Martial artists would get injured if they were not careful during their daily practice of martial arts or when they fought with others. These injuries would accumulate over time and eventually form hidden injuries.
Before the age of forty, people's blood and Qi were vigorous, and those hidden injuries were hidden. However, after forty years old, a person's vitality would decline. The various organs of the body would begin to decline, and their qi and blood would also decrease. Those hidden injuries would appear and bite back at the body. This was especially true for martial arts that took the firm and fierce path, and the backlash was even greater. The most obvious example of this was the Iron Palm.
It practiced by continuously hitting the iron sand with its palm, mobilizing the blood and qi in its body to gather in its hand, allowing the strength of its entire body to be released to the maximum through its palm.
As the saying goes," Tai Chi is a skill that stays indoors for ten years, while Xingyi is a skill that kills people in a year." Like Xingyi Fist, Iron Palm was an instant kung fu. After practicing for a hundred days, one could hurt people and break bricks.
Many Iron Palm practitioners only cultivated the outside and not the inside. In the end, their two palms became very different from ordinary people. Their fingers became thicker, their palms became bigger and thicker, and they swelled up like old tree bark. It looked quite terrifying.
Although the Iron Palm that was trained in this way was extremely fierce and lethal, it would taste the bitter fruit after its peak. The supply of Qi and blood in his body was insufficient, and the palm poison invaded his body. His hands began to stiffen and tremble, and in the end, his two arms were completely crippled.
In order to prevent their hands from being damaged, some Iron Palm practitioners would wash their hands with medicinal wine after practicing. This would allow the medicinal power to seep into their bodies through their skin to remove the internal injuries and heal the injured parts.
Apart from the medicinal wine, they also tried every means to find all kinds of precious medicinal herbs to replenish the blood and qi consumed in their bodies. Dog Treasure was one of them.
Not only Iron Palm practitioners, but many martial artists also needed to use herbs to replenish their Qi and blood and eliminate hidden injuries. Sun Debiao was no exception.
Of course, he didn't seize the dog treasure purely for nourishment. He wanted to make a bone-tempering ointment that would allow him to break through the bone-tempering realm and enter the tendon-tempering realm. (This chapter was uploaded by 79 Literature Network. Please strictly abide by the laws and regulations of the country. The website forbids all illegal text from being uploaded:(If you find illegal content, please contact the website to delete it, thank you)
The four realms of a martial artist were skin tempering, bone tempering, tendon tempering, and organ tempering. It was easy to train the skin and bones, but it was rather difficult to train the tendons. If he couldn't reach the Tendon Tempering realm by the age of forty, he would have no hope in the future. He was already thirty-eight years old this year. The peak of his life was about to pass, so he was naturally anxious.
The prescription for bone tempering was passed down from his master. It contained more than a hundred precious medicinal herbs, such as deer antler and muskiness, tiger bone and turtle gall, ox yellow and dog treasure, horse brain pearl sand, and so on. A considerable portion of them could only be found by luck.
Even in ancient times, it was not easy to get a complete set of medicinal herbs on the prescription. Moreover, human society was developing rapidly now. In the past, the deep mountains and forests were no longer forbidden areas. The good things in the mountains had long been plundered by humans. For example, many people had probably never even heard of the Turtle Gall in this recipe.
It was currently the rarest giant turtle in the world. Its weight was especially huge. An adult could reach about three meters, and some could even exceed five meters. The turtle cover could carry people across the river. Not only was this thing huge, but it also had astonishing strength and a ferocious temperament. It was said that the turtle that carried the stone tablet in ancient China was the original form of the turtle.
The spotted turtles usually lived in the deep lakes. Although they were rare in ancient times, it was not difficult to catch them. It was different now. Due to the indiscriminate killing of people, it was very rare to see ordinary old turtles in the wild, let alone the spotted turtles. There were only three of them left in the world today, and all of them survived in artificial breeding environments.
Just from the medicinal ingredient, the spotted turtle gall, one could see how difficult it was to gather all the medicinal ingredients on the prescription by one's own strength. It was no different from ascending to heaven.
Therefore, Sun Debiao and his brother had attached themselves to the Xue family as bodyguards, hoping to borrow the Xue family's power to collect all these things.
Speaking of which, they could be considered lucky. These ten plus years actually allowed them to gather almost all the medicinal herbs on the prescription. Especially the fact that he had obtained the turtle's gallbladder by chance. Sun Debiao had once heard someone say that an old fisherman had killed a turtle in the Dreamy Cloud Swampland several decades ago when he was eating at a table. He hurried over with his junior brother to inquire about it, and in the end, he spent more than 200,000 yuan to buy the spotted turtle gall from the old fisherman.
Now, he only lacked the medicinal ingredient Dog Treasure, but Sun Debiao was stumped. Ordinary dog treasures were easy to find, but aged ones were hard to find. The prescription for this ointment specifically stated that it needed aged dog treasures. All these years, he had rushed over every time he heard that there were dog treasures, but he was disappointed every time. The quality of those dog treasures was too poor.
Thinking about it, dogs were the same as humans. Most of them lived in a comfortable environment. Without the experience of fighting in the wild, how could they cultivate "natural treasures"?
In fact, it was not impossible to make ordinary dog treasures, but the key was that Sun Debiao did not dare to take the risk. There was only one set of many medicinal herbs here. If he failed because of the dog treasure, the ointment would be completely wasted. It would be difficult to gather it again in the future. At that time, he would not even be able to cry.
Just when Sun Debiao thought that there was no hope for him to train his tendons, he didn't expect that he would see a silver lining and discover the vicious dog. Therefore, he had rushed over after finding out that the big yellow dog was staying near the Golden Lake.
However, after seeing Xu Lei, he began to hesitate again.
This kind of ferocious beast could only be encountered by chance. It was best to capture it alive. After the dog treasure in its body was removed, it could continue to be nurtured in the future and continuously provide him with great nourishment. It was a pity that he had come in a hurry and did not bring a suitable weapon. He only had a crossbow in his hand. He was very hesitant now. Should he kill this beast?
Xu Lei didn't know what this person was planning, but he was definitely not a good person. The fact that he was able to hide his blood essence in front of him clearly meant that he had already surpassed the level of skin tempering and was much higher than him. Although Xu Lei wasn't afraid of trouble, he wasn't a fool either. After witnessing the martial arts of the old man and the security captain of the Red Sun Hotel, he naturally knew that his Skin Toughening cultivation was really not enough in front of these people.
Strictly speaking, Xu Lei wasn't a bloodthirsty person. He killed Xue Zhongming just to take revenge. Although he was not afraid of this person, he had no enmity with him. It would be unwise for him to fight until both sides were injured. It was better to avoid him.
Thinking of this, Xu Lei jumped back into the water.
Sun Debiao didn't expect the beast to escape in just a moment.
It seemed that he had taken it for granted. He had originally thought that with his Bone Tempering level, catching this dog would at most take more effort than killing it. He didn't expect the dog to have such a sharp reaction. It immediately jumped into the lake and fled when it noticed that something was wrong, not giving him any chance at all.
Moreover, judging from its speed, if he did not plan ahead, it would be very difficult for him to stop it. It was difficult to catch it alone. He could only rely on the police and let the Xue family ask for it after they caught it.
Xu Lei swam to the center of the lake and watched the car leave before coming back to shore from the other side. He dried his fur in the park and strolled home.
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"The reporter learned from the XX District Law Enforcement Brigade yesterday that recently, there have been frequent incidents of stray dogs attacking passers-by in our city. In order to prevent stray dogs from disturbing the people and biting people crazily, causing the hidden danger of disease transmission, to ensure the personal safety of the citizens, and to maintain the city's environment and social order, the XX District Branch has specially set up a special law enforcement team for stray dogs. It will focus on law enforcement forces to carry out special measures to rectify the dog problem in the Urban area..."
When he lay in the living room at night and watched the news on TV, Xu Lei instinctively felt that this matter was directed at him.
Xu Lei had guessed correctly. He had killed six people in a row, which was a major and vicious case. If the perpetrator was a human, the police station would have set up a task force to arrest him. However, the perpetrator was a big yellow dog, which gave them a headache.
This matter was inconceivable, so many leaders in the city were dissatisfied with the police station's waste of police force for a stray dog. Of course, there were also some people who wanted to see a joke.
After being suppressed by the Xue family for so many years, they didn't dare to cause trouble behind their backs. They could still say a few sarcastic words.
The Xue family was also very angry about this matter. Although they had great power in the province, they had not reached the point where they could cover the sky with one hand. It was indeed unreasonable to mobilize so many police forces to kill a dog.
However, the Xue family had survived several political struggles and accumulated political wisdom. In the end, they gave the hunting of the big yellow dog a special punishment. In this way, he would no longer be afraid of people gossiping.
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