This martial arts tournament is time-stopping.

"Then just say you have no money at home, so much so that even mice shed a few tears before leaving. Why don't we all do a good deed and donate some money and food to help us get by?"

Ye Chu is not afraid of moral blackmail because his moral bottom line is very flexible.

Moreover, from the day he entered the Dragon Tiger Hall as an apprentice, wearing the Dragon Tiger Hall's uniform tiger skin, people from surrounding gangs would keep their distance when they saw him.

According to Hunter Wu, he and several other newly arrived residents of Qingniu Village had all paid a share of the money to the White Wolf Gang, who had occupied the surrounding streets.

The Ye Chu family, however, never paid a single penny, and no gang members ever came to ask for money.

This is enough to show that the martial arts school's reputation is still useful. Who would dare to come to Ye Chu's house to ask for this temple donation money if they had nothing better to do?

Unless there are ulterior motives!

At night, Ye Chu expended his vital energy to help the Yellow Turban Warrior absorb the strange bloodline power contained in the Blood Meteorite Iron.

【技能：黄巾力士lv.1（55/100→80/100）】

"I'll be able to upgrade the Yellow Turban Warrior to level two by tomorrow night. I wonder what surprises await me then?"

However, his vital energy was almost depleted, so he chewed on the exorbitantly expensive jerky of exotic beasts to replenish it.

Once his Qi and blood had recovered to a near-complete state, Ye Chu added 10 points of Time Dao Rhyme to the "Tiger's Physiognomy Method".

The vast expanse of time unfolds before my eyes, and in a daze, it feels as if I have fallen into the surging river of time.

Furthermore, by using the method of observing the skin of a tiger's accomplice, and with the river of time as a medium, one can trace back to the scene of the creator of the method during its transmission.

Ye Chu then entered a fixed point in time within the river of time.

Suddenly, in the middle of a mountain stream, a colorful tiger demon sat cross-legged on a bluestone slab, instructing a boy below.

Ye Chu, fixed in a unique spatial and temporal perspective, listened attentively as the tiger demon recounted in detail the cultivation of the "Tiger's Lackey Skin Appearance Technique."

This confirms my understanding and insights gained from spiritual practice.

This also verifies that some of the methods taught by Nie Qingcang differ from those taught by the original transmitter.

These differences stem from the latter's misunderstanding of the former.

For example:

My interpretation of the Six Classics involves punctuating and breaking down the texts of predecessors, resulting in my own biased understanding.

Moreover, this striped tiger demon did not use any secret medicine to help the human child learn the "Tiger's Physiognomy Method" during the process.

Instead, it directly used a drop of the tiger demon's blood essence as a guide to help this human child directly comprehend the "Tiger's Appearance Technique".

Of course, this situation is impossible to achieve in the real world.

After all, Ye Chu had also seen the strongest strange tiger in the martial arts school's beast garden, which was only equivalent to the level of a mountain lord. Compared to a truly powerful tiger demon with great magical power, it was still a step below.

After a long time, when Ye Chu had improved the "Tiger's Path of Appearance" by 10 levels, the Dao of Time was quickly exhausted, and he crossed the river of time and returned to the present.

【Technique: Tiger's Lackey Skin Appearance Method (Beginner: 2/100 → (12/100))】

[Time and Rhythm: 25→15]

Ye Chu sensed it and realized that the black and white tiger stripes that originally only covered his brow had now covered most of his head.

It has a certain quality; if you show even one of its tiger stripes, it will look like a human body with a tiger's head.

However, when the mind is still, the tiger stripes will reappear between the skin.

Furthermore, in areas where tiger stripes are widely distributed, the power gained after "Tiger Transformation" will be directly solidified into the regular power state of the corresponding body parts.

When Wu You pinched the skin on her cheek, which was covered by tiger stripes, it was more elastic and resilient than the skin on her arms and other parts of her lower body. It was so tough that even a blunt knife could not cut through it.

In short, the skin on this face has become quite thick.

Furthermore, the increased concentration of tiger stripes within the body also slightly enhances the Soul Devouring and Soul Stealing talent.

This increased Ye Chu's control over the tiger's henchmen lurking in the shadows behind him.

Unfortunately, whether it's Nie Qingcang's version of the Tiger's Skin Appearance Technique or the Tiger Demon version of the Time River's Tiger's Skin Appearance Technique, controlling one Tiger's Skin is the limit in the first layer of the Tiger Skin Polishing Technique.

To control a larger number of cougars, one must advance to the second level of the Fur skin.

In addition, Ye Chu also discovered another mystery about the skill point allocation: in the past, each progress point of the Tiger's Lackey Skin Appearance Method required a considerable amount of food to replenish Qi and Blood.

And in this long river of time, after adding points using the Dao of Time, the demand for resources is almost nonexistent.

However, although his cultivation level improved after returning, his physical body was still somewhat lacking and needed more resources to replenish it.

This addition only elevates one's realm, while the transformation of the physical body requires replenishment with resources in reality.

This had both advantages and disadvantages, but it also allowed Ye Chu to find a place to exploit a bug.

After obtaining a cultivation technique, he can directly discard the initial various secret medicines and resources, rely on adding points to cross realms, and then use resources to nourish his physical body later.

This will greatly help in the subsequent cultivation of the Biaopi, Shanjunpi, and Xuantanpi levels, allowing one to directly bypass the comprehension of the physical appearance and supernatural abilities of physical beasts.

This will save a lot of effort.

The next morning,

Ye Chu visited eight butcher shops in the city. When he strolled past the gate of the Yang family, he could already see mournful music and white cloth everywhere, but he did not see any Taoist priests from Huangtian Temple.

On the way, he also saw government officials posting notices saying that the surrounding villages and mountains were severely affected by the disaster and that porridge would be distributed outside the west gate.

This attracted many refugees to gather at the west gate.

When Ye Chu passed by the rice shop, he went in to take a look and found that the price of grain had tripled compared to two or three days ago.

"Luckily, I asked Ji Meng to buy the food in advance."

Ye Chu arrived at the martial arts school and trained diligently for a day. He also stole a day's worth of essence from Han Heng's absorption of Yang Heng's essence and stuffed it into Xiao Ma's body. However, the efficiency of stealing this essence was even slightly weaker than yesterday.

This made Ye Chu feel that Yang Heng was getting weaker and weaker!

In the evening, when I returned home, Ji Meng told me about the tragedy that had befallen the Yang family, but still no Taoist priests from Huangtian Temple came down the mountain to help them.

In addition, when Ye Chu went into the kitchen to pour water, he noticed that there were five or six more eggs on the stove.

"Grain prices have skyrocketed these past few days, so eggs have become expensive too, haven't they?"

Ji Meng smiled and said:

"It wasn't bought. The Wang family invited a Taoist nun to perform a ritual, and she was going to give a sermon. Everyone who went to listen was given an egg."

I figured eggs were a rare commodity, so I queued up four or five times and got four or five eggs. As for what exactly was being discussed, I completely forgot; I was just too busy queuing to get my eggs…”

Ye Chu's eyelids twitched as he listened. What could he possibly say?

It's the same throughout history and across the world.

When there's a benefit to be gained, the number of believers increases by 1; when there's no benefit to be gained, nobody knows what you're talking about.

However, the White Lotus sect began preaching, porridge was distributed at the west gate, and a large number of refugees gathered there...

This gave Ye Chu a bad feeling!