Chapter 163: Chapter 125: Dragon and Tiger Pill; Grand Assembly
He set aside the fruit and seeds and picked up a Jade Bottle.
The mouth of the bottle was sealed with beeswax, and a nearly faded piece of red paper was stuck to its side. The three characters for "Dragon and Tiger Pill" were written on it.
’So kind of ruin?’ Cheng Zongyang observed the Jade Bottle in his hand, mulling over the information from the description.
’Last ti it was the Beastman District, this ti it’s so ruin. I wonder what the world outside is really like.’ As Cheng Zongyang thought this, his hands didn’t stop. He broke the beeswax seal and twisted open the cap.
A faint, refreshing fragrance, like that of a moth orchid, imdiately wafted out.
’Speaking of which, this thing has been sitting around for so long... Even though it hasn’t been exposed to air, based on the description, is it past its expiration date?’ he thought, his mind taking a peculiar turn. With his right hand, he tipped the pill out.
It was a pale yellow pill, about the size of a soybean.
’300 Points.’ Cheng Zongyang murmured, pouring himself a glass of water.
He imdiately tossed the pill into his mouth and swallowed it with the water. Compared to letting it dissolve, swallowing it directly was less hassle. Without water, he couldn’t have dry-swallowed it anyway.
He waited for about ten breaths, but there was no reaction, which puzzled him. Just as he was starting to suspect it really had expired, a surging Power erupted from his abdon and rushed to his every limb, completely out of the blue!
This sudden change caught Cheng Zongyang completely off guard. The constantly surging Qi and Blood Power made him feel extrely uncomfortable, as if he had overeaten to the point of bursting!
He scrambled out of the small hut and rushed to the large tree. Without a second thought, he began to beat his body according to the thod of the Body Refining Skill!
The tree trembled violently from his impacts, shedding a flurry of leaves.
Ma San and the others saw their lord’s frantic state and thought sothing was wrong. But when they realized he was just training, they paid it no more mind and went back to their own tasks.
However, Ma San and the others didn’t notice that Cheng Zongyang’s body had turned crimson, as if blood were about to seep through his skin.
And as Cheng Zongyang beat his body, a notification ssage—"Body Refining Skill Proficiency
1"—appeared in his mind almost every five seconds.
Cheng Zongyang wasn’t yet aware that this amounted to twelve points of progress per minute.
At that mont, his entire body was so flooded with Energy that he was barely aware of anything else. It was like when your eyes are focused on a book or a video, and your ears can hardly register any other sounds.
Right now, he had only one thought: burn off this imnse Energy.
The only way to do that was to beat his body, thereby allowing this Energy to nourish his physical form!
Ti ticked by, and in the blink of an eye, an hour had passed.
Only then did Cheng Zongyang feel the ceaseless flow of Energy inside him finally stop.
But residual Energy still filled his entire body, and his skin remained a faint red. Cheng Zongyang didn’t stop. He continued to beat his body, burning off the Energy that made him feel so "stuffed"!
A quarter of an hour later, clarity returned to Cheng Zongyang’s eyes, and his skin color went back to normal.
’My mind was constantly flashing with notifications! How much did my progress increase?’
He hurriedly called up his interface and looked at his progress in the Body Refining Skill.
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Body Refining Skill (2325/3000, Eighth Grade)
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’Holy shit!!’
Cheng Zongyang’s eyes widened as he stared at the progress bar.
’What was it just now? Oh, 795 Points! Now it’s 2325. I’m just over seven hundred points away from stepping into the Seventh Grade! This is equivalent to going from the Eighth Grade Early Stage to the Eighth Grade Middle to Late Stage.
A single pill increased my progress by 1530 points! That’s equal to a whole month of Body Forging with dicinal baths and herbal wine!!’
The effect truly shocked him.
And this was after it had lost most of its potency! What if it had been at full strength??
Cheng Zongyang looked at the Jade Bottle in his hand, wondering if he could try to purchase more in the future.
But this thing ca from a ruin and was noted as a special sale item, so he didn’t know if it would be possible.
’300 Points for one pill that saves a month of hard training... it’s an absolute steal!’
Cheng Zongyang imdiately began to formulate a plan. Once the listing for the Wilderness Beans was taken down, he would try to put in a request to buy Dragon and Tiger Pills!
The settlent still needed a powerful Martial Artist to hold the fort. In the entire County Town, the strongest was only at the Seventh Grade.
Once he advanced to the Seventh Grade, the settlent’s security would be that much stronger.
Cheng Zongyang didn’t waste the following ti, continuing to practice his Saber Technique.
As the sky began to brighten, Cheng Zongyang checked the ti, cleaned himself up, and then had Ma San and the others move thirty bags of rice from the warehouse to the market hut.
Three thousand catties of rice was enough to feed everyone in the settlent for half a month.
Next, he transported the rice to the mountain, bag by bag, and also led two lambs up.
When it was about ti, he returned to the Inner Mountain Pass. He notified the others to move the rice into the warehouse, where his second aunt, Mrs. Chen of the Cheng Family, would take inventory and store it. The lambs were also handed over to be raised by a designated person.
The basic structure of the settlent was now in place. It was ti to establish so formal rules, instead of continuing to do things so casually.
These formal rules would be communicated to the others by the elders.
No one asked about the source of the food. All they knew was that Cheng Zongyang could get it from the County Town, and that was enough; there was no need to dig deeper. In their current situation, whether it was obtained by robbing or stealing, it was all for the sake of a better life for everyone.
Because of the eting held the previous night, Cheng Guanghai gathered everyone for a general assembly first thing in the morning, before work began, to inform the Outsiders of the latest decisions.
This would give everyone a clear direction for their work and a clear point of contact if problems arose.
Over a hundred people gathered and sat down in an open area in the region Beyond the River.
Cheng Guanghai, Cheng Guangshan, Zhou Hansong, Zhou Hanchang, Mrs. Chen of the Cheng Family, and the eldest sons of the four families all stood at the front, facing the crowd.
Mrs. Zhou of the Cheng Family and the other won didn’t co out, remaining in their rooms with the children.
Today’s assembly was mainly to make an announcent to the ninety Outsiders.
As the Clan Leader, Cheng Guanghai stood in the center. Seeing that everyone had quieted down, he got to the point.
"I’ve gathered everyone for a eting today mainly to announce sothing.
Over the past half-month, you’ve all co to understand the situation here and our purpose.
We are all here to live a better life, to provide for our families, and to give our children the chance to learn to read, write, and even pursue Martial Arts Training.
Therefore, to ensure fairness among all of you and to guarantee that your hard work is rewarded, starting today, the Cheng Family is establishing a new system. After a full night of discussion, we have decided to implent it starting today.
First, we will distinguish the various functional roles. The first is the Sect Hall, which is mainly responsible for..."
Cheng Guanghai read from the paper, reciting the words his younger brother, Cheng Guangshan, had taught him.
On it were the newly recorded responsibilities of each departnt, as well as the system for Clan Contribution Points.
They had discussed it all night without any sleep, precisely to perfect these matters. They had given targeted functional scopes based on the problems that had arisen over the past half-month.
Cheng Guanghai had been reciting it over and over again, just so he could read it fluently this morning.
As a Clan Leader, it would be a true loss of face if he could barely recognize a few characters. If you don’t know sothing, you must learn it; only then can you manage a family properly.
Because of this, for the past half-month, he had spent his evenings after finishing his work learning to read, not resting until midnight. He had even swallowed his pride and asked his eldest son for help with things he didn’t understand, which his wife and younger children found amusing.
Cheng Guanghai didn’t read everything at once. Instead, after announcing a departnt’s function and its corresponding person-in-charge, he would break it all down and explain it in simpler, more common terms. Only then would he ask for questions.
Once they understood, Cheng Guanghai would move on to read the functions and leader of the next departnt.
The ninety people he had brought back this ti were almost all illiterate. They wouldn’t rember if things were explained too formally.
Plus, they would need to recruit more people in the future. This first group had to understand the rules so they could teach the newcors later. Otherwise, if the first group didn’t get it, the second group would be just as confused.
Putting himself in their shoes, Cheng Guanghai made this suggestion, and everyone agreed.
It was just like in the past, when the Li Zheng would co and read an official docunt from the County Town, and they would be completely baffled. They could only understand what it ant after the Li Zheng explained it in plain language.
Only by breaking it down and explaining it this way could they understand.
As a result, the eting dragged on, and the entire morning passed just like that.
But it had to be done!
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