Section 9: Mistakes and Ignorance

Song Tingyu walked behind the apprentice, grabbed one of his thighs with his toes and pulled him out of the sand, and then toes a few points between his chest and abdomen.

Ahem, cough~!

Li Yuntao squirted out the sand in his mouth and began to wheez, but his breathing was not very short, not at all like a person who buried his head in the sand and was about to suffocate.

"He's just quitting meditation for the first time, and he's not used to regaining control of his body. This also has something to do with the fact that he was in the first set for too long. Even there is no example in the door that he can open the three mansions for such a long time after entering the Dingding for the first time. However, with the newly introduced heaven and earth aura in the body, there is no need to worry about suffocation for a while, and the aura will temporarily replace the air in the blood as energy. ”

"Boy, are you awake? When you wake up, hurry up and take a bath, your body will stink to death, such a big body odor, the monster with a good nose can smell it from a few miles away. ”

Whew~huh~

"Master... Am I not your precious disciple anymore? Why can't you be gentle? Li Yuntao was lying on the ground, his pupils did not slowly focus until this time, and in the dark blue night sky, the bright stars were like jewels set in the curtain, beautiful and shining. He tried to move his body, and his hands, feet, and limbs seemed to have inexhaustible strength, but it was like his legs that had been squatting for a long time, and he was numb and crispy at the moment. He stretched his waist, and there was a clicking sound on his back, which was comparable to the firecrackers set off by large families during the New Year's Festival.

After another moment, he tried to support his body and sit up, his forearm pushed according to his usual strength, and a thin layer of aura unconsciously emitted from his palm.

Bang~!

Two small craters were blown up in the sand under the palms. He was pushed by this futile burst of force, and the whole person surged forward, and a face poked into the sand and buried it halfway.

He didn't dare to exert himself any longer, and tried to use his strength little by little, first turning over and lying on his back on the ground again.

Bah~!

Spit out the sand in your mouth, and eat more sand today than the wind has blown into your mouth in the past two years.

"What kind of monster are you reincarnated? Even the meridians of the upper limbs are connected. Song Tingyu looked at the two small sand pits that Li Yuntao's palms had blown out, and glared at his newly recruited disciple. The disciple is excellent, but the disciple is too good, and even he has to wonder if this is the thousand-year-old demon who changed the Dharma Body and came to tease him.

But Li Yuntao's appearance is a veritable novice performance that cannot grasp the newly acquired power. No matter how superb the old monster's acting skills are, he can't play this sense of alienation.

After a period of exploration, Li Yuntao finally mastered the use of the body again. If the body he used for more than ten years only used basic functions, then today, he finally discovered some of the built-in upgrade components of this body and began to master the use of it.

In his conscious feelings, a new energy circulation system appeared in his body. It's not like blood, it only operates on the instinctive consciousness of the person. It is a completely new system of energy transmission and circulation that can be controlled by the mind of the brain.

At this time, he used his new and unfamiliar mind command to turn off the energy output command. Then the body returned to the basic functional version that had been familiar for more than a decade.

"Woo~ a lot of sweat. Master, I'm going to take a shower. Li Yuntao took control of his body again, and his brain began to receive feedback signals from various organs that had been ignored before.

My clothes were completely soaked with sweat and I was in a semi-dry state at this time, and I didn't know how long it took me to meditate. Anyway, it started at about four o'clock in the afternoon, when the starry sky was bright and the night was deep, and no matter how you looked at it, it was already past dinner time.

"Since you have been meditating for too long this time, two hours later than our original departure time, so hurry up and wash up, and after washing, apply this powder to your body. The clothes are handed over to me. Song Tingyu stood on the shore, put a porcelain vase at his feet, and then reached out to take the clothes taken off by the apprentice, squatted down on the shore and rolled up his sleeves to scrub.

Li Yuntao went down to the water, only to find that this small waterhole did not seem to be big, but it was much deeper than he imagined, and he only walked a few steps to the center of the waterhole, his feet were empty, his body sank abruptly, and when his feet touched the underwater ground again, only his head was left on the surface of the water.

The water in the pool was cool and comfortable, but the body heat lost extremely quickly when immersed in the water, and even the body cultivated in the mortal martial arts innate realm with his qi opening could not guarantee how long he would stay in the water. The luck of the aura is still just the first taste, and what he can do now is just to collect and release.

As for the magical methods such as the true qi body protector, sword qi, and sound transmission that have spread far and far in the martial arts, they haven't had time to try it.

The underwater ground under your feet is still sloping down to the center, and when you reach the middle of the pool, I don't know how deep it is. But Li Yuntao couldn't spare the heart to investigate, and before he was frozen to death by the pool water, he had to complete the thinning as soon as possible.

The boy's lean body resembles a thin monkey, his skin is a healthy bronz, and his head, neck, hands and forearms are much heavier because they have been exposed to the wind and sun all year round.

Li Yuntao has always insisted on keeping a short hairstyle, which is really too rebellious in this era, but his father allowed it, and no one else could control him. Even though the master in the book repeatedly emphasized: 'Parents who have received the skin of the body should not be destroyed lightly.' Li Yuntao only listens to the wind. At this time, it is much easier to freshen up.

After washing his body three times and dividing five by two, he held his arms in both hands, and climbed ashore while shivering with cold, and his thin body felt much warmer when he came out of the water. Compared with the indescribable chill in the water, the cold wind in this night was much milder and more comfortable.

While he was trembling, a cotton towel flew from the shore and smashed on his head.

"Quickly wipe clean and get dressed. You're not like a bird who has a problem after catching a cold, and I don't mind shaking it a little longer. ”

Song Tingyu, who had washed his clothes, was using a water repellent charm to drive away the moisture from Li Yuntao's clothes, and at this time the underwear had been completed, and he was driving away his pants, and his jacket and boots still had to queue up.

Phantom Night stared intently at the little thing between Li Yuntao's legs, as if ordinary cats were staring at butterflies, and they had the idea of jumping up and scratching them twice. The two amber vertical pupils kept fine-tuning back and forth with the bird's swing.

"Master, you don't know, the water in this pool is strange, and it is surprisingly cold when immersed in water." Li Yuntao explained as he dried his hair. When three males are together, they don't have to worry about being taken advantage of.

"I think it's because the underground water connected to this spring is so cold that it hasn't dissipated since it came up from the earth's crust. You should know that there are warm springs in this world, and if there are warm springs, there will naturally be cold springs. This is a cold spring. Song Tingyu glanced at the upward flow of water in the center of the waterhole indifferently, and said as a matter of course.

"But....... When I first entered the water, I didn't feel cold, but after I immersed in the water, my body temperature was out of my body... Forget it, maybe I'm thinking too much. ”

After all, in my previous life, I wouldn't be idle and panic to play ice water challenges.

Li Yuntao closed his mouth and walked to the grass on the shore, wiped the soles of his feet with blades of grass, wiped the water on his lower body with a towel, and took special care of his little brother.

"I'll use this cotton towel for you later." Song Tingyu frowned in disgust, and threw the underwear and pants that drained the moisture to Li Yuntao.

"Hey, hey~ Thank you for the reward. Isn't that a teacher worship? Li Yuntao happily harvested a cotton towel. Towels made of cotton cloth are rare in this era, and ordinary people have money to tear cloth at home, but they only make clothes, how can they be willing to make towels? And the towel handkerchiefs of large families are mostly made by Miss Boudoir and Mrs. for their own use, how can they be taken out and sold.

"Take it and use it, it's not so stingy as a teacher." Song Tingyu drained the water from his shirt and began to drive water away from his leather boots.

Li Yuntao wiped off the water on his body and began to dress. In this era, clothes were more cumbersome to wear, and there were many ties that needed to be tied with knots, and there were no buttons or zippers, so they relied on spacious clothes to wrap the body left and right, and then tied with cloth straps and knots.

However, the design of the waistband of the pants is no different from the one I have worn before, and the effect of wearing a belt is almost the same.

After putting on clothes and pants, put on cloth socks and tie the knots at the hem of the trousers, it basically eliminates the possibility of sand entering the socks.

Put on your tunic and tie the cowhide belt tightly, hang the fanny pack, and tie the cuffs with snap-on iron wristbands of your own design.

"You're wearing these boots too big now, aren't you?" Song Tingyu shook the cowhide boots in his hand and asked.

"My dad said he was the smallest one he could buy at this time. I'm growing my body now, and these cowhide boots are sturdy, and I can wear them when I grow tall in a few years. Li Yuntao lowered his head slightly, scratching the back of his head with his left hand.

"But if you wear such boots and hurry, you will have blisters under your feet, and when you encounter danger, you will be held back even if you need to react. Who doesn't love new shoes? But compared to a small life, this bit of vanity is still lost. Did you bring any other shoes? If you bring it, don't wear this pair first. Song Tingyu said earnestly.

"The belts are brought, but they are all cloth shoes, and they are not as convenient as boots in this sand." was broken out of his mind, Li Yuntao replied with some shame.

"Cloth shoes are cloth shoes, and it is better to put some sand in the shoes than to lose your life. Put on an extra layer of socks and tie leggings for the same effect. It's a big deal that the feet stink, and there is no little lady here, do you still care about these? Saying that, Song Tingyu threw the cowhide boots in his hand to Li Yuntao, which had already dried up the water.

Li Yuntao carried his boots, and went to his duffel bag with some disdain to take out two pairs of cloth shoes that his father had brought. There are no women in the family, and the clothes and shoes are usually made ready-made in the ready-to-wear shops on the street, which is much more expensive than having a woman in the family make it herself. Shoes also often don't fit. But even if they don't fit, the cloth shoes are much better than the stiff bottom of the cowhide boots that are too big and I don't know how many sizes.

Li Yuntao opened the cloth bag holding the cloth shoes, and the shape of the shoes rolled out of it was different from the finished products in the ready-to-wear stores he had seen in the past. The workmanship of the upper is not as neat as that of the ready-to-wear store, but this does not affect the wear.

Put cloth shoes on your feet, just the right size.

This is the second pair of shoes he has ever received in his life, and the first pair is a baby shoe sewn for him by his late mother when she was pregnant. Because of his mother's difficult birth, my father didn't have the heart to take care of himself, and the shoes couldn't be put on his feet in the end, so he can only be strung as a necklace pendant and hung around his neck.

"This stepmother of the Sun family is a caring person, daddy, alas, father, you can take your waist slowly." Li Yuntao's face couldn't help but be full of smiles, he stomped his feet with satisfaction, and tied his leggings to the second layer of socks to prevent the sand from coming in.

After packing up, the master and apprentice saddled the horse, checked the full water bladder, and then went on the road again with a full head of stars.

A few hours after the master and apprentice left, a series of bubbles rose in the center of the pool, and a dark shadow floated up with the bubbles, and it looked up blankly out of the water, and there was silence all around, that is, there was not even the sound of insects, except for a small patch of greenery, and then looked out at the sand in the eyes.

No way, this small oasis is nestled in a depression surrounded by sand dunes, and you don't have to see anything else without climbing the dunes.

The shadow swayed its body, made ripples in the pool, and swam to the shore deftly and briskly, stretching out its limbs to support its own weight and climb ashore. After a while, another bubble swelled in the center of the pool, and a second shadow floated up.

This journey to investigate the enemy's situation is very different from the danger imagined by Song Tingyu. In the next four days, the master and apprentice rushed forward as efficiently as possible on the premise of being sympathetic to the horsepower. Except for encountering a few batches of sand scorpions, sand snakes and other evil beasts that have been eroded and mutated by demonic energy, they have not even encountered a monster that can pose a threat to their own side.

So much so that Song Tingyu wondered if his previous judgment was wrong, there was no large number of evil creatures gathered in the northwest of Xiaoji Town, preparing to launch an attack on the human territory.

"Old Song, our fresh water stock is already less than half, and if we don't encounter the oasis replenishment if we go on, it won't be enough to use it for the return trip." Sitting on the top of a sand dune, two masters and apprentices, one is responsible for feeding the horses, the other is responsible for preparing meals, and checking supplies by the way.

The cat demon is responsible for sleeping, anyway, there is no enemy, and now it is daytime, as a cat does not sleep during the day, isn't it too unreasonable, except for eating, of course. Even small dried fish and dried meat are better than eating nothing.

The forage collected before had been mixed with beans and wheat bran two days earlier, and now the horses are chewing pure grain. There is still most of the bad grain in the grain bag for the horses to chew, but water is a headache.

Looking up to the west, the desert is like the sea, and it is still so vast that there is no end in sight. And the farther to the northwest, the colder the weather becomes, although the wind has been relatively mild these days, but it is as cold as if it has returned to winter, and every wisp brings greetings from the bitter cold season.

This is extremely abnormal.

Song Tingyu also began to beat a drum in his heart at this time, is it better to turn back now.

"Call the master! What are you learning from this cat demon, don't you want to learn this? Song Tingyu rolled his eyes angrily.

"At the rate at which we are advancing, there should be at least a hundred miles a day. In the past four days, according to the records of the geographical water pattern examination, it is enough to cross the land of Yoshikawa County, not to mention the desert that has only been formed for many years due to the drought and weathering in the western part of Yoshikawa.

Could it be that the land of the western kingdom was so barren before it gradually turned into a desert on the other side of Yoshikawa? Song Tingyu looked at the boundless sea of sand and muttered.

"In recent years, although there have been fewer and fewer western business travelers in Xiaoji Town, they have never been cut off, and I heard them say that most of the business travelers have changed to new trade routes that are easier to replenish, and most of the people who are still walking the old trade routes are old people, thinking that there are still oriental friends they know here in Jichuan waiting to trade with them, and they have prepared fragrant tea and barbecue to entertain guests from afar, so they say nothing and refuse to change trade routes."

"It is natural to have simple and simple feelings, but businessmen seek profits, and there are fewer people on this old business road, which naturally has its benefits." Li Yuntao took out the naan cake from his backpack and put it on his knee to cut it up with a sapper shovel. The thick naan cake is as hard as a brick when dried, and it must be sawed back and forth by the serrations on the side of the sapper's shovel.

This is the best dry food to carry when going out, not afraid of mold and spoilage, and the amount is full. Some caravan guards even hung food bags filled with pots and helmets on their chests, which could also act as heart guards to block the flying arrows during the chaotic battle.

"You can see through it at such a young age, and sometimes I really can't figure out what's going on in your head." Song Tingyu shook his head and showed a dry smile, pressing things in his heart, and he couldn't be happy. When I set out, I prayed that I wouldn't encounter a difficult enemy, so that the two of us could return safely, and now I hope to meet a monster and kill it quickly.

"One more day, if we don't find an oasis after one day, we'll turn back." Song Tingyu finally made a decision.

Putting away the grain bag handed to the horse's mouth, the horse was obviously not full, and wanted to stretch out his mouth to eat two more bites, but he held down the bridge of the horse's nose and pushed it aside.

"Man, I don't want to go without food for the next few days, I have to keep my mouth shut now." Song Tingyu didn't care whether the horse could understand it or not, he just said to himself.

It's said to be a day, but it's actually a day and a half, because it's noon, and it's an hour off and an afternoon's walk, plus a day tomorrow.

'There may not be enough water on the return trip. Li Yuntao divided the naan and stuffed the remaining half back into the bag, which contained two large and thick naan cakes like shields, which were baked yellow on the surface and sprinkled with sesame seeds, although only a little sparse. But after eating cold naan for nearly five days in a row, no matter how good the appearance is, plus Li Yuntao is changing flowers and seasonings, and now I feel bored when I see it.

Sometimes I really want to make a fire and cook a pot of soybeans for the horses to change the taste. Looking at the iron pot hanging on the side of the saddle, this guy had not been used since he came out, and he seemed to have become the most useless weight of the trip.

The master and apprentice sat in the windswept sand of the dunes, wrapped tightly in their cloaks and clutched a naan biscuit the size of broken bricks, and the tooth marks on the naan were clearly visible. Without warning, a strong gust of wind lifted the sand on the top of the dunes, covering their heads and faces, as if a light sand rain had fallen.

The master and apprentice hurriedly tightened their bodies and protected the naan and the butcher shop in their arms.

Fortunately, there was a curtain hanging down from the hat, and the two of them moved quickly, so that the naan cake did not get sand on it.

Bah~! Phew!

"The wind is blowing." Li Yuntao said, grabbed his gourd and poured it.

"You fart?" Song Tingyu kicked the apprentice.

"Fart! Even if I fart, the wind will blow away. Li Yuntao went back without showing weakness.

"I have a good nose, you can't fool me." Saying that, Song Tingyu took two steps back.

"It's like my nose is not good, yesterday I opened the nasal meridians, and now the five senses are not bad for you except for the eyes. Old Song..."Li Yuntao stretched out a finger and shook it, "You can't bluff me." Hey~" followed by a classic Yanyi.

Song Tingyu ignored his ridicule, this apprentice didn't have the fear and estrangement of children to their elders at all, but seemed to be getting along with a peer, and within a few days, the two of them no longer had the sense of distance brought by age.

He shrugged his nose, the faint smell had not dissipated, and he could still smell faintly in the wind.

"It's a beast stink!" He took the jerky and broken bricks in his arms and climbed to the top of the sand dune with his hands and feet. The sand was lifted up in large swaths by his movements.

It can't be such a coincidence, right? I was just thinking about encountering a Warcraft to kill a game, and this is what happened?

"Damn?! Really? Li Yuntao hurriedly followed.

"I've seen it up there just now, and there are no beast shadows around, so the smell is obviously wafting from farther away. After such a distance, there is still this stench, it should be a Warcraft. Song Tingyu analyzed