Wild Boar!

Liu Yuniang worried and wept as she prayed inside the house, while outside the courtyard, when the two aunties saw Liu Yuniang hiding back indoors, they grew even worse, standing at the courtyard gate and taking turns wagging their tongues.

As they talked, the two of them seemed utterly certain that Li Chengfeng would not be coming back today.

They simply moved stools over and sat down by the gate, waiting for the news of Li Chengfeng's death.

"Let's just let that little slut see whether the two of us called it right or not."

Aunt Wang looked at Liu Yuniang's tightly shut front door and spoke with a cold snort.

"Exactly. Who's she showing that pale little face to all day? I say she's just born to curse her husbands to death. This man she's with now is definitely still going to die..."

Aunt Chen's face was likewise covered in a faint smile, malice flickering in her eyes. The thought of Chen Yuniang's fair face that would not tan no matter how the sun beat down on it, and of how hard her days were yet how pretty her face still was, made the flames of jealousy burn fiercely in her heart.

"Exactly. Born to curse husbands to death. Maybe this Li Chengfeng will die in the mountains this time..."

Aunt Wang echoed her, the flames of jealousy in her eyes no lower than Aunt Chen's, her sharp and mean mouth full of venomous words.

The two of them spoke so viciously, sitting at the gate all the way until afternoon without seeing Li Chengfeng return, and they grew even more certain, their whole bodies seeming to gain quite a bit of energy.

"Huh? Then Li Chengfeng died in the mountains!"

"That slutty woman cursed another man to death!"

The vicious words drifted on the evening wind into Liu Yuniang's ears, and Liu Yuniang, hiding inside the house, grew even paler.

"Whoosh~"

In the mountain forest, a feathered arrow wrapped around an iron arrowhead whistled past, its force full and fierce as it shot through a wild boar's neck, the arrowhead piercing through and then nailing itself into the dirt.

"Rrk~!"

The wild boar whose neck had been pierced by the arrow did not die at once. It howled and still tried to get up, but immediately afterward, two more arrows shot out one after another, each striking its neck.

This big wild boar, nearly as tall as a person's leg, finally stopped struggling and crashed to the ground!

"Whoosh~"

An agile figure darted out of the forest, quickly arriving beside the fallen mountain boar. Looking at the boar's body, his eyes shone.

"A whole day with no harvest, and I didn't think that right at the very end, a big one would come!"

Li Chengfeng looked at the wild boar fallen on the ground, then looked at the sun that was already well into the afternoon, his face full of joy.

After entering the mountains today, he had not hunted a single prey until now.

He had originally already prepared to return helplessly, but who would have thought he would run into a wild boar coming out at this moment!

It was truly brimming with luck!

"Good thing I had this finished powerful bow. Otherwise, even if this wild boar were placed right in front of me, I wouldn't have the ability to hunt it."

Li Chengfeng tightly gripped the bow handle in his hand, grinning as he patted the corpse of the big wild boar. In his heart, he could be said to be incomparably excited. After that, he hurriedly pulled out the arrows, used a gourd to catch two gourds of pig's blood, and could only waste the rest, letting it spill onto the ground.

Finally, he skillfully tied up its four limbs with rope, then stuffed it into a burlap sack and secured it with rope. With effort, he hefted it onto his back, straightened up, exerted his strength, and with the mountain boar on his back, strode toward home with shining eyes.

"The Panel Skill really has raised my physical condition by a lot. Otherwise, with such a heavy wild boar, even with Whole-Body Power, it would have been impossible to carry it home!"

Li Chengfeng felt the weight of the mountain boar on his back, his eyes full of spirit.

He mobilized Whole-Body Power, carrying the mountain boar with light steps as he quickly walked out of the mountains, his heart pounding ceaselessly.

With this mountain boar's weight, it could yield over a hundred jin of meat at the very least. Even with the reason of the skill, with his ability to consume and absorb meat being different from ordinary people's and his appetite enormous, it would at least be enough for him and Liu Yuniang to eat for a month!

"For the next month, I probably won't have to worry much about meat!"

A strange gleam appeared in Li Chengfeng's eyes. Fortunately, there was the tempering from the Panel Skill's effect and the birth of Whole-Body Power, allowing him to carry the mountain boar yet still walk lightly.

After walking for a while, he suddenly raised his eyebrows, quietly set the mountain boar on the ground, then nocked his bow and aimed at a huge snake ahead, its body as thick as a thigh.

"Eating only pork would happen to get a little cloying. I'll bring back a big snake for nourishment."

The thought flashed through Li Chengfeng's mind. Then he narrowed his eyes and shot an arrow. The arrow flew out in an instant and directly stabbed down into the python's vital seven-inch spot.

Fifty meters ahead, the python that had been basking in the sun instantly began convulsing all over, writhing continuously on the ground, but before long, it lost all movement.

[Skill: Archery]

[Level: Minor Achievement (148/160)]

[Effect: Stability increased by 40%; Accuracy increased by 30%; Arrow speed increased by 5%]

Archery proficiency instantly increased by 1 point. Li Chengfeng glanced at his current Archery information, feeling the additional wisp of understanding in his heart about how to use arrows correctly, and walked over to the python corpse with his blade in hand, delighted.

He raised the blade and chopped.

"Swish~"

His hand rose and the blade fell. With a single stroke, the brand-new firewood knife chopped off the snake's head. Li Chengfeng held up the snake's body, squeezed the snake blood clean, then walked back to the wild boar corpse, stuffed the snake's body into the burlap sack, and with one exertion, hoisted it together with the wild boar onto his shoulder, walking outward with a face full of smiles.

The effect of the whole-body realm was indeed profound and marvelous. In his previous life, when Li Chengfeng heard that the old-timers had never practiced martial arts yet could easily carry who knew how many jin of goods, run as though flying, and walk who knew how far, he had only felt astonished. He had even needed to practice martial arts for many years before he could do those things.

And now, with Whole-Body Power in his body, he had actually accomplished the same thing with ease.

I heard in my previous life that Whole-Body Power was actually similar to the principle of an old farmer plowing the fields. Perhaps those old-timers comprehended the subtleties of using force through their daily labor, and simply didn't know how to apply it deliberately.

Thoughts flashed through Li Chengfeng's mind. This feeling of all the strength in his body becoming one, of carrying a heavy load yet still walking with light steps, left him feeling deeply satisfied.

Thus, while the sun was still some time from setting, he carried the pig out of the mountain forest.

Under the watchful eyes of the private mountain forest's guards, he followed the official road and strode into the city with a face full of smiles.

The weight of the wild boar on his back made several of the forest guards click their tongues in wonder.

"That kid's got some talent. He's only gone into the mountains a few times, yet he can actually hunt such a big wild boar and bring it back."

"Before, I saw his legs floating and his breath weak, but in the blink of an eye he's become so light and strong. Looks like he really has been eating well."

"Just eating well won't do it. Maybe he's been practicing martial arts too."

The men chatted back and forth, their gazes filled with envy. But then they glanced back at the stretch of forest behind them, where many pigs, chickens, and sheep were being raised, and they smiled and shook their heads, saying no more.

Someone who lived only by hunting, no matter how good the prey he caught, still didn't have days as comfortable as theirs, with meat to eat at every meal.

Li Chengfeng, carrying the wild boar back into the city, did not know about the private mountain forest guards' discussion behind him. He was merely calculating the progress of his martial training in his heart.

If this keeps going, perhaps once Taiji Fist rises to the next level, I'll be able to cultivate this world's miraculous power of qi and blood.

Li Chengfeng sensed that his body had only begun to feel exhausted after he had walked all the way to the head of the alley. Emotion surged in his heart. He gritted his teeth again, quickened his pace a little, and returned to the entrance of his own courtyard before his strength gave out.

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