Chapter 101 Ten thousand steps in half a day!
After reading a book before going to bed and thinking about the innate Qi he had realized during the day, Chen Jue felt that there must be many more mysteries hidden in this world.
He had just started practicing cultivation and had encountered such strange things one after another. The process was too mysterious and he didn't know who to talk to about it.
“If you travel alone, you will go fast; if you travel together, you will go far.”
"It's a pity that there is no second person with an awakening panel who can communicate and discuss with me." Chen Jue couldn't help but think so, and finally crawled into bed and fell asleep.
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The next morning, Chen Jue woke up before 6 o'clock.
After getting up and washing up, I started to walk down the mountain towards the nearby town at a fast speed, using the wall-walking skills I had just learned the night before.
Maybe it was due to the buff of [Lü Zu's Enlightenment], as well as the greatly increased intelligence attribute of Chen Jue, and his mastery of martial arts, which gave him a higher and higher control over his body. When this kind of light Kung Fu came into his hands, he was able to practice it like a fish in water.
By the time I walked through the winding mountain road and arrived at a nearby town, my proficiency in the skill of flying over eaves and walking on walls had reached (82/100). I was afraid that I could upgrade it to Lv1 by just walking back one more time.
I had a bowl of thin bean powder in the town, which is a local specialty. It didn’t feel filling enough, so I bought two more bait blocks to try.
Compared with the lighter flavors of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the local cuisine here is a little heavier in flavor, and is added with a lot of special sauces. Chen Jue accepts all of them.
He has been working abroad for more than six years after graduation and has gained some experience. He is also a foodie at heart. When he was working, he would watch a series of food shows like this while eating supper every night. He has long wanted to try delicacies from all over the world.
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After solving the breakfast problem in the town, Chen Jue slowly practiced his Qinggong skills and returned to Wa Village.
His wall-walking skill was upgraded to a higher level halfway through the journey, and the siphon effect it caused was not strong, it just accelerated the digestion of food in his stomach.
Back in the mud-walled house, Chen Jue changed out of his casual sportswear and put on his newly bought camouflage clothes and hiking boots. He packed a bunch of necessities into his backpack and went out to climb the hill behind Wa Village.
It was just 7 o'clock at this time, and some tourists who came to visit and live in the town were probably still sleeping in their beds. The sun in the east began to rise slowly, like a golden ball of fire hanging on the eastern horizon.
Chen Jue stared at it for a while and felt that the sun seen from the southwest would be more magnificent than that at the seaside.
Looking back at the vast mountains and dense forests, Chen Jue decided to make a preliminary exploration today.
Since he had mastered the skill of flying over eaves and walking on walls, Chen Jue felt that walking briskly along those mountain paths that few people had walked on was not much different from walking on flat ground.
After crossing the low mountain of Wazhai, he walked in a straight line towards the northwest, jumping over obstacles when he came across them, stepping on grass when he saw it, climbing over mountains when he came across them, and entering forests when he saw them. As long as the stream was not particularly wide, Chen Jue would just jump over it by stepping on the rocks that emerged from the water.
During the journey, we passed several villages that were even more dilapidated than Wazhai. Due to the lack of cement roads, these villages had been completely abandoned.
Those earthen-walled or wooden houses were overgrown with weeds. Chen Jue did not go in to visit, but walked quickly all the way through the more primitive deep mountains and dense forests.
While practicing the skill of flying over eaves and walking on walls, he walked until almost 12 noon, when he stopped beside a mountain stream with a stream.
I took out my cell phone and saw that there was no signal at all. I opened the offline map I had downloaded earlier and found that I was at least dozens of kilometers away from Wazhai.
Although there is only a short straight line on the mobile phone map, the route involves crossing mountains and rivers, ups and downs, and passing through dense forests with no roads. In fact, Chen Jue has walked nearly 50 kilometers this morning, which is at least 100,000 steps. If it is posted on WeChat Moments, he will definitely be the first in the national step count ranking.
What is the concept of 100,000 steps?
The longest distance running sport for humans is called a marathon, which is 42.195 kilometers long. It usually takes 3 or 4 hours to complete. The fastest world record takes a little over 2 hours, which translates to a stride frequency of about 40,000 steps.
Moreover, modern marathons are run on flat ground, not across mountains and hills like Chen Jue's. The difficulty of the two is not on the same level.
If Chen Jue had not had so much physical strength and practiced light-weight skills, which made it possible for him to walk among these mountains and ridges as if walking on flat ground, he probably would not have been able to walk such a long distance.
At this time, Chen Jue was in a place where there was a primitive dense forest without any signs of human activities. He found a big rock exposed to the sun by the stream and sat down. Then Chen Jue opened a bottle of functional drink and compressed biscuits to eat to restore his strength.
The compressed biscuits were bought from an outdoor goods store in the town that specializes in serving foreign tourists. They are very high in calories. The one Chen Jue bought is not an ordinary compressed biscuit. In addition to sugar, fat, whole milk powder, soy protein powder and other essential nutrients for the body, the formula also contains complex minerals, complex vitamins, and taurine. It is a must-have for outdoor sports enthusiasts.
It's just that the taste is not that good. In addition, the people in the flower-growing family eat hot dishes and hot meals all year round and rarely have the habit of cold food. Although these dry and cold compressed biscuits make you feel full quickly, it is not as comfortable as normal meals on weekdays.
"My flying eaves and walking on walls skill has been upgraded to level 2. It's really fast! Much faster than when I first practiced Tai Chi ." Chen Jue glanced at the attribute panel while eating.
[Flying Eaves and Walking Walls Skill Lv2 (121/500)]
This is the skill he has developed the fastest since he started practicing, except for Tongzi Kung Fu and Tai Chi boxing.
In addition, during this rampage, Chen Jue also gained 0.07 free attributes, and his agility also increased by 0.02.
In addition to discovering those abandoned old villages along the way, Chen Jue also often saw and heard birds and small animals in the mountains and forests.
Needless to say, birds often fly overhead, chirping non-stop. Chen Jue has no knowledge in this area. With his eyesight, although he can clearly see and appreciate the feathers of these birds, he cannot identify their species.
While walking through the forest, he could occasionally see squirrels and flying squirrels jumping on the branches, and the shadows of snakes and insects crawling in the grass.
Since he had practiced martial arts in the dark seabed before, Chen Jue did not feel any fear at all in such a primitive and quiet environment.
On the contrary, being in such a natural environment, he felt peaceful inside, and every breath of unpolluted fresh air made his lungs and nasal cavity feel extremely comfortable.
As for the purpose of going into the mountains to find the elixir, Chen Jue did not forget it.
However, along the way, we found quite a few common herbs, but we didn't see any precious herbs like Panax notoginseng and Ganoderma lucidum.
Maybe he didn't go deep enough, or he accidentally missed it.
After all, Chen Jue had just learned about the characteristics and habits of these Chinese herbal medicines through information in the past few days. He had not picked them in person and lacked experience in finding herbs.
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After eating some dry food and resting for more than twenty minutes, Chen Jue set off again.
He planned to walk in this straight line for another hour, and then he would have to turn back towards Wazhai.
If it’s too late to turn back, I’m afraid I won’t be able to tell the direction when it gets dark and get lost.
After jumping over the stream and arriving at the bottom of a steep cliff, Chen Jue looked up at the straight cliff in front of him, which was at least two hundred meters high.
Moreover, on the shady side of the cliff, there are a few pink flowers growing in some muddy depressions on the top. After squinting my eyes and observing, I found that it should be a plant called rock cabbage.
This is a herb with a long flowering period that can be used as a landscape plant as well as a medicine.
"It looks like it's about a hundred meters high. Do you want to climb up and try to pick it?"
Chen Jue had such an idea in his mind. He put down the backpack and took a step forward, using his wall-walking skill. It seemed as if his legs were stepping on steps instead of smooth and steep rock walls. He used the force of his body to fly up to a height of seven meters in one breath.
Others were flying over rooftops and walking on walls, but Chen Jue was flying directly over rocks and walking on cliffs!
From a distance, it looked like he took a running start on the spot, then kicked out with both feet quickly, and the whole person flew straight up along the rock wall to a height almost as high as the balcony of the third floor of the community!
