Chapter 133 Climbing to the top
But after practicing martial arts, Du Ruo stood like a pine tree, sat like a bell and walked like the wind. He had undergone tremendous changes.
But after yesterday's transformation, Du Ruo's changes were even more obvious. Not only his temperament, but even his appearance had subtle changes. Overall, he seemed to be several years younger.
"With my condition, if I say I'm twenty-six or twenty-seven, people will believe me."
Du Ruo smiled at the mirror and prepared to go out.
After the age of thirty, although he still cares about his image, he will not pay too much attention to his appearance.
As for the women who have interactions with him now, Xiang Yuanyuan is already 28 or 29, and Li Qiyao is already over 30. They are no longer so concerned about appearance, and material or spiritual things are more valued.
If Du Ruo was only in his twenties, perhaps the change in appearance would bring him more excitement than the change in the system.
Du Ruo went out and bought some beef as she did before, but this time she bought more. The last time she went to see the clouded leopard, she forgot to bring beef, which resulted in Du Ruo having to help take care of the baby while the clouded leopard mother went hunting.
……
"Meow!!"
When they came to the boulder again, the clouded leopard saw Du Ruo and called out and greeted him as usual, then walked to Du Ruo and rubbed his head against him, as if welcoming him home.
Du Ruo discovered that the clouded leopard seemed to treat him as a family member and companion, and seemed to regard Du Ruo's departure as hunting. Last time, Du Ruo did not bring beef, and the clouded leopard thought that Du Ruo had failed in the hunt, so it went out hunting on its own.
"Come on, eat."
Du Ruo sat down, took out the beef he brought and placed it on the boulder, stroked the clouded leopard's head, and watched the clouded leopard start to eat with a smile on his face.
"Meow~~"
Just then, the two little clouded leopards that had just been abandoned by their mother started crying in their nest in the grass.
Du Ruo found that the two cubs had opened their eyes. After not seeing them for a few days, they had grown a little bigger, and the stripes on their fur had become more obvious, and their hair was starting to become rounder. It seemed that the food they had eaten had been pretty good these days. If their tails were not a little longer, they would be almost the size of kittens and would look quite cute.
Du Ruo walked over, picked up the two little guys, one in each hand, walked over to the clouded leopard mother and sat down. He put the little guys on his lap and started petting the two little clouded leopards like cats.
"Woo~~"
The little clouded leopard crawled all over Du Ruo's legs, making whimpering sounds, but it couldn't escape Du Ruo's clutches.
"kek~kek~"
Du Ruo was concentrating on petting the cat when he suddenly heard a bird chirping. Du Ruo looked up and saw the red kestrel circling in the sky.
Du Ruo has a good vision, and this red kestrel is the same one he saw last time when he was rock climbing.
"Uh-huh~"
Du Ruo became interested. He let go of the little clouded leopard with one hand, tore off a small piece of meat from the beef that the mother clouded leopard was eating, put it on his palm, and then looked at the kestrel in the sky as if he was teasing a chick.
The red kestrel was still hesitating, but the little clouded leopard on Du Ruo's leg seemed to be interested in the beef and came over to lick it to taste it.
"Shu~"
A sound of breaking through the air was heard, and the red falcon, which was originally hovering in the sky dozens of meters high, came to Du Ruo's palm almost in the blink of an eye, grabbed it with its claws, and then flapped its wings and wanted to fly into the sky.
"!!!"
Du Ruo was confused. Was this bird stupid? It didn't catch the beef in Du Ruo's hand when it flew down. It grabbed the little clouded leopard's neck with its claws, and then fluttered its wings to fly into the sky. However, the little clouded leopard weighed nearly two kilograms, and the falcon, which was not even as big as Du Ruo's fist, had no way of lifting the little clouded leopard up. It just fluttered its wings blindly.
"Meow!!!"
The little clouded leopard seemed to have just reacted when it felt a pair of sharp claws grabbing its neck and couldn't help but scream.
"Pu~"
Before Du Ruo could react, the clouded leopard mother next to her looked up and found that her cub was grabbed by the neck by the kestrel. She stopped eating the beef and pressed the kestrel to the ground, opening her mouth to bite it.
"Hey hey ~ go eat beef, this guy is blind, he's not trying to catch your cub."
Du Ruo reached out and grabbed the clouded leopard's head, then rescued the kestrel, touched the clouded leopard's chin, and let it continue to eat meat.
At this time, the little clouded leopard's neck was not caught. It moved closer to the beef that Du Ruo had just dropped, licked it, then turned its head away in disgust and went to play with its little friend.
"Go eat, you silly bird."
The red kestrel opened its eyes wide and looked at Du Ruo in confusion, allowing Du Ruo to grab it without struggling. It was not until Du Ruo handed the minced meat back to it that it reacted, grabbed the beef, and flapped its wings to fly towards the nest on the cliff.
"Hehe~~"
For some reason, Du Ruo started laughing.
Du Ruo felt that being in the wild and dealing with these small animals made him happier. In the city, how could he feel such genuine happiness? Du Ruo felt that in the past ten years, the number of times he had been truly happy was perhaps less than half of what he had experienced these days in the wild and interacting with these animals.
"It's time to put it on the agenda." Whether it is to find the charm of Xingyiquan, to improve the progress of Sanhua and Wuqi, or to get closer to nature and truly relax himself, Du Ruo feels that he should go out for a walk again.
In this way, Du Ruo sat on the boulder, petting the two little clouded leopards as if they were cats, and occasionally teasing the clouded leopard mother who was licking her fur after eating, enjoying this pure happiness.
"Okay, you take these two kids with you, I'll go upstairs."
Du Ruo placed the two cubs next to the clouded leopard, then stood up and looked at the stone wall behind him.
Originally, he wanted to take the clouded leopard with him to a higher place to have a look, but now the clouded leopard had given birth and he had to take care of the cubs, so Du Ruo didn't wait any longer and decided to climb up by himself.
"Meow~"
The mother clouded leopard was lying in a nest in the grass, wagging her tail and looking at Duruo. The two cubs had already started drinking milk and could no longer pay attention to Duruo.
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Climbing the cliff, Du Ruo found that this time it was a lot easier. Last time, Du Ruo had to be very careful and had to hold on firmly before climbing up. But this time, Du Ruo progressed very quickly. It can't be said to be like walking on flat ground, but the coordination of his hands and feet made his speed very fast.
As long as there is a small gap or bulge, Du Ruo can hold on firmly by putting his fingers there, and he is not afraid of falling even if the object is completely suspended in the air.
The strength in my fingers and feet is no longer at the same level as before.
In less than three minutes, Du Ruo had surpassed the height where the red falcon lived and climbed onto the cliff in the col.
Du Ruo did not stop, but chose to continue climbing upwards. Du Ruo's actions seemed to have attracted the attention of the red kestrel, which flew out of the nest, followed the direction Du Ruo was moving, and circled above Du Ruo's head, as if observing what Du Ruo was doing.
Huangshan is famous for its strange rocks and peculiar pines. The road that Du Ruo took to go up the mountain starts from the huge rocks and goes up. There are all kinds of cliffs, including cliffs of 60 degrees, 70 degrees, and even 90 degrees. However, these are not a problem for Du Ruo.
Climbing upwards, Du Ruo's goal today is the summit of this unnamed mountain. Now Du Ruo is more than 500 meters away from the boulder where the clouded leopard lives, and there is only the last 100 meters left to reach the summit of the mountain.
“It’s the final sprint.”
Du Ruo stood on a stone wall and looked up at the mountain peak. After climbing here, Du Ruo's aura did not change at all, and not even a drop of sweat was shed.
The difference between "Essence, Energy and Spirit" and is not just a slight change in numerical value, it represents that Du Ruo's body has already surpassed that of ordinary people.
8-10 represents the limit of ordinary people. What is meant here is pure physical fitness, the essential vitality, and the maximum level that can be achieved under explosiveness. In fact, it does not only refer to a certain data such as strength and speed, but represents more of the potential of the body.
With the same data, other people need adrenaline to perform at an extraordinary level, but Du Ruo can normalize the outbursts by practicing martial arts, which is also the goal of Du Ruo's martial arts training.
But after :, everything seemed to start to change. What level of transformation is this? It is a genetic change.
Just like now, Du Ruo looked around and found that this was a smooth stone wall, without cracks or protrusions, and it was still several meters away from the summit. If it were in the past, Du Ruo should have given up and should have considered returning the same way, but now there was no need.
Du Ruo's fingers turned into eagle claws, a red shadow appeared, and three fingers suddenly grabbed the smooth stone wall like an eagle swooping down to catch a rabbit.
There was not much sound, only a few pieces of gravel fell, and Duruo dug three small holes in the smooth and hard stone wall.
Du Ruo did not stop. He held on to the stone wall with both hands, alternating between left and right, and continued to climb up. He left two rows of holes on the stone wall, and the rubble that was held on kept falling down.
“Huh~ Finally, we reached the top!!!”
Du Ruo discovered that after the attribute reached , the "spirit, energy and spirit" in his body seemed to have been condensed. It did not increase dramatically, but it became more durable. In the past, Du Ruo might not have been able to use the Eagle Claw Phantom a few times to consume all the "energy" in his body.
But now, the same action consumes very little.
This is a good belief. Du Ruo believes that in the future his eagle claws or horse hooves will definitely be more than just one part. Perhaps as the progress bar of the five energies deepens, he will be able to condense the entire phantom of a horse or a giant eagle.
"I just don't know what a dragon looks like."
Du Ruo stood on the top of the mountain, his thoughts wandering.
"That... is Guangmingding? Can I see it from here?"
Du Ruo stood on the top of the mountain and looked up. Behind him were endless peaks. Only when Du Ruo focused his "energy" into his eyes could he see that there were many small dots moving at the highest peak. Obviously, those were tourists.
Du Ruo was not worried about being seen. The distance was too far. Du Ruo had to strengthen his eyes to see the blurry dots. There was no way ordinary people could see him.
Du Ruo stood on the top of the mountain. This was an unnamed mountain and he couldn't practice boxing on it. He could only stand on it at most. The other peaks were still some distance away from here. He needed to go down the mountain and climb again. However, Du Ruo had no interest in continuing to climb those mountains. Arriving here had already met Du Ruo's expectations.
"Ouch!!!"
Standing on the top of the mountain, Du Ruo suddenly felt heroic. His abdomen swelled and squirmed. Unprecedentedly, Du Ruo gathered a large amount of "qi" and "spirit" in his throat. Du Ruo raised his head and a deafening tiger roar came out of his mouth.
The tiger's roar seemed to compress the surrounding air and rushed towards all directions violently.
The huge noise brought with it air waves, and even the surrounding clouds were moved to form a circle that spread outward, and the sound waves seemed to be observable.
(End of this chapter)
