Chapter 2 Difficulties
Early morning.
The morning sun slowly rose, sprinkling ten thousand golden rays.
The shadow of the fist is like the wind, and a vigorous figure is constantly swooping in the morning sun, flashing and moving, it is Xu Chen, who is playing the tiger-shaped body refining fist over and over again.
I want to take advantage of the strength of the fist technique to break through to the second stage and make a breakthrough in cultivation, and reach the fourth level of the mortal martial realm in one fell swoop.
It wasn't until he was exhausted and sweating that Xu Chen stopped his movements, no matter how he cultivated the Tiger Shape Body Refining Fist, he always felt that there was a membrane in the middle, and he couldn't break through.
"It seems that breaking through to the fourth level of the Mortal Martial Realm is almost something!"
Xu Chen shook his head with some regret, simply packed up his things and rushed to the quarry in the back mountain.
The quarry is an important industry of the Xu family, and it is also an important practice for the children of the Xu family.
Before the children of the Xu family break through to the fourfold realm of mortal martial arts, they must go to the quarry to serve as laborers, and there will be a special steward who will total the monthly money according to the contribution of each child, which indicates that the Xu family does not raise idlers.
Along the way, Xu Chen's eyes were opened, and there were many children of the Xu family who practiced in the quarry, including children as young as seven or eight years old, and teenagers in their teens. The children, each carrying a bamboo basket on their backs and two chopsticks made of bamboo, kept putting stones into the baskets.
The stones are the size of a fist, when the children clamp the stones, sit on the horse with a heavy waist, the eyes are sharp like electricity, the body is as vigorous as an ape, and it is not long before it is full of a back basket, and then carry a heavy back basket to walk like flying, drive a few miles of steep mountain road, go to the wharf under the mountain.
A scorching heat flashed in Xu Chen's eyes, this is indeed a martial arts world, and every word and deed contains cultivation. A small stone transport not only exercises the legs and feet, but also exercises the waist strength, and can also take into account the eyesight and hand strength, which is not simple!
Just as he was in a daze, a voice like a duck's throat interrupted his train of thought.
"Xu Chen, why are you here so late today?
When Xu Chen looked up, he found a man with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks blocking his way, and after a little thought, he remembered that the person in front of him seemed to be an overseer of the quarry.
"Supervisor Xu, it seems that there is still half an hour before the start time, right?" Xu Chen frowned, although he came later today than before, he was definitely not late.
Supervisor Xu was slightly stunned, how did this waste change today?
Looking at the children of the Xu family who had noticed around him, Supervisor Xu showed a hint of fierceness in his eyes, and glared at Xu Chen in a long nasal voice: "Hmm? You still learn to talk back? I said it's too late!"
Xu Chen stared at Supervisor Xu with burning eyes, and the tone of this black-skinned monkey was very similar to the head of the department who made things difficult for him in his previous life.
On weekdays, in addition to forcing employees to work overtime, it is to deduct benefits, but I didn't expect to encounter such a thing in two lives.
How did you do it before? It seems to have scratched his Audi in the night, right?
"What are you looking at? Don't move the stones! Your task is doubled today, if you can't complete it, hehe, don't expect to get a penny!"
Supervisor Xu's shrill voice spread throughout the quarry, attracting more children of the Xu family to stop and watch, wanting to know which unlucky child offended Supervisor Xu again.
Supervisor Xu's name is Xu Qing, who was originally a servant of the Xu family, and by chance broke through to the fifth level of the Fanwu Realm, and he is good at drilling camps, and he is very popular with the great elders, so he was promoted and appointed as a deacon disciple.
Xu Qing's mind is extremely vicious, in order to curry favor with the above, there are many disciples who are embarrassed by the family master's lineage, but there is a great elder standing behind him, and he only dares to be angry but does not dare to speak.
When they saw that the target of oppression was Xu Chen, the waste young master, the children of the Xu family shook their heads with pity.
The clan brothers who entered the stone field with this waste young master at the beginning are now at least four or five in the mortal martial realm, but he is still thunderous and unable to shake the third level of the mortal martial realm, and now many disciples who are a few years younger than him have surpassed him.
With his strength, he must be tired like a dead dog today, and he can't get a penny.
Although this is a quarry, the stones produced here are not ordinary stones, but the moire stones of the famous Wuyuan City, which are extremely dense and very hard, and even as heavy as pig iron.
And the stones moved by adults here are different from the leftovers carried by children. They were all cut into strips of stone one meter long and half a meter wide, and when the time came, the guò waterway was transported to various parts of the dynasty to build city walls, stone forts, and buildings built with moire stone were extremely reliable, enough to withstand the wind and frost of the years, as well as the test of war.
Therefore, even if it is only the lightest piece, it is enough to have seven or eight hundred catties, and it is the limit that an ordinary martial artist of the Martial Arts Realm can move ten pieces in one morning.
Xu Chen used to be able to move twelve yuan, which was already very difficult, which was naturally a lot of income.
Today, Xu Qing actually doubled the amount for him, that is, twenty-four yuan, not to mention that he, a waste young master, even any martial artist in the triple martial realm can't do it!
Seeing that Xu Chen was embarrassed by Xu Qing, there were also many children of the Xu family who were in the same vein as the head of the family, and their faces were gloomy, the supervisors here, and even the stewards were all people of the Great Elder's lineage, and they had a deep grudge with the head of the family, Xu Chen was just angry, and they were often bullied!
Glancing at the expressions of the people around him, Xu Qing smiled like a chrysanthemum, and his heart was extremely comfortable.
There is another month before the family competition, with the natural strength of Young Master Xu Hong, this time he will definitely be able to win the first place in the competition, and then be made the next head of the family.
When the time comes, don't say that Xu Chen's waste is Xu Qingyang's husband, and it will be difficult to protect himself if he loses his position in the family!
What about the young master? He has no strength, and he is not even as good as a minion!
Xu Qing stared at Xu Chen excitedly, licked his lips, but looked forward to him resisting to the end, it was a good taste to bully a young master!
Xu Chen ignored Xu Qing's dirty expression and snorted coldly: "Hmph! Xu Qing, don't forget your identity!"
It's not his style to swallow his anger, not to mention, this Xu Qing is just a supervisor, if even he is afraid, then simply don't cultivate.
"Okay!Okay! You dare not take me in your eyes!" Xu Qing smiled angrily, grinning and revealing a mouth full of yellow teeth, showing the leather whip in his hand, it seems that I want to teach you a good lesson.
The disciples of the Great Elder's line all showed expressions of looking at jokes, this waste Xu Chen is extremely interesting, obviously his cultivation is very low, but he is stubborn, and he is really not immortal in the heart of the Yellow River.
Unexpectedly, Xu Chen did not show a panicked look, but sneered loudly: "Put you in your eyes?
In my memory, I didn't suffer less from Xu Qing's troubles and ridicule before, and I can't let the shame repeat the drama today!
Xu Qing's face was distorted, he didn't expect that Xu Chen, a mortal martial arts realm triple waste, would dare to lose his face in public, and he was so angry that he trembled.
"Good! good!" said two good words in a row, his face had turned the color of pig liver, and with a wave of his hand, the leather whip in his hand struck like a poisonous snake like Xu Chen.
Xu Chen had already prepared, a little under his feet, and avoided it lightly, Xu Qing took a breath, and the leather whip hit the vacancy, making a popping sound.
Xu Qing's face turned red, if he couldn't even teach a waste, then how could he establish his prestige, he immediately shook his whip and poured his whole body into it, never letting that waste have a good time!
Seeing that Xu Qing raised his whip and was about to continue to whip, "Stop!" Xu Chen shouted, and immediately bullied forward, Xu Qing only felt that his eyes flickered, and he had lost Xu Chen's figure.
Hmph! Do you still want to resist the waste of the three layers of mortal martial arts? See if I don't beat you today! Although Xu Qing was not shocked, he kept shaking the leather whip and whipping, and the leather whip he waved was like a spirit snake.
Basic whip skill, Spirit Snake Breath!
Xu Chen kept dodging, and at this moment, the system prompt sound in his mind: "Do you want to enable the Eye of the Void?"
Hmm? It is equivalent to the Eye of the Void of Scouting? Xu Chen was stunned for a moment, and immediately chose to use it.
Suddenly, Xu Qing's heavy whip shadow became extremely slow in Xu Chen's eyes, full of loopholes, and turned into a stream of numbers.
The peak of the whip force, the strength of three thousand catties, well, the trough is only one thousand thirteen? Xu Chen hurriedly used it for himself, three thousand six hundred catties!
After the observation of the Void Eye, Xu Chen already roughly understood Xu Qing's strength.
What about the five levels of the martial arts realm, with only a thousand or hundreds of catties of strength, it is completely inferior to himself!
Xu Chen snorted heavily, no longer dodged, taking advantage of the fact that the old power of the whip was exhausted and the new power was not born, he quickly reached out and grabbed the leather whip that came from the volley, and pulled it hard, Xu Qing only felt that a strong force came, and it was already carried away by the huge force before the strain!
"You're very bite!" Xu Chen grabbed Xu Qing's throat and slowly lifted him from the ground: "I'll ask the steward here later, is this quarry still the Xu family's property?"
Xu Qing had difficulty breathing, there was no blood on his face, and he was extremely frightened in his heart, when did Xu Chen have so much strength? Could it be that he had been hiding his strength?
What was even more frightening was Xu Chen's two sentences just now, which were heart-wrenching words, although it was an indisputable fact that the Great Elder was powerful in everyone's hearts, and it was no surprise that he would soon be able to control the Xu family.
But at least now the Xu family is still the head of the family in power!
At this moment, an old voice sounded: "Xu Chen, stop, there is no fight between the same clan, and there is an old man who will take it." ”
Only then did everyone realize that there was an old man in a gorgeous costume in the field.
The old man in Huafu swept around, and found that many of the disciples of the family head were staring at Xu Qing angrily, his brows furrowed slightly, knowing that the scene was a little out of control.
At the moment when the old man appeared, Xu Chen suddenly felt as if he was being targeted by a fierce beast, the hairs on his body stood on end, and he tightened slightly, as if even the air around him was stagnant, and he immediately knew that this old man Hua cultivated too much higher than himself.
Xu Chen's brows furrowed slightly, and the pressure put on his body by the old man fully showed that his ass was crooked, and he was clearly a member of the Great Elder's line!
It takes courage to bow your head, and it takes confidence to raise your head! I can't beat you now, it doesn't mean I can't beat you in the future! Xu Chen restrained his anger, slowly let go of his hand, and let Xu Qing wither to the ground.
The old man in the Chinese costume frowned slightly, and said, "Bold Xu Qing, don't hurry up and make amends to Young Master Xu Chen!"
"Yes,...... Yes, the villain was clumsy, and he didn't recognize it as Young Master Xu Chen. Xu Qing made a ho-ho sound in his throat, and after Xu Chen let go of his hand, he quickly lay on the ground and bowed his head to admit his mistake, obviously extremely in awe of the old man in the Chinese robe.
"It turned out to be the chief steward who hadn't appeared in front of people for a long time!" I didn't know if it was an exclamation, the onlookers were shocked, it turned out to be Xu Qinghuai, who had been the chief steward here for more than ten years, he was a pivotal figure in the line of the Great Elder, and it was rumored that his cultivation had already reached the peak of the Qi Martial Realm!
"Xu Chen, although you have not yet obtained a position in the family, you are also the head of the family, so the old man will rearrange the job for you. ”
Xu Qinghuai squinted at Xu Chen for a while, and then said in a gentle tone, making people almost think that he was just a rich man.
Xu Qing's expression was a little ugly, Xu Qinghuai glanced at him lightly, looked at Xu Chen and said slowly: "The old man's rights are limited, why don't you be the general supervisor of Xu Qing, and supervise all the affairs of District A, and the stone will be transported, and the salary will be five hundred taels of gold." ”
"What five hundred taels of gold?" There was a burst of exclamations from the crowd, they only had ten taels of silver a day working in the stone quarry, and they suddenly looked at Xu Chen's eyes with some jealousy.
Five hundred taels of gold is enough to buy a blood ginseng plant, and if you are lucky, it is enough to step into the fourth peak of the Mortal Martial Realm!
Being watched by envious eyes, Xu Chen frowned slightly, and had some doubts in his heart, is there really a good thing about pie falling from the sky?