The True Martial Wolrd
chapter 20
In the past two days, Yi Yun had dedicated himself to training. Because of his wound, both of his hands were bandaged.
Yi Yun often slipped out in the middle of the night, and this did not escape Jiang Xiaorou.
Yun-er, what have you been doing these past few days? Also, what's with your hand?
Ever since Yi Yun's mother died, Jiang Xiaorou had taken on the responsibility as Yi Yun's mother, taking care of her by all possible means.
Even when Yi Yun made a mistake, Jiang Xiaorou would not blame him, but looked at him until Yi Yun admitted his mistake.
It's the same today.
Yi Yun wanted to make an excuse to hurt himself when picking herbs, but under Jiang Xiaorou's watchful gaze, he hesitated before telling the truth, Brother Xiaorou, he did, I practiced martial arts at night. The injury to my hand was caused by my training.
Jiang Xiaorou was stunned, practicing martial arts?
“Yun-er, from whom did you learn martial arts?”
I secretly learned it, Yi Yun said honestly.
Jiang Xiaorou's expression changed. Secretly studying tribal martial arts would be a crime. Also learning martial arts is not an easy task. Even without seasoning and meat, one needs to eat well. Yi Yun only ate porridge and wild vegetables every day. Where does he have the strength to train?
It can be a matter of life and death.
“Sister Xiaorou, do you believe me?” Yi Yun grabbed Jiang Xiaorou's hand while looking at her eyes seriously.
Jiang Xiaorou stopped before nodding her head involuntarily.
Well, if you believe me, don't ask any further. Big brother Xiaorou, I will lead you to a better life in the future! Yi Yun said seriously. Jiang Xiaorou was the first person she met in this strange world, and was the one who had been taking care of her with her life ever since.
He felt gratitude towards her. He wanted to not only change his own fate, but also change the fate of Jiang Xiaorou.
Jiang Xiaorou looked at Yi Yun in a daze, a thought appearing in her mind that she had grown up.
He is no longer a child of old. The words she spoke should not be considered as baby speech. He worked hard to achieve his goal
Yi Yun slowly started to get used to the ordinary food he had. Or it could be said; he had no choice but to do so.
Although the wheat porridge tasted bad, Yi Yun would instantly digest it after his appetite had increased. Without the Lian Clan Potion Mountain to support him, Yi Yun would starve to death, not to mention a breakthrough to the Spirit realm.
However, although herbs can supplement the body's nutritional and energy needs, it's not enough to replace food. The taste of herbs is worse than wheat porridge.
The days passed, for a glutton like Yi Yun, it was a torture for him.
The only good thing in his life was Jiang Xiaorou's pickled vegetables.
Sad to say that although Yi Yun was not considered rich on Earth, he had the opportunity to eat whatever he wanted. But ever since he came to this strange world, he had never tasted meat. Pickled vegetables are now a delicious food.
However, Jiang Xiaorou's pickled vegetables were indeed considered to be extremely delicious. To Jiang Xiaorou's family, pickled vegetables were considered as something wasteful, as the village had no salt. All salt must be purchased from a larger tribe.
Most of the salt was given to the warrior preparation camp. They used salt to heal meat, so only a small amount of salt was distributed to the commoners. It is mostly used to boil vegetable soup. Using it to make pickled vegetables is definitely a fancy way of eating.
After a few days, all the herbs in the Lian Clan Potion Mountain were picked dry. Even with the guidance of the Purple Crystal, even decent herbs could not be found. To hand over the herbs, the villagers even plucked the herbs sprouts.
After plucking the entire mountain of dried herbs like that, without considering the future. It seemed that the Lian tribal clan had risked everything, and had given up on the land they lived in. All hope rested on Lian Chengyu. However, even if Lian Chengyu passed the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom warrior selection, only a few people from the warrior preparation camp would benefit. Most likely all the commoners would be left behind
Yi Yun had mixed feelings. It is a way of life in the vast wilderness. There are limited resources; the strong acquire more resources while the weak are eliminated.
With the value of the herb mountain getting lower, the upper echelons of the Lian tribal clan stopped focusing on the herb mountain. All their attention and energy were placed on the refinement of the desolate bones.
This set of isolated bones is the most important. For this remote set of bones, the Lian tribal clan had placed all their bets on it, all their hopes pinned on it.
The refinement of the desolate bones required sixty days!
On the tenth day of the refinement process, something strange happened.
Some of the villagers responsible for the silent bone refinement fell ill. It starts with a cough and fever, but soon breaks out into diarrhea, skin rashes and depression. Symptoms are similar to typhus.
In a small tribe in such a vast wilderness, an ordinary warrior with good physical fitness and strong physical endurance would be fine, but for the poor villagers, it would be fine, once sick, there is no such thing as a mild illness.
Because their bodies were weak and had poor endurance, and the tribe only had one doctor serving the upper echelon, the poor were destined to die from cold sickness.
Yi Yun felt that something was amiss when he heard the news.
Typhoid sounds like a cold, but it's actually a bacterial infection. Yi Yun was not sure if the typhus in this strange world was the same as on Earth. But with so many diseases, it must be some kind of infectious disease.
What Yi Yun could not understand was that common infectious diseases were usually spread through water or air. Yet the villagers who were repairing the desolate bones were locked up in a cauldron where the temperature was extremely high!
Under sustained high temperatures and low humidity, most viruses will find it difficult to survive. If there was a plague, it was from someone else, not from the one who repaired the desolate bones?
Is it possible that the virus spreads easily in dry conditions?
Thinking of this, Yi Yun's heart sank. The problem of the villagers getting sick was not that simple!
With five people sick, the people from the Lian tribal clan and especially the people who were repairing the desolate bones started to panic.
With them there, they could contract the disease at any time.
Even though life is hard, no one wants to die.
Fortunately, the upper echelons of the Lian tribal clan did not rule out this matter. The patriarch came forward to appease the masses, and gave each of the sick a red pill.
The pill was the size of a longan, red as blood. According to the Patriarch, it was an extremely expensive herb obtained from refining. Each pill is worth a lot of money.
The patriarch instructed the sick person to swallow it with warm water. The illness will be cured after taking the medicine. And the sick person who took the pill felt better on the first day, and felt energetic after a night's sleep. On the night of the second day, they were no different from normal people.
On the third day, the sick were even more alive, better than before they fell ill.
In addition, the Patriarch distributed a piece of flesh the size of a palm to all the villagers who had fallen ill. This was meat, something the villagers had not seen for months. It was a good gift for them.
The poor cherish this piece of bacon and eat it in small quantities. Some of them gave it to their children, some to their wives.
The news that the Lian tribal clan distributed pills and bacon to the sick spread like wildfire.
The afflicted do it for the good of the court, and work even harder to repair the desolate bones. Some even wished they had fallen ill, as they would have received a pill that made them feel more energetic, and a piece of meat.
Yi Yun frowned as the news reached him.
A pill that can cure diseases, and make them feel better?
Although Yi Yun did not have any medical training, he knew that having such a great effect after eating the pill was definitely something that stimulated people, which would have powerful side effects.
Examples are stimulants such as drugs and other illegal drugs that can ignite a person's potential.
Yi Yun was very skeptical about the higher echelons of the Lian tribal clan spreading the word about those who were handing out pills made from extremely precious herbs.
The Lian tribal clan would never be this cheap. Moreover, in order to be able to be generous, they had to have precious herbs, and from Yi Yun's point of view, even the upper echelons of the Lian tribal clan were also poor. It was a potting situation that called the kettle black between the upper echelon and the plebeian. Also they had limited resources, and had used all of them for Lian Chengyu, how could they distribute herbs to the poor?
Yet another day, the Lian tribal clan distributed herbal dregs. This herbal dregs were the remnants of what had been finished being used by Lian Chengyu. It was for those who had refined desolate bones with the aim of strengthening their bodies. Those who received the herbal dregs were of course grateful.
