There were rumors outside, but the City Lord's Mansion did not post any specific notices about the inevitable war, and even the Yamen remained silent about it. Only the response measures to the war continued to exaggerate the atmosphere and make everyone panic.
The most direct manifestation is that things are no longer easy to sell. Especially for things that are not daily necessities, the prices almost change every day, so much so that they are on sale, but there are still very few buyers.
Everyone knows that a military disaster may be coming. You should always be safer with money in your hand. It would be great if we could even store some rice and noodles at home.
The depression came so suddenly and in a blink of an eye. The streets and alleys that were noisy yesterday are now shrouded in gloom. Even Yuhua Street is much quieter at night than usual, and it's like a completely different place.
No one can be said to be immune to this general depression. From the city lord's palace to the vendors and footmen and even the beggars on the street, no one was spared.
Everyone needs to tighten their belts and live cautiously with courage.
Even the cleaning fee collected by the knife shop on the street is now being cut down again and again, with the intention of cutting off the supply.
After all, the cleaning fee is not life-saving money. If the merchant himself has nothing to eat, why can he still pay the cleaning fee to the knife shop first? It’s not easy anyway, so I’m not afraid anymore.
Everyone in the knife shop is mentally prepared for this. And affected by this general environment, the senior management of the knife hall became more and more looking forward to the decision that Bai Lang had made sincerely. From time to time, people would go to Liu Xu or Yang Xiu privately to find out information, but the latter two were very strict in their tone.
A night of practice was definitely a surprise for Bai Lang.
Calling up the attribute panel, the numerical changes on it also gave Bailang some confidence to deal with the dangers that were bound to come later.
[Name: Bailang]
[Status: Third-level warrior, entry-level Qi practitioner (middle stage of Qi-entraining realm), 11% excellent talent]
[(Purple) Destiny Skill: Extreme Concentration]
[(Green) Thirteen Styles of Tiger Leaping: Mastery 47%], [(Green) Dao Gang Preliminary Solution: Mastery 34%]
[(Blue) Qi Nourishing Technique: Mastery 9%], [(Blue) Formation Fragment: 16%]
[(Green) Two introductory articles for Xiao Zhoutian: 20% mastery in the self-refining chapter]
[(Blue) Five Elements Magic: Introduction 80%]
[(Blue) Immovable as a Mountain: Entry 29%]
[Equipment: Ordinary clothes, currency, (green) crescent moon, (green) 6 low-grade spiritual stones 100%]
The most direct benefit was that Bai Lang found that if he practiced martial arts as a martial artist at the same time, his level as a martial artist would rise too fast. Basically, as the physical body strengthens to a certain extent with martial arts, the warrior's rank will rise accordingly. Now that he has entered the ranks of third-level warriors, at least half of the reason is due to the improvement of Bailang's pure physical strength.
However, at the same time, Bai Lang also discovered that although his martial arts cultivation and martial arts cultivation progressed at the same time, there was no mutual benefit or superposition similar to the mutual gain and superposition between martial arts cultivation and martial artist level. Therefore, Bai Lang deduced that if he wanted to improve his cultivation as a Qi practitioner, he would need to make further breakthroughs in "Two Introductions to Little Zhou Tian" or "Mountain Like a Mountain".
And in comparison, "Two Introductions to Little Zhoutian" is closer to a breakthrough.
"With the attribute panel, there is no difficulty in practicing skills and refining elixirs. If there are enough resources, I can achieve a leap in cultivation in a short time." Bai Lang knew very well that he was controlled by the attribute panel. The convenience brought by it.
Not only the practice of martial arts, but also the familiarity of martial arts and weapons has become simple and crude due to the digitization of the attribute panel.
Other warriors and even martial arts cultivators need a period of familiarization after changing to a new weapon. But Bailang doesn't need it. Whether it's martial arts transformation or weapon transformation, he can use it directly and exert normal functions when his body is digitized.
The crescent moon is overall slightly longer than the short knives commonly found in knife shops. The blade is also slightly wider and looks more suitable for chopping than cutting. The shape is not a regular crescent shape, but has some amplitude missing. But in terms of weight, it is much heavier than an ordinary weapon, almost three times heavier. If Bai Lang's physical strength hadn't skyrocketed now, he wouldn't be able to use a one-handed knife of this weight.
Although there is no comparison, Bailang boasts that his strength is not weak. Not to mention killing people at a higher level, at least if a qi refiner who is also in the qi-entraining realm comes over, he will definitely be worthy of it.
The next step is to wait for the storm to come.
In the afternoon, Zhang Wu came over to report that General Shan's ship of yellow and white goods had been sent away last night. The exchanged spirit stones were also brought over by Zhang Wu.
To be honest, there is no shortage of spiritual stone Bailang for the time being, but this thing is not only a consumable resource for practice, but also a hard currency among Qi practitioners. The female ghost Lingyu had told him before that some good exercises, magic weapons, and elixirs could not be bought with gold and silver, and buyers would only talk to you about spiritual stones. So for Lingshi Bailang, the more the better.
However, martial law has recently begun on the Changshui side of the river. Even regular cargo ship traffic has been restricted, and the number of black ships in the black market has naturally dropped sharply. But this is not something Bailang can control. There are too many variables under the general trend, and there is no telling what trouble will happen later.
"Sir, there is news from the north gate. Smoke and dust are flying more than ten miles to the north, and a large number of fast horses are coming. It should be that people from the Yuzhong Military Mansion are arriving soon."
"Let's go and have a look."
Bailang understood very well what the arrival of Yuzhong Military Mansion meant. At the same time, he was also curious about what the regular army in this world looked like. So I had previously told the street wanderer below to notify him once he arrived.
Along the way from Ma Sheng Alley to the North Gate, many people came to watch the excitement. Street wanderers would know the same thing, even the dust and smoke in the distance could not hide it from others.
After leaving the city, Bailang saw a large group of knights wearing gray and black standard armor more than ten miles outside the city. It was the kind of armor stitched with leather armor and scattered iron pieces. The defensive power was not weak at first glance. Moreover, these knights did not dismount, holding the reins with one hand and holding the saber handles tied to the saddles with the other. Countless horses can be seen cruising around in the distance, acting as a warning and keeping the onlookers at a distance.
Bailang also watched from a distance. The feeling of these knights was still very shocking to him. Although there were only less than two hundred knights, the pressure of the war machines coming towards him was still very strong. Basically, it was in line with what he expected a regular army in this world to be like.
It's just that Bailang didn't feel the so-called sturdy aura, nor did he feel much evil aura. There seems to be a gap between the kind of tiger and brave men mentioned in the book.
Thinking about Bai Lang, he soon felt relieved. After all, they were stationed at the Yuzhong Military Mansion, and they were not front-line soldiers. It would have been nice if the troops were well-organized and powerful. If you want to become a tiger with a murderous spirit, you should still need to be beaten in actual combat.
However, Bai Lang also noticed that except for the Yamen's Yamen Lord Russell Chen who went out with a group of Yamen officials to greet him, no one from the City Lord's Mansion came.
(End of chapter)
