On the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Sun Zikai sat on the top of the dangerous peak, the snow-capped "Ansheng Pass" was full of red lanterns, his mind was still above the practice, looking at the laughter and laughter below, he turned his head to look outside the pass. It was pitch black outside, as if something was about to run out of the darkness, so he picked up a stone and threw it with all his might.

The stone disappeared into the darkness, there was no trace, he turned over and jumped, and jumped directly off the dangerous peak, and soon fell to the middle, he saw the right time, grabbed on the gap in the stone wall, and his body stopped suddenly, but his arm was dislocated, and the flesh and blood on his shoulder were torn, and only a few tendons and bones barely pulled his body.

He then crawled on the stone wall, leaned on his legs, and jumped down little by little. Enduring the pain, he ran into the pigsty, sucked the life of a pig, and regained his flesh.

walked into Lao Yang's room and saw the knife that Lao Yang was fiddling with, so he asked, "Lao Yang, have you found it?" ”

Lao Yang said: "I turned the bottom of the box out, there is no two-hundred-pound weapon as you said, you kid, you can't hold it, what are you looking for it." ”

Sun Zikai didn't tell everyone about his enlightenment, and shook his head helplessly: "Forget it, I'll still use my own knife." ”

The sixth daughter-in-law walked in and said, "Lao Yang, there is a pig in the pen that is dying, and it is still alive in the morning." ”

Lao Yang said: "That's a good feeling, tell Liuzi to slaughter tonight, stew meat tonight." ”

Sun Zikai walked out of the room, Yang Youshi came over with a bowl of fried spring rolls, and his mouth was full of oil, "Brother, can't you eat." ”

Sun Zikai grabbed one and chewed it, and said in disgust: "It's too greasy." ”

"I think it's fragrant, you haven't seen Aunt Liu's fried white meat, I'm hungry!" As soon as Chinese New Year's Eve passed, you were six years old, and when Sun Zikai took her to wander, she was only two years old, in fact, compared to Sun Zikai, she did not suffer much.

Since the beginning of last year, Sun Zikai has been teaching Yang Youyou food medicine, but his food talent is not as good as Sun Zikai's, and he has not memorized one-tenth of the more than 460 books.

"Brother, what are you worried about?"

Sun Zikai tilted his mouth and said, "It's okay." "He walked up to the wall, tonight is the old Zhang sentry, he left the opportunity to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, leaving it to the young people.

Dressed in a shearling skin, with a knife in his left hand and a hot wine jug in his right hand, Lao Zhang was lying on the edge of the wall, and a plate of fried spring rolls was placed on the wall.

Sun Zikai turned over and sat on the wall, his legs swinging outside.

Lao Zhang said: "Why don't you wear thick clothes." ”

Sun Zikai replied: "It's not cold. ”

The two talked for a while, and after a while, the woman climbed up with a large plate of stew and put it in front of Lao Zhang, "The black pig in the circle has been slaughtered, and some of them are eating hard, and the wine is out and calling me." The woman called Sun Zikai back to eat, but Sun Zikai said that he would stay here for a while.

One big and one small, two generations of gatekeepers chatted for a long time with a big plate of meat and a pot of wine, Sun Zikai pointed to Lao Zhang's face and asked, "Lao Zhang, where did the scar on your face come from?" ”

Lao Zhang's eyes were always staring at Guanwai, and he said with a smile: "When I was two or three years older than you, in order to save face in the children's pile, I took a knife out by myself, and I cried and howled all night in pain." ”

"Haha, I heard Lao Yang tell me that he is your hair, and he knows everything about you."

Lao Zhang said unhappily: "It's his funeral thing, he fooled me into doing this!" ”

"How many years have you been guarding it, Lao Zhang."

"In the second year after Lao Yang came, I became a gatekeeper, and I have been guarding for 17 years, the earliest group of people, in the third year after I came, they died, only Lao Yang and me, Lao Yang was twenty-four at the time, and I was twenty-three, so I provoked the big beam, and the two of us are blessed, we can always escape from death, Lao Yang is even harder, he is the team leader, and he has to go to the top of everything."

Sun Zikai glanced at Guan Wai and comforted Lao Zhang: "Don't stare outside, there is no one outside." "Now he can not only feel the vitality, but also the energy, and he knows best if there is anyone.

But Lao Zhang didn't dare to relax, he said: "Even if no barbarians come overnight, someone has to lean on here, leaning on here, to reassure the group of young people below, everyone can spend the New Year in peace, it's not easy." ”

Lao Yang roared under the wall, telling Sun Zikai to go back to eat Chinese New Year's Eve, Sun Zikai jumped off the wall, said a New Year's word to Lao Zhang, and walked down, Lao Zhang and Lao Yang looked at each other, nodded their heads, from childhood to adulthood tacitly, without too much expression.

Although the war between the gatekeepers and the barbarians has gone through so many years, it has been endless, but on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, there is very little friction, because the barbarians also celebrate the New Year, and Chinese New Year's Eve has the same special significance for both inside and outside the pass.

Sun Zikai drank a lot of wine, and even got drunk with food. When everyone was asleep, Sun Zikai climbed to the top again, lying on the edge of the cliff on his side, the winter moon was sinking slowly, he was drunk and hazy, imagining the feeling of "absorbing" in his mind, not even when he was awake, let alone drunk. He had no choice but to get up and make that set of movements, and after a long time, he touched the "feeling", but he fell headlong on the edge of the cliff.

"Absorbed" the moon in a daze, and after a long time, the essence of the moon was condensed, and he raised his hand to grab it.

The pain of the second tempering was even stronger than the essence of blood, and Sun Zikai jumped up directly and almost fell down. Completely drunk, more sober than ever.

The pain was so great that he couldn't scream, so he kept stomping his feet with his head calm, and his feet were numb, so he began to roll, and when the pain had subsided, he yelled, but his voice was buried in the wind and snow, and he did not disturb the sweet dreams of the guards below.

He lay on his stomach with his face on the ground, sweating, and then he scurried up, took off his pants and soaked his urine, and shook his wit, and he didn't want to experience it again.

And the little bit on his skin that was tempered by the essence of the moon for the second time didn't show any difference.

"I've got to find the essence that boosts the firmness of my body, what could it be?" He sat on the edge of the cliff and wondered if it could be the stone under the seat, could the stone condense the essence? The stone is not like the sun and the moon, and it is not releasing energy, but Sun Zikai feels that since the blood can condense the essence, the stone is not impossible.

He grabbed the ground at will, grabbed a handful of soil, suddenly stunned, he sniffed the smell of the soil, looked at the soil, and looked at the stone, he started that set of actions, after a long time, came to the "feeling", then the "feeling" pressed on the soil, during this period, he suddenly felt the decomposition of the soil, and at the moment of change, he seemed to perceive a great energy released into the natural world, he was thinking about it, his hand was hot, looking down, the soil was gone, only a muddy yellow essence of the soil remained.

He slapped the palm of his hand, immediately noticed the change, struck while the iron was hot, and grabbed one handful of dirt after another....

In three days, he did not come down from the dangerous peak, the first round of refining of the essence of the earth was easy and painless, and the improvement brought to him by the essence of the earth was the hardness of his body that he had in mind. Skin and organs, even blood vessels, eyes... They were all tempered by him once.

And on the fourth day, he hurriedly said goodbye to the gatekeeper and ran out of the pass, this time he didn't even bring a donkey, and found a secluded place, unlike other essences, the essence of the earth can be said to be everywhere, he immediately opened the second round of quenching, which is the lightest second round of quenching pain he has endured, but the refining of the essence of the earth is very slow to improve the body, and there is no clear upper limit, after the fourth round, Sun Zikai felt that his body was not much harder, and he insisted until after the eighth round, He felt that his skin had a noticeable hard texture.

Five days later, he tempered to twenty rounds, and the pain of tempering at this time was high, and under the "hammering" again and again, his body could finally carry his own strength. However, he was still not satisfied, and continued to use the essence of the earth to quench, and when he was twenty-three layers, the pain was unbearable, just like his skin was beaten into iron, and a new round of quenching was to knock this piece of iron into slag little by little with a chisel, and then start the fire and hammer it again.

And his quenching speed is also slow, it took ten days to quench to thirty rounds, at this time, Sun Zikai's body is already invulnerable, and even he jumped from thirty zhang, and his legs can land steadily. Under the strength of sixty-four times that of an adult, his speed has been greatly improved, but although his ankles are hard, they are not soft enough, and many movements made in the extreme state are not smooth enough.

At the thirty-fourth layer, he failed to quench his body, because the pain had surpassed the second refining of the Moon Essence, which made him give up directly halfway and start cultivating the body technique instead.

The strength is there, the physical strength is there, but the knife is useless. When he held the knife and slashed with all his might, the blade of the knife was directly broken. I can only abandon the weapon, turn to fists and feet, the set of killing skills saved by killing barbarians for a long time has played a big role, he will reduce the redundant actions again and again, and in the end, there are a few simple killing moves left, the road is simple, although he has no more gorgeous moves, but it seems to have an extra set of experience, with the intention of braking, quite effective.

He did not stop the path of exploration of cultivation, from the soil can be condensed into the essence of the earth, he realized that everything can be condensed into the essence, from the perspective of energy, it also proves that the energy or form of energy of all things can be manipulated or transformed.

His whimsy was proved again, he caught the wind, he caught the fire, he condensed the water under the waterfall, and one day his hand touched the iron, and on a whim, he really condensed the essence on the iron, which he called the essence of gold, and on the grass and trees, condensed the essence of wood.

After the first round of tempering, his body fused the essence structure of the sun and moon, gold, wood, water, fire, earth, and blood, and the second round of tempering, and developed the special abilities of the essence.

He specifically referred to the essence and other primordial things as elements. What surprised him the most was that the Earth Essence greatly increased the strength of his body, causing the other essences to be refined for the second time, and the pain brought to him was greatly weakened.

The essence of the wind made his skin very sensitive to the flow of breath, and when the third round of refining passed, he began to be able to "see" the "qi", this "qi" is not just the wind, the "qi" emitted by different people is different, and the "qi" emitted by the same person under different emotions is still different.

After the third round, the essence of water still did not show any special ability, until Sun Zikai used the mountain stone as a sandbag, fought for a whole day, and left two wounds on his fist, he found that the essence of water brought changes to his body, aquatic everything, the ability of the essence of water, is "repair" and "healing", his two wounds were repaired quickly, and the consumption of vitality to itself was almost zero, it is a kind of evolution, self-repair of the skin structure.

The second round of refining of the wood essence failed directly, not because it was too painful, but because his body did not react to the wood essence that came for the second time, did not integrate, did not reject, and it seemed that it could only be tempered once.

And the essence of gold and the essence of fire are the two elements that benefit Sun Zikai the most, and they also essentially change Sun Zikai's fighting style.

The second refining of the two essences has made Sun Zikai's skin structure extremely unstable, but the results are not the same, the essence of gold allows the special structure of Sun Zikai's skin to "soften" and "spread", in layman's terms, when he holds the knife as light as a willow leaf, the knife that comes into contact with his body will be assimilated into the same structural texture as his body, how hard his body is, how hard the things he touches will become, but as soon as he separates, it will soon change back to its original state.

The essence of fire is a very direct and irritable texture release, and the way it is released is the flame, he has never practiced spells, with a wave of his hand, he can summon a large area of flames, which is also his favorite practice result, the scorching flame, burning in his eyes, he loves it in his heart to the point of obsession, what a beautiful thing, flames, the masterpiece of God.

In another year, he completed the second refining of the Sun and Moon Essence, but the two essences still did not show extremely special abilities, but the Moon Essence made Sun Zikai's body much smoother, and many actions that could not be completed at high speed before can now be easily completed.

Until the end of Sun Zikai's ten-year-old, he refined the essence of earth to forty layers, while the essence of the sun and moon has two layers, three layers of blood, and four layers of gold, water, fire and earth.

Xu is that his body has been strengthened to a certain height. The wood veins branched out, rolled up in all the elemental textures, and completed an evolution with the entire body, making the earth forging body reach the standard of sixty layers, the sun and moon forging body three layers, the blood forging body five layers, and the gold, water, fire and earth six layers each, but since then, his body forging practice has almost stagnated, and the body has reached a certain indefinable limit, even if he has been quenching his body with essence, there is no other effect except pain, and the pain generated in the process of quenching the essence of earth has been able to be fatal.

But at this time, his physical strength was immeasurable, and his strength had reached one thousand and twenty-four times that of an adult.