Chapter 1: A Small-Town Boy
Lingjia Town.
In the early morning, as soon as the sky was bright, the young Qin Lie got up, and after a simple freshening, he walked straight to the Ling family's canteen.
Qin Lie, who was coarse and linen, was thin and delicate, but his eyes were blank and empty, without a trace of brilliance, giving people a feeling of losing his soul.
Along the way, many young warriors in Lingjia Town also got up early, and many young people who saw Qin Lie smiled kindly.
"Qin Liezao!"
Seeing Qin Lie walk in, Ling Feng grinned and stretched out his hand to greet him.
It's a pity that Qin Lie didn't seem to be able to hear the voices of others, his expression was still blank, and his footsteps didn't stop, he staggered over Ling Feng and continued to move forward.
"Brother Feng, what are you talking about with a fool? I know that he can't respond to you, and you still have to say hello every morning when you see him?" Ling Ying, who was dressed in a bright yellow suit, had a plump figure, was twenty-eight years old, and was quite delicate, her crisp breasts bulged high, which made people reverie, she looked at Qin Lie contemptuously and said casually.
Several young men and women from the Ling family around them all looked cold and unhappy when they heard Ling Ying's words.
Ling Ying snorted, ignoring everyone's gaze, puffing up her full chest and disdainful face.
Most of those young men and women were in the realm of the fourth or fifth heaven of body refining, and they were not taken seriously by Ling Ying, who had already reached the sixth heaven of body refining.
In her eyes, she only had Ling Feng who had reached the Seven Heavens of Body Refining.
Ling Feng frowned slightly, "Xiao Ying, you haven't been in Lingjia Town for a long time, and you haven't received the favor of Grandpa Qin Lie, so you will have some opinions about Qin Lie, I don't blame you." But we, the sons and daughters of the Ling family, were all helped by Grandpa Qinshan to some extent when Grandpa Qin Shan was alive, even if Grandpa Qin Shan passed away two years ago, we still take care of him in our hearts, and I hope you can give Qin Lie the respect he deserves for the sake of our face. ”
Ling Ying was slightly stunned, "His grandfather is very powerful?"
"Grandpa Qin Shan is a refiner!" Ling Feng drank lightly.
Ling Ying was in awe, "Mortal level, Xuan level, earth level, heaven level, god level, each level is divided into seven grades, what level of refiner is he?
"Nope. Ling Feng shook his head, "Grandpa Qin Shan only knows how to repair spirit weapons below the fifth rank of the mortal level. ”
"Oh, I'm scared to death, how powerful do you think, but that's it?" Ling Ying patted her plump chest and smiled a slightly exaggerated smile.
"For us, it's pretty impressive. Ling Feng's expression remained unchanged, and he said in a deep voice: "Five years ago, Grandpa Qin Shan took Qin Lie to our Lingjia Town, found our family master to discuss, and at the cost of helping the Ling family's martial artists repair mortal-level spiritual weapons, he asked for the mining rights of those many mines in Yaoshan, and stayed in Lingjia Town with Qin Lie. ”
In the next three years, Grandpa Qin Shan took Qin Lie back and forth between Lingjia Town and the mines of Yaoshan. During this period, any broken spirit weapon below the fifth grade of the mortal level, Grandpa Qin Shan was responsible for repairing it, as long as the grade did not exceed the fifth grade of the mortal level, no matter how seriously damaged the spirit weapon was, he could restore it to its original state, and its power would not be attenuated at all!"
"Peng!"
A flash of fire ignited on Ling Feng's wrist, and I saw the red ring on his wrist suddenly flourishing!
In an instant, the crimson ring magically transformed into a flaming hammer, the hammer was only half the length of his arm, and its whole body was dark red, and clusters of flame clouds were imprinted on the hammer like tattoos, revealing bursts of fiery air.
"My fire cloud hammer is a mortal-level second-grade spiritual weapon, it is my lifeblood, three years ago in the extremely cold mountain range, I was penetrated into my body by a breath of cold air by the spirit beast ice spirit python, the fire cloud hammer helped me resist the cold, so that I survived, but the fire cloud hammer was seriously damaged, if it wasn't for Grandpa Qin Shan to help repair it, this fire cloud hammer would have been scrapped long ago. ”
"There are many members of the Ling family who have suffered damage to spiritual weapons like me, but fortunately, with Grandpa Qin Shan, those broken spiritual weapons have been repaired, otherwise the family's losses will be extremely heavy. Ling Feng looked at Qin Lie's figure from a distance and sighed.
"But he's been sick and dead for two years. Ling Ying was surprised.
Qin Lie is actually very pitiful, when he came to Lingjia Town with his grandfather when he was ten years old, it was already like this, when Grandpa Qin Shan was there, there were still people who took good care of him, and with the death of Grandpa Qin Shan, these two years ...... Ay. Ling Feng changed his words and couldn't help but sigh.
"Isn't that second young lady even more pitiful?" I heard...... The head of the family once promised Qin Shan, next month, on the fifteenth birthday of the second miss, let her and Qin Lie get engaged first? You are a native of Lingjia Town, is there such a thing?" Ling Ying suddenly lowered her voice, leaned over to Ling Feng's side, and whispered: "How could the head of the family agree to the engagement of the second miss and Qin Lie? Isn't this pushing the second miss into the fire pit?"
"I don't know. Regarding this matter, Ling Feng was also puzzled.
In his opinion, even if the head of the family once had an agreement with Qin Shan, with Qin Shan's death, that agreement is estimated to be unruly now.
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Ling's canteen.
Three square wooden tables are put together into a long table, with steamed porridge and side dishes on the table, Ling Chengye, the head of the Ling family, sits in the main seat, flanked by his brother-in-law Du Jiaolan and third brother Ling Chengzhi, Du Jiaolan is next to her two sons Du Heng and Du Fei, and the two girls next to Ling Chengzhi are the daughters of his eldest brother, Ling Yushi and Ling Xuanxuan.
The three brothers of the Ling family, the eldest brother Ling Chengye, the second Ling Chenghui, the third Ling Chengzhi, Ling Chenghui broke through the Kaiyuan Realm ten years ago and went mad and accidentally died violently, his wife Du Jiaolan took her two sons with her surname, Du Heng and Du Fei, to stay in the Ling family, and continued to cultivate with the help of the resources of the Ling family.
In this heaven and earth called the Spirit Domain, there is an endless ocean, and there are many continents on the ocean, and there are various living races living on the continent, who continue to refine themselves with ubiquitous aura, and eternally pursue the ultimate mystery between heaven and earth.
Here, the strong stand like a mountain peak, there are earth-destroying spiritual weapons that shock the heavens and the earth, and there are high-level warriors shili, covering every remote corner of shijie like a spider web!
Here, not only do warriors and spiritual weapons have a clear hierarchy, but even the criss-crossing complex shili constructed by various families, sects, and chambers of commerce also have a strict class hierarchy.
The spiritual realm martial arts cultivation is divided into ten realms, namely: the body refining realm, the Kaiyuan realm, the Vientiane realm, the secluded realm, the artistic conception, the broken realm, the nirvana realm, the immortal realm, the void realm, the domain beginning realm, the basic body refining realm, which is divided into nine heavens, and the subsequent realm is divided into three sub-levels: the early stage, the middle stage, and the late stage.
Similarly, magical spiritual weapons and powerful refiners also have a clear division of ranks, which are: mortal level, Xuan level, earth level, heaven level, and god level, and each level has seven grades.
What's even more peculiar is that even those families and sects shili are also of the same rank, divided into five levels: bluestone, black iron, bronze, silver, and gold, like a pyramid of layers of oppression and constraint.
Among them, the lowest level of bluestone-level shili is the most basic shili in the spiritual realm, and the number is as large as the sand grains in the desert that cannot be counted, and they can only rely on the powerful shili to survive and cultivate, and their dignity is wantonly trampled on.
As for those gold-level shili at the top of the pyramid, they are all the most pinnacle and dazzling existences, they not only have the most powerful warriors in heaven and earth, the most magical spiritual weapons, the most extensive territory and mineral veins, and the most mysterious forbidden land secret realm, but also dominate many silver-level, red-bronze, black-iron-level, and bluestone-level shili!
If they pass on an order, they can change the color of heaven and earth, make mountains and rivers red with blood, and wipe out hundreds of millions of living beings!
And the Ling family is just a small family that can't even reach the bluestone level, the Ling family and several small families around it, together with the bluestone-level shili Nebula Pavilion in Ice Rock City, have to pay enough offerings to the Nebula Pavilion every year in order to get the protection of the Nebula Pavilion and gain a foothold in Lingjia Town.
"Stomp!"
The sound of footsteps went from far to near, and after a while, Qin Lie's figure appeared on time, mechanically came to the dining table opposite Ling Chengye, sat down, picked up the rice bowl and began to eat.
In the past five years, Qin Lie has come to eat on time every morning, although Qin Lie is just a fool in the eyes of everyone in Lingjia Town, but his habit of eating on time every day has never changed, in the first three years, Qin Shan brought him over, after Qin Shan passed away, Qin Lie came alone in the past two years, and still maintained a good habit.
Every morning after eating, Qin Lie would enter the medicine mountain behind Lingjia Town, walk into those mountain mines, until it was about to get dark, he would return to Lingjia Town before dinner, and after having dinner with the Ling family, he would return to his residence alone to rest.
Day after day, year after year, he lived like this, and his life never had any waves and changes.
It's been five years, and no one knows what he and his grandfather are doing when they spend so much time in the Yaoshan Mine, and even the head of the family, Ling Chengye, has been puzzled.
"Hey!" Du Fei suddenly couldn't help but sneer, glanced at Qin Lie, and sneered: "My future brother-in-law is okay to eat, next month, even if Xuanxuan and him get engaged, it's nothing, just raise a well-behaved and eccentric pet dog." ”
After saying that, Du Fei looked at Ling Xuanxuan with a strange smile.
Ling Xuanxuan, who was wrapped in fiery red leather armor, had a delicate figure that had begun to show its charm, a very beautiful little face, a pair of smart and intelligent eyes, and she was only fifteen years old.
"Peng!"
Ling Xuanxuan's bare half-cut plain white jade hand slammed on the table, the rice bowl in front of her was shocked and jumped, and half a bowl of gruel splashed towards the faces of Du Jiaolan's family of three opposite, although Du Jiaolan, Du Heng, and Du Fei reacted very quickly, they were still quite embarrassed by the gruel.
"I won't be engaged to him if I die!"
Without waiting for Du Jiaolan to get angry, Ling Xuanxuan got up suddenly, regardless of her father Ling Chengye's ugly face, and rushed out of the house like a flame.
When passing by the wooden door, she slapped her little hand, and a ball of orange-red fire suddenly burst out, the wide wooden door suddenly exploded, and a dozen pieces of wood had not yet landed, and Ling Xuanxuan's delicate body had disappeared.
Ling Chengye was about to reprimand angrily, but he was suddenly stunned, he looked at the broken wood that fell to the ground, his eyes lit up slightly, revealing a thoughtful expression.
"Big brother, when did Xuan Xuan step into the Seventh Heaven of Body Refining? Spiritual power overflows, this is clearly the unique sign of the Seven Heavens of Body Refining!" Ling Chengzhi slapped the case excitedly, his face full of surprise, "Stepping into the Seventh Heaven of Body Refining at the age of fifteen, Xuanxuan's talent is even more amazing than poetry! Look at her Jiashi, before the age of twenty, she will definitely be able to enter the Kaiyuan Realm, the Kaiyuan Realm...... She will definitely be favored by Nebula Pavilion in the future!"
Ling Chengye endured the excitement in his heart, coughed lightly, and asked Ling Yushi, "When did Xuanxuan break through?"
Ling Yushi in a green dress, with long black hair draped over her shoulders, an elegant expression on her delicate face, and white skin like jade, even if she sits, she looks tall and attractive, which makes Du Heng's eyes next to her hot, and her eyes have never taken her off her slightly.
"Little sister just broke through seven days ago, she was excited to tell her father the good news immediately, but unexpectedly, ......" Ling Yushi changed her words and sighed lightly: "Unexpectedly, two days ago, she heard that her father had promised Grandpa Qin Shan very early and was engaged to Qin Lie on her birthday, so she ......"
Ling Yushi didn't continue, Ling Chengye had already guessed the reason for the matter, and looked helpless.
"Whew!"
At this moment, Qin Lie, who had been beside him since he came in, suddenly stood up, as if he hadn't heard everyone's speeches and conflicts at all from beginning to end, as usual, he flashed when he was full.
He went straight to the medicine mountain behind Lingjia Town.
"Big brother, I have a few words I want to talk to you about alone. Ling Chengzhi also got up suddenly, glanced at his eldest brother, and after Qin Lie, he also left the canteen.
Ling Chengye followed thoughtfully.
On the rugged mountain road, the two brothers Ling Chengye and Ling Chengzhi kept a distance from Qin Lie, and also walked in the direction of Yaoshan, their eyes wandering on Qin Lie's body and talking in a low voice.
"It's been five years, and Qin Lie has been brought here from Qin Mountain, and this grandfather and grandson are in the mine during the day, big brother, aren't you curious about what they are doing in the mine? What did they find?"
"Of course curious. But I have an agreement with Qin Shan that I will not break into the mine for no reason, besides, our Ling family has been cultivating the mine cave in Yaoshan for many years, and we have not found any valuable spirit stones at all, otherwise how would I agree to give the mine to his grandson?"
"What is going on with Xuanxuan and Qin Lie's marriage? Big brother, I know you won't sacrifice Xuanxuan's lifelong happiness, weishenme?"
"Before Qin Shan died, he had to ask me to agree to this, and I saw that he had helped us in the past few years, so I gritted my teeth and agreed. But it's not what you think, he should just hope that after his death, Qin Lie can be taken care of by our Ling family as always. ”
"How?"
"It's just an engagement. Qin Lie and Xuan Xuan are both fifteen years old, and he asked our Ling family to take care of Qin Lie until he is seventeen years old, and when Qin Lie is seventeen years old, Qin Lie and I can unilaterally dissolve the marriage contract. The existence of this marriage contract is that he hopes that Qin Lie will have the identity of an uncle in the past few years, and the Ling family will not mess with him, that's all. ”
"Don't worry, Xuanxuan has now broken through to the Seventh Heaven of Body Refining, and she is destined to enter the Nebula Pavilion in the future, I naturally won't let Qin Lie affect her future, and when the time comes, I will immediately dissolve the marriage contract!"
"I see. Ling Chengzhi nodded, he groaned for a while, and said, "Big brother, there is a sentence that I don't know if to say or not, hey......"
"If you have something to say, say it!" the head of the Ling family frowned and shouted.
"According to what you said, the engagement is just a formality, it doesn't necessarily have to be Qin Lie and Xuanxuan engaged, let him and Yushi be okay?
The face of the head of the Ling family suddenly became gloomy.
"Big brother, sister-in-law left early, I know that you love Yushi and Xuanxuan the same, and I am the same. Ling Chengzhi pondered his words, and said earnestly: "But even if it is engaged, it will affect the reputation ......of her daughter's family, this year Xuanxuan is only fifteen years old, and she has reached the Seventh Heaven of Body Refining! Absolutely limitless, she will be the true hope of our Ling family in the future!"
At this point, Ling Chengzhi's expression became solemn, "In the future, Xuanxuan will enter a higher martial arts world and reach a level beyond our reach!" In this case, it is possible for her to marry the powerful Shili that we can't imagine, but if she has been engaged in the past, there will be a stain, which will affect her future......"
"Third brother, you are becoming more and more realistic. The head of the Ling family shook his head and sighed, "Let me think about this matter, hey, Yushi, this child is hardworking and quiet, I want to do this, I know that she will definitely accept it, but I am really ruthless to her......"
"For the future of the family, and for the future of Xuanxuan, please consider it seriously. Ling Chengzhi persuaded.
The head of the Ling family was speechless for a long time, and after a long while, he said: "Let's not mention this matter for the time being, you have been in charge of the medicine mountain all these years, I have never asked more, today you have to call me to go to the medicine mountain, what is going on?"
"When you get there, you will know, I vaguely feel that this matter may be related to Qin Lie. ”
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