Half-Yokai Cultivating the Path of Immortality Chapter 2: Bird feathers
There is a stone room in the backyard of the teahouse.
The room is not big, with a bed, wardrobe, table, and chairs inside.
Lu Tong sat on the bed with his hooves crossed.
Dahan was lying on the ground in front of the bed, sleeping soundly.
When Lu Tong first came to this world, the first thing he saw when he opened his eyes was a huge monster with a human body and a pig’s head lying under the bed. He was almost scared to death.
After accepting the memory left by his predecessor, he felt very friendly when he saw Dahan lying next to him.
Dahan is also a half-demon, raised by his predecessor since childhood.
However, his birth defects are very serious.
A hybrid of a pig demon and a monk. The pig demon bloodline had the upper hand but passed down a stupid pig head. The monk’s bloodline was suppressed, leaving only a weak body.
The combination of the disadvantages of the two resulted in Dahan’s low IQ, his physical body was empty, and in fact his strength was not as good as that of ordinary adults.
In contrast, Lu Tong is very lucky.
The only congenital defect is the two horse hooves. It is difficult to stand on the hooves but can be compensated for with crutches.
Lu Tong closed his eyes and sat still, focusing his attention on the center of his eyebrows.
After a few breaths, he still closed his eyes, but “saw” a translucent white figure sitting in the endless dark world, with some white debris scattered around.
Entering the world of souls, Lu Tong began to operate the “Six Qi Method of Serving Spirits”.
The translucent figure opened its mouth, inhaling and exhaling rhythmically. After a while, a meridian network appeared in the figure’s body.
Starting from the Dantian, it first spreads to the head, then covers the torso, and finally spreads to the hands and feet.
After the meridians appear completely, some small glowing colored light spots begin to appear around it.
The light spots enter the meridians with the inhalation, and disappear in the Dantian after circulating for several weeks.
This is the third operation of the exercise. Lu Tong observed the speed of the light spots while practicing.
After a while, he finally made up his mind.
Practice the same technique, and his practice speed is more than twice as fast as his predecessor.
The monks use the soul movement to subdue the qigong method and refine the spiritual energy into mana; the monsters use flesh and blood to build totems and absorb the spiritual energy into monster power.
Only the half-demon has inherent deficiencies.
The body of the half-demon is full of strange things, and the soul is also strange.
Whether you are practicing the skills of a monk or practicing the totem of a monster, refining spiritual energy is half the effort with half the effort.
A pair of horse hooves grow on the front of the body, causing the meridians below the knees to be missing, making practice less effective with half the effort.
But Lu Tong came through time.
His soul still looks like a human being. After running the “Six Qi Methods of Serving Spirits”, complete meridians can be generated and the true power of the techniques can be exerted.
He didn’t stop practicing until his eyebrows became swollen.
When I opened my eyes, it was already dark outside, and the room was also pitch black.
The only sound in the quiet room was Dahan’s heavy breathing.
Lu Tong sensed the increase in mana in his Dantian and pulled out a carp-shaped cloth bag from his sleeve.
Storage sleeve, a storage weapon left behind by the predecessor.
There are magic weapons and silver inside, but it is a pity that Lu Tong cannot open them.
After the soul of the predecessor collapsed, the mana in the Dantian that had reached the perfect Qi training state instantly collapsed, leaving only a trace of mana remaining in the flesh and blood.
Lu Tong had no choice but to start practicing again and accumulate mana bit by bit.
Carry out mana and pour it into the storage sleeve.
As the mana slowly flowed in, he clearly felt a ten-foot-long fish-shaped space in his sleeve.
After a few breaths, Lu Tong sighed and collapsed on the bed.
Cannot open.
Forget it.
Sleep first.
……
The next day, the morning light first appeared.
Lu Tong handed the teahouse to Dahan and walked towards Malanfang with a cane sent from a nearby blacksmith shop.
It’s not bright yet, but there are already many figures on the street.
Ordinary people selling breakfast, monks patrolling the city, monsters pulling carts to resist bags, half-demon begging for food…
Not far out of the teahouse, a sound of “dong, dong” came from behind.
Lu Tong felt something sounded familiar, and after thinking about it carefully, his face suddenly became very ugly.
This is the tambourine played by traveling merchants as they walked through the streets.
In the memory left by his predecessor, he had a very close half-demon named You Shang.
Lu Tong looked back and saw a half-demon businessman with a human head and a crane body following closely behind him a few steps away.
This half-demon has a human head the size of a Japanese melon, with a thin neck two feet long under the head.
The neck is bare without a single feather, as if the human neck has been elongated.
Further down is the body of a huge gray crane. A lot of feathers have fallen off, revealing large purple muscles.
That’s it.
Half demon, bird feather.
Niao Feo raised his eyebrows at Lu Tong and squinted at the nearby alley with his small eyes.
Lu Tong understood what it meant, waved his hand and walked towards the alley.
Walking into the alley, Bird Feather fluttered its wings twice to unload its burden, and said sharply: “Hoof, what have you been doing these days? It’s been almost half a month, why haven’t you chosen a fat sheep yet!”
Hoof, the name of the predecessor.
Half-demon rarely have decent names.
Thinking of the dirty deeds done by hooves and bird feathers, Lu Tong felt very nervous and forced himself to calm down: “What’s the rush? I’ll make a choice right away.”
“Which family do you belong to, what level of cultivation do you have, and is your family rich?”
The hooves and bird feathers are both abandoned half-demon.
The two half-demon grew up together, and later accidentally acquired an evil spell that could harm people’s lives without anyone noticing.
Later, Hoofu opened a teahouse to select fat sheep, and Niao Fei pretended to be a businessman and walked around the streets looking for opportunities to prey on them.
With the ill-gotten gains, Hoo Zi has reached the perfection of Qi training at the age of twenty-five.
Lu Tong pretended to pick the things in the cargo load, and said casually: “It’s not bad, the family does business, and the cultivation level is not high. But he is very strong and has plenty of energy and blood.”
Bird Fei was a little excited, and the feathers on his tail exploded.
“Hurry up and start. After two more votes, you will have enough money to buy the foundation building technique. Then we will retreat together.”
“Okay, wait for my news.”
Bird Feather picked up the burden and left.
Lu Tong stood in the dark alley, with various thoughts pouring out of his heart.
Don’t do too much killing and selling goods.
Even if you do this kind of thing a hundred times, if you fail once, all your efforts will be wasted.
It’s too late to stop now, as long as Bird Feather agrees.
But Bird Feather is greedy and stingy, so it is not easy to stop it.
Lu Tong thought for a long time alone, and finally stamped his hoof hard and walked towards the rising sun.
……
Inside Malanfang.
An ordinary household has a bundle of white cane orchids hanging outside the door, which is the logo of a drug store.
Lu Tong walked straight in. There was a strong medicinal fragrance inside.
A woman was standing in the middle of the courtyard, holding a brass stick to stir the medicinal materials in the cauldron. She seemed to be struggling.
“Kumeiqin, is the pharmacist here?”
“I am.”
The woman turned around, revealing a fox face.
It’s not a description of a small face, but a real fox face.
The forehead is round and has white fine hairs, the tip of the nose protrudes from the pink tip of the nose, and the cheeks are tapering as if the mandible has been shaved off.
Lu Tong was stunned on the spot.
Yesterday Wang Cheng talked about how gentle and kind Ku Meiqin was for a long time, but he did not say that she was a half-demon.
“Do you want to buy medicinal soup? What are the symptoms?”
“I am Lu Tong, the manager of Liangyao Teahouse. Wang Cheng came to see me yesterday.”
Kumeiqin immediately threw the medicinal materials in her hand into the cauldron, walked to the door and said, “Shopkeeper Lu, come in and sit down first. My cauldron of medicine will be ready soon.”
“No rush.”
Lu Tong sat on a bench under the eaves and looked around.
This medicine shop is a bit simple. It only has a large cauldron for brewing medicinal soup and no alchemy furnace, which means that Kumeiqin does not know how to make elixirs.
There is a room for storing medicinal materials, but there is no medicine garden, and there is no formation specifically designed to store special herbs.
Lu Tong briefly observed it for a while, and got a general understanding of Ku Meiqin’s medicine-making skills and family property.
Not poor, not rich, far inferior to Wang Cheng and his son who sell vegetables.
Soon, Bumi Qin put the lid on the cauldron and sealed the fire.
“Shopkeeper Lu has been waiting for a long time. Has he told you all?”
Lu Tong nodded and said, “Absolutely, but he didn’t say you were a half-demon.”
Kumeiqin’s round fox eyes narrowed and she said with a smile: “Shopkeeper Lu misunderstood, I have practiced the magic of demon transformation. This is the mouth and nose of the rui fox, which can distinguish the medicinal properties of medicinal materials.”
“The magic of transforming demons?”
Lu Tong knew nothing about this magic.
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After speaking, she explained: “My late husband once worked for a disciple of Yiyi Sect, and it was he who asked for this spell for me.”
When talking about her dead husband, Ku Meiqin felt a little depressed.
Moist water appeared on the pink nose.
Lu Tong quickly changed the subject and said: “Those things are over. I came here today to ask. Wang Cheng said that he is willing to leave Malanfang with you and rent a house to live outside. Are you willing?”
Kumeiqin did not answer immediately.
Although there were a lot of fox fur on her face, Lu Tong could still tell from her widened eyes and trembling tentacles that she was not at peace in her heart.
After a while, Ku Meiqin shook his head and said: “Wang Cheng has too little experience and doesn’t know how hard life is outside. Leaving Malanfang to live outside is not as easy as he thought.”
Lu Tong asked again: “What if he leaves the Wang family and runs a drug store with you?”
“I have told him before that although this drug store cannot make a lot of money, it is enough to make a living. But he just can’t let go of his family.”
It seems that Ku Meiqin is not coveting the Wang family’s property, but is interested in Wang Cheng himself.
This is good.
In fact, Lu Tong had already thought of a way.
The Wang family looked down upon Ku Meiqin because they disliked her for being married.
In addition, Ku Meiqin is a foreigner and has no relatives or friends to take care of her. It is not right for her to be out of the family.
But these things are vulnerable to money.
Just help Ku Meiqin, or Ku Meiqin’s pharmacy to be precise, find a way to make money.
Then all problems will no longer be problems.