Although the banquet lasted until very late yesterday, Yan Liqiang got up early the next morning before dawn. After washing up, he went to the back garden of the Yan family compound and began his morning practice.
There used to be a small bamboo forest outside the Yan family's backyard. That bamboo forest did not originally belong to the Yan family, but last year when the Yan family rebuilt their larger courtyard, Yan Liqiang had someone buy the bamboo forest and connected it to the backyard, and it became the Yan family's back garden. This back garden is where Yan Liqiang practices every morning.
On a morning in late autumn, the entire field was covered with a layer of misty white fog, and dew on the grass had condensed into frost. Although the Yan family's back garden was already a bit bleak, the secret bamboo forest still made it a world of its own and very secretive.
Yan Liqiang held the 400-pound dragon-spine steel spear like a straw. He pinched the tail of the spear with three fingers, stretched his arm, and then began to stretch his body gently. The spear, which was pinched by his three fingers, also slowly thrust out, retracted, blocked and swept as Yan Liqiang stretched his body, performing very simple movements...
As the saying goes, laymen look at the heat while experts look at the doorway. At this time, if Li Hongtu was still beside Yan Liqiang, he would probably be shocked to see Yan Liqiang practicing in this way. The weight of the 400-jin spear was terrifying. Even ordinary practitioners of advanced warriors might not be able to lift the spear. However, Yan Liqiang was able to hold the spear level by pinching the tail of the spear with his thumb, index finger and middle finger. Such strength was absolutely terrifying. Not to mention using only three fingers, even if you moved a tiger stand from the blacksmith shop over, and let the tiger stand clamp the end of a three-meter-long, 400-jin object in a square inch, and then let the object hang in the air, it would be a question whether the tiger stand could hold it.
Under Yan Liqiang's soothing movements, every movement of Yan Liqiang seemed to contain extremely terrifying power. At this moment, hardness and softness, yin and yang were perfectly balanced in Yan Liqiang's body.
Yan Liqiang closed his eyes and raised his concentration to the highest level, visualizing the countless enemies around him, countless swords and knives slashing at him, and countless hidden weapons and arrows flying towards him. He could not see anything, and could only rely on his senses to use his spear to block the hidden weapons, arrows and swords that were flying towards him.
This is the training method Yan Liqiang found. It is not only a training of the body, but also a training of the mind. Under such training, Yan Liqiang can quickly get his body to the extreme state, produce the greatest consumption, get the greatest training, and then achieve the greatest effect when using the Yi Jin Xi Sui Jing to strengthen it.
Sure enough, after Yan Liqiang had been exercising for only half a minute, his body was like a furnace, and the heat from his whole body suddenly radiated. The frost on the ground and bamboos around him was melted by the heat from Yan Liqiang's body, and evaporated unconsciously, wrapping Yan Liqiang in a cloud of mist. From a distance, Yan Liqiang's figure could no longer be seen. In the heat, there was only a long spear moving outside the mist like a dragon emerging from the water...
Yan Liqiang practiced the spear for more than 40 minutes. He was sweating profusely, and all his meridians were vibrating. Then he put down the spear and practiced the Yi Jin Xi Sui Jing. As the Yi Jin Xi Sui Jing was unfolded, the powerful energy of heaven and earth came from all directions, and then began to pour into Yan Liqiang's body from the top of his head. The mist around him did not dissipate, but formed a vortex, spinning around Yan Liqiang. It was amazing...
Yan Liqiang had just finished practicing the Yijing Marrow Cleansing when he felt someone coming to the back garden. Although Yan Liqiang did not open his eyes, he knew that the person who came to the back garden was his father Yan Dechang.
Yan Liqiang did not stop either, but continued to practice. Yan Dechang came to a place more than 20 meters away from Yan Liqiang, and looked at the fog swirling around Yan Liqiang without saying a word.
It was not until he had recited the Yi Jin Xi Sui Jing twice that he felt the energy consumed in his body and sea of consciousness was replenished again, and even increased a little. Only then did Yan Liqiang stop practicing and open his eyes.
The mist around Yan Liqiang slowly dissipated as he finished his exercise. Yan Liqiang then walked towards Yan Dechang with the dragon-back steel spear in his hand.
"Dad, you're up so early too?"
"You knew I was coming?" Yan Dechang looked at Yan Liqiang from head to toe, his eyes showing both relief and a hint of strange shock. Even though Yan Dechang was not a warrior and did not know how to practice, after seeing the scene just now, he knew that Yan Liqiang's cultivation was definitely much higher than before, far beyond his imagination.
"Dad, I knew it as soon as you came here!" Yan Liqiang smiled. He had already told housekeeper Zhou and Hu Haihe not to disturb him when he was practicing in the back garden, so the only one who could come in at this time was Yan Dechang.
Yan Dechang's eyes slid across the dragon-spine steel spear in Yan Liqiang's hand, and a strange light flashed in his eyes. "Good spear, the material of this spear seems to be a bit special, it's not steel, but more like an alloy..."
"This is a spear made of dragon spine steel, it is definitely not ordinary steel!" Yan Liqiang replied.
"Let me see how heavy it is!" Yan Dechang said as he reached out to take it.
"Dad, be careful. This spear is very heavy. You may not be able to lift it with one hand..." Yan Liqiang reminded him. As he spoke, he stood the spear upright, let one end of the spear fall to the ground, and then handed it over.
"I've never heard of Dragon Spine Steel!" Yan Dechang said casually, "It's just a spear, how heavy can it be? The hammer your father swings weighs dozens of pounds. I can still lift things weighing one or two hundred pounds."
As soon as Yan Dechang's hand touched the dragon-ridge steel spear, Yan Liqiang loosened his hand, and the spear fell towards Yan Dechang. Yan Dechang's face changed, and he felt like he was touching a pillar with his hand, and then the pillar fell towards him. He couldn't hold it with one hand, and was pressed back a step by the spear. He quickly stretched out his other hand, and used both hands to stabilize the falling spear.
Yan Dechang took a deep breath, moved his feet, and tried to pick up the spear from the ground, but his face turned red, veins popped on his forehead, and he could only lift the end of the dragon-spine steel spear a few inches off the ground...
Seeing Yan Dechang's hands tremble suddenly, Yan Liqiang quickly took the dragon spine steel spear from Yan Dechang's hand, "Dad, be careful, don't get hurt..."
Yan Dechang was panting heavily, and in the blink of an eye, a thin layer of sweat appeared on his forehead. He looked at Yan Liqiang, and then at the spear that Yan Liqiang held in his hand as easily as a stick, and asked under his breath, "How... heavy is this spear?"
“More than 400 pounds!”
"Is this what you usually use?"
"It's inconvenient to carry this gun with me normally, so I use it when I practice!"
"Your current level of cultivation is..."
"I have advanced to the rank of martial artist..." Yan Liqiang said calmly. He didn't have to tell others about his progress, but there was no need for Yan Dechang to hide it.
"Martial arts master!" Yan Dechang stared at Yan Liqiang blankly, calmed down his breathing for a while, and patted Yan Liqiang on the shoulder, "Liqiang, you are sweating all over, go change first, and then come to my room, I have something to tell you!"
"OK!"
Looking at Yan Dechang's back as he left, Yan Liqiang felt that his father's mood today was a little special.
Just over ten minutes later, Yan Liqiang took a shower, changed his clothes, and came to Yan Dechang's room feeling refreshed.
Yan Dechang was sitting in his room waiting for Yan Liqiang, with a serious expression. When he saw Yan Liqiang coming, Yan Dechang pointed to the seat next to him and said, "Liqiang, please sit down!"
Yan Liqiang sit down!
"There is something I never told you before. I thought there was no hope for us father and son in this life, but now that you are back, especially after watching your archery last night, I think you should know it now!"
"Dad, what do you want to tell me?"
Yan Dechang's face suddenly turned sad, "Now you should know who to find to avenge your mother..."
(End of this chapter)