All-class Gu Immortal

Chapter 67 Personal Disciple!

"Grandma, I've been quite busy these past few days. Do you have enough money left to pay the autumn tax?"

Zhou Qing walked out of the silkworm room and returned to the main house.

"I have enough money," the old woman who was sewing shoe soles said with a smile as she looked up.

"Okay, I'm going to the martial arts gym then." Zhou Qing left the courtyard.

The autumn tax was paid in early November. The standard for farmers, hunters, and fishermen to pay the tax was eight qian of silver per laborer, meaning that for each adult male in the household, they had to pay eight qian of silver.

However, only official silver was collected for tax purposes. When ordinary people paid in smaller amounts of silver, the loss due to fire was also taken into account.

In reality, each adult male paid one tael of silver as tax.

In fact, ordinary people usually used copper coins as currency, and only used silver when they had to pay taxes.

If you exchange copper coins for silver at a money exchange, you'll be ripped off again.

The exchange rate is one thousand to one, but don't be naive enough to think that you can actually exchange one thousand coins for one tael of silver.

Zhou Qing's profession is silkworm raising. Silkworm raising requires paying a silkworm cocoon tax, which is one tael and two mace of silver per year.

Fortunately, there are plenty of mulberry trees on Black Wind Mountain; otherwise, if I were to cultivate my own land to plant mulberry trees, I would have to pay a mulberry tax, which would cost me an extra tael of silver.

Zhou Qing would give the old woman five to ten taels of silver a month for food expenses, as well as pocket money, so that she always had a few taels of silver with her.

Paying taxes is not a problem.

"Finally, it's the golden silkworm's turn to evolve."

Walking towards the martial arts school, Zhou Qing felt somewhat excited.

The meat of the Tai Sui, fed with python meat, has grown to the size of a human head.

A few days ago, seeing how potent the python meat was, he kept some python meat, along with some Tai Sui meat, to feed the Golden Silkworm Gu worms.

Unexpectedly, the twenty-four golden silkworm worms, who had been living in harmony under the intimidation of the King of Golden Silkworms, started killing each other in order to fight for the flesh of the Tai Sui and the python.

The leader of the Golden Silkworm Kings was besieged by more than a dozen Golden Silkworm Gu worms and was the first to be devoured.

After a fierce battle, only four Golden Silkworm Gu worms remained.

The four surviving golden silkworm worms were a size larger and began to spin silk and form cocoons, clearly indicating that they had begun to evolve.

"We must use the Blood Refinement Technique before the Golden Silkworm Gu Worm completes its evolution!"

Zhou Qing hurried to the martial arts hall. After showing Wei Sheng his cultivation progress, he had to start preparing the medicinal herbs and blood food needed for blood refining.

Blood food is easy to obtain; there's still plenty of python meat left.

In addition, after this period of feeding, the number of purple fire flying ants has surged to the point that Zhou Qing can hardly afford to keep them.

Perfect, these extra purple fire flying ants can also be used as food.

Except for a few queen ants, the purple fire flying ants are only of scouting value to him.

Purple Fire Flying Ants need to be numerous enough to form a fighting force.

In terms of individual combat strength, toxin intensity, and growth potential, the Purple Fire Flying Ant is far inferior to the Golden Silkworm Gu Worm.

After arriving at the martial arts school, Zhou Qing greeted the apprentices practicing in the front yard, then went straight to the back yard and found Wei Sheng.

"You've already condensed your fifth cloud of blood and qi?!"

"Yes, Master."

Zhou Qing circulated his qi and blood, and five black cloud patterns immediately condensed on his arm.

“I thought that with your natural talent, condensing four streams of qi and blood clouds was your limit. It seems I underestimated your potential,” Wei Sheng said thoughtfully.

As he spoke, he took out a roll of silver needles from the study and inserted them into various acupoints on Zhou Qing's arms.

A moment later, a thin line of blood appeared between the acupoints, connecting them into one.

Each silver needle trembled slightly. Zhou Qing felt an unbearable tingling and itching in her arms, but she managed to hold back and remain silent.

"Could it be that your physical constitution is suitable for cultivating the White Cloud Palm Technique? It seems that your physical body has been refined by the White Cloud Palm Technique and is already close to the superior level."

In that case, you do have a chance to condense six streams of qi and blood before breaking through. Beyond that, you'll need even stronger innate constitution and potential.

Wei Sheng's eyes flickered, as if he were deep in thought.

"Is my limit the Six Paths of Qi and Blood Clouds?" Zhou Qing frowned slightly.

"From what you're saying, this isn't enough? Do you know that although the White Cloud Palm Technique makes it easy to condense qi and blood clouds, it's almost impossible for those with superior physique to condense more than four qi and blood clouds?"

The upper limit of this technique is only to condense six streams of qi and blood clouds.

Hongyu was able to condense eight streams of qi and blood because her innate talent was of the highest quality, and she had taken precious medicine.

Wei Sheng explained.

"I see." Zhou Qing pondered.

If we're talking about potent medicines to stimulate the body, I don't know if the flesh of the Tai Sui would count. However, the toxicity of the Tai Sui flesh is too strong; even a body immune to all poisons might not be able to withstand it, so he dares not try it lightly.

"If you can condense four or more streams of Qi and Blood, you'll have a chance to refine your tendons. Six streams of Qi and Blood will be enough for you to complete the tendon refinement sooner. Opportunities like this are rare and can only be encountered by chance," Wei Sheng warned.

"Even without any support or resources, your cultivation speed was only a few months slower than Hongyu's. You are my second disciple."

At this point, Wei Sheng suddenly paused and changed the subject.

"The total amount of true energy in your body is quite considerable, it seems you have had another extraordinary encounter."

Since that's the case, I'll fulfill my promise ahead of time and establish this master-disciple relationship first.

After the New Year, get ready to serve tea.

Zhou Qing was stunned upon hearing this.

Today, he only wanted Wei Sheng to experience his rapid progress, but unexpectedly, Wei Sheng immediately agreed to take him as his apprentice.

This is a personally taught disciple!
"What? Could it be..." Wei Sheng raised an eyebrow when he saw Zhou Qing remain silent.

Zhou Qing came to his senses and immediately knelt down, kowtowing three times with a loud thud.

A man's knees are worth gold; taking a master is the time to realize that gold.

Even in the county town, no one dares to easily provoke a disciple personally taught by a grand martial arts master.

"Good, good! Get up! I didn't expect this overseas assignment to yield such a rewarding result." Wei Sheng laughed heartily, a rare occurrence, and stepped forward to help Zhou Qing up.

"Thank you, Master." Sensing Wei Sheng's closeness, Zhou Qing smiled, but his attitude was even more respectful than before.

After being in this world for so long, I finally have someone to rely on.

"Starting tomorrow, you can live in the wing room in the backyard. If you have any questions about cultivation, you can come to my study to find me." Wei Sheng nodded in satisfaction.

He had the idea of ​​taking Zhou Qing as his apprentice, mainly because his eldest daughter, Wei Hongyu, had mentioned it several times, and secondly because Zhou Qing was a person of noble character and knew how to repay kindness.

Since his second disciple caused him to be exiled to the southern frontier, he has not taken on any disciples for several years.

Although Zhou Qing's physical constitution is only above average, it will be difficult for him to break through the major bottleneck of the Blood Exchange Realm in the future.

However, with focused training, they can still become Bone Refinement Realm Martial Masters.

If the eldest daughter breaks through to the Blood Exchange Realm, she may go to the Central Plains.

A martial arts school needs martial arts instructors to maintain its image.

"Thank you, Master!" Zhou Qing's face lit up with joy. It seemed that Wei Sheng was going to focus on training him.

PS: Chapter 2 will be updated later, before 9 PM. I wrote several thousand words of detailed outline last night, but my tenosynovitis flared up, and my hand hurts. The recommendation level has been raised, thank you all for reading! I have no way to repay you except to do my best to write this book well, Orz
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