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

Chapter 347 Not Ordinary Iron
After playing in the forest for a while, they began to prepare dinner.

Xiao Yu and Shen Mizhi picked some wild fruits and mushrooms, Ximen Kankan dug out several nests of bird eggs, and Duan Rong hunted some game in the forest.

When Ximen Kankan was taking a nest of eggs, he was discovered by a pair of iron-winged birds that were returning. Ximen Kankan jumped down from the tree, and the two iron-winged birds chased and flapped their wings at his head. Ximen Kankan was annoyed by the disturbance, and he twisted the heads of the iron-winged birds one by one.

In the evening, Xiao Yu used a kind of sour fruit as a seasoning, added mushrooms and a pheasant, and cooked a big pot of delicious soup.

Several people gathered around the campfire, eating and chatting. It was rare for them to be so relaxed and happy in the past three months.

After finishing the meal, we talked about going to Guangluyuan to take on tasks and earn contribution points tomorrow.

Regarding this aspect, Ximen Kankan, Xiao Yu, Shen Mizhi and others were all very busy during the three-month training period, and many common sense things were blind spots for them.

Duan Rong patiently explained a lot to them.

When they saw the bonfire was almost burnt out, they felt tired and dispersed.

Xiao Yu and Shen Mizhi lived in Pan Yong's cave, while Ximen Kankan followed Duan Rong to his cave.

Duan Rong returned to the cave, took out a tinder and lit the candle.

He lay down on the stone bed, put his hands behind his head, and looked thoughtfully at the rugged stone wall on the top of the cave.

He was still thinking, after five or six days at Ximen Kankan's place, he had devoured so many weapons, but why was there no weapon of the Yuanqi realm?
"Could it be...?"

Just as Duan Rong was thinking this, Ximen Kankan looked at the cave and said mockingly, "You are too shabby, aren't you? You are just guarding the cold cave!"

There were originally some daily items in the cave, but because they belonged to the dead, Duan Rong felt uncomfortable and threw them all to the bottom of the cliff.

So, at first glance, the cave does look a bit shabby.

However, Duan Rong didn't care much about these things, and he acted as if he didn't hear Ximen Kankan's sarcasm.

Seeing that Duan Rong didn't react, Ximen Kankan lost interest in continuing to mock him. He glanced at a plate of fruits on the stone table, some of which were already shriveled. He picked a fuller one, took a bite, and lay down next to Duan Rong.

Ximen Kankan lay down on it, and as soon as he moved his buttocks, he pushed Duan Rong against the stone wall again.

Duan Rong glared at Ximen Kankan and said, "How much did you eat tonight? Why are you still eating?"

"Your fruit has shriveled up. If you don't eat it, it will go bad."

That was a plate of fruit that Duan Rong picked before he went to Ximen Kankan. It had been there for seven or eight days.

Duan Rong said: "You eat too much and fart a lot at night."

"Whether you fart or not, it doesn't matter if you have one fruit."

Seeing Ximen Kankan's carefree attitude, Duan Rong stopped paying attention to him and focused on pondering the doubts in his heart.

Duan Rong was thinking about it, and suddenly he remembered something.

That is, when Chen Hu died, he stabbed Shang Xiangyu with the nine-section steel whip and wanted to take the opportunity to escape.

At that time, white light flashed faintly at Shang Xiangyu's fingertips, and he pointed his finger at the tail blade of the nine-section whip. In that instant, the tail blade of the nine-section whip and a section of steel chain turned into powder.

"Could it be that……"

Duan Rong seemed to have suddenly thought of an answer.

He then began to search for information related to his guess in his mind from the digestion information of the spirits of the discarded debris that Shang Xiangyu had devoured.

Duan Rong did not find any clear evidence, but there was a lot of suggestive information.

Shang Xiangyu was obsessed with the art of medicine and poison, and seemed to not care about these things. Therefore, the information he devoured from Shang Xiangyu's waste and miscellaneous spirits were all scattered fragments in this regard.

At this moment, Ximen Kankan suddenly climbed down from the stone bed, pulled up his trousers, and said, "Alas... I feel a little bloated. I'm going to go out and relieve myself."

Upon hearing this, Duan Rong glanced at Ximen Kankan and said, "Idle people are full of shit and piss."

"If you keep mumbling, I'll pee in your hole."

"If you dare to pee, I'll kill you!"

Ximen Kankan walked out of the cave with his trousers held up and a strange smile on his face.

He walked along the edge of the cliff for some distance before finding a place, unbuttoning his belt, and looking down the cliff.

Ximen Kankan shuddered after he finished peeing. He was about to pull up his pants and go back when he suddenly heard the faint laughter of Xiao Yu and Shen Mizhi.

Ximen Kankan's eyes rolled around, and he walked towards the place while tightening his belt.

He turned the protruding bend in the cliff and saw the entrance to the cave where Xiao Yu and Shen Mizhi lived. A dim light shone out, illuminating the mist there.

A hint of hesitation flashed across Ximen Kankan's eyes, but he still wanted to hear what Xiao Yu and Shen Mizhi were talking about, as they were laughing so happily just now.

Ximen Kankan tiptoed to the entrance of the cave and pricked up his ears to listen inside.

"Did you know this? They crushed rat droppings and sprinkled them into Mammy's tea. Mammy also said that this year's Pu'er is good and tastes mellow..."

As Xiao Yu and Shen Mizhi talked, they laughed heartily again.

Xiao Yu smiled and gently hit Shen Mizhi and said, "I think it was you who did it."

"It's not me. I'm just watching from behind."

They talked and laughed at the same time. Ximen Kankan was trying to hold back his laughter, but he remembered what Shen Mizhi said, that the maid in the Elders' Council drank Pu'er tea mixed with rat shit and praised its mellow taste. The more he thought about it, the more he laughed, and he accidentally grumbled in his throat.

Ximen Kankan immediately covered his mouth. He thought that his voice was very soft, and Xiao Yu and Shen Mizhi were laughing happily just now, so they should not have heard it.

But Xiao Yu and Shen Mizhi were very alert, and they both heard his muttering.

Shen Mizhi looked at Xiao Yu with a puzzled look, she suspected that she had heard it wrong.

Xiao Yu nodded at her.

Shen Mizhi immediately stepped out of bed.

Xiao Yu covered for her and said, "That nanny was really screwed by you guys..."

Ximen Kankan covered his mouth and felt relieved when he heard them talking. But at this moment, a dark shadow flashed by, and Ximen Kankan's heart skipped a beat. He was about to run away, but Shen Mizhi had already twisted his ear.

"Okay! You dare to eavesdrop here!" Shen Mizhi twisted Ximen Kankan's ear and dragged him into the cave. "Sister Xiao, look at him, he's eavesdropping at the entrance of the cave."

"It hurts! Be gentler..." Ximen Kankan cried out as Shen Mizhi twisted his neck.

Xiao Yu couldn't help but laugh at Ximen Kankan's funny look. "Why are you here eavesdropping instead of sleeping?"

Ximen Kankan's ears were twisted a full circle by Shen Mizhi, so he couldn't speak properly.

Xiao Yu smiled and glanced at Shen Mizhi, and Shen Mizhi understood and gave him some slack.

Ximen Kankan's pain eased a little, and he rolled his eyes and said, "Duan Rong asked me to come."

"Bullshit!" Shen Mizhi suddenly put more strength in her hands and twisted it back. "You came here to eavesdrop and you blame it on others." Shen Mizhi put more strength in her hands and Ximen Kankan screamed in pain. "It's him! If you don't believe me, go ask him. Ask him."

Shen Mizhi looked at Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu said: "Let's go and ask Duan Rong."

When Ximen Kankan mentioned Duan Rong, Xiao Yu really wanted to go see him.

Duan Rong was lying on the stone bed, his eyes flickering as he was deep in thought, when he suddenly heard a commotion outside.

Shen Mizhi twisted Ximen Kankan's ear and dragged him in.

Duan Rong was stunned, not knowing what was going on.
Xiao Yu looked at Duan Rong with a smile in his eyes and said, "This kid was eavesdropping at the entrance of our cave. He said you asked him to go."

When Duan Rong heard this, he really wanted to kick Ximen Kankan in the face, but he suppressed his anger, smiled and said, "What's wrong with you? Didn't I ask you to get the hammock over here? Why were you eavesdropping there?"

When Ximen Kankan heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up and he said, "That's right. I went to get the hammock. You scared me and I forgot about it. Let go, you let go."

Ximen Kankan immediately gained confidence and pried Shen Mizhi's hands away from her ears. While rubbing her ears, he said, "He thinks I'm fat and always squeezes him, so he asked me to come over and get the hammock from your cave. As soon as I got to the entrance of the cave, I heard you guys talking about putting rat shit in the tea for Madam. I couldn't help laughing, and then you caught me."

"Who brought bad luck to Madam? Don't talk nonsense!" Shen Mizhi glared at Ximen Kankan.

Xiao Yu looked at Duan Rong with a smile, she knew that Duan Rong was lying.

Shen Mizhi looked at Duan Rong and asked, "Did you really ask him to go?"

Duan Rong said, "Look at my stone bed, it's only this big! And look at his big butt. I was in the weapons shop, and he pushed me against the stone wall every day."

Shen Mizhi glanced at the two of them suspiciously and wanted to say something, but Xiao Yu said, "Okay, Mizhi. Let's go."

As Xiao Yu spoke, he took Shen Mizhi's arm and walked out of the cave. When they reached the cave entrance, Xiao Yu suddenly turned around and said, "Second King, aren't you here to get the hammock? Why are you still standing there?"

Ximen Kankan really went over, brought the hammock over, and hung it in Duan Rong's cave.

As soon as Ximen Kankan was done, Duan Rong lay down on it. Ximen Kankan didn't care. He looked at Duan Rong and said with a smile: "Brother, luckily you reacted quickly and saved my life."

He was anxious at the time, and Shen Mizhi was twisting his ear, so he couldn't think of an excuse to get away, but he believed that Duan Rong would definitely be able to think of one.

"That's really nice of you!" Ximen Kankan still felt very fond of Duan Rong. He praised him while gently rocking the hammock for Duan Rong.

Duan Rong rolled his eyes at Ximen Kankan and said, "Get out of the way. Don't hang around."

"Yes." Ximen Kankan immediately let go and slid onto the stone bed.

Just as he lay down, Duan Rong suddenly said, "Kankan, I want to ask you something."

"What's the matter?" Ximen Kankan was lying on the stone bed with his legs crossed.

Duan Rong asked: "Does your weapon shop have... weapons of the Yuanqi realm?"

Duan Rong asked in a tentative tone, because he didn't know if his description was accurate. However, he had roughly guessed the answer. But there might be some deviation in the name.

"Weapons of Yuanqi Realm?" Ximen Kankan was slightly surprised when he saw Duan Rong suddenly asked about this. He didn't expect that Duan Rong also knew this. He only knew it when he heard the captain talk about it occasionally.

"No. Yuanqi Realm weapons can only be refined in the workshop over at Tiefeng Mountain."

Duan Rong asked: "Is there any difference between the weapons of Yuanqi Realm and yours?"

Ximen Kankan said: "The weapons of Yuanqi Realm are not ordinary iron."

"Not ordinary iron?!" Duan Rong's heart moved.

"Yes. The nature of the heaven and earth's vital energy is violent. Ordinary iron tools will break when they come into contact with it. They simply cannot withstand the infusion of heaven and earth's vital energy."

"Brutal attributes? It will collapse upon contact?" Duan Rong's eyes flickered. He once again remembered the scene where Shang Xiangyu broke Chen Hu's nine-section whip with one finger. It was exactly as Ximen Kankan said.

It turns out that the weapons used by warriors in the Yuanqi Realm are no longer ordinary iron. No wonder he devoured so many weapon spirits in the cave where discarded weapons were piled up in the weapon workshop, and the highest was only the fourth level of the Zhenqi Realm.

Duan Rong's eyes moved and he asked, "Tiefeng Mountain, can you go?"

"We can't go." Ximen Kankan said, "Our captain has never been there. That place is also a forbidden area. You can't go in and out casually. Not only are the weapons of the Yuanqi realm there, but it seems that the star disk we use is also refined in Tiefeng Mountain. That place is very confidential."

Duan Rong sighed slightly after hearing this. The authority of a registered disciple is really too low!
Since he couldn't reach the Yuan Qi realm for the time being, he would first complete the fourth level of the Zhen Qi realm.

In fact, these four levels of the Qi realm are not so easy to achieve.

Although, it took him three months to achieve the first level of the Qi Realm.

However, each subsequent level was more difficult than the last. If he wanted to cultivate the Qi realm to perfection, he would have to put in a lot of effort.

In fact, Duan Rong already had a preliminary idea in mind.

He planned to start making pills himself.

This was also the original reason why he chose to be a medicine boy for Old Man Qin in the Lower House.

Now, Shang Xiangyu has gone far away. Pan Yong and Chen Hu are dead. This lonely mountain has become a place no one cares about.

Duan Rong has inherited a lot of Shang Xiangyu's knowledge of medicine and poisons after devouring all sorts of things over the years. In addition, he already had the foundation inherited from Shen Ping. So Duan Rong is still very confident in refining pills by himself.

Duan Rong has already figured out that if he wants to refine it himself, he only needs to exchange the raw materials.

In this way, you only need about one-third of the contribution points to exchange the pills directly from the pharmacy.

In this way, combined with the contribution points from Xia Honghua and the contribution points he earned from taking missions in Guangluyuan, he should be able to support his own practice, and there will basically be no big gap.

The key is that Shang Xiangyu's alchemy furnace, ground fire, and various utensils for processing medicinal materials are all ready-made and he can use them at will.

After a night's sleep, they arrived at the square in front of Guangluyuan early the next morning under the leadership of Duan Rong.

Duan Rong not only devoured Shang Xiangyu's old discarded items, but later he also devoured the things in Pan Yong and Chen Hu's caves.

Therefore, at this time, he was already very familiar with the various tasks in the Guangluyuan.

Duan Rong assigned the four of them a task to build a palace.

Ximen Kankan, Xiao Yu, Shen Mizhi and others were a little confused by the various tasks. Although some tasks gave higher contribution points, there was always some information in those items that was very unfamiliar to them, and basically all of them required the True Qi Realm.

The three of them have not yet entered the true Qi realm.

Duan Rong had previously told them about some of the tasks here, and now it seemed that they were basically the same as what Duan Rong had said.

Duan Rong once said that jobs repairing palaces are quite popular.

Since Duan Rong made the choice, the three of them were quite convinced.

After they made their selection, they took the sect's cloud certificate and went to the Guangluyuan to register.

(End of this chapter)