Chapter 128 Chapter 2 Zhengjing and Xiaocheng
Chapter 128 The Second Seriousness and Xiaocheng
midnight.
Jiang He took a carriage back to Bo's house from the night market.
The maids and servants had already gone to bed, and Butler Wu went to the Palace Chamber of Commerce overnight and exchanged it for three thousand taels of silver notes.
Jiang He only took two thousand taels and asked housekeeper Wu to go to the restaurant to prepare a banquet the next morning. The one thousand taels was the expenditure, and his reserve had recovered to nearly six thousand taels. In fact, Zhuang Ya only spent twenty taels of silver on eating and drinking at the night market.
Back in the bedroom, Zhuang Ya turned back into the form of a little white snake, crawled to the corner of the bed and curled up to sleep.
Jiang He sat cross-legged. With an ample supply of ginseng, he was no longer stingy with the aphid blood stones. He ate ten of them in one breath and immediately refined them with the Withered Heart Sutra.
The vitality equivalent to a hundred days of life flowed through his limbs and bones. The progress of the second level of the Kuruo Heart Sutra rose steadily, and the energy flew and surged in his meridians.
This terrifying growth rate gradually made the meridians unable to bear it, but fortunately, the advanced self-healing continued to work, allowing someone to avoid the fate of having his meridians broken.
The mysterious skill is running and time passes quickly.
Five hours later, the second main channel was opened.
[Hint: Your energy value +100]
[Energy value: 1801]
[Tip: Rare skill quality trait: Withering, causing 3% → 6% additional withering damage]
Lying on the bed, Jiang He opened his eyes and pressed his hands down from his chest. Following the prompting of external movements, the internal energy flow ended and an obvious feeling of dizziness emerged again.
After pausing for half a minute, Jiang He exhaled a breath of turbid air. The effect of the ten aphid blood stones was extremely significant. A complete practice opened up a main meridian. He now had forty-nine of them on hand, which were enough for a short time. As for the one thousand hundred-year-old ginsengs, they had been put into the item bag to be used as daily snacks.
It's getting light outside the window.
Jiang He reached out and pulled the little white snake over.
"Practice."
"Big snake, I'm sleepy." Zhuang Ya answered in a daze.
"alright."
Jiang He casually put her on the pillow. Without a partner to practice with, he could still use other methods to practice.
The Holy Iron External Skills are a compilation of the nine Iron-generation martial arts, and its quality has not yet reached the excellent level of the corresponding grandmaster, and is currently only at the top-grade martial arts level.
By destroying the body, the energy permeates the body and merges deeply with it, thus gaining a tough defense when activated. The biggest advantage is that it does not consume energy and the duration depends on physical strength.
In some extremely harsh environments, this martial art can provide basic but effective protection.
Jiang He raised his hand, and a drop of corrosive energy flowed out from his fingertips, like a dark red drop of water.
As the owner of energy, the power of corrosion usually cannot harm me, but this is just normal.
Jiang He relaxed his mind, and this extremely dangerous drop of water immediately corroded his finger.
"The difference lies in the judgment of the will."
Advanced self-healing was activated one after another, bones proliferated, meridians and blood vessels extended and entangled, flesh and blood grew, and the epidermis was covered. During this period, a trace of energy ran along the acupoints of the Holy Iron External Power, taking the opportunity to infiltrate the body.
[Progress of minor success of Holy Iron External Skill: 21%]
Jiang He followed the same method, corroding his hands, arms, and shoulders in turn. Compared with hammering with the back of a knife, this method was undoubtedly much faster. He did not choose it before because the pain was too intense, to the point where it was not cost-effective.
The morning light rises outside the window.
Time passed, and the sun rose higher and higher. [Progress of minor success in Holy Iron External Skill: 99%]
When Jiang He's eyes gradually recovered from the corrosion, the progress reached 100%.
[Name: Holy Iron External Skill]
[Category: Gongfa]
[Quality: Rare]
[Effect: Small success of Holy Iron state, the body gains low-level toughness when activated]
[Note: Body like iron, tough as steel]
[Hint: Your physique +1]
[Constitution: 10+2→11+2]
Jiang He activated the Holy Iron state, and a layer of dark and deep light emerged on the surface of his body, as if he was wearing a tightly fitting armor. During the entire training process, only the perineum acupoint made him feel numb, the rest was just pure pain.
"The limit of the Holy Iron state is roughly six hours, but you can't use all your energy on it. Under the current circumstances, an ordinary person holding a sword would have to chop with all his strength to break through the defense."
Jiang He dispersed his external energy and there was a knock on the bedroom door.
"My Lord, you have to leave." said Butler Wu.
……
Daming Prefecture, Chuyao Tower.
When Jiang He arrived here by carriage, the courtesan was leading a singing and dancing performance in the restaurant.
As one of the largest restaurants in Daming Prefecture, Chuyaolou, as the name suggests, is famous for the graceful waists of its singing girls.
The building is eight stories high, with walls-like pavilions on all sides. Accompanied by the consul, Jiang He went up each floor. Looking sideways, he could see the dancing courtesans and singing girls on the first floor.
Arriving at the top floor, the view is quite broad. The Jianshui River flows eastward, and you can have a panoramic view of the whole city. In the distance, the majestic Jianchi Mountains lie on the ground like a giant beast. Above its head is the thick dark clouds of the Shenling Sky, which linger for a thousand years. On the other side of the Jianchi Mountains is a thousand-foot abyss, and anyone who falls into it will die.
"Master, it's unreasonable to let the guests arrive first."
The banquet was already prepared, and Princess Anbei was still wearing a simple Taoist robe and a white veil covering her face.
Jiang He looked down from the railing and saw a young man in white clothes already downstairs. As expected, it was the eldest son of the Yan family.
"Who is the spy from the Anbei Palace?"
The princess chuckled, "You are young, and the palace has prepared the plump woman who is a little older. Of course, I can't get involved in such internal affairs for the time being. Now the harem and spies are all under the control of Madam Chen. If the concubine was not named Yan, she would have fallen into the well long ago."
Jiang He said calmly: "The prince's life is really frustrating."
"No way." The princess spread her hands. "Even if the Anbei Army had twice as many troops, the eunuch in the palace could still kill the prince. The great master is the most outstanding assassin in the world. He can make the four governors bow down to him by himself. The prince didn't believe in evil before, so the prince died."
While the two were chatting, the eldest son of the Yan family went up to the top floor.
"I greet you, Lord Bo and Princess."
Jiang He looked calm. According to common sense, this eldest son was unable to take the imperial examination due to illness, did not go to the capital to inherit the throne, and refused all kinds of favors. He was indeed a commoner at the moment, but as the eldest grandson of the Yan family, it would be an exaggeration to say that he was a commoner before the big tree fell.
And this guy is very likely a master.
Jiang He's expression remained unchanged as he secretly cancelled his active skill Eyes of the Beast. Through this ordinary skill, he could gain vision of the target animal. The Grandmaster's visual reaction speed far exceeded that of a mid-level warrior, and so far, there had been no misjudgments.
The realm of the eldest son of the Yan family is obviously abnormal, even surpassing the young geniuses.
"I hope you two are not really here for dinner."
The princess smiled and said, "The prince only asked me to ask one thing, is the soldier from the North City Command yesterday a foreigner?"
"Maybe subjectively." Jiang He answered indifferently.
(End of this chapter)