Chapter 40: The Early Spring Festival

The cold wind of early spring is like the last consolation of this winter, when the first green quietly appears in the mountains around Yinren Village, the birds of prey and fierce beasts in the mountains and fields also officially announce that they have survived another cold winter.

Looking at the new shoots bursting out of the ancient trees in front of her, a petite girl quietly watched the thawing streams and waterfalls in the mountains. The girl occasionally squatted down and reached out to touch the earth, feeling the changes of the land in this spring breeze. The girl had long hair and a gray-black mask covering her face, but it could be seen from her petite hands and body that her real age was not very old, and this person was Li Xintian.

In the blink of an eye, three days have passed since the training camp, and during this time, including the seven of them, the young people of the entire Yinren Village are busy, because there are less than seven days left before the martial arts competition.

Yinren Village issued an order at the beginning of the year, and the martial arts competition will be officially held the day after the Spring Festival. The early Spring Festival is a very important festival in Yinren Village, not only Yinren Village, but also the entire Luoyun Kingdom regards the early Spring Festival as a very important festival of the year, second only to the Yunxi Day. People will go up to the mountains to collect various herbs and wild plants during the early spring festival, because after a winter of heavy snow covering the mountains, the harvest on this day of the early spring festival is much more than in the past.

Li Xintian usually practiced in the deciduous forest in the north of the village, since she was very young she liked to practice alone in the forest, her practice of "thick soil and qi technique", was originally a very fast practice, its emphasis on the understanding, only eight years old girl through the meridians around the body, this is also thanks to her understanding from this land.

Li Xintian slowly raised his right hand, looking at the soil particles on his palm, Li Xintian smiled slightly. I saw that the soil particles were constantly beating up and down on her palms under the urging of her internal strength exercises.

In the past few days, Yi Xifeng will discuss their respective exercises and moves with Li Xintian in his free time. By chance, Li Xintian demonstrated to Yi Xifeng the wonderful use of this kind of imperial strength exercise, and Yi Xifeng had a sudden inspiration and asked Li Xintian to try to control the soil in his hands and form various shapes.

Unfortunately, it was not as successful as Yi Xifeng imagined, Li Xintian told him that the ability of the Thick Earth Imperial Qi exercise to control the soil was extremely limited, and she had been practicing the Thick Earth Imperial Energy for five years, from the very beginning of the loose soil to strengthen the loose soil into a hard "stone bullet", and then through the guidance of internal strength, one end of the spherical stone bullet was protruding and sharp, turning into a "stone thorn", every change in appearance and form was extremely difficult. However, the hardness of "stone bullets" and "stone thorns" can be strengthened by increasing the output of internal strength. Just like when they dealt with the Blood Moon Greedy Wolf together, Li Xintian used most of the internal strength in his body to condense the "black stone thorn", and its hardness far exceeded that of ordinary iron weapons.

Holding the stone thorn in his hand, Li Xintian used the internal strength around him, only to see that the stone thorn did not become harder and slender as before, but quickly shattered, and turned into a pinch of sand again under the urging of internal strength.

"If you can gather, you can disperse, and you can gather and scatter as you like. Gathered like a fire, scattered is full of stars. Li Xintian held the sand in his hand, and couldn't help but think of what Yi Xifeng said to her a few days ago.

She has known Yi Xifeng since she was very young, and her eldest brother and second brother often put this name on their lips.

"Qualifications, but fun. That's the first thing she heard. She naturally understands that the interesting thing here is not just the character, although the eldest brother's personality is more casual, but the second brother Li Chengtao still evaluates it like this, which shows that Yi Xifeng is different from others.

From a very young age, Li Xintian began to pay attention to this peer who was about the same age as himself, and at the same time, he subconsciously compared himself with Yi Xifeng.

"Brother Chengtao, can you teach me swordsmanship?"

"An ordinary person's body, if there is no exercise support, is not suitable for cultivating the Thirteen Swords of Chasing the Wind. ”

"Oh, that's it... How's that funny kid?"

"Uh... His exercises are quite special, but he can be cultivated. ”

"Big brother, I've opened up the meridians around my body!"

"Not bad! Not bad! Eight years old to get through the body, much better than the eldest brother and me! Even your brother Chengtao only opened at the age of twelve!"

"How's that funny kid? Did he get through?"

"Well, he's special, he got through when he was five years old. ”

"Oh, that's it..."

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It wasn't until that day that he really saw Yi Xifeng that Li Xintian was sure of what the two brothers said.

"Sure enough, it's an interesting person. ”

She shook her head with a chuckle, and continued to comprehend the ground beneath her feet. It was not easy for Li Xintian to make a conclusion about Yi Xifeng's qualifications, but many of her thoughts on cultivation made her feel as if she had opened up a whole new world.

Yinren Village, made by blacksmiths.

At this time, two people, one big and one small, were sitting opposite each other, staring at each other with big eyes and small eyes.

"Are you kid sure you want to do this?" Lin Rufa's eyes widened, as if he was asking the young man in front of him, which was really incomprehensible to him.

"Lin Bo, three thousand iron ......" The young man opposite Lin Rufa laughed dryly.

"Hmph, don't even think about that. This time, the elders asked the blacksmith to make a batch of exquisite weapons for your group of children, but it was only compared to the standard weapons in the village, and it was far from the level of temple weapons. Don't think about three thousand irons, let's tie it to you honestly!" Lin Rufa shouted angrily.

"Oh, since that's the case, then trouble Lin Bo, let's help me build that!" The young man smacked his lips, revealing a shy smile, looking very well-behaved, with his delicate little face, it was hard to think that this person was Yi Xifeng who led the most outstanding teenagers in Yinren Village to defeat the Blood Moon Greedy Wolf a few days ago.

Lin Rufa glared at Yi Xifeng, and when he saw his appearance of a scoundrel who was cheap and obedient, he couldn't help but feel angry and funny. Plainly built a weapon for this kid, and he was picked. Although the weapons refined in batches this time are inferior to temple weapons in terms of quality and technique, after all, they are from him, and they must be rare boutiques, but Yi Xifeng put on an expression of reluctance to accept them.

"Ahem, okay, since you've decided so, you'll take it in three days. Lin Rufa coughed softly and said softly to Yi Xifeng.

"Let Limber bother. Yi Xifeng got up and bowed to say goodbye, he knew that even if the reward of this training camp did not meet his expectations, he would definitely not let him down. Three days later, it is the early Spring Festival, so this weapon can also be used in this martial arts competition.

Three days are fleeting, the villagers of Yinren Village, both young and old, are busy to spend, the Chunfeng River in the west of the village has ushered in a new spring flood, the four or five-year-old martial arts teenagers in the village have completed the morning "Tongyi", and then come to the river to touch the fish in the afternoon.

The strong men in the village are engaged in and guarding the iron clothes, and they have been busy preparing various gathering and hunting equipment during this time, and they are all preparing for the "opening festival" on the day of the early Spring Festival.

The so-called "opening festival" refers to the first gathering and hunting activity after the closure of the mountain on the day of the early Spring Festival. The activity is divided into two parts, one is to gather herbs and the other is to hunt prey. Through the "opening festival", it is also a good luck for the villagers of Yinren Village to fight for the new year.