Question: Mr. Huang is still the same Mr. Huang, just a substitute who died. Why did the situation suddenly become out of control?
Answer: It doesn't matter whether Mr. Huang is dead or not, whether he is a real person or a substitute. What is important is that at the moment when everyone thinks he is dead, even if he is still alive, he is still a dead person.
Similarly, when everyone thinks you are easy to bully, someone will definitely jump out to bully you.
Meng Zhou didn't know whether Grandma Bai knew this truth, so it was right to remind her.
Then, Meng Zhou returned to the hotel as quickly as possible and took out from his arms the "Water Nourishment and Moisturizing Technique" that he had spent a lot of effort to get.
When Bai Ya handed it to him, Meng Zhou glanced through it briefly and judged from his perspective that he had cultivated Shui Yang Jue to a great level. It was indeed a book with the same core concept as Shui Yang Jue, but it was different in terms of interpretation.
A more complete and thorough technique than this.
Now, he looked more carefully, carefully weighing every word, and while looking at the technique in his hand, he also confirmed it with the Shui Yang Jue.
Because it has the foundation of the most accomplished water nourishing formula, this book "Water nourishing and nourishing the body" is effortless to read.
"The key points of the secret of nourishing and moisturizing the body with water are: nourishing the body with water and moisturizing the body.
Water nourishment focuses on teaching people how to create this kind of magical power, while moisturizing the body focuses on how to use this kind of magical power to heal and nourish oneself."
If the former is seen as teaching people to make money, the latter is teaching people to spend money. In the past, he seemed to be "spending money", but it was almost like using it as a physical weapon. He did not directly use the money.
Swing it up and hit someone on the head.
Thinking like this, Meng Zhou suddenly felt a little ashamed.
"In the past, my use of mana was really too rough.
Except for the natural transformation of the body every time the skill breaks through, at other times, this skill that focuses on warming and healing almost does not play its due role, but is only used as a special way to increase the power of martial arts.
energy.
In fact, whether it is Water Nourishing Technique or Water Nourishing Body Moisturizing Technique, their strengths are not in the field of combat."
After reading it carefully, I have understood 80% to 90% of the entire book "Water Nourishing and Moisturizing Techniques".
Then Meng Zhou sat cross-legged on the bed and slowly activated the magic power of the Water Nourishing Technique. The few remaining problems were like ice cubes thrown into a normal-temperature river, dissolving at a speed visible to the naked eye.
During the slow operation of the Water Nourishing Technique's magic power over and over again, he did not deliberately control it, and its route naturally changed, deviating in the direction of the Water Nourishing Body Technique.
It was like he was walking on a road and there was a turn ahead. He did not consciously let his mind control his body and the steps he took, but when he approached the turn, his body had already naturally made the decision.
The most appropriate adjustment.
When the slow-moving mana around the body stopped again, the personal information technique had already undergone obvious changes.
Before that, this information was "The Great Success of Water Nourishment Technique: 364/400", and it was only a short distance away from another breakthrough. But now, this information has become "The Great Success of Water Nourishing and Moisturizing Technique: 189/600"
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His understanding of the exercises has not decreased at all, and even when the connection was seamless, he had many new insights in his heart.
Just like when water from a small cup is transferred to a large cup, the amount of water remains the same, but the water level drops a lot.
And as the fundamental skills change, the beautiful feeling that can only be experienced when each level of the skills breaks through is always infiltrated in the body.
Although the feeling was not that intense, it kept his body in a very comfortable state and his spirit in a very relaxed state.
Meng Zhou felt that his body was like a dry and barren earth, and the magic power of the Water Nourishing and Moisturizing Technique was like a steady rain of rain, continuously nourishing and warming his body, as if to push it forward.
Little by little, the body returns to its former fertile state where it was full of vitality and capable of sustaining all things.
Then, Meng Zhou suspended the practice of basic skills and began today's martial arts practice.
When he finished, the Phantom Stepping Dragon stopped at "Grandmaster: 610/640".
"Tomorrow, tomorrow this martial art will be perfected."
With this thought in mind, Meng Zhou sat cross-legged on the bed with his eyes closed, and began to practice the Water Nourishing Body Technique formally for the first time.
"Hey, the effect is indeed much better."
When this night's practice ended, one piece of information about the exercise became "The Great Success of Water Nourishment and Moisturizing Technique: 209/600", which increased the practice from only 16 weeks to 20 days a day.
However, the progress of practice has been increased from "Qi training fourth level 14/100" to "19/100", an increase of five points.
"Although they are both at the level of Dacheng, the Water Nourishment Technique needs to be run for six weeks to make some progress, while the Water Nourishing and Moisturizing Technique only needs four weeks to make some progress."
Although there were not many specific changes, the total advantages of all aspects increased his practice efficiency by nearly twice.
In the short term, this is not very obvious. The longer time passes, the wider the gap will be.
Moreover, there was a more important change. Meng Zhou felt the vitality surging in his body. He looked at the life span item in his personal information. The upper limit of his life span changed from 66 to 67 years, an increase of one year. This was the first time.
This kind of change occurs in ordinary practice.
Previously, the increase in the life limit occurred when the basic skills were improved or the level of cultivation was improved.
"The upper limit of the life of a normal Qi practitioner is between 120 and 160 years old. This is basically determined by each person's body and the skills they practice.
My body's physical potential and vitality were drained by the Blood Demon Technique, and my upper limit of life was far lower than that of a normal Qi-training monk.
What Water Nourishing and Moisturizing Technique is best at is warming and healing the body. As my body slowly recovers, reflected in the data, the upper limit of my life is slowly increasing.
In the past, this kind of change only occurred at the node of water nourishment or cultivation level improvement.
Now, with the completion of the basic skills, this will no longer be limited to the improvement nodes of skills or cultivation."
The mission was successfully completed and the results were very satisfactory.
With a happy mood, Meng Zhou left the room and went to the first floor to order a spiritual breakfast.
While I was waiting at my seat, I suddenly saw the homeowner across the street opening the door, looking forward and to the left, and then rushed out of the house.
At the same time, there were more sounds of movement coming from the streets.
Meng Zhou's heart trembled because the direction of his gaze was exactly in the direction of Granny Bai's grocery store.
Is it a coincidence?
Meng Zhou dodged out of the room, turned around and looked over, and saw seven or eight people gathered at the door of Granny Bai's grocery store, everyone peering into the house.
Meng Zhou suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart. He quickly walked to the door of the grocery store and peeked into the house through the small door.
The door of the grocery store was closed. There was only a small door on the main door that was half-opened. Nearly ten heads were leaning around the small door frame to look inside.
Next to him, a man who only came one step ahead of him and didn’t know anything about the situation curiously asked the first comer:
"What are you looking at? Is there anything wrong?"
"If it's wrong, isn't it obvious? If under normal circumstances, with so many of us watching, Granny Bai wouldn't have started scolding her earlier?"
"Uh...that's right."
"Moreover, when I woke up early this morning, I saw her door was ajar. At that time, I was surprised that Granny Bai never had the habit of getting up early.
Moreover, half an hour has passed, and the small door is still open, but the main door has never been opened.
Isn’t this weird enough?”
"Well, that makes sense!"
The latecomers nodded repeatedly and asked in a low voice: "Then what should we do now?"
The first comer turned his head and scanned the neighbors, and took a special look at Meng Zhou, the intruding outsider.
However, that's all.
He said: "I want to go in and take a look, but I was alone when I first discovered something strange here. If I just go in like this, I'm worried that I won't be able to explain what will happen."
Several latecomers suddenly said "Oh" and followed him directly to the grocery store.
Meng Zhou also followed the crowd silently.
The space inside the grocery store is not large. When you enter from the small door, you have a wide view and you can basically see the situation inside the house at a glance.
Meng Zhou discovered that the people in front of him seemed to have been cast on a collective immobilization spell, and they all stood still, motionless.
Meng Zhou had been to the store once before, and that direction was exactly the direction where Granny Bai placed the wicker chair.
A bad premonition arose in Meng Zhou's heart. He moved to the side and finally saw a scene between the people that almost stopped his heartbeat.
Granny Bai was lying upright on the wicker chair, her turbid eyes were wide open, her mouth was slightly open, and the expression on her face was frozen in the moment of fear.
He had obviously been dead for a long time.
And in the gap between the people, on the ground next to the wicker chair, Meng Zhou could still see a little yellowish color, as if the spring grass had not fully grown yet and had ended in the cruel late autumn and winter.
At this moment, Meng Zhou felt that his heart was being grabbed hard.
At this moment, the people in front of them, who seemed to have been subjected to the immobilization technique, suddenly started to move.
His body is agile and agile, like a vicious dog pouncing on food.
Their target was neither Granny Bai nor Bai Ya, but the hundreds of spirit stones scattered on the ground.
Seeing the spirit stone and the crowd fighting for it, Meng Zhou couldn't help but feel twitching again.
He was basically certain that these spiritual stones were the ones he personally thrust into Bai Ya's hand yesterday.
In order to compete for the spirit stones, everyone has used their own unique skills. Except for the tacit understanding that they did not use powerful or large-scale methods, they all used their respective abilities to the extreme.
While they were fighting, their eyes would glance at Meng Zhou who was approaching step by step, warning him that as long as he, an outsider, dared to get involved, he would be targeted by everyone.
Meng Zhou resisted the pressure of several people's gazes and took a few steps forward. He came to Bai Ya who fell to the ground, knelt down and saw her wide-open eyes again.
However, the once brilliant and agile thing has turned into a dead dullness.
This is normal. Their owners are dead, so how can they still be glorious?
Bai Ya's expression was frozen in a moment of confusion.
Meng Zhou squatted down and looked at her for a moment, then stretched out his hand to gently cover her face.
He also cursed: "Why is the murderer so inhumane that he won't even spare a little girl!"
And as he cursed, the number of eyes on him quickly decreased, and they all had a basic judgment about him, a bad guy who likes to stand up for irrelevant things.
On the other side, as soon as Meng Zhou put his palm on Bai Ya's face, he suddenly felt a slight vibration in his chest.
He didn't understand what it meant at first, but soon realized something, and his heart suddenly stirred.
The thing that vibrated in his chest was clearly the straw grasshopper that Bai Ya gave to him yesterday!
Could it be that it is really alive?
The vibration reached its peak after a few breaths, then slowly stopped and became quiet in his chest again.
It’s a long story, but actually the whole process only takes a few breaths.
Only then did Meng Zhou remove his palm from Bai Ya's face. Her wide eyes had been closed, and her expression that had been frozen in confusion also changed subtly. The corners of her mouth were slightly curved, as if she was sleeping.
Zhongzheng is having a sweet dream.
After doing all this, Meng Zhou slowly stood up, spread his hands, indicating that he had nothing, and strode out of the room.
As a strange outsider, this is the limit of what he can do.
Taking one more step forward would have exceeded the limit of the "bad good guy" personality. It would be difficult not to make people doubt his relationship with Bai Ya and the others, so he rationally stopped beyond this step.
As soon as I came out of the small door, I saw more and more people gathering here.
In order to compete for the spirit stones, everyone in the room had no scruples in taking action. The chaotic mana fluctuations naturally spread to the surroundings and were immediately noticed by others.
When he came out, dozens of eyes were all fixed on him.
Among this group of people was the manager of the hotel where Meng Zhou stayed. He asked directly: "Fellow Daoist Zhou, what happened in the house?"
When Meng Zhou checked in, he called himself Zhou.
He did not cover up for everyone in the room and said directly:
"Grandma Bai and Bai Ya are both dead, and there are still hundreds of spirit stones scattered on the ground. It seems that there are also many middle-grade spirit stones mixed in. Now everyone is grabbing them like crazy."
As soon as he said these words, all the eyes originally focused on him shifted to the closed door of the grocery store.
The next moment, several figures launched a charge.
"Boom - click -"
Holes were knocked out of the closed door, and several figures disappeared into the house, while more intense mana fluctuations came from inside the house.
After them, more people broke in.
Of course, not everyone is crowding into the grocery store. They are all just spectators and do not personally participate. Among them, the shopkeeper who is familiar with Meng Zhou is included.
He also asked Meng Zhou in surprise: "It's such a good opportunity, why don't you take the opportunity to pick up a few?"
Meng Zhou smiled bitterly: "You didn't see the way your old neighbors looked at me. If I dared to touch one of them, I might not be able to walk out of this door alive today."
Everyone nodded in understanding and looked at Meng Zhou as if they were saying: "You are quite sensible and have not been dazzled by the spirit stone."
Meng Zhou bowed his hand to the shopkeeper and went straight back to the hotel.
After returning to the house and being alone, Meng Yiyi peeled off the relaxed mask on his face and sat down on the bed with a heavy look on his face.