In the blink of an eye, three months have passed since Qin Ziling broke through to the cowhide level, and the season has entered the early winter.

A cold wind blew and rolled up a cloud of fallen leaves.

On the way, the refugees wrapped their thin and tattered clothes, and looked at the distant Fangqi City crouching on the ground like a giant beast, with anticipation, fear and anxiety.

From time to time, the bodies of refugees who had died of starvation and freezing could be seen on both sides of the road, but many of them were numb and walked quickly past as if they didn't see them.

The same is true for Qin Ziling.

In this generation, with his current ability, he can't change anything at all, and this is not something that he, a small person, should consider.

Qin Ziling strode towards Fang Qi City.

Last night he hunted down a fire-clouded leopard. The Fire Cloud Leopard is fast and has strong attack power, making it a fierce beast that is difficult to hunt.

Its meat and bones are very nourishing ingredients, and the fur pattern is beautiful, which is deeply loved by wealthy nobles.

Qin Ziling is now tempering and polishing the muscles and bones around his body every day, and the amount of meat that needs to be consumed is very large, especially as the corpse power integrated into the qi and blood is increasing day by day, he finds that his gastrointestinal digestion is increasing at a terrifying rate, and it seems to be a bottomless pit that cannot be filled.

Originally, Qin Ziling wanted to keep the nourishing beasts such as the Fire Cloud Leopard for himself, but now the replenishing Yuan Pill that he has to eat every three or five days, the Xuanhan Iron Chicken Secret Pill required for cultivating the Cold Iron Palm, and the special potion for soaking the body, the cost of these are very huge.

The proceeds from the sale of the prey that Qin Ziling hunted every other day could only break even.

Today, he needed to buy the Xuanhan Iron Rooster Secret Pill and a special secret medicine to soak his body, so he could only reluctantly sell half of the Fire Cloud Leopard, as for the fur, it was useless to him, and he was going to sell it.

After entering the city, he first went to the "Mountain and Wild Suju" to get rid of half of the fire cloud leopard and the fur that was intact except for the head, and exchanged it for forty taels of silver, and then Qin Ziling went to the martial arts hall.

Now, Qin Ziling basically goes to the martial arts hall once a week, and the rest of the time he goes into the cliff cave in Xisheng Mountain alone to temper his body.

For Qin Ziling's visit once a week, the people in the martial arts hall felt that it was normal.

After all, his family background is average, and the consumption of martial arts at the cowhide level is greater, and there is a big man like Liu Xiaoqiang who eats white food in his family, if he wants to support it, he can only rely on the cultivation of the skin film level to take on more work outside.

"Master Zuo, Ziling has given you a greeting!" After entering the martial arts hall, Qin Ziling went to say hello to Zuo Le first.

"Well, let's go and practice martial arts." Zuo Le nodded slightly, then waved his hand.

"Yes." Qin Ziling turned around and retreated.

Zuo Le looked at Qin Ziling's back and shook his head slightly.

He is a martial artist in the realm of strength, his eyes are sharp, Qin Ziling has stepped into the cowhide level for three months, but his qi and blood are like a pool of stagnant water, there is not much change, and he learned from the account book that in the past three months, Qin Ziling has not bought the Xuanhan Iron Rooster Secret Pill and the potion for the configuration of potions, obviously in order to practice martial arts, he has worked hard to make money outside, and he has not practiced martial arts hard in his spare time in private.

"Sure enough, as I expected, this person is smart, very understanding, and cultivates hard, but unfortunately he doesn't have any talent for martial arts, and it's still in vain after all!" Zuo Le sighed secretly, and then slowly closed his eyes.

still has a good impression of Qin Ziling Zuole, especially his treatment and admission of Liu Xiaoqiang, which makes him secretly look at him differently, but it's a pity that Qin Ziling is really not a piece of martial arts material.

It took nearly three years to break through to the epithelial realm, and almost all his potential and luck had been exhausted, and after reaching the epithelial realm, there was almost no progress in sight.

"Senior brother, go back and prepare two Xuanhan Iron Rooster Secret Pills and ten medicinal powders for potions." Qin Ziling returned to the martial arts training ground, found Zheng Xinghan and whispered.

"Ziling, people must have near-term worries if they have no long-term concerns, and they still need to save as much money as possible in case of emergency." Zheng Xinghan hesitated when he heard this, and kindly reminded.

In fact, in the past three months, the amount of secret pills and potions that Qin Ziling has purchased is a bit large, in Zheng Xinghan's opinion, he must have worked hard to make money in the past three months, and then used all the money he earned to buy secret pills and potions in order to make a breakthrough.

But the problem is that Zuo Le can see clearly, Zheng Xinghan, as a martial artist at the iron level, and he practices martial arts with Qin Ziling, so he can see that his qi and blood have not changed much. It is not difficult to speculate that Qin Ziling is not the material for martial arts. He is now putting all the money he earns on martial arts, and once something happens in the future, he has no savings at all, and it will be the same tragic end as Liu Xiaoqiang.

"Thank you, brother, I understand." Qin Ziling said.

"You know what, you know! Okay, I'll get you ready. By the way, in the past two days, the guy from the 'Huayun' gouache rouge shop has come to you and said that you should take the time to go. Seeing that Qin Ziling didn't listen to his words at all, Zheng Xinghan said angrily.

"Okay, I'll go at noon." Qin Ziling nodded and replied, thinking to himself, taking people's money and eliminating disasters with people, he still has to work.

"Breakthrough! Senior Brother Nangong, you actually broke through, it's really amazing! As soon as Qin Ziling's words fell, Wu Cheng's exclamation sounded in the martial arts training ground.

Nangong Yue's family background is superior, and he is a genius disciple of the inner courtyard, and he is deeply valued by Zuo Le, so he naturally harvested some henchmen in the martial arts hall.

Wu Cheng is regarded as Nangong Yue's most loyal confidant in the martial arts hall, as for whether it is true to outsiders, outsiders don't know, at least on the surface, Wu Cheng is Nangong Yue's dogleg.

"What, Nangong Yue actually broke through!" The entire martial arts hall was in a sensation all of a sudden, and even Zuo Le, who was sitting in the shade of the tree, stood up suddenly, and couldn't hide his excitement and strode towards Nangong Yue.

"This, this Nangong junior disciple is really a martial arts genius, he has broken through to the skin membrane realm after four months of martial arts, and he has only been polished and tempered at the cowhide level for six months, and he has broken through to the iron level, it seems that it is not surprising that he is likely to become the second martial artist in our martial arts hall." Zheng Xinghan said with a complicated expression when he heard this.

From the experience left by the predecessors for many years, practicing muscles and flesh to the skin, generally three years is the limit, and those who have not broken through to the skin film realm after three years of hard training are basically regarded as having no talent for martial arts, even if they barely break through to the skin film realm later, basically the potential has been exhausted, and it is only at the cowhide level, and it is unlikely to break through to the iron level.

And after reaching the cowhide level, five years and twenty-five years old is a threshold. Within five years, the age is not more than twenty-five years old, break through to the iron level, and there is hope to break through to the strength martial artist, the shorter the time, the younger the age, the greater the hope.

And when it comes to the iron level, once the age is past thirty years old, the qi and blood begin to decline, and there is basically no hope for the realm of strength.

Zheng Xinghan took three years to break through from cowhide to iron, when he was twenty-two years old, and his blood was vigorous, but no matter how hard he worked after that, he failed to practice his strength after many impacts, and now he is thirty-two years old, and it is basically impossible to have any hope.

But Nangong Yue only took six months to break through from cowhide to iron skin, and he is only seventeen years old this year, which means that he is not only extremely talented, but also has a lot of time to impact the realm of strength, and has great hope.

"It's amazing!" Qin Ziling said calmly, not showing any shock or unease.

"You should be careful with him in the future, if you really can't do it, I will come forward to be a peacemaker, and you apologize to him." Seeing Qin Ziling's calm appearance, Zheng Xinghan frowned slightly, hesitated and patted Qin Ziling's shoulder and said.