Chapter 1: Red Bamboo Village

  The vast land is boundless, with towering mountains, dense and lush forests, emerald green grasslands, vast oceans, and bustling cities, all teeming with life. In the southern part of this vast land, in the midst of the great mountains, there are many villages. This place is far from the city, and the villagers have to rely on hunting to make a living.

  The local customs are quite bold, generally from a young age they need to exercise their bodies, without strong physique, they cannot contend with those ferocious wild beasts on the mountain, and it is even more impossible for them to survive.

  "Xiao Cheng, hurry up and get going! The kids from other families are already at the training grounds!"

  As the shouting voice, a twelve-year-old boy lying on the bed slowly opened his blurry eyes. He knew it was his mother's voice. The boy's name is Sicong, and he is twelve years old. Perhaps because of his young age, he likes to sleep in every day and doesn't want to get up early, so his mother has to wake him up every day.

  "Alright", Si Cheng casually responded, then closed his eyes to sleep for a while longer. But when he thought about facing his strict second uncle, he suddenly jumped out of bed, hastily put on his clothes and rushed outside.

  It's now 4 am, the sky is still dark, and the twinkling stars are still hanging high in the sky. The bright moonlight shrouds the earth, and a small figure is running hard, which is Xiao Sicong who just got up.

  The villagers here believe that exercising early in the morning allows for better air intake, strengthens one's willpower, and most importantly, exercises the body faster than usual. So over time it has become a habit. As long as children are eight years old, they have to get up at 4 am to exercise.

  When Dà Sī Chéng ran to the training field, there were already fifty or so kids lined up in two rows. The older ones looked like they were fifteen or sixteen years old, while the youngest had just turned eight.

  "Late again, Ji Cheng?" a burly man in his thirties standing in the front row frowned and asked.

  "I... I overslept", Shi Cheng also felt a bit embarrassed, lowering his head and saying this in a voice that was barely audible over the buzzing of mosquitoes.

  Although the voice was very low, Da Han, as a master in the village, heard it clearly. He sighed and said with a heavy heart: "Xiao Cheng, getting up early to exercise is all for your own good. I've been doing this since I was young, including your grandfather, they were all the same. If you don't train your body well and learn your skills well, how can you fight against the fierce beasts on the mountain when you grow up? How can you lead everyone to make the village stronger?"

  This great Han name is Si Hongjun, the second uncle of Si Cheng, and a well-known master in the entire Red Bamboo Village. He has practiced "Iron Muscle Forging Merit" to the seventh level, and is known for being cold and severe at ordinary times. In the village, as the leader of all children's training, he also has great prestige.

  Hongzhucun village, surrounded by mountains on three sides, with only the east side connected to the road leading to the town. This road was also carved out by our ancestors from the mountain, so it's not an exaggeration to say that it's surrounded by mountains on all four sides. The north and west sides are endless vast mountains, even the strongest village chief doesn't know how big they are. On the mountain, ferocious beasts roam freely, called ferocious beasts because any one of them has the strength of three layers of "Iron Muscle Forging Bone" technique, and these beasts are born with incredible power, some with extremely fast speed, ordinary villagers who have practiced to the third layer are no match for them.

  Especially the beast kings in the deep mountains have the strength of seven or eight layers of humans, and even the old people say that there are powerful beasts that can speak human language in the deepest part of the mountain. Even if a master has reached the ninth layer of great accomplishment, they only have the fate of escaping with their lives. However, these kinds of powerful existences have never come out before, otherwise, all the villages nearby would have been destroyed and disappeared long ago.

  Near the south of the village, there is a bamboo forest. What's strange is that all the leaves in the entire bamboo forest are red, and they never change with the seasons. A long time ago, the ancestors of the village were attracted by this beautiful scenery, so they changed the name of the village to Red Bamboo Village.

  Later, many people entered the bamboo forest and mysteriously disappeared. After repeated investigations, the results were the same. After these strange events occurred multiple times, no one dared to enter again. This bamboo forest became a forbidden area on the south side of the village, also a natural barrier, because it was never discovered that fierce beasts came from the west.

  The entire Hongzhu Village has more than 300 households, which is considered average among all the surrounding villages. The surname "Si" is the most common and powerful in the village. Si Cheng's grandfather, Si Changkong, was the clan leader and also the village head of Hongzhu Village, who had achieved the ninth level of the "Iron Muscle Forging Bone Technique" more than 20 years ago. His father, Si Honglie, was the eldest among the second generation, with a strength at the eighth level, just one step away from the ninth level. His two uncles, Si Hongjun and Si Honglin, were both at the seventh level, which is a rare high-level expert in Hongzhu Village.

  In addition to the village, there are a small number of Wei, Li and Liu surnames. The heads of these three families all have nine-layered strength, with the head of the Wei family being the strongest at the ninth level, while the other two families are only at the beginning stage. Of course, even if the three families join forces, they will not be a match for someone who has reached the ninth level of great completion. Even if their skills differ by just one small rank, their strength is still vastly inferior. Therefore, the village takes the Si surname as the leader, but privately, the other three surnames often play tricks on each other, and everyone knows this in their hearts, they just don't bother to keep track of it.

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