Chapter 22 Double Happiness

After the family members paid New Year's greetings, the children in the village also began to come.

Yang Zhengshan prepared a basket of red envelopes and a lot of maltose. Each child had a red envelope and a piece of maltose.

There were only two copper coins in the red envelope, but it was enough to make the children cheer.

It was not only the children of the clan who came to pay New Year's greetings, but also some children from other surnames. Yang Zhengshan did not treat them differently. As long as they came, they would be welcome.

After a morning, Yang Zhengshan felt that his cheeks were stiff from laughing, and his mind was dizzy from the noise of those children.

It was lively, but it was really noisy.

After the second day of the New Year, they would pay New Year's greetings to each other. In fact, the Yang family did not have many relatives. Apart from his in-laws, Yang Zhengshan had no brothers or sisters, so he only went to the Lu family in Qinghe Town and did not need to go out again.

In a blink of an eye, it was the fifth day of the New Year. The atmosphere of the New Year was still there, but Yang Zhengshan had resumed his habit of practicing martial arts.

Early in the morning, he came to the back mountain.

The long spear swung, bringing up a sharp wind, sweeping the gravel on the ground and shooting out.

The wind of the spear became more and more urgent, and the spear light became faster and faster.

Suddenly, Yang Zhengshan jumped up a foot high, and the tip of the spear stabbed fiercely into the rock as big as a millstone.

With a puff, the spear head sank in, and the rock collapsed.

Seeing this scene, Yang Zhengshan's eyes suddenly burst into a brilliant light.

Qi!

This was the first time he released Qi.

When he killed Scar Liu, he had already started to stretch his muscles and bones. Now it has been nearly two months, and his cultivation has finally reached the threshold of refining Qi.

The body-building realm is divided into three levels: changing force, changing muscles, and refining strength. The most important of them is the level of refining strength.

Changing force and changing muscles are two parallel levels, but refining strength is a leap-forward level.

If you can control and release Qi freely, you will enter the realm of the acquired.

Being able to release Qi means that Yang Zhengshan has seen the threshold of the acquired.

"Come again!"

Yang Zhengshan waved his spear again, but he still couldn't control the energy freely, and could only succeed once in ten attempts.

After continuous attempts, he found the problem.

The so-called energy is to gather the scattered energy around the body in the Dantian, so that the clumsy force gradually disappears and the rigid force gradually grows. When the clumsy force is completely eliminated and the rigid force is abundant, the energy can be controlled freely.

There are two main reasons why Yang Zhengshan can't control it freely.

One is that his physical strength is not enough. The foundation of the body forging realm is the physical constitution, and the foundation of martial arts is the body. Only when the body is strong enough can one enter a higher realm.

Although the spiritual spring water can slowly improve the physical fitness and potential, Yang Zhengshan has been practicing for a short time, and his physical strength is far from reaching the strength of the acquired realm.

You should know that it takes at least several years for ordinary warriors to reach the level of refining energy from the level of changing force, but Yang Zhengshan only took two or three months.

The second reason is that his control over the energy is not subtle enough. He can just sense the energy, so he can't control the energy in his body perfectly.

This problem cannot be compensated by spiritual spring water. Yang Zhengshan needs to persist in hard training, keep trying, and sum up experience.

In this regard, Yang Zhengshan was not disappointed, but happy.

It is not terrible to have problems. The most terrible thing is that you can't find where the problem is.

Now that the problem has been found, the remaining thing is to make up for these two problems.

Yang Zhengshan thinks this is not a difficult task. It's nothing more than hard training. He has enough tenacity and perseverance. What he is least afraid of is hard training.

This is related to his growth. After his parents divorced, he lived with his grandparents. Although his grandparents took good care of him, they were old after all, and many things were beyond their ability, so Yang Zhengshan needed to do it himself.

From taking care of himself to taking care of his grandparents, he has always done well and has never been lazy.

He is the kind of person who can endure hardships.

Feeling that he had practiced enough, Yang Zhengshan put away his spear and went home.

When he returned home, he learned another piece of good news.

The eldest brother Yang Mingcheng became a warrior!

Today is really a double happiness.

However, Yang Zhengshan did not tell others that he had reached the level of refining strength, but just watched his family celebrate for Yang Mingcheng.

Yang Mingcheng's ability to become a warrior is naturally inseparable from the help of spiritual spring water.

Since the first time he used spiritual spring water to make tea, Yang Zhengshan secretly gave the three brothers spiritual spring water every now and then. Not only Yang Mingcheng and his three brothers, but other people also drank it, but they drank less than Yang Mingcheng and his brothers.

Lingquan water has the effect of improving physical fitness. Even if you drink it occasionally, it can keep people healthy.

This winter, no one in the Yang family got sick, which is the credit of the spiritual spring water.

And Yang Mingcheng's becoming a warrior has extraordinary significance for the Yang family and the entire Yang family.

This means that the Yang family has successors, and that the inheritance of the Yang family can continue for decades.

So when this news spread, the whole Yangjia Village was shocked.

The clan leader Yang Zhengxiang came running over in a hurry, "Mingcheng really became a warrior?"

He was surprised and happy, and still a little bit unbelieving.

"Well, he has stepped into the threshold of a warrior!" Yang Zhengxiang chuckled.

"Good, good, good, hahaha~~" Yang Zhengxiang laughed heartily.

No one knew how anxious and fearful he was in the past years. As the clan leader of the Yang family, what he feared most was that the martial arts inheritance of the Yang family would have no successor.

For more than ten years, he had not trained a warrior, which made him feel ashamed of his ancestors.

After Yang Zhengshan's injury healed, he felt a little relieved.

But Yang Zhengshan was not young anymore, and he was not considered a young generation, so although he felt a little relieved, he was not completely relieved.

Now that Yang Mingcheng has become a warrior, the stone that weighed on his heart has finally been removed.

This kind of joy is something that others cannot understand or empathize with.

Yang Zhengshan was also very happy, but his happiness was obviously not the same as Yang Zhengxiang's.

After all, it was within his expectations that Yang Mingcheng would become a warrior, it was just a matter of time.

Yang Mingcheng already had the foundation for practicing martial arts, and with the help of the spiritual spring water, it would be strange if he could not become a warrior.

While the entire Yangjia Village was happy that Yang Mingcheng had become a warrior, there was a heavy silence in the study room of Anning County Yamen.

Luo Jin sat behind the desk, clutching a document in his hand. County Magistrate Li Qing and Chief Clerk Duan Changhe both looked solemn.

"Sir, the Hu tribe is about to invade the northeastern border, and Anning County must be prepared in advance!" Li Qing couldn't help but speak first.

The Hu tribe invaded, and the border war was about to break out. If the border troops could stop the Hu army, it would be fine. If they couldn't stop it, then Anning County would definitely not be spared.

Although Anning County is not a border town, it is only 300 miles away from the northeastern border. Once the Hu army broke through the border army's defense line, it would only take three or four days for the Hu vanguard to reach Anning County.

Luo Jin narrowed his eyes and looked at the document in his hand again. This was a document sent from the prefectural city, ordering the Anning County government to prepare to resist the Hu army.