Chapter 196 Basic Body Refining Techniques and Martial Arts

The group of people ate and drank, and drank and ate. Apart from camel meat, they only had some cactus meat as their staple food.

This mutated cactus is a specialty of this civilization. It is rich in starch and can be used as a staple food. It tastes pretty good too.

Around the stone fire, I could hear the singing of women and children.

"Da ya ya da ya ya..."

They are always easily satisfied. At least today is a rare day when they can eat and drink their fill and enjoy the fruits given by Lu Yuan.

As for what will happen tomorrow, we will think about it tomorrow.

Lu Yuan saw a few little guys, they were dirty and barefoot, but their eyes were quite bright.

These cubs are quite cute. Besides, Lu Yuan is getting older and has been traveling for a long time, so his thinking is different from before.

He likes the young and energetic little guy more and more.

He winked at them, whistled, and then took out a small bag of marbles.

This is a little thing I brought from the Rize civilization. I play it when I'm bored.

One of the brave children tried to run over and get the toy, picked up a marble, laughed happily, and showed off to his friends.

"Happy time, if we don't think about tomorrow..." Lu Yuan said in his heart.

The men talked about the monsters in the sky city.

Talking about a bleak future.

It’s a completely different style of painting.

The village elder, Sha Sanli, took out a map made of camel skin: "Lying in the north of the city is a strange bird with red feathers."

"It's about five meters long, extremely powerful, and can stir up a red scarlet wind."

"The flying speed is extremely fast!"

"Once stained with that touch of red, it will gradually melt into a pool of liquid."

"This red monster bird is too strong. It occupies a large part of the pool. We are no match for it."

When he said this, he felt sympathetic and shook his head slightly.

Obviously, only when there is a fatality in the village can we get the corresponding information.

Lu Yuan frowned again.

This large-scale supernatural phenomenon sounds like it could very well be... a vision? "It shouldn't be a demon or ghost, but a relatively weak vision, otherwise how could these people in the sand survive until now."

Of course, as the embodiment of idealistic rules, visions do need to be treated with caution.

Unless it was absolutely necessary, Lu Yuan had no motivation to launch an attack.

"I wonder if this strange bird can be tamed..."

He thought to himself, "If it can be tamed, it will be of great help if it has the vision of being able to fly."

"What else? What else? Tell us all at once." Old Cat urged, sitting on a small stool.

Sanda Sanri whispered again: "There is another unidentifiable monster."

"We call it ghost fog, and it only appears at night. It has hundreds of large, scarlet eyes. If you look into it, you will be possessed by evil spirits. After a while, you will become insane and die in a nightmare."

It's getting more and more mysterious.

The old cat couldn't help but ask: "What kind of ghost fog is this? Have you witnessed it with your own eyes?"

"No, no, everyone who saw it went crazy... Someone from the next village told me."

Lu Yuan looked at the flickering firelight and fell into deep thought.

For these civilizations with underdeveloped productivity, some things are just legends that are spread by word of mouth.

You don't have to believe it all.

"What else?"

"To the east of the city, there is a group of huge... lizards..."

"It's about this big... Its skin is bright red, it can breathe fire, and it has wings, so it can fly for a short time."

Sha Sanli held the tricycle and compared it for a while: "Whoosh, it pounced and took the person away."

"Those lizards are twice as big as this... car."

Lu Yuan couldn't help but feel moved when listening to his explanation.

Isn’t this the first supernatural creature he has dealt with, the Salamander?

It turns out that there is a large group of fire lizards in the sky city, and they can fly!

"How many?"

"At least a hundred!!"

This number is beyond what the Sarari clan can handle.

Strength, strength, it is so important...

For powerful civilizations, these lizards are precious supernatural resources that cannot be purchased by any amount of money.

For weak civilizations, they are evil spirits that are demanding their lives.

While listening, Lu Yuan did not make any promises.

He is only one person, and he does as much as he can.

Lu Yuan still understood the principle of "a little help is a kindness, a big help is a grudge".

This was just the first time he met the Sarari clan, so they couldn't be considered to have a very good relationship.

Once you put yourself in mental shackles, it becomes an additional burden.

So he couldn't make any promises.

Sha Sanli took out another larger map from a drawer. "Besides that, there are too many monsters with weaker strength. There may be hundreds of them..."

"Cockatrices, quintons, two-headed crows, vultures, they are all targets that you don't want to mess with."

"The most important thing is that the water resources they occupy are not that large. Even if we win, the water resources we get will not be enough for the village to use for a long time."

This is a relatively complete camel skin, covering an area of ​​2 square meters, which fully depicts the distribution of various monsters in the sky city.

There were thousands of various written symbols, like mung beans, and in some places there were simple images of monsters... It was definitely the result of the blood and sweat of the Sunari clan.

Even on the back of the map, there is a part of the underground sewer drawn.

Although the sewers are home to the queen worm and her offspring, they are also the place where water is most easily obtained.

"It's a pity that due to years of drought, the water in the sewers has been decreasing... Alas, I don't know when it will end." Sha Sanli swallowed and looked at the full moon that had just risen.

Lu Yuan also knew that this map meant a great favor.

He couldn't understand the words on it, so he could only pass it to Old Cat.

The old cat took a piece of white paper and installed a fountain pen on his cat's paw. In less than 10 minutes, he had copied the map perfectly.

After this conversation, it was getting dark, and the people of Shari arranged an uninhabited earthen house for them and cleaned it up a little.

"Just tell me if you need anything."

The conditions in the indigenous villages without technology are like this.

Lu Yuan didn't mind and followed the local customs.

The house is not big, only about 30 square meters.

There is also a deep, well-like basement, about 10 meters deep, with a bed underneath.

"Boy, this bed down there is pretty cool."

Wandered around the village again.

The wall is the most primitive earth wall, made of clay mixed with the stems and leaves of some plants and compacted.

There is a big water tank in the yard of every household, but there is no water in the tank.

About one kilometer away from the outskirts of the village, there is a black mud pit with oily substance in it, like asphalt, which can be used for burning.

In the center of the village there is an ancestral temple built with large bluestone.

It’s a big village with 3,000 people, but there isn’t much nightlife. When night falls, everyone goes straight to sleep.

There were only a few young men who were on night watch, chatting at the village gate about interesting stories that happened today, as well as trivial things that happened in the various villages.

Because Lu Yuan's hearing was too sensitive, he couldn't help but hear some "rustling" sounds.

Because water resources are precious, the village generally uses sand for bathing.

Lu Yuan couldn't imagine what a man and a woman in the dark could do on the sand.

This may be how ancient civilizations achieved their high fertility rates.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

"Translate, my sister, my cat. What are they talking about?"

Cat Mama remained indifferent, her eyes full of contempt.

As for Conch Girl, she was really fooled by Lu Yuan and started to translate seriously.

She said: [Huh~ Look at you, woman. You just took a little less water. Why are you so angry?! ]

[You're not allowed to touch it even if I drink less water, right? 】

[…I almost died there, and you keep nagging all day long. You won’t be happy until I die, right? Come on, rub it for me.]

When this conversation is spoken by Conch, it always has a weird style.

Then, Hailuo's tone changed: [That purple foreigner is really skilled, he can fight better than all of us combined! ]

[It's just that she looks a bit ugly. ]

[The whole person looked like he had rolled through a cesspool, his entire body was purple, only the whites of his eyes and teeth were white... Evil man Lu, do you still want to continue eavesdropping? ]

"Yes!" The old cat couldn't help but shout out and started eavesdropping.

Lu Yuan was very embarrassed. Was he so ugly now?

There is no way, so I'd better not listen to it. The more I listen, the angrier I'll probably get.

He quickly fled into the house and used the Eternal Fire to clean the heavy pigments on his skin.

It's not difficult to clean up, it just takes a little time.

At this moment, the tied-up immortal giant turtle finally slowly regained consciousness from its manic mental state.

Its dark green eyes stared at Lu Yuan, and it giggled, "Hey, hey, hey, brother, I'm awake, don't tie me up anymore."

Lu Yuan was also relieved, and asked unhappily: "What's going on with you? How much do you remember?"

The immortal giant turtle opened its mouth and tried hard to recall with its not-so-bright brain.

"I had a dream. It was all about delicious food. They smelled so good... Even though I knew it was a dream, I didn't want to wake up."

"There is also a strong obsession... to become a god... that obsession controls my body..."

“I don’t remember the rest clearly.”

It shook its purple turtle head heavily.

Lu Yuan asked in confusion: "You mean, all the creatures in those buds are still alive and are just dreaming?"

"No, they are indeed dead... Only Master Turtle survived. Their souls have disappeared, and what controls their bodies is only that strong obsession."

“Where does the soul go?”

"No...I don't know."

The Immortal Giant Turtle may be a unique existence, and even the devil cannot take over its body.

Perhaps its soul is also immortal, or perhaps it has no soul at all and is just the embodiment of some idealistic rule.

But after hearing what it said, Lu Yuan felt a little pressure in his heart.

Once the soul disappears, it means there is no way to resurrect using the Tree of Life.

Of course, he quickly thought of a solution: "As long as I die quickly enough, I won't have this kind of trouble."

I stuffed an orange into its mouth to comfort the turtle that had just woken up.

The turtle shed tears. It still wanted to continue dreaming that beautiful dream. It kept wailing: "My buns, noodles... my beef ramen... I woke up and there was nothing but an orange."

"Get lost!" Lu Yuan cursed.

…

A night passed like this...

Lu Yuan spent a whole night removing the purple color from his body, and finally he looked like a normal person again.

He felt like he was the brightest guy in the village. No matter where he went, the women in the village would look at him curiously, wondering where such a yellow-skinned person came from.

The turtle following behind him attracted a series of praises.

"This turtle is so big and looks very fleshy."

“I don’t know how delicious it will be when it’s stewed.”

The Immortal Giant Turtle couldn't understand the native language and felt quite embarrassed - it was a madman when it came here, and now it could only remain silent and follow behind.

Lu Yuan arrived at the ancestral hall and asked directly, "Elder, I want to know about martial arts and the information you found in the Sky City."

“This knowledge is very useful to me.”

He added at the end: "If you can give me knowledge, I will reward you generously."

"This warrior...you, you don't know martial arts?!" Sha Sanli was shocked. How did you defeat the enemy if you don't even know this? Lu Yuan shook his head and told the truth: "I only know the extraordinary fire."

Of course, his is not an extraordinary fire, but an evolved type of eternal fire.

The people of the Sandi clan stared at him with wide eyes, as if he were a monster.

In fact, they called the extraordinary fire "basic body refining technique."

Only after it was discovered in Pangu Continent and someone with identification ability appeared, did people discover that it was called "supernatural fire."

Can the extraordinary fire alone be so strong? Are you lying to me? Finally, a group of people welcomed him into the room and made a cup of something like butter tea, which might be made from camel milk and had a fishy smell.

The militia captain, Shakaner, came out to explain: "The matter of martial arts is a long story... According to legend, the 'Basic Body Refining Technique' was passed down by our great ancestors. Almost everyone can practice it. It is simple and easy to understand. It all depends on talent."

"But martial arts skills must be obtained by swallowing the 'qi' of monsters."

Lu Yuan couldn't help but ask: "How many years has your 'Basic Body Refining Technique' been passed down?"

"I don't know. It's been around since before there were written records."

Lu Yuan sighed in his heart, another second-generation civilization...

But this second-generation civilization is too weak.

How come technology hasn't been developed yet? An idea suddenly popped up in his mind: Cutting off most of the inheritance might be a way to escape the disaster of the era? !

"What's the matter with swallowing the monster's breath?"

Shakaner took a sip of camel milk and explained, "Some monsters, even if they die, their 'qi' will still remain for a while."

"If you can swallow this 'qi', you will be able to feel it running around in your body."

"Use your brain to sense the movement of 'Qi' and learn its mysteries, then you can use martial arts to a certain extent."

(End of this chapter)