Outside Holy Soul Village.
In a dense forest.
Quiet-so very quiet!
A bird perched in a tree more than ten meters tall, gently fluttering its wings as it pecked at the insects on a branch.
Whoosh!
Just then, a figure flashed past, stirring up no more than a faint breeze!
The bird didn't notice at all and continued fluttering its wings.
The next moment, a Striped Snake, two or three meters long, appeared soundlessly behind the tree trunk, staring at the bird.
In the distance.
In the nest, several chicks chirped at the bird.
The bird thought the chicks were simply hungry, so it took a few steps toward the nest and fed them the insect dangling from its beak.
And just then!
Hiss!
Suddenly, the Striped Snake behind it opened its enormous jaws and lunged at the bird.
It was incredibly fast!
The bird was about to be swallowed by the Striped Snake. The chicks in the nest chirped loudly, as if warning their mother.
But by the time the mother bird noticed, it was already too late...
At this moment of peril!
Whoosh!
A sudden gust of wind swept past!
The Striped Snake abruptly froze. At its seven-inch point, a boy had appeared out of nowhere and grabbed it!
It hadn't even realized what was happening!
"Little thing."
The boy grabbed the Striped Snake and grinned.
Sunlight filtered through the gaps between the leaves, falling across the boy's smiling face and making his fair features look exceptionally handsome.
The boy was bare-chested, revealing a fairly sturdy frame. Though he was only about 1.2 meters tall, he already had a powerful, well-built look!
The Striped Snake had been seized by its seven-inch point. Its head whipped back and forth before it suddenly twisted around and bit the boy's arm.
"Oh, you're quite stubborn. Looks like you're my breakfast today... Should I roast you or stew you?"
The boy rubbed his chin as he spoke, seeming not to take the Striped Snake seriously at all.
Crack!
The Striped Snake opened its two sharp fangs and bit into the boy's arm.
However...
Snap~
The two sharp venomous fangs seemed to bite into a rock and shattered on the spot...
The boy's skin had only two shallow dents. There wasn't a single scratch!
"..." The Striped Snake.
"If you were a giant python, maybe you could hurt me... But you're so small. You wouldn't last three seconds in my stomach, and you still think you can bite me?"
Wang Feng looked disdainfully at the ordinary Striped Snake.
More than twenty days had passed since the day he and Xiao San had made their agreement.
Those twenty days of hard training had pushed Wang Feng past his physical limits nearly four times!
Each improvement had been enormous!
At the very least, Wang Feng could now feel that even an adult would be knocked down with a single punch if they stood in front of him!
And he was only six years old!
However, the further he trained, the harder it became to surpass his physical limits.
His most recent breakthrough had been six days ago.
And what was even more terrifying than his sheer physical fitness was the increase in his body's toughness!
Wang Feng felt that his skin and even his muscles had become exceptionally resilient!
Even a somewhat dull knife couldn't cut through his skin!
The Striped Snake's fangs were quite sharp, too, yet they could only leave two dents.
"My raw strength should be more than twice that of an adult man... But my body weighs very little. My muscles are incredibly dense and powerful, which makes me extremely fast..."
Wang Feng murmured to himself, "The biggest improvement over these twenty days is that the harder I train, the better I can control my body."
Just looking at the numbers.
Wang Feng could hold a thirty-pound rock and do two hundred squats without breaking a sweat!
He could also do nearly two hundred Burpees, an exercise said to work the entire body, without feeling tired.
One had to know that even a special forces soldier with excellent physical fitness would find it difficult to do two hundred Burpees in a row in his previous life.
Strength more than twice that of an adult man, terrifying stamina, and incredible speed!
That was the result of these twenty days of training! In his previous life, he might not have achieved the same results in ten years... because Wang Feng was only six years old.
"And there's that warm current inside me..."
Wang Feng scratched his head. "I don't know how to use it... This should be the key to Innate Full Soul Power, right? I wonder how it compares to Tang San's. I'll find out when we fight!"
Just then, the bird hopped over to Wang Feng's feet and pecked a few times.
"Chirp, chirp~"
"Little guy, be careful. I'm off..."
Wang Feng glanced at the little bird, then lightly kicked off with his feet. His whole body turned into a blur and vanished, reappearing on a branch of a large tree in the distance.
Then Wang Feng kicked off again, landing with perfect precision on the trunk of the tree ahead.
His movements were graceful and elegant...
Before long, Wang Feng skinned and deboned the Striped Snake he had caught, then roasted it with relish.
"I'll have this as a morning snack..."
Wang Feng gave a small burp, then continued his workout for the day. "Mm, Little San should have been learning the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer from his father these past few days, right?"
"Training like this alone makes it hard to surpass my body's current limits... I may not need to learn the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, but blacksmithing could still be good training..."
As he thought this, Wang Feng first ran a hundred laps around the small forest.
Once his body had warmed up a little, he quietly ran back to Holy Soul Village.
"I remember that, in the original story, Tang Hao likes to sleep in the morning..."
Wang Feng quietly made his way to Little San's family's Blacksmith's Shop.
Holy Soul Village was quiet at this time. Most people were still asleep, and Little San had probably just gone out to train.
Wang Feng had been to Tang Hao's blacksmith shop many times, so he knew his way around. He looked at the iron hammer.
The hammer was a few centimeters taller than he was!
Wang Feng gently picked it up.
"So heavy!"
Wang Feng drew a small, sharp breath. "It must weigh at least seventy or eighty pounds. Even an adult might not be able to swing it! No wonder Tang Hao was once the Clear Sky Douluo... But it's nothing to me..."
Wang Feng lifted the hammer with one hand and weighed it a few times. It felt just right!
The rocks weighing twenty or thirty pounds that he usually trained with were no longer enough.
But rocks that were too large were inconvenient to pick up and use for training, especially since he was only six.
The hammer was big, too, but it fit his hand perfectly...
Then Wang Feng looked at a huge chunk of Raw Iron.
"Uncle Hao, I'm borrowing your hammer..."
Wang Feng grinned, took a chunk of Raw Iron as well, and walked out of the blacksmith shop.
Of course, he couldn't swing the hammer around in the blacksmith shop. If he woke Tang Hao, with Tang Hao's temper, he would definitely kick Wang Feng right out.
However, Wang Feng didn't know that as soon as he left,
Tang Hao opened his eyes in the back room. A glint flashed across his cloudy eyes.
"That kid Wang Feng can lift my hammer? And he took a chunk of Raw Iron, too? What's he planning?"
Tang Hao got up from the bed.
Even if he was far from what he once was, with his alertness, how could he fail to notice a six-year-old boy?
Thinking this, Tang Hao quietly followed Wang Feng without making a sound. Before long, they arrived at a secluded, open area.
Then Tang Hao saw Wang Feng lift his hammer and start striking the Raw Iron.
Clang~
A clear, melodious sound rang out.
"That kid's got a clever head on his shoulders, but he's terribly frail. He hasn't come by for days. Why did he suddenly decide to forge something?"
Tang Hao found it strange, though he also felt somewhat amused. When he saw Wang Feng suddenly lift the seventy- or eighty-pound hammer, his eyes widened in surprise:
"He really can swing it? Xiao San has natural strength and can swing a hundred times in a row. With a frail body like yours, you'll probably collapse after lifting it this far and swinging it once or twice! Even if you want to train, you shouldn't be so reckless!"
After thinking it over, Tang Hao furrowed his brows slightly and prepared to intervene and stop the boy.
After all, a hammer this heavy could easily hurt a child if he picked it up carelessly or mishandled it.
Tang Hao usually kept out of other people's business. Even Tang San didn't know that Wang Feng had been undergoing special training these past few days and had already changed beyond recognition. So naturally, Tang Hao knew nothing about it either.
But just as Tang Hao was about to step in and stop him, he suddenly froze at the sight before him! His pupils contracted sharply...