"Practice fifteen times a day, and it will take thirty years to complete. In other words... it will take about thirty years for me to become an innate martial artist..."
Seeing this line of handwriting, Wei Tu's expression was both complicated and happy.
The complicated thing is——
The previous health-preserving skills only lasted five years, but this time the "Marrow Training Sutra" lasted thirty years.
And his age at the moment is only twenty-two years old.
To my delight——
As long as he practices step by step, he will have a high probability of becoming an innate martial artist after the age of fifty-two. By then, he will be able to extend his life to two hundred years.
Innate martial arts masters who are over fifty years old are still among the young generation even in Zheng State.
Otherwise, when Xue Du, the elder of Wu Yun Tower, won over him, he wouldn't have offered him a price to become an innate martial artist before he was fifty.
"The plan can't keep up with the changes..."
"You can only become an innate martial artist after the age of fifty, so the heir of me and Xinghua will have to be put on the agenda."
Wei Tu sighed secretly.
After he turned fifty, he succeeded in extending his life and was still a strong "young man", but the same could not be said for Xinghua.
Thirty years later, Xinghua will be nearly sixty years old. Even if she wants to give birth, she will not be able to give birth.
Even though he may have to endure the pain of a white-haired person giving birth to a black-haired person after having an heir, he can't... miss Xinghua and deny Xinghua the chance to raise a child.
Wait until Xinghua grows old.
The child is the only sustenance for him and Xinghua.
"From now on, if my children cannot practice martial arts, I still have grandchildren, so there is no need to stick to this."
Wei Tu made up his mind.
You can't just stop having children just because the child may be "incompetent" in the future.
With his current status, it is enough to provide his children with a prosperous and stable life.
Thinking of this, Wei Tu got up and stopped meditating. He walked out of the practice room, drew a bucket of well water, washed his body clean, then entered the living room and got into Xinghua's bed.
"Brother Wei, there is a new fish maw that I bought today in the kitchen..." Xinghua's cheeks turned red, her voice trembled slightly, she pushed Wei Tu beside her and reminded.
"We won't need this anymore."
"Including pig urine bubbles."
Wei Tu is decisive.
"Brother Wei, have you figured it out?" Xinghua suddenly beamed with joy when she heard this.
She and Wei Tu have been married for nearly five years, but there has been no movement in her stomach. She has been secretly laughed at by her neighbors several times, including Caixia, who privately reminded her to go to a traditional Chinese medicine clinic to get some birth control pills.
However.
In fact,
She was in trouble.
In the past five years, it's not that she doesn't want children, but Wei Tu has always said to wait.
The two have been using pig urine bubbles and fish bladders as contraceptive methods.
Fortunately, after today, she doesn't have to wait anymore.
…
The situation is the same as Wei Tu's guess.
Less than a month after he returned to the county seat from Sanyuan Township, the Xiangjun Yamen issued a military order to attack the Wuyunlou branch.
This time, it was an urgent military order, ordering the soldiers to be mobilized to march out within half a day, without any mistakes, and those who failed to do so would be killed.
Wei Tu and Wei Fei were the last martial arts scholars due to their high martial arts skills, and they were both recruited by the Xiangjun Yamen.
then.
At three o'clock in the evening, a group of hundreds of Xiang army elites, under the command of Lieutenant Xu County, filed out from the gate of the county town and ran all night.
"These soldiers seem to be elite, but they have no combat experience. I'm afraid they will suffer big losses when they come to the battlefield..."
"Governor Wang is just talking on paper..."
On the way, Wei Fei and Wei Tu rode horses side by side. He glanced at the soldiers marching behind them, shook his head and said.
The number of Xiang troops in Qingshan County is probably more than 3,000 in the account book, but the actual number is only more than 1,000.
Most of these more than 1,000 people became peddlers and pawns because of low rations and lack of pay for the Xiang army, and found other ways to make a living in the county.
This time, the military order to mobilize soldiers came in such a hurry that the Xiangjun Yamen did not even have time to prepare. Therefore, except for some Xiangjun, many of the soldiers mobilized were just servants and martial arts masters of local wealthy families.
Therefore, these people seem to be braver and stronger than the Xiang army, but they are not touched.
It will collapse when touched.
"Wu Yun Tower, even if you think about it, it can't do much better than us."
"They are just martial arts sects, not enemies on the battlefield. They are no different from bandits."
"Besides, we are only dealing with one branch."
Wei Tu thought for a moment and comforted him.
If Xu County Lieutenant led a ragtag group of them to fight a tough battle, he was determined to escape halfway.
But he believed that Wuyun Tower was not much better than theirs, and it might even be worse.
On the battlefield, they compete with each other.
As long as they make fewer mistakes than Wu Yunlou, they have a chance to win.
"Yes, what we are dealing with is just the branch of Wuyunlou, a branch. We don't expect that there are many manpower. We are a formidable enemy!"
When Wei Fei heard this, he nodded and laughed.
Next.
Wei Tu and Wei Fei remained silent and began to accumulate strength, waiting for the next battle.
An hour later.
The forced march stopped at a mountain. The commander in charge, Xu County Lieutenant, ordered the marching troops to sit down and rest, put out the torches, and prepare armor.
"Is it Siyang Town, Baiyang County?"
"Is the Wuyunlou branch hidden here?"
Wei Tu rode his horse forward and took a look at the landscape outside the mountains under the bright moonlight. After comparing it with the map in his hand, he thought to himself.
He and Wei Fei were only middle-level military attachés in the Xiang army and were not qualified to read detailed military orders, so they did not know the specific target location until they arrived at the destination.
Wei Tu was condescending, overlooking the entire Siyang Town, and combined with the map to estimate where the branches of Wuyun Tower were hidden among the many buildings in Siyang Town.
But after looking for a long time, he didn't see anything special about Siyang Town.
Siyang Town, like many small towns of this era, is dark at night, with only a few wealthy households lighting up night lights.
"It seems that I don't have any extraordinary military talents." Wei Tu laughed at himself.
——He has memorized several volumes of military books that were tested in the military strategy examination, but after today's actual combat, he found out that he was not able to formulate corresponding tactics based on the military books and local conditions. At this moment... ...I feel quite helpless.
"If it weren't for the fate of "Late Bloomer", which could improve my strength, I'm afraid I would still be doing nothing..."
Wei Tu thought about it, then rode his horse away from the mountain, while holding the gold-backed sword at his waist tightly.
After completing five years of health cultivation, he entered the state of Qi Sensing, and accomplished something that his master had never been able to accomplish in his entire life. He could not help but feel arrogant.
However, at this time, Wei Tu suddenly realized that he was very mediocre. Except for the "late bloomer" fate, he seemed to be no different from ordinary people.
Just a mediocre person.
Return to the urgent marching army.
Soon, Lieutenant Xu County informed their group of the hiding place of the Wuyunlou branch.
"Liujiabao is built on the mountain. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It is located in the northwest corner of Siyang Town. It has Maoshui flowing through it and is a natural moat..."