Chapter 23 Xiao Yan
"Lin Changqiang wins!"

"Boom, congratulations to the host, the side quest one has been completed, and the reward is the glorious announcement - Domination is the way to go."

Although the outcome had already been decided, there was still deafening applause in the arena. After all, this battle was an eye-opener for them.

Xie Yingying, who was standing on the sidelines, looked at Lei Li, who had fainted on the ground and looked extremely embarrassed, with a changing expression. After hesitating for a moment, she waved her hand and called two younger generations of the Xie family to carry Lei Li back to the audience seats.

"You actually defeated Lei Li, you're too strong!" Wu Yun rushed to Lin Changqiang in surprise. Even though he had guessed it, he was still very excited when he saw this scene. Lin Dong also followed closely and said with a smile: "Changqiang, well done."

“Need I say more?” Lin Changqiang stretched himself, took the cub from Lin Dong’s arms with a smile, and walked towards the audience without looking back: “I no longer have the energy, so I won’t participate in the next competition. Lin Dong, the task of taking back the championship is left to you~”

Under Lin Dong's helpless gaze, Lin Changqiang left here with the cub in his arms and walked straight back to the seat where the Lin family was. Seeing him coming back, all the people in the Lin family, even Lin Zhentian, stood up quickly and surrounded him as if they were protecting some treasure.

“Changqiang, you should have a good rest first. The next match will be handed over to Lin Dong.” After pushing Lin Changqiang onto the chair, Lin Zhentian patted his shoulder and smiled with concern.

It was the first time that Lin Changqiang was surrounded by so many relatives. He was unusually a little reserved and nodded with a smile. Lin Hong and the others beside him also came over and looked at the cub in his arms curiously.

"Old man Lei, thank you very much for your gift this time. I hope the handover of Tiemu Manor can be completed as soon as possible. I have always trusted the reputation of the Lei family. You won't let me down, right?" Lin Zhentian turned his head and looked in the direction of the Lei family with a smile.

"Hmph!" Hearing Lin Zhentian's laughter, Lei Bao's old face turned ashen. He stood up with gloomy eyes, glanced at Lei Li who was carried back, and the corners of his mouth could not help twitching a few times.

"Let's go!" The gazes from all around made Lei Bao feel uneasy. He glared at Lin Changqiang fiercely, then turned around and walked out of the beast horn field. Seeing this, the other people from the Lei and Xie families had no choice but to follow him. This time, they finally understood what it meant to lose both the wife and the army.

“Congratulations, old man Lin.” The people from the Crazy Blade Martial Arts School also came over under the leadership of Luo Cheng. He bowed to Lin Zhentian and looked at Lin Changqiang in the back with surprise. His voice was full of envy: “The Lin family has Lin Changqiang and Lin Dong, which are their greatest wealth.”

Hearing this, Lin Zhentian immediately smiled, stroked his beard, and started chatting with Luo Cheng.

Although the hunt has not yet ended, everyone knows that the championship is already in the Lin family's pocket.

……

With the end of the hunting competition, Qingyang Town once again returned to its former tranquility.

In the early morning, in the misty back hill of the Lin family, Lin Changqiang was holding a clary rosa centifolia in his mouth, basking in the sun comfortably like a salted fish being pickled.

In the open space nearby, three human-shaped wooden stakes were lined up on the ground. In front of the stakes, Lin Dong's eyes focused, and he put his index and middle fingers together, and tapped one of the stakes as fast as lightning. "Bang!"

Brilliant energy burst out from his fingertips, and then the extremely hard wooden stake was instantly blown into a ball of sawdust!
"Bang! Bang!"

Two more sounds were heard, and the wooden stakes on the left and right sides also cracked, and wood chips flew everywhere, scattering all over the ground.

“Hu——” Lin Dong calmed the energy in his lower body and let out a long breath.

“Awesome, awesome~” Hearing the explosion, Lin Changqiang turned his head to look at Lin Dong and clapped his hands in a very perfunctory manner, “As expected of my brother Lin Changqiang, he is truly a martial arts genius!” After saying that, he even yawned.

“If you’re bored, you can spar with me for a while.” Lin Dong rolled his eyes in annoyance, and only gave up when he saw the other party silently turned his back.

"Perhaps, this is what genius is." Lin Dong looked at Lin Changqiang with envy. In the past month after the hunt, he practiced diligently every day, sparring, familiarizing himself with martial arts, practicing skills, and absorbing Yin Sha Qi. In the twelve hours a day, he spent almost eleven hours practicing.

But even so, he had not fully mastered the fourth-grade martial art Pure Yuan Finger until today, and his cultivation was still at the early stage of the Earth Yuan Realm. But what about Lin Changqiang?
Every day he would either lie there, sunbathing and admiring his own cultivation, or go into the back mountain to admire the flowers and fish, and he even called it searching for elixirs. The time he spent on cultivation and discussion was less than two hours a day.

But it was this Lin Changqiang who had already mastered the Pure Yuan Finger to perfection! What made Lin Dong even more helpless was that Lin Changqiang's cultivation was very close to the late stage of the Earth Yuan Realm. He sometimes wondered if this guy had practiced while lying in the sun.

"If it weren't for the help of the stone talisman, I might never catch up with the spear." Lin Dong shook his head and whistled towards the forest.

As soon as the whistle sounded, a fiery red shadow rushed out of the forest and threw itself into Lin Dong's arms. The fiery red shadow was actually a small brain axe about the size of a corgi.

The tiger cub's entire body was fiery red, and it looked like a burning flame, which was quite pleasing, but the python tail coiled on the tiger cub's back made it a little more mysterious. Of course, in Lin Changqiang's words, it was very cute anyway.

This little tiger was the fire python tiger cub that Lin Dong had chosen a month ago, named Xiao Yan. After being fed for a period of time, Xiao Yan's growth rate was also very amazing. According to the two's guess, it was now probably comparable to the fifth level of the Body Tempering Realm.

At this moment, Xiao Yan was lying in Lin Dong's arms affectionately, his little head nodding. When he opened his eyes, the first person he saw was Lin Dong, and the second was Lin Changqiang. After a month, Xiao Yan had regarded Lin Dong and Lin Changqiang as his closest people. Of course, if the two were present at the same time, he would always be closer to Lin Dong, after all, it was Lin Dong who usually fed him.

Just when Lin Dong was feeding Xiao Yan the ancestral stone spirit liquid, a pair of evil big hands sneaked up on the little tiger, grabbed it and rubbed it, making Xiao Yan snore in comfort.

After feeding Xiao Yan, Lin Dong grabbed it and put it on his shoulder. He looked at Lin Changqiang, and the two nodded. They went into the grove together and began to absorb the evil energy of the day.

(End of this chapter)