Chapter 1 Waste wood and waste wood
A small hill covered with yellow trees, a young man swung his axe and skillfully cut down the withered trees. Although these trees were as thick as thighs, the young man almost broke the trees with an axe.
"Crack?" The boy danced quickly with his axe, and the trees behind him fell down with no direction.
The boy's movements were like flowing clouds and water, skillful and natural, without any sense of disagreement. It seems that he has been doing this for a while.
After the trees fell down, the boy stopped his movements and began to clean up the yellow branches and leaves of the trees, and then cut the trees into sections and piled them together. Then he took out two thick ropes, separated some wood, and tied them together in two piles. Then he picked up a stick that looked like a look from the ground, picked up two bundles of wood, carried them on his shoulders, and began to go down the mountain.
The young man was named Ling Fan, wearing a coarse linen coat. His appearance was not very outstanding, but his slightly thin face lacked a sense of perseverance that young people rarely saw. Ling Fan is now an ordinary outer servant disciple of the Tianling Sect. Every morning he would go to the hills outside to chop firewood, and then carry the wood back to the firewood of the Tianling Sect. He chopped wood in the morning and practiced in the afternoon and evening. This was Ling Fan's life for a day.
Ling Fan carried two bundles of wood without any fatigue, and almost trotted towards Tianling Gate along the way. Because he wanted to finish his daily tasks as soon as possible so that he could free up more time to practice.
Tianling Sect is very big and is a big sect. Generally, many disciples of Tianling Sect are practicing in the martial arts field at this time, so Ling Fan did not go to the main gate because he didn't want some people to see it, so he went to the back gate with fewer people.
"Oh, isn't this our peerless genius Ling Fan? Hey, why is our genius carrying wood?" Although Ling Fan chose to go to the back door to avoid some people, there was still a discordant and slightly sharp voice coming from the side.
Ling Fan stopped and looked in the voice: "Lu Gao!" Ling Fan looked at the person who was talking, his voice was very low, slightly cold and hoarse.
Lu Gao has white face and star eyebrows, and looks a bit human. When he goes out, he definitely belongs to the kind of man who makes the "young girls" scream with decibels. Lu Gao follows a group of onlookers with joking smiles, looking like he is watching the show.
"Oh, I didn't expect that our peerless genius would recognize a little person like us. I feel so honored!" Lu Gao continued his slightly sharp voice.
"It's good to know!" Ling Fan said suddenly, then ignored Lu Gao and others, carried firewood and continued to walk towards the firewood.
Lu Gao suffered such a loss, why would he give up? He glanced at the person next to him. The man immediately understood and said to Lao Gao: "It's so strange, why can our peerless genius still pick up firewood? Could it be that he is practicing in this way? No wonder he becomes the peerless genius of our Tianling Sect. It turns out that the method of cultivation is so unusual. Genius is a genius, and the method of cultivation is indeed very different from that of ordinary people!"
Although there were few people at the back door, there were still some scattered people. After the man shouted so loudly, he immediately stopped the movements in his hands, began to watch and talk in a low voice.
"Why does that person look familiar? It seems that he has seen it somewhere. Why can't he remember it?"
"Silly, brother, I don't know this person when you came. This person was the brightest new star in our Tianling Sect, Ling Fan, the peerless genius of Tianling Sect. Back then, he was the favorite of Tianling Sect. He was favored by the head and the elders, and overshadowed the light of all the geniuses in the same period. But two years ago, he didn't know what happened, and his strength has stopped moving forward. So now he has become a disciple of the outer sect of Tianling Sect."
"Haha, look, the genius of the Tianling Sect is actually picking firewood now. He deserves to be today. Waste is just a waste, and he can only do the job of picking firewood!"
"Isn't that person Lu Gao? He is an elder disciple and a genius figure. He has a noble status in the Tianling Sect. He used to be Ling Fan's mortal enemy, but now Ling Fan is in trouble."
"Ha, this waste really lost all the face of this sect. He actually has the face to live in this world. This courage? It's really not that."
"If he hadn't had a eldest and senior father who was as close as his father, he would have been expelled from this sect long ago. Now he could be a servant disciple in this sect, would it be a good idea to him?"
"This kind of person should have died long ago???"
All kinds of ridicule and disdain coming from around him fell into Ling Fan's ears, which were carrying the wood. It seemed like sharp thorns pierced into Ling Fan's heart, making Ling Fan's breathing slightly rapid.
Lu Gao listened to the discussion around him, and naturally laughed in his heart. Looking at Ling Fan's subtle changing facial expressions and breathing, he burst into laughter. The more Ling Fan did this, the happier he was!
"These people are indeed such a force. When I was a genius in the past, they were all polite. Now they all want to ask for a return, right??" Ling Fan sighed. He had heard too much of these ridicule in the past two years. Although his emotions would fluctuate due to these words now, he was no longer the young Ling Fan who was impulsive in doing anything. He adjusted his emotions, carried the load, and continued to move towards the woodshed.
"Genius, can you tell me a little about how you practiced with Chai? I also want to learn!" Seeing that Ling Fan was about to leave, Lu Gao naturally would not easily miss the opportunity to attack him, and continued to use his slightly sharp voice and said with a thorny voice in his words.
"He is not practicing. He is just chopping wood and working as a hard laborer for our Tianling Sect! The traitor disciples, only he is a useless person, haha??" The person next to Lu Gao sang to Lu Gaoyi.
"Oh, so that's it. It seems that the useless guy can only regain his self-esteem on the useless guy!" Lu Gao deliberately increased the decibels, and the sharp voice came into everyone's ears.
The sentence "The useless man can only regain his self-esteem on the useless man!" It entered Ling Fan's ears, and it stabbed into Ling Fan's heart like a sharp blade.
"Lu Gao!" Ling Fan gritted his teeth, his voice almost popped out of his teeth, his palms tightly pinched together, and the nails on his hands were pierced deeply into the flesh because his fists were too tight, and blood slowly penetrated through the gap.
But Ling Fan didn't take action, and he knew that it was not the time to take action. The past two years of experience allowed him to learn two words: forbearance!
Forbearance is not cowardice, nor does it mean not to take revenge! Forbearance is a manifestation of a person's slow maturity, and they begin to know that impulse cannot solve problems. If a person wants to succeed, the most basic psychological quality is to learn to endure. Forbearance is to bury his hatred and anger towards a person in his heart, and wait until the time comes before it completely explodes!
Although Ling Fan hated Lu Gao very much now and wanted to kill Lu Gao now, he knew that the time had not yet come, so he had to bear it! If he took action now, one of them was not Lu Gao's opponent, he was a five-star spirit, and Lu Gao was a six-star spirit. Of course, this is not the most important thing. If he insisted on fighting, Lu Gao would have to pay a heavy price.
The second point is the most important thing. Ling Fan knew that although Lu Gao tried every means to mock him and humiliate him, it was not the main reason. The main reason was that Lu Gao wanted to use this to anger Ling Fan and force Ling Fan to attack him.
Since Ling Fan's strength stagnated two years ago and was demoted to the lowest level of the outer serious disciple, countless people have verbally humiliated him. Those people were people who once disliked Ling Fan when he was full of energy or those he had offended him. However, these people could only humiliate him verbally, and no one dared to take action. The reason was not because Ling Fan was so strong, but because there was a eldest teacher in the Tianling Sect who was like a father and son. His master was the Elder of the Tianling Sect, who was in charge of the Elders of the Tianling Sect and had a prominent position. It was precisely because his master had always taken care of him that he was spared from other people's humiliation.
Even Lu Gao can only humiliate and mock him verbally every time, just like now. But if Ling Fan takes action first, the situation will be different. Lu Gao can openly fight Ling Fan. When Ling Fan's master finds him, he can say his own defense.
It was because Ling Fan saw through this that he did not fight against Lu Gao. It was not because he was afraid that he would not be able to beat him, but because Ling Fan would definitely be in a desperate situation when he started.
Because Lu Gao's group of people can rise up and surge, this is the different effects driven by the difference in status and status. If your status is high, no matter how unhappy you, you will nod and bow to you. However, once your status changes drastically, those who don't like you will reveal their true colors. Ling Fan is the best example. When he is the brightest new star of the Tianling Sect, countless disciples of his fellow disciples will smile humbly when they meet him, and there are countless disciples who follow him every day. But when he becomes a useless person, these disciples who once followed him every day immediately changed their faces, and only sarcasm and insult him.
Ling Fan slowly let go of his fists that were oozing out of blood because he was clenched too tightly, took a deep breath, stopped stopping, and walked towards the woodshed with steps.
Chapter completed!