Chapter 25: Devouring Crisis (Two-in-One Seeking Recommendation Votes)

  Early in the morning, Zhang Siyu arrived at the Municipal Training Hall. Many people were training, and some familiar faces greeted her along the way. Zhang Siyu walked all the way to the innermost part, where there was a fighting arena.

  "Too slow... too slow... too many fancy moves, not enough power. You two should add one more set of strength training each...” On the chair beside the ring, a person sat leisurely reading an English international newspaper and sipping coffee, glancing at the two special police officers fighting on the stage with great dissatisfaction.

  "Ouyang Shixiong, you're really living a carefree life. As the deputy director of the Intelligence Analysis Department, the famous Conan of Haicheng, you're spending your work hours drinking coffee and reading newspapers here. You're being too petty bourgeois." Zhang Siyu said as she sat down directly. Ouyang Fengchuan and Zhang Siyu were classmates in police school. When Zhang Siyu first entered the police school, Ouyang Fengchuan was about to graduate. At that time, he was also very famous in the police school, having assisted the police bureau in solving many cases during his studies and earning the nickname "Conan".

  Although he is a bit older now, people who know him still call him Little Conan. After all, you can't just start calling him Old Conan because of his age. Of course, Ouyang Fengchuan isn't that old either, only three years earlier than Zhang Siyu in joining the police force.

  "As soon as I hear your tone, I know that yesterday's capture operation must not have gone smoothly, but it shouldn't be a failure, just some setbacks in the middle that made you uncomfortable. Now coming here, are you thinking of asking me to help you find suspect number one? But like I told you last time, dealing with this kind of expert, even if we have guns, we need to set up properly." Ouyang Fengchuan folded the newspaper and put it aside, slowly pushing his glasses, without asking Zhang Siyu, speaking very confidently.

  "It's all that greedy guy, he messed it up twice." Zhang Siyu heard Ouyang Fengchuan's words and couldn't help but think of Zhao Long again.

  "As for the Zhao Long you mentioned, how did he get involved again?" Ouyang Fengchuan was also very surprised. In his opinion, this person was just an unexpected factor, but why would there be something about him in the second capture?

  Savoring his coffee, Conan listened to Zhang Siyu finish speaking and confidently said: "The possibility of an unexpected event is greater. If he really intended to capture Shi Dajun, I estimate that he should have been dead earlier. Because Jiang Yan is not so easy to deal with, I told you before to apply for a batch of snipers from the special police team to go over. This time, he was either on high alert or intentionally used Shi Dajun to lure you away. And Zhao Long's choice of timing doesn't seem intentional, but hearing you say that things are more complicated, it's just right that our intelligence analysis department hasn't had any challenging tasks recently, and I'm still leading a few younger brothers here. This time, I'll go with you directly, and let them gain some combat experience at the same time."

  Zhang Siyu immediately became overjoyed, you know Ouyang Fengchuan is not just doing intelligence analysis work. Since he was a child, he has been learning martial arts and is currently also the deputy chief instructor of the special police team's martial arts department.

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  For one day and two nights, Zhao Long did not leave the house. The gold he bought for 500,000 was all absorbed by him in this one day and two nights, using the golden energy to temper his body.

  According to Lao Shi's words, the "Nine Turns Five Elements Body Refining Technique" is very easy in the early stages, and even simple external forces can help. It's a powerful technique that can suddenly burst forth, but later on, it becomes more difficult than other techniques. Now Zhao Long is cultivating the first turn, and each type of power requires nine complete successful body refinements before it can be considered complete.

  When the five elements have all reached nine refinements of the body, it is considered to be the completion of the first cycle. The second cycle requires each of the five elements to refine the body eighteen times to be considered complete. The third cycle requires each of the five elements to refine the body twenty-seven times to be considered one cycle, and so on. Moreover, as you progress further, the difficulty will gradually increase.

  Zhao Long also felt this when he reached the first turn of Jin's Qi and the sixth refinement of his body. The pain had almost increased by a third, not to mention that his progress had slowed down a lot. Because later on, he hardly rested at all, and all his time was spent on cultivation. This was only the first turn of the Five Elements' Qi, and the difficulty afterwards could be imagined.

  The difficulty is gradually increasing, the stronger you are, the harder it is to refine your body to a later stage. Of course, this is no longer a problem for Zhao Long at present, after one day and two nights of refining his body with 500,000 gold coins, Zhao Long has already reached the first turn of Golden Qi, completing his seventh refinement.

  It was another clear morning, Zhao Long took advantage of the time when others were still asleep to clean up some things in the room. The ceramic tiles on the ground were all shattered, and the entire floor sank down by as much as half a meter, the original cement on the ground had all become powder, all of which were crushed by Zhao Long when he absorbed the golden energy to refine his body.

  It seems that when I come back tonight, I'll have to redo some sand and cement.

  However, those are things to be done later. Zhao Long ran to the seaside in one breath, still the place where Zhao Long trained last time. At this moment, the sun had not fully risen, and the weather was still a bit hazy, with no human shadows around. Zhao Long came to the side of the big stone from last time, which should weigh about 600 catties. He bent his body, stretched out his right hand downwards, and directly reached into the bottom of the stone.

  "Rise." With a sudden burst of strength from his right arm, the massive boulder was lifted into the air with even greater ease than when Zhao Long had used both arms to throw it upwards last time.

  If a normal person can lift 200 pounds with all his might, he cannot throw 60 pounds with one arm. Multiply these by ten times, if Zhao Long could only lift 2,000 pounds of heavy objects with his full body strength, he also couldn't throw this 600-pound boulder.

  Because he now has two thousand jin of strength in one arm, and even his legs have two thousand jin of strength, so he can throw this six hundred jin boulder.

  He threw up a huge stone, Zhao Long directly caught it with his right arm, feeling a bit heavy, but not difficult. This was something that could not be done before, and the degree of improvement in one's own strength after this cultivation was much better than expected.

  After taking off his clothes several times, Zhao Long re-entered the sea. Now facing the vast ocean, although he still felt its grandeur, he no longer had that feeling of being completely at a loss and lacking confidence as soon as he entered it.

  At least within dozens of miles, Zhao Long was confident that even if there were waves, he could return. However, at this moment, Zhao Long did not dare to use his arms and legs to swim, and quickly entered the sea between them. He held his breath and swam extremely fast in the sea for an hour before coming up.

  "Lao Shi, my body should be no weaker than my left arm now, right?" Lao Shi had previously said that his left arm had already reached 2,000 jin. Now, his right arm and body had also completed the "Nine Revolutions Five Elements Body Refining Technique" and had refined the Golden Qi for the first time in the seventh cycle. In terms of strength alone, they had all reached around 2,000 jin.

  "With your left arm, you can absorb even the thinnest spiritual energy between heaven and earth on your own. Do you think that I, who am great and powerful, need to help you absorb golden energy by relying on this arm? And that it needs to go through it in order to help you refine your body? Will it not benefit from it? Let me tell you, your left arm now possesses even greater power. You vaguely feel a bit stronger, but that's because you're already very strong. Your left arm has at least three thousand catties of strength, which is enough to match the average martial artist's power." Old Shi directly poured a basin of water on Zhao Long's excitement, extinguishing it.

  "What's going on... is this how it's going to be? Am I just wasting my time no matter how hard I try?" Originally, with this growth rate, I thought that if I just made a bit more progress, I would be able to completely control my left arm, but now this situation has arisen.

  "You think so, if it weren't for the great and awesome me being here, you would have died a hundred times already. The great me has helped you so much, now you know, right? Your left arm is indeed demonic and very mysterious, but after all, it's just instinctive absorption. And the golden energy in your body is under my control, tempering your body. That's the greatest 'Nine Turns Five Elements Body Refining Technique', the effect of refining the body is naturally stronger than its automatic absorption."

  "How long will it take for me to surpass my left arm?" Zhao Long's earlier excitement had completely dissipated, and he rubbed his head in inquiry.

  "It's tough, after all it has been absorbing on its own, and I found that its absorption speed of spiritual energy increased again after the upgrade." The news given by Lao Shi was obviously not very optimistic.

  "Faster, faster, can be even faster." Zhao Long said: "You are on my left arm, I die and you may not have a good result, think again if there is any other way."

  "Other ways......" Lao Su was slightly silent for a moment before saying: "The 'Nine Turns Five Elements Body Refining Technique' is already an extremely heaven-defying cultivation method, the difficulty in the later stages is unimaginable, and the early stages of cultivation are relatively easy. If you want to think of other ways, unless you can complete the first turn of all five elements, then you can refine some elixirs. You're just starting out now, but when you reach the level of a Sect Master or above in the future, you'll discover that on this path of cultivation and power, there's endless joy worth struggling for your whole life. This little problem right now doesn't count as anything."

  "This is equivalent to not saying, which is the quickest way to solve it, and is there any other?" All five lines completed the first turn. After Zhao Long cultivated the first turn of Jin Zhi Qi, he knew how great the difficulty was. Although he quickly reached the seventh body refinement in the first turn of Jin Zhi Qi, he was very clear about its difficulty.

  Lao Shi often mentions the situation after reaching the level of Zong Shi, and even beyond that. Zhao Long also often fantasizes about what it would be like at that time, but after indulging in fantasy, he has to face reality again.

  Even if Laozi could fly in the sky and move mountains to fill the sea, those are not what he needs to consider now. What he needs to consider first is to save his life.

  "Yes."

  "Hurry up and say it"

  "Cut off your left arm."

  "I'm tired."

  After studying for half a day, Zhao Long could only accept this reality. After all, his strength was not enough, and he could only use the special ability of his left arm to absorb the golden energy to cultivate the "Nine Turns Five Elements Body Refining Technique". Fortunately, Lao Shi helped him, and the effect of his body refining was slightly better than when his left arm absorbed the golden energy alone. At least now his left arm was not as dangerous as before, in Lao Shi's words, as long as he didn't overstimulate it, there wouldn't be much danger for a short period of time, after all, the distance between them was already not too great.

  Originally, Zhao Long still wanted to sprint at full speed to test his speed, carry a heavy load to see the effect, and practice with some stones for hidden weapons. After chatting with Lao Shi, he didn't have much mood left. He went back and picked up a bag, a single-shoulder bag that he used to carry when he was in school, very ordinary, but inside it was packed with 100,000 yuan.

  The job has been quit, now it's necessary to find a long-term lucrative thing, with the loss of the old, opening an antique shop is something Zhao Long has decided to do immediately.

  Rushing to the Cultural Antiques Street, Zhao Long looked at several shops. Even the smallest storefronts cost 20-30 thousand yuan per month in rent. They were only around 20-30 square meters in size, and you had to pay for a whole year upfront, which was unreasonably expensive. On the other hand, the alleys nearby that specialized in selling high-quality replicas were much cheaper, with small storefronts costing around 3,000 yuan. However, everyone knew that those places only sold fakes, so the chances of finding someone selling authentic goods on Replication Street were extremely low.

  Zhao Long spent a small day inside, always making the old man lose attention, and didn't discover another real antique. It seems that relying solely on picking up leaks to get rich is not very realistic.

  Of course, even in those truly old antique shops, after chatting with the boss, there aren't many genuine items inside.

  "Fake... fake... trash... garbage..." These were the most words Lao Shi said that day.

  Although so but still found occasionally there will be really, so Zhao Long on the side high imitation hutong turned a circle after, still back to cultural antique one street come.

  "Little brother, be more careful when you're out." Just as Zhao Long came out of Gao Fang Hutong again, he saw that several storefronts near Gao Fang Hutong were all closed with "For Rent" signs on the doors. As he was looking at them, a gentle reminder suddenly entered his ears.

  The story has gradually unfolded, the most exciting part is just beginning to appear. Brothers and sisters, those with recommendation tickets, please help smash one after finishing the book! Recommendation ticket, do you have it? Do you have it? Do you have it!!!