The Eagle Shooting Heroes: From Golden-Knife Prince Consort to Emperor Guangwu of the Great Zhou Dyn

The next day, Guo Liqing didn't wake up until the sun was high in the sky.

When he woke up, Nahita and Li Yanshu were still fast asleep.

Guo Liqing resumed his cycle of grilling, eating, and practicing his martial arts.

Over the course of several days, Guo Liqing tried various cooking methods and verified one thing: eating raw meat has no advantage whatsoever.

Whether it's roasting, frying, stir-frying, or stewing, it has little impact on how much true energy can be extracted from the meat.

However, Guo Liqing discovered another reason that was not easily noticed by others.

The amount of true energy that can be extracted from tiger meat is decreasing day by day.

Therefore, he concluded that the extraction of true energy from meat is not related to the cooking method, but rather to the time.

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Outside the capital of Zhongxingfu, Genghis Khan, along with Chagatai and Tolui, prepared to return to the Onon River steppe.

He returned without making a fuss, only bringing his own troops.

Guo Liqing came to see him off and took out a tiger-skin shawl, which he draped over Genghis Khan.

"Great Khan, this is the tiger skin we hunted last time. I specially made it into a shawl, wrist guards, and knee pads to give to you. Tigers are extremely yang creatures, and the yang energy in this tiger skin can soothe the joints."

Genghis Khan smiled and said, "Jing'er, you're very thoughtful."

"I also used tiger bone to make medicinal wine and some plasters. If a patient has a recurrence of an old injury or joint pain, they can rub the affected area with the medicinal wine and apply the plaster as a hot compress."

Genghis Khan smiled and nodded repeatedly.

The two sons beside him, Tore and Chagatai, had a silly grin on their faces and a gloomy expression.

Torre thought to himself: This silly boy, when did he become so good at sweet-talking people!

Genghis Khan left, leaving only Guo Liqing and his 40,000 cavalrymen behind.

After that, Guo Liqing had complete control over the Hetao region, Zhongxing Prefecture, and the five southeastern prefectures.

When Genghis Khan returned, he took Yelü Chucai with him. After all, Yelü Chucai was the prime minister of the Mongol Empire and couldn't stay to help Guo Liqing. However, before leaving, Yelü Chucai did manage to recruit some talented individuals for Guo Liqing.

With the support of the Tangut nobles, and as various tasks progressed steadily, the situation in Western Xia gradually stabilized.

The land redistribution policy was carried out in an orderly manner under the arrangement of the Li siblings.

The lineage of the Prince of Linhe thus gained extremely high prestige in Western Xia.

That day, Lu Youjiao came to the mansion to find Guo Liqing.

Now that the Western Xia has been destroyed, he came to ask when Guo Liqing plans to destroy the Jin.

After listening, Guo Liqing laughed and said, "Elder Lu, you are even more anxious than I am! But this matter cannot be rushed. Before launching the war to destroy Jin, I still need to go to the Central Plains."

Lu Youjiao nodded after listening and said, "There are many righteous armies in the north now. If we want to destroy the Jin dynasty, it would be best to unite with them. When does the Marshal plan to go to the Central Plains?"

"No rush." ​​Guo Liqing looked at Lu Youjiao and asked, "I've heard that many Beggars' Sect disciples have come to join us recently?"

"That's right. These Beggars' Sect disciples used to live in the Guanzhong and Hanzhong areas. Upon hearing that the Marshal had destroyed the Western Xia, they all came to join us. Now, the number of our Beggars' Sect army has increased to five thousand!"

Guo Liqing nodded. Speaking of the Beggars' Sect, they had to thank Huang Rong. If it weren't for her letter, Lu Youjiao and the others wouldn't have stayed.

"By the way, have you found out where Rong'er is?"

Lu Youjiao shook his head again, "As you said, if the gang leader doesn't want to be found, we definitely won't be able to find him."

"What about Ouyang Feng?"

"Ouyang Feng's whereabouts are quite clear. Our disciples discovered that he entered Shaanxi and Shanxi from Mongolia, then went to Zhejiang, and then to Henan."

Upon hearing this, Guo Liqing thought to himself, "This old poison master is really in good spirits. At his age, he's still running around and causing trouble for a copy of the Nine Yin Manual."

"Is he alone?"

"No one has found any trace of the gang leader."

"That's good!"

Guo Liqing recalled the plot of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes," noting that the later part of the story spanned a very short period of time.

After Huang Rong returned from Khwarezm, she disappeared, and Guo Jing searched for her for a long time without success.

In this world, Guo Liqing spent several months taking over Xixia Zhongxing Prefecture, during which time Huang Rong did not appear.

If the world were to follow the original story, Ouyang Feng would surely capture Huang Rong again.

After some thought, Guo Liqing realized that Ouyang Feng was highly skilled in martial arts.

Although his internal strength has greatly increased, he is not confident that he can defeat him.

"Let's improve our strength first! We need to be at least on par with the Five Greats!"

Guo Liqing made up his mind in secret.

Afterwards, he handed over the affairs of Western Xia to Li Yanshu, and then took Nashita with him to the Lingjiu Palace in Tianshan.

Last time he came, Guo Liqing had to rush back because of the unstable political situation in Western Xia.

This time, Guo Liqing didn't come empty-handed either, delivering a lot of daily necessities to the people of Lingjiu Palace.

Although Lingjiu Palace is supported by the villagers of Huaixu Valley below, resources are still relatively scarce.

Furthermore, their palace master and elders were no match for Guo Liqing, so they were helpless against Guo Liqing's arrival.

They could only let him enter Xu Zhu's cave in the back mountain.

"Master Xuzhu, I'm here again!"

Xu Zhu clasped his hands together and said, "Benefactor Guo, have you come here to learn martial arts?"

"That's right!"

"I told you long ago, you can't be greedy when practicing martial arts. Your Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms is already a top-tier martial art in the world, there's no need to learn anything else. Have you forgotten the lesson you learned from misusing the Everlasting Spring Skill that day?"

"I'll be more careful this time!"

Seeing that Guo Liqing wouldn't listen to advice, Xu Zhu stopped talking.

Guo Liqing clasped his hands together in a bow, then went to the side to read a book.

Having learned from his previous experience, this time he did not browse through them one by one. Instead, he laid out the three manuals, "Changchun Gong," "Xiao Wuxiang Gong," and "Beiming Shen Gong," and compared and studied them together.

The full name of "Changchun Gong" is "Tianchangdijiu Bulao Changchun Gong". As you can tell from the name, its ultimate goal is to achieve eternal youth and longevity.

Xu Zhu is a prime example; although he is already 150 years old, he still maintains the appearance of someone in their thirties or forties.

However, what Guo Liqing valued was its method of absorbing true qi and transforming it into internal energy.

The first part of "Changchun Gong" is about strengthening the "San Jiao" and squeezing the true qi from food to the extreme.

The second part describes how the Qi enters the body and begins to rejuvenate.

Guo Liqing was standing next to Xuzhu. If he encountered something he didn't understand or had any questions, he could just ask Xuzhu.

Xu Zhu answered them all.

From their conversation, Guo Liqing discovered two questions.

First, Xu Zhu ate only light meals in his cave every day, and sometimes he even only drank the spring water from the cave.

This contradicts Guo Liqing's reasoning.

Guo Liqing drew a conclusion from his hunting experience over the past period: the amount of true qi stored in food is positively correlated with the size and age of the food.

Ordinary grains and livestock, which are only one or two years old, have extremely low levels of true qi.

As for wild beasts like the Deer King and Tiger King, they live longer, are larger, and therefore have a higher content of true qi.

But Xu Zhu only drinks mountain spring water, so where does the energy to sustain his life come from?

Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be transferred.

However, Xu Zhu could not provide an answer to this question.

Everything happened naturally.

There is a second question: Xu Zhu did not regain his youth like the Heavenly Child Granny!

He always looks young!