Chapter 22: The Mask

A few days later, Qi Wei saw Lei Luo again, and the other party was messing around in the martial arts hall as usual, and actually practiced meditation with Bud.

Meditation is the hallmark of a veteran martial artist, and in simple terms, it is to reawaken the fetal instinct by concentrating on mental energy for a long time. When fetal breath naturally becomes the second breathing method, the longer it lasts, the greater the role it plays in the martial artist's full burst phase.

What made Qi Wei cry and laugh was that Bard Cannon and the others were meditating, but Lei Luo, who was drawing a scoop according to the gourd, was snoring.

Lei Luo looked much stronger than he had been some time ago, and he seemed to be a little taller, and his physique was already showing signs of transitioning from youth to youth. He was still wearing the coarse linen short-sleeved shirt, the back of his hands was full of scars, he was half-leaning there with his eyes closed, his face was tight, and there was a faint Sichuan character pattern between his eyebrows, which did look a little fierce.

Qi Wei sat silently in the meditation room, and watched for about an hour before Lei Luo woke up.

Lei Luo stretched his waist halfway, only to find a pair of bright eyes next to him staring at him, and said with a smile: "Why are you here? I'm practicing meditation!"

"Are you comfortable practicing?" Qi Wei said lightly.

"This ...... Still in the exploratory phase. Lei Luo's face turned red, and he jumped up and said, "What's the matter?"

"There's nothing wrong with the martial arts, I have something. Qi Wei said angrily, "There is still a week before the competition, and you are actually hiding here to sleep! Uncle Bud is really, he refuses to teach you the secret method, but he teaches you what kind of meditation! Isn't it too early for you? A bunch of stinky men know how to fool around all day long, they don't have anything to do, who is responsible for dragging you down?"

"It's not a drag!" Lei Luo was startled by her sudden outburst of anger.

"Sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat! You can't make progress here, isn't it a drag? Why don't you go to my cousin in the Black Flag Army and let him teach you more about the art of warfare!" Qi Wei said hatefully.

Lei Luo was stunned for a while, touched Qiwei's head, and showed a gentle smile: "Are you afraid that I will lose?"

Kivi opened his hand, biting her lip and not speaking.

"Actually, it really doesn't matter to me whether I participate in the competition or not. It's just that Big Claude will find trouble with me sooner or later, so it's just a matter of solving it on the stage. Don't worry, I won't lose. The average line of ten people in our martial arts club has to rely on me to raise it, haluhaha!" Lei Luo deliberately wanted to make Qi Wei relax, and he made a strange move without saying a few words.

Qi Wei couldn't help but be amused, and she was about to make a face again, but she couldn't stand up. Thinking that Lei Luo has brought himself a shock or shock since the day he challenged the black suit, he can't help but feel a little more confident.

"Not going to the Black Flag Army?" she asked.

"I don't have to go, I'll be able to do it, what else will I go? I've been practicing the military skills these days, and it feels quite smooth. Lei Luo refused with a big grin, "Don't look at me practicing meditation and falling asleep, it's only valuable if it's difficult!"

Qi Wei was finally convinced, sighed softly, took out a can bottle from her bag, and said, "This bottle...... This bottle of Beihai fish oil was brought to you by my mother, and she took a lot of effort to ask a friend to buy it, saying that it was good for those who practice martial arts. After finally saying these few words, I was extremely uncomfortable.

Lei Luo was dumbfounded.

When she heard Meryl mention the Blue Rose Women's Clothing Store that day, the reason why she did a small favor was entirely for Chiwei's sake. Although the little tigress is fierce, she is really good to herself. The black jade necklace was obviously extremely important to her, and she was willing to put it in her hand in the end. In comparison, pulling the Black Flag Army has become a trivial matter.

But now her wife seems to be wrong. Speaking of which, isn't this change of face too fast?

Of course, Kivi wouldn't tell Lei Luo, but her mother had been questioning her for hours that night, and she didn't give up until the early hours of the morning.

Meryl was shocked not by Lei Luo's ability, but by his age and ability - he was only fifteen years old, and his mind was so rebellious, and in time, it would be worth it?!

After learning that Lei Luo's progress in martial arts was also amazing, Meryl did not say anything to ridicule the martial arts cultivators, but looked at Qi Wei meaningfully, and said lightly: "The diamond crystal will shine at any angle." Good girl, have you chosen your graduation dance partner? I think he's good. After saying that, he covered his mouth and yawned, leaving the stunned father and daughter and going back to the room. Women, staying up late is the biggest killer, even if you don't go to work, you have to make up for this sleep first.

Qi Wei heard a little bit of her mother's meaning, but Lei Luo, who was pouring fish oil pills into his mouth in front of him, was not so sensitive.

Shortly after Kivi left, a stele-like figure pushed open the door.

"Why are you still eating, continue to meditate for Lao Tzu!" Bard roared with spit flying, snatched the fish oil from Lei Luo's hand and looked at it for a long time, and poured it into his mouth.

Another few days flew by, and Lei Luo never went to a third place except for his home and martial arts hall.

The potential is still stuck at 203%, and the cold aura brought by the relic's energy has been completely absorbed, and there are no more negative effects other than the cold enough at the time.

The improvement of the three attributes of strength, agility and physique has brought extremely obvious changes to the body. The feeling of muscle swelling became more and more intense, and there was a thick undercurrent flowing all over the body, and the movements between gestures were more flexible, and it used to take more than half an hour to run to the martial arts hall, but now it was able to break through the fifteen-minute mark. The improvement in physical fitness is not only manifested in the energy and qi and blood, but also the senses have also been "upgraded". Everywhere I looked, I had a clearer and clearer vision, and I couldn't hear the movement in the direction of the wellhead when I slept at night, but now the noise is becoming clear day by day.

Coupled with three martial arts and one secret method, this is all Lei Luo's capital.

The fist strength testing machine in the courtyard of the martial arts hall is a prop that must be used in the assessment of martial artists. The standard for rookie martial artists is 500 kilograms of fist power - ordinary punches, and no martial arts or secret methods are allowed.

Lei Luo's current record is 241 kilograms.

This is quite a frightening statistic among his peers. But if Big Claude really meets the martial arts standard in an all-round way, Lei Luo is still far from him.

The meditation sessions, which seemed meaningless to Kivi, continued, endlessly.

The day before the match.

Lei Luo got up early in the morning as usual and ran to the martial arts hall. According to tradition, the Swains hung sturgeon streamers at the door. The sturgeon is a typical creature that swims against the current, and in folk customs, this represents that there are martial arts cultivators in the family, and there will be an important competition.

The neighbors rushed in surprise, and after learning that Lei Luo would advance to the academy tomorrow as the top ten of the Ryoma Martial Arts Society, the overwhelming admiration immediately overwhelmed the Swain family.

Scotch didn't get off the well until the morning shift, and he was still triumphant: "What else does my brother say......? Oh, no, it's also great at cultivating martial arts!"

"It's good to be humble, look like you're a brother!" Swain reprimanded.

Scotch humbly accepted, but he didn't dare to teach him repeatedly. It didn't take long for him to set aside the miner's lamp on his head and blow it up with the other workers. The new vein has just begun to be excavated, which is when the work is at its most labor-intensive. A few more words, a few less digs in his hands, except for an honest man like Swain, no one wants to work hard.

For ordinary people, the world under the mine is unimaginable.

It's dark, damp, filthy, and full of unpredictable dangers. No miner who went down the mine in the morning dared to say that he would come out alive at night.

But life has to go on.

Even though Lei Luo had already paid a large sum of money to his family, and repeatedly promised not to steal or rob, Swain still couldn't believe that luck would come so easily. He was always worried that a large number of mounted police would break into the door one day, so he didn't dare to move a penny, and still went down to work with his eldest son, looking for peace of mind in the hard work.

"If Lei Luo can really become a warrior, I will be relieved......" Sven wiped the sweat from his face, raised his pickaxe again, and dug into the cave wall in front of him.

With a "dang", the pickaxe was shaken to the side, and sparks flew in the darkness.

When everyone heard that the sound was wrong, several lights were cast.

Under the dim pillar of light, I saw that the inside of the black crystal rock pit was impressively embedded with a hideous bronze mask. Sven's pickaxe just now didn't even leave half a pit on the mask.