Chapter 1 - Shen Fei
On the side of a small river that was slowly flowing, a young man in a gray cloth robe sat cross-legged.
The young man had pretty eyebrows and eyes, and was about fourteen or fifteen years old. Looking at the strange seals he was holding with his right hand, he seemed to be practicing some kind of alchemy technique.
What is most surprising is that there is only an empty sleeve on the left side of the boy's body, and there is no arm inside. This is a boy without a left arm.
"Oh! I knew it would be like this!"
Chen Fei opened his eyes, sighed, his delicate eyebrows slightly frowned, his face full of depressedness and helplessness, and he murmured softly: "At this speed, it may take less than two months to completely disappear, right?"
As the melancholy voice fell, Chen Fei couldn't help but stretch out his only right hand and touched a strange pendant hanging on his chest. The pendant was grayish white, but the shape was strange. If you look closely, you will find that this thing looked like a human arm. At the end of the arm was an open palm with five fingers on the palm.
Chen Fei's right finger joints, holding the arm pendant, were a little white. From a genius to a waste, it was often just a moment. In a year, he had been used to the warmth and coldness of the world, and now he still had his companionship, it seemed that the only one left was this lonely arm pendant.
"Puff!"
Just as Chen Fei was falling into self-deprecating and feeling sad, a voice suddenly came into his ears, and then a splash of water hit him.
Chen Fei reacted very quickly, kicked his feet on the ground, and when he stepped back, he waved his right hand quickly, and saw a faint white mist rising from his right hand. The splashing water fell down weakly after being blocked by his white mist. Chen Fei's body did not even splash a drop of water.
"Oh, I didn't expect you to be a waste, you reacted very quickly!"
Chen Fei had just stood still, and a slightly harsh voice came, making him react instantly. The moment just now was probably not an accident.
Chen Fei frowned slightly, and turned around. Sure enough, four figures stood side by side behind him. The leader was holding a stone the size of a fist in his hand. The childish prank just now must be the masterpiece of this person.
Chen Fei is not unfamiliar with this person, and he has absolutely no favor. Since Chen Fei changed his life a year ago, Tang Ning, who was originally flattering and attentive in front of him, immediately changed his face and humiliated and suppressed Chen Fei, as if he wanted to take back all the dignity he had lost in the latter before.
“Get out of here!”
Chen Fei did not respond to Tang Ning's usual sarcastic words. He saw the four people standing in front of him, and immediately said two words with a calm face.
Seeing this, Tang Ning took two steps back as he said, and shouted in an extremely exaggerated manner: "Look, look, Young Master Chen Fei is going to teach someone a lesson again, I am really scared!"
But having said that, Tang Ning's face didn't look like he was afraid? A person next to him hurriedly said, "Senior Brother Tang Ning, have you forgotten? He is no longer the Chen Fei a year ago. Now Chen Fei is just a disabled person without a left arm!"
Hearing this, Tang Ning patted his chest and said with lingering fear: "Oh, I really forgot if you didn't say it, I'm scared to death!"
Chen Fei's face became more and more gloomy when he performed like a clown. He had seen such a trick in the past year. He ignored the few people and walked straight forward, took a few steps, and bypassed the four of them.
"Hey, Chen Fei, Senior Brother Tang Ning hasn't finished speaking yet, how dare you leave?"
Seeing Chen Fei pulling his feet and leaving, Tang Ning winked at the person who was just talking, and the latter shouted and then moved his body, and his right hand became a claw, and he grabbed Chen Fei's right back shoulder.
Chen Fei had been guarding against this move for a long time. When the man's palm just touched his clothes, his body was already giving way to the left. Then the man couldn't hold back. Chen Fei kicked another step and just hooked his calves. The man couldn't control himself and fell directly forward.
These few clean and neat strokes, from the man's attack to the fall, only in just a few breaths, Tang Ning and others realized that the guy had already fallen on his face.
"Good boy, how dare you hit someone!"
Tang Ning was furious when he reacted. After his shouting, his figure had taken two steps, and he was facing the enemy head-on. But seeing that Tang Ning's white air was lingering in his hands, much richer than Chen Fei used before, this also shows that Tang Ning's cultivation is indeed above Shen Fei.
Seeing that Tang Ning had already taken action, the remaining two looked at each other, blocking Chen Fei's retreat from the left and right, and then when Tang Ning gained the upper hand, they both joined the battle circle.
If Chen Fei had taken such characters seriously a year ago, but now, he has dropped to the fifth level of Dan Qi, how could he be the opponent of Tang Ning of the Eighth level of Dan Qi?
What's more, the latter had two helpers who were not inferior to him. He just knocked down the man just now, but he was just surprised. He was facing the battle head-on. In just a few rounds, Chen Fei was already hit by Tang Ning with a punch. He bent over in severe pain, took another punch in the back, and fell to the ground.
"Blow me hard!"
Tang Ning had a hint of pleasure in his eyes. When the other two punched and kicked Chen Fei, the man who had just fallen to the ground also got up, and he felt particularly resentful of Chen Fei, so he was particularly serious at this time.
Chen Fei protected his head with his right hand and let several people greet him. At one moment, he suddenly felt a pain in the broken arm on his left shoulder. It turned out that Tang Ning stretched out his kick and stepped hard on Chen Fei's broken arm. Then he smiled grimly and said, "Chen Fei, Lieyun Palace has no place for you anymore. If you know the truth, please get out of here!"
"Lieyun Palace!"
When Chen Fei heard the name Tang Ning said, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Once upon a time, he was the first genius of the younger generation of Lieyun Palace. The demonic talent of reaching the ninth level of alchemy at the age of thirteen once made the first genius of the royal family pale. But all this has changed since Shen Fei cut off his arm a year ago.
"Stop! What are you doing?"
Just as Shen Fei was gradually unable to bear it, a chilling scream suddenly came. Immediately, Chen Fei felt a lighter on his body, and all the attacks scattered and empty, but now he had no intention of treating the wound first. His eyes had already turned to the place where the familiar voice came.
Tang Ning, who was stunned for a moment, suddenly withdrew his feet from Chen Fei's broken arm, turned his head, and saw that it was indeed the graceful woman in a light red dress. He immediately changed his smile and said, "It turns out to be Junior Sister Yu'er, why are you here too?"
Shangguan Yu glanced at Tang Ning with some disgust, especially when he saw the latter's right foot retracted, he couldn't help but feel even more angry and said with a calm face: "Chen Fei is also our fellow junior brother. Are you not afraid of the palace master's punishment when you do this?"
When Tang Ning heard this, his face froze, but he also knew that since Shangguan Yu had come forward, the humiliation of Chen Fei today could only end here. He sneered at Chen Fei who was slowly standing up: "Are you lucky, let's go!"
"Chen Fei, are you okay?"
Seeing Tang Ning and the other four disappearing in the distance, Shangguan Yu turned around and said with a complicated look. Hearing this, Chen Fei seemed to feel that the humiliation just now was nothing, and said softly: "Yu'er, thank you!"
Chen Fei and Shangguan Yu are childhood sweethearts. Before the former had broken his arms and was disabled, the two were recognized as a pair of good friends in Lieyun Palace. Although they did not break the window paper, in Shen Fei's heart, Shangguan Yu was already the most important person besides his teacher Han Chi.
But since Chen Fei broke his arm, Shangguan Yu had met the former less and less often, whether intentionally or unintentionally. Although Chen Fei could feel this, he never dared to think deeper. Therefore, when he saw Shangguan Yu helping him at this critical moment, the expectation in his heart immediately covered up his rationality.
After a brief silence, Shangguan Yu whispered: "Don't provoke Tang Ning and other guys in the future. With your current cultivation level, you will not be their opponent."
"Yu'er, I..."
At this time, Chen Fei was full of random thoughts and didn't hear the meaning of Shangguan Yu's words clearly. After spitting out three words, he took a step forward and wanted to extend his right hand to grab Shangguan Yu's jade hand.
But who knew that just when Shen Fei was about to put Shangguan Yuhao's wrist with his right hand, the latter gently avoided it. Chen Fei's grab was gone, and what he didn't see was that this action actually made a faint disgust flash through Shangguan Yu's eyes.
Chen Fei's right hand froze in the air, his face full of confusion. Although the two met less times in the past year, the only few meetings were normal, but the action of holding hands was quite normal. However, Shangguan Yu's action now made Chen Fei feel ache.
"Okay, it's getting late, let's go back first!"
Shangguan Yu didn't seem to want to stay here for too long, and seemed to be afraid that Chen Fei would be entangled again. He spoke and turned around. However, after walking a few steps forward, he paused again and said, "Tomorrow morning, I will wait for you in 'Anranting'!"
"Ah? Oh, OK!"
When Chen Fei heard Shangguan Yu's outstanding words, he was startled and then ecstatic. The "Anranting" mentioned by the former was the place where the two of them often went, and Chen Fei had a special relationship with this place.
"It seems that the only ones who remain unchanged to me in Lieyun Palace are the teachers and Yu'er." Shangguan Yu's words made Chen Fei feel inexplicably happy.
During this year, due to the loss of his left arm, the elixir could not operate in the Great Circle. He directly retreated from the Nine-level elixir energy to the fifth-level elixir energy, and this momentum was still rushing towards a lower place.
This former first genius of Lieyun Palace suddenly became the number one waste. Chen Fei, who lost his left arm, could only watch the alchemy energy he had cultivated dissipated day by day without any help.
However, what Chen Fei didn't notice was that a trace of blood overflowing from the corner of his mouth dripped down his chin and fell accurately on the arm-shaped pendant. After absorbing the drop of blood, this gray-white arm pendant actually flashed a faint red light strangely, and then returned to peace.
Chapter completed!