Although the technology of this world is underdeveloped, except for the remote and primitive world, the people of the Jiu tribe still have boots to wear.
Qingmei has two pairs of boots, both made of cowhide, one long and one short, the longer one is knee-length and the short one is ankle-length.
When she goes out, she puts on long boots, a tiger skin skirt, and a cowhide coat to cover her whole body. When I got home, I took off my boots and my legs were bare.
A pair of snow-white calves exuded a charming allure under the firelight.
Lu Cheng didn't look at it and said, "I still have twenty or thirty pieces of snow leopard skin clothes like this. Go to Li Ju's shop tomorrow and ask if she accepts ready-made clothes. You decide the price yourself. According to One piece of clothing is worth ten snow leopard skins..."
Qingmei smiled and nodded: "Brother, I understand."
She sat back on the bed and covered her legs with the tiger skin.
Lu Cheng didn't take out the mink coat because it was too gorgeous and eye-catching. Once it fell in the eyes of a big shot, it would easily cause trouble. The snow leopard skin is black and white and has not been dyed or enhanced, so it is not too eye-catching.
Qingmei's bright eyes flashed and she said: "I asked several little sisters, and without exception, they all turned from virgins to concubines. Brother, why don't you let me stay in bed? Do you dislike me for coming from the fox clan? In fact, The Fox Clan has practiced for many years, and once we transform into human form, we will be the same as the Human Clan. Moreover, we are more loyal and reliable than the Human Clan..."
Lu Cheng asked: "Does your fox clan have any dual cultivation skills? Can you harvest yang and replenish yin to improve your skills?"
Qingmei smiled and said: "Yes, yes, but you don't have to worry."
"Why?"
"Because I want to live forever. In this case, I won't harm anyone."
"Then tell me what the Fox Clan's cultivation method is like."
"I'm sorry, brother, I can't tell. This is my clan's secret."
"Tell me about the dual cultivation method."
Qingmei smiled and said: "I can't say it. You need to practice it. Try it once and you will know."
Lu Cheng said: "Forget it then. I have a wife at home. I don't want to mess around with women."
"Brother, I don't care how many women you have. When I came here, my grandmother told me that all the masters of the human race have many wives and concubines. For example, those princes and nobles, how many wives did Emperor Yu have? How many concubines did King Zhou have? Concubine?"
Lu Cheng thought to himself: "Who knows how many wives Dayu has? This guy has never entered the house three times. Is it possible that there is someone outside?"
King Zhou should have many wives and concubines.
In "The Romance of the Gods", King Zhou of Shang was a man who was addicted to women and ignored government affairs. He had at least six women, three of whom were goblins. Wang Guiren is a thousand-year-old pipa spirit. She is a sister to Su Daji, a nine-tailed fox, and Hu Ximei, a nine-headed pheasant spirit. The noble king likes to suck the essence and blood of the palace people. After each blood sucking, he will hide the palace people's corpses under the Taihu stone in the imperial garden. Hu Ximei was also a demon. She entered the palace as a nine-tailed fox sister and eventually became the concubine of King Zhou.
Qingmei said softly at the foot of the bed: "Brother, I'm eight years old, eight years old! I haven't been close to anyone yet."
Lu Cheng said: "Eight years old? Too young! When you are 80 years old, if you still follow me, I will take you as my concubine!"
"80 years old? Oh my God... I have to stay up that long?"
"Huh, 80 years old is nothing! If you want to become a seven-tailed fox, do you know how many years it will take?"
"Just wait and let me do the math... The first 300 years of ignorance are not included... A two-tailed fox will have a lifespan of two armors; a three-tailed fox, four armors; a four-tailed fox, eight armors; a five-tailed fox, 16 Jiazi... A seven-tailed fox has a lifespan of 64 Jiazi... Brother, I can't count! 64 Jiazi, how old is it?"
"64 multiplied by 60 equals 3840 years. What about eight-tailed foxes and nine-tailed foxes? Can their lifespan be doubled?"
"The life span of the eight-tailed fox and the nine-tailed fox is unknown. It is said that they can live forever."
Lu Cheng said: "Don't think so much, follow me and practice hard! 80 years have passed in the blink of an eye."
He said this, but he was not sure in his heart. He didn't know how long he could live.
Although it is said that in this world of Shan Hai Jing, human beings can break through the shackles of life, but who in the earth world has lived for 150 years? Forget about those legendary immortals such as Huangdi and Pengzu, because they are too far back in time to be tested; among the cultivators after the Song Dynasty, Patriarch Chen Tuan, Wang Chongyang, Qiu Chuji, Zhang Sanfeng, and many Buddhist and Taoist monks, who will ultimately live forever? Not old?
Lu Cheng thought to himself: "Perhaps you can say that the spiritual energy in future generations is thin, so it is impossible to cultivate. However, due to the opening of the Wulian Tomb, how long can the revival of spiritual energy brought about by the runes and astronomical phenomena last? If it is just a flash in the pan, it will not survive. It will take a hundred years for my spiritual energy to be exhausted, and then I will return to the days when my spiritual energy was thin. In that case, the longevity I expect can only be a luxury!"
Therefore, Lu Cheng cannot guarantee how brilliant his future will be. He doesn't even know if he can live past 120 years old.
Not to mention after the Song Dynasty, even the Qin Dynasty two thousand years ago, the spiritual energy at that time should be richer.
The First Emperor ascended the throne to inherit the throne of Qin at the age of thirteen, took charge of the government at the age of twenty-two, and unified the six kingdoms at the age of thirty-nine to complete his great cause. He tried every possible means to seek immortality, but all was in vain. In the end, he did not become an immortal, but died on the road touring the world at the age of forty-nine.
In this case, Lu Cheng had to ask himself: "How can I break through the shackles of life and live forever? Maybe if I work hard all my life, it will be all in vain!"
Because of this, he still wanted to keep a hand in the real world, hoping to wait for Jiang Qiuyun to advance to the innate level and have children to continue his family life.
Just imagine, if he was sure that he could become an immortal, he would have gathered his body and mind to practice wholeheartedly! Why auction jade, buy stocks, accumulate wealth, and strive to be among the top 100 rich people? For a detached immortal, what is the use of all that wealth? Don't you think that if you don't succeed in cultivation, you can still become a rich man and leave some benefits to your children.
Qingmei heard that he promised to take her as his concubine only when she was 80 years old. Although it was the year of the monkey and the days were far away and unsatisfactory, she finally had hope, so she stopped pestering her and lay down honestly to continue sleeping.
The next morning, when I opened the wooden door, there was a foot of thick white snow outside.
Lu Cheng went to the small courtyard where Wu Luo was.
Wu Luo's little witches are here, Wu Qin, Wu Ming, Wu Qi, Wu Liu and Wu Kuang.
The five little witches, plus the big witch Wu Luo, sat around a rectangular wooden table.
Wu Luo spoke: "Our Falcon Jiu clan occupies a vast territory, eight thousand miles long from south to north, five thousand miles wide from east to west, with a total of 108 large cities and more than a thousand small cities. Our cities are divided into It is not safe and is constantly being attacked by the beasts. Now is the light snow solar term, followed by heavy snow, winter solstice, minor cold and big cold; after the big cold is the New Year; after the New Year is the Xin Chou Year! Every Xin Chou Year, They will all encounter massive attacks from monsters.
For this reason, as early as three years ago, Master Wu Sheng told all the great witches to draw two thousand talismans each, and prepare another 5,000 blank talisman papers to provide to the shamans on the front line, who can draw talismans at any time according to the situation.
So far, I have only drawn 1,200 talismans and collected 3,300 blank talisman papers.
If this continues, if I don't hurry up, I won't be able to complete the task and will be punished.
Next, I will assign tasks to you... Whoever can complete it on time, I will teach you the runes and the "Great Witch Chant" alone..."
Lu Cheng was assigned the task of 300 talisman papers, which required him to complete two talisman papers every day in the next 150 days.
He thought it was not difficult, but Wu Qi and others were worried about it. Because it takes at least ten days to make a piece of talisman paper, it is easy to make mistakes if you make multiple pieces at a time. If any step is wrong, the talisman paper produced will not have enough spiritual energy, and it will not be recognized by Wu Luo.
He received a few spiritual sheepskins and returned to the cave to slowly make them.
When he returned to the cave, he found that Qingmei was not at home. She must have gone to the city with the snow leopard skin clothes.
Lu Cheng felt that the cave was not spacious enough, and if a series of bottles and jars were placed, it would seem a bit cramped, so he took out his golden dagger and began to dig into the stone wall.
The golden dagger cut into the stone wall like cutting tofu without making any sound.
After a while, the cave became twice as big! It's equivalent to having a few more rooms.
Then, Lu Cheng used huge stones to carve stone troughs. Each stone trough was one meter long, half a meter wide, and half a meter high. He carved 10 stone troughs in total. Each stone trough is marked with a serial number.
He took the storage jade pendant and went to the lake not far away to cut through the ice and get some lake water.
Returning to the cave, he used lake water to prepare various medicinal solutions and poured them into stone troughs.
Then cut the spiritual sheepskin into two feet square and immerse it in the first stone tank.
The spirit sheep in this world are not small. One spirit sheep weighs two to three thousand kilograms. A complete spirit sheep skin can be cut into thirty or forty pieces of talisman paper after removing the trimmings.
But for ordinary little witches, more than half of thirty talisman papers will be lost after being processed through various processes. Only three or five real talisman papers are considered to be highly incense.
The reason is that they use the "brain tanning method" to take the brains of animals, such as rabbit brains and mouse brains, put them into a container, then add a small amount of hot water to it, and then use wooden sticks or hands to completely pound the brains. Crush it and allow it to undergo air oxidation for a period of time to obtain brain fluid. Use your hands to rub the brain fluid evenly on both the inside and outside of the briefly baked rawhide, then wrap it with a cloth. The oil in the brain fluid will gradually penetrate into the gaps of subcutaneous collagen under the influence of residual temperature, changing its properties and turning it into leather. Finally, the leather is washed to remove excess brain tissue.
For leather tanned in this way, because the brain fluid is unevenly applied and some brain tissue condenses into lumps, it is difficult to obtain talisman paper that meets the standards.
But Lu Cheng is different. He uses the "chromium tanning method", using basic chromium sulfate as the tanning material, completely dissolved in water to obtain a uniform solution.
Therefore, he put in 30 talisman papers, and there were still 30 talismans when they came out. The spiritual energy was evenly distributed and there would not be much loss.
Moreover, considering the actual situation, he only used the most basic tanning techniques and deliberately simplified many steps, such as dyeing, sanding, top coating, and modification, so that the final product would not be so bright and soft, so that people would not be shocked.
In the afternoon, Qingmei came back from the city and saw that the cave had expanded a lot, and she seemed very happy.
"Brother, did you do this? Did you dig it out so quickly?"
Lu Cheng said calmly: "This is not easy!"
Qingmei said: "Brother, you are joking. I know that stone caves are not easy to dig. Most of our fox tribe live in caves, and it takes many years of digging to expand the caves."
"Did you see Li Ju? What did she say?"
"She looked surprised when she saw the snow leopard skin and said it was a rare treasure that could be presented to the princes and nobles. She accepted all the ten snow leopard skin clothes I brought! She gave me 30 pieces of sable skin and 70 pieces of sable skin. A piece of snow leopard skin, a piece of chi dragon skin, and a piece of 'chi dragon inner elixir'." She said as she took out the items and placed them on the big wooden bed.
"Chilong?"
"Liju said that there are four types of dragons: those with scales are called Jiaolong; those with wings are called Yinglong; those with horns are called Qiulong, and those without horns are called Chilong."
"Where did she get the dragon skin and inner elixir?"
"A spiritual warrior from a foreign land mortgaged the dragon skin and inner elixir to her. The dragon skin is very tough and can be made into leather armor; the inner elixir can be swallowed and can increase the skill, but it is dangerous and requires both Yin and Yang cultivation. Turn danger into safety.”
Lu Cheng thought to himself: "Chilong in traditional culture means beauty, auspiciousness, and the relationship between men and women. Is it because its inner elixir has that effect? Is it similar to Viagra?"
Qingmei whispered softly: "Brother, just swallow it, I can help you."
Lu Cheng snorted, put away the inner elixir, and said, "You don't need your help. I'll grind it into powder and swallow it slowly!"
"Brother, Li Ju said, it's best to swallow it in one gulp. The effect will be more obvious and it can improve your level!"
"I don't!"
Lu Cheng didn't believe what others said. Although swallowing it in one gulp was powerful, it also carried great risks.
Moreover, he is not very eager to improve his skills, because the faster he practices, the closer he will be to the day of burial. In this case, why rush to seek death?
He wanted to practice slowly and make more preparations before he could meet the challenge.
Qingmei was a little disappointed. She bit her lip and turned around to prepare dinner in silence.
To be honest, she had admiration, admiration, and awe for Lu Cheng in her heart.
She had not dared to tell the truth before. The dual cultivation method of the Fox clan was flawed. Most of the men who took fox girls as concubines practiced very quickly in the early stage, but found it difficult to sustain in the middle stage. If they were affected in the later stage, it was not only difficult to achieve success, but also easy to achieve success. Died young.
Qingmei remembered what her grandmother said: "Why have there been no nine-tailed foxes in Qingqiu Country for thousands of years? There are even very few seven-tailed foxes in Qingqiu Country? Because there are two kinds of Qingqiu Mind Techniques, one is called 'Qingqiu Heavenly Fox Technique', and the practice relies on Oneself; the other is called 'Qingqiu Su Nu Jing', which relies on others to practice.
Nowadays, the 'Qingqiu Sky Fox Skill' is in pieces, and only the skills under the six-tailed fox remain. A few days ago, I have made you memorize them.
Although the "Qingqiu Su Nv Jing" is complete, it relies too much on men. How many successful men are there in the world?
Qingmei, do you know what 'Kyuubi' is?
The essence of the nine tails is nine yin. One more tail means one more yin!
How can a man withstand the extreme yin in his body and the cold that penetrates his bones? Unless he has practiced Zhiyang Kungfu, he can go further with you..."
Qingmei didn't know what kind of basic mental method Lu Cheng practiced, but from the appearance, it was obviously not Zhiyang's fire-based method. People who practice fire-based exercises often have a red complexion. Lu Cheng's face is fair and pure, which is a sign of peace between yin and yang.
