Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme - Chapter 10

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Though the Lu Household wasn’t a kind of prime native tyrants, inside ten miles of Little Yellow Village, they had been a well known massive family, monopolizing the encircling slaughter enterprise and even elevating a bunch of butchers below them.

On common days, the Lu Household would purchase pigs, canine, cattle, and sheep from the encircling space, slaughter them, after which promote the meat on the city market. Generally, they might additionally provide numerous eating places within the county, making a good quantity of silver within the course of.

Xu Yang spent cash to get this job, firstly to accumulate expertise, and secondly to safe a supply of meat.

Slaughtering pigs, canine, cattle, and sheep ought to enable one to develop expertise associated to “killing,” and on the very least, one might follow their knife expertise. Similar to how the talent “Flying Stone” developed from skipping stones, he hoped to develop associated offensive expertise.

As for meat, there was no hope for prime cuts, however getting some offal was not an issue, and with cash, he might even purchase sure quantities of meat at an inside worker fee.

With a steady supply of meat, together with the cash from promoting himself and the dietary expertise supported by his authentic physique, Xu Yang might quickly nourish the skinny physique of the younger man he possessed.

By then, he may not have the ability to deal with martial instructors, however coping with a number of manor guards or a scoundrel like Li Laojiu needs to be no downside in any respect.

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With cash, because the saying goes, one could make even the devils flip mills. With the association by Zhang Fu, the chief steward, Xu Yang was fairly easily admitted as an apprentice butcher.

After all, Xu Yang’s personal efficiency wasn’t unhealthy both. In spite of everything, for a job like butchering, the important thing was bodily power and braveness. Xu Yang was not missing in both and even had fairly some “work expertise,” so getting the job was naturally not tough.

At midday, a blood-stained Xu Yang returned house carrying a load of pig offal.

These weren’t shares from slaughtering pigs. Apprentice staff simply beginning out had no proper to compete with veteran butchers. He might solely purchase some at a comparatively favorable worth, barely qualifying as an worker profit.

“Brother!”

Li Hongyu opened the door to greet him, however as quickly as she approached, she was pushed again by the odor emanating from Xu Yang and rapidly pinched her nostril, “What’s that odor?”

“Tonight we eat meat.”

Xu Yang smiled, not saying a lot, and handed the pig offal to Li Hongyu, then went into the home to choose up a bamboo basket, a small axe, and a searching bow.

His youthful brother Li Qinghe approached, “Brother, it’s already midday, are you continue to going into the mountains?”

“Sure!”

Xu Yang nodded, “I’m going to see if I can catch something.”

Li Qinghe’s eyes lit up, “Can I am going too?”

Xu Yang shook his head with a smile, “Wait a number of extra years, then I’ll take you with me.”

“Oh…”

Li Qinghe drew out the phrase, seemingly very upset.

Xu Yang didn’t say extra, shouldering the bamboo basket and leaving house, able to go searching within the mountains.

He was not solely going to be a butcher but in addition a hunter. In spite of everything, archery was a really sharp long-range offensive technique. To not point out the transmigrator who had skilled an data explosion, anybody with a little bit of imaginative and prescient would know the benefit long-range had over shut fight, so if there was an opportunity to follow, he would take it.

On this method…

By night, Xu Yang returned house, the bamboo basket on his again seeming fairly heavy.

“Brother, what did you catch?”

Li Qinghe and Li Hongyu ran out after which stopped, wanting on the full bamboo basket on Xu Yang’s again, their eyes stuffed with confusion.

“Why did you chop a lot bamboo and convey it house?”

“Didn’t you say you had been going searching?”

Within the face of their queries, Xu Yang smiled and put down the bamboo basket, “Sharping knives doesn’t hinder chopping wooden!”

With that, he sat down and started to arrange the bamboo he had lower.

Why would he convey again a bunch of bamboo when he mentioned he was going searching? Easy, as a result of he got here again empty-handed!

Though he had inherited the recollections and identification of “Li Qing Shan,” Li Qing Shan was not any formidable hunter, and his searching expertise had been fairly common. It was completely regular for him to not catch any sport. Beforehand, there have been even plans to promote the searching bow and allow to focus solely on farming.

Now that Xu Yang had transmigrated over, this case had not modified since he solely knew the best way to fish and never the best way to hunt.

However lack of potential was not an issue; he would simply follow. With the Attribute Panel, there was no talent he couldn’t study.

Subsequently, Xu Yang lower a basket of bamboo and introduced it again to follow the “Archery” talent.

He took a contemporary bamboo stick, shaved off all its branches and leaves, then carved two grooves at each ends earlier than bending the complete stick right into a crescent form and binding it with a vine he had additionally introduced again.

Thus, a easy and crude bamboo bow that may be thought of a mere toy for kids was made.

“Hmm, not unhealthy!”

Though it wouldn’t final lengthy and its lethality was nearly nil, Xu Yang was nonetheless happy and nodded his approval of his personal work.

The crudeness didn’t matter, and nor did the very fact it might break quickly. So long as it allowed him to carry out the act of “archery,” that was sufficient.

The important thing to working towards expertise is the precise doing. Doing it nicely is definitely the icing on the cake, however even doing it poorly doesn’t essentially imply one can not flip decay into magic.

When he practiced the talent of disguise, wasn’t it simply smearing mud on his face, hunching his physique, and decreasing his voice? Ultimately, he nonetheless managed to develop the talent of disguise, and even acquired highly effective Talent Traits like “Concealing Presence” and “Shrinking Bone.”

Subsequently, it’s not key whether or not one does nicely sufficient however whether or not one does sufficient and for lengthy sufficient.

The bow was prepared, however arrows had been wanted. Xu Yang took a number of skinny bamboo twigs and, with out bothering with fletching for stability, merely whittled the entrance finish into some extent, making a roughly made arrow.

“Brother, what are you doing?”

“Is that this… a bow and arrow?”

“What can that bow and arrow do? Er Gou’s slingshot from subsequent door is extra highly effective than that.”

Xu Yang’s crudely made work, Li Qinghe and Li Hongyu had been much more puzzled.

“Don’t fear about it; go cook dinner the meal.”

With a smile, Xu Yang despatched the 2 children on their manner and continued along with his grand bow-making endeavor.

In historic occasions, bow and arrow making was a high-precision craft, demanding nice talent from the craftsmen and high-quality supplies, which included the ‘Six Supplies’: wooden, horn, sinew, glue, silk, and lacquer.

Wooden was for the bow limbs, forming the principle physique and figuring out the bow’s draw weight, vary, and lethality.

Horn and sinew, from animal horns and tendons respectively, had been connected to the internal and outer sides of the bow limbs to reinforce the bow’s elasticity and energy.

Glue, silk, and lacquer had been all extraordinarily necessary as nicely, and solely with one of the best supplies might a wonderful bow be crafted.

The bamboo bow Xu Yang was making had no relation to the phrase ‘wonderful’. It was feared that after a number of attracts, it’d break.

However regardless of, if high quality was missing, amount would make up for it. If one bow failed, then make ten; if ten failed, then 100. Since bamboo and vines price nothing, he might freely collect and craft them with none restrict, certainly have the ability to “grind out” the talent.

Other than archery expertise, the act of constructing bows and arrows may also generate a talent, offering Xu Yang with one other craft to generate income.

In historic occasions, craftsmen who might make bows and arrows had been thought of a useful resource for wartime readiness. To not point out different issues, making sufficient to help a household was positively doable.

Xu Yang was fast along with his palms, and because the bamboo bows and arrows didn’t require wonderful craftsmanship, he labored quickly, and earlier than dusk, he had reworked a basket of bamboo into a group of bamboo bows and arrows.

“Brother, it’s time to eat.”

“Mm!”

Li Qinghe and Li Hongyu had additionally completed making ready dinner, so Xu Yang put down what he was doing, acquired up, and went to sit down down on the dinner desk.

“Brother, right here’s yours.”

Li Hongyu offered him with a big bowl. Inside was steaming coarse rice, and on the desk, there was additionally a giant bowl of offal soup as a aspect dish, which… hmm, didn’t precisely whet the urge for food.

The pigs raised by the agricultural households of the village had been usually not castrated, making their scent significantly sturdy, and the offal was no exception. With out enough spices, it was no straightforward job to show these substances right into a scrumptious meal.

Subsequently, the bowl of pork offal on the desk, frankly, wasn’t tempting, particularly to Xu Yang.

Even so, Li Qinghe and Li Hongyu gazed on the bowl, swallowing repeatedly on the sight of the fats floating on the soup’s floor.

With a smile, Xu Yang picked up his bowl and chopsticks: “Let’s eat!”

“Yep yep!”

Having obtained approval from the top of the family, the 2 children couldn’t wait any longer and instantly began utilizing their chopsticks.

With the silver he had earned, Xu Yang wasn’t going to shortchange himself. Though the meat dish was only a tough serving of pork offal, that they had sufficient coarse rice and loads of greens. The meal was fairly a feast for Li Qinghe and Li Hongyu.

Whereas there was no wine to take pleasure in, there was loads of meals, and after they cleaned up the dishes, Xu Yang went again to his workstation.

He picked up the easy bamboo bow and, going through the earth wall within the yard, he started working towards archery.

A goal?

There was no goal.

After so a few years of working towards expertise, Xu Yang had give you a algorithm and insights for talent coaching.

At first of follow, it’s greatest to goal for amount. As soon as a sure degree is reached or a talent is generated, then regularly concentrate on high quality to supply high-value traits.

Subsequently, he didn’t make a goal, or fairly, the earth wall served as his goal, serving to him full the set of actions: “drawing the bow,” “firing the arrow,” and “hitting the mark.”

By then, evening had fallen, and the moon was excessive within the sky. Little Yellow Village was engulfed in quiet darkness, with just a few households just like the Lu household nonetheless lit up.

Lamp oil and candles had been bills, so bizarre households would save the place they might. Apart from, there was nothing a lot to do at evening apart from producing and elevating youngsters, so most individuals had been asleep.

Underneath the chilly moonlight, Xu Yang held the bow, stood tall, and corrected his posture and actions based on the strategies and instincts from Li Qing Shan’s reminiscence. He then drew the bamboo bow and shot in direction of the earth wall.

The consequence…

“Snap!”

A quiet sound, and the bamboo arrow fell to the bottom, having solely floated ahead a number of steps, not even reaching the earth wall.

Xu Yang didn’t thoughts and continued to regulate his posture and actions, drawing the bamboo bow and firing one other arrow.

This time it was barely higher. The bamboo arrow flew 5 to 6 steps and landed on the foot of the earth wall.

Xu Yang smiled and continued to attract the bow. His posture and actions regularly grew to become standardized, and he had completely mastered the unique archery expertise of the physique.

And so, below the chilly moonlight, a thin younger man bent his bow and shot arrow after arrow on the earth wall. The sunshine bamboo arrows flew out, chaotically at first, then regularly hitting the wall and leaving marks, till every bamboo arrow pierced into the yellow mud, protruding from the highest of the wall…