"What's the matter?, what are you asking me about?" The person who came was a middle-aged fat man, with a face full of meat, and roared at Ye Chong, "You little bastard, you haven't sent me a piece of wood until now, and tomorrow there will be not enough firewood, and you will delay cooking for everyone, can you afford this responsibility?!"

The middle-aged fat man is Liu Daman, the chef of the Shenjiang Academy, and Ye Chong does chores under him on weekdays, brushing pots, washing dishes, cutting wood and chopping firewood.

As soon as Liu Daman said at this time, Ye Chong immediately remembered that he had to go to the back mountain every afternoon to cut wood, and then cut it into pieces of wood and send it to the kitchen, and it was already night, no wonder this Liu Daman came to find him.

He nodded and said, "I'm sorry, Master Liu, I'm injured, I just woke up, I'll go to the back mountain now, and I will definitely send the wood to the kitchen before dawn." ”

Liu Daman pinched his waist with both hands at the moment, pointed at him and said: "Then don't go quickly, let me tell you, don't think that if you get beaten, you have an excuse to be lazy, if I can't see the wood tomorrow morning, you just wait to pack up and roll out of the Shenjiang Courtyard, it's the first time I've seen a waste like you who has been in the outer courtyard for two years and hasn't left! Hmph! I really don't know why the dean still keeps you as a waste!"

Ye Chong listened to Liu Daman's words, his hands subconsciously tightened, clenched into fists, and then let go again. The other party seemed to know that he had been injured, and at this time he let himself go to the wood, obviously intentionally, which made him instinctively angry when he inherited the original soul memory.

Ye Chong's eyes froze, and he looked at Liu Daman coldly and said: "Master Liu, according to the rules of the outer courtyard, I only need to send the wood to the back kitchen before tomorrow morning, I used to do it in advance, that was because I was diligent, and now it is not time to deliver the wood, and you don't have any right to accuse me, right?"

Saying that, he took a step forward, his voice was like iron, and he said in a fierce voice: "The Divine General Academy stipulates that the disciples of the outer courtyard cannot work for more than half a day every day, and you have asked me to do chores for you almost all day and night in the past two years, if I tell the dean, you should get out of the Divine General Academy, right?"

The villain is like a ghost, and he is talking about a snobs like Liu Daman. You don't have to be angry with this kind of person, but the little ghost is difficult, if you are strong, he will be weak, and if you are weak, he will be strong, and it is still necessary to deter the other party, lest he gain an inch.

This sudden voice was so powerful that Liu Daman's scalp was numb! He looked at Ye Chong's cold eyes again, and he actually felt a little hairy in his heart. It wasn't until Ye Chong turned around and took an axe in the room and went to the back mountain in the night that he came to his senses.

Of course, Liu Daman would not admit that he was frightened by Ye Chong, and forced a contemptuous smile calmly, "This kid can't beat a stuffy fart with three sticks on weekdays, but he actually dared to refute Lao Tzu just now, Niang Xipi, someone beat out his brain, right?"

It's just that the smile on his face is a bit far-fetched no matter how you look at it.

……

The bright moonlight softly sprinkled on the land shrouded in night.

Ye Chong came to the back mountain, the breeze in the forest blew, the leaves rustled, and there was a pleasant sound of insects.

Bang!

He swung his axe, and with three strikes, a large tree the size of a man fell.

"I didn't expect my strength to increase a lot!" Ye Chong shook the axe in his hand excitedly, remembering that it used to take a lot of effort to cut down such a thick tree, but now the efficiency has improved a lot.

Soon, he cut down four or five big trees one after another, and he used to cut the big trees here one by one and then transport them back, and it took half a day to toss them, but now he didn't even have time for a pot of tea, so he directly carried the big tree on his shoulders and carried it back to the backyard of the kitchen.

Then there was a frequent chopping of wood in the backyard.

It took less than an hour to finish all the things that would have taken most of the day, and then he carried the axe to the back mountain again.

Soon he came to the foot of the back mountain where the trees had been cut before, only this time, he did not stop here, but continued to move forward, deeper into the back mountain.

The back mountain is actually not big, but there are a lot of wild beasts in it, including red tigers, horned wolves, toothed leopards and other fierce things, this is the place where the disciples of the inner courtyard conduct field training, they can rely on the beast pill captured by killing the fierce beasts in exchange for the beginner martial arts scrolls in the library pavilion, as for the more advanced martial arts scrolls above the yellow rank, they must complete the corresponding tasks of the inner courtyard disciples to redeem.

This is also open to the disciples of the outer court, and the assessment of the disciples of the inner court, in addition to the requirements of opening up the Qi Sea and cultivating to be above the first heaven in the Qi Sea Realm, there is also a martial arts assessment. Only when you rank in the top 20 in the martial arts assessment can you truly become a disciple of the inner court. And the disciples of the outer courtyard can also hunt fierce beasts in the back mountains and seize the beast pill in exchange for a beginner-level martial arts scroll to prepare for martial arts.

Ye Chong used to have difficulty even condensing qi, so he didn't have the idea of coming over to hunt fierce beasts at all.

But at this time, he is different from the past, although he has not yet opened up the sea of qi, but he has condensed his qi completely, and has the flying sword by his side, this secret cannot be revealed to people, and it can be used to hunt fierce beasts at will. Fierce beasts will not reveal secrets, let alone dead fierce beasts.

Soon, he encountered a horned wolf.

In the moonlight, the horned wolf was lying at the bottom of the tree eating the carcass of some animal, its whole body was dark, its forehead was horned, golden yellow, and it emitted a glimmer of light, sharp as a dagger.

It also noticed Ye Chong's coming, turned around, and grinned at the mouth stained with animal hair and blood, its green eyes were fierce, and its teeth were sharp and scarlet.

Ye Chong just looked at it, and quickly urged the flying sword in his body, just by moving his mind, the flying sword shone with a cold glow and quickly flew out of his dantian, piercing the air, and quickly inserting it into the neck of the horned wolf.

Blood gushed out.

The horned wolf didn't even let out a scream, and collapsed next to the carcass of the prey it had killed.

Ye Chong stepped forward and slashed its belly open with an axe, finding a pale yellow beast pill from it.

This was the first time he had hunted a ferocious beast, but the process was much simpler than he had imagined, he put the beast pill on his body and continued to walk deeper into the back mountain.

One after another, he encountered another horned wolf, a red tiger, a toothed leopard......

Along the way, Ye Chong became more and more excited, and the road he walked was bloody.

It was the blood of dozens of beasts stabbed to death by flying swords and disemboweled by axes.

By the time the sun rose and the sky was slightly bright, Ye Chong was already carrying more than twenty beast pills. And he was already approaching the top of the back mountain.

In the process of going up this way, Ye Chong found that the flying sword in the dantian could not be used endlessly, because every time he used it, the breath in the dantian would weaken a few points, and it was not obvious at the beginning, and all the way to the present, the breath in the dantian was already very weak.

He sat cross-legged on the top of the mountain and began to run the "Condensation of Qi Decision" to re-condense the true qi.

This time it was much easier and less painful than last time, but the flying sword in the dantian still stopped after the three words were engraved, and the words shattered into a white mang rich in true qi, making his dantian full again.

Ye Chong got up and went down the mountain. At this time, the night had passed, and the beasts had awakened, and there were naturally more fierce beasts encountered on the way down the mountain than at night.

It's bloody all the way again.

When Ye Chong arrived at the bottom of the mountain, he had already taken off the coat on his body and folded it into a package, which contained more than fifty beast pills.

Because Houshan was originally a place for weaker disciples to test, the fierce beasts in this world had limited aggression, and there were almost no existences that could compete with Ye Chongfei's sword.

If it was replaced by a desolate beast that already had spirituality, I am afraid he would not dare to slaughter it all the way so easily.

However, of course, the Martial Arts Academy will not release wild beasts in its own back mountain.

"You can go to the Library Pavilion to exchange for a martial arts scroll. Ye Chong couldn't help but feel a little excited in his heart, he didn't even go back to the kitchen backyard, he directly pinned the axe to his waist, and came to the library pavilion with a large bag of beast pills.

"Teacher Du, I want to exchange it for a martial arts scroll. Ye Chong stood outside the Library Pavilion and said to Du Zongjiu, who managed the Library Pavilion.

Disciples of the outer courtyard were not allowed to enter the library pavilion, and they could only exchange them for martial arts scrolls through the management teacher, who would take out the corresponding martial arts scrolls according to the number of beast pills they had.

"Is that you?" Du Zongjiu naturally recognized Ye Chong, who was known as the "most qualified disciple in the outer court".

The Divine General Martial Arts Academy usually only allows the disciples of the outer court to stay here for one year, and if they can't pass the assessment after a year, they will leave on their own, but this Ye Chong doesn't know what background he has, and the dean actually acquiesced to him staying here for two years, so he should have become the "most qualified disciple of the outer court." ”

Du Zongjiu showed a contemptuous smile on his mouth, he had never looked at this kind of waste wood disciple, and said casually: "You also dare to hunt fierce beasts?" Hehe, Ye Chong, I think if you are really unwilling to give up, it is better to continue to cultivate the "Condensing Qi Decision" and strive to open up the sea of qi as soon as possible." If you haven't reached the Qi Sea Realm, even if you have learned a little beginner-level martial arts, you won't have a chance to become a disciple of the Inner Court. ”

Ye Chong knew that although Teacher Ning's words were making fun of him, what he said was a fact that had been recognized by everyone for a long time. He was not good at verbal disputes, after all, he really didn't open up a sea of qi, so he had to nod helplessly and said: "Teacher Du's words I will keep in mind, but you see that since I have brought the beast pill, you should exchange it for me for a martial arts scroll." ”

"Hmph, don't take my words to heart, otherwise it's useless to continue to stay in the outer courtyard like you and refuse to leave. Du Zongjiu glanced at him, then spread his hand and said, "Take it, a few beast pills, more than three can be exchanged for a scroll of the junior and lower grades!"

Ye Chong smiled slightly, and immediately put down the burden wrapped in his coat, and after untying it, a bunch of beast pills that were still stained with blood were revealed, "I haven't counted them carefully, there should be about fifty." ”