Holy body, start with the Five Animal Exercises.

Chapter 1 Potential Panel, Five Animal Play
Gugugu~~~
The calls of unknown birds rang out in the dim forest. Visibility was only a dozen meters, and the twisted black branches looked like wind-dried claws.

A dilapidated tombstone stands under a large black locust tree, but the grave mound behind the tombstone looks like freshly turned soil, with some weeds mixed in.

sand~sand~
There was a sound of digging in the grave.

puff!
A thin arm with sallow skin suddenly stretched out from the grave. After a struggle, a thin young man crawled out of the grave.

The gray linen clothes he was wearing had faded from washing, and his face was stained with dirt. To call him a beggar was a compliment.

Suck! Ugh!
Qin Jiang was breathing heavily, the fishy smell of the earth made him retch, his face was tense and a little confused.

What is this place? Why am I here?
hiss~
A torrent of memories quickly passed through my mind, becoming increasingly blurred as time went by.

He covered his head and rolled off the grave, and it took him several minutes to recover.

He sat up and looked around, his body slightly limp, leaning against the side of the tombstone, with a complicated expression, a mixture of relief and confusion.

Xia Kingdom, Yanzhou, Ning'an County, Heishan City.

It's really a Mercury retrograde this year. Even when I traveled through time, it was the end of a dynasty. It's a problem to just survive in this broken place.

Those who are even more unlucky are like the original body. When going out to collect herbs, they encounter tomb robbers, who stab them to death and bury them, and no one will know about it.

I touched my chest and found that the place where I remembered being stabbed had completely healed.

He propped himself up and picked up the bamboo basket next to the grave mound, which was filled with medicinal herbs to be exchanged for money at the clinic.

The two tomb robbers obviously didn't value these things and just threw them here casually.

Carrying the bamboo basket on my back, I set off following the route I remembered.

Woo~
A light breeze blew, rustling the leaves, and the surrounding dark locust tree forest was suddenly filled with white mist.

In just a few breaths, the fog had completely obscured the vision, and only things within a radius of five meters could be vaguely seen.

An inexplicable pressure appeared in his heart, as if something was blocking his chest, making it difficult for him to breathe.

Looking around, except for the big locust tree and the graves beside me, everything else was shrouded in white mist.

Suddenly, his eyes looked towards somewhere in the thick fog, and he could vaguely see several human-shaped black shadows standing in the white fog.

The shadows didn't move, but he could clearly feel that they were looking at him.

This slightly terrifying feeling is hard to describe, just like the instinctive intuition of an animal when it encounters its natural enemy.

He swallowed, and fine beads of cold sweat emerged from the back of his neck. The chill swept through his whole body, making him dare not move.

He couldn't be sure what those dark shadows opposite him were.

Suddenly, he recalled the rumors in his memory. An old man said that the Big Black Mountain was always covered with dark clouds. There were not only wild beasts but also legendary monsters!
Someone once saw a fox transform into a human form and lure a young man into the depths of the Great Black Mountain, and it has never appeared since.

If the person who saw this scene had not looked so indescribable, he would probably have been lured away and disappeared as well.

The mist was moved slowly by the breeze. As time passed, the dark shadow on the opposite side did not seem to be planning to do anything.

After a standoff of half a minute, the white mist gradually became thinner, and the black shadows disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Call ~
He breathed a sigh of relief, his linen clothes already soaked with sweat.

That state of constant alertness is very exhausting.

Gently wipe away the sweat from your forehead and the back of your neck, it is as cool as well water in summer.

Oh, that's really scary.

It is true that demons will cause chaos at the end of a dynasty.

He relaxed his body slightly and turned to leave.

But as soon as he turned his head, before he could catch his breath, a monkey face covered with black hair was right in front of him, and a cold chill hit him in the face.

The hair on the back of his neck instantly stood up and his upper body jerked back.

His body trembled, and he staggered and fell to the ground. The herbs in the bamboo basket fell out and scattered on the ground.

Only at this moment did he see clearly that it was actually a human-shaped black-haired monkey!
It looked skinny, covered in black hair, with an expressionless monkey face and two black holes in its eyes.

It bent its body stiffly, tilted its head into a right angle, and stared at Qin Jiang with its empty eyes.

Damn!

Qin Jiang looked nervous. Was he going to die again just after being resurrected?
no! Absolutely not!
He slowly reached out and grasped the sickle under the bamboo basket. It was used to cut grass and clear the way, and there was already some rust on the blade.

After two seconds of silence, his eyes suddenly became stern!
Even if I die, I will cut off a piece of your flesh!
He exerted force with his right arm and was about to swing the sickle.

But at this moment, the surrounding fog suddenly dissipated completely, and in the blink of an eye, the figure of the black-haired monkey disappeared. His pupils shrank slightly, and he looked around quickly, only to see the white fog like a cloud, spreading over the black locust tree forest, and surging towards the depths of the Big Black Mountain behind him.

Faintly, you can see black shadows changing shapes in the fog.

When the white fog disappeared from sight, the sky became dark and gloomy again, exactly the same as before the white fog appeared.

What on earth is this?!

He looked at the place where the black-haired monkey had just stood. It was such a big monkey that it must have left footprints.

But he saw nothing. Looking around, everything that had just happened seemed to have never happened.

His heart tightened involuntarily, he knew that he might have met the legendary monster.

But fortunately nothing happened. Is this good luck or bad luck?

Standing up, looking at the herbs scattered on the ground, he bent down and picked them up one by one.

Inadvertently, his fingers touched the tombstone beside him, and suddenly, a cold breath rushed into his body.

[Potential points absorbed. 0.10.20.20.1]

The sudden change made him retract his hand as if he had been electrocuted. He looked straight at the tombstone, but his sight was focused on a point three inches in front of his eyes.

What is this?
In a field of vision that only he could see, a transparent square panel appeared in front of him.

【Current Martial Arts】

Five Animal Exercises (Not yet started) (8/30)

[Potential Points: 0.8]

Potential panel?

A mysterious perception told him that this was the potential panel.

The usage is very simple, that is, you can add potential points to martial arts, which can not only directly improve the level of martial arts, but also deduce and integrate martial arts.

The first bracket after martial arts is the current level of martial arts cultivation.

In the second bracket, the part before the slash represents the current experience value, and the part after the slash represents the experience value required for advancement.

Each potential point can increase experience points by 100 points.

As for the "Five Animal Exercises", it was taught to him by an old doctor in Heishan City, who was also the one who bought his herbal medicine.

There are three levels in total. It is said that it can strengthen the body, prolong life, and even produce so-called internal energy when practicing to the third level.

But the old doctor taught many people, but he never heard of anyone who actually succeeded.

But maybe we can try it now?

He tried to add half of his potential points to the Five Animal Play.

In an instant, only 0.4 potential points remained.

At the same time, a prompt appears on the panel.

[Five Animal Exercises (Not yet introduced) (8/30), Experience Points +40]

[Five Animal Exercises (Beginner's Guide) Advance to Five Animal Exercises (First Level)]

【Five Animal Exercises (First Level) (18/60)】

it is true!
There was ecstasy in his eyes and his heart was excited.

In this chaotic world, if you don't pay attention, you might die! There is no protection at all!
Not to mention the monsters whose true colors are unknown, you might even die inexplicably if you stay in the city!

However, now there is finally a turning point!
He just wants to live a good life.

After calming down a little, he looked at his arms, which seemed to have become stronger, and even his vision had become higher.

Secondary development?
Not bad, at least there is no deficiency of Qi and blood, and the potential points seem to have replenished everything needed for improvement.

After putting away the sickle, he glanced at the tombstone with complicated eyes. The stone carvings on it were already blurred.

From the intricate decorative patterns, we can tell that the owner of the tombstone must have had an eventful life.

I don't know how it became like this, with only an old locust tree to keep it company, and the grave was dug up.

Will he be like this one day?

(End of this chapter)