Chapter 1 Brother and Sister

  After 16 years of struggling in the mortal world, Lu Chen finally released all his accumulated frustration and stood on the peak, cursing for half an hour before reluctantly stopping, with no one around to listen.

  Sitting outside the bamboo forest with a distant and desolate peak, Lu Chen's chest heaved continuously, still seething with unspent anger.

  "Damn it, that vicious Lian Yu, doesn't even leave the last chance for siblings to be together. F**king fairy, scoundrel, despicable person." Lü Chen still muttered on without stopping, having no energy left to curse.

  Such filthy words and language, how can they be settled so easily? After a while, they finally disturbed a certain great immortal.

  "You stinky brat, have you cursed enough? Will you let me meditate in peace or not?"

  A loud shout came from deep within the bamboo forest, and Lu Chen hadn't yet regained his composure when he was startled again. He angrily said, "Not enough cursing."

  Just as he was about to speak, Lu Chen suddenly felt something was off and thought: "This isn't right, this bamboo forest only has a small hut, it's usually empty, where did this voice come from?"

  Lu Chen has been to Qian Yu Men for almost a year, and the four main peaks have basically run through them all. The only strange thing is the bamboo house on the side of Wang Duan Peak.

  There is a thatched cottage where an immortal lives, but no one has ever seen anyone. It's strange to say, but it seems like many people in the Qianyu Gate are afraid of this place, and few people dare to run around the bamboo forest hut for nothing. Even the task of sweeping the courtyard around the bamboo forest hut is not something that anyone wants to take on. Lan Yu has determined that Lu Chen cannot cultivate true energy, so this arduous task naturally falls on his shoulders. And it's been 11 months already.

  Lu Xichen was usually in charge of sweeping the small bamboo house, and for a whole year he hadn't seen anyone appear, so where did this voice come from?

  Suddenly and mysteriously, he stood up and followed the sound into the bamboo forest. As he walked deeper, the mountain path in the middle became narrower and narrower. Finally, deep in the bamboo forest, a small thatched cottage appeared.

  Arrived at the door of the hut. Looked carefully for a moment, and asked tentatively: "Immortal?"

  There is no sound.

  "Monster?"

  "You're the monster." This time there was a reaction.

  Lu Chen was startled again and retreated two steps back, plucking up his courage to shout loudly: "He Fang's wild ghost, quickly show yourself!"

  "Clang!"

  He had originally planned to show off a few moves he had learned, but as soon as the door opened, a strong gust of air shot out and knocked Lu Chen flat on his backside.

  "My god, you dare to lay hands." Lu Chen sprang up from his seat, glaring at the small cottage.

  In the field of vision, a tall and slender old man slowly walked out of the small hut. The old man had white eyebrows and hair, with elegant manners, and an air of calmness and serenity about him. He looked frail and weak, making it hard to imagine that the burst of energy just now came from him.

  The old man walked out, looked at Lu Chen, scrunched his two long eyebrows together and snorted: "You stinky little brat, dare to speak to me like that, you're tired of living."

  He stared at the old man for a moment, and this time Lu Chen was certain that the person who had just spoken was him. He scolded: "Old man, who are you, daring to be so arrogant on Wangduan Peak?"

  "What's wrong with you?" The old man, who was over a hundred years old and lived in seclusion in the Qianyu Gate, had never seen a disciple like Lu Chen who lacked manners. With a flick of his wrist, he pulled out a rattan stick and lashed out without warning.

  "Slap!"

  "Dare to call me an old man, I'll fight you!"

  The old man's whip shadow was like lightning, and every time he drew it out, a strong gust of wind swept by, with a force that shocked people.

  "Ah~"

  Poor Lu Chen, not a single bit of true energy, how could he be the old man's opponent? He immediately covered his head and fled in disarray, causing most of the blows from the rattan stick to land on his arms and buttocks.

  After fighting for a while, Lu Chen couldn't help it and shouted loudly: "Stop."

  It worked, and the old man really stopped.

  Lu Dun jumped out of the circle, rubbed his buttocks with a scowl on his face and cursed: "I don't hit nameless people under my hands, if you have the guts, report your name."

  "How dare you still call me?" The old man was even more furious upon hearing this, and the rattan whip lashed out again.

  After fighting for a while, the old man's face suddenly changed from anger to curiosity.

  "Hmm? An interesting young fellow, born with a physique that resonates with the pulse of heaven." The old man exclaimed in surprise and stopped what he was doing.

  Finally got rid of the fierce whipping of the rattan stick, and the pain was endured. Lu Chen's mouth still didn't give in, but this time his words were not as piercing as before. After all, no one wants to be chased and beaten, right?

  "What's wrong, don't you dare? For the past 16 years, I've been the most endurable. If it weren't for your old age, I would have beaten you to death."

  This sentence is not wrong, the body of Tianfu Stone Vein is indeed tough and resilient. Not to mention that the old man didn't add a bit of true energy, it was all based on the power of the rattan stick. Even if he added a little bit, Lu Chen could still withstand it.

  The old man did not get angry because of Lu Chen's words, but instead grabbed Lu Chen's pulse with extremely fast speed.

  Lu Chen felt a sudden blur in front of his eyes, and his wrist was already in the old man's hand. He couldn't help but feel a shock: "A master."

  In the 11 months he spent in Qianyu Gate, although Lu Chen couldn't cultivate even a bit of true energy, his eyesight had already been trained. To have such agility, at the very least, he must be a core disciple.

  Core disciple, practicing Qi must go through seven layers.

  The old man grasped his wrist, and Lu Chen didn't even have the strength to struggle free, so he could only helplessly watch this strangely behaved old man.

  After a while, the old man finally let go of his hand and asked: "Who is your master?"

  "No master." Lu Chen didn't lie, he indeed had no master. Moreover, even the core disciples responsible for passing on the skills didn't bother to waste their time on him.

  "En." The old man nodded, born with a stone pulse, he was fundamentally unable to cultivate true energy, and not having a master was normal.

  "When did you enter the Qianyu Gate?" The old man asked again.

  "A year ago..."

  "It's interesting." The old man smiled and said, "You can stay at Qianyu Gate for a year with the innate stone pulse, you're not simple. Tell me, how much silver did your father give to send you here?"

  "Got it. You think of yourself as a spoiled rich kid." Lu Xuan gave the old man a glance and said, "If I had money, why would I come to this godforsaken place?"

  "Isn't he a second-generation ancestor?" The old man was shocked, and Lu Chenbai's eyes rolled wildly, guessing that the old man had indeed regarded himself as a second-generation ancestor.

  "What's going on?" the old man asked in a low voice.

  "Why tell you?" Lu Chen glanced at the old man with a hint of disdain, completely disregarding him.

  The old man saw this and raised the rattan stick in his hand, pretending to hit him. Lu Chen saw it and hurriedly called out: "Stop, I'll say it."

  Under the intimidation of Lao Tzu's mighty rod, Lu Chen recounted his life story and experiences on the mountain from start to finish.

  The old man listened with increasing amazement, and finally, he couldn't help but smile, muttering to himself: "How interesting, how interesting indeed."

  With interest, he sized up Lu Chen and said: "Young man, I can teach you to cultivate true energy. Are you willing to acknowledge me as your master?"

  "What's that?" Lu Chen hadn't heard clearly, rubbed his ears and asked: "Say it again."

  "I said let you worship me as your master." The old man repeated.

  "No, the one before that."

  "I can help you cultivate your true energy. Not only that, if you are willing to put in the effort, within a month, I can help you reach the third layer of Qi training."

  "Really?" This time, Lu Chen heard clearly and jumped up suddenly.

  The old man liked Lu Chen's reaction very much, and smiled nodding: "That's right. Are you willing?"

  "Master." The whole process was gone, Lu Chen directly knelt down on the ground, and three loud knocks were heard.

  The old man was startled, but he was overjoyed and said, "Get up."

  Lu Chen got up, excitedly asking: "Master, you didn't deceive me, did you?" Afraid that this matter wouldn't be allowed to happen, Lu Chen still had to ask another question, but his tone was much more respectful.

  The old man's expression was stern, and he said solemnly, "Is this still fake? Hmph, those useless people like Lian Yu are really blind. Such a good seedling actually wants to be expelled from the mountain gate."

  Lu Chen didn't notice the old man's tone when he mentioned Lian Yu Zhen Ren, and suddenly tears flowed, excitedly: "Good seedling? Are you talking about me? It's been a year, and it's the first time I've heard someone describe me like that. I really have met my Bo Le."

  Lu Chen "Bang Bang Bang" nodded three times in a row and stood up, saying: "Master, wait for me, I'll be right back."

  After finishing speaking, he didn't wait for the old man to respond and ran down the mountain like a gust of wind.

  "Hey, where are you going? I haven't finished speaking yet!" The old man shouted in exasperation, but Lu Chen had already disappeared without a trace. Helpless, the old man could only hum in anger: "You stinky little brat, how dare you be so disrespectful to your master! When you come back, I'll let you have a good taste of the rattan stick!"

  Everyone in the government should ask: "Where did Lu Xun go?"

  Of course, he had to tell his daughter Wan about this good news.

  However, when Lu Chen arrived at Qingyue Peak, he just learned that Zuo Qingxuan had gone down the mountain to try out with Lanyu True Person and others.

  She walked so fast that she had to say that Lanyu was determined not to give the two of them another chance to reunite. As a result, Ludan muttered a few more words about Lanyu's true nature and returned to Wangduan Peak with a lack of enthusiasm.

  Although he didn't see Zuo Qinghe, with the old man's guarantee, Lu Chen was still very happy. At least in his last month of the year, the old man gave him a hope that he had never dared to expect, whether it was true or false, let's practice and talk about it later.

  Three steps in two strides back to Wangduan Peak, into the bamboo forest, directly killing towards the small hut, knocking open the door, as soon as entering the small hut, the old man sat upright on a rush cushion, his eyes still unopened, asked: "Shede returned."

  Lu Chen smiled and said, "I'm back."

  "Have you gone to tell your little sweetheart the good news?"

  "Is that your girlfriend? That's my sister!" Lu Chen sneered in his heart, but said aloud: "Yeah, haven't met her."

  The old man seemed to have seen through Lu Chen's thoughts and did not reveal them. He said, "There is indeed an opportunity. Now sit down and listen to me."

  Lu Xun bowed respectfully and went to that station, pricking up his ears to listen.

  The old man said: "Just now I observed that you shouldn't have been born with the Stone Pulse, were you weak and sickly as a child?"

  Lu Chen shook his head. Except for the year he was eight, when his old father handed him a jade pendant before leaving the world, he didn't have many deep memories of his childhood.

  The old man continued: "When you were young, you were weak and sickly. Someone didn't want you to die early, so they used some methods to make your body's veins infinitely strong. Hmm, it should be that they used some kind of spiritual medicine or continuously infused true energy into your body for a long time, which led to your current stone-like veins."

  "Elixir? True Qi? What are you talking about?" Lu Chen's eyes widened into a circle, clearly never having heard of such things.

  Ignoring Lu Chen's confusion, the old man went straight to the point: "The body of the Stone Pulse is like a broken five-elemental earth spirit. Your body has too much earth spiritual energy, resulting in the absence of the other four spiritual energies, which is why you have become like this."

  This sentence, Lu Chen could understand, for his own body's sake, he had sought the help of a miscellaneous record more than once. The human body has five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. The five spirits occupy a certain proportion in the body, ordinary people have three metals, one earth, and one wood, or others, anyway, there are always two or three coexisting. This kind of person can control gold, earth, and wood magic, among which gold is the strongest. When the five elements' spiritual energy reaches all five kinds, it's the highest innate talent, also known as the origin of Tian Ling Gen, just like Zuo Qing Hua. All five-element magic can be cultivated, once the comprehension power is extremely strong, later on, it will definitely become a powerful being with boundless magical powers. On the contrary, people who only have one kind of spiritual root have an extremely narrow range of magic control. In fact, some people's single-sided spiritual roots reach a relatively balanced development, which is also very fierce, but if they exceed this predetermined limit, then they are useless.

  Obviously, Lu Chen was one of those unlucky people...

  "Originally, your physique wanted to cultivate true energy, the opportunity was extremely slim, but you were lucky, I happened to have a method to open up the stone meridians." The old man said with a smile.

  "This is the real thing." Lu Chen's eyes flashed with a hint of sharpness, thinking to himself.

  The old man said, "As the saying goes, 'the master leads you into the door, and the cultivation is up to the individual.' Although I can guarantee that you will be able to cultivate your Qi to the third layer within a month, it still requires your own effort. From now on, you must run 100 laps around Wanjian Peak every day. As for other things, we'll talk about them in three days."

  "A hundred times back and forth? Isn't that exhausting?" Lu Chen exclaimed.

  Although the peak is not high, it takes a hundred trips back and forth in one day, which ordinary people cannot achieve. It requires a lot of time investment, plus infinite willpower to drive it. With Lu Chen's current physical condition, he estimates that he needs at least eight hours or so, without stopping.

  A day has only twelve hours, eight hours is indeed enough to be tired.

  The old man raised an eyebrow and said in a deep voice, "What? Can't do it?"

  "Underestimating me?" He gritted his teeth and said, "I can do it."

  "That's good." The old man said: "Before you start practicing, there are a few things you must remember."

  "Master, please instruct." At this time, Lu Chen had fully entered his role.

  The old man looked at Lu Chen with a gaze of appreciation and said, "Firstly, you must know my name, I am Lao Feng. As for my identity, you don't need to know that now. What I want you to understand is that the matter of you becoming my disciple should not be told to anyone, not even your closest friends."

  "Originally, I was going to show off in front of Wan'er and make her happy, but now..." Lu Chen nodded and said: "Understood."

  "Also, as your master, I order you not to reveal your Xuan Gong in front of anyone before you reach the third layer of Qi cultivation. Only after you have achieved success will you naturally have opportunities to show off."

  "Yes."

  "There are still...". Dust mouth is like a hanging river, Linlin summarizes and sets up nearly twenty rules, Lu Chen agrees to all of them.

  After finishing speaking, Liedu felt a bit parched and drank some clear tea, asking: "Can you recognize characters?"

  "I know." Speaking of recognizing characters, Lu Chen still had to thank Qian Yu Men. For over a decade, he couldn't recognize many large characters, but after coming to Qian Yu Men, he learned them all.

  He suddenly pulled out a book and placed it on the table: "Take this 'Clear Heart Manual' to read, if you don't understand come ask me."

  He held the "Qing Xin Jue" in his hand, and after flipping through it twice, he understood it at a glance. The contents recorded were very ordinary breathing methods, similar to the overall outline of the Qian Yu Men "Tao Te Ching", with only one difference being that this "Qing Xin Jue" also had a method for gathering breath, presumably so that Lu Chen could learn to hold his breath without being discovered by others.

  It was just a "Clear Heart Sutra", but Lu Chen was not satisfied and asked: "Master, is there anything else?"

  "What else do you want?" Leng Yun furrowed his brow and said.

  He smiled and said, "I see that the named disciples are all practicing 'Jade Sun Swordsmanship', 'Green Lotus Immortal Technique', or something like 'Five Elements Fist'. Why don't I have any of these?"

  He heard the words and his nose almost crooked, scolding: "You stinky kid, what realm are you in now? Want to learn boxing, swordsmanship, it's too early, take the 'Clear Heart Secret' and get out of here. Practice the true energy and come back to find me."

  "Oh"

  He was humiliated once again and Lu Chen quietly left the small hut.

  Lu Chen left, and then Lu Chen finally unfolded his angry face, with a smile full of deep meaning, and muttered to himself: "It's really the first time I've seen this kind of person, not bad, it's very much to my taste. If I can cultivate the 'Great Evolution Sutra', our Qianyu Gate should have a good reputation in Dongzhou."

  Lu Chen naturally didn't know that Chen was secretly brooding in the house, calculating something. He walked out of the house and Lu Chen took a deep breath, suddenly feeling great, and sprayed towards the mountains again. Then, he ran down the mountain like crazy.

  If you want to cultivate, you must muster up your willpower. Every moment, every second cannot be wasted. Otherwise, if you can't even cultivate true energy, that's one thing, but if you let the secular world look down on you, that's a big deal.

  "A hundred rounds? Not enough to defeat Master Dao." Before he knew it, Lu Chen had already begun to consider himself among the ranks of cultivators.

  The sunset's afterglow slowly poured down, but in Lu Chen's eyes, it was like a ray of dawn pouring down.

  Up till now, within Qian Yu Men, after a useless person appeared 11 months ago, another madman has emerged.

  PS: The manuscript of martial arts is almost done, I'm exhausted, please allow me to take a break for a few days and tidy up the plot, modify the following paragraphs. Updates will be available every day, but the quantity is not guaranteed for now, please forgive me... A new month has begun, which also marks the start of a new book, thank you all here!