Early the next morning, when Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai woke up, Yihuai had already left.
But before he left, the old monk placed a piece of paper beside Huang Donglai's pillow, with a small wooden box the size of a palm pressed on the paper.
Huang Donglai first picked up the paper and took a look at it. There were only a few words on it - "Five years of skills have been passed down harmoniously. To repay the favor of a meal, rare treasures from the Western Regions are given to people from the East. They are given to those who are destined. The road to the world is far away. In the future,
goodbye."
Although he didn't say much, the meaning was quite clear.
After Huang Donglai read it, he looked at Sun Yixie and said, "This is a real profit. Five years of skill, Brother Sun."
"Oh? He taught me the exercises while I was sleeping?" Sun Yixie asked suspiciously, "Why don't I feel anything?"
Huang Donglai said: "Nonsense, you sleep like a dead pig. I'll probably slap you five times and you won't feel anything."
"Get lost!" Although Sun Yixie said the word "get lost", he did not refute the fact that he slept like a dead pig. Instead, he continued, "Just treat it as if he really passed it on. How come it's only been five years?
?If I don’t develop my skills for fifty years, it’s still called repaying a favor?”
"Brother Sun, are you a human?" Huang Donglai immediately complained, "If you ask for all the skills of a person for a favor, then the villagers of Nanyuan Village who were saved by you will have to work as cattle and horses for you?
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"What you said... seems a bit exaggerated..." Sun Yixie said, "But in the novels I read before, after the protagonist meets such an awesome grandpa, the grandpa only needs to feel that he is very close to the protagonist.
If you fall in love with each other, you will give everything you have to him."
"Brother Sun, you should learn a few more words when you have time, and don't look at those messy things." Huang Donglai said.
"Tch..." Sun Yixie curled his lips and quickly changed the subject, "Okay, okay, stop talking about me, let's take a look at what's in the box I gave you."
Huang Donglai shrugged and opened the small wooden box in his hand.
There was only one thing in the box - an egg-shaped, brown ball with a texture like glue.
"Preserved egg?" Sun Yixie took a closer look and blurted out these two words.
"Mao's preserved egg!" Huang Donglai said, "People say it is a 'rare treasure from the Western Regions'. How could it be a preserved egg?"
"Damn, it looks like it to me." Sun Yixie said, "Then what do you think it is? The relic that fell from the body of a certain lama who was hacked to death by him?"
"Brother Sun, do you think the relics are gallstones? Even if you chop the person into pieces, they won't fall out." Huang Dong said, then frowned and looked at the thing, and said thoughtfully, "Hiss--it's nothing.
You said that the relic gave me some inspiration, I guess this may be the inner elixir produced by some kind of animal."
"Mao!" Sun Yixi said, "You have read too many cultivation novels, right? Are you a fairy? Are you still forming elixirs?"
"Oh, you don't understand. There are indeed some." Huang Donglai explained to him, "When I was a child, I saw something similar in the alchemy room at home. It was taken out of a giant anaconda. They called it a 'water dragon'.
Eggs'; materials like this, combined with some other ingredients and refined using special techniques, can be used to refine the 'outer elixir' for human consumption."
"Then what happens if you eat the 'Waidan'?" Sun Yixie asked again.
"Some can make people not afraid of the cold in winter, some can make people gain tolerance to toxins, and some can directly increase their power." Huang Donglai said, "But the more powerful the 'Waitan', the more substrate it needs. The harder it is to get it, I even heard a legend - if you can use 'dragon liver and phoenix marrow' as the base, you can make the elixir of immortality."
"Forget it." Sun Yixie said in a dismissive tone, "Anyone who can dig out the liver of a dragon and knock out the marrow of a phoenix is already a god, right? Do you still need a hairy elixir?"
"I've already said that it's a 'legend', and it's probably a lie." Huang Donglai also said, "Where in the world do dragons and phoenixes come from? I think someone drank two more cups after eating snake mixed chicken in a hot pot, and made this nonsense. of."
Gu——
Before Huang Donglai finished speaking, Sun Yixie's stomach suddenly rumbled.
"Look." Sun Yixie spread his hands and said, "In this barren mountainous area, we only have steamed buns, why do you insist on bringing up some snake and chicken pots?"
"Who the hell caused us to spend the night in this barren mountain?" Huang Donglai said, "If you follow my official path, won't you be able to go to the inn to drink and eat meat?"
"Haha..." Sun Yixie sneered, "If I hadn't suggested taking the mountain road, would I have obtained those five years of skill? Could you have obtained your preserved egg from the Western Regions?"
After he mentioned this, Huang Donglai remembered: "Hey, by the way, Brother Sun, you have gained five years of martial arts, so your martial arts should have improved a lot. Why don't you give it a try."
"Ha! That's what I had in mind." Sun Yixie was also very happy at this moment. "The place here is narrow, I'll try it outside." As he said that, he walked outside the Buddhist hall.
So, Huang Donglai followed him to the small courtyard of the ruined temple and watched Sun Yixie perform high jump, long jump, back and forth running, and punching stone pillars...
Originally, Sun Yixie's character was incapable of punching Shi Dunzi, but because he found that his physical strength increased greatly while jumping and running, he thought he was "invincible" again, so he tried it aggressively. try.
As a result, he almost broke his hand bone...
Fortunately, he is still a fearful and timid person at his core, and he is reserved when punching. Otherwise, he would have to attend the meeting with one hand in Luoyang this time.
Of course, this experiment was not meaningless, at least it allowed them to confirm that Yihuai's "passing on skills" to Sun Yixie was successful.
You must know that not long ago, Sun Yixie was an ordinary person with blocked meridians and could not accept the teaching of Qigong. But now, he has only practiced for a month, and his body can already withstand the internal force; it seems... then " "The Mind Technique of Reversing the Universe" is really amazing and definitely belongs to the superior martial arts.
In addition, this also proves that the value of what Huang Donglai obtained is at least not less than "five years of skill".
In fact, just as Huang Donglai had guessed before, the "preserved egg" Yihuai gave him was a kind of alchemy material called "Xie Dan"; Yihuai also got this by chance while traveling around. Although He knew the value of this thing very well, but leaving it on him was indeed of no use.
Last night, Yihuai happened to meet Huang Donglai, a descendant of the Huangmen. He felt that this might be God's arrangement, so he gave the things as a favor.
If we really want to say which one is more valuable, this "Xie Gu" or five years of skill? Then I'm afraid the former has much greater potential. It depends on how Huang Donglai uses it in the future.
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After testing Brother Sun's martial arts, Sun and Huang had some breakfast, then led their horses and set off.
For the two people who are used to sleeping in beds, sleeping on the ground last night not only did not relieve their fatigue, but also gave them backaches. Therefore, their walking speed today was much slower than when they entered the mountains yesterday, but fortunately...
Today is basically downhill, which is relatively less tiring.
After walking and stopping until it was almost dusk, they finally came to a section of terrain where they could ride horses. Now, their speed could be accelerated.
The two of them galloped their horses and whips, ran out of the mountain, followed a path, and arrived at a small village.
There is a shop at the entrance of the village and a small shop for eating, but there is no inn, so the two of them can only stay at a fellow villager's house; of course, it is not difficult to stay overnight... just spend a little money.
There are also things to pay attention to when giving money: not too little, otherwise people will sprinkle dirt into the water you drink; not too much, otherwise people may have evil intentions to harm you if you reveal your wealth... The money must be just right.
Go a little higher than the other person's inner expectations, so that you can eat well, drink well, and live well.
Huang Donglai didn't know much about these things, but Sun Yixie knew it very well. After all, he had been dealing with a bunch of unruly people in the fish market all these years. He knew the mentality of these ordinary people best - human nature is complex and kind.
Sometimes there is just a thin line between simplicity and stupidity.
After a night of silence, they set off again the next day.
Following the road pointed out to them by the villagers, the two quickly returned to the official road and rode fast.
On this day, they walked around the East Lake and went through the gate. Before dark, they arrived at a village called Chenjiacun at the foot of "Ant Mountain".
As soon as they arrived at the village entrance, they saw a group of villagers holding torches, blowing and beating, and came out of the village in a mighty manner.
The two men reined in their horses and took a look. In the center of the team, they saw four big men carrying a small sedan without a roof. There was actually a girl dressed in black with a black cloth covering her head sitting on the sedan. They didn't know it either.
When the sun sets, she is dressed like this...where is she going to be sent?
It would be fine if Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai came a little later and couldn't see this scene, but since they had seen it, they would naturally go and inquire about it.
This leads to the story - Sun Yixie performed three plays to overpower the sea dragon, and Huang Donglai made a big fuss in the Dragon King's Cave.