Strengthening starts from the county magistrate

Chapter 40 Huaiyang Rewards, Barren Mountain Patriarch
The ground under Shen Mu's feet moved.

The originally loose soil began to become compact and firm, and there was a small hole in the place where the pagoda tree was planted before.

A sprout broke through the ground at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then began to spread and grow rapidly.

The complexions of Cao Zhengxiang and Song Yizhi changed, and then they looked at each other, and then stretched out their hands to cover each other with a breath.

The few of them were horrified in their hearts. No one thought that the wood could really change when it was planted in the ground.

A powerful vitality spreads in the land, Shen Mu and others may not see it, just under the deep soil, countless soft roots began to cover the entire Fengjiang City, and continued to spread outward.

Passing through the city wall of the county seat, crossing forest paths, and covering the barren hill dozens of miles away where Li Tieniu often chops firewood, the spreading stopped.

I don't know how long it has passed, under the dumbfounded expressions of several people.

The locust poplar tree, like a seedling, has grown into a big tree with a strong body.

However, it is not the kind of extremely huge towering tree, but its size is almost the same as that of the surrounding windbreak trees.

It doesn't look very special from a distance. If you don't know it, you may not be able to recognize that it is a distinctive pagoda tree.

The frontier region lacks nourishment. On the one hand, it is due to the geographical location, and on the other hand, it is also related to the lack of luck and vitality.

Firstly, these blessings are missing, and secondly, there is no magical blessing of mountains and rivers, so it must be a little desolate. From the perspective of other counties with relatively moist areas, Fengjiang is quite desolate, with a lot of wind and sand, no water system, and occasional drought Famine.

But almost no one noticed that just after the growth of this locust poplar tree, the land in Fengjiang began to change silently.

An invisible vitality is nourishing the earth, and the thin vitality begins to recover, and the surrounding vegetation and trees are quietly dense, and the colors are stronger and full of vitality.

Even the barren mountain dozens of miles away began to show signs of spring with dead trees.

Of course, the breeding of life is an extremely slow process, and the slightest change cannot be noticed in the eyes of outsiders.

Only the sunken wood bound to Fengjiang City can feel the most real.

At this time, information prompts and changes on the map appeared in his mind.

[The Ancestral Tree skill of Sophora japonica poplar is activated: the dead tree is in spring! 】

[Map: Frontier City]

[Central Street: County government office/restaurant/tea house/bun shop...]

【Street/Peach Blossom Spring/Little Lotus Pond...】

[West of the city: Longjing Lane (Longjing lock)]

[South of the city: the root of the wall (the ancestral tree of pagoda tree)]

[East of the city: Street entrance (?)]

[North of the city: Fuye Lane (Wenjiang Ancestral Hall)]

【barren mountain…】

Every location that has been lit up, and some locations that haven't been lit up, or even haven't been visited, all start to flash green light.

And under these places, Shen Mu could clearly see the intricate veins, which were continuously conveying thin vitality and breath.

Some positions may have more dense veins, while others may have sparse veins.

Shen Mu was stunned.

If the map at this time can be enlarged, it will definitely be quite spectacular.

[Hint: The successful planting of the ancestral tree has enhanced the vitality of the frontier]

【Reputation +500】

[Open the guidance of the body corresponding to the Qi Palace:]

【Five Elements: Wood Character Qi Mansion】

【Eight Gates: The Mansion of Health and Qi】

The rewards are complete.

Shen Mu stood on the spot blankly, but his heart was extremely excited.

He really didn't expect the reward this time, the so-called [Huaiyang return] task is actually very simple, just dig a hole and bury some soil.

But the harvest is so rich, not only earning back the prestige paid before, but also reminding himself of two important Qi Fu acupoints.

The wooden character of the five elements is Qifu, and the new character of Bamen is Qifu.

These two seem to be related to the characteristics of the ancestral tree of Huaiyang. The five elements of Huaiyang must be wood, and the skill of dead wood in spring represents vitality, so the second gate of opening the third gate, Shengmen, is also loosened.

Until now, Shen Mu seemed to have thought of something, and then suddenly realized!

No wonder the system always emphasizes that he is bound to the frontier and is closely related to himself, and not long ago, when he entered Zhulu Realm, he opened three Qi Palaces inexplicably.

If his guess and analysis are good, it must have something to do with his lighting up of some special positions in Fengjiang.

From this point of view, the boundary of the frontier is indeed quite mysterious.

It seems that many places, even every household, may be treasures that he needs to open.

This is a bit interesting.

But this is just a guess and association of Shen Mu, he has more important things to do right now.

"Okay, that's about it. A tree that can grow up by itself is also very interesting. You can play with it. I'll go back first. Oh, by the way, remember to come and water it if you have nothing to do."

After saying that, Shen Mu turned around and left.

Only a few adults and children were left in place with bewildered faces.

"..."

"!?"

What did this man just say?
Just a tree that grows by itself, it's fun...

I really believe you ghost!

...

Regardless of other people's thoughts at this time, Shen Mu ran back to the government office alone.

Then I went back to the room, closed the door and began to retreat.

As for how those few people think about this matter, Shen Mu is actually not very concerned, let them think what they want.

This kind of thing can't be explained clearly, and it can't be explained, after all, this is his biggest secret.

Of course, in fact, Cao Zhengxiang, Song Yizhi and others did not suspect anything at all.

After he left, several people analyzed it on the spot.

In the end, the conclusion was that the county magistrate had a good face, so he probably didn't know what was going on, so he escaped to avoid embarrassment.

Swallowed five Nayuan Pills at once.

Shen Mu only discovered recently that his practice was actually a waste of pills, and he had already used up ten of the fifty Nayuan pills that Liu Changfeng gave him before in a few days.

There is no way, Fengjiang can't compare with those counties and counties with great luck and good luck, let alone those sects on the mountain with strong vitality.

Under such harsh conditions, if you want to absorb enough vitality to develop and cultivate your Qi Palace, if you want to break through by yourself without the assistance of pills, that would be a dream.

Not to mention anything else, without additional assistance, it would be a difficult task to keep the furnace burning in the Inner Furnace Mansion with Fengjiang's nearly scum-like vitality.

The elixir entered the body and melted, and the power of the medicine began to take effect, and a powerful vitality began to fill the whole body.

Shen Mu didn't dare to be negligent, closed his eyes directly, and opened the furnace cauldron of Furnace Mansion in Dantian.

At this time, the furnace was bigger than before, the three legs were thicker and more stable, and the flame intensity in the furnace also increased accordingly.

Shen Mu guides the vitality of Nayuan Dan into the furnace, and then pushes the flame of the furnace to the strongest level.

As for the other vital qi overflowing in the body, it is allowed to stay in or wander around in various qi residences.

After Shen Mu adjusted to the best condition, he began to open up new Qifu acupoints.

At present, he has opened six Qifu orifice points.

One of them is the inner furnace qi mansion of the furnace tripod, the second is the door-opening qi mansion among the eight gates, there is also the five-element gold-character qi mansion, and three ordinary qi mansions that are opened as soon as they enter Zhulu Realm.

From Shen Mu's point of view, those three should be gifts from his homeland.

Just like today, I seem to have completed a very good home construction, and then I was able to open two more smoothly.

If you just rely on your own groping and development, without the help of the system, you may not know that you will survive until the Year of the Monkey.

After the Sophora poplar ancestral tree was born and the system rewarded the two qi palaces, he could vaguely feel its hidden position, and even loosened a little bit.

It was precisely because of this slight sign of looseness that Shen Mu found it accurately and proudly, and decided to destroy the two Qi Palaces today.

At this time, the furnace in the body had already started to burn raging fire, and the sinking wood urged the furnace to move, and found the point of the Qi Palace along the loose position.

Then without further ado, the flames of the furnace suddenly rose, and the vitality of the other big acupoints began to flow frantically.

If the furnace was blown by a strong wind, the flames seemed to overflow the furnace, and began to temper crazily to hit the door of the Qi Palace.

I don't know how long has passed.

The door of the Qi House, which was loose at first, was finally burst out by the flames of the furnace, and Shen Mu hit the iron while it was hot, continued to gather vitality, poured fiercely into the acupoint of the Qi House, and directly opened the small door, forcibly split open !
Bang!
There was a sharp tremor in the body, and the brand new Qi Palace was finally opened.

The wooden character Qi Fu of the five elements.

After opening it, Shen Mu hurriedly ran the "Five Elements Talisman Jue", feeling the benefits brought by the Wood Character Qi Mansion, and played out a Talisman of the Wood of the Five Elements, and several wooden stakes appeared out of thin air, very skillful.

After the opening of the Qi Palace, it seems that he has gradually become proficient in using some talismans of the wood attribute.

Although these are just some of the most basic, but according to Liu Changfeng's explanation, if you want to go one step further, you need to open all the five related qi houses of the five elements, and according to mutual generation and restraint, after using them in random combinations according to the formula, you can enter The next level of domain.

This "Five Elements Talisman Jue" seems to be just the most basic enlightenment method, but its preciousness is no less than that of "Infinite Golden Body Jue", because they are all original methods, as long as they are constantly tempered, they can be developed by themselves. Tier, power is the same.

It's like among the five elements, native wood. After comprehending the mutual generation and restraint of these two five elements, they can be combined and used to draw new high-level talismans.

Or you can learn to master the Qi House of other attributes, and then use it in conjunction with the five elements. For example, the Qi House Acupoint of the Wind attribute can be used in conjunction with the Fire character Qi House to increase its power and so on.

After using it for a while, Shen Mu stopped and wiped his sweaty forehead.

The vitality of the five Nayuan Pills has not been exhausted yet.

After just resting for a while, he started to open up the next Qi Palace.

This time, Shen Mu's eyes were more serious.

Because this Qi Palace is one of the eight gates of the Golden Body Art, and it is also the second gate of the three gates opened by the first physical body, the Shengmen Qi Palace.

Through perception, he could feel that the difficulty of opening up this Qi residence was several times that of the Five Elements Qi residence.

Moreover, the gate of life is also the most difficult threshold for the first level of the infinite golden body.

When many people practice this method, most of them break through and open the door first, then the door of rest, and finally the most difficult door of life.

However, the order of the sinking wood is different from theirs, which also follows the rewards of the home system, anyway, it's a bit of a random meaning.

If Liu Changfeng saw it at this time, his jaw would definitely drop.

Because it seems that I have never seen a person who can open five or six qi houses just after entering the furnace for a month. The key point is that more than half of them are five-element qi houses, and eight-door qi houses are very difficult. Qi Fu.

Regardless of physical talent, but just looking at the speed of opening up the Qi House Acupoints, Shen Mu can be said to be a genius and monster.

It can even be compared to the people in the middle-earth China.

Of course, what's more important is that Shen Mu actually crossed the Hugh Gate and opened the Life Gate first!

If this fails, the impact on the body may be huge.

Unless the brain is not good enough to seek death, otherwise no one will do this.

Shen Mu didn't know this, anyway, he only had one, so he just followed the system.

Stretching out his hand, he swallowed five more Nayuan Pills without blinking.

He didn't dare to neglect the Shengmen Qifu.

Before opening it, he could feel the nature of this Qifu acupoint.

Compared with the others, it has a completely different aura, and it is as hard as a thick deep wall.

However, Shen Mu had a premonition that as long as he breaks through this Qi Palace, his physical strength will definitely enter a new field, and it will not be difficult to open the third gate.

At that time, the first major achievement of the Infinite Golden Body Art, maybe you can use your physical body to touch that Xu Yangzhi.

While thinking about it, the sinking wood activated the furnace cauldron, and began to burn crazily to roast the iron gate like a copper wall.

It is said that life comes from death, but the premise of death is life first.

Therefore, the most difficult "Two Gates of Life and Death" of the Infinity Golden Body Jue, one is placed in the last gate of the first level, and the other is placed in the last gate of the five Xun Passes.

At this moment, Shen Mu no longer knows the passage of time in the outside world.

Concentrating on urging the burning gate of the furnace, he didn't know how long it would take to break open, so he could only persevere, not let the flame weaken, and endure the pain of continuous burning of skin, flesh, bones and meridians all over his body.

The vitality is being consumed in a crazy amount, as long as the vitality of the Qi Palace is insufficient, Shen Mu will swallow another Nayuan Pill to replenish it.

This is the first time he has encountered the protracted tug-of-war to open up the Qi Palace.

He knew that in this situation, he had to endure and persevere. Once he slackened, his previous efforts might be wasted, and the slight chance of finally loosening up would be filled and made stronger.

And when the time comes to regroup and make a second impact, the difficulty will only increase.

Time passed little by little.

The night outside fell quietly.

Cao Zhengxiang, Song Yizhi and others have already returned.

Feeling the fluctuation of vitality in the room, he knew that Shen Mu was practicing, so he didn't bother him, not even shouting for dinner.

...

...

In late autumn, the cold wind suddenly blows.

The candlelight at the stall of the night shop was weak, and the old man leaned against the door of the shop, and there were sparse sounds of sound sleep.

Suddenly, with a bang, the cigarette stick held by his elbow fell to the ground.

The old man opened his eyes slightly, bent down and reached out, ready to pick up the pipe and pot.

Just as soon as the palm touched the ground slightly, the old man's previous tired expression disappeared instantly, and changed to a look of surprise.

He turned his head to look to the south, his eyes horrified.

"Unexpectedly, the ancestor of the pagoda tree came back to life again... Not bad, a dead tree comes in spring, hehe, old man, I also have a long drought and rain, my life should not die, my life should not die..."

While muttering in his mouth, he saw the old man's hands hanging down.

Then an astonishing scene appeared, his arm extended along with the trend, slowly became longer, and then directly plunged into the ground.

The breath is connected with the roots of the Huai Yang under the ground, and finally began to slowly absorb those tiny invisible life forces.

The old man tsk tsk: "Well, it is indeed the ancestor of the pagoda tree. Unexpectedly, there is still a branch left. Tsk tsk, at least it is a little less, but if it is raised for hundreds of years, it will almost be able to grow." It's amazing to return to the level of the Towering God Tree.

It's really unexpected, such a chance, no one saw it, but it was a broken tile, fighting to the death, why bother, just find a woman here to marry, maybe her house is more valuable than that stuff, hehe, A guy with no eyesight..."

The old man muttered to himself, but no one could hear him.

In fact, he didn't even know how many years he had said these words.

And at this moment,
A gleam of luster began to appear on his old face, and one strand of his white hair slowly turned dark gray.

at the same time,

The appearance of the barren hills dozens of miles outside the city began to change as the old man did.

...

...

Inside the courtyard.

The beautiful woman stared at the letter in her hand coldly, and the guards in black below were silent, not even daring to look up.

The woman twisted her enchanting body, and suddenly said: "I never thought that even a county magistrate of Fengjiang can't do anything about it."

"My lord, Mr. Gu also tried his best. When the incident happened suddenly, it was too late even if he wanted to protect him. Who would have thought that Shen Mu would be so ruthless, even deadly."

The beautiful woman smiled lightly: "Forget it, you can tell Xu Yangzhi that you don't need to worry about the capital. Since it is a battle between counties and counties, as long as you don't hesitate to get away from the root, you can solve it yourself. It doesn't matter if you kill it. If you have the ability, it is It can be considered to temporarily close the border and divide it into his Xuzhou County jurisdiction."

The man in black nodded after hearing this: "According to the time, the head guard of the Tengyun Realm should have returned to Xuzhou County. I don't know if the governor can accept such an accident."

The beautiful woman snorted coldly, and her proud chest was about to come out: "Whether you can accept it or not is a fact. I was planning to recommend his son to go to the academy, but now that his literary courage has been broken, it is basically hopeless to enter the Palace of Literature and Taoism. On the contrary, Xu Yangzhi has hoped for it in recent years." Stepping into Guanhai, it is worth a look."

The man nodded: "Your Majesty, go and inform Master Xu to get ready."

"Well, tell him, you don't need to keep your hands, just kill him. It's not a small trouble to keep Shen Mu. I don't know how the Nanjing Dynasty will deal with it in a while. Forget it, you go first. .”

The man responded and disappeared in place.

...

...

The sky was bright.

In the government office.

The sinking wood is still maintaining the burning of the furnace...

(End of this chapter)