Becoming a God by Searching Mountains and Subduing Demons

Chapter 112: Red Dragon Horse Herd
Jiang Yue knew nothing about Shinto practice, so he didn't understand what Mr. Hu said.

He also mentioned that the master was prejudiced against Shinto monks, which made Jiang Yue even more confused.

Mr. Hu Da saw Jiang Yue's confusion and said with a smile: "You have said too much. In short, if there is a Shinto method in the future, you must practice Shinto. Don't be greedy for the court's national fortune. You must practice. This world is very suitable for practicing Shinto. It is a good opportunity that is rare in many years."

"Because this is a time of chaos?"

Jiang Yue asked hesitantly.

"clever."

Mr. Hu smiled and didn't say much, but Jiang Yue already understood.

During the heyday of the dynasty, all fortune and incense belonged to the imperial court. It is not like now, with wars raging everywhere, chaos and demons rampant, and whoever gets the incense owns it.

Think about the conspiracy theories about the heaven in previous lives. Maybe the Shinto monks got their fortunes by themselves and were not subject to the control of the imperial court, so they didn't have to serve as dogs for the imperial court?

Jiang Yue felt that his guess was correct.

"Okay, I've finished learning the characters. If you have nothing to do in the future, you can come to me to learn poetry, songs, and the teachings of sages. You can't just be a warrior controlled by power."

Mr. Hu waved his hand, looking a little tired.

Jiang Yue stood up, bowed, and said gratefully: "Thank you for your guidance, senior."

"It doesn't matter, go ahead."

"Junior, please take your leave."

Seeing that Mr. Hu was tired, Jiang Yue did not bother him any more. As the sun was setting, it was time to return to Funiu Village.

After leaving Bailu Academy, Jiang Yue walked in the mountains and forests, carefully thinking about his next path.

Now he has learned 3,000 words, and can read the 800-li map of Funiushan Mountain given to him by Senior Brother Hu. This will give him more confidence in treasure hunting in Funiushan Mountain in the future.

Then, it was time to start practicing the Shinto practice method "Mountain and River Treasure Mirror" left to him by his fourth uncle.

After the Erlang Shen Seal vibrated during the Mountain God Festival, Jiang Yue felt more and more that he should practice Shintoism, and practice Shintoism and martial arts together. Perhaps that way his destiny would improve much faster.

The next thing is to quickly get resources and earn time. It is best to collect a large amount of resources and directly use the consumption of time to consume them instantly. This is the most efficient way, just like absorbing the essence from the remains of the Demon Saint.

Under normal circumstances, this demon saint's eyeball, which had been stored for who knows how many years, would take at least several hundred years to refine and absorb, but if it took only a moment, it would only take a moment.

As he was thinking, Jiang Yue returned to Funiu Village, saw the smoke rising from the cooking fires, and hurried home.

Silang has been sent back by the one-armed old man, and is currently practicing standing meditation at home, very seriously.

Seeing Jiang Yue coming back, Silang happily stopped practicing martial arts and ran towards Jiang Yue.

"Second brother, you are back!"

Shi Lang pointed at his own skin and said with a smile: "Second brother, do you think my skin membrane has changed? I feel it has become much whiter. Is this the beginning of skin hardening?"

"Let me see."

Jiang Yue took a closer look and found that Silang's skin membrane had indeed become much tougher. He estimated that the skin had been tempered. Then he looked at the snake fruits and found that Silang had consumed three snake fruits in the past few days.

People are more mad than people.

Silang's talent for cultivation is much better than his. If he had the snake fruit, it would probably take him half a month to temper the skin by 10%, but Silang only took three or four days.

“Good progress, keep it up.”

Jiang Yue praised him and said with a smile: "Remember to tell me if the snake fruit is gone, don't be polite to the second brother."

"it is good!"

Silang smiled and nodded, his young face full of dependence on Jiang Yue.

Grandpa Jiang Cong was smiling beside me. He looked much better, his chronic knee injury had healed, and he looked less old when he walked.

It seems that Shouyuan Dan and the medicine are still very effective.

Grandpa is old, his energy and blood are declining, so he is unable to practice cultivation for the time being. However, Jiang Yue can still get him some good medicines and pills to prolong his life and let Grandpa enjoy a good life.

After dinner and feeding the hawks and dogs, Jiang Yue's life essence increased again. In addition, Xuntian Xiaotian had been finding food for himself in the past few days, so his life essence had accumulated to 400 points.

"Unfortunately, the bodies of the bull demons and dog demons that were killed have to be handed over to the court for examination. Otherwise, if I take them away and let Xiaotian Xuntian eat them, I guess I can get a good amount of life essence."

Jiang Yue secretly thought it was a pity.

But it doesn’t matter. He will speed up the process of earning time. It will probably not take long for his life essence to increase.

After looking at the conch in the water tank again and finding nothing unusual, Jiang Yue simply went home to practice.
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Under the dim candlelight, Jiang Yue placed a book and a map on the table.

The book was the "Treasure Mirror of Mountains and Rivers" left by his fourth uncle, and the map was the map of Funiu Mountain given to him by Hu Yunlong, which was full of red circles.

As for the candle flame, it was made of animal oil and some special rattan grass, and ten candles cost one hundred coins, which was really unaffordable for ordinary people.

"Let's look at the map first."

Jiang Yue set his eyes on the map of Funiu Mountain. He now knew 3,000 characters and could understand the red circles on the map.

The Funiu Mountain on the map looks like a huge bull lying on the ground, which is why it got its name.

The red circle above marks the resource-rich area, and there are clear place names and resource output labels, which is really convenient.

"Funiu Mountain is roughly divided into four areas: Niu Shou Mountain, Manniu Ridge, Four Hoof Peak, and Niu Wei Valley, representing the head, body, four hooves, and tail of an ox respectively."

"Among them, the Manniu Ridge where the bull's body is located is the widest, with a total length and width of more than 600 miles. It is rich in resources, and the Huichun River runs through it. It is considered to be the deepest part of the Funiushan Mountains. Although it is rich in resources, it is also extremely dangerous with countless monsters."

Jiang Yue was deciphering the map of Funiu Mountain under the candlelight.

The area of ​​Funiu Village, Qingyang Town, and Qing County is located on Niu Shou Mountain. Other counties of Huichun Prefecture are located around Siti Peak. The official road is built along the edge of the ox's body. The Manniu Ridge where the ox's body is located is deep in the mountains and old forests, with few human traces.

As for the Huichun River, Jiang Yue took a careful look and discovered that the Huichun River actually ran directly through the Funiushan Mountains, rushing from the Luoyun Prefecture to the east of Huichun Prefecture. Its origin was not in the depths of the Funiushan Mountains at all. The previous rumors of the villagers were wrong.

Come to think of it, Hui Chunjiang was able to raise Hui Chunjiang Dragon Goddess, a righteous deity canonized by the Great Zhou Dynasty. She is definitely not an ordinary river.

"There are more than a hundred red circles, but only three are at Niu Shou, and there are more than a dozen at Niu Wei Valley and Si Ti Peak. The rest are all in the deep mountains and old forests of Man Niu Ridge."

Jiang Yue looked at the map carefully. The places circled in red were marked with the names of prey such as flying deer, red dragon horse, takin, white-horned rhino, crescent bear, and many other medicinal herbs.

The Goshawk Cliff was also marked out, and it was written that it was rich in goshawks and sky wind grass.

"Cloud Fire Cave, Red Dragon Horse."

Jiang Yue's eyes finally fell on the Cloud Fire Cave drawn by a red circle.

In the Yunhuo Cave area, there lives a group of red dragon horses. It is said that these horses have dragon blood, are extremely powerful, incredibly fast, and their bodies are red as if they were bathed in blood.

He also has a position for a contracted pet, which is reserved for a horse. When he has free time, he can go to Yunhuo Cave to see if he can get a red dragon horse.

Besides, the precious bow in his hand could no longer keep up with his surging physique, so he had to find a way to exchange it for a better bow. It was said that some precious bows had decrees from Shinto monks on them, which could unleash their power without arrows. If he could get such a bow, his archery skills would not be in vain.

Of course, the bow, horse, eagle, dog, and even the three-pointed double-edged sword were all made by Jiang Yue to comply with the seal of Erlang Shen. There is no need to quibble, but he himself used them quite easily, after all, they were all used for hunting. For example, in the mythological records, Erlang Shen used a golden slingshot, which was not a slingshot for shooting birds in the shape of a Y, but a hunting bow similar to a strong bow, with a leather bag at the back, which could fire projectiles made of silver liquid.

Jiang Yue remembered it very clearly. In the Journey to the West that he had read in his previous life, it was written in Chapter 63: Erlang took the golden bow, loaded it with silver bullets, pulled the bow to full tension, and shot upwards.

It is also clearly depicted in the Ming Dynasty's Erlang Searching the Mountain painting that the slingshot mentioned by the ancients is shaped like a "bow", except that a leather bag is installed in the middle of the bowstring to launch projectiles.

Jiang Yue didn't know whether there were slingshots that could fire projectiles in this world, but there were bows that did not require arrows and could use one's own great power to condense into arrows to kill.

"Horse, golden bow, three-pointed double-edged sword, demon-binding rope, demon-slaying sword, mountain-splitting axe"

Jiang Yue muttered to himself.

Now that he has the Seal of Erlang Shen, he will slowly obtain and refine these items. Although it is deliberate, he lives up to the kindness of the Seal of Erlang Shen in allowing him to live a new life. What's more, these items are indeed easy to use, with everything included and comprehensive, and there is absolutely no shortcoming.

As for cultivation, he plans to try Shintoism, but he will never neglect martial arts.

Jiang Yue put away the map and looked at the "Mountain and River Treasure Book" beside him.

Now he knows three thousand characters and can understand all the characters in the Mountain and River Treasure Mirror. However, Jiang Yue cannot read these characters together.

Jiang Yue read by lamplight for a long time at night, and even though he had almost memorized the book, he still couldn't understand it.

"Forget it, just check it every day. Maybe in a few days, you will see it on the panel. Then you can just add some more and it will be done."

When Jiang Yue saw the candlelight go out, he felt sleepy and simply lay down holding the three-pointed, two-edged sword. He fell asleep while nursing the three-pointed, two-edged sword.
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Silent all night.

The next morning, Jiang Yue woke up, read a book, and fed the hawks and dogs.

[Life Essence +10]

[Life Essence +10]

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[Life Essence: 440 points]

The life essence increased by another forty points, but it is still a long way from one thousand points of life essence. Just by feeding the bear meat, it will take ten days or half a month to collect one thousand points of life essence.

One thousand points of life essence is enough for one specialty to evolve. If you want your bloodline to evolve, you need ten thousand points of life essence.

"Let's go into the mountains and find you some good meat."

Jiang Yue laughed, picked up the three-pointed, double-edged sword, put on his precious bow Xiaoyue, and went out with his hawk and dog.

Now, he no longer needs to ask Xuntian to monitor the tiger, as the danger of Funiushan Mountain to him is much smaller.

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The Sky-Punch Bird let out a cry, flew up into the sky, and circled above Jiang Yue's head. As Jiang Yue moved forward, Xiaotian followed Jiang Yue excitedly.

Jiang Yue shared the sky survey perspective, as if he had turned on the navigation, passing through the Niu Shou Mountain and heading towards the depths of the Manniu Mountain that stretched for 800 miles.

As for the target, it is the Yunhuo Cave circled in red.

The map marked with a red line given by Huichun Prefecture before, the red line almost ends at the neck of the ox head. Outside the red line is the Manniu Ridge area, and the Yunhuo Cave needs to go beyond the red line and go more than 200 miles deep into the Manniu Ridge.

For Jiang Yue, this is an area that has never been explored.

"Xiaotian, smell it carefully. Don't miss any treasures you may find."

"Wang-"

Xiaotian barked wildly and sniffed, his pair of dog eyes extremely smart.

A man and a dog walked forward through the forest, attacking everywhere. After a while, Xiaotian started barking wildly and took Jiang Yue over mountains and ridges to find a colorful mushroom.

There are no ferocious beasts guarding the colorful mushrooms. This thing is extremely poisonous at first glance. Presumably, the wild beasts in the forest also know that this thing cannot be eaten, so there is no wild beast waiting for it to grow here.

"Oh? It's colorful again."

Jiang Yue didn't care whether this thing was mature or not, he just picked it up.

【Time + 30 years】

【Time: 385 years】

The time reminder came, Jiang Yue smiled and put the mushrooms into his animal skin bag.

He planned to accumulate a wave of precious medicines, and then use time to add points, so that the medicinal power of these precious medicines would be consumed with maximum efficiency.

Going into the mountains now is not like before. One day's harvest would be equivalent to more than ten years' time. Now, just some medicinal herbs found are worth decades of time. The harvest in one day is definitely something Jiang Yue cannot digest in a short time.

Using time to deduce and add points is the fastest way to improve your strength.

This is also the reason why Jiang Yue is not worried at all that he only has fifty years left.

"Let's go on."

Jiang Yue greeted him and continued to rush towards Yunhuo Cave with Xiaotian.

Along the way, Xiaotian's talent for searching for spirits and treasures was brought to the extreme. By the time they arrived at the Yunhuo Cave, Jiang Yue's animal skin bag was full.

The time shown in the time panel has reached as much as 500 years.

Along the way, he gained nearly one hundred and fifty years of time and harvested precious medicine worth one hundred and fifty years of time.

As for the beasts guarding the precious medicine, it was strange to say, perhaps because Jiang Yue had killed too many demons, the beasts guarding the precious medicine just ran away with their tails between their legs as soon as they saw Jiang Yue, without any intention of fighting at all.

Jiang Yue was busy picking precious herbs, and the precious bow in his hand was of no use. He was too lazy to chase them with his three-pointed, double-edged sword, so he simply let them go.

After all, the top priority today is to get a red dragon horse.

"The Cloud Fire Cave is just ahead."

Jiang Yue can see the amazing landforms ahead through the sky survey perspective.

Among the vast mountains, there stands a mountain full of magma and bare with exposed rocks. In it stands a natural cave that is a hundred meters high, which is the Yunhuo Cave.

There were many kinds of scarlet grass growing in the cave. There were about thirty or forty tall horses eating the scarlet grass leaves in the cave. Each scarlet dragon horse was two meters and five meters tall at the shoulder, and its body was scarlet as if it had bathed in blood.

They stepped on the small stream of lava and did not feel the heat at all.

The area around the Yunhuo Cave is filled with coldness and a vast expanse of white fog. When the flowing magma touches the white fog, it condenses into dark black stones, forming this unique landform with a unique beauty.

Seeing this peculiar landform, Jiang Yue actually felt a sense of pride.

"Only in this world full of monsters can there be such a strange landform."

Jiang Yue was amazed, and walked out of the vast white fog with light steps. He brought Xiaotian into the vicinity of Yunhuo Cave and stepped on the naked black stones.

When the Red Dragon horses heard the noise, they glanced at Jiang Yue, then all withdrew their gazes, seeming to be quite disdainful and not taking Jiang Yue seriously at all.

(End of this chapter)