Dayu County, East City.

"Master Scar, this is the protection fee this time."

Lu Yuan carried the basket on his back, took out six hundred yuan from his arms, and honestly handed it to a man with a scar on his face in front of him.

This is the new leader of the black wolf gang in the city who came out to replace the dead Biao Ye to collect protection money.

Scar's temperament looks a little fierce, I heard that he was a strongman who cut the path in the early years, and then somehow, he joined the Black Wolf Gang and was a famous thug in the gang.

Since Biao Ye was killed on the street last year, the Black Wolf Gang has strengthened the manpower to collect protection money.

At this time, behind Scar, six men in black clothes, all with a short knife pinned to their waists, flashed in the sun, which was daunting.

"Yes, you're much smarter than the others, and you don't think anything about it."

Scar Ye walked to Lu Yuan's side, opened the back basket and flipped it twice, and soon had a rough estimate of the contents inside, and the protection fee paid was exactly thirty percent, and he couldn't help but nod with satisfaction: "Pay the money honestly, hello and I'm good." ”

"That's what you said." Lu Yuan laughed flatteringly.

Scar Ye patted him on the shoulder, took the money and left with a few of his subordinates.

When the pedestrians on the road saw this group of murderers, they all avoided in fear, and a passage was vacated in the street.

"A bunch of vampires."

Looking at their distant backs, Lu Yuan sighed in his heart.

Every time I enter the city, I have to be pulled by these vampires, and my hard-earned harvest for months is taken out of thin air, and anyone will feel distressed.

That's all hard-earned money.

Especially now that he has started to practice martial arts, the consumption of various expenditures has increased sharply, which is even more heart-wrenching.

As for not paying?

Although he has already begun to practice martial arts, and even the palm method of Fushui has been completed, and his combat power is not much stronger than before.

But Lu Yuan knew that his current strength was still not the opponent of the other party.

At the beginning, Ma Jiqing, who even practiced his internal strength, walked on the wall like walking on the ground.

But such strongmen, in the face of the pursuit of the Black Wolf Gang, were not seriously injured in the end, and fled into Lantau Island in a hurry, and finally died in their own hands.

"Ma Jiqing is at least a person who has practiced the two meridians, and he is worthy of the third-rate strength of the rivers and lakes. He was defeated in the hands of the Black Wolf Gang, I haven't even practiced my internal strength now, my strength is not in the stream at all, and fighting with the Black Wolf Gang is definitely self-defeating. ”

Regarding his own strength, Lu Yuan has always been very pressing.

Therefore, even if he was very unhappy with these exploits in his heart, for the sake of his life, he still endured it.

The current humiliation is only temporary, and when one's own strength is enough, that is the time when there is hatred and revenge, and there is injustice.

"But according to the current progress, when I become a master, it may be thirty or fifty years later, and this Scar Master and the Black Wolf Gang are still not there at that time, it's a problem?"

Lu Yuan suddenly thought of this question, but quickly shook his head: "No matter, when these people die, I will find their sons and grandsons." The hatred provoked by the ancestors, the children and grandchildren come to return, which is reasonable. ”

……

With this account written down in his heart, Lu Yuan turned around and walked into the Sitong Commercial Bank.

After bargaining with Liu Papi in the trading house for a while, he sold the leather he brought, and after three months of harvest, he finally got two taels and five dollars of silver.

Leaving the firm with the newly arrived silver, he turned around and entered a medical hall next door.

"Doctor Zhou, according to this prescription, grab some medicinal materials for me."

As usual, Lu Yuan took out a prescription and handed it to Dr. Zhou, who was settling accounts behind the counter.

Dr. Zhou's name is Zhou Ze, about thirty years old, with a short beard on his chin, and he looks like a scholar.

This Zhou family medicine store is the main business of Dr. Zhou, and his family has opened a medical clinic here for generations, which is rumored to have been around for a hundred years.

Since Lu Yuan practiced martial arts, he basically entered the city once a month, and usually came here to buy medicine, so he was a regular visitor.

After more than half a year, the two sides have become very familiar.

Zhou Ze took the prescription, looked at the ratio inside, and frowned slightly: "Different from the previous prescriptions, these are all medicinal materials that replenish lean blood and nourish internal qi, are you hurting your lungs?" ”

Zhou Ze knows a little bit about this regular customer buying medicine and practicing martial arts.

At this time, after seeing the change of prescription, with rich experience, after judging the specific effect of the new prescription, I subconsciously thought that the other party had made a mistake in practicing martial arts, so I bought medicine to recuperate.

"No, I just felt that the previous practice method was wrong, so I changed the practice method this time." Lu Yuan had already thought of an excuse before he came, and said it according to the preparation at this time.

Zhou Ze frowned: "Although you won't hurt your body if you eat these medicinal herbs, but the dosage is too much, and it will always be a bit of a burden on the body." Moreover, the human body is exquisite, and if you toss around, it is easy to get sick.

Listen to my advice, the rivers and lakes are not so easy to mix, and martial arts are not so easy to practice.

Fighting, killing, and losing your life if you are not careful.

Instead of hoping for these unrealistic exercises, it is better to save money, marry a daughter-in-law, and live a peaceful life. ”

Dr. Zhou is worthy of being a benevolent doctor, although he is facing customers who come to buy medicine at this time, he still cares more about the other party's body for business.

Lu Yuan shook his head and smiled: "It's okay, I'm measured." ”

Zhou Ze sighed: "Forget it, you know your own affairs." I say so much and do nothing. Wait, I'll go get you some medicine. ”

Turning around, the person began to go to the various medicine cabinets and grab the medicine according to the prescription.

This is a good doctor and a good person.

Looking at the busy figure of the other party, Lu Yuan thought like this in his heart, and his thoughts couldn't help but fly.

Dayu County is a small place, and there is only one medical center in the city. So if you want to buy medicinal materials to practice martial arts, you can only come here.

Fortunately, Dr. Zhou is a doctor, and with this ancestral profession, he has a whole county of patients to support, and he has a good income, so he doesn't have to worry about his livelihood at all.

Therefore, people don't look down on such hard and dangerous things as practicing martial arts, fighting, killing and killing.

After several tentative contacts, Lu Yuan was already at ease with this Doctor Zhou, and was no longer worried that the other party was coveting his martial arts secrets.

Later, he even simply admitted generously that he was buying medicine to practice martial arts.

Anyway, what he gave was only a prescription, not a cheat, and relying on medicinal materials alone, he could at most infer that he was practicing martial arts.

But what is practiced, outsiders are not clear at all, and there is no worry about leaking secrets at all.

"After all, if an Orion is blindly thinking about something, who will take it to heart, maybe he will laugh it off." Lu Yuan thought so in his heart.

A hunter who changes his identity and fate like practicing martial arts, in the eyes of everyone, there will be nothing strange.

Perhaps the only strange thing is that this Orion hasn't trained himself to death yet.

While thinking wildly, Zhou Ze had already grabbed the medicine, grabbed a few large bags and put them in front of the counter, dialed the abacus twice and said: "Give, according to the old rules, a month's amount, benefit five taels of silver." ”

"It's expensive."

Hearing this price, the corners of Lu Yuan's mouth twitched, and while reaching out to take out the money in his arms, he said, "Can't it be cheaper?" ”

Zhou Ze glanced at him and said with a smile: "The small shop is small, and it will not be credited." If the guest is too expensive, it is better to stop practicing martial arts, so that this expenditure will be less, and it will not be expensive. ”

Well, at this time, the doctor was still worried that Lu Yuan had trained himself to death, so he turned around and persuaded him.

Lu Yuan shut up in an instant.

Honestly took out the money, the two taels and five coins of silver that just arrived today have not been hot, and they will be sent out in an instant, and they will be pasted upside down with two taels of silver.

"Martial arts training is really expensive!"

Putting the medicinal herbs into the back basket, Lu Yuan walked out of the medicine shop and looked at the dazzling sunlight outside, the red sun, in his eyes, seemed to have turned into a big copper coin.

The deposit is much less, and the wallet is even more deflated.

I went farther and farther on the road of being poor, as if I could see the day when I lost all my family wealth and lived on the street in order to practice martial arts.

"No, the money is gone, the house is sold, I can go back to live in the mountains, and the cave will not be on the streets." Lu Yuan hurriedly shook his head, and then walked towards the city gate.

In order to prevent the day when his family would go bankrupt, he now doesn't even go to the usual restaurants in the city, so he wants to save more money.

As for what to do if you're hungry?

In the back basket there are bacon rice balls prepared in the morning, which are much cheaper than the ones outside.

……

The county seat and Yangmei Town are quite far apart, a full seventy miles away, and when it was close to dusk, Lu Yuan rushed back.

When he returned home, he put the herbs in his bedroom, dug a dark room under his bed, and put them away with the silver he was carrying.

I bought these for five taels of silver, and the gold was very expensive, but I couldn't let people steal them.

After locking the small gold cabinet, Lu Yuan went to the kitchen, stewed as usual, put the water, rice and meat, and cooked today's dinner.

While there was still some time before the meal was ready, he came to the courtyard, and when he was whirring, he started a trick and practiced palm skills.

After a set, the person was already sweating.

After taking a few buckets of water and taking a shower, and then eating dinner, Lu Yuan returned to the bed in the bedroom, but did not sleep, but sat cross-legged, his mind sank into his body, and he began to think in the dark.

"The so-called internal force, according to the book, is the result of the fusion of the soul of a person and the essence and blood in the body. This thing is void and dark, it seems to be true and false, it has no substance, but it can be sensed by life.

That's why some people call it qi.

The combination of soul and blood is qi, and the essence and spirit are the three treasures of the human body. Therefore, those who have practiced internal strength will be strong if their internal strength increases, and if their internal strength fails, they will be weak and weak.

Therefore, in the martial arts, after someone's internal strength is abolished, he will completely become a sick seedling, and it will not take long for him to die of a short life.

There are even more people whose internal strength is exhausted, their soul and blood are lost, and their lives are whimpering. ”

As for the general outline of the source of internal qi, Lu Yuan has long been very familiar. At this time, just a thought, that word popped up in my mind.

Therefore, the key to practicing internal qi is to use the divine soul to sense the body, so that the two resonate, achieve the transformation of the mysterious, and finally merge into qi.

And this method of induction and resonance is the method of internal strength. ”

Lu Yuan thought back to the mind method of Liuyun Palm, he had already observed this method thousands of times, and he had already had his own experience of the various meanings and subtleties in it.

Now that I started the induction, I didn't have to think much about it, and I naturally sank into it.

"The heart method of flowing cloud palm is the meaning of observing clouds and water, and it is derived from this.

Therefore, using this method to sense the essence and blood in the body is to pay attention to the trend of flowing water.

With the spirit as a cloud, scattered throughout the body.

With essence and blood as flowing water, it rushes in the meridians everywhere.

When the clouds and mist merge with the flowing water, the internal qi comes out, and the mental method is also introduced. ”

In the void, Lu Yuan emptied his mind and began to imagine his spiritual will as a cloud of mist.

The clouds and mist gathered and dispersed, and as the wind of thought flowed, they began to pass through their bodies according to the route pointed out in the Dharma.

And in the body, after more than a year of nourishment, the essence and blood that had already been thick and incomparably thick, as if guided by his own thoughts, began to gurgle like a stream in the blood vessels.

The sound of blood circulation, the touch of circulation, at this time, under the induction of the spiritual cloud, is so clear.

The scene that I couldn't experience appeared in my heart at this time.

It's as if there is a perspective mirror, reflecting the place where the blood of the cloud essence flows in front of his eyes.

The inner view mentioned in the mental method was entered by Lu Yuan at this time.

The blood continued to flow, and the clouds drifted over them, flowing along with them in the meridians.

Gradually, some clouds and mist were driven by the bloodline, broke away from the void, entered the bloodline, and merged with the blood.

Bang.

It was like an explosion that only existed in the spirit, a force that seemed to be illusory and invisible, but real and tangible, appeared between Lu Yuan's meridians.

Neiqi was born.

After studying the mental method for a year, he finally cultivated his internal strength and introduced the mental method.

……

Three days later.

Yangmei Town, on the street.

Lu Yuan carried a basket on his back, held a knife and arrows, and prepared to go into the mountains to hunt.

Although the snow has fallen now, most of the animals in the mountains have taken refuge in their nests, preparing to hibernate, and there are almost no wild animals outside, which is not the time for hunting.

But although there are no wild beasts outside, there are still wild beasts in their lair.

"Originally, the nests of wild beasts, such as hares and foxes, were too hidden to be found.

And other jackals, tigers and leopards are large predators.

Their nests are easy to find, but these are all very ferocious, and it is not certain who hunts who is in the snow. ”

As Lu Yuan walked, he thought in his heart: "But now that I have practiced internal qi, whether it is strength or speed, it is much stronger than before, and it can almost be said that my strength has doubled.

Now I can probably win the lone tiger and bear.

But for the sake of safety, don't look for these kings of the mountains, pick a few leopards and wild wolves, and find these soft persimmons to pinch better. ”

After cultivating internal strength, because the internal qi is formed by the fusion of the divine soul and the essence blood, every time the internal qi is refined, the consumption of one's own essence and blood becomes one point larger.

Therefore, in order to maintain this consumption, it is natural to find a way to make up for the loss of essence blood.

In reality, that is Lu Yuan's appetite, which instantly increased.

The amount of food he had eaten before was simply not enough to satisfy him.

Nowadays, two or three catties of meat and four or five catties of rice for a meal are just ordinary.

Coupled with the loss of various tonic herbs, the daily expenses continue to leak out like an unstoppable flood.

According to Lu Yuan's conservative estimate, he needed at least ten taels of silver a month to barely support his own consumption.

In this case, of course, he wanted to break his head and wanted to earn more income.

It's not.

Now in the winter, people want to kill in the beast's den and make some extra money.