Sweat, it seems like I sent it to the wrong person!!!
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"Big brother Zhang, what's going on!" Seeing Zhang Yong raise his foot and kick him, Junior Leopard let out a light sigh. He finally recognized this young man. This man was a well-known impoverished family in Qingyang Market, surnamed Sun Hua. Because his family's circumstances were good, his father had opened a small warehouse in Qingyang Market, and could be considered an upper-middle-class family. Unfortunately, he had passed away a few months ago, leaving him alone. As for him, he was a gluttonous and lazy master, and didn't understand business matters. Thus, he was ruthlessly cheated by others, and lost his small warehouse, as well as all the valuables in his house. In the end, he was left with only a small hut, and relied on pawning the things in his house to survive. In the long run, there weren't many things of value left in his house, and what was left were some worthless things. Starving and full, he feared that it wouldn't be long before he became a beggar.
It seemed that this time he was extremely hungry, and so he brought the few things in his house with him. He wanted to take advantage of this market day to sell them for some money, but he didn't know the rules, and was taught a lesson by this street patrolling Zhang Yong.
"Yo, it's Junior Leopard, you've come to buy books again!" Seeing Junior Leopard walk over, Zhang Yong immediately laughed. He lifted his foot and gently put it down, but then kicked Sun Hua's butt. "You still haven't scrammed? If you don't leave, I'll beat you to death!"
Sun Hua was extremely angry, but he knew that he wasn't Zhang Yong's opponent. Tears flowed from his nose and tears, and he used his sleeve to wipe his face. Good heavens, his face became a big mess, immediately causing the surrounding crowd to burst into laughter.
"Forget it, big brother Zhang, you're quite pitiful!" Junior Leopard sighed lightly, and walked in front of Sun Hua. "Big brother Sun, you're here to sell books, right?"
Sun Hua sobbed a few times, and glanced at Junior Leopard. Seeing that he was young, and unable to figure out his background, he only nodded.
"I'll buy all your books. Here's the silver, see if it's enough!"
Junior Leopard took out a piece of silver and handed it to Sun Hua.
"Enough, enough!" Sun Hua said as he sobbed.
He had originally been starving and had wanted to sell the books for a few copper coins in exchange for some sesame seed cakes. Junior Leopard had given him a silver coin, which was enough for him to eat a few meals. He hurriedly handed the package of Wu Shu to Junior Leopard, afraid that something would happen again. He took the silver and left in a hurry.
"Junior Leopard, you have a good heart. He's just a prodigal from a poor family. Even if you give him money today, it won't be of much use. Sooner or later, he'll sell his broken house and start begging on the streets!" Seeing Junior Leopard buy the bag of books, Zhang Yong said resentfully and walked in another direction to continue patrolling the streets.
"Hehe!" Junior Leopard smiled and did not speak. He carried a pile of books and came to the bookstall. "Brother Wang, how is it? Do you have any new books?"
The middle-aged bookstall owner immediately put on a simple and honest smile. "This time, I've bought a lot of good books!" As he said this, he patted the pile of old books in front of him as if he were showing off.
Junior Leopard smiled and picked a few suitable books from the bookstall. He took out some money and bought them. He then strolled around the street market and bought some food and drinks before returning to the Wu's ironware shop.
He could now be considered a craftsman. He was young and his future was definitely limitless. Therefore, he now had his own independent room.
The room was not big. According to modern standards, it was about 20 square meters. However, it was enough for one person.
The furnishings in the room were very simple. There was a bed, a table, and a chair. Apart from these, there was a small cabinet. This cabinet was now stuffed full of books. These were all Junior Leopard's masterpieces in the past six months.
His masterpieces were not few. Through these books, his understanding of this world could be considered to be extremely deep.
"'Strange Tales of Gods and Monsters' shouldn't be as good as' Journey to the West '. One day, when I'm interested, I'll edit and publish' Journey to the West 'and' List of Deification '. Who knows, I might be able to earn a lot of money!" Junior Leopard opened a book, glanced at it, and then threw it to the side. Now, he was no longer like the beginning when he bought the entire bookstall. He only picked out books that he was interested in. After reading the books he bought from the bookstall, he piled them on the bed and opened the shabby package that Sun Hua sold to him. Buying Sun Hua's book was also a spur of the moment idea. He felt that Sun Hua was pitiful. Although a pitiful person must have something hateful about him, this kind of thing was as easy as lifting a finger. Junior Leopard felt that there was no harm in doing it.
"'Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Happy Fu'?! My god, there's such a book in this world. I'll read it in a few years! " Junior Leopard saw the cover of the first book and frowned. He stuffed the book into the little space in the cabinet. "'Qing Emperor and Women's Scripture'?! No wonder the Sun family was defeated. Why are there so many books like this? " Junior Leopard's eyebrows were already wrinkled into a "well" shape. Although he used to often enjoy Japan's special films, he was too young now. He was only eight or nine years old. Reading this kind of book would make him sick. Therefore, he opened the third book. "Medicinal Soup Formula?
My god, I'm a blacksmith. What do I need this for?
Junior Leopard threw the book to the side with little interest.
"Hey, what's this?!"
He had only casually flipped through a few pages of the 'Medicinal Soup'. It recorded the most basic 'Medicinal Soup', such as the Four Gentlemen Soup, "Four Gentlemen Soup is harmonious and righteous. Ginseng, Poria, Licorice, Beneficial to the Six Gentlemen of Summer. Dispelling phlegm and replenishing Qi and Yang deficiency bait. In addition to dispelling Pinellia's special skill, or adding fragrant sand for stomach cold." There was also the 'Qinling Fulei Soup', "Qinling Fulei Turtle Shell Firewood, Earth Bone Angelica and Aster Cream, Pinellia Ginseng and Roasted Grass, Lung Fatigue Steam Coughing." Although Junior Leopard didn't understand, he also knew that this was the introductory stuff for doctors. When he was in the village, the old blind man used these things to teach the villagers to read. Therefore, after a few glances, he threw the book to the side.
The book was thrown away, but in mid-air, the pages were flipped open by the airflow. A yellow page filled with words slowly floated out of the book.
Junior Leopard was a little curious. He reached out and grabbed the paper. When he put it in front of his eyes, he was stunned.
This piece of paper was actually filled with tiny words, densely packed together.
"Anesthetic Pill, Bone-Forging Pill, Tendon-Changing Pill, Pulse-Setting Pill, Blood-Changing Pill, and Marrow-Cleansing Pill!"
His expression stiffened like a zombie, and a droplet of saliva flowed out from the corner of his mouth. After he finished reading, he swallowed a large mouthful of saliva. Only then did he realize that the saliva at the corner of his mouth had unknowingly dripped into a large puddle on the ground. Fortunately, no one saw it, or else people would have laughed to death.
"Is this the legendary 'good people will be rewarded with good'? No, no …! " Junior Leopard clenched the paper in his hand. He wanted to put it in his arms, and also wanted to lift the quilt to hide the paper. For a moment, he was at a loss. "This is not good people will be rewarded with good. This is simply the legendary protagonist mode. Otherwise, how could I get such treasures so easily?"
Not to mention the first Anesthetic Pill, the other five prescriptions made Junior Leopard break out in a cold sweat. These prescriptions were really too high.
He was no longer a country bumpkin in a small mountain village. Now he was a blacksmith in the Wu's ironware shop. Although his martial arts was really not good, he knew much more about the martial arts world than half a year ago. Half a year ago, he only knew from Wang Tianlei that the real warriors in this world cultivated both inside and outside. They were divided into three stages: Skin Toughening, Bone-Forging, and Tendon-Changing, which were the three realms. Wang Tianlei could barely be counted as a warrior at the early stage of Skin Toughening, and nothing more.
After arriving at the Wu's, he knew more details than before. Now he knew that the realm of warriors was divided into these three stages, which were also called the three realms. They were further divided into nine levels. Skin-Toughening realm warriors were the lower three levels, Bone-Forging realm warriors were the middle three levels, and Tendon-Changing realm warriors were the upper three levels. His brother-in-law, Wang Tianlei, was at most a warrior of the lower three levels, and had just stepped into the threshold of a warrior.
And the number of Level Nine experts in the world could be counted on one's fingers. Only those super-large sects and families with thousands of years of history would have one or two. It was simply not what he could imagine now. In a well-known family like the Wu's, the strongest Elder's cultivation had just reached Level Seven, and had stepped into the door of the upper three levels. This already belonged to the family's deterrent power.
The reason why there were so few warriors in the upper three levels was firstly because the road was difficult. Without great perseverance, wisdom, and luck, it was difficult to persist. Secondly, the elixirs were hard to find.
In this world, the martial arts of both internal and external cultivation emphasized on the mutual aid of the internal and external. The internal nourished the external, and the external supported the internal. None of them could be omitted. But no matter what kind of secret method, the speed of the mutual aid of the internal and external was always very slow. For example, if you used your internal qi to nourish the tendons and meridians, and strengthen the tendons and meridians' toughness, strength, and capacity, this required a lot of time. It often took more than ten years, or even dozens of years. Life was so short, where would you have so much time to do such things? Therefore, if you wanted to speed up the speed of cultivation, you must have elixirs and use elixirs to enhance your physique. That was why the medicinal bath soup appeared. However, the effect of the medicinal bath soup was not very good. It was simply unable to bring out the full effect of the elixir. If you bathed in the medicinal bath soup, it would be good if you could bring out thirty to forty percent of the efficacy of the elixir. However, this thirty to forty percent was also very helpful in improving the physique. Therefore, all the major sects and aristocratic families would spare no effort to search for elixirs everywhere for their disciples to use.
According to unofficial legends, a long time ago, the most popular medicine in the martial arts world was not this kind of medicinal bath soup, but rather, elixirs. Elixirs consumed a lot of different types of medicinal herbs, but the consumption was much less than that of a medicinal bath, only about ten to twenty percent. However, the medicinal effect was several times better than a medicinal bath soup. Ten medicinal herbs could bring out at least seventy to eighty percent of the efficacy. If it was refined well, it could even bring out one hundred percent of the efficacy. However, nowadays, these elixirs were basically legends. It was not that there were no medicinal herbs, but rather that the original pill recipe and refining method had been lost. Although there was an incomparable difference between a medicinal herb and an elixir, when it came to medicine, even if there was a slight difference, it was still a difference. If there was one more or one less medicinal herb, not only would there be no effect, but it would also lead to death. Not to mention, the refining method and steps had been lost.
Of course, it was not completely lost. There was still another kind of elixir in this world, and that was the Bone-Forging Pill. This was also the only elixir that had not been lost. However, the elixir recipe and refining method of the Bone-Forging Pill were in the hands of the world's number one sect, which was also the legendary martial arts world's holy land, the Black Sky Orthodox Sect. Ordinary martial arts people simply could not get their hands on it. In the Black Sky Orthodox Sect, the elixir recipe and refining method were also passed down from generation to generation. Apart from the sect's use, there were very few outside. Therefore, every Bone-Forging Pill that was sold outside was sold at a sky-high price.
Not to mention the three elixir recipes after the Tendon-Changing Pill.
Pulse Steadying, Blood Changing, Marrow Cleansing!
"Is this the legendary Mysterious Realm, which is above Level Nine?"
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