Chapter 065 Preparing to Swallow the Inner Dan

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  All warriors assemble, first-class warriors on high alert awaiting orders, the whole village is on guard, and Qili Gou has been elevated to a decisive battle level.

  Tight patrol teams guarded day and night, with dense sentry posts set up both inside and outside the village, as well as countless mechanisms, pitfalls, giant arrow arrays... surrounding Qili Gou like a fortress. The defense was even more precise than the last time against the sudden invasion of the demon crown python. Yet, despite this, not one person dared to relax their vigilance.

  If they were up against ordinary forces, these dangerous and exquisite traps, combined with the thousands of vigilant warriors, would be more than enough to defend themselves. However, they were facing the first family of Qingniu Town, the Cao family, which had 1,200 guards just for protecting their estate. Once they encountered a full-force charge from the enemy, these defenses would have limited effect.

  A great enemy is approaching, and instead of being worried, everyone is strangely excited.

  Because this time, it's defending the future of the Seven Li Gou clan leader, not facing the kind of fatal blow that has no future like the demon crown python. The Mang Hu Shan surrounding area has been proud of its strong martial arts style for thousands of years. Lin Heng killed two mid-term second-grade officials, letting everyone know that the hope of the Seven Li Gou is about to arrive, and their descendants' fate will usher in a rare turning point. They are full of pride, and for such an outstanding leader, even if they have to pay with their lives, they feel it's their duty. Just like those ants in the animal kingdom, when the ant king's position is determined, all the ants will unconditionally obey the ant king and be willing to sacrifice their lives at any time.

  Lin Heng killed Cao Jia Tianwei, shocking Qingniu Town. This future patriarch brought them a sense of pride and glory that they felt deeply in their bones. Although this move would bring retaliation from the Cao family, Lin Heng's display of super strength made them thoroughly loyal. Why did the Cao family want to deal with Lin Heng? It was because Lin Heng had rapidly become powerful, threatening the Cao family's position. This also explains why the Cao family first sent a large batch of gifts, but later became angry and hateful when they saw that Lin Heng would not be swayed, only to be brutally killed by Lin Heng in the end...

  To put it simply, Lin Heng and Qili Gou are about to threaten the Cao family's monopoly, so the Cao family wants to strangle Qili Gou in its cradle!

  As a member of Qili Gou, they would sacrifice their lives to defend Lin Hang and the hope of Qili Gou.

  It was this ambition for the future that allowed them to maintain their determination to fight a decisive battle, even though they knew they were facing the unbeatable Cao family.

  Even the few elderly heads of the village, regarding Lin Huan killing Cao Jia Tianwei and offending the Cao family, were united in their determination to protect Lin Heng, with the entire village sharing a common fate with Lin Huan. In this unprecedented state of unity against a common enemy, Lin Huan felt a deep sense of regret: if only he hadn't been so impulsive at the time, he wouldn't have offended the Cao family to such a deadly extent.

  But then he thought of his parents and the analysis of the clan elder, all signs indicated that Cai Lai was targeting him. Cai Lai was the first minister of the Cao family and also a distant relative of the house owner Cao Kun. The other party had malicious intentions, how could they avoid it, Lin Heng's thunderous blow actually made the Cao family feel intimidated.

  The feud has been settled, and worrying is useless. Lin Huan now possesses a second-grade boundary, and he is no longer the good-for-nothing of the past who could be manipulated by others at will. He has no fear of the Cao family whatsoever. Another thing that gives him confidence is the mysterious system in his body that emerges when he encounters critical situations.

  Lin Heng sat in front of the window, under the oil lamp, reading through the "Pu Xuan Heavy Fist" manual, slowly reciting to himself. The day before yesterday he had originally planned to memorize it and start practicing, but stopped due to Cai Lai's arrival.

  At present, his thirteen punches of overlapping power can kill a mid-second-class master. However, there are too many powerful masters in the Cao family, and it is difficult to compete with them at present. He has an intuition that if he can practice "Fanfeng Style", he may be able to surpass "Diezhong Style" and increase his capital greatly.

  The strongest in Qili Gou is the clan leader Huo Tianzhao, a second-grade cultivator in the middle period. Next is myself, and there are only two second-grade cultivators in the entire village. Compared to the Cao family, we are far inferior, so the most urgent thing to do is to improve my own strength.

  In the dark of night, groups of patrolling warriors constantly passed by from outside, adding a layer of oppression to the darkness of Qili Gou.

  "Head of the clan, I want to enter the village's book repository."

  The clan leader has been busy with defensive preparations for the past two days, and didn't expect Lin Heng to bring up this matter. According to the rules, all first-class warriors in the village are qualified to enter the Book Pavilion for viewing. As a second-class warrior and also the successor of the clan leader, Lin Heng naturally has this qualification.

  The clan leader handed him a jade token: "Each secret book in the Cangshu Pavilion has a seal, you can only read it, not take it away. You want to increase your strength to deal with the Cao family, which is not a bad idea. However, your own promotion speed is already frighteningly fast, and it's hard to improve further. Moreover, the martial arts in the Cangshu Pavilion are just ordinary martial arts, and other books are miscellaneous items that may not be of much use to you."

  "The Cao family will probably come over in the next two days, anyway, I'm bored with these days, I'll go in to broaden my horizons."

  The library was located on the horizontal side of the ancestral hall, and no one was guarding it at ordinary times. Lin Heng inserted the jade symbol into the door hole, and the gate slowly opened.

  Perhaps no one has come for a long time, and the air is emitting a faint musty smell.

  The books in the library of Cangshuguan only filled half a room. Lin Heng swept through them briefly and found that, just as the clan leader Huo Tianzhao had said, they were all about geographical knowledge, continental history, basic knowledge of casting... Even if there was one or two martial arts books, they were low-level, street-peddled martial arts manuals.

  "Qili Gou is really poor, just look at the state of the book pavilion, it's enough to guess the difficulties Qili Gou has faced for decades. Books are the foundation of inheritance, but there isn't even a decent martial arts manual in the book pavilion, how can they develop? But then again, any decent martial arts manual is worth a fortune, Qili Gou can't afford it, that's normal."

  He made a vow in his heart: "No matter whether I become the tribe leader or not, if there is really a day when I can soar and rise like a dragon, the first thing I will do is to get several thousand high-level martial arts books, so that everyone in Qili Gou can have a proud martial art."

  Lin Heng didn't come here for fame or fortune, nor was he seeking martial arts techniques.

  His goal was to find out the steps of refining the Four Product Pill, or how to take the inner elixir of a demonic beast. Indeed, his goal was to find a way to cut open the "Demonic Crown Scaled Python" and take its inner elixir. As long as he could take the inner elixir of the Demonic Crown Scaled Python, he would quickly advance to the third rank, and that wouldn't be just a dream.

  Three products, in the Cao family, whether there are three products he does not know, he only knows that once he advances to the third product, he becomes the first native third product in Qingniu Town for decades.

  Having entered the Three Treasures Realm, he was qualified to challenge Cao's family alone.

  To know that the three products have a martial value, one finger can press to death several second products in the later period. Even if facing pursuit and killing, unless it is a fourth product warrior, otherwise, it will never be killed by pursuit. Lin Heng did not believe that the Cao family would own a fourth product warrior, even if it was Jin Yuan City, a fourth product warrior was also rare.

  The Cao family has a large number of second and first-rate warriors, but if they were to fight in a rotational battle, Lin would not have the strength to fight them. However, taking the life of the Cao family's master or his relatives is something he can do with ease. Therefore, unless the Cao family is brain-dead, once they know that Lin has become a third-rate warrior, they will absolutely dare not provoke him again. They might even be afraid of offending him and come to apologize and seek reconciliation, trying to make amends.

  So he wants to find a way to cut off the four products and take the inner elixir.

  He possessed the inner elixir of the Crown Scale Beast, which naturally couldn't be revealed. Even the tribe leader, Huo Tianzhao, couldn't be told; people's hearts are hard to fathom, and facing such temptation, it was really difficult to guarantee that no one would harbor evil intentions.

  Lin Heng started from the first row of bookshelves, picking up one book after another, and putting each one back in its original position after browsing through it.

  It wasn't until the afternoon that he finally found a copy of "Yao Shou Pi Zang Qu Yong" on the third bookshelf. He was overjoyed and flipped through it for half an hour, but couldn't help feeling greatly disappointed. Inside, it only introduced how to dissect the body parts of fifth-grade or lower Yao beasts, which part had the highest value. The introduction to the Yao Guang Lin She was on page eighty-two, just like everyone knew the secret, the highest-value part was indeed the inner dan, and second place was the three pale red scales under the snake jaw of the Lin She. There was no mention of how to ingest the inner dan.

  The only thing that made Lin Huan happy was that he had mistakenly taken down two scales, which turned out to be two of the three most precious scales of the Scaled Python.

  Half a time later, he found a "Monster Inner Elixir Food and Clothing Essentials" on the last bookshelf. This time, he didn't dare to be too excited, but carefully looked at the contents inside first.

  Finally, the method of taking the inner elixir of the Crowned Scale Serpent was discovered. There are two methods for taking the inner elixir. The first is the method for one to three grade scale serpents. Since its inner elixir's medicinal power is not strong, it uses "除邪草" (three portions), matured "龙胆果" (one portion) and "石笋冰泉" (one portion). With these, the medicinal powers of the three ingredients are steamed into the inner elixir, which can then be taken directly.

  The second is the use of fourth-grade or higher Neidan, which is exactly what Lin Heng needs: one "Seven-inch Rosy Cloud", one "Mature Dragon Gall Fruit", and several "Stone Bamboo Ice Springs". The meaning of "several" is that you need to cut the Neidan into as many pieces as needed, and use as many "Stone Bamboo Ice Springs" accordingly. Since fourth-grade Neidan possesses the spiritual energy of a demon beast, its medicinal power is extremely violent, so the user must first dissolve the Neidan's spiritual energy with their divine sense. Then, they soak it in "Stone Bamboo Ice Spring" and cut the medicinal power with their divine sense before finally refining it with "Seven-inch Rosy Cloud" and "Dragon Gall Fruit".

  According to Lin's two-grade repair method, after the inner elixir was cut into twenty portions, he could only take one portion. He couldn't take more, otherwise the violent medicinal power would burst his body.

  The four-product inner elixir is indeed powerful, and his own big appetite has been known to everyone since the medicine washing time. Now it has been upgraded to second-class, and the appetite is more than twice as much, but he can only take one pill. He just thought about it and was full of expectations, through the "trembling rhythm" tempering, the divine consciousness cutting difficulty could not bring him down. As for "Longdan Fruit", he had also heard of it, and there should be some in the depths of Hu Mang Mountain. Only "Seven Inches Rose" and "Stone Bamboo Ice Spring", these two things he didn't know what they looked like at all.

  He recorded all the contents of this page and suddenly remembered that there was a book called "The Complete Book of Rare Medicinal Herbs on the Continent" on the first bookshelf, so he hurried back to find it.

  In no time at all, I found the book.

  This book is very thick, with two or three hundred pages. The introduction reads: "The Complete Collection of Rare Medicinal Herbs on the Mainland" is divided into ten volumes, and this is only the first volume.

  Lin Heng prayed for good luck and hoped to find "Seven Inches of Jade" in this book.

  Heaven did not disappoint his wishes, and on the twelfth page, he found "Seven-inch Rosy". Seven-inch Rosy, likes to grow in low-lying valleys, especially snake dens. Each mature plant is seven inches high, and immediately opens a small flower, with stamens like a small snake. It is an essential medicinal herb for refining "除秽丹" (Expelling Filth Pill) and "掩息丹" (Concealing Breath Pill).

  Inside was also attached a rough outline of "Seven-inch Begonia" hand-painted, Lin Heng remembered the appearance in his heart.

  The vast area of Maohu Mountain is hundreds of billions of square kilometers, and there should be such grass growing here. As long as you search carefully, it should be possible to find some.

  Among the three items, what's left is the Stone Pillar Ice Spring.

  With this name, it should be some kind of spring water. I'll go ask my father and the clan elder for a moment to see if they can get to the bottom of it.