Longevity begins with Orion.

Chapter 79 78. The Seventh Grade
"Wang!"

"Wang Wang Wang!"

At this time, the sound of dogs barking resounded in the snow-white courtyard. A black mastiff with a height of half a person was put on a collar. The ring of the collar was made of arm-thick metal, and the other side was hung on a large iron pier.

Li Yuan glanced at the black mastiff and said, "It's snowing, are you happy too?"

The black mastiff looked at Li Yuan with a tame look in his eyes, his mouth was split open as if he was laughing "hehe", and his blood-red tongue was spitting out in a "rustle".

This is a small gain for Li Yuan in the black market.

God, often unsatisfactory.

He wanted to find a tank-type monster with a gentle personality, good at scouting, stealthy and hard to be found, who could provide assistance and housekeeping services.
Obviously, this is a daydream.

In the past six months, he has never seen a monster that meets more than two requirements.

And this black demon mastiff showed extra kindness to him when he passed by with his true colors, so he wanted to buy it.

His actions are not hidden and his personality is not docile, but at least he is good at investigation and can provide housekeeping services.Moreover, a creature like Gouzi is already linked to the word "loyalty", which can be regarded as an extra quality, which makes up for the point of "tameness".

The three words "watchdog" are not barking for nothing.

So, Li Yuan gritted his teeth and bought it for 400 taels of silver, of which 100 taels were directly obtained from the proprietress, and 300 taels were from Senior Brother Ren.

This kind of demon mastiff is named - Black Rock Demon Mastiff. It is not fond of moving, so it is easy to stick to one place. In short, it likes to guard the house.It is extremely sensitive to "hostility", and its sense of smell has been greatly improved compared with ordinary dogs.

Li Yuan once took it to Xiaomo Mountain to hunt and kill Blind Xiong. He first went to the den to wake up Blind Xiong, and then gave Blind Xiong half an hour to escape. Take out the blind bear.

When this Black Rock Demon Mastiff came, the comprehensive value was "(10) 20 ~ (20) 60", but it has been cultivated in Li Yuan's house for a long time, and it has almost recovered.

Li Yuan named it "Xiao Hei".

The reason why it is locked is not because Xiao Hei is dangerous, nor is it because Xiao Hei is hostile to Li Yuan's family.

In fact, Xiao Hei has already "completely loyal" to Li Yuan, and he also deeply knows that Yan Yu and Xue Ning are its "mistresses", so he will behave docilely in front of the mistresses on weekdays.

But this is the inner city after all, if the demon mastiff runs out, it will either kill someone or be killed, so it still has to be locked on weekdays.

Because of this incident, he also gained a small amount of fame.

Others were amazed when they saw that the ninth-grade monsters were gentle with him.

Li Yuan only reasoned that when he was a hunter in the past, he had some skills in taming animals, but he didn't expect that it would also work for monsters.

Ever since, the title of "Master Xiao Li is good at taming beasts" has also spread out inexplicably.

Li Yuan doesn't mind such trivial matters, after all, this is also within the scope of his power.

In addition to the black smoke demon mastiff, Li Yuan also acquired two skills, and bought two weapons for later use at the seventh rank. After all, the weapons at the eighth rank could not exert the power of the seventh rank.

The two weapons cost a total of 96 taels of silver, a new sleeve knife, and a beast bone bow.

And two skills:
It's also called "Breathing Seeking Technique". It's an eighth-rank skill, and it's also a tasteless skill.

This skill is a solitary method. If you want to practice, you must first reach the eighth-rank realm, and have a ninth-rank or ordinary tracking skill, and this tracking skill has reached the master level.

This requirement is completely nonsense for normal practitioners.

And it will not improve your own strength after you practice it, but it will give you an unimaginable sense of smell. Simply put, it will let you develop a good "dog nose".

Who is okay to learn this?
But Li Yuan took a fancy to it, and he haggled for a long time before he went from the high price of "300 taels of silver" to "100 taels of silver", and then took away the skills.

The other one is called "Chasing the Wind and Piercing the Willow Twelve Chain Arrows", which is also an isolated method of the eighth rank.

The requirement is that the realm of cultivation reaches the eighth rank, and possesses the ninth rank or ordinary shooting skills, and the shooting skills have reached the master level.

It's a pity that in Shanbao County, there are more knives and swords, but very few people use bows.

And even with a bow, it is almost impossible to reach the master level.

And because this "Chasing the Wind and Piercing the Willow Twelve Chain Arrows" lacks the follow-up seventh-rank skills, it can't be sold after hanging up for a long time.

So, out of some consideration, Li Yuan cut the price from "400 taels of silver" to "150 taels of silver" and bought it.

This monster with two skills and two weapons is all that Li Yuan has gained except the "eighth grade monster meat".

As for the exercises, he has also seen them, but those exercises lack follow-up, and the prices are extremely high.

During the process of cultivation, Li Yuan faintly felt that there was an upper limit to the "types of coexistence of shadow and blood". Either four or five.

He now has two kinds of shadow blood in his body, one can be promoted to the seventh rank, and the other can only be frozen at the ninth rank, and he needs to use the remaining places more cautiously.

For the third skill, he needs to learn at least the sixth rank, and then he will try to replace the shadow blood of "Hui Liu Gong" with the shadow blood of the sixth rank.

If he succeeded, it would prove that the shadow blood in his body could be exchanged, and he would not be so cautious when practicing the next exercise.

If you fail, you can only wait quietly, leaving perhaps the last vacant seat for the exercises with higher-level follow-up cultivation methods.

This is actually a kind of helplessness for practitioners.

If you don't have follow-up exercises, then you won't be able to enter a higher realm in this life.

You have reached the seventh rank, but you don't have the sixth rank skills. At this time, you met another inheritance with the sixth rank skills, and you can't practice it again, because your shadow bone has already been set.

If you are at the eighth rank, and you meet another inheritance with the sixth rank, you have to practice from scratch honestly, spend time, endure pain, replace the shadow blood, and then switch to the practice again.

In this world, what determines a person's ultimate achievement is not only talent and hard work, but also background and chance are more important.

If you come from a good background, and the family inheritance has its own skills that can be cultivated to a high level, then it can be regarded as walking on a road that does not need to turn back.

Most people, however, are searching and searching, trying to climb up, and where they will end up can only depend on chance.

How unfair?

But isn't it the same everywhere?

Li Yuan didn't know if he could change the shadow blood, so he could only be careful not to learn the skills randomly.

At this time, he stood on the snow.

He also didn't hold the booklet of "Spitting Soul Gong" in his hand, because he had already memorized that exercise by heart, and he knew it by heart.

"The toad ascends to the sky, gathers energy like a mountain. The great river flows all over the fields, and the soul and the moon form a bow."

The last step to break into the seventh rank is to spit out the moon and form a bow.

If you want to vomit, you have to inhale first.

Seeing the snow falling in the courtyard, Li Yuan suddenly tore off his coat, took off his trousers, and changed into a cheap cloth shirt and trousers.

The thousands of long strands of snow-white ice crystals were pulled by some powerful breath and drilled into Li Yuan's body.

The blood was oppressed, and began to frantically rush to every inch of the body. At this time, the power in the eighth-grade monster meat turned into a kind of "momentum", which made this surge larger and able to go to Farther away, the body can be filled with shadow blood.

All the blood was slowly discharged during this process, so that a smear of blood began to appear on Li Yuan's body surface, and this blood red stuck to the cheap cloth, turning the cloth into blood.

In order to break through to the seventh rank, Li Yuan had already spent a lot of common clothes.

But this time, it should be the last time.

He held his breath, closed his eyes, and the many small tracks in the Seventh Grade Diagram in his mind had already become proficient enough to operate automatically, and began to carry the shadow blood.

"Humph"

From the nostrils, two wisps of white air shot out like arrows, like the hot air rising from the bellows of the forging furnace.

After several times, Li Yuan took another breath.

This time, he was silent for a long time, only feeling that there seemed to be a scorching fire in his body. The originally fragile mortal bones were being continuously tempered by the fire and were changing, and the first step...
"what!!"

Li Yuan gulped, his black hair danced wildly, his eyes sparkled like the center of an electric cloud, and his exhalation was white gas boiling, like a sword coming out of a furnace, and steam rising when water is quenched.

At the moment of exhaling, Li Yuan only felt that the strength of his whole body increased greatly, but after exhaling, the strength quickly fell back. Obviously, the exhalation skill has the effect of temporarily increasing the upper limit of strength.

He glanced at the information:

【Name: Li Yuan】

【Add points: 752 points】

[Realm: Seventh Grade (Bone Refining)]

[Cultivation method: Huiliu Gong (100/100), the seventh grade of Tupo Gong (1/500)]

[Supernatural Power: Immortality]

[Equipment column: not unlocked]

In addition to the original, the "skill column" is more [Grandmaster-level breath-seeking technique (1/160); Chasing wind and piercing willow twelve chain arrows (1/160)]

"Finally reached the seventh rank, this breakthrough is really difficult."

"Since you have broken into the seventh rank, now...it's time to complete it."

Li Yuan directly clicked the "++" sign on [Seventh Grade of Spitting Soul Art (1/500)].

In an instant, he had a lot of memories. He ate the meat of the eighth-grade monsters, practiced the exercises, and devoted himself tirelessly to the cultivation. After five full years, he finally felt that his energy and blood had reached the upper limit.

Under the tempering of the exercises, under the warmth and nourishment of Shadow Blood, the mortal bones in his body have completely changed.

The shadow blood has a source, and it is continuously produced from the shadow bone, so that the shadow blood is always in the body and cannot be consumed anymore.

The shadow blood produced by "Hui Liu Gong" was compressed and wrapped, forming a small drop of blood, which settled in his abdominal cavity, as if sleeping quietly, yet allowed him to manipulate.

Li Yuan closed his eyes, carefully comprehending the changes.

After a long time, he smiled and opened his eyes, and glanced at the message:
【Name: Li Yuan】

【Add points: 251 points】

[Realm: Seventh Grade (Bone Refining)]

[Cultivation method: Huiliu Gong (100/100), the seventh grade of Tupo Gong (500/500)]

"It's time to practice the third form [Yueyuan] of the Spring and Autumn Saber. Only in this way can I exert my greatest strength."

ten days later.

Li Yuan glanced at his own information.

【Name: Li Yuan】

【Add points: 321 points】

[Skill: Spring and Autumn Knife Grade 1——Yueyuan (Elementary) (10/[-])]

"Full."

Li Yuan tapped the "++" after the skill a few times, and directly passed the "beginner", "intermediate", "advanced", and "expert level", and reached the perfection of "grandmaster level".

The points were deducted by 310 points in an instant, and the skill status became [Spring and Autumn Knife Grade 160——Yueyuan (Grandmaster Level) (160/[-])].

Holding the knife in his sleeve, Li Yuan glanced at his overall strength: 180~278.

He closed his eyes slightly, thinking about Tie Sha, the strongest man in the Blood Knife Sect.

The strength of the iron gate master seems to be "215~235".

And the weapons used by Tie Sha must be better than the ordinary seventh-rank weapons he found here.

Suddenly, his sense of security increased a bit.

"It's time to meet the teacher."

Li Yuan put away the knife in his sleeve, patted Xiao Hei on the head, and said, "Look at home, I'll go out for a while."

Xiao Hei let out a coquettish sound of "woo woo", and looked at his master with adoring eyes.

(End of this chapter)