Chapter 31: Living off the Mountain

Chapter 31: Living off the Mountain

Chapter 31: Living off the Mountain
When he thought of this, he immediately jumped up and leaped towards the world where the sunlight came from.

"Boom!"

He passed through the sunlight and the projection of another world and crashed into the roof of the temple.

Chen Shi landed, rubbed his head, and looked up.

The sunlight comes from another world, and it seems that by following the sunlight, you can enter another world.

He leaped up again, his palm lightly passing through the sunlight, but the sunlight and the other world seemed like a dream bubble, visible but untouchable.

"It seems that the time and space in the temple is not another time and space, but there is a mysterious power in the temple that allows me to see another world and allows the sunlight and moonlight of that world to shine in."

Ever since he started to have real blood transfusions, his appetite increased greatly. He would eat up all the medicinal food made by his grandfather and the meals made by Grandma Sha, but would still be hungry after a while.

He starved himself so quickly that he lost five or six pounds in two days.

He originally weighed only 60 kilograms, but after losing five or six kilograms, he looked even thinner.

Chen Shi also knew that he had reached a critical period.

The first step in refining a holy fetus is to exchange real blood.

When humans are still infants, the blood flowing in their bodies is pure and does not require cultivation. Infants do not breathe through their mouths or noses, but through their navels, which connect them to the mother's body for breathing. This is called fetal breathing. The air they need for breathing is transmitted to the baby's body through the mother's blood. The air is filtered by the mother's body and has no impurities.

This is the innate true qi.

But after birth, people breathe in the polluted air of the world through their mouths and noses, which is the acquired qi. From then on, the body gradually becomes heavy and polluted, and the innate qi in the body becomes less and less. When the innate qi is exhausted in old age, death will occur.

Monks who practice evil methods often have blood transfusions when they get old, injecting young people's blood into their bodies to make themselves younger. This is to use the innate energy in the blood of young people to replenish their own innate energy.

What's more, some people even practice placenta extraction, which involves digging out the placenta of pregnant women, extracting the blood of the unborn baby and replenishing it in their own bodies to delay aging.

Chen Shi gets hungry quickly, which is also a kind of tonic. It absorbs the essence of food, replenishes his innate energy, and refines true blood.

However, ordinary food contains the essence of grains and the energy it contains is pitifully small. In contrast, grandpa’s medicinal food contains a huge amount of medicinal power and is suitable for absorption.

It was just that Chen Shi practiced too fast, causing the essence in the food to not keep up, so he began to consume his muscles and internal organs to refine his blood.

If you can’t replenish enough food, you will “starve to death”!
The faster you practice, the faster you will starve to death!
Chen Shi had no choice but to slow down his practice because he spent most of the day eating and looking for food.

The ducks in Grandma Yuzhu's family are almost unable to lay eggs because of his extortion. The watermelons in Grandma Wuzhu's melon field have been eaten up and only a few are left. The fish in the Yudai River have also been reduced by half in the past few days. He even often goes straight to Gangzi Village at mealtime. Grandma Sha now gets a headache when she sees him running towards her.

Chen Shi even thought about using himself as bait to catch a big gun to try his luck.

He is too hungry.

That day, Chen Shi came to the Mountain Jun Temple. After practicing for a while, he felt very hungry. He stayed for a while, and the hunger became even stronger.

He was so hungry that he went out in a hurry, intending to find some wild game or wild fruits to fill his stomach, but this was a newly grown mountain. Apart from the big tree in the temple, there were no other plants on the mountain, and even animals were unwilling to approach the mountain.

Chen Shi had no choice but to walk down the mountain path. When he reached the fat kids in the woods, he was so hungry that he felt dizzy and dizzy, but he still insisted on taking a few steps forward. Suddenly, the world was spinning around him and he fell to the ground with a thud.

In a daze, he saw the blue sky and white clouds, and felt as if he was lying flat, but the moving leaves and flowers told him that he was moving.

He was so hungry that he fainted again.

After an unknown amount of time, Chen Shi opened his eyes again in a daze, and seemed to see the pretty face of the mountain girl, but it soon turned into the old face of Grandma Zhuang.

"Wake up, wake up!"

When Granny Zhuang's voice came, Chen Shi felt his hunger slightly reduced and his vision gradually became clearer. Then he found himself lying in Granny Zhuang's tree hole. There were mushrooms in the hole, emitting a faint light.

The girl from the mountain stream sat quietly beside him, and the chubby kids were also surrounding the bed, staring at him with their big black eyes, concerned.

Granny Zhuang was grabbing a fat baby by the hair and picking a few red fruits the size of fingers from his head, which hurt the baby so much that he opened his mouth and cried.

Chen Shi rolled his eyes and saw that the red fruits on the heads of the other fat babies had become much sparser, and they must have all been picked.

Granny Zhuang smiled and said, "You fainted from hunger. The fruit girls carried you here. Xi Nu made you a bowl of fish porridge, but you starved too fast, so it didn't work. I used the ginseng grass fruit to save you."

Chen Shi stood up and felt that his hunger was gone. He quickly thanked them.

The girl in the mountain stream blushed, chuckled softly, and left gracefully.

The fat kids came to Chen Shi, some jumped onto his knees, with serious faces, and babbled some instructions to him earnestly, probably asking him to eat on time, and then left.

Chen Shi watched them go away, thanked Granny Zhuang again, and was about to walk out when he suddenly stumbled and nearly fell.

Granny Zhuang grinned and said, "The medicinal power of the ginseng and grass fruit in your body has just reached your stomach and intestines, and has not yet circulated throughout your body, so you have no strength. You should rest for a while before going on."

Chen Shi had no choice but to sit down.

Strangely enough, he didn't eat much ginseng fruit, but he had a feeling of fullness. The ginseng fruit in his stomach began to digest, turning into waves of heat that surged throughout his body, making him feel indescribably comfortable.

"What is the ginseng grass fruit that my mother-in-law gave me to eat?" Chen Shi asked.

Granny Zhuang seemed to have seldom spoken to anyone before and was not good at chatting. Chen Shi asked her about it and she finally said, "It's the fruit of the Guoguos."

Chen Shi became more and more curious: "What are the Guoguos?"

Granny Zhuang said, "The ginseng in the forest is thousands of years old. The ginseng fruit is the fruit they produce. One can save a life. You are too hungry, so I will give you a few more."

Chen Shi was shocked. How many thousands of years old were those fat babies?

You can't tell at all.

"Granny Zhuang, do you know the Tiger Temple?" Chen Shi thought for a moment and asked.

"Yes. It's the place you went these days. Not long ago, it and the mountain arched out from the ground. It grew to this height overnight, much faster than I grew."

Speaking of this, Granny Zhuang showed an envious look.

She grows slowly.

Chen Shi was in high spirits and said with a smile: "The tiger temple came out from the ground, which means it was here before, but it sank into the ground later. So, has grandma seen the tiger temple at that time?"

Granny Zhuang recalled carefully and shook her head: "I've never seen it. As far as I can remember, there has always been a flat land there, and the mountains only appeared not long ago." Chen Shi was shocked.

Granny Zhuang's tree was the largest tree he had ever seen, and it was probably several thousand years old.

However, Granny Zhuang was just a new branch that grew out from the tree stump after the original body died!
Its body is even older!
Doesn't this mean that the sinking of the Tiger Temple into the ground happened before Granny Zhuang was born?
How ancient is that?
"My original body should have been destroyed six thousand years ago."

Granny Zhuang pondered, "I should have grown a body six thousand years ago."

Chen Shi quickly asked, "Does Grandma have any memories before her body was destroyed?"

It was the first time that Granny Zhuang encountered such a problem. She tried hard to recall the past. Suddenly, her face changed slightly, revealing a look of fear. She couldn't help but tremble, and said in a hoarse voice: "Fire! So much thunder and fire! It cut off my body! It's burning over here!"

Her body trembled and she shrank into the corner, as helpless as a little girl.

Chen Shi hurried forward to comfort him.

"It seems that the incident that happened six thousand years ago was very serious, even Granny Zhuang was so frightened. Could it be related to the sinking of the Tiger Temple into the ground?"

Chen Shi thought about it, but soon put the question behind him. "I'm just a kid in my teens. Why should I care about these adult matters?"

The medicinal power of ginseng fruit is indeed very strong, and it is worthy of being called a miracle drug that can cure the dead. However, after Chen Shi ate these ginseng fruits, he felt hungry again after half a day.

"The ginseng fruit is stronger than grandpa's medicine, but only to a limited extent." Chen Shi thought to himself.

Two days later, the Chen family was destitute, and so was the Huangpo Village.

Even Granny Sha from Gangzi Village was left with nothing to eat because of Chen Shi's exploits.

These days, the way Granny Sha looked at Chen Shi was no longer the way she looked at her good son, but the way she looked at him as a debt-collecting evildoer.

"If I continue to eat and drink for free, the villagers will starve to death along with me."

Chen Shi reflected on himself and decided that he could not just sit there and do nothing, and that he had to let the crops grow before harvesting the next one, so he decided to go into the mountains to hunt.

The black snake Xuanshan coiled on the top of a mountain in Qianyang Mountain. Looking into the distance, it had just rained, and the clouds and fog in the mountains had cleared, and it was good weather.

It exhaled into clouds, which were blown away by the wind.

Suddenly, the ground in the valley shook and a giant beast as big as a hill rushed out of the forest.

That was a Fengxi.

When a wild boar lives for more than fifty years and grows to eight hundred kilograms, it is called a "xi" and can be considered a spiritual animal.

The boar has a big head and a small body, and its brute force is so great that even a bull would be knocked away.

Fengxi is a wild boar that has lived for over a hundred years. Its head accounts for two-thirds of its body. Its mane is like steel spikes and its fangs are like ivory. It can cut through mountains and rocks with boundless brute force.

The Fengxi that rushed out of the forest was not too big. Its shoulder height was nine feet, which was more than two feet taller than an adult. Its fangs were more than two feet long and as thick as an arm. It could easily lift boulders weighing thousands of pounds and knock down several large trees.

However, in front of this Fengxi there was a small figure, grabbing the two fangs of Fengxi with both hands, and actually wrestling with this Fengxi!

The figure was none other than Chen Shi, who was skinny but incredibly strong. However, he was too small compared to Feng Xi.

In the wrestling match between a man and a pig, Chen Shi was pushed all the way out of the forest by Feng Xi. It was not because he was not strong enough, but because he only had two legs. The ground could not withstand the force from his legs and was pushed to slide backwards while plowing the ground.

"In terms of strength, you are not as good as me!"

Chen Shi shouted loudly, exerted force with his arms, and pried open the two thick fangs of Fengxi. He exerted force with his waist, and with a loud bang, he threw the huge beast to the ground!
Feng Xi was about to turn over, but Chen Shi burst out with all his strength, held down the pig's head, and smashed Feng Xi's skull open with a few punches!

Feng Xi twitched a few times and then stopped moving.

Chen Shi carried the meat-like mountain of Feng Xi on his back and headed for a nearby stream at great speed, fearing that if he walked a step slower he would starve to death.

The big snake Xuanshan looked from afar, watching Chen Shi busying himself by the stream.

It does not interfere with these.

Survival of the fittest. It once had a time of eating blood and also hunted other spiritual beasts.

It is looking at Chen Shi.

By the stream, Chen Shi cleaned and skinned the spiritual beast Feng Xi, and divided it meticulously into categories such as small ribs, large ribs, kidneys, offal, cartilage, ears, head meat, elbows, and trotters.

He cut down a few large trees, and roasted the ones that were suitable for roasting, and cooked the ones that were suitable for stewing in his own big pot.

——He also moved the pot that Old Chen used to cook medicine.

He roasted the fat from Feng Xi's body on pine wood until it turned golden brown, and then sprinkled some coarse salt on the roasted ribs.

"He eats much more than I did back then." Big Snake Xuanshan thought to himself.

He continued to look at Chen Shi, and saw that Chen Shi was brushing oil on the grilled ribs. The first piece of grilled ribs the size of a table was already cooked.

Although Fengxi is a spiritual beast, it has a strong smell, rough meat, and is difficult to bite.

Fortunately, Chen Shi has been tempering his body these days, and his teeth are getting better and better, so he has no problem eating.

Especially the crispy and browned parts, which have no smell of mutton. When you take a bite, it makes a crunching sound, and the fat that is roasted to be crispy on the outside and tender on the inside explodes in your mouth, moistening the eight thousand taste buds on your tongue. Every taste bud secretes saliva in an instant, which is a real feast.

There is spiritual power in the flesh and blood. When it falls into the stomach, the spiritual power bursts out and turns into nutrients to nourish Chen Shi's internal organs, and the feeling of hunger is greatly reduced.

When the big snake Xuanshan saw this, he felt a little hungry after eating wind and drinking dew for three thousand years.

After a while, the big snake Xuanshan saw Chen Shi holding up Fengxi's hind legs and walking towards him.

The hind leg had been roasted to a crispy outside and tender inside. Chen Shi was afraid that it was too big and difficult to roast thoroughly, so he made deep cuts on the hind leg, rubbed it with coarse salt, and stuffed it with fragrant leaves of various plants, marinating it thoroughly.

The giant snake Xuanshan sniffed the aroma coming from Fengxi's hind legs. After three thousand years of eating wind and drinking dew, he actually felt a little greedy.

——Thanks to the leader of Hua Huo Chang Ge for the reward, the boss is so handsome!

Everyone, check your pockets to see if you have extra monthly tickets. The new book needs your monthly tickets to protect it~
(End of this chapter)