Nearly thirty years ago, a young girl from the Chu State met a young man from the Qin State in Southern Chu.

This is where history begins to turn.

At that time, although the southern Chu had the largest geographical area, it was located in the south of the humid and moth-ridden, and the charm was far more serious than that in the north, and the people of Chu were also regarded as uncivilized people, and the land of Chu was called the "land of Chu barbarians", which can be said to be the latest developing country of the six countries in the Great Wall.

However, it is such a country, because the appearance of a young girl changed its fate.

In the last days of the former dynasty, the girl of the Chu State chose to help the young man of the Qin State, and was once regarded as a traitor by her hometown, but in the end, the world was unified, and this former traitor brought eternal glory to his hometown.

Chu Di produced a first-level human god and a second-level god son, and since then he has obtained the aura of outstanding human spirits, countless cultivators rushed to Chu to cultivate, and Nan Chu was also given the Taizu Codex, obtained the right to hold the primary ceremony, and became the cradle of cultivators.

To this day, Nanchu is also the place with the most immortal official families and the most cultivation palaces in the whole continent.

Ying Baoyue learned from Guichen that even if Taizu died, the empire was divided, and the Great Priest was slandered, but under the guidance of the Southern Chu National Division, one of the eight gods, the holding of the primary ceremony was not affected, and the only difference was that the winner could choose which country's immortal official system to join, instead of returning to Qianqin.

However, after Taizu's death, the Elementary Rank Ceremony has only been held twice, and this is the third time, and I don't know how long such an abnormal selection method can last.

Southern Chu National Teacher......

Ying Baoyue's heart was called up with bad memories.

Forget it, it's useless for her to think about it now. Among the divine sons of various countries, the national teacher of Nanchu is also an extremely powerful one.

At that time, when it was still in the era of the vassal states, Southern Chu, Northern Wei and Eastern Wu were called the three great powers in the Great Wall, and now in the decline of the former Qin, Southern Chu, which has the largest land area and the most cultivators, is worthy of the name of the first overlord in the south.

It is no wonder that the former King of Qin did not hesitate to send his only sister over to make peace.

Of course, people don't want it yet.

It's really not to mention it, I feel bloody for the original owner when I mention it.

For such a southern overlord, relying on Heqin alone has a woolen effect, not to mention that there are still objections to Heqin in Qin, in short, for Ying Baoyue, she feels that she still doesn't want to rush to send it.

I also know that she can't participate in the canonical test with the identity of the former Qin princess, so she should settle the matter with the mausoleum and find another way.

But before that......

Looking at the dejected young man sitting on the ground, Ying Baoyue squatted down and patted him on the shoulder.

"Mingyue?" Looking at the face of the girl who suddenly appeared beside him, Guichen was shocked.

It was hard for her to take the exam, but at least she could do something for him.

"Go up the mountain."

"Huh? Mountain? Now? ”

Guichen ran all morning with a bamboo basket on his back, and the soles of his feet were blistered with blood, and he looked at the cloth bag on the girl's back, which was something she bought at the market, and it only cost two baht for Guichen to go with her, although it was cheap, it should not be light.

She didn't want to put it in her own bamboo basket and carried it all the way by herself, wouldn't she be tired?

However, the girl's heart was like iron and she looked up at the sun in the sky.

"I used to say that I would go up the mountain in the afternoon, and the sun would be past noon, but now it's afternoon."

"You can drink saliva."

"Eat lunch on the mountain, you won't die of hunger on the mountain."

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When he changed out of his worn-out straw sandals and walked with heavy steps to climb up the mountain, he was still thinking about when he was dominated by anti-guests.

However, Guichen found that he had no sense of resistance to what he said to the girl......

But if you don't have it psychologically, it doesn't mean you don't have it physically......

Under this terrible physical exertion, his physical strength is very honest.

"Whew, whew, can you stop?" Of course he wanted to say this, but looking at the slender figure in front of him with a heavy load on his back without a trace of heaviness, the dignity of being a man made him unable to say this sentence in his heart, so he had to grit his teeth and keep up.

By the time he reached the top of the mountain, Guichen had lost sensation in his legs.

"Here we are." The back in front of me, which seemed to never stop, finally stopped.

Guichen only felt that his physical strength had never been so overdrawn since he was a child.

The last time was when the mountain fell off a cliff.

Cliff...... Thinking of this, Guichen's heart tightened, and he looked at this familiar and unfamiliar mountain.

The scenery around has not changed, but the relationship between him and the girl in front of him has quietly changed.

The last time she went up the mountain, she was just following her, but this time she was more familiar than anyone else, and the speed of going up the mountain was incredible.

"What the hell is going on with your body?" Guichen looked at the girl who was pale but didn't even have a breath, and was puzzled in his heart.

"Aren't you tired?"

How could she be in such a strenuous exercise for so long without stopping?

It shouldn't be.

You have to know how slender and delicate this girl's body is...... I have weighed it with my own hands.

What's more, it didn't take long for her to wake up, and it stands to reason that she should ......

It's right that the body is very weak.

Ying Baoyue stroked the arm whose body was so thin that it seemed to be broken if it was broken, and said in her heart.

The body of this little princess in the vase is really much weaker than in her previous life.

Even after her adjustment and exercise in the past few days, it is still very different from her heyday back then.

However......

"Me and you...... Is there anything different? Guichen stared at the girl in front of him tightly.

The physical condition of people can't deceive people, this girl's body is extremely weak, but she has a flexible power in her body, which is as difficult to break as thin bamboo and never stops, so Guichen can think that there must be something different from him in her body.

Thinking of the scene when she grabbed him with her slender arms on the cliff, Guichen's heart jumped, and his gaze became more and more focused as he stared at Ying Baoyue.

Willpower is not the same.

This woman's willpower is terrifyingly strong.

And this terrible willpower drove her body.

And also......

"Maybe it's a different way of breathing." The girl's quiet and inquiring voice interrupted his thoughts, and the next moment she was already in front of him.

"Wait, it's too close......" There was no sound in her footsteps close to the person, and Guichen was startled by the good smell coming from his face, but the next moment his abdomen was cold, and a slender palm suddenly touched his stomach.

However, before Guichen could have any other thoughts, there was a sharp pain in his belly.

"Hiss......" Guichen inhaled suddenly.

"I'm sorry, I didn't expect it to hurt so much." The girl in front of her, who had just hit him in the abdomen, blinked and withdrew her hand.

"But, really......" The girl in front of her lowered her eyes and whispered.

"Yours is empty inside."

"What?" Although he received an apology from the other party, Guichen was not happy at all.

I always feel like I've lost more things......

For example, the dignity of men......

"You're not breathing the right way." Ying Baoyue looked at him and said, "The dantian didn't use any force at all, so it was easy to get tired. ”

"Dantian? Hard? "Guichen hadn't heard of this before, and certainly didn't care about it at all.

After all......

Does this have anything to do with spiritual practice?

No matter how you hear it, you think it's just for exercising the body, right?

However, in this world where cultivators are rampant, those with rank can easily defeat strong men, so what's the use of exercising?

"Do you think it's useless?" The girl in front of him seemed to hear his heart, and looked at him and asked quietly.

"I ......" Guichen didn't know what to say.

"I don't think so." The girl stared into his eyes and spoke.

"It is true that a cultivator can be stronger than ordinary people, but that doesn't mean that a cultivator is necessarily stronger than a mortal."

"I ignored this problem before, but since I can't find a way to practice, it doesn't mean that people can't become stronger."

The scorching sun of nearly noon pierced through the foliage of the forest, and the sunlight outlined the silhouette of the girl in front of her with a golden edge.

Guichen looked at the girl who was quietly speaking, and slowly opened his eyes.

Humans have limits.

Cultivators who are able to break through the limits of human beings are indeed theoretically stronger.

One cannot win against a cultivator.

Growing up, everyone said this to him.

So all he had to do was to do everything he could to become a cultivator.

But at the end of the road, on the rocks, the girl turned back to him and said so.

"But it seems to me that you haven't even reached the limits of being human."