At the Casting Weapon Hall, in the courtyard where Xu Yunfan lived, when Zhan Yan brought the news of the grand ceremony in three months, Xu Yunfan was practicing his flying kick technique on the fine iron piles with his bare, veiny legs.
Every kick made a sound of breaking through the air, and the taut tendons at the ankles looked like two tightly twisted cow tendon whips.
"Master, just rest assured, as long as..."
As Xu Yunfan spoke, he raised one leg high, with his calf pressed against his forehead, and from time to time he could hear the sound of a bowstring being plucked.
He suddenly grinned again, but felt that he couldn't say too much, so he said, "If it were just those people from Tiangong Cave, I would give them a hand."
Seeing Xu Yunfan's confidence, a smile appeared on Zhan Yan's face. As soon as he met this kid, he knew that he had fought in the martial arts world and had seen blood under his hands. His actual combat ability was unquestionable.
"Confidence is a good thing, but you also have to remember that even a lion will fight a rabbit with all its might, and you can't let your guard down."
Xu Yunfan agreed immediately and said with a smile, "Master is right. When I was in Wuzhou before, I saw a martial artist being stabbed in the kidney by an orphan with half his leg broken off."
Upon hearing this, Yan Wang nodded slightly and said nothing more. He chatted about family matters for a while, but there was no need to say much.
Not long after they left the house, Fu Jin, carrying two hammers on his back and riding a scaly horse, led the three of them straight towards Qingzhou.
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The news that the Weapon Casting Hall would hold a ceremony to pass on the true teachings in three months spread quickly throughout Cangzhou. As the only forger in Tiangong Cave who could forge treasure-level weapons, Zhan Yan naturally attracted the attention of many people.
In the following time, Xu Yunfan, on the other hand, turned a deaf ear to the outside world. He had plenty of exotic beast meat, a spirit fish fished from Cuibo Lake in Cuibo City every day, and Yuanzhu Dan was eaten like candy beans. He was almost completely immersed in martial arts training.
The originally slow progress in proficiency improvement has almost leaped forward in efficiency with the help of the panacea.
On the seventh day after the news spread, Xu Yunfan's skin turned red from soaking in the cast iron bathtub.
You practice your sprints day and night, and suddenly you feel your leg muscles, like the agility of a cheetah, perfectly synchronizing with the rhythm of your steps. When you sprint, you're as swift as an arrow, and when you turn, you're as agile as a rabbit darting through the forest. As the wind whistles, your control of speed and agility reaches a new level, and your sprinting proficiency improves.
'...'
Xu Yunfan spent the whole day lying comfortably in the medicine barrel bathing. The medicine soup was filled with the fishy smell of tiger bone powder. Looking at the proficiency information prompts that were about to flood the screen today, he couldn't help grinning.
He spread his legs, and two female disciples from the outer sect of Tiangong Cave were pounding his legs with their fists as big as vinegar jars, kneading his muscles constantly to relieve his fatigue and allow the medicinal power of the medicinal bath to penetrate further.
Looking at the two female outer disciples who were having sex and were beaming with joy, Xu Yunfan tightened the hemp cloth covering his waist and asked, "Are you two so happy with this?"
On the left, a girl with a body as strong as a diamond, muscles bulging and veins popping out as she rubbed, and the muscles on her shoulders and back undulating like mountains, but with a pretty face, said happily, "Brother, you just came in and you may not know, but the Weapon Casting Hall in the Tiangong Cave's Affairs Hall issued this kind of mission a few days ago. It can earn a lot of sect contribution in one go, which is equivalent to half a month's duty for me. All the brothers and sisters rushed to take it, and I finally got it with great difficulty."
The force on the right side was even more brutal. The force of her ten fingers digging into the vital points of the knee bend made Xu Yunfan grin. The girl had a curvy figure, but one could still see the power contained in her muscles.
The girl nodded repeatedly: "I started queuing up in the early morning yesterday, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to get this job."
Xu Yunfan: "…"
After a refreshing wash and receiving Xu Yunfan's approval and signing the task list, the two girls with amazing physiques quickly left with joy on their faces.
Xu Yunfan was speechless. Just as he was about to pick up the heavy hammer he was practicing with to stretch his hands and feet, the gate of the courtyard suddenly exploded and the gate of the villa was kicked open with a "bang".
Amidst the rain of splinters from the cracked door hinges, a giant man with muscles as undulating as mountains, nearly two meters and five meters tall, squeezed in. His gnarled trapezius muscles formed two humps, his neck muscles twisted into straight steel cables, and his waist was half a circle thicker than the old locust tree in the yard.
The tiles groaned as the giant took steps, and his steps were so heavy that it made one's breath catch.
"Xu Yunfan?"
Two streams of white air spurted out of the giant's nose, the sound like a broken gong scraping an iron pot. He looked at the skinny monkey in front of him with a look of contempt on his face.
"Who are you?"
"Yue Shan from Hidden Sword Pavilion, I've come here today to see what the true disciple designated by the Weapon Casting Hall will be like in three months."
When Xu Yunfan heard that it was someone from Cangfeng Pavilion, his brows relaxed quickly. He took a look at the other person, and after figuring out what was going on, he put down the sledgehammer in his hand and walked up to Yue Shan.
"Nice name."
Hearing Xu Yunfan's praise, Yue Shan showed a mocking smile on his face, but the next second, what Xu Yunfan said made his expression freeze instantly.
"But didn't your parents teach you that you need to knock before entering someone else's door? Are you an orphan and have no parents to teach you?"
Since the other party came with bad intentions, Xu Yunfan naturally wouldn't be polite.
A trace of anger flashed in Yue Shan's eyes, and he pressed down on Xu Yunfan with his millstone-sized palm. Just as his right palm was about to press on the skinny monkey's shoulder, his wrist bone was suddenly caught by five red-hot iron clamps. He wanted to press it down, but his hand suddenly stopped halfway.
Xu Yunfan's knuckles cracked, and he fixed his millstone-sized palm in mid-air, tightly clamping Yue Shan's wrist like an iron hoop. No matter how he twitched, Xu Yunfan remained motionless.
"Canfeng Pavilion teaches you to practice martial arts using door panels?"
Xu Yunfan smiled with his full white teeth: "With such little strength, you only have height but no brains?"
Yue Shan's blood suddenly surged, veins bulged on his forehead, and the muscles in his right arm, which had been suppressed, expanded rapidly. Pieces of muscle kept protruding like tumors, and the veins on his bulging deltoid muscle jumped wildly, as if there were dozens of centipedes swimming under his skin.
Click!
The three-inch-thick blue bricks under Yue Shan's feet broke and shattered, and his ankle sank half a foot into the ground.
However, Xu Yunfan on the opposite side had a calm expression except for the bulging muscles in his arms and the slight throbbing veins under his skin, as if he was not even warming up.
His eyes suddenly turned red, and he growled. Just as he raised his other hand, Xu Yunfan suddenly withdrew his strength. Yue Shan's blood rushed back, and he ran out of strength. He staggered and knocked over several iron stakes in the yard, rolling to the ground.
Xu Yunfan smiled as he looked at Yue Shan, who turned over and got up with a look of shame and anger on his face.
Yue Shan, completely blinded by anger, grabbed a steel stake with one hand. When he raised his arm and was about to rush forward, a rough hand suddenly pressed down on his shoulder.
The sudden and overwhelming force made it impossible for his entire body to support himself. He half-knelt on the ground, his body crushed so much that he could only support himself with his knees.