Tianyang City is a medium-sized city located in the eastern part of the Ziyan Dynasty. There are three major families in the city, namely, Lin, Gu, and Yuan. Among them, the Lin family is the strongest, followed by the Gu family and the Yuan family is last.
In the early morning, for the people of Tianyang City, there is no difference from usual. For the people, their life is to farm at sunrise and return at sunset. Every day is so normal.
But for a cultivator, every morning is the beginning of cultivation. "Hu" the young man slowly exhaled the turbid air in his chest, stood up and twisted his waist with a crackling sound, and said to himself.
"It seems that cultivation is not that easy. If you don't have good talent, it won't work even if you work hard?"
The boy's name is Gu Yi, the only son of Gu Dao, the contemporary head of Tianyang City. His mother died in childbirth when he was born.
Therefore, he has been weak since he was a child, and Gu Dao has not married yet due to the death of his wife. He has devoted all his love to his wife to Gu Yi. Even though Gu Yi has no talent in cultivation, Gu Dao loves his only son very much.
For more than ten years, Gu Dao traveled throughout most of the Ziyan Dynasty to search for a panacea, natural materials, and treasures that could change Gu Yi's physique, but he had little success.
Gu Yi sighed slowly and clenched his hands. Due to his weak body since childhood, he has never given up on exercising his body in the past fourteen years.
Gu Yi is fifteen years old this year. He has been training himself since he was sensible. However, after more than ten years, he is still in the realm of skin training, which is the third level of physical training. Not to mention the bone training and internal organs training that follow.
Martial arts is divided into ten stages of body training. The first to third levels of body training are skin training. The fourth to sixth levels are bone training. The seventh to ninth levels of body training are internal organs training. The tenth level of body training is Dzogchen. Control every cell in the body to achieve perfection.
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On the top, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is introduced into the body to create a sea of qi at the Dantian. This is Pofan. Pofan is already a moderate master in Tianyang City. The realm of Pofan is divided into early stage, middle stage, late stage, and peak stage.
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The next step is to glimpse the immortal: this state means that you have already glimpsed the state of the immortal. Although you cannot move mountains and seas, you can control the short-term aerial flight of spiritual energy between heaven and earth.
The most powerful master in the entire Tianyang City is Lin Li, the supreme elder of the Lin family. It is said that he is a Dzogchen master at the peak of Peeping Immortals, while Gu Tianze, the supreme elder of the Gu family, only has Peeping Immortals in the late stage, and Yuan Yi, the supreme elder of the Yuan family, only has Peeping Immortals.
later period.
Linghai: After initially cultivating the sea of souls, you can kill people without even thinking, and use the sea of consciousness to attack people. At this level, you can start a sect and become a big boss. It is said that the king of the Ziyan Dynasty is at the peak of the spiritual sea.
Human Immortal: Known as land immortal by the world, it refers to the immortal on land. The color of heaven and earth changes with every thought, breaks through the shackles of mortals, and has a life span of 500 years.
This year Gu Yi is fifteen years old. According to the clan rules, he will be assigned out of the family to take care of the family's business in the next year. He will not get the support of the family anymore. The path of martial arts is cut off. Gu Yi is very unwilling to accept this.
Walking slowly on the family path, Gu Yi felt very conflicted and entangled.
"Yi'er, are you going to practice again?".
At this time, a tired yet majestic voice sounded next to Guyi's ears. Guyi slowly turned his head and said.
"My child is preparing to pay his respects to his father."
As the name suggests, the Ancient Sword Man is like a treasured sword that has left his body. His old age has left nothing but a few white hairs on his ears and temples.
"My adopted son! My father knows how hard you have been through these years, and knows that you are not willing to live a mediocre life, but practicing martial arts is not easy. You...hey..."
My father, the child knows: "These years have caused my father to work hard for me. The child will definitely strive to take his own destiny into his own hands and rely on his own hands to defend his family. The child will definitely break through the body."
To the extreme, I will never give up on myself.”
"Well, I'm very happy that you can think like this as a father, but when you practice, pay attention to your health, and remember not to do it too hastily, as it will be counterproductive... Just go ahead."
Looking at Gu Yi's leaving figure, Gu Dao sighed, instantly feeling as if he had aged dozens of years.
Although Gu Dao is very tired these years, he is unwilling to show it in front of his son. He carries it silently alone. He wants to hold up a sky for Gu Yi and let Gu Yi grow up without any worries.
But because Gu Yi couldn't practice since he was a child, he was much precocious compared to other children of the same age. Gu Yi knew many things.
Gu Yi also has a heart to become stronger. He is not content with being ordinary and unwilling to be lonely.
Because the Tianyang Ancient Family is a foreign family, they have only moved to Tianyang City for a mere hundred years.
Precisely because it has developed too fast in recent years, and the Gu family is an outside family, it is often suppressed by the Lin family and the Yuan family. Gu Yi knows this, but Gu Yi has no way to help his father share any responsibilities.
In recent years, most of the family's resources have been concentrated on him. His father often travels around for him to cultivate, and his cultivation has been stuck in the early stage of Peeping Immortals, unable to make any progress.
Sometimes Gu Yi even thought about committing suicide, but thinking about his father's kind face, Gu Yi really didn't have the courage.
Thinking of his father's old face and the family's current crisis, Gu Yi felt deeply powerless.
So every time in the dead of night, Gu Yi would clench his fists alone and secretly hate himself under the covers, hating himself for being so useless and asking his father to work hard for him.
Back in the room, looking at everything in front of him, Gu Yi took a deep breath, sat cross-legged on the bed, and started running the family's basic exercise "Ruijin Jue". Ruijin Jue is a five-element metal exercise.
The attack power is powerful, the inner strength cultivated is also sharp, and the basic skills of the Gu family are all in line.
The water attribute "Ice Soul Art", the earth attribute "Thick Earth Art", the wood attribute "Deadwood Art", the fire attribute "Fire Pattern Art", the metal "Ruijin Art", and Gu Yi's physique and five elements basic skills are all
It wasn't suitable for him, so he chose a book called Ruijin Jue, which had outstanding attack power.
Sitting cross-legged on the bed and running the exercises for one week, two weeks, three days,...nine weeks, vomit...can't you break through the third level of skin training and enter the fourth level? Knead with your hands.
When it was tight, he released it, then opened it and squeezed it tightly. His nails dug deeply into his flesh, but Gu Yi didn't know it. The pain in his heart was greater than the pain in his chest.
"Do I, Gu Yi, really want to be mediocre for the rest of my life?" I am not willing to accept it. I hate the sky, and I hate you, this thief.
"Ah~" A surge of unyielding momentum suddenly erupted.
The next moment, "Ah!" Gu Yi suddenly put his head in his hands and fainted.
In his dream, Gu Yi dreamed that his physique had completely recovered and he was no longer as weak as he was now. He broke through the third level of skin training and entered the middle stage of physical training and bone training, and finally became the number one master in Tianyang City. In the dream, he
Smiling proudly, walking with a sword...
My father's caring voice came to my ears.
"Yi'er, Yi'er, how are you? Wake up, wake up."
Gu Yi slowly opened his eyes, and what caught his eye was his father's resolute face and the anxious eyes of his tribe.
"I'm sorry, father, fellow tribesmen, Yi'er has made you worried. Yi'er is fine."
Gu Dao murmured: "Yeah! Yeah! As long as you're fine, just take a good rest. I asked my servants to stew lotus seed soup for you to replenish your body and bones. Dad and the clan members have gone out first so I won't disturb your rest.
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Seeing his father and his clan members leaving one by one, Gu Yi's heart was filled with bitterness.
The Gu family is a very united family. Even though he was fifteen years old and still training at the third level of leather training, he did not deliberately suppress him or ridicule him, but cared for him.
"Did you hear that?"
"What did you hear?"
"Tomorrow Tianyang Auction House will hold a large-scale auction that is held every three years. There will be various rare herbs, spiritual weapons, elixirs, and even fifth-grade marrow-cleansing pills that can improve physical fitness, making it easier for a warrior to practice.
"I heard that the clan leader has prepared various resources available in the clan and is preparing to take this elixir and give it to the young clan leader.
"Isn't there hope for the young patriarch?"
"Yes, there is hope for the young patriarch. The young patriarch is usually such a good person, so he shouldn't have committed such a crime."
"Who says it's not the case? Well, the world is unfair."
Hearing this, Gu Yi's heart lit up with a fire of hope, but when he thought of the triennial auction, families from nearby cities would definitely participate. By then, the family's funds alone may not be enough. Even if it was enough, the family's
There are still so many tribesmen, and the resources for cultivation will be greatly reduced in the future.
In the early morning of the next day, Tianyang City was very lively. Various warriors could be seen on the streets, including graceful scholar-type swordsmen, wild and uninhibited swordsmen, and all kinds of martial artists gathered in Tianyang City.
Walking in this bustling street, the young man put on a bamboo hat to prevent others from recognizing him.
Because many of the various warriors on the street at the auction today wore bamboo hats to hide their identities, and they were not young enough to stand out. Yes, the young man was Gu Yi.
He knew about today's auction, so he brought his personal money of more than ten years to try his luck. Standing at the door of the auction house, watching the people coming in and out, Gu Yi took a deep breath and slowly