After the dinner, Oda Heizang prepared a separate courtyard for Zhou Ming to live in, and arranged for a maid to serve him. He was very considerate and caring.
It's a pity that Oda Heizo's arrangement was like a blind cat meeting a dead mouse. Zhou Ming's first order after moving into the other courtyard was to tell the maids to go to bed and not to enter his room.
Then, he started his daily practice.
First, absorb a soul crystal to increase the strength of your soul by one person. Now it is the strength of sixteen people.
Then use grass mango Gu to increase your strength.
Almost all the Gu insects that can add strength to the Gu Master basically have one drawback, that is, when adding strength to the Gu Master, they will be accompanied by a strong sense of pain.
And the more obvious the effect of increasing strength is, the more intense the pain will be.
For example, Gu masters who take the ancient power path often use animal power Gu to increase their strength, such as bear power Gu, wolf power Gu, horse power Gu, etc., which can increase the power of a bear, a wolf, a horse...
The strengthening of the Gu Master's body by these powerful Gu worms is not achieved overnight, and needs to be gradually improved several times.
But even so, the effect of the ancient animal power Gu is stronger than the Jinli Gu and Junli Gu that are popular in Beiyuan today, so the pain is much stronger than the Jinli Gu.
Although Cao Mang Gu is not a strength Gu, it still increases the strength of the Gu Master. It is still accompanied by strong pain and needs to be strengthened multiple times.
If you do it too hastily, you will only go too far and the pain will become stronger and stronger until the Gu Master's body can no longer bear it, and he may even die of pain!
At this moment, the Grass Gu was suspended above Zhou Ming's head, emitting a faint green light and illuminating Zhou Ming's body.
Zhou Ming sat cross-legged, his muscles all over his body were trembling uncontrollably, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he endured waves of pain.
After a while, the pain began to become more severe and unbearable. Zhou Ming knew that he had reached his limit and quickly withdrew the grass Gu.
After wiping his sweat, Zhou Ming exhaled softly.
"It will take about twenty days to strengthen the grass mango Gu."
"The growth of my own strength is probably the limit when I reach this level at the second level. Unless I am willing to use Iron Bone Gu and Copper Skin Gu, which can change the physique, to increase the upper limit of the body's strength."
"But in that case, if the strength mark is engraved on the body, it will interfere with the wood mark, which will not be beautiful."
"As for the Mu Dao Gu that can change the physique, although there are some, they are not as common as the Grass Gu. We can only look for them slowly in the future."
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A night of silence.
In the next few days, Oda Heizo was not in a hurry to leave for Kyoto to attend the World's Best Samurai Conference, and even rarely appeared in front of Zhou Ming.
It was as if he had forgotten Zhou Ming, and was completely indifferent to Zhou Ming, completely losing his previous enthusiasm.
On the other hand, Matsui Yoshinobu, the personal samurai around Oda Heizo, came to see Zhou Ming every day, took him around Koriyama City, and accompanied him throughout the whole process, and the two quickly became familiar with each other.
Although Oda Heizo never showed up, Zhou Ming was never in a hurry and practiced step by step every day to improve his strength.
It's just that the so-called beautiful scenery and delicious food in Koriyama Castle are really not worth mentioning in Zhou Ming's opinion. Rather than visiting Koriyama Castle, it is more of a refreshment after practicing.
After all, the combined age of Zhou Ming's two generations was only over thirty years old, and he was far from the kind of old monsters who had lived for hundreds of years, with a heart that was as calm as water, and that had no desire for love.
Moreover, in addition to appreciating the local customs and customs of Koriyama City, Zhou Ming also had another thing to do.
In Koriyama Castle, martial arts schools such as Takeuchi Danishui and Oishigami Fengryu cannot be said to be widespread, but they are by no means rare. If you count carefully, there are dozens of schools, large and small, some strong and some weak, and their levels vary.
On the third day, Zhou Ming could no longer resist the urge to take action and visited three dojos in a row.
But this time he did not kill again. With Matsui Xiexin accompanying him, every dojo did not dare to neglect his arrival in the slightest, and Zhou Ming was not allowed to go crazy and kill people randomly.
The consequence of this is that both sides will not try their best in the competition with the opponent. If Zhou Ming defeats the opponent, the martial arts experience gained will be reduced accordingly.
The timid fight was not pleasant at all, so just two days later, Zhou Ming stopped this farce-like martial arts game and asked Matsui Xiexin if there were any famous bandits nearby.
As soon as Matsui Xiexin heard this, he guessed what Zhou Ming was going to do. He was shocked and shook his head repeatedly, saying that he knew nothing.
Seeing his firm attitude, Zhou Ming knew that he definitely didn't want him to leave Koriyama City to avoid being blamed by Oda Heizo.
Unable to get an answer from Matsui Xiexin, Zhou Ming did not force him and decided to find a way to find out about the matter on his own.
Unexpectedly, Matsui Xiexin came to him the next day and truthfully told him all the information about the bandits near Koriyama Castle.
Zhou Ming knew that Matsui Xiexin was instructed by Oda Heizang, so he secretly laughed in his heart and did not expose him, so he left the city alone that day.
Matsui Xiexin still wanted to follow, but how could he follow him? He was out of sight within two streets.
Time is like water in a sponge, it flows away as soon as you squeeze it.
In the blink of an eye, Zhou Ming has been in this world for ten days.
A very interesting change also occurred during this period.
Oda Heizang was indifferent to Zhou Ming's attitude from the beginning, and when Zhou Ming left the city for several days and did not come back, he became anxious and sent people over and over again to look for Zhou Ming and ask him to come back.
Zhou Ming is enjoying killing bandits now, so he doesn't have time to pay attention to him.
The most important goal for him is always to improve his strength. Apart from that, the so-called social interaction and the so-called etiquette are all meaningless things.
How long can he stay in this world?
After leaving this world, I estimate that I will never meet people like Oda Heizo again in this life. What's the point of pretending and maintaining those false relationships?
It wasn't until this day that Oda Heizo made it clear that he wanted to go to Kyoto with him, that Zhou Ming reluctantly took a break from the promising job of exterminating bandits and returned to Koriyama City.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The next day, Oda Heizang couldn't wait to prepare his car, and with a team of thirty people, he set foot on the road to Kyoto with Zhou Ming.
Koriyama Castle is about 700 miles away from Kyoto. A team of 30 people, walking and horse-drawn, only have to walk about 50 miles a day, and it takes more than ten days just to travel on the road.
This is the best situation where there are no accidents along the way, no bandits are encountered, and the road is normal and not damaged, and the journey is safe.
However, since Oda Heizo made such arrangements, he must have calculated his time well and would not be late because he wasted too much time on the road.
Zhou Ming had no objection. His strength was still improving every day, so he would not let go of such an opportunity.
When he arrived in Kyoto, the World's Best Samurai Tournament began, and what awaited him was constant fighting. It was a luxury to imagine that he could slowly accumulate, digest and improve his strength in such a leisurely manner.
Fortunately, this journey was not boring.
Thanks to Nohara Momonosuke's shitty ability to govern the world and his brutal rule, the Tosho Island Kingdom seems to be unified, but in fact it still respects the common master and operates independently.
The daimyo were domineering in their own territory, exploiting and oppressing, ruthlessly extorting human lives, expropriating taxes and extorting money, causing the common people to suffer, bandits running rampant, killing people and stealing goods, creating a chaotic scene all over the place.
Among the several bandit gangs that Zhou Ming was purging around Junshan City these days, many of them were villagers who could not survive. They had no choice but to turn into bandits, turning from being plundered into plunderers.
On the way to Kyoto, such bandit groups are also not uncommon.
Whether it is a rolling carriage, a luxurious guard team, or a carriage full of supplies, they all tell the bandits along the way that this is a piece of fat meat.
So, the bandits who heard the news rushed forward one after another, and then rushed forward one after another... to die.
How could a group of bandits composed mostly of refugees, half of them with sallow faces and skinny muscles, be able to defeat samurai who were well fed, well-fed, and practiced martial arts diligently?
What's more, Zhou Ming is still in charge.
Zhou Ming would not even be qualified to take action against a bandit gang with less than fifty people. Zhou Ming would only take action when there were too many people and the warriors would be easily attrited, or when a master appeared.
Then there was a massacre.
The number of bandits he encountered along the way was beyond Zhou Ming's expectation, so much so that he regretted why he didn't prepare a Soul Burying Toad or similar Gu insect in advance to collect the souls of the dead.