A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 208: Falling off a cliff with a heavy load
Duan Rong was carrying a large box and trudging through the mountains and forests. With such a heavy box on his shoulders, it was quite difficult for him to perform the Cloud Snake Step.

Duan Rong simply walked forward, just like the way he walked when he and Shen Ping went into the mountains and crossed the hills that day.

It was not until dusk that Duan Rong finally reached the cliff above the cave stronghold.

At this time, the setting sun is like a huge red gauze, covering the valley in front of you, and the mountains, rivers and streams all present a hazy and gorgeous beauty.

Duan Rong took the heavy box off his shoulders and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Only then did Duan Rong open the box and count the things inside in the afterglow of the setting sun.

Most of the box at the bottom was filled with neatly stacked gold bars, eighty in total, each weighing twenty taels.

On top of the gold ingots were piled many jewels, corals, tortoise shells, giant clams, agates and other items.

In this world, treasures are scarce and hard to come by. These things are more valuable than gold.

"It seems that all the wealth of the Quan family is here." Duan Rong couldn't help but sigh, then picked up the top few stacks of silver bills and counted them roughly, only counting those with larger denominations. Adding up, it turned out to be as much as 40,000 taels.

In this way, paying the registration fee of 60,000 taels to Ximen Kankan at the end of the year would no longer be a problem.

Duan Rong had originally planned to go to the casino a few more times, and then take the time to conceive some unique erotic paintings to sell to Ximen Kankan, but now it seems that he can save all this effort.

In the next few days, he only needs to concentrate on practicing martial arts!
Duan Rong then jumped from the cliff. As soon as he landed on the cliff, he drew out his oxtail knife, infused his internal energy, and nailed the knife into the hard rock wall. Duan Rong's body was hanging on the rock wall, and his toes kicked somewhere on the rock wall. Immediately, stone chips flew everywhere, and a hole was kicked out there.

Duan Rong then pulled out his oxtail knife and dropped suddenly. He nailed the knife into the rock wall again and kicked out a stone pit.

Then, they kicked out a row of stone pits one by one from the top of the cliff to the entrance of the cave.

This was the foothold that Duan Rong kicked out on the rock wall when he carried the big box into the cave.

Even if he had achieved minor success in the Cloud Snake Steps, it would be impossible for him to carry such a heavy box and walk down the wall without a foothold.

After Duan Rong kicked the foothold, he came to the cliff again. He carried the heavy box on his shoulders and suddenly jumped down from the cliff.

As soon as Duan Rongfang fell, he stepped on the first landing point. Duan Rong's body suddenly paused, and then fell again...

Duan Rong just like that, tapping his toes, and moving up and down, he went down along the rock wall, and finally jumped into the cave.

Duan Rong landed at the entrance of the cave, sweating all over. Although it was only a short stretch, Duan Rong found that he had consumed a lot of energy.

Duan Rong's eyes suddenly flashed, because he found that this thing consumed more energy than standing still.

Falling from a cliff and descending along the rock wall requires not only carrying weight but also controlling the balance of the body.

If we go down along the rock wall from the top of the cliff all the way to the bottom, repeatedly going up and down like this, wouldn't this be a more intense method of training than standing in the Hunyuan Posture?

Duan Rong thought about it and realized that he not only used the Cloud Snake Step to keep his balance on the cliff, but also consumed a lot of his internal energy because of the heavy weight he carried and the fact that he fell off the cliff.

However, this method of training has very high requirements. Not only must you have the skills of Qinggong, otherwise you will not be able to control the balance of your body on the rock wall, and the weight must be heavy enough. If the weight is not heavy enough, the consumption will not increase.

The essence of practicing qigong is to repeatedly consume internal energy, then regenerate it, and then consume it again after regeneration, over and over again, which is boring and tedious.

And every time it is consumed and regenerated, the internal breath will grow a tiny bit, and only with accumulation over time can progress be seen. If it can be consumed faster and regenerated faster with the help of medicine, then the cultivation of the internal breath will naturally be faster!

However, Duan Rong had no time to think about this problem carefully at the moment. He could only put this new method aside for the time being and study it in detail later.

Duan Rong picked up the big box and put it in the innermost part of the cave, then put several large banknotes from his inner pocket into it. Duan Rong then left the cave and went down the mountain.

After Duan Rong left Wild Boar Mountain, he followed the official road overnight and headed straight for Xiangu County.

When it was just getting light, Duan Rong finally entered the East City Gate exhausted.

Duan Rong first had breakfast on the street and then returned to Yuanshun Escort Agency. He asked the doorman Ma Wentao for some information. Fortunately, nothing had happened in the escort agency during the past two days.

Duan Rong returned to Liulu. He first washed off the dust beside the big water vat, then climbed onto the bed naked and fell asleep with the blanket around him.

Duan Rong slept until noon.

After waking up, Duan Rong simply washed up, went to the canteen in the central courtyard to have lunch, then left the escort agency, bought some daily gifts at a shop on the street, and went to Xiao Zongting's courtyard.

When Duan Rong entered the main hall in the backyard, Xiao Zongting was sitting there sipping tea by himself, while Xiao Yu, wearing a lush green skirt, was standing beside the table arranging flowers. When Xiao Yu saw Duan Rong come in, she just glanced at him and turned into her own room.

Duan Rong was already accustomed to Xiao Yu's reaction. He glanced at the bright and juicy roses in the vase on the table, then put the things he was carrying on the table.

Xiao Zongting exchanged glances with Duan Rong, and Duan Rong sat on the chair opposite Xiao Zongting and started chatting with him about family matters.

The two chatted for a while, and Duan Rong moved his sleeves and placed a porcelain vase on the table between them.

Duan Rong said, "Mr. Xiao, this is what Mr. Shen asked me to bring to you when he left."

"He went back to the mountains?" Xiao Zongting glanced at the porcelain bottle and said indifferently.

In his opinion, Duan Rong's description of Shen Ping's departure must mean that the old man had recovered from his injuries and returned to the mountains. Moreover, he still hadn't gotten over the last time they had a quarrel, when Shen Ping had mocked him for being a cripple.

Duan Rong said, "Mr. Shen has already left Xiangu County. He said that he would travel around the country for the rest of his life, curing illnesses and saving lives."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Zongting was stunned and looked at Duan Rong in astonishment.

Duan Rong continued, "This bottle contains medicine that Elder Shen personally made. It has a certain effect of alleviating and restraining various poisons. It can also play an emergency and soothing role for some acute diseases."

Xiao Zongting looked at the porcelain bottle, his expression suddenly became complicated. He didn't expect that this old friend would leave like this, and they had a very unpleasant quarrel the last time.

"Old boy, if I had known you were going to leave, I would have given way to you. What's the harm?" Xiao Zongting suddenly muttered to himself. He stroked the porcelain bottle and sighed deeply.

Duan Rong naturally saw that Xiao Zongting was sad about the departure of his old friend. He comforted him and chatted with Xiao Zongting about other topics. But seeing that Xiao Zongting was not in high spirits, Duan Rong got up and said goodbye.

However, when Duan Rong left, he took a rose from the vase on the table. There were seven or eight roses in the vase, and he took a bright yellow one.

Duan Rong sniffed the fragrance of the rose in his hand and walked out of Xiao Zongting's courtyard.

(End of this chapter)