Chapter 1 Tempered by a Thousand Tempers
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A beautiful small city, located in the easternmost part of the Dongzhou mainland, is named Xiyang because it can be the first to bathe in the early morning light every day.
Such a place is indispensable for vitality.
At this moment, a group of fifteen or sixteen-year-old teenagers and girls were walking the streets and alleys, chasing and fighting.
"Lu Xiaobao, Gu Mengxin, don't you want to run, today I want to be ashamed of many years ago!" A brute, old-fashioned young man was directing a group of children to chase a chubby boy in front of him and a girl with yellow skin and two pigtails.
"Cui Da Niu, don't run away fools, you are all monks, and you are still here to bully us mortals, be careful that I go to the academy to sue you!" The chubby young man shouted without showing weakness while turning his head.
"Brother, we're blocked!" the girl next to her said anxiously.
"Huh?" Lu Xiaobao hurriedly turned around and found that a group of people had also appeared in front of him and surrounded them.
"Haha, Lu Xiaobao, Gu Mengxin, go and sue you! You are just a heavenly forsaken who has no awakening talent, do you think the Sect Gentlemen will punish me for you?" Cui Daniu came to the brother and sister with a sly smile on his shoulder, proudly admiring their embarrassment.
"Hmph, you are a monk, and you still have to bring so many people to cheer, you still have to be shameless!" Gu Mengxin grinded his little tiger teeth and sneered.
"Don't!
All the young people and girls around laughed, and then one by one they narrowed the encirclement little by little.
They were all students of the Preparatory Academy of the Sifang Academy in Xiyang City, and the Sifang Academy was the only cultivation academy in Xiyang City.
In this heaven and earth, everyone has the opportunity to obtain the heavenly light given by God and activate the meridians in the body by sacrificing to the heavens before the age of fifteen, so that they can absorb the qi of heaven and earth into the body, and embark on the path of cultivation and seek immortality.
That's talent!
And the preparatory courtyard of the Sifang Academy is a place where children under the age of fifteen have not yet awakened their cultivation talents, and they study in advance.
Lu Xiaobao and Cui Daniu have been studying in the preparatory institute since they were children, and they participate in the heavenly sacrifice conference every year, but they are abandoned by God every year, and over time, they have become the old fritters of the preparatory courtyard, so they are often ridiculed as heavenly outcasts, but they are very powerful, and of course they have to resist in the face of ridicule, so all year round, they have become the three big and small overlords of the preparatory courtyard with their powerful fists.
However, the Lu Xiaobao brothers and sisters and Cui Da Niu have not dealt with each other since they were children, and they have fought from childhood to adulthood, and because Lu Xiaobao's brothers and sisters have greater strength than Cui Da Niu, they are two people, so Cui Da Niu is often the one who is beaten.
But last year, at the last heaven sacrifice meeting when Cui Daniu was fifteen years old, he actually awakened his talent and became a monk in one fell swoop, so the situation was immediately reversed.
"Brother, what should I do?" Gu Mengxin saw that the encirclement was getting smaller and smaller, and he was a little anxious.
Lu Xiaobao quickly glanced at everyone, then looked at the bustling crowd on the street, rolled his eyes, and suddenly shouted.
"Kill, kill, monk!"
"Huh?" Cui Daniu was stunned, he couldn't imagine that this Lu Xiaobao would scream so shamelessly.
Xiyang City is a city where mortals and monks are mixed, but it is forbidden for monks to kill mortals, but if mortals provoke monks, they deserve to be beaten. But whether it will be beaten or killed, who knows?
At this time, the pedestrians on the street looked over curiously, and the urban management law enforcement team came over, and the brother and sister took this opportunity to clench their fists and quickly break through to the rear.
"Bang bang bang!"
"Oops, it hurts......"
"You cowards, catch them, don't let them run!
Cui Daniu came back to his senses and shouted hoarsely, but when he pulled away everyone, where was the shadow of Lu Xiaobao's brothers and sisters, and when he was angry, a sinister voice sounded behind him.
"The monk threatens to kill mortals, the threat is level three, although it fails, the motive is feasible, and a fine of ten spirit stones!" a serious voice sounded.
Cui Daniu looked back and saw that it was the chengguan law enforcement team, but he grew up in this Xiyang City since he was a child, and he had never heard of this threat to be fined, but seeing that these chengguan were serious, but they were undisguised in their greed, he knew that he couldn't keep a few poor spirit stones in his pocket.
He paid the fine with a bitter face, and was ready to continue looking for Lu Xiaobao's brothers and sisters, but where could he still find any clues at this time, thinking back to the time when he didn't cultivate in the past, he was always played by these two brothers and sisters, and he didn't expect that he became a monk and was tricked again, he felt that he was too aggrieved, and couldn't help yelling at the sky again.
"Lu Xiaobao, Gu Mengxin, I will never die with you, and I will not share the sky!"
Cui Da Niu had just finished roaring, and that serious voice immediately sounded behind him.
"First-class threat, blasphemy, crime increased by one degree, fine of fifty ......"
"I%¥#......"
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At this time, the Lu Xiaobao brothers and sisters were crawling in a secret passage under Xiyang City, and after crawling for a long time, the two of them opened a cover on their heads and crawled out with a dirty face.
This is already the northeast corner of Xiyang City, the most remote corner, there is only a small blacksmith shop not far away, and the two of them immediately relaxed a lot when they saw the blacksmith shop, because this is the place where the two of them have lived since childhood.
In the blacksmith's shop, a middle-aged man with half-white hair and a scruffy beard sits behind the counter, concentrating on sharpening a long sword.
His name is He Luobai, the owner of the blacksmith shop, the nurturing benefactor of Lu Xiaobao and Gu Mengxin, and the people in the small town call him Uncle He, because of his vicissitudes of face, no matter what age group looks at it, they can't help but call him uncle.
Lu Xiaobao and Gu Mengxin were originally a pair of babies abandoned by their parents on the side of the road, and it was Uncle He who brought them back to the blacksmith shop to raise them like his own children, but Uncle He was also very strict with them, almost cruelly strict.
"Did you fight again?" and lost?" Uncle He saw that Lu Xiaobao's brother and sister were covered in mud and his tone was not good.
"The other party is a monk......" Lu Xiaobao pursed his fat lips, his face full of unwillingness.
"There are many people...... Gu Mengxin tugged at his pigtails, sullen.
"Alas...... Fang Tie is ready. Uncle He glanced at the brother and sister and sighed lightly.
"Oh......" The siblings lowered their heads and walked listlessly towards the backyard of the blacksmith shop.
The blacksmith shop was small, with a front yard and a backyard sandwiched between a small garden with a shop in the front yard and a forge room in the backyard.
The forging room is very simple, with a large furnace, a forging table, a few forging hammers, a few quenching buckets, and some semi-finished products and scrap products piled up in the corners.
The stove was already full of square iron, large and small, like a hill, not two hundred but one hundred, and these were the tasks that the brother and sister had to accomplish today, to forge all these square irons into thin blades.
Missions like this have been held every day for the past decade.
Lu Xiaobao and Gu Mengxin glanced at each other, took a deep breath, and gradually had some energy and excitement in their eyes.
"In order to hit Cui Da Niu, come on!" Lu Xiaobao raised his fist and touched Gu Mengxin.
"Hmm! come on!" Gu Mengxin nodded heavily.
Bang Bang Bang!
The brother and sister took turns to forge, sweating like rain, the fire behind them jumped, scorching the yellow skin of the two, the heavy hammer dragged their small bodies, hammer by hammer, the sound was full of rhythmic iron sound, spread into the heavens and the earth......
Xiyang City has gradually entered Sunset City!
Striking iron is hard work, tiring work, but there is no impatience on the little faces of the siblings, because it has been a part of their lives since they were four years old.
It's just because Uncle He told them that this seemingly ordinary iron is not iron, but their bodies. It is a path of cultivation that does not require natural talent.
Ordinary people practice, relying on their talent to attract qi into the body, wash the body, and forge the body, so the first major realm of cultivation is called, the realm of refining qi and forging the body, which is divided into three small realms, with a total of nine layers. The lower three layers of the I Ching, the middle three layers of valve veins, and the upper three layers of pulp washing.
However, few people know that there is a tenth layer above these nine layers, the essence realm.
For example, there are nine great realms in cultivation, and each realm is divided into nine levels. And the tenth layer is the extreme realm, also known as the heavenly realm, which means that only heaven can do it.
But Uncle He asked Lu Xiaobao to strike iron since childhood, hoping that they would exercise their bodies to the extreme, reach the extreme, and condense the essence in such a clumsy way, and then the essence will produce essence on its own, which is called refining and refining qi!
When you reach this step, you can practice by absorbing your own essence, and you don't need to communicate with heaven and earth, you don't need to absorb the qi of heaven and earth, and you don't need talent.
Therefore, it can be said that this is a path against the sky.
But, since it is against the sky, how can it be so easy to succeed.
This method must condense the first drop of essence and produce the first trace of essence before the age of fifteen. Otherwise, after the age of fifteen, the body will gradually mature and solidify, and no matter how much exercise after that, the body will not be able to reach its limit, let alone condense the essence.
This year, the Lu Xiaobao brothers and sisters will turn fifteen years old, whether it is this road against the sky or waiting for God's gift, the chances are getting slimmer and slimmer.
It was late at night, the moon was in the sky, and the two siblings finally completed their task, and Uncle He came to the small garden to do a routine inspection for them.
"Uncle He, how is it, is it done?" Lu Xiaobao and Gu Mengxin looked forward to it.
"Well, the pith is in the upper realm, and in a few days, it will be done!" Uncle He said lightly.
"Really, we can practice, we can practice!" The brother and sister jumped three feet high, hugged each other, and cried with joy.
It's been ten years, ten years!
Perhaps for others, a little favor from God can easily embark on the path of cultivation, but for the brother and sister, ten years of unremitting efforts are just the beginning.
"Uncle He, Uncle He, does this set of iron-striking methods that can be practiced by all of us mortals, does it have a name?"
"Yes, a thousand tempers!"