Chapter 1 Challenges
In Hanyang Town, on the Tang family's star refining floor, hundreds of teenagers were scattered everywhere, either practicing star skills alone, or catching and fighting, a fiery atmosphere.
In the northwest corner of the Refining Star Flat, a fourteen or fifteen-year-old blue-clothed young man waved a three-foot iron sword, leaving a sword shadow in front of him, looking like many swords were slashing forward at the same time, which was spectacular.
However, the blue-clothed young man didn't seem to be satisfied with his sword, he shook his head, and then lowered his head and pondered, presumably to find out the shortcomings in order to improve.
At this moment, an eleven or twelve-year-old boy in white walked over, stopped ten steps away, and then saluted him casually with a fist, shouting, "Brother Tang Chen, I want to challenge you!"
The boy's voice was loud and immediately attracted everyone's attention. However, the vast majority of people just glanced indifferently at this side and ignored it, and it was clear that they had no interest in the challenge.
There were also about 20 guys who liked to join in the fun, giggling and laughing, all of them were about the same age as the young man in white.
"Hey, Shiping, you have finally advanced to the rank, these people we have awakened together, but you are the only ones who have not challenged Brother Tang Chen. ”
An obese teenager patted the white-clothed boy on the shoulder, as if to praise him, but his face was full of banter.
A trace of displeasure flashed on Tang Shiping's face, he turned his shoulder sideways, avoiding the chubby little hand on his shoulder, but his eyes were always staring at Tang Chen in front of him, and his eyes were even more resolute.
Tang Chen looked at the clan brothers and sisters in front of him, quite embarrassed.
These guys are only eleven years old, they are the same batch of awakened star souls, and now they all have the strength of third-order star warriors, except for Tang Shiping, everyone else has challenged Tang Chen earlier and defeated him, which is really not a glorious thing for him, a clan brother who is four years older.
In the Star God Continent, people will awaken their star souls at the age of ten, and if they succeed, they can have their own star souls, which can communicate with the star power between heaven and earth to cultivate, and become an admirable star master.
Tang Chen successfully awakened the Star Soul five years ago, but the quality of the Star Soul was too poor, and the cultivation speed was extremely slow, although he worked very hard, he was now worthy of reaching the strength of a second-order Star Warrior.
In the past five years, he has lost count of how many people have challenged him, and he doesn't know when "challenging Tang Chen" has become a common practice for the younger generation of the Tang family, but one thing is clear, that is, Tang Chen has not tasted a victory in all challenges.
This is a purely bullying challenge, Tang Chen didn't want to accept it, but he had to accept it, because the clan rules stipulate that the challenge of the same level of strength between children and disciples must not be rejected without a legitimate reason.
Tang Chen's face quickly returned to normal, he had long been accustomed to this kind of humiliating challenge, or rather, he had become numb.
"Come on. ”
Tang Chen greeted calmly, and then made a gesture of Qiushui Sword Technique.
Seeing this, the onlookers retreated more than ten meters one after another, and Tang Shiping showed his weapon, which was also a three-foot iron sword.
"Brother Tang Chen, be careful!"
Tang Shiping shouted loudly and swung his sword forward. He is the wind star soul, and what he cultivates is the wind star technique wind sword, and at this time, the wind footwork is displayed, just like a wind sweeping, extremely fast, ten steps away, in an instant.
Tang Chen secretly said "so fast", and hurriedly waved his sword to block, the two swords intersected, and there was a sharp sound of "bang", and he suddenly felt an incomparable force coming from the sword body, shaking the long sword high, and almost flying out of his hand.
Tang Shiping saw the opportunity for Tang Chen's door to be wide open, strode closer, and stabbed straight with his sword.
"Autumn Water Sword!"
Tang Chen let out a low cry in his heart, and immediately displayed his star skill, and when the long sword was swung, a sword shadow was horizontal in front of him, with a kind of copper wall and iron wall, and the momentum was quite extraordinary.
The Qiushui Sword is characterized by nine swords in one move, and the nine swords are stacked on top of each other, thus greatly increasing the power of the sword moves.
"Boom!"
The two swords parted with a single touch, Tang Shiping's body shook slightly, and Tang Chen took a step back.
Obviously, in this collision, Tang Shiping still had the upper hand, but the advantage was not as obvious as the previous blow.
"Wow!
"It seems that his Qiushui sword skills have been practiced, otherwise he would not be able to stop Shiping. ”
"So what, Shihei hasn't used his sword skills yet......"
While everyone was commenting, Tang Shiping launched several attacks one after another, although Tang Chen was forced to retreat again and again, but he could not defeat him.
"I didn't expect that you actually practiced the Qiushui Sword, since this is the case, let's see if your Qiushui Sword is powerful, or my Wind Sword is stronger!"
"Wind Sword!"
Tang Shiping's speed suddenly increased a lot, and the whole person looked like a wind shadow, with a rumbling wind, he rushed forward.
If he hadn't taken precautions, Tang Chen might not even have time to react, and he would have been slashed by Tang Shiping's sword.
Tang Chen used the Qiushui Sword in advance, and Tang Shiping's Wind Sword came first, and the two just collided.
"Boom!"
I saw Tang Chen fly upside down in response, falling heavily three feet away, he tried hard to stand up, but he couldn't succeed for a while, it can be seen that he was injured a lot.
Tang Shiping's face, which had been tense, finally relaxed, revealing a friendly smile.
"Brother Tang Chen, are you okay?" he walked to Tang Chen's side, asked casually, and stretched out his hand to pull Tang Chen up.
Tang Chen supported his body with one arm, and sat on the ground with the pain, without answering, and without any intention of getting up, he just shook his head.
"Okay then, Brother Tang Chen, you rest for a while, and I'll leave first. ”
Tang Shiping swaggered away like this, and the onlookers followed, and no one came to check on Tang Chen's injuries, maybe in their opinion, a waste like Tang Chen was not worth wasting their time to care about.
"Alas......"
Watching Tang Shiping and the group of people who watched the excitement leave, Tang Chen sighed leisurely, his mood was a little complicated, envious, and helpless...... Only there is no decadence, his eyes are still firm, he believes in his mother's words, "Work harder every day, accumulate over time, and you will always get stronger."
Although he was still defeated today, he saw his progress, he relied on his Qiushui sword technique to block the full force of the third-order star warrior's attack, and before that, he couldn't do it anyway.
"It's a pity that the Qiushui Sword has not been practiced to the second layer, otherwise, it may be able to block Shiping's Wind Sword......" Tang Chen sighed secretly.
The first layer of the Qiushui Sword is superimposed by nine swords, and the second layer is superimposed by eighteen swords, and the difficulty of cultivation has increased many times, while the power is at least doubled.
Tang Chen wanted to continue cultivating the Qiushui Sword at this time, but the injuries on his body were not allowed, especially the right hand holding the sword, which was badly injured, not only the tiger's mouth was cracked, but also the tendons of the hand, and he couldn't use a little strength.
He had to meditate on the spot and began to heal himself.
He sat like this all morning, until noon, when he felt that his injuries were lighter and he was able to get up and walk, which ended his healing, and at this time, Lianxingping was already gone.
When Tang Chen returned home, Chen's mother had already prepared a meal and was sitting at the table waiting.
"Chen'er, you're back, you're hungry, wash up, eat......"
Chen's mother greeted her happily, and when she saw Tang Chen's pale and ugly face, she immediately frowned slightly, and asked distressedly, "Are you fighting with someone again?"
Tang Chen nodded, did not hide it, and briefly said what Tang Shiping challenged him.
While listening, Chen's mother took a palm-sized porcelain vase from the back room and carefully handed it to Tang Chen.
"Mother, I'm just a little injured, it's not in the way, I don't need this three-star Yulu Dan. Tang Chen didn't take his mother's porcelain bottle, he knew that these pills were for the star generals to use to heal the wounds, and they were specially prepared for his father, who was out on a difficult bounty mission all year round, and was often injured, so he needed to keep this elixir on hand.
Seeing that Tang Chen refused to take the medicine, Chen's mother did not insist, although she was not a star person, she also knew the preciousness of the pill, this was not something that a family like theirs could squander at will, and her husband would only take it when he was seriously injured.
"It's all useless to blame my mother, and it has affected you. Seeing that Tang Chen was so sensible, Chen's mother was both relieved and self-reproachful.
She knew that it was because she was an ordinary person without a star soul that Tang Chen had inherited some of her talent and awakened a star soul of extremely poor quality, if it weren't for his father's excellent talent, Tang Chen would even become a mortal who couldn't cultivate.
In her opinion, the reason why Tang Chen has been bullied all the time is because of her.
"Mother, look at you, I'm thinking nonsense again. Chen'er doesn't blame her mother, without her mother, where did Chen'er come from?
If I am still not satisfied, then there are so many mortals in the world, wouldn't they all want to live?
Besides, my father and mother are destined by God, and I don't have to rely on my own efforts to live what I can live. ”
Tang Chen pulled a towel and comforted his mother while gently wiping the tears from her cheeks.
"If you think so, your mother will be relieved. Chen's mother took the towel, wiped her eyes, and said: "Do you know, your father is desperately making money, in fact, it's all for you, he said that there is a star medicine in this world called Ruyi Fruit, which can improve the quality of people's star souls, and he wants to help you get this Ruyi Fruit." ”
Hearing this, Tang Chen's heart couldn't help but feel sour, and his father's tall and tired figure appeared in front of him.
Before, he never understood that his father, as one of the three heroes of the Tang Clan, should have been high-spirited and dashing, why every time he saw it, he was a dusty and scarred embarrassment, but now, he finally understood.