Jiang Yi opened his eyes in a daze, feeling bursts of tearing pain all over his body, especially his head. He barely propped up his upper body and looked around with a grin on his face, only to realize that he was still lying on the river.
On the ridge of the medicine field in Xishan Mountain.
Reaching out and touching the exaggerated meat bag that was as swollen as an egg on his forehead, Jiang Yi's heart was suddenly filled with uncontrollable anger. Early this morning, when he rushed to count the harvest of his family's Xishan medicine field, he happened to meet Jiang Yi.
Ruhu and several other young masters from the clan stole medicine in exchange for pocket money. Generally, as long as the behavior of this kind of playboy is not serious, family officials will turn a blind eye and pretend they have not seen it.
However, Jiang Yi, who had only taken over the job for a few days, didn't know the inside story. When he met him, he couldn't help but give him advice. Unexpectedly, he was beaten severely by several people from the other side. He was unconscious until he woke up now.
"Jiang Ruhu, I'm just trying to persuade you, but you are so cruel... Humph, one day I will get my capital back from you with interest!"
After muttering something viciously, Jiang Yi tried to stand up, but before he could regain his balance, he staggered in pain and almost fell down again. His body was covered with wounds of all sizes, and he was so convulsed that he couldn't stand up.
Zhang Qingxiu's little face has almost changed shape, and her head is still dizzy.
It's a pity that besides scolding her a few times afterwards and silently adding a vow to settle accounts after the fall, what else can he do...
The Jiang family where Jiang Yi belongs is one of the five major families in Tianyu City. There are many children in the family and the hierarchy is extremely strict.
The most distinguished among the younger generation of the Jiang family are naturally the young masters with various blood relationships, followed by the ordinary children who are not related by blood. Among them, the direct lineage young masters like the eldest young master, and a very small number of collateral young masters with outstanding talents,
Undoubtedly, they are the top existences. As for Jiang Ruhu and others, as collateral young masters, their talents are average, so their status among the Jiang family's children belongs to the second level.
As for Jiang Yi...
Although in a sense he also bears the title of a collateral young master, his actual status is not much higher than that of the most ordinary lower-class children. Especially in recent years, because of his status as a young master in name only, he has often been
The gangsters in the clan bullied him in various ways, and each time he suffered injuries of varying severity. For example, this time, he was beaten until he was unconscious for a whole morning.
"strength!"
"strength!"
"I don't have strong strength! I, Jiang Yi, will be stepped on by bastards like Jiang Ruhu for the rest of my life and humiliated in every possible way! This is not the life I want, absolutely not!" Recalling the scenes in the morning, Jiang Yi had a smile on his face.
A vein popped out, his fists were clenched, and even his nails dug into his palms.
He stubbornly raised his head that was getting heavier and heavier, ignoring the weird looks from others, and limped home one step at a time. The huge pain along the way made his originally delicate and tender face extremely painful.
Twisted, eyes full of resentment...
…
Twelve years ago, when Jiang Yi, who was only three years old, was brought back to the Jiang family by the great elder, he became the most powerful outer sect member of the Jiang family and the god-grandson of the great elder. His status was honored and he was a legitimate collateral lineage.
Master.
When he was five years old, he practiced basic martial arts like other children in the tribe. At that time, he showed amazing martial arts understanding. He knew all kinds of complex and complicated basic moves at a glance, and he was able to fight with style.
He suddenly became a famous genius boy in the Jiang family.
However, two years later, everything turned around...
When he was seven years old, the family trained all the disciples who were seven years old and above to practice Yuanli as usual. Among them, Jiang Yi was specially given a human-level high-grade water-based mental technique that only his direct descendants could practice, "Jiang Shui Jue".
Later, under the expectant eyes of countless people, Jiang Yi unexpectedly practiced hard for a whole month before he could barely refine a few traces of insignificant water element power - even the ordinary disciples with the lowest qualifications in the clan only needed to spend three days.
This effect can be achieved in five days.
In the Star Continent, everyone can use the most basic heaven and earth energy such as metal, wood, water, fire, and earth to refine their Yuan Power, because only with strong Yuan Power in the body can they display various powerful martial arts powers, split mountains and rocks, and fly into the sky.
It's easy to escape from the ground. But without Yuanli, no matter how exquisite your martial arts skills are, or even if you master tens of thousands of martial arts formulas, you won't be able to perform them, and you will only be a waste!
Xiao Jiang Yi's martial arts understanding and physical aptitude were actually one in the sky and one on the ground? This shocked everyone in the Jiang family at the time!
After the results were confirmed, the great elder went to the library in anger and took out all the dozens of spiritual cultivation books covering many fields that he could select within his authority, and asked Jiang Yi to read them one by one.
Try each department one by one. Because even if Jiang Yi is suitable for cultivating the lowest level mental method of a certain department, as long as he can reach the speed of an ordinary person, he is still expected to become a talent based on his martial arts understanding.
No choice...
Even though Xiao Jiang Yi tried all the dozens of secret manuals and mental methods of each system, which took nearly a year, there was still no miracle - the result he accumulated by refining one month of energy was even less than
Some geniuses can do more than just practice in one day!
Why in the world are there such two extremes coexisting?
While the great elder was troubled, he finally thought of using Yuan Li to examine Jiang Yi's body, and then he discovered a shocking secret - there was actually a layer of seal wrapped around Jiang Yi's dantian, like a film with fine lines, perfectly wrapped
It occupied Jiang Yi's entire dantian space, filtered the inside and outside, and greatly reduced the speed of the energy in and out of his body's dantian!
In other words, this weird seal is the main culprit why Xiao Jiang Yi’s Yuanli cultivation speed cannot increase!
The great elder then drew the pattern of the seal through internal vision, which actually looked like a mysterious and weird dragon-shaped rune combination. However, no one could understand what the rune combination was, let alone crack it.
…
After it was determined that Jiang Yi was unable to practice, the elder who adopted him aged more than ten years in an instant. He stayed behind closed doors all day, reading various ancient talisman books, and looking for talisman masters everywhere, hoping that one day he could break the seal.
Time flies like water. When Jiang Yi was nine years old, the eldest elder once again left a message and left the Jiang family. This time he left for a full six years. There was no news during this period, as if he had disappeared from the world.
From a peerless genius to a useless person, the family's strongest servant also disappeared, greatly damaging the Jiang family's strength.
As the culprit, Jiang Yi has no longer been favored by the Jiang family's senior officials. Even though he has always insisted on practicing and in the six years since the elder's disappearance, he has raised his Yuan power from zero to the first level of the Forging Cauldron Realm.
His status here is still declining again and again. Not only was he forced out of the Jiang family's backyard two years ago and moved into the west courtyard where the family's servants lived, he was even asked to take over half a year early a few days ago only if he was sixteen years old or older.
Only those good-for-nothing disciples of the family who are confirmed to be unable to cultivate to the third level of the Forging Cauldron Realm will be responsible for chores such as counting the harvest of the family medicine field.
"Sigh... It's useless for a good man not to mention his bravery in the past. No matter how many memories he has, it's useless. I don't know how worried the slave will be when he sees my miserable state."
When he thought of Xiaonu, the ferocious expression on Jiang Yi's face finally calmed down, and it seemed that his body wasn't in so much pain anymore. Although life was hard, he never gave up. He always felt that the most important reason why he still had the courage to continue fighting was
This little maid who had grown up with him, loved him as a brother and sister, never left him, and encouraged him in various ways on weekdays.
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"Bang!"
In a small dilapidated courtyard in the west courtyard of the Jiang family, the door was suddenly knocked open. Jiang Yi, who almost couldn't make it home, staggered and stumbled in. His brows were furrowed, his eyes were full of pain, and there was still a trace of pain at the corner of his mouth.
There are residual blood stains.
The room was deserted, without the familiar dim candlelight or the familiar weak figure. After lying on the table and panting for a long time, Jiang Yicai trembled and started to light the candle, only to see a note pressed on the table.
"There are steamed buns and meat porridge in the pot. The little slave has gone to a relative's house. He will come back tomorrow. Don't miss it! Come on, young master!" The font was ugly and crooked. Jiang Yi felt sad after reading it.
Relative? This stupid girl...
Twelve years ago, when his mother died of illness in his hazy memory, he was carried to this Tianyu City by the great elder with his right hand. The other child held by the great elder in his left hand at that time was Xiaonu. He and Xiaonu were in
Tianyu City doesn't know anyone else except the Jiang family members, and where are they relatives?
Jiang Yi actually knew very well that in the past few years, he had become increasingly unpopular with his family, and the monthly money given to him by the Jiang family had also been reduced and reduced. If it were not for the slaves going out to work, not to mention the basic elixirs needed to assist in practice.
Medicine, even to supplement the body's daily exercise consumption of meat is a problem...
Many times Jiang Yi wanted to go to work and earn some money to support the family, but he was firmly stopped by the slave. He just talked about the affairs prescribed by the clan. He is the young master of the Jiang family. The young master will eventually do big things in the future.
How can people go out and do such despicable chores?
"Big deal... Young Master? Bullshit Young Master! Hahahaha..."
Jiang Yi laughed, his laughter full of desolation. He staggered back to the bed and lay down. His head hurt more and more, as if it was about to explode in the next moment. After a while, he fell asleep again.
None of the dinner in the pot was eaten.
That night, Jiang Yi had a dream...
When he opened his eyes, Xiaonu was cooking. Her body, with her back to him and washing vegetables, looked very thin.
He was just about to go up to help, but he saw a tall, slender, white-haired old man walking into the room holding a lot of ancient books. He piled the books in his arms on the table and told him with a serious expression that the secrets in these books were
There is definitely a book suitable for his practice.
"Grandpa, it's great that you're okay..." Jiang Yi called out with tears on his face in his sleep.
At this time, the little slave also handed over a lit candle and said, "Come on, Master!"
So he responded, picked up one of the ancient books on the table, and turned to the first page. There was a flower in front of him, and he saw that dozens of small black seal characters on the first page of the ancient book were sequentially drawn from the book.
They flew out, arranged in a neat row in mid-air, and kept spinning around his head.
"The universe is vast, but the Dao is eternal. If you want to realize the Dao of Heaven, you must first cultivate yourself..."
Jiang Yi read those small seal characters with dazzled eyes, and was very surprised. While the black small seal characters were rotating as a whole, they were actually flipping up and down and swimming around themselves, just like tadpoles, full of life.
Jiang Yi was looking at it interestingly, but he didn't know that in the next moment, the change happened again!
The dozens of words like black tadpoles suddenly broke up and rushed towards his head with claws and claws, biting his body one by one, and some even wanted to get into his eyes and ears!
"Ah, ah, don't-"
Jiang Yi suddenly woke up from his dream, but he pulled the wound. He howled in pain so much that his whole face suddenly twisted, and his weak body kept twitching.
After half a stick of incense, the tearing pain slowly disappeared. Jiang Yi's whole body was dripping with cold sweat, and his hair stood on end. It took him a long time to sit up with difficulty.
"It turned out to be a dream..."
"No, that's not right!"
Jiang Yi just let out a long sigh, and suddenly his expression changed, as if he had seen a ghost.
Because at this moment, he suddenly found that there were dozens of black seal characters in his mind!?
These words were exactly the same as what he had just seen in his dream, like tadpoles, happily spinning, flipping and swimming in his mind...