Chapter 44.

It didn’t take much time to go from the county office to the Zhen Gui Si, and then out of the Zhen Gui Si.

Zhou An looked at the early color of the sky, and in his heart, he had a new idea for the Traveling Dragon Steps, so he did not plan to go back early.

At this moment, a red haze filled the sky in the distance.

Although it wasn’t nighttime, it was about time to close the stalls.

The vendors on the streets are scattered, not as lively as in the morning.

The market is well, some sell in the morning, some sell at noon, some all day in the stalls here to sell.

People come and go, there are both scattered and gathered.

Zhou An wandered around the market for a while, and finally bought a long roll of rope from a vendor.

These ropes were rolled out by the vendor’s hands and were quite strong.

After buying it, he didn’t go back immediately.

He bought a lot more burlap in front of another stall.

Only after everything was ready did he return home with his things.

After coming back and casually eating something, Zhou An started arranging with gusto.

He first tied all the ropes to the ceiling beams.

This step reminded him of the aunt he met last time.

The aunt’s talent as a comedian was still fresh in his mind.

After tying the ropes, the ropes were just the right length, hanging in the mid-air of the room.

Zhou An pulled hard on the rope, it was firm and would not be ripped off by brute force.

Only after he had done this step did he pick up the linen cloth he had bought earlier and used a long knife to divide it into dozens of equalized small pieces.

He thought of his aunt again.

Especially when the aunt was divided by him into fifty-six equal parts, just like these small pieces of cloth.

“Sure enough, comedians are the most memorable.”

Zhou An gathered up the pieces of cloth on the ground, held them in his arms, and walked outside to the street.

After looking around to make sure no one was there, Zhou An took out his long knife and shoveled the yellow soil on the ground.

After roughly shoveling a basket, Zhou An then carried the yellow soil back to the house, divided it evenly, and wrapped it in small pieces of cloth.

He sealed the opening with a thin thread and hung it on a rope.

It didn’t take long, and there were dozens of hanging bundles of earth in the room.

It was densely packed, like an array of earth packets.

Zhou An hemmed and hawed, ran to the kitchen, washed his hands clean, and then picked up the kitchen’s iron pot in the process.

“Up!”

He slapped it forcefully at the earth packs in the room.

With the power added, a gust of wind was fanned out, causing dozens of earth packs to sway left and right under the gust of wind.

Each earthbag swayed irregularly.

“From now on, you’ll be called the earthbag formation.”

A very frustrating name.

Zhou An put down the iron pot on the side and lifted his foot to walk in, the Qi in his body continuously flowing.

The air was spread all over the surface of the body, which was the most important foundation of the Wandering Dragon Steps.

Through the changes in the air on the surface of the body, it was possible to dodge the enemy’s attacks.

Zhou An had just stepped into the Earth Bun Formation with his front foot, and immediately, several earth buns came swaying from behind.

When the earth packs were about to come into contact with Zhou An’s back, Zhou An narrowly dodged them through the changes in his Qi.

But before he could dodge it, the earth bag next to him flew over again.

Zhou An concentrated and bent down to dodge the dirt bag next to him again.

But what greeted him was another dirt bag from the left rear.

The earthbags around him were all wobbling without rules.

This was different from the battle against the Beast Cult Sect Master, this was a group attack!

And most importantly, he needed to dodge in a narrow space and still not go out of the range of the earth packs.

It undoubtedly increased the difficulty.

The successive attacks made Zhou An unusually excited.

He felt highly nervous.

But the more nervous he was, the happier he was.

A smattering of text appeared in front of his eyes.

[Swimming Dragon Steps +1]

After Zhou An saw the line of text, joy appeared in his eyes.

After any skill reached the third level, if one wanted to continue with liver proficiency, one would have to put in other efforts.

Let’s say that the Planarizing Knife Technique was something that he carved wood to gain proficiency in.

When he came back, he had been thinking about how he could liver up the proficiency of the Swimming Dragon Steps.

After thinking about it, he knew what he had to do.

Since it was a Body Technique and had the effect of dodging, he had to start with dodging.

He remembered that when he used to watch TV, there was this method of training body techniques.

He also just wanted to try it out, but he didn’t expect that by casually trying it out like this, it somehow succeeded.

As soon as his heart was happy, his air was slightly disorganized, and Zhou An didn’t dodge the oncoming dirt bag, and was struck in the face by the dirt bag, lying straight back on the ground.

His face was slightly numb, but he didn’t suffer any injuries, the earth he dug was relatively loose, not solid mud.

Although he had failed, Zhou An was getting happier and happier.

On the surface, it looked like he had failed, but in fact, the specific liver method of proficiency was something he had completely mastered.

“Again!”

Zhou An felt that he shouldn’t rest tonight either.

With something fun, just continue to liver.

Moreover, this skill was not as boring as Butcher’s Knife and Upside Down Objects.

Hiding wasn’t boring at all.

Every time you shook the earth bag, it was in an irregular way, and no one could anticipate what would happen behind it.

This kind of training was excellent for Zhou An.

Zhou An came to be interested and tried it up again, fanning a fierce wind with the iron pot, blowing the earth packs around.

He stepped inside the earthbag formation once again, this time hiding for a slightly longer period of time.

“Pah!”

With a clear sound, Zhou An was hit by the earthbag.

“Again!”

Zhou An continued to fan the gale and stepped into it again.

This was how the cycle went back and forth until it was dawn.

Zhou An lay on the ground, feeling the air flowing in his body, recovering his energy from the night.

In a state like his nowadays, it was no longer a big deal to stay awake at unusual nights.

Although he still had to sleep every few days to replenish his energy, last night was different.

Every training session last night was mentally intense.

It was still mentally exhausting.

After waiting for a while, Zhou An then got up from the ground and shook his head.

There was air recovering, and some of his energy was replenished.

Throughout the night, Zhou An’s proficiency had also risen quite a bit.

[Swimming Dragon Steps lv.3 (Speed +2, Dodge +1) 1258/40,000]

When you pay, you get something… This was still the first time he tried it and was not too skilled.

Plus the higher the proficiency level, the slower the progress of proficiency.

Zhou An felt that having this kind of harvest in one night was already very good.

“Well …… during the daytime, go to the Yamen Liver Butcher’s Knife and Upside Down Objects, and then come and practice the Swimming Dragon Steps during the night.”

After planning the time a bit, Zhou An looked at the fact that it was already dawn, did not stay any longer, ate some rice, and went to the Yamen to order.

Today’s yamen was a bit different.

Instead of the constables being salty as usual, they were all busy one by one.

Even the ones who weren’t busy, they all pretended themselves to be busy.

When Yu Hang saw Zhou An coming, he skimmed his lips and put the book in his hand aside: “Talking about promotion, one by one, they are all pretending.”

Zhou An smiled.

This situation was normal.

In order to be promoted to the head constable, they performed in front of the Master to increase their chances of promotion.

Zhou An was not interested in the head constable, and after stretching his back, he went to the kitchen to continue his work.

After preparing all the dishes, Zhou An picked up the wood and carved it.

It wasn’t until almost noon that he started practicing bobbing things again.

Proficiency was rising, and so was Zhou An’s mood.