Chapter 44: The Bottleneck
This woman is Hua Ying, since the Qingya Mountain has been a few days, she has not stopped, rushed overnight, and finally arrived at this Qingjiang City today.
Yongzhou Prefecture City is also the place where the two factions of the Thousand Swords Piercing the Clouds conspired to hold a martial arts conference and kill the people in the rivers and lakes.
Coincidentally, on the way here, Hua Ying happened to run into a robbery, and she didn't want to be nosy, who would have thought that the gang of thieves would see her passing by, and they would also beat her up.
So, he raised his knife and saved the convoy of the shopkeeper by the way. Since then, he has entered the city in the carriage of the shopkeeper Sun.
"I just don't know where the helm of the two factions of the Thousand Swords Piercing Clouds is located in the city, it seems that if you want to find out, you have to find the shopkeeper of Nasun to understand the situation."
Hua Ying didn't plan to live in this shopkeeper Sun's mansion at first, there were many people, and she was worried about attracting unnecessary attention. However, after thinking about it, I didn't know a lot of things when I first came here, and it was not a bad thing to have someone who understood things by my side, so I decided to stay and observe the situation first.
Before you can do that, though, there are things you have to plan ahead.
If you can find your senior sister successfully, it will be very good, if you haven't found it, then you have to be prepared to encounter an unexpected situation later, and even fight with the person who pierces the clouds with a thousand swords.
"In three years, the exercises have been cultivated to the third-level realm, and they are only one step away from breaking through to the fourth-layer. It's just that the bottleneck of this fourth layer is too difficult to break, and it doesn't seem to work anymore by taking the previous herbs, and it seems that we need to find new alternative herbs. ”
In the past few years, Hua Ying has not relaxed her cultivation, and has been working hard to improve her strength. And now, she had to find a way to break through to the fourth level of the exercises as soon as possible.
Only by rising to the fourth layer will his own strength be higher, and only in this way will he have a better chance of winning in the big battle that may arise in the future.
In fact, Hua Ying has always been worried about the medicinal herbs grown in the jade pendant space for some reason, and the growth rate has become slower and slower in the past few years.
Referring to a single yellow ginseng, it has matured from the initial seven days and ten years, and gradually to the later fifteen days and ten years, and even the current thirty days and ten years, the slowdown rate is unimaginable.
To this end, Hua Ying did not hesitate to remove all the crops in the jade pendant space, including the only remaining red fruit tree, all the vegetables in the vegetable garden, and some herbs with poor medicinal properties, leaving only a few varieties with good effects, such as yellow ginseng and angelica leaves.
Despite this, the herb's growth rate is still declining with an unstoppable momentum.
After many experiments and demonstrations, she found that the cause of the problem was all the loss of land fertility.
To put it simply, there is no fertilizer in the ground, and the plants are not enough to eat, so they grow more and more slowly.
In fact, Hua Ying can understand this very well, after all, when she was a child, every household in the village would fertilize their fields to increase the harvest of grain, and fertilization played a great role.
In the same two fields, the difference between the fertilized and the unfertilized ones is huge, both in terms of growth rate and yield after maturity.
Therefore, Hua Ying has always wanted to apply some fertilizer to the half acre of land in her hand, so that the herbs can grow faster.
However, no matter what kind of fertilizer is applied, it does not change the reality that the fertility of the land is getting weaker and weaker. Now, the mature herbs in her hand are getting less and less, and if she hadn't hoarded a lot in the past few years, I'm afraid that she would have run out of food by now.
That alone won't last long. Moreover, the higher the cultivation realm, the effectiveness of these remaining herbs gradually decreased.
The fertility of the land, the bottleneck of the exercises.
The dilemma of the two mountains pressed on Hua Ying's shoulders, not to mention that she had to take care of finding her senior sister, which made her extremely worried for a while.
"Alas, it's so hard to plant a land, why don't the fertility I found work?"
Puzzled, Hua Ying rubbed her head and sighed.
It's useless to think so much now, try to break through to the fourth layer as soon as possible, this goal seems a little more realistic for the time being.
Take yellow ginseng and angelica leaves, close your eyes and meditate until noon.
After finishing the operation of the last week of the exercise, Hua Ying exhaled a breath from her heart, opened her eyes in a gloomy way, and said in frustration:
"The medicinal power of yellow ginseng is too weak, and it can't break through the bottleneck of the fourth layer in a short period of time."
In the final analysis, it was because her qualifications were too poor, if her qualifications were a little better, even if she didn't take so many herbs, she could easily break through to the fourth layer realm.
Hua Ying wanted to replace the yellow ginseng with other herbs a long time ago, but the problem was that the area in Xiqing County was too remote and the population was very sparse, so she couldn't find a herb variety with higher medicinal effect, so she had no choice but to continue to eat yellow ginseng.
"This Boss Sun is in the medicinal herb business, so he should know where there are more rare herb seeds."
Thinking of the identity of the owner here, Hua Ying thought in her heart, since she had come to Qingjiang City, it was time to change the medicine recipe.
It was already noon, and there was a shout from the maid Xiaoru outside the door.
"Miss, the lord sent me to call you to the dining room to have dinner together."
"Got it."
Hua Yingxin came at the right time, immediately tidied up her clothes, pushed the door and walked out.
This time she didn't wear a hat, after all, she was invited to dinner, and it looked very disrespectful to wear a hat again.
When the little maid saw Hua Ying's face and strange white hair, her small mouth opened slightly, and she was taken aback and said, "Miss, it turns out that you ......"
"Please lead the way."
Hua Ying smiled lightly, not caring about the other party's surprised eyes.
"Well... Ok ......"
After being reminded, Xiao Ru retracted her expression and hurriedly walked in front to lead the way. Looking at her panicked look just now, I don't know if she was surprised by Hua Ying's age or Hua Ying's appearance.
In this regard, Hua Ying has long been surprised.
Twisting around a few corners, through a few courtyards full of flowers and plants, the two came to a hall.
This grandson shopkeeper has a lot of financial resources, and the courtyard is very magnificent, not to mention, rockeries and strange stones, vines and green bamboos. Even the decoration in the hall is unique, there are tables, chairs and benches made of precious wood everywhere, and there are a few calligraphy and paintings hanging in the small dining room, which I don't know if they are admired during the meal.
Hua Ying has been used to living a hard life in the mountains in the village since she was a child, and it is the first time she has seen such a wealthy family, and her face shows a slight hint of surprise.
Shopkeeper Sun seemed to have been waiting in the dining room for a long time, and when he saw Hua Ying walking in, he hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.
"The girl is resting well, but is there a place where the maid is not well entertained?"
is no different from that little Ru maid, the first time he saw Hua Ying's true face, Shopkeeper Sun was also very surprised. However, he was a steady person and did not show it directly, the surprise in his eyes flashed, and he still greeted him with a smile.