Chapter 217 The cold wave is coming, the fire
Infancy, youth, adulthood, prime age, peak, old age, these six stages, according to the division of the panel, childhood corresponds to the zero level.
Youth corresponds to the first to second levels, basically between the ages of fifteen and fifty.
Adulthood is the third to fourth level. Warriors of ordinary tribes must be at least sixty to ninety years old to reach this point.
Most totem monks basically stay in the stage from youth to adulthood, and their strength fluctuates between the third and fourth levels until they die of old age.
This is a threshold. Third-class totems can basically only grow to this point. Second-class totems, only a few people can break through the shackles of the body and enter the prime of life.
The prime period corresponds to the fifth to sixth levels, and the basic age is around 300 to 800 years old.
The pinnacle is the seventh to eighth levels, which is the pinnacle of the totem way. Among them, the strongest ones can rival the great immortals, but they can only live for thousands of years.
As for old age, it is a period of decline unique to totem monks. After entering this period, no matter what their previous strength was, their blood will begin to gradually decline, and the power of the totem will also gradually decline.
This kind of exhaustion is irreversible and will last for a long time, and the cultivation level will drop by at least one or two realms.
Regarding totems, Chu Zheng also got some key information. The totems branded since birth can be replaced.
However, there are certain limitations. The totem of a beast spirit can only be replaced by a beast spirit, and cannot be replaced by a sky pattern.
There are differences in the way the two operate. If they are replaced directly, the body will be unable to bear the load, and eventually the body will explode and die.
Carving a totem requires a lot of effort, and is basically done by witches.
Especially the totems depicting second-level or even first-level totems are extremely terrifying for the soul of the witch. This is not an easy task.
"Have you finished reading?"
I don't know when Wu had already walked to Chu Zheng's side.
“I’ve finished reading, thank you Wu.” Chu Zheng stood up and grinned.
"You're welcome, I should be the one thanking you."
Wu sighed softly: "I'm sorry Zhengchu, I thought you had an ominous aura and might bring bad luck to the tribe. , now maybe I’m mistaken.”
Hearing this, Chu Zheng couldn't help but froze for a moment, with an ominous aura... Could it be that the witch could detect the existence of the calamity aura?
Before he could think about it, Wu spoke again:
"Is there anything else you need my help with?"
"No more." Chu Zheng shook his head. Turn around and walk towards the outside of the palace.
As soon as he left the palace gate, he saw Ying squatting aside and sifting through medicinal materials.
"Zhengchu!"
Seeing Chu Zheng coming out, Ying tilted her head and smiled, picked up a small package at hand, got up and hurried over, stuffing it into Chu Zheng's arms:
"The medicine I prepared is good for your body, but you can't take more. You can only take one pill a day."
Chu Zheng opened the package, and his eyes flashed with light.
【Strengthening Pills (First Level): Made from a little elixir mixed with animal bone powder, it can be taken to strengthen bones and tendons. 】
"Thank you, Ying."
Looking at Ying in front of him, Chu Zheng's eyes couldn't help but be a little complicated. If you want to become a witch, you have to walk a very hard road. You have to give up love in your life. You can't be tempted. You have to give up a lot. thing.
And in her long life, she will sooner or later send away her elders and relatives one by one. After that, there will be endless loneliness and coldness, and she can only exist as the patron saint of the tribe.
The tragedy of such a life is indescribable. The original Luan walked through this step by step.
This is not only what happened to Ying Ren, but countless tribes in the entire Dongyuan world are experiencing the same tragedy.
"You're welcome. I'm your sister. I will protect you no matter now or in the future."
Ying waved her hand, wandered back to where she was, and continued to immerse herself in screening for medicine.
Chu Zheng tightened the baggage in his hand and walked slowly towards his home.
There is no God in this world, so someone needs to take the place of God. He wants this position now.
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When Chu Zheng returned home, Lie was not there. Except for Lie, many young men in the tribe were not among them.
During this period, Lie went out a lot more frequently and was eager to stock up on blood food.
The environment in Dongyuan Realm is quite harsh. Although the temperature is high all year round, a huge cold wave that lasts for three years will occur every ten years or so.
Calculating the time, it has happened in the past two years. It is necessary to reserve flesh, blood, essence and energy in advance for the winter, otherwise there will be many newborns who cannot survive this cold wave.
Moreover, before the cold wave comes, there will be many powerful wild beasts coming out of their nests to look for food. This is the most dangerous period in the wilderness.
This means that the time for hunting safely is getting less and less, and the number of times Lie leaves home is naturally increasing.
Except for him, no one in the entire Wangshan tribe has set foot on the fifth level, so the burden on them is naturally very heavy.
Chu Zheng cleared his mind, rested for a moment, circulated the heavens, and thought about his next plan.
Now that he has passed his coming-of-age ceremony, it is the best choice to be able to freely enter and leave the tribe and search for relics.
If he really stayed in the tribe for a long time, he might really be able to bring trouble to the Wangshan tribe as the witch said.
What is now before Chu Zheng is which step should the Wangshan tribe take first.
After weighing things up for a long time, Chu Zheng finally set his sights on smelting ore and casting soldiers.
Weapons have always been in short supply in the tribe. After the flesh, flesh and spirit were drained away by the molten beads, the bones of some wild beasts could no longer be used to make weapons, and raw materials were always in short supply.
If there are enough bows and arrows for consumption, the hunting losses will be greatly reduced.
The cold wave is coming, and all the warriors of the tribe will stay in the tribe. This is an opportunity to accumulate information.
When he finds a spiritual iron mine, he will be able to mass-produce low-level magic weapons. With this time, he will not delay hunting.
The Qiangjin Pills given by Ying were very effective, but Chu Zheng obviously did not follow the doctor's instructions. In just two days, he took nearly fifty Qiangjin Pills, with some slight poison, and in an instant It was dissipated by the panel.
Under the nourishment of a large amount of Qiangjin Pills, Chu Zheng's strength skyrocketed, almost changing every day. When the medicine was exhausted, not to mention Yuan Qi, Chu Zheng already had a huge strength of more than 80,000 kilograms. .
After practicing steadily for two days, when Chu Zheng was about to leave the tribe, Lie came back, with a strong smell of blood mixed with the smell of medicinal powder.
Obviously, he encountered many dangers during this hunting trip.
Outside the door of the house, several suppressed sobs were heard in the distance. There should be many soldiers who did not come back alive during this hunting.
"Uncle Lie, how are your injuries?"
Chu Zheng stood up, a light flashing in his eyes, and after sweeping across Lie's body, his expression changed slightly.
In the information given on the panel, Lie suffered serious injuries, even hurting his lifeblood and losing his longevity, but fortunately it could be repaired.
"It's nothing serious. I encountered an ice-scaled dragon in its prime. It's stronger than me. This beast plotted against me."
Lie shook his head, took off his outer robe, and found a number on his chest. There are ten scars, and the bones are visible in each one.
He did not pay attention to the injuries on his body, his eyes were full of solemnity:
"The cold wave is coming."
Ice scale dragons generally only appear during cold waves. Activity, showing up early now, is an extremely dangerous signal. "So fast?"
Chu Zheng rubbed his brows and felt a little troubled. He originally thought that there would be at least two years, but now it seems that he is more optimistic.
He needs to seize the time to find suitable fire and spiritual iron veins.
"Uncle Lie, I'm going out."
Chu Zheng immediately stood up and walked out the door. He couldn't waste any more time. With the cold wave coming, it would be more difficult to find the mineral veins and it would be easy to hit them. to some hungry apex predator.
Seeing this, Lie did not stop him, but only reminded: "Bring the talisman soldiers with you. If you are defeated, don't show off."
With the power of Chu Zheng and the talisman soldiers in hand, here Within a radius of thousands of miles, there is not much threat to Chu Zheng.
“Write it down.”
Chu Zheng didn’t even look back and went straight out of the tribe.
With the induction of the Yuan Qi of heaven and earth, searching for mineral veins is not difficult at all for Chu Zheng.
Where the power of gold is strong, there must be divine iron below. What is even more difficult is the appropriate kind of fire.
Sneaking into the center of the earth to obtain the true flame of the earth evil is one way, but for Chu Zheng now, it is a bit difficult.
If there is no fire, even the spiritual mine is useless.
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It was noon, and the temperature was still hot, but compared to the past, the heat was less intense.
After careful search, less than three hundred miles away from the tribe, Chu Zheng discovered a mineral vein.
Within thirty feet of digging into the ground, he touched the raw ore.
[Yinguang Ore (First Level): Low-level spiritual ore, which can extract silvering iron. 】
The entire mineral vein is not large in scale, spanning less than ten miles, and the distance it extends downward is also limited.
After two days of work, Chu Zheng found more than ten mineral veins within a thousand miles of the tribe, one of which was a second-level spiritual mine with abundant reserves.
The only difficulty is still the fire.
Spiritual fire is hard to find, and the spiritual fire that is naturally raised in the earth is still difficult to control with his current cultivation level.
The only solution now is to make decisions from the desolate beasts. Some desolate beasts contain beast fire in their bodies, so they may be barely usable.
Chu Zheng walked forward slowly in mid-air, his energy surging slightly in his body, feeling the wind coming from all directions, and discerning the changes in the five elements.
Soon, he caught a trace of active fire energy from the air around him, and immediately followed the trace.
After chasing for more than a hundred miles, a rhinoceros-like wild beast covered in thick armor appeared in Chu Zheng's field of vision.
[Earth Flame Dragon (Level 2): A mutant species with a trace of dragon blood, a carnivorous predator with fire poison in its body. 】
The body of the Earth Flame Dragon is extremely huge, more than twice as big as the shadow lion that Chu Zheng hunted before. It is almost a hill, exuding blazing heat.
Everywhere he passed, huge black footprints were left behind, as if they had been burned by flames.
The Earth Flame Dragon was moving very slowly. Chu Zheng estimated its route, and then repeated his old trick, taking part of the spiritual mine as the foundation stone and setting up a large formation again.
One day later, Chu Zheng lured the heavily armored Earth Flame Dragon into the formation.
However, the defensive power of this Earth Flame Dragon exceeded Chu Zheng's expectations, and coupled with a slight lack of preparation, this first round of sword light failed to even seriously injure it.
After pondering for a few breaths, the moment the second round of sword light was fired, Chu Zheng directly picked up the dragon bone spear and pierced its head with one blow.
After dispersing the magic circle, while the corpse was still hot, Chu Zheng gently grabbed it with his hand and took out a ball of red spiritual fire from it.
[Earth Flame (Level 2): The spiritual fire conceived in the body of an animal. Swallowing it can assist in practice. It contains the power to avoid fire and can slightly enhance the practice speed of fire-attributed creatures. 】
The second-level spiritual fire is enough to smelt the second-level spiritual mine, which is enough for the Wangshan tribe that is just starting out.
Chu Zheng swallowed the spiritual fire into his belly, forcibly refined it with the help of the repair panel, then hunted several wild beasts, and then used the animal skins as a cushion to drag tens of thousands of kilograms of spiritual ore. , embarked on the return journey.
When he returned to the tribe, the atmosphere was a little solemn.
The last time they went hunting, the tribe lost nearly ten warriors and Lie was seriously injured. This was an extremely heavy blow to this small tribe.
"Zhengchu, why are you dragging so many rocks back here?"
Someone soon noticed Chu Zheng's actions and were full of doubts.
Chu Zheng did not answer. It would be faster to explain with actions. He directly took a slightly smaller first-order spiritual mine, and a ball of spiritual fire gushed out from his palm.
After a while, the spiritual mineral turned into liquid and gradually condensed into an arrow.
The arrow took shape, Chu Zheng dispersed the spiritual fire, a little spiritual light emerged from his fingertips, and carved the simplest formation pattern on the arrow.
For the first time, the formation pattern appeared in the eyes of the Dongyuan Realm human race.
There was an uproar all around:
“This is... a talisman?!”
“Why do I look sharper than one made of animal bones? ?”
“Stones can be made into talisman weapons!”
Lie hurried over and saw this scene, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes: "Zhengchu, this is it?"
He had never seen the patterns on the arrows, but they were similar to the patterns on the talisman. Somewhat similar.
Chu Zheng stood up and pointed to the spiritual mine behind him:
“The ore can be smelted and made into weapons, which is much more convenient than animal bones.”
For Wangshan To the people in the tribe, Chu Zheng's actions at this moment were undoubtedly subversive, and everyone's face was full of surprise.
After a while, Lie suddenly waved to the crowd: "Shan, Tuo, you two come and give it a try."
Two figures walked out of the crowd, both middle-aged men dressed in animal skins. In Chu Zheng's eyes, there was abundant fire energy flowing in their bodies.
The two walked to the pile of spiritual ore, picked a piece at random, and then spit out a ball of spiritual fire from their mouths and began to smelt the ore.
Seeing this, a flash of surprise flashed in Chu Zheng's eyes. He had forgotten that these people had totems and had some special magical powers. It was not surprising that some people could control fire.
Under the smelting of the spiritual fire, the impurities in the ore quickly faded away and turned into a pool of liquid. Then, after being controlled and squeezed by the spiritual fire, it turned into the shape of a battle axe.
Both of them had a flash of joy in their eyes, raised their hands to squeeze out a drop of blood, and drew a sky pattern on the ax blade.
They have experience in refining talisman weapons, so it is not difficult to achieve this step.
Looking at the constant exclamations from the tribesmen around him, the witch holding a cane in the distance stopped for a long time, then turned and left.
She silently returned to the Bluestone Hall, took out a clean skull of a desolate beast, and carved some words hard to record what happened today.
This will be a change that will change the entire tribe, and even the entire Dongyuan human race.
(End of this chapter)