time flies.
Soon, a month passed.
After opening the fish stall, Zhou Shan's life did not change much. It was still the same as before. He went out fishing at dawn and came back in the evening with a boat full of catches.
As more and more treasure fish were caught, Zhou Shan also moved out of Guyu Street and rented a house with a backyard pond and a martial arts training ground in Ping'an Fang through Yaxing.
Coincidentally, this house was the house where Wang Xuan lived when Zhou Shan came to buy martial arts secret books for the first time. When he came for the second time, the house was taken over by people from Jude Gambling House.
This house met Zhou Shan's requirements, and the rent was relatively cheap among all the houses. It only cost twenty taels of silver a year, so he rented it and signed a one-year rental contract.
It's just dawn.
At this time, there was a spacious martial arts training ground in the backyard.
"call!"
"suck!"
The bare-chested Zhou Shan is practicing in a standing posture, breathing like an upright turtle.
However, this time the practice was more intense than before. He mobilized the energy and blood that filled the whole body and circulated rapidly in the body, like the Yangtze River, surging incessantly, and like rough waves constantly beating against the rocks. .
At this time, Zhou Shan's whole body was steaming with heat, and his bronze skin looked red and hot, like a cooked prawn.
The spiritual power was released from the sea of consciousness, and Zhou Shan performed an 'inner vision', transporting Qi and blood to circulate in the body, just like observing lines on the palm of his hand. The turbulence of Qi and blood stimulated the skin and flesh of the whole body to become more detailed and deeper.
The strong Qi and blood were like a hammer, repeatedly hammering Zhou Shan's skin and muscles.
Under the 'hammering' of the majestic Qi and blood, the skin and flesh on Zhou Shan's body were shaking violently, as if he was sitting on a massage chair, with a force hammering his whole body.
However, the massage chair is hammered by external force, while the qi and blood mobilized by Zhou Shan to stimulate the skin and flesh are 'internal forces'.
The qi and blood stimulated the skin and flesh, and Zhou Shan immediately felt the pain of his skin being torn apart. However, if he wanted his skin to be tempered and strengthened, he had to endure this pain.
Yesterday, he reached the third level of perfection in the Turtle Breathing Technique he practiced, and now he started practicing the fourth level of the Turtle Breathing Technique.
Two quarters of an hour passed.
Zhou Shan felt the limit and exhaled a long breath through his nose, and it was still hot.
As Zhou Shan stopped practicing, his pores dilated and he sweated instantly, as if he had just been fished out of the water. Some impurities and toxins in his body were also excreted with the sweat.
At this time, Zhou Shan felt sore muscles all over his body.
"Master, the liquid has been boiled as required, poured into the tub, and placed in the bedroom."
At this time, a woman came to the martial arts training ground and said.
"I see."
Zhou Shan nodded and went to the bedroom.
After he moved into the house, he didn't want to waste time on cooking, so he hired someone to take care of food, clothing, daily life, purchasing firewood, rice, oil, salt, etc. Some of the trivial matters in life were left to the servants.
Soon.
Zhou Shan came to the bedroom.
There is a bathtub in the bedroom, which contains hot liquid.
Immediately, Zhou Shan took off his pants from the lower body and entered the bath naked. His whole body was soaked in the liquid. In an instant, he felt a hot breath starting to burn from the surface of his body.
And as time goes by, it gradually penetrates into the body.
Immediately, Zhou Shan performed the breathing method in the Turtle Breathing Technique to transport Qi and blood, quickly absorbing the hot air flow pouring into his body, and the two were soon intertwined.
A wonderful fiery feeling is guided from the outside into the body, penetrating to all parts of the body. The pain radiating from the skin and flesh is relieved and gradually weakened by the nourishment of this fiery airflow.
"My muscles are no longer sore!"
Half an hour later, Zhou Shan ended his practice.
The effect of the medicinal bath was immediate. After soaking for half an hour, the skin and flesh all over the body no longer ached, and the qi and blood filling the whole body refined the medicinal power and became more solid.
However, this medicated bath is very effective, but it is also expensive.
The main medicine is the carapace of the horned turtle ground into powder, and the rest of the medicinal materials add up to a dose of about four taels of silver. Although the carapace of the horned turtle is ground into powder, there are several dosages depending on the weight.
But on average, the cost of a pair of medicines is ten taels of silver.
With a thought, Zhou Shan opened the properties panel.
Name: Zhou Shan
Talent: Infinite Spirit (every day, one point of spiritual attribute will be added)
Strength: 20
Defense: 18
Agility: 13
Physique: 43
Spirit: 178
Martial Arts: Turtle Breath Technique/Fourth level (1.2%), Soul-destroying Technique/Second level (89%), Stone Fist/Dacheng (9%), Swimming Fish Movement/Dacheng (24%)
"One dose of medicine increases the cultivation progress by one percent. If you want to break through to the fifth level, you will need ninety-nine medicines and nine hundred and ninety taels of silver to take a medicinal bath once a day."
Zhou Shan estimated in his mind.
Being poor in literature and rich in martial arts is not an empty phrase.
Whether it is asking a master to teach you, or daily food, medicine to assist in practice, etc., all aspects require money.
No wonder there are very few casual warriors in the world. Every warrior will create a force, whether it is establishing a gang to exploit the people at the bottom, or opening a martial arts gym and recruiting disciples. In the final analysis, it is all for the purpose of amassing wealth.
Only by having a stable way of making money and being supported by others can you work hard and hone your skills with peace of mind.
Otherwise, if you have to run around for firewood, oil and salt all day, and you don't even have enough to eat, there is no point in practicing martial arts. A martial artist needs to maintain strong qi and blood, and needs medicinal food every day. If the nutrition cannot keep up, it will naturally be difficult to improve his kung fu.
Ordinary people at the bottom spend thirty or forty pennies a day as soon as they open their eyes.
But when a martial artist opens his eyes, it does not include martial arts training, but only his daily expenses. Two to three thousand coins is considered frugal. If there are servants in the family, the expenditure will be even more.
Every warrior is a big spender, and money is never enough.
"The Turtle Breathing Technique has reached the fourth level. Now I can be considered as stepping into the skin-grinding realm and becoming a first-rate warrior."
Zhou Shan got up and walked out of the tub.
The main purpose of microdermabrasion is to repeatedly hammer the skin and muscles with Qi and blood to build up Qi.
During this hammering process, Zhou Shan's strength, skin and muscles will be greatly improved, and his qi and blood will be further solidified during this hammering process, breaking the limit.
After cultivating this realm to its peak, you will have power that is unimaginable to ordinary people.
One hand holds a ten thousand catty cauldron, the membrane is tough and hard to be damaged by a knife, the big tendons are undulating like strings, and the qi and blood are broken like gauze.
These twenty-eight words describe the four powerful characteristics possessed by warriors who have reached the perfection of the skin-grinding realm.
Zhou Shan has just broken into the fourth level of Turtle Breathing Technique. He is far from reaching the perfection of skin-grinding state. Moreover, different martial arts have different training directions. After reaching the fourth level of Turtle Breathing Technique, he can also increase his energy. But the main direction of practice is to focus on defense, so even if you reach the sixth level of perfection, you can only cultivate to a tough skin that is hard to be hurt by a knife. If you want to be able to lift a ten thousand catty cauldron with one hand and make the big muscles undulate like strings, you still need other martial arts. .
Only by cultivating these three can the Qi and blood break through the limits, just like a thin veil.
