Chapter 14: The Tree That Can't Be Cut Down
After that day was over, Lin Lao left Xingyi and Xingyun two axes, and then told the two of them that in the next three days, each of them would need to cut down thirty big trees in this secret realm, tidy them up, and pile them behind the wooden house.
From this day on, Lin Lao will cast a vein for Xiaoxiao and will not show up again for three days.
The next day, when the sun shone into the house, Xingyi and Xingyun were still lying on the bed, their whole bodies as if they were falling apart, and they couldn't get up when they wanted to get up, as if their bodies had been hollowed out.
After some struggle, the two still limped and helped each other out of the cabin.
Sure enough, there was no one outside the wooden house, and it seemed that Lin Lao and Xiaoxiao had really been in retreat for the past three days.
Xingyi and Xingyun lay on the grass outside the house together, stretching their limbs, enjoying the moisture of the sun and the fresh breeze, and forgot the soreness of their whole bodies for a while.
"Brother, when are we going to do the task that the master gave us?" I feel so much pain all over my body!" Xingyun asked with a bitter face.
"Let's rest for a while, and we'll go to the forest behind the low hill later. Xingyi said with a tired face, and then turned his face upwards and closed his eyes......
Behind the three low mountains, there is a small forest, where the trees are all very tall and luxuriant, thicker than the trees in the Warcraft Forest outside, and the whole also exudes a faint green haze, with a mysterious atmosphere.
This grove is the place where Lin Lao ordered to cut down trees, and there is only one forest in the entire secret realm, and the trees in the entire secret realm also gather here.
Starshift and Nebula rounded the low mountain and came to the grove, each with an axe in their hands.
"It's a lush woods, but when you look closer, you don't see a few!" Nebula said unexpectedly.
"I'll count how many there are. Xingyi walked in after saying that, counted them carefully, and said with a face full of disbelief after a while: "How is it possible, there are only twenty trees, and the master asked us to cut thirty each, how can this be done!"
"Ah, Master, this is a joke, brother, what to do, it's difficult!" Xingyun said with a shrug.
"Cut as many as you want, and we'll cut them down ten per person today. ”
"Well, that's all there is to it. Nebula looked at Xingyi and nodded.
In the woods, there is a large gap between each and every two trees, and the thickness of each tree requires an adult to open his arms to hold it.
The two turned their backs to each other, and one looked at a large tree, the light flickering on the axe unusually conspicuous in the green mist.
"Brother, let's see who will cut down the tree first, and see whose axe is sharper. Nebula shook the axe in his hand and said with a smile on his lips.
"Okay, let's start the competition!" With that, Xingyi swung the axe in his hand and slashed at the big tree in front of him.
"Click~" The axe almost came out of his hand, Xingyi's hands and arms were a little numb, but fortunately, there was also a cut mark on the trunk of the big tree in front of him, but it was much shallower than expected.
"My God, brother, you were so tired from running yesterday that your arms were cut so shallowly. Nebula said with a smile, swinging the axe in his hand vigorously and slashing at the tree in front of him.
"Woo~ Is this still a tree?" Xingyun threw away the axe in his hand and jumped on the ground with his arms crossed.
"It seems that this is not an ordinary tree, although we can hurt it with force, but the damage is not great, and it will be shocked and hurt both arms. Xingyi said.
"Then we won't use so much force, it's a big deal to cut a few more times. With that, Nebula picked up the axe from the ground and slashed at the tree with all his strength.
Sure enough, another slash mark appeared on the tree, and the force of the shock was indeed reduced a lot, but it still caused Nebula to hurt both arms.
Looking at the two slash marks on the tree, Xingyi smiled bitterly and said, "At this rate, it is estimated that we will have to cut it down hundreds of times." ”
"Haha, don't say it, brother, cut it quickly, we still have to see who cuts it down first?" Xingyun didn't care about the difficulty of the process, after all, there was a way to cut it down.
The sound of "Click~Click~" was endless, and about an hour later, the rumbling sound of the two classes of big trees falling to the ground sounded together.
"Brother, how many slashes have you made?" Xingyun said, gasping for breath, fine beads of sweat appearing on his forehead.
"214! What about you?" said Xingyi, waving his aching arms.
"It's such a coincidence, I'm also 214! Nebula said with a smile.
The two laid the fallen tree sideways and cut off the branches on the trunk with an axe, and found that once the tree fell, the branches on it broke as easily as a normal tree.
The sun is in the sky, the sun is shining, and behind the low mountains, the sound of cutting trees comes and goes......
"Boom~" Another big tree fell in response, Xingyun put down the axe in his hand, sat down on the ground and said: "Brother, I know the intention of the master, he just let us run first, run away from our legs, and then let us cut down this kind of ghost tree, and then let us destroy our arms." ”
"I think so too. Xingyi said with a smile.
"But Shizun must have his intentions in arranging it like this, let's just listen to his old man's words and do it, otherwise it will be more than just legs and arms~" Xingyi smiled bitterly.
"Hearing you say this, I suddenly feel less tired, let's hurry up and cut down the tree, otherwise I really don't know, Shizun will come up with any more devilish punishment methods. Xingyun couldn't help but shudder at the thought of the consequences of not completing it, and quickly stood up.
It was late afternoon, and the two of them had barely finished cutting down five trees each, but they were not slowed down by the shock of the tree cut, because in the process of cutting the trees, they discovered some tricks.
The greater and more intense the force, the more serious the anti-shock damage will be, and the damage to the trees will not be great; With medium force, the damage of the shock is much smaller, and it is important to recover in a very short time and swing the axe again, and it is important to concentrate the damage on one point and cut it in the same place every time, so that it can be reduced from 214 to less than 200 times, and the tree will be cut down.
The axe slashed at the tree again and again, and the sweat dripped down to the ground......
The sky gradually darkens, and soon the moon hangs high above the star-studded night sky.
There was another roar, and the last tree fell, and Xingyun sat down on the ground angrily and said, "Brother, why did you cut it so fast, when I cut the last one, you had already cut it down." ”
"Xingyun, have you noticed that the techniques we discovered when we were cutting down trees are a bit like the Tai Chi that Daddy mentioned to us earlier. Xingyi said with a pensive face.
"There is softness in rigidity, softness in rigidity, rigidity and softness, it is for Taiji!" Xingyun thought for a while.
"Yes, that's it, think about it, when we cut down a tree, we can't hurt ourselves by cutting down trees too hard, and we can't cut them too hard without hurting the trees. "This does have a certain resemblance to Tai Chi.
In the Wuling Continent, in the Northern Regions, there is a sect called Taijimen, which moves the world in the name of Yin and Yang, and is one of the extremely powerful sects on the mainland.
After removing the branches of the trees on the ground, they carried them one by one to the hut, and then went back and forth twenty times, and finally all the trees were carried and piled up in two piles behind the hut.
After moving the wood, the two of them were really tired, so tired that they didn't bother to go back to the house, so they lay on the grass next to the wood, their limbs stretched, and their eyes looked at the stars in the sky.
"Brother, we have cut down all the trees, but we have only completed one-third of the task given to us by the master, where are we going to cut down the trees tomorrow?" Xingyun asked, looking at the starry sky.
"Tomorrow I will go around the four rounds, look for other trees, and have a good rest today, I am tired of the day. Xingyi put his head on his arms and said as he looked at the starry sky.
"Alas, I just felt the presence of my legs today, and my arms hurt so much that I couldn't feel it. Nebula smiled wryly.
After the two of them chatted for a while, they fell silent, and after a while, two even breathing sounds sounded.
The stream in the stream was still flowing in the moonlight, and the green mist in the trees behind the low hill was becoming more and more blurred, and the whole secret place was filled with a quiet, a kind of silence where nature could be heard.
One stream, two houses, three dwarf mountains, under the stars, two teenagers.
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The morning sun shone on the grass behind the hut and on the faces of the two brothers.
"Nebula, get up, I slept here last night without going back to the house. Xingyi shook his head and shook the dew off his hair.
Nebula rubbed his sleepy eyes, then stood up, stretched out his arms towards the sun, and said, "It's another day!"
Before the retreat, Lin Lao told them where the food was, and the two of them had a simple breakfast, laughed contentedly, and then picked up the axe, and prepared to go to the back of the low mountain to see if they could find other big trees.
Crossing the creek and skirting the low hill to the woods of yesterday, the two of them were not only stunned by what they saw, but almost fell off the axe in their hands.
The small forest, which should have been reduced to only tree stumps, has become a forest as lush as yesterday overnight, and when you count it, you will find that there are still only twenty trees.
"Brother, it can't be that we cut down the tree yesterday and run back at night, right?" Xingyun said with a look of disbelief on his face.
"By the way, the wood behind the hut is still there, is it less?" Xingyi asked.
"I really didn't pay attention to this, let's go back and take a look. Nebula said.
Once again, they rounded the low hill, crossed the stream, and came to the back of the hut.
"One, two, three...... Twenty. "The nebula counted one by one, and found that there were still twenty, not less.
"It's strange, overnight, those tree stumps have grown into big trees again, but now we don't have to worry about not cutting down trees, and we don't have to worry about not being able to complete the task given to us by the master. Xingyi's face turned from shock to joy.
"Well, why does he do this? Nebula laughed too.
Again with axes in hand, the two walked to the woods behind the low mountain......