In the dark woods, the bright bonfire is like a lighthouse, opening up a bright and warm area.

Several people stayed in this area in a scattered manner, sitting or standing, and doing their own things.

Those who can stay in this wilderness where monsters appear at any time can naturally be free cultivators.

This is a group of practitioners who are free from the aristocratic family system. These people cannot get the spiritual sand and spirit stones given by the aristocratic family for various reasons, and are unwilling to be honest civilians. So they wander in the wilderness and hunt monsters, or are employed by others to serve as bodyguards, and even a few who commit crimes are doing evil and commit crimes. In short, they find ways to earn spiritual sand and spirit stones for cultivation.

Compared with the practitioners under the aristocratic family system, casual cultivators are undoubtedly extremely free, but relatively dangerous. Towns with established guards are occasionally invaded by monsters, let alone a few people in the wilderness.

But this is how people are. There will never be few people who are unwilling to be ordinary and always want to live their own appearance. There are more casual cultivators who die in the mouths of monsters every year than civilians, but they can never stop more people from entering the wilderness.

Zhang Hongzheng is now one of this small group of casual cultivators. Compared to the children who were still in Leshan Village, he is now a 16-year-old boy.

There are actually not many young people who wander in the wilderness with others at this age. They are usually only responsible for doing some chores, such as keeping watch or cooking.

Zhang Hongzheng was roasting food at this time. He quickly turned the wood beetle in his hand to ensure that each part could evenly receive the burning of the bonfire. White juice was coming out of the insect body, and it immediately dripped on the bonfire and immediately emitted a pungent sour smell.

“Are you getting a mistake?

What to do with roasting this thing?

Is this kid crazy?"

The female swordsman Fang Yuan, not far away, just set up a tent at the lower vent. She jumped up because of the sour smell, covering her mouth and nose and screaming.

"Don't make a noise."

Si Wang, who was sitting on the other side, looked up at her and whispered.

"Brother Lu Ning is practicing."

"I know."

Fang Yuan quickly agreed in a low voice and glanced at the man sitting under the big tree on the other side.

The man looked about forty years old. Although his clothes were as easy to walk as they were, they were very clean and tidy. He looked very gentle, with three long beards hanging straight to his chest, and he looked more like a teacher who was well-read in poetry and books.

At this moment, he was sitting cross-legged on a flat ground, his eyes were closed, his breathing was long and even, and more than twenty spirit stones were placed around his body. These spirit stones were unstable, as if they were mobilizing the five elements of their vitality by inexplicable power.

The female swordsman did not dare to disturb her anymore, but then looked at Zhang Hongzheng, the culprit, and changed the place and sat down in anger.

He murmured in a low voice: "After we slaughter this thing, we can only use it for a fat field, and we can't even eat pigs.

I've never heard of anyone who can eat this."

"Haha, it's okay, Miss Fang.

He was just a child who followed us on the way to make a living. Boss Lu was benevolent and righteous, so he could follow us all the way."

Xiao Zhuang walked over and sat down next to Fang Yuan. His body weighing more than 200 pounds was like a bear. His face was now trying to squeeze out a self-skinned and kind smile.

"Well, I know, Brother Lu Ning is just kind."

Fang Yuan also squeezed out a smile, and subconsciously wanted to move to the side, but she held back.

It is not easy for a casual cultivator to make a living, especially for women. Whether the skills in their hands are hard is the second priority. First of all, you must be good at being a human being.

“That’s.

Boss Lu’s reputation is very famous in our border town. Everyone knows it. It’s just a word, benevolence and righteousness!”

Xiao Zhuang waved his hand and touched Fang Yuan's shoulder intentionally or unintentionally when it fell down. Seeing that Fang Yuan did not respond to avoidance, the flesh on her face suddenly became even more happy.

He turned to Zhang Hongzheng again and scolded him with the majestic swearing to the emperor.

"But you must be a little self-aware, Boss Lu is generous to you, and you can't just act irresponsible. You are not allowed to fiddle with these sour and smelly monster meat in the future. Do you hear it?"

"Don't make a noise."

Xiwang looked up and glared at Xiao Zhuang.

Xiao Zhuang didn't speak, but glared back with a very fierce look, obviously very unhappy to be scolded by this stupid guy.

But Xiwang had already buried his head again at this time.

There was a pile of sand in front of him, and he kept painting the cloud patterns used for spells on the pile of sand with a straight branch. After each painting, the branch gently tapped the sand pile, and the pile immediately calmed down and returned to its original state. Then he began to draw cloud patterns on it, repeating over and over again, as if he was fascinated by this simple repetitive behavior.

Zhang Hongzheng seemed to have never heard of the sound of the three people here. He put all his energy on the wooden beard worm in his hand, and it seemed that the sky fell and the earth was sinking.

The wood-bearded worm is a relatively common huge worm in Nangong Ling and Tang Ling. It originally spread from the Jianmu Forest to other places and can also be classified as monsters. It is just not aggressive. As long as you are careful of the acid sprayed out after being angry, ordinary farmers can easily kill them with a hoe.

In addition to occasionally digging out a few spirit stones from these insects, the insect meat is indeed not even a pig, and it is very effective to use it to fatten the field after being chopped.

The grilled juices on the worms are getting more and more.

The insect monster's feet are as thick as a child's waist. Now it has been roasted to the point where the arms of ordinary people are as thick as those of ordinary people. The skin on the outside is constantly cracking, revealing the dry flesh below.

Zhang Hong was spinning the insects with one hand, and took out a handful of chopped dried dogwood from his arms with the other hand. He reached out and poked the insect meat continuously, poking each dogwood deep into the insect meat, and the position was very even. After sending all the dogwood into the insect meat, he began to slap the insect meat with his palm again.

His slap was extremely fast, and the crackling sound was like more than a dozen people slapping each other wildly.

Xiao Zhuang looked over there with a very bad look. The anger that had lost face in front of the woman all followed the voice and turned to Zhang Hongzheng. If he hadn't been concerned about Lu Ning who was practicing there, he would have immediately used his fists to teach this unknown little guy a lesson.

A breath was like a long whale sucking water. Lu Ning, who was sitting up there, finally breathed a long breath and opened his eyes.

"You little brat, you woke Boss Lu up to see what you did!"

Xiao Zhuangteng stood up and shouted angrily at Zhang Hongzheng.

But Zhang Hongzheng was like he was deaf, deafing his roar, and still slapped the insect meat there.

Xiao Zhuang's eyes turned red, his face twisted with ferocious flesh, and he walked towards him.

"Okay, Xiaozhuang.

I am tired of tempering my own thoughts.

Even this little sound can be heard, and my decades of cultivation have been in vain."

Lu Ning, who was sitting upright, stood up, stretched out his hand, and all the more than ten spirit stones placed around the ground rose into the air.

The five sounds of bobos were heard, and five spirit stones in the air suddenly broke into powder and sprinkled. Lu Ning frowned slightly and shook his head slightly. The other spirit stones were all put into his palms like milk swallows.

"Brother Lu, how is your entry?"

Looking west there suddenly asked.

"Last time you said you were about to step into the threshold of the Three Realms."

"Yes, has the boss touched the realm of life? "

Xiao Zhuang was also concerned and temporarily threw away his anger towards Zhang Hongzheng.

If the ghost immortals from the first realm of thought to the second realm of Qi-induced state is a watershed between civilians and real practitioners, then from the realm of Qi-induced state to the third realm of Dharma-induced state is a watershed between casual cultivators.

As long as you reach this level, the energy of heaven and earth activated by your own divine thoughts is enough to form a truly hugely destructive spell. It is no problem to deal with ordinary 10 or 20 second-level cultivators. No matter how old you are, you will immediately become the best among the scattered cultivators.

Generally speaking, aristocratic families will not ignore such talents.

Lu Ning has some reputation in the casual cultivator circle in Tanning City. In addition to his kind personality, one of the reasons is that he has reached the peak of the Qi-induced realm and may pass this threshold at any time.

This matter is not only very important to him, but also to the companions gathered around him.

"No, I'm still one last step away, I don't know how I can't get over it."

Facing the earnest gazes of the people around him, Lu Ning stroked his long beard and frowned and sighed.

"Maybe there are some improvements to the combination of this spirit stone array. I will try a few more combinations next time." "As the saying goes, it's so hot that the pig's head is rotten, Brother Lu, you don't have to be impatient. Relax and let it go naturally. Don't force it. Maybe one day it will happen."

Zhang Hongzheng, who had not spoken, suddenly spoke at this time. His hand that kept slapping the insect meat stopped. After gathering a little energy, he suddenly slapped the insect meat again. This time, what he made was not a crisp slap, but a muffled sound like a heavy hammer and drum. The pieces of dogwood that were originally stuffed into the depths of the insect meat were all shocked and flew out in this muffled sound, falling around one after another. Then he grabbed a small pinch of salt and sprinkled it on the insect meat.

"Um?"

Xiao Zhuang's eyes suddenly widened, and then his fierce and ferocious expression began to become a little surprised and suspicious.

He is also practicing human immortal martial arts. Of course, he can see that the kung fu hidden in the last shot cannot be taken by a little kid who makes a living by making a living.

Zhang Hong folded the insect meat in his hand and the branches skewed with the insect meat in two, and threw the smaller half at Lu Ning: "I finally encountered an annual worm, and I just tried roasting it and eating it.

Brother Lu, try it.”

"Well, I've heard Mr. Ping say that Brother Zhang has a good skill in cooking monster meat, and I'm just trying it today."

Lu Ning took the insect meat, smelled it, bit off a piece, and his eyes lit up.

"Yes, not only does it completely lose the original sour and rotten atmosphere, but it has a refreshing and mellow aftertaste like chicken, and it is full of biting.

I really didn’t expect that this monster meat could be made so delicious.”

"Haha, it seems that it's done, it's not in vain for me to spend so much energy."

Zhang Hong was facing Xiwang and Fang Yuan and raised the remaining insect meat in his hands.

"This monster meat is a great nourishment. Do you three want to try it too?"

After taking a look at the insect meat, the female swordsman shook her head with a dark face and took out dry food from her arms.

Xiao Zhuang also had no answer with a bad expression, so he could only stretch out his hand.

Zhang Hongzheng folded a piece and threw it to him, and he took the largest piece in his hand and started eating it.

"Meow~~" A fat cat in black and white walked out of the woods and squatted beside Zhang Hongzheng and stared at him.

"Ha, I knew that you would definitely come back if you had food."
To be continued...