Doomsday: Gain experience by hunting

Moonlight was like water.

A verdant snake body swam, its triangular head parting the layers of waves.

Waves crashed open as the green water python abruptly shot out of the water, lunging toward Tang Wen, who was floating on his back.

Chi!

Tang Wen's fist turned black, colliding with its head.

The green water python was sent reeling, fleeing into the distance.

For a good while, there was no further movement.

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What use are you?

In the beginning, for the first half-month, the three green water pythons would attack Tang Wen frantically every night.

In the latter half-month, they became sluggish, attacking hesitantly.

They clearly understood that they were no match for Tang Wen.

Now, Tang Wen had to lie on the water's surface, feigning exhaustion.

Only then could he attract them to attack.

[Iron Body Technique, Mastery (2987/3000)]

Just a dozen points away from leveling up.

But precisely at this moment, the green water pythons no longer dared to approach Tang Wen.

Similarly, after a month of tireless underwater training, the Mountain Cracking Cannon Fist had also reached the cusp of a breakthrough.

[Mountain Cracking Cannon Fist, Proficient (6000/6000)]

Only some finishing touches were needed to break through.

Splash!

Tang Wen stepped on the water, straightening up as if walking on flat ground.

The lake water, several meters deep, only reached his waist.

"Commander, more refugees are here!" A sentry rode up to report.

Tang Wen calmly asked, "Are there many people?"

"At least a thousand, mostly women, children, and the elderly."

Tang Wen shook his head, "Report it! Send people to intercept them, don't let them near the lake."

"Yes!"

Over the past month, news had spread somehow, and the surrounding mountain strongholds, villages, and so on, all those who couldn't survive, began to gather towards the Flame Camp.

When asked, they said they knew there was a lake here.

With a lake and water, perhaps they could survive!

In just one month, tens of thousands of people had come to the lake.

The lake water was crucial to the camp's food production, affecting countless lives, so these refugees were not allowed to approach.

Out of necessity, ten deep wells were dug not far from the lake to provide them with drinking water.

But food became a major problem.

The refugees had little food, and the camp couldn't possibly provide for them.

Initially, almost every day, people secretly came to the lake to fish.

It wasn't just ordinary people; there were martial apprentices, even martial artists.

Without exception, they were sent to reclaim wasteland.

After that, on Tang Wen's suggestion, the camp began to consciously seek out strong and sturdy people among the refugees, martial apprentices or martial artists.

They were tasked with cultivating land, or blacksmithing, doing labor, or hunting.

As long as they completed their tasks on time, they and their families would be given a mouthful of food.

In this way, the remaining ordinary people among the refugees posed no threat at all.

"Boom boom boom boom"

The water surface churned, as if boiling.

Tang Wen unleashed forty-five punches in one breath.

The surging momentum caused the creatures in the lake to avoid this area.

Several days passed, and whether day or night, the three green water pythons never appeared again.

Three more days passed, and Tang Wen, through his own efforts, forcefully pushed the skill experience past the threshold.

[Iron Body Technique, Mastery → Proficient (1/6000)]

[Mountain Cracking Cannon Fist, Proficient → Expert (0/12000)]

With the green water pythons not daring to show their faces, the waterwheels operated normally.

Tang Wen informed General Zhao and stopped guarding the lake.

Alone, he rode Black Lightning, leading two low-level exotic beast donkeys, to the southern wilderness.

From the hunting team's station, heading south, Black Lightning galloped for the better part of a day, and several undulating rocky hills appeared before him.

"Awoo!"

Not far away, a sand wolf howled.

The stones of the hills in front of him were granite, incredibly hard.

That was precisely what he was after.

Tang Wen took off his shirt, a faint golden light flashing in his eyes, and black skin spread across his body.

His entire upper body was pitch black.

Even his abdominal muscles turned into large chocolate squares.

Both in color and shape.

Tang Wen focused his mind, trying to make the black defense spread downwards.

After a few seconds, the black defense actually moved downwards.

But in contrast, the black defense on his shoulders and neck began to slowly recede.

He tirelessly tried again and again.

Failure came again and again.

"It seems that the most is half the body, and..."

He looked down at his black lower body, his feet upwards pitch black.

But it only reached his lower abdomen.

And it omitted the area between his legs.

With no protection for the vital parts, how could this work?

Tang Wen circulated his mental power, wanting to create deliberate protection.

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However, whether it was a skin problem or insufficient realm.

The black defense always avoided the vital parts.

After several attempts, he stopped experimenting.

The blackness went upwards, all the way to the top of his neck.

Any further up, and it wouldn't go, no matter what.

"Alright! It seems that the Iron Body Technique hasn't been mastered yet!"

Two vital areas could not get effective protection.

Clang!

Facing the mountain wall, he threw a punch.

The black fist crashed into the mountain, stone chips flying, and a deep fist mark appeared on the hard granite wall.

Retracting his arm, more stone debris fell down with a crash.

Tang Wen returned to the donkeys, took out a hundred-refined dagger, looked at it with some heartache, pulled out the dagger's wooden handle, and inserted it into a crevice in the rock wall, with the sharp blade facing outwards.

The dagger's sharp blade gleamed.

It was clear at a glance that it could easily cut someone open.

Tang Wen took a deep breath, his right fist black: "Armament Haki!"

Bang!

The fist and the dagger collided head-on.

A slight stinging sensation came, and the dagger was smashed into scrap metal by the huge punching force.

The fist returned to its fair color, Tang Wen looked carefully, and not even the skin was broken.

This punch used the Visualization Technique to explode.

This meant that the Iron Body Technique covering the fist would make the fist lose sensation and also increase the fist's strength!

Furthermore, the defense was enough for him to disarm an opponent of the same level!

The blackness completely faded.

Tang Wen adjusted his breathing.

He looked calmly at the mountain in front of him.

Years of wind and sand erosion had not changed its smoothness, and it felt cool and heavy to the touch.

The water surface in his mind trembled, stirring up slight ripples, the ripples grew bigger and bigger, layer upon layer, turning into towering waves, overwhelming the sky and covering the earth...

Wind arises from the tip of the green duckweed, waves form from slight ripples!

Tang Wen struck.

[Mountain Cracking Cannon Fist Fifth Form: Dragon Emerges from Water, Ocean Bottom Trembles]

Boom!

Like a missile hitting the mountain, a series of explosions occurred.

The black fist, carrying imperceptible tremors, slammed into the stone wall.

The hard granite, as if made of black tofu, was directly carved out a deep fist hole!

Tang Wen pulled his fist out of the hole, spread his palm, and countless stone powder drifted away with the wind.

"This is the shaking force!"

He felt his stamina.

This punch's burst consumed more than the Eight-Armed Divine Fist's burst. Almost three times more than a normal burst.

"But this consumption is worth it!"

Looking at the black hole in the stone wall, his excitement surged, and he continuously unleashed punches, kicks, elbows, and knees.

Mountain rock fragments flew.

Like heavy artillery bombarding the mountain.

He paused slightly, and then used his back and waist to crash into the mountain.

The warmth of the Visualization Technique flowed, Tang Wen leaned heavily with his back, and a large piece of rock, unable to withstand the tremors, slid down from the mountain.

His waist side-bumped, and the explosive force erupted, shattering the thin stone wall on the side of the mountain!

"Cannon Fist breakthrough, a first-rate martial master is complete!"

"I really want to find someone to fight!"

"If I were really only fifteen years old, um, I'd probably jump to the top of the mountain and shout 'Who else is there?' in all directions!"

Tang Wen smiled as he said this to himself.

"Awoo," a wolf howl came, much closer than before.

Tang Wen cast his gaze, "A pack of sand wolves! Um, a good group of opponents."

With his fist techniques newly formed, he always had to test how they fared in actual combat, didn't he?