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Chapter 38 Exhaustion
When Geng Xuan stopped practicing, the first thing he did was to drink a lot of wine.

He drank about a pound of wine in one breath, then put down the jar of wine in a dizzy and drunken state.

After sealing the wine jar again and sitting back on the bed, Geng Xuan touched his swollen belly. This time he truly felt another obvious disadvantage of the auxiliary medicinal wine compared to the blood-replenishing pills.

Compared with the latter, the beneficial energy contained in the former of the same volume is too low.

A blood-replenishing pill can solve the problem, but medicinal liquors such as tiger bone, deer ginseng wine and bear heart and leopard gall wine require drinking about a pound of them to solve the problem.

The higher the level of cultivation, the more energy is needed to make up for the body's deficiencies.

When you first enter the skin refining stage, drinking one or two taels of liquor at a time will solve the problem.

By now, you need at least one kilogram as a base.

This is just a relatively normal situation.

If there is a continuous and substantial improvement in realm, or if the level of blood refining becomes deeper, I am afraid that more than two kilograms will be enough at a time.

By then, I would really become a "drunkard".

Moreover, the wine itself has some minor side effects. If you drink a little, it's okay if you drink something as mellow and smooth as Tiger Bone and Deer Ginseng Wine. However, Bear Heart and Leopard Gall Wine has a strong aftereffect. Drinking too much in one breath would not be a pleasant experience for Geng Xuan.

It took a full half hour before Geng Xuan recovered a little.

Seeing that there were only 17 points of luck left, Geng Xuan couldn't help but mutter in his heart, "This is really not enough."

Thinking of this, Geng Xuan fell asleep.

Although he thought so in his heart, Geng Xuan had no intention of interrupting his practice and going out to "look for food".

In the next few days, Geng Xuan's life remained peaceful and regular.

For two mornings, he spent time in Master Chai's courtyard under the pretext of seeking advice on the Featherless Arrow. While listening to him explain the tricks of the Featherless Arrow hidden weapon throwing technique, he also took the opportunity to learn a lot from him about things around Kangle Ji.

Occasionally, I could learn about the situation of the upper echelons of Yuanzhou and even other states from this old veteran.

Of course, to them, one is a story to be told and the other is a story to be listened to.

To Geng Xuan now, these people and things are indeed too high and too far away from him, just like clouds floating in the sky.

The rest of the time, Geng Xuan basically stayed underground, using his own hands to push the "space bubble" hidden underground to become bigger and more complex.

During this period, the remaining seventeen points of good fortune became less and less.

He first spent several days completing the quick start of the raccoon leaping technique and the disguise technique.

The former consumes two points of luck, and the latter consumes three points of luck.

It is much easier to get started with these two skills than with the Xuanshui Gong of the Ca Nu.

Because there are no threshold restrictions in terms of physical hardware.

As long as he understands them at the cognitive level, he can fill the gap between "understanding in the heart" and "understanding in the hands" by consuming luck points.

The difficulty of these two skills lies basically in the "hands", and there is no obstacle in understanding.

The art of leaping with a light body is a way of increasing speed, making dodging more flexible, allowing one to jump higher and so on.

The art of disguise is, after all, a game of "face-pinching".

Through precise control of the skin and the flesh beneath the skin, a person's appearance can be changed, making the facial skin wrinkled or smooth, or making the person look older or younger.

For Geng Xuan, who had already mastered the skills of skin and flesh refining to a certain level, this was actually just a matter of spending the capital he already had in a more sophisticated way. After understanding this, it would be easy to master these two skills.

Afterwards, Geng Xuan consumed another four points of luck and advanced his raccoon leaping technique from entry-level to minor success level.

Because he found that since he learned the art of raccoon leaping, the growth rate of the "underground bubble" has increased significantly.

This is because his efficiency in transporting soil has improved.

Although the river water was still turbid, the flow rate was slowly decreasing. In order to remove more soil and dig out a larger underground space before the deadline, Geng Xuan spent another four points of his precious luck on the raccoon leaping technique, raising it from entry level to minor success.

This upgrade has further increased the daily growth rate of the "Underground Bubble", but the cost is that the red luck is only left with eight points.

Geng Xuan also did not keep these good fortunes. On the sixth day after he mastered the Xuanshui technique, he thought he had completely digested it. After the blood refining level exceeded 10%, the growth rate gradually slowed down. Geng Xuan did not delay at all and upgraded this blood refining technique from the entry level to the small success level.

For this, Hongyun consumed another six points, leaving only the last two points hanging there alone.

This time, along with the greater consumption of Bear Heart and Leopard Gall Wine, the blood refining level experienced another almost leap-forward improvement in a very short period of time.

After seven days, the leap-forward improvement in the level of blood refining brought about by the improvement in the realm of blood refining technique ended.

However, due to the sufficient supply of Bear Heart and Leopard Gall Wine, Geng Xuan could still feel the continuous deepening of the refining of skin, flesh, and blood. Although the efficiency was far from comparable to when the realm of his martial arts had just been raised, he could still feel its growth.

Three days later, when Geng Xuan poured the last drop of Bear Heart and Leopard Bile Wine into his mouth, he felt the faint warmth that barely suppressed the feeling of emptiness and hunger in his body. He could only smack his lips regretfully.

Although Geng Xuan had anticipated the arrival of this day, he still felt a little empty when it really approached.

From now on, if he cannot obtain more auxiliary cultivation resources and new good fortune, he will experience how a person with mediocre cultivation aptitude cultivates -

Every little bit of growth and progress will add up in months or even years.

That night, Geng Xuan did not sleep underground, which was a rare occurrence. Instead, he lay on the bed in the room above ground, silently making various summaries in his mind.

"From the day I crossed over to today, it has been exactly fifty days.

The skin refining has reached 65%, the flesh refining has reached 50%, and the blood refining level is nearly 30%.

From a newbie who barely stepped into the Skin Refining Realm, he has advanced two levels and steadily entered the Blood Refining Realm. This is not a small improvement, is it? "

Although the progress was significant, it also exhausted all his resources.

“The flow of the river is getting smaller and smaller. If too much waste soil is dumped, it may not even be flushed away all at once.

It’s not that turbid anymore. In ten days at most, we won’t be able to dump soil directly into the river anymore.”

Finally, Geng Xuan took inventory of his savings.

“There are three silver bars, thirty taels.

There were also 760 copper coins.

...But, Master Chai still owes me 120 taels...Forget it, let's put that aside for now..."

Realizing that he not only had nothing in his hands but also owed a large sum of money, Geng Xuan decided to temporarily ignore the debt.

While counting everything one by one, Geng Xuan suddenly realized that he actually had a windfall that he had not yet taken into account.

Those were the spoils that I got from Wu Youren on the night I traveled through time.

(End of this chapter)