Chapter 9: 7 Tiger Bone Plaster per 1 Days
Chapter 9 Apply Tiger Bone Plaster Once Every Seven Days
For martial arts apprentices, three meals a day are included in the tuition fees.
Zhou You was having lunch. The food was pretty good, with rice, noodles, vegetables and meat, and no limit on the amount.
Because he felt sorry for the 20 taels of silver tuition fee, he didn't hesitate and just kept eating.
Maybe I can make it back by eating it?
He just received two pieces of news, one bad and one good.
The bad news is...
Zhou You gained an unexpected fortune of 40 experience points by practicing and upgrading on his own.
He wanted to upgrade the Subduing Tiger Fist to level 4, but the panel prompted that his strength was not up to standard and could not meet the upgrade conditions.
It turns out that in addition to experience points, skill upgrades also require strength, speed, and defense points to be increased to a certain level.
No wonder the apprentices in the outer courtyard are all concentrating on practicing the Tiger Subduing Fist and building up their strength.
In addition to improving proficiency, this boxing style can also increase strength, improve agility, and enhance endurance.
Just relying on the two basic skills of square and circle step and defensive hand is not enough to cultivate strength.
You can only add points to the three basic data first to meet the upgrade threshold.
That’s the bad news. The good news is…
"Trial Project 1 (Unrated): 100-Day Introductory Course."
"You must complete the entry requirements for strength within the three-month deadline, otherwise you will fail this trial."
"Successful trial projects will be rewarded with experience points."
A new trial began, requiring him to build up his strength to meet the entry requirements for the martial arts school.
Zhou You ate until he was about 80% full, wiped his mouth and stood up.
Time is running out, and he must race against time to practice and accumulate experience points.
"Zhou You, why are you in such a hurry? Tiger bone paste will be distributed in the afternoon. Eat your fill first."
Seeing that he was about to leave, Song Fugui hurriedly tried to keep him.
It turned out that the martial arts school distributed tiger bone ointment once every seven days.
This tonic medicine is a special companion to the Subduing Tiger Fist. Apprentices can use this medicine externally to greatly increase their strength and break through the bottleneck of the Subduing Tiger Fist.
Since so many materials are consumed, the martial arts school provides them once every seven days and never gives more.
"What a pity! Tiger bone paste is a good thing, but you can't buy it even if you have money."
Song Fugui sighed deeply.
Among the apprentices in the outer courtyard, there are quite a few who are wealthy, and many of them are willing to pay if it can shorten the time it takes to learn to use strong forces.
However, the secret medicine is hard to come by. Without connections, you can’t buy it even if you have money.
Tiger bone paste, as the name suggests, tiger bone is the main ingredient.
Tigers only roam in the wild in the mountains and are extremely ferocious. It takes a team of thirty to fifty hunters to hunt them.
Therefore, tiger skins, tiger bones, etc. are luxury goods that only wealthy people can enjoy. How can they be cheap?
Zhou You was inspired by this and thought that learning martial arts was really a waste of money!
Even if you only use one piece of tiger bone plaster every seven days, it is still quite expensive.
By this calculation, the monthly tuition fee of 20 taels is not too expensive.
"Brother Li, after using the tiger bone ointment this time, you are already 90% close to mastering the basics of strength."
"When you become a formal apprentice, don't forget your brothers."
The new apprentice who was speaking was named Zhang Shu. The brother Li he was trying to please was the most outstanding freshman, Li Hao.
Li Hao did not comment, "I hope so."
Looking at Li Hao's departing back, Song Fugui showed an envious look.
"Li Hao's family has been military officers for generations. Although they are now in decline, the rotten ship still has three pounds of iron."
"He entered the gym with me, and in just two months, he's already developed great strength."
"I heard that he used medicinal wine privately, tsk tsk!"
In the martial arts school, healthy competition among apprentices is encouraged, and the fittest survive.
Although tiger bone paste is not sold in large quantities, there is no restriction if an apprentice has a way to get medicinal wine or secret medicine to improve his strength.
Zhou You shrugged and said, there was nothing he could do about it, he had no money.
Song Fugui's family is rich, but he has no connections, so he doesn't think about it.
"Zhou You, you have just entered the academy, and improving your strength is the most important thing."
"Don't be like Fang Guiqi, who secretly saved the tiger bone paste to sell for money, thus losing the big picture for the small."
Among the three people in the same dormitory, Liu Bing and Song Fugui used the secret medicine as soon as they got it. The only one was Fang Guiqi. Perhaps because he had just come from another place and was short of money, he never used the tiger bone paste after getting it. It was said that he found someone to sell it privately.
"A piece of tiger bone plaster sells for at least 5 taels of silver outside."
so much?
Zhou You shook his head after hearing this. Selling the secret medicine for a few taels of silver is really picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons.
During the three-month deadline for freshmen, improving their abilities is the top priority, and this move is a waste of a great opportunity.
In this world, if you don't have the power to protect yourself, no matter how much money you make, you won't be able to keep it.
In the afternoon, Lu Qiang distributed tiger bone ointment to all the apprentices.
"Tiger bone ointment is the secret medicine of Jianxiong Martial Arts School. It is strictly forbidden to be passed on to others."
"It is made from 28 kinds of precious medicinal herbs. The medicinal power nourishes the skin, flesh and bone marrow, and has extremely magical effects."
"Come over one by one and get one sticker each."
Li Hao in the crowd showed disdain.
Tiger bone paste is essentially a waste product of medicinal residues, so it can only deceive these ignorant apprentices in the external hospital.
The real secret medicine in the hands of the owner Wang Jianxiong is a secret medicine called "Tiger Life-Changing Pill".
This secret medicine is the elixir for those who practice martial arts, but unfortunately it is only available to inner courtyard disciples and has never flowed to outer courtyards.
Senior Brother Lu Qiang is one of the disciples who is qualified to take this pill.
Tiger bone paste is, at best, a by-product of refining the tiger life-changing pill.
Zhou You received a tiger bone ointment, a palm-sized patch cut from tiger skin, with a thick layer of sticky ointment that had an amber luster under sunlight.
The pungent smell of medicine gives you a refreshing feeling.
This is an external medicine patch that can be applied directly to the chest or back, allowing the medicine to be absorbed by the skin pores.
The other apprentices opened their clothes, applied tiger bone paste on their bodies, and began to practice the Tiger Subduing Fist.
When practicing boxing, the blood boils, the pores open, and the ointment is absorbed faster and better.
With the naked eye, one can see white mist rising above their heads, and vaguely the posture of a tiger tumbling.
Zhou You did not hesitate and put the tiger bone ointment on his chest.
Strands of heat flowed through the skin into the body. The tiger bone paste had a powerful name and its medicinal properties were extremely strong. It was absorbed so quickly that it seemed to be pouring into the body.
Don't waste such a good effect.
While the drug was taking effect, Zhou You started practicing the Swordsmanship and the Square and Circle Steps.
"...Experience +1."
"...Experience +1."
Suddenly, there was a ding sound in my mind and the panel changed.
Strength +1.
Speed +1.
Defense +1.
The first time I used tiger bone ointment, the huge medicinal power infused into it actually had the miraculous effect of increasing the three attributes overall by +1.
"Zhou You, don't waste it. The secret medicine works best the first time you use it."
"By the way, don't always focus on the Yu Fa Shou and Fang Yuan Fang Yuan Bu. Practicing the Fu Hu Quan is the fundamental."
Song Fugui's exhortation reached my ears.
Zhou You was ecstatic because he had found a way to strengthen his skills without using experience points.
Secret medicine can improve the body attributes.
The three attributes have been increased to 6 points, which has satisfied the data improvement of the Subduing Tiger Fist.
"Lv3→lv4, experience value -30."
Name: Zhou You.
Strength: 6.
Speed: 6.
Defense: 6.
Experience value: 27.
Occupation: Boxing apprentice.
Skills: Damaging Hand lv3, Squareness lv3, Subduing Tiger Fist lv4.
A piece of tiger bone ointment immediately broke the dilemma and allowed him to advance to the next level.
(End of this chapter)