From a refugee to a martial artist

Chapter 75: Perfection of Essence and Fire
There were three people when they came, but when they left, only Meng Yuan and the little weasel in his arms were left.

After walking for a while along the way we came, we saw the sky gradually getting dim and the sun slowly emerged.

The forest is cool and humid, with mist rising and birds flying through it.

Meng Yuan had a knife on his waist and a longbow on his back, and only a few broken arrows he had picked up were left in his quiver.

After walking for a while, he felt Xiangling kicking her feet in Meng Yuan's clothes, and then heard a yawn, and then Xiangling's head popped out from the lapel of Meng Yuan's clothes.

"Oh my, it's already daybreak!" Xiangling's eyes widened, "Where is this?"

Her nose twitched. "Why do you smell like blood? Did you get into a fight?"

Xiangling slid out swiftly, stood on Meng Yuan's shoulder, leaned over and tilted her head to look at Meng Yuan's face, then drew her quiver and climbed down again.

She checked carefully and found that Meng Yuan had no wounds, so she climbed back onto his shoulder. "Why didn't you wake me up when you were fighting? Don't underestimate me because I'm small. I'm very capable!"

Xiangling grabbed Meng Yuan's hair in anger and said, "My godmother said that one person can't steal peaches as fast as two people!"

What kind of perverse logic is this! Meng Yuan kept walking and said with a smile: "You sleep so soundly that I can't wake you up."

Xiangling stared and scratched her head in a daze after hearing this. "Godmother said that sleeping in would cause trouble, and she really didn't lie to me! You pinched my ears and tickled me!"

She scratched Meng Yuan's neck with her little paw and said seriously, "Little gelder, next time you fight, call me!"

Then she added, "But you can't always fight, you have to do business in a friendly way!"

"Of course." Meng Yuan agreed immediately.

"Hey? Where's Brother Li?" Li Weizhen had asked Meng Yuan to call him Brother Li, and Xiangling had learned to call him that. Now she remembered Li Weizhen, so she quickly climbed to the top of Meng Yuan's head, stood up straight, propped up her front paws, and looked around. "No sign of him? Is he dead?"

Xiangling sighed, "Next time when you burn paper for godmother, prepare two for him as well!"

She is kind and considerate, which shows that she is an experienced person.

"He has left." Meng Yuan deliberately quickened his pace, shaking Xiangling, and said, "We have driven away those monsters. Your home will be safe from now on."

"You guys are really awesome!" Xiangling climbed back onto Meng Yuan's shoulder, leaned forward and tilted her head to look at Meng Yuan, and asked curiously, "Little gelder, how come you are so awesome?"

“……”Meng Yuan smiled.

Maybe Xiangling slept too much, she kept chattering and her mouth couldn't be empty.

After a while, she thought of writing poetry again and pestered Meng Yuan to teach her.

Although Meng Yuan didn't have the problem of being a teacher, he was willing to help others. Since Xiangling wanted to learn, it wouldn't hurt to teach her, since she had already done her homework in advance.

"Writing poetry is not difficult. It just involves a beginning, a development, a turn, and an end. The development and the turn are two pairs of couplets, with level tones matching oblique tones, virtual to real, and real to virtual. If you have a perfect sentence, it doesn't matter if the level, oblique, virtual, and real don't match. The rules of style are secondary, as long as the words and sentences are true, it's fine." Meng Yuan taught seriously.

Xiangling was stunned for a while after hearing this, and then said stupidly: "Little gelder, please say something I can understand."

What did you learn?
Meng Yuan could only explain it to her in detail. Xiangling listened attentively and nodded from time to time, but it was unclear whether she understood it or not.

"I brought you a rhyme book and a character cutting book. Didn't you hide them? Take a look at them when you have time." Meng Yuan said.

Xiangling nodded in agreement and said, "Write two poems for me to listen to."

Meng Yuan was well prepared and talked about some simple and easy-to-understand poems like "I go to see the river and come back to drink noodle soup."

"You did a great job!" Xiangling was a country bumpkin who started school too late. When she saw that Meng Yuan recited poems fluently, she praised him non-stop and could not hide her envy.

The two of them walked and talked, with Xiangling doing most of the talking. She chattered away and listened to all the weird poems that Meng Yuan had written in recent days. She was so intoxicated that her throat became dry from praising them, and she even drank the mountain spring water several times.

By noon, after walking about twenty miles along the mountain road, they arrived at Zhu Dasao's territory.

"Sister Pig was scared away by Wolf Two, and several of her children were eaten. She was so pitiful." Xiangling was a kind-hearted person. She stood on Meng Yuan's shoulder and called Sister Pig.

After a while, a rumbling sound was heard, and a black pig as big as a buffalo came running over.

When the black pig saw Xiangling with a stranger, he turned and ran away.

"Don't be afraid, Sister Pig!" Xiangling quickly jumped off Meng Yuan's shoulder and chased after him.

Sure enough, the black pig stopped after running about two hundred steps and turned back to talk to Xiangling.

Meng Yuan watched from a distance and saw that the two of them seemed to be scolding Wolf Two together. After they finished scolding, Xiangling put her hands on her hips, as if she was teaching Sister Pig something.

Then Sister Pig pushed Xiangling on her butt and ran away.

Xiangling stamped her feet in anger, then came back dejectedly.

"Are you persuading others to castrate their own sons again?" Meng Yuan asked.

"No!" Xiangling stamped her feet in anger. "I taught her the art of poetry, but Sister Pig said she'd rather have two more children!"

"..."Meng Yuan didn't know how to respond.

The two chatted and went to Laobiekeng together.

Xiangling took out the rhyme book and the cutting book that Meng Yuan had sent her, and flipped through them seriously, saying, "Let's go down the mountain together. It won't delay the afternoon class, and we can also watch the old teacher slap our palms!"

"..." Meng Yuan smiled and planned to go back and ask Master Nie and Uncle Zhang if he could bring Xiangling back to live in the city.

Of course, Meng Yuan felt that with Xiangling's personality, she probably wouldn't like the constraints and rules in the city.

When they reached the foot of the mountain together, Xiangling puffed out her chest, then jumped off Meng Yuan's shoulder and turned around and said, "Stand here and don't move. I'll get you a bun! It's my treat!"

Just steal, and you're treating me. Seeing that she ran very fast, Meng Yuan followed her for a while, and within half a mile he saw a farm.

A quarter of an hour later, Xiangling came back and untied the bag, and there was indeed a bun inside.

"Eat quickly!" Xiangling urged.

Meng Yuan ate the buns, and Xiangling grinned happily.

"I'll give you some money." Meng Yuan took out some change and stuffed it into her bag. "Put it in the kitchen of the rich family. It will be enough for you to eat for a long time."

"Little gelder, you're so nice!" Xiangling was very happy. While packing the bundle carefully, she said, "I'll steal some snacks for you next time. Do you like sweet or salty?"

"All is fine. If you feel hungry next time, just go to Mu Zhuang to find my friend." Meng Yuan said.

Xiangling nodded repeatedly and said, "If you come again in a few days, I will be able to write poetry!" Meng Yuan smiled and chatted with her for a few more words. She couldn't wait and said that the class was about to start.

Only after Xiangling walked away with her bag did Meng Yuan return.

When they arrived at Muzhuang, Meng Yuan exchanged a few polite words with Sun Zhuangtou, then took out ten taels of silver and said, "Tie Niu has worked hard in the palace, please bear with me, Uncle Datou."

Meng Yuan had mentioned before that Zhao Datou no longer had to do heavy work and was only responsible for driving the donkey cart as a driver.

After saying this, Meng Yuan called Zhao Datou again.

"Here are ten taels of silver. Uncle Datou, take it and use it." Meng Yuan took out the silver and said, "If my aunt comes again, prepare some boiled eggs for her."

"..." Zhao Datou took the silver, opened his mouth and said, "Xiao Meng, you have a bright future, you have to take it easy."

“……”Meng Yuan nodded.

After chatting for a while, Meng Yuan rode the little red horse and left the farm.

This time out fighting, I gained a lot. It goes without saying that the Heavenly Secret Map has all things flowing. If I swallow the Hundred Herbs Pill, my spirit fire will be perfected soon, and the third body tempering is imminent!

The horses' hooves clattered back to Songhe Prefecture. Meng Yuan went to buy a jade hairpin and a pair of precious hairpins and packed them up.

After sending the horse back to the stable, Meng Yuan chatted with Old Man Jiang for a few words and then went home.

Jiang Yatou was not there either, so Meng Yuan fetched some water, washed himself, and changed into clean clothes.

After placing the pair of hairpins in Jiang Tang's room, Meng Yuan came to the training ground, and indeed, Master Nie was not there.

However, Tie Niu has good news. He has already entered the realm of enlightenment and opened an acupoint.

Meng Yuan held Tieniu and chanted to the young men, "As long as everyone has faith in their hearts and knows who they are training for, they will definitely be able to enter the rank! This is true for me, Hu Qian, and Zhao Tieniu even more so!"

After talking, Meng Yuan pulled Tie Niu and said, "Let's go, I'll take you out for dinner!"

"I'll go too!" Hu Qian said immediately.

"Master Nie, will you let us do this?" Tie Niu was afraid of Nie Yannian.

"He dare not refuse." Meng Yuan pinched the wooden box in his sleeve, which contained a jade hairpin. He looked at Hu Qian again and saw that she was looking forward to it, so he said, "Anyone who has awakened and entered the realm of the master can go!"

The three of them left the training ground in a hurry. Tie Niu started to think again and immediately said, "Brother, let me lead the others in shouting slogans from now on?"

"I can do it too!" Hu Qian said happily.

"Loyalty cannot be shouted out!" Meng Yuan immediately refused.

The three of them chatted all the way to Zuiyue Tower.

"Sister." When he saw Nie Qingqing and the bulging ball, Meng Yuan immediately laughed.

"Why are you here?" Nie Qingqing smiled coquettishly, then looked at Tie Niu and Hu Qian, especially at Hu Qian, "I know little girl Hu Qian, who is this?"

"It's my brother Zhao Tieniu." Meng Yuan introduced with a smile.

Nie Qingqing saluted, but Hu Qian kept looking between Nie Qingqing and Meng Yuan.

Meng Yuan asked Hu Qian and Tie Niu to go to the second floor, while he stayed to talk to Nie Qingqing.

"Come to see my dad?" Nie Qingqing asked with a smile.

"I have some serious business to see Master Nie." Meng Yuan said solemnly, but still took out an exquisite wooden box from his sleeve, "But seeing my sister is also serious business."

Nie Qingqing took it with a smile, turned her head slightly to look at Meng Yuan, and said, "I have seen the little girl Hu Qian before, and Zhao Tieniu looks like a kind and honest person. But when will you bring your one over to see?"

"I'll do it some other day." Meng Yuan said.

"Then I'll wait for you." Nie Qingqing smiled again and continued, "Uncle Zhang took my father away. I don't know why. You might as well wait for a while."

Meng Yuan naturally obeyed.

When they arrived on the second floor and the food was served, Hu Qian started clamoring for a drink again. Nie Qingqing gave her face and gave her a pot of Menghuchun tea.

But the three of them chatted for a long time, and until night fell, Nie Yannian still didn't come back.

Seeing this, Meng Yuan could only go back the same way he came.

After sending Hu Qian and Tie Niu back to the training ground, Meng Yuan returned home.

"Brother!" Jiang Tang was so happy to see Meng Yuan coming back. He held a delicate wooden box in his hand and asked, "Brother, did you leave your things on my desk?"

The little girl was becoming more and more thoughtful. Meng Yuan smiled and said, "It's for you."

"Then put it on me." Jiang Tang said happily.

Meng Yuan came up to her and took a quick sniff. He realized that she had already washed her hair and body, changed into clean clothes, and had no hair accessories on her head.

The hairpin is divided into two strands to hold the hair in place.

Meng Yuan talked to her for a while and then went back to his room.

After sitting quietly for a while and calming his mind, Meng Yuan concentrated on the spirit fire. Seeing that it was growing stronger, he took out the Hundred Herb Pill.

Before the battle with Bull King Kong, he took one pill in advance to prevent any accidents, and ate another one before taking Fire Bodhi. He also ate one pill at home before that, so there were seventeen pills left.

Meng Yuan poured out a pill and swallowed it. Seeing the essence and fire growing slightly, he poured out another pill and ate it.

I ate sixteen in a row and only one was left.

The fire of essence also grew stronger and stronger, not far from perfection.

The remaining one was not eaten and was kept for the time being. But even so, Meng Yuan felt that at most three to five days, the essence and fire would be complete!
A night passed, and it was not until the afternoon of the second day that Meng Yuan opened his eyes, and found that another acupoint had been opened.

Meng Yuan got up and ate his meal. He was not in a hurry to look for Master Nie. He had already asked Nie Qingqing to pass on the message. If Master Nie came back, he would definitely come to his house.

Five days later, Meng Yuan's thirty-three heavens opened three more places, but Master Nie still did not return.

Moreover, Jiang Tang had a constant supply of fish and meat every day, and Meng Yuan ate as much as he could, and his essence and fire were already complete.

(End of this chapter)