Chapter 14: The Reward for Completing the Task!
"Quest joined Dragon Gate Escort Agency, completed. Do you want to receive the reward?"
"Yes, no."
A dialogue box shadow, two lines of words, when Wang Zongguan announced the end of the assessment, it had already appeared in front of Zhang Yang.
Still, it was accompanied by a gentle male voice ringing in his ears.
Seeing Zhang Tie had entered a meditative state, Zhang Yang stretched out his slightly trembling right hand and pointed at the "Yes" option in the dialogue box. He naturally wouldn't choose the "No" option just to try out an unknown situation!
Zhang Yang suddenly saw a dreamlike scene before his eyes.
As Zhang Yang nodded "yes", the dialog box's shadow disappeared automatically, and then a white light spot appeared, which grew bigger and bigger, and surprisingly turned into a white porcelain vase.
The white porcelain bottle floated in mid-air so mysteriously that Zhang Yang was stunned on the spot, wanting to reach out and catch it!
After being stunned for a moment, Zhang Yang held the white porcelain bottle in his hand and examined it carefully.
This is a ceramic vase only seven or eight centimeters in length, with a narrow top and wide bottom, all white, without any carving.
There is a small stopper at the mouth of the bottle, which Zhang Yang speculates should be a medicine bottle.
Because of the small bottle containing three nine-flower jade dew pills, it is similar to this.
Opening the small box, a fragrance wafted out and in an instant, it awakened Zhang Tie who had already fallen asleep.
"Master?" Zhang Tie looked at the small porcelain bottle in Zhang Yang's hand, opening his mouth with some surprise. For many years, Zhang Tie had been frugal with words.
Zhang Yang gave Zhang Tie a quiet glance and poured out a dan medicine from a small bottle.
The medicine is golden yellow all over, about the size of a pigeon egg, emitting an enticing fragrance!
This is the reward for completing the task by yourself!
Zhang Yang poured again, and what made him astonished was that ten identical dan medicines actually poured out from the small porcelain bottle!
From the outside, this pigeon egg-sized elixir, with a small bottle volume that can hold at most two pills, actually poured out ten!
This small bottle is also a treasure.
Zhang Yang carefully put the nine dan medicines back into the porcelain bottle, covered it with a stopper and placed it on the bed, carefully examining the golden dan medicine in his hand.
The fragrance of Dan medicine is emitted, and the way it is obtained shows that it is not a poisonous medicine, but a beneficial Dan medicine for Zhang Yang.
After a moment of contemplation, under Zhang Tie's gaze, Zhang Yang used his pinky fingernail to scrape off a tiny bit of the dan medicine and put it in his mouth.
Melt at the entrance!
Zhang Yang only felt a pure and unparalleled medicinal power entering his body, and he hastily mobilized his internal energy to refine this medicinal power.
After a fragrant and laborious effort, Zhang Yang opened his eyes, which were filled with incredulity. With seven years of cultivation and unremitting diligent practice, his internal power had already made some small achievements, yet it had actually increased by as much as 50%!
It's worth his several years of hard work!
That's just a little bit scraped off with fingernails.
If this elixir is swallowed into the belly, will one immediately become an unparalleled master?
Zhang Yang was shocked and looked at the Dan medicine in his hand with a gaze that had completely turned into looking at a divine object, a sacred object! His thoughts also became chaotic!
After a while, Zhang Yang shifted his gaze to Zhang Tie, his voice somewhat hoarse: "This time it's gone!"
Zhang Tie nodded as if he understood and didn't understand at the same time. He seemed to have no curiosity about the dan medicine in Young Master's hand.
A small amount of golden elixir was scraped off and placed in a small porcelain bottle, which Zhang Yang carefully put away on his person. He did not rashly take the elixir, or else his internal energy would greatly increase within one day, and it would be difficult to explain if others found out, not to mention the endless trouble that would follow.
Zhang Tie continued to cultivate his inner strength, and this evening, Zhang Yang rarely did not spend time practicing his inner strength.
Although practicing internal strength could replace sleep and he would be very spirited the next day, what happened made his mood unable to calm down for a long time, with countless thoughts.
Lying in bed, Zhang Yang fell asleep amidst constant speculation and fantasy.
In his dream, he rode a sword on top of the nine heavens, chasing and killing demons and monsters, Hao Ran became a proud swordsman who looked down on the world!
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More than 200 young men and women moved into this relatively shorter mountain peak, instantly making the mountain lively.
On the second day early in the morning, a servant actually sent breakfast over, allowing these young men and women to live like young masters.
After breakfast, everyone was transmitted to Chaoyang Peak, with a secret book in hand. Hao Ran practiced the Xuan Yuan Gong.
The first step is to learn characters.
Two or three hundred boys and girls, most of whom were illiterate.
The lecturer was a middle-aged man with an ordinary face and slightly thick lips. It wasn't until Zhang Yang heard it from the middle-aged man that he learned Xuan Yuan Gong was the basic internal skill of Longmen Inn.
In the Jianghu, there is no lack of internal skill and mental methods. Ninety-nine percent of people cultivate Xuan Yuan Gong, a common practice.
It's said to be a common goods on the big road, but it's not entirely so. After being improved by generations of Jianghu people, it has become quite perfect.
It's not that you can become a master overnight just because someone gives you a book on internal skills, it takes time, perseverance and talent, similarly, this is also the reason why internal skills are not kept secret.
After a long time, internal skills and mental methods have become common goods.
As for that one percent of people, what they cultivate is not some divine technique, but rather a defective method, which is inferior to the ninety-nine percent.
As for the kind of thing Zhang Wuji cultivated in his past life, such as the Nine Suns Divine Skill and Guo Jing's Nine Yin Manual, which have some quick results and magical effects, it seems that there is no transmission of this kind of skill in Jianghu.
Zhang Yang only now understood why his cheap master had said that the Xuan Yuan Gong inner skill was everywhere in Jianghu, it wasn't belittling it, but rather everyone's cultivation of inner skills were all on the same level.
More than 200 young boys and girls began their training days on Mount Longmen.
Learning to read and practicing martial arts are the only things to do, meals are delivered by servants, clothes have been uniformly changed to black uniforms with the Dragon Gate emblem, sleeves embroidered with two small characters "Dragon Gate", all sizes of clothes are available!
After recognizing characters and understanding cultivation, the first step to take is to enter meditation. Those who can enter meditation will have a special reward from the Dragon Gate Escort Bureau.
This reward is called Tiger Bone Soup.
As the name suggests, it is mainly made from tiger bone, supplemented with more than a dozen kinds of medicinal materials to form a soup.
This soup is not for drinking but for bathing.
Bathing in the tiger bone soup, after entering stillness, you will feel that there is an endless supply of heavenly and earthly primal energy outside your body. These heavenly and earthly primal energies do not need to be taken in with effort, but will automatically enter your body.
For young boys and girls who are practicing for the first time, with turbid air in their dantian, this is a rare treasure. With the help of the medicinal power of Hu Gu Dan, they can disperse the turbid air in their dantian within one day, thereby cultivating their first thread of internal energy.
This is the advantage of being a disciple of a large Jianghu sect.
Prescribe a dose of tiger bone soup, it is said that hundreds of taels of silver are needed, these two hundred or so young men and women need more than one million taels of white silver!
That's why a major school like Dragon Gate Escort Agency has such a foundation.
One or two silver coins are equal to one string of copper coins, which is also equivalent to 1,000 copper coins. Equivalent to the purchasing power of Zhang Yang's previous life of 10,000 yuan, 100,000 taels of white silver, calculated to be 100 million.
One hundred thousand taels of white silver is no small amount for the entire state of Chu's assets!
Zhang Yang and Zhang Tie had already cultivated their inner strength, but the Bureau of Spears did not differentiate between them, and instead gave each person a dose of Tiger Bone Soup.
Although they don't need tiger bone soup to disperse the turbid air in their dantian, this dose of tiger bone soup is equivalent to seven or eight days of bitter cultivation.
Zhang Yang even thought that if he took a dose of tiger bone soup every day, wouldn't his cultivation speed increase by seven or eight times, and in ten years, he could cultivate the internal strength of seventy or eighty years?
However, Zhang Yang just thought about it and as someone who was proficient in arithmetic, he understood the value of Hu Gu Tang and easily calculated its cost.
One dose per day, and in a year's time, it would amount to one or two hundred thousand taels of white silver.
Thinking of this number, and then looking at the gold and silver on his body, Zhang Yang suddenly felt that he was a poor man, and with his financial resources, he could only afford a few doses of tiger bone soup.
It seems that cultivating internal strength is also a very expensive thing.
But thinking of the sacred medicine he had collected, Zhang Yang didn't take the tiger bone soup seriously, scraping off just a little bit was enough to make up for years of bitter practice, this was going against heaven!
