"What a heavy snow!"

As soon as he pushed the door open, wind and snow poured in. Liu Qing couldn't help but shiver and didn't want to go out. Her eyes suddenly turned into awe as she looked into the courtyard.

"call!"

"suck!"

In the falling snow, a hammer head danced in the wind, and Niu Gui swung his arms with great flexibility.

boom!

After a while, he let go of the hammer head, but the hammer still fell to the ground. He couldn't help clenching his fists and howling, waking up the other apprentices who had not yet gone out.

"Getting started!"

It was a cold day, but Niu Gui's heart felt hot. Feeling the awe and envy of the other apprentices, he felt even more comfortable.

"Brother Niu, are you ready?"

"Brother Niu is so awesome! I'm getting started! When can I get started?"

"I'm jealous……"

…

A group of apprentices rushed out. Compared with more than four months ago, all of them had changed. They were no worse than the apprentices in the front yard a few months ago, but the one who had changed the most was naturally Niu Gui.

After more than four months of hard training, he finally got started. He is already half a head taller than the other apprentices, and the muscles in his legs and arms are also bulging, giving him a sense of strength.

"Niu Gui will definitely be able to enter the inner courtyard, don't forget us then!"

Liu Qing complimented.

"That's natural! Niu Gui is not that kind of person to compare with!"

Listening to the compliments of the apprentices, Niu Gui couldn't help but feel a shadow in his heart. He couldn't help but look at Fatty Sun's small courtyard not far from the middle courtyard.

"It's been more than two months since I moved out. Is he starting to get started? Probably not. Although he is smart, his brother-in-law didn't teach him breathing techniques, and his family is poor..."

Glancing at the complimenting apprentices around him, Niu Gui suddenly felt bored. These people were destined to have little interaction with him in the future.

"You guys go to work, Master Sun is getting up soon."

After saying this casually, Niu Gui turned around and left, preparing to go find his brother-in-law. When he approached Fatty Sun's courtyard, something moved in his heart and he couldn't help but look through the crack in the door.

?!

…

It snowed heavily before the New Year. It only lasted one night, and the snow was already ankle deep.

At first glance, Niu Gui didn't see anyone, but when he looked carefully, he saw a snowman piled up by someone in the courtyard, holding a sledgehammer in his hand...

"so cold?!"

Niu Gui subconsciously wanted to push the door open, but heard a loud bang.

call!

Then, like a strong wind, a large amount of snow was swept up and scattered.

In the flying snow, there were black shadows rising and falling, spinning and flying, but it was a black hammer with a wooden handle. The shadow of the hammer swept out horizontally and made a "wow" sound.

quick!

too fast!

Niu Gui was stunned.

The strong wind that suddenly rolled up a large amount of snow was like someone swinging a hammer at high speed!

Across the snowflakes flying in the courtyard, the person dancing with the hammer was a young man about the same age as him, but half a head taller than him.

In the dead of winter, he was wrapped in thick cotton clothes, but from a distance, he seemed to still be able to see the explosive power under the cotton clothes.

This person is,

"Li Yuan!"

Niu Gui's body trembled, and his eyes flashed with horror.

How can it be?!

Looking blankly at the figure dancing with the hammer, Niu Gui felt that his whole body was cold, and the hammer was much better than him.

No, there is no comparison at all!

Even Du Yun and Lu Zhong in the front yard can't do such a hammering technique at all!

boom!

The sledgehammer flew out and hit the snow in front of the courtyard. Niu Gui stumbled and ran away.

"call!"

In the courtyard, Li Yuan breathed out a breath of turbid air after holding his breath for a long time, blowing away the snow and fog flying in front of him.

"Cool!"

As soon as he stopped, all the muscles and bones in his body were shaking, making a crackling sound, and his raised palms were red that was visible to the naked eye.

Mastery, done!

Kaka~

Flexing and stretching his right hand, which was full of blood, Li Yuan felt his whole body feel relaxed.

The White Ape Cloak Hammer only consumes more energy from entry level to Dachengdu. It is simple and crude, but the improvement is very obvious.

He could clearly feel that where the blood flowed, his skin became tougher and his muscles became firmer. With gentle flexion and extension, there was an explosive power that far exceeded before.

After the blood energy faded away, and he flexed and stretched his five fingers again, without the blessing of blood energy, he could still feel his progress.

In more than two months, thanks to the fighting method of Dou Killing Hammer, his White Ape Cloak Hammer has made great progress, and he finally became proficient today.

According to the book, this is a progress that can only be achieved by those with superior bones!

And with the blessing of the proficient level hammer method that controls the training hammer, he has also pushed the number of changes in the first line of fighting hammer method to eighteen, which is a huge improvement!

"If I control the training hammer again, I'm afraid it won't be able to improve my hammering skills, but it seems that it can be superimposed... When the two phases are superimposed, wouldn't I be inferior to Xiaosheng?"

The wind and snow were very cold, and Li Yuan's heart was very hot. This feeling of improving himself was an intuition he had never experienced in his previous life, and it made him deeply intoxicated.

"You owe me twelve taels of silver!"

A sudden word broke the joy in Li Yuan's heart.

"Where are there twelve taels? How could I remember only seven taels?"

Li Yuan turned around with a wry smile. Fatty Sun was leaning against the door and looking at him. He coldly and ruthlessly told him how much money he owed and how many medicinal herbs he had taken these days.

However, from the long-extinguished pipe pot and the shaking of the fat on his face, Li Yuan could tell that Master Sun was actually very shocked.

In fact, if not for this, he would not have been able to borrow money from this stingy boss.

At least it is impossible to stack up from the first two taels to the current twelve taels...

"Nine times out and thirteen times back, this is the industry price. You ask everywhere, did I calculate an extra point? It's a shame that you said you would repay me double!"

Fatty Sun took two puffs of his cigarette before he realized that the fire was out. He cursed a few times and had a look of pain on his face.

Two months ago, when Li Yuan 'showed' his astonishing talent in hammering and asked to borrow money from him, he refused. He only lent him two coins several times.

After that, the amount of one-money and two-money coins actually accumulated to twelve taels?

'My money!'

This is called the sunk cost effect.

One or two pieces of silver was nothing to Fatty Sun, so he only agreed to it after he showed off his talent and promised to pay back double the money.

But after the first time, there will be a second time... and the cycle starts again and again, adding up to twelve taels.

The most important thing is naturally because of his amazing progress in hammering skills...

Li Yuan changed the topic and asked:

"By the way, does Master know what happened in the city a few days ago? It sounds like there was a lot of noise?"

"I used to take leave every now and then, but now I don't go out once for more than two months. I'm really as timid as a mouse..."

Fatty Sun glanced at him angrily.

"Who can not be afraid of such a murderous person who is still on the loose?"

Li Yuan shrugged.

"You don't have to be afraid anymore."

Fatty Sun shook his head helplessly, already used to his temper:

"The night before yesterday, the big shopkeeper hosted a banquet for the owner Wang Luan of the Lihe Martial Arts School. When the banquet was over, someone broke out in front of our shop. The owner Wang was almost killed in one blow. The big shopkeeper took action in anger and captured the murderer.

Just got out of jail."
To be continued...