Chapter 30 Cutting trees (b)
Just as Zheng Zinuo was about to restart cutting trees again, there was the voice of Feng Ziyan from far away, "If you are exhausted, just calm down and meditate the spirit upgrading codes I taught you. This could not only better cultivate your martial strength but also help you recover faster. When a man is at his exhaustive point, he could better absorb the aura from the heavens and the earth. This is the best time to cultivate. Remember that spirit upgrading codes are not as simple as you thought. Though it's a low level code, it is the foundation of all the high level codes. Goodbye little brother!"
Zheng Zinuo heard the words and was overjoyed. He stopped cutting trees and started meditating with his legs crossed. He silently recited the spirit upgrading codes, when his yellow martial spirit slowly emerged from his back. After dozens of breathes, Zheng Zinuo opned his eyes. It only took one reading of the spirit upgrading codes for him to feel a lot more recovered. More surprisingly, the soar on this waist and arms were much better.
He became excited and recited the spirit upgrading codes for two times. Then he stood up to continue cutting trees. When his strength was about to exhaust, he tried to recite the spirit upgrading codes again. Such a pattern remained for several times. Zheng Zinuo found that it took him longer and longer to recover his strength. But it was still much faster than without using the spirit upgrading codes.
This way, after about one houe, Zheng Zinuo finally cut the first tree trunk successfully in his life. This was also a time that he crossed a challenging pass. He knew that after this, he would really get on his martial cultivation trip.
After cutting down the tree, Zheng Zinuo again sat down with legs crossed and meditated to recover his strength. The time it took much longer, for about two hours, for him to fully recover.
After he stood up, he found that his body was full of strength. It seemed that his martial strength had been strengthened a little more. But he didn't know that his martial strength had leveled up to level five. Upgrading martial strength for two levels in one day was an astonishing story.
However, Zheng Zinuo only felt the strength had increased without know the exact levels.
He found an empty spot and planted the little sapling he brought with him. Then he turned to the big tree trunk that was of five meters wide. Zheng Zinuo looked around and murmured, "It must be very heavy to carry such a big tree trunk." Then he looked at the circling mountain trek with pressure in his heart. "It's such a long way up to the peak. How long will it take to drag this trunk back?"
"Come on! Zheng Zinuo!" Zheng Zinuo did not give up. After he learnt the spirit upgrading codes, his confident was also built. He stretched his arms and turned to the tree trunk, bending down and dragged the tree.
"Hey? It doesn't seem to be very heavy." Zheng Zinuo was slightly happy. The weight of a ten-year old cedar tree was only about thirty to forty pounds. Now with half of the tree being dragged on the ground, the weight was reduced more than half.
Zheng Zinuo clasped a branch and walked over into the mountain. Of course, he still remembered to use the pacing skills even in such a mountain trek.
After about a hundred meters, Zheng Zinuo was so tired that he had to meditate again.
This way, Zheng Zinuo kept a rotative pattern of dragging the tree up to the mountain and meditating to recover his strength before dragging the tree again.
After about an hour or so, with countless recite of spirit upgrading codes, Zheng Zinuo finally dragged the tree back to the peak.
Of course, for the last time, he did not use spirit upgrading codes to recover his strength. So he looked very tired in front of everyone.
"Hey? Little brother, you are back so soon. This is much faster than we expected." No. 5 brother Liu Wenyi saw Zheng Zinuo lying on the ground with sweat all over him and hurried to pull him up. "You must be starving. We were just betting how long would it take you to come back. We have kept your meal. Let me get you some. Do you want to have meal in your room or in the kitchen?"
"Huh...Huh...Thank you, brother. I can do it myself. Let me get the food myself." Zheng Zinuo barely squeezed out his smile and nodded to Liu Wenyi. Then he stood up with his bloody hands pushing against the ground. Afterwards, he walked over to the kitchen.
"Yes, it is much stronger than me." Liu Wenyi glared at his eyes and smiled.
"Hey? Little brother, you are back. Your speed is really fast!" Dongfang brother heard the noise and rushed out. All the other brothers also ran out. They all looked amazed.
"Well, brothers. Sorry that I bothered your lunch break. I am back." After a little rest, Zheng Zinuo recovered and greeted all the brothers. Afterwards, he started moving towards the kitech with his tired body.
"Hey...No. 2 and No. 3 brothers, you lost. Give out your bet." Dongfang had a smiley look and threw a highly appreciation look over to the back of Zheng Zinuo and stretched out his hands to Ouyang Qingqi and Chu Sifeng.
The two looked at each other with disbelief. Chu Sifeng was full of doubts and said: "How could it be so fast? Based on my observation, little brother is only eight years old, with his martial spirit just awakened and a mere level three martial strength. He has never learnt any martial codes. With such a low talent, how could he be so fast?" Then he reluctantly handed out a fine dagger.
"That's true. Years ago when I was doing my first task, I was several years older than little brother, with a higher level martial spirit and level seven martial strength. Though I hadn't learnt any martial codes either, I had an older age and stronger martial strength than Zinuo. But I only took back the tree trunk until evening. It looked that little brother was much stronger than I was. I really doubt the little brother's martial spirit and martial strength were not orange and level three." Ouyang Qingqi said. Then he took out a white round medicine from his arms and handed over to Dongfang reluctantly.
"Come on you. Oh... The March pill and Dark gold dagger. Now you both lost big." Dongfang brother took over the medicine pill and the short dagger. He was over joyed and jumped into the kitchen.
"Our big brother is a robber, hehe! My Match pill!" Ouyang Qingqi said with a heartache, "I spent more than three months of hard work in making that one match pill, hehe!"
"Forget about it, No.2 brother. The pill was of not much use to you. You can always make another one as long as you collect all the ingredients. Look at my dagger. That dark gold dagger was the first weapon I made with rare dark gold and the precious Ziya dark. It must be priceless in the outside market. Damn it. My precious dagger. No, I can't just let it go like this. I will try to win it back from big brother the next time when we bet." Chu Sifeng was even more heartbroken.
At this time, Zheng Zinuo just washed his hands and got some rice in this bowl. He was about to also get some vegetables and then go back to his room to have the meal. So he didn't know about the conversation outside on the bet.
Seeing Zheng Zinuo wanted to go back home, Dongfang moved closer to him and smiled, "Little brother, your performance really amazed me. I was expecting you to be back the earliest at 2pm. But you successfully got back at noon. Even more, you did not seem as tired as we imagined. Can you tell me how did you make it?"
"Oh..." Zheng Zinuo was grateful from the bottom of his heart for the help he got from this big brother. He smiled and answered, "Brother Dongfang, I am now hungry and thirsty. Can I have some food and then I will tell you about it, Ok?"
"Oh, yes, of course. Your health comes first. Why don't you eat and take a good shower first. I will boil the water for you." Dongfang said. Obviously he was in a good mood after winning the betting.
"Okay. Thank you big brother. Then I will just eat here and after eating, I can go to take a shower." Zheng Zinuo also directly accepted Dongfang's offer.
In just a little ewhile, Zheng Zinuo swallowed up all the food. When he was practicing the soul upgrading codes and dragging the tree trunk, he didn't feel much hunger. Now he had nothing on hands and suddenly felt starving. He ate up two bowls of rice.
After Zheng Zinuo ate up all the food, Dongfang was just finishing boiling the water. Zheng Zinuo patted on his belly and said in a naughty way. "I am full. Now I feel much better. Haha…"
"Good. It's good you are not hungry anymore. Do you feel tired?"Dongfang asked.
"Of course. I am so tired that I could barely stand. Now I feel so much soar all over my body. And look at my palm. It is full of blood bubbled." Zheng Zinuo said. He was afraid that Dongfang would find out he practiced the spirit upgrading codes. So he tried to exaggerate his physical condition.
"Yeah. You also regularly took exercises before coming to Lingyin, right? Otherwise, a little kid like you, with his martial spirit just awakened, would be so tired after all the exercises including dragging the heavy tree from the mountain foot to the peak. What was amazing was that you even had strength to eat two bowls of rice…" Dongfang said.
"Oh, yes…yeas! I always took exercises together with my father and my big brother at home." Zheng Zinuo replied nervously, fearing Dongfang would see any flaws in his reply.
"I see. No wonder. I knew that little brother you were not a simple kid." Dongfang praised. "They insisted on betting with me. Look. They all lost." Then Dongfang showed off his dark gold dagger and a round white pill. "These are what I won from your No.3 and No.2 brothers, the dark gold dagger and the match pill."
"Oh? What a beautiful dagger!" Zheng Zinuo was suddenly attracted by the short dagger in Dongfang's hands. He didn't feel much special of the match pill. But in order to make Dongfang happy, he asked, "Is this pill called match pill? What is it for?"
**Originally from BadNovels. Check for the newest updates.**