Chapter 5: Forging Bones
There is always only one main color in Northwest Road, and that is earthy yellow.
The earthy yellow city walls, the earthy yellow barracks, the earthy yellow kang, and the doors and windows that have been gray and yellow after a long time of wind and sand.
Even if the snow is falling all over the sky, it can't be completely covered.
Pei Zheng, who was about to succeed in prostitution, returned to the scout camp in the north of the city refreshed, came to a barracks on the left side of the camp gate, opened the door and walked into the barracks that belonged to him alone.
The Great Xia army was strictly hierarchical, and ordinary soldiers and commanders could only sleep in Datong bunks, and only those above the team were eligible to live in one-bedrooms, suites, and even single-family villas.
This low earthen house of less than 30 square meters is not only Pei Zheng's private world, but also a symbol of his status.
Pei Zheng casually locked the door, put the four bottles of a total of ten tiger bone pills in his arms on the table, thought about it and felt that it was not enough, and walked to the dark compartment under the earthen kang and took out a box of a total of thirty forging bone pills.
The Bone Forging Pill belongs to the Great Xia military, it is an elixir for ordinary soldiers to practice martial arts and nourish the body, the price is not high or low, one or two silver, generally exchanged at the quartermaster's office.
According to incomplete statistics, more than half of the military salary received by ordinary soldiers is spent on this, after all, no one is willing to be a big soldier for a lifetime, and everyone wants to carp jump over the dragon gate and become the brightest star in the world.
The box in Pei Zheng's hand was not exchanged from the Quartermaster's Office, but through Old Man Zhang's door, only eight coins of silver, and the medicinal effect was thirty percent better than that bought by the Quartermaster's Office.
Speaking of this matter, it can be traced back to three years ago, Pei Zheng opened the market with a sword in order to make money, but he didn't expect to make much money, and he met the famous old man Lai Zhang in Xin'an City.
Old man Zhang is a good gambler, and his gambling luck is extremely poor, and he owes Pei Zheng fifteen taels of silver in two hours.
When Pei Zheng asked Old Man Zhang for debts, the other party made a fool of himself and relied on the Dafa of repaying debts.
This can make Pei Zheng angry, there are still people in the world who dare to prostitute him for nothing?
Pei Zheng, who was furious, carefully formulated 36 plans for debt collection.
So the old man Zhang sadly found that there were people collecting debts when he was eating, someone collecting debts when he was sleeping, and someone collecting debts when he was.
Sometimes shouting, sometimes beating gongs and drums, sometimes knocking on doors, sometimes climbing over walls.
It can be as few as a few times a day, or as many as dozens of times a day.
After a month of continuous work, the exhausted old man Zhang of Pei Zhengcheng gave in and offered to use the Bone Forging Pill to pay off the debt.
Pei Zheng happened to need the Bone Forging Pill to cultivate martial arts, so he agreed.
When Old Man Zhang handed over the ten Bone Forging Pills to Pei Zheng, Pei Zheng was angry again, and the Quartermaster Department sold one or two pieces of silver, and the premium was fifty percent?
After some arguments, Old Man Zhang admitted frankly that the Bone Forging Pill in his hand belonged to the excellent version, and the effect was thirty percent better than that sold by the Quartermaster Department, and one or two or five yuan a piece belonged to the normal price.
Pei Zheng insisted on talking about one or two pieces of silver through theories such as the price of the same thing being unchanged and the debt not having to add interest.
came and went, the two of them got on the line inexplicably, Old Man Zhang would go to Pei Zheng's handicap from time to time to gamble, and lose nine out of ten bets, Pei Zheng went to Old Man Zhang from time to time to get pills to pay off debts.
In the past three years, Old Man Zhang borrowed Pei Zheng's silver to gamble, no matter whether he won or lost, he basically never paid it back, but the price of the Bone Forging Pill dropped again and again, to eight yuan a piece.
Martial arts cultivation is a long-lasting process, and in the past, considering the long flow of water, Pei Zheng would not take out half of his net worth to exchange for pills.
Now the situation is very different, but there is not so much to care about.
With a light breath of turbidity, Pei Zheng opened the porcelain bottle containing the Tiger Bone Pill, poured out a miserable white pill, and swallowed it with water.
The elixir flowed down his throat into his abdomen, and a warm current rose from his abdomen and quickly spread throughout his body.
At such a critical moment, Pei Zheng naturally did not waste time, and immediately pulled open the shelf, and a set of boxing techniques slowly unfolded.
The rate of breathing is sometimes rapid, sometimes gentle, and with the fist method to mobilize the strength in the body, wave after wave to refine the bones in the body.
Tempering is extremely energy-consuming, and if there is no continuous replenishment of the warm current generated by the elixir, ordinary people will not last too long, and it is easy to hurt their bodies if they insist on it.
After the first punch, Pei Zheng's forehead sweated slightly, and his whole body was in a warm ocean, with an indescribable pleasure and comfort.
While the medicine was still there, Pei Zheng then started the second punch, and the speed of the punch changed from slow to urgent.
"Humph"
As the shadow of the fist flew, the sound of wind and thunder sounded faintly in Pei Zheng's abdominal cavity, which shook his whole body, and a trace of impurities was squeezed out of his pores.
According to Pei Zheng's previous life, this is called the thunder sound of tigers and leopards, and the muscles and bones are ringing together.
After a quarter of an hour, three abnormal noises sounded in Pei Zheng's body one after another, and the warm current disappeared at this point.
Pei Zheng's mind moved, and a line of small words appeared in his mind: Congratulations to the host for successfully refining the three bones and forging the bone realm (198/206).
The effect of the Tiger Bone Pill was even better than Pei Zheng imagined, and he actually helped him refine three bones at one time.
The value of these twenty taels of silver.
He didn't break through the Bone Forging Realm for five years, and outsiders thought that Pei Zheng's talent was too poor to cultivate martial arts, and Zhao Gu speculated that Pei was deliberately hiding it because of his brother's death.
Only Pei Zheng himself knows that the reason is not as simple as they imagined.
Ordinary warriors forge bones, skulls, spine, limbs, sternum, shoulder blades, a total of only fourteen pieces.
Pei Zheng was forging bones, but he was forging two hundred and six pieces, and the time, energy and hardship paid far exceeded others.
The advantage of this is that three years ago, when Pei Zheng was forging forty-three bones, he met with two Hu people in the Bone Forging Realm and hacked each other to death with two knives.
Two years ago, Pei Zheng forged eighty-five pieces of bones, slashed eighteen knives in a row, and forcibly killed a Hu man who had achieved great strength in the realm of muscles and bones.
A year ago, Pei Zheng forged 150 pieces of bones, fought with a blood exchange realm for a day and a night, and finally cut off the opponent's head.
Now, with the addition of the three bones that have just been tempered by the Tiger Bone Pill, the total number of bones that Pei Zheng has tempered has reached one hundred and ninety-eight.
Pei Zheng made a rough calculation, if he met the Hu people in the blood exchange realm now, it would not be a problem to easily hack two to death.
Zhao Gu said that he beheaded twenty-five levels in five years, but it was actually only a small part of it.
It's not that Pei Zheng is unwilling to exchange his head for war exploits, but that he has scruples.
Five years ago, Pei Zheng's talented brother was inexplicably ambushed and besieged in the grassland, and even a complete body was not left behind.
Also five years ago, Pei Zheng's predecessor had just joined the army as a scout, and he was attacked by a dark arrow when he was investigating the enemy.
Over the years, Pei Zhengming has secretly investigated the events of that year, and the answer he came up with was actually an accident, and there was nothing abnormal at all.
For Pei Zheng, this result is as strange as being away from home for five years, the child is three years old, and the paternity test is actually biological.
If there is no anomaly, it is the biggest anomaly.