It was late winter, and the goose-feather-like snow had been falling for three days and three nights, and the entire land of Luo Yun Kingdom was covered in silver.
In a mountain forest in Mingyang County, with such heavy snow, such cold weather, and such a remote mountain road, there was actually a line of deep footprints leading straight into the mountain. The footprints were nearly two feet deep.
Looking along the footprints, I saw a thin young man walking silently into the mountains. The only sound in the mountain was the "squeaking" sound of the young man's feet stepping on the snow, and there was no other sound.
As the young man walked, he silently used his kung fu to get rid of the cold air on his body. The snowflakes falling on him seemed to have encountered obstacles and were bounced to the ground.
An hour later, the boy came to a cave at the foot of a mountain. He discovered this place when he was nine years old and it became his private place. No one except his sister knew about it.
The young man sat cross-legged, as if he was remembering something, and then he sighed, showing an expression of helplessness and unwillingness.
The boy's name is Lu Ming. He broke through to the first level of Qi training when he was seven years old and was called a child prodigy by his tribe. According to the genealogy, the genius ancestor of the Lu family did not break through to the first level of Qi training until he was eight years old.
The current patriarch of the Lu family has high hopes for him, hoping that he can lead the Lu family back to its former glory. His parents' status has also improved a lot. They were appointed as inner disciples by the patriarch against all objections. Lu Ming's reputation suddenly
Rise up.
But what happened next caused Lu Ming's reputation to plummet, and he even felt deeply humiliated.
Just after he broke through the first level of Qi training, he has been lingering on the first level, making no progress for five consecutive years. He has been last in the clan competition for two consecutive years, and his parents have also been kicked out of the inner sect. If
If he still ranks last this year, he will be disqualified from being a disciple of the Lu family.
At the beginning, the clan leader thought it was an accident and didn't care. The family still provided him with the best resources for him to practice at all costs.
Even if he broke through to the first level of Qi training at the age of nine, he would still have a very good talent. However, three years later, he still had not made any progress. At this time, two other geniuses appeared in the clan, and the last one broke through to Qi training at the age of ten.
At the second level of Qi training, one person broke through to the third level of Qi training at the age of thirteen, and other disciples in the clan also surpassed him.
Two years later, he was ranked last in the clan competition. This made the clan leader who was optimistic about him furious. He thought that he was not enterprising and did not practice seriously. He also said that if he was still at the bottom of this year's competition, he would be cancelled.
If the family's disciple qualification comes, then his parents will also be implicated and expelled from the inner sect.
Those relatives and friends who were originally optimistic about him began to gradually alienate them, and some even began to ridicule him. On several occasions, several elders' sons who were originally dissatisfied beat him seriously and injured him, but the clan leader and other elders turned a blind eye.
ask.
Lu Ming's parents went to the elders to reason, but they were beaten and returned.
This was absolutely impossible when he was called a child prodigy!
His parents still did not give up. They sought medical treatment and looked up information everywhere to find out why Lu Ming was unable to make any progress, but they found nothing.
"Have I really become useless?" Lu Ming murmured to himself.
"A man should not give in to anything in the world. Can't you bear this little setback? Are you going to give in?" These were the words Lu Ming's father scolded him when he was decadent.
This sentence, like the sound of thunder, lingers in his heart for a long time. It is this sentence that still supports his cultivation to this day.
But his mother still loves him deeply as usual, without blaming or reprimanding, but just comforting him: "No matter you are a prodigy or mediocre, your mother will always love you, and you will always be your mother's pride!"
This sentence warmed his heart like warm sunshine, but he saw his mother's eyes that were red from crying, he saw his mother's haggard face, and he saw his mother's white hair that had grown in the past two years.
When he saw his parents returning injured from the elders, his heart felt worse than needle pricks, and he clenched his fists desperately.
That day, he found this cave and cried here all afternoon until his sister found it.
Lu Ming raised his head and looked at the heavy snow outside the cave. He saw a big tree that was broken by the snow. It was a bit incredible that such a thick tree was broken by the snow. Next to the tree
, there is also a small tree that was bent by the snow, but it did not break, but the snow kept sliding down from the branches.
Lu Ming stared at all this blankly, his heart moved inexplicably. He didn't care about this before, but this time he seemed to understand something.
"Straight, not bent, easy to break!" Lu Ming's eyes showed wisdom, and his face showed a smile that had disappeared for a long time.
He walked out of the cave, came to the small tree, and removed all the snow on the small tree. "You made me understand a truth. I will help you remove this snow." Lu Ming said.
Lu Ming, who had opened the knot in his heart, no longer looked depressed, but was in high spirits.
He started to box, Dragon and Tiger Fist, which is the strongest physical training technique of the Lu family. Lu Ming started practicing this Dragon and Tiger Fist since he could no longer make any progress in his Qi training.
Because the Lu family has always attached great importance to Qi training but despised physical training, the Dragon and Tiger Fist was almost lost in the Lu family.
Lu Ming would try to gather Qi in his Dantian every day, but he still couldn't make any progress except for the fluctuation of vitality. In desperation, he spent half of his time practicing Qi and the other half of his time practicing Dragon Tiger Fist.
What Longhu Fist says is different from the family's requirements. The family believes that cultivation starts with Qi training, and physical training is only done by reckless men. However, Longhu Fist says that in the journey of cultivation, physical training is the first, and everything starts from the source.
As for the body, the human body is the foundation of cultivation.
Physical training, also known as body tempering, is to train the body to gradually strengthen the body, and finally from the outside to the inside. When the physical training reaches a certain level, a trace of true energy will be derived from the body, thus reaching the Qi training stage.
Become a true monk.
But within the Lu family, there is a trace of true energy seeds in the body through elixirs or elixirs.
"I don't know which way of cultivation is correct." Lu Ming thought about it.
The effect of the first three levels of physical training is not very great, it is just that the appearance of the body looks stronger. Only when the body training reaches the fourth level of skin training, the human skin will gradually become as hard as a rock.
Both speed and stamina are a big improvement.
After five years of training, Lu Ming has reached the sixth level. He vaguely feels that with his body and a layer of vitality in his body, he can defeat the disciples who are at the peak of the sixth level of the clan's vitality. This is
The important reason why he insists on practicing Dragon Tiger Boxing.
The ninth level of physical training is extremely hard and tiring, because only by constantly testing the limits of the human body can the body gradually become stronger.
However, the limit of this attempt is also a kind of squeezing of the human body's potential. If the body cannot be replenished in time, the body will be injured due to excessive fatigue, which will not be worth the gain.
Therefore, in the process of physical training, elixirs and elixirs are the best supplements. However, elixirs and elixirs are not affordable for ordinary people. Unless they are from a wealthy family or a core disciple, there is no need to talk about them.
Therefore, physical training does not require high talent. Instead, opportunity, capital, and perseverance are the most important.
The original Lu Ming did not have these conditions. He was weak and sick when he was born, but the many benefits brought to him by breaking through the first level at the age of seven helped him.
Those elixirs not only cured his disease, but more importantly, changed his physique. The subsequent unexpected blow made him realize the warmth and coldness of the world, arousing his strong fighting spirit, making him suffer again and again.
Tired, thinking of the cynicism and the injuries of his parents, he could always grit his teeth and push through. His will was greatly tempered at this time.
It is very rare that Lu Ming can train to the sixth level. Although he will soon be able to break through the seventh level, but now that he does not have the supplement of the elixir, it is difficult to bear the pain and suffering.
The sixth and seventh levels focus on muscle training, and training is best in winter, so Lu Ming came here early in the morning.
In the ice and snow, Lu Ming's muscles and bones were now twisted, his face was livid from the pain, and his eyes were red. Within an hour, Lu Ming was sweating profusely, and his body was covered with steam.
He was still holding back, and it would take at least two hours for it to be effective. Lu Ming's lips were already bleeding from his teeth.
Just when Lu Ming was doing exercises in the snow, his parents were looking for him.
"Dad, I know where my brother is. I'll call him." A voice like a lark sounded, clear and sweet, and a super cute little girl with bright eyes walked back from outside wearing a snow-white cotton-padded jacket.
She is Lu Ming's sister, Lu Yue.
"Well, go and come back quickly," the middle-aged man said.
"I know." The little girl walked through the snow and walked towards the cave where Lu Ming was.
Lu Ming had just finished exercising and was about to meditate for a while when he heard his sister's voice: "Brother, daddy told you to go home."
Lu Ming held his sister's hand and returned to the door. Just as he was about to open the door, he heard his father's voice coming from the house: "Ming'er was born with a blunt body. You must not let him know about things that you can't cultivate!"
Hearing this, Lu Ming's head exploded, and his body couldn't help but tremble.
"Brother, are you okay?"
"Brother is fine." When he said this, Lu Ming felt as if his heart was bleeding. He clenched his fists and looked at his sister calmly. He loved this lovely sister very much. He looked at her calmly and said.
"Mom, we are back."
"Ming'er, I want you to come back mainly to tell you about the competition. The competition will start in half a year. Your mother and I think that you should abstain this year and stop competing. Even if your mother and I come out from inside,
It doesn't matter." Lu Ming's father, Lu Lin, said with a hint of helplessness.
They were mainly afraid that Lu Ming would be injured during the competition. They would rather be kicked out of the Lu family than want Lu Ming to get hurt.
Lu Ming hasn't recovered from the blow just now. Is it true that he can't practice? Then why did I already practice to the first level before? He couldn't understand.
"Hey! Let's pack up our things and move out tomorrow." Lu Lin looked at Lu Ming and said, he didn't know how to comfort Lu Ming.
Lu Ming looked at his stumbling father, as if he had aged twenty years. His mother's eyes were red. She opened her mouth to say something, but swallowed it back.
He gritted his teeth and clenched his fists, feeling as if a huge boulder was weighing on his heart. Just when he was about to give up like his parents said, he suddenly felt a sudden pause in his heart. Mu Ran raised his head and looked at his parents.
"Dad, a man should not give in to heaven and earth. I will participate in the competition!" Lu Ming said categorically.