C2 Survival

Su Hao, who was begging as he walked, finally arrived at a town called White Mountain Village after walking for two days. It was a big town, and it was several times bigger than Luo Yun Town. There were three parallel main streets in White Mountain Village. Each main street was three to four miles long and had six or seven branches. It could be said that White Mountain Village could catch up to some small counties.

There was a market in the west of White Mountain Village. This market had many people buying and selling things here every day. There were some mountain goods, water goods, and side dishes in the villages below that were also sold in this market. One street of this market was where the poor lived. The environment here could only be described as dirty, messy, and poor. The houses on this street were relatively cheap. Little Su Hao did not know how he found out about this. He used the silver in Chen Changda's clothes to buy a small courtyard.

This small courtyard was behind the storefront of this street. In front of him was a blacksmith shop. The courtyard at the back originally belonged to the blacksmith's house. Now that this blacksmith bought a better house next door, he sold this house to Su Hao for 10 taels.

Su Hao was a lot more careful this time. He already knew that his money would not be exposed. He put a total of eleven taels of silver in his bag, took out ten taels of silver to buy the small courtyard, and used the remaining two taels as pocket money. There were two houses in the courtyard that allowed people to live in. There was also a very small one that could be used as a kitchen.

The house was built with mud and mud, and there were tiles on it. The tables and beds inside were all left by the blacksmith. From then on, he had a home and a place to sleep.

"Little brother, my dad asked you to come to my house for dinner. " This was the blacksmith's son, Du Fei, who was seven years old this year.

"Okay, I'll be right there. " Su Hao replied.

Su Hao hid his bag under the bed, packed up the blanket, and then went to the blacksmith's place to eat. The blacksmith's name was Du Feng, and his wife was Feng Ying. Both of them were warm-hearted people. When they saw that Su Hao was very young and pitied him, they called him over to eat.

"Little Su Hao. You are just a child, why did you come to White Mountain Village alone?" Du Feng asked.

"Uncle Du, I'm from Qiaoshan Village in Luoyun Town. Four years ago, our village was destroyed by the natural disaster, and everyone in the village died. At that time, I managed to escape from the disaster at my second aunt's house. I've been living at second aunt's house for the past few years, but my second aunt's husband hates me. He always wanted to chase me away, but my second aunt couldn't make the decision at home. He secretly gave me some silver taels and told me to find a place to live on my own. " Su Hao said.

"You are still so young. How can you live alone? You are so pitiful. " Feng Ying said while carrying the dishes.

"Auntie, I am a person who has suffered. I am not afraid of anything. Now that I have bought your small courtyard, this will be my home from now on. I will go out tomorrow to find work. I will definitely be able to support myself. " Su Hao said.

"What a good child. Let's eat first. This place will be your home from now on. Have a good night's sleep. " Feng Ying said.

"Little brother, you are so capable. You can live on your own at such a young age. " Du Fei interrupted.

"Du Fei is also very capable. He can even help your parents do things. "

The meal lasted for an hour. This was the best meal Su Hao had ever had since he remembered things. After the meal, Su Hao thanked Du Feng and his wife again and returned to his bed to have a good sleep.

Su Hao knew that the book he picked up at Chen Changda's house should be a secret technique. He had always wanted to become stronger and wanted to learn martial arts. Now that he had the secret technique in hand, he needed to think about how to read and write. If he could not read and had the secret technique, he would not be able to learn it. He laid on his bed and thought about how to find a school to study at dawn.

The next morning, Su Hao was thinking about how to find a job to do, so he covered up the money he had. Early in the morning, he went to the streets to look around and understand the surrounding environment. He also bought himself a few new sets of clothes and went out of the clothing store to find a medicine store.

"Shopkeeper Zhang, do you have ginseng here today?" A middle-aged man dressed in fine clothing entered the medicine store and asked the shopkeeper.

"Oh, it's Housekeeper Lu. Yesterday, I just received a box of hundred-year-old ginseng. I wonder if Housekeeper Lu is interested. " Shopkeeper Zhang, who was about fifty years old, said with a smile.

"And this is good stuff. I want it. Of course I want it! Our young master wants this kind of good stuff! The older it is, the better! You old thing, name a price!" These two people should be very familiar with each other. This Butler Lu definitely frequently came to this medicine store to buy ginseng.

Su Hao suddenly thought of a good place to work. When the shopkeeper and Butler Lu's business finished, he walked into the medicine store. The shopkeeper saw that it was a child and said, "This is not a place for children to play. If you want to play, go somewhere else to play. "

"I'm not here to play. Manager, can I be your apprentice?" Su Hao said.

"My medicine store doesn't need apprentices right now. We have enough people. You should leave quickly. " The shopkeeper waved his hand impatiently.

Su Hao did not leave. Instead, he thought for a while and said, "Shopkeeper, I don't need to pay for coming to your place as an apprentice. I just need to learn something from you. "

"Oh, could it be that you want to open a medicine store at such a young age?"

"Manager, how can I open a medicine store at such a young age? I just want to learn something. When I grow up, I can make a living. "

"It's not that I can't be an apprentice. However, you have to pay one tael of silver per month for your tuition fees. Only then will I teach you how to recognize medicine. I can even teach you how to treat illnesses. What do you think?"

"Really? Alright, I will pay the tuition. But I can only come in the afternoon every day, and I have other things to do in the morning. " Su Hao said happily. The thing he lacked the least right now was an excuse.

"Sure. As long as you pay the tuition, you can come anytime you want. Zhang Huan, Zhang Changhu, the two of you also come and get to know this new shop assistant. "

" Oh right, what's your name? "

"My name is Su Hao, and I live on the other side of West Nail Street. "

After Su Hao reached an agreement with the manager, he left. Then, he went to the best school in town to register and learn how to read. This school cost five taels of silver a year. Su Hao paid the tuition for a year and left, returning to his small courtyard.

In the evening, Du Fei came to call Su Hao to have dinner. Su Hao took the things he bought from the street during the day and told Du Feng and his wife. He found a job at the medicine store and his future life was settled. Du Feng and his wife were also very happy for him. Du Feng even specially opened a jar of wine and brought Su Hao to drink together. This was the first time Su Hao drank. The spiciness stuck out his tongue, but he still drank quite a bit.

It was dark, and Su Hao practiced the basic saber technique in the yard again. He was extremely familiar with this saber technique, and now he only knew this saber technique. He practiced each of the eighteen movements repeatedly. These basic moves themselves didn't have much power, but they were a martial arts technique that all martial artists knew. In the future, the profound martial arts would be derived from these basic martial arts.

The more familiar one was with the basic martial arts, the easier it would be to practice profound martial arts. It was just that Su Hao did not know this principle, but he only knew this saber technique, so he had been practicing it. Many true martial artists knew this principle. But few people could practice basic martial arts. With more powerful martial arts, who would practice these basic things that did not have any power?

In the past, he would practice it a hundred times every night, and today was no exception. He earnestly practiced a hundred times before returning to his bed to sleep.

Once he woke up, a new day began. Su Hao started his morning study at the school, and in the afternoon, he went to the medicine store to be an apprentice. His life was very fulfilling.

In the blink of an eye, three months passed. Su Hao also knew quite a number of people. Zhang Huan and Zhang Changhu, the staff in the medicine store, were both Manager Zhang's nephew. Manager Zhang was indeed a bit greedy, but he was actually quite a good person. These two staff members knew that Su Hao was a true apprentice. If he wasn't a waiter, then they weren't afraid that he would steal their jobs. Therefore, the three of them got along pretty well. After learning about Su Hao's background, They often brought Su Hao back to their house to eat.

Su Hao also got to know a few good friends in the school. Yuh Jian was the third son of the White Mountain Village's Yu family. This Yu family was also the Wang family of White Mountain Village. Yin Shi was also the daughter of the White Mountain Village's Wang family, the Yin family. She was eight years old this year and was a little girl with makeup. Yao Qin was Yin Shi's close friend and was nine years old this year. She was also a little beauty and her family was average. Her father sent her to school because he wanted her to be able to get a husband in the future. Ye Chen was Su Hao's best friend in the past three months.

Ye Chen's family was also pretty good. Although he was not from the Prominent Class and had a small business, Ye Chen and Su Hao were very close. They listened to each other in the same teacher's class. They had a good relationship, and this Yuh Jian knew him through Ye Chen.

It was quite a coincidence that he got to know Yin Shi, this young lady. Once, Yin Shi and Yao Qin played in White Mountain Village and were discovered by a few young beggars. They saw two pretty little girls who were as pretty as porcelain dolls, teasing them. They were unexpectedly bumped into by Su Hao. Although Su Hao was small, After all, he had also learned saber techniques for two years. He had often dealt with these beggars before. Since he had helped them get out of their predicament, Yin Shi would often look for Su Hao in the future.

Flowers bloomed and fell. Unknowingly, a year had passed. Su Hao had learned a lot of words, so he could read some simple books. He had obtained two books from Chen Changda. One of them was the Qing Yuan Gong, which cultivated the Genuine Qi. The other was the saber technique, Gale Saber Technique. This was exactly what Su Hao needed urgently.

Today, Su Hao finally decided to start practicing the Qing Yuan Skill. The Qing Yuan Skill introduced some basic knowledge about cultivation techniques. This was the lowest level cultivation technique. It stated that cultivation techniques and martial techniques were divided into four levels: Heaven, Earth, Black, and Yellow. Each level was also divided into beginner, intermediate, advanced, and top level. This Qing Yuan Skill was the entry level cultivation technique of Mad Saber Sect, the intermediate Yellow Rank cultivation technique.

If one wanted to become a martial artist, the first step was to sit quietly and ponder. He would use his weak divine soul to sense the Heaven Earth Essence Qi in the outside world. Only when he sensed the existence of the Heaven Earth Essence Qi would he be able to proceed to the next step of cultivation. This was a test of one's aptitude. It was much easier for those with strong divine souls than ordinary people.

When one sensed the Heaven Earth Essence Qis, The next step was to think of a way to draw the Heaven Earth Essence Qis from the outside world into one's dantian through the Innate Embryos' navel. As long as a trace of the Heaven Earth Essence Qis turned into Genuine Qi and gathered in one's dantian, one would become a true martial artist.

There was also a limit to a person's dantian. When one's true qi gathered to a certain degree, there would be a bottleneck. If one did not break through this bottleneck, they would never be able to absorb more Genuine Qi. After breaking through this bottleneck, one's cultivation base would advance further.

The first realm of a martial artist was called Martial Disciple. Martial Disciple was actually a disciple of martial arts, and was the lowest level of martial artists. Once one broke through the bottleneck of the ninth level, the Dantian would no longer be able to contain more Genuine Qi. At that time, he would be a warrior.

Warriors gathered the Genuine Qi in their dantian to attack the Twelve Standard Meridians. When the meridians on their hands and feet were opened, the Genuine Qi would be able to reach their hands and feet through the meridians in their dantian.

When the Genuine Qi was in the Martial Disciple, even if one was at the ninth level of the Martial Disciple, without opening the meridians, the Genuine Qi would not be able to reach their hands and feet. Cultivating the Genuine Qi in this realm could only strengthen one's body and increase the strength of one's body. Only by becoming a warrior would one be able to use the Genuine Qi better.

When all the Twelve Standard Meridians were opened up, one could use the acupuncture points on one's hands and feet to absorb the Heaven Earth Essence Qis from the outside world, then from the Twelve Standard Meridians to the Dantian. This was because the Genuine Qi could not only be used on one's hands and feet, but it could also be used to form an attack from the outside. It was a Martial Master.

Martial Masters were already experts in their respective fields, and they could hurt people from a distance. If a family had a martial master, they would be able to become a Martial Dao family. If a martial master wanted to cultivate again, he could gather more Genuine Qi to break through to the Eight Extraordinary Meridians and open one meridian to increase his strength. When the Ren and Du Meridians were completed, the Genuine Qi in his dantian would become an Innate Expert after one major cycle was formed through the Twelve Standard Meridians and the Eight Extraordinary Meridians. The Innate Expert could use the Genuine Qi to combine with the Heaven Earth Essence Qi in the outside world to form a Circulatory Cycle Revolution. The Genuine Qi would be endless. The power of the attack was much greater than that of a martial master.

Due to the lower grade of the Qing Yuan Skill, the Genuine Qi formed was not very pure. Generally, the purer the Genuine Qi transformed from a good technique, the more powerful the attack would be. It was easier to break through one's meridians. It was already good enough that the skill could be cultivated to the Martial Master Stage. However, this was not a problem that Su Hao could consider at this moment. He just wanted to become a true martial artist. Now that he had the chance, no matter what kind of cultivation method it was, he would go and cultivate it.

In this one year, not only had Su Hao learned how to read, but he had also learned a lot from Shopkeeper Zhang. He already knew the meridians of the human body like the back of his hand. From then on, Su Hao had gone to study during the day, and at night, he would practice the Gale Saber Technique and the Qing Yuan Gong.