Chapter Twenty-Three: Strength Grows Slowly

Zhang Tian walked into the woods outside the village, and could actually see the thick clouds around him, and countless pale faces were constantly appearing in them.

Unfazed by the cold hissing ghost laughter around him, he sat down cross-legged and began to meditate, and soon gathered the clouds around him, causing countless ghosts to flee in terror.

But how can he escape, not only the ghosts around Zhang Tian, but also the entire area of the village are being sucked in.

"You've finally found enough dead air, it's really suffocating me. ”

He listened to the familiar voice in his head, and his heart settled as he continued to absorb the dead air.

Through the communication with the consciousness of the cemetery, it became clear why there was so much dead air around the village, it turned out that there was a big battle between the bandits and the official army here, and even the villagers died in the war.

What surprised Zhang Tian was that there were still few ghosts in this area, and there were countless ghosts and dead spirits in other places, which was enough for him to cultivate for a lot of time.

At the same time, I also got a news from the ghosts, until the rebellion in Shenzhou seventy or eighty years ago, all the dead people could not return to the underworld, so there were wandering ghosts everywhere.

He didn't bother to think about why the underworld didn't accept ghosts now, it was good to have these countless dead souls for his own cultivation, and then summoned the cultivators of the Medicine King Sect and asked them to find the herbs for refining the marrow cleansing pill.

The reward is that you can only find ordinary herbs around, which can refine some medicine for injuries and diseases, but if you want to refine the elixir used by cultivators, you have to find spiritual herbs in a place with abundant spiritual energy.

And most of the places where the spiritual energy is abundant are in the hands of various cultivation sects, and there are some small spiritual fields in the large and small cultivation families, and there are basically no places with spiritual energy without masters.

There was also a dangerous message coming, saying that there were many ghost kings around, and Zhang Tian had been regarded by them as an opponent for turf, and he might fight at any time.

I heard that the first-level cemetery can't deal with ghosts who are too advanced. Zhang Tian immediately took out his armor and shield battle axe, changed the scholar's robe on his body and put it away, and took out the magic apprentice robe and put it on the outside of the armor.

He also looked for an opportunity to kill a few small birds, and when he came out of the cemetery, he had become a scouting undead bird, and he put it in the sky and tirelessly observed the surroundings.

Zhang Tian, who had done all this, returned to the village, didn't bother to pay attention to the surprised gaze of the big tiger and the second tiger, put down the equipment and fell asleep on the bed, fortunately the armor was not heavy so that the bed did not collapse.

In the next few days, Zhang Tian took the big tiger and the two tigers and some powerful women to the outside of the village, and reconnoitred by the undead birds in the sky. Large herds of beasts can always be found and hunted back.

After the easy hunting in the morning, he ran into the woods to practice his axe against the big trees, and kept absorbing dead qi at night to strengthen the strength of the cemetery, while secretly preparing for the possible attacks of those ghost kings.

The cemetery consciousness body also found Sola and the ghost of the Shenzhou warrior to ask about it, helping Zhang Tian to continuously improve his axe skills. It's just that it doesn't have the necessary elixir to become a cultivator, and it can't improve its strength too much.

Later, it turned out that going hunting every day did not satisfy everyone's food. He asked Zeng Baishu and his disciples to collect medicinal herbs at night. Refine a variety of pills that are extremely effective for mortals, ready to be sold for money.

If Zhang Tian wanted to protect the village, he asked the two tiger brothers to escort the experienced villagers to Tianding City to sell, not only to exchange for money and grain, but also to exchange for quilts and thick clothes and other materials for winter.

The first day of selling pills didn't go well, and no one was going to buy medicine from unknown sources. It was still the old man in the village who came up with a way to let the big tiger and the two tigers perform their arts, and barely sold a few under the name of Hercules Pill.

After coming back, Dahu and Erhu felt that selling medicine was better than selling art to make money, and wanted to organize most of the people to specialize in performing arts, but Zhang Tianke knew the ability of Medicine King Zong. So let them keep selling.

The next day, when I arrived at Tianding City Square, many people surrounded me and asked to buy medicine, it turned out that those strong pills not only made the people who took them completely eliminated, but also had the effect of aphrodisiac.

As a result, Zhang Tian's pills sold better and better, and the money and food exchanged also allowed the villagers to live a prosperous life, won the loyalty of everyone, and was asked to take a word for the village.

Zhang Tian couldn't help but give the village a name called Anping Village, and later the business got better and better, and a shop under Dahu in Tiandingpan specialized in selling pills, also called Anping Pharmacy.

During this period of time, he practiced the axe method hard, and called out Sola to compete at night, and finally practiced the essence of the axe righteousness of lifting weight and strength up to 1,000 catties, and it is said that a generation of dwarf kings once achieved an axe to reach tens of thousands of catties.

Zhang Tian watched the village become more and more lively, and he was happy in his heart and worried about the surrounding ghost king forces, so he didn't dare to relax his cultivation for a moment.

However, there are really no spiritual stone veins and spiritual grasses necessary for cultivation in the world, let alone becoming a real cultivator, so his strength can only be stagnant all the time.

Once, because the intention of Anping Pharmacy was too good, a group of robbers were robbed halfway, but fortunately, everyone was released.

Zhang Tian used the undead bird to lock the location of the gang of robbers' cottage, and suddenly attacked at night, killing more than a dozen big bosses, and letting the little robbers leave.

When he was cleaning the battlefield, he found a few spirit stones in the cottage warehouse, but he couldn't sense the power in them when he held them in his hand, according to Zeng Baishu, only cultivators could absorb the energy in the spirit stones to replenish spiritual power.

Zhang Tian could only return to Anping Village to practice hard, and at the same time continue to enrich the army of the cemetery, preparing to clear the surrounding ghost kings in the coming year, to see if he can improve his strength.

It was already the cold winter wax moon season, and the sky was covered with snowflakes thick on the earth, Zhang Tian practiced the dwarven axe technique in the woods, but now he practiced with fluttering snowflakes.

The tomahawk slashed through the snowflakes and cut them in half, but the snow around them didn't change much of their fall.

Zhang Tian took his breath, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, he always let the air fly with snowflakes when he was practicing, but now he can dance without too many snowflakes.

He looked up at the gray and gloomy sky, and sighed slightly in his heart, for the past few months, there had been a cultivator in the sky from time to time, and he didn't dare to show his face at all.

Zhang Tian saw that it was not early, turned around and walked towards Anping Village, and saw from afar that the village was full of people, which could be regarded as his biggest achievement in the past few months.

As soon as he entered the village, he saw Dahu greeting the villagers warmly, and couldn't help but smile and asked, "Dahu, why did you come back, is there something wrong with Anpingpuzi?"

The big tiger hurriedly ran to Zhang Tian and sneered, "An Pingpu is my big tiger's life, how dare you let it have an accident, it's just because there are too many pills sold and people are rushing to ask for it, and now I'm coming back to get it from you." ”

Zhang Tian nodded and smiled, "Business is very good, I'll go get you the newly refined medicine." ”

The big tiger followed behind with a simple smile, but was locked out of his room by Zhang Tian, and then took out a hemp bag of medicine from the material warehouse, which was all a powerful pill refined by a low-level disciple of the Medicine King Sect.

There were more advanced medicines in the warehouse, but Zhang Tian decided to wait until the end of the Chinese New Year to sell them, which made the reputation of Anping Pharmacy even louder.

He opened the door and handed the pill bag to Dahu, instructing, "You run the shop well, and I will have better pills to sell to you after the New Year." ”

Dahu was surprised, "The leader has better medicine, the strong pills sold now are rumored to be miracle medicines, and even foreign merchants and royal families have come to our Anping Pharmacy to buy medicines." ”

Zhang Tian comforted, "Don't worry, I said that there must be good medicine, and the growth of the entire village depends on you." ”

Dahu suddenly choked up and said, "If it weren't for the leader taking us, I'm afraid that many people in the village would die in winter, but now not only have not a single villager died, but our life is getting better and better." ”

Zhang Tian patted Dahu, who was more than ten years older than himself, on the shoulder and encouraged, "The life of the people in Anping Village will definitely be better, you should go back to the city early, be careful and safe on the road." ”

Dahu carried the medicine bag and put it into the carriage, and said goodbye to Zhang Tian, "It's cold outside, chief, go back to the house, I have to return to Tianding City before the curfew." ”

Zhang Tian said strangely, "Why did Tianding City suddenly set up a curfew, hasn't the city always been peaceful?"

Dahu paused for a moment and said regretfully, "The whole city has spread that Taishou's nephew was favored by the young owner of Kao Village, and as a result, she was robbed, and I heard that Taishou and hundreds of soldiers were injured." ”

"What! Someone dares to rob the people of the Taishou Mansion!" Zhang Tian shouted with his eyes open. (To be continued......)