The inner courtyard of Xu Mansion.
Among the densely packed courtyards, the area near the periphery is an elegant garden with small bridges and flowing water. Pavilions, water pavilions, and exotic flowers and rare birds abound, showing the taste and financial resources of the owner.
In a corner of the garden, surrounded by many servants, two people were observing the corner. It was an ant nest.
"Second uncle, what kind of ant is this?" The questioner was a boy in brocade clothes, about five or six years old, who was playing with the entrance of the ant nest with a stick.
"This..." The person who was asked was Xu Jinyuan, the second son of Xu Mansion. He likes to be pure and does not like to socialize. He took the opportunity to play with his nephew in the garden that day, but Liu Yuan happened to listen to him across the wall.
"Second uncle, look! There is a hole here, leading to the outside!" The boy showed Xu Jinyuan the new discovery at the joints of the bricks in the courtyard wall, and happened to forget the previous question.
"It's really not easy for this little ant to be able to dig through the outer courtyard." Xu Jinyuan sighed and became interested at the same time.
Outside the courtyard wall, Liu Yuan also noticed. A small group of sparse ants poked their heads out from the gaps in the blue bricks, waving their tentacles, exploring the outside world.
These ants are smaller and thinner than the ants in Lingtian Peak. Perhaps because Lingtian Pavilion is a place where spiritual energy gathers, all living creatures are more prosperous.
The living environment outside is much worse. Judging from the trajectory, the ant nest was originally in the outer courtyard, and the food in the garden was more abundant, which attracted them to persevere and break through the brick wall, which is touching.
Sure enough, similar comments were made in the inner courtyard, which was made by Xu Jinyuan.
"Look at how these little ants can penetrate a thick brick wall. They work together to achieve a common goal, and the energy they can generate as a group cannot be underestimated."
Xu Jinyuan seemed to be moved by the scene and thought of some things in reality. After pondering for a long time, he found that his nephew was still scouring the ant holes with great concentration. His words seemed like playing the piano to an ox, and he couldn't help but laugh.
However, outside the wall, Liu Yuan quite agreed with his words. Watching the ants use the gaps, bypass obstacles, and move along the winding ant road, working hard, he also squatted down and observed carefully. , not only watching their hard work, but also experiencing and grasping their spirit...
Tens of thousands of miles away, in the Tianji Peak of Lingtian Pavilion, another Liu Yuan was sitting deep in the cave with his eyes closed and meditating. At this moment, he had suspended his pure body practice and was immersed in the landscape painting.
At the foot of the green mountains and beside the flowing river, the chess pieces on the Tianji chessboard are shining brightly. Some ants were busy on the chessboard, connecting many silk threads, and then buried them in the longitude and latitude lines of the chessboard, and finally disappeared.
Gradually, the temperament of the ants seemed to have changed slightly. If before, they were like machines that obeyed orders, then now, it seems that something new has been injected into the ant army.
That is essence, energy, and spirit!
Of course, the temperament change of the ant tribe is a gradual and long-term process. Since then, Liu Yuan has taken time to immerse himself in the Tianji Diagram every day and train his ant colony. Let them transform from summoned insects that mechanically obey orders into real spiritual pets.
In the Xu Mansion in Yecheng, the servants were accustomed to Vice Captain Liu Yuan squatting on the wall to observe ants. Not only that, he even raised a nest of ants in the dormitory for experiments, which made his roommate Shi Gan dumbfounded.
However, what impressed him was that although the new vice-captain spent all his free time studying ants, he did not lose any of his skills.
Three months have passed. Not only has he reached the advanced level in stick skills, but he has also dabbled in eighteen kinds of weapons and fists and kicks under the special "care" of Coach Hong. Although he cannot be considered proficient in everything, he can still be regarded as a minor. become.
This kind of entry has surprised Coach Hong, and this is the result of Liu Yuan's deliberate suppression.
After three months of training, Coach Hong had secretly decided to let this kid spend a year in the patrol team to observe his character, and then recommend him to the inner palace as a senior guard for the head of the family.
"What I'm good at are foreign martial arts. I have nothing left to teach you." On the last day, Coach Hong also deliberately pulled Liu Yuan aside and said happily.
Liu Yuan respectfully bowed down in accordance with the etiquette of master and disciple. Although the other party was a mortal, there must be my master among the three of us. He sincerely thanked Coach Hong for his careful guidance. Although the two of them did not have the title of master and disciple, they had The reality of master and disciple.
"I, Mr. Hong, am the guest chief coach of Xu Mansion, and I can still speak well in many places." Coach Hong smiled and bowed to him, which was regarded as acquiescence. He helped Liu Yuan up and said, "Do a good job. After the year, I will guarantee your entry into the inner palace."
Shi Gan's eyes widened when he saw it. That was the inner palace, he couldn't even think about it. But Liu Yuan acted like nothing was wrong. As soon as Coach Hong left, he ran to the corner and played with ants, as if nothing happened.
Since the end of the training camp, Shi Gan and Liu Yuan started to lead the new team of servants to patrol at night, going back and forth around the inner courtyard wall every night, which was quite worry-free.
Due to Liu Yuan's extraordinary ear, he actually caught a thief who climbed over the inner wall a few months later. With Shi Gan's strong recommendation, Liu Yuan was given the position of captain.
However, these are no longer the focus of Liu Yuan's life, and his energy is once again returned to the main body of Lingtian Pavilion.
After countless failures, half a year later, the realization of the Pure Body Pill was finally a spiritual success.
This time, he had emptied almost all of Lu Zifang's output in the past six months, and the pills in the foundation-building period were indeed more difficult to comprehend.
However, the effect is also amazing——
Pure Body Technique: When activated, it can forge the body from the outside to the inside, continuously improving the strength of the body. It can also shed a layer of skin flakes on the body surface after running for ninety-nine and eighty-one days, and permanently strengthen the body's hair and skin through metabolism. , until the indestructible body is refined.
This is the fresh text Liu Yuan saw on the stone tower in the Tianji Diagram, which shows that he has completely mastered this technique, which is reflected in the Tianji Diagram and sent and received in his heart.
And the comprehension skills of this foundation-building period don’t stop there. There is also a line of small words below that makes Liu Yuan ecstatic:
When the Pure Body Technique is activated, there is a very small chance of realizing the special effects of body refining. The specific effects are currently unknown.
Below that is a row of question marks, which makes you dizzy when you look closely. He knew better than to rush things.
From then on, the daily activation technique changed from the beauty technique to the pure body technique. Anyway, the effect of beauty enhancement was very small. He didn't want to continue it endlessly. It would be very bad if he turned into a pretty boy like Liu Yanshi.
When activating the pure body technique, he also discovered an abnormality. Sure enough, everything was fair.
The price is that the magic consumption in the foundation building period is too great. As long as it is activated, the spiritual power flows away at a speed visible to the naked eye. A spiritual stone will be scrapped in less than half an hour.
If this consumption continues, a rough estimate of nearly 10,000 spirit stones will be needed in one year.
His Yin Marrow Workshop experienced an initial boom in sales, and now its revenue has stabilized, and the consumption of the Pure Body Technique accounts for 80% of the shop's annual income.
Liu Yuan knew that he was poor again.
