Chapter 459: Ice-Breaking Technique
Xu Ran re-entered the 'Ice Field' world on August 19th, also six days after the last time he left, and this time when he descended on the cabin, no one was peeking outside.
The temperature is also lower, and it gets lower and lower as time goes on; When he first entered, the unfrozen surface of the river was less than 10 meters wide, and seven days after he arrived, the entire river was completely covered with ice.
When he first entered the 'ice field', Xu Ran still insisted on making the 'spiritual power shield' float in the river every day, and when the river surface that did not freeze was only more than three meters wide, he drifted in the river at night, and the 'spiritual power shield' began to be frozen on the river surface, so in this case, it was not a matter for him, he only needed to reduce the size of the 'spiritual power shield' again after waking up, and then float from the water into the air, so he didn't pay much attention to this.
When the unfrozen parts of the river continue to narrow and the river is no longer suitable for drifting, he hovers above the unfrozen area of the river and continues to master his 'mental power rope' skills in catching fish.
After returning to the 'Ice Field', Xu Ran also had a two-way choice for the skill of catching fish with the 'Spiritual Power Rope Sleeve', one was to practice the skill of controlling three 'Spiritual Power Rope Sleeves' to catch fish at the same time, and the other was to continue to deepen the proficiency of mastering the skills of controlling two 'Spiritual Power Rope Ropes' at the same time; ’
After the river surface was completely frozen, although Xu Ran could also use the 'Spiritual Power Rope Sleeve' skill to catch fish underwater across the ice, but in this state, he was only proficient in skills, but if he wanted to take the fish out of the ice, it would take a lot of twists and turns, unless he didn't plan to harvest the fish, otherwise, every time he went to the trouble to get fish from under the ice, he would have to spend a lot of time.
Xu Ran didn't want the villagers to think that he was going to eat and drink for nothing for a while, although the fish he had caught before should be enough for him to eat for free for a while, but if he didn't continue to keep the harvest of fish, it would inevitably make the villagers have other thoughts, at least they would be looked down upon by the villagers; He didn't want the villagers to underestimate his abilities, which was a bit of a matter of personal honor.
So when the river began to be frozen, Xu Ran took the icebreaker fishing method to collect the fish, his way is not to break the ice surface in a large area, but only to break a hole in the ice with a diameter of nearly 400 mm, when the fish is caught underwater, just take it out of this hole, it is the catch.
As for how to make a hole in the ice, Xu Ran also took an unconventional approach.
If you use the Imperial Envoy Stone to smash a hole in the ice, it shouldn't be difficult, because the Stone can be used by Xu Ran. After the spiritual power of the object skill is accelerated, he will smash it to the ice surface, but Xu Ran did not choose this simple way, he put forward a more challenging request for himself, that is, to directly use the power of the object to smash the ice, this trick Xu Ran has not seen others use, it is purely when he faces the ice, it is a temporary idea, but Xu Ran feels that this may really be able to practice, and this skill should be very useful.
When Xu Ran considered the location of the hole, he chose the thinnest place for the ice; At the beginning, the entire surface of the river was frozen, and the thickness of the ice near the center of the river was about 40 mm, and at this time, near the shore, the thickness of the ice could be 100 mm.
When Xu Ran first floated in the air and used the power of the object to break the ice, it can be said that it was very lawless, he condensed the power of the object and smashed the blow to the ice, and its coverage area could be more than 500 mm in diameter, which was already the most powerful blow he felt he could use, but because the area covered was too large, the speed of the attack was not fast enough, and there was river water under the ice to support the ice; Therefore, this powerful blow did not have a good effect on the destruction of the ice, and it did not cause cracks on the ice surface.
This is not to say that Xu Ran can't adjust his hitting coverage at this time, he thinks that it should not be a problem to reduce this coverage to 300 mm in diameter; The problem is that when he reduces the diameter of the hit, the force he can make a blow decreases; Therefore, he considered the direction of self-training: while maintaining the maximum force of the stroke, gradually achieve the goal of narrowing the coverage of the stroke.
Xu Ran felt like he was hitting the ice at this time, as if he was waving a pot lid to hit the ice, although his own contribution was not small, but he just felt that the blow was illegal.
Fortunately, the thickness of the ice in his first attack was thin, and after he hit it more than a dozen times in a row, the ice began to crack in large pieces, and after a few more blows, he threw the broken ice to the shore, clearing a garden hole with a diameter of almost 800 mm.
Xu Ran immediately floated on the river near here and began to carry out the work of catching fish with a 'spiritual power rope'; however, while catching fish, Xu Ran's training to hit the ice did not stop, and he continued to practice 'hitting the hole' at the same time a few meters away from the entrance of the cave; when he felt that there were too many holes on the river surface in the space of his mental force field, he would change places again, reopen the hole to catch fish, and then continue to practice the work of opening holes on the river surface in that area.
By the end of the day's hole-breaking training, his progress was still noticeable, and his coverage had shrunk from 500 mm in diameter to 400 mm when the envoy hit the river ice with maximum force.
At night, he adjusted his spherical 'spiritual shield' into a cylinder with a diameter of one meter and a length of two meters, and he let this cylindrical 'spiritual shield' lie on the ice on the surface of the river, and used his fur coat as a pillow to cushion the shield, and then he wore underwear and began to fall asleep in the shield.
The villagers saw that the weather was getting colder and colder, and a few days ago they offered to buy him another fur vest, but he refused as 'unnecessary'.
By the end of the third day of his hole-breaking training, his maximum force hit coverage had been reduced from 400 mm in diameter to 300 mm; After that, the pace of progress was much slower, and by the time he finished the eighteen-day training period, his maximum striking coverage had dropped to 200 millimeters in diameter.
When Xu Ran stayed here until the fifteenth day, the minimum temperature here is estimated to be more than minus 30 degrees, and the maximum temperature will not exceed minus 20 degrees, and the place where the ice layer is thick on the river surface must be more than 200 millimeters, and the thinnest place has an ice layer of more than 100 millimeters.
The men in the village did not go out again after Xu Ran entered the world of the 'ice field' this time, it should be that the weather was too cold, and it was not easy to harvest hunting; at this time, they began to go to the ice to break the ice and catch fish, they chose to use tools to break the ice and open holes in the thickest part of the ice, and their tools were a steel drill and an axe.
There are four ice caves, each hole is about 50 meters apart, and each adult man guards an ice cave, and the fishing tool they use is a harpoon with a rope attached to it, and when the fish appear at the mouth of the hole to breathe, it is the time for them to fish.
Xu Ran observed that the amount of fish caught by each man every day, that is, more than a dozen, and their children would come over every once in a while to take the fish they caught home.
When they started fishing, Xu Ran moved the place where he broke the ice to catch fish, at least 500 meters away from the entrance of their hole, so as not to affect their catch because of his own fishing.
The three teenagers' daily martial arts practice did not stop, but the place where they practiced martial arts was adjusted to their own cabin, after all, it was too cold outside, and the temperature could be ten degrees higher than that outside when the door was closed in the house, and the room also had a bit of a heat gathering effect, when the children were active in the house, it could also raise some of the ambient temperature in the house.
The clearance of Xu Ran's small wooden house can be a little more than 4x4 meters, and the only furniture in the house is a 1X2 square meter wooden bed placed against the wall, so the teenagers practice boxing in the house, and the space is barely enough, but their stick skills need to be practiced in the yard.
During the interval between Xu Ran's practice by the river, he would also take time out to instruct them on boxing and stick techniques here, and before Xu Ran left the 'Ice Field' this time, he also taught them the basic moves of the relevant intermediate palm techniques and boxing techniques.
Xu Ran also told them before leaving that when he left this place, he would not bolt the door in the cabin, so that they could easily go in and practice during the day, but when they left, they had to tie the door outside to save the door from being blown out when the wind was strong.
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