Chapter 8 Rare Bear Pattern

Originally, Zhou Chen could have rushed home before dark, but he did not do so. Instead, he waited for almost three hours before slowly heading home.

The reason why he returned home so late was very simple, because the bear was too big, weighing about five or six hundred kilograms. If it was seen by other people, they would definitely come up and force him to share a bite of food.

After entering the village, Zhou Chen couldn't help but speed up a lot. Not long after Zhou Chen knocked on the gate, the door opened. Then a figure ran out and hugged Zhou Chen without saying a word.

Although the man came too fast for him to see clearly, Zhou Chen could recognize the smell on him. "Okay, Yiyao, get the bear in first."

At this time, snowflakes began to float in the sky. "This snow can just cover up the traces of the sled. Yiyao quickly prepared things to deal with the bear."

Leng Yiyao was very skilled and quickly peeled off a complete bear skin. "This bear skin is valuable. When I have time, I can take it to the county and sell it for a lot of money."

"Well, to avoid any further complications, I will sell it tomorrow." When she first crossed over, the old hunter took her to the county. He knew where to buy animal skins, and he could also find buyers for animal meat if he wanted to sell it. However, he did not want to sell it.

Leng Yiyao used to do these things often. She had prepared the bear meat in just one hour, and then took out a large piece for Zhou Chen to cook.

Zhou Chen sat next to the stove, warming himself by the fire while opening his equipment panel. His eyes fell on the attribute of the bear pattern, "Right arm ninth-grade ordinary strength plus 5".

"It's actually two points more powerful than before. It seems that the more powerful the beast is, the stronger its attributes will be."

Then a prompt appeared in front of him: "When the demon patterns in the same part are found, the host can choose whether to synthesize them. After synthesis, there is a very small chance of obtaining a demon pattern with stronger properties."

Seeing this, Zhou Chen’s eyes lit up, “It can be done this way.” Then he opened the equipment panel again. As soon as he thought about it, a prompt appeared in front of him, “Do you want to combine the wolf pattern and deer pattern?”
Zhou Chen chose synthesis without any further ado, and then a flash of light appeared in front of his eyes: "Congratulations on obtaining the ninth-grade rare power for the right arm plus 15 additional divine wind blades."

"Wow, I'm so lucky that I even have additional magical powers." Zhou Chen could no longer control his emotions. The meat was cooked at this time, and Zhou Chen just grabbed it and ate it without using chopsticks.

He was surprised after taking just two bites, because he found that the strengthening points given by eating bear meat were more than those given by the previous venison. It increased by 0.01 after just two bites. If it was venison, he would have to eat at least four bites to get the same strengthening points.

Zhou Chen ate two and a half kilograms of the three kilograms of bear meat before stopping. It was not that he didn't want to eat anymore, but he really couldn't eat any more. Looking at the strengthening point that had reached 0.9, Zhou Chen was really powerless.

Leng Yiyao was scared just watching this, afraid that he might accidentally eat himself to death. Zhou Chen did not go to rest directly but went to the yard to practice sword skills for a while before going back to rest.

The next morning, Zhou Chen was not very hungry because he had eaten too much the night before, but he still ate some bear meat to get enough strength points before stopping. At this time, the snow outside the house had not stopped yet, but it had become much smaller, and it seemed that it would stop soon.

"Yiyao, help me pack up the bear skin after dinner. I will go to the county to sell it when the snow stops." After saying that, he returned to his room.

After coming in, Zhou Chen chose to upgrade the Liuhe Swordsmanship without saying a word. With the influx of memories, his Liuhe Swordsmanship also reached the minor success stage.

Host: Zhou Chen
Realm: None

Strength: 21
Speed: 2
Skill: None

Martial arts: Ordinary archery (entry level) Liuhe swordsmanship (minor success)

Strengthening points: 0
Zhou Chen felt that he had endless power in his body. He could even easily defeat his three previous selves. In this small mountain village, there was no one he was afraid of anymore. The only thing that puzzled him was why his realm was still nothing.

Half an hour later, the snow outside stopped. Zhou Chen picked up the package prepared by Leng Yiyao and went out. As soon as he reached the entrance of the village, he saw Li Ergou organizing the villagers to do something, but it had nothing to do with him.

Li Ergou saw Zhou Chen coming and said, "Chen, come with me to the mountains to hunt. I'll give you a share of the prey." It turned out that they were organizing people to go hunting, but Zhou Chen was not interested in joining. "No, Ergou, I won't go," and then left without looking back.

After walking a few steps, he heard a discussion behind him: "You are really ungrateful." The person who said this was not Li Ergou, but a hunter. The villagers around him also advised him, "Don't say that, maybe Xiaochen has something to do today and can't go."

As the distance grew farther, Zhou Chen could no longer hear their conversation. Although the county town was not far away, it was not close either. It took Zhou Chen three full hours to reach the city gate. Just as he was about to enter the city, he was stopped by the soldiers guarding the city.

"It costs three cents to enter the city."

Although Zhou Chen was confused, he did not dare to say anything. He quickly took out three cents and handed it over. In his memory, one did not need to spend money to enter the city. However, he did not dwell on this. His goal was clear: to sell goods in the city, then buy some daily necessities and go home.

After Zhou Chen entered the city, he went straight to a business. As soon as he entered, a clerk came up to him and said, "Sir, what can I do for you?"
"Brother, I want to sell animal skins."

After hearing what he said, the waiter asked him to wait a moment and then went into the inner room. After a while, he led an old man out. Zhou Chen knew this old man. He had done business with this old man when he came with the old hunter before.

"It turns out to be Xiaochen."

Zhou Chen didn't expect that the other party actually remembered him, "Hello, Mr. Wang."

Then Zhou Chen opened the package behind him without saying much, took out the bear skin and handed it over.

Seeing the bear-skinned Wang Lao was also surprised and asked, "Did you kill this black bear?"
"They were killed by the small ones."

Old Wang looked Zhou Chen up and down and said, "It's amazing. You are so young but you can kill such a ferocious beast as a black bear."

Zhou Chen asked, "I wonder how much this bear skin is worth?"
"Haha, don't worry. Brother Leng and I are old friends. Since he asked me to take good care of you before he left, I won't cheat you. This bear skin is nice, and I'll take it for fifteen taels."

"Thank you, Mr. Wang."

Zhou Chen then took the silver and left the business. He then bought some coarse salt, flour and rice in the county. Rice and flour were not cheap in this world, five times more expensive than usual. However, the bear skin sold for a lot of money, so Zhou Chen indulged himself a little.

Then he spent another two taels of silver to buy a hairpin before leaving the county town. At this time, he still had twelve taels and seven hundred coins in his hand.

When he returned to the village, the sky was gradually getting dark. When he was almost at the door of his house, he saw Leng Yiyao standing at the door looking at him from afar. When she saw Zhou Chen coming back, she waved from afar.

After putting the things away, Zhou Chen took out the hairpin he had bought and handed it to Leng Yiyao.

"Brother Chen, why did you spend that money? The hairpin I'm using now is very good."

"What's so good about it? It's just a broken branch. Let me help you put it on," and then she helped him put on the hairpin.

Leng Yiyao reached out and touched it and asked, "Does it look good, Brother Chen?"
"Yeah, it looks good."

Leng Yiyao said happily, "I'll go cook for you." Zhou Chen grabbed him and Leng Yiyao was startled, "What's wrong with Brother Chen?"

"Here, this is for you," Zhou Chen handed the remaining silver to Leng Yiyao.

(End of this chapter)