Chuzhou

Five Fingers Mountain Area

Joyama Castle.

The west of the city is close to the Tail Finger Mountains, and the location is unique, and many monks pass by this city and go to the Tail Finger Mountains area to hunt, which drives the development of the city. The Tail Finger Mountains are a branch of the Five Fingers Mountains.

To the east, there are the remaining eight of the nine major cities of the Yudai River, which descends from the tail finger mountain range and goes straight into the sea of blue mist.

Feilin City by the sea is the leader of the nine cities of the Yudai River, the most prosperous and lively big city.

Joyama Castle has been repeatedly damaged by monsters, and the newly built Joyama Castle is less than a thousand years old, so it is far inferior to other big cities such as Flying Castle in terms of prosperity.

However, after all, Jozan Castle has been built for almost a thousand years, and now it is quite large-scale, and all the facilities are relatively complete.

There is a main street on the south side of Joyama Castle called Midorikage Street.

Green Shadow Street is dozens of miles long, 100 meters wide, and both sides are covered with green willows, which are twenty or thirty meters high.

The breeze is coming, the sun is shining, and the green shadows on the street are swaying, which looks extremely quiet.

There is a large compound covering several miles on Green Shadow Street, which is the Duan Family Iron Company.

The Duan family is also a big family of Flying to the City, but it has declined a little over the years, and it is far less powerful than the main Lou family of the Flying City.

The compound of Dingshan Castle is a branch of the Duan family's headquarters here, and the Duan family has opened an iron shop here, dealing in all kinds of weapons and equipment, and the business is not bad.

Before dawn, in a side courtyard bungalow, a group of large and small handymen got up one after another and began their day's work amid the shouts of the housekeeper.

A trading house like the Duan Family Iron Company, even in the branch of Jozan Castle, there are hundreds of miscellaneous servants of all kinds.

This is also caused by the collapse of the family now, it is said that when the Duan family was strong, it also occupied the position of the lord of Feilin City for many years, with tens of thousands of servants in the headquarters, and thousands of subordinates in the general branches.

But even if it is dilapidated now, it is not comparable to an ordinary small family. All kinds of pomp and panache are also indispensable.

Even as a handyman, everyone is neatly dressed and energetic, and they must not lose the face of the Duan family and Tiexing.

Duan Tian was one of the hundreds of miscellaneous servants, and along with the other miscellaneous servants, he began his day's work.

Duan Tian is only twelve years old now, his face is extremely handsome, although he is dressed in miscellaneous clothes, his temperament is independent, and he is by no means like a subordinate, especially a pair of eyes, which are extremely bright.

It's just that as a low-level miscellaneous servant, no matter how beautiful his appearance is, it is useless, and he has to work hard every day.

He is not a member of the Duan family, but was picked up in the yard by an old handyman of the Duan family.

The old handyman was called Duan Dezhi, with a crippled leg, no wife and no children, alone, and after picking up Duan Tian in the yard, he was overjoyed.

said that God gave it to him, so he named it Duan Tian. Fortunately, the old man picked up the child and no one saw it, so Duan Dezhi said that he picked it up from the street.

It is not easy for the poor to survive here, and there are discarded children everywhere, and Duan Dezhi picked up the abandoned children, and no one asked much. The Duan family will also buy some street children and train them to become miscellaneous slaves.

It's just that the Duan family won't support you, and Duan Tian's food, drink, and Lazar are all responsible for the disabled Duan Dezhi himself.

And at the age of eight, Duan Tian, like Duan Dezhi, became a handyman of the Duan family, and began to work by himself to support himself, and he was the hardest and most tiring laborer.

Since the branch of Joyama City is an iron shop, Duan Tian's daily contact is to strike iron.

Raising a giant hammer about the height of a human being, facing the rising sun, Duan Tian began to beat the ore every day.

Hammering ore is the most basic thing for iron, knocking large pieces of ore into small pieces, selecting raw stones containing iron, copper, manganese and other valuable stones, and handing them over to the smelting department for purification.

The daily income is linked to the amount of valuable rough you choose, and if you knock more, the income will be higher.

Especially if you are lucky, knock out some rare rough stones such as cloud silver, kyanite and other rough stones, and your income will increase a lot.

However, this is all hard work, not much technical content, not to mention the daily hard work, and the income is also very limited.

The odds of knocking out rare ores like that are too low. Even if you knock it out, you will still be exploited by the stewards, and if it falls into your hands, there will be very little left.

This kind of labor and miscellaneous labor is also the lowest status of the Duan family, and it is said that they are all descendants of those who have made mistakes in their ancestors or violated the rules of the clan and have been demoted, and they have no rights. Only when the performance reaches a certain level can one be freed from slavery.

Duan Dezhi is the one who made mistakes, so Duan Tian naturally became a labor handyman.

Although Duan Tian is young, his strength is not small, and the long-handled hammer that is more than one meter long is not much smaller than others.

Duan Tian raised the sledgehammer high in both hands and smashed it fiercely at a boulder more than half the size of a house in front of him.

With a bang, the hammer head of the head hit the boulder, leaving only a white mark, splashing some small debris, and the big stone did not move at all.

This thread stone is extremely hard, and it will contain more valuable ore. Now that Duan Tian is getting older, he can try to hammer this more difficult ore and try to get back more silver taels.

Duan Tian didn't stop, he mustered up all his strength and kept beating with a hammer, and the hard work paid off, and after an hour, he finally knocked down a piece of ore the size of a person.

The ore knocked down was not as difficult to knock as before, Duan Tian knocked it for an hour again, and finally divided this piece of ore into five or six smaller pieces, and the impurities were almost cleaned up, so that it could be delivered.

Duan Tian has been helping others beat small ores since he was eight years old, and now he can independently beat large pieces of ore, and he has been working so hard for four years.

Such hard work made Duan Tian's body very strong, and his mind was far more determined than others.

Shaking his arm that was a little numb, Duan Tian's eyes turned to the patio of the courtyard in the distance, and looked at the dozens of young people in the courtyard boxing.

The patio is about 20 zhang wide, and is surrounded by some stone locks, stone hammers, and some weapon racks.

Seeing these children fighting vigorously, Duan Tian was also envious, and he couldn't wait to practice boxing himself.

It's just that as a low-level handyman, he works constantly every day, how can he have time to practice boxing, not to mention, he doesn't have his qualifications.

Although these young disciples who practice boxing are not yet lineage, they are only side disciples, but they also have the opportunity to be cultivated by the family and start cultivating from a young age.

Today they practiced a trip to Wind and Thunder Boxing, these teenagers come and go, their bodies are athletic, and their fists are bursting, Duan Tian couldn't help but be stunned for a while, this trip is the first time Duan Tian has seen them practice.

At this moment, a heavy snap of his fingers hit Duan Tian's head, and a large bag immediately bulged on his forehead.

accompanied by a shrill voice: "Stinky boy, don't work hard, and go to practice boxing." You can understand that, too?"

The speaker was a man in a flowery suit, and he was also the steward who managed Duan Tian's dozens of their miscellaneous servants.

This person is Song Lan, the nephew of Song Yuan, the head of the Duan family's branch here, who has always been arrogant, no one dares to provoke him, and he beats and scolds Duan Tian and them at every turn, and never shows mercy, but everyone dares to be angry and dare not speak.

Song Yuan, the person in charge here, is a cousin of Song Qiaoman, the mother of the Duan family, and is in charge of everything in Dingshan City.

Since the current head of the Duan family, Duan Zilin, died excessively and violently, the power of the Duan family fell into the hands of the main mother Song Qiaoman.

The Song family where Song Qiaoman is located was originally a medium-sized family in Feilin City, but since Song Qiaoman took power, the Duan family has continued to decline, and the Song family has become more and more prosperous.

Don't say that all the powers in the Duan family's headquarters have fallen into the hands of the Song family, even if it is the branches scattered all over the place, it is the Song family who has the final say. More uphill and far from the emperor, these branches almost became the private kingdom of the Song family.

These people who practice boxing are also the children of the Song family, and even the children of the Duan family are not qualified to practice boxing, let alone low-level miscellaneous servants like Duan Tian.

Their whole lives will be devoted to the Song family.

Duan Tian was beaten with a violent finger, and scolded Song Lan thousands of times in his heart, but he didn't have any expression, just silently continued to beat the giant hammer.

He has long been accustomed to this kind of treatment, and there is no dispute at all, if he argues, he will be beaten more violently.

Seeing that Duan Tian was soft, Song Lan snorted coldly with satisfaction, and continued: "Don't be too ambitious, strike iron well, and make more money to buy medicine for your stepfather." Duan Dezhi, this old thing, if he hadn't picked you up, he would have starved to death. ”

Say goodbye and leave, such a whimsical little handyman will be beaten hard.

I still want to practice boxing, do you think cultivation is so simple? Lao Tzu has been cultivating for twenty years, and it is only the double realm of true qi.

For a lowly handyman like you, the chances of being able to cultivate the vitality are very small, not to mention that after cultivating to the innate level, you will be able to measure the spiritual root and continue to cultivate.

Besides, your surname is Duan, and it will be even more severely suppressed.

Looking at Song Lan's distant back, Duan Tian's heart was like a rock, and he continued to beat the ore.

But his heart was hot, and the idea of wanting to cultivate burned him all the time.

The children of the Song family in front of him, in Duan Tian's eyes, were like stupid pigs.

A simple set of dragon and tiger boxing before, it took a few months of cultivation to look like it, and I only saw it once, and I will never forget these boxing paths.

On this trip to Wind and Thunder Boxing, they practiced all morning, and they didn't even master one and a half moves. And Duan Tian only glanced at it a few times, and then he remembered all the changes and moves of the boxing technique.

If he was given to practice this set of Wind and Thunder Fists, Duan Tian would be able to learn all the martial arts in one day.

It's a pity that he didn't have this opportunity, and he didn't have the fist intent to cooperate with the boxing method, and what he played was simply a showmanship and useless.

What's more, Duan Tian had never been exposed to cultivation, and he didn't have the vitality in his body, so he couldn't really learn these boxing techniques.

If Duan Zilin, the head of the Duan family, was still there, no matter who anyone in the Duan family would have had the opportunity to cultivate, but since Song Qiaoman became the master, everything has changed.

At the end of the day's hard work, Duan Tian collected the knocked ore. Then he went to the Duan family's miscellaneous canteen to buy the food he and his stepfather needed.

After settling the old, weak and disabled father-in-law and serving him to sleep, Duan Tian returned to his room, lay on the bed, looked at the two moons outside the window, and tossed and turned for a long time before falling asleep.

In the dream, Duan Tian entered a gray space, saw nothing, and only felt extremely depressed.

Only a broken black stone tablet was inserted on the ground, and it was faintly visible that it seemed to be engraved with a word, but he couldn't recognize what this word was.

Other than that, there is nothing else. Almost every night he dreams about it.

Duan Tian was in a daze, and he also knew where this place was, but he only felt a little familiar, and it seemed that he had been here many times.

Duan Tian's whole person was fluttering, constantly wandering in this gray space.

Although he couldn't do anything, as long as he entered this mysterious space every night and looked at this broken black stone tablet, he would have a very quiet feeling.

After Duan Tian got up every morning, he was immediately energetic, without the slightest bit of fatigue, and it seemed that even his strength was growing every day, and it was getting easier and easier to beat the ore.

In the dark, Duan Tian felt that this mysterious space might be something in his body, but he couldn't be sure.