Chapter 53: Matching and Controlling
Chapter 53: Matching and Controlling
Chaiyufang, in the southeast, is a small courtyard with two entrances.
It was not yet dark, but several rooms were already brightly lit. In the yard, Niu Gui was dancing wildly with a hammer in his hand. His bare upper body was covered in sweat and his arms were red.
"Are you a fool? I've told you so many times that your strength comes from the ground, your feet should be heavy, your body should be like a nimble monkey, and your body should be relaxed!"
"You're so slow, how can you hit anyone?!"
"Change, change! Ape form, what are you hitting?!"
In front of the house, Qin Xiong kept shouting angrily, swinging the whip in his hand from time to time, making a "pa pa" sound that broke through the air.
"waste!"
Qin Xiong threw the whip to the ground fiercely and went back to the house. Inside the house, a graceful woman came up to him, massaged his shoulders and whispered softly:
"Master, please don't get angry with yourself because of this useless thing."
"Stupid as a pig!"
Qin Xiong was still angry and didn't want to touch the wine and meat on the table.
"Don't be angry!"
The woman's gentle words
"The Divine Weapon Valley!"
Qin Xiong closed his eyes slightly, enjoying the woman's service, his heart filled with emotions.
Shenbing Valley is the real overlord of Zhelong Mansion. No matter it is the government office or other sects and forces, they all rely on it.
There are only three ways for ordinary people to join the Divine Weapon Valley.
The first one is for those under twelve years old with excellent physique and bones, and they have to pay three hundred taels of silver.
The second is that famous warriors can be invited to become guest officials.
He is not satisfied with either of these two options, so there is only the third way to go.
If any disciple in the sect has a relative who has developed internal strength, he can be recommended to join the army and join the elite "Divine Guard Army" of the Divine Weapon Valley.
"Jia Liu, Huang Ping and his men just sent us the silver they collected in the past few months. Because there are still more than thirty payments that have not been collected, we only have less than a hundred taels of silver, which is much less than when Qian Bao was here..."
"Less than a hundred taels?"
Qin Xiong opened his eyes and his face turned gloomy. The woman couldn't help but shiver.
"Less than a hundred taels!"
Qin Xiong's face twitched, and he could hardly suppress his anger.
He started out as the son of a farmhand, a weak and sickly boy and has come a long way to where he is today. In the middle of the journey, he even abandoned the White Ape Hammer and switched to practicing the Tiger Roaring Blade, not only because of his superior physique, but also because he was supporting ruffians like Qian Bao and Jia Liu.
That was his reliance and nourishment for nurturing his inner strength and moving towards tempering his body!
"Sister, brother-in-law..."
At this time, Niu Gui in the yard was panting heavily, sweating all over, and felt that his arms were so sore that he couldn't even lift the hammer. He shouted timidly:
"Liu, Liu Qing is here."
Qin Xiong didn't even look at him: "Let him in, you continue practicing!"
"Qin, Master Qin!"
After a while, Liu Qing, with a look of awe on his face, walked cautiously out of the yard. He glanced at the table full of wine and meat and couldn't help swallowing.
"Go ahead."
Qin Xiong didn't even look back, he just drank and ate meat. Warriors have huge appetites, and his appetite is much larger than that of ordinary warriors.
"Li, Li Yuan, except for the time he went to Fajiu Mountain, rarely left the shop. He was always working as a blacksmith, practicing martial arts, and reading..."
Liu Qing spoke with his head down, not daring to hide anything.
"To rent the yard, four taels, and to buy wine, meat, rice, food, clothes, etc. for the family, there are also six or seven taels.
Taking medicine every day would add up to five liang for four months, and taking a medicinal bath once every ten days would add up to eight liang for four months. In Four Seasons Thatched Cottage, he spent more than forty liang on buying blood-nourishing pills...
Is Fatty Sun really that generous?"
Qin Xiong put down his bowl and chopsticks and muttered to himself.
"The other sundries must have cost at least two or three taels! He, he also bought two pieces of clothing..."
Liu Qing added, feeling both envious and jealous.
He couldn't save this much money in his entire lifetime.
"Um……"
Qin Xiong thought for a moment, waved his hand to let Liu Qing go out, stood up and paced, feeling a little cold in his heart, angry and furious:
"Are you using my money to become powerful?"...
……
"call!"
Li Yuan was immersed in the liquid medicine, muttering to himself:
"You still have to move out and live on your own."
After early spring, even the wealthy families in the inner city would not be so extravagant as to take a bath every ten days. Most families in the outer city would at most use hot water to wipe their bodies, and it was normal to not take a bath more than a few times throughout the year.
Li Lin, who was boiling water, felt quite painful. This time, he would have to collect firewood for three or four days. If it were him, he would not be willing to do so.
"Wind Tiger Pestle, Jade Water Knife, Black Silver Armor... so many good things!"
Li Yuan was still thinking about the inner treasury. He felt as if he had gone to a mountain of treasures but came back empty-handed. He could only comfort himself that his rank in the Military Commandery had not yet been promoted, so he would not be able to use as much as he had obtained.
"call!"
Li Yuan was completely immersed in the medicinal liquid, with his eyes half closed, feeling the palm of his hand.
After the Weapon Control Scroll was promoted to the second level, it only took one day to cool down the object being controlled. At this moment, two stars were glowing in the 'starry sky'.
They are the Three-Element Sickle and the Master Craftsman's Hammer.
"I don't know how to use the sickle and sword. The great-level sawhorse sickle and sword technique is useless, but it's a pity that I'm proficient in this long weapon..."
Li Yuan felt a little sorry, but he did not hesitate and quickly made a choice. He raised the jade copper hammer on the gray stone platform:
"Take control!"
boom!
Li Yuan's eyes went dark, as if the top of his head was hit by a heavy hammer. Intense pain instantly spread throughout his body, as if thousands of steel needles pierced his body at once.
Even though he was prepared, he still groaned in pain and was about to get up from the bathtub, ready to lie down on the bed.
Who would have expected...
Click!
With just a light press, the solid wood bathtub cracked like a piece of paper, and the liquid medicine flowed all over the floor, wetting the wooden board.
"this?!"
Li Yuan almost fell to the ground as his hands pressed into nothing. Fortunately, his waist and abdomen were strong enough to stand up straight. Now he looked at his hands with disbelief in his eyes.
His strength increased so suddenly that he broke the bathtub without realizing it. Both of his hands were splinters and his arms were burning with pain.
[Strength of a Thousand Jin: Those who do not have superior physique or special talents cannot use hammers. Those who use hammers all year round can exert strength of a thousand Jin.]
"Really, a thousand pounds of strength?!"
With a surge of blood and energy, the wooden thorns that had not pierced the skin were shaken off, and Li Yuan's face was full of surprise.
[Powerful and Heavy] [Armor-Breaking] [Strength of a Thousand Jin], among the three major control effects of the Jade Bronze Hammer, he was most looking forward to the 'Armor-Breaking', but he did not expect that this 'Strength of a Thousand Jin' would be so immediate.
He thought he would need to use a hammer all year round...
"This strength seems to have come out of nowhere, and it can be combined with my own strength, but my tendons and bones are not that strong, so my muscles are strained..."
Flexing and stretching his five fingers, feeling the surge of strength, Li Yuan even had the feeling that he had made another breakthrough and was extremely shocked.
Except for those with superior bones like Qin Xiong who has a strong back and broad shoulders, ordinary warriors can only have the strength of a thousand pounds if they break through their internal strength!
"Third brother, what are you doing? Water is flowing everywhere!"
Downstairs, Li Lin's scream was heard.
"No, it's okay, the bathtub is broken!"
Li Yuan woke up as if from a dream, and quickly put on his pants and clothes. Under the glare of his second brother who came upstairs in a hurry, he helped to tidy up the broken bathtub.
It took a while to finish.
Li Yuan couldn't wait to return to the house, closed his eyes and felt the changes in himself and the new control effects.
[Powerful and heavy: Those who have used hammers for many years have heavy fists and feet, and every move they make is powerful and heavy.]
[Breaking Armor Horizontal Training: The flesh cannot resist armor, and a heavy hammer can break the armor and also the horizontal training.]
Great achievement of Qi and blood, perfect hammer technique, great perfection forging technique, a force of a thousand pounds, great power and heft, and the ability to penetrate armor!
One word,
fierce!
(End of this chapter)