In the blink of an eye, three months have passed since Qin Ziling broke through to the cowhide level, and the season has entered early winter.
A cold wind blew and picked up the fallen leaves all over the ground.
On the road, the refugees wrapped themselves tightly in thin and tattered clothes and looked at Fangcheng City in the distance, crouching on the ground like a giant beast, with expectation, fear and uneasiness.
From time to time, corpses of refugees who had died of starvation and freezing could be seen on both sides of the road, but many people were already numb and walked quickly past as if they had not seen them.
The same is true for Qin Ziling.
In this generation, with his current ability, he can't change anything at all, and this is not what a common man like him should consider.
Qin Ziling strode towards Fangshu City.
Last night he hunted a fire cloud leopard. The fire cloud leopard is fast and has strong attack power. It is a ferocious beast that is difficult to kill.
Its meat and bones are very nutritious ingredients, and its fur has beautiful patterns and is deeply loved by wealthy aristocrats.
Qin Ziling now exercises and polishes the muscles and bones all over his body every day, which requires a large amount of meat to be consumed. Especially as the corpse power integrated into the blood increases day by day, he finds that the digestion power of his stomach and intestines is increasing at a terrifying speed, and he seems to be unable to fill up the whole body.
The bottomless pit.
Originally, Qin Ziling wanted to keep rare nourishing beasts like the Fire Cloud Leopard for his own consumption, but now he had to take the Bu Yuan Dan every now and then, the Xuan Han Iron Chicken Secret Pills needed to practice the Cold Iron Palm, and the special nourishing pills for body nourishment.
Pharmaceutical solutions are very expensive.
Qin Ziling could only make ends meet by selling the prey he killed every other day.
Today, he needed to buy the Xuanhan Iron Chicken Secret Pills and the special secret medicine for nourishing the body, so he could only reluctantly sell half of the Fire Cloud Leopard. As for the fur, it was of no use to him, and he had planned to sell it in the first place.
After entering the city, he first went to "Shanye Suju" to sell off half of a fire cloud leopard and the intact fur except for the head. After exchanging for forty taels of silver, Qin Ziling went to the martial arts gym.
Nowadays, Qin Ziling basically goes to the martial arts gym once a week, and spends the rest of the time alone in the cliff cave in Xisheng Mountain to exercise.
People in the martial arts gym thought it was normal for Qin Ziling to come here once a week.
After all, his family background is average, and martial arts training at the cowhide level consumes more, and there is a freeloader like Liu Xiaoqiang in the family. If he wants to support himself, he can only rely on his cultivation at the skin level and take on a lot of work outside.
"Master Zuo, Zi Ling would like to say hello to you!" After entering the martial arts hall, Qin Ziling went to say hello to Zuo Le first.
"Well, let's go practice martial arts." Zuo Le nodded slightly, then waved.
"Yes." Qin Ziling turned around and retreated.
Zuo Le looked at Qin Ziling's back and shook his head slightly.
He is a martial artist in the realm of strength, with sharp eyes. It has been three months since Qin Ziling stepped into the cowhide level, but his energy and blood are like a pool of stagnant water, not much has changed. And he learned from the account books that Qin Ziling has not lost much in the past three months.
After purchasing the Xuanhan Iron Chicken Secret Pills and the potions for preparing potions, it was obvious that in order to practice martial arts, he worked hard to make money outside, and also practiced martial arts hard in his spare time in private.
"As expected, this man is smart, very understanding, and practices hard. Unfortunately, he has no talent in martial arts, so it is all in vain after all!" Zuo Le sighed secretly, and then slowly closed his eyes.
Zuo Le still has a good impression of Qin Ziling, especially when he rescued and took in Liu Xiaoqiang, which made him look at him secretly. Unfortunately, Qin Ziling is not a martial arts material.
It took him nearly three years to break through to the skin realm, but he had almost exhausted all his potential and luck. After reaching the skin realm, there was almost no progress.
"Brother, prepare two Xuanhan Iron Chicken Secret Pills and ten portions of medicinal powder for me later." Qin Ziling returned to the martial arts training ground, found Zheng Xinghan and whispered.
"Zi Ling, if you don't worry about the long term, you will have immediate worries. You still need to save as much money as possible to prepare for emergencies." Zheng Xinghan hesitated after hearing this and reminded him kindly.
In fact, the amount of secret pills and potions purchased by Qin Ziling in the past three months is quite large. In Zheng Xinghan's opinion, he must have worked hard to make money in the past three months, and then used all the money earned to buy secret pills and potions.
, in order to achieve a breakthrough.
But the problem is that Zuo Le can see clearly that Zheng Xinghan is an iron-level martial arts disciple and practices martial arts with Qin Ziling. It can be seen that his energy and blood have not changed much. It is not difficult to guess that Qin Ziling is not a martial arts material. He is now
He spent all the money he earned on martial arts training. If something happened in the future and he had no savings at all, he would end up with the same tragic fate as Liu Xiaoqiang.
"Thank you, senior brother, I understand." Qin Ziling said.
"What do you understand? You understand! Okay, I will prepare it for you later. By the way, the guy from the 'Hua Yun' gouache and rouge shop came to see you in the past two days and asked you to take some time to go there."
Qin Ziling didn't listen to his words at all, Zheng Xinghan said angrily.
"Okay, I'll go there at noon." Qin Ziling nodded and replied, thinking that after using people's money to eliminate disasters, he still had to work.
"Breakthrough! Brother Nangong, you actually broke through, it's so amazing!" As soon as Qin Ziling finished speaking, Wu Cheng's exclamation rang out from the training ground.
Nangong Yue came from a superior family and was a talented inner court disciple. He was highly valued by Zuo Le, so he naturally gained some close disciples in the martial arts school.
Wu Cheng is considered to be Nangong Yue's most loyal and confidant in the martial arts school. As for whether he is sincere or not, no one knows, but at least on the surface Wu Cheng is Nangong Yue's lackey.
"What, Nangong Yue actually made a breakthrough!" The whole martial arts hall suddenly became agitated. Even Zuo Le, who was sitting under the shade of a tree, suddenly stood up and strode towards Nangong Yue with uncontrollable excitement.
"Here, this Junior Brother Nangong is really a genius in martial arts. After four months of practicing martial arts, he broke through to the realm of skin. He only spent six months polishing and tempering at the level of cowhide, and he actually broke through to the level of iron. It seems that no surprise, he is very likely to be able to
Become the second powerful martial artist in our martial arts school." Zheng Xinghan said with a complicated expression after hearing this.
From the experience left over by the predecessors for many years, three years is usually the limit for training muscles and muscles to reach the skin membrane realm. Those who have not broken through to the skin membrane realm after three years of hard training basically have no talent for martial arts training. Even if they barely break through to the skin membrane realm later, they basically have no talent.
The potential has been exhausted, it is only at the cowhide level, and it is unlikely to break through to the iron skin level.
After reaching the cowhide level, there is a threshold between five years and twenty-five years. Within five years, if the age is no more than twenty-five years old, if you break through to the iron skin level, you can hope to break through to a powerful martial artist. The shorter the time, the older you are.
The smaller, the greater the hope.
As for the Iron Skin level, once the age reaches thirty years old, the Qi and blood begin to decline, and there is basically no hope of reaching the realm of strength.
It took Zheng Xinghan three years to break through from cowhide to ironhide. At that time, he was twenty-two years old and his energy and blood were surging. However, no matter how hard he tried after that, he failed to develop his strength after many attacks. Now he is thirty-two years old.
Years old, there is basically no hope anymore.
But Nangong Yue only took six months to break through from cowhide to ironhide, and he is only seventeen years old this year. This means that he is not only extremely talented, but also has a lot of time to reach the realm of strength, and there is great hope.
"It's really amazing!" Qin Ziling said calmly, without showing any shock or uneasiness.
"You should be more careful with him in the future. If it doesn't work out, I'll be the peacemaker and you apologize to him." Seeing Qin Ziling's calm look, Zheng Xinghan frowned slightly, hesitated and patted Qin Ziling's face.