This was the first time that he had practiced martial arts after taking the Zhuangti Pill, thus expelling a large amount of dirt from his body.
It may not reach the level of cleansing the bones and marrow, but it can still expel toxins and make you feel relaxed.
"I definitely can't do without a bath now."
Jiang Li smelled the stench on his own body and felt quite disgusted.
He took out some spare clothes from his bag, but no one else took them away.
When I got out of the carriage, it was quiet outside.
There were only two black-clad warriors sitting and keeping watch by the campfire, while everyone else was sleeping comfortably in the tents.
Jiang Li walked towards the river with light steps.
The warrior who was guarding by the campfire noticed Jiang Li's departure at the first moment, but he didn't seem to care and just fiddled with the campfire in front of him.
"These little bastards didn't believe me when I told them not to leave the camp. Ha, our mission is to guard the camp. It would be a waste if they die outside."
Jiang Li was of course unaware of the night watchman's complaints. He walked into the bushes in the darkness, casting identification spells everywhere.
What are white-flowered Bidens pilosa, Tongquan Bloodthorn Vine, and the willows swaying in the wind on the bank?
A bunch of names of plants and insects that he had never heard of before popped up, but he was too lazy to pay attention to them. With his current level of identification skills, he might not be able to identify the rare treasures even if they were right in front of him.
From time to time, yellow or even red identification boxes would jump out from the bushes. Some were poisonous snakes and some were scorpions. When Jiang Li saw these, he would calmly turn around and take a detour.
The large wild animals nearby had been turned into roasted meat on the table during the day. Now the main danger of walking at night is still these poisonous insects and weeds.
As long as you are careful and use identification techniques, your safety will be relatively guaranteed. This is also the reason why Jiang Li dared to come out alone.
He quickly reached the river and threw water into the river for a while. After confirming that there was no danger, he took off his dirty clothes and used a scoop to scoop water to wash the stains on his body.
Back in the carriage, Jiang Li, who had just tasted the sweetness, soon fell into practice again. Suihu Kung Fu has a move called Sleeping Tiger that can be practiced while sleeping.
Although the speed of cultivation is slow, it is a long-term process and can keep one alert even during sleep, which is a unique feature of this inferior martial arts method.
Soon, snoring sounds were heard in the carriage, as if there was really a tiger lying inside.
. . . .
A few days later.
Swish! A figure shuttled through the woods, accelerated to the extreme, and suddenly swung the sword.
The figure brushed past a big tree, and a sword-like light flashed by. After a moment, the tree, which was thicker than Yan Hong's head, slowly fell down.
Papapapa! The chubby, round-faced Yan Hong clapped his hands as he walked away. He touched the broken end of Qiao Mu and marveled at it.
"Incredible! Incredible! Your Mountain-Splitting Sword is getting more and more powerful with each swing. I take back my words about competing with you. I don't want to be hit like this."
He touched the protective soft armor he was wearing, and it was obviously unable to block the sword just now.
"But Jiang Li, your Sui Hu Kung Fu is very advanced, and your Kai Shan Sword is incredibly powerful. Many second-rate warriors in the martial arts world would not be your opponent."
"Those guys from the Wang and Li families are not as strong as me. How could you be beaten like that by them?"
Yan Hong still vividly remembered Jiang Li's miserable condition a few days ago. It was no exaggeration to say that he had walked through the gates of hell. Of course, he was a little confused about this.
"I had no choice. I didn't have a sword with me at the time, and they attacked me from behind and knocked me down with a rock. Otherwise, I come from a martial arts family, how could I lose to them?"
Jiang Li pointed to the back of his head. The large area of bright red at that time indicated that it was indeed the fatal wound of the original owner.
"When I find the chance, humph! I will beat the shit out of them! Brother, I have never been bullied like this since I was a child!"
His face was filled with hatred, perfectly portraying the scene of a thirteen-year-old boy preparing for revenge.
Yan Hong naturally had no doubts. Their Hongyan Kingdom valued martial arts. No matter if they were royal relatives or rich ladies, those who had the conditions had more or less learned a few moves and had some martial arts skills.
Jiang Li was born into a martial arts family and was the eldest son. Although he behaved a little bit abnormally in the past, it was normal for him to have practiced martial arts.
"Don't worry, brother. With your strength, eight or ten of them can't get close to you unless you get ambushed."
"You don't have to worry about the team leader. No one cared when they beat you up like that last time. As long as they don't fight in front of you and no one dies, no one will care."
Yan Hong patted Jiang Li's shoulder excitedly, as if he was the one who wanted revenge.
Jiang Li smiled and looked at the sword in his hand.
"Um... Yanhong, I'll compensate you when we get to town."
He handed the sword back somewhat embarrassedly, because the blades on both sides of the sword were full of pits and many places were bent after repeated grinding and then bent again. It looked horrible and it was obvious that it could not last much longer.
In the past two days, Jiang Li's Suihu Kung Fu level has gradually improved, and his physical fitness has also steadily improved. He asked Yan Hong for help and borrowed the other's long sword to practice Kaishan Sword.
But the sword technique of Kaishan Sword, which relies on strength to win, consumes a lot of weapons, and Jiang Li's sword skills are poor and he makes many mistakes. In just a few days, Yan Hong's sword, which is mixed with one tenth of black iron, can be declared scrapped! "This... You are too strong... Forget it, I'll just give it to you, after all, we are brothers... You must return me a better sword in the future..."
Yan Hong stroked the damaged sword blade and felt like crying. A weapon made of black iron was not something that could be easily bought, even though there was only one in their prince's mansion.
"Yes, of course. I will sharpen this sword for two days."
Jiang Li found a stone to sharpen his sword. The two of them were chatting casually not far from the convoy's camp. He silently read his personal panel, and the light screen flashed, and his attributes appeared in front of him again.
【Name: Jiang Li】
【Age: 13 years old】
[Race: Human]
[Main occupation: Warrior, level: second-rate]
[Secondary Occupation 1: None]
[Secondary Occupation 2: None]
【Life: 540/540】
[Physical Strength: 420/420]
[Strength: 2.1]
【Speed:1.9】
【Constitution: 2.2】
[Spirit: 1]
【Comprehension: 1.1】
[Kung Fu: Sui Hu Kung lv5]
[Skills: Appraisal lv2, Mountain-Splitting Sword lv3]
【Loss status: None】
Today, his three physical fitness values have averaged two points, which seems to be only twice that of an ordinary adult, but in fact it is more than that.
The higher the attribute, the greater the bonus will be in the future. It is not obvious now, but when every attribute on Jiang Li's panel exceeds 100 in the future, a slight increase in the bonus may be equivalent to the current 20 to 30 points.
In addition to the attributes, his Suihu Kung Fu has reached the advanced level 5, and his Kaishan Sword has also become level 3 and can be used.
For an ordinary warrior, it might take ten years of hard training to achieve this kind of attribute, but Jiang Li achieved it in less than a week.
This was mainly due to the help of the strengthening pill.
One strengthening pill is effective for two hours. Jiang Li has been taking sixty or seventy strengthening pills, which are hard to find in the world, continuously over the past few days to achieve such an effect.
In fact, he didn't know that even in the world of immortality, there are two sayings: "drug resistance" and "all medicines are three parts poison".
Most pills are most effective when taken for the first time. If you take more, the effect will gradually decrease and become worse and worse.
And it is not advisable to rely on increasing the dosage to make up for the effect, because there is such a thing as erysipelas.
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Therefore, even if ordinary cultivators have money, they cannot take pills indiscriminately like a medicine jar.
Jiang Li has not yet realized that the effect of his golden finger may be greater than he imagined.
"Yan Hong, I remember you studied under a master in some martial arts sect before. I heard that the immortals are very biased towards each other. People like us who come to study with our skills will not be rejected, right?"
Jiang Li still remembers the tremendous strength in Yan Hong's hands. If converted into a numerical value, it is at least 1.6 to 1.7. At the age of thirteen or fourteen, it is already a remarkable achievement.
"I'm not an apprentice. My father invited an elder from the Lieyang Gang to teach me martial arts. Actually, it's not for fighting. It's said that if you practice the Lieyang Gang's martial arts to a deep level, it will be very beneficial for having more children."
"As for learning martial arts from a master, don't think too much about it. It's just a low-grade martial art from the mortal world. Whether you have it or not, you are still just a mortal in the eyes of those immortals."
Speaking of the immortal Yan Hong, his eyes revealed an unconcealable desire. Yes, who doesn't yearn to cultivate and become an immortal?
"Yes, even the masters of the inner family have to kowtow in front of those immortal masters. They are more fawning than my servants."
Jiang Li couldn't help but sigh as well.
Although the masters of internal martial arts are powerful and can fly over eaves, walk on walls, break monuments and split rocks, but that is still within the scope of human understanding. If Jiang Li is given some more time, he will be able to achieve that soon with the help of his strengthened body.
But immortals... or immortal cultivators, they are terrifying beings that can call the wind and rain and cut mountains and rivers with swords in the legend. With his previous understanding of modern society, it is difficult to imagine that any carbon-based creature can do this.
The power of immortal cultivators has obviously gone beyond the scope of ordinary humans. It really makes no difference to them whether they have some martial arts skills or not.
"Yes, even if you are a congenital master, you are still a servant of the immortal cultivator. So Jiang Li, you can practice some martial arts to strengthen your body now, but you must focus on cultivating immortals in the future. Otherwise, if you fall behind and can't catch up with me, I won't wait for you."
Yan Hong's big round face was trying hard to look earnest and earnest, which looked very funny.
"Why can I still hear the nagging of the etiquette lady at home even though I am hundreds of miles away from home? Yan Hong, tell me the truth, are you really only thirteen years old?"
Jiang Li raised the long sword that he had been sharpening for a long time to check the blade. He felt helpless towards his friend. Although he was not a master of time management, he was an adult after all. How could he not be able to distinguish the importance of such a thing?
"Hehe, don't tell me that I have driven away several etiquette maids in my palace."
"By the way, Jiang Li, do you like Yan Fengyue's type? My sister looks at least 80% similar to her, but she's a little plump. Why don't we become in-laws?"
Yan Hong looked cunning, and no one knew how this fat guy could come up with such an idea. But after looking at his body shape, one could probably understand what the so-called plumpness meant.
"roll!"
The two men got up and left the woods, playing around.
It was evening again, and time to distribute food for dinner.
Jiang Li lined up to receive food as usual, but it was obvious that he was still being deliberately isolated by his peers in the line. The people in front of and behind him deliberately left several spaces empty, unwilling to get close to him.
This is just like the school bullying in the previous life. They would target a classmate who was easy to bully and ostracize him to death. All kinds of dirty words, rumors and even physical torture were the means for other students to show their strength and unite their factions.
At this time, most people may not actively bully Jiang Li, but they will never show kindness to Jiang Li or even lend a helping hand.
If it were an ordinary teenager, he would probably be driven crazy by now.
It’s a pity that the target this time is Jiang Li.
After he received his portion of food at the long table, he looked at the young men behind him with deliberate fear, then lowered his head and walked away quickly.
Due to his panic, the food on the tray was quickly scattered. Then he seemed to wipe away tears with his sleeve, grabbed a steamed bun on the ground and ran towards the woods in the distance.
While running, he looked back at the teenagers who led the beating and isolating him.
Do you know why you can't turn your back on wild animals? Because the instinct engraved in the genes of carnivores makes it difficult for them to resist the temptation to attack from behind.
Coupled with that terrified expression, it shows that the prey in front of him will not know how to resist even if he kneels down and begs for mercy and kowtows until death.
Such temptation is really irresistible for the hot-blooded bullies.
As expected, there were seven teenagers in total, three with the surname Wang and four with the surname Li. They belonged to two aristocratic families in the Hongyan Kingdom and were also the culprits who had beaten Jiang Li and caused the original owner's death.
Some of them had just received their food, and seeing this as a good opportunity to beat up the punching bag, they looked at each other, put down their plates, grabbed whatever was handy, and chased in the direction Jiang Li had run.
"Watch me, watch me. This time I'm going to break Jiang's legs!"
"Interrupt which one?"
"Haha, all three are interrupted!"
"Go! Hurry up and don't let him run away."
The seven young men were still immersed in the satisfaction of "saving the beauty" and were saying terrible words with ferocious faces.
Jiang Li’s original identity was a young villain, and these seven guys were no good either.
Chivalrous? Come on, they just like beating people up and showing off in front of the goddess.
They chased into the woods and soon saw their target. Jiang Li was leaning against a crooked tree, waiting for them with a smile.
"Hehe! Jiang Li, you are smart. You are waiting for us here obediently and didn't run away."
"You know, because of this we can be merciful and break one of your legs, but we still have to break the middle one!"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
The leading teenager approached with a wooden stick in his hand and a grin on his face. The other six also dispersed with laughter, blocking all the directions in which Jiang Li might escape.
Just... BAM!
A figure flew backwards five or six meters and lay on the ground, his life or death unknown. It turned out that Jiang Li had taken out a long sword from behind the tree at some point.
He didn't intend to kill anyone, so he just smashed the man away with his scabbard! (End of this chapter)