People, born with a sea of qi, also known as the Purple Mansion, have nine orifices.

Five of the nine orifices of the Purple Mansion of ordinary people can be used for the smooth flow of breath, and the remaining four orifices are closed. No matter how hard ordinary people practice, they can only train their breath longer and their muscles and bones stronger.

This is not the case with practitioners in the world. These people somehow open the closed hole in the Purple Mansion, so that the breath circulates in the Purple Mansion and condenses into true qi; the advanced ones can disperse the true qi into the limbs and hundreds of corpses and use it as they like; the supreme ones can release the true qi and kill the enemy for thousands of miles.

The first realm of cultivation is to break the house.

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The first picture Ye Li has seen since he can remember is the endless waves, and the master is standing on a cliff with him in his arms. The cliff was so close to the sky that a thick cloud of lead was pressing overhead, and it was black and black that filled the whole sky, as if it would collapse at any moment. The cliff was also very close to the sea, and the huge waves poured down the mountains and seas, tirelessly rushing towards the cliff again and again, and the splashed water foam even slightly wet Ye Li's little face.

He felt a little cold on his face and a little cold on his body, and that year, he was four years old. He looked at the huge waves in the sea, and suddenly felt a little frightened, so he decided not to look anymore, so he turned his head and looked at the face of the middle-aged man who was holding him who was looking at the sea.

It was the first time he had met his master, and the only person he had seen in this world before he left the island. That glance was very profound, and he didn't know how to distinguish between people's expressions at the time, but he always felt that it was a very special expression, as if it contained a lot of emotions that could not appear at the same time, of course, this was the conclusion he came to when he recalled the situation at that time after he became an adult.

Since then, Ye Li has never seen that kind of expression on his master's face. Moreover, he felt as if the master's appearance had changed, completely different from that day, so much so that he wondered if that glance had ever existed, or if it was an illusion that kept appearing in his mind.

Later, the master threw him a sword.

From then on, he repeated the action day after day, using the sword given by his master to chop the firewood from mountain to mountain.

Ye Li didn't know how this sword should be used, but since it was taught by the master, it would not be wrong after all. However, he always felt that it was very difficult to use a sword for chopping wood, and he had secretly tried it, and the rusty wood-breaking knife was much more convenient to use.

The island was not large, and it had only taken him more than two hours since he was able to circumnavigate the island for the first time. Of course, it was done secretly when he was eight years old, taking advantage of his master's first departure from the island.

When the master was on the island, he would never be allowed to waste his time doing such a boring thing. In addition to eating and sleeping, the rest of the time is to chop wood and practice swords.

The master was very good to him, but he was a little stricter. In addition to sword practice, meditation is also a compulsory part every night. The master would grope on his back for a long time, and later he knew that it was the master who was using his true qi to help him open up the veins.

As Ye Li gradually grew up, the number of times the master left the island gradually increased, and he also learned to be lazy occasionally in addition to sword practice.

One day when he was twelve, the master left the island again. He suddenly remembered the mountain cliff in his memory, and he wanted to see it.

It was directly west of the island, and Ye Li knew that the opposite side of that cliff was the mainland. The master would occasionally tell him about the things there, and he realized that there was a completely different world besides the island.

The cliff was very steep, and it took Ye Li half a day of hard work, and more than a dozen blood cuts of different depths were drawn on his body before he stood on the top of the cliff. There is a small clearing on the top of the cliff, which is very flat, and some small cracks have small light white flowers growing in them, which looks a little weak.

Ye Li didn't remember where the master was standing that night, but just kept his body as close to the edge of the cliff as possible.

The sea is calm, the sky is high and blue, and as far as the eye can see, the sea and the sky are connected, and the blue and white are intertwined until the end of the line of sight. At that moment, Ye Li didn't see the imaginary land, but felt that a certain part of his body suddenly broke.

That was the first time Ye Li saw the master's happy appearance, and from the master's mouth, he knew that when he was watching the sea on the cliff that day, he had completed the transformation from an ordinary person to a cultivator.

He's broken.

Since then, there has been more homework every day, and the master will tell him some knowledge about the practice and the spiritual world, and teach him some principles of how to behave in the world. Ye Li was very happy, not because he had become a cultivator, but because the master had never told him so many things. He likes to listen to his master and talk about the people and things on the other side of the sea.

As he understood more and more things, Ye Li often felt strange that the master had never taught him any kind of swordsmanship, and the way of making a sword was also different from the ordinary, not using stabbing but chopping. The master didn't explain, and he didn't dare to ask.

Ye Li secretly tried, and the thorns were indeed much easier than chopping, but he didn't dare to question the master's teaching method, but there were often some small holes in some old trees in the mountains.

Therefore, the most important homework is to chop firewood, and chop firewood from mountain to mountain.

Looking at the firewood that was cut and brought back to life, Ye Li knew that it was impossible for him to cut all the firewood here. However, he was not disappointed, because he could clearly feel that with the alternation of these new firewood and old wood, his realm was also constantly improving.

In recent years, the master has spent less time on the island than on the island, and every time he comes and goes, the master's mood changes slightly, sometimes happy and sometimes worried.

Ye Li's realm also continued to improve between the coming and going of the cold and summer, until he reached the peak of the broken mansion, but he could no longer take a step forward. Ye Li doesn't care about himself, cultivation is the same as eating and sleeping for him, it's just a daily homework that must be done every day, as for those who are not in the realm, he doesn't care very much.

The master's brows were often wrinkled together, especially after several attempts to help Ye Li improve his realm, but they all ended in failure.

"After all, cultivation is a personal matter, and the higher you go, the smaller the effect that external forces can have, and I know this very well. It's just that your qualifications are too average, and time is getting more and more urgent, and that opportunity doesn't know when it will appear, and if you don't become strong as soon as possible, you can't play the role you should play at all. Therefore, as a teacher, I want to make you grow up as soon as possible, but it seems that I am wrong. ”

Ye Li didn't quite understand what the master said, but he could hear that the master was not satisfied with his cultivation, and he was a little ashamed. So he decided that in the future, he would no longer be lazy to go around the island, no longer secretly climb the cliff to see the sea, but devote himself to practicing swords, or chopping wood.

"After all, you are a person in the world, and it seems that your opportunity is still in the world. You don't always say that you want to go to the other side of the sea to see, for the teacher to figure it out, since there will always be a day when the island will be out, it is better to be late. ”

Ye Li heard what his master meant, thinking about the unknown world that he had been infinitely yearning for on the other side of the sea, he suddenly felt a little panicked. I have been living on this isolated island for more than ten years, and now I suddenly have to face a completely unfamiliar environment, and the fear is often greater than the excitement.

"Sword training is ultimately used to kill people, even if you chop firewood for another hundred years, it is difficult to practice the swordsmanship of killing. So from now on, all you have to do is practice killing, practice non-stop. In fact, killing people is very easy, just like every time you cut down firewood, when you cut down the first piece of firewood, it will be very easy to chop the next one. ”

The master stared at Ye Li's eyes, wanting to see through his heart, "Of course, it's difficult to kill people." When you are chopping wood, you suddenly find that all the firewood has eyes, and they keep staring at you, I wonder if you can still cut it?"

Ye Li lowered his head, a little weak-hearted, and didn't dare to look at his master's eyes. He had never seen anyone other than his master when he was so old, let alone killed someone. So he didn't know if he dared to kill people, but if, as the master said, the firewood on the mountain looked at him with long eyes, he probably wouldn't dare to cut it. However, he was reluctant to show it in front of the master, and he was even more afraid of seeing the master's disappointed expression towards him.

"Kill a few people on this paper, and you will go to the north, and there will be many opportunities to kill people on the border between the two countries. Remember, when you break through the Broken Mansion Realm, you will come back here. ”

The meaning of what was not said in the words Ye Li was very clear, when to break the realm and when to return to the island, if he couldn't break the realm, then he didn't have to come back.

"If you can't kill someone, you can't break the realm after all. These people are all great evil people, and they are all clearly written on the paper, so you don't have to have any psychological burden when you kill them. These were the last words left to him by the master before the island.

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There are many legends about immortals in the world, and many of those legendary immortals live on the sea to the east. Therefore, those unknown sea areas are often called Penglai Wonderland.

In Penglai Wonderland, there is a nameless island, one day, a firewood boy drove a flat boat to ride the wind and leave.

On the other side of the sea, it's already winter, and this year's winter is colder than usual. Heavy snow covers the coastline and divides the world into black and white. At the end of the white space, a young man in black clothes, carrying a long sword, crossed the dividing line and walked towards the pure white world, gradually approaching.