In years of famine and drought, their village even rejected fatty meat.

Chapter 47 The Exceptionally Effective Chicken Blood

"Master Li, please take a look."

Chen Dao picked up the chicken coop that was at his feet and placed it on the stone table in front of him: "This is a chicken we caught in the Cangmang Mountains. Its feathers are as red as blood, and it is a breed that we have never seen before. According to the old hunters in our village, it is very likely that this is a breed of chicken with the bloodline of a demon beast!"

The old hunter's speculation was just Chen Dao's fabricated excuse. He said it only to increase the credibility of the Blood Feather Chicken having the bloodline of a demon beast.

However, Chen Dao's explanation did indeed pique Li Hu's interest.

Li Hu moved closer and looked at the blood-feathered chicken in the cage. He saw that the chicken in the cage was extremely small, even smaller than the common domestic gray-feathered chicken. Indeed, as Chen Dao had said, its feathers were bright red all over its body, and it was obviously extraordinary.

"This chicken is indeed different!"

Li Hu stood up and looked down at the chicken in the cage, pondering, "Are you sure this chicken, like a wild beast with demonic blood, has the effect of strengthening one's blood and qi?"

"I can't be sure!"

Chen Dao spoke frankly: "That's why I brought the chicken to Miss Li to take a look. If this chicken really has the effect of strengthening qi and blood, as our village hunters say, then we can talk about the price. If not, then this deal is off!"

"Oh?"

Li Hu turned his gaze to Chen Dao, sizing up the young man and secretly admiring him.

As one of the top ten most influential figures in Taiping County, Li Hu had seen far too many young people who were timid and subservient in front of him. Not to mention anything else, just look at the apprentices in the martial arts school; which one of them wasn't timid and hesitant when they saw Li Hu?

Chen Dao, the farmer's son his daughter had mentioned, was neither humble nor arrogant when facing him. He spoke clearly and showed no fear in his eyes. This courage alone was enough to impress Li Hu.

"You mean you're willing to give us a chicken to experiment on?" Li Hu asked, his eyes filled with admiration.

"Of course!"

Chen Dao took a blood-feathered chicken out of the cage and said, "Master, please take one of these chickens to try. If this chicken really has the effect of strengthening qi and blood, then we can talk about the price. If not, then I will take this batch of chickens back."

Chen Dao naturally knew that these blood-feathered chickens truly had the effect of strengthening qi and blood, so he was not worried about the experimental results at all, but only worried that Li Hu might seize them by trickery.

Fortunately, the little round thing perched on Chen Dao's shoulder gave him some sense of security.

"it is good!"

Li Hu reached out and took the blood-feathered chicken, handing it to Li Ying and saying, "Yingzi, kill this chicken and have some of the blood to taste!"

"no problem!"

Li Ying was quite skilled at killing chickens. She quickly carried the chicken into the nearby kitchen, and before long, the blood-feathered chicken's screams could be heard from the kitchen.

Immediately afterwards, Li Ying came out of the kitchen carrying a bowl of chicken blood that had not yet solidified and said to Li Hu, "Dad, you should try it!"

As Li Hu took the bowl of chicken blood, he explained to Chen Dao, "The blood of any wild beast with demonic bloodline can strengthen the qi and blood of a martial artist. If this bowl of chicken blood has an effect, it means that your batch of chickens really has demonic bloodline!"

After saying that, Li Hu picked up the bowl, not minding the fishy smell of the chicken blood at all, and drank the chicken blood in the bowl in one gulp.

“It tastes pretty good!”

After drinking the chicken blood, Li Hu wiped the remaining chicken blood from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve. Then, his face froze, and he stood there stunned.

"This chicken blood..."

Li Hu felt a warm current rise in his stomach, which then spread from his abdomen to his whole body. It felt as if the blood in Li Hu's body was boiling, and his exposed skin and face turned red, which was a sign of the surging of blood and qi in his body.

"It really works!"

Li Ying's eyes lit up. As a ninth-rank martial artist, she was all too familiar with Li Hu's current performance, which was a sign of his internal blood and qi boiling and his qi and blood power rising.

"Please wait a moment!"

Unable to suppress the boiling blood within him, Li Hu went straight to the open space in the backyard, waving his fists and practicing his family's martial art, the Tiger-Taming Fist, to calm the surging energy within him.

"call!"

After a long while, Li Hu finally exhaled a breath of hot air, the redness on his skin and face gradually fading, and returned to sit down at the stone table.

"Dad, how's the result?"

Li Ying asked impatiently.

"Effect……"

After assessing the condition within his body, Li Hu gave it a very high rating: "The effect is excellent, several times better than ordinary medicinal herbs!"

This bowl of chicken blood caused Li Hu's internal energy to rise slightly. Although this slight increase was small, it was an extremely pleasant surprise for Li Hu.

It's important to know that for Li Hu, who had reached the peak of the eighth-rank martial artist, it would normally take at least a month of diligent and unremitting practice to increase his qi and blood even slightly.

As for using medicinal herbs to aid in cultivation...

For Li Hu at this level, the medicinal herbs that could be bought in the county town were no longer effective for him.

A bowl of blood from the Blood Feathered Chicken saved Li Hu a month's worth of work, demonstrating just how extraordinary the Blood Feathered Chicken's effects were.

Hearing Li Hu's evaluation, Chen Dao breathed a sigh of relief. It was good that the Blood Feather Chicken had received Li Hu's approval. In this way, he would not have to worry about the sales of his Blood Feather Chicken.

"So that means the chicken that Brother Chen brought really has the bloodline of a demon beast?" Li Ying asked.

"I can't be sure if it has the bloodline of a demon beast! But the effect of strengthening one's blood and qi is real!"

Li Hu turned to Chen Dao and said, "Young man, let's talk about the price!"

price……

Chen Dao, naturally unaware of the price of this item, could only say, "Why don't you tell us what price you're willing to offer, Master Li?"

Li Hu glanced at Chen Dao and said, "Ten taels of silver each, how about it?"

"That's too cheap! Is Master Li taking advantage of my youth and ignorance?"

Chen Dao shook his head and said, "As far as I know, a common medicinal herb that can help a ninth-rank martial artist strengthen his qi and blood would cost at least 20 taels of silver. The Blood Feather Chicken is even more effective than the medicinal herb, so it shouldn't cost 10 taels of silver per chicken!"

This is why Chen Dao gave up becoming a martial artist, and also why Li Ying persuaded Chen Dao to give up martial arts. In this world, medicinal herbs suitable for martial artists are too expensive, and are simply unaffordable for a farmer like Chen Dao.

Of course, this refers to the medicinal herbs used by martial artists. If it were the medicinal herbs used by martial arts school apprentices, the price would probably be cheaper, but even at a lower price, it would still be beyond the reach of a farmer like Chen Dao from a rural background.

"Uh……"

Feeling somewhat guilty after his thoughts were exposed, Li Hu scratched his head awkwardly and said with an embarrassed laugh, "You can't say that, little brother. Although your chicken is more effective than herbs..."

Before Li Hu could finish speaking, Chen Dao held up two fingers and said, "Twenty taels of silver each, what do you think, Master Li?"