Snowy Night Country, outside Black Cloud City.

The cold wind was howling, the ice and snow covered the land, and the mountains and ravines were covered in silver as far as the eye could see.

At the foot of a barren mountain.

The young Qi Yue fell in the ice and snow, blood spilling from the corners of his mouth, and his eyes were firmly fixed on the few figures that disappeared in the distance.

The young man was originally handsome, and his eyes were as bright as stars, but he looked a little tired at the moment.

Qi Yue was wrapped in a thick deerskin coat, the back basket on his shoulders was trampled flat, the basket in his hand was trampled on, the cold wind blew, and his face was red from the cold.

"Bastard!

Wiping the blood from the corners of his mouth, Qi Yue grinned in pain, unable to suppress the anger in his heart.

Xuanyin Grass is a low-level medicinal herb that can be picked and sold in exchange for money, or exchanged for pills, or taken for its own cultivation. This herb grows mostly in the shade at the foot of the mountain, and is most effective and valuable in the middle of winter.

Therefore, like Qi Yue, even in the cold of winter, there are still not a few people who come out to collect medicine.

The martial arts of the Snowy Night Country are prosperous, and martial arts are respected.

Here, strength is everything.

Qi Yue went out of the city early this morning to collect medicine, hoping to collect more and return to the city to exchange for pills to take and improve his strength.

From early morning to dusk, Qi Yue braved the cold wind, stepped on the snow, walked for a day, and finally picked a basket full of Xuanyin grass.

However.

The fruits of his hard work were snatched away by several other teenagers of the same race.

Qi Yue fought hard and resisted, but was retaliated by everyone, not only injuring him, but also smashing his medicine collection tools.

"Qi Hao, the reason why you dare to be so arrogant is just because your father is the second elder of the family!

Qi Yue gritted his teeth and swore.

Qi Hao, the son of the second elder of the Qi family in Black Cloud City, is the initiator of this group of gentlemen, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling on weekdays, stealing and playing tricks, and often bullying Qi Yue.

In the past half a month, how could Qi Yue hide the news that Qi Yue had gone out of the city early to collect medicine?

So Qi Hao sent someone to follow him, wanting to see what was going on.

After learning that Qi Yue was picking Xuanyin Grass, everyone didn't care about it at first, because a Xuanyin Grass was really not worth a few dollars, and they all regarded Qi Yue as a fool.

Later, they found out that a little bit of a black grass is indeed worthless, but a basket of black yin grass is a lot of income.

Seeing Qi Yue return with a full load every day and gain a lot of money, Qi Hao and the others were very unhappy.

In their eyes, Qi Yue was a waste with humble strength, he didn't deserve to have these herbs at all, rather than letting Qi Yue get them, it was better to sell them for money for them to eat, drink and have fun, wouldn't it be beautiful?

So there was the scene where Qi Yue was beaten by everyone.

When Qi Yue was young, he relied on his subordinate Uncle He and his maid Xiao Zhao for his life, saving money and living a difficult life. Although Qi Yue is not a collateral family, his status is not high, and the attitude of the family towards Qi Yue and the three of them is very cold.

In addition, Qi Yue's martial arts talent was too poor, and he always stayed in the Triple Tempering Realm, so Qi Yue was despised and ridiculed since he was a child.

"Triple ...... of Quenching the Body Environment"

Qi Yue looked at his hands, and a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The Quenching Body Realm, the Qi Refining Realm, the Spirit Vein Realm, and the Xuandan Realm are known as the Four Realms of Mortal Martial Arts.

The quenching realm is the basic realm of martial arts cultivation.

From the time he stepped into the martial arts at the age of eight, for six full years, Qi Yue's cultivation had been stuck in the triple level of quenching, and no matter how much Xuanyin Grass Qi Yue took, it would be useless.

Xuanli is a sign of the ascension of the martial artist's realm.

For Qi Yue, although the Xuanyin Grass brought very little mystical power, picking Xuanyin Grass could be exchanged for a better elixir.

There is a medicine shop in Snow Night City that specializes in trading medicinal materials, and a hundred catties of Xuanyin Grass can only be exchanged for a Quenching Pill, but the medicinal effect of the Quenching Pill is a hundred times better than that of Xuanyin Grass!

Qi Yue believed that if he could exchange for a Quenching Pill, his cultivation would definitely improve again.

For a martial artist, if he can't break through to the fifth level of the Quenching Body Realm before the age of fifteen, it means that he will lose his cultivation potential forever, and he will stay in the Quenching Body Realm for the rest of his life, completely hopeless.

For this reason, Qi Yue desperately collected Xuanyin grass.

For that faint hope!

Qi Yue had overheard the conversation of the family elders, and the words "born to break the vein" were deeply rooted in his mind, like a haze that could not be dissipated.

What is a Born Broken Pulse?

That is the broken meridians, different from ordinary people, weak, and destroying Qi Yue's cultivation potential to the greatest extent. Born with a broken vein, it means that even if Qi Yue cultivates hard in this life and this life, his lifelong cultivation will never exceed the Quenching Realm!

So all kinds of contempt and ridicule poured in, and they did not give up.

There is a large population in Black Cloud City, and there are many martial artists, even if the young children of other families have higher martial arts talents than Qi Yue, and they will all be more effective than Qi Yue in the future.

The strong look down on the heavens and the earth and are admired by others, while the weak only deserve to look up to the strong, and it is not a pity to die in their eyes. In this world where martial arts are respected, Qi Yue has naturally become an incompetent waste in the mouths of those martial artists!

The more humble and weak your strength is, the more people will bully you, and the more people will look down on you.

Maybe you are born without fault, but weakness is sin!

"Strength! will always be strength!"

Qi Yue clenched his fists: "Without strong strength, I, Qi Yue, will be bullied by miscellaneous pieces like Qi Hao for the rest of my life!

Recalling the bits and pieces of the past few years, Qi Yue's face was bruised, and his nails sank deep into his palms, dripping blood.

The wound in the palm of his hand was certainly very painful, but how could it compare to the pain in Qi Yue's heart!

Over the years, Qi Yue knew that his qualifications were dull, but he still insisted on studying and refining his body desperately, and his ability and ambition to be beaten far exceeded that of everyone!

Otherwise, it would be impossible for Qi Yue to insist on collecting medicine despite the pain and the cold wind.

Then, he walked to the foot of the nearby hill with his head held high again, and once again set out on the road to pick herbs.

The Xuanyin Grass was snatched up by Qi Hao, Qi Yue was very unwilling, and continued to look for the Xuanyin Grass, and he couldn't come in vain.

"It's dusk and the sun is going to set soon. Qi Yue looked at the sky, frowned, and quickened his pace of searching for medicinal herbs.

"Huh, what a big piece of Xuanyin grass!"

Half an hour later, Qi Yue accidentally came to a small deep valley and found that it was low-lying and no one had ever been here.

Qi Yue's eyes widened in surprise, in this small valley, dozens of medicinal herbs actually grew densely.

These herbs were all jet black, three feet tall, and three times larger than the herbs I had picked!

The herb grows upwards and divides into three leaves, the leaves have been covered by a thick layer of snow, but they have not been overwhelmed, what else can it be if it is not Xuanyin Grass!

"How could there be such a tall, dense herb!"

Qi Yue couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, if he picked these Xuanyin grasses back, it would be completely worth the amount that had been snatched before, and his hard work would not be in vain.

Qi Yue braved the cold wind and stepped on the thick snow, cautiously came to the vicinity, put down the basket on his shoulder, and began to pick Xuanyin grass.

Qi Yue rubbed his hands, mustered up all his strength, rolled up his sleeves, stepped on the horse, and firmly grasped the rhizome of a Xuanyin grass with both hands.

"Give it to me!" Qi Yue snorted in a deep voice, riveting enough strength to pull it up.

Whoa!

At this moment, the Xuanyin Grass suddenly became windless, and there was a sound, and the three branches and leaves slammed towards Qi Yue's body.

"It hurts, it hurts......"

Caught off guard, Qi Yue's face was attacked, and he suddenly fell to the snow, his heart was terrified.

"What's going on? How can it move on its own?

Looking at this strange scene, Qi Yue felt incredulous, and at this moment, the Xuanyin grass shook its branches and leaves again, and there was a rattling sound, as if it was laughing at Qi Yue's incompetence.

Qi Yue's heart suddenly rose with anger.

How could he be bullied by the grass! These Xuanyin grasses were his last hope, and he had no way out.

"I want to see what you are capable of, the master is going to condemn you today!"

Qi Yue roared again and rushed forward, resisting the twitching of the Xuanyin Grass's fierce struggle, and suddenly exerted his strength to pull the Xuanyin Grass out of the snow.

The roots of the Xuanyin grass were a foot long, and they were uprooted by Qi Yue, and their delicate bodies were still trembling slightly.

In the following time, Qi Yue frequently roared, pulling out all the dozens of medicinal herbs, and there was not a single one left.

And Qi Yue was already sweating profusely and panting.

"What's that?"

Qi Yue's gaze was suddenly attracted by the soil beneath the roots of the herbs.

In the soil where the Xuanyin grass grows, there is actually a hazy black spherical area, only one foot in size, like night, which suddenly appears in broad daylight, and is still slowly flickering, which is extremely weird.

"That's ...... Black light?"

Qi Yue wondered in his heart, is there a black light in this world?

He liked to read all kinds of books since he was a child, and he had never heard of the existence of black light. But the black light kept flickering, and it was unbelievable to see it so vividly in broad daylight.

Qi Yue was curious, and subconsciously stretched out his left hand and groped into the black area.

There was no unusual feeling, Qi Yue only felt that the place where he was holding was warm, like a stone being held by him.

It turned out that the black light was coming from the stone.

The strange thing was that when the stone fell into Qi Yue's palm, it lost its light, and when Qi Yue threw him to the ground, the stone was once again flooded with black light, flickering non-stop.

"It's really strange, could it be that this Xuanyin grass has something to do with this stone when it grows so big?"

The stone in Qi Yue's hand was translucent jet-black, only two inches in size, like a black amber. As for the appearance, it is very ordinary, like a pebble, showing an irregular oval shape.

Qi Yue's eyes suddenly lit up, if he used this black magic stone as nourishment and buried it in the ground, and then planted medicinal herbs, would it grow tall and dense like now?

If that's the case.

Then Qi Yue will no longer have to go out to look for Xuanyin grass in the cold wind in the future, wouldn't it be better to plant it at home?

Although he didn't know what secrets this mysterious magic stone was hiding, Qi Yue was sure that this was definitely an extremely precious and rare treasure.

Qi Yue wouldn't let anyone know about it.

The coming day is long, and Qi Yue has time to study the secret of this black magic stone.

Putting the black magic stone into his pocket, Qi Yue put all the medicinal materials into the basket. Although the basket was trampled by Qi Hao and others, the back basket was barely usable, and it was not a problem to use it to hold Xuanyin grass.

"It's getting dark, and you have to hurry back to the city, or you won't be able to enter the city when the gates are closed." Qi Yue frowned.