Poor Taoist Qiu Chuji

Chapter 23: Snake Breeding Secret Scroll
"Junior brother, this time...thanks to you." Ma Yu walked to Qiu Chuji and said in a low voice.

"Also, if you have time, can you teach me swordsmanship?" Ma Yu seemed to hesitate for a moment before adding.

Qiu Chuji was stunned for a moment, then smiled and nodded: "Of course! I'm happy to! Brother has finally become enlightened."

It is of course a good thing that Ma Yu is willing to learn martial arts. His internal strength is already extraordinary. Once his shortcomings are made up, he can immediately transform into a strong fighting force.

In just a few months, there were two waves of attacks on Mount Zhongnan. It can be foreseen that similar incidents will inevitably occur in the future.

Whether in the martial arts world or in the temple, if Quanzhen Sect wants to become the number one sect in the world, it has to fight with real swords and guns. Even if it does not fight for those false names, it is difficult to avoid fighting if Quanzhen Sect wants to flourish.

Since ancient times, those who cannot win an argument logically will resort to violence to wage the final battle for survival.

Ma Yu is Chongyang's first disciple. How can he succeed without strong enough means to defend against the enemy?

At this time, the Taoist priests and Taoist children who were watching had just come back to their senses from the previous fight, and looked at Qiu Chuji with eager eyes. Some of those who were not good at cultivating their Qi could not help but cheer.

The Taoist children who had been jealous of Qiu Chuji's excellent luck now saw clearly the gap between themselves and Qiu Chuji. They no longer dared to have any messy thoughts, but became more enthusiastic and expectant about officially becoming Wang Chongyang's disciples.

At all times, it is the nature of most people to rely on the strong and become the strong.

Qiu Chuji did not pay too much attention to the changes in the atmosphere of the people around him. He walked straight to the animal skin paper left by Zhao Jishen and picked it up with his scabbard.

We must always be on guard against others. Who knows if this animal skin paper is poisoned?
Unfolding the animal skin paper, Qiu Chuji looked at it for a few seconds, his expression gradually becoming serious.

There are a lot of mysterious patterns and a small amount of meaningless words on this piece of animal skin paper. The part that can be read is a method of keeping spirit snakes in captivity.

Through the use of specific medicinal herbs and periodic feeding, the talents and spirituality of some exotic snakes can be enhanced. Combined with long-term training and cultivation, they can understand human language, cooperate with humans, and even become powerful means of attack that can be relied upon.

"Hey! These patterns... are they Shamanism?" Ma Yu came over and took a look at the animal skin paper that Qiu Chuji picked up.

"You mean, what is recorded here is shamanism's witchcraft?" Qiu Chuji asked curiously.

Ma Yu nodded: "I read in a book that the shamans in the north feed and sacrifice spirit beasts, and then drive them to gain divine power."

"The content recorded on this animal skin is very similar to what is recorded in the book."

When Qiu Chuji looked at the prescription for feeding spirit snakes written on the parchment, he thought of the big medicinal snake raised by Liang Ziweng.

Is there any connection between them?
However, Liang Ziweng obviously only treated the medicinal snake as a living elixir and was unable to control it for his own use. Perhaps he missed the subsequent training steps?
"Anyway, let's put it away first!" said Qiu Chuji.

He doesn't have much thought about raising snakes now. He spends more than ten years raising a medicinal snake, and then drinks its blood to greatly increase his power?
For Qiu Chuji, there was absolutely no need for this.

In more than ten years, what can't he do to become invincible?
Do you have to keep a snake?

Also, there was such a big red viper in the nameless valley, but Qiu Chuji didn't try to seduce it, but instead raised a small snake?
"Well! It's not impossible. If we raise a mutated rat snake, can we use it to specifically defeat Ouyang Feng's venomous snake?" Qiu Chuji suddenly had an idea.

Seeing Qiu Chuji staring at the animal skin scroll in a trance, Ma Yu said, "Since it is witchcraft, Junior Brother... please be careful."

"It is recorded in ancient books that witchcraft has always been a dangerous evil. It was because of Zhang Tianshi who established the Five Pecks of Rice Sect to eradicate the evil spirits and eradicate witchcraft that the people of the Central Plains have suffered less harm. If you practice witchcraft and the people of Tianshi Dao know about it, I'm afraid it will cause another dispute between the two sects."

Upon hearing this, Qiu Chuji nodded solemnly.

He understood the meaning. If he learned this method in the future, once he used it, he would leave no one alive. Compared with the flourishing Tianshi Dao, Quanzhen Sect was just a newborn seedling even with Wang Chongyang as its leader.

If it weren't for the Taoist Emperor's mess, Taoism would have been completely rejected by Confucianism and its power would have greatly declined. It could only hide in the ancestral temples of various sects. Now the Jin people have invaded and occupied the northern lands. The Tianshi Dao that fled to the south can no longer extend its claws. It will not be so easy for Quanzhen Sect to develop.

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Two days later, Qiu Chuji took the prescription and found the red snake in the nameless valley.

Upon hearing Qiu Chuji say that there is a way to enlighten the spirit snake so that it can have more 'companions' with which it can truly communicate, Chigui seemed very excited and immediately said that he would take care of the matter of the medicinal materials.

During this period, Qiu Chuji occasionally helped him look after the valley, and Chi Hui was finally able to go out of the valley occasionally for some fresh air.

It was during this time that it subdued a large number of various snakes in the Qinling Mountains as its 'subordinates'.

It is now the dead of winter and all insects are asleep. Only in places with hot springs like the Nameless Valley can snakes continue to move around.

After the beginning of spring, when the Waking of Insects sounds, no matter how high the mountains or how deep the valleys are in the Qinling Mountains, they will be swept away by the snakes. No matter what medicinal herbs you want, as long as they are found in the Qinling Mountains, they will definitely be collected by these snakes.

The benefits of this to Qiu Chuji are also quite obvious.

After all, it is impossible for the red snake to make medicine by itself, and it cannot do the job even if there is a prescription.

All the medicinal materials were given to Qiu Chuji, who would pass them through his hands to ensure that there would be no shortage of various precious herbs.

With enough medicinal materials, the Quanzhen Sect can create a master alchemist just by using a pile of medicine.

Qiu Chuji saw that his senior brother had the demeanor of a great alchemy master.

"Unfortunately, I am still learning martial arts, and my martial arts skills are not yet sufficient. Otherwise, I would go to the barren mountains near Xiangyang to look for Bosuqu snakes, get some of them and move them to your valley to keep you company."

Red Viper: "Hiss~hiss...roar!"

"You're with me?"

"That won't work! In the early years when the Daojun Emperor was still around, I would have brought you out of the mountains, put on some makeup for you, and made you act like a real dragon. Maybe I could have gotten you to be crowned the Dragon King, and let you travel freely around the world."

"If you come out now, I'm afraid someone will seize the opportunity to kill you and stage a Red Snake Uprising!"

Qiu Chuji and Chi Hui seemed to be communicating very tacitly, and it seemed that they could understand snake language.

In fact, Qiu Chuji was just guessing and talking to himself.

After all, although this red snake is very intelligent and can understand human language, its actual IQ is only about the same as that of a five or six-year-old child. One can guess what it wants to express based on the context.

"By the way, my swordsmanship has improved a lot. Brother Snake... shall we compete again?" Qiu Chuji challenged Chi Kui to a duel.

Steam gushed out of the snake's nostrils, and it showed a human-like expression of disdain.

"You look down on me! Okay! Let's make a bet. If I can break your defense, you will give me a piece of snake skin." Qiu Chuji showed excitement and drew his sword and stabbed.

Chigui was full of confidence and swung his tail to fight back, not realizing there was anything wrong with what Qiu Chuji said.

(End of this chapter)