Becoming a Martial Saint: Starting with the Mountain-Breaking Fist

Humanity rewards diligence, and Heaven rewards those who help themselves.

[Trap: Great Achievement (57/300)]

[Hunting: Minor Achievement (50/100)]

[Breaking Mountain Stance Skill: Minor Success (23/1000)]

【Mountain-Breaking Fist: Beginner (182/300)】

Duan Xuan was panting heavily; the weather was quite nice that morning.

The sun shone brightly, nourishing the medicinal garden and warming Duan Xuan's body as well.

After leaving the Broken Mountain Martial Arts School, he carried his hunting gear and went straight to the herb garden.

In one morning, I practiced the Broken Mountain Fist four times and the Broken Mountain Stance five times.

Duan Xuan felt his blood and qi surging, and his Ming Jin cultivation became increasingly stable.

When it was time to eat, Renhetang sent someone to deliver lunch: a multigrain steamed bun and a white flour steamed bun.

The dishes consisted of leafy greens, stir-fried pork with chili peppers, and a bowl of rich, oily soup.

Duan Xuan was eating steamed buns in big mouthfuls when he suddenly remembered that after entering the Mingming Jin realm, his two senior sisters, Chen Jingshu and Chen Jingshu, gave him a brand new pack of Blood Qi Powder on behalf of the martial arts school.

  

The portion size is about the same as before.

He carefully took it out and poured some into the oily soup, then ate a bite of steamed bun and a sip of soup, thoroughly enjoying himself.

After finishing all the dishes and soup, Duan Xuan deliberately left a small piece of steamed bun, and vigorously wiped it along the edge of the plate and bowl to remove all the oil stains.

He casually wiped the oil around his mouth, then stuffed a mouthful into his mouth and chewed it repeatedly.

I felt completely satisfied as I savored the aroma of the family cooking, the fragrance of the vegetables, and the sweet taste of the steamed buns.

"Now that we've eaten and drunk our fill, it's time to get to work!" Duan Xuan didn't dare gamble on whether the Wolf Village group would come tonight; all he could do was make thorough preparations.

The weather has been unstable lately, with both light spring rain and strong winds. The snow in the forest is slowly melting, but in many places the road is still difficult to see.

Duan Xuan took every weather condition into account, so he set up a circle of traps around the perimeter of the herb garden.

First, there are wooden arrows, which can strike a person's leg bone or sternum unexpectedly.

It has enormous destructive power.

Another one is the sling. When an enemy steps on the loop, a strong pull can hoist the enemy up.

Next, he placed seven or eight animal traps, both in the open and in the dark.

The animal traps placed in plain sight are meant to be seen by the wolf pack. Only by making them see them will they become complacent and thus reduce the effective range of the traps to a manageable level.

Five days passed.

Five days later.

As dusk fell.

Duan Xuan practiced his boxing in the herb garden, feeling the fullness brought by the Qi and Blood Grass: "Several days have passed, it seems those guys from Wolf Stronghold aren't coming!"

Duan Xuan was filled with rage whenever he thought of the unforgivable sins committed by Erbazi and the other members of the Wolf Pack.

They burned, killed, looted, forcibly seized women, and occupied hunting grounds.

They even created some kind of mountain god incense offering and mountain god's blessing!

Year after year, day after day, they exploit the people.

It makes life in Shetougou worse than death, yet it's hard for them to truly die.

Even his own family and the families of his childhood friends Zhao Rui and Liu Chunmei had suffered countless humiliations.

Driven by this grudge, Duan Xuan wanted to kill everyone in the Wolf Stronghold.

But just as he was resting, he suddenly heard a flurry of footsteps coming from the mountainside.

After becoming a Ming Jin martial artist, a martial artist's vision and hearing will be greatly enhanced, and what they hear and see will far exceed that of ordinary people.

"Oh, a full twelve people have come. It seems they're going to take all the medicinal herbs from Renhetang's herb garden."

In the days leading up to this, Wolf Stronghold had not been inactive; they sent out scouts every day to investigate the situation around the medicinal garden.

They weren't stupid; whether it was day or night, they could only see one person changing shifts.

The fact that many people were involved in the herb garden incident would naturally be deemed false.

"Good timing!" Duan Xuan had long anticipated the scene of the Wolf Stronghold coming out in full force, and he smiled slightly.

He calmly withdrew his fist stance, suppressed his qi and blood, and then walked into the thatched hut, tightly carrying his bow, arrows, quiver, and dagger.

The hunt begins!

"Big brother, with you personally taking charge this time, the entire herb garden is now ours!" The second-in-command, Jiu Yao, with a full black beard, was overjoyed.

The strongest asset of Wolf Stronghold is not its brothers and the easily defensible watchtower, but its eldest brother, a martial arts master!

"The brothers have already investigated and found that there is no one else in this herb garden."

In other words, the ambush we encountered last time was all orchestrated by one person! Third Leader Zhu Gui shrugged, his large cleaver still brandished. "Wait a minute, I'm going to chop that brat into mincemeat!"

A middle-aged man, slightly bowing and exuding a fierce aura with icy eyes, sneered in front of them: "It's best to avoid flattery and be cautious in everything you do."

If the situation turns unfavorable, withdraw immediately and never again interfere in any of the hall's medicinal gardens, lest a complete breakdown in relations occur!

This person was none other than Wolf Tian, ​​the leader of the Wolf Stronghold.

He usually claims to be a descendant of the wolf god, and not only does he look like a werewolf.

Even the martial arts techniques they practiced were rumored to be related to wolves, but almost no one had ever seen one; those who had were all dead, and the rumor gradually faded from people's memories.

What's most interesting is that the taxes collected from mountain spirit offerings, mountain god sacrifices, and other related matters were all handled by the servants around the head of the gang, Wolf Heaven.

They believed that the Wolf God was high above them, on par with the Mountain Lord, and that the two were good brothers, so the Wolf Village should accept these kinds of money!

"Each of you take some brothers and join me on the way from another location. Even if Renhetang has arranged for others to be surrounded by us, they will be no match for the pack of wolves!"

"Boss is wise, you two come with me!" Jiuyao led five people away.

"With these Qi and Blood Herbs, our Wolf Stronghold can rapidly expand its strength, quickly replenish its forces, and wipe out that damned Golden Leopard Gang in one fell swoop!"

Zhu Kui licked his lips, suddenly remembering the beautiful young woman he had seen at the Duan family shop in the Gou Lao District of Shetougou, and his motivation surged.

They also brought two other people with them, and they sneaked up from another hilltop.

Lang Tian nodded slightly, and with his last weapon, Wu Yi, he drew his curved sword and slowly crept upwards into the thick fog.

Just when everyone thought everything would go smoothly, suddenly!

Clatter!

"what!"

One of Zhu Kui's henchmen failed to see that something was buried under the still-unmelted snowdrift. He stepped on it, and the animal trap was immediately triggered, snapping and breaking his leg bone.

"Quickly cover his mouth! He just stepped into a trap, what's with all the yelling? Be careful not to alert the people upstairs!" Zhu Kui scolded.

The other thugs quickly ran over from the side, trying to remove the animal trap from their companion's feet.

He ran along a snowless road that had inexplicably appeared.

Just as I was about to reunite with my companions, I suddenly felt something poking my foot, and a sharp pain shot through me.

He looked down and saw a stone. Without thinking, he kicked it away. Little did he know that the stone was tied with a rope.

Whoosh!

At the other end of the rope hanging from the tree, an even larger stone fell and struck the thug on the back of the head with lightning speed.

The thug turned his head in a daze, his movements incredibly stiff, while scalding blood gushed rapidly from his wound, and with a thud, he fainted.

"Oh no, there are traps around!" Zhu Gui retreated in a panic, and when he saw his elder brother's figure, he ran towards him without thinking.

It was this careless act that triggered a deeply hidden subplot.

With a whoosh, the hidden line loosened. On a large tree on the hillside, a wooden arrow, already aimed in that direction, lay dormant.

As if it had been programmed with a GPS tracker, it shot straight at Zhu Kui's neck.

When Zhu Kui felt the icy coldness on the back of his neck, the scalding hot blood made him feel warm even faster!

The wooden arrow shattered his throat!

"Big brother, help, help me..."

With a thud, Zhu Kui convulsed and died on the ground.

On the other side, Jiuyao also noticed Lao San's death and shouted, "Lao San!"

His anger level soared, but he didn't lose his temper.

Until two thugs who had scattered nearby carefully removed two traps and delivered them to him.

"Second Brother, there are traps here too!"

Jiuyao wanted to call the two idiots, but when he saw the trap, his thoughts were instantly pulled back to several days ago.

The people of Wolf Village went to great lengths to find the bodies of Erbazi and Black Cat.

The mountain was riddled with traps, snares, and arrows hidden in the trees.

"Burn!" Jiu Yao slammed the animal trap to the ground and roared, "Damn it!"

Brother, it was the people from Renhetang who plotted to kill Lao Si and Black Cat.

"This is the trap we set around the fourth brother's body that killed so many of our brothers!"

Upon hearing this, Lang Tian's sharp wolf eyes gleamed with a sinister green light: "Kill them!"