Tall poplar trees stand in rows on both sides of the wide road, and the rustling sound of the wind blowing through the leaves makes the quiet night even more cold.

After leaving the Starry Eyes Bar, Zhou Wenluo bypassed the bustling square where the bar belonged and walked into a long dark and old alley.

After walking out of the alley for nearly ten minutes, Zhou Wenluo finally entered an old-decorated community, came to a simple hut of only about fifteen square meters, verified the fingerprint lock and walked in, this fifteen-square-meter house was the political axe relief house distributed to him by the Federation when Zhou Wenluo became an adult, or rather, his home.

The furnishings in the house are very neat, of course, it is not easy to be untidy, because the house is extremely simple except for the necessary beds, tables and chairs, and some daily necessities, and there is nothing superfluous to clutter.

"Welcome back, master!"

Seeing Zhou Wenluo enter the house, some old electronic housekeeper robots in the house also greeted him, and put a pair of slippers that were changed in the house in front of him according to the program set by Zhou Wenluo.

"Thank you, Lao Guan!"

The electronic housekeeper robot configured by the Federation in the relief room is the lowest level, and the voice that is completely mechanically synthesized is cold and stiff, but Zhou Wenxiao's tired face showed a warm smile after hearing it, no matter what, there is a person in the family who is always waiting for him to come back, it is all warm, even if it is just a robot.

"Lao Guan, help me check my bank account, how much balance is left?"

After changing into slippers and sitting on the chair to rest for a while, Zhou Wenluo turned his head and asked the electronic butler who had always been loyal to the side.

"Master, you haven't deposited any money this month, and in terms of expenses, you have 180 federal coins for water and electricity property management fees, and 500 federal coins for the Qingmeishan Orphanage account automatically paid every month, so there are still 1,815 federal coins left on the current bank credit account!"

Lao Guan's two electronic eyes flickered, and after connecting to the federal network, he quickly answered Zhou Wenluo's question clearly and in detail.

"It's only one thousand eight."

Zhou Wenluo's brows furrowed slightly, "Even if you add the five hundred given by Sister Yan tonight, it is only two thousand three hundred, and now it is May, and I will be twenty-one years old in seven months, if I can't pass the assessment of the Federal Martial Arts Guild to become a martial artist in these seven months, I'm afraid there will really be no hope in martial arts in this life!" ”

"I have only cultivated to the sixth layer of the basic exercises now, and I was originally counting on the remaining seven months to buy Guyuan Dan to cultivate, make the final sprint, and strive to successfully cultivate the basic exercises to the ninth layer in seven months, and then break through to become a martial artist, but now I ......"

Zhou Wenluo's face was full of wry smiles and helplessness, what Sister Chen and Dao Yuyan, the managers of the Star Eye Bar, said was actually not wrong, he is now twenty years old and can only practice the sixth level of the basic exercises, not to mention that such progress is not to mention that he has officially broken through the basic scriptures and cut the marrow and passed the assessment of the martial arts union to become a martial artist, that is, it is estimated that it will be difficult to complete the cultivation of the remaining four layers of the basic exercises of a total of ten layers.

His original idea was to be extravagant, in order to succeed in becoming a martial artist, he spent money like those children of rich and powerful families to buy Gu Yuan Dan cultivation that can help cultivate and improve internal strength, but the problem is that he really overestimated his economic strength, although Gu Yuan Dan is only the most basic cultivation pill, but the price of each one is also tens of thousands of federal coins, which is what an orphan like him who lives by selling and singing in bars can use?

The smile on the corner of Zhou Wenluo's mouth became more and more bitter, and he looked up at the house he lived in that was only fifteen square meters and poorly decorated, "Is it that I am destined to really be literate and martial arts in my life?" Doomed to die in this cramped relief house provided by the federal political axe? ”

No way!

I can't just give up because of that!

I have seven months left and I have to persevere!

I have at least a chance to persevere, but if I don't, I won't even have a chance!

Zhou Wen took a deep breath, calmed down his mood, and his somewhat depressed face returned to his resolute color.

"Self-cultivation starts from the spit, the so-called spit, take the old and the new. The first purpose of breathing is breathing. Walking, sitting, riding, luck, leaping, and even fighting are all related to breathing. Therefore, those who breathe and breathe are better than those who are not guilty. The momentum of vomiting begins with sitting on the ground. The knees are coiled, and the five mountains are facing the sky. Breathe and breathe, movement and stillness. Spit out the old and absorb the new, and store the dantian. External gas memory, throughput and ......"

On the floor, Zhou Wenluo sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, silently reciting the basic breathing mantra that could almost be recited backwards, his hands and feet were facing the sky, his chest was slightly undulating, and he breathed in and out, forming a perfect cycle, and between the breath circulation, the internal force in the dantian in the body was also slowly circulating in the body, warming the meridians, bones and **.

"Lap 9, lap 10, lap 11, lap 12 ......"

Zhou Wenluo silently counted the number of circles of internal force circulation in the body in his heart, and the basic exercises can increase by two rounds for each breakthrough of the internal force circulation in the body, and Zhou Wenluo's cultivation of the six layers of the foundation is generally twelve circles.

After the internal force crossed the limit of twelve laps, Zhou Wen slowly opened his eyes, exhaled a mouthful of turbid air, and sighed a little gloomily after feeling that the small amount of internal force in his body slowly flowed into Uchida.

"Hey, if it weren't for that weird disease in my head......"

Although he was born as an orphan, he was in this era when all the people were martial, even in the orphanage, the people of the Federal Martial Arts Guild who were responsible for managing and coordinating the martial arts would take a unified martial arts talent test when the children were five years old, and at that time, although his talent was not as good as those martial arts geniuses, he also had a medium good evaluation.

And later after going to school, Zhou Wenluo's performance in martial arts also confirmed that there was no mistake in the test of the martial arts guild, but the problem is that after going to middle school, Zhou Wenluo found that his body or to be precise about his head seemed to have some kind of disease, and there was usually no problem, but as long as he cultivated, under the Baihui acupoints in his head, between his eyebrows, and in the depths behind Yintang, it was as if there was something, and two-thirds of the internal force he cultivated was sucked away!

This kind of situation really scared Zhou Wenluo, who was still young, at that time, thinking that something was wrong with his brain and he was going to become an idiot, so he quickly told the teacher to contact the hospital for examination, but the doctor's examination results were not abnormal at all, but he suspected that Zhou Wenluo was talking nonsense and making excuses for being lazy in his cultivation.

You must know that under the Baihui acupoints of the head, between the eyebrows, and in the depths behind the Yin Tang, this is one of the most mysterious parts of the human body, this place is called the pineal gland by Western medicine, called Tianyan by Taoism, and Zhihai by Buddhism, or also called the Purple Mansion.

In such a mysterious place, even if it has a function, it is about the existence of a form of void energy in terms of spiritual power, how can it be said that there is something that exists? And it was said by a little kid like Zhou Wenluo at that time, and the doctors naturally scoffed at him, and even his teachers didn't believe it.

For such a situation, Zhou Wenluo was naturally extremely aggrieved at the beginning, I really didn't lie, why don't you adults believe me?

But later, he himself had a good understanding of the relevant knowledge, and then went to several hospitals to check it out, and after saying that there was no problem with his brain at all, Zhou Wenluo himself had to accept his fate, and he could only watch the internal force he had worked so hard to cultivate again and again when he was cultivating and being absorbed by the mysterious thing in the purple mansion in his brain.

Internal force is fundamental to the cultivation of martial artists, and this kind of internal force being sucked away is naturally not an exaggeration for Zhou Wenluo to describe it as a catastrophe, he also resented and went crazy, but in the end he calmed down and continued to practice hard to make up for his clumsiness.

After so many years, although Zhou Wenluo has gradually forgotten the strange disease of his brain, and he has begun to become accustomed to the loss of his internal strength, but in any case, after every cultivation, especially when the final limit of the martial arts assessment is getting closer and closer, he still can't help but feel a little gloomy-

If he didn't have this mysterious strange disease, with his pretty good martial arts talent, it must be easy to become a martial artist, right?

However, Zhou Wenluo was always Zhou Wenluo, but after a few seconds, he shook his head suddenly, throwing these unrealistic ideas out of the clouds!

Things that don't make sense, don't waste time thinking about them!

Diligence is a good training, a point of hard work and a point of talent, even if it is flawed than others, people with less talent than me abound, people can persevere, why can't I?

Zhou Wenluo, whose surname is tenacious, straightened his back again, and after running the limit of the twelve laps of internal force, he was supposed to go to rest, but he sat up again, mobilized the internal force in his body with his mind, and began to move slowly but firmly towards the thirteenth circle!

Gradually, the soybean-sized beads of sweat slipped down from Zhou Wenluo's forehead drop by drop, and after exceeding the limit of cultivation, the internal force of the mind was extremely difficult and painful, and the nerves in the head seemed to be torn every time the internal force turned, and the cold sweat had already wet Zhou Wenluo's clothes, but he didn't seem to realize it!

Pay may not be rewarded, but if you don't pay, you will definitely not be rewarded!

Zhou Wenluo has always firmly believed in this truth, especially since he was a child, his orphan life told him that living in this world, what you want to get, you can only rely on your own hands to work hard and fight!

In seven months, to break through the four-layer basic exercises, Zhou Wenluo has nothing else to rely on, only hard work, hard work, and hard work!

Desperate efforts!

The body trembled involuntarily because of the pain, the original ruddy face was already pale as if he was seriously ill, and his lips were already stained with blood because of the stoic bite, but Zhou Wenluo's spine was still straight, and the internal force in his body was still running slowly.

Yes, even though it seems to be running as slow as a turtle snail, it's still running!

If you don't accumulate steps, how can you reach thousands of miles?!

If you don't accumulate small streams, how can you become rivers and seas?!

Zhou Wenluo's face became worse and worse with the passage of time, at this moment, time passed so long for him, every second seemed to extend into a year, but in any case, he persevered!

Ten minutes, twenty minutes, half an hour, an hour......

Rumble!

When the internal force in the meridians gathered more and more, and finally the stream merged into a big river and rushed to the dantian, Zhou Wenluo's spirit finally collapsed unsupportively, as if a dazzling white light had exploded in the depths of his mind, as if it was about to swallow his entire consciousness into it.

It's just that, at this moment, a white jade slip that exuded a soft light suddenly appeared from the purple mansion in his mind!

How could there be such a large piece of white jade in his head, is it an illusion, Zhou Wen thought a little confused, and then fainted.