At this moment, Lin Yao was clearly dressed as a craftsman.
Wearing a blue and white striped linen shirt, black coarse linen trousers, and a pair of beautiful and comfortable straw sandals woven from dika, with an apron around her neck, if her fair skin were dyed bronze and her cheeks were made less fleshy to highlight her features, she would be a quintessential Miao craftswoman.
Lin Yao is now content with the status quo.
Unable to win a fight and unable to escape, Lin Yao simply stopped thinking about going home and waited patiently for Xiao Cao to emerge from seclusion.
Without the help of the grass, he probably wouldn't have been able to escape.
The reply to Jinka was that they would consider it, and this consideration lasted for ten days. In the blink of an eye, Lin Yao had been kidnapped for more than half a month.
Fortunately, Lin Yao had mentioned conducting experiments with the Daika family and achieving some success, which allowed Jinka to continue to tolerate Lin Yao's consideration time; otherwise, he would have already resorted to force. Perhaps it would be a whip and dripping wax, or perhaps he would be made to swallow a large caterpillar—anything to make him submit.
The person acting as the guinea pig was none other than Kouka. This robust 20-year-old was unmarried, or as he put it, an "older youth," and was anxious to find a suitable girl to marry.
Lin Yao was stunned by what Kou Ka said, but when he heard that people here usually get married at 17 and have children at 18, he agreed with Kou Ka's self-assessment. This was really an "older" youth. He was twenty years old and still not married or had children. It was really embarrassing.
Kou Ka was also stunned by Lin Yao's words, and he was even more shocked than before. He was not only shocked but also trembled all over. However, because the clan leader Jin Ka had given the order to fully cooperate with Lin Yao's experiment, he reluctantly came to Lin Yao's cabin every day and made sure to be available whenever Lin Yao called.
Every time Kouka was about to enter the wooden house, he displayed the decisiveness and courage of someone ready to sacrifice himself.
Because... because every time he had to strip down to just his underwear, and let Lin Yao grope him, occasionally applying some sticky ointment made from herbs and other things. That feeling, that smell, every time he thought about it, made Kouka want to cry.
This secret must not be revealed! If it gets out, I'll be a bachelor for life, and no girl will ever want to marry me again.
Therefore, Koka treated Dika, the only third party who knew the truth, very well, doing everything he could to flatter her. He gave her whatever she wanted and helped her whenever she asked. This allowed Dika to obtain many good worms for refining Gu worms, which made her two dimples even deeper and more charming.
The Miao people of the Daika family use a strange method to enhance their abilities, which is different from the other aristocratic families that the Yi family and Lin Yao have heard of. They do not have the conventional method of cultivating internal energy according to the laws of meridian circulation. Instead, they enhance their abilities through herbs, organs and blood of various organisms, Gu worms, and spiritual talismans that they have heard of.
This method puzzled Lin Yao, who initially thought it was a mysterious witchcraft aiding cultivation, perhaps a white witchcraft, the kind that enhances personal abilities with blessings.
When Lin Yao examined Kou Ka's body, he discovered a mysterious power. This power existed in Kou Ka's bones, muscles, and blood, giving him super strength and perception. When he consciously extracted and used this power, he could also gain a special ability.
Of course, there are great differences between individuals with this ability. For example, the ability of the card-deductor is to explode. He can make his attacks, which are imbued with mysterious power, explode inside the enemy's body to severely injure the enemy.
The gold card granted Lin Yao a great deal of authority, perhaps because he thought Lin Yao would never be able to leave this valley again in his life. So he tried his best to meet all of Lin Yao's requests, as long as they did not involve anything that could reveal the secrets of the Daika family.
The herbs, various animal organs, and blood that could enhance Kouka's abilities were all listed directly. Presented to Lin Yao, this saved Lin Yao a great deal of time in the process of screening and selecting them himself. Even the experience of how some of the ingredients would affect certain parts of the human body would be told to Lin Yao by Kouka or by a door master who occasionally appeared in Lin Yao's cabin. This was practically a direct transmission of experience and an unrestricted human experimentation.
Menlashi is a shamanic healer of the Miao ethnic group, sometimes also called a ghost master. He can go down to the underworld to help patients find their karmic obstacles, and then heal and ward off disasters through sacrifices of chickens, ducks, piglets, or calves.
Lin Yao wasn't sure if the monk could ward off disasters, but his healing abilities were beyond question, because Lin Yao admired and respected this monk named Le.
Le is practically a living "Pharmacopoeia" and "Medical Canon," though only within the Miao ethnic group's medical system.
Lin Yao learned a lot of knowledge and experience from Le, such as how the juice of a certain herb can stimulate changes in which organs and tissues of the human body, and how the saliva of the "Bamboo Leaf Viper" (a highly venomous green snake) can enhance the heart's beating power through a certain secret method, thereby strengthening various aspects of a person's abilities.
In Western medical research, the venom of the bamboo viper is a hemotoxic toxin that can cause hemolysis, bleeding, coagulation, and heart failure. However, when processed using Miao shamanistic methods, the outcome is entirely different.
Lin Yao absorbed Le's knowledge and experience like a sponge, and used his precise detection skills to conduct experiments on Kouka, achieving remarkable results.
If it weren't for his many responsibilities and other matters, Lin Yao would even be willing to stay in this valley for a while longer. The anger from being kidnapped had faded; he just wanted the opportunity to come and go as he pleased, without having his freedom artificially restricted.
Lin Yao dared not share this thought with Jin Kati, fearing he would lose the opportunity, and even more so, fearing being whipped and wax-dripped, or forced to eat caterpillars.
The results Lin Yao achieved were the main reason why Jinka was able to continue to tolerate his delay in considering the matter.
In Jinka's view, Lin Yao was very savvy and had already embraced the role the Daika family hoped he would play in the future: becoming a Menla Master who could enhance the abilities of the Daika family's warriors.
Although this differed from the information he had previously obtained, Jin Ka wasn't stupid. He no longer trusted the other party's words, because the Miao warriors cultivated in a completely different way than ordinary martial arts families. Even if Lin Yao could create drugs that directly enhanced one's power, it would probably only be effective for ordinary families, and would be useless to the Miao warriors.
The fact that twenty-year-old Koka could rapidly improve his abilities in just ten days, even to the point where he could hold his own against twenty-five-year-old Baka for more than ten minutes, is the best proof of this.
Lin Yao belongs to the Daika family, and no one can kidnap him!
Balancing work and rest is the key to success in work, and Lin Yao has also followed this rule very well.
The main reason is that many of the Miao witchcraft methods are extremely bloody, and Lin Yao is worried that he will go crazy if he doesn't balance work and rest.
Learning silver jewelry making from Deeka is one of the ways to relax. Through precise control and focused work, Lin Yao has made great progress, both in silver jewelry making and in his state of mind.
Before being abducted, Lin Yao had already sensed that his state of mind was becoming increasingly unstable. Sometimes he was as peaceful as an old monk, and other times he was as violent as a thug. This caused his healing energy to fluctuate as well, which had already alerted Lin Yao.
Violence can enhance one's medical true energy, and there is no other way. Therefore, Lin Yao does not consciously control his behavior and emotions, and there is a hidden thought of deliberately releasing himself, with the aim of becoming stronger.
After arriving in the valley, whether it was due to the valley's natural environment or his contact with Dika and learning to make small handicrafts, Lin Yao found that his state of mind had improved. The negative impact of his malevolent energy on his medical true energy gradually disappeared, but the effect of improving his skills did not diminish. This discovery made him ecstatic, so he continued to study in his spare time and maintain his original lifestyle.
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"Ah Lang, I'll teach you something else fun today. Would you like to learn?" Dika smiled like a blooming white lotus, pure and beautiful.
However, she's a little too young...
"Great! Our little Dika is the most capable. Let me see what fun things he's up to." Lin Yao was delighted. He believed that it was mainly because of Dika that he had calmed down his anger, so he was very interested in Dika's new technology.
Dika smiled and took out something hidden behind his back, instantly freezing Lin Yao's smile. He wanted to die.
What appeared in Dika's hand was a piece of black cloth. In the very center of the soft black cloth was a bamboo embroidery hoop, on which several bright and dazzling peonies were displayed.
embroidered?!!!
Let me die!
Lin Yao inwardly groaned. He never expected that the new thing Dika mentioned would be embroidery. Just imagining himself holding an embroidery hoop in one hand and using the other to scrape hair oil from his scalp and insert a needle into a beautiful pattern made Lin Yao want to vomit.
This is practically Dongfang Bubai! It's a shame Dika thought of using something like this to discipline him; what a failure!
"Dika, I'm not playing the embroidery game anymore, you can play by yourself." Lin Yao swallowed, feeling his throat dry. "How about we play with insects again today? Tell me how to raise gu, tell me more about the methods of raising gu in a concentrated manner, I haven't heard enough yet."