Mortal Mirror

The first realm of martial arts, also known as the Refining Essence Stage, is about refining the essence within the five internal organs.

Breaking through the first realm and entering the second realm of martial arts, the Qi Condensation Stage, is about condensing the martial arts energy inside the heart's Divine Palace, making the martial arts energy more refined, transforming it from gas to liquid, which has the same effect as the foundation building of the divine path.

Moreover, upon entering the second realm of martial arts, one must use the martial arts energy within the Divine Palace to begin refining the spine, making the spine indestructible.

The spine is the most important part of a martial artist's body. As long as the spine is refined to be indestructible, one will be innately invincible.

Li Ergou was extremely excited. After Mei'er and Jing'er learned of this news, they congratulated him repeatedly. After all, the higher Li Ergou's strength, the safer the two girls would be.

Moreover, the two girls were unwilling to fall behind, practicing diligently every day. With the nourishment of eggs and chicken, their progress was also very fast.

In the following days, Li Ergou finally had time to start his thousand-chicken plan, simultaneously breeding the first, second, and third generations of chickens.

He personally took care of the egg hatching, after all, he had very rich egg-hatching experience.

A month later, the first, second, and third generations of chickens were born one after another. He used the same old method, killing all the original chickens and only keeping the cloned chicks for breeding.

During this period, what made him particularly happy was that the third-generation chickens finally laid eggs. Their eggs were larger, as big as ostrich eggs, but the efficiency was very low, requiring three days to lay one egg.

The characteristic gas in these eggs was three to four times richer than that of the second-generation eggs, and the taste was even more delicious.

What surprised Li Ergou the most was that the toxicity of the Dragon Blood Vajra Pill thatZulong taught him to eat was slowly disappearing.

He saw that the red lines on his bones had begun to fade, proving that the medicinal power of the poison was being eliminated, and it wouldn't be long before these poisons completely disappeared.

He did not expect that the medicinal effect of these third-generation eggs would be even more powerful than turtle jelly. You must know that after being poisoned by the Dragon Blood Vajra Pill, Li Ergou ate a lot of turtle jelly to detoxify.

To his surprise, although turtle jelly had an obvious effect on detoxifying corpse poison, it was very unsatisfactory in dealing with the Dragon Blood Pill, and the effect was very poor, only slightly dimming the blood lines. This once made Li Ergou very unhappy.

Now that the third-generation eggs have such an effect, Li Ergou doesn't have to worry about the threat from the Zulong Sect.

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, three months had passed, and it was almost the New Year. The first, second, and third generations of chickens had all grown up.

There were so many eggs every day that if they were not sold, they would pile up like a mountain.

Li Ergou originally wanted Liu Zhiyu to continue operating the business. After all, when he left, Liu Zhiyu told him that he could specially open an exclusive store for him in Fish City.

However, this idea was rejected by Mei'er and Jing'er. Only then did Li Ergou realize that these two guys had already made up their minds to open their own store.

On the one hand, the two girls were bored, and on the other hand, they also wanted to try doing business, so as to contribute more to Li Ergou. In this way, the two would not feel useless and would become Li Ergou's right-hand assistants.

Li Ergou didn't know what these two women wanted to do, but Li Ergou wouldn't stop them from doing what they loved.

So the group found a shop that was not very big on the street, and the Ergou Medicinal Egg Specialty Store opened.

On the opening day, Fairy Qin came to show her support, and the whole street was blocked. The already famous Ergou Medicinal Egg became even more famous.

Nearly 20,000 eggs were sold on the first day, because the Ergou Medicinal Egg is now too famous, and its functions are increasing. It can not only make people's physique better, but also has detoxification effects, so the price is no longer the previous bargain price.

First-generation eggs are sold for onetael of silver, and second-generation eggs are sold for five taels(两: tael) of silver. Even so, the supply is still in short supply.

In this way, Li Ergou made a lot of money and was overjoyed.

However, although Li Ergou was very successful in business, he has not been doing well in the yamen(衙门: yamen - government office) recently, because of the Ma Wendong incident last time, he has been sitting on the bench and not allowed to go out to work.

Today, it was even more excessive. He was transferred to patrol the streets. Is this something that a small constable should do? Shouldn't it be done by those yamen runners?

You must know that there are eight hundred constables and five hundred yamen runners under the constables in the yamen(衙门: yamen - government office). After all, such a large Fish City cannot rely on constables alone. Constables are for big things, and trivial matters are naturally left to the yamen runners.

For example, patrolling the streets is a trivial matter. Letting Li Ergou do it is not burying him? Not only that, but he also implicated a group of brothers under him. But everyone dared not speak out.

It is said that Bai Su personally ordered them to patrol the streets, which made it even more impossible to resist. Li Ergou was puzzled. He had not offended Bai Su. Why did this woman treat him like this?

Although he had some complaints in his heart, he still had to live his life. Li Ergou could only lead his brothers to stroll around the streets.

What he didn't expect was that he didn't know until he patrolled that the security of this Fish City was really chaotic. There were countless martial arts schools and dozens or hundreds of gangs in Fish City. Fighting was commonplace.

The most serious were robbery, coercion, and theft.

While patrolling, shouts of killing suddenly came from the front. In front of the coffin shop, a group of strong men could be seen slashing wildly at an old man. A woman hid behind the old man and cried, "Don't hit my grandpa, don't hit my grandpa."

The old man also seemed to be no ordinary person, with excellent martial arts skills. However, the strong men on the opposite side were all armed with weapons. Even a good tiger could not withstand a pack of wolves, let alone an old man.

After fighting for a while, the old man was stabbed several times. At this moment, he rolled on the ground and suddenly darted into the coffin shop. Then, he carried out a black coffin from inside. The coffin was made of special wood, and there was a faint light shining on it.

The old man put the coffin on the ground and shouted, "I'll fight you to the death. Let's die together."

Then, he suddenly opened the coffin lid. A black light spurted out from the coffin. Wherever the light passed, the strong men were blown away.

In the distance, Li Ergou and others also felt the terrifying power of the light. Seeing this scene, Li Ergou was horrified, only feeling that the coffin was not simple.

At this moment, a man in gorgeous clothes flew out from the group of strong men. He suddenly took out several talismans in his hand. Then, the talismans turned into countless ice blades and shot out into the air, carrying endless terrifying power, shooting towards the old man.

Seeing that the old man was about to be killed by the ice blades, Li Ergou shouted loudly. Then, with a thought, a fist-sized turtle shell flew out of his body. The turtle shell suddenly became larger in the air, returning to its original size of about ten feet, and fell in front of the old man like a small mountain.