I became an old man in my leisure time

In his spare time, Gu Ke would also use his perception to check on the two children regularly, recording the changes in their chakra blood orifices after practicing martial arts. Reading

Then compare it with his own internal vision, study the differences between them, and analyze what the so-called martial arts talent is.

After observation, it was found that the two children practiced martial arts with vigorous blood and qi, and then the blood and qi condensed towards the blood orifices. Lighting up the blood orifices would condense part of the blood and qi into something like a "seed".

Then the blood orifice, this "seed", would accelerate the absorption of food essence, and then spread a large number of "roots" around to feed the internal organs.

The internal organs are well-nourished and run fast, and then stimulate the blood orifices to condense and grow, which is manifested in good health and strong strength.

The blood and qi in Gu Ke's body are several times more vigorous than those of the two children, but they are basically evenly distributed and do not gather towards those blood orifices.

Of course, he does not need to gather them.

Because the total amount of his blood and qi is much larger than that of the two children, even if it is evenly distributed, it is not much worse than the blood orifices of Xiaoman and others.

In short, he has blood orifices all over his body, and the speed of absorption and circulation is much faster than that of Xiaoman and the others.

So the two Qin Bai girls are strong and have a larger appetite. They will feel full after eating too much purple wheat, but he will only eat less for a short period of time without any feeling of fullness.

In addition, Xiaoman and the others' blood orifices release blood and qi, and at the same time control and restrain blood and qi, allowing it to circulate in the body and reduce natural loss to the outside.

According to what Miss Qin and Bai Suqing said about opening the third round, increasing revenue and reducing expenditure are the key points.

Increasing revenue means using good food and medicinal materials, and reducing expenditure means strengthening the control of blood orifices to prevent blood and qi from "leaking" out of the body.

Gu Ke's body is constantly losing a small amount of blood and qi, and constantly absorbing certain energy from the outside world and converting it into blood and qi.

Between the inflow and outflow of blood and qi and energy, his body always maintains a dynamic balance, and does not change because of his stronger physique.

Letting him condense blood orifices like the girls is to go against the body, so it will naturally fail.

Gu Ke knew in his heart that this might be the reason why his body was extraordinary.

Since the blood and qi always interact with the outside world, it is only a by-product to sense various information from the outside world, and the perception ability will be there.

In addition, the second round of masters releasing blood and qi can break the strange fog that protects the strange creatures and the demonic qi that protects the monsters, and hurt their bodies, which is meaningless to him.

Didn't the ghost-faced sunflower monster and the black monster die with his hatchet! It felt no more laborious to chop them than to chop the straw in the fairy field.

This may be due to the small hatchet.

It does not have the characteristic of affinity, but those who Gu Ke has opened the use rights can release blood and qi at will with very little consumption.

The same is true for the nameless small iron hammer.

But generally, martial arts weapons require the owner to warm them with blood and qi for a long time to adapt to the entry of the owner's blood and qi, and other people can't exert their full strength.

Therefore, everyone thinks that it is something specially given to him by the "immortal family". It has some effects of martial arts weapons, but it is not a martial arts weapon, so no one mentions it to him.

In addition, it should also be related to the damage attribute of the Wuxiang Zhenjing.

The attribute of damage only appears on the Wuxiang Sutra, the small hatchet, and the small iron hammer directly rewarded by the system.

The basic attribute of other stone knives and bamboo swords is only sharpness, and there is no damage attribute in their characteristics.

The higher the damage, the less effort he will have to cut anything - including the sunflower monster and the black monster, which feel not much stronger than the big bluestone.

If it is within the protection range of the system, it is not the monster chasing him, but he chasing them to get crystals.

In this way, the effect of Wuxiang Sutra is far more powerful than Gu Ke imagined.

The route is different from that of the warrior, but the actual effect is not bad, enough for him to protect himself and save his life, work and farm.

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The days that followed were calm.

No monsters appeared in the Zuling Hall, and it seemed that this "spawning point" had been blown up.

Gu Ke could only rely on setting up a stall to barely maintain the dignity of life.

However, he did not visit relatives in places like Xiongjiagou and Baiwei Village, nor did he meet someone as pleasing to the eye as Li Xiuer.

He sets up a stall twice a month, and goes to small mountain villages wherever he goes.

Most of the monsters he encounters are wandering monsters, a small part are white monsters, and occasionally there are byes.

Fortunately, the low point of luck has passed, and there is no such outrageous thing as two consecutive zero eggs. Soul source and Tianfu Tongbao are rising steadily.

At this rate, Bai Suqing and the two children can get their wages this year, and there will be some left.

When he officially started his leisurely life in the valley, Dawu Zhongting, Jingxi South Road, dozens of miles away from the old site of Lijiagou.

In a cave, Li Xiuer vigilantly observed the situation outside through the cracks of the rocks.

Since the massacre of Lijiagou that night, she kept Gu Ke's warning in mind and took more than 40 surviving friends from the same village into the mountains.

Relying on the huge force brought by the Push Mountain Palm, a group of children walked and stopped, and arrived at this cave in the afternoon of the next day.

She didn't know the existence of this cave. It was the brothers Xia Tieniu and Xia Tiezhu from the same village who said this cave.

Their parents found this cave, kept it a secret, and used it as a refuge.

Unfortunately, they didn't have a chance to escape this time, but they also left the most precious legacy to their two sons.

As for why the two brothers told Li Xiu'er this top-secret news, it was nothing more than Xia Tieniu had feelings for Li Xiu'er.

Not to mention that Li Xiu'er was too young at eight years old, people here can get married at the age of eleven (twelve in lunar age), and matchmaking can be one or two years earlier.

In other words, it is common for men and women to matchmake and get married at the age of ten.

Li Xiuer is eight years old and can get engaged in two years.

Of course, the old immortal was the one Li Xiuer met. He treated her very well, and the children in the same village all saw it.

Moreover, after receiving Gu Ke's unintentional blessing, she felt that she was completely different. Not only was her mind extremely clear, but her heart was also full of fighting spirit.

When she directed everyone to act and do things, her attitude was firm and she would never drag her feet.

This kind of personality can easily gain the dominance of a group of children even in the real world.

After Xia Tieniu pulled his brother Xia Tiezhu and began to support Li Xiuer, a dozen girls also stood on her side by default.

Although the remaining twenty or so boys were a little more in number, there was no one who could convince the crowd.

Therefore, this group of children, who were no more than fifteen years old, gradually recognized Li Xiuer's identity as the leader.

After arriving at the cave, Li Xiuer directed several older children who liked to hang out in the mountains and often went into the mountains with their elders, and asked them to clean up the traces left near the cave when they came.

After that, they blocked the stone covering the cave entrance again, trying to restore the place to its original state.

After entering the cave, a group of children walked dozens of feet inside, and the sky reappeared in front of them.

What came into view was a small valley with a radius of dozens of feet.

The valley ran from east to west, showing irregular strips, and all the cliffs were very high, because they were a mountain that was cracked during a crustal movement.

After the vicissitudes of life, it evolved into a small valley.

It was not surprising, and this terrain could always be found in the mountains.

The real magic was that there was a string of small ponds in the valley, and they came from two springs, one cold and one hot.

Needless to say, the cold one was normal mountain spring water, with clear water and no odor.

The hot one was naturally an underground hot spring, with a distinct sulfur smell. The outlet was in a crack in the stone wall, bubbling with hot steam, but it was a high hot spring with a temperature of over 100.

As a backup shelter, Xia Tieniu's parents also stored a lot of hay and firewood in the cave.

Although the amount was not enough for more than 40 children, they brought some bedding with them when they came, so they could make do for now.

After settling down, Li Xiuer found that although it was in the mountains, it was not very cold here.

However, when she saw the hot spring stone wall with steam coming out faintly, she understood.

This saved the need to make a fire. The older children who were hanging out in the mountains said that smoke could be seen more than ten miles away when the weather was good.

This was obviously very dangerous for them who went into the mountains to avoid being hunted.

The next twenty days were very peaceful, but the group of children were not idle.

Li Xiuer arranged for everyone to pull out most of the overly lush weeds in the small valley,

put the edible ones in the pot, boil them in the hot springs, and dry them, and add some to the porridge every day.

Those that were suitable were used to make beds on the ground, and those that were not suitable were kept as firewood. In addition, a small cellar was dug by the way.

But remembering the warning transmitted to her by Gu Ke's thoughts, she did not make a fire to cook, but used the high-temperature hot springs to cook the ordinary food she brought.

If it's really boring, the children can go to the small valley that has been cleared and get familiar with the Push Mountain Palm.

It's not possible to practice directly. Without sufficient food, they will only be exhausted.

In late March, when Li Xiuer was checking the outside world through the gap at the entrance of the cave, she found a figure flashing in the distance.

Her heart tightened, and she hurried into the valley to let her friends keep quiet.

Even if she wanted to talk, she had to keep her voice down.

The babies who were too young were taken into the cellar by their brothers and sisters, and the cellar door was covered with thick weeds for sound insulation.

After that, there were several small teams passing by the cave.

Each team had at least five people and at most ten people. They were all dressed in tight clothes, holding weapons, and had a fierce temperament. They looked around while walking, obviously searching for something.

There were usually not many people coming to this forest, and there would not be so many people coming, and they were obviously all strong in martial arts.

With Gu Ke's reminder, Li Xiuer directly concluded that these people were looking for her friends.

As a result, life in the small valley became very difficult.

Li Xiuer could only bring up Gu Ke, saying that since the old immortal had saved everyone, he would definitely protect everyone from harm.

But the old immortal also said that we should pay attention to avoiding bad people. If everyone does not obey, then safety may not be guaranteed.

Under her repeated emphasis (brainwashing), once they meet someone outside and need to keep quiet, everyone will silently pray for the old immortal to bless them in their hearts.

Fortunately, those teams are not hanging around outside all the time, and most of them only appear every few days.

Li Xiuer vaguely understood that these people were searching repeatedly nearby.

Although this place is not a real deep mountain forest, it is also a high mountain with dense forests, and there is no human habitation for dozens of miles.

If it were earlier, the cover-up done by several older children would not be very clever, and it would be easy to detect traces.

As a result, in order to keep it secret, these people did not keep close contact with the group of people who brought the strange man, and found out that the strange man had no news after several days.

It took a few more days to find Lijiagou.

It was half a month before the children in Lijiagou were found missing and people were sent to search in the mountains.

It was late spring and early summer. After a few rains, the grass and trees in the mountains grew wildly, and the traces of Li Xiuer and others completely disappeared.

At this time, trying to find Li Xiuer and others who were hiding and never going out was no different from looking for a needle in a haystack.

Even if the searchers passed by nearby, they were still a little far away from the opening above the valley.

The key is that no one could have imagined that these children could have a closed valley suitable for seclusion, with ready-made water sources and hot springs.

The closed environment and hot springs kept the temperature in the valley and the cave high.

There was no need to make fire for cooking and heating, and there were many wild vegetables that could be used at the bottom of the valley, and there were mushrooms in the dark corners of the cliff.

The poisonous or uncertain ones were directly cleaned up by Li Xiuer to prevent the young children from eating them by mistake.

Some edible ones were picked every day to reduce food consumption.

The people who searched for Li Xiuer and his team were not made of iron. A team that tried to go deep into the mountain encountered a monster and was almost wiped out.

At this point, the search had to end.

No one thought that Li Xiuer and her dozens of children could live safely in the mountains for a month on their own.

The appearance of the monster also gave these people a possibility.

If Li Xiuer and his team were eaten by the monster when they went into the mountains to hide, it would be normal for the traces to disappear.

No one knows how strange monsters and demons will eat people, and it is not uncommon for unlucky people to be swallowed up with their belongings.

Moreover, as the weather gets hotter, more and more people from all over the country go to Lijiagou, including landlords who collect rent and government officials who distribute corvée labor. The massacre of Lijiagou can't be concealed at all.

By then, those who are still searching in the mountains, aren't they obviously related to the Lijiagou incident?

Therefore, these people had to end the search and leave as soon as possible, and this was already in late April.

Li Xiuer spent a few more days to confirm that the big men wandering back and forth outside really disappeared.

She was relieved, and everyone didn't have to worry all the time.

Fortunately, she had just arrived in the small valley for two days. She saw rotten leaves everywhere, and weeds and mushrooms were growing well, so she thought of the purple wheat that Gu Ke gave her alone.

After estimating that the little food everyone brought back, no matter how frugal it was, it would not last until June.

So she gritted her teeth and planted half of the purple wheat seeds in the small valley.

Purple wheat is unusually large and heavy, with only a little over a hundred grains per pound, and half of it only about fifty grains.

After leaving the fairy field, it will have higher requirements for soil fertility. According to the instructions for the seeds obtained by Li Xiuer, only one plant can be planted within a radius of three feet.

Although the small valley is small, the main body is more than ten feet long and three or four feet wide. A plot with sufficient sunlight every day can plant more than fifty purple wheat grains.

The soil at the bottom of the small valley is thick, and there is a humus layer formed after the withering and decay of plants and trees year after year, which is rich in nutrients.

Planted in early March, by April, long wheat leaves had grown, and there were faint purple marks on the leaves, which were not ordinary things at first sight.

It was also these wheat seedlings that grew day by day that made a group of children believe in the old immortal mentioned by Li Xiuer.

In the past month of seclusion in the valley, when I couldn't bear it, I looked at the wheat seedlings, and my heart inexplicably had a little more hope.