After listening to Qi Ronger's explanation, Zhang Xiaozhu couldn't help but shudder. He looked at Qi Ronger, took a breath of cold air and said, "The behavior of your big family is really cruel and ruthless, more terrifying than the devil."
"Hey, pure young man, this is just the tip of the iceberg. If you see all their faces, you will find that the devil is so cute." Qi Ronger sneered.
"Are you in danger?" Zhang Xiaozu stared at Qi Ronger and asked, unable to help but worry about her. Perhaps it was because Qi Ronger really treated him as a friend, and he also regarded Qi Ronger as a friend without realizing it.
"You care about me?" Qi Ronger asked without answering, looking very happy.
Zhang Xiaozu did not answer directly, but asked: "If I become your retinue and go to the island with you, can I help you?"
"You?" Qi Ronger glanced up and down at Zhang Xiaopou, curled her lips, and said, "Your war gate is congenitally closed, so you'd better not cause any trouble for me."
"I understand." Zhang Xiaozu nodded.
"——" Qi Ronger opened her mouth, but stopped talking, and finally sighed secretly in her heart. She has seen that Zhang Xiaozu's combat power is far superior to that of her retinues at home. If Zhang Xiaozu is willing to be her retinue, she will get a super combat power that can at least increase her survival rate on the island by ten percent. . If it were before yesterday, she would have agreed without even thinking about it, but now for some reason, she didn't want this newly made friend to take risks with her. Perhaps it was because Zhang Xiaozu was her first close friend.
"I will go to Baiyun City to find you before the spring equinox next year. If you still feel that I am a burden, I will not let you go to the island." Zhang Xiaozhu was silent for a while and then suddenly broke the silence and said.
"Okay, okay!" Qi Ronger felt a heat blocking her throat, her nose was sore, and her eye circles were a little moist. She quickly turned her head to the side, not wanting Zhang Xiaozu to see it.
"Are you full? Let's continue on our way when we are full." Zhang Xiaozhu asked.
"I'm full. I have to make you tired again." Qi Ronger responded. The last sentence sounded a little guilty, but she really couldn't bear the safe and warm feeling of being carried on someone's back, and she couldn't extricate herself from it.
Zhang Xiaozu tied the three-foot dagger around his waist and joked: "You are not as heavy as this three-foot sword. I can't feel the weight at all when I carry it on my back."
After that, he knelt down in front of Qi Ronger and lifted her onto his back.
Zhang Xiaozu carried Qi Ronger over the mountains and ridges, running towards the northeast at lightning speed. He was very confident in his ability to identify directions, because he had never lost his way in the mountains and forests since he was a child, so he was absolutely sure that Shuanglong Valley was in this direction.
However, until the sun set on the west mountain, Zhang Xiaozu did not see the shadow of Shuanglong Valley.
He climbed to the top of a mountain and looked ahead. He saw mountains rising and falling, with no end in sight. Looking to the left and right, we also saw endless mountains. He couldn't help but feel in a trance before his eyes, feeling as if he was not far away from the depths of the black forest, but even deeper.
"Did you run in the wrong direction?" Zhang Xiaozhu had to wonder if he had lost his way.
"Put me down." Qi Ronger said.
Qi Rong'er went down to the ground and did not continue to pretend to be weak. She stretched her joints and limbs first, then bowed to Zhang Xiaopeng with a smile and said: "Thank you for your careful care, young master. The little girl has recovered. I am a great virtue and kindness, and I dare not thank you." Forget it, I will thank you very much in the future.”
"As long as you recover, there's no need to say thank you." Zhang Xiaozu waved his hand.
Qi Ronger nodded, then looked at the slanting sun, stretched out her hand to make gestures, as if to identify the direction, and finally said: "Our direction is correct, maybe it's because carrying me on your back slows down our progress. , so there is a difference of distance. It is getting dark, why don't we find a place to rest for the night and continue on our way after dawn tomorrow? And you are out looking for food, so you can't go back empty-handed, right? I'll help you after dawn tomorrow Let’s hunt some prey together and bring it home to honor my mother.”
"Okay." Zhang Xiaozu nodded in agreement. He really needed to hunt some prey and said, "There is still some time before dark. Let's continue walking a distance and go down the mountain to find a resting place in the valley. If It’s best to find a place with water. Find some food along the way, and it’s best to catch a few prey. I haven’t eaten meat for two days, and the water is almost out of my mouth.”
"Well, just as you said." Qi Ronger agreed readily.
In fact, they haven't eaten meat for two days. It's not that they can't catch prey, but that they are deliberately avoiding eating meat, because the scene of the black giant ape tearing human flesh into their mouths has a great impact on their souls, and the thought of eating meat makes them nervous. I couldn't help but feel the butterflies in my stomach. Now I have regained my composure after two days. In addition, I am too tired from running around continuously. I cannot replenish my physical strength by just eating wild fruits. I urgently need to eat meat to replenish my energy.
The two of them were lucky enough to catch a goat on the way down the mountain. It was very fat and weighed almost 200 kilograms. It seems that as Zhang Xiaozu said, everything in the black forest is bigger than outside, and the same is true for this goat.
A clear stream flows trickling at the foot of the mountain, and fish jump out of the water from time to time. Flowers, plants and trees are flourishing on both sides of the stream, and the impact of the drought is completely invisible. If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, who would have imagined that outside the mountain, the rivers had stopped flowing and the earth was about to turn into scorched earth, but inside the mountain, the mountains were still beautiful, warm and pleasant. It can be described as a strange sight.
Making a fire to barbecue, Zhang Xiaozu originally thought that Qi Ronger, a noble lady who never touched the spring water with her fingers, would not be able to help. Who would have expected that Qi Ronger was more skilled than him, a wild boy who often wandered around the mountains and fields, collecting and chopping firewood. Make a fire, set up a fire, make a simple grill, etc., you can do it all. This forced him to believe what Qi Ronger said, that children from big families are indeed versatile.
Qi Ronger ate about two kilograms of a fat sheep, and the rest went into Zhang Xiaozu's stomach.
Qi Ronger glanced at Zhang Xiaozu's belly from time to time, and endured it again and again, but in the end she couldn't hold it in anymore. She stared at Zhang Xiaozu's slightly bulging belly after eating a whole sheep and asked, "Have you eaten all the meat?" where it goes?"
"I don't know either. I just feel that the meat disappears after entering the stomach. It seems that there is a deep pit in the stomach that cannot be filled. It's not as you might guess. I don't have any special skills. You are well-informed and have Have you ever seen or heard of my situation?" Zhang Xiaozhu replied truthfully, and asked Qi Ronger that although there was no bad reaction in his body, he was still not full after eating so much at one time, which made him distressed.
Qi Ronger's cheeks couldn't help but blush. Thinking of that night, it turned out that Zhang Xiaozu suddenly ran away because he overheard their conversation. It was really embarrassing to mention it at this time.
"Unheard of." Qi Ronger shook her head and asked, "Have you been like this since you were a child?"
Zhang Xiaopou couldn't help but feel happy and said: "Haha, if I have been able to eat like this since I was a child, I am afraid I will make the whole village poor. It is a sudden change that occurred recently, that is, the night when I killed the Wolf King and met you."
"How do you feel specifically?" Qi Ronger asked.
"I feel hungry all over my body, from the tips of my hair to the tips of my toes. A mouthful of food will instantly turn into a ball of heat. The heat will flow to all parts of the body to fill up those parts that are crying for food. Can you understand when I describe it like this? ?" Zhang Xiaopeng said.
"Very vivid." Qi Ronger raised her thumb, frowned and thought for a while, then said: "If you don't have any other discomfort in your body, it's probably not a bad thing. You might as well try practicing according to our practice method of breaking through the war gate. Oh, I forgot, your cultivation method is different from ours, and you probably don’t know how we broke through the war gate. It doesn’t matter, just listen to me in detail.”
"Thank you!" Zhang Xiaozu said with clasped fists in gratitude. During these two days of getting along, Qi Ronger taught him a lot of knowledge. It was not an exaggeration to call her "Master".
As night fell, stars began to appear in the sky. Qi Ronger lay on the grass with her hands on her pillow. While admiring the stars in the night sky, she explained to Zhang Xiaozu: "Cultivation is actually a process of breaking through the limits of the human body. Limen, as its name suggests, The Gate of Power. If you want to open the Gate of Power, your body must first have sufficient strength. Otherwise, when the Gate of Strength is opened, the power will burst out, but your body will burst first. Wouldn't it be a big joke. And If you want to increase your physical strength, you need to do it through continuous hard training. The method of training is also very simple, which is to continue physical training. After the strength is exhausted, use elixirs to quickly restore physical strength, and then train again. If you lose it, over and over again, your body will become stronger and stronger, and when it reaches a certain limit, the door of strength will naturally open."
"It's so easy to break through the force gate?" Zhang Xiaozu was a little surprised. He felt that anyone could do it as long as he didn't have a congenitally blocked war gate like him.
"It can also be said to be simple. The premise is that you must have enough cultivation resources." Qi Ronger said, "If there are no cultivation resources to assist, such high-intensity exercise for ten consecutive days can destroy a physically strong person. Lose."
"Yes." Zhang Xiaopou said.
"Every part of your body that feels hungry is actually craving for energy. The food you take into your stomach instantly turns into a flow of heat. It is broken down and digested instantly and turned into energy to fill the needs of various parts of the body. My This means that you might as well learn our breakthrough training method, perform high-intensity training every day to deplete your body, and then replenish the body's consumption by eating or supplementing with elixirs, and then train again, and so on again and again, your body strength will It will definitely reach a very terrifying state. That is - with your level of consumption, I am afraid you will need huge cultivation resources to support it. It doesn't matter, I will help you." Qi Ronger said.
"You should put all your energy and resources into surviving on the island next year." Zhang Xiaozu said.
"Okay. I'll help you when I get off the island alive." Qi Ronger said with a smile.
As soon as Qi Ronger finished speaking, Zhang Xiaopeng suddenly jumped up from the ground, holding a three-foot dagger and looking in one direction warily.
Qi Ronger was startled, climbed up quickly, and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong? Is there a vicious beast approaching?"
"It's not a ferocious beast. I heard someone calling for help." Zhang Xiaozu responded in a low voice, "The voice sounded like a woman."
