176: Chapter 176 The middle stage of Yuan Shen

Soon, the two wooden basins were filled with pig blood.

The First Grade exotic beast pig, which had been wailing just moments before, completely lost its voice.

Not bad. After being upgraded by the animal upgrade card, an ordinary fat pig had transformed into a First Grade exotic beast pig.

Liu Xiangyue, who had been prepared early on, immediately sprinkled salt into the pig blood and began stirring it.

As for Chen Hu, he did it himself.

He dug a pit stove in the ground of the backyard.

Then, he paved one end of the pit stove with stone slabs and placed the dead exotic beast pig on top.

Afterward, he ordered someone to bring an iron pot, placed it over the pit stove, and filled it with water.

He then had someone boil the water.

Once the water was boiling, he picked up a wooden ladle, scooped out the boiling water from the pot, and poured it over the pig's body.

In his past life, he came from a rural background.

He had seen people in the village slaughter pigs.

Now, he had replicated that process.

After pouring water over the entire pig carcass, Chen Hu picked up a dagger and began to scrape off the hair.

Soon, all the hair on the exotic beast pig had been shaved clean by Chen Hu.

Next, he hung the exotic beast pig up, used his dagger to cut open its belly, removed all the internal organs, and tossed them into a large wooden basin to the side.

Without needing Chen Hu to order them.

A group of maidservants began to clean the internal organs.

If it were an ordinary pig's internal organs, they could be discarded.

But this was an exotic beast pig; even the internal organs were exotic beast meat, so they couldn't bear to throw them away.

As for Chen Hu, he decomposed the exotic beast pig into meat and bones at an extremely fast speed.

Each piece of meat was cut into roughly one jin.

Soon, noises began to come from the kitchen.

Everyone worked together, and within an hour, several tables of exotic beast pig feasts were prepared.

Chen Hu was not stingy; he ordered people to serve a bowl of pork to each of the servants in the front courtyard.

Then he called General Zhao Zilong and Dongfang Jun, and everyone sat down to eat.

After the meal, the maidservants, led by Liu Xiangyue, marinated and processed the remaining pork.

The original 300-jin ordinary pig had surged directly to over 800 jin after transforming into an exotic beast pig.

After removing the internal organs and bones, there was about 500 jin of pure meat.

Time flew by.

It was early morning.

Chen Hu arrived at the study again.

He first took out the good luck card and activated it.

He obtained five times good luck.

"Heaven helps me!"

Chen Hu shouted, then completely opened the 11 gift packs.

As usual, the first prize in all 11 gift packs was gold.

Just as he expected, each gift pack yielded 1 million taels of gold.

After transferring the 11 million taels of gold into his Storage Ring, he began to check the second prize of the gift packs.

Still the same as usual, the second prize yielded special Medicinal Pills.

There were three Medium Grade talent pills, three Medium Grade Bloodline pills, three Medium Grade constitution pills, and two divine ability pills; however, one of the two divine ability pills was Medium Grade, and the other was High Grade.

Staring at that High Grade divine ability pill, Chen Hu revealed a joyful expression; it seemed this was the benefit brought by the five times good luck.

The third prize from the large gift packs were all special items.

They were the Physique fruit tree, Spirit fruit tree, Qi and Blood fruit tree, Lifespan fruit tree, Life fruit tree, Speed fruit tree, marrow cleansing fruit tree, Origin Qi fruit tree, soul fruit tree, Star fruit tree, Dao enlightenment fruit tree, and True Qi fruit tree.

Looking at this row of fruit trees, Chen Hu was somewhat stunned.

With a thought.

Chen Hu directly took these fruit trees and planted them in his Spirit Medicine space.

The previously planted Spirit Medicine seeds had already taken root and sprouted, and were growing vigorously.

The eleven special fruit trees opened from the large gift packs this time were not saplings, but mature trees.

Moreover, they were already flowering.

According to the information the System provided him.

These fruit trees would complete flowering, fruiting, and maturing within one year.

And the Spirit Medicine space had 100 times the speed, which meant that in just over three days, he would be able to harvest them.

The Medicinal Pills he had opened were set aside for now.

Taking advantage of the fact that the five times good luck was still active, he had to open the supplies cards and item cards.

Just as he expected, under the blessing of the five times good luck, the things opened from the supplies and item cards today were all quite good.

It is worth mentioning.

The soldier card yielded 200 Second Grade cavalry.

The individual strength of these Second Grade cavalry had all reached the Flesh Refining Realm, and with their mounts, they could even kill a Martial Artist of the Tendon Refining Realm.

There was also the animal card, which yielded 1,000 meat sheep weighing 100 jin each.

Afterward, Chen Hu activated the intelligence card.

Today's intelligence: Because of the hidden dragon ranking, the host has fallen into the eyes of various factions, and many factions have moved to recruit you. Recently, forces from Lingzhou City will come to recruit the host.

"Hmph!"

Chen Hu smiled disdainfully. As someone with a cheat, how could he possibly go and be a dog for other factions?

However, if he refused.

He was afraid it would anger certain factions.

Perhaps they would use all their connections to suppress him, or maybe they would use experts to assassinate him or cripple him.

"Damn the Heavenly Mystery Sect, it's all your fault!"

Thinking of this, Chen Hu couldn't help but want to curse the Heavenly Mystery Sect for creating the hidden dragon ranking.

If it weren't for this bullshit ranking, he could have continued to develop in peace for a while longer.

Now he had to find a way to accelerate his development.

Afterward.

Chen Hu took out the identity card.

He activated a refugee identity.

Upon using it and reading the refugee's memories, he discovered that the situation in Feilong Prefecture was still deteriorating.

More and more farmers who had lost their land were becoming refugees.

Fleeing in all directions to survive.

And this refugee was taking his whole family to flee toward Linjiang Prefecture, because Linjiang Prefecture was relatively wealthy and prosperous.

Unfortunately, he didn't know.

Even if they fled to Linjiang Prefecture, the Prefecture City would not easily allow refugees to enter the city.

"Can I make use of these refugees?"

Chen Hu thought to himself.

But after thinking about it, he gave up. If he were to gather the refugees now, even if he did nothing, the imperial court would have strong objections.

Therefore, he could not take in the refugees.

He could, however, set up porridge handouts to provide relief to these refugees; after all, he had obtained a large amount of grain from Mingjian Villa's granaries and grain shops.

Suddenly, Chen Hu had an idea.

Although he couldn't directly take in all the refugees.

He could use the name of the Fierce Tiger Gang to recruit young and able-bodied men from among these refugees to become members of the Fierce Tiger Gang.

As long as one person in a family joined the Fierce Tiger Gang.

Then, that family could survive.

Next, Chen Hu activated the Lifespan card and obtained 10 years of Lifespan.

He added it directly to himself.

He activated the connection card, obtained a Ding-grade connection, and immediately discarded it.

However, he had opened a Bing-grade connection yesterday, but he still hadn't encountered it.

He then activated the Origin Stone card and soul stone card, obtaining 10 Low Grade Origin Stones and 10 soul stones respectively.

He activated the spell card and obtained a High Grade spell — Swamp Spell.

Once this spell is mastered, it can turn a radius of ten li into a swamp.

He activated the soul weapon card and opened a High Grade soul weapon — Insect Nest.

By injecting Soul Power into the Insect Nest, different types of soul insects can be born.

Next, Chen Hu activated the special Spirit Medicine card and once again opened a heaven soul grass.

Then Chen Hu took out the martial arts cultivation card.

He silently activated it.

He obtained 100 days of cultivation.

After choosing to use it, not only was his lungs tempered to the extreme, but after the exhaled essence Qi merged with his True Qi, Chen Hu's True Qi grew by another fold.

Finally, Chen Hu took out the cultivation multiplier card.

He obtained 10 times cultivation effect.

He first activated the barrier.

Then Chen Hu took out a heaven soul grass and consumed it.

He activated the Spirit Refining Art to digest and absorb it.

One hour later.

The cultivation ended, and Chen Hu received the ten times cultivation effect.

When a large wave of Soul Power was injected into his Primordial Spirit.

And after it was absorbed by the Primordial Spirit, the Primordial Spirit directly swelled by a circle, and subsequently, Chen Hu's Divine Soul Realm reached the Primordial Spirit Middle Stage.

His Spiritual Sense grew stronger again, and its coverage range increased by one fold.

Reaching a radius of sixty thousand meters.