Chapter 7: The Years of Retreat

As soon as it was dawn the next morning, Zhang Fan and Xue'er got up. Then the two washed up, had breakfast, and went to the yard.

In the morning, the morning glow fills the sky, and the insects and birds first chirp. In the courtyard, Zhang Fan and Xue'er each sat cross-legged on a futon, silently running their internal skills to cultivate against the rising sun. As the morning sun rose, wisps of glow mixed with the morning mist were inhaled into Zhang Fan and the others, and the inner breath in the dantian of the two grew little by little.

Two hours later, a stream of air spread out around Zhang Fan as the center, shaking the grass and trees around several meters, and then he snorted softly, quickly got up from the futon, and stretched his waist. At this time, Xue'er, who was not far away, also slowly stopped breathing, then stood up, and said with a happy face: "Childe, my internal breath has increased a little more today, and I will reach the peak of the early stage of skin refining in a few days." ”

Seeing this, Zhang Fan was also happy for her, and said, "Xue'er, while we are now full of internal breath, let's exercise quickly." Xue'er replied, "Listen to Childe." ”

Zhang Fan and the others entered the house, first put the leather armor and sword on their bodies, and then went out and ran around the two gardens in the courtyard. After about two hours, both of them were exhausted and out of breath, then they stopped and sat down on the futon to recuperate.

After a while, Zhang Fan and the two finished their work, packed up their things, went back to the house to wash up, removed the stinky sweat on their bodies, and put on clean clothes and came to the hall. Then the two made breakfast and chatted while eating. Xue'er asked with a puzzled face, "Childe, did you break through this morning?" I see that you are much easier than before when you carry the black sword. Zhang Fan was a little excited, and replied: "This morning, Childe, I did have a good harvest and broke through the meat refining realm." You also have to cultivate seriously and break through your cultivation as soon as possible. "Childe really broke through, I'm so happy. Xue'er blushed and said happily, "I will work hard to cultivate in the future and protect my son." Then the two chatted to themselves.

After the meal, Zhang Fan found some charcoal, set up a medicine tripod, and prepared to refine dozens of medicinal materials such as dragon and tiger grass, flower snake gall bladder, ginseng and He Shou Wu collected a few days ago into gold sore medicine, hemostatic powder, detoxification powder, Peiyuan powder, dragon and tiger divine power pill and several other medicines.

In the courtyard, Zhang Fan looked at the stove in front of him, and constantly stirred the ointment in the ding with a wooden spoon. Cher watched from the sidelines, adding some firewood to the fire below the tripod from time to time.

Unconsciously, a whole afternoon passed, and Zhang Fan finally boiled several potions, either loaded or dried, and several potions were successfully refined. Then the two of them had dinner, sorted out the potions, and then cultivated separately.

In the next few days, Zhang Fan and the two of them continued to refine their internal breath internally, and forge their skin and muscles externally.

Two months later, with the help of Pei Yuansan and Dragon Tiger Divine Power Pills, Zhang Fan and Xue'er cultivated by leaps and bounds. Zhang Fan finally digested the remaining spiritual power of the inexplicable red fruit, and his cultivation was promoted to the middle stage of muscle refining, and Xue'er also broke through to the early stage of meat refining. These days, Zhang Fan has been carrying leather armor and black swords every day, and his body has been extremely strong, and his hands have a huge strength of 10,000 catties (the power of ten bulls or the power of a tiger), and the harvest is extraordinary. Xue'er can also barely pick up a thousand catties of heavy objects and deal with ordinary first- and second-grade brute beasts, no problem.

In the past few days, Zhang Fan saw that the medicinal materials he collected last time were almost exhausted, and his cultivation had also improved by leaps and bounds, and the idea of entering the Beast Forest Trial arose in his heart. However, he found that Xue'er had almost no combat experience, so he wanted to practice a little more martial arts with Xue'er first, so that the two of them could have a little more security on their trip to the Beast Forest.

That morning, as soon as Zhang Fan and the two finished breakfast, he told Xue'er what he thought. Then the two began to ponder the cultivation of martial arts.

Zhang Fan didn't get any fist and foot martial arts from his parents, and ordinary martial arts can only be bought for tens of thousands of taels of silver, so he couldn't think of creating his own zĂ o martial arts. However, a powerful martial arts secret technique was slowly realized by countless ancestors after thousands of fights, and it was difficult for a kid with little experience in the realm of refining tendons to create a martial art. However, Zhang Fan is different from others, although he has not practiced martial arts, but with the vast memory in his mind, he can still piece together several sets of nine-grade martial arts, and with the improvement of experience, it is not difficult to create a martial art.

In the next few days, Zhang Fan practiced internal breath while comparing moves with Xue'er and pondering offensive and defensive skills.

It is said that the world's martial arts are only fast and unbreakable, and only indestructible. In the face of enemy battles, a quick attack is the best defense. Swords, guns, swords, halberds, hammers, axes, or domineering, or unpredictable, or light and small, or powerful and heavy, and so on. The secret technique of martial arts, to the middle point, is to make the weapon as you like, fast enough, accurate enough, and ruthless enough. And the attack and defense of moves, either abandon defense and move forward, or take into account the surroundings and sweep the eight wildernesses, or have insight and confidence. Martial arts can kill the enemy, can defend oneself, can exercise and nourish oneself, and can divide the art of killing, defense, exercise, and light body exercises.

After nearly a month of deduction and pondering, Zhang Fan also integrated the Tai Chi concept he learned in his previous life, and after many trials by himself, he created two sets of simple martial arts, namely the three styles of Ba Dao (sword) (point stab, star and moon slash, and whirlwind slash) and the free footwork (spiral running and sound east and west) Of course, Zhang Fan also cooperated with Tai Chi moves with internal breath to practice a set of mutated Tai Chi methods.

In the past month, Zhang Fan first fused simple offensive and defensive moves to form two or three sets of martial arts (once the moves are used, the internal breath in the body naturally runs along the relevant meridians, and finally the internal breath blesses the weapon, so that the power of the martial arts is greatly increased. Later, the iron sword (sword) and the black sword were used to use martial arts, and the newly formed martial arts gradually became rigid and soft, and they became natural.

Zhang Fan found that the martial arts he cultivated had already had a glimpse of the door, and his usual cultivation had little effect, so he moved his cultivation place to the dense forest, under the river and in the lake. In the past two months, Zhang Fan's martial arts have undergone earth-shaking changes, and his swordsmanship, fist and footwork have been slightly successful.

Several months of martial arts cultivation not only made Zhang Fan's martial arts small, but also improved. He has cultivated to the peak of refining muscles, and Xue'er has also improved, and his internal cultivation has reached the late stage of meat refining.

After Zhang Fan's internal breath and martial arts both broke through, the plan in his heart was also put on the agenda.

On this day, Zhang Fan and the two had just finished lunch, and Zhang Fan discussed with Xue'er: "Xue'er, now that you and I have achieved a little in cultivation and martial arts, we will go to the Beast Forest in a few days to test the results of the past few months, how about it?" Xue'er replied obediently: "Well, I listen to Gongzi." I have also gained these days, and I have thousands of catties of strength in my hands, which is equivalent to the power of counting oxen. Childe is going to the Beast Forest to cultivate, so I'll prepare it in the next few days and bring the things we want to use. ”

In the following days, Zhang Fan once again refined some common medicines such as hemostatic powder, detoxification powder and Jinchuang medicine, made many sandalwood boxes, prepared several sets of clothes, a few cloth bags, a few flints, a few gourds and some dry food. Cher also packed up the furniture at home and prepared some miscellaneous odds and ends.