(PS: Thanks to the Alliance Leader Chaoyan Huaixi for the reward.
Tomorrow there will be an additional update to thank Chaoyan Huaixi for continuously rewarding two Alliance Leaders.)
Wu Piwu once again spent ten days in Gaia, diligently practicing National Martial Arts and Human Immortal Martial Dao, while still indulging in feasting every day.
Especially after he entered the deep mountains of the North, although he did not find any living people, the mountain goods were indeed plentiful.
Not to mention various mushrooms and wild delicacies, there were also many herbs and mountain ginseng over a hundred years old.
The retreat of the Golden Men was quite hasty, and those ruins were filled with these mountain goods.
Wu Piwu managed to sift through and find some good items among them.
Because aside from the principle of eradicating evil, thoroughly cleaning the battlefield was also one of his guidelines.
Now, many good items had already piled up in Gaia.
The medical base was filled with wild boar demon meat, internal organs, and bones, weighing dozens of tons.
In a corner of the maintenance base, Wu Piwu specially built a shelf made of dry wood to maintain its dryness, which was piled high with various century-old herbs, mushrooms, and other mountain goods.
Although there were only three areas in Gaia at present, including the corridors, it covered an area of about five to six hundred square meters, which was quite substantial, allowing for a considerable amount of food to be stored.
After finishing his boxing practice today, Wu Piwu began preparing dinner.
He first cut off a piece of meat the size of half a basketball from a giant pig kidney, broke a pig bone, and then selected an old mountain ginseng that was at least two to three hundred years old, a piece of deer antler, and several chunks of old Tianma from the mountain goods shelf, and started to simmer them in a large iron pot he had found from the Song Dynasty.
A rich aroma mixed with the scent of herbs wafted out.
Qiuqiu perched on his shoulder, chirping softly, while Wu Piwu quietly stirred the medicinal soup with a ladle, careful not to let it burn at the bottom.
“... It’s a pity I don’t understand the various medicinal dietary recipes, nor do I know how to combine the various medicinal formulas of Human Immortal Martial Dao. Otherwise, if I could configure them according to these medicinal formulas, plus the blood and meat of the pig demon, the efficacy would definitely be much better than just simmering it now.”
Wu Piwu murmured, then took a spoonful of the soup, waited for it to cool slightly, and swallowed it in one gulp, carefully sensing the changes in his body and blood qi.
With the progress of his Hundred Days Condensing Dan, various changes in Dan Qi were emerging.
Now, his perception of his own body had become extraordinarily keen.
Although he had not yet delved into the cellular level, he could feel the direction of his veins and qi and blood, and could manipulate the gathering and dispersing of qi and blood using the qi within his body.
With just this one spoonful of soup, he generally understood the efficacy and nourishing level of this pot of soup, which was about a ten percent improvement compared to directly eating pig demon meat.
This already satisfied him greatly.
Although there was plenty of pig demon meat, it was not a renewable resource.
A three-hundred-year-old great demon was hard to come by, and he might not even be able to defeat it.
It seemed like a lot, but he could not afford to waste a single bit.
If the medicinal nourishment could enhance its efficacy, even if it was just one-tenth, that would be equivalent to saving one-tenth of the pig demon meat.
Wu Piwu put down his spoon with satisfaction and said, “When the pursuit ends and I return to the Song Dynasty, I’ll go to the national treasury to see if there are any high-grade herbs, and also rummage through the Imperial Hospital for some medicinal recipes.”
Qiuqiu chirped twice.
Wu Piwu smiled and said, “Isn’t the Zhao Song royal family equivalent to mine? I don’t care what happens to them, unless a good emperor comes out from the Zhao Song descendants, one who truly understands the people, otherwise I’ll just keep them under my thumb… Speaking of which, I should have brought back some rice and flour, and maybe some dehydrated vegetables.”
“If people don’t eat, they will starve to death.”
Wu Piwu stated a piece of useful nonsense.
But this was actually his insight.
The technology of humanity in the twenty-ninth century was indeed advanced; the medical pod only had half a head left, and as long as one hadn’t been dead for too long, they could be brought back to life.
But this was limited to the material level.
Perhaps there were mental treatment devices in the higher levels of the medical center, but now there was no way to think about it.
In the dream world, aside from physical injuries, there were also many mental pollutants and harms.
He had the Unresting Spirit Light cultivated from the Tiger Demon Technique to counteract and eliminate them, but what about future teammates?
Once the mind was damaged, they would either fall into a coma or their strength would be greatly weakened.
In such cases, they wouldn’t dare to explore and fight in the dream world; aside from guarding missions, they wouldn’t dare to enter the dream world at all, so they had to eat and drink in Gaia.
Like the time he had directly fallen into a coma for over a hundred days, consuming a massive amount of carbon-based nano units.
If he encountered a similar situation again, as long as he could awaken, he could leave the medical pod and use food to replace it, slowly nurturing his spirit.
“After returning to Bianliang in the Song Dynasty, I might have to buy a lot of things, food, vegetables, various fruits… and also salt and other seasonings, then get a bed, some furniture, and if there are any paintings or porcelain, I could decorate a bit.”
Wu Piwu muttered to himself.
Qiuqiu, hearing this, immediately jumped around joyfully, chirping non-stop.
“Yes, yes, yes, let’s bring back some silk to decorate, you can do the decorating. By the way, do you want me to build you a nice bird’s nest?”
Wu Piwu turned to ask Qiuqiu.
But Qiuqiu suddenly became furious, crashing into his brow, and then pecking at him wildly.
“... Female demons are still women, truly capricious.”
Wu Piwu said helplessly, and Qiuqiu crashed even harder.
Before long, a large pot of meat soup was ready.
Wu Piwu served Qiuqiu a small bowl, then picked up the large pot, unbothered by the soup, and ate heartily with the pig liver and herbs, occasionally fishing out a bone and crunching it like a biscuit.
In less than ten minutes, he finished the meat soup that could fill four or five big men, leaving not even a drop of the last soup behind.
After eating, Wu Piwu began practicing boxing again, not only training in Human Immortal Martial Dao but also adapting to the rapidly increasing control of qi and blood, as well as the explosive power of National Martial Arts.
The next day marked the tenth day of rest in Gaia.
Wu Piwu, along with Qiuqiu, returned to the Song Dynasty dream world, and the next five days would be the last time to enter before the weekend.
After that, he would have to experience the weekend, and the tenth day after the weekend would be the end of his Hundred Days Condensing Dan.
Then…
The baseline reality of Zero Point Six Dream World!
Still, the same saying, the so-called high skill breeds boldness, especially since Wu Piwu practiced National Martial Arts and Human Immortal Martial Dao, which inherently bolstered his courage.
His character was also subtly changing, gaining an understanding of the spirit of the common man, with a sense of pride belonging to him in his chest.
He wanted to grow stronger, to see more scenery!
The next day, Wu Piwu got up early and, with Qiuqiu, entered the Song Dynasty dream world again, continuing to advance in the deep mountains and forests, killing demons when encountering them and exterminating ghosts when meeting them.
Because it was the deep mountains and forests, there were no horses, and his speed actually increased significantly.
As he continued northward, on the third day, even though it was not winter, frost appeared on the ground in the morning, and the weather grew colder.
At the same time, he finally discovered the traces of the Golden Men and the primitive tribes of Black Mountain and White Water…
Dead people, many, many dead people, often hundreds of men, women, and children lying dead together.
At first glance, it seemed they had frozen to death, but upon closer inspection, one could see the difference.
Some people had expressions of terror on their faces, clearly not in a state of sleep when they froze to death.
“Ice-type monsters, or something else?”
Wu Piwu continued to pursue, and then made other discoveries.
In addition to the frozen dead, there were also some who had been killed by weapons, but the places where they were hacked had a sense of pollution and distortion.
This made Wu Piwu’s heart suddenly grow cautious.
Perhaps in this extreme northern land, there existed another powerful nightmare…
No!
Not perhaps, the entire world must have many, many powerful nightmares!
Wu Piwu did not know how big this world was, nor whether the starry universe was real or not, but even if it were only the size of Earth, or even just the size of Asia, Europe, and Africa, the number of demons and monsters within it was unimaginable, certainly far surpassing the wild boar giant demon!
“I am still very weak! I must grow stronger, become even stronger, and never experience the tragedy of the world of the lifeless old mother again!”
Wu Piwu muttered to himself, carefully hiding his figure, maximizing his senses, and then continued to pursue.
By the fourth day of his return, he saw a battlefield still in progress.
About three to four thousand well-equipped Golden soldiers were either walking, riding horses, or using bows and guns, forming a line of battle against an alien army in strange attire.
That army was equipped far more simply than the Golden soldiers, mostly wielding axes, large sabers, and leather armor, with very few ranged weapons, only a few throwing axes and spears.
What caught Wu Piwu’s attention was that many in this army wore helmets resembling horns, and quite a few had red hair, their physiques also larger than the Golden Men.
The two sides were engaged in a fierce battle at the edge of this snowy plain.
The Golden soldiers outnumbered the alien soldiers slightly, and although the alien soldiers were fearless, the morale of the Golden soldiers was equally high, so gradually, the alien army began to retreat.
At this moment, some people dressed in white robes were dancing, and from the snowy plain, a pack of wolves made of ice and snow appeared, attacking the Golden army from the side.
Among the Golden army, there were also priests who shouted loudly, dancing wildly, and sacrificing lambs, causing some black mist to rise from some clay pots behind them, entangling with the ice wolves.
At the same time, there were actually more than ten generals in the Golden army roaring as they transformed into half-demon wild boars, charging into the alien army with unstoppable momentum.
The scales of victory were tipping towards the Golden camp.
Just as Wu Piwu was about to rush out and wipe out these Golden Men, dozens of people from the alien army surprisingly formed a circle, each committing suicide on the spot, their blood flowing into the center of the circle.
Just as the half-demon wild boars charged over, dozens of half-transparent humanoids clad in metal armor, about two to two and a half meters tall, emerged from this circle, clashing with the dozen or so half-demon wild boars.
The battle lasted for over an hour, and finally, the alien army slowly retreated, while the Golden side barely achieved a small victory, cleaning up the battlefield and returning to their camp.
Wu Piwu gazed at the alien army from a distance, for a long time not rushing down to silence the Golden Men.
That army belonged to a different civilization from the Central Plains!
Perhaps, within that civilization, there existed powerful nightmares.
If he jumped out now, it would be like startling the snake in the grass.
“Nordic and Eastern European?”
Wu Piwu muttered to himself.
In the end, he gave up on rushing out.
Although the remaining Golden Men were still a threat to him, they would eventually have to be exterminated.
But if the alien nightmares became aware of his existence now, it would be troublesome.
Now was the time to experience the weekend and then explore the baseline reality of Zero Point Six Dream World, so he should avoid confronting the alien nightmares for now.
After all, the Golden Men could not escape; they were already in the extreme northwestern region, with the alien civilization in front and the Black Mountain and White Water homeland he had burned several times behind them.
They could only be trapped here.
At that moment, Wu Piwu turned around and headed back to Bianliang.
Next…
It was time for the weekend!
(End of this chapter)