Approaching the early morning, the sky and the earth have not yet been illuminated, the air is a little cold, and the roar of sea beasts comes from the sea in the distance.

Punching, closing punches, repeating the cycle, sweat oozed from Mu Chen's forehead, but he still gritted his teeth and persisted, his hard work paid off, after a few days of hard practice, he felt that he was one step closer to the realm of refining the body, and with it was an increase in strength and the condensation of the body.

After practicing for another hour or so, a "cooing" sound sounded, Mu Chen reached out and stroked his belly, and a helpless expression appeared on his face.

"Hey! This cultivation is really physically exhausting, after cultivating for so long, my stomach will be hungry, and I will not be able to become a big stomach king in the future." Although Mu Chen said this, he began to move his legs in the direction of the village.

But when the village appeared in the field of vision, different from the usual cleanliness, a noisy sound came out of the village, Mu Chen's face changed, and a bad intention flashed through his mind, and then he quickly ran towards the village.

In the village, I saw four soldiers wearing light armor shovels and opposing the village chief Li, although the four of them were dressed formally, but their behavior was inappropriate, and their mouths were full of swearing, not like soldiers at all, no different from the ruffians and hooligans in the land, and Li Zheng didn't know what they were arguing about.

"Uncle Li Ke, what's going on?" Mu Chen stepped forward and hurriedly asked.

I saw Li Ke clenching his fists, his face was full of anger, and he gritted his teeth and replied: "This is a group of robbers who eat people and don't spit out bones." ”

"Robbers?" Mu Chen asked.

"These people are the people of the City Lord's Mansion of Linxiang City, we belong to the sphere of influence of Linxiang City here, every year, the City Lord's Mansion will send people down to collect a certain fee, for many years, our Lijia Village has been following the order, according to the custom, pay two demon cores each time, and this time the people who came actually asked to pay three demon cores, this is simply blackmail!" Li Ke became more and more angry the more he spoke, his face was exposed, he gritted his teeth, and he wanted to kill those soldiers.

The demon core is a kind of energy crystallization in the body of the demon beast. There are countless demon beasts in the Wuyi Mountain Range, but there are very few low-level demon beasts that have demon cores, which means that the probability of the existence of demon cores in low-level demon beasts is extremely low, coupled with the strong strength of the demon beasts themselves, it is even more difficult to obtain a demon core.

When Mu Chen heard about the demon core for the first time, he once thought it was a gallstone in the body of the demon beast, but later he realized how outrageous his thoughts were, the demon core exists in the head of the demon beast, and the demon beast with the demon core is obviously more powerful, this strength is reflected in both strength and wisdom.

Seeing that the dispute between his grandfather and several soldiers became more and more intense, Mu Chen hurriedly went up, and sure enough, the armor on his chest was engraved with the word "city", which should be the symbol of the City Lord's Mansion, his eyes flickered, he stood beside Grandpa Li and said, "You are too domineering, aren't you! Aren't you afraid that the City Lord's Mansion will blame you for bending the law for personal gain?"

"Yo, the little rabbit cub still knows how to threaten us, right, do you think you can pass the news to the City Lord's Mansion? Even if the City Lord's Mansion receives the news, do you think the City Lord will blame us for such a trivial matter?"

"Huh... Ha... Hah!"

As soon as the leading soldier's words fell, several soldiers burst out laughing as if they had heard some joke.

"Xiaochen, go over quickly, it's none of your business here, I'll take care of it. Village Chief Li hurriedly said, afraid that a few people would make a move to hurt Mu Chen.

"Old man, do you want to give it or not? Do you take the initiative, or do we do it ourselves?" The lead soldier said impatiently.

"Adults, I really can't take out so many demon cores. Village Chief Li said with a sad expression.

"Hmph! I can't take it out, can we, so we can only go and get it ourselves, and let me go into the house and search it. The leading soldier turned cold and ordered.

With his command, two of the soldiers quickly rushed to the house.

"You can't do that, you are a robber. Immediately, Village Chief Li rushed forward to prevent these people from entering the house.

But the mutation protruded, I saw the leading captain hang down his hands and spread them into palms, the aura slowly went down his arms, appeared in the palms, and the palms were pushed out, bringing a gust of fierce wind, without any fancy fancies, and he flew out of the village chief Li with one palm, and after landing, he slid out four or five meters away, and turned unconscious, and the person who shot also clapped his hands very complacently.

The people of Lijia Village on the side hurriedly stepped forward to check on the situation of Village Chief Li, and Li Ke stepped forward even more, glaring angrily, wanting to make a move against the leader.

After Mu Chen saw his grandfather being beaten away, his little face became gloomy, knowing that he was not defeated by the other party, but it was his relatives who were injured, and he rushed towards the soldier with his aura in anger.

"Mu Chen, come back quickly, you are not their opponent. After Li Ke in the back saw Mu Chen's actions, his heart tightened, and he shouted anxiously.

When it was too late, Mu Chen mobilized the very little aura in his body, and rushed towards the leading soldier with his condensing fist, but before he even touched the corner of his clothes, the other soldier turned over and knocked him out.

"Bang" fell to the ground, Mu Chen only felt the blood in his heart tumbling, and spit out a mouthful of blood from his mouth.

If the leading soldier can defeat Grandpa Li with his hands, he must have reached that higher realm, otherwise the grandfather who refines the ninefold body will not be defeated by one move, Mu Chen thought about the strength of the soldier, and a sense of powerlessness appeared in his heart, and he deeply felt his weakness.

"Tsk, Qiangzi, you didn't use all your strength on Xiaocui last night, you couldn't knock a little kid out with one palm. ”

Hearing the eldest brother's joke, Qiangzi also felt a little embarrassed, but more doubtful, although he didn't use all his strength, he also made seven or eight points of effort, although it would not make a child die, but it shouldn't be in such a state.

Just as he was puzzled, the sound of rummaging through the cabinets in the room stopped, and the soldiers who had gone in to search for them finally came out, and they still held four demon cores that exuded different breaths in their hands.

"Old thing, you still say no, how good it is to hand it over early, so as not to suffer from the flesh and skin. The leading soldier had surprise on his face, looked at the unconscious village chief Li on the ground, and then led a few soldiers to ride away, leaving behind the people of Lijia Village who were desolate and helpless.

Looking at the back of the bully soldier leaving, Mu Chen clenched his fists, his eyes were fixed on a few people, there was a cold strange light in his eyes, and his sharp nails were pinched into the flesh, and he didn't even care about the blood flowing out.

"Hehe, I didn't expect to get a few demon cores casually, this trip is a big profit, and a few brothers can go to Zuichun Building to enjoy it at night. Thinking of the charming and graceful figure of the girl in Zuichunlou, several people licked their lips and let out a few lewd laughs. And the strong son who was one step behind turned his head, but saw the hateful gaze of the young man, his eyes seemed to come from hell, which made him like falling into an ice cellar, a chill rose from the bottom of his heart, and the strong son suppressed the throbbing in his heart, and he was frightened by a child, and it was a shame to say it, he shook his head, and quickly followed the first few people.

Later, the villagers calmed down Village Li and gave some treatment, and when Grandpa Li's injuries stabilized, Mu Chen came to the beach alone.

The seaside at night was full of cold, but Mu Chen was lying on the beach as if nothing had happened, what happened today subverted his thoughts, in the past, he thought that as long as he worked hard to cultivate and treated people kindly, he would live happily.

But today he woke up, to protect what he cares about, only strength is the guarantee, this is a world where martial arts are respected, the strong are swords, the weak are like fish and meat, and the belief in becoming strong is like a seedling, growing in the heart of this young man!