Chapter 117: October has passed in a flash, Zhou Zilong (two in one)

Zhou Qingshan's heart was pounding and he ran out of the inner courtyard in a hurry.

Mr. Mo had nothing to do and was playing chess leisurely at the stone table in the courtyard, seemingly enjoying the quiet afternoon.

There are fewer and fewer injured people, and Zhou Hu also teaches the guards how to treat skin injuries. Old Mo only makes medicine occasionally. Especially his daughter and son-in-law are so powerful that they can fight against a thousand people and kill three warriors with the help of special skills. This kind of strength is enough to protect themselves.

He officially started living a retirement life.

"Father-in-law!" Zhou Qingshan shouted from a distance, with a hint of uncontrollable excitement in his voice.

Hearing the voice, Mo Lao looked up, with a hint of surprise in his eyes. He knew that Zhou Qingshan was always prudent, and that something big must have happened to him for losing his composure today.

Zhou Qingshan walked quickly to Mr. Mo, his face filled with a happy smile, "Father-in-law, Yan Qiu... Yan Qiu might be pregnant!"

The chess piece in Mo Lao's hand paused on the chessboard. A hint of surprise flashed across his eyes. He asked with a trembling voice, "Are you serious?"

Zhou Qingshan nodded rapidly, describing the vomiting phenomenon his wife experienced during the meal, and finally said, "Please ask my father-in-law to confirm it."

Mr. Mo stood up, the smile on his face was like a blooming chrysanthemum, and he took Zhou Qingshan and walked towards the inner courtyard.

Entering the inner courtyard, Doctor Mo saw Mo Yanqiu sitting quietly on the edge of the bed, her hand gently stroking her abdomen. Her eyes were filled with the soft light of happiness and motherhood.

Mr. Mo walked over lightly, sat down beside his daughter, and began to feel her pulse.

At this moment, the air around seemed to condense.

Zhou Qingshan was nervous and expectant. He watched the subtle changes on Doctor Mo's face intently and waited with bated breath.

Soon, a gentle smile appeared on Doctor Mo's face. He slowly withdrew his hand and cast an affirmative look at Zhou Qingshan, with a festive tone:

"Yes, the pulse clearly shows that Yan Qiu is pregnant. This is indeed a great joyous event for the family."

Hearing this good news, Zhou Qingshan's face instantly broke into a brilliant smile. He excitedly held Mo Yanqiu's hand, his eyes sparkling with happiness:
"Yan Qiu, we are really going to have a baby!"

"Xiao Xiao, hurry up, go ask grandma to prepare some nourishing soup. Yan Qiu needs to be taken care of now."

Xiao Xiao was also infected with joy when she saw Zhou Qingshan's excitement. She nodded quickly with a happy smile on her face: "Yes, Patriarch, I will prepare it right away."

Zhou Qingshan thought of something else and quickly added: "Also, please ask the best tailor in the yard. We need to prepare some soft and comfortable clothes for the upcoming little life."

Xiaoxiao agreed and quickly retreated.

Zhou Qingshan turned around and returned to Mo Yanqiu. He squatted down and gently held Mo Yanqiu's hand, his eyes full of tenderness:

"Yanqiu, you are now the priceless treasure of our family. You must take good care of yourself. If you feel any discomfort or need, please tell me at any time."

Mo Yanqiu felt her husband's concern and panic, and she responded with a smile: "My husband, I am not an ordinary weak woman. Don't forget that I am a warrior. Don't worry too much."

"Even if you are a warrior, in my heart, you are still a weak woman." Zhou Qingshan did not give in.

At this time, Mr. Mo stroked his beard and gave advice:
"Yan Qiu, during this period of time, you should rest more and reduce your martial arts practice. You can move your Qi and blood, but you should guide them in a slow and gentle way. This will be of great benefit to the unborn child's innate constitution."

Zhou Qingshan listened carefully and took note of everything.

The warrior is full of energy and has forged a miraculous heart. His wife only needs to sleep half of her normal time every day and often practices the "Fire Phoenix Spear" alone. She is always worried about the threat that the monster may bring.

"Father, husband, don't worry, I will." Mo Yanqiu also nodded in agreement.

Mr. Mo continued to give instructions.

Zhou Qingshan sent Mr. Mo back to his house, and could no longer suppress the joy in his heart in the yard.

He looked at the Husky and Thunder Knight on duty in the inner courtyard, stepped forward and picked up the two dogs, excitedly tossed them lightly in the air a few times, angrily hitting the Husky's head, his voice full of uncontrollable excitement:

"Li, you know, I'm going to be a father!!"

The Husky mount didn't understand, and in mid-air, its simple face showed a look of despair.

"Congratulations, my lord, and congratulations on the birth of the young master."

Thunder Knight Li could not hide his inner joy. For all living things, offspring are undoubtedly the hope for the future. He let out a roar of joy.

After that, the first thing Zhou Qingshan said to every person he met was "I'm going to be a father", and he would come forward and give them a big hug.

The news that Mo Yanqiu was pregnant spread throughout the yard like a spring breeze.

There is a husky knight stationed at Xiao Xiaopai’s home, one is the Zhou family guard who notifies the spiritual realm gate, and the other is the father in the territory.

Uncle Zhao, who was in the territory dealing with a land dispute between farmers, immediately put down his work and rushed back as fast as he could upon receiving the news.

As soon as he saw Zhou Qingshan, he stepped forward excitedly, his voice trembling: "Master, is this news true?"

Zhou Qingshan smiled widely and held Uncle Zhao's hand tightly. "It's absolutely true. Elder Mo has personally confirmed it."

After hearing this, Uncle Zhao showed a smile of relief and joy on his face, and a big stone in his heart finally fell to the ground.

Xiaoxiao and Yanqiu mentioned Gao Feixue, and Gao Feixue did not object, and Zhou Qingshan also agreed. But the two planned to spend some time together before talking about marriage. He thought it would take a few years before he saw the birth of the head of the family's offspring.

I just didn't expect Mo Yanqiu to become a warrior so quickly.

"That's great, Patriarch. This is really a great event for our Zhou family!" Uncle Zhao said excitedly, "I will make arrangements right away and prepare for the birth of the young master."

Zhou Qingshan and Mo Yanqiu saw this scene and smiled at each other.

The little one is still nine months away from being born...

Not long after, Zhou Hu, Zhou Shiqi, Gao Feixue, Xie Meng, Sanzi and other blood coagulation guards also returned one after another and surrounded Zhou Qingshan. Their faces were filled with joy that the family was about to welcome a new life.

"Master." everyone shouted.

Zhou Qingshan went forward and hugged everyone.

Gao Feixue took off his armor, cleared the murderous aura from his body, pulled Mo Yanqiu aside and started talking in private.

In the afternoon, farmers came to congratulate with gifts.

The gifts were not precious, eggs, wool, slingshots, wooden products, children's toys...

Zhou Qingshan accepted them one by one.

These farmers have lived here since his father's time. They watched him grow up when he was a child. Now most of their sons serve as guards of the Zhou family, and the relationship between the two has become even closer.

In the evening, Zhou Qingshan specially organized a banquet to announce the news to the entire territory and distributed a small piece of dried meat of the exotic beast to each farmer in the territory.

Apart from spirit seeds and spirit fish, this is the most precious thing in the territory.

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The days passed by.

On the night of the seventh month in the world of Yunding Chessboard, the weather suddenly changed again.

Zhou Qingshan was trying to do three things at once, and he used his eyes to observe the rapidly changing world of the Cloud Top chessboard.

The sky changed from night to dusk, and there were suspended stones all around, as if time had stopped.

The spiritual field once again produced spiritual seeds and fruits overnight. This time, it was not carefully cared for, and only fifty out of the two hundred spiritual seeds survived, but there were nearly ten thousand jade spiritual seeds.

He took the chicken out of the cabin and found it alive and kicking, unaffected by the passage of time.

This discovery made Zhou Qingshan feel relieved.

According to the regular occurrence of the first and second natural disasters, he guessed that there would be a natural disaster on the Yunding chessboard about every six months or a year. So far, no impact on the human body has been found.

Zhou Qingshan went in and reclaimed ten acres of land.

The two major spiritual seeds, "Xuan Yu Spiritual Seed" and "Bi Yu Spiritual Seed", were planted all over the Yunding chessboard world.

Then let the plant elf 'Mushroom' stay on the Cloud Top chessboard to take care of the spirit seeds.

The mushroom drinks the turquoise lake water every day and can occasionally perform strange magic, which allows the spiritual seeds planted on the spiritual vein in the backyard to grow well, but the survival rate is a little lower.

After two celestial changes on the Cloud Top chessboard, Zhou Qingshan had no shortage of spiritual seeds after deducting the daily expenses of several warriors from his family who had entered the country. He planned to wait until the spiritual seeds in the backyard were mature and then sell them in the nearby city to earn silver.

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Valley Township.

After the sweet potatoes are harvested, they are also used.

Zhou Hu took one thousand precious gold coins from his home and led the Blood Coagulation Guard to Daze Town, sixty miles away, and sold all the exotic animal furs and gifted organs that Shengfeng Territory had accumulated.

There are too many exotic beasts recently, so the prices have dropped a lot.

He only got 1,800 treasure yuan, spent 100 treasure yuan to recruit more than 1,000 farmers, spent 2,000 treasure yuan to buy various materials, 20 spiritual beasts such as crickets to use for traveling in the territory, 10 colorful war horses as guards, and used the rest to buy food and fine iron.

The apprentice that Lava entrusted to him was not recruited.

However, many farmers did not want their sons to fight in the battlefield, so they sent a large number of people to learn blacksmithing skills from Lava. After a month, these people were able to skillfully make axes, sickles and other farm tools.

These people greatly relieved the pressure of the lava.

The lava race was extremely talented, their skills improved rapidly, and they began to concentrate on researching and creating precious weapons.

Every time you fail to forge a precious weapon, you will get a superior ordinary weapon. As long as you are a blood coagulation guard, you can get a long sword or a spear.

There is also a monthly salary of one treasure yuan.

Zhou Hu and Uncle Zhao led more than a thousand farmers to Xiugu Township, where there were ready-made houses. After about a month, the farmers settled down and the spiritual realm slowly spread over ten miles.

At this time, Shengfengling and Xigu Township were only three miles apart. As long as the spiritual realm expanded next time, they would be able to merge.

The territory expanded, with 500 registered households, plus the Red Scarf farmers who were previously punished as slaves, a total of 3,000 people.

Zhou Qingshan took out the treasure yuan to buy a large amount of food from the Yunhe Chamber of Commerce.

Another group of guards was recruited, bringing the total to a hundred, including forty sword and shield guards, forty spear guards, and more than ten blood coagulation guards.

This guard lineup is already top-notch among the lords in the Rural Spirit Realm.

With over a hundred blood-clotting soldiers and warrior generals, he has the standard strength of a town lord.

The military book states that one hundred combat soldiers meet the minimum requirement for activating the battle formation, followed by three hundred combat soldiers, five hundred combat soldiers, and eight hundred combat soldiers.

Every time you reach a new level, your Qi will increase significantly.

When soldiers go out to fight, their blood and energy surge like wolf smoke, the army is filled with evil spirits, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is in chaos, and they resist all kinds of strange magic, which is equivalent to the "forbidden magic" halo.

The thousand-strong army is the city lord's ultimate military force.

Once the blood-clotting battle soldiers exceed a thousand, they will undergo a qualitative change. That is to say, there is a high probability that a 'battle spirit' of ten to a hundred feet will be born. Together with the commander of the army as a war general, they will be able to counter the power of a lord of the army who has no troops.

This is just like the State of Zhao, which did not allow Black Cloud City to have more than 10,000 soldiers. That is a force that can sweep across the world, and few military lords can contend with it.

Among the hundred riders of the Black Dragon Army, the weakest are all immigrant warriors who can easily activate the ten-zhang 'Black Dragon Fighting Spirit' and are the elite among the elite. Zhou Qingshan spent 500 essences to upgrade the chessboard again and recruit Xiao Xiao as a chess piece.

Shengfeng now has too many fighters to protect itself, and the improvement in the strength of one chess piece will not bring about a qualitative change.

Xiao Xiao awakened two bonds.

One is a personal bond [Green Wood Spiritual Root], which has a natural affinity for flowers, plants and trees. The other is an auxiliary bond [Life Aura], which is similar to a healing aura and can slowly heal injuries and restore energy.

These two ties made Xiaoxiao determined to follow Master Mo to learn medicine and alchemy.

Xiao Xiao is very self-aware. She is not good at fighting. As long as she can manage the family affairs in an orderly manner, so that Zhou Qingshan and Mo Yanqiu have more time to practice martial arts, plus the logistics of medicine, it will be the greatest contribution to the family.

Xiao Xiao possessed the [Green Wood Spiritual Root], and after a month of familiarizing himself with a large number of herbs, he was able to prepare some medicinal soups. He even succeeded in refining pills at once. According to outside standards, this was already an apprentice-level physician and pharmacist, and his talent was quite amazing.

The subsequent progress was astonishing. All the Nine Lotus Blood Grass that had been accumulated before was used to refine blood-replenishing medicine, and the pills that had been accumulated over the past three months were made.

Sold it to Yunhe Chamber of Commerce and earned a considerable amount of treasure yuan.

There are few warriors who can eat spiritual seeds, and they cannot afford it.

Most of the warriors who have no potential under the command of the lord can only take strong medicines, and the blood-clotting soldiers can only rely on strong medicines for training.

Guards are not necessarily followers or retainers, there are also free guests. Most of these warriors who enter the country have no territory, no special skills, only swords and guns. They have strong martial arts but no place to use them.

As for being thieves and bandits in this foggy land, there is not even a safe place to live. In order to have a full meal and training resources, these warriors who enter the country will take the initiative to join wealthy lords and work for them.

But they don't want to lose their freedom, so they become "menke", which means guests. They can leave at any time. The two are in an employment relationship.

This is how most of the Yunhe Chamber of Commerce recruits incoming warrior guards.

And this retainer will receive a monthly salary.

This monthly salary is also called Danxiang.

One is a fasting pill made from a mixture of exotic beast blood and flesh and medicinal materials, and the other is a blood-replenishing pill made with the 'Nine Lotus Blood Grass' medicinal material as the main ingredient.

Blood-replenishing pills are a general term, meaning pills that can provide nutrients for transporting qi and blood.

The blood-replenishing pills made from the Nine Lotus Blood Grass have average to above average medicinal properties. They are considered top-quality pills among middle and lower level warriors and are very popular.

The small bond [Green Wood Spirit Root] was of great help in extracting the essence of medicinal materials. The technique of refining the blood-replenishing medicine became more and more proficient. In just one month, the pills went from low-quality to high-quality.

One furnace can produce dozens of top-quality blood-replenishing pills.

The best quality pills are naturally kept at home for use in blood coagulation guard training, and are easier to digest than exotic beast meat.

It was the blood-replenishing pills that Xiaoxiao had refined that allowed the newly recruited guards with average physique to condense their source blood in just half a year.

This was all thanks to this small achievement, and seeing this, she became more determined to pursue the path of a pharmacist.

Wu Huichunfeng spent two months learning to read, then he read the Spirit Fish Method and began to take care of the spirit fish.

Among the spiritual fish caught by Zhou Qingshan Rune, only the 'Small Green Spiritual Fish' has the lowest environmental requirements and is the largest in number, plus there is the 'Bijin Spiritual Fish' in the big lake in the Valley Township as a reference.

Wu Hui paints a cat in the spring breeze.

She actually used this method to breed a batch of 'small green spirit fish' seedlings. Of course, the emerald green water of the Genting chessboard also played an important role.

Upon seeing this, Zhou Qingshan happily gave the purple fir wood longbow to Wu Hui Chunfeng, taught her how to move qi and blood, and also taught her to practice archery in her spare time.

Erwa has divine wisdom, and Zhou Qingshan practices other lower-level true skills to increase their characteristics. Zhou Hu's knife, Feixue's knife, Mo Yanqiu's spear, he can practice a lower-level true skill to break the limit in two months.

After practicing all the inferior skills in the territory, Zhou Qingshan could only practice the simplest basic skills every day, except for the Fire Phoenix Spear.

Non-real skills cannot be included in the [Skills] panel.

Zhou Qingshan had comprehended the true art many times and had some understanding of it. The 'fighting method', 'training method' and 'nurturing method' in the lower level true art were extremely complicated, more like a kind of dance that fitted in with nature, mainly to allow people to fit in with the fundamental diagram and thereby comprehend the true meaning.

The true secret of a killing move is to simplify the complex, which often consists of only a few moves. If you cannot kill quickly, it will take hundreds of rounds to determine the winner.

The 72 moves of the Flying Swallow Sword break the limit. When it reaches a certain speed, all the moves are reduced to only three: horizontal line, vertical line, and arc.

The martial arts practiced by the Black Dragon Army soldiers left behind in Zhou Qingshan's home were also very simple and profound. They were the real military martial arts.

All kinds of martial arts and true skills originated from it.

Finally one day, Zhou Qingshan realized the true meaning of archery, which can be included in the [Skills], from the simplest basics of bow drawing.

The only word I got was "broken".

A wooden arrow can break black gold.

With the source of treasure yuan, Zhou Qingshan would write letters to Lord Wen of Black Cloud City and Li Qingge every once in a while to inquire about the situation outside.

The situation in Zhao State was deteriorating. The Red Flame demon called himself the leader of the 24 tribes and, following the Red Flame's will of heaven, swept across the world.

Each unit claims to have an army of 100,000, but the actual number of soldiers capable of fighting does not exceed 10,000.

After being defeated head-on by the Zhao army, the confused demon finally stopped gathering his army and dispersed.

The whole world is in the midst of war, like a swarm of locusts. Except for powerful cities and towns where there are military lords in charge, there can be temporary peace.

The spiritual realm under his rule was in chaos, with only one in ten people left.

When the alien races saw the civil strife among the human race, they took frequent actions, making it impossible for the Zhao military and the lords of the big cities to mobilize a large army to clean up the situation.

Jiayuguan also encountered wilderness monsters several times, but the monster leaders and magicians had red eyes and came with fierce momentum. The commander of the troops on the city wall immediately recalled the bad memories and regained his sanity in an instant.

He turned around and ran away, abandoning all his weapons and armor.

Although the losses were heavy, many people escaped.

Until January ago.

There is bad news from Black Cloud City.

The remnants of the long-eared tribe broke through a city on the front line, and together with the rabbit tribe Bodhisattva Jetton, they took advantage of the time when the city lord Xu Qingzhou was suppressing the ferocious nine-headed snake Xiangliu in the Sunset Mountains, and led the Eighteen Arhats and an army of over ten thousand to attack.

Trying to intimidate Black Cloud City.

A general from Heiyun City died in battle, and General Meng from Jiayuguan left behind three hundred Flying Eagle auxiliary soldiers and summoned the lords of nearby towns to go to the rescue. The outcome is still unknown.

Seeing that the storm was about to come, Zhou Qingshan began to actively prepare weapons, armor, and food.

The prices of food and medicinal materials in the city have skyrocketed.

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Spring goes and autumn comes, and then the cold winter passes again.

The weather has been good this year.

When Zhou Qingshan was seventeen years old, he offered a sacrifice at the stream to comfort his father and elder brother.

After the New Year.

Zhou Qingshan accompanied Mo Yanqiu throughout her pregnancy, and her belly grew bigger day by day.

In the last month, she stopped practicing martial arts. Every day, she would sit in the backyard with her belly bulging and watch Zhou Qingshan practice archery.

Xiao Xiao did not practice martial arts. After transporting qi and blood every day, he would stay by Mo Yanqiu's side with the bamboo slips and the elixir book.

Farmers in the territory cut down trees vigorously and built houses with them. They also reclaimed large tracts of mountainous land along the stream banks and planted sweet potatoes.

However, the first-level exotic beasts from Xipanling returned one after another, and brought some wild exotic beasts with them.

One night, a first-level alien beast sneaked into the spiritual realm, causing casualties among farmers. Fortunately, Zhou Qingshan kept his ears and body alert at all times, and took action in time to avoid a greater disaster.

These first-level monsters that had not experienced the sweep by Zhou Qingshan and Mo Yanqiu were extremely arrogant, hovering outside the spiritual realm and provoking them.

Zhou Qingshan did not tolerate them. He wore dragon scale black armor, held Feihong Treading Snow Black Bow, opened "Perspective" in the fog, swept across the ridge of Xipanling, and killed more than ten first-level alien beasts in one fell swoop, making the alien beasts dare not attack easily again.

After this incident.

Zhou Qingshan replanned the territory, established three villages, and relocated farmers to a place farther away from the Lingjing Pass.

In addition, with the presence of Huskies and Thunder Knights on alert at night, there have been no more incidents of strange beasts sneaking into the spiritual realm at night to devour people.

Ten days later.

Mo Yanqiu's due date is getting closer and closer, and the entire territory is immersed in a tense and expectant atmosphere.

Zhou Qingshan and Xiaoxiao stayed by Mo Yanqiu's side all the time, preparing to welcome the arrival of the new life.

The day when Mo Yanqiu is due to give birth has arrived.

Inside, the experienced women in the family were busy preparing everything needed.

Zhou Qingshan was pacing back and forth outside the door, looking into the house from time to time. His eyes could see his wife's condition, and his body could feel the panic and pain.

"Don't be nervous. Yanqiu is a warrior. There's no danger in giving birth to a child." Seeing this, Mr. Mo comforted him.

Zhou Qingshan took a deep breath: "I'm not nervous, I just feel that Yan Qiu is in pain."

However, Mr. Mo and Uncle Zhao next to them did not understand this sentence.

Finally, after a tense and long wait, the loud cry of a baby was heard in the house.

A moment later, the door was gently pushed open, and a woman walked out with a kind smile and announced the good news to Zhou Qingshan:

"Congratulations, master. It's a little young master. Both mother and child are safe!"

Zhou Qingshan heard the news and walked into the room excitedly. He saw Mo Yanqiu holding the newborn baby, although tired but full of happiness. He walked to the bedside quietly, his eyes full of love and gratitude:

"Yanqiu, you've worked hard."

Mo Yanqiu raised her head, her face pale. She gently held the baby wrapped in a blanket and responded tenderly:

"Husband, look, this is our child."

Zhou Qingshan's eyes immediately fell on the young life. The newborn was wrinkled, still showing the signs of being born for the first time, with a pair of clear and curious eyes. After crying for a while, he smiled, obviously full of energy.

The little guy seemed to feel his father's gaze and stretched out his soft little hand.

Looking at this fresh little life, Zhou Qingshan felt an inexplicable feeling of being touched and at peace. This little life was the continuation of his bloodline with Mo Yanqiu, and was his inseparable bond with the world.

His birth dissolved the barriers between Zhou Qingshan and the world.

Zhou Qingshan reached out and carefully touched the child's little hand.

This touch is like a spring breeze blowing through my heart.

"Our son, Zhou Zilong!"

(End of this chapter)