Section 38 Improvements

Shout~

Whew~Hmm....

The spiral cluster of arrows pierced into the skull of a wild boar with precise eye sockets, and the wild boar only let out a short wail, and then fell into the grass in the forest and began to convulse, and several wild boars around them who had gone out to forage together were frightened by the sudden attack and fled in all directions, not caring about the life or death of their companions.

Soon the woods were calm again, and birds of unknown origin were jumping on the branches and chirping to see the excitement.

Another moment passed

Li Yuntao and Yin Hongsu got out of the bushes where they were hiding, and walked to the side of the wild boar that had stopped twitching, Yin Hongsu pulled out a dagger-sized one from a row of flying knives on the side of his thigh, handed it to Li Yuntao, and asked him to deliver the final blow to the wild boar.

The dagger pierced the boar's heart, and the blood that was still hot gushed out as the dagger was pulled, splashing on the ground and staining a small patch of vegetation red.

"Crooked! The angle is also not right. Are you a pig? How many more times do you have to be taught to learn? Pigs are smarter than you! Yin Hongsu kicked Li Yuntao's ass angrily.

"If you do this, spilling so much blood, it will attract bloodthirsty beasts, and it may also be demon beasts! With your small body, just a few heads, your little life will be gone. ”

"What are you doing stupidly, hurry up and take it to another place." She kicked again angrily.

Li Yuntao quickly picked up the wild boar and left the woods.

Moving the wild boar to a mountain stream, Li Yuntao began to deal with the prey under the supervision of Yin Hongsu, disemboweling and taking out the internal organs, peeling the skin and removing the bones and cutting the tendons, although the hands will still tremble a little, but Li Yuntao's movements are already relatively skilled, and the speed of processing is not slow.

Piece after piece, the processed pieces of meat were cleaned and placed on the cobblestone ground on the shore, and then Li Yuntao dug a pit for the internal organs and fur and buried them.

"It's a pity that this leather, if you don't have to do business now, you can bring it back to the door and process it and use it to make leather nails." Yin Hongsu tied the processed animal meat with a rope made of rattan skin and carried it in his hand. After Li Yuntao was buried, the two changed the river bank, found a grassless river beach, and picked up some large pebbles that were hot by the sun to build a simple stove.

Chop down the branches to make a simple grill, then start a fire and start grilling the food.

"Today, you can get out of this mountain forest, walk out of the woodland and walk along the road for half a day to the nearest village. However, Senior Brother Liu, they must take this road, if we don't want to be arrested back, we must diverge, go northwest, and go directly to your hometown. Yin Hongsu used the condiments given by Li Yuntao to massage the beast meat, while looking at another smoke rising from the mountains and forests in the oblique thorn.

Over there is the main road of the Edgeworth Gate to the outside of the mountain, and the surrounding trees are flourishing, but there is no need to worry that the senior brothers who are cooking on the fire over there will find the smoke here.

The white deer was leisurely eating the tender grass by the river, found the wild berries in the bushes, tried to bite a bunch and chewed it twice in his mouth, and spit it out again, snorting a few times in disgust.

The rich aroma of the meat and condiments mixed with the flames gradually emanated as the flames lifted the juice dripping from the beast's meat, and Li Yuntao kept turning the wooden branches wearing the beast's meat, so that the temperature of the flame could act evenly on the beast's meat.

After more than ten practical operations, Li Yuntao has accumulated some experience in barbecue, and he will not rush to eat it as soon as the barbecue exudes the aroma of meat like the previous few times, but the surface is cooked, but the inside is still half raw.

Yin Hongsu is also ruthless enough, in order to let Li Yuntao learn more lessons, let him eat half of the barbecue. Anyway, she bakes her own portion.

"Your condiment is very good, and I haven't seen a few of the spices sold in the market." Yin Hongsu continued to massage the animal meat in his hands.

"There are some specialties from my hometown, and some medicinal herbs from the Daxue Mountain Plateau, and the caravans that come down from the Snow Mountain are very cheap to sell these medicinal herbs." Li Yuntao continued to endure his saliva and patiently roasted the animal meat.

"That's a caravan from the Demon Beast Country, they still know how to do business?" Yin Hongsu asked.

"I don't know if it's from the Demon Beast Country, anyway, the merchants who deliver the goods are all people. They mainly sell some animal skins and animal bones and some medicinal materials in the mountains, and I heard that these kinds of medicinal materials are all over the mountains on their side, and they are usually used as pasture for the livestock pulling carts, so they are very cheap. Li Yuntao explained.

“...... Do you call these herbs herbs? Yin Hongsu was stunned, a few days ago, he added grass to the delicious seasoning, wouldn't he be treated with the livestock?

She stopped slapping the flesh, and a dangerous glint shone from her squinted eyes.

"They think it's worthless grass, but I know that these are all medicinal herbs, which have the effects of invigorating blood and muscles, removing heat and detoxifying. Besides, before medicinal herbs were discovered for medicinal purposes, they were not just weeds born in the mountains and forests, so how could there be any difference between high and low? Uncle Shi, you can eat it with confidence, this is not taken out of the belly of the animal, it is very clean. Li Yuntao saw the change in the expression on her face, and quickly explained a few more words.

"Yes." Yin Hongsu nodded, agreeing with his statement.

"Those animals pulling carts may be demon beasts with cultivation themselves, otherwise they don't need to use this herb as rations, after all, no matter how weak the medicinal power is, they can't stand it if they eat too much ordinary livestock." The white deer approached with its hooves, sniffed the fragrance in the air, and said with a shake of its ears.

"I estimate that those merchants who shipped the goods down may be the big demons after the transformation."

"This year, even the big demons have started to do business, it's really fresh." Yin Honglin began to continue massaging the flesh of the animal.

"What's wrong with the big demon, as long as it is a living being, there is a demand, and if there is a demand and you don't want to fight, you naturally have to trade in exchange for what you need." Li Yuntao muttered: "The big demon also wants to eat clothes." ”

"What do they buy and sell with you?" Yin Hongsu put down a piece of animal meat that had been massaged in his hand and began to process the next piece.

"Merchants from the snowy mountains mainly exchanged some salt, liquor, tobacco, and utensils, and sometimes exchanged them with caravans from Western countries for beautiful workmanship and useless luxuries.

It stands to reason that if you are talking about luxury, you can also get it in the big cities here in Donghuang, and the workmanship is better than that of the Westerners. Li Yuntao replied.

"Heh, they, they don't dare to go deep into the hinterland of the human race, after all, they are not clean, if they are seen by the walking of my Imperial Sword Gate, it will be a demon slaying and demon extermination." Yin Hongsu answered Li Yuntao's doubts.

"Didn't you say that the demon clan has already signed a cooperation agreement with us?"

"It was the Emperor of Yunshan who signed the agreement with us, and the other two didn't sign it. The Demon Domain controlled by the Emperor of Yunshan is adjacent to the Terrans of the Eastern Realm of my Great Snow Mountain, and the Demon Domains of the other two are more bordered by the West. ”

"Because the Dongfang side has signed an agreement with us, the people, the demon alliance and the monsters that have invaded for more than 100 years have almost been cleaned up, so the ordinary people are relatively peaceful.

It's not so good in the West, and I haven't stopped hearing about it in the past few years. The human race, the demon race, and the monsters are basically in a three-way melee, and the demon domains of the two demon emperors are still rubbing against each other, how can this day be good? ”

"It's no wonder that even the daily consumption of salt and spirits has to come to our side to buy them." Yin Hongsu shook his head, smiling inexplicably.

"Uncle Shi, you know so much. The world is so big, and things can be so clear everywhere. Li Yuntao sent a compliment.

"Hey~ It's all about going south and north, and you'll naturally understand it if you wander around outside."

"And ah, Uncle Shi, the place I have walked is still very limited, I heard that all the way to the north, through a large strait blocked by the jungle occupied by the Sylphrind Spirits, and further north, there is a vast world. There doesn't seem to be any such thing as a year-round season, either it rains day and night, or it doesn't rain for months, and it's drought. ”

"I'd like to see it if I have the chance. It is said that there are ends of the world, and I don't know if it's true. We are still too small in front of this heaven and earth. Mortals are just a bunch of mediocre ants who are busy just trying to survive, and it's good to be alive. Even if Zhuji becomes an official disciple, the transcendent in the mouth of mortals, the immortal master, is just an ant stronger than mortals, and he is just qualified to walk in this world. Yin Hongsu put down the last piece of animal meat that had been massaged in his hand.

"It's this kind of food, and I have to be busy every day, and I don't know how much time it takes." She patted the flesh again and put it on Xiao Hao's branch. Then walk to the stream and squat down to wash your hands.

Li Yuntao was indifferent, this wild boar was only the amount of his own meal, hunting, dividing, cleaning, and firing, and one was not enough time. I still have to sleep at night, and I really don't have much time in the day to do something serious.

From here, I can go back to the door, and I can concentrate on cultivating myself without worrying about food and clothing, what a luxurious and precious life.

The two of them had eaten all the beast's flesh, and it had been more than half an hour since they were on their way again. From here, the two walked on the path to the northwest and branched off from the road they were walking with Liu Qingxue.

There are white deer walking, and through the mountains and forests for a few days, the terrain gradually rises, the trees gradually thin, low and thorny shrubs and thorn bushes grow, and when the two of them go out of the mountain forest, this landform has been very different from the mountain forest where the sword gate is located.

Most of the trees are broad-leaved trees with rough bark texture and deep skin color, and often a single tree occupies a large area. The grass leaves are all plants with wide and fat leaves, hollow stems and plenty of moisture.

After walking for half a day, I found a village inhabited by humans, surrounded by green farmland, with three ridge paths running through the farmland and becoming a passage between the village and the outside world.

Figures of toiling are scattered among the verdant fields, and occasionally a person leads a buffalo to walk on the ridges.

The two rode into the village on a white deer, causing a group of children running bare-bottomed in the fields to watch, and soon the village elders received the two.

Life in this rural village is peaceful and comfortable, and there are no monsters to disturb it, so there are not many opportunities to meet the people of the Edgeworth, and the simple farmers can't help but be a little excited.

In particular, Yin Hongsu was dressed in a fiery red suit, showing her fiery figure vividly, and her heroic and beautiful face made several young villagers who rushed to watch after hearing the news couldn't help but blush.

If it weren't for the long sword on her back and a whole row of flying knives pinned to her legs, these villagers would probably not have come around to get up close and personal with her.

After inquiring about the location of the village, and buying some dry food with scraps of copper money, the two of them hurried out of the village and stepped onto the dirt road in the countryside that the villagers had pointed out to the big city.

It's really that the villagers' eyes are too enthusiastic, and even Yin Hongsu can't help but feel a little red at the base of his ears.

Galloping on the dirt road in the countryside, the white deer who let go of the four hooves and ran did not lose the galloping horse, and after two hours, he arrived at the Baifeng County where the village elders needed to walk on the road for a day.

The roads near the county seat have become noticeably wider, and the mile near the county seat is already an official road paved with stone slabs. Baifeng County is bustling with people, although there are not many business travelers in the past, but the shops and medical centers in the city are fully equipped, and there are more well-known township markets.

When he arrived at the county seat, it was already dusk, Yin Hongsu decided to rest in the county seat for a night, rest and make some supplies by the way, and then set off tomorrow in the direction of Xiaoji Town.

There are two rooms in the inn, one for each uncle and nephew. After opening the room, Yin Hongsu asked the shopkeeper to boil water, prepared to bathe, and ordered a whole table of food for Li Yuntao for Li Yuntao to stay and stare at the salute, and said that he was going to the wine shop to inquire about the news, and he turned around and left the inn within a quarter of an hour after entering the door.

Although the two of them sneaked out of the door with light clothes, it was really inconvenient to go to the wine store with their bags, and it happened that Li Yuntao was really hungry, so he agreed.

Taking this opportunity, Li Yuntao injected some aura into the jade pendant given by Cen Yuping. I wanted to use the jade pendant in the mountains and forests, but I was afraid that the people of the Qionghua Sect would no longer be nearby, and they would not be able to meet on both sides of the mountains and forests.

After all, the news of the appearance of a large number of monsters outside Xiaoji Town can be passed on earlier, and reinforcements will arrive sooner, but I don't know if Cen Yuping will help him this time.

A table of meals was easily solved by Li Yuntao alone, and he was still a little unsatisfied, so he asked the inn junior to ask for another bucket of rice, and ate the vegetable soup at the bottom of this plate.

patted his round belly, looked at the rice bucket that had been eaten cleanly by himself, and fell into silence.

It's just because he doesn't feel full.

Wisps of heat flowed from the stomach and intestines into the limbs, nourishing the hungry body, Li Yuntao could feel that some changes were taking place in his body, but this change could not be manifested for a while.

An hour later, Yin Hongsu, who came back with a blushing face, kicked open the door of the guest room with her foot, poured water into the bathtub three or two times, took off her clothes and jumped in without closing the door, leaning the back of her neck against the edge of the barrel, and the sound of soft snoring began to echo in the room.

ignored Li Yuntao, who was sitting in the room waiting for her to come back.

Swallowing his saliva, Li Yuntao picked up all kinds of clothes that were thrown into a mess and had body temperature, neatly placed them on the wooden bed of the inn, and then gently closed the door and tiptoed away.

Yin Hongsu has been in charge of keeping vigil for the past few days, and the two of them have to rush during the day, which is indeed hard for her.

It's just that what Li Yuntao didn't expect was that this female tyrannosaurus, who was usually already in hot shape, was wrapped in a chest cloth under her belly pocket, and it was no wonder that she always beat and scolded herself. It's really uncomfortable to think about it.

The night gradually deepened, Li Yuntao maintained the crossbow machine in his room, this old guy followed him all the way, and he really made a great contribution. He looked at the spiral-shaped arrow cluster in his hand, thinking if he could wrap the fire spirit rune around the arrow shaft and use it, he really didn't have any skills to use it now, and he didn't even have a hole card to prepare as a qualified traverser.

Next, when I return to my hometown and encounter monsters again, where should I go? You can't use this half-up and half of your cultivation, and you can't play with your life on the knife like your father, you don't have the martial arts attainments like your father, and you have a few sets of half-baked swordsmanship in your hand, and it's okay to show off with the little children of the same generation, you really want to fight with the monster to the death, and the only one who dies can be yourself.

After thinking about it, he still gave full play to his only advantage now, he had opened up Tianfu, and with some mana, he was able to learn the 'half-immortal' to stimulate the spirit rune and make a fuss in this regard.

It's just that in this way, if you really wrap the fireball talisman on the shaft of the arrow, the spiral arrow cluster eight achievements customized by yourself to the blacksmith will be scrapped.

He only has seventeen crossbows left, and one less is used. As for the spirit runes, Li Yuntao spread out the cloak that Yin Hongsu came by, and a large number of small storage bags were sewn on the inside of the cloak, half of which were used to store all kinds of spirit runes.

It's a pity that there aren't many of them, there are the most fire runes here, ten fireball runes, ten fire sword runes, and only three of each of the other essential spirit runes. The remaining pockets were porcelain bottles of various colors, paper bags filled with medicinal powder, and all kinds of small items that Li Yuntao didn't know what she was going to do with them.

"If you want to do so much, take a few and try it out." Li Yuntao took a fireball talisman, a thunder talisman, and a dazzling light talisman, placed it on the table, folded the cloak and put it aside.

Use a dagger to carve a groove obliquely on the arrow shaft, snap one end of the spirit rune into the groove, and then smear some paste to roll the spirit rune obliquely on the arrow shaft, the whole process does not take much effort, as long as the production is fine, the spirit rune and the arrow shaft fit together perfectly.

But whether it can be used, whether it can be successfully activated by the spirit rune, and whether the crossbow bolt can work normally after adding the spirit rune still needs to find an opportunity to do some experiments.

Da Da Da ~ Li Yuntao looked up, and the wooden window of the room was knocked from the outside.

'So fast? There are a lot of disciples of Qionghuazong walking outside. But why not walk through the gates? He frowned slightly, and though he had doubts in his heart, he could not let anyone wait at this time, so he quickly got up and pushed open the wooden window, and held it with a pole, and the sound of flapping wings sounded outside the window, and when he had finished the window, a parrot with colorful feathers all over it landed on the windowsill.

It looked at Li Yuntao with one side of its eyes, with a little curiosity and vigilance in its eyes, as well as some urging.

"Dare to ask the seniors, but the messenger of Qionghuazong who came to collect the letter?"

The parrot ignored him.

"I wonder if Elder Cen ever mentioned the kid to his seniors?"

The parrot looks down and combs the slightly messy feathers under its wings.

"Do you have a token to confirm your identity?"

The parrot glanced at him again, lifted his foot, and put a foot ring on the parrot's leg, the foot ring was made quite finely, and a small jade plate was embedded in the metal ring, and an inconspicuous emblem on the jade plate was silently emitting a little fluorescence.

This sigil was used by Qionghuazong to identify his identity, of course Li Yuntao didn't know it, and it wasn't until he saw this sigil that Li Yuntao realized that he had made a fuss. He originally thought that it would be a disciple of Qionghua Sect, but he didn't expect it to be a bird.

"Senior, wait, kid will hand over the letter." Seeing that the other party did not exchange ideas, he had to hurry back to the table and take the letter he had written before, the letter paper and envelope were all mundane things that the shopkeeper asked for, and the cost was recorded in the room fee.

The envelope was delivered to the parrot, and it took it with its beak, then turned around and flew into the night with its wings flapped.

Li Yuntao watched the parrot disappear into the night, and gently blew out a breath with some uneasy anticipation in his heart. Now that his strength is too weak, all his contacts and contacts are just floating clouds, and all his hopes can only be pinned on the ups and downs of fate.