Chapter 353. Descend the Mountain
After the grand feast, Hua Village returned to normal, and life went on smoothly.
Hua Jing had returned to her usual self, unchanged even after her coming-of-age ceremony, still wearing her favorite short clothes, as dashing as a young man.
Every day, she was eager to practice martial arts, and also shared the dream she had that day with her grandfather and father. Consequently, the martial arts practice time in the village was extended from half an hour to an hour.
Her father’s inexpensive teacher, Zhao Ji, also acquired a new identity as the martial arts master of Hua Village, responsible for the training of the villagers young and old, completely liberating Hua Chengtian.
With the freed-up time, apart from tending to the crops in the fields, Hua Chengtian would still take his sons and nephews out of the valley to search for minerals.
The daughter’s dream increased his sense of urgency once again. Although the space had quite a few weapons, at most they could equip several hundred people, which was far from enough. The village’s young and strong numbered over a thousand, and they couldn’t eventually rely on sickles to fight the enemy.
However, luck wasn’t as good as before; even after several outings, they still returned empty-handed, although they did manage to process and bring back a lot of salt.
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After practicing martial arts with her sisters and working up a sweat, Hua Jing went home to change her clothes. Rarely interested in heading out of the valley, she had just started to prepare when Xiaoxiao latched onto her.
"Sis, when are you going to teach me the Light Body Skill?"
"Can you already adapt to the weight you’re carrying? Standing steadily without trembling, running around the valley within the time I require, and can you dodge mud-ball attacks?"
"Adapted, adapted, Sis, I can now stand stably, and I can run back within the stipulated time. Look... isn’t my body clean? The mud balls can’t hit me anymore. Can I start my exercises?" Xiaoxiao asked expectantly, looking at his sister.