One Dao Fruit a day, starting with the Dragon Taming Technique.

Another day.

Du Family Cloth Shop.

When Du Youniang saw Xu Guang, she gave a cold snort, somewhat angrily.

"Brother Guang, how long has it been since you last visited me?"

Xu Guang could only coax softly, "The military camp has been busy these past few days, investigating important matters."

"It's about that Fukuyama-kun thing. My brother said you've come back several times, but you haven't come to see me."

Du Youniang said in a muffled voice.

Xu Guang cursed Du Changwei in his heart, and hurriedly took out the newly bought pastries, and then took out a wooden box containing water lilies.

"Isn't this a gift I prepared for you? After you eat this, you'll definitely become even more beautiful."

"Is this a water lily?"

Wu Yunmiao, who was standing to the side with her head down, secretly watching the two of them, couldn't help but say something.

It seems that Wu Yunmiao and Du Youniang get along quite well.

That's normal, though. Wu Yunmiao has been living under someone else's roof for years, so she's quite experienced and can easily please a young girl like Du Youniang.

After learning about the effects of the water lily from Wu Yunmiao, Du Youniang immediately became happy. After all, what girl doesn't want to become more beautiful?

"Brother Guang, I noticed your fanny pack was a bit torn last time. Here, this is a new one I made for you these past few days."

She also gave her a gift.

Three pairs of shoes I made myself, and a wallet for holding silver, with some gold thread embroidered with the character "Xu" on it, very beautiful.

Practicing martial arts really wears out shoes, but since Xu Guang started practicing martial arts, all his shoes have been made by Du Youniang. At first, the stitches weren't very dense, but now they're big enough to sell at the market.

At this moment, Liu Xiaocao called Du Youniang over to help.

Looking at the girl's back, Xu Guang thought to himself.

Should Du Youniang also be allowed to practice martial arts, such as internal energy cultivation, since it's still necessary to have some martial prowess in this world?

We'll figure out a way to get our hands on the internal martial arts techniques first.

……

The discussions in the military camp continued to revolve around various clues about Fukuyama-kun; everyone had become somewhat frantic.

The more they investigated, the more clues they found about Fukuyama-kun's existence in Shuocheng. Everyone felt that Fukuyama-kun was right in front of them, and that they could catch him if they just put in a little more effort.

But even on this level, it's like looking at flowers through fog; you can't find Fukuyama-kun at all.

Xu Guang squinted.

Looking at the soldiers in the distance who were having a heated discussion, he suddenly recalled that before stealing, Fukuyama-kun liked to leave notes and then take the items in various ways that were hard to guard against.

The scene before us seems to be a clue deliberately left behind by Mr. Fukuyama.

Watching as the entire city's officers and soldiers were completely outmaneuvered by him because of the clues.

"Sir, when did we discover a clue about Lord Fukuyama? Should we go investigate?"

Yang Zhen then came over and asked Xu Guang a question.

"You can look it up yourselves, I'm not interested."

Compared to these things, he was more concerned about when the governor's mansion would release Huang Zhang.

……

the other side.

Li's Pawn Shop.

A young man dressed in white was holding an account book and checking the accounts. When he saw yesterday's accounts, a look of surprise appeared in his eyes.

"Two hundred taels of silver in earnings yesterday?"

The manager had a fawning smile on his face. "Yesterday, a soldier came to sell some goods. He had two chicken blood flowers, which I gave to him the black bone vine that nobody wanted. I also had a Ghost Step martial arts technique, so the income increased a bit."

It was easy to see a hint of smugness in his tone as he spoke.

After all, the young master must be happy to earn so much money in a day.

"Teeth soldier?"

The boy frowned upon hearing this.

My father said not to mess with the yamen runners. Although yesterday's transaction wasn't a rip-off, it was still a bit pricey.

It's unclear whether the soldiers will use this as an excuse to cause trouble.

"Who is that soldier?"

"He was patrolling the streets in the distance. I heard that his name is Xu Guang, and his fiancée is Du Zhong's daughter."

Upon hearing this, the young man in white frowned even more deeply. Was there a constable behind him?

For a behemoth like the Li family, a captain in the yamen army was nothing, but to them, the captain's power was still very significant.

A prestigious family, after all, is a family of a group of people.

"Have someone send him an invitation, saying that I'm inviting him to dinner."

Upon hearing this, the steward looked troubled. "Young Master, what pretext should we use?"

The young man in white thought for a moment, then said, "I'll tell you that the chicken blood flower is very useful to me."

"Yes."

……

For the next few days, Xu Guang lived a very peaceful life.

The Qing Shuo Sect did not cause any trouble.

After inquiring, I learned that Qing Shuo Zongdao believed that other sects from Shuofang Prefecture had come to visit in the past few days. Such visits between martial arts sects usually involved martial arts competitions.

For a while, not many people were investigating the disappearance of Bai Yue and the others.

Only a few fellow disciples who were on good terms with Bai Yue knew of his disappearance, but they couldn't find any connection to Xu Guang.

After five days of practice, Xu Guang successfully mastered the Ghost Step technique. The materials for improvement were not difficult to find, and he spent thirty strings of cash to successfully upgrade it to level 3.

The effect of Level 3 Ghost Step is already quite terrifying. He can change his step frequency six times in a row within half a meter. Sometimes he even feels that the perception brought by the snake sense is not as good as the changes in his steps.

With his current pace, he could have easily played in the World Cup in his previous life.

In addition, the Black Bone Vine he bought earlier also began to grow under the nourishment of the Demon Transformation Powder, but it consumed a lot of energy. It took six drops before Xu Guang felt that it had almost reached the effect of twenty years of medicine.

The small blue bottle isn't very big; when full, it only holds about 30 to 40 milliliters, which is equivalent to using one-third of a Black Bone Vine.

Although it is confirmed that this thing can regenerate, the generation rate is very slow.

Take your time.

Impatience cannot conjure resources out of thin air, so Xu Guang had no choice but to suppress his temper.

Furthermore, having cultivated to this level, Xu Guang inevitably faced a problem.

That's the secret medicine he used to cultivate his Iron Body Technique; it needs to be upgraded.

Iron Body Kung Fu, a type of external training skill, is essentially a process of constantly breaking down and rebuilding the physical body. In this context, secret medicines become extremely important.

However, the secret medicine for Iron Body Kung Fu in the military camp was monopolized and delivered regularly by the military governor's office. Each soldier paid a certain amount of money each month to receive a certain amount of medicine.

Because of his practice of the Dragon Taming Technique, Xu Guang discovered that he could absorb the medicinal power much faster during his practice.

However, it will be almost two months before the next delivery of medicine from the Jiedushi's office.

At his current cultivation speed, he will probably run out of the secret medicine in about half a month.

He quickly came up with a good idea: to concoct his own secret medicine.

The secret medicines for external martial arts are actually quite similar, especially for more common ones like Iron Body Kung Fu. As long as someone understands some pharmacology, they can analyze the secret medicines, break down the prescriptions, and prepare their own.

Moreover, medicine and martial arts are inseparable. With his cheat-like abilities, it's only a matter of time before he reaches level 5 in Iron Body Skill. But the limit of Iron Body Skill is physical perfection. Will he be able to continue improving at that point?

Perhaps by understanding medical principles, one can achieve another transformation of the body.

Studying medicine is really important.

The only question is, can pharmacology be considered a kind of technique?

Or do we need to find some older medical books?

Xu Guang didn't aim too high; he planned to first thoroughly study the medical books left by his second uncle.

……

evening.

Xu Guang arrived at a restaurant, where someone had invited him to dinner that night.

He was the young master of the third branch of the Li family. Xu Guang didn't really want to come to this invitation. After all, the Li family was close to the governor's mansion. Judging from the current deployment of the guards, their relationship with the governor's mansion was ambiguous, and they might fight at any time.

The Li family invited him, either to win him over in advance or to learn about the affairs of the guards through him.

However... after Du Zhong learned of this, he asked him to come and take a look.

The young master of the Li family who invited him, Li Qian, is quite famous outside and has outstanding martial arts talent. At only twenty-one years old, he is already a master of the peak of Ming Jin. Some time ago, with the support of his grandfather, he entered the governor's mansion as an official and is now the chief clerk (assistant chief clerk) of the South City Bureau.

Of course, there is another reason. Du Zhong's elder brother, Du Bo, worked for the Li family more than ten years ago. He died while saving Li Qian's mother. It was with the support of the Li family that the young Du Zhong joined the Shuofang Outer Camp Army. He made military achievements and after the Fulong era, he joined the Yamen Army and was promoted to captain.

However, by now, the Li family has lost its influence over the military. Or rather, after the reign of Emperor Fulong, military men have become dominant, and the influence of aristocratic families on the world is far less than before.

Remembering the past ties of incense offerings, Du Zhong asked Xu Guang to make the trip.