Chapter 105: Butterflies flutter among the flowers, hard to find their whereabouts!
After dinner, Chen Jue went to a small supermarket in town that was still open and bought a few nail clippers of relatively good quality, intending to go back and trim his fingernails and toenails. His nails were too long and would easily hurt when he wore shoes.
I walked slowly back to Wazhai and took a hot bath to wash away the fatigue and dust of the day.
As his mind was disturbed by the Dulong girl for a long time, Chen Jue sat cross-legged on the bed after taking a shower to move his qi and blood, and practiced the inner alchemy technique of running the small and large circulations.
But for some reason, Chen Jue found that practicing the small and large circulations outside did not give him the same wonderful feeling as at home.
Fortunately, after moving Qi and blood around for several rounds, Chen Jue's heart began to calm down, and all distracting thoughts disappeared. Although his proficiency did not increase, his free attribute points increased by 0.01. It was obvious that he had done nothing wrong in practicing this inner alchemy technique.
After finishing the exercise, I looked at the time and it was already past 10 o'clock in the evening. I didn't feel sleepy yet, so I looked through the information on my phone and found a new finger technique from the boxing library.
The newly awakened [Golden Needle Iron Fingers] state not only strengthens Chen Jue's ten fingers, but also provides an additional bonus effect of speeding up the practice of finger skills.
In addition to the previous [Lü Zu Enlightenment] and [Gestapo] blessings, Chen Jue plans to learn a Taoist horizontal finger skill to try out the power of these three layers of buffs.
After looking through the database, I finally locked on the Wudang Tiger Claw Technique.
This Tiger Claw Kung Fu is also one of the 36 Wudang Kung Fu. It is said that it was evolved by the founder Sanfeng by imitating the power of the black tiger, and it has corresponding standing exercises to match.
Chen Jue took a look and found it was the Yizi Hunyuan Posture, which was a variation of the Hunyuan Posture in the Thirteen Postures of Tai Chi.
After practicing for a few rounds in the house, he swung his claws out, and there was a faint sound of cloth tearing in the air.
As for the panel, the words [Tiger Claw Skill Lv0 (3/100)] appeared, but the One-Word Hunyuan Posture mentioned was no longer on the attribute panel.
"It seems that just slightly changing the posture cannot directly form a new skill."
"The One-Character Hunyuan Posture is still included in the Hunyuan Posture, and the Thirteen-style Posture Method also includes the Hunyuan Posture. This is why it has not formed a separate skill." Chen Jue analyzed.
He felt that he could try to practice more complex and varied skills in the future, so that he could use one skill as several and his practice efficiency could be greatly improved.
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Due to the speed-up bonus of the three status BUFFs, Chen Jue's practice of the Tiger Claw Technique was like eating gunpowder. Before he lay down to sleep at around 11 o'clock, he had already mastered this newly learned skill to Lv1 (26/200) in less than an hour. The speed of improvement was even faster than that of the Flying Eaves and Walking on Walls Technique that he had just perfected.
After practicing, Chen Jue soaked his ten fingers in hot water to dilate the pores and activate the blood circulation before going to bed.
As a result of practicing inner alchemy, Chen Jue has been able to enter a state of fetal breathing when he sleeps recently, and basically sleeps without dreaming until dawn.
I got up and looked at the time. It was a little after 6 o'clock. So I washed up , ran to the town to have breakfast, and then backpacked into the mountains again.
Perhaps because he was still secretly looking forward to meeting the girl with the basket on her back again, Chen Jue did not change direction this time and continued along the same route as yesterday.
Moreover, I stepped on some grass back and forth yesterday and opened up a new path by myself. Therefore, it only took me more than two hours this morning to reach the U-shaped river beach where I was yesterday. It's a pity that I didn't see any trace of the girl again.
In this vast and primitive mountain, it can be said to be quite a fate to meet a stranger who is suspected to have kung fu skills.
Moreover, Chen Jue had a vague feeling that the girl with the basket on her back was a little different, so he followed the river upstream all the way. After walking for another 2 hours, he discovered that the river began to narrow from more than 20 meters wide to 5 or 6 meters at almost noon. There were also several large rocks sticking out of the water in the middle of the river. Chen Jue jumped, and with the help of [Light as a Swallow], he stepped on the stones and crossed the emerald green river to the other side.
Seeing that it was already noon and he was starting to feel hungry, Chen Jue found a clean piece of grass to sit down, took out a piece of compressed biscuit and an energy drink and started eating.
While eating, he looked at the offline map on his phone and found that he had deviated from the reserved direction by at least ten kilometers. He estimated that if he wanted to return to Wazhai, he would have to wait until after dark.
"Why don't we just spend the night by the river?"
"Anyway, I'll be practicing wherever I go. The most I can do when I go back is have a hot meal and a hot shower." Chen Jue thought so. Now that he has made great progress in his practice, his courage has greatly increased, and he is not afraid of such an uninhabited environment at all.
I slowly finished the compressed biscuits with the energy drink, and after resting for half an hour, I felt fully strengthened, so I went downstream along the river, and it took me two hours to reach the place where I saw the black kite and the girl with the basket on her back yesterday.
After squatting and searching by the river, Chen Jue found a few very shallow footprints. He then went into the forest along the location where the girl with the basket on her back disappeared yesterday.
Chen Jue walked over mountains and through forests, stopping here and there, and found several traces of human digging and collecting of herbs, which were obviously left by the girl with the basket on her back.
Unfortunately, when they crossed several mountains and came to another branch of the Dulong River, these traces disappeared again. In addition, there were half-human-high weeds and disorderly broken rocks everywhere, so Chen Jue had no way to track them down.
At this time, Chen Jue had perfected the technique of flying through flowers and catching butterflies without him realizing it.
The breakthrough did not cause much of a siphon effect, but only accelerated the consumption of food in Chen Jue's stomach, incidentally increasing his agility by 0.02, and also awakening a new bonus called [Butterflies Playing in Flowers].
[Butterfly Playing Among Flowers]: The butterfly flies among the flowers, moving forward and backward, flexibly and unpredictably!
Bonus effect: This state can greatly enhance the player's physical reaction ability and dynamic visual capture ability, and has a great .
After awakening to this new state, Chen Jue found that he had indeed become more alert when walking in the forest. Before, he would occasionally be hooked by weeds and thorns, but now he can make judgments and react in advance.
It is estimated that the effects of [Butterfly Playing in Flowers] and [Light as a Swallow] brought by the skill of flying over eaves and walking on walls will be superimposed on each other. Once the skill is fully exerted, the power will be even more prominent!
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Seeing that it was already 5pm, Chen Jue settled down beside the new green river he had encountered.
I picked up a few large pebbles from the riverbank and built a stone stove by the river. I also went to the forest behind to get some dry firewood and planned to make a fire to warm myself at night.
In this primitive land on the southwestern border, the temperature began to drop rapidly after dark. Chen Jue didn't want to stay out in the wild and starve and freeze, so he had to rely on making a fire to keep warm.
Fortunately, there were forests everywhere, and he found a lot of firewood, enough for him to burn for a day and a night.
It’s a pity that we didn’t bring any fresh ingredients, otherwise we could have had a BBQ outdoors.
Looking up at the sun gradually setting in the west, Chen Jue felt that there was still time, so he took off his clothes, put on only a pair of shorts, grabbed a pointed branch in his hand and went down to the river.
When walking along the river before, Chen Jue frequently found traces of river fish.
We don’t dare hunt the rare and protected wild animals at will, but we can catch a few fish in the river to satisfy our hunger.
Chen Jue was afraid that his mouth would lose its taste after eating compressed biscuits all day. In addition, with his current agility of 2.30, the ability to hold his breath underwater for more than 30 minutes, and the sharp reaction ability brought by the newly awakened [Butterfly Playing in the Flowers], catching a few river fish was naturally a piece of cake.
It took me almost ten minutes to use a sharp branch to poke two river fish weighing about three or four pounds from the bottom of the river. My efficiency was definitely much better than that of the other anglers in the bar.
After taking a look at the appearance of the fish, Chen Jue knew it should be the common white fish in Yun Province and it was not a protected species. So he slaughtered it with confidence.
Before coming here, I brought a lighter and a small knife for peeling fruit in my bag, which can barely cope with this kind of situation.
He lit a fire, dried the water stains on the fish while scraping the scales, cutting open the fish belly and cleaning the internal organs, and removing the gills. Growing up in the coastal area, killing a fish was a piece of cake for Chen Jue. He skewered the fish on branches and placed them next to the earthen stove to smoke.
By the time I had dried the water stains on my body and put my clothes back on, the air was already filled with the aroma of grilled fish.
It’s a pity that there is no seasoning. I didn’t think about this before, otherwise the grilled white fish would smell more fragrant!
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The three or four jin river fish, after being roasted, the water is drained away, and together with the inedible fish skeleton and fish head, only a jin or a few liang of edible meat is left. The two fish together are not enough for Chen Jue to fill his teeth.
Fortunately, Chen Jue still had two compressed biscuits, two bottles of functional drinks, and a box of Panax notoginseng oral liquid in his bag, so he could get through until tomorrow morning without any major problems.
By the time we finished this unique picnic grilled fish, the sky had already darkened and the mountain breeze began to blow by the river.
Fortunately, the stone stove in front of him was surrounded tightly by Chen Jue, and the firewood inside was crackling, but it was not blown out by the mountain wind.
At this time, the moon began to replace the sun's work. The bright moonlight sprinkled on the river beach, with the bonfire as a backdrop. Coupled with Chen Jue's sharp eyesight, he could see clearly within a radius of several hundred meters.
Feeling that roasting by the campfire was a bit boring, Chen Jue took out his mobile phone, looked through the materials he had downloaded before, and started practicing the newly learned tiger claw skills by the campfire.
The tiger's claws tore through the air and casually grabbed the pebbles on the river beach. The harsh sound of nails scratching the hard stone surface was heard.
With the blessing of [Golden Needle and Iron Fingers], every time Chen Jue clawed down, it would either leave marks on the pebbles or cause dazzling sparks in the dark night.
After practicing for more than an hour, the Tiger Claw Technique was successfully upgraded to Lv2. With the stacking of three BUFFs, the efficiency of practicing this horizontal finger technique is like opening a twenty-fold experience scroll!
After that, he let out a tiger roar, and his muscles and skin trembled slightly. Chen Jue turned around and started practicing the Tiger Roaring Golden Bell Cover, which he had not yet fully mastered.
Although the whimpering of the mountain wind could be heard in his ears, Chen Jue's long roar could be heard for at least several miles in the silent mountains, dense forests, and rushing river.
After practicing the Tiger Roaring Golden Bell Cover for more than ten minutes, Chen Jue felt that something was wrong. All the pores on his body suddenly tingled and an inexplicable feeling of palpitations surged up.
Stopping his practice and keeping quiet, Chen Jue looked around and discovered that amidst the whimpering sound of the wind, there was actually a low roar that sounded like the one he made when practicing martial arts!
Looking towards the direction of the forest where the roar came from, a pair of green eyes as big as copper bells appeared extremely eye-catching and dazzling in the dark night under the light of the bonfire on the river bank!
