Chapter 22 Double Happiness
After the family members had paid their New Year's greetings, the children from the village also started to visit.

Yang Zhengshan prepared a basket of red envelopes and a lot of maltose, and every child got 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.

Not only children from the clan came to pay New Year's greetings, but also some children from other families. Yang Zhengshan did not treat them differently and welcomed all who came.

After a whole morning, Yang Zhengshan felt that his cheeks were stiff from smiling, and his head was dizzy from the noise of the children.

It's lively, but also very noisy.

After the second day of the Chinese New Year, people would greet each other. The Yang family didn't have many relatives. Apart from his in-laws, Yang Zhengshan didn't have any brothers or sisters, so he just went to the Lu family in Qinghe Town and didn't 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 already resumed his habit of practicing martial arts.

He came to the back mountain early in the morning.

The spear was swung, bringing up a sharp gust of wind, sweeping away the gravel on the ground.

The wind from the gun became stronger and stronger, and the light of the gun became faster and faster.

Suddenly, Yang Zhengshan leaped a few feet high, and the tip of his spear stabbed fiercely into a rock as big as a millstone.

With a puff, the spear tip sank into the rock and the rocks collapsed.

Seeing this scene, Yang Zhengshan's eyes suddenly flashed with brilliance.

energy!

This was the first time he released his energy.

When he killed Scar Liu, he had already started stretching his muscles and bones. Now, nearly two months have passed, and his cultivation has finally reached the threshold of refining strength.

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

Changing force and changing muscles belong to two parallel levels, but practicing strength is a leap-forward level.

If you can control the release of your energy freely, you will enter the acquired realm.

Being able to release powerful energy means that Yang Zhengshan has already seen the threshold of the acquired realm.

"Come again!"

Yang Zhengshan swung the spear again, but he was still unable to control the energy freely, and could only succeed once in ten attempts.

After repeated attempts, he finally discovered the problem.

The so-called vigorous energy is to gather the scattered energy in the Dantian, so that the clumsy force will gradually disappear and the strong force will gradually grow. When the clumsy force is completely eliminated and the strong force is abundant, you can control the vigorous energy freely.

There are mainly two reasons why Yang Zhengshan is unable to control himself.

One is that his physique is not strong enough. The foundation of the body-building realm is physique, 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 physical fitness and potential, Yang Zhengshan has only been practicing for a short time and his physical strength is far from reaching the acquired level.

You should know that for an ordinary warrior to reach the level of refining strength from the level of changing force, it will take at least several years, but Yang Zhengshan only took two or three months.

The second reason was that his control over the energy was not subtle enough. He could just sense the energy, so naturally he could not perfectly control the energy in his body.

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

Yang Zhengshan was not disappointed by this, but was delighted instead.

It is not scary to have problems. The scariest thing is not being able to find where the problem occurs.

Now that the problem has been discovered, the only thing left is to remedy these two problems.

Yang Zhengshan felt that this was not a difficult task, it was just a matter of hard training. He had enough tenacity and perseverance, and was not afraid of hard training.

This has something to do with his upbringing. After his parents divorced, he lived with his grandparents. Although his grandparents took good care of him, they were old after all, and they were unable to do many things, so Yang Zhengshan had 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 hardship.

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

When he returned home, he learned another good news.

Boss Yang Mingcheng has become a warrior!

Today is truly a double happiness.

However, Yang Zhengshan did not tell anyone else that he had reached the level of refining energy. He just watched his family celebrate for Yang Mingcheng.

Yang Mingcheng’s success as a warrior was naturally inseparable from the help of the spiritual spring water.

After the first time using spiritual spring water to make tea, Yang Zhengshan would secretly give the three brothers spiritual spring water to drink every now and then. Not only Yang Mingcheng and his two brothers, but everyone else drank it too, though they drank less than Yang Mingcheng and his brothers.

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

This winter, no one in the Yang family fell ill, all thanks to the spiritual spring water.

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

This means that the Yang family has successors and that the Yang family's heritage can continue for decades.

So when this news spread, the entire Yangjia Village was in an uproar.

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

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

"Well, I've stepped into the realm of a warrior!" Yang Zhengxiang chuckled.

"Okay, okay, okay, hahaha~~" Yang Zhengxiang laughed heartily.

No one knew how anxious and fearful he had been in those years. As the patriarch of the Yang family, what he feared most was that the Yang family's martial arts heritage would have no one to carry on.

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

Only after Yang Zhengshan's injuries healed did he feel a little more at ease.

But Yang Zhengshan is not young anymore and can't be considered a member of the young generation, so although he feels a little relieved, he is not completely at ease yet.

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

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

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 still couldn't become a martial artist.

While the entire Yangjia Village was rejoicing over Yang Mingcheng's becoming a warrior, there was a heavy silence in the study of Anning County Government.

Luo Jin sat behind the desk, clutching an official document tightly in his hand. County Magistrate Li Qing and Chief Clerk Duan Changhe both had solemn expressions.

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

The Hu tribe invaded and a border war was about to break out. If the border troops could stop the Hu army, it would be fine. But if they couldn't, Anning County would certainly 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 breaks through the border army's defense line, it will only take three or four days for the Hu vanguard to reach Anning County.

Luo Jin narrowed his eyes and looked at the official document in his hand again. This was an official document sent from the provincial capital, ordering the Anning County government to be prepared to resist the Hu army.

(End of this chapter)