Chapter Twelve: Eight Months of Ascetic Practice

  The village head rushed in and then realized he seemed to have chosen the wrong time again.

  However, Long Song seemed to be unaware of this as his entire body was in the process of gathering energy. The elements around him grew denser and the energy inside his dantian condensed into a liquid state, forming an orderly vortex with four strands representing the four attributes: yellow earth element accounted for 40%, followed by red fire element accounting for 30% because Long Song had been constantly refining pills over the past two months, resulting in the most significant increase in fire elemental energy; blue water element accounted for 20%; and green wood element accounted for 10%.

  Four elements continuously gathered and merged, soon they continuously coagulated together, when the density reached a very high level, a four-colored gas pill began to form. After another ten minutes or so, the pill took shape.

  "Whoosh~~~~" Long Song slowly let out a breath, gradually savoring the gains after forming his Qi Dan. After forming his Qi Dan, it meant he had entered the Qi Dan level, where energy was concentrated within the Qi Dan. Don't look down on its small size, as the energy contained inside is extremely massive. Previously, Long Song would need to recover his Qi after half a day of refining equipment and pills, but this time, after forming his Qi Dan, he could persist for an entire day. Moreover, his ability to control his Qi had also greatly improved; if he could previously lift 200 kilograms, now he could lift 400 kilograms, and with each subsequent level up, the weight he could lift would double, making this increase in ability truly terrifying.

  It wasn't until Long Ge realized his own progress that he discovered the village chief standing at the door.

  "Little Dragon Song, I didn't disturb you, did I?" the village chief asked nervously.

  "That's it, Village Chief. Just don't rush in like that next time, okay? At least consider other people's feelings!" Long Ge was also a bit indignant. If the Cheng Dan was destroyed, it would probably delay their promotion by about ten days.

  "Sorry about that!" The village chief rubbed his head, "I really didn't know you had such great power to become a Dan at such a young age. You're truly a genius among geniuses, a talent among talents!" The village chief hurriedly flattered and fawned over Long Ge.

  "Hehe," Long Ge laughed and said, seeing the village chief trying so hard to please him, his anger immediately dissipated. "Right, Village Chief, what did you want me for?"

  "I've come to see if my weapon refinement is done yet? That's why I rushed over." The village chief suddenly remembered his purpose.

  "Oh, they're all on the weapon racks in the courtyard!" Long Ge pointed at the densely packed weapons on the weapon rack.

  "So many?" The village chief walked towards the weapon rack in surprise, he had never seen so many high-level weapons in his life. "Are they all copper-tiered weapons?"

  "Yes! I've refined a total of sixty, and it took me two whole months!" Long Song exclaimed.

  "Not a single weapon failed to synthesize, Xiao Long Ge, you're truly a genius!!" The village chief picked up the weapons one by one to examine them, "Which one is mine?"

  "This one!" Long Song pointed to a large bow, "Because you already have a copper-level big knife, so I'll help you merge a long-range attack bow. The bow body is made of cold iron, and since I used the hundred-refining method, it has both elasticity and toughness; the bowstring is made from the Wolf King's tendon, enough for you to use your greatest strength to pull."

  The village head couldn't bear to put it down, and really wished he could use it for hunting right away to see just how powerful it was.

  "Besides," Long Song continued, "I inlaid a wind-attribute Wolf Demon Core on top of the bow, so the arrows you shoot have an even faster effect; in the middle of the bow, I inlaid an earth-attribute Boar Demon Core, which can increase the bow's defense; at the bottom of the bow, I inlaid a fire-attribute Tiger Demon Core, which can increase the arrow's power."

  After finishing speaking, the village chief had already hugged the bow in his arms. "Such a good weapon is mine now, I'm so excited! Such great attributes can be compared to silver-grade equipment!" Looking at the village chief's appearance, it's estimated that he will sleep with the bow tonight.

  "Have the members of your hunting squad take these weapons, and leave the extra ten for future villagers who will reach the Qi Dan level." Long Ge said. "Also, there are five bottles of pellets here, four of which are Large Return Pellets and one is a Small Recovery Pellet, each with 100 grains, enough for hunting use. For the next eight months, I won't be refining any more pellets, I want to spend some time practicing." Long Ge wanted to improve his strength as much as possible and venture out into the world outside, but even more so, he missed Huo Wu.

  Long Ge said so, the village chief hurriedly called the hunting team to receive their weapons. The villagers who received the weapons were all very happy, and the remaining ten were also given to the villagers who had not yet reached the Qi Dan level, encouraging them to work hard in their cultivation, hoping to get their hands on a weapon as soon as possible. After all, a good weapon can increase one's combat power by at least double, or even more.

  After sending out his weapons, Long Song prepared to start his cultivation plan.

  Currently, Longge's wood attribute Dou Qi is relatively scarce, so his recovery ability in battle is relatively weak. Perhaps this can be made up for by taking medicine, but if one's own recovery power is strong, do they still need to take medicine? So every day after breakfast, he would run into the forest to absorb the pure wood energy.

  After lunch, he would run to the stream to absorb the water's energy. The more water energy absorbed, the more it would help his body method. It was crucial in battle, especially when facing many enemies. Good body method could make you face only one person at a time. Obviously, Long Song had not reached this level yet, so he needed to work hard to practice.

  After dinner, he sat in front of the fireplace at home to absorb the fire energy. Although Longge's fire attribute Dou Qi has become stronger now, the stronger the better, because in battle, what is needed most is super strong attacking power, and the explosive force of fire attribute is a necessary condition for attack.

  By midnight, Long Ge sat cross-legged on the ground, cultivating his earth aura. The higher his defensive power, the better he could protect himself in battle. So even if Long Ge's earth aura was the strongest, he still had to continue strengthening it.

  In the next eight months, in the early morning sunlight filtering through the treetops, in the forest beside the village, there would be a small figure sitting quietly. That person was Long Song. To prevent magical beasts from disturbing Long Song's cultivation, the village chief specially assigned two Qi Dan-level villagers to protect him. The villagers were also willing to do so because Long Song had helped them forge copper-level weapons and they hadn't had a chance to thank him yet, so they protected him with great enthusiasm. Moreover, after two hunting trips, the village had enough food, so farm work wasn't very busy either. Additionally, after selling 100 large Return Dan pills, the village chief earned a lot of gold coins, adding to the remaining 800 gold coins from last time, and the village didn't lack anything.

  After lunch at noon, Long Song quietly sat in the water in a small stream beside the village, trying to absorb the water's energy, while two villagers stood ten meters away guarding seriously.

  After dinner, Long Ge sat by the fireplace at home, absorbing the fire energy. At this time, Long Wu was protecting him on one side, and Xiao Yue was chatting with Long Wu in a low voice on the other side.

  In the dead of night, Long Ge spent the whole night meditating, greedily absorbing the earth's energy.

  Although the villagers didn't know what kind of kung fu Long Ge was practicing, nor did they know which book he learned it from (because Long Ge had bought a huge pile of books), they knew that Long Ge was a genius and that's all that mattered. The thoughts and methods of a genius were not something they could speculate about.

  Long Song was cultivating so quietly because he was still young, so he hadn't deliberately tempered his body, but only tried to increase his fighting spirit.

  After ten days of cultivation, Long Song rose from Qi Dan 0th level to Qi Dan 1st level.

  Another twenty days passed and Long Song rose to the second level of Qi Dan.

  After another forty days, Long Song rose to the third level of Qi Dan.

  Another sixty days passed and Long Song rose to the fourth level of Qi Dan.

  Eighty days later, Long Song rose to Qi Dan Fifth Grade.

  In just seven short months, Long Song rose by five levels, and his aura increased by a full five times. This kind of cultivation progress shocked the entire village. The state they had achieved after decades of practice, Long Song reached before he was even four years old. What a terrifying talent!

  Because there was still a month before his fourth birthday, and it would not be possible to upgrade even after another month of cultivation, Long Song decided to improve his skills in using Dou Qi. After a month of practice, in the aspect of Earth Qi, Long Song's earth grain defense advanced to earth block defense, not only greatly increasing his defensive power but also greatly expanding his defensive area; In the aspect of Fire Qi, fire flower explosion advanced to fire seed explosion, not only increasing his attacking power but also increasing its might by tenfold compared to before; In the aspect of Water Qi, water drop step had reached a very proficient level, and Long Song believed that he would no longer be afraid even when facing dozens of high-level Qi Dan masters' siege; As for Wood Qi, wood cotton treatment advanced to wood core treatment, which not only could stop bleeding from wounds but also quickly heal them after being applied, greatly enhancing Long Song's sustainable combat power in future battles. However, there was still no progress in Gold Qi, although Long Song had some gold coins, those were far from enough for cultivation, so Gold Qi was still unavailable for now, and there were many shortcomings in breaking through the enemy's defense.

  After eight months of bitter practice, Long Song had a completely different feeling from before. Perhaps eight months ago, he couldn't even beat the members of the Hunting Squad, but now, no member of the Hunting Squad was his match. Due to the bonus effect of the Five Elements Technique, although Long Song was only at the fifth level of Qi Dan, when facing the seventh-level Qi Infant Village Chief, he still had a chance to fight back, because the mutual assistance of the four attributes made it impossible to judge combat power solely by the level of Dou Qi.

  On the last day of eight months of hard training, Long Song rushed to the training ground in Longjia Village, ready to verify the results of his hard training and let the villagers see the strength of this genius.

  Just how strong has Ryūga become? Perhaps it can only be demonstrated through battle!

  Next Chapter: Battle Against the Village Chief