Martial Arts Song

Chapter 274: Practice "Golden Toad Swallowing" Again

Ok?
Hearing Fei Dongtao's words, Chen Qing's heart couldn't help but move.

The other party could actually sense that he had become stronger...

Of course, on the surface, he still maintained his state of meditation, his expression did not change, he just raised his eyebrows slightly and said: "What do you mean?"

"The light in your eyes is much brighter."

Fei Dongtao smiled and said, "The changes in a person's 'essence, energy and spirit' are actually reflected in the body. The most obvious one is of course the change in 'essence', which can basically be seen at a glance from the body shape. The changes in 'energy' and 'spirit' are more obscure and not easy to see, but it is not impossible to see them, you just need to cooperate with your intuition."

"The change in 'qi', according to the more popular theory in the West, is the strengthening of vitality. So, if your intuition is sharp enough, you can feel the strong vitality. For example, when you saw the 'madman' you met before, you should have felt a strong sense of oppression from him, right? Although the source of that sense of oppression is not simply the strong vitality, the main core is still from his vitality."

Having said this, Fei Dongtao stopped.

After a pause, he smiled and continued, "The changes in the 'spirit' are the least obvious among the three. However, the eyes are the windows to the mind. If the senses and intuition are sharp enough, one can also peek into the subtle changes of the 'spirit' from them, commonly known as the 'divine light'."

"Of course, it's probably hard for you to understand what I'm saying now. After your 'God' transformation, you will understand what I'm saying."

"Okay, let's not talk about this for now. Are you here to... accept a mission?"

The light in the eyes...

After listening to Fei Dongtao's words, Chen Qing thought for a moment.

Then, he nodded slightly and replied, "Yeah."

Fei Dongtao smiled again after hearing this and said, "I knew it. You must have been practicing and practicing Taoism during this period. Your vitality and spirit have become much stronger. You must have spent a lot of money. Okay, go to the office and wait for me. I will get the task book for you."

Having said that, he went up to the third floor on his own.

Seeing this, Chen Qing didn't say anything. He walked to the second floor and entered the office with the door open.

Then, he sat on the sofa in the middle of the office as he had done before.

Not long after he sat down, he heard footsteps coming from upstairs outside the office.

After a while, Fei Dongtao came down with a thick task book.

"Here, this is the latest silver-level mission book. There are many new silver-level missions in it, and I have also taken away many completed ones."

After coming down from the third floor and returning to the office, Fei Dongtao came to Chen Qing while talking, and put the task book in his hand on the coffee table in front of Chen Qing, then smiled and said: "Take a look first, I'll go make tea."

Chen Qing looked at the task book in front of him. He had already learned from Qi Yi that the tasks of the "Yun" organization were not that rigorous. As he had the "final right of interpretation", he was not moved by Fei Dongtao's words.

He leaned forward, opened the task book, and began to check each task one by one, selecting the ones that he thought were expensive, moderately difficult, and more cost-effective.

More than ten minutes later.

He turned the task book to a page and said, "This is it."

After saying that, he pushed the task book aside and in front of Fei Dongtao, who was sitting on the sofa with his legs crossed and sipping tea slowly.

After hearing this, Fei Dongtao put down his crossed legs, placed the teacup in his hand on the coffee table in front of him, stood up and picked up the task book.

"Tan Bingrong..."

After seeing the task that Chen Qing had chosen, he nodded, looked at Chen Qing, and asked, "Are you sure you want to choose this one? If you are sure, I will go upstairs to apply for it for you."

"Ah."

Chen Qing nodded.

The target he chose this time was the boss of a smuggling company, and the reward was 40,000.

The popularity of this mission target is average.

This is also what Chen Qing sees.

In the silver-level task book, those task targets with a reward of more than 50,000 are more or less well-known in a certain field.

Killing this kind of target would attract much more attention than a target priced at 30,000 or 40,000.

Although Chen Qing had been practicing martial arts attentively for more than two months, he did not feel it was enough and still wanted to continue practicing until he completed the second round of breaking the limits of the five internal organs, or practiced to the point of "qi change" and "spiritual change".

Therefore, he did not want to take on tasks that involved certain risks.

This kind of remuneration is around 30,000 to 40,000 yuan, and it is in the middle level in the industry, which is the most suitable target in the fierce competition.

"Okay, I'll apply for you right away."

When Fei Dongtao saw him nod, he also nodded, then took the task book and left the office and went up to the third floor again.

A few minutes later.

Fei Dongtao walked down again, but he didn't have the task book in his hand.

Seeing this, Chen Qing knew that he should accept the task he chose, so he slowly stood up from the sofa.

"The mission application has been approved."

Fei Dongtao looked at him and asked, "Do you want to purchase Yun's intelligence services for this mission?"

"no need."

Chen Qing heard this, shook his head and said, "Since the mission is over, I will go back first."

"Ok."

Fei Dongtao nodded and said, "I'll take you there."

……

After leaving the base of the "Yun" organization, Chen Qing came to the center of the "Gangqiao District" because he had nothing to do in the afternoon. He bought a newspaper, waited quietly for the bus at the public tram stop, and finally took the tram back to "Sanlin".

By the time he returned to Sanlin, it was already afternoon.

As the sun gradually sets, the temperature in "Huhai" is finally not so hot anymore.

Of course, for Chen Qing's family who came from Qianyang, 27 or 28 degrees at night was still a bit hot, but it was no longer so unbearable.

That night, because Chen Qing's training plan had been changed, after dinner he did not go to bed early as he had done in the past two months. Instead, he waited until nightfall and went out again and came to the bank of the "Hongjiang" river.

At night, as the temperature drops on the "Red River", the light is dim and most people need to rest, the number of people and boats on the river is suddenly 90% less than during the day.

On the river, only a few boats with lights on could be seen, some ferrying people across the river, some fishing.

Chen Qing stood on the stairs of the river bank. After seeing the scene that met his expectations, he began to take off his clothes. Wearing only a pair of shorts, he slowly dived into the water and began to practice.

After a lapse of eight or nine months, he finally practiced the "Golden Toad Swallowing and Exhaling" limit-breaking method again!

That night, some boatmen on the "Hongjiang" heard a sound similar to the croaking of a toad coming from underwater.

But because the sound was so subtle and vague, it was difficult for them to tell whether it was real or not. In addition, according to common sense, there couldn't be toads in the "Red River", so the boatmen didn't investigate further...

……

The next day, at dawn.

When there was just a hint of dim light outside, Chen Qing had already woken up from his sleep under the influence of the biological clock he had developed over the past two months.

Then, he immediately looked at the [Spirit] value at the bottom of his left eye:
【Fine: 19.46431234】

【Qi: 9.312119842】

【God: 2.979012786】

"Not bad, it increased by about 0.075."

His main attention was focused on the changes in the [Essence] value.

Last night, after an interval of eight or nine months, I practiced the "Golden Toad Swallowing and Exhaling" method of training the lungs again. I had the foundation from the first round and the "Red River", a river that is much deeper than Qianyang's "Caoxi River"!

The effect of his training directly reached the point where the [Sperm] value increased by 0.075 per day!
You have to know that when he was practicing the "Golden Toad Swallowing and Exhaling" method to break the limit in Caoxi River, the improvement effect was only 0.038 every night.

In other words, his training efficiency has almost doubled compared to before!
Chen Qing was very satisfied with the result.

This means that if he continues to practice, he will be able to increase his [Essence] value by about 3 points again in about forty days, which is about the same efficiency as when he practiced the spleen.

"However, the consumption of medicine last night increased again. Based on the prices of the drug dealers in Linxing Road, my daily consumption has increased from more than 800 yuan to nearly 1,000 yuan, with an extra dose of medicine. This is not a solution. We must speed up the process of reducing costs..."

While thinking this, Chen Qing got out of bed and started washing and dressing.

After washing and dressing, he began to practice his spirit and qi today...

When we finished today's "training of mind" and "training of qi", it was already past six in the morning.

Chen Qing left the Chen family yard without stopping, came to the road, stopped a rickshaw, and prepared to go to work at "Sanyang".

However, when he walked out of "Sanlin Town" and came to the streets of "Sanlin", he found that there were more patrolmen on the streets of "Sanlin" today.

These patrolmen usually work in teams of two, but today they are basically teams of six, patrolling the first, end and middle of the street.

Seeing this scene, Chen Qing frowned slightly, then relaxed.

"It seems that the situation in Sanlin will soon come to a conclusion..."

While Chen Qing was thinking, he waved to stop a rickshaw that happened to be passing by. After getting on the rickshaw, he said to the driver, "Let's go to Sanyang."

"Okay~"

The driver responded and then took Chen Qingxian towards Kowloon Avenue.

Chen Qing, who was sitting in the car, looked at both sides of the street along the way.

"Sanlin" is a very ordinary and mediocre district among the nine districts in Dongcheng District. It is not as poor as "Chenhang" and "Zhoupu", and is much richer than "Gangqiao" and "Ganghang".

But at least, the street buildings are still intact and new on weekdays because they are often maintained and repaired.

But now in Chen Qing's eyes, the "Sanlin" had many damaged, dented, cracked and bloodstained houses on both sides of the streets.

Some shops along the street even had their doors broken!
In the past, at this time of the morning, many breakfast shops had already opened on both sides of the street.

But now, when Chen Qing came here in a rickshaw, he found that almost every street was closed.

And all this is because the "Axe Gang" has reached the "Sanlin District"!
In the past two months, the "Axe Gang" has annexed the "Sanyang District" and then the "Tutang District" and "Tianxin District" one after another.

Today, the "Axe Gang" has begun to annex the "Sanlin District".

Of the nine districts in Dongcheng, the Axe Gang has annexed six, leaving only Sanlin, Zhoupu and Chenhang.

Basically, given the general trend, it is only a matter of time before all districts are annexed.

Although Chen Qing didn't care about the "Axe Gang's" annexation behavior, and because he knew that the "Axe Gang" had official instructions behind it, he would not do anything to stop the other party.

But recently, every morning when he got up to go to work, he would see that the streets in the "Sanlin District" had been damaged to varying degrees, leaving behind traces of nighttime gunfights between the "Axe Gang" and the "Sanbei Gang" on the "Sanlin" side.

This still affected his mood to some extent.

He has been in "Hu Hai" for more than five months, almost half a year, and has spent most of his time in "Sanlin District".

It would be a lie to say that he had deep feelings for the place, but naturally he felt uncomfortable seeing the living environment being destroyed and deteriorating.

Of course, he wouldn't expose himself because of such a small matter.

So, after looking at the damage done to the streets along the way for a while, he simply became too lazy to look anymore, so he withdrew his gaze and continued to think about reducing the cost of medicine.

In this way, I thought all the way to "Sanyang", then came to "Guoshan Road", walked into "Luo's Paper Mill", and started today's work...

At noon.

The early shift at "Roche Paper Mill" ended as usual.

As usual, Chen Qing handed over the night shift to Gao Changzhi and others and went straight back to the Chen family yard.

Afterwards, after lunch, he said to Xuan Feng, "Take me somewhere."

Xuanfeng was stunned after hearing this, but as he was heavily in debt, he had no way to refuse. After simply washing up, he drove out with Chen Qing.

However, this time Chen Qing did not let Xuanfeng drive away from "Sanlin", but came to Lane 276, Zhaole Road.

"Stop right here."

Because the alley at No. 276, Zhaole Road was a bit narrow and cars could not pass through, Chen Qing asked Xuanfeng to park the car at the intersection.

Then he opened the car door, got out, walked into the alley, and came to the downstairs of Lin Manli's house.

That's right!

His way of reducing the cost of medicine for practicing Qigong was to ask Lin Manli, who introduced him to "Yun" and was also a local of "Hu Hai", for help!
Of course, he didn't mean to ask the other party to bear the cost of the medicine and soup he used to practice martial arts - the other party couldn't afford it either.

Instead, he planned to use the other party's identity as a local "Hu Hai" to help open a herbal medicine shop and buy the herbs directly at the purchase price!
Among the people Chen Qing knows, only Lin Manli is the most suitable to do this favor.

Because in the past two months, when he went to buy herbal medicine from the drug dealers on "Lin Xing Road", he had used indirect tactics to try to find out.

The medicine dealers on "Linxing Road" have their supplies monopolized by a big boss who sells medicinal materials. And this big boss only sells to local people in "Huhai" and not to outsiders.

No one knows why this big boss did this.

Anyway, if the person who comes to him to ship goods is from another place, he will just refuse to meet him.

After knowing this, the first person Chen Qing thought of was the first local he met after coming to "Hu Hai", Lin Manli!

(End of this chapter)