Chapter 53

Five days later!

Daytime!

On the small hillside of Linhu Village, among the pine forest, a figure shuttled quickly like a swallow.

Wherever the figure passed, the surrounding pine trees trembled one after another, and the leaves kept falling.

This figure was Lin Chen.

At this moment, he was practicing the second move of the "Flying Swallow Art": Shuttling Through the Forest Shadows.

While practicing the Flying Swallow Art, he was also merging the Flying Swallow Art and the Clear Wind Palm. In this pine forest, he was like a swallow, and his movement trajectory was difficult to grasp.

It looked easy!

But to achieve this step, he had crashed into the pine forest hundreds of times in a row.

Either his speed wasn't controlled well, or his force wasn't controlled well, and he always ended up leaping and crashing into a tree trunk.

It took him two days to be able to shuttle through the pine forest at will as he was doing now.

"It's a pity that the 'Flying Swallow Art' doesn't show up on the panel, so I can't see the progress."

When the "Flying Swallow Art" didn't appear on the panel at the beginning, Lin Chen thought he hadn't entered the gate, but now that he was familiar with the first two moves of the "Flying Swallow Art," and it still hadn't appeared on the panel, it was a limitation of the panel.

Lin Chen had a judgment in his heart: only ranked techniques would appear on the panel.

A session of forest training ended.

Lin Chen found a relatively open area, took out the medicine bottle of Aperture-Nourishing Pills from his bosom, thought for a moment, and finally poured out two pills at once and swallowed them.

In these few days, when he was practicing the Clear Wind Palm, the burning, tingling sensation at the acupuncture point on his left arm became increasingly intense. He had a premonition that today he would be able to break through to the third acupuncture point.

After swallowing the pill, Lin Chen continued to strike with his palms.

The palm wind whistled in the forest. If heard from afar, it was like gusts of mountain wind, causing the pine branches to sway.

Boom!

When he struck the Clear Wind Palm for the sixth time, Lin Chen struck out with his left palm, and his entire body's blood Qi surged toward his left shoulder at this moment, and the skin on his entire left shoulder trembled rapidly.

This sign was like ten thousand floods gathering into one, rushing toward a dam.

After a breath, the dam collapsed, and the flood raged through.

The skin on Lin Chen's left arm instantly turned bright red, and one could even vaguely see the blood jumping inside, just like a piece of iron forged to the limit in a furnace, glowing red.

Slap!

His left palm struck a pine tree. The five-zhang-tall pine tree snapped at the waist at this moment, the break was extremely smooth, and the entire upper half that snapped off flew horizontally a foot away before it began to topple.

The power of three acupuncture points, combined with the Minor Success Clear Wind Palm!

The power was so strong that Lin Chen was stunned.

This is the power of a martial artist. He only had three acupuncture points; if he had ten, twenty, or reached the Organ Cultivation Stage, how powerful would he be?

After sighing, Lin Chen collected his mind and began to practice the Water Cloud Palm.

He wanted to cultivate the Water Cloud Palm to the Proficient Stage first.

The cultivation progress of the Water Cloud Palm was much faster than that of the Clear Wind Palm. According to this progress, it would be no problem to cultivate the Water Cloud Palm to the Proficient Stage before returning to the Martial Hall.

"Brother Lin, are you there?"

Just as Lin Chen was concentrating on practicing the Water Cloud Palm, a young boy's voice came from outside the forest.

"Li Tong, what's the matter?"

Lin Chen leaped out of the forest in a few bounds, saw Li Tong, a young boy from the village who looked anxious, and asked.

"Liu Village is bullying our village. Xu Bo asked me to call you."

"Liu Village?"

Liu Village is next to Linhu Village and is also a village by the lake. Because many willow trees were planted on the side facing the lake, it was named after them.

"Today is the day to set the fishing areas for each village, but Liu Village is playing dirty and sent a martial artist into the water."

Listening to Li Tong's words, Lin Chen's eyes narrowed slightly.

Poyanghu is very large, but the areas in the lake were all occupied by the powerful and wealthy in the city, and these powerful people also raised guard teams. If ordinary fishermen dared to go fishing, getting beaten up was light; their fishing boats would have to be punctured.

Linhu Village and the surrounding villages were all close to Poyanghu and could only rely on the water areas of each village to fish, and could not go deep into Poyanghu.

Linhu Village and Liu Village, the two villages, were semi-elliptical by the lake, and the water areas of the villages had overlapping parts.

Over the years, the two villages had formed a habit.

Each village's territory by the lake was fifteen miles, all belonging to their own fishing areas, but the five miles of water extending further out were determined by who caught more fish.

Every year after the lake opened, the two villages would choose a water area, enclose it with fishing nets, and each village would select ten fishermen with good swimming skills to go into the water to catch fish.

Finally, whichever village caught more fish could occupy this water area.

Lin Chen knew that today was the day for the two villages to compete, but martial artists could not participate in this kind of competition. Once a martial artist participated, it changed its nature, and it was easy to cause enmity between the two villages, so he didn't go to join the fun.

So Liu Village broke the rules?

"I'll go take a look."

Lin Chen dropped this sentence, and his figure leaped toward the river like a swallow, but halfway there, he met his mother.

"Little Chen, what are you going to do?" Lin Mu looked at her son and shouted anxiously.

"Mom, Li Tong just told me that Liu Village is playing dirty with the fishing this time, so I'm preparing to go to the lakeside..."

"Don't go."

Lin Mu's words made Lin Chen look puzzled. What did Mom mean by this?

"The village chief just secretly asked me to come back and find you. Don't get involved in this matter; pack your things and leave the village now."

"Leave the village?"

Lin Chen was even more puzzled. In this situation, the village chief asked him to leave?

"That martial artist from Liu Village has already opened four acupuncture points. The village chief said you are not his match, so he wants you to endure it first, go back to the Martial Hall to study martial arts well, and at worst, we'll grab it back next year."

Lin Mu repeated what the village chief had secretly instructed, and Lin Chen finally understood what was going on.

After the martial artist from Liu Village entered the field, the villagers of Linhu Village were extremely indignant, and many villagers thought of him. Just as Li Tong said, Xu Bo asked him to call him.

In the eyes of the villagers, the only one in the village who could contend with the Liu Village martial artist was him.

"The village chief said you have only been in the Martial Hall for two months and are not the match of that martial artist from Liu Village. Let's endure it first. You pack your things and leave the village today, and then we'll say you left the village early in the morning. The village chief will explain to the villagers."

Regarding the village chief's arrangement, Lin Chen admitted it was the most rational and secure method.

If he were really just an ordinary student who had been in the Martial Hall for two months, not showing up in the current situation was indeed the best.

"Mom, what is the situation with that martial artist from Liu Village?"

"That martial artist from Liu Village is the village chief's grandson. He entered the Martial Hall the year before last, and it has been two years now." Lin Mu persuaded: "Little Chen, listen to the village chief; let's endure this for now."

Four acupuncture points, two years...

This strength belongs to the very mediocre category in the Martial Hall.

Lin Chen pondered for a moment and said helplessly: "Mom, when I entered the Martial Hall, our village raised thirty taels for me. Now that something has happened in the village, if I just leave like this, won't I be stabbed in the spine by the people in the village?"

"No, you won't!" Lin Mu shook her head hurriedly: "The village chief said he would explain for you; the people in the village won't blame you."

"Mom, I'll go to the lakeside to take a look first. If I feel I'm not the match of that martial artist from Liu Village, I won't intervene, and the people in the village will be able to understand me."

In a few days, when he goes to the Martial Hall, he will also have to compete for the Grade A treatment quota with several senior sisters who have four acupuncture points. If that Liu Village martial artist's technique proficiency hasn't reached Mastery, he can use him to practice first.

"Mom, did the village chief say which Martial Hall that person from Liu Village is practicing in?"

"Mantis Martial Hall."

Hearing it was the Mantis Martial Hall, Lin Chen felt more confident. Among the eight great Martial Halls, the Mantis Fist of the Mantis Martial Hall is the weakest.

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