Chapter 2 Too Void
Earth, 2727 years in the Taixu calendar.
It was getting late, and a sixteen-year-old boy was leaning on a cold iron pillar, looking at the sunset that was about to fall under the high wall in the distance, in a daze.
This young man's strong body and the youthful aura on his face that has not completely faded look so incompatible. However, the resolute look on his face seemed to tell what he had experienced.
Beneath the tattered clothes, the bare bronzed skin seemed to show people the extraordinary strength of the young man.
"Yifei, what are you thinking?"
A tall young man with a haggard look on his face staggered to the young man's side, and put his hand on the shoulder of the young man who was almost as tall as himself, calling his thoughts back to reality.
"Father, the celebration ceremony is about to begin!"
The boy didn't look away, and by the familiar aura, he had already made out the identity of the comer.
"Why, don't you have faith in yourself?"
The young man looked at his son with a confident face, perhaps, in his eyes, his son was the best.
"Father, I'm in a mess right now! I don't even dare to think that those immortal sects who are beyond the world will take a fancy to a poor boy like me?" the young man muttered with a look of inferiority.
"Poor? Yes, the people who live in the slums are indeed the poorest people! Do you want to be the poor all your life?"
The young man turned his head to look around, his gaze constantly passing over the people who looked like walking corpses in the vicinity, and a look of indomitable expression reflected his haggard face again.
"No! I don't want to be a poor person for the rest of my life! I don't want to live on the nutrient solution that I have been dispensed every day! I want to fight, I want to get out of this slum and take a look outside!" the young man clasped his hands, and his voice almost squeezed out between his clenched teeth.
"If you want to get out of this slum, you can't just think about it! This world is respected by the strong!" The young man's gaze also turned to the distant sky, and his thoughts seemed to have returned to the time when he was in the prime of his flesh.
"Father, are the things you taught me really useful?" the boy kept questioning in his heart, but this was the first time he had told his father about his doubts.
"Child, I think back then, our He family also had a place in that rich area! It's just that the family was unfortunate and finally fell to this point!" Thinking back to his childhood, the young man's face turned to reveal endless grievances and helplessness.
"Father, what is the rich district like?" Hearing his father talk about the old things again, the boy's curiosity was aroused again.
"The rich area is very different from here! It's just that I was too young to remember a lot of things! But there is one thing, what I taught you was all that your grandfather desperately snatched back! So, whether you believe it or not, this is the only thing that can help you!" The young man turned his head to look at the young man, his eyes slightly closed, and a look of determination shot out of his eyes.
"But what is the use of these strange moves that imitate animals?" said the young man, shaking his arms and already posing as tiger claws.
"Kid, don't underestimate these things! It is rumored that these things come from the cultivation methods of the two great powers, the Enlightenment Tai and the Void. Taihexu, what kind of characters are they, I don't need to say more to you, do I?" the young man vetoed the young man's idea.
"Well, of course I do. Taihexu is the ancestor who led the human race to build the existence of this square city. Without them, we human beings would not be able to have such a place of rest and recuperation on this beast-infested earth! It is precisely to commemorate them that we human beings set the day when the Sifang City was officially built as the first day of the Taixu calendar. When the boy heard the name that had been praised as godlike, he could not help but feel endless awe in his heart.
"Yes, without them, how could we live so carefree? Although their achievements come entirely from their own explorations, it is precisely because of their natural resources that our human strength can have such a great change!" the young man also said with admiration.
"However, what you taught me was just some fighting martial arts, could it be that what my grandfather left behind really didn't have a cultivation method for 'qi'?"
Thinking of this, the look of doubt on the young man's face was even more victorious, and he looked at his father expectantly, hoping to get some news that would make his heart move.
"It's not easy to get this! However, in my opinion, it's not a pity that there is no cultivation method for 'qi'!" said the young man thoughtfully.
"Father, what do you mean by that?" Hearing the young man's ambiguous reply, the young man was even more puzzled.
"Kid, how much water a barrel can hold depends on the size of the barrel. But what if we want to expand the barrel full of water again? Do we have to pour out all the water that is full? Our bodies are like the barrels, and they are the only barrels!" the young man looked at the boy with a smile, and his right hand could not help but touch the boy's fluffy hair, and rubbed it with pity.
"Father, what do you mean, that I should first make my own wooden barrel bigger, so that I can hold more water later?" said the young man, knowing something.
"That's right! The body is the foundation of everything! With our current cultivation level, we can cultivate our body to the limit in order to reach the level of a third-level warrior. However, how many people in the entire city of the Four Directions have really achieved that step, and who has done that step, which one is not famous now?" the young man was very pleased to see that his son had figured this out.
"Yes, the nine most respected martial gods in our Sifang City have refined their bodies to the limit before cultivating 'qi'! I really wish I could reach the same height as them!"
"Although we don't have the method of cultivating 'qi' now, you are still young, and you will definitely have a chance to come into contact with it in the future. So, before you do that, you have to be ready for everything and wait for that opportunity to soar to the sky!" the young man said earnestly.
"Hehe, I guess that's what you thought about why you named me 'He Yifei', right?" the boy heard his father's thoughts, and turned to joke with him.
"Hahaha!" was distracted by his son, and the young man had to laugh to hide his embarrassment.
"By the way, father, I still have something to do, I want to go out for a while!" dispelled the fog in his heart, another thought popped up in He Yifei's mind again.
"Go, don't come back too late! Remember, no matter what happens, endure it if you can, and don't fight with others!" the young man carefully advised.
"Don't worry, I'll protect myself!" He Yifei heard that his father had agreed to his request, and he couldn't wait to run out.
"Stinky boy!" Seeing that his son, who didn't look back, just waved his arms a few times towards the sky, the young man couldn't help but laugh and scold.