As usual, one evening, after finishing the day's chores, Shen Xiu rushed to the back kitchen of the martial arts hall to bring back a jar of medicine dregs for his Nine Transformations Golden Cicada.
However, it unexpectedly came up short.
"The medicine residue is gone again?" Looking at the empty clay pots in the house, Shen Xiu was a little surprised and a little puzzled.
This is already the third time he has failed.
Something unprecedented.
After all, most of these refined medicinal residues have no effect. The only use is to be transported to medicinal gardens outside the city and used as fertilizer for cultivation.
I cleaned up very regularly before, but it seems like I have cleaned up a little early in the past two days.
"Pull...pull away..."
In the back kitchen, there was only a dark-skinned young man cleaning up. When he saw Shen Xiu asking, he spoke with some inarticulate speech, then turned around and continued to clean the floor.
Shen Xiu didn't get the medicine dregs and didn't care. After all, the Nine Transformations Golden Cicada is also an immortal existence, so it doesn't matter if he's been hungry for ten or eight days.
Not this time, I’ll make it up later.
Thinking of these, Shen Xiu turned around and left. Halfway through the walk, he suddenly recalled the strange behavior of the dark boy and the scene where the corners of his mouth seemed to be darker.
He thought of a possibility.
"No way..."
My predecessor has already taken the dregs of medicine and died a martyrdom. Is there anyone else who would try this?
But then he thought about it and felt that something was not right. The amount of medicine residue that so many disciples could consume in one day could not be said to be enough for a cart of four or five barrels.
This is not something one person can eat.
What Shen Xiu was thinking was that he couldn't figure out where all the good drug scum had gone.
Then Shen Xiu later discovered that it was not just one person who was taking the medicine residue, but many people were taking it.
He was immediately dumbfounded.
Then he discovered that Wang Si, who had persuaded him before, was eating these medicinal residues with residual poison.
"Wang Si, are you taking those dregs of medicine? I told you not to eat those dregs of medicine. Have you forgotten how I fainted almost a year ago?"
In the courtyard, Shen Xiu looked at Wang Si and said.
He suddenly felt that his words were familiar, as if he had heard similar words.
"Then what do you do in the home every morning?"
Shen Xiu was speechless, and after talking for a while, he learned that the recent rumors came from unknown sources, saying that his rapid progress in practicing the technique of subduing the dragon and subduing the tiger was due to the sudden consumption of the dregs of the medicine.
At first, no one believed this rumor, but it turned out that guy was also born with a special talent, and he suddenly had a breakthrough after taking the dregs of medicine for a few days.
Then he remembered that it was due to the dregs of the medicine. Shen Xiu was quite speechless about this. He had the Nine Transformations Golden Cicada, and they also had it. Aren't they afraid of eating him to death?
But they were all running to die, and Shen Xiu couldn't stop them.
He could only persuade Wang Si, and he didn't know whether he would steal the medicine dregs and eat it again, but it was only one month before the assessment day, so even if they all took it, it should be no big deal.
It's not as fierce as its predecessor, and it lasts for several months.
As the time for the assessment approaches, Jinhong Martial Arts Hall issued an announcement that this time it will only recruit five disciples among the handymen, which means that only the top five who meet the requirements will have a chance.
The news that the number was twice as low as in previous years also aroused excitement among the handyman disciples. There are more than fifty or sixty handyman disciples in the martial arts hall, including the older generation of handyman disciples.
Taking the first five in this way greatly reduces the probability.
After this news was sent out, it caused an uproar among the handyman disciples. Unknowingly, the atmosphere among the handyman disciples became tense and gradually escalated.
There are a few more Kung Fu fanatics practicing day and night. There are also many people in the dining hall who are spending their savings and eating several cans of Monster Boosting Soup.
Just because of this opportunity, the next time will be in half a year.
Anyway, they are trying their best to improve their own strength.
Chen Xiu was not impatient, because no matter how much they mentioned it, he had no chance of improvement. He had also observed other handyman disciples for such a long time, and there should not be that many who were similar in strength to him.
As for the promotion quota for registered disciples, that is calculated separately.
The golden crow is born, and the sun fills the earth.
Shen Xiu stood in the courtyard wearing a short robe, practicing the technique of subduing the dragon and subduing the tiger one by one.
Big beads of sweat rolled off his body like oil beads.
Now more than two months have passed, and his body muscles have become more plump, he has grown a bit taller, and his figure has become more slender and straight.
After practicing the technique once, Chen Xiu slowly exhaled a breath of white air and opened the panel light curtain.
[Host: Chen Xiu]
[Cultivation: The Lower Realm of Body Forging]
[Talent: God rewards hard work]
【Exercise:▼】
[The Art of Subduing the Dragon and Subduing the Tiger: A slight success rate of 12.8% in the three realms]
[Clone: Nine Transformations Golden Cicada (one transformation, satiety 15.3%)]
He once again practiced the technique of subduing the dragon and subduing the tiger to the third level, and became more comfortable in using it. There were no surprises in the formal disciple examination a few days later.
……
On August 19th, the Jinhong Martial Arts School disciples’ assessment.
As the time came, Shen Xiu and Wang Si followed other disciples to the center of the practice ground, where a martial arts stage was being built.
In the center of the martial arts stage, there is a huge stone pillar that is completely black and cannot be seen. It feels a bit strange.
Those who come to participate in the official disciple assessment, the handyman disciples and those registered disciples will be surrounded by people around the martial arts performance stage.
Shen Xiu squeezed into the front line because he was strong enough.
Through the mouths of those well-informed registered disciples, I learned what kind of power stone is on the martial arts stage. The assessment rules for formal disciples are also different from previous years.
It is no longer about passing a test, then moving up step by step, and comparing yourself.
Instead, it is a direct test of physical fitness.
The specific reason is that their deputy director, Xiang Shou, was tired of seeing these handy disciples and the novices pecking at each other with the registered disciples.
And directly put the Liming Stone Pillar obtained from Fucheng Shanglin City.
This power sounding stone is said to be able to sense the strength of the attacker and make a sound. The louder the sound and the more times it occurs, the stronger the attacker is.
From this point of view, as long as the tester hits a blow with all his strength, the tester's strength will be shown.
As time goes by, the surrounding crowd seems to be gradually agitated. After all, as long as you come to participate, you will probably be surrounded by competitors.
The registered disciples were fine. The handyman disciple Shen Xiu took a general look and felt that most of the disciples had already participated, and many of them were dissatisfied with each other.
These restlessness disappeared with the final appearance of the five teachers in the martial arts gym and the deputy gym leader Xiang Shou.
He has a strong body, moves like a dragon and moves like a tiger, and carries an inexplicable powerful momentum when he walks. As he walks through the crowd, the disciples feel as if they hear some low thunder.
The bones carry the sound of tiger and leopard thunder, which is a significant sign of bone cutting in the Three Realms.
Xiang Shou, who was in retreat after Yang Jinhong, the leader of the gym, attacked the four realms and returned to Tibet, and handed over many things to the deputy master of the gym, is now the gold medal fighter of Jinhong Martial Arts.