In one of the bedrooms of the Zhu family's courtyard, a young man of about 13 years old sits cross-legged on a hot kang with his eyes closed, and his hands clasped into a simple handprint between his legs.

The surface of the boy's whole body was covered by a faint layer of blue light. On his pale face, his brows were tightened, and a trace of pain was very obvious, as if he was enduring great pain.

After a while, I saw the faint blue light on the boy's body trembling, and with a snap, it seemed to be the sound of glass breaking, and the blue light on the boy's body disappeared cleanly, turning into a little starlight, gradually fading in the air, and finally disappearing.

Call......

The young man's strength seemed to be drained all at once, and the whole person collapsed on the bed, letting out a low cry of pain.

"Why, why is it always like this?" the boy yelled unwillingly, his hands clenched into fists, and he pounded the sturdy bed board vigorously.

The pain in his body, though severe, was not as good as the pain in his heart.

Cold Ice Jue, one of the top internal qi exercises of the Zhu family, the ten-layer exercises of the acquired martial artists, is completely recorded. Zhu Bufan started contact at the age of three, and has been cultivating for a full ten years now, but he has always been swaying at the beginning of the first layer, and he can't make an inch.

Compared to him, others were completely able to surpass him in just a few months. Therefore, waste, stupidity, these signs, naturally fell on his head.

Others don't know, but Zhu Bufan himself knows very well, it's not that his qualifications are poor, every time his cultivation is very stable and smooth, but there are always problems at the last moment. It is when the internal qi returns to the dantian, a mysterious and extremely powerful force will suck out most of the internal qi that Zhu Bufan has worked so hard to cultivate, and sometimes, even leave him at all.

The bluestone bed was extremely hard, and under Zhu Bufan's crazy beating, it quickly swollen into steamed buns.

The young man sighed deeply, his ordinary-looking little face was full of disappointment, jumped out of bed, and opened the door.

Outside, there was a blanket of snow, and the snow covered the whole land, and the cold wind blew the young man's robe and made a hunting sound.

At this time, the sunset was setting, and the young man ignored the cold outside the house, and sat on the door frame in a decadent manner, looking at the sunset gradually falling in the west, and was stunned.

The Zhu family, a family that has been inherited for thousands of years, is one of the three major families in the Chu State. Houmen is as deep as the sea, and this young man is a member of the Zhu family.

The other two major families are the Tang family and the Song family. The three major families firmly occupied the western part of the Chu State.

It is difficult to leave the city, far from the northwestern part of the Chu State, the climate is relatively harsh, it is very cold all year round, and the ice and snow cover the ground.

Not far outside the city is one of the world's famous four Jedi, the Boundless Ice Field.

This vast ice field, as the name suggests, is extremely vast, no one knows how deep it is, and it is full of dangers, entrenched in countless powerful beasts.

Often the more sinister the environment, the more it can give birth to cherished genius treasures, and in the boundless ice field, all kinds of fierce beasts are rampant, fierce beasts are full of treasures, fur can refine outer armor, flesh and blood, internal organs can be refined into pills, especially the protonucleus, it is the foundation of the cultivation of these fierce beasts, the essence of life, and has all kinds of magical effects.

These are all wealth, great wealth, attracting countless people who flock to it regardless of life and death.

These people include big families, scattered cultivators, and adventurous mercenaries. Fight bloody battles on the ice fields for a variety of purposes.

Therefore, the city that is closest to the ice field has become very chaotic, with three sects and nine streams, and its strength is very complicated, so that the city has another name, the city of chaos.

It is difficult to leave the city, and it is the only city in the west of Chu that has not really been controlled. Because it is difficult to leave the city, there is a lot of oil and water, Zhu, Tang, and Song do not give in to each other, and finally after some bargaining, the three reached an agreement to take turns to control and change every three years.

Although it is not the ancestral house of Zhu Mansion, it is also majestic and magnificent, like a fierce beast entrenched, very majestic and magnificent.

Garrisoned in the city is the strongest side of the Zhu family, and the strongest is already a ninth-order martial artist, according to the generation, it is Zhu Bufan's grandfather.

Another confused night passed, and Zhu Bufan walked towards the dining hall without energy, ready to have breakfast.

After Zhu Bufan came to the dining hall in a daze, it was basically full.

As soon as Zhu Bufan came in, he immediately became the focus of everyone in the dining hall.

"Oops, there's the shit!"

"Hmph, it's a shame that the Zhu family actually has such a waste!"

"That's it, it's still a descendant, and the status is high!"

……

For these sarcasm and sarcasm, Zhu Bufan has long been commonplace, the hatred in his heart is rolling, and even the killing intent is faintly steaming, but on the surface, he doesn't seem to hear it, and his expression has not changed at all.

I came to the food place.

"Yo, the waste is wasting food again!" Seeing Zhu Bufan, the servant serving the vegetables said with a sneering face.

You must know that the people of the Zhu Mansion are also divided into 399 and other classes, and the lowest class of people have a rather rough diet, while the ordinary children of the Zhu family, the delicacies of the mountains and seas are ordinary, and some geniuses in the clan, the elders of the clan, use medicinal diets with sufficient vitality.

In martial arts cultivation, there are two ways to refine internal qi, one internal and one external.

Internally, it is through refining one's own essence and blood, and the most direct source of this essence and blood is through daily food.

Externally, it is the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi that is free in space, but this Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi, the acquired martial artist can absorb and refine very few, only the innate martial artist can cultivate with the help of the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi through his own various perceptions. There are also all kinds of elixirs, elixirs, this kind, the most common, is the pronucleus in the body of the fierce beast.

And Zhu Bufan, although he is not a genius, but in the Zhu family's courtyard in this difficult city, his identity is actually the most noble, not only the descendant, but also the grandson of Zhu Changhai, the contemporary head of the Zhu family.

Therefore, Zhu Bufan can enjoy the treatment of medicinal food every day, not only those servants, but also the side of the Zhu family, and they are all jealous and hateful in their hearts.

And Zhu Bufan, as a descendant of the Zhu family, has lived in the city since he was a child, and the reason for this is not something that ordinary people can know, of course, Zhu Bufan himself does not know. It is rumored that this is an order from his biological father.

Zhu Bufan has lived in the city since he can remember, and in his memories for more than ten years, he has never had the memory of his father, and he has no memory of why he was abandoned in the city.

And it is rumored that he is still an illegitimate child. Although it is said that these things are very common in the family, everyone is secret, and Zhu Bufan is exposed like this, which happens to become the object of resentment among the clansmen.

Coupled with the fact that this world is completely respected by martial arts, Zhu Bufan's poor cultivation talent, in the eyes of others, is destined to be a weak person for the rest of his life, and he is undoubtedly the object of ridicule by everyone.

Eating a medicinal diet that tastes exquisite and has sufficient vitality, but Zhu Bufan can't feel the taste at all, and the taste is the same as chewing wax.

"There is still half a year, it is a triennial selection, as long as you can pass, you will be eligible to enter the martial arts hall of your own family to cultivate!"

"Really, I didn't succeed last time, I only advanced to the first level in three years, and it seems that this time there is no hope again!"

"Hmph, it's not that you don't know, every time you choose, hundreds of clansmen participate, and in the end, only a few dozen at most pass, just you, I don't think I have a chance in my life!"

"you!"

"But we don't have a chance, but Brother Biao is a sure thing, it is said that he has broken through the ninth order, is exempt from the test, and has passed the test directly. ”

"Really?"

"Of course, the second grandfather personally gave him a Ning Yuan Pill to help him consolidate his cultivation, and said that even in his own family, if he can reach the ninth order at the age of seventeen, he can be regarded as a first-class genius. ”

"Hey, why don't I have this life?"

……

Zhu Bufan, who was originally distracted, paused when he heard the words.

"This family?" Hearing this, Zhu Bufan's whole body trembled, and his heart, which was buried in the deepest part of his heart, was suddenly moved.

A hint of a different meaning was irrepressibly stirred up in his heart, filling his heart to the brim.

Go back, I'm going back......

Sudden thoughts, once they pop up, are difficult to suppress.

As a descendant of the Zhu family, why was he abandoned in the city, who is his father, who is his mother, and what is his life and death......

The answers to these kinds of questions are waiting for him to solve.

This thought is no longer churning in Zhu Bufan's mind all the time, where is there still the mind to eat, like a scalper eating grass, swallowing all the meals in one go, and hurriedly heading towards the training ground.

"Strength, I want strength......"

Zhu Bufan's crazy call in his heart.

However, if he wants to return, what Zhu Bufan lacks is strength. Now that he is thirteen years old, his strength needs to reach at least the third order before he can pass the assessment.

However, with Zhu Bufan's current strength, it is really a bit far away to achieve this goal, and it is even far away.

However, Zhu Bufan is determined, once the goal is established, he will not change it easily, just like knowing that his qualifications are too poor, but he still insists on cultivating for ten years, and he has not slackened for a day.

"If it doesn't work for three years, then it's nine years, and if it doesn't work for nine years, it's nine years...... As long as I have a breath left, I won't give up!"

The Zhu family martial arts training ground covers an area of nearly 100 acres. It is divided into multiple zones, each with a specific role. Whether it's weapons, or physical fitness, or speed, etc., all kinds of training equipment, and all kinds of weapons can be seen everywhere.

Half an hour after breakfast, it was the time for the day's practice to begin, and there was still a long time before it began, and the entire martial arts training ground was empty, with only a few subordinates cleaning.

For martial arts cultivation, with Zhu Bufan's status and status, his understanding is very limited, as far as his understanding goes, martial arts cultivation is divided into acquired and innate.

The day after tomorrow is divided into ten stages, which correspond to the ten-layer realm of the internal qigong method, as for the innate realm, it is not something that Zhu Bufan can know, anyway, in his mind, the innate master is an invincible and powerful existence, and it is also the goal of his struggle. Zhu Bufan knows that the entire Zhu family has tens of millions of clansmen, but the innate masters are less than the number of hands.

(End of chapter)