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Chapter 303: Finding a Way Out in Troubled Times

Lu Zhigang's vest has made him a genuine martial artist and can be put to good use.

Zhou You first went to the provincial capital to purchase highly toxic poisons for practicing palm exercises. He placed an order and entrusted the medical clinic and pharmacy to collect them on his behalf.

At the martial artist level, the toxicity of ordinary snake venom has little effect.

If the power of the poison palm is to be further improved, more precious and ferocious strange snake venom is needed.

The venom of the asp is hard to come by, but there is still hope for other species.

The city gathers the most abundant and diverse goods in this area, including all kinds of rare and exotic animals. As long as you have money, there is nothing you can't buy, only things you can't imagine.

This order for snake venom cost a total of 100 taels of gold, and this was just the deposit.

The specific amount will be determined in person after the strange snake venom arrives, based on quality and quantity.

After Zhou You placed the order, he was about to leave when he suddenly thought of something.

The bounty order posted in Qianmian Hall for the assassination of Zhou You was originally placed by Qi Fengxiao.

Seeing Qi Fengxiao's downfall and the loss of all his trusted minions, this order will soon expire if no one renews it.

Qianmiantang also has rules. The bounty order is not given to you for free. You must pay regular fees for maintenance.

Once this bounty expires and is cancelled, the conditions for the panel to determine the projection will no longer exist.

The state of this vest clone was difficult to maintain and was actively recovered by the panel.

This won’t do. Zhou You is still thinking of using this clone to secretly track down Kun Pengzi’s whereabouts!

I gritted my teeth and paid for the renewal at Qianmiantang out of my own pocket.

It is ironic to tell this matter to others. Since ancient times, Zhou You is probably the only one who pays the maintenance fee for the bounty for assassinating him.

When he arrived at Qianmian Hall and asked around, he found out that, just as he had expected, there was only less than two months left to pay the bill.

Qi Fengxiao hasn't come to pay the fee for a long time. As the deadline is approaching, this reward will be removed from the list.

"Give me five years' pay."

The five-year maintenance cost Zhou You another 5 taels of gold.

Well, Zhou You lamented that he and Fucheng were incompatible, so every time he came here, he had to spend money, and it was a lot of money.

He came here to do some business and was in a hurry, so he did not disturb his brother Zhang Huaimin.

After leaving the city, Zhou You followed the clues and groped towards the north to find the possible hiding place of Kunpengzi.

His original body was staying in Gongliang City, studying totem culture, and he became more and more certain that Kunpengzi was colluding with people outside the northern border.

It could be that this disaster that swept across the three cities was not only caused by Kunpengzi inciting the refugees, but also by his collusion with the remnants of the witch clan.

This is no small matter.

Zhou You felt that Gongliang City was in danger, and he had to seize the retreat route that he had prepared in advance.

Back home, Taigong and Zhou Laiwei were busy with infrastructure construction. The village was located near mountains and rivers, with rugged terrain and abundant water and land resources. Now that they had sufficient financial resources and materials, they began to build a solid defense system.

Zhou You has sent Tie Niu to escort several batches of food and supplies back to his hometown to be surrounded, so as to recruit new troops and concentrate on practicing boxing.

In troubled times, you can always raise a group of fighters to save lives at critical moments.

Taigong took the clan as the righteousness, and Zhou Laiwei began to train the young and strong men in the clan. With the blood of relatives as the bond, they were more united and reliable than any other forces. For this reason, Zhou You even took out some of the boxing manuals of the Double-body Tiger Form Fist and gave them to Zhou Laiwei to train the young and strong men of the Zhou family.

His hard work paid off, as one after another of his clansmen made breakthroughs in strength, and some even increased their Qi and Blood by 3 levels.

Zhou Laiwei is still in good shape. After learning the boxing manual of Double-Body Tiger Form Fist, he broke through the 3rd stage of Qi and Blood and officially entered the 4th stage.

At this point, the old man's potential has been exhausted and he will never make any further progress in his life.

He was very loyal to Zhou You. At first, it was because of Taigong. Later, after witnessing Zhou You's rapid progress in boxing and martial arts, as well as his channels and skills in transporting massive amounts of supplies to his hometown, he completely surrendered to this young master.

Zhou Laiwei's only grandson Tie Niu is Zhou You's close subordinate. With his dedicated training, he has broken through the first stage of Qi and blood, and will be expected to reach the latter stage of Qi and blood in the future, which will be higher than his lifetime limit.

"Tie Niu, send another batch of supplies back home, and return quickly."

One day, Zhou You called Tie Niu, who was practicing boxing, and asked him to transport some more supplies back.

Tie Niu nodded. Although his strength improved rapidly, the difficulty of transporting supplies also increased.

The journey from Gongliang City to my hometown is not long. In previous years, I could walk back and forth on foot with a bag of dry food.

But because of the recent famine, the number of bandits has gradually increased, and wherever there are roads, there are large groups of thieves and robbers.

What is really worrying is that these thieves are different from professional robbers. They usually look no different from disaster victims and refugees. They are pale and thin, and are dying, as if they will collapse and die at any time.

But once they encountered a caravan of travelers, these poor victims immediately took out their iron tools, revealed their viciousness, and killed people and robbed them of their money.

As the market deteriorated, more and more warriors joined in, and ordinary guards of strength, energy and blood could no longer guarantee safety.

This is just the area near the city wall, which has already become a den of thieves, not to mention places further away.

The supplies were escorted by Tieniu, and except for some twists and turns in the first half of the journey, it became much safer later on.

Because Zhou Laiwei would bring the young and strong men in the village to support them, the young and strong men who had enough food and practiced boxing would unite and attack, and defeat the thieves and bandits.

If Zhou You hadn't specifically asked them to keep a low profile, all the sophisticated weapons would have been displayed.

In Zhoujia Village, blast furnaces are set up to smelt metal day and night, and the blacksmith shops are clanging. In addition to making farm tools, they are also forging weapons and armor for self-defense.

It is no exaggeration to say that with Zhou You's support, the Zhou family has already possessed the hard power of a rural tyrant.

All these efforts are just to ensure that the family members can survive as much as possible.

At the critical moment, once Gongliang City fell, Zhou You could rescue his parents with his fists, but if he wanted to break out of the siege, he had to rely on the ambushing troops from Zhoujia Village.

"It's time. My accumulation of essence has reached a bottleneck. It's time to break through to the martial arts master level."

After seeing Tie Niu off, Zhou You made a decision in his heart and took the last step from the peak of his energy and blood.

In fact, no one has more advantages than him. He first uses Yan Ping's second alias and piles up experience points to directly upgrade to the level of a blank martial artist. He then personally experiences the physical changes of a martial artist.

Then, under the alias Lu Zhigang, he broke through with the poison palm and experienced the danger of escaping death.

He broke through to become a martial artist twice with a 100% success rate and accumulated rich experience.

In comparison, the difficulty of the main body breaking through the martial artist with the Tiger-Crane Double Fist is negligible.

The secret medicine is sufficient, the qi and blood are full, and the physical and mental state is at its peak.
Zhou You has been standing firmly at the threshold of the martial artist. The difference between being inside and outside the door is just that step.

He doesn't even need to practice hard or go into seclusion. He just needs to walk, sit or lie down every day, and occasionally practice a few sets of boxing. Who knows, he will naturally break through to the martial artist level in the next moment.

(End of this chapter)