Fairy Desire

Meng Xiang held the Fire Spirit Orb in one hand, and a round bead with a blood-red luster in the other, with a dazed look in his eyes: No wonder Shi Zhutian said that he could sense that the Fire Spirit Orb was on his body. It was with the help of this round bead.

The round beads are only the size of an egg, and the texture is relatively fine, somewhat like jade, but rougher than jade.If it is an ignorant person, it will only be regarded as a ball made of defective jade.

At first, Meng Xiang thought so too, but when he brought it close to the Fire Lingzhu, it changed strangely. Not only did it become extremely bright red, but it also glowed brightly. The closer you are, the darker the color and the higher the brightness, and conversely, the farther you are, the lighter the color and brightness.

Meng Xiang experimented, and the ball's sensitivity to the fire spirit pearl reached two hundred feet.After more than two hundred feet, it doesn't respond at all, and it looks like a white, bland bead.

At this time, Meng Xiang could roughly guess how Shi Zhutian found him: either in Guyang City, or at the gate of Guyang City. The Lingzhu was on his body, and then he stopped him in a remote place, intending to snatch the Huo Lingzhu by force, but the Huo Lingzhu did not snatch it, but lost his life.

For a while, Meng Xiang couldn't figure out what the bead was used for, but he still decided to keep it, at least there was no lamp oil, so it could be used for lighting.

After returning to Longclaw Beach, Yan Shi was very excited. First, he circled around him non-stop, until he was sure that there were no missing parts in his body, and then he was completely relieved.But he quickly asked questions endlessly, asking him about all kinds of experiences after he went to Guyang City.

Meng Xiang didn't hide anything, and told him what happened in Guyang City.However, he didn't say a word about things like killing people to seize treasures and killing Shi Zhutian at risk.Even so, Yan Shi's face flushed when he heard it, especially when he knew that the entire Huang family was burnt to the ground, he shouted with joy.

After a good night's rest, after breakfast the next day, Meng Xiang found Yan Shi and told him his plan, saying that he got a martial arts cheat book in Guyang City. The tiger splits the bear, no problem.

In fact, the so-called martial arts secret book is a body training method he practiced in his previous life. It is very common. As long as half of the residents living in Ironwood City are men, basically half of them have practiced this kind of exercise.

The name sounds quite majestic, it is called "Copper Skin and Iron Bone Art".It is said that when practiced to the extreme, the skin is like copper, the bones are like iron, and the sword is hard to hurt.But there are not many in Ironwood City who can really practice to the extreme.

The process of its cultivation is quite painful, and it needs to bear various blows. First, it uses sticks made of various kinds of wood to hit the body.If it can withstand the stabbing of an iron sharp object, it is considered a small achievement.

Regardless of the pain you need to endure during the cultivation process, the damage to the body is also great, and there will be many dangers in the process of tempering the body.Skin ulceration is still a trivial matter, once the internal organs are injured and internal injuries are formed, it is really dangerous.In a place like Ironwood City, once a person loses the ability to work, unless someone supports him, he can only starve to death in many cases.

There is another more important reason why people don't want to practice it all the time, that is, the effect of it is too bad.For a slightly more advanced exercise, the effect of one day of practice is equivalent to several days, and the damage to the body is not so great.

Therefore, only those poor people at the bottom of the society will practice it, because it is the cheapest, and you can buy it for the price of a meal, which is almost equivalent to giving it away for nothing, and it is not the same as those who spend tens of thousands of taels of silver for a book. There is an essential difference in the more advanced exercises.

This is not to say that the managers of Ironwood City are relatively kind-hearted. In such an extremely realistic and cruel place like Ironwood City, such things as kindness are really too rare.The reason why the administrators of Ironwood City were willing to provide the "Copper Skin and Iron Bone Art" to the residents living in Ironwood City at a price that was almost free was completely out of necessity.

Originally, Meng Xiang's living conditions in Longclaw Beach were already difficult enough. In bad years and severe winters, people would starve to death or freeze to death. However, compared with Ironwood City, it was already It can be counted as heaven.In Ironwood City, humans can definitely be among the top three creatures that die every day.

Of course, that is for those poor people who have no strength and are struggling at the bottom.If you are strong enough, Ironwood City is a paradise, where you can find the most beautiful women, taste the most delicious food, drink the strongest wine, and get the sharpest sword...

If you don't have a certain strength in Ironwood City, as long as you leave Ironwood City and get out of the protection of Ironwood City's barriers, even if you don't encounter all kinds of terrifying wild beasts, fierce beasts and monsters, it is not easy to survive alone.Regardless of other things, it is the black wind that blows from time to time. If the resistance is not strong, the skin will be torn by it. Once the black wind invades the body, even if someone rescues it, it will be close to death.

Even in Ironwood City, complete safety cannot be ensured. Except for the urban core area close to Ironwood, which supports the entire city, the living environment in other places is not particularly superior.One of the most annoying people is a small bug - mosquito.

It is called poisonous stinging mosquito, which is very different from ordinary mosquitoes. Not only is it two or three times larger in size, but it is also very poisonous. Once bitten, a red bump the size of an egg will appear. In addition to burning pain In addition, it is accompanied by a strange itching, which is unbearable.Some people with poor physical resistance may even fall ill due to this, and in severe cases may even lose their lives.

The high-level executives of Ironwood City distributed the "Copper Skin and Iron Bone Art" at a price almost free to deal with the black wind outside the city and the poisonous stinging mosquitoes inside the city.Although these two things are very troublesome to ordinary people, as long as they can practice the "Bronze Skin and Iron Bone Art" to a certain level, they can basically be ignored.

Yan Shi was very excited after reading Meng Xiang's handwritten copy of "Bronze Skin and Iron Bone Art". He couldn't wait to practice, but was stopped by Meng Xiang.

The experience of the previous life and the teachings of the old man have told him that no matter what he does, he must be fully prepared in order to be able to achieve twice the result with half the effort, otherwise, it will be half the effort.

When it comes to preparation, I have to mention another criticism of "Copper Skin and Iron Bone Art", that is, it consumes a lot of resources.Among other things, as soon as a person starts to practice, his appetite will suddenly increase many times, and his stomach seems to become a bottomless pit, which cannot be filled no matter what.

However, after Meng Xiang explained the reason to Yan Shi, their first thing was not to prepare food, but to go to the mountains to collect herbs.Although the mysterious middle-aged man who gave him the prescription did not specify the function of that prescription, he could still guess a thing or two from its name.Hair pulling and washing marrow decoction, as the name suggests, its main function should be to improve physical fitness.

If his guess is correct, with the effect of the medicinal soup, coupled with the "Copper Skin and Iron Bone Technique", or even the effect of the real body without leaks, they can achieve good results in a relatively short period of time, improve their strength, increase Survival capital.

When the time is up, the golden seed will grow into a giant vine. After they climbed along him to another world, they will not live as hard as his previous life. The dirtiest, tiring and most dangerous job, but living the worst life.

Although the prescription given to Meng Xiang by the mysterious middle-aged man only had the name of the medicinal material on it, without the picture or specific introduction of the medicinal material, but it still couldn't help him. This was naturally due to his previous life experience.

At that time, he worked desperately to survive, and his main job was to hunt all kinds of wild animals outside Ironwood City.Naturally, he would not dare to touch ferocious beasts and monsters, even though their value was dozens or hundreds of times higher than the former, or even more.

Naturally, it is impossible to hunt without getting injured, but those so-called doctors in Ironwood City are all veritable vampires. As long as you go to them, no matter how small the injury is, they will suck the blood dry.They wouldn't let anyone go without draining the last penny out of the patient's pocket.

Therefore, people living in Ironwood City dare not get sick at all, and regardless of whether they can be cured in the end, even if they are cured, the whole family can only drink northwest wind.

But if you are sick, you can't leave it alone. Of course, some people with better physique can handle some minor illnesses.It's a pity that not everyone has such good luck, so the disease still needs to be treated, and naturally it is not to find those black-hearted doctors.

For thousands of years, those poor people who have no money for medical treatment have paid various prices, even after their lives, they have summed up many so-called folk remedies. Although not all of them are useful, they have indeed saved many people's lives. life.

Once, out of kindness, Meng Xiang helped a barefoot doctor who treated people with folk remedies.In return, he allowed him to stay by his side for half a year, and he didn't teach him anything, but no matter what disease he treated, he could stay by his side. As for how much he could learn, it depended on his ability.

Half a year, whether it is long or short, he knows that the opportunity is rare, so he studies hard within half a year.By the time he had to leave the barefoot doctor, some of the usual ailments had barely bothered him.But what made him feel the most rewarding was knowing a lot of herbs and their medicinal properties and general effects.

From then on, when he left the city, besides hunting, he would also collect some medicinal materials and sell them to those unscrupulous doctors and equally unscrupulous pharmacies. Although the price was very low, it was still an income.It was this extra income that allowed him to save enough to study in the Ancient Literature Museum.

Meng Xiang carefully studied the prescription that recorded the hair-plucking and marrow-washing soup, and found that the medicinal materials on it were not very rare. There were a total of 36 medicinal materials. Except for five or six kinds that were more precious, the others were fairly common.

More importantly, he knew all the medicinal materials except for the three, at least after seeing them, he would not miss them.

Originally, he was still worrying about the three unknown herbs, but he was reminded strictly later that they found Uncle Li.He used to be an apprentice in a medical clinic in Guyang City for ten years, but was fired for some reason, and returned to his hometown - Longzhaotan. Usually, the villagers would go to him if they had any headaches.

After explaining the purpose of his visit, Uncle Li gave them a medical book introducing various medicinal materials with pictures on the condition that they help him to collect some medicinal materials - "Men Cao Lu", which happened to include the introduction of those three medicinal herbs. .