Chapter 1: Siblings

  At dawn, with a flash of green light, I saw a figure sprinting rapidly along the mountain path.

  It's said to be a mad dash, but in fact the speed is not much faster than walking. It's just that from the look of his sweaty back, it's clear he has been running for a long time, so this speed seems relatively fast by comparison.

  The figure was none other than Lu Chen himself.

  Lu Chen was indeed very diligent. In these three days, Lu Chen would complete a hundred laps of running within twelve hours, even if he didn't sleep or rest. Sometimes, when he ran halfway through the course, his body couldn't withstand the exhaustion and he would fall asleep on the stone steps. When he woke up, he would continue running without interruption. After completing his task, he would immediately run to Lu's small hut to ask questions about the "Clear Mind Secret".

  Lu Chen is not very intelligent, but he can't be called stupid either. Especially when it comes to the Xianjia Xuan Gong Fa Men, which he had never been involved with before, his understanding of this aspect of knowledge is relatively zero.

  Three days passed, and Lu Chen went to the small cottage more than twenty times. He was so focused on his training that he didn't even think about cultivating anymore. However, seeing Lu Chen train with such dedication, Lian also felt deeply moved. As Lian said in one sentence: "It's been a long time since I've seen a child learn with such diligence." From then on, Lian taught with even more enthusiasm and meticulousness.

  Actually, the hundred rounds of sprinting by Lü Chen was very purposeful. In Lü Chen's eyes, Lü Dust wasn't a waste material, but rather an embryo with a large amount of true energy. The true energy in this embryo was all hidden in the meridians and couldn't be circulated to the Purple Mansion Dan Tian, let alone accumulated. If Lü Dust wanted to cultivate true energy, he had to solidify and expand his own Purple Mansion Dan Tian, giving it enough space to store a large amount of true energy.

  As for the "Qing Xin Jue", it is a more advanced breathing method than the "Tao Te Ching", specifically designed for Lu Chen's unique physical constitution. Of course, at present, Lu Chen does not need to use this method to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but rather as a way to lay the foundation, which will help him accelerate his strength in the future.

  Light just running and spitting is not enough, to let Lu Chen quickly open up the iron stone pulse, also specially prepared several kinds of medicine powder. Let Lu Chen apply it to his body every day, at midnight, absorb the moon's light, and use the "Qing Xin Jue" supreme method to help, open up the Tian Di Xuan Bridge, and then enter the true yuan wonderful realm.

  "Ah~"

  On the mountain path, a nearly mad roar shook the mountainside, startling countless birds into flight.

  The shout spread to the various mountains, and countless disciples of Qianyu Men all looked up in surprise. After a moment, they couldn't help but discuss it among themselves.

  "Here comes this kid again, has he gone crazy?"

  "It's been three days, running day and night without a break, anyone would be exhausted to death."

  "You guys said he's going down the mountain in another month, but some people are unwilling and have gone mad."

  "Hmm, it's possible that a beautiful woman like her would be snatched away by Wang He, and no one would be willing to let that happen."

  Similar remarks have been going on for three days, of course, Lu Chen can't hear them at all, and even if he did, he would just laugh it off.

  "Laugh now, all of you laugh, just wait and see if you can still laugh after a month. Wang He, the spoiled brat, will eventually be trampled under my feet. You dare to bully Han'er? There will come a day when you'll regret it."

  This is Lu Chen's inner voice nowadays.

  Lu Chen exhausted all his strength and completed the three-day task. After the last trip, Lu Chen lay down weakly again outside the bamboo forest. Looking at the clear sky, although he was extremely tired, Lu Chen's mood had never been as pleasant as it was now.

  "Finally able to cultivate. Hua'er, brother won't leave you." Lu Chen muttered to himself in his heart, slowly closing his eyes and falling into a deep sleep.

  Dependent on each other for eight years, even without a blood relationship, they can still develop feelings for each other. However, whether these feelings are those of siblings is unknown to the two naive youngsters at present. But one thing Lu Chen does know is that he doesn't want to leave his sister Zuo Qing Hua.

  "Get me up."

  Sleeping soundly, a withered vine suddenly flew out from somewhere and fell ruthlessly on Lu Chen's body.

  "Slap!"

  In his dream, Lu Chen was having a heart-to-heart with his sister Wan'er by the lake when he was suddenly startled awake by a loud shout. He was furious: "Damn it, which blind pig ruined Master Dao's good deed?"

  As soon as the curse left his mouth, Lu Chen suddenly felt that the atmosphere around him was not right. He turned his head to take a look and saw that Lao Deng's old face had turned iron-green as he glared at him fiercely: "Who are you cursing?"

  Sweat the size of beans rolled down from his forehead, and Lu Chen quickly got up and ran back several meters. As it turned out, Lu Chen's three days of running hadn't been in vain, and his physical agility had greatly improved.

  "Master, Master, haha, it's you, I didn't mean to, that... are you still drinking tea? I'll go make some." Lü Chén knew the principle of not hitting a smiling face, no matter what attitude he had to be good.

  It doesn't matter. The stick of rattan is mixed with meat skin, and it's a perfect match.

  "Slap!"

  Then, following that loud roar, a pig-like scream echoed through the mountains.

  Someone under the mountain looked up, first stared in shock for a while, then shook his head and confirmed his previous idea: Lu Chen this kid is indeed crazy.

  He was beaten to a pulp, but Dust's face didn't redden or his breathing quicken. However, someone else wasn't so lucky, with dozens of dark veins bulging out and blood vessels bursting. In the end, before he could even react, Dust grabbed him like a chicken and swiftly dragged him into the house.

  Lu Chen was placed upright, with his legs crossed in a double lotus position. Lu Chen's hands pushed and pulled, placing them on his back, and said in a low voice: "Close your eyes, calm your mind, follow this strand of true energy, and circulate the Clear Mind Incantation."

  Upon hearing this, Lu Chen suddenly realized that Dust wanted to help him open up his meridians. He hastily concentrated his mind and spirit as one, using all his might to operate the Clear Mind Incantation.

  After running for three days, at the last moment, it was exactly when Lu Chen's body was empty that breaking through the meridians could allow Lu Chen to absorb the true yuan energy hidden in the meridians for decades to the greatest extent possible.

  Feeling a clear stream seeping in from behind, then flowing under the skin for a while, passing through Baihui, Baiwei, Tianding... After wandering through hundreds of acupoints, Lu Chen finally felt that his solidified meridians had begun to show signs of relaxation.

  Originally, after running for three days, Lu Chen's physical strength was greatly consumed. Although his dantian didn't have any true qi, the pure yuan in his four limbs and hundred meridians were all exhausted. This consumption was definitely not as stable as before. Adding to that, the medicinal power of the ointment he had applied for three days had already softened Lu Chen's meridians.

  Now in order to ensure that Lu Chen can reach the third layer of Qi cultivation in a short period of time, Lü Chen is willing to spend his own life's true yuan, using his energy to infuse his body and help Lu Chen open up the Heavenly Bridge.

  As soon as the heavenly bridge is opened, the pure and true yuan hidden in the terrestrial veins will be absorbed by the dantian, rushing towards the qihai core to achieve the effect of breaking through the pulse and rebirth.

  It was unknown how much time had passed, but Lu Chen only knew that the strand of true energy had perfectly circulated within his body thirty-six times, finally breaking through the constraints of the Qi Sea and entering the lower abdomen.

  Lower abdomen, where the Dan Tian is located.

  In an instant, Lu Chen only felt a buzzing in his mind, and the true yuan that had solidified in his four limbs and hundred bones for over a decade surged towards the Zifu Dan Tian like a burst dam of the Yangtze River.

  "Hold on, don't pass out, how much can be accepted depends on now."

  Lu Chen was about to faint when a loud, startling shout from behind him jolted his mind, like a sudden awakening, and he instantly came back to himself.

  Gritting teeth, let's go for it.

  Feeling the torrent of clear water rushing in like a river, Lu Chen finally couldn't hold on for nearly half an hour.

  "Hong~, Qi Gong first layer peak."

  His mind was filled with a loud rumbling sound as he received the last message, and Lu Chen directly fainted to the ground.