Su Mo never returns empty-handed from hunting, does he always catch prey in the mountains?

For the next few days.

Su Mo still woke up early every day to temper his body and refine his physique. The wooden stakes and stone locks in the courtyard had long since been smashed to pieces, so he brought back a huge stone from outside to use as a training lock.

Sometimes, Su Mo would even cultivate directly in Qingliang Mountain, using his incredibly powerful physique to violently collide with rock walls and large trees. Because he possessed terrifying strength, many trees were knocked down and collapsed, and countless fist imprints were left on the rock walls from his punches.

Although Su Mo's cultivation level was still at the peak of the early Body Tempering Realm, his strength was growing explosively. His punches were incredibly powerful and fierce, carrying immense force. Even Martial Artists in the late Body Tempering Realm, or even the peak of the late Body Tempering Realm, could not withstand a single punch from him now.

After mastering the Basic Saber Technique to the perfect level, Su Mo began to devote more energy to practicing his archery, which was essential for his survival. However, to his surprise, his proficient-level archery had not yet broken through to the great accomplishment level.

Su Mo speculated that it wasn't due to his comprehension. Archery at the great accomplishment level could kill prey and opponents from hundreds of meters away, requiring extremely keen eyesight. However, his current eyesight was clearly not sufficient to support great accomplishment-level archery, which was why he had been unable to break through.

Su Mo remained calm about this, as his immediate priority was to obtain a Body Tempering cultivation technique. Once he broke through to the middle Body Tempering Realm, his strength would increase dramatically.

In the middle Body Tempering Realm, flesh and sinew would generate force, allowing attacks to carry this force, unleashing greater power with every movement. At the same time, the flesh and sinew would become more solid and firm, greatly increasing physical defense.

Of course, Su Mo's current physical defense was already terrifying. By integrating the Swift Sprint and Sharp Claws of the Green Wolf, the Great Strength of the Wild Boar, the Iron Bones of the Green Wolf King, the Plum Deer's strength, and the Swiftness of the Grey Rabbit, Su Mo's physical quality and strength far surpassed ordinary people.

This was also why he dared to cultivate his physique alone in Qingliang Mountain.

Even if he encountered people from Black Wind Stockade, he was fearless.

As long as the Meridian Opening Realm experts from Black Wind Stockade did not appear, Su Mo was invincible. He could easily defeat any Martial Artist in the Body Tempering Realm.

As time passed, he also realized that Shi Mingdong, the genius from the prefectural city he had fought before, was very strong. Although Shi Mingdong was only in the late Body Tempering Realm, far from Li Xian's peak late Body Tempering Realm cultivation, Shi Mingdong was incredibly young, at most fifteen years old.

Even if his cultivation realm was inferior to Li Xian's, Shi Mingdong definitely had the strength to crush Li Xian. However, the current Su Mo possessed physical combat power that could crush Shi Mingdong.

Before integrating the Green Wolf King's Iron Bones, Shi Mingdong could barely fight Su Mo to a draw with his close-combat strength. As for the true outcome, only Shi Mingdong himself knew.

But with Su Mo integrating and mastering the Green Wolf King's Iron Bones, coupled with the Plum Deer's strength from the previous period, and his cultivation reaching the peak of the early Body Tempering Realm, it all indicated that Su Mo possessed the absolute power to crush and defeat Shi Mingdong.

Therefore, Su Mo now dared to hone and cultivate in Qingliang Mountain so recklessly.

Sometimes, he would even encounter stockade guards from Black Wind Stockade clearing the mountain. Without exception, they were all killed by Su Mo.

Among these stockade guards were minor leaders whose strength was close to that of Martial Artists, as well as major leaders whose cultivation had reached the early or middle Body Tempering Realm. But when these leaders encountered Su Mo, they were like sheep facing a wolf.

In just an instant, they were killed by Su Mo in the mountain.

The stockade guards of the middle Body Tempering Realm had no power to resist Su Mo.

During this period, Su Mo also killed a stockade guard from Black Wind Stockade in the late Body Tempering Realm. However, to Su Mo's regret, he still did not find any Body Tempering cultivation techniques from this person.

But from the mouth of this late Body Tempering Realm stockade guard, Su Mo learned that the Great Leader of Black Wind Stockade, Huang Heilong, was a genuine Meridian Opening Realm expert. As for how strong he was, that remained unknown.

At the same time, several of the leaders within the stockade had been silently accumulating strength and cultivation, and had now quietly broken through to the Meridian Opening Realm. This meant that Black Wind Stockade now possessed several Meridian Opening Realm experts.

This made Su Mo's sense of urgency even stronger.

Although he was confident that no one in the Body Tempering Realm could harm him, the Meridian Opening Realm was different. Martial Artists in the Meridian Opening Realm circulated through their meridians, generating internal energy that could shock and injure opponents, easily piercing through their internal organs.

Therefore, Su Mo still did not dare to face Meridian Opening Realm experts directly.

As soon as he detected the appearance of a Meridian Opening Realm expert from Black Wind Stockade, Su Mo would immediately flee. This was because he had killed too many people from Black Wind Stockade during this period. Many of Black Wind Stockade's high-ranking officials were furious and not only sent out peak late Body Tempering Realm major leaders to sweep the mountain.

Sometimes, these Meridian Opening Realm leaders of Black Wind Stockade would also come out of the mountain.

Clearly, they intended to deter Su Mo, an unseen enemy lurking in the shadows.

Shuanglin Village, on the village road.

Su Mo returned to the village carrying a wild rabbit.

"Hey, Su Mo, you're quite something today. Caught another wild rabbit!"

"Your uncle, just lucky."

"I don't really believe you. Who doesn't know that as soon as you go into the mountains, Su Mo, you always catch something? You haven't come back empty-handed recently."

"That's right. Su Mo's hunting skills are getting better and better. We old hunters can't help but admire him!"

"It's normal. Su Mo should be the best young hunter in our village now. Zhang Hai, Zhang Tieshan's son, and Li Goudan and Chen Mazi from the east end of the village can't compare to Su Mo anymore."

"More than that, even the young hunters from the neighboring villages can hardly match Su Mo, can they?"

"Yeah, Su Mo has really made a name for himself now!"

As Su Mo frequently went into the mountains to hunt, the villagers noticed that he rarely returned empty-handed. He would either catch a wild rabbit or a roe deer, and sometimes even catch a Green Wolf with an animal trap. Such achievements made some of the older hunters sigh in admiration.

Facing this situation, Su Mo felt helpless. In fact, he had always tried to be low-key when returning from hunting in the mountains, but with so many eyes in the village, he was occasionally seen by the villagers. However, as the instances piled up.

The villagers noticed something was amiss: how could Su Mo always catch prey whenever he went hunting in the mountains? He never returned empty-handed, always bringing back game, be it wild meat, wild rabbits, or even roe deer. Some villagers even saw Su Mo carrying a Green Wolf home when they got up at night.

Therefore, Su Mo's record of never returning empty-handed from hunting quickly spread throughout Shuanglin Village, making many hunters sigh in admiration. The younger generation of hunters, like Zhang Hai, believed their hunting skills were no less than Su Mo's.

But when he thought about Su Mo catching a Green Wolf, knowing that Green Wolves were fierce beasts, Zhang Hai could only admit defeat.

As for the more skilled young hunters in the village, like Li Goudan and Chen Mazi, they could only avoid Su Mo's sharp edge. Initially, these skilled hunters had wanted to compete with Su Mo.

However, as Su Mo brought back prey every day from the mountains, Li Goudan and Chen Mazi had no choice but to concede, all being thoroughly impressed by Su Mo's hunting prowess.

Because Su Mo's hunting was so fierce, it had even attracted the attention of Black Wind Stockade.

This also led some curious villagers to watch the excitement.

Su Mo was a skilled hunter, but could he still be strong and formidable against the vicious Black Wind Stockade?