Lu Cheng met Kong He again and saw him sitting in the open space beside the spiritual field to rest, so he walked over and chatted with him for a few words.
"Brother Kong, your tendons look enviable. What level is your skill at?"
Kong He had a cheerful personality and laughed loudly: "I worked for a year and got two hundred jade coins, so I went to Jiuwu Hall to learn a mental method, and then practiced for a year and a half, and I just advanced to the second level of Xiantian.
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"So, you have advanced to innate status right after you came here?"
"Of course! If you are not innate, you will not be favored by the Spirit Witch!"
"Where are you from?"
"I'm a local."
Lu Cheng was a little surprised: "Are you from the Jiu tribe? Are you still a servant?"
Kong He smiled: "Don't be surprised. The Jiu people are also divided into different levels. There are castes. There are also royal families, nobles, upper, middle and lower families, as well as the Li people who have no clans and no surnames. I belong to the lower tribe, which is better than the Li people.
Son, it is already a great blessing to be your servant."
Lu Cheng asked: "Brother Kong, I'm new here and don't understand anything. Can you tell me about the situation in Witch Fort so that I can gain some experience?" As he said that, he took out a peach and gave it to him.
"Oh, I..." Kong He laughed dryly, stretched out his hand to take the peach, and said: "Even though I have been here for two and a half years, I actually don't know much. Let me just talk about it casually. There are two spirits in the Witch Castle.
The warriors and the seven great witches. They all have their own courtyards. The spiritual warriors live in the east of the witch castle, while the great witches live in the west."
Lu Cheng said: "I have seen a spiritual warrior named 'Jing Pan'. What is the name of the other one?"
Kong He replied: "The other one is called 'Zhu Sheng'. He is older and rarely comes out. He sits in the Witch Fort all year round."
"Brother Kong, have you ever been to the Witch Castle?"
"Never went in."
"What do these spiritual warriors and great witches do besides practicing? Do they recruit apprentices? Do they teach kung fu publicly during the holidays?"
"They recruit apprentices. They make them work and serve them for a few years, and then they teach them kung fu when they are happy. Every time they teach them in secret, how can they make it public?"
"Servants like us have worked hard for a year, do we have any holidays?"
"What's the hard work? Watering once every three days, cultivating the soil once every thirty days. What's a little troublesome is that you have to patrol every day to see if there are any pests. There is a lot of time left, you can do whatever you want. If you want to practice, practice.
If you want to play in the city, go and play. Let me tell you, there are some interesting places in the city, not only Jiuwu Hall, Shaman Temple, but also various shops. If you have jade coins, you can also buy a female slave...
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At this point, he laughed "hehe": "I remember, you have a maidservant from the fox tribe. You have the vision to lead the fox girl through the wilderness and pay a big price, right? Do you know? Here
Fox girls can also be bought and sold, at least 400 jade coins are required!"
Lu Cheng hummed: "Only 400 jade coins? I owe the merchant 1,000 jade coins!"
"Then you are miserable! You will never be able to pay it back in your lifetime!"
"Don't worry, at most it's just selling yourself. Now aren't you still working as a servant?"
"That's different! Being a servant of a spiritual witch and a great wizard will get you 200 jade coins a year; being a slave of a merchant is like working like a cow or a horse, and you won't even get a single jade coin!"
"Brother Kong, take care of the spiritual field like we do. Is there any reward for doing a good job?"
"No. You should take good care of it; if something happens, you will be punished."
"Then what chance do we have to get ahead?"
"Practice hard and improve your realm! Innate three levels, five levels, and seven levels, the treatment at each level is different; if you become a spiritual warrior, you will have complete freedom to go wherever you want."
"Aren't Jingma and Tsukumori just naturally talented? Why don't they want to leave?"
"I guess I'm asking for some kind of magic pill, sir."
The two sat on the ground and chatted for a long time. In the end, Kong He said with a smile: "Wu Kuang, if you are unable to take care of the spiritual field, I can help you! Take care of it for ten days, one jade coin! One hundred days,
Ten jade coins! How about it?"
Lu Cheng said: "Is there such a way to play it? Your Excellency, won't you blame me?"
Kong He said: "My lord, I don't care about this. You have sworn an oath as a witch servant, so don't even think about escaping."
Walking back to the cabin from the spiritual field, Lu Cheng roughly understood: "Wubao's management of servants is very loose. As long as you finish the work you should do, you can do whatever you want with the rest of the time. Wu Luo said to let people take care of them.
I went to the Witch Temple to take the exam, maybe it was just a polite comment. If you still don’t come after a while, then I will go and give it a try myself."
The next morning, Qingmei went to the city again.
She came back in the afternoon and brought a half-foot-tall yellow gourd.
"Brother, there are 30 'Longwei Pills' in the gourd. I asked several stores, and they all said that this kind of elixir is most suitable for monks with a third level of innateness and below."
Lu Cheng nodded slightly and said: "The entire spine is like a dragon, and the coccyx and sacrum are equivalent to the dragon's tail. The main ingredient of this 'dragon tail pill' is the abdominal plate of the black turtle. How do you sell this pill?"
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"10 jade coins each."
"That means there are creatures like black turtles in the territory of the Jiu tribe, and there are quite a lot of them."
Lu Cheng opened the gourd, poured out one and swallowed it.
The spiritual energy released in the elixir is not too intense, but it is continuous. One elixir can last for three days. It is equivalent to 60 days of hard work.
Lu Cheng praised Qingmei and then said: "Next time you go to the city, ask if there is 'Wuzhi powder' and buy some."
Qingmei asked: "What is 'Wuzhi San'?"
"It's an elixir for cultivating the Qi of the five internal organs." He wanted to take some back to Jiang Qiuyun.
"Oh." Qingmei agreed without asking further questions.
Another day passed, Qingmei brought back a small package of "Wuzhi Powder", which was a cyan powder wrapped in cowhide. The store told her that this Wuzhi Powder uses five kinds of Ganoderma, each of which targets a specific organ.
The price is not cheap. Such a bag weighs less than half a catty and costs two hundred jade coins.
Lu Cheng put "Wuzhi Powder" into the jade ring.
Qingmei said: "Brother, I went to the city this time and met an elder of the Fox Clan."
"Oh? What kind of elder?"
"She is a spirit warrior. She followed a spirit witch as a concubine. Later, the spirit witch encountered a disaster and died. She opened a shop in the city, mainly selling animal skins and elixirs."
"Why doesn't she go back to Qingqiu Country?"
"Brother, you don't know, she gave birth to a daughter with the spirit witch. The fox tribe and the human tribe usually don't have children when they are together. Unless there is a true love, there will be a boy and a girl. The child neither belongs to the human race nor to the human race.
The fox tribe is equivalent to the 'half-demon'. They must practice to a certain level or take a special elixir to become like the human race."
Qingmei was afraid that he wouldn't understand, so she further explained: "If you are a pure fox clan, it will take two to three hundred years of practice to transform into a human form. But if you are a half-demon, you only need to practice for 50 years."
"I see. What is your senior's name?"
"Her name is Liju."
"Very good. You can walk around with her more and ask her for advice. If there are fresh tiger skins, bear skins, and mink skins in her store, you can buy some back."
"I know."
Lu Cheng gave her some more jade coins and asked her to put them away.
Qingmei was puzzled and didn't know where he got the jade coins, but she didn't dare to ask.
Lu Cheng looked at her and said: "I have some secrets that cannot be told to outsiders. You have to keep my secrets. No matter what you see or what you think, you cannot tell others, not even your elders. Follow me well, and I will not only teach you
The runes will also help you become a spiritual warrior. If you are lucky, you may become a heavenly warrior one day!"
"Brother, I remember it. Before I met you, my grandma told me to pick a young man and follow him till death. He would forget Qingqiu Country and don't go back until he cultivates the seven-tailed fox."<
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"How many tails is the equivalent of a spiritual warrior?"
"Four or five tails."
"So, the Tianwu Master is equivalent to the Six-Tails or the Seven-Tails?"
"Yeah."
"After this calculation, the nine-tailed fox is equivalent to the Witch King?"