Immortality: Raise an ant queen and add some immortality

But for such a big black bear, by the time he finishes eating, his cultivation level will probably reach 45 or above.

Without practicing skills, just relying on blood food nourishment and ordinary exercise, it is really difficult to reach the second level of a mortal.

If you sell the bear skin for a good price this time, you should be able to buy a book of cultivation techniques.

By then, his cultivation will be different day by day.

The absorption efficiency of blood food will also be greatly improved.

As he continued to move forward, although the sky was still dark, there were gradually more and more pedestrians on the official road.

Some people carry burdens, and some people carry a big basket like Qin Niu. They are all going into the city.

To sell home-grown cash crops, they usually do not go into the city, but set up stalls outside the city.

Because you need to pay a city fee to enter the city, pedestrians, regardless of gender, old or young, are charged 5 cents per person. The cost is quite high, and vendors at small stalls cannot make much money.

In order to save the entry fee, goods of low value will be sold outside the city.

If you own real estate or have a regular job in the city, there is no charge for entering and exiting the city.

Therefore, city people go to the market outside the city gate to buy vegetables in the morning.

Cheap and fresh.

There is a disadvantage of taking out food in the city without paying the city fee. If someone robs you, the government will not ask anything.

Even if there are black-armored soldiers standing at the gate of the city, even if a robbery happens right under their noses, they still won't care.

But if anyone dares to break through the city gate, he will be captured immediately.

He might even be beheaded.

These soldiers guarding the city gate are just the weakest members of the Black Tiger Gang. Even so, every time Qin Niu faced them, his soul was throbbing and his knees felt weak.

I can't think of any resistance at all.

About the time Chenshi arrived, Qin Niu had already arrived outside Black Tiger City.

In the past, he needed at least three and a half hours, about seven hours.

Today was shortened by a full hour. This was due to the benefits of his substantial increase in cultivation.

The place outside the city gate is already very lively, and you can see vendors setting up stalls everywhere, as well as city people coming out to buy things.

Mainly for grocery shopping.

To bring firewood and charcoal into the city, you need to pay a city fee. City people generally do not buy from woodcutter, but from merchants who specialize in firewood and charcoal business in the city.

They have a way to significantly reduce the cost of bringing firewood and charcoal into the city. After all, they are entering the city in large quantities and then giving them to the military leaders guarding the city gate. Naturally, they can get a huge discount.

All in all, the price of firewood sold by the merchant is cheaper than the total cost of buying firewood from the woodcutter.

It is precisely because of this that the woodcutters honestly send the wood they cut to merchants who specialize in purchasing firewood and charcoal. rather than selling to individuals.

There is more than one businessman in the charcoal business, so if there is competition, the price will not be lowered too hard.

Generally speaking, the prices given by everyone are similar.

A load of dry firewood weighing 100 kilograms sells for about 20 cents. The vendor's purchase price was about fifteen cents.

Good quality firewood can be given for seventeen or eighty cents per load, while poor quality firewood may only be given for twelve or thirty cents per load.

It takes about half a day for the woodcutter to chop a load of wet firewood weighing two hundred pounds and carry it home.

Dry firewood can be obtained only after removing the water content.

To sell to firewood merchants, large firewood needs to be split into two halves or four pieces. The most popular length is about one foot.

One hundred kilograms of wet wood weighs about thirty kilograms after drying.

It takes three hundred kilograms of wet wood to dry before getting one hundred kilograms of dry firewood.

Even though a woodcutter can sell a load of firewood for fifteen cents, he actually doesn't make much. Maybe not as good as a long-term worker in a landlord's house.

Because long-term workers in the landlord's family are paid even if they don't go out to work on rainy or snowy winter days.

The woodcutter has no income if he doesn't go to the mountain to cut wood for a day.

Many of the landowners' long-term workers were provided with food and accommodation, while the woodcutter had to eat his own food.

This is why being a long-term worker for a large landowner family like the Yan family is a sought-after job.

Compared with woodcutters and temporary workers, working as a long-term worker for a landlord's family can provide a stable income, and it is not as hard as a woodcutter. And if you do a good job, you will be appreciated by your employer and have the opportunity to be promoted.

Being a foreman or steward is equivalent to becoming a company executive.

At this moment, there was a long queue of people entering the city outside the city.

Soldiers rarely inspect personal belongings unless they appear suspicious.

In this world, there is no such thing as prohibited items. Weapons such as knives and spears can be brought into the city at will.

No one dared to fight easily in the city.

Not to mention killing people.

Unless you're tired of living.

There are many experts in the Black Tiger Gang. Black Tiger City is a city that it painstakingly manages and is an important source of income. It will never be allowed to be destroyed by anyone.

There are top powerhouses in the city twelve hours a day.

If someone makes trouble, they will be taken down or killed directly in minutes.

The law of the jungle is followed outside the city, and the weak eat the strong. Although there are etiquette and laws, they are basically superficial.

For example, Hai Kun, the bully king in the village, robs any ordinary villager he wants.

This kind of thing rarely happens in the city.

Unless the treasure you possess makes the top brass of the Black Tiger Gang excited, and then the other party thinks it can get a hold of it, then it is possible that they will do something dirty.

Under normal circumstances, everyone will follow the rules.

The black bear skin that Qin Niu carried on his back in the basket was a huge fortune that could make countless people jealous if placed in the countryside. But in the city, the items are very common and there is almost no need to worry about being robbed.

The only thing you have to worry about is getting scammed.

The routines in the city are deep, they are really deep, and there are pits everywhere.

Qin Niu honestly joined the queue with the basket on his back.

Carriages, bullock carts, and animal chariots all charge a city fee of 20 cents, and ordinary pedestrians charge a city fee of 5 cents.

Those who could afford carriages were mostly rich and powerful.

They bought real estate in the city, or worked in the government, or someone in their family worked in the government. When entering the city, carriages rarely have to pay an entry fee.

Even when encountering the carriages of top powerful figures, the soldiers guarding the city did not dare to check them.

The little leader of the army will let him go with an extremely humble and fawning attitude.

Bullock carts are mostly vehicles used by ordinary people to pull goods. As long as they enter the city, the toll rate is almost 100%.

Even if you have a house in the city, you have to pay fees as long as you bring goods into the city.

No one who is truly powerful would ride a bullock cart, because it would be too cheap.

The speed of the ox-cart is even more incomparable to that of the horse-drawn carriage.

Then let’s talk about the chariot, which is actually rarely seen.

Those suitable for pulling chariots must at least be ferocious beasts such as wolves, bears, and tigers. Those who can tame these ferocious beasts and can afford to raise them are basically beast masters, the richest among the rich, the second generation of rich people, the second generation of officials, etc.

Not even an ordinary person.

Compared to the high profile of the Beast Master, the Insect Master is much more low-key.

If he didn't wear the robe of a bug master, outsiders wouldn't even know he was a bug master.

In terms of actual status, insect masters and beast masters are actually equal.

Don't look at the beasts tamed by the beastmaster, they are ferocious and frightening, and their fighting power is overwhelming. But a truly powerful insect master can kill a tiger by releasing just one insect.

Qin Niu has mastered two insect control skills and owns a colony of termites. He is definitely a quasi-insect control master.

Not much worse than Hu Laizi, the quasi-beast master in the village.

Judging from the evolutionary capabilities of Lao Si, worker ants, and soldier ants, his potential is much higher than that of Hu Laizi.

In fact, this also indirectly shows that the queen ant is extraordinary.

If it is not good enough, the offspring it gives birth to will not have such strong evolutionary capabilities.

"Everyone should line up. It costs five cents for both adults and children to enter the city."

Someone in a black robe kept shouting in front.

These people are not soldiers, but helpers.

The soldiers did not bother to do such chores as collecting city fees themselves. They are only responsible for standing at the gate of the city to guard the safety of the city and complete wanted, arrest, and defense tasks that may be issued by their superiors at any time.

Qin Niu prepared five cents and handed it directly to the helper in charge of collecting fees.

The other party glanced at the bearskin he had put in the basket, and without saying anything, let him go into the city.

From that look, Qin Niu could feel a hint of greed.

Just deliberately making things difficult for Qin Niu in front of everyone would generally not happen.

After paying the money, Qin Niu walked directly into the city.

When he passed the tall city gate, the terrifying aura emanating from the eight soldiers guarding the city made him feel frightened again. However, this time it may be that my cultivation has improved a lot, and the feeling of weakness in my knees and wanting to kneel down is much less severe.

I don’t know how terrifying these people’s cultivation is?

It must be much more powerful than the Yan family's nursing home.

Qin Niu didn't even dare to raise his eyes to look at these soldiers. Instead, he only dared to look at them with the corner of his eye and hurried away.

They were wearing black iron armor and black iron helmets on their heads, and they were holding spears that were taller than humans. Judging from the luster, it was probably forged from hundreds of refined steel.

The terrifying cold murderous aura emanated from the tip of the gun.

Together with the powerful cultivation within the soldiers, it formed a majestic aura that was breathtaking.

If one of these beings is pulled out at random, Shuangfeng Village will be slaughtered to death.

The people who come to stand guard at the city gate are only the weakest group of people in the Black Tiger Gang. How strong are the stronger beings? no one knows.

Perhaps one look could scare Qin Niu to the ground.

Having glimpsed the tip of the iceberg of the Black Tiger Gang's strength, Qin Niu was even more in awe of this behemoth.

He didn't know how long it would take him to stand on top of this behemoth. He might never reach that height in his lifetime. Or maybe it will be achieved in three to five years.

What he has to do now is to accumulate strength little by little, and continue to 'shed' his skin like a termite, eventually transforming.

"Little brother, little brother, do you want to sell the bearskin you are carrying in this basket?"

Qin Niu had just walked out not far when someone caught up with him.

It wasn't the gangster in black robe with greedy eyes, but a middle-aged man with slightly drooped eyebrows. He looked to be about forty years old, slightly chubby, and reasonably well-dressed.

At least he was more respectable than a poor country boy like him.

Compared with the wealthy people in the city, this dress is of a very poor quality.

How did this man know that he was carrying a bearskin?

Qin Niu made some guesses and guessed that this person was probably the deputy who helped Xian Yang.

Seeing that there was suitable property that could be easily handled by the owner, he asked his deputy to follow him to look for opportunities to do something dirty.

Robbery certainly won't.

Luo Qin Niu to a place to buy at a low price, and even used some tricks such as subcontracting to directly exchange the civet cat for the prince.

Qin Niu glanced at this person indifferently, did not answer, but walked straight forward.

The middle-aged man was unwilling to give in and chased after him again.