15: Qi training is complete (seeking votes and reading)

Chen Yuan looked at the City God Temple behind him.

He felt a bit emotional.

Qingshan County originally had a City God.

However, ever since the previous Patrolling Mountain Commandant died in battle,

the City God's role was to assist the Patrolling Mountain Commandant in patrolling the territory.

Moreover, the City God was enfeoffed by the Patrolling Mountain Commandant holding the Banshan Tiger Talisman.

It was just that, as the Great Qian's destiny was nearing its end, the amount of heaven and earth Qi available for enfeoffment was truly limited.

He stopped thinking about it. Chen Yuan carried a cloth bag on his left hand and a lamp in his right, descending the mountain.

The cloth bag in his hand belonged to the ghost named Green Jade Child.

When he killed it, the Tiger Talisman had stated:

This ghost enjoys stealing children, turning them into human pigs for its own amusement, and belongs to the category of evil ghosts.

Now, he had to send these children back.

However, he had already heard some commotion.

In an alley near Jiazi Ward, there was the sound of gongs and the sight of firelight.

"Something's happened!"

"Something's happened!"

"Wang the Carpenter's child is missing!"

"Has anyone seen my child?" A woman's crying voice could be heard.

This immediately caused a chain reaction, and crying and wailing sounds also came from nearby alleys.

They said they had been sleeping soundly when they suddenly discovered their children were gone.

Now, everyone understood.

"Alas, what a sin! They must have been snatched away by monsters."

"In this world, I wonder if anyone can help us."

"Forget it!"

"Just live one day at a time."

Everyone sighed.

Those with children quickly closed their doors and windows.

Fearing they would get involved in this matter.

In the darkness, there was only suppressed crying and sighing.

As Chen Yuan witnessed all of this, he found a nearby alley end and poured the three children out of the cloth bag.

Then, he blew a breath towards the three children.

Next, he twisted one of the sturdier-looking boys.

Immediately, a clear cry resounded through the night sky.

At once, someone heard the commotion.

"It sounds like a child crying over there!"

"Let's go, quickly go and see!"

Soon, footsteps ran towards this direction.

Chen Yuan leaped, disappearing from his original spot.

Soon, the joyful cries of the children's parents, mixed with relief, came from behind.

And everyone's expressions of relief.

Chen Yuan continued walking without stopping.

He turned a corner, leaped from under the eaves, and arrived at his own courtyard gate.

Just as he was about to enter,

a voice suddenly came to his ear.

"Yuan Ge'er?"

Chen Yuan followed the sound and saw a small gap in Sister Hua's door next door.

Sister Hua and her son, Tiger Cub, were peeking at him through the crack, their voices sounding somewhat uncertain.

"Sister Hua, why are you and Tiger Cub still awake so late?"

Chen Yuan was a little surprised.

"It seems like children went missing in the next alley, and we were woken up, but we didn't dare go out to look," Sister Hua said, looking at Chen Yuan with a strange expression.

"Yuan Ge'er, what are you doing here?"

Chen Yuan naturally couldn't say what he had been doing, so he could only go along with the conversation,

"Me too, I heard the commotion and went out to help look for the children."

Sister Hua heard this and gave a strange look at the cloth bag he was carrying in his hand.

"That's good then, go to bed early."

After speaking, she closed the door.

It seemed to be closed a bit hastily, causing a slightly loud sound.

And Chen Yuan, in the dark night, very keenly observed the subtle expression on his neighbor widow's face.

He suddenly looked at his left hand.

Only then did he realize something was wrong.

He patted his forehead.

This... this elder sister wouldn't be thinking nonsense, would she?

This cloth bag belonged to the evil ghost; he had intended to bring it back to dispose of it.

Oh right, it seemed like he had jumped down from a high place just now.

And Sister Hua saw him.

He could almost imagine the psychological activity of this neighbor widow at this moment.

She probably took him for a human trafficker.

And combined with his usual routine, staying out at night and rarely leaving during the day.

With such a strange neighbor, who wouldn't be suspicious!

Oh well!

Forget it, Chen Yuan shook his head and put these irrelevant thoughts aside for now.

He opened the door and entered the courtyard.

He skillfully entered the inner room and began to sit cross-legged.

Adjusting his breathing, he ignited the Dantian furnace.

Then, he invested all of tonight's gains into the Internal Scripture Diagram.

Surging True Qi, born without roots, filled his Dantian.

He then focused his mind, subdued this True Qi, and guided it to break through the remaining Ren Meridian, completing the Minor River Cart.

Next, it was a matter of repeated breakthroughs.

Time also flowed by little by little.

This time, Chen Yuan spent even more time.

Because he was about to complete the Minor River Cart, Yin and Yang merging, completing the Minor Heavenly Cycle.

Only the last "Qi Sea Acupoint" remained.

And he was just one step away from success.

But at this moment, the True Qi in his Dantian was completely depleted.

Chen Yuan could only break through while refining essence into Qi, mobilizing his Qi and blood.

Finally, after gritting his teeth and consuming his Qi and blood for some time, the Qi Sea Acupoint was opened.

At this instant, Chen Yuan felt his thoughts become clear.

All the pores on his body were completely opened.

Between heaven and earth, a stream of essence Qi, following his pores, drilled into his body.

And the turbid Qi within his body was expelled accordingly.

The clear rose, and the turbid descended.

And during this process, the Dantian furnace opened on its own, a single Yang was born, passing through three gates, the Minor River Cart completed its Heavenly Cycle circulation.

From now on, every breath was cultivation.

At this moment, the progress of the Internal Scripture Diagram had already reached ninety percent.

Qi Refining Perfection!

The next step was to break through the Body Profound major barrier!

Further, to open the acupoints and divine Tibetan of the Physical Body, and comprehend the true meaning of Divine Ability.

Chen Yuan thoroughly experienced the Heavenly Cycle circulation; his previously depleted Dantian was rapidly refilling.

But very quickly,

a surge of hunger came from his stomach, rumbling loudly.

Forcing him to end his experience and open his eyes.

He had depleted his Qi and blood earlier to complete the Minor River Cart in one go.

He needed to eat something quickly to replenish himself.

He thought, then went to the kitchen.

He prepared to quickly light a fire and make something to fill his stomach, then use the Food Consumption Divine Ability to replenish his essence Qi.

However, when he opened the jar containing rice,

it was strange...

It was empty.

He went to open another one.

He found that it was still empty.

He clearly remembered that there was still leftover grain at home.

Damn it, where's my rice?

Did a thief break in?

However, at this moment, his stomach was protesting wildly, and he didn't have time to think carefully, so he rushed out of his house.

At this point, he only noticed that from the time he broke through last night until now, it was already the afternoon of the next day.

He came to a stall in the market that sold offal.

He sat down and ate bowl after bowl.

He ate it with flatbread, consuming a full eight bowls of offal soup and ten flatbreads before his stomach was finally full.

"Shopkeeper, how much is it?"

He was full and ready to pay.

The stall owner, at this moment, was staring blankly at the messy cups and plates in front of Chen Yuan, until Chen Yuan called him a second time, then he came back to his senses.

"My apologies, sir, a total of two hundred and twenty Wen."

"How much? Why is it so much more expensive?" Chen Yuan realized something was wrong and frowned.

As he frowned, his Aura naturally emanated, startling the stall owner.

He quickly explained, sighed, and said:

"It's all because the neighboring county had another monster disaster, and it hasn't been many days, but now, many people have become displaced, so the price of grain has naturally risen."