A leisurely life in the world of cultivation

Chapter 32 Birds of a feather flock together! (Please add to your favorites and vote with monthly tickets!)

While the people on the Daqian side were practicing their stances and stance training, those on Earth weren't idle either.

The advantages of having one soul and two bodies were fully demonstrated.

Li Weizhou decided to test how much blood he could drink.

While the nectar that constantly descends into the void of one's mind is undoubtedly wonderful, it also requires a large amount of pig's blood to replenish the "raw materials".

Fortunately, compared to ginseng and dendrobium that cost hundreds of thousands of yuan per kilogram, he could drink pig's blood for two yuan per kilogram without any pressure...

So, in the days that followed, Li Weizhou spent his days running around consuming pig's blood, cow's blood, sheep's blood, chicken's blood, duck's blood, and even human blood.

However, the human blood he managed to obtain did not produce any different effects.

At least for now, he hasn't noticed any difference, so he still prioritizes pig's blood, which is available in large quantities.

Li Weizhou travels alone, sometimes by car, sometimes by high-speed rail, sometimes by plane, between large slaughterhouses in various provincial capitals...

A sufficiently thick wallet allowed him to thrive!

Starting with 40,000 liters a day, the amount gradually increased until Li Weizhou traveled to several provinces every day, swallowing up to 180,000 liters of blood in a single day, averaging 120,000 liters per day.

In each location, refrigerated trucks are rented. The daily rental fee for a medium-sized refrigerated truck is around 1,500 yuan, and it can carry four to five tons of pig blood at a time.

A large slaughterhouse typically slaughters between 5,000 and 10,000 pigs per day, which translates to a daily production of over 40 tons of pig blood.

Theoretically, 120,000 liters of blood would only require three large slaughterhouses.

That's impossible, of course. To avoid arousing suspicion, Li Weizhou would only load three or four truckloads of pig blood at a slaughterhouse a day, so he would go to several different places.

What does an average of 120,000 liters per day mean...?

The Olympic 50-meter swimming pool has a volume of 2,100 cubic meters!

In other words, Li Weizhou drank the blood of an entire super-large swimming pool in just twenty days!

How terrifying!
But even so, he was like a bottomless pit, never able to be filled.

They weren't even full, let alone satisfied; they still craved blood.

Of course, Li Weizhou was already able to suppress this desire very well.

At this moment, Li Weizhou finally realized why Ye Yun's extraordinary encounter was called an evil skill, and also understood why Qi Erniang said it was a road of no return.

Apart from the modern industrial era, no other era, whether prosperous or apocalyptic, could support such a level of blood supply.

Perhaps this is why the Blood Demon lineage cannot even be tolerated within the Demonic Sect.

However, Li Weizhou still vaguely felt that his current state was somewhat different from Ye Yun's.

Logically speaking, if Ye Yun could drink animal blood instead of human blood, he wouldn't have gone so far as to slaughter so many villages, and he wouldn't have avoided trying animal blood.

He would only slaughter innocent civilians if he couldn't get blood from animals.

Even if he had only ambushed and killed some experts, then drained their life force, it wouldn't have enraged the Imperial Execution Department so much.

Even if the Qing court's resources couldn't provide an almost unlimited supply of blood like Li Weizhou does now, ensuring he stays conscious shouldn't be a problem.

Why take such an extreme, a path that leads to certain death...?

Based on his experience reading countless novels, Li Weizhou guessed that this might be closely related to the bloodshot eye that flew out after Ye Yun's death and chased him through time and space...

The scream that was heard was definitely not Ye Yun's; there's probably more to the story.

Fortunately, time travel seems to erase all life, otherwise he might have really messed up...

On the bright side, this blood-red eye might be some kind of treasure with an extremely powerful origin. After being killed, it became ownerless and ended up in Li Weizhou's possession. It can transform blood into fine wine and nectar.

This allowed him, a sixteen-year-old man with poor physical constitution, to embark on a different path in martial arts.

More than a month ago, Li Weizhou exhausted all his strength and took a medicinal bath worth tens of millions of yuan to barely open one acupoint. However, after obtaining the Blood Eye, he immediately broke through one.

Just six days later, the third acupoint opened.

Li Weizhou finally understood what it felt like to open acupoints naturally and effortlessly...

The opening of the third acupoint means that he has broken through the barrier and become a first-level martial artist!
Li Weizhou carefully sensed the changes in his body. The increase in strength gave him a vague sense of arrogance, as if he could shatter the universe with a single punch!

He knew, of course, that it was just an illusion, a feeling of imbalance after a sudden surge of power.

Just by thinking about the scene of Ye Wangchen and Qi Erniang fighting that day, Li Weizhou quickly adjusted his mindset and continued to bury himself in his training!

That day, he couldn't even see how others made their moves. Stance training was just the foundation; he was still far from being a martial arts master...

Twelve days later, Li Weizhou successfully broke through the fourth and fifth acupoints again, with unstoppable momentum!
He is only one step away from becoming a Breaking-2 Warrior.

According to the information obtained from Qi Erniang, there are 365 major acupoints in the human body. Assuming that one acupoint is opened every six days, it would take six years to open all of them.

Of course, this was just his wild guess, because Qi Erniang and Song Shi both clearly told him that the stronger the body becomes, the more difficult it is to open the acupoints.

Even those with superior martial arts talent face almost no bottlenecks in the first six stages, but geniuses who start practicing their "Boyhood Skill" at the age of four or five often reach the sixth stage after they are over twenty years old...

Why are there six levels?

This is because with each level that is reached, the time required to open the acupoints increases significantly, resulting in a noticeable change.

However, all of this is still far from Li Weizhou's reach; even the theoretical six years is still a long way off. He should focus on the present, concentrating on his training and working on his bloodline!
Thanks to the strength of our motherland, thanks to the love of the people of our motherland for pork, and thanks to the development of large-scale breeding technology in the era of large-scale industry, it has been able to have a nearly inexhaustible blood resource.

Even the emperor of the Great Qian Dynasty, along with the so-called Eight Kings and Eight Clans, would never have had the conditions to gather so much blood every day.

With his own hard work, Li Weizhou believed that his life would only get better and better!

……

"You saved the fourth brother?!"

A month later, when Li Delong and his son Li Chang'an returned to Shiqiao Street, their expressions were so hilarious that they brought laughter to everyone.

Li Weizhou enjoyed watching the joys and sorrows of the people in this world, and even liked to smell the earth after the rain, because these things proved that this was a living, real world, not a fantasy.

Li Delong seems to have been living too well lately, as he has gained quite a bit of weight, and his head shape is increasingly resembling that of a fierce tiger, especially his forehead, where wrinkles seem to have formed the character "王" (king).

Li Chang'an had a conflicted expression, but unlike the serious Li Delong, he had a smile on his face, even though it looked somewhat unbelievable.

In Li Weizhou's view, a person's life is greatly influenced by fate.

With Li Chang'an's character and methods, and despite being practically a son-in-law, he managed to keep the Patrol and Inspection Division completely under his control. So many unruly thugs obeyed him without question. If he had come from a high-ranking family, he would surely have achieved great things.

Li Weizhou didn't hold back and gave them a general explanation. Of course, because he was too casual about it, not only Li Delong but even Li Chang'an was dissatisfied.

What Li Chang'an didn't understand was: "You don't even dare to leave Qingzhou City, and you have to specially invite the Yaksha from Zuixianglou to accompany you. Now, in the middle of the night, you dare to walk alone on the dark road to collect some kind of ghostly fragrance?"

Li Weizhou repeated the same thing: "I don't know what happened, but I couldn't sleep well that night. I kept feeling like someone wanted me to go out on this trip. You can ask the gatekeeper; I only went out once, just that one time. My parents probably really do prefer the fourth son..."

The last sentence, spoken with a touch of melancholy, moved the father and son to tears.

Not to mention here, even on the other side of the world, there are quite a few people who believe in metaphysics, especially some big shots who can do some absurd and ridiculous stupid things for the sake of feng shui.

On the other hand, the people of Daqian seem to be closer to gods and Buddhas, and therefore more superstitious.

Yeah, I usually don't even dare to leave the city, how come I suddenly dare to go out, especially in the middle of the night?

If it weren't for someone giving instructions from the heavens, how could it be such a coincidence?

But this is something I can't go into detail about...

After all, Li Weizhou and his sister Ximei have suffered so much over the years, and none of them have shown any divine intervention...

Li Delong felt increasingly guilty and naturally felt too embarrassed to make things worse. With a troubled expression, he earnestly instructed, "If you ever have this feeling again, you absolutely must come to me. What happened to your parents must never happen to you again, absolutely not!"

Li Chang'an patted Li Weizhou on the shoulder, his expression unusually solemn. "What Father said is what I also wanted to say. Third brother, you are not alone. If something really happens to you, especially if it's to save Fourth Brother, how are we supposed to cope? We will live in misery for the rest of our lives, especially Fourth Brother. He wrote back questioning us, asking if life had become so difficult that we had to go out into the city late at night to make a living."

If he knew you went to Zuixianglou alone and sold Ximei, wouldn't he tear the roof off when you got back? Sanlang, I'm begging you, please don't do these things again. We can't face anyone anymore.”

"okay!"

Li Delong frowned and interrupted his second son's rambling. He then turned to Li Weizhou, his expression softening, and said, "You are filial and kind, and your fourth brother cares about you a lot. In the future, you should discuss things with the family more often. If you think your eldest uncle is not good, you can talk to your second brother. He is quite clever. Just remember to be prudent in everything you do in the future. By the way, your eldest aunt misses Ximei. I'll take her to stay with us for a while."

After saying that, he turned around and left.

Li Chang'an lingered a while longer and asked, "Fourth Brother told me and Father that we must not let this matter out of the public eye. We didn't even tell Mother and Eldest Brother. Just now, when Ximei tried to come in, she was stopped. Fourth Brother's explanation was vague; he only said that you saved his life. Third Brother, is Fourth Brother in great danger?" His expression was grave.

Li Changning is the hope of the entire family, and no one in the Li family wants anything to happen to him.

Li Weizhou shook his head and said, "I don't know." After a pause, he added, "You don't need to worry too much about Silang. From what I've observed, he's very close to Princess Yi'an of the Qi Prince's Mansion, and he seems to be on par with the daughter of the Grand General. His master is also the Silver Inspector of the Imperial Execution Department, a top-notch expert. Even if we wanted to, we wouldn't be able to interfere in his affairs. We should just try not to hold him back."

Li Chang'an's eyes lit up, his hand trembled as he touched his nose, swallowed hard, and said, "Third brother, are you telling the truth?"

Li Weizhou nodded, and Li Chang'an's face twisted with excitement. He clenched his right fist and slammed it into his left palm, exclaiming excitedly, "They're definitely from our Li family! Their ways are exactly the same!"

Li Weizhou was puzzled...

Li Chang'an explained his reasons: "My eldest brother is a pedantic scholar who struggled even to pass the county-level examination, but he married the daughter of a prefect, and now he's quite influential in the county government. As for my second brother, needless to say, he got a hereditary official position based on his handsome appearance. And you, kid... hehe, Qi Erniang is quite a remarkable person too. And look at the fourth brother, hmm, what do you think of me?"

So, this family of gigolos and kept men are actually so proud of themselves!
……

After all the guests had left, Li Weizhou pulled over a rattan chair again, lay down, and observed the celestial phenomena.

In any case, the warm current descending from the "void" was constantly nourishing his constitution, so even if he was working hard, he hadn't wasted his time...

The weather was gloomy today, with thick clouds completely blocking out the sky, giving the feeling of dark clouds looming over the city.

Suddenly, Li Weizhou, who was lost in thought, felt a coolness on his forehead. He opened his eyes and saw snowflakes falling...

Winter is here.

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P.S.: Answering two questions. Regarding the body swapping and soul swapping issues... I've already mentioned it from the first chapter. He's an ordinary-looking guy on Earth, but a super handsome guy on the Great Qian side. The body swapping with a cheat code is too much; he's invincible, just accumulate power, and then disappear when the battle starts!
Regarding the issue of body disposal, I have taken forensic medicine courses, and you can also search for information on the procedures for handling unidentified bodies found in the Yangtze River, the kind whose identities cannot be confirmed.

The first step must be to investigate the identity through DNA and fingerprint databases. If this cannot be confirmed, the next steps cannot be carried out. If it takes too long to find out the identity, the only option is cremation.

Moreover, this is martial arts training, not cultivation of immortality yet. The mortal body will still be damaged by water and eaten by fish.

On Earth, he's just an unnamed corpse; on the Great Qian side, he's the trail of the Blood Demon.

Of course, this is indeed a kind of foreshadowing, which we will discuss later.

(End of this chapter)