Chapter 269

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

The sound of drums echoed in the quiet room.

Liang Qu closed his 108,000 pores, forcing the surging medicinal power to wash over his body, having no heart to check how much water essence had been added to the Inside Ze Ding, and put all his effort into operating the "Dragon-Subduing Tiger-Taming Diamond Scripture."

His internal organs were washed by the medicinal power, becoming transparent and clear, almost reaching a congenital state.

His bones, flesh, meridians, and veins trembled incessantly, like a plucked tuning fork, emitting a low beast roar.

The Qilin Roar.

Embrace the tiger and return to the mountain to cultivate the inner elixir, traverse the polar regions and listen to the thunder.

The Tiger-Leopard Thunder Sound is an excellent method for refining the flesh, tempering the body at all times, whether walking, sitting, or lying down.

The Qilin Roar works in the same way.

Although the progress of each moment is imperceptible, as if standing still.

But if one persists for a month, a year, or even ten years, the accumulated progress will be very considerable.

This is also why Liang Qu didn't choose the Human Origin Elixir at the time, but specifically picked the Qilin Elixir.

The Human Origin Elixir is good, even a low-grade human elixir can equal sixty years of a normal person's Qi and blood cultivation using mid-tier techniques, full of strength.

But what the Qilin Elixir gave him was a long-term, useful cultivation gain.

Looking to the future, the returns are higher.

Liang Qu still kept the paper information he received when he got the Qilin Elixir on his person.

The circles and marks made by the cinnabar pen at the bottom were still fresh in his memory.

Even for Wolf Smoke experts like Huang Jin Yuan and Huang Zejun, wanting to obtain one still required weighing by a Grandmaster, which shows how precious the Great Elixir is.

In the west wing room.

The old monk, who was meditating and practicing quiet arts, opened his eyes.

At his realm, he could already use meditation to replace sleep, and sleeping two or three times a month was enough.

He had known the moment Liang Qu stepped over the threshold.

"Out for half a month and found another opportunity... it's truly like eating and drinking."

The old monk knew best how difficult it was to practice the "Dragon-Subduing Tiger-Taming Diamond Scripture."

This technique has no strict realm divisions; the longer one practices, the deeper the skill, the stronger the golden body, until a "small self" truth is born in the lower dantian, only then is it considered a great success.

Without external objects to assist, relying on one's own slow grinding effort, who knows how much time it would take.

But precious plants and treasures that are similar yet different are so hard to find and obtain.

In less than half a year, Liang Qu had found and obtained two, both of which were extraordinary items.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say it was fated...

Liang Qu was single-minded, doing his best to refine the withering-prospering Qi of the Wither-Prosper Twin Lotus.

The first time he condensed his golden body, blood mist rose around him, turning blood Qi into dragon and tiger Qi.

This time, there was no such terrifying scene; his whole body felt comfortable, and golden light surged and wrapped around him like mist.

The withering Qi flowed through, like an old man in his twilight years, producing wrinkles, and the prospering Qi brushed over, like an old tree meeting spring, sprouting new buds again.

One positive and one negative, cycling back and forth.

Besides this, the only visible difference was that the blurry dragon and tiger Qi around Liang Qu became clearer and more elegant.

The outlines were no longer blurry or scattered like smoke, as if some special lines had been emphasized with a wolf-hair brush, capturing the spirit perfectly.

One hour later.

The sun was high in the sky, with the golden dragon and golden tiger standing on the left and right.

Flowing and entwining, both attaining the true meaning.

As the last trace of withering-prospering Qi in his body dissipated into nothing, Liang Qu opened his eyes and retracted his Qi and blood.

The golden light dissipated, and the strange phenomenon vanished instantly.

He had taken another big step forward.

The effect of the Wither-Prosper Twin Lotus was even better than the Water-Fire Twin Flowers.

If compared to "Wansheng Baoyuan," this consumption of the Wither-Prosper Twin Lotus was like going from stabilizing the spirit to internal vision.

His body felt solid from top to bottom, the feeling of being a whole was even stronger, and his own "root" was exceptionally harmonious.

If he had to describe it, it felt like his internal organs, bones, and muscles had been crushed, twisted together, and then reformed into a human again, which was extraordinarily miraculous.

Communicating with the Inside Ze Ding.

The azure water essence washed against the tripod walls, emitting bursts of tidal sounds.

"More than 7,400, quite a bit more than the Twin Flowers."

Liang Qu lowered his head in thought.

He remembered that when he consumed the Water-Fire Twin Flowers, the water essence contributed was only a little over 5,300.

The Wither-Prosper Twin Lotus was 2,100 points more, equivalent to one and a half Twin Flowers!

Water-born precious plants have a premium; if put into the River Patrol, it would be worth at least three great merits!

A starving camel is still bigger than a horse.

Liang Qu's mind stirred slightly.

"There are eighteen branches of the Ghost Mother Sect that have been verified on the surface, and now there are seventeen left; if they all smoke black, wouldn't that be..."

Don't fear the whirlpools when going down the river, don't fear the hot iron when blacksmithing.

Having played a different game with Xiang Fang Su and Ke Wenbin, Liang Qu had completely opened the door to a new world.

What level is the Huang-surname branch of the Ghost Mother Sect? Just a Duke.

Those feudal princes, princes of the blood, and even the main family must be even better.

Seventeen branches, two items each, that's thirty-four items...

It was a great fortune to enter the River Patrol, leaning against a big tree to enjoy the shade; otherwise, how would good things ever fall to him?

It's just that with over 7,000 water essence, he was still quite far from the 10,000 needed to fuse the spirit fish.

In the half month on the island, Liang Qu went into the water every day, ate cockscomb fruit, and accumulated 532 points of essence, with a total barely reaching 8,000, still 2,000 short of 10,000.

2,000 is not easy to make up.

The precious plants found by the few water beasts he controlled mostly added less than 100 essence.

Like the Twin Flowers and the Twin Lotus, situations where thousands are added at once can only count as the old giant clam once and the mermaid tears once.

The sturgeon monster doesn't count; that was found by Liang Qu himself.

See tomorrow.

Having left Yixing Town for half a month, the fat catfish and the others didn't take a break and were still searching for precious water plants everywhere.

I wonder if they can make up that 2,000-point gap, so the River Lord can show a little more love.

The next morning.

Liang Qu greeted the old monk and went to the courtyard for morning exercises.

Fan Xinglai woke up with the rooster's crow, tidied himself up, and was just about to pick up a shovel to shovel horse manure when he heard movement in the courtyard and poked his head out to take a look.

"Master Liang! When did you get back?"

"Last night, it was quite late, so I didn't tell you."

Liang Qu was slightly sweaty; he put down the Fubo and went to the side of the pond to wash his face.

"Then should I go call Auntie Zhang to make breakfast?"

"Sure." Liang Qu saw Fan Xinglai turning to leave and immediately stopped him, "Hey, wait, one thing, do you know where Huangni Lane is?"

"I know, that mud lane in the southeast, next to Fish-Selling Lane; there's an old man nearby who often carries a pole selling wontons there, the taste isn't bad, I've eaten it twice."

Fan Xinglai was familiar with the way.

Although he grew up in Pingyang County and hadn't been to Yixing Town much, he had lived here for a while and knew it very well.

"Right, that's it. After you call Auntie Zhang, take a trip to Huangni Lane yourself.

About half a mile into the lane, there's a household with a grass shed in the courtyard, and the house color is darker, newly built; go see if they have any trouble."

"Trouble?"

"Just see if anyone is going over to cause trouble, or bullying a family with no heirs; if there is, report my name to scare them, if not, forget it, and come back for breakfast."

"Alright."

Fan Xinglai didn't know the ins and outs, but he knew that he just had to do as he was told.