Chapter 2: A Few Years Later

The sun rises in the early morning, a touch of fish belly white appears on the horizon, and the brilliant morning glow pours down from the east like broken gold, falling in the distant mountains, between the towering mountains, looking east from the tribe, the fiery red morning sun seems to be supported in mid-air by the vigorous branches of the thick old trees on the mountain.

Heaven and earth were silent, and the killing and noise in the depths of the mountains and in the dense forests at night had long since disappeared at dawn. The bright, warm sun shone down on the low, slightly bloated mountain, evaporating the dew that had condensed on the leaves of the lush grass last night. The trees strive to stretch their green foliage and meet the warm sunshine, thrive upward, and make dreams of becoming towering trees.

The breeze quietly blew through the grass with a little coolness at dawn, bending the weeds. In the open space among the tribes, there was already a lively scene.

In front of the tribal stone house, in a huge flat clearing, a group of adult men with generally burly and strong bodies are facing the fiery red morning sun, dancing their fists and feet, stretching their muscles and bones, and tempering their physique.

They were bare-chested, their black hair was scattered, their tendons were shiny and bulging, all of them were as strong as tigers and leopards, and their powerful fists were waving, and the tigers and tigers were struck in the air, making the air roar violently, and the sound was very loud.

Behind the adults, a large group of children dressed in animal skin clothes stood from high to low according to their height, also tempering their bodies in the bright morning glow, and the number of people estimated to be several hundred people, ranging from six or seven years old to teenagers. Older children are sturdy and have a tendency to move towards their parents.

In the team of tempering their physique, even the young faces of the younger children were full of seriousness, imitating the movements of the adults dancing with their fists and feet, waving their little arms vigorously, and humming and shouting from time to time.

Behind this group of children, Mo Fan stood among dozens of children of the same age. His expression was extremely focused, his eyes were straight ahead, and he was also gesturing hard behind the big children, and he had only been exercising with the adults for a short time, and the movements of his hands and feet were actually dancing decently.

He was wearing a clean animal skin coat, animal skin boots on his feet, his black hair hung down to his shoulders, his face was tender and white, his big black eyes were bright and bright, and his body seemed to be coiled with an aura.

At the age of six or seven, the children of the tribe should participate in morning exercises, work hard and temper their physique, which is the tradition of the Mo tribe. Children who are too young are too weak to withstand high-intensity exercise, which will damage their muscles and bones, leaving dark diseases, and affecting their future cultivation and realm improvement.

A middle-aged man stood next to this group of children, he was Mo Li, who was responsible for supervising and guiding the morning exercise of the tribal children, his figure was a little thin, with a touch of sickness on his face, but the bulging tendons were still solid and strong, and his upper body was also bare, and his upper body was scarred and shocking. In particular, there was a deep wound in the chest and abdomen, which almost penetrated the entire body, injured the spleen and lungs, and left a serious root of the disease, which has not been healed so far.

After Mo Li suffered a heavy blow, his strength was greatly damaged, his body was no longer strong as before, he no longer participated in the hunting activities of the tribe, and he could only be responsible for guiding the cultivation of the tribe's children in the tribe on weekdays.

His eyes were as sharp as eagles, his expression was serious, and he kept moving among the children, his eyes swept over the children waving in front of him, and from time to time he stopped to point out the mistakes of several children's movements, and taught them the correct movements to correct them.

"The plan of the day lies in the morning, the sun rises in the early morning, all things are full of vitality, it is the time when the spiritual essence of heaven and earth is at its peak, get up early every day to practice the practice of the tribe, swallow and absorb the aura of the morning glow, which can fill the vitality of the human body, strengthen the body's qi and blood, and strengthen the muscles and bones. Mo Li walked to the front, with a solemn expression, staring at the child with a serious face, and asked sharply:

"If you want to be strong, you have to work hard every day, you know?"

"Understood!" Mo Fan replied loudly with a focused expression.

"Understood!" replied in unison as the other children did.

"Good. A faint smile appeared on Mo Li's indifferent face, and he nodded in satisfaction. He continued to teach: "This method of spitting is the method of carrying the essence of heaven and earth created by our human sages to observe the fierce beasts swallowing the essence of the sun and the moon, emphasizing the unity of mind and spirit, from the inside out, the breath pulls the spiritual energy between heaven and earth into the body, first nourishes the internal organs of the body, and then gradually cultivates outward, refining the flesh and body, strengthening the skin, flesh, muscles and bones, and finally reaching the realm of transcendence. Then, as if fearing that the children were still puzzled, he took the trouble to admonish:

"You must remember that your eyes are straight ahead, you are engrossed, and your mouth and nose breathe with the movements of your hands and feet, so that you can eat and eat qi, swallow up to the trace of purple qi when the sun is first born, nourish your body, strengthen your muscles and bones, and only then will you have the strength to fight with fierce beasts and survive in the vast mountains. ”

The wilderness is extremely dangerous, and the survival of the human tribe is difficult, even children who are two or three years old know that only with strong strength can they enter the Cangren Mountains to hunt fierce beasts and obtain enough food to thrive and survive on this land.

The great movement of the beasts in the night had just subsided, and the calm morning had not been long in coming, when it was soon broken by the noise of the children as the tribe exercised their bodies, and the relaxed atmosphere of the morning suddenly became tense and serious because of the clansmen's fists and feet.

When the adult men are tempering their physique, their chests and abdomen rise and fall, and their breathing between their noses is also very rhythmic, fast and slow, sometimes heavy, sometimes long, which seems to complement and closely related to the movements of the hands and feet.

With the passage of time, there seemed to be a touch of purple vigorous essence peeled off from the brilliant morning glow in the eastern sky, condensed into a mass of purple essence visible to the naked eye, and slowly fell from the sky to the tribe's clearing like a cloud.

After a while, the clansmen in the tribal clearing were instantly shrouded in a faint purple mist, and at this time, almost everyone showed joy and enjoyment, even the children behind them, they greedily swallowed the heaven and earth essence around their bodies, capturing the vigorous purple glow when the rising sun was drawn down from the sky.

Wisps of purple qi were constantly breathed into the body by the adult tribesmen from between the mouths and noses, and while breathing, the movements of the middle-aged tribesmen did not stop, but resonated with the snorting breath, and all the skeletal muscles of the body also made a very regular rhythm with the movements of the hands and feet.

The purple qi of the morning glow continued to wash the body, the muscles of the whole body seemed to be tempered, the bones were also tempered a little tighter, the potential of the body was explored little by little, and the body became more and more solid and powerful.

At this moment, in the open space where the clansmen tempered their physique, there was still a trace of heaven and earth spiritual energy that continued to gather from the surrounding air, swamming, forming a faint white mist, enveloping all the clansmen in the clearing, hazy, extremely sacred and peaceful. This aura also poured into their bodies with their breathing, nourishing their muscles, bones, flesh and blood, and making the qi and blood around their bodies a little more vigorous.

It's just that there are not a lot of sunrise clouds in the sky and the aura surging around, most of them are swallowed and absorbed by the adult man standing in front, and the Zixia aura that is swallowed by the children who temper their physique behind is really not much, and even the youngest children standing behind only swallow a few traces of aura.

However, Mo Fan's immature face was full of joy, a cloud of spiritual mist was swallowed between his mouth and nose, and even a few strands of purple qi as thin as hair were pulled, which was no worse than the eight or nine-year-old children standing close to the adults.

Mo Li, who was standing among the children and was in charge of teaching them, also stopped, his tall figure seemed to be bathed in purple light, he looked at the adult clansman who was indulging in the cultivation of the essence of heaven and earth, a trace of envy flashed in his eyes, and then turned into a gloomy color.

After a few breaths, his eyes returned to indifference, his gaze swept over the children in front of him who were trying to swallow the aura of the morning glow, and suddenly noticed the strangeness of the heaven and earth essence around Mo Fan's body, and a look of surprise appeared on his calm face, and he let out a "huh" sound in his mouth.

"Good boy, worthy of being the cub of the patriarch. He secretly praised in his heart. A six-year-old child can swallow the essence of heaven and earth that is not weaker than that of an eight- or nine-year-old child, and Mo Fan's intelligence and cultivation qualifications can be seen from this.

In the end, the bodies of the clansmen in the open space were covered with a layer of brilliant golden halo, as if they were wrapped in a purple-gold morning sun, shining with a brilliant luster, which was very extraordinary.

After a while, when the scene of people exercising in the huge open space in the middle of the tribe was lively, the old men and women of the tribe also pushed open the door and walked out of the stone house. They looked at the men and children who were working hard in the clearing, and they all smiled happily, felt the hope of the tribe's survival and strength, and began to be busy with their lives for this day.

The women prepare breakfast for the men and children who have exercised, pick up a bundle of wood from the firewood and grass pile in the corner of the stone house, return to the simple stove made of earth and stones in the stone house, add firewood, light the fire, set up a black clay pot, and start making breakfast. Soon wisps of white smoke rose from the stone houses of each house.

The old people were also busy taking out the medicinal herbs and animal skins in the house, drying them on the bare boulders outside, and drying them in the warm sun. The medicinal herbs were found in the mountains and forests during the hunting of the previous hunting team, and the hides were peeled from the prey. These old people are too old, their beards and hair are all white, and their whole body qi and blood have long been exhausted, and they can no longer temper their physique, and they usually do what they can for the tribe.

Relying on the primeval forests of the mountains, there is no shortage of various things that the tribe needs, especially medicinal herbs. The effect of medicinal materials is undoubtedly huge, it can make medicine powder with different effects, help the tribesmen treat diseases, rescue the tribesmen who have been bitten by poisonous insects, regulate the dark wounds left by the body due to excessive tempering, and even the old medicine can also improve the physique of the tribesmen and enhance their strength.

In the morning, the Mo tribe was a lively scene, full of vitality, illuminated by the golden light of the sun, emitting brilliant brilliance, bright and dazzling.