The story after retiring is relatively bland.

In 2024, that is, 4 years after his retirement, his primary stage of refining the Divine Technique, "Refining Qi and Transforming God", broke through the first stage and entered the second stage after eight years of cultivation, and the power of the divine soul has further increased, and he has also stepped from the early stage of innate to the middle stage of innate stage. The strength grew to 16,000 kg of bench press, and the peak speed was 320 kilometers per hour, which exceeded the 300 kilometers per hour of China's high-speed railway! At this time, Zhang Guangming, who had cultivated the Heavenly Demon Gong to a height of 3.5 meters, had already led the Pelicans to win four NBA championships!

At this time, I also made up my mind to experience the life of my student days again. After refining the Divine Technique, he was clear-headed, looked at ten lines, and never forgot it, and his speed was many times faster than before. So it took me half a year to learn all the knowledge of high school, and without special treatment, I was admitted to Aoki University, which ranks first in China, in the 2025 college entrance examination. In 2027, he graduated with a double degree in medicine and physics with the first grade in the school in just two years.

In 2030, it took me three years to finally get a double Ph.D. in sports fitness and high-energy physics. I finally understood my academic pursuit, that is, to explore the mystery of life and trace the origin of the universe. And this pursuit also stems from his dual identity as an athlete and a cultivator.

This year, the 39-year-old Chinese giant Zhang Guangming also announced his retirement. He has been in the league for 17 years, and the 10 championships he has won are all won in the post-Li Qiang era! At this moment, Zhang Guangming's Faxiang Heavenly Demon Skill has been firmly stuck at 2 times his height, 4 times his physical fitness, 8 times his weight, 16 times his strength, and 32 times his strength and energy in one blow, and he has not been able to advance an inch for several years.

This era of the end of the Dharma with a thin aura is undoubtedly a sorrow for cultivators. The saint-level exercises that were as powerful as their own cultivation progressed extremely slowly after entering the innate realm. And for the Faxiang Heavenly Demon Skill that he cultivated, which required a large amount of genius earth treasure accumulation to upgrade, it was even more of a curse. In this world, where can I find natural treasures?

Zhang Guangming's height of 3.64 meters at the moment is exactly exactly one point no more, no less than twice his original height. The body has gained some weight because of middle age, and has reached 11 times its original weight: 726 kg. After long-term training, Zhang Guangming's strength has also reached 24 times the original: 1,200 kg for bench press and 2,200 kg for deadlift. This data is almost the level of Li Qiang's cultivation of the middle of the third volume of Jiuyang Divine Skill, that is, Li Qiang's 7th year.

Yes, Zhang Guangming, as the No. 1 super center in the history of the league, averaged 88 points, 14 assists and 36 rebounds per game in the second half of his career under countless rules that appeared to limit him. But in any case, his influence cannot surpass his own.

After all, he was the first person to really promote the sport of basketball to the world and become the number one sport in the world. Only you can contribute to those seemingly incredible goals. Only you can contribute those picturesque three-point shots and flying dunks. Only by yourself can really play 378 points in a single game, 120 points in a single quarter, and an average of more than 3 points per shot!

And Zhang Guangming can only be regarded as an abnormal giant. He is too tall for ordinary people to be able to do it from top to bottom without jumping like him, but this has just become a factor limiting his influence.

However, what Zhang Guangming didn't expect was that his appearance promoted a basketball reform. Yes, the hoops before 2025 are so high that the average person can't dunk, can't experience the joy of galloping through the sky, and can't experience the feeling of control when you have the ball in your hands.

After Zhang Guangming appeared, people finally realized this problem. Yes, this problem has affected the promotion of basketball around the world. So the league's next president, Copson, has promoted a new sport since 2025: civilian basketball.

In civilian basketball, the ball is only 70% the diameter of a normal FullSize basketball. The basket was only placed at a height of 2.35 meters, and the three-point line was pulled much closer. In this way, when ordinary people are playing, they can easily rush into the inside dunk, and they can also shoot three points with a relatively high shooting rate, and they can make all kinds of difficult actions when they go to the basket.

Of course, there is a conflict between this sport and official basketball. After all, if you are used to a ball of one size and a high frame, you will not be able to shoot if you change the ball and the frame. Ordinary people naturally have the right to choose between the two, and most of them choose to play civilian basketball in order to be happy.

Today, civilian basketball has replaced basketball and soccer as the most popular sport in the world. It can be said that the number of people in the world who use civilian basketball as the main daily sport has exceeded 2 billion!

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In the midst of all his thoughts, Li Qiang raised his head slightly, and his eyes swept over a large poster hanging on the wall. In the photo, he and Zhang Guangming are holding hands, each of them wears a championship ring on each finger, and 20 championship rings are shining in the photo. In front of the two people in the photo, there is a huge cake with candles arranged in the shape of a number: 39.

This poster was taken at the retirement ceremony of the Great Giant in 2030. Although he joined the NBA earlier than the Big Giants, the interesting point is that both were born in 1991, so they are the same age! At Zhang Guangming's retirement ceremony, he also appeared. The first and second people in the entire history of basketball appeared on an important occasion at the age of 39 at the same time, and this moment has become an eternal classic in the history of basketball.

In 2038, he will cultivate the Qi Refining God to the third stage, and the realm breakthrough has entered the innate late stage, with a strength of 24,000 kilograms and a peak speed of 400 kilometers per hour! Exceed the limit speed of F1 cars!

It can be said that if Li Qiang is fortunate enough to live in the Three Kingdoms era, with his strength of jumping seventy zhang high, jumping two hundred zhang away, ten thousand arrows cannot be injured, thousands of troops and horses cannot be trapped, and the first rank of the enemy general in a million army is like probing for things, he will soon become the world's recognized immortal god of war and martial arts myth, so as to gain the faith of soldiers and people all over the world, as well as the fear of princes and scholars from the depths of their souls.

In this way, Li Qiang can quickly unify the world and stop the endless wars and chaos of the Eastern Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, so as to prevent the Chinese nation from entering the dark age of chaos and chaos.

In 2044, Li Qiang began to try to hand over part of the Li Group to his son Li Fangtian, who is already in his twenties. Over the next few years, Li Fangtian held higher and higher positions in the company, and finally became the CEO of the Li Group in 2051.

For his daughter, who loves art, Li Qiang allows her to develop her hobbies. Finally, her daughter Li Jingsi has grown into a generation of well-known top designers, and now she has successfully designed several clothes and sneakers for the Li Group, which have sold hundreds of millions of finished products.

Ten years ago, Li Qiang chose this secluded valley and prepared to live in seclusion with his wife, not wanting to act in a high-profile manner anymore. Therefore, the villa built is very ordinary. But in the past ten years, Li Qiang has experienced the world, practiced, played ball, exercised, walked the mountains and forests, chanted poems and painted, and still lived a very comfortable life.

Today, the Li Group under his name has tens of billions of dollars in total assets and billions of dollars in net assets. The Li Qiang Charity Foundation has a net worth of more than 10 billion US dollars, and the total donations to charity in the past 40 years have reached tens of billions of US dollars. It can be said that most of the money he earns goes to charity.

And now I am very successful in my career, family and other aspects, and it can be said that I have completed my deeds. The only regret is that he has never been able to break through to the foundation building realm and become a monk who can truly step on the flying sword and walk to the heavens and the earth.

However, this small regret can be described as flawed. With the peak realm of the late congenital stage, he is still as light as a swallow, energetic, and especially in his prime, so what more can he ask for?

What's more, he is accompanied by his lifelong lover Liu Mengqi. Compared with the ethereal avenue of cultivation, the real warmth and sweetness of being with her made me feel more nostalgic.

Li Qiang feels that his ordinary life now is really the most satisfying, happier and more satisfying for him.

Due to the fact that the aura of the end of the law era was too thin, he had been stuck in the peak realm of the late innate stage for several years. His current cultivation has encountered a bottleneck, as long as he enters the foundation building period, his innate true qi can be further condensed into true yuan power, and he will be able to control magic weapons such as flying swords left by the old monk. But with his current cultivation at the peak of the late congenital stage, he is still a little worse after all.

In the past few decades, he has returned to the main peak of Meili Snow Mountain, Kaberg, several times, but he has never noticed any aura appearing, as if the remains of the ancient saints in the underground have been removed or sealed. Maybe it's the handiwork of an old monk.

The only thing I got from returning to Meili Snow Mountain several times was to pick up a stone.

A mysterious stone.

Li Qiang found the stone when he returned to Meili Snow Mountain for the last time seven years ago. It was a bright morning, the sky was clear and there was not a single cloud, and the sun in the sky, 150 million kilometers away, released her energy output equivalent to that of a newly promoted saint, illuminating the snow-capped mountains of Meili in the distance and looking extremely holy and magnificent.

"Crunch-squeak-" Li Qiang took his wife Liu Mengqi's hand and walked cautiously on the fault zone, and small gravel was constantly trampled under his feet. The explosion of the Spirit Gathering Array caused huge damage to the mountain, and tens of millions of tons of debris rolled down the foot of the mountain. And this is a dense area of rubble, with boulders the size of fists, millstones, and even trucks everywhere. Even if you have cultivated to the realm of the late innate stage, you must still be in awe in the face of the great power of heaven and earth. What's more, there is a beautiful woman Liu Mengqi around who needs to be protected, and it is not fun to be crushed by dozens of tons of stones.

Li Qiang suddenly grabbed Liu Mengqi's hand and stopped.

Pointing to the distance of more than twenty meters ahead, Li Qiang said: "Qiqi, look, this white stone has appeared in this gray-black pile of rubble, it can't be a gem, right?" ”

Liu Mengqi smiled: "Let's go and have a look." ”