Snowy Night - Jiang Xue

In the large training hall of the Star Net base.

Li Yang's eyes were like sharp arrows, fixed directly on one of the bullseyes on the steel plate fifty meters away.

Whoosh!

Li Yang flicked his right hand. Blade Energy flashed past like a meteor; before bystanders' cerebral centers could even receive a signal to react, the flying dagger had already sunk into the bullseye.

That was a steel plate, a specially made steel plate. Ordinary people probably could not even stick a flying dagger into it while standing right in front of it. Therefore, even Li Yang had to infuse it with Internal Energy. Every flying dagger of his was filled with Internal Energy, and every throw struck the bullseye without fail.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Li Yang's left and right hands trembled at the same time, and two streaks of icy blade light flashed by. His eyes narrowed slightly, a gleam of brilliance flashing within them.

Others could not make out the daggers' trajectories, but Li Yang could see that his two daggers had been aimed at opposite ends of the steel plate. In the next instant, both daggers changed direction simultaneously and struck the bullseye at the same time.

Drip!

Sweat fell from Li Yang's forehead, yet his face remained as still as stone as he continued his various flying dagger exercises.

Ninety-nine percent of Star Realm Three Stages explained how to use a single flying dagger. After all, if one could throw one dagger, one could throw two at once—the prerequisite, of course, being that both hands were trained simultaneously.

"Little Li Flying Dagger, never misses!"

Only when one reached the state of "The flying dagger leaves the hand, and ghosts and gods are startled" could one be said to have achieved true perfection. Only then could one truly be called "never misses"!

However, to reach that state, one had to fully attain the three great realms—the Joyful Spirit Realm, the Regret Realm, and the Melancholy Realm! The remaining one percent of Star Realm Three Stages gave only a brief explanation of these three realms.

Every realm gave the flying dagger a special effect. During those happy days Li Yang spent with Jiang Xue, he had comprehended the Joyful Spirit Realm. The daggers he threw were like joyful little birds; he could feel their joy, and his spirit could even sense the resonance of energy, thereby changing the daggers' trajectories.

As for what astonishing effects the higher-level Regret Realm and Melancholy Realm possessed, that was beyond Li Yang's knowledge. Only when he attained them would he understand.

Whoosh!

Another flying dagger shot out. Li Yang's wrist trembled slightly, and the dagger's trajectory deviated from what he had expected. Yet relying on the mysterious sensation of the Joyful Spirit Realm, Li Yang adjusted the dagger slightly. It immediately altered its path a little and struck the red bullseye on the steel plate again.

Li Yang immediately walked to the steel plate and removed his daggers from its thirty bullseyes. He could only conceal thirty flying daggers on his body without affecting his attacks and speed.

Continue training!

Li Yang immediately returned to his position fifty meters away and resumed training.

At around three in the afternoon, Li Yang finally stopped after five hours of training.

His performance today had been unusually poor. Seven flying daggers had actually failed! Even after he controlled their changes in direction, seven daggers had still missed.

"Finally, the task of thirty-five flying daggers is complete. It's already three o'clock. Today was three hours slower than before." Li Yang frowned. "Tomorrow. Tomorrow, I must succeed before two-thirty in the afternoon."

Li Yang then turned and went to eat lunch.

Why had Li Yang been three hours slower than before today?

Ever since his conversation with Tan Jin yesterday, Li Yang had deeply felt the gap between himself and those top fighters of the Underground Boxing Ring. Thus, he had decided to increase his training volume.

Today, Li Yang began increasing the amount of training according to his plan. While training his wrist and leg strength, the one-jin iron rod had been replaced with a twelve-jin iron rod. Although he had only added twenty jin, Li Yang clearly found it far more difficult. One had to know that holding a one-jin weight level for nearly two hours was already impressive even with Internal Energy constantly easing the soreness and numbness in the muscles. Li Yang had persisted for a year. A year ago, he had exhausted himself just to barely complete it, but now he could relatively easily hold one jin level while doing frog jumps.

Now that he had added twenty jin all at once, Li Yang once more experienced the agony of a year ago. Still, he endured it. However, completing the frog-jump distance took an additional hour.

The next event was flying daggers. Three rounds of dagger throwing had also been increased to thirty-five rounds!

Li Yang had just been carrying out the thirty-five rounds of flying daggers. Because the earlier training—holding the twelve-jin iron rod level to train his wrist strength—had put too much pressure on his wrists, he had made mistakes while throwing daggers. Moreover, Li Yang had constantly used Internal Energy to ease the pain in his wrists, which likewise accelerated the depletion of his Internal Energy.

Normally, the flying dagger training took around three hours. This time, due to the increased task and his wrist problems, it had taken a full five hours.

After eating, he sat in meditation to cultivate his Internal Energy. Naturally, this was also rest for his body.

When training combat that afternoon, he also adjusted the gravity to 2.5 times! Since the flying daggers and frog jumps had taken much more time than usual, combat training only lasted three hours. Yet three hours under 2.5 times gravity was far more grueling than six hours under twice gravity. By the time it ended, Li Yang was like a drenched rat, covered in sweat.

Yet no matter how much sweat he shed, Li Yang calmly carried out every training exercise.

No matter how bitter it was, Li Yang persisted, all for the gentle and kind girl in his heart. All for that sentence which made his heart tremble, a sentence he had already heard more than three hundred times!

Nine-thirty at night was the happiest time of Li Yang's day. Because those thirty minutes belonged to him and Jiang Xue.

That night, at nine-thirty, Li Yang reclined halfway on his bed, holding the telephone in his hand.

"Xue, it's me, Mu Yi!" Li Yang obeyed the rules of Security Bureau Group 9. Even with the person he loved, he did not reveal his true name. He split off the "Yang" from his name and told Jiang Xue that his name was Mu Yi.

"Brother Yi, it's you! Today at the hospital, there was an absolutely adorable little girl who came in to see a doctor. She just kept crying and crying when she got an injection..." Jiang Xue happily shared her joy with Li Yang.

Li Yang simply held the phone and listened. His face held nothing but a smile, a brilliant smile. He kept smiling, smiling with happiness.

Jiang Xue seemed lively, and she spoke with great delight. Yet Li Yang knew that Jiang Xue was usually very quiet and rarely this spirited. Only when talking to him would she seem like a child.

At that moment, in an affordable housing apartment in the Shanghai Suburbs, a gentle girl held the telephone beside her bed. She was Jiang Xue. Jiang Xue had a good temperament and was very quiet. Her flowing hair made her appear graceful and beautiful, and whenever she smiled, her eyes narrowed completely.

Jiang Xue knew that the Brother Yi she loved was a member of a special national department and could not be with her. Yet she was willing to wait for him.

After Li Yang saw that Jiang Xue refused to give up no matter what, he finally told her one thing: "Within two years, I will definitely marry you openly and honorably!" This gave Jiang Xue something to look forward to. The calendar in her room had lost page after page...

And now, nearly a year had passed. Li Yang had deliberately spoken conservatively back then. He believed he could enter Security Bureau Group 11 in this assessment, but he feared that if he failed, Jiang Xue would be disappointed. That was why he had said two years. From that time on, Li Yang began training himself like a madman.

"...Mm, Brother Yi, is your training hard?" After a long while, Jiang Xue had finished telling him about her day. Only then did she ask in a slightly trembling voice.

Li Yang immediately smiled to reassure her. "It's fine. It's not hard, not hard at all." Li Yang took a deep breath, then spoke after a long pause. "Xue, wait for me. Very, very soon, I'll marry you!"

"Mm, Brother Yi, I'll always wait for you. No matter when, I'll always wait for you," Jiang Xue said firmly.

"It's getting late. Go to sleep. You still have work tomorrow. You're a nurse, and you have to care for patients. It wouldn't do if you stayed up late and weren't in good condition. All right, good night!" Li Yang said gently.

"Good night!" Jiang Xue obediently replied.

"Brother Yi, I'll wait for you!" After a long silence, Jiang Xue finally spoke those words with deep feeling. Li Yang's heart trembled. He hardened his heart and hung up, knowing that if he did not end the call, Jiang Xue would never hang up.

Inside the bedroom of the villa where Li Yang lived.

Li Yang rose from the bed, let out a long sigh, and looked up at the clock on the wall. It was already five past ten at night.

Li Yang slowly walked out of the villa, closed the front door, and strolled down the street.

At around ten at night, the suburbs were very quiet. There was almost no one on the roads in this residential complex. The dim streetlights made the road ahead seem so unreal. Li Yang walked leisurely with both hands in his pockets...

Suddenly, a late-autumn cold wind blew over. Li Yang's body shuddered, and he felt a chill run through him. He realized that it was already late autumn.

"Brother Yi, I'll wait for you!" For more than three hundred days over the past year, those had been the final words of every nightly call. That simple sentence was the driving force behind Li Yang's fifteen hours of daily training. It was where Li Yang found sweetness, and where he found pain.

Lovers could not meet, and he could not even tell her his name. Who could understand such pain?

"Xue..." Li Yang let out a long sigh and raised his head toward the silver moon in the sky. Its cold silver radiance made his heart tremble. Another cold wind swept in, and Li Yang pulled his clothes tighter around himself as he slowly walked through the wind. The dim glow of the streetlights grew dimmer still, and Li Yang's thoughts slowly returned to the past...

Legend of Xingfeng, Tomato's first book, ended today. It ran for more than 1.4 million characters. Starting today, Tomato would devote all his efforts to writing Cun Mang, with two updates a day! Usually around five thousand characters, though there was no upper limit for more. This chapter was the second update, and today it seemed to be nearly seven thousand characters! Hehe, everyone can go take a look at Legend of Xingfeng~~

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