A Ferocious Bird That Blotted Out the Sky, the Perilous Great Wilderness, and a Face-Slapping That Came Far Too Fast!

In the open space in front of Stone Village.

"Remember!"

"Put strength into your punches and get your movements right. Put all the strength in your body into them!"

"Only then will you strengthen your sinews and bones..."

A middle-aged man stood before a group of children, shouting at the top of his lungs. He wore animal hides and was as sturdy as a tiger or leopard, with bronze skin, shoulder-length black hair, and rugged features.

As he spoke, he demonstrated the movements.

He also walked over from time to time to children whose training movements weren't correct.

He personally showed them how to fix them.

Wave after wave of shouts rang out across the training ground, shaking the heavens.

At the very back of the group.

Shi Yan was personally instructing Qian Renxue, guiding her hands as he taught her every movement of Stone Village's body-tempering boxing technique.

"Push your stomach out, tuck your hips in, punch straight and strike hard..."

"And breathing is crucial!"

"Your movements and breathing have to work together..."

As Shi Yan guided her hands.

Feeling his little hands reaching around her waist and stomach from time to time, Qian Renxue's pretty face flushed slightly. She told herself.

He's only a child!

On her exquisitely beautiful face, her amethyst-like eyes strove to remain focused.

Following Shi Yan's instructions, she threw punch after punch with her delicate hands.

She paid particular attention to her breathing as well.

As the young master of Spirit Hall, Qian Renxue had a proud, unyielding streak in her bones.

In the earlier contest of strength.

She had actually lost to a little baby barely over a year old.

She absolutely refused to lose again in the future!

Beside them, fair and tender Little One was copying them, babbling as he punched and vigorously waving his chubby little arms.

Unfortunately, he was too small. His movements were crooked, his steps unsteady, and he swayed back and forth, looking just like a little beast that had only just learned to walk.

His adorably clumsy appearance made many of the adults and children around him burst out laughing.

Qian Renxue caught sight of him out of the corner of her eye, and her lips curved slightly.

Douluo Continent, Heaven Dou Imperial City.

Skywater Academy.

"This little guy is just too cute!"

Seeing Little One in the sky-screen, babbling along with the group and vigorously waving his little arms, looking adorably clumsy.

Yu Hairou felt her heart melt. She couldn't help clasping her hands tightly before her chest, practically wanting to rush inside, scoop Little One up, and plant several hard kisses on him.

Beside her, even Shui Bing'er, along with Qiu Ruoshui, Yu Hairou, and the other women, found him utterly adorable.

The scene on the sky-screen continued.

Under Shi Yan's instruction.

Qian Renxue's pretty face was slightly flushed, and her amethyst-like eyes were full of concentration as she threw punch after punch with her delicate hands, paying particular attention to her breathing as well.

As the young master of Spirit Hall, Qian Renxue had a proud, unyielding streak in her bones.

She had just lost to a little baby barely over a year old in a contest of strength.

Now, she absolutely refused to lose again!

Beside them, fair and tender Little One was copying them, babbling as he punched and vigorously waving his chubby little arms.

Unfortunately, he was too small. His movements were crooked, his steps unsteady, and he swayed back and forth, looking just like a little beast that had only just learned to walk.

His adorably clumsy appearance made many of the adults and children around him burst out laughing.

Qian Renxue caught sight of him out of the corner of her eye, and her lips curved slightly.

Just then, the sky suddenly darkened.

"Screech!!"

A piercing cry rang out.

A gigantic shadow that blotted out the sky and sun swept over the village. Its wings stretched several hundred meters across, whipping up a howling gale.

Immediately afterward, a muffled beast's roar came from the distant mountains, making the mountain forests rustle and even the ground beneath their feet seem to tremble slightly.

Qian Renxue's heart clenched, and she felt a little panicked.

That enormous shadow just now.

The bird in the sky had to have a wingspan of several hundred meters!

But surely even a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast wasn't that big!

Shi Yan, however, paid it no mind. He simply raised a hand and corrected Qian Renxue's movements.

"Don't get distracted!"

"This body-tempering boxing technique is all about bringing each breath into harmony with your Qi and blood."

"When you punched just now, your elbow was too high, and your force leaked away."

Qian Renxue took a deep breath, calmed herself, and began punching again under Shi Yan's guidance.

Punch after punch, in time with her breathing.

Gradually, Qian Renxue felt her whole body grow warm, as though a warm current were surging inside her, traveling through her limbs and bones.

Every inch of her flesh seemed to be breathing and leaping with joy.

Her body truly seemed to be growing stronger, little by little.

After morning training ended.

Shi Yunfeng had already cooked up a large pot of beast milk.

A black clay pot sat over the fire, bubbling and steaming. The rich scent of milk mixed with a faint medicinal fragrance, making the children swallow their saliva.

"Little One, come and eat!"

At Shi Yunfeng's call.

Little One immediately came trotting over, hugged a clay bowl bigger than his head, and buried his face in it to drink. White milk stains covered his mouth, and even the tip of his nose.

He looked both funny and adorable.

"Little One's drinking milk again!"

"You're over a year old and still drinking milk! Shame on you!"

The older children nearby teased him.

Little One merely grinned foolishly, not caring at all, and continued gulping down the beast milk.

Beside him, Qian Renxue smelled the rich scent of milk and felt every cell in her body crying out for it. She swallowed involuntarily, then forcibly suppressed the feeling.

Was this a joke?

Even if she, Qian Renxue, had grown young again, she was still a big kid of six.

How could she fight a baby barely over a year old for milk?

"What, do you want some milk too?"

Shi Yan had come over at some point and was looking at Qian Renxue with an amused expression.

Qian Renxue's pretty face flushed, but she stubbornly said.

"Of course not. I just think Little One is cute!"

After saying that, Qian Renxue hurriedly changed the subject. Looking up at the enormous black shadows that occasionally swept across the sky, she couldn't help asking.

"Is Stone Village... always this dangerous?"

"Just now, huge birds kept flying overhead, their wings stretching more than a hundred meters and blotting out the sky and sun..."

An old man nearby smiled and shook his head.

"That's nothing!"

"The mountains have been in an uproar lately. Who knows, maybe some Mountain Treasure is about to emerge."

"At night, there are even big creatures that pass right by the village. The commotion makes the earth shake and the mountains sway..."

Douluo Continent, Heaven Dou Imperial City.

Inside the imperial palace.

"Gulp!"

Seeing this, Ma Hongjun couldn't help swallowing. He said in utter shock.

"No way!"

"Just how dangerous is this world?!"

"That enormous bird that blotted out the sky and sun just now must have been over a hundred meters long, with a wingspan of several hundred meters. When it swept across the sky, the shadow it cast made it look like night had fallen."

"And that isn't even the most terrifying Soul Beast in this world?!"

"The Hundred-Thousand-Year Titan Giant Ape we ran into back then was only a dozen or so meters tall!"

"And this still isn't much!"

"At night, there are enormous creatures passing near this village that can make the earth shake and the mountains sway."

"My heavens!"

"How big must something be to make the earth shake and the mountains sway just by walking?!"

Ma Hongjun clutched his head, looking distraught, as though he could hardly imagine it.

Beside him, Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Oscar, and the others couldn't help looking shaken and astonished as well.

Only Yu Xiaogang and Tang San wore ugly expressions, feeling as though their faces were being slapped again and again.

After all, they had just been utterly certain that this was merely a weak primitive world!

Not worth mentioning!

But unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, a terrifying giant bird over a hundred meters long, with a wingspan of several hundred meters, had appeared!

That face-slapping came far too fast!