READ NOVEL ONLINE Chapter 23 Breakthrough
time flies.
Soon, a month passed.
After opening the fish stall, Zhou Shan's life did not change much. It was still the same as before. He went out fishing at dawn and came back in the evening with a boat full of catches.
As more and more treasure fish were caught, Zhou Shan also moved out of Guyu Street and rented a house with a backyard pond and a martial arts training ground in Ping'an Fang through Yaxing.
Coincidentally, this house was the house where Wang Xuan lived when Zhou Shan came to buy martial arts secret books for the first time. When he came for the second time, the house was taken over by people from Jude Gambling House.
This house met Zhou Shan's requirements, and the rent was relatively cheap among all the houses. It only cost twenty taels of silver a year, so he rented it and signed a one-year rental contract.
It was just dawn.
At this time, there was a spacious martial arts training ground in the backyard.
"call!"
"suck!"
The bare-chested Zhou Shan was practicing in a standing posture, breathing like an upright turtle.
However, this time the practice was more intense than before. He mobilized the energy and blood that filled the whole body and circulated rapidly in the body, like the Yangtze River, surging incessantly, and like rough waves constantly beating against the rocks. .
At this time, Zhou Shan's whole body was steaming with heat, and his bronze skin looked red and hot, like a cooked prawn.
The mental power was released from the sea of consciousness, and Zhou Shan performed an 'inward look', transporting the qi and blood to circulate in the body, just like observing lines on the palm of his hand. The turbulence of qi and blood stimulated the skin and flesh of the whole body to become more detailed and deeper.
The strong Qi and blood were like a hammer, repeatedly hammering Zhou Shan's skin and muscles.
Under the 'hammering' of the majestic Qi and blood, the skin and flesh on Zhou Shan's body were shaking violently, as if he was sitting on a massage chair, with a force hammering his whole body.
However, the massage chair is hammered by external force, while the qi and blood mobilized by Zhou Shan to stimulate the skin and flesh are 'internal forces'.
The qi and blood stimulated the skin and flesh, and Zhou Shan immediately felt the pain of his skin being torn apart. However, if he wanted his skin to be tempered and strengthened, he had to endure this pain.
Yesterday, he reached the third level of perfection in the Turtle Breathing Technique he practiced, and now he started practicing the fourth level of the Turtle Breathing Technique.
Two quarters of an hour passed.
Zhou Shan felt the limit and exhaled a long breath through his nose, and it was still hot.
As Zhou Shan stopped practicing, his pores dilated and he sweated instantly, as if he had just been fished out of the water. Some impurities and toxins in his body were also excreted with the sweat.
At this time, Zhou Shan felt sore muscles all over his body.
"Master, the liquid has been boiled as required, poured into the tub, and placed in the bedroom."
At this time, a woman came to the martial arts training ground.
"I see."
Zhou Shan nodded and went to the bedroom.
After he moved into the house, he didn't want to waste time on cooking, so he hired someone to take care of food, clothing, daily life, purchasing firewood, rice, oil, salt, etc. Some of the trivial matters in life were left to the servants.
Soon.
Zhou Shan came to the bedroom.
There is a bathtub in the bedroom, which contains hot liquid.
Immediately, Zhou Shan took off his lower body pants and entered the bath naked. His whole body was soaked in the liquid. In an instant, he felt a hot breath starting to burn from the surface of his body.
And as time goes by, it gradually penetrates into the body.
Immediately, Zhou Shan performed the breathing method in the Turtle Breathing Technique to transport Qi and blood, quickly absorbing the hot air flowing into his body, and the two were soon intertwined.
A wonderful fiery feeling is guided from the outside into the body, penetrating to all parts of the body. The pain radiating from the skin and flesh is relieved and gradually weakened by the nourishment of this fiery air flow.
"My muscles are no longer sore!"
Half an hour later, Zhou Shan ended his practice.
The effect of the medicinal bath was immediate. After soaking for half an hour, the skin and flesh all over the body no longer ached, and the qi and blood filling the whole body refined the medicinal power and became more solid.
However, this medicated bath is very effective, but it is also expensive.
The main medicine is the carapace of the horned turtle ground into powder, and the rest of the medicinal materials add up to a dose of about four taels of silver. Although the carapace of the horned turtle is ground into powder, there are several dosages depending on the weight.
But on average, the cost of a pair of medicines is ten taels of silver.
With a thought, Zhou Shan opened the properties panel.
Name: Zhou Shan
Talent: Infinite Spirit (every day, one point of spiritual attribute will be added)
Strength: 20
Defense: 18
Agility: 13
Constitution: 43
Spirit: 178
Martial Arts: Turtle Breath Technique/Fourth Level (1.2%), Soul Deterrence Technique/Second Level (89%), Stone Fist/Dacheng (9%), Swimming Fish Movement/Dacheng (24%)
"One dose of medicine increases the cultivation progress by one percent. If you want to break through to the fifth level, you will need ninety-nine medicines to take a medicinal bath once a day, and it will cost 990 taels of silver."
Zhou Shan estimated in his mind.
Poor literature and rich martial arts are not empty words.
Whether it is asking a master to teach you, or daily food, medicine to assist in practice, etc., all aspects require money.
No wonder there are very few casual warriors in the world. Every warrior will create a force, whether it is establishing a gang, exploiting the people at the bottom, or opening a martial arts gym and recruiting disciples. In the final analysis, it is all for the purpose of amassing wealth.
Only by making money steadily and being supported by others can one be at ease to build up strength and practice martial arts.
Otherwise, one has to run around for firewood, oil and salt all day long, and even cannot eat enough, let alone practice martial arts. To maintain vigorous qi and blood, martial artists need to take medicinal food every day. If the nutrition is not enough, it is naturally difficult to improve kung fu.
Ordinary people at the bottom spend thirty or forty coins a day.
However, when a martial artist opens his eyes, excluding martial arts training, only his daily expenses, two or three thousand coins are considered frugal. If there are servants at home, the expenses are even higher.
Every martial artist is a big spender, and money is never enough.
"I have reached the fourth level of the turtle breathing skill. Now I have entered the skin grinding realm and become a mainstream martial artist."
Zhou Shan got up and walked out of the bathtub.
The skin grinding realm mainly uses qi and blood to repeatedly hammer the skin membrane and muscles to build up strength.
During the hammering process, Zhou Shan's strength, skin membrane and muscles will be greatly improved, and the blood and qi will be further condensed and broken through the limit during the hammering process.
When this realm is cultivated to the peak, it will have unimaginable strength.
Lifting a ten thousand jin tripod with one hand, the skin membrane is tough and hard to be injured by a knife, the tendons rise and fall like strings, and the blood and qi break through the limit like gauze.
These twenty-eight words describe the four powerful characteristics of a warrior who has reached the perfection of the skin grinding realm.
Zhou Shan has just broken into the fourth level of the turtle breathing skill, which is far from the perfection of the skin grinding realm. Moreover, the direction of cultivation between different martial arts is also different. After reaching the fourth level of the turtle breathing skill, it can also increase the strength, but the main direction of cultivation is still focused on defense. Therefore, even if it reaches the perfection of the sixth level, it can only cultivate the skin membrane to be tough and hard to be injured by a knife. If you want to cultivate the ten thousand jin tripod with one hand and the tendons to rise and fall like strings, you need another martial art.
Only when all three are cultivated can the blood and qi break through the limit and be like gauze.
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