Who said I practiced the exercises incorrectly?

Chapter 78 Such a simple technique
The dark green valley is empty and silent.

Duan Canghai and Bai Yuanli were like two stiff sculptures, standing on the left and right of the open space.

The shock, horror and unwillingness before death were frozen on the two men's faces. Below the neck, only a shriveled skeleton remained, with blackened and withered flesh covered. When the wind blew, the empty robes rustled.

Ning Yan stood in front of Duan Canghai's body, his eyes full of sadness.

Since traveling through time, he has met many good people. Judging from his interactions over the past few days, Duan Canghai is undoubtedly one of them.

Not only was the other party willing to selflessly teach him the secrets of martial arts, he was also willing to help him collect extremely dangerous resources for advancement, such as evil spirits, and even took the initiative to block extremely powerful enemies for him, such as the mummy Li Yuan and the old man with a tall crown.

Such kindness is no exaggeration to say that it is as high as the mountains and as deep as the sea.

Before he could repay his friend, his best friend died tragically in battle.

This is the greatest regret in the world.

Even though Ning Yan was filled with sorrow, he could only sigh in the end.

After a moment's silence, his gaze turned to the old man in the tall crown.

To be honest, today's battle came too suddenly, and if we trace the cause back to the Zhou family, it was all due to this.

It now seems that the Zhou family's success in such a short period of time was obviously inseparable from the help of outsiders, including the "Li Yuan Beast Transformation Art" they researched, which was probably given by this old man with a tall hat.

But the old man Gao Guan obviously had bad intentions. Not only did he secretly control the huge and powerful mummy Li Yuan, he also planned to train Zhou Shengcai into a corpse puppet.

It was precisely because Zhou Sheng died at his hands that today's chaos occurred.

"I am just a victim after all."

"You will die here today. It is purely the law of nature. You have brought this upon yourself!"

Ning Yan looked at the old man in the tall hat in front of him and reached out to touch his waist.

After touching the corpse so many times, he became more and more skilled in taking off clothes. In just a few breaths, he had taken off the seemingly complicated black robe, including the underwear with dark yellow stains inside.

After searching for a while, he found a lot of things.

Including two secret books, three bottles of pills, a box of bugs, a bag of blood food, a map, two iron balls, a few pieces of dried alien beast meat, and even some silver, etc.

Leaving aside the silver and dried meat, Ning Yan first uncorked the three bottles of pills. After a rough identification, he found that one bottle of pills was for internal use, one was for external use, and the other was for detoxification.

As for the side effects of these drugs, Ning Yan is not sure yet. He plans to go to a few more pharmacies to ask after returning to the city.

Then there was a small box of gray beetles of varying sizes, only six in total, each of which had a strong smell of blood.

Probably because of the attack by evil spirits, all these insects are dead.

However, Ning Yan did not think it was such a pity. Just by looking at the bag of blood food made from fresh human organs next to it, he knew that the process of raising these insects was definitely not a pleasant experience.

Then there were two more iron balls. Ning Yan sniffed them and found that they had a faint pungent smell. If nothing unexpected happened, they should be the foul smoke bombs thrown by the man at the peak of Qi Gathering just now.

With these two, he could increase his chances of avoiding powerful enemies.

As for the hand-painted leather map, Ning Yan attached great importance to it.

The map mainly depicts the middle area from Qingcang County to the neighboring Fulu County. It looks very simple, with only some thick lines drawn.

There is an extra thick line in the middle, winding and connecting the two county towns, but now a long section of it has been completely painted black.

In addition, there are some places marked with resource points such as ghost face vine and purple star leaf.

There are also many places circled in red and marked with words such as dangerous or extremely dangerous. At a glance, they occupy 60% of the entire map.

I don’t know whether the old man got this map from somewhere else or wrote it down himself.

If he had written it himself, it would be too scary. Ning Yan carefully put the map away and turned to look at the most important gain of this trip - the two secret books.

However, one of the thick booklets could not be considered a secret book. It was filled with various experiences and insights written in illegible handwriting, including many code words and even aliases. The most recent handwriting could be traced back to two or three days ago.

I think these should be the various spiritual experiences that old man Gao Guan recorded casually.

It is obviously not an easy task to understand the contents inside.

As for the other secret book, titled "Thousand Faces and Ten Thousand Incarnations", it looks like it was bought from a store. The handwriting is clear and the content is clear, so you can practice it as soon as you get it.

Ning Yan couldn't help but flip through it. At the end of the secret book, there was a human-written comment:

If you want to practice this skill, it is best to use the ghost face vine as an aid, which can save you three years of time.

"Such a simple technique, why would it need external aids?"

Ning Yan shook his head, quite disdainful.

He practiced the technique and succeeded in less than a quarter of an hour.

Putting the secret book in his arms, he looked at the bald old man and always felt that something was wrong.

Then he suddenly realized what was going on, and he took off the other person's hair crown. After a while of groping, he actually pulled out a thin and tough roll of paper from it. He couldn't tear it apart even with his strength. The paper was covered with unfamiliar characters and had three seals on it.

Ning Yan didn't understand it at all, so he accepted it.

Then he picked up Duan Canghai's body and strode out of the valley.

Half an hour later.

Nangong Lie led his four fellow apprentices to the valley.

Compared to before, there is one more disciple in the team who was injured by Ning Yan's self-sacrifice skill. Now his injuries have been treated and he is barely able to take action. By gathering the strength of five people and re-launching the joint attack, they are bound to kill Ning Yan and take back the master's body.

However, when they arrived at the scene, they did not see Ning Yan, but only saw Bai Yuanli, who was stripped naked.

"master!!"

“Master!!”

"How dare you, a bastard, insult my mentor?!"

……

The disciples roared in grief and then quickly stepped forward and wrapped Bai Yuanli with clothes.

At this time, they also realized that everything on the master's body had been taken away by the little thief, and everyone's face turned ugly in an instant.

"Let's go! Let's go to where the ghost face vine grows!"

Nangong Lie said bitterly:
"That guy got the map and the Thousand Faces and Incarnations. In order to practice the secret technique, he will definitely go there to pick the ghost face vine!"

"We just need to wait there in advance and set up a trap, then we can easily kill it and avenge our master!"

"Big Brother is right!"

"Let's do it this way!"

"let's go!"

"Kukuku, I can't help but want to see his horrified expression!"

The group strode out of the valley carrying Bai Yuanli's body.

(End of this chapter)