Chapter 5: The Blood Rose

On this day, the Eternal Forest was full of life, and when the first rays of the sun passed through the highest branch in the forest, Marven's body woke up one step ahead of his consciousness. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

When he arrived at the place where he had agreed with Hypatia, the beautiful elf was already waiting there, as if she had just arrived, for her full breasts were rising and falling slightly.

"Morning, General Hypatia. Marven pretended to be relaxed and waved at her, his eyes shining, full of anticipation for the first day of training.

"Is it early?" Hypatia stared at him coldly, her long eyelashes flickering, but her eyes were full of disappointment, "I came from the Winterspring Valley, a hundred and thirty kilometers away, and I've been waiting for you for an hour now. ”

"Ahh Hahaha. Marven scratched his head a little embarrassedly, and smiled reluctantly, this girl who looked thin seemed to be far more powerful than he imagined, "Then, I'll train first." ”

Hypatia nodded, walked under a large tree, pointed to the top of the tallest tree in the forest, and with a flash of her right hand, a green light flashed, and then her eyes were curled, as if she was satisfied with her technique.

"Come here. Marven, who was bouncing on the spot to warm up, jumped over and looked in the direction she was pointing, "Do you see the red flowers on that tree?"

Marven narrowed his eyes slightly, a small red dot looming on the top of the tree, and he nodded, "Well, I see." ”

"Go and take it off, it will be good for your practice. Hypatia smiled faintly, and then walked off into the distance

"Huh?" Marven saw the red flower, which grew in the middle of a huge ancient tree, which was vigorous and straight, dozens of feet high, he hesitated a little, looked up at Hipatia, who lightly jumped on the tops of a large tree, clasped her hands, and said in an unquestionable tone, "This is what your warm-up training is about." ”

Marven was silent for two seconds, and finally nodded firmly, and ran at full speed in the direction of the big tree when he took a step in the right direction.

"The tree is very tall, you have to save your strength to climb it, there are two nests of sawtooth birds in the tree, and the red flower at the top of the tree, the one I asked you to bring back, happens to be one of their favorite food. Hypatia used her spiritual power to use the power of the wind to reach Marven's ears, Marven almost thought that she was talking beside him, "That's all I can tell you, the rest, it's up to you." ”

Marven nodded, raised his eyes to look at the position of the big tree, and the expression in his eyes became more serious.

Standing in a fixed place and seeing that the distance of the big tree was far less than it actually was, Marven slowly began to use the power of the branches to run between the branches above the ground, which was more laborious than on the ground, but also made him gradually increase in height.

Hypatia's ears could gather all the movements she wanted to hear, the wind could tell her everything, and she shook her head expressionlessly when she heard Marven running between the branches, as if she was extremely unhappy with what he was doing.

Soon the branch jumped to the end, and there was an empty land in front of him, and the great tree stood right in the middle of the land, with nothing in between to help him jump over.

In other words, what he did before was completely useless, Marven instantly became a little annoyed, but he didn't stay long, and after looking at the growth of the tree from a high place, he quickly jumped off the branch and ran towards the tree.

"Quack----quack----quack------" Hearing the abnormal noise, the sawtooth bird immediately flew out of the nest and circled and chirped not far above Marven's head, as if demonstrating.

Forward, or backward?Hearing the warning chirping of the sawtooth bird, Marven bit his lip and leaped to his feet, grabbing the branch with one hand and reaching for the red flower with the other.

The sawtooth bird is famous for its jagged beak, and at this moment, like a gust of wind, pecked at Marven's arm, one, two, Marven endured severe pain, and the last hand tightly grasped the rhizome of the flower, and pulled it off with all his strength.

At that moment, the young man held up the flowers, smiling like a child, bright red flowers, eye-catching and beautiful.

"Quack---- quack---- quack. The two sawtooth birds flew into the sky, circled twice, and returned to their nests with a wail.

Marven couldn't hide the joy in his heart, and jumped off the tree three times and two times, like a nimble monkey, the leaves were flying, he raised the red flower, and walked towards the place where he came, only to see that Nahipatia had long since disappeared.

"What's the use of this kind of thing for me?" Marven looked curiously at the bright red flowers in his hand, puzzled, in his opinion, this kind of thing was more like a girl's ornament, could it be that Hypatia was deliberately playing tricks on him?

"Eat it, feel the presence of the fighting spirit in your body, that's what you have to do next. Hypatia's cold voice suddenly sounded from the surroundings, Marven was startled, but there was no half of a figure around the ring, thinking that this Hypatia should be a powerful magician, she probably used some kind of magic to transmit to herself.

Marven carefully broke the petals in his hand, and a rich fragrance spread out, refreshing people's hearts.

He frowned and said to himself, "This thing can also increase the fighting spirit, so why do you need to practice hard?"

He knows the fighting spirit, it requires a martial artist to go through extremely hard cultivation to be produced, and its appearance also requires the martial artist to have a good talent and opportunity, ordinary people with no talent may not necessarily have a trace of fighting spirit even if they work hard for a lifetime, almost everyone who participated in the riot has undergone devilish training, but among the more than one hundred and thirty people, there are only two of him and Aite who have fighting spirit.

Ma Wen's fighting spirit is extremely weak, even if there is nothing, but despite this, in the fight of life and death, Ma Wen can still feel the power it bursts out, it can make his physique, which is not particularly strong, have the strength to hunt brown bears almost with his bare hands, when he was in Biloch City, he was able to deal with more than a dozen Morowin soldiers for a long time, and it was not because of this fighting spirit in his body to help.

But just having Dou Qi doesn't mean you're a master, and the primary Dou Qi can't be used directly in battle, and it can only play a role in strengthening your body. The crossbow, this terrifying and vicious weapon is the nemesis of almost all low-level warriors, it is so powerful that an experienced hunter can easily hunt a behemoth like a mammoth with even a single crossbow. On the outskirts of Bilochi, the Morowingian infantry of less than 100 men relied on this weapon to kill thousands of infidels, many of whom were warriors like Marven.

When they rioted in the mines, if it weren't for Aite's superior martial arts and proper tactical command, Marven would have died under Francis's crossbow.

However, when the fighting qi in the warrior's body is strong enough to a certain extent, it can be sent and received freely and directly used in battle. A warrior who has reached this level no longer relies solely on flesh and blood to fight his enemies, and his fighting spirit can be turned into a fierce light to tear apart the enemy in front of him, or it can be turned into a shield to resist terrifying damage. For example, the paladin of the Templar Order, whom they later encountered, could not hurt Marven at all with the crossbow he had captured from Francis, and the paladin almost killed Aite in a single move.

Remembering the scene of those companions dying tragically in front of the paladin, Marven finally grabbed the petal and stuffed it into his mouth without hesitation.

After a while, Marven suddenly felt that his whole body began to heat up, and gradually, a hot current began to surge around his limbs, and the muscles of his whole body were almost torn apart by this hot flow.

"Ah~!!" Marven couldn't help the pain all over his body, roared loudly, and smashed the ground with a fierce fist, "Bang!".

"This is ~ vindictive!" Marven was overjoyed in his heart, but the heat flow in his body became more chaotic and disorderly, and in the end, Marven's eyes went dark and he was unconscious.

I don't know how long it took for Marven to wake up leisurely, and the new fighting energy in his body finally calmed down.

"The new fighting spirit is too strong, and it has reached the limit of the body, so it is out of control. "When I used to get along with Aite, I heard him say that the cultivation of Dou Qi should pay attention to all kinds of matters, in the cultivation of Dou Qi, it is inseparable from the practice of martial arts, good martial arts can not only give full play to the power of Dou Qi, but also increase the body's bearing capacity, and lay a good foundation for the growth of Dou Qi and the improvement of the martial realm.

As soon as he thought of this, Marven immediately threw himself into the cultivation of martial arts, he was better at boxing, running his fighting energy into his arms, and threw a few punches towards a big tree with a diameter of nearly one meter, and the big tree was shaken into a loud noise.

Obviously feeling that his strength had increased a lot compared to before, Marven strengthened the frequency and force of his punches.

After a long time, the bark of the big tree that was harder than a stone was completely shattered, Marven only felt a hot pain coming from his fist, and he looked at it, his fist had already been smashed to the flesh, and the blood stained the trunk of the big tree.

"Now I can only be regarded as a low-level martial artist, my strength is far from strong enough, and I still need to be constantly strengthened. Marven raised his head and saw these strange red flowers not far ahead, these bright red flowers dotted in a verdant forest, which looked particularly beautiful.

It seems that the elven general brought him to this place with a deep meaning. Marven no longer hesitated, quickened his pace, and rushed towards the nearest red flower.

Marven spent several days in this magical wood, training frantically until he was exhausted, and when he was hungry, he caught some hares from the woods and roasted them, and when he was thirsty, he fetched water from the brook in the woods.

To his slight disappointment, though, the peculiar red flowers didn't seem to have as much effect as the first time.

Five days later, Hypatia returned to the woods again, she looked at Marven who was frantically practicing martial arts on the side, but she frowned slightly and shook her head gently.

"Marven, use all your strength to punch me!" Hypatia interrupted Marven who was practicing boxing the side, "I'll test your recent cultivation." ”

"This ......" Marven was a little surprised, in his opinion, Hypatia was a good magician, but the physique of a magician was naturally weak, even a well-cultivated magician would not fight with a martial artist in hand-to-hand combat.

However, Marven's doubts were quickly dispelled, and with the improvement of his cultivation, he faintly felt that there was a powerful fighting spirit hidden in Hypatia's body, and the trace of aura that was revealed alone was not inferior to that of a paladin!!

Marven couldn't help but gasp, it turned out that this Hypatia was still an extremely powerful martial artist!

He took a deep breath, gathered the fighting qi in his body between his arms, and then swung his right fist violently, heading straight for Hypatia's face, this punch with all his strength was powerful and heavy, bringing a burst of fist wind, as sharp as a tiger descending from the mountain.

Hipatia clasped her hands in front of her chest, calm, and when this punch came, she suddenly turned sideways slightly, stretched out her left hand at a very fast speed, gently grabbed Marven's right arm, and then violently exerted force, and threw it heavily in the direction of Marven's punch.

Marven tried his best to punch into the air, and then was thrown by Hypatia like this, due to the effect of inertia, his body quickly lost its balance, fell to the ground suddenly, and then rolled out more than ten meters, embarrassed.

After getting up from the ground, Marven's eyes were full of shock when he looked at Hypatia, from beginning to end, Hypatia did not use the slightest fighting spirit and magic, and this seemingly simple turn, flick, skillfully used force to subdue Marven easily.

"It's too weak!" Hypatia frowned slightly and shook her head slowly. "How many Blood Roses have you eaten these days?"

"Huh?" Marven was stunned for a moment, and then reacted, it turned out that the safflower that Hipatia asked him to eat was called Blood Rose.

"Ate eight. Marven replied truthfully. Unbeknownst to him, it was the Flower of the Blood Rose that was the trigger for the war between the Night Elves and the Church of Light, which had just ended and was later known to historians as the "War of the Roses"

Hypatia sighed lightly, and said leisurely: "The cultivation of Dou Qi cannot be achieved overnight, it requires a solid foundation of martial arts as accumulation, although medicine is helpful to the growth of Dou Qi to a certain extent, but relying on medicine alone will lead ...... astray."

After hearing this, Marven nodded, and after eating the Blood Rose for several days in a row, he obviously felt that the improvement in his fighting spirit was far less obvious than the first time, he still kept wanting to eat, and he seemed to have a tendency to become addicted.

"For the next few days, you don't have to stay here, go back to the camp with me first, and when you're done with the things at hand, I will personally guide you in your cultivation. With that, Hipatia turned back, and the setting sun shone on her, reflecting bursts of light and warming the land.

"Thank you, General Hypatia. Looking at that beautiful back, Marven was grateful beyond words.

Hypatia waved her hand slightly, "Don't thank me, as long as you are the owner of that coin, I will do my best to help him, speaking of which, I still owe you heretics a favor, and you have the credit for that war." ”

"Oh......" Marven suddenly remembered what he had heard from the Biloch City Guards at Luce's clinic, the Night Elves had won the war by relying on the infidels' rear to riot and pass on information.

This also solved a question that had been bothering him for a long time-------- how could Aite, who was highly skilled in martial arts, be captured by a mere slave capture team, although this slave catching team had crossbowmen hired by Francis with a lot of money, but with Aite's skills, he could still escape if he couldn't beat it.

It now appears that Aite was most likely a pawn of Hypatiab, and his rebellion in the rear succeeded in attracting a dozen hoplites of the Templar Order and a powerful paladin.

Hypatia's purple-red cloak swayed in the wind, and she was like a blood rose, unique and noble.

Marven looked at her back, full of thoughts, "This Hypatia can actually think of using heretics to win a war, obviously she is a very scheming woman, but she tries her best to help the person who holds that coin, which shows that she is still kind, at least her heart is not bad." ”

Thinking of this, Marven no longer hesitated, quickened his pace, and followed.