My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

As expected, when Wencai heard that it was this junior brother who dealt the final blow, he immediately asked, "Then junior brother, tell me how you killed it."

Seeing that Wencai was interested, Jiang Li smiled evilly and said, "Master told me not to tell you. If you want to know, go ask Master yourself!"

After saying this, he ignored Wencai who was scratching his head anxiously and started practicing boxing on his own.

What Jiang Li didn't see was that the two big roosters in the cage were staring at the centipede monster's corpse on the ground with eyes full of fear and desire.

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It was almost lunchtime when Uncle Jiu came back. Jiang Li and Wen Cai helped carry all kinds of supplies into the house, and then asked, "Master, why did you buy so much feed this time? Aren't these bran shells, bran, bean dregs, etc. used to feed livestock?"

Uncle Jiu said, "It's just feeding the animals. These two chickens need to eat a lot of food to become spiritual animals. It would be a waste to feed them with grains."

Jiang Li didn't ask any more questions after hearing this, but just asked, "What should I do now?"

Uncle Jiu said, "Throw a few centipedes to the two chickens, and bring in the rest."

Then Uncle Jiu went to the kitchen with a bag of herbs and centipede monsters. Wencai came out and said, "Master, what's wrong with you? He's already boiling the medicine before I've even finished cooking, and he even added centipedes to it. It's so disgusting."

Jiang Li casually threw a few small centipedes to the two chickens, then walked into the kitchen and asked Uncle Jiu, "Master, what do you need me to do?"

Uncle Jiu said as he boiled the medicine, "I don't need your help. Put the centipede down and get out first. I need to deal with this centipede spirit. You haven't practiced yet, so it's not good for you to be contaminated with too much evil spirit."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Li no longer insisted and walked out directly. Half an hour later, Uncle Jiu came to the yard carrying two large bowls of black medicine juice.

Before he even got close, he said, "Wencai, go get a basin and fill it with chicken feed. Then he poured the two bowls of medicine into the wooden basin that Wencai brought and mixed it with the chicken feed."

He stirred the food for a while before calling the two chickens to come and eat. Fortunately, after half a year of feeding, the two chickens had become familiar with the three of them and they ran to the wooden basin and started eating voraciously.

The two big roosters ate happily, but within ten minutes their feet began to slip, as if they were drunk.

Jiang Li asked, "Master, what's going on? Why are they all falling down?"

Uncle Jiu said, "It's nothing. The flesh and blood of this centipede monster contains evil spirits. Although I used medicine to neutralize it, there is still a lot left. They are absorbing the medicine now. It will be fine after they wake up."

Then Uncle Jiu said to Wencai, "Wencai, go and cook. I am almost starving to death."

After hearing what the master said, Wencai happily went into the kitchen, while Jiang Li put the two chickens in the chicken coop and watched from the side with great interest.

Wencai quickly prepared dinner. He fried a few eggs with a can of lard he brought from home, boiled some bacon, stir-fried some shredded radish and made a dish of pickles. The three of them finished a whole pot of sweet potato, pumpkin and corn porridge.

After dinner, Uncle Jiu taught Jiang Li to read as usual. Because he had a foundation and had studied for half a year, Jiang Li already knew four or five hundred words, which made Uncle Jiu very excited.

Half an hour later, it was dark and the three of them went back to their rooms to sleep. Jiang Li naturally stayed in the same room with He Wencai. In the second half of the night, Jiang Li vaguely heard the crowing of a rooster, but he ignored it because he was too sleepy.

However, Uncle Jiu had already gotten up at this time. Seeing that the two chickens had woken up, he boiled two more bowls of medicine juice and mixed it with the food for them to eat. Then he went back to his room to sleep.

Early the next morning, Jiang Li got up to check on the two chickens. He found that although they were awake, several feathers on their wings had fallen off, and they did not look very well.

Jiang Li quickly took the two feathers and ran to Uncle Jiu and asked, "Master, what are the ingredients in your medicine?"

"Why is this chicken so sick and losing its feathers?"

Uncle Jiu smiled and said, "It's nothing, just the body of the centipede monster, some cinnabar and realgar, plus some herbs to neutralize the poison."

Jiang Li asked in confusion, "Aren't cinnabar and realgar poisonous? Why did you give them this, Master?"

Uncle Jiu patiently explained, "We tried to use tonics to train them into spirit beasts before, but unfortunately we failed. This time I got the centipede spirit, so I thought of using the demonic energy to infect these two chickens and turn them into demon beasts, and then tame them into spirit beasts."

Jiang Li asked in confusion, "Then why do we feed them cinnabar and realgar?"

Uncle Jiu said, "This centipede is one of the five poisonous creatures. After it becomes a spirit, its toxicity is even stronger. With the evil spirit blessing these two chickens, I am afraid they can't stand it. I will use gold and stone to suppress the poison of the centipede, and then use herbs to detoxify it. I think they will be able to survive this."

Jiang Li said incredulously, "That means Master, you don't know if this will work."

Uncle Jiu said with a guilty conscience, "I, the master, naturally would not make up my mind. This is a method I saw in the Maoshan classics in my early years."

Jiang Li felt relieved when he heard that there was a source.

But Uncle Jiu didn't say one thing, which was that the ancient book he saw was too damaged, and he only had a general idea of ​​it, so he didn't actually know the specifics.

He boiled two more bowls of medicinal juice for the two of them to drink, and then the three of them began their daily practice again.

Just like that, a month had passed in a flash. In the past seven days, Jiang Li had really seen it all. He saw with his own eyes how the feathers of these two big roosters fell off bit by bit, revealing their pitch-black poisonous chicken flesh.

After seven days, the centipede monster had eaten up all the corpse. Every day, it boiled antidote and mixed it into the food bowl. After eating it, the black color slowly faded and feathers grew back little by little.

During this period, not only did the feathers grow, but the body size also increased several times. Because they were well fed and watered every day, Jiang Li estimated that each one probably weighed forty to fifty kilograms.

Unfortunately, one month is not enough for their feathers to grow completely. Now these two guys look like two immature ostriches with chicken heads, which is very funny.

Jiang Li asked Uncle Jiu, "Master, have we successfully trained them into spiritual beasts?"

Uncle Jiu smiled and said, "That's true. It's a pity that the time is still short. If the time is longer and their feathers grow out completely, I wonder how majestic they will be."

Jiang Li got a positive answer from Uncle Jiu, and said excitedly, "Then Master, I will use their blood to make pills, and my cultivation will improve rapidly."

Uncle Jiu said unhappily, "The toxins in its body have not completely dissipated yet. You can take blood at will if you are not afraid of being poisoned."

"By the way, your one-year observation period has not yet passed, and you still don't have the Qi Refining Method."

Hearing this, Jiang Li's excitement immediately disappeared, and he began to practice boxing hard. Not long after he practiced, there was a knock on the door. Jiang Li heard the noise and hurried to open the door.

When Jiang Li opened the door, he was stunned. He recognized the person at a glance. It was Taoist Simu.