Chapter 18: The Mysterious Boy

"Adduction in the heart, no external objects in the heart, essence, qi, and spirit are one, pregnant with the fire of the dantian, sent and received in the heart, internal and external induction, wind helps fire, fire conceives wind, complements each other, then Dan fire has a period. ”

It's a magical valley with lush ancient trees and flowers. The sun shone lazily in the clearing in the valley, and at the bottom of the mountain peaks not far away, the deep black caverns seemed to attract people's souls.

In the middle of the clearing, a strange formation was arranged, and the essence of the sun in the sky was concentrated on a formation eye, and above the array eye, a small small tripod about the size of a basketball rose and fell above the sun fire. In front of Xiao Ding, a young man about fourteen or fifteen years old maintained a strange posture with his hands, and the internal force in his body continued to input towards Xiao Ding. The young man's face was already pale, but he still persisted, if he gave up this alchemy, he would be defeated.

It's a pity that he didn't wait for him, and the internal force finally ran out, but there was no sign of the pill being formed, and there was a "bang", a mushy smell came, and the young man smiled bitterly, "The alchemy of the body refining realm is really unrealistic, and it is also, I am too delusional." ”

The young man's name is Qin Chen, don't look at his strong body, but he is only eleven years old. He is handsome, and his height has reached 1.5 meters, and he is a veritable tall man. It wasn't the first time he had tried a first-grade pill just now, but what the "Alchemy Encyclopedia" said was really true, this was not at all a person in the body refining realm who could succeed.

This is a world of cultivation, the first realm is called the body refining realm, there are nine folds, and the boy is at the ninefold peak of the body refining realm, so he took the risk of refining a grade of pills. Pills are essential items for cultivators, and they are divided into nine grades, with one being the lowest and nine being the highest. Even the lowest grade costs ten spirit coins, which is a luxury item out of ten. Spirit coins are the common currency on the continent, and under them there are gold coins, silver coins, and copper coins, one of which can be exchanged for a hundred copper coins, a gold coin can be exchanged for a hundred silver coins, and a spirit coin can be exchanged for a hundred gold coins. One copper coin can buy one bun, which shows how much wealth ten spirit coins are.

Since discovering this cave, Qin Chen had secretly bought an inferior alchemy furnace and set up a simple fire-gathering formation, I don't know how many medicinal materials were spent, and even three medicinal materials were used, but it didn't succeed once. Qin Chen couldn't help but laugh at himself, he was too greedy, and there were not many first-grade alchemists in the entire Chen Kingdom, how could he compare himself to them.

Thinking of this, look at the sky, it's already half an afternoon, "Xiaohui, I'm back." Qin Chen shouted at the flowers next to him.

"Zhilu said, brother. As he spoke, a little Lori who was about four or five years old ran out, still holding two butterflies in her hands. This cute little Lori is Qin Chen's younger sister, who is four years old this year and is named Qin Huihui.

After Qin Huihui came out, she suddenly jumped on Qin Chen's body, "Brother, have you practiced it?" ”

Qin Chen was almost overwhelmed by her when he was weak, but there was no trace of anger on his face, on the contrary, he pinched Qin Huihui's nose and said, "Fool, if the pill is so easy to practice, isn't there all alchemists in this world!"

"Hmph, they can't practice it because they don't have the ability, but my brother can definitely practice it. "Little Lori has an inexplicable sense of trust in her brother.

"Okay, it's not too early, I'll recover first, and then I'll go hunting. With that, he sat up. Qin Huihui is also very sensible, sitting on the side with her chin in her hands and watching her brother meditate. Since her brother came, Huihui has also become much more cheerful.

About half an hour later, Qin Chen stood up and let out a long howl. At this time, his spirit had reached its peak, and his whole body was full of inexhaustible energy.

Qin Chen didn't delay, picked up Qin Huihui, put it on his shoulder, kicked his feet, jumped up, and disappeared into the depths of the dense forest in a few clicks.

This small valley is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and only one side is connected to the depths of Dabi Mountain, from which Qin Chen and Huihui enter the mountains to hunt every time. Dabi Mountain traverses east and west, is 800 miles long and 30 miles wide. And Dabi Mountain is just a branch of the Vast Mountain Range, the Vast Mountain Range is boundless, no one knows where its end is, anyway, none of the people in the land of a hundred countries have passed through the Vast Mountain Range from the south. Moreover, the hunters of the Land of the Hundred Nations only dared to operate in the Dabi Mountain, and the vast mountain range was the range of activities of those cultivators.

Dabi Mountain is not big, but it is not small to say that it is not small, at least there are still a lot of demon beasts in the body refining realm. Although the grade is not high, it is not something that ordinary hunters can deal with, but it is cheaper than Qin Chen.

In a col of Dabi Mountain, Qin Chen and Qin Huihui hid on the top of a big tree, and stood a roaming tiger below, the tiger's body was about five meters long, which definitely exceeded the normal standard. This tiger has been out of the scope of the beast, it is a veritable demon beast, a seventh-level demon beast, equivalent to the seven-fold human refining realm, and it definitely belongs to the overlord-level figure in Dabi Mountain. It's a pity that it met Qin Chen today.

"Shhhh Qin Chen asked Xiaohui to stay in the tree. He jumped down from the tree and pounced on the tiger, this kind of tiger is evolved from an ordinary beast, not a congenital demon beast, usually because of a certain spiritual fruit mistakenly advanced, so this kind of beast that evolved into a demon beast because of an accident has a simple name, demon so-and-so, this tiger is called a demon tiger. The demon tiger felt a gust of wind blowing behind him, jumped to the side, and easily dodged it.

Qin Chen didn't have any hope of taking it down so easily, after all, there was only a difference of two levels. Qin Chen loosened his bones and gave Qin Huihui on the tree a reassuring look.

In the past, all the monsters he captured were low-level demon beasts, and with his strong strength, he easily took them down. Therefore, this demon tiger was chosen this time to test his strength, what position he occupies in the body refining realm, whether he is strong or weak.

Qin Chen clenched his fists and performed the Mangniu Fist technique at the beginning. The Mangniu is one of the most common demon beasts, with a gentle temperament and infinite strength, but it is also very terrifying if it starts a fire. At best, this can only be regarded as an ordinary commodity in the body refining martial arts, but Qin Chen believes that the martial arts among low-level martial artists are not important, what matters is the person who casts it, if it is used properly, no matter how bad the martial arts are, they can exert earth-shattering power.

Qin Chen kicked his legs and rushed forward like a reckless bull, this is a move in the reckless bull boxing technique, called a reckless horn sprint. In the eyes of the demon tiger, it was a reckless cow rushing towards him, the demon tiger roared, in this mountain forest he is the hegemon, the reckless cow is just its meal, seeing his own food dared to rush himself, the demon tiger was really angry.

With a wave of the demon tiger's front paws, it was about to knock this offender into the ground. Unexpectedly, when he was about to arrive at the front, Qin Chen was stunned, and just like that, he went around the back of the demon tiger, and launched it without a shadow, which was also an ordinary martial art. The demon tiger felt the crisis behind him, and the tiger flicked his tail, wanting to pull the person behind him away. The tiger's tail slapped on the man, and before the demon tiger could smile, the figure was broken in half, and it turned out to be a phantom.

Zhilu said that he had hit a hard idea, and the demon tiger kicked his front legs and was about to flee.

"At this point, do you think you can still escape?" Qin Chen suddenly appeared on the back of the demon tiger, clapped his hands, Mangniu fist, and Mangniu stepped on the ground.

"Click. The tiger let out a howl of pain, and it felt its waist bone be broken, and when it was about to struggle, it suddenly felt a pain in its throat, and it lost consciousness.

Qin Chen pulled out the big hand that was inserted in the demon tiger's throat, and blood gushed to the ground. watched the demon beast slowly fall. Qin Chen wiped the blood on his hands with tiger hair, jumped up from the tiger's back, jumped up on the big tree, and hugged Huihui from the tree.

"Brother is so powerful!" Qin Huihui clapped her hands and shouted.

"Okay, okay, it's not too early, Xiaohui, it's time to go back. Qin Chen pinched Huihui's nose. I don't know what Lu Dao is for, Qin Chen likes to pinch Huihui's nose very much, and Huihui doesn't hate it.

Qin Chen stepped forward and dismembered the demon tiger. But before that, he asked Huihui to turn around, and it was better not to let Huihui see this kind of thing. Huihui also turned around obediently, after all, this is not the first time.

Picking up a sharp stone from the ground, Qin Chen used it to dismember the demon beast. The main purpose of refining the demon beasts of the body realm is to exercise their physique, and only a very few of them have a little talent. Therefore, the fur of the demon beast is very hard, and if there is no sharp mortal soldier, don't want to pierce its skin. However, all this was in the hands of Qin Chen.

Starting from the head, he drew a circle with a stone, and the head of the demon tiger was cut off in this way. Next up are the limbs, which are treasures that can be sold for a lot of money. After the end, Qin Chen took out a bead about the size of a soybean from the demon beast's body, the bead was too small, if Qin Chen hadn't looked for it two or three times, maybe he would have missed it.

This bead is the demon pill in the body of the demon beast, and all the demon beasts that have cultivated to a certain point will have such a pill in their bodies, relatively speaking, the demon beasts in the body refining realm have a demon pill, and there are very few of them. Being able to get a demon pill, Qin Chen was also very excited. In general, such a demon beast can probably sell for three to five spirit coins, but this demon pill can be sold for about seven spirit coins, which can be imagined how rare and precious the demon pill is.

A smile appeared on Qin Chen's face, after all, the demon pill was very useful for alchemy, refining, array, etc., and it was a sought-after item.

After the worst, Qin Chen cut off a large piece of tiger breast, and Qin Chen was helpless about the rest, after all, this demon tiger was too big, and Qin Chen couldn't bring it back at all. Although it was a bit of a waste, with that demon pill, Qin Chen was also generous. As for the remaining tiger corpse, the other demon beasts in the mountain will rush over and eat it all, maybe one of the lucky demon beasts will advance because of this.

He took off the cloth bag around his waist, put the tiger's head, limbs, a large piece of flesh on his chest, and his backbone, and carefully put the demon pill in his arms. Qin Chen asked Xiaohui to turn around.

Carrying a cloth bag in his right hand and picking up Xiaohui in his left hand, Qin Chen disappeared in place with a jump. Not long after, remembering the roar of the demon beast, Qin Chen smiled slightly, not caring at all. I think it was two demon beasts fighting for food.

Soon after, he returned to the original valley, Qin Chen put Xiao Ding away, and at the same time covered the fire gathering array with weeds, if it was wet by the rain, there would be no place to cry.

The small valley is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and only on the south side is there a path leading to the mountain. But it's not that you can't get out of it from other sides.

On the north side of the valley, it is known locally as Eagle Peak because it resembles an eagle with wings spreading. The peak is steep, rocky, there is no way to climb, and there are several records of people falling to their deaths, so no one comes here.

However, what no one knows is that there is a dark river at the bottom of the Flying Eagle Peak, which can connect the outside world to this small valley. This was discovered by Qin Chen by accident, and it became Qin Chen and Huihui's secret base.

Coming to the cave, Qin Chen put the cloth bag on a small boat and carried Huihui onto the boat. He sat down himself, untied the ropes, and let the boat go down the river. At first, there was nothing, but after a while, the water became turbulent, Qin Chen hugged Huihui tightly, and the boat swayed from side to side, it seemed that it had entered the rapid water area. Suddenly, the boat suddenly flew into the air, and suddenly returned to the water, heading forward at a rapid speed. Qin Chen hugged Huihui with one hand and controlled the boat with the other to prevent it from hitting the stone walls on both sides. Thankfully, that didn't happen at all.

"Ahh Qin Chen and Xiaohui shouted separately. In this environment, yelling helps to vent the fear in your heart.

I don't know how long it took, but the speed of the boat finally slowed down. At this time, a bright light suddenly shot in front of him, and Qin Chen also knew that he had reached his destination, and slowly controlled the boat to land. Tethered with a rope, Qin Chen carried the cloth bag in one hand and Huihui in the other, and walked out of the cave.

When a person comes from a place of extreme darkness to an extremely bright place, his eyes will not be able to stand it because of the light. Qin Chen and Huihui were no exception, so they all walked out of the cave with their eyes closed, waited until their eyes could stand it, and then slowly opened their eyes.

Qin Chen and Huihui slowly opened their eyes. At this time, it was already dusk, the sun was setting, and the sound of chickens and dogs barking was heard not far away. Qin Chen couldn't help but smile.

Picking up Huihui, Qin Chen ran towards a small village under the mountain.

Gushan Village, an ordinary small mountain village in Chenguo, Qingyuan County, Shanshui County, Withered Leaf Town, and Shanshen Township, which belongs to the land of a hundred countries. As the name suggests, the people of the village make a living by hunting and collecting medicines. Although it belongs to the mountainous area, the village is only 50 miles away from Qingyuan County, and it is only about 20 miles away from Shanshui County. The usual prey and herbs are taken to Shanshui County to sell, and life is not bad. However, this village is all mortals, and the village chief is only the strength of the first level of the body refining realm, but even so, it is also a first-class strong village in the surrounding mountain villages, after all, as long as they step into the body refining realm, they all go to some big cities to beg for a living.

Qin Chen didn't tell the people in the village that he had the strength of the Nine Realms of Refining the Body, after all, he was an outsider.

That's right, Qin Chen is not a local, he came here a year ago, and he stayed at their house because he beat away a few robbers and saved Old Man Qin and Huihui.

Back in the backing village, Qin Chen and Huihui walked towards the west end of the village, where Huihui's home was. Along the way, I met some villagers, all of whom greeted each other enthusiastically, and Qin Chen also returned the salute one by one. This is also one of the reasons why Qin Chen stayed, the villagers here are very simple, Qin Chen likes this feeling.

I came to the west end of the village, which is a small boxy courtyard, which looks like it has not been built for long. Since Qin Chen came here, he has made a lot of money by hunting and collecting medicines, so he has rebuilt his house.

Pushing open the courtyard door, I saw an old man in his late teens smashing the bar, smoking a dry cigarette, lying on a rocking chair and humming a little song.

When Qin Huihui saw it, she was not angry, she ran forward and grabbed Old Man Qin's white beard, and said angrily: "Lazy grandpa, you know how to smoke." ”

Old Man Qin was not angry, but hugged Huihui and said with a smile: "Our Xiaohui is so capable, grandpa has to retire with honor." When Huihui heard this, she raised her face and made such an expression.

Old man Qin turned to Qin Chen and said, "The rice is already cooked, Xiao Chen, let's go wash first." Qin Chen liked this feeling very much, which made him feel at home.

Qin Chen smiled and took out the piece of tiger breast meat from the cloth bag, "Grandpa, you're busy again, let's eat tiger meat tonight." ”

"Alas, I can't be idle for a moment. With that, Old Man Qin still stood up from the rocking chair with a smile and picked up the tiger meat to deal with it.

The sun had finally set, and the night had completely covered the land. The small mountain village has returned to its former tranquility, and the dim lights of the houses make it all more magnificent.

In the hall of the Qin family, the three of them were happily eating dinner, watching Huihui gobbling up tiger meat, grandpa hurriedly asked her to eat slowly, and the smile on her face couldn't be stopped.

Old man Qin's wife died early, and he finally brought up his son, married his daughter-in-law, and gave birth to Huihui, which was originally happy. But Huihui's father encountered a demon beast on the way to hunt again, and there was no corpse to die. My mother was so sad that she couldn't afford to fall ill and left with her father a month later. Since then, Old Man Qin has returned to his old business and collected medicine to feed Huihui, but Huihui has never laughed since her parents died, and Old Man Qin doesn't know how much he sighed for this.

A year ago, when Old Man Qin and Huihui went to Shanshui County to sell medicinal herbs, they met robbers, and it happened that at this time a teenager appeared to save them, and it happened that he was also surnamed Qin, so he stayed like this.

And to Grandpa's surprise, since Qin Chen came, Huihui's face also showed a long-lost smile.