Fox Demon: Start with Tushan Fox Demon’s childhood sweetheart

Lin Yan waved to Tushan Qingye, put half a basket of hammered iron on his back, and walked towards the blacksmith's shop in a happy mood.

Walking on the sloping road, Lin Yan recalled the bits and pieces of the past few years, with a feeling that all hardships are rewarding.

Only Lin Yan knew that the past seven years had been much harder than the student life in his own time.

Seven years ago, Lin Yan was rescued by Tushan Qingye at the foot of the mountain on the border of Tushan.

Tushan Qingye is a fox girl from Tushan. Like all the fox clan members, she can disguise herself, so Lin Yan didn't know that she was a monster clan at the time.

She provided Lin Yan with a place to stay, and Lin Yan helped Qingye share the housework every day, such as going out for food and cleaning.

At that time, Lin Yan focused all his attention on eating to increase the energy value of the system, so he always picked wild fruits in the foothills near his home, or caught wild rabbits to roast and eat.

Lin Yan noticed that a meat diet would accumulate more systemic energy than a vegetarian diet.However, after eating a meal of roasted rabbit meat, the bonus obtained is only 0.02%.

Moreover, rabbits are not caught every day, so the progress of system energy value improvement is very slow.

Self-sufficiency alone is not enough.Without money, you can't buy food to upgrade your system to gain power.

Making money has become the first step that Lin Yan most urgently needs to implement.

Because there are very few residents in this area, and he is too young, he can hardly find any suitable jobs to manage the family. Under such a difficult situation, Lin Yan can only use his brain to make a living.

Soon, Lin Yan thought of a way.

In this era, a large number of Taoist priests appeared among humans, and the demand for sabers and other iron weapons increased.

In addition to these Taoist priests often buying swords, guns and halberds, iron tools such as flint and steel are also very popular in the cold autumn and winter.

However, the iron products they used were of very poor quality.

Whenever Tushan Qingye uses a flint to light a fire, deep cracks will appear on the surface within a few times.

While Lin Yan repeatedly went to the foot of the mountain to catch hares and pick wild fruits, his feet were always crushed by the sand beside the stream at the foot of the mountain. Every time he returned home, even the shoes made of rattan were worn off.

The seemingly flat sandstone has a toughness far exceeding that of flint and steel, which allowed Lin Yan to find a business opportunity.

Lin Yan collected those sandstones, washed them with stream water and turned them into iron sand, and went door to door looking for nearby blacksmith shops to ask if they could try to use his iron sand to make iron, and donated some of the iron sand he collected to them.

At first, none of the blacksmiths believed the words of this teenager, who believed that a child was simply ignorant of the world.

But after that, a blacksmith shop finally tried frying steel with the sand iron donated by Lin Yan.

This kind of sand iron itself is hard enough, so it can save the cost of some links in the process of smelting swords.

After going through the tedious steps of smelting rough iron, refining, and forging, this blacksmith shop actually forged a high-quality iron sword at a low cost.

When Lin Yan made a return visit to ask whether his iron sand was durable, Blacksmith Wang from the blacksmith shop quickly kept Lin Yan, hoping that he would continue to prepare iron sand for himself.

And Lin Yan took this opportunity to follow Wang Tiejiang to become an apprentice in a blacksmith shop.

Since then, Lin Yan and his blacksmith Wang have sold iron swords at low cost and high prices, with higher and higher profits.

Two years later, Lin Yan had a considerable income and completed the first step of his plan.

Although his income has increased a lot, Lin Yan has not eaten well every day for the past two years, and in the end he only saved two skill points from the template.

Originally, Lin Yan planned to use these two skill points to earn more money, but he didn't have any skills that could be added.

This may sound sad, but it is also an indisputable cruel fact.

Thus, Lin Yan began to implement his second plan.

Lin Yan's effort in the blacksmith's shop is not purely for making money.

Craftsmen in the blacksmith shop handle a large number of weapons every day, and often do business with Taoist priests in order to sell weapons.

Another purpose of Lin Yan becoming an apprentice in the blacksmith shop is to get in touch with those Taoist temples during the delivery process, and to pay attention to the Taoism and swordsmanship they learn.

After all, those sword manuals on the market are fakes made up indiscriminately. It's not that Lin Yan hasn't bought them before.

Lin Yan took the opportunity of selling high-quality iron swords to find out the Taoist temples near his home.

At the northern foot of Tushan Mountain, there are few people and there are no powerful Taoist temples.

In addition to the Taoist temples that stand on their own in twos and threes, the most famous Taoist temple belongs to a Taoist temple called Hunyuan Temple.

Although the scale seems to be the same, it is probably not even ranked among the Taoist temples in the Taoist League.

However, their Taoist temple seems to have strong financial resources, and their trade with the blacksmith shop where Lin Yan is located is much more than other Taoist temples.

It is precisely because of this that Hunyuan Temple has become the place Lin Yan goes to the most outside of the blacksmith shop and home.

In the third year, every time Blacksmith Wang wanted to deliver goods, Lin Yan volunteered to carry baskets of heavy iron swords to the Taoist temple.

Although it was very strenuous for a teenager, Lin Yan regarded it as physical exercise in order to get in touch with the Taoist temple.

After delivering the goods for half a year, Lin Yan also became familiar with those Taoist priests.

Lin Yan borrowed their sword manual from the Taoist priests of Hunyuan Temple after spending a penny.

The Taoist sword manual is indeed very different from the sword manual in Lin Yan's impression. He opened it and found that half of the book is about the method of adjusting breathing and nourishing qi and blood, and the remaining half of the book is about Taoist sword moves.

One more move is not too much, Lin Yan worked very hard in those few days, and forcibly memorized all the breathing methods and dozens of sword moves in the sword manual.

After studying hard and practicing hard, Lin Yan really unlocked the two skills of 'Basic Swordsmanship' and 'Basic Breathing' in his system.

Of course, because Lin Yan is just getting started and doesn't have much cultivation, both skills are still at level 0.

In order to protect himself at any time, Lin Yan did not hesitate to level up the two skills of 'Basic Swordsmanship' and 'Basic Breathing'.

Chapter 3 Skill Upgrade, Getting Better

This is the first time Lin Yan has clicked on a skill. A mechanical sound sounded in Lin Yan's system, and a string of skill introduction text was revealed in front of Lin Yan.

【'Basic breathing method' requires active operation, and it can increase your physical fitness after a long period of time】

['Basic breathing method' will first enter the extraordinary realm after reaching level 4.While the cultivation effect becomes stronger, it will no longer need to actively operate, and it can continue to grow stronger with the host's breathing for 24 hours]

【'Basic swordsmanship' will improve the host's swordsmanship level】

['Basic swordsmanship' reaches level 4, the host can comprehend 'sword intent']

[Level 3 skill level is equivalent to the upper limit of ordinary human beings' lifetime cultivation. Starting from level 4 skill level, you will initially enter the extraordinary realm of genius]

Lin Yan quickly understood it.

These two skills are equivalent to one focusing on 'physical fitness' and the other focusing on 'skills'.

Although they can all become stronger, Lin Yan doesn't have that much time to practice basic breathing techniques, so he decided to give priority to raising the level of breathing techniques.

After reaching the first level of the 'Basic Breathing Method', Lin Yan's whole body seemed to become much lighter after practicing for a period of time, and every muscle was surging with advanced strength.

Even if it is just forging iron in the blacksmith shop, the work efficiency has improved a lot.

And after the 'basic swordsmanship' reached the first level, Lin Yanxin swung a few sword moves, which seemed to be on par with those Taoist priests who had practiced for eight or nine years.

Because of the sharp increase in work efficiency, Lin Yan's salary has been getting higher and higher, and he has become one of the most outstanding blacksmiths in this area.

Another half a year passed after the skill was selected, and it was already four years since Lin Yan and Qingye met each other.

When the wallet was getting bigger and bigger, Lin Yan quickly repaired the small shack where he and Qingye lived.

Of course, in order not to attract people's eyes, Lin Yan didn't do any fancy decorations, but just decorated a few things inside the house.

Of course, Qingye's food did not fall, and it is estimated that those little fox demons in the inner area of ​​Tushan could not catch up with her.

After taking care of his family, Lin Yan began to implement the third step of his plan.

That is to study what to eat to increase the fastest energy value of your system.

In order to study the promotion rules of the template, Lin Yan did not only eat ordinary chicken, duck and rabbit meat as before, but began to buy food in different ways.

For example, buying shrimp imported from southern countries at a high price, buying game such as pangolins, buying medicinal materials stewed for medicinal food...

Lin Yan bought everything except monster meat, no matter how unpalatable the food was, he would always eat it up.

At the same time, Lin Yan's appetite was getting bigger and bigger, he always bite the bullet and eat the food of two or three people, and gradually got used to it.

After a long period of testing, Lin Yan finally fully understands the logic of this [template that you can become stronger by eating].

In terms of weight, the more you eat, the more energy you will add. You don’t need to think about it.

In terms of food types, the medicated diet of a relatively old age added the most energy value, followed by the medicated diet of a lower age, and meat.

Of course, medicinal food is not so easy to get, and it takes a lot of work to prepare it every time you want to stew it.

But money is no longer a problem for Lin Yan now, and he can eat a meal of medicinal food every two days.

Even the lowest-quality medicinal diet can at least increase Lin Yan's energy points by 1%, and the energy value increase speed in Lin Yan's system has skyrocketed since then.

At the same time, in order to increase the energy value of his system more conveniently, Lin Yan also arranged an errand for Tu Shan Qingye.

In the past four years, because the two races of monsters are not tolerated now, it is too dangerous for Tushan Qingye to work in the human territory, and it is too far away to work in the inner ring area of ​​Tushan.

So Tushan Qingye has no job, just like Lin Yan used to catch hares and gather wild fruits to support himself.

Now since Lin Yan's salary has risen, Lin Yan has made Tu Shan Qingye his full-time chef.

Lin Yan was alone in charge of work and most of the family budget, while Tushan Qingye was responsible for basically making Lin Yan eat well, eat well, and still want to eat after eating.

Although Tushan Qingye was surprised by Lin Yan's appetite, she was also very happy to see her childhood sweetheart enjoying her craft.

In the fourth year, under the acceleration of the medicinal diet, Lin Yan quickly accumulated four more skill points.

He originally thought that he could raise the basic breathing method to level five, but in the end, things were beyond his expectations.

The mechanical sound of the system actually reminded him that his skill points were not enough.

It turns out that the consumption of skill points for learning skills will increase as the level goes up.It takes two skill points to upgrade the basic breathing method to the second level, and so on, it takes four skill points to upgrade from the third level to the fourth level.

But Lin Yan can't waste his skill points, and his current strength is obviously not up to standard.

Without any further hesitation, Lin Yan quickly upgraded the basic sword skills and basic breathing techniques to level two respectively.

The moment the upgrade was completed, Lin Yan felt that his strong body was as light as a baby bird.

When eating dinner one day, Lin Yan inserted his chopsticks into a mushroom in a soup pot, and with a whoosh, the mushroom split into four parts from the middle, while the earthen pot containing the soup underneath was unscathed.

The power of the second level skill surprised Lin Yan.

But he did not slack off, and still spared time from work to practice the breathing method in the system, and his physical fitness continued to improve by leaps and bounds in secret.

From the fourth year to the spring of the sixth year, Lin Yan had accumulated another ten skill points.

Lin Yan finally got his wish, and upgraded the 'Basic Breathing Technique' to Level [-] in one go, and upgraded the 'Basic Sword Technique' to Level [-].