Chapter 13: Sailing Ships (3)
Of the three people who survived, I trusted Honda the most, and for no other reason - he was the slave I was able to summon, and although he was a little stupid, wasn't the lack of thought the quality of a slave?
And my relationship with Murong Zhi is very delicate.
Murong Zhi used to be my maidservant, and I didn't bully her less (of course, don't understand that I bullied her a lot. )。 But there is a brother-sister boundary between us (yesterday it was changed to brother and sister, now it is the master and the subordinate - my forbearance for the time being), and I have never crossed it.
- Doesn't count the dirty words, it's really only the time when I got into the brain, I swear to you.
A small part of the reason is that my father's stick and my mother's Tsunade are often brainwashed, and most of it is because of my sense of honor.
I subconsciously always regarded her as a competitor, and never considered using third-rate means to win her-
Ever since my mother first taught us to read, I wanted to prove that I was better than her, that I had a good brain, which was what children wanted to do in front of adults. But ever since she was rejected by her mother from studying Confucian classics, I have a sense of guilt that I have won without a fight—I would only have a sense of accomplishment if I had overtaken her in every civil and military competition in the past ten years. And now relying on the favoritism of adults to get her out early, there is always a feeling of guilt for being a thief.
This thief-like guilt lasted until yesterday.
I suddenly found out that she was still running, and inadvertently we were back on the same starting line ten years later.
1. We each have considerable resources - she comes from Murong Ziling's inheritance, and I come from the wealth entrusted by my parents.
2. Our martial arts are similar - from Honda's description, I deduce that she is also in the initial level of internal strength: to be able to produce more than ten slaves with good external skills, at least need to have internal strength, and with the weapon of golden sea bream (my foot over that dagger) is not inferior to my silver snake sword, after improving her combat power, she still has to be injured to result in the middle level of internal strength Honda.
3. Our knowledge is quite - I don't think my father can teach her any Confucian knowledge (of course it is impossible to teach, my father has a headache when he reads difficult ancient texts, and it is not as good as the level that Murong Zhi embodied when he was six and a half years old), and she didn't have more energy to study literature when she spent time serving me (learning martial arts must be at night, and during the day she was under my nose). And I've been working hard for ten years to catch up with her six-and-a-half-year-old (I'm an idiot if I don't catch up!).
4. Our seafaring skills are comparable—this is the conclusion I have just come to after observing her sailing skills for two hours. Needless to say, my father must have taught her secretly.
At that time, I heard my father announce that Murong Zhi would be my sister and have the original status of Murong Ziling. I was indeed very upset, but deep down I was relieved of my guilty guilt.
There is no doubt that I took over my father's class, and Murong Zhi was given the status of an internal deputy at that time. Perhaps my father's deep meaning is that in the future, the two of us will compete with each other in Baiyun Township, liberate Murong Zhi as the driving force to promote my progress, and let her growth performance oppress my performance growth.
- I'm really the kind of genius who needs to be forced to grow.
Now the situation has changed, and the parents and gangs are gone. But my competition with Murong Zhi remains the same. We still have to compete in Baiyun Township to see who can survive better.
However, this kind of competition for survival is not necessarily life and death, there must be mutual hates between us that come from competition (it turns out that there is mutual hatred - she hates me for bullying her and her mother's oppression of her, I hate her death and my father's preference for her), but there will also be mutual assistance and cooperation in the unfamiliar Baiyun Township to open up a way of life - we don't have more than a thousand people, just two little adults who have just started their internal strength, what if there are demon beasts in Baiyun Township, and barbarian tribes, as well as the villain and strong people in the realm of Zhuji and Jindan? The so-called Little Peace Township is just something that has not been proven.
Of course, the above is my wishful thinking, but I believe from experience that Murong Zhi is a more rational person than me, and she must have considered the above. We have to work together to survive in the unknown.
"Hey, I also have a lot of antidote in my ring. Do you use it?"
I was determined to say a few sincere soft words, but the tone of my voice was still very hard - who told me to be her maidservant all the time, the sudden dislocation of the original attitude is still difficult to completely change.
"Don't use it for the time being, you have to save money to deal with emergencies. We don't know what medicinal materials are produced in Baiyun Township, what poisons are there, and whether the soil is suitable for cultivating medicinal herbs. In the most extreme cases, food may not be grown. ”
It turned out that she also had herb seeds and grain seeds.
I think if there's the most extreme on land, let's switch to hunting, and I'm not a vegetarian anyway.
"I've counted the water and food, and if there are three people, the supply of Honda's slaves will be halved. We may be hungry for the last three days. ”
Murong Zhi fine-tuned the rudder of the sailboat according to the direction of the wind, and I adjusted the sails accordingly. She remembered the reserves on the sailboat and consulted my opinion.
The dhow was originally used for life-saving, and when it escaped in a hurry, there was only a limit to what it could store. Although there are gold, silver, jewelry, and elixirs in the vows, there is no food or water (they will still be corrupted and turbid when placed in the vows). We are not masters of foundation building, we can draw qi into the body, and we will not eat for several days. Eating and drinking is a very serious reality.
"Cut the water and food in half every day. Drink more water and eat less. Or eat it the next day. ”
"I'm close to the limit, otherwise I wouldn't even have the strength to sail the boat. ”
No wonder she didn't even spare a litter of mice. I wonder if the bowl of rat soup four hours ago is the only one for today?
Silent for a long time,
I say:
"We have pills. ”
"Can you take it without exploding?"
She retorted coldly.
Murong Zhi had also made this calculation.
There are a large number of Tsukidan and Huangya Dan in our vows. It's a pity that we can't use it - it's common sense in Danxue.
One of the great maxims of Danxue is "mortals eat the grain, those who cultivate the truth eat the pill, those who return to the void eat the qi, and the immortals have nothing to do." ”
It goes without saying that mortals feed on grains, meat and vegetarians.
Immortals live the same life as heaven and earth (no one has ever seen them), so naturally they don't have to eat anything, which goes without saying.
After mortals practice external and internal skills, their blood and qi are strong, and their appetite becomes larger, so they need more grains, meat and vegetables to replenish their vitality.
My family is in the pirate business, and I never worry about money, and my parents never go hungry.
But there are still many friends who don't do business to make a fortune, so they can only stop at the beginning of external skills
- The reason is very simple, there is no money to eat.
But when you reach the cultivation level above the foundation builder, eating too much food will instead accumulate more "poison" in your body.
Of course, cultivators can cleanse the poison from their intestines and bloodlines, but it takes a lot of time to go in, maybe eat a meal (at their level, how many whole cows are roasted in a meal), and the time spent washing the toxins is three times as long.
Waidanxue came into being.
The Wai Dan refined by putting the spirit grass, the great medicine, and the Jiayu on the furnace has no toxins and impurities, and the vitality is equivalent to the food of the whole cow. Cultivators take it directly, which is simple and effective.
- The elixir has become a precious commodity comparable to gold and silver in the world.
Those who build the foundation generally take the Zhuji Dan, and those who build the gold pill generally take the Huang Ya Dan (my father takes the Huang Ya Dan every day, and the usual meals are only a few times with us).
One Tsukidan is equivalent to one tael of silver, and one Yellow Tooth Pill is equivalent to one tael of gold.
- Strangely enough,
Pills circulate in the world, but they are not cultivated in the world.
Not all the Dan materials need to be planted on the spiritual mountains outside the world, and not the farmers who grow the Dan materials need to be extremely deeply trained.
However, the furnace and alchemy method are the patents of the Xiuzhen sect outside the world.
Therefore, the source control of the production of pills is in the hands of the Xiuzhen sect outside the world.
The various secular forces attached to the sect (including the imperial court) were only the sales channels for the elixir.
- Readers will ask, where did our family's elixir come from?
- Part of it was from the reward of the big boss of Nangong, and some of it was snatched by his father from other dock forts.
The Nangong family is an intermediate link, because the big leader of Nangong is a disciple of a certain Great Cultivation True Sect who is thriving in the world, and he can get a stable supply of pills.
Our gang is just the end of the production and circulation chain of the elixir, and sometimes acts as consumers.
That is to say, although Murong Zhi and I have a certain amount of pills, in the foreseeable future, they will only decrease, not increase.
We don't have the ability to produce pills.
However, the problem with Murong Zhi and I now is that we can't consume the pills we have at hand.
Taking pills and eating are both the same and different.
The body's internal organs can automatically convert grains and meat into vitality.
However, the human body cannot automatically convert the pill into vitality.
Taking the pill requires a special skill.
Refining pills is another use of internal strength, and another name for internal power is "Neidanxue", which is matched with the "Outer Danxue" for making pills.
In the embryonic stage of Wai Danxue (that is, the era of civilization), some Taoist priests went to fool the emperor to solicit research sponsorship, guaranteeing that the emperor would be immortal after eating. But in practice, many emperors were killed by eating pills.
Because the internal strength of these emperors has not been cultivated to the home.
The Inner Dan of the Civilization Era had not yet reached the level of the Foundation Building Realm, and they were unable to refine or completely refine the pills, and as a result, they exploded and died.
Only the level of internal cultivation in the foundation building realm can refine the elixir.
Today's Inner Dan has reached its peak.
The internal skills that Murong Zhi and I practiced were learned from my father, my father was learned from the Nangong Grand Chief, and the Nangong Grand Boss was learned from the Xuanmen Authentic Sect.
There wasn't any problem with refining the elixir.
The problem is with both of us.
Our internal strength is the initial level, and we must cultivate to the level of the lower layer of the foundation and be able to draw qi into the body, so that we can refine the elixir at hand.
"But I think we're just going to solve the problem of filling our stomachs. You don't have to be bound by Danxue. ”
I asked for Murong Zhi's dagger alfonsino and cut a dragon's eye sized Zhuji Dan into dozens of particles.
"I'll make a real yàn first, and see if my cultivation at the initial level of internal strength can completely refine the Zhuji Dan grain the size of a mung bean. After all, I know all the internal skills of the upper layer of the foundation, but now the amount of my true qi is not enough. But refining the Zhuji Dan grains the size of mung beans is still somewhat certain. ”
"You're gambling with your life. ”
"I have nothing to lose anyway. Besides, I've gone crazy once, and I'm a little more experienced than you who haven't gone through the life and death situation of practice. ”
Murong Zhi thought for a moment and said:
"Okay. If you succeed, I will also use my internal strength to refine the pill according to the law. Hopefully the food problem will be solved. ”