Martial Arts: Start by Obtaining the Wild World

Chapter 130 0129: Discovery of Salt Mine; Updated Content!

Time flies and it is the end of summer.

The sun was still as fierce as fire, mercilessly shining on the mountains and forests. The fresh air from night to early morning became hot and dull as the sun reached its zenith, as if every breath in the air was filled with heat.

The dark green leaves of the tall trees had lost their early morning luster due to the scorching heat, revealing a dry texture. In the forest, cicadas chirped one after another, their calls merged into one, sharp and rapid.

In the inner mountain pass, the air is filled with the special smell of soil and trees baked at high temperatures. Occasionally, a breeze blows through the forest, which seems to bring a stuffy feeling, making people feel no coolness at all, but rather like hot wind blowing from a fire, making people feel even more hot and unbearable.

Hanoi, training area.

"put!!"

With a loud shout, twenty wooden arrows were shot towards the target twenty meters away.

As a result, only four or five of them hit the wooden target.

Twenty sweaty young men lowered their heads in fear, not daring to meet the boy's eyes.

"Those who hit the target can take a break for a while, and those who missed the target can do fifty push-ups!" Cheng Zongyang shouted angrily.

Suddenly, fifteen people came out of the crowd, lay on the ground obediently, and started doing push-ups.

"Zongyang, the weather is too hot. You should take a break first. You have been training for a whole morning." Uncle Zhou Hanchang came over and said with some reluctance.

Cheng Zongyang said: "It has been seven days since we last went into the mountains. Not even half of the qualified people are here. We must put pressure on them, otherwise when will there be any results?"

Zhou Hanchang smiled bitterly and said, "I know that, too. But I don't know what happened these days. It's almost autumn, but it's much hotter than before. I'm afraid they will get heat stroke, which will delay their training."

Upon hearing this, Cheng Zongyang couldn't help but look up at the sky.

It was still the same sun, but the temperature in the forest was even more dull and hot than in the past few days.

They were still in the forest, with shade and water. But what about outside? It would be even hotter!
Very abnormal! This made Cheng Zongyang feel a little uneasy.

At least he has the Wild World and Wild Beans. If he encounters a real life-threatening danger, he can take his family into the world and release them when it is safe.

"Then you can arrange it later. Drink more summer-cooling tea." Cheng Zongyang reminded.

"I know." Zhou Hanchang said with a smile.

Cheng Zongyang immediately left and walked out of the river. However, at this moment, several people who had entered the mountain came back excitedly.

Cheng Zongyang took a look and didn't pay much attention to it. With the emergence of the contribution point system, there are naturally many more ways to obtain contribution points.

One of the tasks is to go into the mountains to search for resources. During this period, I saw many people go in, but not many completed the task.

"Young Patriarch!!"

The few people who entered the mountain were sharp-eyed and saw Cheng Zongyang, and they immediately shouted.

Cheng Zongyang turned around and saw them running towards him. He said breathlessly, "We found the salt mine you wanted!!"

Cheng Zongyang was stunned, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes, and he asked seriously: "Are you sure?"

The middle-aged man in the lead smiled and said, “Sure!”

"Hahaha, great!" Cheng Zongyang laughed happily: "What's your name?"

Cheng Zongyang looked at the middle-aged man.

"My name is Wang Chunming!" The middle-aged man was also very excited.

"Okay! As long as it's confirmed to be true, everyone will go to the warehouse to register and receive 500 contribution points!"

"Yes! Thank you, young clan leader! Well, then I'll take you to see it!" The middle-aged man named Wang Chunming also became excited.

One of the tasks issued by Cheng Zongyang is to find salt mines, and the reward is 500 contribution points!

This is equivalent to a reward of fifty kilograms of meat.

How could they not be excited!
Cheng Zongyang said, "I'll give you a break for an incense stick of time. Go back and have some water and eat something, then take me to see it."

The salt mines are extremely important.

The food problem was basically solved, but the problem of salt supply was still solved. As long as the continuous supply of salt was solved, many problems would be solved.

You can even make salt and sell it in the future! Although private individuals cannot sell it, there are always countermeasures.

So, while Cheng Zongyang and others went to rest, he also prepared some things.

It was not difficult for him to filter the mineral salt and extract it into edible salt. He had already made preparations.

Cheng Guanghai and others were very happy when they learned that mineral salt had been discovered. This was equivalent to solving another important material problem.

After an incense stick of time, Cheng Zongyang took Wang Chunming into the inner mountain alone. This time, not so many people were needed.

This time we went in the direction of the 11 o'clock direction of the inner mountain.

After an hour and a half of trekking through mountains and rivers, they arrived at a place with a flat terrain but a steep cliff.

There is no vegetation around, almost all of it is bare rocks and land, with a lot of white substance covering the ground.

At the same time, he also saw six or seven wolves licking some rocks. When they saw Cheng Zongyang and the other two appear, they stared at them for a while, then left with caution. The leader turned back and looked at Cheng Zongyang and the other two.

Cheng Zongyang saw that there seemed to be a claw mark on the face of the leader wolf, but when he saw them leave, he ignored it.

He looked at the surrounding environment and knew that this was the salt mining area.

The salt has all precipitated out!
"Okay, okay!" Cheng Zongyang grabbed a handful and took a look, his smile becoming even brighter.

The salt has even precipitated out, indicating that the salt content here is extremely high! The distribution area is about 70 to 80 acres.

Although the area is not large, it has a high concentration and a very high salt precipitation rate!
Cheng Zongyang took off the empty basket on his back and filled half of it with soil.

When he returned to the inner mountain pass, the sun was almost setting. Regardless of everyone's questions, he immediately took out the filter materials and several instruments he had made in the past few days from the warehouse.

Then, beside the pool, under the gaze of many people, he started to fiddle with it.

Although these people knew that there was salt in minerals and some land, they did not know how to make real salt. At most, they thought that the water was drinkable after it was left to stand until it became clearer.

But now seeing Cheng Zongyang's preparations, with fine sand, gauze, charcoal, carbon powder and so on, they were a little confused.

Cheng Zongyang ignored them, poured the soil into a bucket, added water and stirred it continuously. After it was completely dissolved, he filtered the mud and water several times to obtain a concentrated liquid with extremely high salt content and relatively clear color.

Then it is boiled and evaporated.

After half an hour, I got half a bowl of slightly yellowish salt crystals.

"Really, it really came out! So white!" A foreigner was very surprised.

“Hahaha, this is a good ingredient!”

Cheng Zongyang stood up and smiled happily. Although the filtered water is not so clear, it is slightly whiter than the salt sold on the market. And from this, it is enough to see how much salt it contains!
It is entirely possible to add a few more filtering steps to make the salt cleaner.

Now the salt problem is solved!

Later, Cheng Zongyang began to let everyone do their own work, and then discussed the matter of salt extraction with several elders in the ancestral hall.

After Cheng Zongyang and the others discussed and confirmed, they began to select some people to go there to make salt. After all, the round trip was too far and it was impossible to transport the soil back.

So they could only open a salt-making workshop there, boil the salt, put it into sacks and transport it back.

But the mountain road is difficult to walk on, and a small road needs to be built to reach the destination directly. This takes time, but the tools and people can go there first to build a workshop.

After the salt is made, you can put it there and you don't have to worry about someone taking it away. Just make sure it is moisture-proof.

There is no need to worry about the charcoal. Cheng Zongyang has already built a charcoal kiln and taught several people how to make charcoal.

I didn’t have the ability before and many things were difficult to handle, but now I don’t have to worry about that!
It’s confirmed now, and we’ll just have to wait for Cheng Guanghai to announce it to everyone tomorrow.

That night, after taking a medicinal bath, Cheng Zongyang used the excuse of going for a walk and then entered the wilderness.

Today is the day when the market hut is updated. After a whole day, I am only free in the evening.

Sure enough, as soon as he appeared in the market hut, not only did he see an updated panel information in front of him, but he also saw the changes in the hut!
The area of ​​the cabin remained the same, but the layout had changed a bit. There was an extra space in the area where the taskbar was originally located - there was a staircase going up. "Is this a second floor?"

With doubt, he looked at the update information panel that appeared in front of him:

[The market hut has been updated. The current level is Lv2. The following updates are available:

①: The handling fee for the purchase column is reduced to 18%, and the rest remains unchanged.

②: The market hut adds a second-floor training room, where you can spend points (10 points/minute) to simulate needs for training, such as simulating people to practice with, simulating environments, setting conditions for training, etc. When practicing in the training room, proficiency is counted twice.

③: The time specifications of the item column and the acquisition column have been modified. Regardless of whether the purchase or acquisition target is completed, it will be refreshed every three days.

④: In view of the low efficiency of the taskbar, the taskbar function is cancelled. The character task list is cancelled, and the task is cancelled. 】

Cheng Zongyang was stunned by these four new rules. For a moment he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

I hurried to the wilderness world to see what the result of today's update would be.

The result was a mixed bag for him!
The first two can be said to be updates that are extremely beneficial to him.

But the last two are not good for him. It can't be said that they are mixed, but the bad outweighs the good!
Especially the 3rd one, it's really annoying.

Most of his daily points come from catching fish, but does this market hut dislike his behavior?
The refresh time after completion was extended from every day to three days!
Moreover, the refresh of the inventory also greatly reduced the speed at which he obtained items.

"No, Shijie, what are you trying to do? Can you not update? Can you downgrade the version?"

Cheng Zongyang shouted helplessly into the hut.

But the hut didn't respond at all.

The refresh time of the inventory has been changed, which doesn't have much impact on him, but it has a big impact on the points earned from fishing.

The stable daily points income of 300 to 500 points has been changed to once every three days.

This requires him to find another way to earn points!

In this wilderness world, points can be earned through hunting, killing exotic animals, and collecting precious medicinal herbs for sale. But the only way to quickly earn points is by fishing.

"Dog planning!!"

Cheng Zongyang cursed again. The update added a big spender of points, and restricted his ability to earn points!
Immediately call out your own property panel.

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Name: Cheng Zongyang
Age: 15 years old

Realm: Eighth Grade (Yijin)

Points: 1598
Skills: Archery (116429/20000, Expertise); Medicine Knowledge (32/1000, Elementary)
Exercise:

Body Building Skill (2609/3000, th Rank)
Martial arts:

Basic knife skills (568/3000, entry level)
Wind Step (82/1000, beginner)
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"Nearly sixteen thousand points..." Cheng Zongyang murmured.

These points were earned by Ma San and his companions during their daily hunting trips during this period.

In the past few days, it can be said that the four generals have screened almost all the beasts and birds they saw in their territories.

Many are kept in captivity, but generally speaking, more are hunted, and among them, snakes are innumerable.

"Now that fish can't be brushed, are you going to force me to kill fish?"

There are also points for killing fish, the maximum is 1 point and the minimum is 0.1.

But he had tried it before, and he realized that he needed to kill the animal himself, rather than throwing it ashore and letting it die from lack of water.

Although I don't know the difference, I didn't have the interest to do so before.

First, you can get hundreds of points by catching fish steadily every day. There is no need to kill them one by one.

Second, killing so many fish will make it difficult to deal with them later.

The market hut does not accept fish, and there is no place to sell fish outside. The hut cannot store so many fish. So it is difficult to deal with the fish after killing them.

But now, here comes the problem.

The time for fishing to earn points has now been changed to once every three days. If the items in your inventory are important but there are no points, the loss will be great.

As a result, he had to reconsider the idea of ​​killing the fish.

“We also need to rethink how to allocate the work of Ma San and Si.”

Then, he looked at the inventory. Now, he was afraid of not getting any good stuff, but also afraid of getting some good stuff.

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【Powerful Vajra Palm】

Introduction: Palm-based martial arts from a certain martial arts world.

Grade: white

Quantity: 1
Points: 600
Note: Can be upgraded

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【Wild Oil Beans】

Introduction: A herb from the Dusk Forest that can be used to extract oil, with an oil yield of about 65%. It is one of the favorite foods of many animals in the wilderness world.

Quantity: 1 (kg)
Points: 2
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【Plant Growth Liquid Formula】

Introduction: A liquid medicine formula that can enable plants to quickly adapt to the environment and quickly take root and sprout.

Quantity: 1 (serving)

Points: 1000
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[Soul Collection Monument]

Introduction: The wordless Yin Stele from the Valley of the Dead will automatically absorb the free souls or soul fragments in the world. The Soul-Gathering Stele will affect the environment within a radius of one mile, making it full of Yin energy, and those who enter are likely to lose their way and get into trouble.

Quantity: 1 (piece)

Points: 1000
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Cheng Zongyang: “…”

At this moment, he wanted to swear, but he held back.

It’s all good stuff!
Martial arts, oil production, cultivation of crops, and special items!

You can't miss any of these! Although it's not clear how to use this soul-gathering monument, you can buy it and use it to protect the area around the market hut!

"2602 points! Still 1000 points short!" Cheng Zongyang glanced at his points and immediately opened the purchase column to see how many fish he wanted to buy this time.

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Schizothorax: 1 point/fish (200 fish)
Black bass: 1 point/fish (200 fish)
Barracuda: 1 point/fish (200 fish)
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Seeing the demand for these three types of fish, Cheng Zongyang was relieved.
There were at least 600 points to collect! This was also the most he had ever received.

As for the remaining 400 points shortfall...

There’s nothing we can do but kill the fish.

(End of this chapter)