Chapter 54: The Road Is Difficult
It didn't take long for Miss Gao to start complaining.
"You stink! The smell of blood, and the smell of sweat, smoked to death! ”
"If you can't stand it, come down and go by yourself."
"No, it's not ......," Miss Gao hugged her tighter, "Can't you smell it yourself, it wasn't so dirty last time...... Wow! There's still dead skin on the neck! Do you really only have the realm of "molting"? Hurry up and find a pool to wash! Miss Ben happened to be thirsty too. ”
Jiang Chen looked at the sky, put Miss Gao down, sharpened a thin bamboo pipe with a dagger, and poked it into the trunk of the tree to get water.
Miss Gao, who had never shut up all the way, rushed to cross her face, greedily sucking the juice flowing from the bamboo pipe, and poured it all over her face.
After she was full, she simply spread her hair in a bun and washed her hair and face under the water.
Just as she was washing her face, a long cyan shadow flew out and hit her neck.
Jiang Chen made a move halfway and swung the dagger accurately, cutting the green snake in two.
Miss Gao was unaware of this process, and only after a while did she raise her drenched face and say happily, "Where did you get the snake?" You're pretty capable, bake it and eat it! ”
She got together, and the water droplets fell down her neck, wetting the strip of cloth on her chest and clinging to her body.
Jiang Chen turned his face away slightly and said, "You can't eat it, it's poisonous." ”
"Well, it looks delicious." Miss Gao swallowed, touched her stomach and said, "I'm hungry." ”
"I'm hungry too."
"Then why don't you go get some food!" Miss Gao stomped her foot.
"You're going to stay here and wait for me?"
Miss Gao's face turned pale: "No, I'll go with you." ”
Jiang Chen carried her on his back, picked some fruits in the woods, and used the art of qi discrimination to select and pick out the ones that were not poisonous and gave them to her.
It was late at night, Jiang Chen found a tree hole, drove away the golden rat inside, and let Miss Gao sleep in it.
"What's in this nest, it stinks...... Wow! There's still a lot of hair, it's disgusting! Miss Gao curled up and crawled inside, muttering uncontrollably.
"Then let's switch over, you sleep outside, and I sleep inside."
Miss Gao glanced at the dark shadows of the trees outside, and shrunk her neck: "For the sake of your loyalty, Miss Ben will barely be able to spend the night." ”
She curled up, feeling that her posture was a little uncomfortable, she slowly turned over, and heard that Jiang Chen was not moving outside, and even the sound of breathing was faint, so she couldn't help but be a little scared, and asked in a low voice, "Jiang Chen, are you asleep?" ”
"Nope."
"What are you doing?"
"Molting."
"Too bad! It's so old to molt and cut hair, but I used to be a master of you! Miss Gao sneered a few times, and after a while, she said, "Aren't you sleepy?" ”
"Don't be sleepy, you can sleep first."
"You're not trying to do something to me when I'm asleep, are you?"
"Do what?"
"Don't play stupid! Don't you men all think about that kind of thing? Whether it's a high-ranking emperor or a lowly minion, no one doesn't think about those dirty things! I caught one a few days ago, a hateful minion, and I didn't pay them so much, and all of them were not happy...... Feed! Are you listening to me? ”
"Listen."
"I warn you, don't beat my mind, whether it's incense or illusion, it won't work on Miss Ben. Don't think that you have a chance with some indiscriminate means, there are no doors, you know? ”
"Yes."
"Don't be perfunctory to me, you think I don't know what you're thinking, don't hit my idea, do you hear?"
“……”
"Hey, talk!" Miss Gao poked her head out of the tree hole and pushed Jiang Chen.
"Miss, you may have misunderstood."
"Where was the misunderstanding?"
"Think about it carefully with your clever head, in this situation, if I really want to do something to you, do I still need to use incense and illusion?"
Miss Gao thought about it and retracted her head with some fear: "This hole is very small, I can't squeeze two people, I'm sleepy, let's sleep first!" ”
The night was uneventful.
In the early morning of the next day, Jiang Chen finally shed the old skin of his whole body, and the filth in his pores was completely removed.
The newborn skin membrane is soft and tough, it looks like a newborn baby, soft as jade, once tight, it is more stable than the old tree, and it is alert and sharp, and mosquitoes are difficult to approach.
At this point, the realm of the second-order "molting and removing hair" of the forging body, which had plagued him for several years, had finally reached its completion.
The new skin is dust-free, as if it has been reborn, making him feel light both physically and mentally.
He leaned against the trunk of the tree, greeted the morning light that passed through the forest, and exhaled softly.
When he got up, there was a crisp sound from his body, like a firecracker, and the "crackling" spread all over his body.
As he exhaled and inhaled, the qi and blood rushed and echoed, breaking through the condensation barrier, traveling around the body, lively and boiling.
This means that he has officially entered the hall of the third-order "Yi Jin" realm.
At this time, Jiang Chen could clearly feel that the forest was full of clear and pure aura, and the wisps poured into his body, making his body full of qi and blood, mellow and lively.
Rubbing my wrist slightly, I felt the full strength contained in the expansion and contraction of the fascia, and compared with my weak body before, I couldn't help but feel like I was in a different world.
Martial arts that were previously limited by physical fitness can now be tried......
A voice from the hollow of the tree interrupted his thoughts: "Dead noise! Early in the morning, the bones are ringing! ”
Miss Gao rubbed her hazy sleepy eyes, poked her head out, and looked out for a long time, as if she suddenly woke up: "Why are you?" ”
"I'm sorry, it's just me."
Miss Gao immediately retracted to check whether her clothes were complete, and after working for a while, she quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
She took the fruit handed by Jiang Chen, and seemed to be a little moved: "Thank you for your hard work, I will definitely reward you when I go back." ”
"I'm looking forward to it."
Miss Gao took a bite of the green fruit and said vaguely: "If you want to get the money, you must be extremely careful to protect me." ”
It's a rare time of calm in the forest.
The rest of the road was more dangerous than they expected.
The gray-ridged lizard, the ten-zhang giant python, and the steel-toothed male lion, these overlords who fight alone, can still be avoided far away according to their breath, and the more terrifying group killers, ink crows, blue wolves, and demon ants...... It's the thing that really kills people.
Both of them lacked experience exploring the forest, so they provoked far more beasts than they came.
Fortunately, Jiang Chen was not yesterday's Jiang Chen, he carried Miss Gao on his back and ran away all the way, while throwing off the beast again and again, he gradually became handy with the use of the power of "Yi Jin".
Changed to an ordinary martial artist, after several detours and corners, and after running around, he was probably so confused by the complex terrain in the forest that he couldn't find the north. But Jiang Chen, who has supernatural powers, has no such concerns. No matter how the route changes, he always remembers the direction he went back.
In three days, they encountered nearly 100 ambushes and sneak attacks, and every day they were almost alive, exhausted, and embarrassed.
Miss Gao, who was originally picky and exquisite, finally bowed to reality, no longer disgusted with dirty water and bitter fruits, as long as there was a bite to eat and drink, she would no longer complain. Her hair was disheveled and her clothes were nothing, but she was content to see the sun the next day.
And Jiang Chen, who accepted the "blood infusion ceremony", never stopped changing his physique and growing his strength.
He knew that his foundation was not solid, and it was not a good thing to improve the realm so quickly, but when he was in danger, a little more strength would be more protection, so he did not deliberately suppress it, and while fleeing, he penetrated the meridians of the whole body little by little, refining the muscles and veins and viscera, and approached the realm of "easy tendon" consummation.
After dealing with monsters so many times, he gradually gained some experience of how to identify the habitat of monsters and how to escape from under them.