The sky is still high, the layer remains the same, and it is dark and blurry!

A cigarette burned for the most part, and the little fire was lit up in the night, accompanied by a puff of smoke, flickered, and slowly became dark again. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Nie Ren's opponent held a cigarette in his hand, leaned his back against the door, took two puffs from time to time, and looked at the sky, under the starlight, the twilight, except for heavy breathing, there was silence and silence everywhere.

After a long time, he stuffed the letter into the crack of the door, picked up the rags under his feet, and hurried towards the south with a brush, and after a while, he disappeared into the night.

Society, a complex system of cooperation, to get ahead, every young person's dream.

It's a pity that with the passing of youth, young people's dreams are usually shattered.

Life is one reality after another, turning into one shackle after another, imprisoning many living beings.

Countless people have been locked up since birth, until their youth is exhausted, they become numb, and then gradually become accustomed to mediocrity, and so on lose all their passions and dreams, and finally let them turn into duckweed in their style, drifting with the waves, and letting fate dominate!

Nie Rendi snuffed out the cigarette butt, threw it in the wind, stepped on another foot, looked at the stars in the distance, touched the darkness, and continued to walk forward.

He has the heart of a warrior, longs for strength, yearns for freedom, wants to be recognized, respected, and achieve the dream of himself, however, in the face of reality, everything is so futile.

He has always insisted on it, never gave up, but the years flew by, and in the end there was only a basket full of refusal to admit defeat.

Today is his birthday, turning fourteen.

Although he has been good at martial arts since he was a child, he was born in Yan Tang Town, Tianyun Six Counties and Southwest Counties, and is a low-level commoner in society, and there is only a down-and-down father in his family.

Yantang Town is located in the extreme west of Southwest County, with a remote location, barren land, and a naturally sparse population.

Southwest County attaches great importance to the cultivation of preschool and general horns, and those who have reached the age of seven can enter public schools for free to study martial arts and literature until they tie their hair.

Before tying your hair, if you pass the martial arts test or the literary test, you can go to the county and continue your studies at a higher college. However, if the grades are average and cannot pass the assessment, it proves that the talent and qualifications in martial arts and literature are not good, and they must leave the school before the age of 15 to avoid wasting resources again.

Nie Rendi entered school at the age of seven, although he was good at reading since he was a child and read extensively, but he didn't read the content of the exam, so he naturally failed in the literary examination.

As for martial arts, since he was ten years old, he has few opponents in the academy with his outer door exercises, and even the qi cultivation students in the qi gathering and condensing periods can't fight him.

And the town-level public academy can train three or two students to the Qi Yuan Realm before the age of fifteen, which is already the limit, and it is also at that time, it is recognized as the martial arts genius of Yan Tang Town.

It's just surprising that in the next two years, he hasn't been able to gather his qi successfully, no matter how serious, hard, and hard, he still can't cultivate a trace of true qi in his body.

However, it is also normal, not everyone has the talent, qualifications, and potential of a martial artist.

According to the six counties of Tianyun, about every hundred miles, only one person can successfully gather qi, and there are even fewer martial artists who can cultivate and remind. The probability of physical cultivation is less than 1 in a million, and even more exaggerated, for every 5 million people, there can be at most one person who is cultivating.

If an ordinary person has not cultivated his true qi by the age of twelve, then this person's talent and qualifications are indeed not good, and the realm of this life must be limited.

As for physical cultivation and meditation, it is not something that ordinary people consider! The former requires a huge amount of physical refining treasures and funds, while the latter requires the guidance of the great power of cultivation to have the possibility of gathering souls. Otherwise, no matter what talent and aptitude you are, you will not be able to achieve anything in physical cultivation and spiritual cultivation.

Seeing that a martial arts genius had died in the academy, a senior instructor proposed: Nie Ren's enemy is afraid that he has the potential for physical cultivation, otherwise the strength of the body will not far exceed ordinary people for no reason, and it is impossible for the outer door exercises to be practiced to the peak, and they can compete with the martial artists who gather qi.

After that, the two principals and seven elders of the school discussed, and jointly raised more than 200 catties of silver from Yan Tangzhen to buy refining drugs for him, but unfortunately, half a year later, he still failed to break through, although his strength far exceeded that of the same year, but after the cornerstone test, he still could not give birth to a single base force in his body.

Three months later, his heart did not die, and he secretly tried to practice again, but there was no accident and nothing came of it.

His combat effectiveness is good, but what he can cultivate is only the outer door exercises, that is, an ordinary person, and the cultivation of martial arts and longevity will not be improved because of the refinement of the outer door exercises.

Normally, martial artists who practice the outer door exercises cannot compete with qi cultivators, and only the three lines of qi cultivation, physical cultivation, and mind cultivation can have the possibility of advancing to the innate level.

The realm of qi cultivators is divided into: gathering qi, gathering qi small, gathering qi great, gathering qi peak, then the condensation period, and then the early stage of the qi yuan realm, the qi yuan realm is small, the qi yuan realm is complete, the qi yuan realm is the peak, and finally the quenching realm.

If the quenching realm breaks through again, it is the innate warrior realm, but usually cultivating to the quenching realm is already the limit, and less than one or two of the ten martial artists who have successfully gathered qi can enter the innate realm.

By the time Nie Rendi was thirteen years old, Yan Tang Town's Quenching Body Realm martial artists were no longer his opponents.

It's a pity that according to the regulations of the recruiting institutions, only students who have attained the Qi Yuan Realm Xiaocheng or the Physical Cultivation Foundation Realm can participate in the martial arts examination of the compound, and obviously, he is not qualified to participate in the examination.

Whenever there is a compound to recruit candidates, the deans and elders of the academy will explain his situation to the recruiter in detail, hoping to be accommodating, but without exception, the compound refuses to recruit.

The reason is very simple, Nie Rendi is nearly fourteen years old, but he can't even cultivate his true qi, and he hasn't reached the foundation realm of physical cultivation, so his future achievements must be limited. Even if his combat power is temporarily stronger than that of a Quenching Body Realm martial artist, a Qi cultivator can improve his cultivation through qi training, so that one day he will far surpass him in combat power.

Moreover, no matter how fierce and strong he was, compared to the innate martial artists, it was not comparable at all, this was an insurmountable obstacle, and his achievements in life only stopped there.

Ke Nie Rendi firmly believes that he can also become an innate martial artist and a supreme martial artist! He has never given up, and he firmly believes in self-help and heavenly help, and insists on himself stubbornly and persistently.

There are five higher martial arts schools in Southwest County: Diancang College, Dustless College, Shaofu College, Shogunate College, and Zhishui College, all of which have a heritage of more than 1,000 years. Diancang Academy is the first of the five academies, and only the Dustless Academy can compete with it.

Due to the high threshold of Diancang and dust-free colleges, the local public schools do not have a student delivery agreement with them, and the two will not come to enroll. However, the Dustless Academy only cultivates students, and the Shaofu, the Shogunate, and the Water Stopping Academy have clearly rejected him, so the only hope is in the Diancang Academy.

Nie Rendi has not been to school for several days, and this morning the martial arts academy trial list was released, and four of his classmates got places to go to Shaofu Academy, Shogunate Academy, and Zhishui Academy for further study. He didn't even have the qualifications to participate in the exam, so naturally there was no name for Sun Shan, but he was praised as a genius but failed to appear on the list, but a few other people were admitted to the compound without showing the mountain and without dew, and only he could understand the taste.

It was late at night, and Nie Rendi didn't eat dinner, so he couldn't sleep while lying down.

Hate yourself! I am ashamed, I don't want to see Daddy, and I don't have the shame to face the deans, elders, teachers, and classmates, and I am even more ashamed of the more than 2,000 taels of silver raised by the town for him and the praise and amazement of those elders in the past!

At this moment, my mind was full of the disdain on Daddy's face, the regret of the teacher, the secret white eyes of the classmates, and the elders who contributed to it.

His father smokes cigarettes from time to time, but he doesn't like it!

However, tonight I have discovered the benefits of cigarettes, which can loosen the tense brain a little, calm people, and make the mind clearer. I just stole half a pack of cigarettes from Daddy, and there are messy cigarette butts on the ground and in the corner of the bed.

After thinking about it for a long time, he made up his mind to go to Diancang College to study, and while Daddy was asleep, he stole half of the family's silver, three packs of cigarettes, and wrote a letter to his family, and lingered at the door for a long time before leaving.

After that, there was this scene of leaving home!

The sky is gradually dawning.

Nie Rendi shook off his hair vigorously, raised his head, and recognized the direction, perhaps because he had smoked too much, and the corners of his mouth were a little bitter, he forced out a smile, and said to himself: "Hmph, I just hope that Daddy is not strange! It will be two miles to the post station, and when the time comes, will it be a rental horse or a waterway? In short, wait, when I return, it will be rich and glorious!" As he spoke, Nie Rendi clenched his fists, and a look of determination flashed across his face.

After walking for a while, I faintly heard the neighing of horses, and saw three small courtyards on the flat slope of the mountains, a large circle racecourse, a dragon bamboo high pole erected on the side of the racecourse, and four old yellow lanterns fluttered and swayed, and it was written 'transit station'.

When they got closer, they saw a few sets of discarded saddles thrown outside the fence, surrounded by about forty stinky thin horses, piled with some forage, and full of flies and insects. There are only three or two breakfast stalls nearby, turn around, look in, there are a few old tile houses, buy two buns, look back and forth, find a sign, read the itinerary carefully.

Diancang College is located in the ancient city of Nanzhao, there are two ways to go there: one is to take a horse, the journey is about three months, and then thirty people will go on the road together, it takes forty-three taels of silver, bring two meals a day, and add a small pot of vegetarian wine in the evening.

The second is to take a half-day horse to the edge of the nearby Lanjiang River, and then change boats to go down the river, and send a trip every seven days, which requires eighty-six taels of silver, and it takes about 40 days to arrive, and there are three meals a day and a small meal on the way.

After careful consideration, the enemy of Nie Rendi decided to take the waterway because although the land route was cheaper, it could take a long time, and there were more horse bandits, so it was relatively safer to use the waterway.

The two yellow-faced aunts were chatting energetically, one was sitting in the house, the other was leaning against a pillar outside the house, looking at each other and grinning and making a ball, when they saw a young man in a rough shirt coming, the face in the house changed, his eyes widened, he showed a mouthful of yellow teeth, and asked in a strange way: "What are you going to do?"

That person was Nie's enemy, he looked directly at the fat woman, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he threw out eighty-five taels of silver on the table, and said: "Nanzhao Ancient City, take the waterway!"

There are three ways to get out of the six counties of Tianyun:

One is to cultivate martial arts, grasp real power, become a part of power, or be a strong person who is beyond the rules of society;

the second is to study literature, study and govern the common people, or develop new production methods and methods;

The third is to do business to get rich and promote the circulation of resources and wealth.

Nie Rendi's father has always opposed his martial arts, so he naturally prefers the second and third ones, hoping that he can live a healthy and worry-free life without taking too many risks and twists and turns.

It's just that just as the old people in the town, Ding Jiu, Qi Jin, and Yin Ba, often say, the Nie people have a bone in the back of the enemy's brain, which is not good-looking, not the master of peace. He is really not obedient since he was a child, thinks alone, only has a martial heart, and is not interested in studying and doing business.

Like all adventurous, fantasizing, and curious young people who are curious about the world, Nie Ren's heart is very big, his dreams are big, and the world is so big, how can he not go to wander and see?

What's more, deep in his heart, as long as he is a strong man who is not inferior to anyone, he dominates himself!