Chapter 20 Refining Salt (Seeking Collections and Recommendations)
At the junction of the jungle and the stone forest, Ye Xun was constantly cultivating the three-step moving pile there. Scar roasts snake meat around a campfire. Maybe it's because Ye Xun has just broken through the bottleneck, and his body is like nectar for a long time, constantly absorbing the energy in the snake flesh and strengthening the body.
As time passed, the sky gradually darkened, and Ye Xun's body finally reached its limit. The speed at which the breathing method converts energy has slowed down, and there is a feeling of fatigue in the body.
Ye Xun stopped cultivating the three-step pile, if he wanted to continue, he had to wait for his body to recover, otherwise forcibly devouring the transformation energy would not only not strengthen his body, but would also damage his body.
During Ye Xun's cultivation, a bear creature that stood upright and was more than two meters tall was lured by the aroma of barbecued meat. But it's very sad, it met Ye Xun after the breakthrough. At that time, Ye Xun took three steps in succession, and a terrifying dark energy rushed into the body of the giant bear along Ye Xun's arm, instantly shattering its internal organs. At this time, the corpse of the dumpling bear was still lying on the ground next to it, but the fur had been stripped off by Scar and hung on a tree and roasted with charcoal.
Ye Xun unloaded the bear's paw and roasted it on the bonfire, while Scar skewered the pickled snake meat with vines on the side. About 1,000 catties of snake meat were divided into two portions and hung on a tree. Then he went over and made two bonfires under the snake's flesh, and spread some fresh branches and blades of grass on them. Smoke rose from the campfire and rushed towards the snake flesh hanging from the trees.
After the two smoked bonfires were finished, the four bear paws on the bonfire on the side were also roasted golden and shiny, and then the four bear paws were divided between the two.
After eating and drinking, Ye Xun climbed the big tree next to him with Scar. As for the carcasses of wild boars and brown bears, he didn't bother to dispose of them, and he couldn't eat them anyway, so he simply left them on the ground and let those carnivores pick them up.
Ye Xun and Scar fell asleep in the trees, the moon gradually rose high in the sky, and the nocturnal creatures began to come alive in the jungle. Some carnivores were attracted by the smell of dead wild boars and brown bears, but the smell of the terrifying python permeated the vicinity, making them hesitate and not dare to lean over for a while.
The carcasses of brown bears and wild boars exuate a distinctive smell that seduces animals lurking in the shadows. Eventually, an egg-stealing dragon was overcome by the desire in his head. It tilted its head and looked around for a moment to see that there was no danger, and then quickly sprang out of the bushes and ran towards the carcasses of the brown bear and wild boar.
In the dark jungle, the one-meter-two tall egg stealer dragon is very flexible, and its long feathered tail swings from side to side as it runs, stabilizing the balance of its body.
After a while, the egg stealing dragon came to the brown bear's carcass, raising its head and paying vigilant attention to its surroundings. After making sure that there was no danger, he lowered his head and opened his mouth full of sharp teeth and began to tear the flesh on the brown bear's carcass.
The night was silent, and the only sounds in the jungle were the wind blowing the leaves and the egg-stealing dragons eating. The first animal to eat crabs appeared, and the other animals began to move. Several egg-stealing dragons quickly scurried out of the bushes not far away, and in a few moments they arrived at the brown bear carcass, apparently all the way from the original one.
Just as the egg stealing dragon was eating and drinking, the three crocodile tigers quietly touched it, and it was obvious that the three guys had a greater appetite. Not only do you want free meat on the ground, but you also want to wipe out a few egg-stealing dragons.
However, the egg stealing dragon is also very alert, and soon finds the crocodile tiger lurking on the ground. One of the egg-stealing dragons let out a warning sound, and the other egg-stealing dragons immediately stopped eating and looked up cautiously at the place where the crocodile tiger was lurking.
The three crocodile tigers seemed to know that they had been discovered, and they were not hiding, so they roared directly and pounced on the egg-stealing dragon next to the brown bear's carcass. The egg stealer dragon screamed and fled in the opposite direction, and the crocodile tiger instantly pounced.
The three big guys then began to tear at the brown bear and the wild boar, and one of the crocodile tigers went to eat the head of the python. It's a pity that the scales of the python are too hard, and its teeth can't be torn at all.
It wasn't until the second half of the night that the three crocodile tigers ate the brown bear and the wild boar about the same, leaving the skeleton and internal organs there. At this time, the three greedy fellows set their sights on the snake meat on the campfire, but this time they were destined to be disappointed. A crocodile tiger had barely taken two steps towards the campfire when a rock pierced its brain with a cracking sound.
In an instant, the alligator fell to the ground, a finger-sized hole in its forehead, and blood trickled outward. Seeing the crocodile tiger that fell to the ground and still maintained a walking posture, the other two crocodile tigers were directly frightened, bounced up from the ground with a scream, and hurriedly fled in the opposite direction.
After Ye Xun threw out the stone, he sat on the tree and observed for a while, and found that there was no attention from the animal to fight the snake meat, and then he lay down on the tree and continued to sleep. Not long after Ye Xun fell asleep, some carnivores lurked again, and a battle for food began again.
The next morning, Ye Xun woke up on time. When he got out of the tree, he found that the carcasses of wild boars and brown bears on the ground had disappeared. Even the crocodile tiger that was killed by Ye Xun didn't know where to go. On the ground in the entire area, only the skeleton of the giant python lies there alone, but it seems to have been dragged as well.
Ye Xun stretched his waist, and his body moved and began to fight. At this time, the fatigue of his body had recovered, but he was not in a hurry to continue cultivating, but looked at the smoked snake meat hanging on the tree. Finding that the snake meat was not dry enough, he added some firewood to the bacon fire, which was about to go out.
After finishing the bacon, Ye Xun used his spider legs to dig a hole in the ground with a diameter of half a meter and a depth of forty centimeters, and also dug an inclined hole on the side. After finishing these, Ye Xun went to the stone forest to pick up four stones of similar size, put them on the four corners of the dug hole and fixed them, and put a stone slab with a depression in the middle on the stone.
This large stone slab was carved by Ye Xun Rang Scar with snake scales yesterday, and there is a dent in the middle that is about five centimeters deep and about eighty centimeters in diameter. The slabs had been washed with river water, and the bottom was polished with snake scales.
After putting the stone slab, Ye Xun scooped the salt water soaked yesterday into the stone pot, and when the stone pot was full, he picked up the wooden stick and lit the firewood. Now you just need to wait until the water is boiled dry, and collect the condensed salt particles directly from the stone pot. However, it takes a long time to boil table salt, and Ye Xun plans to practice the three-step moving pile to pass the time.
So Ye Xun took some relatively moist snake meat, threaded it with a wooden stick, and roasted it next to the stone pot. Because the snake meat has been smoked overnight, it has lost a lot of moisture, and it doesn't take long to roast it next to the stone pot, and it is dry and fragrant.
Scar was awakened by the smell of barbecue, and hurriedly climbed down from the tree, Ye Xun threw it a piece of smoked jujube red snake jerky, and told it to clean up the snake meat hanging on the tree, and get all the meat that was not very dry and roasted.
Then Ye Xun picked up a piece of snake jerky and tore it, and after entering the mouth, there was a unique smoky smell from the snake jerky, and the taste was completely different from that of fresh snake meat.
It didn't take long for Ye Xun to eat up the roasted snake meat, stand up and start cultivating not far from the stone pot. Scar cleaned up the snake meat around the smoky campfire, and after a while, the stone pot was filled with some moist snake meat.
After yesterday's cultivation, Ye Xun has completely mastered the three-step pile. In order to keep up with the consumption of muscles when cultivating the three-step pile. Ye Xun could only wait for the breathing method to transform the snake meat before he could start cultivating the three-step moving pile.
I saw Ye Xun take three steps, and the energy of the snake meat conversion was instantly consumed by nine layers. A terrifying force arose from his body, and then flowed throughout his body, absorbed by his body. After yesterday's cultivation, Ye Xun's physical strength reached two thousand catties. This span is not small, directly on the basis of 1,500 catties, the strength has increased by 500 catties, which is a terrifying growth rate. However, Ye Xun estimated that there would probably not be such a terrifying growth span today. Because in the previous life, when he was at the peak of his dark strength, he only had two thousand catties of physical strength.
After the strength in his body disappeared, Ye Xun stopped cultivating. Then he went to the stone pot and devoured part of the snake meat that Scar had roasted. After filling his stomach, Ye Xun continued to convert the snake meat into energy, and then began to cultivate the three-step moving pile.
When this cultivation was completed, the water in the stone pot was also dry, and Ye Xun hurriedly went over and scraped out the white salt crystals with snake scales. As for the container, Ye Xun got some bamboo yesterday and cut it into a bamboo tube with snake scales. After the bamboo tube was filled with table salt, Ye Xun plugged it with a wooden plug made of wooden sticks.
After collecting the salt in the stone cauldron, Ye Xun got some salt water into the stone cauldron, and he continued to devour snake meat to cultivate. After he finished cultivating for the fourth time, the water in the stone cauldron dried up. He and Scar packed the salt and continued to add water to the pot.
As Ye Xun cultivated to get salt, he went back and forth four times, and all the salt was boiled. There are a total of four pots of salt water, filled with eight bamboo tubes of salt, an average of two bamboo tubes per pot. At the same time, Ye Xun's body also fed back a wave of fatigue information to him, and today's cultivation has reached the limit.
Ye Xun beckoned to Scar, and the two of them took off the bear skin that had been dried with charcoal, and used snake scales to clean off the fat and minced meat on it. Then the dried snake meat and some snake skin are put in the bear skin, and of course, the all-important table salt is also put in. Ye Xuncai tied the four legs of the bear skin to each other, and a simple bear skin burden was ready.
Ye Xun circled around the burden to see if the burden was tied, so as not to loosen it on the road and cause the things inside to fall. After it was confirmed, Ye Xun stopped in front of the burden and lifted it up with both hands. Since the snake meat has been smoked relatively dry, this burden is not heavy, according to Ye Xun's estimate, I am afraid it will be about 300 catties.
In this way, Ye Xun held a bearskin burden with both hands, called Scar, and the two left here together.