.

"Master, isn't it expensive to live here?" Ah Gou cringed, before today, he had never been to such a place, let alone eat and live in such a place.

"Don't worry, with the master here, you can live and eat with peace of mind!"

At this moment, the innkeeper brought the food, and Ah Dog saw all kinds of exquisiteness

The dishes drooled, and I realized that the original dishes could be made so beautifully!

Ling An saw that Ah Gou was staring at the dish in a daze, but he didn't dare to move the chopsticks, so he beckoned: "Eat!"

"How!" Ah Gou picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of meat and put it in his mouth, chewed it a few times, and found that the meat was crispy and refreshing, a taste he had never tasted.

"How's it going?

"Uh-huh!" Ah Dog nodded desperately.

"If it's delicious, you can eat more, it's not enough!" Ling An picked up the plate and dialed more than half of it into the dog bowl.

"Thank you, master!" said the dog, whose mouth was stuffed with food, and his speech was slurred.

"Dog, you have to remember in the future, don't have anything in your mouth when you speak, don't talk if you have something in your mouth, this is politeness, you know?"

As soon as Ah Gou said a word, he realized that he still had food in his mouth, so he nodded and signaled that he understood!

Back in the room, Ah Gou saw that there was only one bed in the room, so he took a straw mat and spread it on the side of the bed!

"Dog, what are you doing here?"

"Master, I see that there is only one bed, so make a mat on the ground, I sleep on the ground at night, and you sleep on the bed!"

"No, you can just sleep in bed, I meditate at night, I don't have to sleep!"

"Oh!" Ah Gou rolled up the mat and asked again, "Master, how long have we been in this Qingshuang Town?"

"It's hard to say now, I see that there is occasionally a source qi gathering in your dantian, it should be about to open up the Qi Mansion, and after you open up the Qi Mansion, we will leave!"

"Really, then after I open up the Qi Mansion, will I become a Source Master?"

"It's not that simple, the Qi Mansion is opened, you can absorb some source qi, but if you want to become a source master, you must condense the star source, without the star source, your Qi Mansion can't store the source qi at all!"

"That's right, I see!"

Seven days passed in a blink of an eye, these seven days, Ling An taught Ah Gou some breathing methods, and finally on the eighth day, Ah Gou felt that there was an abnormality in the dantian, the meridians were unblocked, and the source qi in the air continued to pour in, swimming in the meridians, and after a big week, he returned to the dantian again, and then formed a cyclone, slowly opening up a piece of qi.

"Take this!" Ling An took out a pill and handed it to Ah Gou, Ah Gou did not hesitate, swallowed it in one gulp, only to feel that the dantian was warm, and another stream of source qi poured in, and the whole body swam, making the qi mansion double in an instant.

After the Ah Gou Qi Mansion was opened, he asked, "Master, what did you give me just now?"

"That's called the Expansion Mansion Pill, when you take it when you open up the Qi Mansion, you can expand the Qi Mansion, and it will be helpful for condensing the star source later!"

"Kufudan?"

"Well, it's a kind of elixir, and in addition to being a source master, a teacher is also a Dan master!"

"It turns out that the master is so powerful!" Although Ah Gou is lonely and unheard, he has still heard of the source master, the Dan master and the instrument master, and coupled with the popularity of Ling An in the past few days, he can also understand the relationship between them!

"You can also, I see that your Qi Mansion is particularly partial to the source qi of the fire wood attribute, and after the star source is condensed, the source qi attribute should be the dual attribute of fire wood, which is the most suitable for cultivating the Dan Dao!"

When Ah Gou heard this, it was like a dream, originally he was just a lonely ordinary person, and he didn't know when he starved to death, but after meeting Ling An, he was not only rescued by Ling An many times, but also accepted him as an apprentice and taught him to practice, and now it made him understand that he could still become a Dan Master, all of this, before that, he didn't even dare to think about it.

With a pop, Ah Gou knelt on his knees and thanked him: "Ah Gou, thank you master, the master is really a noble man of Ah Gou!"

"Since you worship me as a teacher, then I will do my best to teach you, but the name Ah Dog sounds strange and twisted, as a source master and a Dan master, there has never been a name like this, let me help you change your name!" Ling An helped Ah Dog up.

"Please give the master a name!"

Ling An pondered for a moment and slowly spoke: "In the future, you will be called Dan Xingzi, I hope you can be like a vast star in the way of alchemy, endless!"