Do not die

The indoor space was about the size of two quiet rooms. The aura that filled the medium-sized guest room was at the first-level mid-level level. Meng Zhou exhaled with satisfaction.

Since I left the small courtyard, I have traveled around for six days and slept outdoors for five nights. My cultivation efficiency is not as bad as usual.

After one night of quiet practice, the progress of practice is only +1. This is also due to the fact that even in the waters with the worst practice environment within the Jade Lake, although the spiritual energy is thin, it is still somewhat there. Otherwise, he wouldn't even have +1 progress today.

The only thing that comforted Meng Zhou was that at the end of each training session, the +16 skill experience was not discounted.

Now he could finally enjoy the daily +8 progress in practice again. He didn't think it was a big deal before, but after a few hard days, he realized how valuable it was.

However, this good mood only lasted for a short moment, and slowly dissipated as he remembered again the two short screams he heard just now.

He was very happy in his heart.

"Okay, okay, fortunately, I restrained my greed and didn't want to take advantage of the spiritual energy on those islands."

Over the past few days, he has been practicing at night. He has mastered the nature of water with the help of the perfect level of water crossing step. He meditates every night on the water far away from the islands. Sitting cross-legged on the water is like sitting on a soft cushion on a water bed.

The reason for this is because of some information he learned from the memory of the previous owner.

The eight-hundred-mile-long Jade Lake has thousands of miles of coastline around it. Not to mention the formations to stop it, there is not even a fence.

In addition, more than 90% of the spiritual energy within the water area is locked in the lake water. This is the unique characteristic of the spiritual veins of Emerald Lake, and it is also the reason why Emerald Lake continuously produces spiritual fish and other aquatic spiritual materials every year.

Only the islands in the lake are suitable for practice. Because of these reasons, the islands of Jade Lake were once overcrowded.

But the situation quickly improved as a rule called a "curfew" spread across the islands.

This rule sounds peaceful at first, but upon closer inspection, you realize the bloody horror it contains.

Take Baiyue Bay as an example. At the beginning, there were many casual cultivators here. They competed with each other for practice sites and other resources, or they had old grudges and personal conflicts, and they competed for interests. The entire Baiyue Bay was filled with chaos and no peace.

Later, a force finally stood out and occupied the most elite bay-front area of ​​Baiyue Bay.

They did not expel all the other monks on the island. Although they were strong, if they were enemies of all the monks, they would become a weak party.

They gathered together a group of the strongest and most outstanding monks on the island and said to them:

"There is no rule without rules. The island is so smoky now, which affects everyone. Why don't we build two streets at the end of the bay, which can not only regulate behavior, but also provide convenience for everyone's life."

A group of people immediately understood the meaning, and naturally got into the car without hesitation, and turned around and welded the door shut.

Soon, a large number of casual cultivators became homeless, and their privately built cave mansions on the island instantly became illegal buildings and were to be forcibly demolished.

If they still want to continue their practice on the island, they have only one way, which is to pay money to go to a practice hotel as tourists.

Fierce conflicts immediately broke out, and many landlords even changed hands.

But the strange thing is that those practitioners who stepped on the corpses of the old homeowners and rose to power were also the new homeowners who had resisted the most fiercely, and instead became more resolute supporters of the new order.

The island without an owner has gradually become an owner-occupied land.

"Those monks who went to hide in the wild to practice and steal the spiritual energy of Baiyue Bay are all thieves, and they should be killed."

This has become a collective consensus among local monks.

Curfew is the knife they use to kill thieves reasonably and legally.

This change is not limited to Baiyue Bay.

Instead, it spread like a spring breeze on hundreds of islands like a plague.

In the end, the current orderly layout of Jade Lake was created.

It is also for this reason that casual cultivators like the former master know that the cultivation environment in Jade Lake is more favorable, but they do not dare to take a step beyond the realm of possibility.

Coming here to practice is regarded as a kind of luxury consumption. You will only squander it like this when you are preparing to break through and have the spiritual stone in hand.

Meng Zhou suddenly shook his head, clearing these distracting thoughts from his mind.

"This is all a thing of the past eighty or ninety years ago, I just need to abide by the rules here.

Why are you thinking so much? It has nothing to do with me. "

He sat cross-legged on the bed and soon became immersed in practice.

In this way, Meng Zhou settled down in the Wanwei Hotel. He spent most of his time practicing in the house every day. He only took two or three hours to relax in the afternoon, and spent most of his time within the two streets. .

Gradually, he fell in love with a teahouse on Laohuai Street. At this time every day, many foreign and local monks like him gathered.

The monks who come here have the purpose of exchanging information and expanding their horizons. As long as there are no secrets involved, everyone is happy to communicate with each other.

From the anecdotes and legends of the master of the Nascent Soul True Pill, to the legendary path of the Qingxuan Sect of the third level sect, down to some trivial matters.

The content is diverse, covering everything, and talking about everything. You can listen silently or participate.

Just spend a low-grade spiritual stone and order a pot of spiritual tea, and you can sit here for half a day.

This not only greatly improved Meng Zhou's horizons, but also created conditions for him to understand the situation of the "Fifth Ancient Well House". He learned a lot of local information from others without having to make insinuations.

Sitting idle for two or three hours every day, although it took up some practice time, it also brought him an unexpected surprise.

Spirit tea has the effect of cleansing the body and mind, and can effectively relieve the burden accumulated by the body due to practice. Originally, you could only practice for up to sixteen weeks a day, but now you can practice for eighteen weeks.

The practice progress has also been increased from daily +8 to daily +9.

At other times, he stayed in his room for meditation, which was also the daily routine of most foreign monks.

Everyone comes here not to enjoy the local beauty or experience the warm and hospitable folk customs.

Most of them are for the purpose of making breakthroughs, and some of them are because they have a lot of money and want to retreat quietly for some time.

Among these foreign monks, his behavior seemed very ordinary and not out of the ordinary.

The aura of the fourth level of Qi training he displayed was neither high nor low, and equally inconspicuous.

Meng Zhou didn't feel bored even though he stayed in his room most of the day.

In addition to practicing the Water Nourishment Art, he also picked up the practice of Phantom Steps and Wandering Dragons.

In addition, during the past few days on the road, he learned three more martial arts skills, left and right fighting, Thousand Hands, and the Sudden Rain and Wind Sword.

The reason why I chose these three martial arts is because of the thoughts that came into my mind after I perfected the Crane Control Hand.

He wants to use three or more magic hands at the same time. The problem is not the technique, but breaking the existing and deeply ingrained "two-handed thinking".

Fighting each other from left to right, doing two things at once, but the movements of the two hands are completely unrelated. This is a kind of breaking of people's existing thinking.

Thousands of Hands, a special and unsophisticated martial art, is often used for gambling, stealing, and opening doors and locks.

At the same time, it has also been used as a poisoning technique and a hidden weapon technique. It can laugh in front of others, but it can kill people quietly.

Likewise, this is also the favorite of flower pickers, so they are also called "flower pickers".

It can be said that this is an extremely subtle yet notorious martial art.

What Meng Zhou valued was the opponent's understanding and use of it. It is said that this martial art can really make a person have a few extra hands if he has mastered it to the realm of transformation.

Meng Zhou really wanted to experience this feeling for himself.

The Sudden Rain and Swift Wind Sword was not only to verify what he thought in his heart, but also to better display the power of the long sword in his hand.

He understood very clearly that although martial arts training would continue, he could not simply pile up numbers. The more scattered and miscellaneous martial arts he practiced, the more trouble he would face against the enemy.

Even though he is proficient in all eighteen martial arts, he can still only use one at the same time when facing the enemy.

However, if you choose to specialize in only one or two types, you may lack the means to adapt to certain situations.

Taking demand as the core and building a complete martial arts system was the answer after Meng Zhou thought about it.

The characteristics of martial arts after they are cultivated to perfection make them have power that is not inferior to that of Qi training spells, or even more powerful.

Before coming to Baiyue Bay, these three martial arts have been successfully introduced, and all have reached the initial level.

Because the practice of these three martial arts requires the use of hands, they can only be practiced alternately.

Fortunately, with the improvement of his cultivation and the improvement of his basic skill, Water Nourishing Technique, his magic power has become more abundant, and his recovery speed has become faster. Even if the training time is divided equally among the three martial arts, each martial skill will have There is still a gain of +50 experience.

In comparison, Huanbu Youlong's progress seems a bit slow. Even though his experience is increasing faster due to his deepening knowledge in martial arts, his daily gain is only +60 experience.

…

Time flies, this is already the seventh day since Meng Zhou checked into Wanwei Hotel.

During this period, he never went to the Fifth Ancient Well House again, but he already knew the situation there very well.

There was a grocery store running there, and an old woman and a little girl lived there.

The old woman's surname is Bai, everyone calls her Granny Bai. She has the fifth level of Qi training. The little girl is also surnamed Bai, and everyone calls her Bai Ya.

Granny Bai's grocery store has been in business for more than ten years. There is no consistent answer to the exact number of years. Some say it is thirteen to fourteen years, while others swear by it for fifteen years.

Bai Ya is a baby that Grandma Bai brought back when she went out eight or nine years ago. This is not surprising at all. In Cuiyu Lake, this phenomenon is even very common.

Because every local monk in Cuiyu Lake has to consider two issues. One is the inheritance rights of the house he currently occupies, and the other is how to protect himself when he is old and weak.

Although there is a tacit understanding among neighbors to help and protect each other, this is based on everyone's "strength".

If a neighbor shows obvious age and the descendants fail to grow up, then the veil of tenderness will be lifted, revealing the nature of the jungle.

For this reason, many homeowners in Jade Lake change every year.

Therefore, local monks attach great importance to the selection and training of heirs. If they give birth to children on their own, the possibility of producing crooked melons and cracked dates is far greater than that of excellent seedlings. However, local monks with small families do not have as strong a fault tolerance rate as the cultivating families. You can let go and live forever.

In this case, it is easier and less troublesome to go to the mortal world to find some outstanding seedlings and raise them as blood relatives from an early age.

As for whether to steal, rob or buy, it depends on everyone's moral bottom line.

Therefore, it is not unusual at all in Cuiyu Lake for Granny Bai to suddenly come back with a baby one day, and it can be regarded as a special custom.

Children in other families are all born to their mothers. It is really possible that the children in Cuiyu Lake were brought back by their parents from other places.

What is really strange is that Granny Bai is getting older, and Bai Ya has not yet practiced cultivation.

Whenever this matter is mentioned, the tone and eyes of the local monks contain inexplicable meaning.

That's the greedy look of someone who wants to eat meat or get a share of the pie.

Even those with the highest sense of morality are just spectators watching the show without participating.

Whenever this happens, Meng Zhou will feel a chill in his heart.

In the teahouse, the pleasant atmosphere of chatting and enjoying things was gone.

He thought of a very appropriate word from his previous life.

Eat to death.

Some people have quietly raised their knives and forks, some have prepared condiments, and some have prepared a melon seed bench.

The parties involved, the mother-in-law and grandson, are they aware of it?

However, Meng Zhou realized that if he wanted to complete the Water Nourishing Technique, he could not wait and act early.