Chapter 8 Eat and it's over In the evening, Gu Chan and Zhang Wanshan had a good meal. After that, the old man vacated the inner room and let Gu Chan live in it, while he himself slept on the floor in the outer room. Gu Chan was very embarrassed, but there was nothing she could do. In a village like this, there are many petty thieves at night. The outhouse is connected to the shop outside. He sleeps close to it and can keep an eye on the pig iron outside to prevent it from being stolen. This would make their lives even more difficult. At three o'clock in the night, when Zhang Wanshan fell asleep, Gu Chan took out two loaches from her pocket and placed them in front of her. The two loaches stared at each other for a long time before Gu Chan asked, "Tell me, were you the ones who secretly helped me during the day?" [No! We slept all day.] Baidu said. [Yes! Today, we are not suitable for daytime activities.] Sogou also followed suit. Gu Chan was puzzled. Zhao Erniu said that women in this world do not have the qualifications and cannot practice, but she seems to be an exception.
Baidu jumped to Gu Chan's forehead and sensed it carefully. [You ate the spiritual herb Bauhinia Blood Red Grass, which filled your body with spiritual energy. The spiritual energy caused your body to change. Now, you can practice physical skills, even exploration and refining skills are no problem.] [Yes, we must have absorbed the spiritual energy from your body, which allowed us to transform from earthworms to loaches in one night.] Sogou has made this matter clear. Gu Chan understood, but seemed not to understand, "Then I don't understand, why does the spiritual energy cause my body to change?" [We don't know about that. Maybe you are not simple at all! Like many descendants of masters, you are born with special physiques.] Baidu replied, shaking its tail. Gu Chan frowned. This body was not hers, and she had no idea what kind of person this Gu Chan was. Whether there are any capable people in the Gu family of Tiancang Kingdom is a question that needs to be studied in the future. The most important thing for her at the moment is not to think about these things, but to make herself stronger. Without dwelling on this issue too much, she asked, "Then how should I practice now to be most suitable for me?" [You ate the spiritual herbs, and your body has undergone such a big change, so why don’t you try eating something else. ] "Then I ate white flour buns during the day, and nothing changed!" [That's for filling your stomach, and when you eat, you don't use the spiritual energy in your body to refine it! Put the food in your mouth and try to refine it with spiritual energy.] Baidu gave Gu Chan this suggestion. Gu Chan stood up and looked around. This was a house with nothing. What could she eat? Could she just eat dirt? Baidu gave Sogou a wink, and Sogou flicked its tail and flew out in a flash. Gu Chan was dumbfounded, "What?" 【Wait, it's going to get you something. 】 "What do you want me to eat?" Gu Chan looked worried. Wouldn't these two stinky loaches take this opportunity to bully her and avenge the arrow that shot them in the cave before?
Just as Gu Chan was thinking this, the loach Sogou that had just jumped out came back quickly, carrying a piece of iron as long as a child's index finger. Baidu jumped into Gu Chan's mouth, arched its body and pried her mouth open, and then Sogou rolled up the iron block and stuffed it into her mouth. Gu Chan was so anxious, "Are you sick? This is iron, iron, you actually want me to eat iron? Damn!" [Stop talking nonsense, pour the spiritual energy into your mouth, chew it, and don't spit it out.] "I'm chewing your grandmother's leg, how can I chew it?" Gu Chan was furious. However, the two loaches sealed her mouth tightly, preventing her from spitting out the iron block, and used their tails to push her jaw and chew it hard. "Click, click, click..." As Gu Chan chewed, a series of clicking sounds came from her mouth. Not only did the hard iron block hurt her teeth, it also scratched her mouth, and blood gushed out from the corners of her mouth. "Mmmm..." Gu Chan struggled continuously, enduring the excruciating pain, grabbing the two loaches with both hands and trying desperately to pull them out. The two loaches seemed to be stuck to her mouth and could not be moved no matter how hard she pulled. When the pain became unbearable, she unexpectedly found that a cold white air from her body suddenly rushed into her mouth, which not only helped heal her oral cavity, but also helped her slowly digest the iron block in her mouth. After a while, the originally extremely hard block of iron turned into a stream of air and penetrated into her body. At this time, Loach Baidu said, "Quick, imagine that you are a piece of iron." Gu Chan nodded quietly and immediately began to imagine it in her mind. Sure enough, the next second, her whole body suddenly became extremely hard, like a piece of iron. Two loaches fell from her mouth, and Baidu was very excited. [Sure enough, I was right, just eat. If you want to practice physical skills, just eat.] "Is this... so magical?" Gu Chan propped himself up and sat up, touching his iron-hard body, completely stunned. She thought that if she wanted to practice, she would have to do it like in some fantasy novels, opening up her Dantian first and then practicing luck or something. I never thought she was so simple. It seems that the fantasy novels she read before were totally too complicated! Two loaches were jumping around on Gu Chan's quilt, obviously happy about their master's progress. Gu Chan came back to her senses, and with a thought, her body's iron-like state was lifted and returned to normal. She then asked, "Didn't Zhao Erniu say during the day that there are nine levels of cultivation for the three arts? Then what level am I at now in the cultivation of this physical skill?" [I don’t know. You have to go to a place that specializes in aptitude testing to find out.] "It seems that I have to find a place to test the level of my cultivation." Gu Chan murmured to herself. Baidu changed the subject, [Master, you have to be careful. You can practice physical skills by eating, but if you want to practice exploration and refining skills, you have to find other methods.] "Then tell me quickly! What methods can be used to practice the exploration technique and the refining technique?" [We can’t find out this, you can only discover it slowly in the future. ] Sogou replied. "..."Gu Chan. Dry! Isn't this obviously dragging out the plot? It seems that these two stinky loaches are not good things either. Baidu saw Gu Chan's face change, and it quickly explained, "Master, we really don't know! You have to trust us, and we are not strong enough now. When we practice with you and become strong enough, maybe we can find out your situation."
"Forget it. I'll trust you this time. Go to sleep and go to the market to sell knives tomorrow." Gu Chan pouted in annoyance, then fell asleep. The two loaches also crawled into the quilt, lay on her chest and fell asleep. The next morning, Gu Chan got up early and left Jiuyang Village with Zhang Wanshan, carrying two baskets of knives on their backs, to sell knives in Wuheng Town, ten miles away. Neither of them had eaten breakfast and their stomachs were growling with hunger the entire way. Several times, Gu Chan reached into her arms, wanting to take a piece of Bauhinia blood-red grass to eat to replenish her muscles. But the spiritual herbs were too precious, and one less would be one less. She was reluctant to take them out and could only drink more water and keep moving forward with Zhang Wanshan! (End of this chapter)