The Devil's Tribulation

Time went back to twelve years later. Uncle Niu held his daughter and turned around for a few times before stopping and asking, "Is mother feeling better?" Pan Huilian said sadly, "She's still the same. She can't get out of bed." Her eyes turned red as she spoke. Uncle Niu comforted her, "Don't worry. I'll go to the county tomorrow to ask a doctor to come over and take a good look at mother and prescribe some medicine." Pan Huilian looked at her man and felt very relieved. Since her father died, she and her mother have been barely making ends meet by relying on the few acres of land at home. However, because her mother missed her father so much, she gradually developed dementia, and it became more and more serious. Sometimes she couldn't even recognize herself. Pan Huilian had to carry the family alone and take care of her demented mother. When she was about to give up, this man appeared in front of her, gave her a complete family, and took on all the pressure.

Pan Huilian said worriedly, "The county is two days away from our village, and the doctor may not be willing to come." Uncle Niu said, "Don't worry, we can definitely invite him. At most, give him more money and he will definitely come." Pan Huilian looked at her man's face and felt that nothing could be difficult for him. She nodded and said, "Let's eat quickly, the food is cold." The family had dinner happily. Uncle Niu hadn't thought about how to arrange Pan Chengfeng tomorrow. After all, this trip would take at least three or four days. Pan Chengfeng, who didn't know the situation, had already fallen asleep in bed. He drank chicken soup and felt warm all over, and his sleep quality was even better.

The next day, Pan Chengfeng was waiting for Uncle Niu at the entrance of the village as usual. Seeing Uncle Niu coming from afar, Pan Chengfeng ran over with a smile and said, "Uncle, you are late today~" Of course, today is a long journey, so naturally he has to say goodbye to his wife. Seeing that Uncle Niu only had a spear, no bow and arrow, and was carrying a big bag, Pan Chengfeng asked curiously, "Uncle is going out?" Uncle Niu nodded and said, "I have something to do, I need to go to the county town." Looking at the big bag, Pan Chengfeng thought of it and asked, "Uncle, are you going to the county town to sell fur?" Uncle Niu replied, "Well, I have to find a doctor for Niu'er's grandmother." Pan Chengfeng asked hurriedly, "What should I do?" Uncle Niu said lightly, "It will only take about three or four days, you can arrange it yourself first?" Pan Chengfeng complained, "What can I arrange? What should I do with my little pheasant and mushroom stew when you are not here? Who will teach me to hunt pheasants?" Pan Chengfeng thought of his pheasant and suddenly felt unhappy. Uncle Niu felt strange watching Pan Chengfeng lower his head and touch his chin. But he didn't say anything more: "I'm leaving." Then he strode towards the village entrance. Pan Chengfeng looked at Uncle Niu's back, gritted his teeth and quickly chased after him, shouting: "Uncle, wait a minute, I'm going to the county town too!"

Uncle Niu stopped, turned his head and looked at Pan Chengfeng in confusion and asked: "You are going too? What are you going for? We agreed that I won't take care of the food." Pan Chengfeng rolled his eyes: "Who asked you to take care of the food? I have my own rice. Uncle, wait for me." After that, he quickly ran back home, picked up the rice bag, wrapped the small black pot, put it on his back, and ran back. It took only three or four minutes for Pan Chengfeng to return to Uncle Niu, and proudly weighed the rice bag in his hand. Uncle Niu looked at Pan Chengfeng's speed and was secretly surprised: "This kid only ate such a small piece of beast meat, but he can be so fast. I really didn't make a mistake!" In fact, Pan Chengfeng didn't realize that the effect of that piece of meat was more than what he had yesterday. After a night of continuous effect, the energy of the meat had been completely absorbed by his body. His physical strength and power have improved a lot compared to yesterday. And his body has grown a little taller and stronger, and he doesn't feel as weak as before.

Seeing Pan Chengfeng with a smug look on his face, Uncle Niu had the idea of ​​teasing him again and said, "Okay, you eat your rice and I eat my meat along the way." Pan Chengfeng's smug face suddenly froze, and the only thing left in his mind was "eat meat". Is there meat to eat on the way? When he came to his senses, Uncle Niu had already walked out of the village, and Pan Chengfeng quickly followed him. The two figures, one big and one small, gradually moved away from Panjia Village.

Heading west, Pan Chengfeng felt the changes in his body halfway through. He thought to himself: "I feel like I have more energy than yesterday. I haven't felt tired after walking for two hours. I wonder if I have more strength too?" Seeing a fist-sized stone on the side of the road, Pan Chengfeng ran over to pick it up and weighed it twice in his hand. Then he aimed in a direction and threw it with all his strength. The stone made a whoosh and drew an arc. Pan Chengfeng stared at the direction of the stone. After seeing the stone fall to the ground, he estimated: "Wow, it must be more than a hundred meters away, right? It's no worse than a strong adult! Haha, I finally have some strength."

Pan Chengfeng was leaning against the wall when he heard Uncle Niu's words: "Did you find out? Your current physical strength should be stronger than that of an ordinary adult, and it will continue to increase in the next few days. I estimate that your strength can reach 600 kilograms." Pan Chengfeng said in surprise: "You are so powerful just by eating that piece of beast meat? If you can eat it every day, wouldn't you be invincible sooner or later?" Uncle Niu smiled and flicked Pan Chengfeng's head and said: "You wish! The body has its limits. With your small body, you can reach 600 kilograms, which is already a natural talent. Although normal people can achieve such strength through exercise, it is extremely difficult to continue to improve." Pan Chengfeng groaned, covered his head and asked: "What should I do?"

Uncle Niu said, "Someone discovered a long time ago that the human body has limits. It's like a bucket. The amount of water it can hold is fixed. If you add more water when it's full, the water will just flow away. And the life span of mortals is only a few decades. After the peak of the body, it starts to decline. The older you get, the more you lose strength. But..." "But what?" Pan Chengfeng asked hurriedly. Uncle Niu said proudly, "More than a thousand years ago, the ancestor of the body refiners discovered this problem. After his research, he finally found a way to break through the limits of the human body and created the body refinement technique! He is the ancestor of all body refiners!" Pan Chengfeng asked, "Oh~ The ancestor is so powerful, what's his name?" Uncle Niu said respectfully, "I don't know his name, I just know that everyone calls him 'Heavenly Man'" Pan Chengfeng murmured, "Heavenly Man, is there also an underground man? Someone who lives underground?! Hahaha" Uncle Niu saw Pan Chengfeng grinning there, and ignored him and continued, "Let's go."

Pan Chengfeng hurriedly chased after him and asked, "Then how do you break through the limits of your body?" Uncle Niu continued, "Breaking through the limits of your body is like making a bucket bigger and thicker, otherwise it will burst if there is too much water. That's why I asked you to build a good physical foundation first. Only when your body is healthy can you withstand it and not be broken." Pan Chengfeng shuddered and felt very painful when he heard it. He asked timidly, "Is it the feeling when I first ate the beast meat?" Uncle Niu said, "It's similar, but yours is just child's play. If I really help you get started and enter the first level of body refining, the pain will be unimaginable, and it will definitely take a long time."

Pan Chengfeng suddenly wanted to back off. That time was enough to kill him, but this was just a piece of cake? Uncle Niu seemed to see what Pan Chengfeng was thinking and said, "What's wrong? Are you scared? It's not too late to regret now! If your will is not strong enough and you don't make it, you will die." Pan Chengfeng immediately looked at Uncle Niu firmly and said, "I have nothing but a strong will!" The two of them asked and answered each other, and slowly it got dark. After a day's journey, Pan Chengfeng began to feel a little weak. Uncle Niu looked around and said, "There is a big rock a little ahead. Let's spend the night there."

The two walked to the boulder and sat down in a windproof direction. Uncle Niu said, "You go pick up some firewood, I'll go out for a while." Pan Chengfeng put down the rice bag and the iron pot, slowly picked up firewood around, and muttered, "What do you mean by going out for a while? I'm obviously going hunting, and I don't know what prey I can catch this time." After picking up the firewood, he went back, lit a fire, set up the iron pot and started cooking porridge, and then he heard Uncle Niu coming back. He turned his head and saw, wow! Uncle Niu was carrying a big wild boar! It looked like it weighed more than 200 pounds. Uncle Niu put down the wild boar and smiled, "Lucky, I didn't go out for a while before I met this wild boar." Pan Chengfeng didn't know that the "a while" Uncle Niu mentioned was actually a long way away. Looking at the wild boar that Uncle Niu put down, Pan Chengfeng suddenly felt that the porridge in the pot was not fragrant. In the past, he was satisfied with having porridge to drink every day, but now he feels that he doesn't want to drink porridge anymore, he wants to eat meat! But Uncle Niu said, if you want to eat meat, you have to rely on yourself.

"No, we have to find a way to get some meat!" Pan Chengfeng was cooking porridge and thinking about how to get some meat from Uncle Niu. Uncle Niu had already started to process the wild boar. As if he saw what Pan Chengfeng was thinking, Uncle Niu peeled the pig skin and said, "Don't even think about taking a hair of my wild boar!" Pan Chengfeng laughed and said, "How can I do that? I have my own porridge."

Uncle Niu quickly processed the wild boar and started to grill the meat. As usual, he put a dozen pieces at a time and put them into his mouth before they were cooked. Pan Chengfeng looked at the porridge in the bowl, then at the sizzling pork, and couldn't drink it at all. Pan Chengfeng suddenly stood up and walked to Uncle Niu. Uncle Niu looked at him warily and asked, "What are you doing? I said you should eat your own food. I won't share the meat with you." Pan Chengfeng said, "Uncle Niu, don't eat it without doing anything. Drink some water." After that, he handed the bowl in his hand over. Uncle Niu looked at Pan Chengfeng warily, picked up the bowl and drank it in one gulp. "Oh~Oh!~ You drank my porridge first. I have nothing to eat now. You have to share my meat!"

Uncle Niu opened his mouth, looking at the two grains of rice left in the bowl, thinking, "This is not porridge! There are not even a few grains of rice. Do you usually eat this?" Uncle Niu suddenly felt a little sad, thinking, "I only knew that he had a hard time before, but I didn't expect that he would even drink such thin porridge, a child under ten years old, ah~" Uncle Niu suddenly shouted, "I actually fell into your trap!" Uncle Niu took two pieces of meat and threw them to Pan Chengfeng with an angry look on his face. Good guy! These two pieces of meat must weigh at least three pounds. This time he made a fortune!

Seeing Pan Chengfeng grilling meat with excitement, Uncle Niu said calmly: "This is the last time. If you want to eat meat in the future, you have to rely on your own ability!" Pan Chengfeng knew that he had deceived Uncle Niu, but Uncle Niu still gave him two large pieces of meat, which were fat and lean. Pan Chengfeng said with a smile: "Don't worry, uncle, it won't be long before I let you eat the prey I hunted!" Seeing Pan Chengfeng with excitement, Uncle Niu also laughed and said generously: "Okay!"

The two of them ate their meat. Pan Chengfeng's mouth was full of oil. He looked up and asked, "Uncle Niu, can you teach me the trick you used last time?" Uncle Niu asked, "Which trick? I've used many tricks in front of you." Pan Chengfeng said with a stroke of his hand, "It's the trick of raising your hand and then breaking the tree with a whoosh." Uncle Niu understood that he was talking about snapping his fingers, and said lightly, "It's useless for you to learn that trick now. You haven't mastered it in all aspects and can't hurt the enemy." Pan Chengfeng said, "Who wants to hurt the enemy? As long as we can hurt pheasants and rabbits, it's fine." Uncle Niu glared at him, "You learned my trick just to hit pheasants and rabbits?"

Pan Chengfeng blinked: "How about that?" Uncle Niu was about to curse, but after thinking for a while, he said: "Okay, you use ten fingers to support your body for an hour every day, until you can support your body with one finger, I will teach you." Pan Chengfeng asked doubtfully: "Is it that simple?" "Simple?! It took me three months to do it back then." Pan Chengfeng hurriedly explained: "I'm not saying that this action is simple, I'm saying that this training method is simple." He thought to himself: "Isn't this what Master Yideng practiced?" Uncle Niu said impatiently: "You will know it's not simple after you practice it."

After eating the meat, Pan Chengfeng clapped his hands and started practicing immediately. "Isn't it just a handstand? How difficult can it be?" As he said that, he supported himself with his hands, stood up, and then slowly supported his body with his ten fingers. He didn't feel tired at first, but after a while, he heard Uncle Niu said sternly: "Stretch your waist and legs, and stand up with your ten fingers." Pan Chengfeng immediately gritted his teeth and straightened his body. Uncle Niu nodded and continued to eat meat. Pan Chengfeng persisted for half an hour and was already sweating all over. His waist and legs slowly bent, and his palms touched the ground. As soon as his palms touched the ground, he heard Uncle Niu shouting: "Hold up with your fingers." Pan Chengfeng was startled and immediately held up his fingers again. He was reminded more than a dozen times in the middle and fell to the ground twice, but he finally persisted. Pan Chengfeng was so tired that he lay on the ground, not wanting to move a finger, but he could still move his mouth. He asked weakly, "Uncle Niu, how long did it take you to do it?" Uncle Niu replied, "Three months!" Pan Chengfeng said, "I can do it in two months!" Uncle Niu looked over in surprise, only to find that the boy had fallen asleep. Uncle Niu thought to himself, "You can hold on for an hour the first time, you're better than me." In fact, it took Uncle Niu five months to support his body with one finger. The reason why he said three months was to encourage Pan Chengfeng, but more to brag in front of his future apprentice!