Chapter 77: Evergreen Jade Wood Technique
The young python's eyes were still covered with mucus and it couldn't open them. Not far in front of its nest lay a bloody mass of flesh and blood, which turned out to be the body of the pockmarked man.
The young python kept sniffing and moving closer to the mass of flesh and blood.
"Fortunately, it hasn't had time to eat the body of the pockmarked man, otherwise I would have felt traumatized if I ate the young python again!" Qin Ziling secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then his mind moved, and an invisible shadow in the void fell on the young python's head.
The young python's body suddenly froze and it stopped moving.
"Luckily, this young python's blood and energy haven't grown up yet, so it's very weak. I can use the soul suppression method to suppress it directly. Otherwise, if it were a full-grown Eight Desolate Jade Python, its blood and energy would be burning like a raging fire, and my magic would probably be burned and destroyed ."
Seeing that the young python was subdued by the soul-suppressing technique, Qin Ziling raised a gust of cold wind to sweep the young python and returned to the original path.
Before leaving, Qin Ziling glanced towards another cave entrance. He now understood in his mind why a third-grade exotic beast like the Eight Desolate Green Python would appear in a relatively outer area.
There are many strong people in the deep mountains, and it is very dangerous, so it is not suitable for it to give birth, so it will come here to give birth.
But I didn't expect to encounter such a thing, which would bring me a fatal disaster.
He rolled up the young python and returned to the valley, where his soul returned to his body.
I don't know when the moon was covered by thick clouds, and at this time, heavy snow suddenly began to fall.
Qin Ziling looked at the heavy snow falling. The valley, which was originally in a mess, was soon covered with a layer of silver again. Before long, all traces of the previous fight would be completely covered by the white snow.
“It’s better this way, so that the people in Xujiabao won’t find out that someone else has taken advantage of the Eight Desolate Green Python and become resentful and investigate secretly. Although it’s unlikely that they will find out who I am, it will at least reduce the risk of leakage.” Qin Ziling smiled when he saw this, and took out a sack from the corpse-raising ring and put the baby python in it.
The young python is a living creature and definitely cannot be put into the corpse raising ring. Of course, even if the young python is dead, there are three bronze corpses in the corpse raising ring eyeing it covetously, so Qin Ziling does not dare to put the young python into the corpse raising ring.
After putting the baby python into the sack, Qin Ziling thought for a moment, then took out a snow wolf that he had caught tonight from the corpse-raising ring and put it into the sack. The snow wolf's head had been cut off cleanly, emitting a slight pungent smell of blood.
"The smell of snow wolf and blood should be able to cover up the breath of the young python." Qin Ziling thought to himself, threw the sack over his shoulder, and walked briskly towards a hiding place.
During these seven days he killed many ferocious birds and beasts, but the corpse ring was not suitable for storing the carcasses of wild animals for a long time, so Qin Ziling found a special hiding place to store the prey.
These prey were much more valuable than those he had caught in Xisheng Mountain before. There were cloud-patterned white tigers, blood-haired bears, golden-patterned leopards, etc., and together they should be worth nearly a thousand taels of silver.
Qin Ziling naturally had to take it away.
After finding the hiding spot and putting the wild animals into the corpse-raising ring, Qin Ziling carried a sack on his back and crossed mountains and ridges to the west.
The Wuyang Mountains are located to the east of Fangqiao City.
The snow kept falling. When Qin Ziling was about to walk out of Wuyang Mountain, it should have been dawn, but there was heavy snow all over the sky, the wind was howling, and the sky and the earth were still gray.
Standing halfway up a mountain, Qin Ziling saw a group of people riding horses at the foot of the mountain, galloping towards Wuyang Mountain in the wind and snow.
The two leading men were riding clouded leopard horses with leopard heads and bodies. Their four hooves raised clouds of smoke and mist formed under their hooves, as if they were walking on clouds. They were none other than Xu Pengkun and his son.
The clouded leopard horse is a domesticated exotic animal. When it runs, it seems to be flying on clouds and as fast as lightning.
In Fangqiao City, only people of Xu Pengkun and his son's level are qualified to ride.
"Sorry to trouble you for making such a wasted trip!" Qin Ziling said to himself, then continued to go down the mountain.
The forest is very large, and Xu Pengkun and his son and others are obviously running towards another entrance to the mountain, so Qin Ziling doesn't have to worry about running into them.
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On a deep winter night, everything is silent.
Anhe Village was pitch black, but the lights were still on in the east wing of the Qin family compound.
Qin Ziling was sitting at the desk, flipping through a book word by word.
The book he was reading was one of the two books obtained from Gongyang Mu, the Green Wood Evergreen Merit.
Next to Qin Ziling's desk, there was a large water tank, in which was a small emerald green python, which was none other than the Eight Desolate Green Python.
At this time, the young python curled up into a ball with its head buried deep in the python's body. Except for faint breathing, it was motionless.
It was already evening when Qin Ziling returned home from Wuyang Mountain that day.
Qin Ziling found a large water tank, put the little python in it, and placed it in his room. He hurriedly ate dinner, told his family not to disturb him, and locked himself in the room.
Qin Ziling has not yet figured out what to do with the baby Eight Desolate Green Python.
He definitely didn't dare to raise it. This thing had just been born not long ago, and he used the Soul Suppression Technique to suppress it, so it looked like a good baby. But the Eight Desolate Jade Python was cruel and bloodthirsty by nature. If it really grew up, his Soul Suppression Technique would not be able to suppress its ferocity.
Besides, raising exotic beasts is completely different from raising chickens and ducks. The food they eat is much more precious than that of humans. They are simply money-eating beasts.
But if he didn't raise it and just ate it, Qin Ziling felt it was such a waste with just that little meat and blood.
This is a third-grade exotic beast!
During this period, Qin Ziling actually thought of Xiao Qing.
The last time Zheng Xinghan celebrated his birthday, Lu Taiqiang mentioned that Xiao Qing needed the Eight Desolate Jade Python to recover his cultivation.
With the financial and material resources of the Xiao family, there shouldn't be any problem in raising a third-grade exotic beast. Moreover, as a large family, they should also have experience and methods in taming exotic beasts.
However, the Eight Desolate Jade Python is no trivial matter after all. If Qin Ziling had not known from Lu Taiqiang that Xiao Qing was a very good person, he would not have considered giving it to her based on her kindness.
Of course, it would be different if you had a guarantee of character.
With Xiao Qing's identity and her previous talent, once Xiao Qing uses the Eight Desolate Jade Python to recover her cultivation, she will definitely be able to control a lot of power in the Xiao family. In this way, Qin Ziling, a little man from a poor family, secretly has a big backer in Fangqiao City.
Not only that, with Xiao Qing as his guide, it would be much easier , and it would not attract the attention of other people.
Qin Ziling knew very well that the path he would take in the future would be very special and would require a huge amount of resources, and his methods were not to be seen in the light, so the best way was to find a partner who he could fully trust and who had status and ability, so that he could hide behind the scenes with peace of mind and in a low profile.
Xiao Qing is undoubtedly a very suitable candidate.
Of course, all of this is still under Qin Ziling's consideration, and he has not made a final decision yet, so Qin Ziling temporarily keeps the young Eight Desolate Green Python in a tank, using the soul suppression technique to suppress its ferocity, and will make a decision after thinking it through for a while.
"No wonder there are far fewer Qigong practitioners than martial artists in this world. The requirement for spiritual roots alone eliminates most people." Qin Ziling slowly closed the scroll of "The Evergreen Green Wood Technique" and fell into deep thought.
According to the "Green Wood Evergreen Art", Qigong practitioners can be divided into three realms: eating Qi to open the meridians, removing the dross and retaining the essence, obtaining the truth, true power, true essence, and Dharma essence. There are even other higher realms, but these are not recorded in this book.
In fact, the book "Green Wood Evergreen Art" is not complete. It only records the highest realm of Zhenyuan. There is no method of cultivating Fayuan mentioned in it.
However, the subsequent skills have no meaning to Qin Ziling at present.
For him, the most crucial thing now is whether he and Yin Ranyue, especially Yin Ranyue, have the spiritual roots and natural understanding to refine Qi.
If they don't have the spiritual roots and natural understanding to refine Qi, then this "Evergreen Green Wood Technique" will be useless to them no matter how complete it is.
Ever since seeing Liu Xiaoqiang break through to the level of Niubi, and the fight between Qin Ziling and Liu Xiaoqiang, Yin Ranyue had the idea of practicing martial arts.
In this chaotic world, Yin Ranyue, as a woman, has the ambition to make progress, and Qin Ziling actually agrees with her.
However, practicing the Cold Iron Palm is not only arduous, but also long-term practice will make the palms become rough and wide, and the person's muscles and skeleton will develop in the direction of being strong and sturdy.
Yin Ranyue is pretty and elegant, with a slender and graceful figure and perfect proportions. She is a real beauty. If she becomes a burly tomboy because of practicing martial arts, Qin Ziling naturally doesn't want that.
Qin Ziling disagreed with Yin Ranyue practicing the Cold Iron Palm, so Yin Ranyue was naturally depressed. It was not until Qin Ziling explained to her that practicing the Cold Iron Palm would likely make her hands and figure out of shape, and that he would help her find a martial art suitable for women to practice in the future, that Yin Ranyue's worry turned into joy.
"The Evergreen Green Wood Technique" is a wood-based Qi-refining technique. If practiced successfully, it can not only perform mysterious magic, but also increase lifespan and maintain beauty. It is obviously many times more suitable for printing and dyeing than ordinary martial arts.
Of course, the prerequisite is that Yin Ranyue has wood spiritual roots and the innate understanding for cultivation.
As stated at the beginning of the book, everything in the universe is made up of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements, and humans are no exception.
Some people can easily absorb the wood spiritual energy between heaven and earth, which means they have wood spiritual roots. They can easily absorb water spiritual energy, which means they have water spiritual roots. If they can relatively easily absorb two kinds of the five elements spiritual energy at the same time, they have dual spiritual roots. Three kinds have triple spiritual roots. Four kinds have quadruple spiritual roots. Five kinds have quadruple spiritual roots.
A single spiritual root is the easiest to cultivate, followed by double spiritual roots, then triple spiritual roots, and the subsequent four and five spiritual roots. Although they seem to be a large number and look very awesome, they are actually mixed spiritual roots and are not suitable for practicing Taoist Qi-refining techniques.
The vast majority of people in the world have mixed spiritual roots, and only a very small number of people have single, double, or triple spiritual roots.
