Longevity begins with Orion

"Woof!"

"Woof woof woof!"

At this time, the barking of dogs sounded in the snow-white courtyard. A black mastiff half as tall as a man had a ring on its neck. The ring of the ring was made of arm-thick metal, and the other side was hung on a large iron pillar.

Li Yuan glanced at the black mastiff and said, "It's snowing, are you happy too?"

The black mastiff looked at Li Yuan with a tame look in his eyes, his mouth was split open as if he was smiling "hehe", and his blood-red tongue was sticking out "swissly".

This is Li Yuan's small gain in the black market.

God, things often go wrong.

He wanted to find a tank-like monster that had a docile personality, was good at reconnaissance, was very hidden and difficult to detect, and could provide assistance and housekeeping services.

Obviously, this is a pipe dream.

In the past six months, he has never seen a monster that meets more than two requirements.

And this black demon mastiff showed extra kindness to him when he passed by in his true self, so he thought about buying it.

His actions are not covert, and his personality is not docile, but he is at least good at investigation and can provide housekeeping services. Moreover, dogs are inherently linked to the word "loyalty", so they have an extra quality that makes up for the "tameness".

The words "watchdog" are not called for nothing.

So, Li Yuan gritted his teeth and spent four hundred taels of silver to buy it, one hundred taels of which he got directly from the proprietress, and three hundred taels from Senior Brother Ren.

This kind of demon mastiff is called Black Rock Demon Mastiff. It is not fond of movement and likes to stay in one place. In short, it loves to look after the house. It is extremely sensitive to "hostility", and its sense of smell has been greatly improved compared to ordinary dogs.

Li Yuan once took it to hunt the Blind Bear on Xiaomo Mountain. He first went to the den to wake up the Blind Bear, and then gave the Blind Bear half an hour to escape. Then he took the Black Rock Demon Mastiff with him, and soon he was Take out the blind bear.

When this black rock demon mastiff arrived, its comprehensive value was "(10) 20 ~ (20) 60", but it has been trained in Li Yuan's family for a long time and has almost recovered.

Li Yuan named it "Xiao Hei".

The reason why it is locked is not because Xiao Hei is dangerous, nor is it because Xiao Hei is hostile to the people of Li Yuan's family.

In fact, Xiao Hei has become "completely loyal" to Li Yuan. He also deeply knows that Yan Yu and Xue Ning are his "mistresses", so he will behave docilely in front of his mistresses on weekdays.

But this is the inner city after all. If the demon mastiff escapes, it will either kill someone or be killed by someone, so it still has to be locked on weekdays.

Just because of this, he became slightly famous.

Others were amazed when they saw that this ninth-level monster was docile to him.

Li Yuan only speculated that he had some skills in taming animals when he was a hunter in the past, but he did not expect that they would also work on monster beasts.

Ever since, the name "Little Master Li is good at taming animals" has spread inexplicably.

Li Yuan doesn't mind such small things, after all, it is within the scope of his power.

In addition to the black smoke demon mastiff, Li Yuan also gained two skills and bought two weapons for use after the seventh level. After all, the weapons at the eighth level cannot exert the power of the seventh level.

The two weapons cost a total of 96 taels of silver, a new sleeve knife and an animal bone bow.

And two skills:

It's also called "Breath Seeking Technique". It's an eighth-level skill, but it's also a useless skill. It's been around for a long time and no one is buying it. The person who sells it doesn't know where it got it from.

This skill is a solitary method. If you want to practice it, you must first reach the eighth-level realm, and have a ninth-level or ordinary tracking skill, and this tracking skill must reach the master level.

This requirement is completely nonsense to normal practitioners.

After practicing it, it will not improve your own strength, but it will give you an unimaginable sense of smell. To put it simply, it will allow you to develop a good "dog nose".

Who has nothing to do to learn this?

But Li Yuan took a fancy to it, and he haggled for a long time before going from the high price of "300 taels of silver" to "100 taels of silver", and then took away the skill.

The other one is called "Chasing the Wind and Pierced by the Willow Twelve Chains of Arrows", which is also a unique method of the eighth level of the sect.

The requirements are that the cultivation level has reached the eighth level, and the shooting skills have reached the ninth level or ordinary type, and the shooting skills have reached the master level.

Unfortunately, there are many people who use knives and swords in Shanbao County, and there are really very few people who use bows.

Even if you use a bow, it is almost impossible to reach the master level.

And because this "Chasing the Wind and Pierced Willow Twelve Continuous Arrows" lacks the follow-up seventh-level skills, it has been hanging for a long time and cannot be sold.

So, out of some consideration, Li Yuan cut the price from "400 taels of silver" to "150 taels of silver" and then bought it.

This monster beast's two skills and two weapons are all Li Yuan's gains except for "eighth-grade monster meat".

As for the skills, he has also seen them, but those skills lack follow-up and are extremely expensive.

During the process of cultivation, Li Yuan vaguely felt that there was an upper limit for the "types of shadow and blood coexistence". The upper limit was definitely within five, but it would not be three, because Li Yuan could feel that there was still a sense of accommodation in his body. The upper limit of coexistence should be Either four or five.

He now has two kinds of shadow blood in his body, one can be promoted to the seventh level, and the other can only be frozen at the ninth level, and he needs to use the remaining spots more carefully.

The third skill needs to be learned at least the sixth level, and then he will try to use the shadow blood of this sixth level method to replace the shadow blood of "Hui Liu Gong".

If it succeeds, it will prove that the shadow blood in the body can be exchanged, and he will not be so rigid in practicing the next technique.

If it fails, then you can only wait quietly, leaving perhaps the last vacancy for a higher-level follow-up cultivation method.

This is actually a kind of helplessness for practitioners.

If you don’t have follow-up skills, you won’t be able to enter a higher realm in this life.

When you reach the seventh level, you don't have the sixth-level skills. At this time, you meet another inheritance with the sixth-level skills. You can't practice again because your shadow bones have been set.

If you are at the eighth level and encounter another inheritance with a sixth level technique, you will have to practice it all over again, spend time, endure pain, replace the shadow blood, and then switch over.

In this world, apart from talent and hard work, what determines a person's final achievement is more importantly his background and opportunity.

If you come from a good family, and your family has inherited the skills that can lead to high-level cultivation, then you are on a path that you don't need to look back on.

But most people are searching and climbing hard. Where they end up can only depend on chance.

How unfair?

But isn't this the same everywhere?

Li Yuan didn't know if he could change his shadow blood, so he could only be careful not to learn the techniques randomly.

At this time, he stood on the snow.

He didn't hold the booklet of "Tu Po Gong" in his hand, just because he had already memorized the technique and knew it by heart.

"The toad climbs to the sky and gathers energy as heavy as a mountain. The great river flows in all directions, and the moon spits out its soul and forms a bow."

The last step to break into the seventh level is to turn the moon into a bow.

But if you want to breathe out, you first have to breathe in.

Li Yuan looked at the snow falling in the courtyard, suddenly pulled off his coat, took off his trousers, and put on a cheap cloth shirt and trousers. Then he raised his head and took a breath, causing the wind and snow to roll in all directions in the courtyard!

The thousands of long strands of snow-white ice crystals were moved by some powerful breathing and penetrated into Li Yuan's body.

The blood was oppressed and began to rush into every inch of the body crazily. The power in the flesh of the eighth-grade monster beast turned into a "power" at this time, making this surge larger and able to go to Further away, the body can be filled with shadow blood.

During this process, the mortal blood was slowly drained out, so that a trace of blood began to appear on Li Yuan's body. This blood red stuck to the cheap cloth, turning the cloth into blood clothes.

In order to break through to the seventh level, Li Yuan had already spent countless civilians.

But this time, it should be the last time.

He held his breath and closed his eyes. The many tiny trajectories in the seventh-grade map in his mind had become so proficient that they ran automatically and began to carry shadow blood.

"snort"

From his nostrils, two wisps of white air spurted out like arrows, like the hot air rising from the bellows of a forging iron furnace.

After several times, Li Yuan took another breath.

This time, he calmed down for a long time, only to feel that there seemed to be a hot fire in his body. The originally fragile mortal bones were being continuously tempered by the fire and were changing, and the first step...

"ha!!"

Li Yuan drank in one gulp, his black hair dancing wildly, his eyes shining like the center of an electric cloud. This exhalation was filled with boiling white gas, like the steam rising from a sword being quenched.

At the moment when he exhaled, Li Yuan only felt that his whole body's strength increased greatly, but after exhaling, this strength quickly fell back. It is obvious that the Po Po Gong has some kind of temporary increase in the upper limit of strength.

He glanced at the information:

[Name: Li Yuan]

[Added points: 752 points]

[Realm: Seventh Grade (Bone Refining)]

[Kung Fu: Hui Liu Gong (100/100), Seventh Grade Tupo Gong (1/500)]

[Supernatural Power: Immortality]

[Equipment column: not unlocked]

In addition to the original "skill bar", there are more [Grand Master Breath Seeking Technique (1/160); Chasing Wind and Willow Twelve Chain Arrows (1/160)]

"I finally reached the seventh level. It's really difficult to break through this level."

"Now that we have broken into the seventh level, now it is time to reach perfection."

Li Yuan directly clicked the "++" sign on [Tubo Gong Seventh Grade (1/500)].

In an instant, he had many more memories. He ate the meat of the eighth-grade monster beast, practiced the skills, and devoted himself tirelessly to practice. After five years, he finally felt that his energy and blood accumulation had reached the upper limit.

Under the tempering of the technique and the warmth of the shadow blood, the mortal bones in his body had completely changed.

The shadow blood has a source and is continuously produced from the shadow bones, so that the shadow blood stays in the body and can no longer be consumed.

The shadow blood produced by "Hui Liu Gong" was compressed and wrapped, forming a small drop of blood, which settled in his abdominal cavity, as if sleeping quietly, but allowing him to control it.

Li Yuan closed his eyes and realized the changes carefully.

After a long time, he opened his eyes with a smile and glanced at the message:

[Name: Li Yuan]

[Added points: 251 points]

[Realm: Seventh Grade (Bone Refining)]

[Kung Fu: Hui Liu Gong (100/100), Seventh Grade Tupo Gong (500/500)]

"It's time to practice the third form of the Spring and Autumn Sword [Leap Abyss]. Only in this way can I exert my maximum strength."

Ten days later.

Li Yuan glanced at his own information.

[Name: Li Yuan]

[Added points: 321 points]

[Skill: Seventh Grade Spring and Autumn Sword—Yueyuan (Elementary) (1/10)]

"Full."

Li Yuan clicked on the "++" after the skill several times, and he directly jumped through "beginner", "intermediate", "advanced", and "expert level", and reached the perfection of "grandmaster level".

310 points were instantly deducted, and the skill status changed to [Spring and Autumn Sword 7th Grade - Yueyuan (Grandmaster Level) (160/160)].

Li Yuan held the knife in his sleeve and glanced at his overall strength: 180~278.

He closed his eyes slightly, thinking about Iron Kill, the strongest man in the Blood Knife Sect.

The strength of the Iron Sect Master seems to be "215~235".

And the weapons used by Tie Sha are definitely better than the ordinary seventh-grade weapons he bought.

Suddenly, the sense of security in his heart increased.

"It's time to meet the teacher."

Li Yuan put away the knife in his sleeve, patted Xiao Hei on the head, and said: "Look at home, I'll go out for a while."

Xiao Hei made a coquettish sound of "woo woo" and looked at his master with admiration.