Chapter 120: Promoted to a Middle-Rank Warrior
Chapter 120: Promoted to a Middle-Rank Warrior
late at night.
After meeting with the housekeeper, Jiang He went straight to his bedroom and began to practice the Withered Heart Sutra.
Thanks to Taoist Ku Rong's answers to his questions about cultivation, he quickly entered the most basic state of purity, meditating and sensing the "Qi" that circulated between heaven and earth and was everywhere.
Warriors are divided into three levels: upper, middle and lower. If you want to become a formal lower-level warrior, you need to sense the heaven and earth and give birth to the first ray of true energy.
There are 365 acupoints in the human body in this world. After the true essence is born, it will continue to thrive according to the practice routes of different exercises and accumulate in the Dantian. This process is the stage of low-grade martial artists. The true essence can bless fists, feet and weapons.
Once one of the twelve meridians is completely opened up and a small circulation is formed in the body, one can be promoted to a middle-grade martial artist and can release his true energy. Half of the martial artists at this stage have mastered the Ming Jin technique.
Once all the twelve main meridians are opened and a large circulation is formed in the body, one can be promoted to a top-grade martial artist and use extremely powerful secret techniques. Half of the masters at this level have mastered the dark force techniques.
As for the top-grade martial artist, it is the process of opening up the eight extraordinary meridians.
In the bedroom, Jiang He held his breath and concentrated.
As a player, he has a lot of energy in his body, and the sensing process goes quite smoothly.
[Hint: You gain a little energy]
[Energy value: 1601/1601]
The Kuruo Heart Meridian is in operation, and a new strand of energy flows through the acupoints one by one.
The number and order of the acupoints chosen vary between different exercises, which has led to a wide variety of exercises as numerous as stars in the sky.
As time passed, Jiang He's skin gradually lost its luster, his cheeks became thinner, and his eye sockets became sunken.
The withered state appears.
[Hint: You have obtained the common energy trait of Withering]
Depressed, slow thinking, and general weakness.
Jiang He felt like he had been walking in the desert for countless days, like a weathered rotten wood.
Outside the house, a thin little girl in white came running in with a bowl in her hand. Fourteen aphid blood stones were boiled into soup.
"Big snake, don't die." Zhuang Ya called softly.
Jiang He reached out to take the bowl, picked it up and drank it all. At the moment, it was just an abnormal state, and it would not affect his combat power too much.
The hot vitality poured into the body, the withered meridians turned from decayed to fresh, and the skin became smooth and radiant again.
Jiang He was ready for battle. According to Taoist Ku Rong's experience in cultivation, at this moment of transition from withering to flourishing, he had a chance to open up a whole meridian in one go, skipping the stage of lower-grade warriors and directly reaching the level of entering the middle grade.
Just before he was about to fully recover, Jiang He gathered the last bit of his withered energy and stuck it on the Shaoyin Heart Meridian of the Hand.
This is the limit of the control of dark energy. If it is changed to transforming energy, it can block at least six main meridians.
[Hint: Your energy value +100]
[Energy value: 1701/1701]
[Hint: You have been promoted to a mid-level warrior]
[Tip: Energy trait withering is promoted to rare level, causing 3% additional withering damage]
[Hint: Your physique +1]
[Hint: Your Charm +1]
[Constitution: 9+2→10+2]
[Charm: 7+1→8+1]
Jiang He clenched his fists. The growth of his physical fitness was not beyond his control. When he used the Sword Scale Snail Dragon Armor and the Hunting Engine, the percentage increase was far greater than it was at this moment.
Then, he took out the cinnabar mirror. After the transformation from withering to flourishing, the skin of the face in the mirror became much whiter, while the bone structure remained completely unchanged, except that there was a little more affinity. Just like the differences in aesthetics between different eras and species, the greatest influence of charm does not lie in simple appearance.
“How does this value keep up with the progress?”
Jiang He pondered. He had never added any free attribute points to his charm.
Zhuang Ya sat on the edge of the bed, slowly transforming into a little white snake, and crawled to someone's neck with ease.
Jiang He used his profound skills again. This time he ate a raw aphid blood stone. The second level of the withered and flourishing heart sutra easily digested this vitality. The speed of the skill was almost twice that of the initial state. After several hours, the second main meridian was opened up by one tenth, and the aphid blood stone that entered the stomach was consumed.
"It's a high price. I need more rare treasures that contain vitality, such as water-refining carp or high-quality ginseng."
Jiang He swallowed the ginseng given by Granny Jiudu whole and continued to practice. This time, the speed of his practice was only 30% higher than the initial state and could only last for half an hour.
After the practice, Jiang He stood up and a strong sense of dizziness surged into his mind, similar to the splitting headache after sleeping too much.
"Does the spiritual value limit the training time?"
“Five hours a day maximum.”
Jiang He carefully calculated that now, if one of the meridians was opened up, it would increase his energy by 100 points, and his energy already contained three characteristics, namely corrosion, toxicity and withering.
Early in the morning, Butler Wu came and knocked on the door.
"Uncle, it's almost time to roll."
Jiang He opened the door. As a fourth-rank assistant commander, he needed to go to the North City Command Headquarters during non-wartime and was specifically responsible for criminal litigation.
Steward Wu looked to be close to sixty years old. At this moment, the maid beside him presented a set of official clothes with a scarlet robe embroidered with tigers and leopards, as well as a four-beam court crown, a plain gold belt, a four-color cloud and crane ribbon, an ivory hut and other clothing.
"My Lord, this golden sword and official seal are extremely important. The former is custom-made by the royal palace. All military commanders above the rank of Qianhu have swords with different internal features. When you arrive at the Dusi Yamen, the official seal must be placed in the seal slot on the table. Losing it is a serious crime."
Several pretty maids immediately came up to help the master change his clothes.
"I understand. The mansion is all thanks to Senior Wu. I have a personal maid. Please help me exchange this ambergris for silver notes."
Jiang He waved his hand to dismiss the maid, and took out a pale white stone from the sleeve of his uniform, weighing 800 grams. The rare item Whale Song Revolver can produce 100 grams every day, but it also needs ambergris as gun oil for maintenance.
Steward Wu stretched out his hand to take it. In his early years, he was a wandering man, but he was not very talented and only had the skills of a low-level warrior. After entering the palace, he was given a job as a yellow-lettered worshiper. Over the years, he had seen many rare treasures.
"Don't worry, my Lord. This thing won't be hard to sell. I'll go to the Chamber of Commerce run by the wife of the palace, and you can get the banknote when you come back in the evening."
"Madam of the Royal Palace?" Jiang He was startled. The image of Prince Anbei seemed to have some deviations.
Butler Wu was surprised. "You have to pay more attention to the palace. The princess died young. The prince now has twenty wives, forty-two concubines, and countless palace maids. Madam Chen Huan, who entered the palace half a year ago, is the sister of General Chen. She is the prince's favorite recently. Madam Chen has great poetic talent. She once recited three hundred poems in a restaurant, which embarrassed a group of Jiangnan scholars. She used the aliases Chen Bai and Chen Fu. It is rumored that she has friendships with Jianghu heroes, the eldest son of the Yan family, and young wealthy merchants."
Jiang He was speechless. What kind of genius was this? He could have predicted how chaotic the palace backyard would be.
"Mrs. Chen should be a player."
"If it's convenient, I have to find a way to kill him."
"But I'm not good at palace fighting."
The unknown and new field made Jiang He frown.
The northern barbarians migrate south every winter, and the scale of this time will be unprecedented. At this moment, Daming Prefecture is facing internal and external troubles, the generals are ambitious, the Yan family is suspected of cooperating with the northern barbarians, all the heroes have come to the Jianchi Conference, and King Anbei is not as reliable as imagined.
"Da Mingfu Pills."
(End of this chapter)