What a lucky world!

Chapter 170 What is a surprise? What the hell is a surprise?

What is a surprise?

One hundred thousand taels of silver!
Zhang Mu really didn't expect that the Bai family would do this to him.

This is more than the annual profit of Yongxiu Company!
Of course, Yongxiu Company provides a stable source of income, so this surprise is just a one-time thing.

But, it's just in time.

Now that Frost Moon Mountain is ready to make a move, Wuzhai will have more money and can make more preparations.

As for why the Bai family did this?
Zhang Mu guessed that it was his and Lao Ye's attack on Xu Lie that shocked this group of people.

And in fact this is exactly the case.

Didn’t you see that the Jiang family suffered such a huge loss but never mentioned revenge?
However, thinking of Xu Lie, Zhang Mu naturally did not forget that he still had a debt to settle.

Hopefully there will be a surprise too.

……

Sucheng, south of the city, Caiyun Restaurant.

This is not a luxurious place. It has two floors and is just an ordinary small restaurant.

But it is also a time-honored brand that has been open for decades.

More than forty years ago, the old owner of a restaurant had a son.

The child was born with strong bones and a cry like thunder. When he was two or three years old, he started working as a waiter in a restaurant and was quite popular with the customers.

When he was five years old, a martial arts master took a fancy to the child and wanted to take him as his apprentice. The old shopkeeper was overjoyed and held his son down and kowtowed to the old martial arts master.

This child is indeed very lucky in martial arts. In twenty years, he has reached the perfection of Tongmai Realm.

Later, the old shopkeeper passed away, and he left Suzhou, wanting to make a name for himself.

No one knew what he did outside, but when he returned to Su City twenty years later, he had already become a master in the late stage of Yangye Realm.

He knew that his talent had been used up and there was no hope for him to reach the level of gathering courage in this lifetime, so he returned to his roots.

With the appearance of such a huge Buddha, Su City naturally became a turmoil again.

The governor of Suzhou City tried to recruit him and asked him to be his bodyguard, but he refused.

The Bai, Yu, and Zhao families all offered him exorbitant prices to serve as their priests, but he refused.

He chose to become a servant of the Jiang family.

There is no other reason, it's just because the martial artist back then was the uncle of the current head of the Jiang family.

This is Xu Lie's story.

The current Caiyun Restaurant was bought by him a long time ago, and the shopkeeper was the waiter who used to take him to wait tables.

At this moment, the gray-haired shopkeeper looked at the child holding the candied haws and confirmed, "Are you saying someone asked you to come and collect the money for your life?"

The child nodded very seriously: "Yes."

The shopkeeper sighed, took out a small box from the counter, touched it reluctantly with his hand, and then handed it to the child. He grabbed a handful of copper coins from the money box next to him and stuffed them into the child's clothes.

"Could you please give me a message?"

The child patted his chest and said, "Boss, please speak."

The shopkeeper let out a long sigh: "Just say thank you for not killing me."

As long as everyone is fine, that's good.

The child nodded: "Remember, I will tell you."

……

The child handed the small wooden box to Zhang Mu, said those words of gratitude, and ran away happily.

Zhang Mu was stunned at first, then he burst out laughing.

No matter who you are, there are people who care about you.

Holding the small box, Zhang Mu walked into the room.

"Brother Mu, is this sent by Xu Lie?" Ye Hanzhou's gaze fell on the wooden box in Zhang Mu's hand, with a hint of vigilance in his eyes.

Zhang Mu nodded, put the wooden box on the table, then took out the Shenying Sword, inserted the tip of the sword into the gap, and lifted it up to open the wooden box.

After all, it was something sent by someone in the late stage of the Nourishing Fluid Realm, so it's always better to be cautious.

As soon as the wooden box was opened, a fragrance immediately filled the air. Even Xuan Ji, who was lying on the window sill basking in the sun and staring at the salted fish drying in the yard of the inn, turned her head and looked at the small wooden box.

There is a fruit in the wooden box.

The fruit looked a bit like a mango, but it was blood red all over and had lines running through it.

"Dragon Blood Fruit!" Ye Hanzhou exclaimed in surprise, "This pattern must be from a Dragon Blood Fruit that's at least eighty years old."

"Ah, what is that?" Zhang Mu asked puzzledly.

After all, Ye Hanzhou was from the Jinchuan Ye family, so his knowledge was naturally not comparable to Zhang Mu's. So he explained: "This is a precious wild essence fruit. After taking it, you can quickly improve your cultivation."

Zhang Mu's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard this.

There are two criteria for improving one's martial arts skills: one is one's innate martial luck, and the other is one's acquired energy.

Innate martial luck is easy to explain; simply put, it refers to a person's talent for martial arts. Acquired energy, on the other hand, requires painstaking effort to accumulate.

The way warriors accumulate energy mainly comes from two parts.

One is the martial arts mental method, which involves absorbing natural spiritual energy through breathing and transforming it into internal energy. The advantage of this energy is that it is free of impurities and is extremely pure, which can serve as the foundation of one's own martial arts. However, the disadvantage is that it is slow and requires a long time to cultivate.

Another way is to eat.

Improve your internal energy by absorbing energy-rich foods.

The saying goes, "the poor are good at literature but the rich are good at martial arts." Most of the "rich" here is spent on food.

However, this method also has obvious shortcomings, that is, the internal energy converted from these energies is not pure enough. If you don't spend time to refine it, it will have a significant impact on your combat power and potential.

So is there a way to have the best of both worlds?
Of course there are.

The first one is elixir.

At the beginning, Zhang Mu relied on Xuan Ji's elixir to be unstoppable when he was in the Tongmai realm.

The second type is some natural treasures.

In the storytellers' mouths, there are always stories about young people who fell off a cliff, accidentally ate rare treasures, and then their cultivation level increased greatly, and their life turned around from then on.

In Zhang Mu’s previous life, these might just be stories.

But in this world, it really happens.

At this time, Ye Hanzhou had already walked to the table and carefully examined the dragon blood fruit. He said, "Ten lines on it, it must be a hundred-year-old dragon blood fruit."

"Xu Lie is truly blessed with great fortune. I remember the Ye family spent nearly two hundred thousand taels of silver to acquire three sixty-year-old dragon blood fruits."

"If I'm not mistaken, this should be what Xu Lie intends to use to reach perfection in nourishing fluid."

The so-called nourishing fluid is the internal breath condensed into fluid, which fills up the empty cavities and turns them into the sea of cavities.

One to three acupoint seas are the early stage of the Nourishing Fluid Realm; four to six acupoint seas are the middle stage of the Nourishing Fluid Realm; seven or more acupoint seas are the late stage of the Nourishing Fluid Realm.

Normal people have twelve empty acupoints, while those who practice the complete meridian map like Zhang Mu have fourteen empty acupoints. Only when all the empty acupoints are transformed into a sea of acupoints can it be called perfection.

There are now two acupoint seas in Zhang Mu's body. Ye Hanzhou was suppressed too hard before, and once he was released, his cultivation is rapidly improving. Therefore, although there are also two acupoint seas, the third acupoint sea is also very close.

"How much energy does this dragon blood fruit contain?" Zhang Mu asked.

Ye Hanzhou thought for a moment and said, "Although it varies from person to person, a hundred-year-old dragon blood fruit can generally provide three to five acupoints with the energy to transform into the sea."

"Three to five?" Zhang Mu rolled his eyes and said, "Then let's split it up!"

"Ah?" Ye Hanzhou was stunned at first, then quickly waved his hands, "No, no, no, you eat this yourself."

Zhang Mu shook his head: "Old Ye, listen to me."

"With my Kongqiao quality, I can't get five dragon blood fruits, let alone three!"

"Even if I absorbed it all, I'd still be in the middle stage of nourishing fluid."

"But if we share it, we will both be at the middle stage of cultivation."

"I think it won't be long before we face off against the Frost Moon Martial Village."

"Two mid-stage nourishing fluid cultivators are better than one mid-stage nourishing fluid cultivator at this time!"

Ye Hanzhou hesitated for a moment and said, "But with one more acupoint sea, you can break through to the late stage earlier!"

"We'll talk about the rest later." Zhang Mu smiled calmly, "I have the Taegeuk Sword Technique, so I'm not that slow. Let's focus on the present first."

In fact, Zhang Mu had one more thing to say.

That is, he has the Opportunity Tower. As long as he has enough luck coins, treasures like dragon blood fruit are not something that can be obtained by chance.

"Well... okay!" Ye Hanzhou was not a shy person. After listening to Zhang Mu's words, he hesitated for a moment and then nodded in agreement.

"Okay! Then let's sit in a row and share the fruit!" Zhang Mu took out the dragon blood fruit, shook the Chengying sword in his hand, and the dragon blood fruit was immediately split into two halves.

Ye Hanzhou took the dragon blood fruit handed to him by Zhang Mu and said, "You eat it first, I will protect you!"

"Okay!" Zhang Mu nodded, opened his mouth and took a bite of the half dragon blood fruit. Suddenly, a sweet juice flowed in Zhang Mu's mouth, down his throat and into his abdomen.

The next moment, Zhang Mu felt as if his whole body was burning. Every acupoint in his body seemed to be filled with sudden energy, and he seemed like he was about to explode at any time.

"Gather your energy and attack the void!" Ye Hanzhou shouted loudly.

Zhang Mu quickly calmed his mind, circulated his mental skills, and began to mobilize the vital energy in the acupoints to impact the empty acupoints.

It's like waves hitting the rocks again and again.

An hour later, the third orifice of the sea was completed!
Still having plenty of energy, Zhang Mu did not stop.

Two hours later, the fourth orifice of the sea was completed!

There was still some energy left, so Zhang Mu continued to exert his strength until the fifth orifice was filled to about 60%. Only then was the energy of this half dragon blood fruit finally exhausted.

Zhang Mu opened his eyes, and a gleam of light flashed in them.

The middle stage of the nourishing fluid state!
"Huh..." Zhang Mu let out a long breath.

Xu Lie also gave himself a big surprise.

What a surprise!
　Previously, the three principles of martial arts were: body movement, training, and fighting. Now, we have unified the training into a mental method, which is more streamlined.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)