The night in the border city is quiet.

Li Anmin climbed onto the roof and sat cross-legged.

Above him was a crescent moon and a lone star. In his hand is half a pot of old wine. Brushing his cheeks was a light breeze on a summer night. What reverberated in my ears was the unstoppable chirping of insects.

Looking up, it is the silent Xuanque City.

Farther away, is the continuous Xuanque military camp.

Farther away, maybe it's the White Wolf Army, it's the Di clan.

Looking at the endless night, Li Anmin had to guess in his heart.

Maybe it was the strength of the wine, Li Anmin looked into the distance in a trance, which was the direction of his father's departure.

The strange old man, who was always straight, tapped his toes, and a flying body disappeared.

Daddy and he had a long conversation in the secret room.

Li Anmin knows a lot of things, and at the same time has doubts about many things in his heart.

Dad told him about martial arts, Wendao.

Daddy told him about breathing.

Dad pointed out the general direction of his cultivation path.

The more I know, the more I feel ignorant.

Oh, a Han man.

Gulping down the wine in the pot, Li Anmin's face turned red, ignoring the pain in his back, lying on his side on the roof, and falling asleep.

In the room under him, Chen Fanfan and Liuying were sleeping soundly. The old dog named Da Hei raised his head and looked in the direction where his father left, then looked at Li Anmin who was lying on the roof, lay on the ground and closed his eyes.

It was late at night, and the people and dogs in the house also fell asleep quietly.

Early the next morning, Li Anmin was woken up by the commotion on the street. He straightened his unkempt hair and rubbed his sleepy eyes. Seeing that it was already dawn, he sighed and got up and climbed off the roof.

It's really difficult for Li Anmin!

He was just a teenager, but he was unexpectedly involved in the conspiracy of the superiors.

When the accident came, it was discovered that the identity of the father who had been dependent on him for many years was extremely mysterious.

And Daddy's sudden departure undoubtedly put all the burden on him.

At this moment, Li Anmin's heart was in turmoil.

He has to take care of his younger brother Chen Fanfan and sister Liuying.

He had to be diligent in his cultivation to deal with the mysterious enemy hidden in the Xuanque Army.

Also, he's worried about his father. Worried that Daddy is in danger, worried that Daddy will not come back.

Gathering his mind, Li Anmin adjusted his emotions. Although his back tingled, he still endured it and insisted on walking to the stove.

Make a fire, pour water, and lay three eggs underneath.

Then Li Anmin quickened his pace and walked out of the door to buy the jujube cake from Aunt Wu'er's stall for Liuying.

With each step, the stinging pain on Li Anmin's back intensified. Li Anmin was seriously injured and fell into a coma twice in just a few days, and the well-behaved and lovely Liuying looked at his brother and felt distressed, so he snatched the errand of making breakfast. But this was the first day that his father left home, and Li Anmin's stubbornness forced him to take care of the breakfast of the three brothers and sisters.

On the way home, Li Anmin gritted his teeth, and his legs and feet trembled uncontrollably.

The wound on his back collapsed, and at this moment, Li Anmin's face was faintly pale, and even his head was covered with fine beads of sweat.

"Brother, why did you get out of bed!"

Before he could enter the house, he heard a burst of exclamations from Liuying. It is said that Liuying slept a little heavy today, and after waking up, she hurriedly started preparing breakfast. But before she walked to the stove, her little nose wrinkled slightly, and she smelled a familiar fragrance.

It is the fragrance of egg noodles made by the eldest brother Li Anmin.

As soon as she turned her head, Liu Ying saw Li Anmin standing outside the door with a pale face, carrying a tightly wrapped jujube cake in his hand.

Seeing this, the nose was sour, and she was about to cry. The little girl opened her arms and rushed towards Li Anmin.

Li Anmin smiled helplessly, he knew that Liuying loved to cry, so he endured the pain in his body and forced a smile to his sister.

Liu Firefly pounced and hugged Li Anmin.

She raised her head and looked at her brother with a pout, her big eyes faintly red:

"Brother."

Liuying just called out to her brother glutinously, and her tears couldn't be stopped anymore, and she kept flowing.

Li Anmin knew the meaning of this "brother", which was worry, anger, and grievance.

So he stretched out his hand and took Liuying in his arms, picked up the jujube cake and shook it in front of the little girl's eyes, and said softly:

"Look, date cake."

Liuying didn't even look at the jujube cake in Li Anmin's hand, let go of the hand holding Li Anmin, wiped her tears, and then grabbed her eldest brother's arm, and said with a serious face:

"Brother, I'll help you go back to your room to rest."

Li Anmin saw that Liuying stopped his tears and relaxed a little. He didn't dare to say more, and followed Liuying towards the courtyard.

"Hey, what a big black dog, when did he come to our house?"

Previously, Liuying's mind was on the pale-faced eldest brother, and she didn't see Lao Hei lying in the door. At this time, he helped Li Anmin back to the room, and only then did he notice the existence of the big black dog.

Seeing Lao Hei, Li Anmin thought of his father, who left the night before, frowned slightly, and replied cautiously: "Daddy brought it back last night, and he will live with us in the future." ”

Lao Hei was woken up by the conversation between the two, looked around with his eyes half-open, and then lay on the ground and closed his eyes to recuperate.

"Oh, what a big old black dog!"

At this moment, Chen Fanfan also walked out of the door! He was dressed in a strong suit and held a huge weapon in his hand, which was the mace that Li Anmin specially gave to Chen Fanfan.

"Brother, Liuying, I won't eat it. It's too late to get to the barracks. Chen Fanfan saw that Li Anmin's expression was a little awkward, said goodbye, turned around and walked towards the door.

Li Anmin's heart was all his father's entrustment, although he could see that Chen Fanfan's face was different, he didn't say much, just instructed:

"Xiaofan, let the leader of Hongying come over tonight, I have something important to discuss with her."

Chen Fanfan's face changed slightly, and he nodded unnaturally when he heard Li Anmin's words. Then he carried a mace and ran out in a puff of smoke.

Looking at the back of Chen Fanfan leaving, Li Anmin shook his head suspiciously.

Perhaps accustomed to his father's elusiveness, Chen Fanfan and Liuying did not ask about their father's traces. However, Chen Fanfan was apprehensive, he really didn't know how to tell the two of them the news of their father's departure.

After breakfast, Liu Ying ran to the courtyard to tease Lao Hei, and Li Anmin was in the room thinking about his next actions.

Practice!

In order to improve himself, Li Anmin decided to start trying to practice the breathing method taught to him by his father.

Li Anmin talked with his father for a long time last night, and Li Anmin had a newer and deeper understanding of cultivation and magical breathing methods!

The method of breathing is the practice of perceiving and using the breath of heaven and earth through the change of breathing rhythm.

This exercise is not a peerless exercise, but it is extremely special! Because the breath of heaven and earth that each person perceives through the method of breathing is different. Therefore, even if the cultivation is to the extreme, it is impossible to provide effective advice and guidance to those who come after it.

In other words, to practice this exercise, it is all up to you to figure it out!

Not only that, most of the absorption of the qi of heaven and earth with this exercise is commonplace, and it is not even as good as the ordinary third-rate exercise, so the method of breathing is particularly frivolous.

Even if he sensed the mysterious aura between heaven and earth through the method of breathing, because he did not have the experience of his predecessors to guide him, it would be difficult to move an inch on the path of cultivation.

As a result, this practice has long since faded out of the practitioner's realization, and is even completely forgotten today.

However, my father said to Li Anmin: Just cultivate, you will have great success.

If practice is a path, then the exercises determine how far you can go.

Although Li Anmin heard his father talk about the many drawbacks of the breathing method, he still chose to believe his father's words.

Thinking of this, Li Anmin took out a booklet from his waist that his father had taken from the bookshelf in the secret room and put it in front of him. Then gently adjust your breathing to activate the breathing method!

With the transfer of spiritual power to the book, a magical scene appeared!

Li Anmin felt a figure appear in his mind. The figure's face was blurry, but the rate of breathing was extremely clear.

Daddy said that this is the second layer of the method of breathing, and only by using spiritual power can you see it clearly.

The first layer of the method of breathing is the foundation.

The second layer is the way to get started.

Between one breath and one inhale, there is a mystical method!

Li Anmin adjusted the rhythm of his breathing according to this magical law, and soon became familiar with this second layer.

At this moment, Li Anmin sat cross-legged on the bed, running the exercises, and closed his eyes to feel the mysterious qi of heaven and earth. As the method of breathing worked, he seemed to feel the flow of various breaths between heaven and earth.

There is a fiery red, a gentle blue like water, a calm green of the mountains, a heavy yellow of the earth...

Coordinated and orderly, complementing each other.

Li Anmin wondered in his heart, didn't Dad say that he could only perceive a breath of heaven and earth?

Why didn't you see the black breath I was emitting earlier?

Although he had doubts in his heart, Li Anmin did not stop the operation of the exercises!

As the exercises kept running, the originally stable breath between heaven and earth instantly rolled up!

It was like an opening, and a rush of brains rushed to Li Anmin!

Unconsciously, Li Anmin's breathing became short, and his body couldn't help but tremble.

It turned out that in Li Anmin's perception, all the breath between heaven and earth gathered around Li Anmin's body, colorful and gorgeous.

At the moment when all kinds of heaven and earth breaths entered Li Anmin's body, the colorful heaven and earth qi actually had a touch of black! Before Li Anmin could react, he saw that black spread like a plague and became all the colors in the world he perceived.

With the appearance of the black aura, a vortex of spiritual power was formed with Li Anmin as the central point. The spiritual power vortex was running wildly, draining all the heaven and earth qi in Xuanque City in an instant!

Li Anmin's face turned red, and the black aura surged, and his body seemed to be unable to bear such a load! Li Anmin had no choice but to forcibly manipulate his spiritual power, washing his flesh and blood over and over again, and reshaping his bones.

Pain, pain, pain.

Li Anmin felt that all the flesh and blood on his body were being torn repeatedly, broken, and reborn. It is as if the bones have been crushed and regrown.

Li Anmin was supported by one breath, and he was already unconscious.

He gritted his steel teeth, and at this moment he had already stopped the operation of the breathing method, but the situation was out of his control!

Seeing that the vortex of spiritual power was still expanding, Li Anmin's eyes, ears, mouth and nose were all overflowing with blood.