The morning light dews slightly, and the fog is dim.
"Hey, hey..." In front of a simple house, a thin boy of fourteen or fifteen years old was swinging his fists and practicing simple boxing skills over and over again, his whole body soaked with sweat.
The young man had sharp eyebrows and sharp eyes, a straight nose, and sharp edges on his face. Although he was not very handsome, he still showed a certain delicacy.
After a while, the boy finished his boxing practice and tied his legs with two sandbags.
"Rui'er, where are you going so early in the morning?"
In the house, a middle-aged man with a scar on his face stopped the young man who was about to run out. The middle-aged man's name was Uncle Kun. He was the young man's adoptive father and made a living by hunting. No one knew his real name.
Even the young man doesn't know.
"Uncle Kun, I want to go to the back mountain."
There was a timid expression on the young man's delicate face. In addition to going hunting with Uncle Kun in the mountains, he would tie his legs with sandbags and run to the back mountains every day. For some reason, Uncle Kun didn't like him doing this very much.
"You..." Uncle Kun was about to say something, but a helpless expression suddenly appeared on his face, "Go and come back soon."
"Thank you, Uncle Kun." The young man shouted happily and ran out the door as fast as he could.
"Hey, why don't you give up?" Looking at the thin figure outside the door, Uncle Kun sighed helplessly.
The boy's name was Shen Rui, and he had been living with Uncle Kun since he could remember. Uncle Kun told him that he was an orphan, and he was picked up by Uncle Kun when he went out one year. What surprised him was that Uncle Kun's words and deeds were so different.
He respected him very much and was not as harsh as other adoptive fathers towards their adopted sons. When he was a child, he wanted to call Uncle Kun his adoptive father, but Uncle Kun flatly refused.
The only fly in the ointment is that Uncle Kun doesn't approve of him practicing martial arts.
Practicing martial arts has been Shen Rui's dream since he was a child. Ever since a martial artist named Su came to the town when he was seven years old and smashed a huge stone with his palm from the air, he was silently shocked and determined to become
A powerful warrior. He knew that on this continent, martial artists were just low-level warriors, but they had such powerful force. Wouldn’t it be that a higher realm than a martial artist would have unimaginable force? When he was young,
His heart is filled with the expectation of becoming a strong man.
But his family was very poor and couldn't afford the tuition. And for some reason, Uncle Kun refused to let him go, so he kept pestering Uncle Kun every day to learn martial arts. Uncle Kun had no choice but to tell him when he could get enough tuition.
Just let him go.
Three years later, when Shen Rui was ten years old, unable to withstand Shen Rui's repeated pestering, Uncle Kun finally raised enough tuition and took Shen Rui to Instructor Su to sign up.
Shen Rui clearly remembered that the sky seemed to be extraordinarily blue that day. He followed Uncle Kun to the martial arts field in the center of the town, jumping all the way. He looked at many peers on the martial arts field practicing martial arts hard, and thought
He was about to become one of them, and he was both nervous and excited.
Instructor Su greeted them with a kind face.
Who knew that after inspecting his physical condition, Instructor Su told him very seriously that his meridians were blocked and he could not develop martial arts at all, so he rejected his request.
This continent is called the Martial Qi Continent, and Martial Qi is the symbol of becoming a true warrior on the continent. Failure to develop Martial Qi means that a person will never be able to step into the ranks of a warrior in his lifetime.
That day the sky suddenly turned gray, just like Shen Rui's heart. He returned home despite the ridicule of people on the road. But Shen Rui did not give up. For four years, he ran to Heifeng Mountain almost every day because the spiritual energy in the mountain was stronger.
, he hoped for a miracle to happen. But Instructor Su obviously didn't lie to him. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't develop martial arts.
"The annual town competition is coming soon, but I..." Thinking of this, Shen Rui couldn't help but feel downcast.
Ever since Instructor Su came to Mingyang Town, the town has held a competition for young people under the age of sixteen every year to select outstanding warriors. Some sects or forces will also take this opportunity to recruit these outstanding young people.
When entering the center of Mingyang Town, Shen Rui immediately felt that the strange eyes around him seemed to be sweeping towards him, and he hurriedly ran towards the back mountain. The mountain behind the town is called Heifeng Mountain, and at the foot of the mountain is a flat land. Shen Rui was far away I saw several young people from the town practicing martial arts there.
Martial arts can only be practiced specifically after becoming a warrior, and they are of great help in improving combat effectiveness.
The corners of Shen Rui's eyes twitched, and a look of envy flashed across his face, but he pretended not to see them and wanted to go directly up the mountain.
"Look, look, that loser wants to go up the mountain again." A fat young man with sharp eyes had already seen him.
"Look at him running up the mountain every day, still trying to cultivate martial arts."
"Humph, Instructor Su has long said that his meridians are blocked and he will never be able to cultivate martial arts in this life, haha."
"..."
The unpalatable words passed into Shen Rui's ears one after another with ridicule, and Shen Rui's lower lip was about to bleed from biting it.
"Hey, I called you, why didn't you say anything?" The fat boy jumped out.
You can't see his fat figure, but he is extremely fast.
Shen Rui recognized him. He was the youngest son of the Lin family, a major force in the town. His name was Lin Hong. Although he was one year younger than himself, he had developed martial arts skills as early as ten years old and was now a junior martial artist. A warrior.
"Hey, there are sandbags tied to his feet. Come and take a look." Lin Hong pointed at Shen Rui's feet and laughed.
"Let me see." Several teenagers ran over and laughed when they saw the sandbags on Shen Rui's legs.
"Go away." Shen Rui shouted with a livid face and a fierce light in his eyes.
Several teenagers were startled and subconsciously stepped aside. Lin Hong was startled, and for some reason a thought of fear flashed through his heart. But he didn't want to lose face in front of his friends.
Am I still afraid that you will become a useless person?
"Oh, you're pretty cool. Let's see how I deal with this loser like you." Lin Hongwu concentrated his arms and immediately punched Shen Rui.
Not to be outdone, Shen Rui also punched out.
There was a "bang", his fists met, and Lin Hong was motionless. Shen Rui's fists and arms felt pain, and he felt light all over. His body flew back more than ten meters, and he sat down on the ground. A wisp of blood came from the corner of his mouth. Seeped out. After all, Shen Rui has never practiced martial arts, so he is no match for Lin Hong.
"Well, you know how powerful I am. You are a good-for-nothing. I haven't used my martial arts yet, otherwise I will make you die ugly. Do you accept it?" Lin Hong laughed wildly.
Shen Rui snorted, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his hand, and glared angrily, a fierce light suddenly appearing.
Seeing Shen Rui's unyielding expression and glaring at him fiercely, Lin Hong was startled and felt a chill in his heart. In order to cover up the chill in his heart, he rushed in front of Shen Rui and punched and kicked him, knocking Shen Rui to the ground.
"I'll beat you to death. Let's see if you can pull me back in the future." Lin Hong did not stop chasing him.
Several other friends surrounded the two and laughed.
Shen Rui protected his head and said loudly: "One day, I will make you repay double the revenge of today."
"You still dare to talk back?" Lin Hong's fist became harder.
"Stop, Lin Hong, why are you bullying others?" A shout suddenly sounded not far away, and a girl in red appeared in everyone's field of vision.