Chapter 16: Cruel Calculation
"Hey, I saw Tianzong tossing around in the martial arts hall, and I was worried that he wouldn't find a suitable combat skill, but I didn't expect him to ...... Why do you say that kid Tianzong is hiding it from me......" Old Man Qin's mood is very entangled, and it is not an ordinary entanglement.
A person who has just been promoted to a Blood Martial Realm martial artist can actually kill one Blood Martial Realm martial artist and two Vein Martial Realm martial artists in one pick and four, and even knock the last Light Martial Realm martial artist's head away, and the combat skills he shows may be a legendary holy product or a holy product.
Remembering that he was ashamed to say in the morning that he would choose a spiritual product combat skill from the family for Qin Tianzong to learn, Old Man Qin's old face was a little unbearable.
"Big brother, the reason why Tianzong is hiding some things about him from us may be that he has a last resort, don't be sad. And the more powerful Tianzong is, the happier you should be, how can you say that he is also a member of the Qin family. Seeing Old Man Qin's tangled look, Qin Tong's old face was flushed, and his eyes were full of smiles.
"But...... But I'm his grandfather......" Old Man Qin was still very entangled in his heart, for the first time in his life, he showed a kind side to a junior, but he didn't expect to have a hot face and a cold butt.
However, thinking of his attitude towards Qin Tianzong's brothers and sisters in the past ten years, Old Man Qin's voice became less and less when he spoke, and a lonely look quietly crept up his face.
Qin Tianzong didn't know that his unintentional actions made Old Man Qin extremely entangled, he knew that Qin Tong must have helped in the Ling family's blacksmith shop, but Qin Tong didn't come out, and he didn't bother to break it.
After returning from the Ling family's blacksmith shop, the smile on Qin Tianzong's face has never been broken, and the whole person has become stupid, and he will be distracted when practicing.
Seeing this, Cheng Liusu and Qin Haoyue naturally knew what was going on, they couldn't help but purse their lips and snicker, and they teased Qin Tianzong from time to time, which was also a lot of fun.
After being tricked by Aunt Cheng and his sister several times in a row, Qin Tianzong finally stopped being so nymphomaniac, but devoted himself wholeheartedly to his cultivation.
Qin Tianzong's cultivation was originally at the peak of the Blood Martial Realm, and when he fought to the death with several foreign adventurers, he successfully broke through the bottleneck and was promoted to a junior Vein Martial Realm martial artist.
But what Qin Tianzong gained more was not the improvement of cultivation, but the kind of perception in the struggle for life and death.
You must know that several adventurers such as Luo Beard are all experienced characters, and Qin Tianzong has been fighting with them for a long time, so he naturally benefits a lot from this battle.
For several days in a row, Qin Tianzong was constantly comprehending the battle of the day, and then absorbing the combat experience and moves in it bit by bit, and correcting them.
"It's a pity, these people are just acquired martial artists, no matter how exquisite their leg skills are, they are very limited!" Five days later, Qin Tianzong suddenly sighed and sighed with regret.
In these five days, Qin Tian had completely digested the battle with several adventurers, and he had also adapted to the strength of his cultivation after improvement.
The reason why Qin Tianzong realized that a battle took so long was because the elder adventurer's leg technique had given him a lot of inspiration, and he combined his own cognition of the leg technique and the use of strength techniques in the Thousands of Hands and Thousand Cloud Martial Arts to create a leg technique that suited him.
Although Qin Tianzong knew that creating a combat technique was a bit thankless, and it might not be successful, when this thought welled up in his heart, he was out of control.
It is impossible to create a martial art overnight, and Qin Tianzong did not get into a dead end. In addition to spending a certain amount of time studying leg techniques every day, he still does what he should do the rest of the time.
"The cultivation effect seems to have been much worse in the past few days, what's going on?" When Qin Tianzong calmed down, he found that there seemed to be something wrong with his cultivation.
Originally, it took three sticks of incense a day to complete the operation of the seventy-two great weeks of the Heaven Swallowing Decision, but in the past few days, it has to take five sticks of incense every day, and it stands to reason that his cultivation realm has improved, and the time required to complete the operation of the seventy-two great weeks should be shorter, right?
"This ...... This is ......" A few minutes later, Qin Tianzong exclaimed, and his face became strange.
Through his inner look, he found that a jet-black and shiny jar was quietly suspended above his dantian.
A soft yellow glow envelops the black can, which occasionally beats slightly, as if to flapp its wings and fly.
At the mouth of the jar, a little milky white light flickered there, giving people a sense of holiness and mystery, and a trace of essence flowed into the jar through the mouth.
"How could the black jar enter his body inexplicably, and still keep devouring the essence in his body?" Qin Tianzong clearly remembered that this jar was snatched from the beard, and seeing that the essence in his dantian was decreasing little by little, Qin Tianzong tried to take the black jar out of his body in a panic.
It's a pity that no matter how hard Qin Tianzong tries, the jar doesn't move, and he doesn't care about Qin Tianzong at all.
When Qin Tianzong tried to enter the jar with his divine sense, he was blocked by an invisible wall of qi and could not enter.
He was relieved to carefully run through the Heaven Swallowing Mind Method, and to find that the black jar did not hinder the operation of the exercises in his body.
"What is this, I thought I had picked up a strange treasure, but I didn't expect to invite a living Bodhisattva back, not only did I have to use the essence to support, but I couldn't drive it away. Two hours later, Qin Tianzong was already sweating profusely, and he had to give up his efforts and acquiesce to the existence of the black jar.
"Forget it, just think of it as feeding the spirit pet, and I will practice two more pillars of incense every day in the future!" Unable to take out the black jar, Qin Tianzong reluctantly accepted this fact.
There was one more thing in his body for no reason, Qin Tianzong was very unaccustomed to it, no matter what he did, he was always thinking about the black jar in his body.
At this moment, Qin Tianzong regretted a little that he had made a fortune from the dead, could it be that this was retribution?
"Tianzong, I see that you have been in a bad mood in the past few days, has your cultivation encountered a bottleneck?" Qin Tong, who had been secretly observing Qin Tianzong, quickly discovered the problem, and he didn't care about hiding his whereabouts and walked out of the shadows.
Qin Tianzong glanced at Qin Tong, his mouth moved, after all, he still didn't tell the matter of the black jar in his body, he used to be an innate powerhouse and didn't know what was going on with the black jar in his body, Qin Tong was just an acquired martial artist, how could he know, he said the situation in his body, just to make the other party anxious in vain.
"Grandpa Tong, I heard that the Zheng family has been putting pressure on the family to agree to dissolve the marriage contract between me and Fei'er, is there such a thing?" Seeing Qin Tong's expectant gaze slowly becoming darker, Qin Tianzhong couldn't bear it for a while, and finally thought of a reason to prevaricate Qin Tong.
"Ah...... So you already know about it. Hearing Qin Tianzong's words, Qin Tong's face flashed with a touch of panic.
In order not to disturb Qin Tianzong's cultivation, neither Qin Houde nor Qin Tong dared to mention the matter of the Zheng family to Qin Tianzong, and it was strictly forbidden for others to mention the matter of the Zheng family's pressure in front of Qin Tianzong.
"Can Grandpa Tong tell me in detail about the current situation of the family, how can I say that I am also a member of the Qin family, and this matter started because of me, I have the right to know about this matter. Keenly capturing the change in Qin Tong's expression, Qin Tianzhong sighed in his heart, could it be that the current situation of the family is very bad?
“...... It stands to reason that we should tell you about this, but the Zheng family is menacing, and it won't help if you know it!" Qin Tong hesitated for a while, then couldn't help but sigh and told the Qin Mansion in detail.
Ten days ago, the Zheng family suddenly raised the price of medicinal herbs in Huan Weicheng, and the Qin family didn't know what the Zheng family's move meant, so they adopted a wait-and-see attitude.
After a few days, the Qin family purchased less than one-third of the usual amount of medicinal herbs from several herb shops in Huan Wei City, and only then did the Qin family realize that something was wrong, and they also increased the purchase price of medicinal herbs.
It's just that after the Zheng family saw the Qin family raise the price, the price of the herbs they purchased followed up with new changes, and this move of the Zheng family attracted some old customers of the Qin family.
If this was the case, the Qin family's situation would not be too bad, after all, the Qin family had four herb shops in Huan Wei City, and the inventory of herbs was enough to support three or five months, and the Qin family did not believe that the price of the Zheng family's purchase of herbs could be maintained so high.
It's just that the house leak happened to rain overnight, and overnight, several of the Qin family's herb shops in Huan Wei City caught fire at the same time, and all the inventory was burned.
Immediately afterwards, the two elixir apprentices who had stayed in the Qin Mansion for more than ten years also left together and took refuge in the Zheng family.
If it was said that the severance of medicinal herbs only made the Qin family feel panicked, then the departure of the two elixir apprentices made the Qin family feel that the sky had fallen.
The Qin family couldn't buy medicinal herbs in Huanwei City, so they could go to other cities to buy medicinal herbs, or they could organize the family elite to go into the mountains to collect medicinal herbs.
The elixir master does not mean that you can find it if you want to, almost all families worship the elixir master as the emperor at home, and no family will let the elixir master they worship leave.
"The Zheng family is so ruthless!" Hearing these tricks implemented by the Zheng family against the Qin family, Qin Tianzong's face became more and more ugly, these schemes of the Zheng family were closely linked, and they were completely trying to force the Qin family to death.
"Yes, the Zheng family is too ruthless. We originally thought that the Qin family had been operating in Huan Wei City for decades, and they had a bit of power, but we didn't expect that the Zheng family would not move, and it would be a thunderous momentum, and they didn't take us seriously at all. Qin Tong sighed helplessly.
Qin Tianzong was just a marginal figure of the Qin family in his previous life, and he only knew that the Qin Mansion was all killed by a group of mysterious people overnight, and he vaguely knew that that group of mysterious people was related to the Zheng family. However, he didn't know any news about the confrontation between the Qin family and the Zheng family before, so he couldn't prevent it in this life.
"Ten days ago, I just killed four adventurers in the Ling family's blacksmith shop, and the Zheng family launched an operation on that day, could it be related?" Qin Tianzong's eyes narrowed slightly, thinking about how to get the family out of this predicament.