Refining Qi starts from repairing the panel.

Chapter 217: Cold Wave Coming, Fire

There are six stages: childhood, youth, adulthood, middle age, peak, and old age. According to the division of the panel, childhood corresponds to level zero.

Youth corresponds to levels one to two, basically between the ages of fifteen and fifty.

Adults are at level three to level four, and warriors from ordinary tribes have to be at least sixty to ninety years old to reach this level.

Most of the totem monks basically stay in the youth to adult stage, with their strength fluctuating between the third and fourth levels until they die of old age.

This is a threshold. A third-class totem can basically only grow to this level. For a second-class totem, only a small number of people can break through the shackles of the body and enter adulthood.

The prime of life period corresponds to levels five to six, with a basic age of around three hundred to eight hundred years old.

The peak is level seven to level eight, which is the pinnacle of the Totem Way. The strongest among them are enough to rival the Great Immortals, but can only live for a few thousand years.

As for old age, it is a period of decline unique to totem monks. After entering this period, no matter how strong they were before, their blood and energy will begin to gradually decline, and the power of the totem will also gradually fade.

This kind of exhaustion is irreversible and will last for a long time, causing the level of cultivation to drop by at least one or two levels.

Chu Zheng also obtained some key information about totems. The totem that is imprinted at birth can be replaced.

However, there are certain restrictions. The totem of the beast spirit can only be replaced by the beast spirit, and cannot be replaced by the sky pattern.

There is a difference in the way the two operate. If you replace them directly, the body will not be able to bear the load and will eventually explode and die.

Carving a totem requires a great deal of effort and is usually done by a witch.

Especially when carving a second-class or even first-class totem, the loss to the witch's soul is extremely terrifying, and it is not an easy task.

"Have you finished reading?"

At some point, the witch had already walked to Chu Zheng's side.

"I've finished reading it, thank you Wu." Chu Zheng stood up and grinned.

"You're welcome. I should be the one thanking you."

Wu sighed softly: "I'm sorry Zhengchu, I thought you carried an ominous aura and might bring bad luck to the tribe. Now maybe I was wrong."

Hearing this, Chu Zheng couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, with an ominous aura around him... Could it be that the witch can sense the existence of calamity energy?
Before he could think about it, Wu spoke again:
"Is there anything else I can help you with?"

"No more." Chu Zheng shook his head and turned to walk out of the hall.

As soon as he walked out of the palace gate, he saw Ying squatting aside and picking medicinal herbs.

"Zhengchu!"

Seeing Chu Zheng coming out, Ying tilted her head and smiled, picked up a small package at hand, stood up and ran over, stuffing it into Chu Zheng's arms:
"The medicine I prescribed is good for your health, but you can't take too much. You can only take one pill a day."

Chu Zheng opened the package, and a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.

[Strengthening tendon pill (first level): Made by mixing a small amount of spiritual medicine with animal bone powder. Taking it can strengthen bones and tendons. ]

"Thank you, Ying."

Looking at Ying in front of him, Chu Zheng's eyes couldn't help but be complicated. If he wanted to become a witch, the road he had to take was quite difficult. He had to give up all his love and emotions, not be tempted, and give up many things.

Moreover, with her long life span, she would sooner or later see off her elders and relatives one by one. After that, she would be left with endless loneliness and hardship, and could only exist as the patron saint of the tribe.

Such a life is too tragic to describe, and the original Luan walked through it step by step in this way.

This is not just what happened to Ying. Throughout the Dongyuan Realm, countless tribes are experiencing the same tragedy.

"You're welcome. I'm your sister. I will protect you now and in the future."

Ying waved her hand, staggered back to her original place, and continued to concentrate on screening the medicine.

Chu Zheng clenched the bag in his hand and walked slowly towards home.

There is no God in this world, so someone is needed to replace God, and he wants this position now.

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When Chu Zheng returned home, Lie was not there. Apart from Lie, many young and strong men in the tribe were not there.

During this period, Lie went out more frequently, anxious to stock up on blood food.

The environment in the Dongyuan Realm is quite harsh. Although the temperature is high all year round, every ten years or so, there will be a huge cold wave lasting for three years.

If you calculate the time, it will be in the past two years. We need to store blood, flesh and essence in advance to survive the winter, otherwise many newborns will not survive this cold wave.

Moreover, before the cold wave arrives, many powerful wild beasts will leave their nests to look for food. This is the most dangerous period in the wilderness.

This means that the time available for safe hunting is becoming less and less, and naturally, Lie has to leave home more and more often.

In the entire Wangshan tribe, apart from him, no one else has reached the fifth level, so the burden on him is naturally heavy.

Chu Zheng emptied his mind, rested for a moment, circulated his great circulation, and thought about his next move.

Now that he has passed his coming-of-age ceremony and can enter and leave the tribe freely, searching for relics everywhere is the best option.

If he really stayed in the tribe for a long time, he might really bring trouble to the Wangshan tribe as the witch said.

What Chu Zheng is facing now is which step the Wangshan tribe should take first.

After weighing the pros and cons for a long time, Chu Zheng finally set his sights on smelting minerals and casting weapons.

Weapons have always been in short supply in the tribe. After the blood, flesh and essence were drained away by the molten beads, the skeletons of some wild beasts could no longer be used to make weapons, and raw materials have always been in short supply.

If there are enough bows and arrows to consume, the losses from hunting will be greatly reduced.

The cold wave is coming, and all the warriors of the tribe will stay in the tribe. This is a good opportunity to accumulate strength.

Once he finds a spiritual iron mine, he will be able to mass-produce low-level magical tools, and during this time he will not be delayed in hunting.

The muscle-strengthening pills Ying gave him were very effective, but Chu Zheng obviously did not follow the doctor's advice. In just two days, he took nearly fifty muscle-strengthening pills. The slight poison from the pills was dissipated by the control panel in an instant.

With the nourishment of a large number of muscle-strengthening pills, Chu Zheng's strength increased dramatically, with the rate changing almost every day. When the medicinal power was exhausted, not to mention his Yuan Qi, Chu Zheng already had a strength of over 80,000 kilograms.

After two days of peaceful practice, when Chu Zheng was about to leave the tribe, Lie came back, with a strong smell of blood mixed with the scent of medicinal powder.

Obviously, they encountered many dangers during this hunting trip.

Outside the door, a few suppressed sobs were heard in the distance. It seemed that many warriors did not come back alive during this hunt.

"Uncle Lie, how is your injury?"

Chu Zheng stood up, his eyes flashing with intelligence, and after scanning Lie's whole body, his expression changed slightly.

According to the information given by the panel, Lie suffered a serious injury, even his vitals were damaged and his lifespan was shortened, but fortunately it can be repaired.

"It's nothing serious. I encountered an Ice Scale Dragon in its prime. It's stronger than me, and I got ambushed by this beast."

Lie shook his head and took off his outer robe. There were dozens of scars on his chest, each of which was deep enough to see the bone.

He didn't care about the injuries on his body, his eyes were full of solemnity:

"A cold wave is coming."

Ice-scaled dragons usually only move during cold waves. Their early appearance is an extremely dangerous signal. "So soon?"

Chu Zheng rubbed his brows, feeling a little tricky. He originally thought it would take at least two years, but now it seems that he was too optimistic.

He needs to hurry up and find suitable fire and spiritual iron ore veins.

"Uncle Lie, I'm going out for a while."

Chu Zheng immediately stood up and walked out the door. He could not waste any more time. With the coming of the cold wave, it would be more difficult to find mineral veins, and it would be easier to encounter some hungry top predators.

Seeing this, Lie did not stop him, but only reminded him: "Bring the talisman soldiers with you. If you can't defeat them, don't show off your strength."

With Chu Zheng's strength and the Fu soldiers in his hands, there is not much threat to Chu Zheng within a radius of ten thousand miles.

"take note of it."

Chu Zheng didn't even look back and ran straight out of the tribe.

With his sensitivity to the Yuan Qi of heaven and earth, searching for mineral veins was not difficult at all for Chu Zheng.

In a place where the metal element is strong, there must be magic iron underneath. What is even more difficult is to find a suitable fire.

Sneaking into the center of the earth and obtaining the Earthly Evil True Flame is one way, but it is somewhat difficult for Chu Zheng now.

If there is no fire, even if there is spiritual ore, it will be useless.

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It was noon and the temperature was still hot, but compared to the past, it was less oppressive.

After a careful search, Chu Zheng discovered a mineral vein less than three hundred miles away from the tribe.

Less than thirty feet into the ground, he touched the raw ore.

[Silverlight Ore (Level 1): Low-level spiritual ore that can be refined into Silverlight Iron.]

The entire mineral vein is not large in scale, spanning less than ten miles, and the distance it extends downward is also limited.

After two days of effort, Chu Zheng found more than ten mineral veins within a thousand miles of the tribe. One of them was a second-level spiritual mine with abundant reserves.

The only difficulty lies in the fire.

Spiritual fire is hard to find. Even the spiritual fire that is born and raised by nature is still difficult to control with his current level of cultivation.

The only solution now is to take advantage of the wild beasts. Some of them have beast fire in their bodies, which may be of some use.

Chu Zheng moved forward slowly in mid-air, the vital energy in his body surging slightly. He felt the wind coming from all directions and distinguished the changes of the five elements therein.

Soon, he caught a trace of active fire elemental Qi from the air around him and immediately followed it.

After chasing for more than a hundred miles, a wild beast covered with thick armor and shaped like a rhinoceros appeared in Chu Zheng's sight.

[Earth Flame Dragon (Second Order): A carnivorous predator with a trace of dragon blood. It has fire poison in its body.]

The Earth Flame Dragon was extremely huge, more than twice as large as the Shadow Lion that Chu Zheng had hunted before. It was almost as big as a small mountain and emitted blazing heat.

Wherever it passed, it left behind huge black footprints, as if they had been burned by flames.

The Earth Flame Dragon was moving very slowly. Chu Zheng estimated its route and then repeated his old trick, taking some spiritual ore as the cornerstone and setting up the formation again.

One day later, Chu Zheng lured the heavily armored Earth Flame Dragon into the formation.

However, the defense of this Earth Flame Dragon was beyond Chu Zheng's expectations, and coupled with his lack of preparation, the first round of sword light failed to even seriously injure it.

After hesitating for a few breaths, when the second round of sword light shot out, Chu Zheng directly picked up the dragon bone spear and pierced its head with one strike.

After dispersing the magic circle, Chu Zheng reached out his hand and lightly grabbed the corpse while it was still warm, and took out a ball of red spiritual fire from it.

[Earth Flame (Second Order): The spiritual fire that is conceived within the beast's body. Swallowing it can assist in cultivation. It contains the power to avoid fire and can slightly increase the cultivation speed of fire-attributed creatures.]

The second-level spiritual fire is enough to smelt the second-level spiritual ore, which is more than enough for the Wangshan tribe which is just starting out.

Chu Zheng swallowed the spiritual fire into his stomach and used the repair panel to forcefully refine it. He then hunted a few wild beasts and, using the animal skins as pads and dragging tens of thousands of kilograms of spiritual ore, he set out on his return journey.

When he returned to the tribe, the atmosphere was somewhat solemn.

The last time the tribe went out hunting, they lost nearly ten warriors and Lie was seriously injured. This was a heavy blow to this small tribe.

"Zhengchu, why did you drag so many stones back?"

Soon someone noticed Chu Zheng's actions and was full of confusion.

Chu Zheng did not answer, but explained it more quickly with actions. He directly took out a smaller piece of first-level spiritual ore, and a ball of spiritual fire surged out from his palm.

After a moment, the spiritual mineral turned into liquid and gradually condensed into an arrow.

The arrow took shape, Chu Zheng dispersed the spiritual fire, a point of spiritual light emerged from his fingertips, and he carved the simplest array pattern on the arrow.

The formation pattern appeared in the eyes of the human race in Dongyuan Realm for the first time.

There was an uproar all around:
"This is... a talisman weapon?!"

"Why does it seem to me that it's sharper than those made of animal bones?"

"Stones can be refined into talisman weapons?! Doesn't that mean we're going to get rich?"

Lie hurried over and saw this scene, with a flash of surprise in his eyes: "Zhengchu, what is this?"

He had never seen the patterns on the arrows before, but they were somewhat similar to the heavenly patterns on the talisman weapons.

Chu Zheng stood up and pointed at the spiritual mine behind him:
"Ore can be smelted and made into weapons, which is much more convenient than animal bones."

For the people in the Wangshan tribe, Chu Zheng’s actions at this moment were undoubtedly subversive, and everyone’s face was filled with surprise and doubt.

After a while, Lie suddenly waved to the crowd and said, "Shan, Tuo, you two come and try."

Two figures walked out of the crowd, both of them were middle-aged men dressed in animal skins. In Chu Zheng's eyes, there was abundant fire Qi flowing in their bodies.

The two men walked to the pile of spiritual ore, picked up a piece at random, and then spit out a ball of spiritual fire from their mouths and began to smelt the ore.

Seeing this, a hint of realization flashed in Chu Zheng's eyes. He had forgotten that these people were carrying totems and had some special magical powers. It was not surprising that some of them could control fire.

Under the smelting of the spiritual fire, the impurities in the ore quickly faded away and turned into a pool of liquid. Then, after being controlled and squeezed by the spiritual fire, it turned into the shape of a battle axe.

A hint of joy flashed in the eyes of both men. They raised their hands, squeezed out a drop of blood, and drew a sky pattern on the axe blade.

They have experience in refining talisman weapons, so it is not difficult to achieve this step.

Looking at the constant exclamations of amazement from the tribesmen around him, the witch leaning on a cane in the distance stopped for a long time, then turned and left.

She silently returned to the bluestone hall, took out a clean beast skull, and carved some words on it, recording what had happened that day.

This will be a change that will transform the entire tribe and even the entire Dongyuan human race.

(End of this chapter)