Shenyin Shanhaijing

Chapter 35 Autumn Hunt
Lu Cheng returned to the cave, rested overnight, and got up early the next day for morning exercises.

He tried to hold a copper ball, and found that his strength had increased a lot, and he even picked up a 3000-jin copper ball.

Uncle Seven came over, patted him on the shoulder, and praised him: "The progress is not small, and we have accumulated a lot. Picking up a 3000-jin copper ball is a sign of stepping into the fourth level of martial arts. I will teach you another kung fu. It's called the 'carrying tripod pose', practice for half an hour in the morning and evening, and cooperate with the 'Strengthening Bone Pill', one pill per month."

Lu Cheng asked, "Uncle Qi, what is Zhuang Gu Wan?"

"Strong bone pills are carefully boiled with tiger bone paste and psoralen. As you know, the tiger bone is obtained by hunting tigers with great difficulty; psoralen is a kind of herbal medicine that grows on the other side of the mountain. It is a large piece, but it needs to be selected for more than ten years to be effective. I don’t have many bone-strengthening pills in my hand, so I can only give you three pills. After you finish eating, go to the elder yarrow to get it. In your capacity and Contributions, you can only receive one pill every three months. Find out what you don’t have.”

"Is there any way? Ask Uncle Seven for advice."

"Either participate in the competition among the clan, or hunt the tiger by yourself. One tiger can be exchanged for 30 bone-strengthening pills. In addition, I heard that you are appreciated by the great witch, and you can ask him to give you the elixir."

Lu Cheng learned the "carrying tripod pose", received three "Bone Strengthening Pills", and took one immediately. He felt warm all over his body, and his bones were itchy and numb, like countless bugs crawling around.He quickly practiced the "carrying tripod style" to absorb the power of the medicine.

After practicing for an hour, he followed Yami and a group of teenagers to hunt antelope and elk in the Yarong Valley dozens of miles to the south.

They are not the main force for hunting, but are mainly responsible for guarding the mouth of the valley to prevent the antelope and elk from running away.Seeing a group of burly and tall clansmen rushing in, killing elks one by one, carrying them out and throwing them at the mouth of the valley.Then these young men and old men carried the elk and antelope back.

Lu Cheng discovered that the elk and antelope here are a circle larger than those of later generations. The elk is three to four meters long and weighs three to four thousand catties; the antelope is stronger than the later bison and weighs three to four thousand catties.

For such a huge prey, two teenagers or two old people usually carry it back.

Lu Cheng picked up a smaller elk by himself, and walked back little by little.

On the elk's neck, there were arrows as thick as arms, and the blood of the deer flowed down drop by drop.

Lu Cheng's fingers were dipped in deer blood, and the jade ring absorbed the spiritual energy in the blood.

After the deer was carried back, special people bled, dismembered, dried the meat, and threw it into a huge brine pool to make bacon.

The Yi people are blessed by nature. There is a small salt lake in the southeast corner of Mount Yuyu. The brine is salty and bitter. It can be used to marinate meat. When it is time to eat, the meat should be soaked in the stream and washed away. Magnesium chloride, otherwise it is difficult to swallow.

The work of salting meat is mainly done by women, and some old people are also in charge.

Lu Cheng left the deer behind, and went to the Yarrow Valley to fight against new prey.

After carrying it like this for three days, the blood groove on the jade ring grew little by little.

By the evening of the third day, when the hunting in the Yarrow Valley was almost over, the adults came back with a full load on their shoulders.

According to the elders in the clan, this year's harvest is pretty good. Next, we will go hunting in Wusang Forest in the east, where there are herds of bison, as well as many tigers and cheetahs. Maybe there is no need to go to Gaiyu Wasteland.

After a night's rest, Lu Cheng followed many teenagers to the Wusang Forest fifty miles to the east.

In the mulberry forest, there is a large area of ​​grass covered with fragrant and sweet emperor bamboo grass that bison love to eat.

Lu Cheng saw that the emperor bamboo grass grew to a height of seven or eight meters, shaped like sugarcane, with luxuriant branches and leaves, green and tall, one node after another, each node bears an axillary bud and is wrapped by leaves.The stem nodes in the middle and lower parts give birth to aerial roots, and the upper stems can grow branches. The grass leaves are like a line, and the leaves are curved and drooping. The back of the leaves has short white hairs shaped like needles.

Hunting bison is a relatively dangerous thing, especially bison in groups, which can cause great harm to people.

Fortunately, the Yi people are very strong, among them there are many masters of the sixth or seventh level of martial arts, and some of the tenth level of martial arts, and even innate masters.

Even so, Lu Cheng still saw many people injured.

Especially on the second day, he saw the corpses of more than [-] tribesmen carried out at once, and it was said that they were attacked by cattle and tigers!
Afterwards, tall bison were carried out, as well as several huge tigers.

Lu Cheng went up to help, but he couldn't carry the huge bison, he could only carry the calves and spotted leopards.

After working hard for a few days, the blood tank of Jade Ring seemed to be full.

On the last day, the elder Yarrow Hu came over, patted the exhausted teenagers one by one, and gave each of those who were in the fourth stage of martial arts a bone strengthening pill.

At this time, the young master of the Yi tribe, who was also the eldest brother of Yakuang, a man named "Yaofeng", came over and patted "Yakuang" on the head, and gave him two bone-strengthening pills.

"Okay, go back and rest, it's none of your business."

Lu Cheng asked: "Brother, don't you need to go to the Lifeng Valley in the west?"

Achilles sighed: "I still have to go, there are some medicinal herbs there, which are helpful to improve the realm of viscera refining. If you don't go, you won't get the medicinal herbs."

Lu Cheng knew in his heart that the Yarrow tribe occupied a radius of a hundred miles, and the output in this area was limited. If it was just to feed their hunger, it might not be a big problem, but if they wanted to grow their tribe, they had to go out and take risks.

Yarrow said: "Go back and practice hard. You will be considered an adult by March next year."

Here, 13 is considered an adult.Adults have to take responsibility, no work, no food.

It was rare for Lu Cheng to say a few words to this elder brother, and then he saw Yarrow leading a group of people and leaving with a huge tiger on their shoulders.

In addition to the tigers and bison that were killed, some people took a few live calves back to raise them in the family.

Next, Lu Cheng thought of another thing, went to the hillside and dug a pile of spiritual grass called "Psoralen", and collected it into the jade ring.

He wanted to get some tiger bones, but the tiger bones with marrow were controlled by the clan. He was not qualified to obtain high-quality tiger bones, so he could only go to the market to buy some small pieces of tiger bones. Reiki, but unable to make tiger bone paste.

Lu Cheng made it clear that in such a large ethnic group as the Yi tribe, only a few people can get bone-strengthening pills, and those teenagers who can't get bone-strengthening pills, if they want to strengthen their muscles and bones, there are other ways, such as beef bones , leopard bone, antelope bone, and deer bone all have nourishing effects.

Ever since, Lu Cheng went to the market every day and bought some tiger bones, leopard bones, antelope bones, and deer bones.Those are all fresh animal bones, with tendon fascia and a little lean meat on them.

He put these things into the jade ring, and then at noon, lying on the stone bed, touching the jade ring, chanting mantras, and returning to the modern world.

(End of this chapter)