Chapter 6 The Role of External Hangings

  The warm sunshine on a winter day feels very comfortable on the skin, Dog Danzi is leaning against the sun-facing earth wall at home, his whole body basking in the warm sunlight, breathing lightly.

  In the distance, the mountains were like a giant dragon, winding on the ground, and vaguely visible, you could still see towering peaks standing upright. It was these towering peaks that made Dog Egg certain that this place was absolutely not Earth. Where on Earth would there be such magnificent high peaks?

  Each of these peaks is at least 10,000 meters above sea level. Such a landscape cannot be seen anywhere else on Earth.

  Today, Dog Egg wore a brand new cotton-padded jacket for the first time since he was born. All along, he had been wearing Three Dog's or even Second Dog's discarded old clothes.

  This year was different. Zhou Hua made a new cotton-padded jacket for each of her two younger brothers. Since marrying Wang Tianlei, her life had been much better than when she lived at home.

  It has to be said that Wang Tianlei is a very capable person, and this capability is not only reflected in his strength, of course, this is the most outstanding aspect.

  He is a very clever person, and in just a few short months after returning, he became the leader of the village hunters. This was not just a nominal leadership, but an actual one, as all the hunters in the village obeyed him. His actions seemed to Dog Egg's eyes like those people who crossed over into primitive society on the internet, leading the whole village towards prosperity. From his secret calculations, since Wang Tianlei arrived, the amount of game obtained from hunting in their village had increased by at least five or six times. Now, every three to five days, they could even eat meat at home, although not much, but it was still better than before.

  He also unified the organization of the whole village's hunting households, and sold the skins they hunted to Qingyangji. Due to the large number of animals being hunted now, and the greatly increased number of fierce beasts, compared to the past when each household fought for itself, the harvest was much greater, and the standard of living of each household also visibly improved.

  Moreover, during their usual training sessions on the open space in the north of the village, Wang Tianlei gradually began to train these hunters to work together and even formed some simple battle arrays. Over the past few months, the harvest of the mountain hunting team has increased, but casualties have decreased. In fact, only a handful of unlucky hunters were injured, and their injuries were not caused by being attacked by wild beasts, but rather because they were careless and fell in the mountains.

  Watching Wang Tianlei do everything, Gou Danzi felt like he was watching a main character who had traveled back to primitive society, and sometimes he even really thought that Wang Tianlei was just like him, also a time-traveler.

  Wang Tianlei was so capable, and Zhou Hua naturally followed in his footsteps, enjoying a better life than she had at home. Especially after she became pregnant with their child over a month ago, Wang Tianlei was even more considerate of her, not letting her do any hard or heavy work. With nothing to do, he helped his two younger brothers make two cotton-padded jackets. After all, these two brothers were raised by him personally, and the affection was naturally different. Especially Dangzi, who had been obedient and sensible since childhood, Zhou Hua treated him like her own son.

  So from time to time, Dog Egg would sneak into his sister's house to scrounge for food and drink, and also manage to dig up some valuable things from Wang Tianlei's mouth.

  For several months, he was completely immersed in the world of martial arts. Although what he learned were only the most basic and superficial martial arts, it was enough for him to study for a long time.

  The practice of Dali Jin Gang Qigong has reached a bottleneck. A three-year-old child's physical strength and the amount of internal energy they can hold are limited after all.

  And he hasn't grown enough to be able to practice the Bear Demon Fist yet.

  However, recently, while practicing Tai Chi, he made an unexpected discovery that Tai Chi seems to have a physical training function as well.

  Because of his strength, he gradually grew up.

  This is somewhat similar to what Wang Tianlei said about practicing the Bear Demon Fist, a skin-tempering fist method. However, the degree of growth is completely not as obvious as that of the Bear Demon Fist.

  In fact, in his feeling, this increase of power in the body is not Tai Chi Fist but rather the Great Strength Metal Hard Qigong he has been practicing.

  Of course, the martial arts training in this world is a combination of internal and external, cultivating internal energy is a process from inside to outside, cultivating internal energy can enhance physical fitness, but such effects need to wait until your internal energy is deep and thick, and reach a certain level of fire before they appear, it's a gradual and imperceptible process. Moreover, the higher the internal skill, the more obvious the benefits to the body, this Dahui Jin Gang Qigong is just the most superficial internal skill popularized in the army, even if you cultivate to a higher realm, it will be difficult to produce any benefits for the body.

  The internal energy in Gou Danzi's body is now pitifully small, and it's not even worth mentioning. According to common sense, such internal energy shouldn't be a burden on the body, let alone have any benefits. What a joke.

  But in fact, the powerful Qigong inside his body was indeed starting to nourish and warm up his body gradually, not just his muscles, but also his bones, tendons, and even his meridians. If others knew about it, they would definitely be shocked with their mouths wide open, this is simply an unimaginable thing.

  Gou's egg indeed achieved this, of course, he was able to achieve this point not because Gou's egg is what kind of genius, but entirely due to the reason of Tai Chi Fist. Tai Chi Fist seems to have a purifying and transforming effect on internal energy. After practicing Dali Jinkang Qigong, practicing a simplified Tai Chi Fist will not only make the internal strength of Dali Jinkang Qigong more tenacious, but also grind off the sharp edges of this golden internal strength, changing some of its properties, thus forming a kind of internal energy that is very similar to yet completely different from Dali Jinkang Qigong.

  Of course, this inner energy is essentially still the mighty Vajra Qigong, it's just been optimized by Tai Chi fist power, a greatly optimized version of the mighty Vajra Qigong.

  He slightly shifted his body, and Dog Egg slowly moved away from the wall. The sun in the sky was warm and comfortable to bask in, but if he just kept basking like this without doing anything, he would always feel a sense of emptiness inside. Sometimes, after becoming more diligent than before, he couldn't even be lazy anymore.

  The old Zhou's house was at the west end of the village, backed by a small hillside. Further west were several scattered houses, far apart from each other. These few households were the westernmost part of the village. Beyond this small hillside was a steep cliff, hundreds of meters high, with no footholds or vegetation except for some crawling animals and monkeys. Climbing up would require great effort. The top of the cliff was a barren old rock, devoid of any medicinal herbs or game, so few people ventured there. Even if someone did go up, they wouldn't come from the west side of the village. Between the cliff and the hillside was a small depression, about 100 square meters in size, overgrown with dense shrubs that were as tall as a person or nearly one meter high. A three- or four-year-old child like Dog Egg could easily hide inside without being discovered if no one looked carefully.

  This is where Dog Egg practices every day.

  Standing in the open space between the shrubs, Dog Egg sat on the ground, having practiced his powerful Vajra Qi Gong for two hours. After waking up from meditation, the warm sun had gradually moved westward. Dog Egg stood up and slowly performed a round of Tai Chi, but this time it was different. His usual eight moves, which would have taken no more than two minutes in his previous life, now took him nearly half an hour to complete. By the fifth move, "Wild Horse Parts Its Mane", he had already spent a considerable amount of time and energy. As he entered the sixth move, "Golden Rooster Stands on One Leg", his movements slowed down again. Finally, when he reached the tenth move, "Crossing Hands", his entire body was in a state of perfect balance between tension and relaxation, with every part of him soaked in a layer of warm sweat that glistened like pearls under the evening sun.

  "Alas, I don't know if I'll have dinner today. Scolding is inevitable, and I'm definitely going to get a beating!"

  He let out a breath, looked up at the sky, and found that it had already darkened. Dog Egg couldn't help but mutter to himself. In this mountain village, people only eat two meals a day. The second meal was around the time he finished practicing his Great Strength Golden Gong Qigong. At that time, his fighting energy had just been cultivated, and he needed to strike while the iron was hot, using Tai Chi to digest the results of his cultivation. Otherwise, as time passed, the effect would be greatly reduced.

  "Alas, it's all because of that silly girl Er Ya. She's still so young and naive, only knowing how to chase after boys. If she hadn't delayed for so long, things wouldn't have turned out like this!"

  The cultivation of inner energy requires attention to timing. In theory, the best time is early morning when the sun first rises, but this only applies to advanced internal skills. For simpler exercises like Dali Jin Gang Qigong, practicing in the afternoon when the earth's energy is most chaotic is just as effective.

  Because this kind of shallow internal skill does not require overly refined heavenly and earthly energy, even if it absorbs the most refined heavenly and earthly primordial energy, once inside the body, it only slightly refines it before merging with the original internal energy, becoming impure and mixed.

  When Dog Egg turned over that small hill, he had already heard the scolding voice of his mother and could only smile wryly as he jogged home.

  "Dog egg, you're running around everywhere again, and you don't even know to come home for dinner... How many times is this already?... If you do it like this next time, then just don't come back... Now you're getting more and more out of hand, if you keep running around all over the place, when a dog or wolf takes you away, no one will come to rescue you..."

  The old lady's nagging voice filled his ears, Dog Egg stood at the gate of his own yard, lowering his head and nodding repeatedly, accepting the scolding. After she finished scolding him, she swung the broom in her hand and hit his buttocks several times, venting her emotions. Pointing to the congee, "Don't you hurry up and go eat...!"

  The little scamp, like a pardoned prisoner, let out two low chuckles and took off running towards the woodshed.

  "This little rascal is getting more and more troublesome!" Looking at the figure of Dog Egg, a smile appeared on the face of the old mother standing behind him.

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