In summer, the sun is always scorching, and occasionally a breeze blows and a heat wave blows on the face, which makes people not feel the slightest coolness, but will be inexplicably irritated.

Yuzhou is named after Yu culture, Yinghe River is the moat of Yuzhou, Yinghe River is sparkling, the green willows on both sides of the river, plus the embellishment of green plants and flowers on both banks, the scenery on the bank of the Yinghe River is very poetic and picturesque, it can be called the dating 'holy land' of Yuzhou.

In the afternoon and evening of summer, there will always be many young people on the bank of the Ying River who come here to enjoy the coolness. (Well, love and love!)

A young man in cheap jeans, a white short-sleeved shirt, and a three-and-seven-minute long hair is sitting on the bank of the Ying River with one hand on his chin propped up.

A breeze blew gently, and the young man subconsciously brushed his long hair that had passed his ears, his handsome and stylish side face had no expression, and his bright eyes stared at the river in a daze, and he just sat still.

Most of the people who come here are teenagers in pairs or groups of three or five, and the young people sitting here alone seem to be a little out of place with the atmosphere around them.

The young man's name is Lu Wentian, an orphan, 24 years old this year, when he was an infant he was taken up by Lu Wanxiong, the elder of the Lu family, a mysterious family in China.

At this moment, the past was passing through Lu Wentian's mind one by one.

"Little God, don't run to the library all day long, those books can't be read, obediently learn martial arts from the master. Lu Wentian was five years old that year.

"Xiao God, qin, chess, calligraphy and painting are not the path you want to take in the future, people must have ambitions, such as becoming a generation of masters with high martial arts. Lu Wentian was seven years old that year.

"Little God, why can't martial arts become your hobby? If you have to have a dream, don't you have a dream? Come, tell the teacher what your dream is?"

"I want to fly, I want to fly freely in the sky like a bird. Lu Wentian was ten years old that year.

"Little God, don't you want to fly? Look, this is the secret book that the master has worked so hard to ask you for, and it says that you can fly when you practice to the second level. ”

"Master, do you think that in Xiao Tian's lifetime, you will be able to open up all the eight veins of the Wonder Scriptures and learn this "Treading Waves"?"

"Xiao God, there are no absolutes, although our ancient martial arts cultivators are relatively slow to practice refining and transforming qi, aren't there still a few people who can absorb the spiritual energy in spiritual objects, such as your master and me, according to your intelligence, it is estimated that your kid can get through all the eight veins of the strange scriptures after ten years of practice. Lu Wentian was eleven years old that year.

Lu Wanxiong is sometimes very helpless about the sometimes 'constructive' questions of good apprentices, this kid is too smart, too smart is not good, this is a headache for Lu Wanxiong, he has been coaxed for six years, and he didn't agree to learn martial arts from him.

"Master, master, I have already opened a dantian, and I can be lucky for a little Zhoutian. ”

"Little God, lying is not a good child, where can I be so fast after just two days of studying, and it has taken three months for a talent like your master and me, so I obediently went back to practice. ”

"Hehe, master, this is what Xiao Tian found from your room, and it's not very secretive, you see. Saying that, Lu Wentian took out a human-shaped wild ginseng from his arms like a trick, sat cross-legged, and after a while, the ginseng was a little deflated.

"Okay, good apprentice, cultivate well, and strive to break through the first meridian as soon as possible. Seeing that Lu Wentian really opened the dantian, and he could already be lucky with Xiao Zhoutian, and he was so proficient in the use of spiritual skills, Lu Wanxiong was very relieved! Lu Wentian was twelve years old that year.

Originally, everything was fine, and Lu Wentian had been cultivating with all his strength for his flying dream.

At the age of twelve, he broke the record of the earliest opening of the dantian of the five major families in the past five hundred years, at the age of thirteen, he broke the first eight veins of the Qi Sutra at the age of fourteen, and broke the record of the youngest to break through the first Qi Jing and eight veins in five hundred years, and at the age of fifteen, he gnawed all the martial arts secrets collected by the Lu family, and at the age of sixteen, he opened the second meridian, and also broke the record of the youngest to break through the eight veins of the second Qi Jing, and learned the Lu family's top body secret book "Yan Xinggong".

But everything changed dramatically when Lu Wentian was sixteen years old, when Lu Wentian, who was successful in learning, competed for the ranking of his family, and accidentally killed the only son of the head of the Wang family, Wang Yiqing, who was also the head of the five major families, in the game.

"Lu Wanxiong, Lu Wentian must die today, you, can't save him!" Wang Yangming, the head of the Wang family, shouted angrily.

Five families, Lu, Zhang, Wang, Li, and He. Every five years, the five major families are ranked, and each family produces ten young children of the family, and the children of the family who finally win the first place will be ranked first in their family, and the family that ranks first will receive ten elixir contributions from the other four families every year in the past five years.

Ancient martial arts cultivators use the method of refining and refining qi, guiding the 'essence qi' refined by their own dantian to open up the eight veins of the body's strange meridians, so as to achieve the goal of strengthening themselves, and a few talented people can use the ancient secret technique "Soul Extraction Technique" to absorb the spiritual energy of the outside world and speed up the speed of opening up the eight veins of the Strange Meridian.

Whenever you open up a strange meridian eight veins, the body will undergo wonderful changes, that is, the physical potential is stimulated, and the physical indicators will be higher than ordinary people, if you make a move with your own dantian essence, the power is even more incredible, you can easily split bricks and stones with your bare hands, it is said that open up the eight veins of the whole body, the human body will reach the limit of mortals, and become a legendary peerless master.

Cultivating by refining and refining qi alone was too slow for an ancient martial artist with outstanding talents, but the earth was already lacking in spiritual energy, and they could only draw a trace of spiritual energy from various spiritual objects to assist their cultivation.

And the aura that is suitable for absorbing and easy to store in one's own dantian is only suitable for medicines that are more than a hundred years old, so medicines that are more than a hundred years old are called elixirs by ancient martial arts cultivators.

Therefore, in the ranking competition every five years, the five families are all talent elites and strive to rank first.

Lu Wentian broke into the final at the age of sixteen, which surprised the people of the five major families, and there had never been a contestant under the age of twenty-five in the final battle of the ranking competition. After all, there is a saying in the martial arts world: Kung Fu is honed by time.

The ranking competition is related to the family's face-saving interests, so every child of the family who participated in the competition is also doing their best, Lu Wentian has been like a bamboo all the way since the beginning of the competition, and most of the contestants who lost in his hands are slightly injured or even uninjured, from this point alone, it can be seen that Lu Wentian has an absolute advantage.

But as the first master of the younger generation of the Wang family, Wang Yiqing has rushed to the finals, and will never easily give up the first place.

"Hmph, Wang Yangming, is it really that the old man was frightened? Your son is inferior to others in martial arts, but he is killed everywhere, and he deserves to be killed by my apprentice, you, if you have any tricks, just let the horse come." Lu Wentian's master, Lu Wanxiong, absolutely defended his precious apprentice, and he also said angrily when he protected Lu Wentian behind him.

"You're looking for death!" roared, and Wang Yangming, who was furious, was about to make a move.

"Stop!" At the critical moment when the two were about to fight, Lu Tianchong, the head of the Lu family, shouted loudly and stopped the two.

"The five major families have always been in the same spirit, and I don't think anyone wants to see something unpleasant happen this time. Lu Tianchong, who stopped the two of them, spoke.

After a pause, Lu Tianchong continued: "Now that there has been a death incident, there should be no more bloodshed, although my Lu family won the first place in this ranking competition, but because of the unhappiness this time, my Lu family is willing to give half of the elixir, what do you think?"

When Zhang, Li, and He heard this, half of the elixir contribution was lost at once, and they were immediately overjoyed, and tried their best to echo it, and they all spoke: "Even if Brother Lu has made concessions, I think Brother Wang should mourn, if there is more bloodshed, it will not be good for everyone." ”

"yes, I think that's it, fists and feet have no eyes. ”

"That's right, Brother Wang, it's very difficult for us to do this. ”

The tone of the three family masters faintly meant to put pressure on Wang Yangming, after all, it was not their own son who died, and the benefits were right in front of them.

After the three masters finished speaking, the atmosphere at the scene was solemn for no reason.

As the protagonist of this incident, Lu Wentian was pale with fright, trembling all over, and he didn't even have the courage to explain himself when he lowered his head.

"Hmph, that's the case, I can agree to let go of this matter, but I want Brother Zhang, Brother Li, and Brother He to be a witness for me. Feeling the pressure from the three masters, after thinking deeply, Wang Yangming chose to compromise, but in the end he was unwilling and put forward conditions.

"Oh, I don't know what Brother Wang wants us to testify?" asked the head of the Li family.

"If I make a move on Lu Wentian, I will bully the small, but Lu Wanxiong insulted my son for being inferior to others and deserved to be killed, but I want to ask my poor child for an explanation. After a pause, he said in a calm tone: "I, Wang Yangming, want to duel with Lu Wanxiong, no matter whether I win or lose, I will no longer pursue this matter, otherwise, I will never give up on this matter." ”

"This ,,," Zhang, Li, and He looked at Lu Tianchong with some embarrassment.

Lu Tianchong also looked at Lu Wanxiong in embarrassment, and there was a trace of powerlessness in his eyes.

Ancient martial arts cultivators have the rules of ancient martial arts cultivators, the strong will not challenge the weak, but the challenge of the same level must not be shirked, this is the dignity of being an ancient martial arts cultivator, even if he is injured in the end and dies, he has no regrets, and the path of martial arts is originally to overcome thorns and thorns!

So Lu Tianchong was very embarrassed, as the head of the Lu family, he had no way to stop it, after all, this duel was still about the dignity of Lu Wanxiong himself.

And Lu Wanxiong has his own pride as the elder of the Lu family, and at the same time, in order to keep his only apprentice, he agreed to the duel, although he is also a four-vein martial artist who has opened up the four strange meridians and eight veins, but in the end, because of the lack of 'essence', he was seriously injured by Wang Yangming, who was killed, and died not long after returning to the Lu family.

Thinking of this, Lu Wentian's hands clenched hard, and the green tendons on his arms instantly burst out, and after a while, he slowly let go of his clenched hands.

What used to be a timid teenager has grown a lot now!

"Master, is this the place where you picked me up, and what kind of hidden masters can there be in such a small place?" Lu Wentian, who was sitting by the river, muttered to himself.

Lu Wanxiong, who was seriously injured that year, called Lu Wentian to his side and explained two things to him.

First, go to the place where you brought him back, find the hidden master and get back what belongs to you. Second, if you don't open up the five strange scriptures and eight veins, you are not allowed to avenge him.

After that, he entrusted the sixteen-year-old Lu Wentian to his eldest brother Lu Wanhao, who had been abroad for a long time and returned to China after hearing the news.