This martial arts tournament is time-stopping.

Yang Heng suffered a setback at Qin Shaoyang's hands, but dared not speak out against it.

The Yang family, at best, can be considered local elders of the landlord class.

The legacy of connections left by that martial arts scholar's ancestor has long since faded with time, withered by wind and rain, fallen flowers, and buried in the earth.

The Qin family is one of the four most prominent families in Shuanglong County, and its members have entered officialdom generation after generation!

Such a family is not to be trifled with!

"You bunch of idiots! I'll practice slowly while I'm practicing, and you'll learn by following along! If you still can't remember it after three days, get out of here!"

Yang Heng had no choice but to vent his anger on his four lackeys.

Ye Chu glanced at it, then continued to focus on the Tiger-Taming Stance Technique, which brought new insights with each practice session.

Whew!

The deep, resonant breath of a tiger burst forth from its lungs, cleansing away the impurities in its body and stimulating fresher blood to flow through its brain, thus invigorating its spirit.

At the same time, as the resonant frequency of the chest cavity flows through the internal organs, it also tempers the strength of the internal organs.

This is different from the process in the morning where blood washes over the flesh and blood, subtly strengthening the body at all times.

"Every refinement brings new insights!"

However, while it is a good thing that the internal organs are strengthened by the resonance of the Tiger Breathing Method, and it brings more vigorous physical functions, the enhancement of the stomach and intestines is more obvious!

After practicing the stance training two or three times, my previously bloated abdomen had already flattened out.

After practicing the standing meditation four or five times, a slight warmth will feel in the stomach and intestines, as if the essence of food is being rapidly refined and absorbed into the body.

By mid-afternoon, I was hungry again...

After Han Heng finished practicing the stance training again, his legs shaking, he collapsed to the ground, disregarding his image.

"Brother Ye, you're still able to train? You just started training this afternoon and were full of energy, but after a while you started to feel hungry, and now you're feeling so hungry that you're dizzy and your legs are weak..."

"I'm getting hungrier the more I practice this Tiger-Taming Stance; I can't practice it anymore!"

"Me too!"

Ye Chu sat down on the stone lock against the wall with a wry smile.

Two quarters of an hour ago, he noticed that Han Heng's legs were starting to go weak; of course, he was also feeling weak from hunger at that time.

However, after exchanging a glance, the two became competitive and decided to keep going to see who would give up first.

Once Han Heng conceded defeat, Ye Chu naturally stopped seeking further torment and took a break.

"Look at Qin Shaoyang and Wei Lin, those veteran apprentices, their legs aren't weak, they still have the energy to keep practicing. Why don't we wait until they rest and then ask them about their methods for combating hunger?"

"I think it's a good idea!"

Ye Chuwei nodded in agreement.

When he couldn't continue practicing, he looked around and discovered that Yang Heng still had the strength to stand in the stance.

Han Heng looked over and smiled, delighted.

He thought even more sinisterly:

"Teach them, teach them! Let these good-for-nothings slow down your cultivation progress even further. It would be best if they broke through the Blood Barrier a few days later than me, then they'd stop complaining!"

"Furthermore, Yang Heng, your father said you have the potential to become a martial arts examinee. Then I, Han Heng, am of equal talent and should also be one!"

Seeing Han Heng's thoughtful smirk, Ye Chu seized the opportunity to inquire about some gossip:

"Brother Han, there's something I don't understand. Why do you and Yang Heng both have the character 'Heng' in your names?"

He hadn't thought about any connection between the two when he was in Qingniu Village.

Now that they've arrived at Longhu Hall, Yang Heng and Han Heng have both been diagnosed with subungual acuity.

It's one thing if the names are similar.

But their physical attributes are similar, and even their appearances are subtly similar, which definitely hides a big secret!

Ye Chu felt that the most likely possibility was that Master Yang had cheated on Han Heng's father...

Otherwise, this doesn't make sense!

"You mean this?"

Han Heng explained with a smile:

"I was weak as a child, so I was given the humble name 'Er Leng Zi' (meaning 'foolish boy') so that I could be raised easily."

"Later, my father made me worship a mountain stone as my godfather. Seeing that the Yang family's child was strong and blessed, he took the character 'Heng' from the end of Yang Heng's name and gave it to me. From then on, I had the formal name: Han Heng!"

After listening, Ye Chu still felt something was off.

As he observed the faint flow of time in his eyes and the passage of time in the surrounding world, he finally found the source of the incongruity.

Han Heng speaks eloquently.

However, Ye Chu discovered that there were numerous threads of time connecting Yang Heng and Han Heng's bodies!

After observing carefully, he discovered that these interconnected threads of time originated from Yang Heng's lifespan, but were now being continuously transported into Han Heng's body by a special external force!

In other words, if Yang Heng hadn't lived longer, Han Heng would have died long ago when he was a child!

This can also be explained as follows:

The reason why Han Heng and Yang Heng's physical features and even appearances began to resemble each other!

After all, with such a profound cause and effect as "borrowing life," it's not surprising that any strange situation could occur.

How did the rise of a poor boy from a remote mountain village turn into a life-altering event?

Although Ye Chu discovered these things, he did not intend to tell anyone.

Therefore, he absolutely cannot defeat those who orchestrated this from behind the scenes!

For the sake of my life, I have no choice but to keep quiet.

but,

He also discovered that the lifespan represented by the time threads connecting Yang Heng and Han Heng's bodies could be distorted by his immortal body's power of time.

As for the distorted target, it can be put into one's own body, or it can be sent into the bodies of living things such as ants and grass under one's feet.

"Lifespan? Is it something to be stolen?"

Ye Chu hesitated for a moment, then gave up.

When he tried to insert Yang Heng's lifespan into his body, a kind of resistance and disgusting instinctive reaction burst forth from the immortal body's origin, as if this foreign impurity of lifespan would pollute the pure origin of the immortal body!

In addition, the Spring of Time can condense 1 point of Time Dao Rhyme every day, and if 1 point of Time Dao Rhyme is added to lifespan, he can live for 1 more day.

To some extent,

Ye Chu is already an immortal!

Why should external impurities be used to fill the lifespan?

However, now that he had discovered something good, Ye Chu racked his brains trying to figure out if there were any other uses for it.

In any case, he disliked Yang Heng and even the Yang family.

Meanwhile, the Yang family also coveted the great opportunity presented by his hidden farmland ruins.

He wouldn't feel any guilt even if he wiped out the Yang family!

"Then you really deserved to have such a godfather!"

"That's for sure. Ever since I became your godfather, my health has improved day by day, and my family has become much wealthier in recent years. But no matter how much I try to persuade my father, he insists on continuing to be a tenant farmer in the Yang family..."

Listening to Han Heng's words, Ye Chu could confirm that Han Heng's father definitely knew the inside story, or was the one who orchestrated the "borrowing life and seizing fortune" scheme!

"Little Green Ox Village is a place where hidden talents abound!"

Ye Chu sighed inwardly.

Seeing that Qin Shaoyang was tired from practicing his stance and sat down to rest, Han Heng patted his arm, indicating that they should go find Qin Shaoyang together to talk about how to resist hunger.

After learning the purpose of their visit, Qin Shaoyang didn't hide anything:

"The ultimate goal of the Tiger-Taming Stance is to accumulate qi and blood to break through the blood barrier. Qi and blood originate from the essence of the human body, and essence and qi can be further enhanced by digesting food, flesh, blood, and medicinal herbs. Strong digestion comes from the tempering and improvement of the body and internal organs through stance training..."

"So, regarding your question about resisting hunger, there's no solution as long as you continue practicing the Tiger-Taming Stance to refine your Qi and blood; in fact, you'll feel even hungrier!"

"As for how we old apprentices can withstand hunger, it's either because Wei Lin has been eating dry rations all the time, or because Jiang Wenzhou drank a bowl of tiger blood soup the day before yesterday, or because I ate an extra piece of exotic beast jerky this afternoon."

There's no other way but to eat!