12dz Chapter 153 Personal Interests
Chapter 153 Personal Interests
A few days later.
The sun was shining brightly.
Inside the small courtyard.
Several craftsmen, sweating profusely, worked together to dismantle the stable. Not far away, a large, fat, and strong blue donkey lay on the ground, tilting its head and looking at them with bright, piercing eyes.
This is a house built for himself, and Daqing has been watching intently since early morning.
The craftsmen murmured amongst themselves.
"I've never seen anything like this before. Aren't stables all made of railings, stone troughs, and thatched roofs?"
"This is the first time I've seen a stable built like a wooden hut, with windows and doors, a long and wide stone trough, and pictures of mares hanging on the walls."
"Isn't a stable for livestock? Besides, what this family keeps isn't a horse, it's a donkey!"
"What? Is this donkey made of gold? Even the emperor's donkey isn't worth this kind of extravagance!"
"Is there something wrong with this family? I saw several bags delivered this morning. One of the bags was torn, and some white jade, jadeite, and gemstones fell out, but there were also some bluestone roof tiles mixed in. Who would be so careless as to mix expensive and cheap things together?"
"Shh... watch your mouth. We're paid to work, who cares what the master thinks?"
"That donkey kept staring at us, like it could understand us, it gave me the creeps..."
Someone whispered a reminder, and the craftsmen turned to look at Da Qing.
Daqing grinned, revealing his large, white front teeth.
"Ouch..." Several craftsmen shuddered in fright. Some of the more timid ones sat down on the ground and turned their heads to work seriously, no longer daring to slack off or chat.
Daqing breathed a satisfied sigh, got up, wiggled its hips, and returned to the side room, kicking the door shut with its hind legs.
It's a pity that the master doesn't allow me to speak in front of ordinary people, for fear of frightening them; otherwise, he would have given those gossipy craftsmen a good scolding just now.
Once inside, he stood up and walked like a human, his body shrinking accordingly to fit the height of the house, otherwise he would have hit the roof beam.
On the table inside the room was a silver plate.
In the center of the silver plate is an oval-shaped, ordinary gray-white pebble.
Around the stones were several rubies, green jade, yellow Tianhuang stones, ordinary bluestone, and a brown fired roof tile of varying sizes.
On the ground, there was a pile of fine white powder.
Daqing stared intently with its two donkey eyes.
A thumb-sized vortex appeared on the surface of the grayish-white pebble in the middle, drawing out thin, five-colored streams of air from the surrounding stones.
It seemed to breathe; with each breath, the five-colored stream of air would first become brighter and thicker, and then become lighter and thinner.
Wang Daniu volunteered to feed his aunt, so she was placed in this side room.
In fact, my aunt eats ten meals a day. Each time, it takes about an hour to absorb all the stone energy from the five stones. When the stones turn to dust, she has to change to new food.
As for the changes...
My aunt has become rounder. She used to be an irregularly shaped, angular stone, but now she's at least oval. She used to be only the size of a fingertip, but now her size has doubled.
Judging solely from the volume of stones she absorbed, she is a glutton.
Fortunately, her master had money and was willing to spend it, so she didn't go hungry.
Besides, Wang Daniu is just an ordinary person. He can manage to stay up all night to guard the stones for two days, but if he does it for too long, he will surely ruin his health.
Thus, this glorious task fell to Daqing.
The owner promised that if the feeding was effective, he would take Daqing to the stable to see its beloved mare next time, so Daqing dutifully and carefully guarded it.
The work of overseeing the wooden stables outside is just a side job for Daqing; his real role is as a stone nanny.
Everything appears normal.
Daqing lay comfortably on the ground, its ears perked up, listening to the whooshing sound of the wind next door.
It knew that its master was practicing boxing again. The rhythmic sound of the punches, like a hypnotic chant, made its eyelids grow heavier and heavier.
Even demons need to sleep and rest. Last night, my aunt ate too many times, so it didn't sleep all night. It kept getting up to add stones, and its upper and lower eyelids kept fighting. Finally, its head drooped and it fell into a deep sleep.
next door.
Yang Silang is now focused on practicing the Five Elements Fist. He is no longer bound by the size of the venue and can concentrate on practicing martial arts even in a small space.
He stood in the middle of the room, moving around and leaving a circle of footprints on the ground, which was only a small circle about two steps in diameter.
Within such a narrow space, his fist stance was wide and powerful. When he struck out with his palm, the wind from his palm whistled as it reached the window paper, making the window paper rattle loudly.
Each move is unpredictable, combining the meanings of chopping, smashing, drilling, and cannoning. It is no longer bound by fixed fist forms. The hands are also unpredictable, whether palm, fist, or claw. The whole body, shoulders, elbows, knees, and hips are all deadly weapons.
The Five Elements Fist is nominally a fist technique, but it actually includes palm, fist, finger, grab, and leg techniques, making it far more sophisticated than the Great Five Combinations Fist, which was fully mastered by the Steel Dirty Martial Arts Master.
As Yang Silang practiced his boxing moves, especially at his fingertips and palms, corresponding internal energy surged forth, emitting a faint aura, as the moves changed.
Just as he finished his set of punches...
Yang Silang let out a low shout and took a step to the window. When he was still half a zhang away, his heart suddenly jumped and his true qi in his dantian surged out wildly, all flowing through the Hand Jueyin Pericardium Meridian. He threw out a cannon fist. With the fist opening and closing, his pores exploded, and he had already released the fire-attribute true qi with the force of a cow's hair.
There was a burnt smell in the room.
His fist was a few steps away from the wooden window frame, and a stream of pale red energy shot out like an arrow, rushing forward while its color faded.
puff!
The wooden window frame trembled slightly, revealing a hundred or so shallow, fine pinholes, their tips charred black as if burned.
Yang Silang nodded in satisfaction, and the light screen in his mind displayed...
【Skill 3: Five Elements Fist: Five times a day, 200/600】
Since he mastered the Five Elements Force and Five Elements Fist five and a half months ago, he has not dared to slack off for a single day. Except for the seven days he entered the secret realm when he could not maintain high-intensity cultivation and only circulated his energy daily, he has hardly rested for a single day.
Originally, his cultivation progress was only 180, but after being nourished by the Yellow Jade Fruit, his true essence and quantity soared. He still practiced five times a day, but his progress was rapid, almost double the previous speed.
Yang Silang closed his eyes, facing upwards with his palms facing the sky, and then used his inner vision to focus on his lower dantian, urging his true qi to surge forth.
Within the Dantian.
The true qi vortex grew much stronger, and white air currents surged out.
Normally, true qi is divided into five thin streams, which pass through the usual paths of daily practice: the Foot Jueyin Liver Meridian, the Hand Jueyin Pericardium Meridian, the Foot Taiyin Spleen Meridian, the Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian, and the Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian. The white true qi is then stained with the five colors. Finally, after returning to the dantian, the five qi are balanced and integrated into one, making the true qi stronger. This is the complete cycle.
Today, true qi emerges from the dantian and is divided into five parts, which, in coordination with breathing, propels the qi and blood throughout the body to circulate through the meridians.
However, in the internal organs, Yang Silang saw a yellow "organ" lodged between the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys under his spiritual vision. It was as if another organ had grown out of the internal organs. It was the yellow jade remnant fruit that had merged with the surrounding flesh and organs.
The fruit has extended its veins like tree roots, connecting with the surrounding internal organs. At this moment, the true qi of the five meridians flows out and should return to the dantian.
However, the dantian, like the Niwan Palace, is a part that cannot be directly seen with the naked eye and cannot be truly observed.
Before passing through the dantian, the five streams of true qi travel through the acquired flesh and blood organs of the Yellow Jade Remnant Fruit, causing natural essence to surge in. The thin stream of true qi immediately becomes thicker, and finally returns to the dantian. The effect is twice as good as the usual true qi cultivation.
This is the mystery of the Yellow Jade Fruit, and why everyone is vying for it.
It not only subtly nourishes and improves your body while you eat, drink, sleep, and move around, but it can even give you divine assistance in your practice, making one session of practice equivalent to two or three sessions for others!
After Yang Silang had practiced for several weeks, his spirit felt exhausted, so he stopped and temporarily ended his cultivation.
"Rejuvenation!"
Without hesitation, he used his supernatural powers, and in an instant, his body returned to its peak condition. However, he decided to take a break, as rejuvenation is not a panacea, and mental fatigue cannot be relieved.
Yang Silang strolled around outside with his hands behind his back, and a group of craftsmen bowed and smiled obsequiously at him.
He nodded gently in response, then ran to the next room. Daqing was sleeping soundly under the table, and his aunt was also trying to eat. Hmm, everything was normal.
My aunt has finally grown into a pretty, round, and fair-skinned girl, unlike when she was born with sharp features and a dark, ugly appearance.
Yang Silang gently touched it with his hand. Well, the touch was icy cold, no, it should be described as bone-chillingly cold.
It's good for children to stay cool, so they won't get sick... Hmm, I guess so?
"Little aunt, although you're not even a month old yet, I'm giving you a full-month celebration gift!"
Yang Silang slapped the stone with his backhand, placing a bit of his ancestral blood essence on it. Seeing that his aunt didn't react, he could only leave.
Yang Silang has already allocated the three portions of the source.
One portion for the younger sister; one portion for Daqing; and one portion for Heizi, the guard of the house in Gongzhou Prefecture.
This thing is a treasure specifically designed to raise the limits of the demon race. It doesn't have functions like unlocking intelligence or repairing the demon body, which makes it even more pure and precious.
After delivering the full-moon gift, Yang Silang returned to his room, sat down, drank a cup of tea, and then turned his hand over.
Three more items appeared on the table.
A black inner armor protects the upper body. This armor is of excellent quality, made of an unknown leather. It is elastic and can be customized to fit any size without feeling too restrictive.
Yang Silang tried to strike it with all his might but couldn't leave a mark. It should be a master-level armor, since it was taken from near the remains of that dead master.
Also pulled out was a small dagger, which Yang Silang stabbed into Grandma She's remaining good eye, but unfortunately it flew away and its whereabouts are unknown.
The other item was more accurately described as a pile of pills. According to the labels on the bottles, some were for replenishing qi and blood, some for eliminating mental fatigue, some for detoxification, some for filling the stomach, and some even for enhancing male virility. Yang Silang glanced at them and let them go.
He looked at the last item, a sealed jade box with layers of runes on it, which looked very mysterious and advanced.
He tried, but with his current half-baked cultivation at the Wandering Soul Realm, he simply couldn't unravel it. Even setting aside whether he recognized it or not, the pure magical power on the talisman was beyond his reach.
Yang Silang was not afraid of his own shortcomings, because he had the support of someone who would pick locks for free.
"She Nu!"
"Open it!"
A surge of yin energy emanated from the Baihui acupoint on the top of the head, instantly transforming into a palace-style garment upon landing. She bowed her head and said yes, and as soon as she opened her mouth, she exhaled a stream of demonic energy.
Grandma She didn't know the proper way to solve the problem, but she was particularly good at using force.
The same tactic was used against both the bed warmer servant and the old camel's magical ring; today, the same trick was employed to deal with this rune seal.