Chapter 69: I'm not a fisherman
Just when the B&B owner and his family were having a happy family reunion, Chen Jue actually returned to the villa one step earlier than the dark-skinned young man.
After taking a hot shower to wash off the fishy and salty sea water on his body , Chen Jue changed into dry clothes and began to practice Yi Jin Jing in the living room. With the help of this static exercise, he could invigorate the blood circulation and relax the tendons, slowly recovering the strength he had just consumed under the sea.
He turned on the TV and switched to a documentary about historical changes. Chen Jue practiced martial arts while clearing his mind.
After his strength recovered a little, he continued to practice the Thirteen Taibao horizontal training. From time to time, the living room could be filled with crackling sounds. This was the sound of Chen Jue's muscles and bones working together, and his body was slowly transforming.
After leaving the old house in Chencun, the 32 old teeth were loose for several days, but there was still no sign of falling out. I guess it’s because the strength has not yet really penetrated into the bone marrow.
Although the previous transformation was exaggerated, it could only be considered a half-transformation. It was only achieved with the help of the Yi Jin Jing breakthrough.
However, if you want to train the strength into your bone marrow, completely transform yourself, and reach the state of "changing marrow" mentioned in the boxing classics by the great masters on the forum, you must take your kung fu to a higher level.
I took a look at the free attribute points I had accumulated over the past two days and found that they had accumulated to 0.42, and the previous consumption for upgrading skills had been replenished.
The efficiency of practicing underwater to brush up attributes is very high. When you go into the water a lot, you can brush up about 0.2, and when it is less, it fluctuates between 0.15 and 0.19. Compared with practicing in a reservoir, it is indeed a great improvement.
"If I dive once more in the morning and evening tomorrow, I should be able to make a breakthrough in Tai Chi and Thirteen Postures!" Chen Jue glanced at the skill panel again, with a hint of anticipation in his heart.
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After practicing the Thirteen Taibao horizontal exercises for a whole night, when Chen Jue woke up the next day, he found that the weather at the seaside, which was originally clear and sunny, had changed on that day.
Dark clouds spread from the end of the sea, the sound of the wind outside the house began to howl louder and the humidity in the air increased a lot.
This is a sign that a typhoon is coming. After so many sunny days, it is finally going to turn cloudy and rainy.
Taking advantage of the fact that there was no one around in the morning, Chen Jue once again went down the back cliff, picked up the stone ball stuck in the crevice of the reef, and dived into the water to continue practicing.
However, this time, Chen Jue discovered that the undercurrents under the water were much more ferocious than last night, and the waves on the sea surface were also more turbulent. The undercurrents of the sea water surging from all around were like flexible whips, lashing his skin from time to time.
It felt like he was thrown into a drum washing machine, being stirred back and forth by the seawater. If he hadn't learned two hard skills, these undercurrents alone would have bruised his skin.
In such a drastically changing underwater environment, Chen Jue felt that the difficulty of breath-holding training increased exponentially. This time, he only persisted in the diving training for eight or nine minutes before he could no longer hold it and went ashore and returned to the villa.
Fortunately, as the difficulty of practicing increased, the accumulation of free attribute points accelerated, and the proficiency of Tai Chi and Thirteen Postures also increased sharply. He worked hard to the point of being on the verge of upgrading (1916/2000).
As for this Taoist skill, Chen Jue did not want to spend attribute points to break through it, but planned to practice it himself and master it step by step with his own real ability.
Because Chen Jue discovered that as his Tai Chi stance practice improved, his grasp of the hidden power of his limbs other than his hands and feet began to become clearer, and he was no longer as confused as before.
"Victory is just around the corner! I should be able to make a breakthrough if I enter the sea again tonight!" Chen Jue was looking forward to the changes that would occur when the dark energy permeated his whole body.
After washing off the sea water on his body, he went to the kitchen and stewed a pot of fish maw using the method taught by the auntie at the homestay.
The fish maw was soaked last night. After soaking overnight, I changed the water in the morning and it no longer had the fishy smell like before.
He also added the rice wine and old ginger that he had bought in the city . After the pot began to boil, he turned the heat to low and simmered it slowly. Then Chen Jue went out to the first villa to have breakfast.
After entering the house, Chen Jue greeted the B&B owner who was coming back from buying groceries, and suddenly found that there was a strange young man sitting at the dining table.
The young man had dark skin and his facial features were somewhat similar to Uncle Yu. Chen Jue's mind raced and he immediately guessed that he must be the eldest son who went fishing at sea that the uncle had mentioned.
It is inevitable to get a little tanned when making a living on the sea, but Chen Jue was not too surprised. He went up to the other party, said hello, and chatted with each other.
When he learned that the other person's name was Yu Yue, Chen Jue wrote down the name, added the other person's WeChat, sat next to him, and slurped the hot seafood noodles brought by the auntie at the homestay.
"Chen Jue, my dad said that you caught a wild yellow croaker in the back cliff. Do you want to continue fishing today? I have also called a few friends to go with us. We can take a fishing boat over there and ." Yu Yue suggested.
Last night, after he told the news to some of his childhood friends who were having supper together, they were all amazed with envy and clamored to go to the water behind the cliff and dig three feet deep to catch another yellow croaker.
As for the red dot on the sonar detector last night, everyone thought it was a false alarm. It might be that the instrument mistakenly reported a big fish as a "person."
It just so happened that we learned that Chen Jue had caught a large fish over there, which made this possibility even greater. We never thought about a "person" diving into the water overnight.
"It's so windy today! The waves on the sea are a bit rough. I think we should not go there."
"I feel like I've used up all my luck in life by catching that big yellow croaker! I don't think I'll be able to catch anything good next time." Chen Jue smiled and made fun of himself, rejecting the other party's proposal.
fishing?
He knew better than anyone how the fish was obtained.
Besides, Chen Jue couldn’t even operate a fishing rod properly, let alone go fishing in a sea like this.
wrong!
He probably doesn't even have a decent fishing rod!
The reason why Uncle Yu didn't suspect him before was that they, the owners of the B&B, had prepared several sets of fishing gear in each villa for tourists' entertainment.
Therefore, when Chen Jue came to Uncle Yu with the bucket to ask for help, the other party thought that Chen Jue had caught the fish accidentally with the fishing rod prepared in the room. In addition, he was in a hurry at the time, so he didn't think too much about it.
If Uncle Yu had been a little more careful at the time and opened the fish's mouth, he would have found that there was not even a hook hole inside.
As for the buck-toothed boss Sun who collects fish, I would never associate him with him!
Chen Jue did not tell him whether he had caught the fish by fishing or catching. After it was hastily slaughtered, it was probably shipped to Vancouver in a refrigerated truck and became the main course for a big boss at noon.
As for why Chen Jue rejected Yu Yue's proposal, it was because in his opinion, instead of going fishing, he might as well stay at home and continue practicing to improve his proficiency.
Seeing that his proposal was rejected, Yu Yue was not angry. Knowing that the other party was a visitor from home, it was not good to force the other party. Instead, he continued to speak: "Okay! We will go fishing for some fish later, and then we will set up a barbecue stove in the yard and grill some sea fish to try. You must come and eat it then!"
"Okay! I'll come if there's anything delicious!" Chen Jue agreed with a smile.
As expected of someone of similar age, he knows how to do some fancy things. Having just eaten home-cooked meals for a few days, Chen Jue also wanted to try some different and fresh flavors.