Martial Arts: I Have Chapter 232 - 153: Return to the Village, Anomaly in the Mou

Chapter 232: Chapter 153: Return to the Village, Anomaly in the Mountains

County Town, South City warehouse.

Cheng Zongyang carefully inspected the n. Seeing no other issues, he entered the Wilderness World. He planned to make so Wilderness Bean Powder for the six of them to drink before he took them back to the mountains.

Although his main concern was the Soul Crystal Stones, this wasn’t sothing he could rush. He just had to wait.

He glanced at his Points: 7,650 remaining.

’My Points are getting low,’ Cheng Zongyang thought with a frown.

There weren’t many qualifying fish left in the stream. There were plenty of small ones, but they were useless.

Although there were still three or four thousand fish in the pond that were about to et the requirents, they still needed more ti.

His main source for farming Points had basically dried up. He couldn’t even complete all the fish acquisition quests in the buy-orders tab.

Furthermore, he was short on manpower, so only one of the planned fish ponds had been completed; the rest were temporarily on hold. Right now, the rice seedlings were the priority.

Only after dealing with the rice seedlings would there be ti to dig more fish ponds. As for animal husbandry, there was currently no solution.

Unlike with fish, the base population of animals was too small. Large-scale breeding would take far too long.

He crushed a Wilderness Bean into powder and mixed it into a cup of water. He’d learned this thod from Li Lu.

Li Lu had only crushed two Wilderness Beans into powder. Of the remaining beans in Li Lu’s possession, Cheng Zongyang let him keep two and took back the other four.

They were worth dozens of Points each and couldn’t be wasted.

He brought the cup of water out and, ignoring their struggles, forced each of them to drink it.

Within ten breaths, all of them had fallen into a deep sleep.

’The waking period is shorter, and the sleeping period is longer,’ Cheng Zongyang murmured, then promptly brought them into the Wilderness World.

In the marketplace cottage, Cheng Zongyang told Ma San to keep an eye on when they woke up again. At the sa ti, he found Luo Zheng and obtained a birdcage containing an Elf Bird.

"Sir, the two Elf Birds have laid two eggs. The female is still incubating them, and they should hatch in about half a month. This male bird can be used now," Luo Zheng reported.

Upon hearing this, Cheng Zongyang smiled. "That’s good news. We can gradually increase our stock from now on. Take good care of the female."

"Rest assured, Sir," Luo Zheng replied.

Two feathers, one red and one blue, hung from the bottom of the simple birdcage. Each feather was engraved with a set of markings: 1-1 and 1-2.

Each Elf Bird will fly toward the distant location of its own corresponding feather, thus forming a fixed line of communication.

But this was also its drawback: it couldn’t be used for multi-point communication, only for travel back and forth between two fixed locations.

In other words, it would only travel between 1-1 and 1-2. If a third feather were placed sowhere else, the Elf Bird might fly toward the number 3 location by mistake, causing an error. They wouldn’t seek out the feathers of other birds.

Therefore, to use them over a wide area, he had to wait for the two little ones to hatch more offspring, which could then be used as different "phone numbers."

Cheng Zongyang kept the number 2 feather and took the number 1 feather and the birdcage to give to Li Lu. He also explained how to use it and told him to feed it rice grains.

Cheng Zongyang left Li Lu a few pounds of rice grains.

This way, if Li Lu ran into an ergency, he could write a letter, place it in the small bamboo tube on the Elf Bird’s leg, and inform Cheng Zongyang of the situation.

After handling this matter, Cheng Zongyang instructed the servants at ho to watch over the house and then left the County Town.

There was enough food at ho, so he didn’t have to worry about the n starving.

To save ti, he used the Wind-Stepping Step and took a shortcut back to the mountains. He hadn’t learned to ride a horse yet. Once he was back in the mountains, he could keep these six horses. When he had ti later, he could clear out a paddock for them—it wouldn’t need to be very large, just big enough for them to run around in.

In the future, he wouldn’t have to rely solely on his own two feet for travel.

「Half an hour later」

Upon reaching the edge of the Inner Mountain, Cheng Zongyang released the six horses at an opportune spot.

At that exact mont, they seed to sense sothing and struggled, trying to flee.

Cheng Zongyang pulled them out and quickly hung the Stone Skin Purses on them. Only then did the six horses calm down. He then led them into the territory of the Geomagnetic Stone, heading deeper toward Cheng Family Village.

With the protection of the Geomagnetic Stone, the village had also cleared a convenient path in a suitable location, making travel less difficult.

These days, Cheng Family Village was very peaceful, with the air of a secluded paradise. There wasn’t much he needed to do.

Compared to the County Town, he much preferred staying in the village, which gave him a sense of peace.

Entering the Cheng Family Village area, the first thing he passed was the enclosure holding a dozen or so sheep and pigs, followed by vast stretches of farmland, irrigation channels, and reservoirs. Further in were the residences.

The current layout of Cheng Family Village was still rather disorganized, far from the arrangent he envisioned.

But for now, they could only take it one step at a ti. First, he had to let everyone solve their basic food needs, then they could gradually rebuild according to the planned layout.

The subsequent construction wouldn’t be ramd-earth houses, but brick houses. In addition, private farmland would be demarcated later on.

The villagers in the fields saw Cheng Zongyang return leading six horses and greeted him with broad smiles and waves.

Cheng Zongyang simply smiled, nodded, and continued on his way.

He crossed the wooden bridge over the river channel into the Henei Region, handed the horses to the guards who ca to greet him, and said, "Take these to the Livestock Workshop at the Ministry of Works Hall. Have them build a stable and raise them there."

"Yes, Young Clan Leader." The guard clasped his fist and replied, then took the reins from Cheng Zongyang’s hand and led the horses away with his n.

Cheng Zongyang then turned and walked back toward the wooden bridge. To his surprise, he saw that there was already a considerable amount of water flowing at the bottom of the river channel.