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Wu Feng put on his boxing gloves and started fighting monsters and practicing Tai Chi.

The starting posture is rounded and relaxed, and the true energy flows naturally, blending seamlessly with the intent of Tai Chi.

Sensing the threat, the scorpion lashed out with its stinger like lightning, creating a faint whooshing sound.

Wu Feng remained calm and composed, slightly shifting his footing, and with a sweeping arc of his right hand, he lightly reached for the scorpion's tail in a "cloud hand" move.

However, unlike when dealing with wolves and tigers, the scorpion's tail is long, swift, and has a tricky trajectory. As soon as its soft and rounded force makes contact, it feels difficult to deflect and control it as easily as when dealing with large targets.

Although it is larger than ordinary poisonous insects, it is still very small compared to other creatures, making it a bit difficult to fight.

Tai Chi Chuan excels at using softness to overcome hardness and borrowing force to strike back. When dealing with targets of similar or larger size, it can fully utilize its advantages of "neutralizing force" and "generating force".

However, when faced with these insects that are swift in movement, have small attack points, have different body structures, and are highly venomous, many exquisite techniques of neutralizing force are difficult to execute, and more precise and faster direct strikes are often required.

With a flick of his wrist, Wu Feng transformed the "Cloud Hands" into a "Blocking Fist," his fist avoiding the poisonous hook and striking precisely at the gap in the scorpion's carapace where its head and thorax meet.

With a muffled "bang!", the carapace shattered, and the scorpion convulsed and went limp.

After all, it was Tai Chi at the perfect level. Combined with his arm strength of over a thousand, even without focusing on softness, his pure, fierce power was enough to kill these poisonous insects instantly.

[Defeat the Spotted Poisonous Scorpion and gain 250 experience points.]

[Tai Chi proficiency +210.]

It doesn't matter if it's difficult; just take it as practice to fight these small creatures and avoid trouble dealing with small poisonous insects in the future.

The world is a dangerous place, and in the future we may encounter enemies who are skilled at controlling poisonous insects or using similar small and swift martial arts.

I can still handle monsters with ease now, but it wouldn't be so easy when facing enemies.

Let's first learn the targeted methods to enhance the lethality of Tai Chi.

He began to consciously adjust his strategy.

Instead of pursuing the principle of using softness to overcome hardness and leading the opponent into emptiness, it makes more use of the short, explosive, and precise penetrating moves in Tai Chi, such as "finger-groin punch," "elbow punch," and "covering hand and elbow punch," concentrating the body's strength on one point to break through the surface and directly attack the weak points such as the gaps in the shells of poisonous insects and the joints.

At the same time, more emphasis is placed on agile footwork for evasion. These venomous insects often attack with potent poison; a mere graze can cause injury, and a single touch can be fatal. It is essential to maintain distance to avoid being surrounded.

Her figure moved swiftly among the rocks and bushes, using "Jade Maiden Shuttle" to avoid the spider's venomous web, "Wild Horse Parts Mane" to parry the centipede's sickle-like legs, and then "Single Whip" to slash and smash the carapace on its head.

The pace of the battle noticeably quickened, and the players were highly focused.

Every punch and every step must be calculated precisely; there can be no carelessness whatsoever.

Anyway, with his current attributes, he could easily kill these poisonous insects with just a touch.

It's just a bit harder to fight. The advantage in attributes gives him more room for error, allowing him to hone his skills in this mismatched battle.

I practiced here for an hour and my Tai Chi proficiency increased by more than 20,000.

Wu Feng's lips twitched. This efficiency was indeed poor, not as easy as dealing with large targets.

If you're in the Wudang Bamboo Forest or fighting tigers and wild boars, you can gain at least 40,000 proficiency points in the same amount of time.

But the gains are not limited to proficiency.

Fortunately, he was not injured or poisoned during the battle, which greatly improved his agility.

His high-intensity dodging and maneuvering, and his ability to deal with attacks from all sorts of tricky angles and at great speeds, have truly honed his skills in actual combat.

The proficiency of [Ladder to the Clouds] and [Cloud Ridge Step] in his skill bar was constantly increasing, and he could feel that he was moving more and more skillfully in this complex terrain.

The poisonous insects here are of a high level, and the experience points are plentiful.

As he crushed the head of yet another armored centipede with a "sealing and closing" technique, a familiar golden light rose from his body.

After leveling up, I successfully reached level 24.

Congratulations! Your level has increased to 24! Strength +1, Constitution +1, Agility +1.

It still consists of three basic attributes, which are better than nothing.

But Wu Feng turned back, satisfied.

He led the chestnut horse back, checked its condition, and fed it some concentrated feed.

Then he flipped himself onto the saddle and determined the direction.

We mounted our horses and continued our journey towards the Miao village.

They traveled along the way, stopping frequently, and when their horses got tired, they would find nearby spawn points for poisonous insects to practice their boxing skills.

The proficiency in Tai Chi slowly increased with each sticky popping sound, and by the end of the day, it had gained over 80,000 proficiency points.

The numbers look alright, but the process was truly unbearable—the juices from those colorful scorpions, armored centipedes, and ghost-faced spiders, which spurted out when their shells shattered, always had a cloyingly sweet and fishy smell. They would splatter on the hem of my robes and, after drying, form dark green scabs.

Wu Feng shook his wrist, the lingering unease in his heart was more tormenting than mere physical fatigue.

"That's enough," he muttered under his breath, bending down to pick up the venom sac that had fallen from the foot of a recently deceased ghost-faced spider.

As the sun began to set, the chestnut horse carried him through the last stretch of winding and steep mountain path, and finally, the silhouette of the Miao village appeared on the horizon.

The village was smaller and older than I had imagined.

Dozens of stilted bamboo houses are nestled on the hillside at varying heights, their roofs covered with thick thatch, which has turned a dark brown from years of rain and mist.

Several narrow stone paths meander among the bamboo houses, with slippery moss growing along their sides.

The air was filled with the smells of firewood smoke, the bitterness of herbs, and a faint, indescribable sweet and fishy odor, similar to the smell of poisonous insects, only much fainter.

Mixed with the dampness of the mountains and fields, it became the natural background scent of this land.

There were very few people. Occasionally, a few Miao NPCs with names above their heads would hurry by carrying bamboo baskets, their dark faces expressionless.

There were even fewer players. Wu Feng walked all the way to the small square in the center of the village and only caught a glimpse of three or four people. They were wearing the initial coarse cloth clothes or simple leather armor from the system. Some were squatting by the roadside bargaining with NPCs to buy herbs, while others were rushing out of the village, probably to do quests.

"It's quite peaceful." Wu Feng led his horse, his gaze sweeping over the largest bamboo building on the edge of the square.

Several strings of dried corn and red peppers hung in front of the building, and some distorted patterns were carved on the lintel, looking like some kind of ancient runes.

An old woman, dressed in a dark blue homespun dress, with her white hair tied up and her face full of wrinkles like dried orange peel, was sitting on a bamboo stool in front of the door, slowly sorting the dried medicinal herbs in a winnowing basket.

She is the clan chief, Granny.

The name on his head is 【Aguduo, Chief of Miao Village】.

There was still movement inside the bamboo house. Wu Feng listened carefully and heard the players talking in hushed tones and the rustling of things being moved.

He peeked into the half-open door and saw two or three players busy inside. Some were wiping bottles and jars on the bamboo rack, while others were helping to organize the animal hides piled up in the corner.

Each of them wore obvious signs of fatigue and impatience, but their hands didn't stop moving, clearly doing some kind of menial task.

Wu Feng tied his horse to a wooden stake outside the building, which was specifically used for tethering livestock. He patted the horse's neck, then straightened his coarse cloth outfit, which was stained with the juices of poisonous insects and whose original color was no longer recognizable, and walked over.

"Grandma." He stopped in front of Agudo and clasped his hands in a fist salute.

Agudo raised her eyelids, her cloudy but sharp gaze sweeping over him, pausing when she saw the longsword wrapped in cloth behind him, before slowly speaking, her voice hoarse like the rubbing of old tree bark: "Outsider? What are you doing in our poor mountain village?"

"I've heard there's a master in the village, so I've come to seek his guidance." Wu Feng spoke politely, but his tone was very direct.

It's not pleasant to try to beat around the bush with an old man who lives deep in the mountains and is mostly straightforward.

Agudu twitched the corner of her mouth, a smile that seemed to appear, yet also seemed insincere. "Seeking instruction? We don't have any advanced skills here, just some folk methods for dealing with the poisonous insects and miasma in the mountains. If you want to learn, you can. But you have to do some work for the village first."