There was an oval-shaped wooden barrel in the old man's room, which contained a strange dark green medicinal liquid, which looked like it should have an indescribable smell, but it smelled very good, with a pure mint smell.

According to the old man, this is a medicinal bath, which has the effect of strengthening the body.

Li Mengzhou didn't know this, he had been soaking in the medicinal bath for two years, and he started after knowing the old man for a year.

The effect of the medicinal bath seems to be very significant, and his physique has been greatly enhanced, although it is not to the point of slashing and axe without breaking, but it is not far behind.

But this is only invincible in front of the martial artists of the rivers and lakes, and when encountering cultivators, this physical strength still seems to be not enough. Because most of the cultivators are aimed at the suppression of spiritual thoughts, unless the body is really strong enough to resist the invasion of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, there is only one way to go when encountering cultivators.

Li Mengzhou didn't have any scruples in front of the old man, and soaked in the medicinal bath after getting naked.

During the first medicinal bath, the pain like tearing in the body made Li Mengzhou faint several times.

As his impurities are constantly discharged, he has gradually become accustomed to two years, and soaking in a medicinal bath is no different from taking a bath.

With his arms on the edge of the barrel, Li Mengzhou even sighed comfortably.

The old man was standing next to him silently adding some strange medicinal herbs, and his originally cloudy pupils seemed to be slowly becoming shiny, revealing a strange feeling.

Li Mengzhou looked at the old man's withered appearance and said softly: "Old man, I don't think you are an ordinary person, I have felt this way since I first met you. But you're not a cultivator, otherwise how could you stay in a ghost place like Shuning Town.

I know that there is such a profession as a pharmacist in this world, and I suspect that you should be a pharmacist, but the status of a pharmacist is very noble, and it should be very rich. Did you offend someone to hide in Shuning Town? If you want to hide from the pursuit, will you prepare a lot of money, so where is your money hidden?"

This is probably the first time Li Mengzhou has said so many words to the old man.

The old man also glanced at Li Mengzhou quite incomprehensibly, and said with a smile: "It's true that I'm a pharmacist, but it should be different from what you think." There is also a difference among pharmacists, there are ordinary pharmacists and there are pharmacists with cultivation, and the two cannot be compared.

The pharmacists in the world are all from the Medicine King Valley, and they need to be certified to practice medicine as pharmacists outside, otherwise they are wild doctors, and their status will not only be noble, but they may even be targeted by the Medicine King Valley.

As for money, I really don't have it, so you don't have to think too much about it. ”

Li Mengzhou was quite pity, and then asked curiously: "Does Jianghu Langzhong also belong to the wild traveling doctors? Although the doctors are only middle-class among the three sects and nine streams, they are not a lowly profession, and they still have some status, right?"

The old man shook his head and said, "How can the secular Jianghu Langzhong be compared with the pharmacist, even if it is an ordinary pharmacist who has not practiced, he is also in the upper class in the world, and it is obvious which of the upper and middle classes has a higher status. ”

Li Mengzhou was thoughtful.

Glancing at the old man silently, Li Mengzhou looked stunned, and said: "So you are a wild traveling doctor, the kind of pharmacist who has not been certified by the Medicine King Valley, and the wild traveling doctor should also be divided into two differences: cultivation and ordinary, you are obviously the latter, the worst status, and it is reasonable to nest in this Shuning Town." ”

The old man ignored Li Mengzhou, and he obviously didn't want to continue the topic.

There was a brief silence in the room.

The old man suddenly broke the silence and said, "The medicated bath is already difficult to work for you, and you shouldn't need to soak in the medicated bath in the future." ”

Li Mengzhou didn't care, and said: "This medicinal bath has no great effect except for strengthening the body, and now that I am only one step away from the martial arts master, when I cultivate to the Gang Qi, the effect of this body will be even smaller." ”

The old man snorted coldly and said, "Do you think that this medicinal bath is all there is to it, and when you really embark on the path of cultivation, you will be able to understand the mystery."

Cultivators specialize in inner cultivation, focusing on cultivating the mind, except for sword cultivation, most of them are physically unbearable, which is the biggest weakness of cultivators, once they meet a master with a strong physique, they are almost invincible in the same realm. If you can get close, killing a cultivator in the same realm will be as easy as finding a bag. ”

Li Mengzhou was surprised, and at the same time, accompanied by some confusion, he asked, "Then why doesn't the cultivator strengthen his physique, it's just a two-year medicinal bath, even a fool should know how to do it, right?"

The old man sneered, "Because they are fools in the first place. ”

Li Mengzhou couldn't understand this sentence, if cultivators were all fools, then how could they be cultivators, this logic didn't make sense.

Of course, the current Li Mengzhou can't understand the meaning of the old man's words, and he will always have a day to solve his doubts in the future.

......

The night is deep, the wind is cool, and the crescent moon is like a hook.

The newly replaced candles flickered in a dim glow, and Li Mengzhou's room was very small, except for the earthen kang which was a table, plus a small cabinet to store clothes, and other than that, there were only four walls left.

Li Mengzhou is used to going to bed early, but he can't sleep tonight.

Sitting cross-legged on the bed, the sword wrapped in black cloth lay horizontally in front of him, and he reached out to uncover it, but hesitated for a moment, and then gave up.

From under the pillow, he took out the scroll wrapped in sheepskin with the cover, and the words "Silkworm Extermination Scroll" were already a little blurred.

This is a magical power that can make him a practitioner.

Divine power is something that only practitioners can practice, most of them are stored in writing, mainly playing an auxiliary role, and can control the aura of heaven and earth more freely, and then make the aura of heaven and earth evolve into some kind of attack, but it will not have much effect on the perception of the practitioner's state of mind, so most of them are somewhat dispensable.

Divine power is just a way of practice, and it can be regarded as an enlightenment topic for ignorant children who are new to cultivation.

The way a cultivator fights comes from the perception of the aura of heaven and earth, and naturally uses weapons or his own control to face the enemy, so the practice of supernatural powers is not necessary, and is mainly aimed at new cultivators.

When you cultivate to the highest level, you can turn your hands into clouds and cover your hands into rain, so the applicability of supernatural powers in battle is only an aid.

Except for the sword moves practiced by sword cultivators, most cultivators are not very able to use them when facing enemies.

Of course, the existence of supernatural powers is not only enlightenment, such as the monks of the dry Zen Temple in the Buddha Nanyu from the quiet land of mountains and seas, and the supernatural powers are the only way to fight the enemy.

For example, the perceptual supernatural powers condensed by the essence of Taoism also have special ways to deal with the state of mind and the enemy, which are far more powerful than the enlightenment supernatural powers.

It's just that most of the world's enlightenment supernatural powers exist, and the perceptual supernatural powers only exist in the unknowable quiet places of mountains and seas.

These are also all things that Li Mengzhou learned in the cultivation collection, because it is not a secret, and it is still easy to know a thing or two.

"Silkworm Extermination Volume" belongs to the perceptual supernatural powers, which are divided into three chapters.

Li Mengzhou has been studying "Silkworm Annihilation Volume" for seven years, but he can't even open the first chapter, and he can only see the first word when he racks his brains.

Just as it can't open the sea of qi, the "Silkworm Annihilation Scroll" is like a 'wordless heavenly book', obviously it is densely packed with fonts, but when you want to read it, you can't see it clearly no matter what, and even after being highly concentrated and tired, the dizziness feeling is very maddening.

If you are not strong-willed, you are likely to have a nervous breakdown and become a complete madman.

Li Mengzhou, of course, didn't want to become a madman.

Seven years of failure is no longer a matter of needless persistence.

If you can't open the sea of qi and be baptized by Amaterasu, even if it takes another seven years, you won't be able to really open the first chapter of the "Silkworm Annihilation Volume".

Even a few more words won't help, and it comes with the danger of becoming a madman.

Therefore, Li Mengzhou was extremely eager to become a cultivator.

And the place where the cultivators of the Jiang Kingdom haunted the most was the capital.

That is also Li Mengzhou's goal, a place that must go.

Shuning Town is too far away from Langya, the capital of Jiang Kingdom, and the cost of travel is naturally huge, so Li Mengzhou has to save enough money to go to the capital.

Of course, Li Mengzhou is a native of Jiang Guo, and the reason why he appeared in Shuning Town three years ago is of course for a reason, even if he will be further away from the capital when he comes here.

In the past eight years, he has been crawling in the darkest place in Jiang Country, and he has been facing the threat of death almost every day, which will naturally make Li Mengzhou's heart more mature than his peers.

In the past, he couldn't help himself, just to be able to survive, so he did a lot of things that his peers couldn't and shouldn't do.

And now it was his choice, at least he was free, and he had the ability to survive, even if he continued to stare at the light in the darkest places.

Now that everything is on the right track, he has advanced to the realm of martial arts grandmasters, and he has reached the peak in the worldly rivers and lakes, so what he wanted to do before must also be put on the agenda.

Becoming a practitioner is the first step.

And before he could take this first step, he had to set foot on the land of the capital.