Chapter 47 Stygia

Zhong Lin walked out of the hall expressionlessly, looked at Yun Ye who was waiting in the yard, turned around and walked towards the large copper vat filled with water, and then buried his face directly in it.

Yun Ye in the middle of the yard also twitched his mouth when he saw this scene, looked at Zhong Lin with a little pity, and then walked over.

"The second young master just has a unique hobby, you..."

"I'm fine."

Zhong Lin shook his head, indicating that he was fine.

"Can I go now?"

Yun Ye took out a porcelain bottle from his arms and handed it over: "This is a reward from the second young master."

"Thank you."

Zhong Lin glanced at the three words "Zhuang Gu Dan" on the porcelain bottle, and his depressed mood also improved a little.

Damn, I thought that being called here by the young master of the Du family in the middle of the night was something, who would have thought that he was here to draw a pornographic picture for him.

It was also a live viewing of painting, and the protagonists in the painting were the second young master Du and the two maids beside him.

If you are not satisfied with one painting, you have to paint a few more, and the postures of each painting are also different.

Zhong Lin felt that he had already grown needle holes.

Yun Ye said: "I see that you are quite capable. Are you willing to join my Du family and become the Du family guard?"

"The guards of the Du family are all qualified warriors. Ninth-grade warriors are third-class guards, eighth-grade warriors are second-class guards, and seventh-grade warriors can be first-class guards. With your martial arts skills, you can be a second-class guard, with a monthly salary of twenty taels of silver. Moreover, with the Du family as a backing, no one will dare to take advantage of you when you come to the black market to buy medicine in the future."

Zhong Lin thought about it a lot. This treatment seemed to be good, but Zhong Lin was very unwilling. His goal was to go to Tianyang County to learn alchemy, but he was not interested in becoming a guard for someone else's family.

He took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "Thank you, Master Yun, for your appreciation. I am afraid I will disappoint your kindness. I am just a painter. I don't like fighting and killing. I just want to live a peaceful life."

"That's it."

Yun Ye heard that Zhong Lin's expression was obviously not very good when he refused, and waved his hand to indicate that Zhong Lin could leave.

"Hmph! Short-sighted people, don't you know that in order to cross the middle third grade and cultivate qi and blood, you need blood training techniques, and these things are only available in aristocratic families." Yun Ye said coldly.

In his mind, Zhong Lin is a junior with good talent in martial arts, and he is willing to be a person who promotes him, but he didn't expect Zhong Lin to refuse.

Just refuse if you refuse!

The loss is not himself, but Zhong Lin. If he misses this opportunity, he will be stuck in the lower third grade for the rest of his life, wasting his life.

On the other side, Zhong Lin, who had already walked away, did not hear Yun Ye's words, but even if he heard it, he probably didn't bother to care.

"Tsk tsk, worthy of being a child of an aristocratic family, this time the reward for writing is actually ten bone strengthening pills."

Zhong Lin opened the porcelain bottle with the moonlight, and there were ten round bone strengthening pills lying in it. According to thirty taels per pill, that is three hundred taels of silver, which can be said to be the most expensive reward for Zhong Lin since he became a painter.

"Dong Yan contributed five bone strengthening pills, and I bought five myself. Add these ten pills, plus the full-level experience to absorb the medicinal power of the pills, it's almost enough for me to be promoted to the seventh rank."

The full-level "Iron Mountain Kung Fu" allows Zhong Lin to understand this skill to the level of a creator. When practicing the skill, he can maximize the use of the medicinal power of the pills. Ordinary people need two pills, but he only needs one.

He walked a few steps faster and returned to the county town quickly.

"Second brother, wow! What a big rooster, can we eat meat tomorrow?"

Little Stone, who was still waiting for Zhong Lin to come home, was immediately sleepy when he saw the big rooster in his second brother's hand, especially when he thought about eating meat tomorrow, his mouth was watering.

"You are greedy, find a rope to tie it up, if it runs away, you won't have anything to eat tomorrow." Zhong Lin teased.

"Yeah."

Little Stone got up from the bed with his butt sticking out, put on his shoes, and excitedly found a hemp rope from the corner, tied one end to the rooster's feet and the other end to the table leg.

"Are you hungry? I also bought eggs and boiled them for you."

"Eat."

Zhong Lin was not sleepy at this time, so they went directly to the kitchen, added water, put two eggs directly into the water, and boiled them over high heat.

After a while, the water boiled, and they waited for a while before taking out the eggs and splashing them with cold water.

"Second brother, I want this one."

Little Stone pointed to a relatively pointed egg.

"Okay."

Even if the egg was splashed with cold water, it was still hot. Little Stone switched his left and right hands back and forth, and kept blowing to cool it down.

Neither of them ate it directly, but looked at each other.

"One, two, three, hit."

No mistake, one post, one content, one book, one forum, one 6, one 9!

"One, two, three, hit."

Accompanied by a click, the eggs in the hands of the two people collided with each other, but Xiao Shitou's egg was still intact, while the one in Zhong Lin's hand was directly dented.

"Oh! I won, I won."

Xiao Shitou shouted excitedly, holding the egg in his hand like a general who had won a battle.

Zhong Lin looked at the scene in front of him with a smile on his face. This egg... smells so good!

...

Seven days passed quickly. During these seven days, Zhong Lin would still sell medicine on the black market every day at midnight. Part of the silver was used to buy scarce materials, and the other part was still used to buy bone strengthening pills.

During the day, he hid at home to practice. The bone strengthening pill is indeed a pill specially prepared for the eighth-grade Yijin realm. The huge medicinal power is specifically targeted at bones.

After swallowing a pill, Zhong Lin waved his fist in the yard. With every breath, he could feel the strong medicinal power acting on his bones.

The human bones seem hard, but they are actually very fragile and need to be tempered for many years.

The medicinal power of the bone-strengthening pill accelerated the process, but every time he tempered his bones, Zhong Lin could feel the pain.

The full-level "Iron Mountain Skill" made Zhong Lin's bone tempering very efficient. Even so, it would take a long time to temper it completely. After all, there are many bones in the human body. If you want to be comprehensive, you have to spend time to temper them slowly.

After two hours, Zhong Lin also felt a little tired, so he stopped.

Feeling the power contained in his body, Zhong Lin nodded with satisfaction.

"Although I haven't entered the seventh-grade bone-forging realm yet, I can clearly feel that my strength, defense, and physical strength have greatly increased, far exceeding the Yijin realm. Moreover, I have tempered most of the bones in my body, and only some small places are missing. In three days at most, I will definitely be able to enter the seventh grade."

After washing his face and packing up simply, he shouted to the house: "Shi Tou, have you packed up? It's time to go."

"Okay."

Today is the day to move. Old man Xu has rented a house and has been ready for several days. If Zhong Lin doesn't move, it is estimated that Old man Xu's family will move in.

Now it is getting more and more chaotic outside. The matter of the thief Guo Yanhuai can no longer be concealed. It has been spread a long time ago. I don't know how many nearby disaster victims have fled to the county town for refuge.

With more people, supplies are more scarce. There are more disaster victims and beggars on the streets. The whole Heishan County feels to Zhong Lin like a huge gunpowder barrel, which only needs the last spark.