Hearing the cold voice from behind.
Zhang Ergou was startled, and suddenly remembered something. He turned his head with difficulty, and saw Chi Yu's murderous gaze.
"It's over, it's over!"
Zhang Ergou's mind collapsed.
"How could I mistake my martial aunt for my master!"
It was all because Chi Ling's disguise was too good. The two looked exactly alike, and if one didn't look closely, it was impossible to tell them apart.
Zhang Ergou had forgotten about the twins after coming up the mountain, his mind only filled with the grievances he had suffered after going down.
He had no time to distinguish if it was his master or not.
Hearing Chi Yu's indifferent voice from behind, Zhang Ergou remembered that he had a martial aunt.
Turning his head, looking at Chi Yu's appearance as if she wanted to eat him, Zhang Ergou's scalp went numb.
How could he have forgotten such an important matter?
The more Zhang Ergou thought about it, the more something felt wrong. Chi Yu had never been so easy to talk to. He had been too careless.
He turned around, lowering his head, ready to face Chi Yu's storm.
"Master! Disciple is wrong!"
No matter how many mistakes he made, it was best to admit them first. Zhang Ergou still had this common sense.
To be stubborn after admitting fault was pure masochism. After being tormented by Chi Yu so many times, Zhang Ergou had a good grasp of Chi Yu's personality.
She was not as kind as she appeared. In Chi Yu's heart, and in Zhang Ergou's eyes, there was definitely a devil who loved to torment people.
"Wrong?" Chi Yu glared at her sister, who was making faces behind Zhang Ergou, and said impatiently.
"Come, tell me, where are you wrong?"
Chi Yu seemed determined not to let Zhang Ergou off easily today, not even allowing him to tend to his facial injuries.
With her hands on her hips, she stood in front of Zhang Ergou, demanding an explanation.
"Uh!"
Zhang Ergou was stunned. Why wasn't this shrew playing by the rules? Didn't things usually pass once he admitted his mistake?
Why was she so unusual today?
Did someone foolishly provoke this temperamental lady, causing her to take her anger out on him?
Zhang Ergou's mind wandered...
...
After that day, Zhang Ergou's facial injuries not only did not heal, but worsened, although they were all superficial wounds.
As for how the injuries were sustained, only the person involved knew.
From then on, Zhang Ergou was forbidden to leave Ling Yu Peak, because he had not kept his promise last time he went down the mountain, and returned with injuries.
However, Zhang Ergou couldn't help but feel that Chi Yu was seeking revenge, blaming him for mistaking Chi Ling for her after returning from the mountain.
"A woman's heart is like a needle at the bottom of the sea!"
Indeed, no matter how powerful a woman was, her mind was as small as a needle's tip.
From that day on, Zhang Ergou's daily training was doubled. The original thirty-mile run was increased to two laps, meaning sixty miles.
After running, he had to practice horse stance for four hours and do a thousand push-ups.
These were all to be completed under a weight of twenty thousand jin. Sudan Novel Network
As Zhang Ergou's physical strength increased, the armor he wore also increased in weight from ten thousand jin to twenty thousand jin.
The sudden change during his run had caused Zhang Ergou to stumble, but he eventually completed the day's training with his willpower.
From then on, Zhang Ergou had almost no rest time. Besides running, horse stance, and push-ups, he had several other basic training exercises.
That was not all. In addition to these, Zhang Ergou was also required to practice his Lion's Roar and his self-created technique of punching leaves.
However, he had never managed to shatter a leaf. Just as Zhang Ergou was about to give up, he was severely beaten by Chi Yu and obediently continued his training.
These were Zhang Ergou's basic training. Every two days, Zhang Ergou was required to spar with Chi Yu.
This sparring was different from before, when Chi Yu would just stand there without fighting. Zhang Ergou had to attack her spiritual energy shield.
Instead, Chi Yu would attack Zhang Ergou with various spells and skills, and Zhang Ergou was not allowed to dodge them with spells, but only with his physical strength and speed.
It was less like sparring and more like Zhang Ergou being beaten unilaterally.
Moreover, Zhang Ergou discovered that it seemed like the two sisters took turns beating him, because although they looked identical, their striking force and spell techniques were quite different.
In the blink of an eye, another month passed. During this month, Zhang Ergou's cultivation remained at the late stage of Foundation Establishment, but his physical strength and speed had taken a qualitative leap.
Zhang Ergou had gone from being unable to fight back against Chi Yu's attacks to being able to withstand a hundred moves without being defeated.
It should be noted that for the latter half of this month, Chi Yu had been using spells and skills at the peak of the Golden Core stage. Although Zhang Ergou was still badly beaten, he was much better than at the beginning.
...
"Break!"
In the forest, Zhang Ergou once again punched at a falling leaf. The wind from his punch stirred up a layer of bark.
But the leaves remained as they were, merely blown away by the wind of his punch, and then fell lightly to the ground.
The young man's expression was calm. He threw punch after punch into the air, showing no signs of disappointment at his inability to shatter the leaves.
The night before he went down the mountain last time, Zhang Ergou had clearly felt the surge of energy generated by his punches.
Because at that time, when he hit one tree, another tree collapsed.
This meant his idea was correct, and that surge of energy was different from spiritual energy, entirely generated by his physical strength and speed.
Zhang Ergou even had a premonition that if he could truly break another tree by hitting one, like Qin Lang's previous spiritual energy barrier, he wouldn't have to worry at all.
With one punch, he could directly transfer the force of his fist to his opponent, instead of attacking the spiritual energy barrier.
But how could he transfer that kind of power? Was it purely through strength and speed?
Over the past few days, Zhang Ergou's punching speed had become faster, and his strength had increased.
Each punch only showed a blur, but it could only break the tree trunks in front of him, and he couldn't even affect the falling leaves.
Zhang Ergou was not impatient. He knew that impatience would not solve any problems and would only affect his mood and change his punching state.
These days, he did not punch mechanically, but felt the speed and power of his punch, as well as the target of his punch.
Each falling leaf was his intended point of force, but each time he failed to achieve the desired result.
Today, with one more punch, his punching task for the day would be completed.
Zhang Ergou casually threw a punch at a leaf falling in the air.
Something different happened from usual. The leaf did not get blown away by the wind of his punch as before.
It seemed to be frozen in place, then it exploded, turning into dust.
The fragments of the leaf directly embedded themselves into the adjacent tree trunk...