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Half an hour later.

Gu Xia soaked in a steaming wooden barrel.

"I didn't expect the Tianxuan Sect to be so famous!"

He was quite surprised. He just wanted to quietly enter the town to rest, but he didn't expect to be warmly welcomed because of the reputation of the sect.

Of course, it was also because Gu Xia used his arm to block an arrow without getting hurt, which made people know that he was not an ordinary person.

You must know that arrows are different from swords. They are one of the most powerful weapons in the cognition of ordinary people. They can penetrate tough leather armor at close range.

Gu Xia stood up from the wooden barrel.

There was a small red dot on the skin at his elbow, which was the mark left by the arrow just now.

Although the iron skin skill that Gu Xia practiced can make the skin as tough as cowhide, it is still not enough to withstand arrows.

All of this is the benefit brought by the blood magic skill. The magic skill can not only provide Xuanqi, but also increase Qi and blood, strengthen the skin and flesh, in other words, it is to refine the flesh.

There are two stages in the awakening state, awakening and refining the flesh.

Most people open their orifices first and then refine their flesh, and the division of the orifice-opening realm is also based on this rule.

The initial opening of the orifice is the early stage of the orifice-opening realm.

After the orifices are opened enough, the mysterious force is used to wash the skin and flesh of the whole body, which is the middle stage of the orifice-opening realm.

The skin membrane is as tough as leather, and every move has more than 500 kilograms of strength. The combat power can fight against multiple secular external skills masters, which is the late stage of the orifice-opening realm.

The skin and flesh are trained to the point that all limbs have a thousand kilograms of strength, and the skin cannot be shot through with a full bow of one and a half stones within 20 steps. It is only one step away from the Xuanliu realm, which can be called the perfection of the orifice-opening realm.

But in fact, there is no difference between opening the orifice and refining the flesh. If there is Xuanqi in the dantian, the flesh can be refined, but the efficiency is extremely low. In order to obtain the fastest and best effect of refining the flesh, the orifices must be activated together.

The advantage of the blood demon technique is that it gives Gu Xia Xuanqi while helping him to quickly refine the flesh.

During the half month of hunting and killing bandits, Gu Xia swallowed a blood and qi pill every day.

Compared to when he left Tianxuan Gate, his strength has improved greatly.

At this moment, Gu Xia has sharp eyes and ears, developed five senses, and a single arm strength of more than 700 kilograms. His physical strength has also increased significantly.

His skin is tougher than ordinary leather armor, and he can withstand close-range shooting with a longbow with a bow force of 100 kilograms.

When his muscles are tense, they are as hard as iron and stone, and are more than times harder than those masters of external skills who have practiced the Golden Bell Cover and Iron Cloth Shirt for 10 to 20 years in the secular world.

So he can use his arm to break the cast iron arrow.

There are now a total of 64 acupoints in Gu Xia's body. I believe that when he returns to Tianxuan Gate, the acupoints in his body should exceed the minimum 72 required for the first-grade Xuan Gong.

When he left, he only opened 40 acupoints. In addition to the 20 acupoints opened by taking 20 Qi and Blood Pills on the road for 20 days, there are 4 acupoints he obtained through natural practice.

Yes, under Xingchen's precise control, he can practice while digesting Qi and Blood Pills, and open his orifices, and even AI has 50% of its computing power used to calculate the method of opening acupoints.

Gu Xia opened the AI's virtual panel and took a look.

Shaoze, Qiangu, Houxi, Wangu, Jianzhen...

All 19 acupoints of the hand-sun small intestine meridian have been opened.

At this moment, Xingchen is calculating the method of opening an acupoint called Shiguan on the foot Shaoyin meridian, which is between the chest and abdomen.

Because there are enough data samples, it is estimated that the entire calculation process will only take 1 day.

There are a total of 27 acupoints in the foot Shaoyin meridian, and Gu Xia has now opened 26 of them. Soon he will be able to complete the acupoints of the second meridian.

Gu Xia's strength has reached the late stage of opening the orifices. If he is willing, he can spend one or two months concentrating on refining the flesh and try to break through to the Xuanliu realm.

The limit of Ding-level talent is 36 acupoints, but most of the Xuanqi people with Ding-level talent will only open more than 20 acupoints at most and then enter the flesh refining period.

The number of acupoints opened in Gu Xia's body increased from a single digit to 64 in less than half a year, far exceeding the progress of Yu Chen and Ye Yunfei, who were first-class geniuses.

When he first entered Tianxuanmen, Gu Xia did think about opening more than 20 acupoints to break through the Xuanliu realm.

But people are greedy. After using the blood magic technique, his goal became to open at least 200 acupoints before breaking through the Xuanliu realm.

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Coming out of the bathroom, Gu Xia changed into clean clothes and went downstairs.

A table of fine wine and delicacies was set in the private room of the inn.

Gu Xia, who had been eating dry food and bread for almost a month, couldn't help but have a big appetite, and sat down and ate it up immediately.

After a while, the door opened, and several yamen runners escorted a middle-aged man in official uniform and hat to walk in.

"Mayor! This is the hero of Tianxuan Sect that I was talking about!"

Middle-aged man: "Hello, hero Gu. I am the mayor of Shanyang Town, Lei Tianyuan."

"Wow...Nice to meet you...Nice to meet you...Mayor Lei...Would you like to...eat together..." Gu Xia didn't know why the mayor wanted to see him, and he responded hesitantly while chewing.

"Thank you, hero. I've eaten." A trace of doubt flashed across Lei Tianyuan's eyes.

He saw that the young man in front of him was not very tall and strong. Although he was handsome and seven feet tall, he looked more like a scholar than a warrior.

"Could he be using the name of Tianxuan Sect to cheat for food and drink?"

Lei Tianyuan thought to himself that this kind of thing had happened before.

He pulled the yamen runner aside and asked in a low voice.

The yamen runner whispered in his ear: "Sir, I shot an arrow before, but Gu Xia blocked it with his hand.

I checked, the arrowhead was broken, but Gu Xia was fine."

Lei Tianyuan: "Hmm? Could it be a charlatan who performs magic tricks?"

The two of them talked in a low voice, but they didn't want Gu Xia, who was very sharp-eyed and sharp-eared, to hear them clearly.

He took out a sign and put it on the table.

"Mayor, this is my name card."

Lei Tianyuan saw that it was a white jade card with the word Tianxuan engraved on the back.

This is the "student ID" specially made by Tianxuan Sect for inner disciples.

According to the laws of Daqian, there are strict restrictions on the material of the identity card. Ordinary people without official titles and positions can only use wooden cards, and only the government can issue them.

It is an act of usurpation to dare to use a privately issued jade identity card, and you will be imprisoned and beaten, but this is the strength of Tianxuan Sect as the first sect in the north of Yunzhou.

So when Lei Tianyuan saw this jade card, he not only had no intention of punishing him, but also believed 50% to 60% of Gu Xia's identity as a disciple of Tianxuan Sect.

After seeing Gu Xia eat a table of food alone, he basically believed it.

"What a big appetite! This kid is definitely not an ordinary person."

Lei Tianyuan cleared his throat: "Gu Xia came here to kill the bandits, right?"

"Just call me Gu Xia, I don't dare to be a hero. I really came to kill the bandits." Gu Xia nodded.

Lei Tianyuan: "I wonder what Mr. Gu thinks of the bandits in the Blood Evil Village?"

Gu Xia: "They are extremely brutal. I have rarely heard of bandits who would massacre several villages."

Lei Tianyuan nodded: "Because the bandits in the Blood Evil Village are not ordinary bandits. Looting property is just a matter of course. Their main purpose is to kill people."

"They are here to kill people?"

Lei Tianyuan: "Yes, the Blood Evil Village suddenly appeared not long ago.

According to the information I have received, they seem to be the remnants of a certain demon sect deep in the Everbright Mountains!

Several leaders have evil cultivators and demons. They kill and rob people just to practice the evil magic of the demon sect."

"Hmm? If I remember correctly, the Blood Evil Village has been wreaking havoc in a radius of 100 miles for nearly half a year. Why hasn't the court sent a large army to clear it out?"

Gu Xia was a little puzzled. The most hated thing about the court was the demons. It turned out that they were indifferent for such a long time.

Lei Tianyuan showed a bitter look: "Alas! Last year, the Huns outside the Great Wall rebelled again, and most of the troops of Yunzhou were transferred to Hanzhou to fight against the Huns.

The demon sects and the remnants of the previous dynasty in the vast mountains and forests got the news and took the opportunity to rebel everywhere. The remaining troops were tired of conquering and temporarily had no intention of taking care of us.

The Blood Evil Village slaughtered several villages in a row, and I could only gather all the residents of other villages to Shanyang Town.

If the disaster is not eliminated as soon as possible, the farming season will be delayed in the spring of next year, and there may be famine in the autumn!"

He changed the subject: "So if we want to completely wipe out the Blood Evil Village, we can only rely on the heroes of all the famous and upright sects!"

Gu Xia instantly understood that Mayor Lei had been talking for a long time just to ask him to go up the mountain to wipe out the Blood Evil Village.

"This... I'm afraid that Gu alone can't do it..."

Gu Xia is not stupid. It's okay for him to kill the bandit teams wandering in the mountains and forests, but it's wishful thinking for him to kill into the Blood Evil Village.

Even if there are hundreds of bandits on the other side, and they don't even need to have practiced external skills, they can set up a formation and take turns to wear him down.

If there is an evil cultivator of the Xuanliu realm hidden among them, he can't escape.

"Don't worry, Mr. Gu, Lei has a countermeasure. I just need you to raid the formation to increase the safety."