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Chapter 119 Cultivating the Hundred Poisons Primordial Body (Second Update)
April 1st.

Late at night, Zhou Qing left the martial arts school and headed towards Black Wind Mountain.

Upon entering the Black Wind Mountain territory, Zhou Qing's face was full of enjoyment.

The feeling of instantly becoming stronger is truly intoxicating.

【Occupation: Mountain God (Black Wind Mountain)】

[Divine Power: Rank 9 (4680/100000)]

In one month, his divine power increased by more than three thousand.

Currently, there are approximately several hundred mountain dwellers in the Black Wind Mountain area who worship the Black Wind Mountain God.

Most of them have relatively weak faith, or rather, they are more 'flexible'.

Herb gatherers and hunters, who frequently go up the mountains, inevitably encounter situations where they get lost or injured.

Believing in Zhou Qing, the mountain god, can bring immediate benefits.

For example, when someone gets lost, a devout person will keep thinking of the mountain god, and then part of the fog will dissipate, revealing a path down the mountain.

One major reason affecting the livelihoods of many mountain dwellers is the frequent fog and miasma that can appear anytime and anywhere in the mountainside area.

There are plenty of common herbs, medicinal materials, and wild fruits on the mountain, but the key is that you may be able to go up the mountain to collect them, but you may not be able to come down.

If you really encounter miasma, you might not be able to avoid it and be poisoned to death.

When you encounter fog and can't find your way home, or wander aimlessly, and finally find a way only to end up in the lair of wild beasts and poisonous insects, that's true despair.

The same goes for hunters.

If one's faith is sincere enough, offering incense on the mountain and ancestral tablets on the ground, one is very likely to receive the favor of the eagle under the mountain god's seat.

In case of encountering any large wild beasts, the eagle will descend from the sky in a moment of crisis to drive them away.

If you're unlucky and can't catch any prey, and you dream of the mountain god while you're sleeping at night, the mountain god will guide you to places where it's easier to catch prey.

Basically, if you go the next day, you're guaranteed to encounter prey.

Pheasants and rabbits are common sights, and occasionally, if you're lucky, you might even find a rare mountain delicacy like a snow hare. Selling just one is enough to feed a family of three for one or two months.

Most of these mountain people have very simple needs.

They didn't even want to eat meat or be full; they just hoped they wouldn't have to worry about where their next meal would come from and that they could save enough tax money each year.

Of course, there are also some who are greedy. Today they get a pheasant, tomorrow they want a snow rabbit, and the day after that they wish the eagle could help kill a big black bear.

If one's expectations are not met, one's faith will not be as devout.

Even if someone like that burns incense, Zhou Qing will receive very little divine power.

In addition, Zhou Qing's divine power can also help farmers who have fields at the foot of the mountain.

However, some farmers' wishes are too outrageous.

They wished for perfect weather, with just the right amount of rain, and also hoped to avoid pest infestations and have a good harvest. In the end, they wished that each acre of land could produce a thousand catties of rice.

Zhou Qing was merely a mountain god.

He is not the founder of the Demon Rice Cultivation Technique.

Given time, he should be able to cultivate hybrid rice with his divine power.

But this would consume too much divine power.

Compared to the divine power these farmers bestowed upon him, it was utterly disproportionate.

Although if believers make a wish and Zhou Qing fulfills it, the believers' faith will become more devout and bring more incense offerings, his actual abilities must also be taken into account.

Moreover, believers who are overly utilitarian may become less devout if some of their wishes are not fulfilled.

This is a win-win situation in itself.

Zhou Qing gained divine power, and believers gained basic benefits.

They used to be poor and destitute, but now they have hemp clothing to wear and cornbread to eat.

That's the most he can do.

As for higher demands, he can meet them, but if he can't make ends meet, what's the point of these people's faith?
In other words, if everything could be solved by praying to gods and Buddhas, then Zhou Qing himself would want to pray to gods too.

People only pray to gods and Buddhas when they are poor.

How many wealthy and powerful people would actually believe in gods and Buddhas?
Unless they are terminally ill and about to die, that would be more likely.

As a mountain god, Zhou Qing could only satisfy the most basic survival needs of his followers.

Fortunately, there aren't many people in the Black Wind Mountain area, but there are many poor people.

Most people are struggling to make ends meet, so he doesn't need to actively preach; these poor people will naturally share their stories of divine favor with others.

Like Li Fu, who had previously received help from Zhou Qing, his faith was devout enough that he would offer incense every day and even bring his pregnant wife to worship with him.

Therefore, Zhou Qing can obtain 1 point of divine power from Li Fu's house every day, which is 30 points a month.

If there were three thousand people like Li Fu, Zhou Qing could be promoted from a ninth-rank mountain god to an eighth-rank god next month.

Unfortunately, there aren't many people like that.

Of course, Zhou Qing did not mistreat someone like Li Fu.

Now, whenever Li Fu goes up the mountain, he brings incense to worship the mountain god, so he can hunt almost every day on the mountain, and occasionally he can even find copper coins or even pieces of silver.

With Li Fu as a role model, more and more people are beginning to follow suit.

So much so that now, at the foot of Black Wind Mountain, local villagers have spontaneously raised money to erect a monument and build a small temple for the mountain god.

Of course, some people are genuinely sincere, while others are just looking to profit from it.

Zhou Qing never mistreated anyone with a devout faith.

However, as the number of believers increased, he also discovered a problem: responding to each believer's wish was rather troublesome.

Using the Dream Entry Technique while sleeping at night doesn't affect his rest, but Zhou Qing always feels like he's on a 000 work schedule.

During the day, he practices martial arts and raises Gu poison; at night, he must respond to the wishes of his believers in his dreams.

It seems like there's no rest time at all.

However, this is easily resolved, as Tiger Eagle can currently share a large portion of his workload. Once his divine power grows stronger, he can delegate some of his authority to designated individuals to manage his followers.

In any case, the authority can be taken back at any time, and those who can accept the authority of the gods are all devout believers.

These people are like workers without social insurance and housing fund benefits, and without signed contracts.

He could kick him away anytime he wanted, and taking his life wouldn't be a problem.

Under the cover of night, Zhou Qing arrived at the summit of Black Wind Mountain and stood on the edge of the cliff to look down.

Having been in this world for so long, he finally felt a sense of security.

Unless he is a Blood Transformation Realm Grand Martial Master, an ordinary Bone Refining Realm Martial Master cannot do anything to him in this Black Wind Mountain territory.

"At the current pace of cultivation, we can bring Grandma back in two or three months."

Zhou Qing looked southeast, where Ping'an County was located.

Over the past month, Zhou Qing had asked Pei Ying to deliver letters and money to the old woman, but she hadn't brought her back yet, mainly due to safety concerns.

The people of the Witch God Cult dare not run wild in Ping'an County.

The security situation in Heishan Town is much worse.

A martial artist who has mastered the tendons and muscles can roam freely here. He can kill someone in the most bustling Chang Le Lane late at night and may not be discovered until the next day.

Zhou Qing felt that with his foundation, once he cultivated to the Tendon Refining level, he would be able to fight against an ordinary Bone Refining Realm martial artist purely through martial arts.

At that time, the old lady's safety will be guaranteed when she lives here.

boom!
Zhou Qing took out the Wooden King Cauldron divine weapon from the leather bag Gu and threw it onto the ground in front of him. The Wooden King Cauldron divine weapon crashed down and returned to its original size.

Zhou Qing stepped forward and lifted the lid of the cauldron, revealing scalding hot medicinal liquid inside.

Immediately afterwards, he took out a jade box from the leather bag Gu, inside which were slices of the Hundred Poison Yin Peach.

Zhou Qing threw one of the pieces into the medicine.

呲呲
Even though he was wearing boxing gloves, the skin on his palms was corroded by the terrifying toxicity of the Hundred Poison Peach.

"Gudu! Gudu!"

As the Hundred Poisons Peach fell into the medicinal liquid, the originally pitch-black liquid visibly turned bright and glistening, emitting a unique fragrance.

Zhou Qing skillfully took out a cloth from his bosom, folded it, and put it in his mouth.

He took off his outer clothes, gritted his teeth, and jumped directly into the cauldron.

"Um--!!!"

The high temperature aggravated the poisoning, causing Zhou Qing to cry from the pain.

His eyes quickly became bloodshot, and his skin turned bright red, like a boiled crab.

However, Zhou Qing stubbornly refused to stand up.

Half a month ago, he discovered that within the Black Wind Mountain area, there was divine power blessing him, and his physical strength seemed to have increased somewhat, so he tried to cultivate the Hundred Poisons Mixed Yuan Technique ahead of schedule.

It turned out to be true.

Therefore, Zhou Qing used the highly poisonous Hundred Poison Peach as a medicinal ingredient.

Of course, just to be on the safe side, he sliced ​​the poisonous peach and initially added only a tiny bit.

[Skill: Body of All Poisons]

[Progress: First floor not yet mastered (112/1000)]

Amidst the excruciating pain, the only thing that kept Zhou Qing going was the ever-increasing progress of his cultivation technique.

He uses the Hundred Poison Yin Peach to cultivate the Hundred Poison Primordial Body once every seven days. At this rate, he will be able to enter the basics in about three months.

The Hundred Poisons Primordial Body provides comprehensive enhancement to the physical body, greatly shortening the process of refining the flesh.

Based on his original progress in cultivating the White Cloud Serpent Palm, it was estimated that it would take him more than ten months to break through.

The Hundred Poisons Primordial Body requires a physical strength at the Tendon Refining level to cultivate.

Once Zhou Qing has mastered the basics of the technique, he will be able to naturally break through to the Tendon Refining level using this technique.

This directly saved more than half a year of time.

The key is the power of this technique, which Lin Tianzheng has already proven in actual combat.

Even when he was seriously injured, he was able to compete with Yao Xuewei.

You should know that Yao Xuewei is a top expert in the Bone Refining Realm.

Compared to that, this pain is nothing.

"hiss--!"

Fifteen minutes is a short time, but it feels like a long time to Zhou Qing.

When he felt the pain rapidly subside, he stopped practicing the technique, and the medicinal liquid in the cauldron had turned into a turbid amber color.

[Skill: Body of All Poisons]

[Progress: First floor not yet mastered (169/1000)]

The progress of the Hundred Poisons Mixed Origin Technique has increased significantly.

After finishing his practice, Zhou Qing felt refreshed and his skin even seemed to have become a little whiter.

He didn't pour out the murky medicinal liquid remaining in the cauldron, but instead covered it with the lid and inserted specially made incense sticks into it.

Zhou Qing then jumped onto a large tree nearby.

In just a moment, he heard a dense rustling sound in his ears.

Hundreds and thousands of centipedes, scorpions, spiders, geckos, toads, poisonous ants and other venomous insects swarmed in from all directions.

These poisonous insects scrambled up the wooden king's cauldron and crawled inside.

Soon, the chilling sounds of gnawing could be heard coming from inside.

(End of this chapter)