Chapter 305: Thieves List, Thunder Dragon Qi
Chapter 305: Thieves List, Thunder Dragon Qi
"Master thief Sikong Xing?"
Li Yuan's mind moved and he wrote down the information in his listening book.
After combining the three Thunder Dragon Juntian Hammers, most of the incense on his body was gone. After the Listening Sound Talisman was promoted to the third level, only some incense from the first and second levels was left.
From time to time, I would hear it, but most of the time the information I got was not very useful and was mostly trivial.
This is one of the few useful ones in the past two months.
Well, very useful.
Taoist Master Li was a little jealous of the incense sticks from the Taoist yamen, as he was really in need of them.
"It seems that there are more than one group of people eyeing the incense of the Taoist temple."
After closing the listening book, Li Yuan thought for a while and had no impression of this so-called thief. He immediately stood up and walked out of the house, ready to find out about the thief's whereabouts.
It was early morning, the red sun was rising, and its bright light shone on the Longhu Mountains in early spring. The clouds and mist were rolling, and the scenery was quite beautiful.
"There is still one Qi-boosting pill left. I guess it's not enough to build the last two Qi channels. Add that Qi-boosting pill and it should be enough, right?"
Facing the rising sun, Li Yuan was thinking:
"Hurry up, it should be almost done tonight. The elixir is really good, but it's a pity that it will be gone soon."
The Qi-boosting Pill is not a top-grade elixir, but one pill is at least worth a month's hard practice on his part. And that's for him. For an ordinary meridian-opening master, it would be worth one or two years' hard work.
This bottle of energy-enhancing pill saved him at least more than a year of hard work.
"It's hard to go from luxury to frugality."
Li Yuan touched the last two elixirs in his arms, but without packing them up, he closed the gate and prepared to go down the mountain.
After the New Year, Longhu Temple became more and more lively. Every now and then, friendly sects or independent masters would come to visit.
Most of these sects and individual people have close ties with the Dragon and Tiger Temple, so they are naturally happy to receive them.
Walking on the mountain path, Li Yuan could smell the faint smell of alcohol. Old friends who had not seen each other for many years came to visit, and even the old leader drank a lot of wine, let alone the other disciples.
Even Li Yuan had to accompany him for a few drinks.
"what?"
On the way down the mountain, Li Yuan walked very fast, occasionally glancing at crowded places. Suddenly, he stopped and looked back into the mountain.
It was between Longyin Peak and Huntian Peak, surrounded by clouds and mist, and he actually saw a tower that looked very familiar.
"That is, the Dragon Tiger Tower?"
Li Yuan almost thought he was dazzled. He stopped an inner sect disciple and asked with a bow.
"This junior brother looks unfamiliar?"
He was a rough man with a full beard. He looked at Li Yuan and replied:
"That tower is called Dragon Tiger. It is said that the Taoist master moved it from somewhere to provide a place for the disciples to practice..."
Is it really the Dragon Tiger Tower?
Li Yuan was a little surprised. Although he guessed that it might be for the martial arts performance, he still couldn't help being a little shocked.
This is really not hidden at all.
"Strength."
Master Li Dao felt a little emotional, but he also understood.
If he were a land immortal, and walked around the city with the Black Whale Hammer every day, no one would dare to covet him.
Li Yuan looked at the Dragon and Tiger Pagoda from afar. Under the giant pagoda, he could vaguely see a crowd of people, a dark mass.
Normally, most of the inner disciples of the Dragon and Tiger Sect are not qualified to touch the Dragon and Tiger Pagoda, let alone those from the outer sects?
It's a rare opportunity, so whether you're interested or not, you'll probably want to join in the fun.
"After my Qi channels are complete, I will give it a try."
After changing his mind, Li Yuan quickly walked down the mountain.
……
After spring came and flowers bloomed, Hengshan City became full of vitality and was much more lively than in winter. Merchant caravans from other prefectures and even Daocheng flocked into the city.
The weapon forging shop is also doing good business.
Since Li Yuan slowed down the forging of hammer soldiers, the weapon forging shop turned from loss to profit. Relying on Li Yuan's reputation, it actually earned more than 3,000 taels of silver in a few months.
"These days, people come to me from time to time to order weapons, and the first one is a famous weapon. I rejected them all."
In the backyard of the blacksmith shop, Liu Zheng handed the account book to Li Yuan and talked about the business in the past few days.
"Ah."
Li Yuan closed the account book and asked, "Did Gao Liu send any letter?"
After he truly became Long Xixiang's disciple and gained a foothold in Longhu Temple, the first thing he did was to send a letter to Gaoliu County, wanting to bring his brother, sister-in-law, and Old Zhang over.
"Last September, I commissioned the Fuyuan Escort Agency to deliver a letter. According to the time given by the escort agency, it should be the latter half of the year before I can return."
Liu Zheng pours tea for Li Yuan:
"Fuyuan Escort Agency is one of the largest escort agencies in Dao City. Its business radiates to nearby prefectures and even to Longyin Dao and Leiyin Province. It has always been stable."
"Notify me as soon as there is news."
Li Yuan nodded.
Zhong Baoshu, the big boss behind the Fuyuan Escort Agency, is the eldest senior brother of his lineage. He ranks only after the hall masters and Long Xinglie on the Tiger List. There is no shortage of elite inner sect disciples of the Dragon and Tiger schools in the escort agency.
"I see."
Liu Zheng agreed, and after talking about business, he began to ask some questions about martial arts.
Young Master Liu has average talent in martial arts, but with Li Yuan's guidance and following the steps, he has already made great progress in strengthening his body. It will take at most one or two years, or at least half a year, for him to achieve full inner strength.
Li Yuan already had a solid foundation in martial arts, so it was natural for him to instruct Liu Zheng.
Finally, he pulled out a thick booklet from his pocket and said, "I wrote this booklet in my spare time. You can read it more often when you have time."
"Thank you, Brother Li!"
Liu Zheng took it with gratitude. Ever since he received Li Yuan's handwritten letter last time, he had rekindled his yearning for martial arts.
He couldn't wait to flip through it:
"...The spirit ape's power needs to enter the body according to the following steps, starting from the index finger of the left hand, passing through the wrist, shoulder and arm to the chest and abdomen and returning to the right hand..."
Li Yuan’s handwriting focuses on fool-proof teaching.
This was specially written according to Liu Zheng's physical constitution and the progress he had made in learning martial arts. As long as he was diligent and followed the steps, he would be able to achieve inner strength and success.
"Take your time and watch."
Seeing that he couldn't wait, Li Yuan nodded inwardly, put down a bottle of bone-strengthening pills that he no longer needed, and walked out the door.
The weapon forging shop expanded again and again and had become quite large. It had more than a hundred blacksmiths and nearly a thousand apprentices. The sounds of pounding iron and blowing the iron could be heard from a long distance away.
Li Yuan walked around for a while before Wang Peiyao hurried over.
She was wearing a plain yellow gown, with her long hair tied back, looking quite capable.
"Congratulations, Brother Li, on your great progress in martial arts."
From a distance, Miss Wang bowed and congratulated.
"Oh? How did you tell?"
Li Yuan was slightly startled and a little curious.
"Only a busy man like you would stay at home. The Dragon and Tiger List of Yunshulou has been selling very well these days. Brother Li's name has spread far and wide."
Wang Peiyao chuckled and took out a thin booklet from her sleeve, with the words 'Hengshan Dragon and Tiger List' written on it.
“Is this a new list?”
Li Yuan took it and flipped through it, and found that this list had some overlap with the Dragon List. The difference was that it also covered the sects in various prefectures and some independent people in the martial arts world.
He ranked thirty-sixth, five places lower than the Dragon List. These five people were the most elite and talented disciples from other sects of Hengshan Dao, except for the Dragon and Tiger Temple. "Yes, one of the new lists."
Intelligence expert Wang Peiyao nodded:
"How could Yunshulou miss such a grand event of martial arts performance? In addition to the Dragon and Tiger Ranking, Rouge Ranking, etc., more than ten books have been published, and they have made a lot of money."
"Feng Mantian is indeed a genius."
Taking the new lists handed over by Miss Wang, Li Yuan couldn't help but admire the owner of Yunshu Tower.
As far as he knew, Feng Mantian's martial arts skills were not very high, and the reason he was able to sit firmly on the position of the owner of Yunshu Tower was because of his endless business tricks.
During the sixty or seventy years that he was in charge of Yunshu Tower, the power of Yunshu Tower increased more than tenfold, and he even invited several masters on the list of heroes to serve him.
"Trading intelligence is an offensive business."
Wang Peiyao was not jealous at all, as she knew very well that it was not easy to make money from intelligence.
"Too."
The two chatted for a while, and Li Yuan followed her to the leather shop in the store, where a dozen skilled craftsmen were making boots.
"In the past six months, I have recruited more than 30 shoemakers. After screening, only 17 remained, all of whom are skilled."
Wang Peiyao also took out the account book, and Li Yuan flipped through it and put it down.
The weapon forging shop is already profitable, but Wang Peiyao has not made any income at all. The leather she collects and the boots she makes are not allowed to be sold.
“All the boots I’ve made in the past six months are here.”
Wang Peiyao led Li Yuan to the inner room. Most of the twenty-odd shoe racks were filled with various spirit leather boots, and dozens of various spirit beast leathers were placed in the corners.
"One hundred and twenty-one pairs of unclassified ones, thirty-six pairs of first-class ones, twenty-one pairs of second-class ones, and none of third-class ones."
Li Yuan took a quick look and had an idea in his mind.
If there are enough incense sticks, the boots here can be combined into a pair of fifth-level boots. Taking into account the ones in the space for holding soldiers, I guess it can barely make a pair of magic-level boots?
"As for the bone ornaments, they are all in my room. There are about three hundred of them."
Wang Peiyao spread her hands and asked for money.
"Send the boots and bone ornaments to my room. I will take them away tomorrow."
Li Yuan was very quick to pay, mainly because the "gift" left by Chu Xuankong was amazing. He spent three thousand taels of gold notes, which surprised Miss Wang.
"Brother Li, how much silver did the Lord of Gongyang Valley give you?"
Miss Wang couldn't help herself.
"There's not much left."
Li Yuan had a painful look on his face. On the gray stone platform, there were only 296,000 taels of gold notes left.
"The Lord of Gongyang Valley is really generous."
Wang Peiyao took the gold note and was amazed but also felt a little sad. It wasn't much, but it was probably many times more than what her Wang family had accumulated for generations.
Li Yuan coughed lightly and changed the subject:
"By the way, have you heard of the master thief Sikong Xing?"
"A thief?"
Wang Peiyao repeated it several times: "Yeah, I seem to have some impression."
Having said that, she hurried out, went back to her room, searched for something, and came back with two booklets.
"The Thief List?"
Li Yuan's admiration for Feng Mantian increased a little more. He even wanted to make money from thieves.
"The master thief Sikong Xing is ranked 63rd on the master thief list. This is a very high ranking. This list lists all the great thieves, master thieves, and flower-stealing thieves in the five paths and nineteen states of Dayun."
Wang Peiyao flipped through it and handed it to Li Yuan.
"The thief list number sixty-three, the thief Sikong Xing, his origin is unknown, his master is unknown, he is good at using a scimitar, is good at disguising himself, and has extremely high Qinggong skills.
He once used his marrow-refining body to steal the sword manual of Grandmaster Lu Shushan of the Changhong Sword Sect, and escaped unscathed!"
Good guy!
No wonder he dared to steal the incense from the Taoist temple. He even dared to steal the sword manual of the Taoist master.
Li Yuan was amazed and couldn't help but be certain.
This thief has extremely high Qinggong skills and is good at disguise, but his martial arts skills are not high...
"Master Dao is a natural nemesis of him!"
Returning to the shopkeeper's room in the backyard, Li Yuan sat cross-legged in meditation, suppressed his restless thoughts, took out the last two elixirs, and prepared to forge the last two meridians before nightfall.
hum~
Li Yuan concentrated and observed himself quietly.
The effect of a bottle of Qi-boosting pills was extremely amazing. At this moment, the network of Qi channels in his body had become extremely complex, with thirty-four crisscrossing each other, covering his limbs and bones.
"According to Old Dragon Head, the more Qi channels one has, the better. Instead, it must be compatible with the martial arts one has learned..."
Li Yuan muttered to himself, but did not delay in taking the energy-enhancing pill. As the medicinal power spread, his internal energy, which was already flowing rapidly, became even more boiling.
Having condensed thirty-four meridians successively, he was already familiar with this. With the support of the medicine, soon the last two meridians had taken shape.
“There’s not even one left.”
Just this last little bit, Li Yuan made up his mind and swallowed the anger pill.
boom!
As soon as this pill entered his stomach, Li Yuan's face turned red instantly. The medicinal power of this violent pill was far better than that of the energy-enhancing pill.
Li Yuan didn't know whether one Violent Qi Pill could increase his internal energy by five years, but at this moment he felt that his internal energy seemed endless.
"The Thunder Dragon of Beasts!"
Realizing that his internal energy was showing signs of being out of control, Li Yuan activated the Thunder Dragon of Beasts without hesitation.
There was a buzzing sound, and the room with closed doors and windows was flooded with lightning. Tables, chairs and vases were instantly turned into dust, and the walls and the house were shaking.
"It's so strong with only 80% of the drug left?"
Li Yuan was a little surprised, but he had more than thirty energy channels and two acupoints in his body, and he quickly suppressed the boiling internal energy.
Under his perception, the remaining two meridians took shape at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"The medicinal power cannot be wasted... Transform the internal energy into Thunder Dragon Qi first!"
Master Li calculated carefully, and after sensing the remaining amount of medicinal power, he had already circulated his internal energy before the last two energy channels took shape, and began to 'transform internal energy into truth'.
"Roar!"
There seem to be sounds of dragons roaring and tigers roaring inside the body.
Li Yuan's Qi sank into his Dantian. With his experience in comprehending the Diagram of the Mysterious Whale that Splits the Sea, he had a fine control over his internal Qi. In a short moment, he had suppressed the boiling internal Qi in his Dantian.
Along with the roars of the tiger and the dragon, a blue-black little dragon seemed to emerge from the pure yellow internal energy in his dantian that was as vague as mist.
"Woo!"
The thunder dragon transformed from internal energy roamed in the dantian, constantly stirring the mist-like internal energy, and then, at Li Yuan's urging, opened its mouth and swallowed.
Wisp after wisp...
The small thunder dragon, as thin as an earthworm, greedily devoured the internal energy. Its body expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye. Soon, its size was about to fill the entire Dantian.
"Roar!"
Li Yuan opened his eyes, put his hands together and pressed them on his dantian. The swollen thunder dragon opened its mouth and roared, and a drop of blue-black liquid dripped into his dantian.
"Tick!"
(End of this chapter)