The Demon Slayer Martial Saint Begins with Insect Refining

Chapter 21 Entering the Mountain

After sending Xie Yuzhu back, Su Yan went into the mountains carrying the basket.

The Yinshui Centipede crossed the mountains and forests and was already waiting for him on the hilltop next to Yunqian Village.

As soon as I saw him come in, I immediately followed him.

"According to Master Song, martial arts training requires not only medicinal supplements, but also wild beast food supplements, both of which require silver."

"Although there are Ganoderma and herbs in the outer mountains, they are not as good as those in the inner mountains. Now that I have almost mastered the basics of skin refining, I have improved a lot. With the Yinshui centipede by my side, I am safe and sound. It is time to go to the inner mountains and explore."

Having made up his mind, Su Yan picked up a hardwood bow, slung a machete across his waist, and headed deeper into the forest.

He walked very quickly, imagining himself as a monkey in the mountains, taking a deep breath and releasing the energy between leaps and leaps, just like an old monkey returning to the forest.

The so-called standing meditation and boxing include standing meditation for quiet cultivation, but while walking, there are also ways of using strength.

Mobilizing muscles and adjusting movements is also a form of practice.

A warrior is not just a target standing still. The ability of a warrior lies in integrating martial arts and stances into his instincts.

After Song Qi's suggestion, Su Yan gradually understood this idea.

Now that I have entered the mountains and forests, I have started practicing like this without realizing it.

After about an hour, we climbed over several hills in the outer mountains, walked seven or eight miles of mountain roads, and finally arrived at a valley.

The two mountains are connected, with towering old trees, dense leaves like giant umbrellas, twisted branches like strange hands, old vines hanging on the tree trunks, and a thick layer of leaves accumulated on the ground, like mud. It is indeed a deep mountain and evil forest.

The mountains here are rich in resources, but there are few people and wild animals everywhere. It is a place where risks and benefits coexist.

Only experienced and capable mountain herders and hunters would dare to enter easily.

Su Yan set foot on the mountain road covered with rotten leaves. Although it was called a mountain road, it was actually just a place with slightly fewer bushes and weeds.

While clearing the way with a machete, he explored at the same time. He had only walked two or three hundred meters when the Yinshui centipede took the lead and burrowed into the rotten leaves.

'There's something.'

Su Yan used a machete to push aside the rotten leaves and immediately saw a red leaf bud close to the ground.

"Di Xue Teng is a good herb for replenishing blood."

Su Yan reached out and dug, and pulled out a more than two-meter-long ground blood vine from the rotten leaves and put it in the backpack.

The Earth Blood Vine was a good start, and in the following mountain excursion, Su Yan and the Yin Water Centipede cooperated well. In just one or two hours, they found a lot of mountain products.

As always, he would only buy the more valuable medicinal herbs, and leave the rest of the things where they were, so as to take up as little space as possible in the backpack and the insect world.

The humidity in the mountains was very high and the sun could not penetrate. Su Yan's short coat had been soaked by the dew and stuck to his skin, making him feel uncomfortable.

"My backpack is almost full. This hilltop is the one that Old Song mentioned. I've been walking around for a long time but haven't seen any blood-vein flowers. I think I need to go deeper."

Su Yan put down his backpack, picked a fallen tree stump, circled out a clearing, started a fire, and hung his coarse linen shorts beside it.

He skinned the gray rabbit he hunted with a skinning knife, sharpened a wooden fork and put it aside.

He also took out a few poisonous mushrooms from the insect world and threw them to the Yinshui Centipede.

It’s always like this when going up the mountain. You may not be able to go back at noon or even at night.

For convenience, mountain herders usually eat wheat cakes with mountain spring water as a quick solution.

However, Su Yan didn't want to eat the wheat cakes, so he roasted the gray rabbit and dried his clothes at the same time.

He was shirtless, his skin taut, showing off his angular muscles.

He moved his body and stood up in the Golden Ape Posture, rising and falling in rhythmic rhythm, seemingly in harmony with the sounds of insects, birds and trees rustling around him.

"Standing in the mountains is better than in the city. Not only is the atmosphere more compatible and easier to get into, but it also seems to be related to the environment, though it's not so obvious."

Su Yan stuffed the Earth Blood Vine and a few-year-old ginseng into his mouth and chewed them directly. The bitter taste filled his mouth, as if he had chewed something burnt.

Although they taste bad, they are all medicines for replenishing blood and nourishing the body. Although they have not been refined into pills or potions and their medicinal effects cannot be exerted to the extreme, they are still effective.

The warm current in the body slowly rises, the qi and blood gradually surge and begin to flow to the skin.

After achieving minor success in the Golden Ape Posture, the Qi and blood power is refined to be more pure and effective, and the progress in strengthening the body is naturally much faster.

Su Yan stood for about half an hour, expending considerable energy. He then relaxed his stance and stretched to relieve his fatigue. "I already have insect essence constantly nourishing my body, yet I'm still expending so much energy. No wonder I can't succeed in martial arts without tonics."

[Body Refining Realm: Skin Refining 85/100 (Beginner)]

[Golden Ape Posture: 14/200 (Minor Success)]

"It's almost at the minor stage of success. If I can find another strange insect, perhaps adding another insect essence will make my progress even faster, and I might be able to push the Golden Ape Pillar Technique to the major stage."

Su Yan tore off the rabbit meat and stuffed it into his mouth. In no time, he had eaten the whole rabbit.

My physical condition has improved slightly and my strength is gradually returning.

"Roar"

Suddenly, a roar echoed through the mountains and forests. Su Yan immediately drew his bow, his eyes like swords, staring at the direction of the sound.

The bushes shook violently, crackling, and fell over and broke in countless places along the way.

A black shadow rushed out, and it turned out to be a huge wild boar with bared fangs and bristle like a brush.

The wild boar rushed towards him, and Su Yan drew his bow and attacked.

With a "whoosh", the arrow pierced into the wild boar's eye socket like lightning.

The wild boar rushed forward too fiercely and was suddenly shot through by the arrow. Its brain was pierced and its body froze in mid-air.

Under inertia, the huge body rushed forward like a cannonball.

Su Yan dodged and the wild boar's fat and heavy body crashed directly into the fire, sending red-hot charcoal flying all over the ground.

The fur sizzled in the charcoal fire and emitted a burnt smell.

At this moment, the bushes shook even more violently, and the roaring sound seemed to be in my ears. Suddenly, an even larger yellow and black figure jumped out. It was a big tiger.

It pounced on the wild boar, and with a grab and pull of its tiger claws, it tore the tough pig skin, leaving a huge wound.

It bit down on the neck with a big mouth, tearing the entire throat and trachea apart. Blood gushed out and was swallowed by the tiger's big mouth.

'tiger?!'

Su Yan was shocked to find that the wild boar was actually being driven here.

The big spotted tiger is a forest tiger, more than 2 meters long, with a long tail like a steel whip, about a meter long. When it leans over to bite and kill the wild boar, its muscles are as strong as iron, and every angularity is visible.

Su Yan immediately drew his bow, but he didn't expect that the tiger was so cunning that it abandoned the wild boar and pounced directly on him.

This pounce was premeditated and extremely fast, arriving in front of him in the blink of an eye.

Su Yan couldn't shoot his arrow in time, so he rolled over to avoid it, and the quiver fell to the side.

The tiger's tail flicked up, knocking the quiver right next to its claws, and it was obvious that it could not be reached.

The Yinshui centipede hissed and was about to come up.

The tiger arched its body and poked, roaring in the forest, baring its fangs as a threat.

Although its body size was a hundred times larger than that of the Yinshui centipede, its beast instinct made it sense a sense of danger from the Yinshui centipede.

Su Yan, the tiger, and the Yinshui centipede actually formed a confrontation with each other in the gap of this old forest.

Su Yan's muscles and bones moved, his heart was as calm as water, and he dodged just now, like a monkey, instinctively dodging.

At this moment, his eyes were blazing, and he suddenly felt a bit of fighting spirit.

"So what if it's a big, colorful tiger? Let's have a fight and see how your boxing and kicking skills are. If that doesn't work out, there's the Yinshui Centipede to look after you."

Thinking of this, his posture changed slightly, like an old ape in the forest.

The Yinshui centipede retreated two meters, leaving an open space.

For a moment, the big tiger seemed to be angry. The two-legged beast in front of it actually put down its weapon and provoked it.

"Roar"

Suddenly, a tiger roared in the forest and pounced on Su Yan, as if it wanted to bite him to death on the spot.

(End of this chapter)