Chapter 60: Chapter 60 Plum Flower Step Breakthrough (Requesting Yue Tickets, Requesting Recommendation Tickets!)
“Wang Sheng, save me!”
Mountain Lord was also quite famous among the martial artists, at least comparable to a Third Grade Martial Artist. Logically, he shouldn’t have been so afraid.
But the size and inherent aura of this Mountain Lord seemed stronger than him, so he didn’t hesitate to cry for help!
However, as soon as he had spoken, Mountain Lord completely ignored him and went straight to Wang Sheng, who even casually stroked Mountain Lord’s head.
Mountain Lord did not resist at all; he simply allowed Wang Sheng to pet him.
Only then did Xu Qu cautiously approach.
“Do you know it?”
In fact, he wanted to say “Is this your pet?” but seeing the imposing size of Mountain Lord, he thought it was better to remain cautious.
Wang Sheng had already known from Xu Qu’s “save me” that Xu Qu was unaware of Mountain Lord’s existence, so he nodded.
“I met it last time due to some matters; don’t be scared.”
After being subdued through force and lured by Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pills, Mountain Lord was now basically subdued. However, without either of these two conditions, Mountain Lord wouldn’t have been so “gentle.”
And Mountain Lord felt he had degraded himself, behaving just like a pet.
But—
Wang Sheng also understood well; after Mountain Lord arrived, he pulled out several Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pills.
There were pills, so no worries!
While this was his “salary,” it didn’t prevent Mountain Lord from being happy.
Being stroked a couple of times didn’t cause any harm.
After eating, Mountain Lord wanted to leave, but Wang Sheng stopped him.
“Wait a moment, accompany me to the village first.”
As a martial artist, he was very strong, but like transporting grain with Mountain Lord, some things couldn’t be simply lifted and taken away; he couldn’t carry everything even if he hung it all over his body, and it was better to make a couple of trips.
Those unripened plants, like Iron Wood and such, he hadn’t brought any, and though they were common, collecting them was troublesome, so he needed to go back to get some, including some household items.
“Roar~”
Mountain Lord did not refuse and did not even ask Wang Sheng for the pills, feeling he had eaten enough recently and needed to digest them properly.
In any case, after Wang Sheng had inquired with the village chief about necessary items and received an answer to bring some bedding that had been left behind, he rode Mountain Lord back to Qingshan Village.
The livestock in the village had mostly been killed, so it was somewhat quiet. If not for the lingering traces of life, one would suspect it had long been uninhabited.
Once back home, the first thing he did was dig out all the medicinal herbs planted in the ground, pack them on Mountain Lord’s back along with some household items and the bedding mentioned by the village chief.
He filled up Mountain Lord’s back before heading back to Qingshan Village.
Now, Qingshan Village was bustling with people repairing houses; after all, there were hardly any intact ones left, and basically, about a dozen people were living in each little house.
After dropping off the items requested by the village chief, Wang Sheng returned to the small dilapidated house he had chosen.
The spot he had picked was not only open but also convenient for planting. As soon as he returned, he replanted all the medicinal herbs and Iron Wood.
It took Wang Sheng almost half an hour to replant everything; it was a good thing he had a progress bar, or these plants might not have survived being uprooted and replanted.
After replanting the medicinal herbs, Wang Sheng began to tidy up his own house.
His house had clearly been repaired, and although it still looked shabby and run-down, at least it was no longer leaky and was barely suitable for living.
By the time he had finished organizing everything, it had almost gotten dark, and many cooking fires were lit in Qingshan Village.
It wasn’t long before Li Wenguang brought him some food.
“Yun Sheng!”
Li Wenguang didn’t dare to enter directly because the Mountain Lord had never left. Since returning from Qingshan Village, it had been lying beside Wang Sheng’s house, digesting the effects of the Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill.
Although he knew that the Mountain Lord would not attack easily, he was still instinctively a bit afraid.
Hearing the shout, the Mountain Lord opened one eye and then immediately closed it again—it recognized him.
Wang Sheng also came out of the house. “Uncle Li, what brings you here?”
“I came to bring you some food. Why did you choose such a remote place? I still had to ask the village chief to find it.”
“This place is convenient for training martial arts,” Wang Sheng answered succinctly.
“That’s true!”
Li Wenguang recalled the time back in Qingshan Village when Wang Sheng asked him about the fence, realizing Wang Sheng truly needed a place like this that could withstand wear and tear.
“I’ll find someone to come and fix it up properly tomorrow.”
“Thank you, Uncle Li.”
With Li Wenguang’s arrangements, Wang Sheng didn’t need to find people himself, which made things a lot easier.
After a brief chat, Li Wenguang left directly.
Wang Sheng also learned about the general situation in the village—there were no major issues, but there were still quite a few things that needed to be dealt with.
Of course, he didn’t need to be involved in those.
Thus, the next day, Wang Sheng resumed his usual daily life from before in Qingshan Village, tirelessly honing his skills.
His skills were still progressing slowly; after a week, his skill in “Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill Making” successfully progressed from “9 (99.99%)” to “Breakthrough +1 (1%).”
This skill’s progress was significantly faster than any other non-breakthrough skill primarily due to the simplicity of creating the Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pills and their frequent use, causing the progress bar to rise rapidly.
Like the “Herb Recognition” skill, merely breaking through once, the “Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill Making” didn’t show any truly extraordinary qualities.
The effectiveness of the pills remained the same, still dependent on the herbs.
However, there was a noticeable effect: his speed in crafting pills increased, and the pills he crafted became smaller and more concentrated, aligning with his understanding of “elixir.”
Before this, no matter how he made them, the half-pound pills were always not small, but now they looked much better.
“It seems a qualitative change will have to wait until after three breakthroughs.”
Wang Sheng was looking forward to what kind of change three breakthroughs in crafting medication pills might bring.
“Enhanced medicinal effects? Or something else?”
The progress bar had limitless possibilities, so all he could do was guess and then quickly put this matter out of his mind. Until there was a qualitative change, he didn’t want to focus too much on it.
He had more important skills to “grind.”
Several more days passed.
Qingshan Fortress had also largely stabilized, and Wang Sheng himself was about to experience a key transformation in his skills.
“Plum Flower Step: 9 (98.5%)”
The Plum Flower Step was a step technique of this world. Since it was rarely used, its progress had always been lower than the contemporaneous Bajiquan.
Bajiquan had already achieved a breakthrough, while the Plum Flower Step was still at level 8.
As there were not many matters requiring his attention recently and since the Plum Flower Step’s level was also nearing a breakthrough, Wang Sheng specifically took more time to train.
He trained using the methods from the secret manual and then also trained with the Mountain Lord, and today, he finally reached level 9, with only a small portion of progress left to complete.
Finally, as his martial arts training session was about to end, the progress bar changed.
“Plum Flower Step: Breakthrough +1 (1%)”
He had achieved a breakthrough in the martial skills of this world!