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Wen Qiu's arrival and departure had no impact on Gaoning County, and everyone lived as usual.

It seemed to be the same for Gu Xia, who was still an idler, occasionally playing a few games with Mr. Zhao to earn some money.

In the blink of an eye, about half a year had passed.

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Outside Gaoning County, there is a Qingniu Mountain. According to legend, the Qingniu under the Taoist ancestor once stayed here, so it got this name.

Since it is a mountain, there are ups and downs.

There is an unnamed river flowing on one of the unnamed peaks, forming a waterfall with a drop of nearly 100 meters.

I don't know how many years of water flow have washed away the mud at the bottom of the waterfall, leaving only smooth bluestones larger than people lying here.

It was a sunny day, because it had just rained heavily the day before, and it was the time when the waterfall was turbulent.

The water flow hit the bluestone, making a rumbling sound, stirring up water mist in the sky to form a miniature rainbow in the air.

"Looking from a distance... hanging in front of the river... suspected to be... falling into the nine rivers..."

In the noise, a loud poem was faintly heard.

There was a naked man on the boulder at the bottom of the waterfall. He was sitting cross-legged, lying on his side, or standing on his hands, bearing the impact of the surging waterfall.

After about an incense stick of time, the man climbed down the boulder and swam to the shore.

"Hu! Huhuhu..." The man exhaled a long breath of white air, breathing like an old cow.

This man was Gu Xia, a poor scholar from Gaoning County, but he had changed a lot from half a year ago.

He was a lot stronger, with all the fat on his body gone, his muscles tight, his edges and corners clear, his spirit was also very different, his eyes were like torches, and he was completely different from the dull look of the stunned scholar in the past.

"This is the true style of a Confucian scholar! The saints' teachings in the past were powerful enough to open up mountains! We can't just learn one side!"

Seeing his increasingly strong body, Gu Xia was very satisfied. At this moment, he had practiced two external skills to perfection and opened up three acupoints in his body.

All thanks to the Pi Kai Dan from the girl Wen Qiu half a year ago, which helped Gu Xia fill in the missing foundation and allowed him to embark on the road of martial arts smoothly.

However, without the Pi Kai Dan and the method of absorbing Xuanli, he could only accumulate Xuanqi little by little according to the method of strengthening muscles and bones and breathing in and out in the Xuan Gong secret book. It took him two months to gather the first ray of natural Xuanli.

Gu Xia wanted to use the prescription recorded in the secret book to make auxiliary spiritual medicine to accelerate the condensation of Xuanqi, but the prescription was full of precious medicinal materials, and his silver was only enough to buy two or three sets.

"Alas! The Xuanqi accumulated in the past three months is only enough to open up one acupoint! I will be too old to open up all the acupoints in my body!

This is only the first step of Xuan Gong. I don’t have the method of opening up more than 300 acupoints. The data accumulated by Xingchen is not enough. It is energy-consuming and time-consuming to force the calculation of the opening method..."

After the joy, Gu Xia fell into worry again. His progress in Xuan Gong stagnated for several months and his future was hopeless.

"I really have to go to Tianxuan Sect to become a disciple! It just so happens that their five-year enrollment is about to begin."

After making a plan in his mind, Gu Xia came to a big tree next to the waterfall, and swung his hand in a claw shape, hitting the tree fiercely and quickly.

Instantly, the tree thicker than a man trembled, and he had a handful of sawdust in his hand.

There was a deep claw mark on the trunk. Not only was the bark torn by Gu Xia's claw, but the hard trunk inside was also dug out with a gap nearly ten centimeters deep.

His hands were really like iron claws, which was the performance of the outer door kung fu Eagle Claws being practiced to perfection. Ordinary people need to practice for at least two or three years to apply secret ointment, but he achieved the mysterious power that naturally spread in his dantian in half a year.

"Without the mysterious skills, you are still a mortal..." Gu Xia understood Tian Li's words before his death more and more deeply.

"Eat! Eat!"

He shook his head, put on his clothes, and walked towards a pile of ashes by the waterfall.

He quickly dug out a mud ball from the ash pile, cracked it open, and peeled off the oil paper and lotus leaves. Inside was a beggar chicken with tempting meat aroma. Gu Xia ate it with steamed buns.

Since he started practicing martial arts, his appetite has increased. Now he can finish a roasted chicken, seven or eight steamed buns, and some wild fruits.

Gu Xia also became "picky" and often wanted to eat meat. Fortunately, he had a small fortune, otherwise he would have gone bankrupt.

Gu Xia was a little pleased with himself while eating chicken, chewing steamed buns, and enjoying the waterfall.

In order to absorb the rising purple air, he found this good place, where no one disturbed him and the scenery was pleasant. The best thing was this waterfall. The power of the falling water was both soft and hard, which met his needs of tempering his muscles and practicing iron skin skills. It was a good place to exercise his body.

Just as Gu Xia was immersed in his little happiness, several uninvited guests suddenly arrived.

"It smells so good! What are you eating, kid? Come and pay us a tribute!"

Three men with messy hair and beards and holding long knives walked out of the forest, led by a man with one eye blind.

Gu Xia: "Who are you?"

One-eyed dragon: "Boy, come with us now and wait for your family to pay the ransom!"

Gu Xia said sternly: "How dare you kidnap people in broad daylight! Who are you?"

"You speak politely, like a scholar, your family should be well-off, so your ransom cannot be less than twenty taels!"

One-eyed dragon was quite arrogant.

"Boy! We are the heroes of the Black Water Gang on Qingniu Mountain!"

Gu Xia understood that this was a group of bandits.

"I was just trying to practice, but I'm so sleepy that I'm sending you a pillow..."

He showed his fear: "Please spare my life, dear heroes. I will definitely write a letter and ask my family to send a ransom!"

"You are smart, kid! Give me your roast chicken first! I haven't eaten meat for more than a month!" The one-eyed dragon's attention was all on the half chicken.

"Here you go, dear hero!" Gu Xia timidly stepped forward and handed over the beggar's chicken.

Just as the man was about to pick it up, Gu Xia suddenly got angry, took out a small paper bag from his waist and threw it at the other man's face.

"Ah! Ah! Ah..." The one-eyed dragon's face was covered with quicklime, and the only remaining eye was burned in agony. He knelt on the ground and kept scratching his face.

"Asshole! How dare you plot against the boss!"

The other two bandits saw the two bandits rushing towards them with knives, and they slashed with one swing of their knives. Gu Xia Luck tensed up his muscles and knocked the knives out of his hands with a swipe of his arm.

Then Gu Xia's right hand made a claw-like attack and grabbed the man's neck with lightning speed.

After more than half a year of hardening his muscles and bones, coupled with the power of the Kaikai Dan, Gu Xia's strength is now far beyond anyone's reach. He can easily lift a 1,780 kilograms of bluestone with one arm.

So he grabbed the bandit's neck and lifted him up directly, and at the same time retracted his five fingers like claws.

Kaka…

The bandit's neck bones, throat, and trachea were all crushed, and his body twitched a few times and then stopped moving.

Gu Xia suddenly felt a chill in his back. It turned out that another bandit had slashed him in the back.

But he has mastered the iron skill, and his skin looks fair, but in fact it is as tough as old cow leather that has been tanned for twenty years. He is not afraid of being chopped by mortal sharp weapons, and the dragging and cutting of the long knife only leaves a red mark and scratches. Just oily skin.

"How is it possible..." The bandit saw that Gu Xia, who was extremely powerful, could not injure him with his sword, and also saw that his companion in his hand was bleeding from all the orifices, with his tongue hanging out and his eyes wide open as he died, so he ran away in horror.

Gu Xia threw away the body in his hand, picked up a pebble the size of his fist and threw it hard, hitting the man in the head.

There was a bang.

The thief with his skull shattered and deformed also fell down, leaving only the one-eyed dragon with a face full of lime and howling in pain.

Gu Xia sneered and continued to nibble on the beggar's chicken in his hand.

He also cautiously used concealed weapons first. He did not expect that these bandits were so fragile, as weak as chickens.

After a cup of tea.

"Bah! Bad luck!"

Gu Xia viciously spat the chicken bones on the Cyclops's corpse, because he only found dozens of copper coins on the three corpses, which was less than a sling of money.

"They don't even have a lot of money, but three poor guys still come out to rob someone like others!"

After spitting, he left the body and left. It was just a bandit anyway, let him expose the body in the wilderness. Mr. Zhao also had a chess appointment in the afternoon, so he must not waste time.