Chapter 1 Disciples of the Xiao Family(1/2)
Li Yuan, a madman who pursued immortality throughout his life, tried to combine ancient Chinese martial arts, Taoism and science, but never succeeded.
By chance during a deep sea exploration, Li Yuan discovered a lifelike body of a female in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, which immediately caused a sensation in the world!
The human body has no protection, and the limit depth of diving into the sea is 237 meters. However, without protection, this female body has been preserved in a deep sea that has reached more than 58,000 meters for ten thousand years. It is hard to imagine how strong such a physical body has reached!
Li Yuanru gets a treasure!
A few years later, the madman Li Yuan devoted himself to the research of this female body. Six years later, he finally successfully extracted the female body gene and cloned a baby boy. He successfully embedded a microbial chip that loaded Li Yuan's lifelong memory into the baby boy's brain. Twelve years later, if the baby boy's brain can be completely fused with the biological chip, it means the arrival of the "Immortality" era, and this juvenile body will become the second Li Yuan!
However, at the moment when memory chips were successfully implanted into the larval brain, unexpected things happened...
A dazzling light suddenly emanated from the mysterious female body, and directly penetrated into the juvenile body. Immediately afterwards, a terrifying explosion occurred in the female body, which actually tore through the void and created a huge black hole...
Li Yuan claimed to be the most powerful laboratory in the world, and turned into ruins and nothingness.
No one knew that this baby boy, who took Li Yuan's efforts and concentrated all Li Yuan's memory, traveled to a magical world and started his new life.
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The Wuji Continent is vast and boundless. This is a world where warriors are rampant, filled with countless empires, powerful forces, and some mysterious fields. The warriors are constantly on the rise all year round, making the status of warriors more respectful!
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"Hi! Hi! Hi!…"
The loud shouts, accompanied by the gust of fist wind, resounded throughout the huge martial arts performance field.
Several square formations, each square formation, dozens of boys and girls, twisting and turning, with strong fists, all of them full of energy, agile and neat movements, and the fists were like dragons going out to sea, and arrows left the strings actually caused the air to shake, showing a solid foundation of martial arts.
This is the Xiao family's martial arts performance venue.
In the middle of the martial arts field, there is an open-air platform one or two meter high. Two flagpoles are inserted on both sides of the platform. Two black gold-edged banners on the flagpoles flutter in the wind. Each flag is embroidered with a large golden word - "Xiao"!
At this time, a middle-aged man stood on the platform. He was standing with his hands behind his back, wearing a purple robe, tall and powerful figure, his eyes emitting a slight radiance, looking down at the crowd below. He just stood there, but he gave people a feeling of heavy mountains and a powerful pressure!
"Report—"
At this moment, a loud shout came, and a figure came to the high platform like a galloping horse, bowed and said loudly: "The chief coach, a village with a radius of hundreds of miles has been absorbed in total, and has now brought it all!"
“Bring in!”
This middle-aged man is Xiao Guan, the head coach of the Xiao family’s outer disciple.
A moment later, a group of children between the ages of ten and thirteen walked in under the leadership of several Xiao family children. Behind them, some well-dressed adults, who were basically parents of these children.
This is a grand event held every three years in order to strengthen the strength of the family. Similarly, this is also a grand event within a radius of hundreds of miles!
Whether it is a poor family or a wealthy family, they all hope that their children can become disciples of the Xiao family. Because once they become disciples of the Xiao family, it means that fish leaping on the dragon gate and making a name for themselves!
This is especially true for poor families!
However, among the disciples that the Xiao family absorbs every time, those from poor families are almost extinct. This is not because the recruitment of personnel accepts bribes and commits favoritism and fraud. After all, there is also the most fair test level. In fact, the reason is very simple, qualifications!
The so-called qualifications are nothing more than mental and physical conditions.
Because of this, it is difficult for poor children to be selected by the Xiao family. Can a child who has not even had enough food since childhood have good physical conditions? There is no doubt about this.
The boys and girls who were originally practicing were automatically lined up in two huge rectangular teams, arranged on both sides. Their faces were filled with confidence and pride. They looked at the children walking slowly and commented with a finger!
All the children, under the command of Xiao’s disciples, stood in a huge square formation.
At this time, a boy standing in the last row attracted a lot of attention, and he was a little different from other children.
Most of the other children were wearing valuable new clothes, silk and brocade, and they were all available. They looked like children from wealthy families. But the boy was wearing a coarse linen!
Only poor families and the lowest-class people will wear coarse linen.
It is very eye-catching that poor children can pass the Xiao family's screening and obtain the test qualification. You should know that in the past ten years, the Xiao family has recruited disciples four times, and no poor children have ever appeared.
However, this is not the most attractive thing for boys.
What is really attractive is that under the attention of Xiao Guan and many disciples of the Xiao family, the natural huge pressure made all the children tremble and dared not raise their heads! But the boy stood up straight, his eyes full of firmness, with a ray of heat and excitement!
Although his body was small, his face was rosy, with a tender and elegant face full of spirituality. His whole body was like an uncarved piece of uncarved jade. The washed coarse linen could not cover up his spirituality at all. Such a child took off his coarse linen and changed into brocade and jade clothes, and said that he was a nobleman of the princess, no one would doubt it!
Even the moment when Xiao Guan saw this child, he was slightly stunned and couldn't help but secretly praise him.
After slowly scanning the 354 children, Xiao Guan, a cold-faced iron-handed, coughed lightly, and the noisy martial arts performance venue was silent.
"First of all, congratulations on obtaining the Xiao family test qualification! This proves that your physical conditions have met the basic requirements for becoming a warrior! However, this does not mean that you can become a disciple of the Xiao family. If you want to become a disciple of the Xiao family and become a real warrior, your physical conditions alone are far from enough!" Xiao Guan's voice was not loud, but it was clearly heard into everyone present.
"Faith, courage, wisdom, understanding, and unswerving perseverance are the keys to warriors! If you want to become a disciple of the Xiao family, you must show enough fighting spirit and ruthlessness!"
Xiao Guan said this and turned his eyes to the parents of the children: "I believe that you all know what the Xiao family's test means! I hope your children can pass the test, but that is unrealistic! At least ten percent of them will die in the test, sixty percent will be eliminated, and only about thirty percent will become disciples of the Xiao family! So, now you regret it, I have time, I allow you to let your children quit!"
"Of course, if you are afraid, you can also withdraw on your own!" Xiao Guan's eyes turned to the children again, paused slightly, and then said.
"Is anyone going to quit?" Xiao Guan asked in a deep voice.
No one spoke out, whether it was a child or a parent.
Who will withdraw from the opportunity that I finally won?
After finally getting the opportunity to jump into the dragon gate, who would miss it?
What's more, everyone present knew the cruelty of the Xiao family's test before signing up. How could anyone who was afraid of signing up?
But, at this moment, what people unexpectedly expected was that a middle-aged woman rushed out of the crowd and shouted: "Let's exit, we exit..."
Everyone's eyes were focused on the middle-aged woman.
I saw the middle-aged woman, who was about thirties, with a haggard face and tears, rushed to the boy in a coarse linen.
"Tianci, why did you sign up without hiding it from your mother? If Ergouzi hadn't told her...Tianci, let's quit... You are still young and can't compare to others. Mom... don't want you to die..." The middle-aged woman held the boy's hand and said in a crying voice, tears wet her weather-beaten face.
"No, mom, I'm almost twelve years old. I've grown up and I can compare with them. I will definitely become a disciple of the Xiao family and a warrior!" The boy's tender child voice said firmly.
"God is... Listen to my mother, I just want you to be safe and always be by my side..."
"No! Mom, I want you to live a good life, I want to become a warrior!" The boy said firmly again. His pretty face, with incomparable firmness, his voice, his eyes, and his simple to straightforward words, all show the strong belief of becoming a cultivator.
For most people, twelve-year-old children are just an ignorant era. The one who really dominates their thinking is the parents, and most of them determine their direction according to their parents' intentions. However, this boy actually made such a strong and firm voice, his own voice!
"God-given..." The woman wanted to persuade her for a few more words, but when she looked at the boy, she could never say anything. She knew that her child had really grown up, and she felt reluctant and worried, but more of it was moved.
She struggled to support the family of five, taking care of her disabled husband and three children aged twelve and seven, who were wandering and had no place to live. Life was hard and hard, but she never fell down because she wanted to raise her three sensible and cute children, which was all her, her hope, and her only spiritual pillar...
"Mom, don't worry, go home and wait for good news for the child!" After the boy said that, he suddenly turned around and looked at the head coach standing on the platform and said loudly: "I won't quit, I want to take the Xiao family test!"
"Okay!" A hint of admiration flashed in Xiao Guan's cold eyes, and he said in a deep voice: "Since no one quits, the test officially begins! After four hours, everyone can know the results! All family members can wait here or go home and set off!"
With Xiao Guan's order, many years were divided into ten groups, led by Xiao family disciples, and walked through the huge martial arts field and towards the back mountain of the Xiao family.
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The back mountain of the Xiao family is called "Tianlu Mountain". The entire Xiao family's building complex is located at the foot of the mountain. Behind the mountain is a continuous and uninhabited mountain range, and there are cliffs on both sides of the left and right. The only way to climb is to pass through the Xiao family. This natural barrier makes Tianzhu Mountain directly become the private territory of the Xiao family.
Under the leadership of Xiao family disciples, after many years of passing through the martial arts field, they entered the back mountain of the Xiao family.
The sight of the eyes is a step directly dug by human forces on the mountain. It is about three meters wide and about a small section of about a hundred meters. There is a guardrail. There is no protection when it goes up. It looks extremely steep. Looking up, you can't see the edge at first glance, as if it is connected to the sky. In addition to this step, there are strange rocks around, green pines, green cypresses, and strange flowers and grasses growing sparsely in the cracks of the rocks.
When everyone came to a platform of hundreds of meters square manually built in front of this step, they stopped. Xiao Guan stood above the steps, looking down at the boys who seemed very excited, and said in a deep voice: "Did you see the steps behind me? This step was built by our Xiao family for ten years. It is also the only passage that can safely reach the peak! There are 8,872 steps in total, and the vertical height is about 3,000 meters! Your first test is to reach the top! The time limit is one hour! Those who give up halfway will be eliminated! Those who exceed the time limit will be eliminated!"
Three thousand meters, one hour?
Although these children have never climbed such a high mountain, in their opinion, this test is not as terrifying as the legend.
"Do you understand?" Xiao Guan shouted loudly.
"I understand!" Many years of years responded loudly with confidence.
Looking at these newborn calfs, several Xiao family disciples who led the team smiled at each other. Didn’t they think so when they participated in this test?
But if the test of the Xiao family is really so simple, it is not the Xiao family anymore.
"Okay, I will wait for you at the top of the peak, start now!" Xiao Guan said, shaking his body and heading up the steps at an astonishing speed.
After many years of hearing Xiao Guan’s instructions, they also activated them at the same time, and rushed to the steps one by one. In an instant, the steps that were originally not wide were extremely crowded.
"Why are you panic? Pay attention to safety. If you fall, you will be dead. No one can save you!" The disciple of the Xiao family who led the team shouted loudly.
After a while, more than 300 teenagers had all climbed the steps, and most of them quickly stabilized their speed and climbed upwards without any rush or slowness.
Obviously, these teenagers have been guided by the "experienced people" to maintain their physical strength and move forward steadily in order to complete the task smoothly. By rushing hard, they will soon consume all their physical strength and will not pass the test at all.
However, there is one exception, the boy in coarse linen!
After rushing to the steps, his speed did not decrease at all. He rushed up desperately. In just a moment, he reached the first place, and there was no trend of slowing down. He was getting further and further away from many years.
Seeing the boy in Mai quickly rushing past, the boys were not panicked at all, but instead a hint of ridicule flashed in their eyes, and they looked like they saw a fool.
Even a few Xiao family disciples in charge of surveillance and protection could not help but look at each other.
"Didn't anyone tell him about the first test of the Xiao family? This is a must-have test! Senior Brother Ji Han, should we remind him? Look at him, he is very pitiful." said a disciple of the Xiao family named Xiao Jifeng.
The Xiao family disciples are divided into two types: outer disciples and inner disciples. The eight characters "Forever Abundance, Forever Auspiciousness" are the generation of the Xiao family's outer disciples. The character "Ji" is the generation of the seventh generation of the Xiao family's outer disciples, and the character "Xiang" is the generation of the Xiao family's disciples recruited this year. From this generation, it can be seen that the Xiao family has been recruiting outer disciples once every three years, and it has been 24 years since it was launched.
Anyone who becomes a disciple of the Xiao family will be given a surname by the Xiao family. The same character will be determined by the time of entry. As for the inner disciples, they are not restricted by the generation of the characters, and their names are free of charge except for the surname Xiao. Only when the outer disciples reach the level of a ninth-grade martial artist can they be promoted to an inner disciple and become a true member of the Xiao family. Even the direct descendant of the Xiao family is no exception.
In Wuji Continent, warriors are divided into nine levels: martial artists, martial students, warriors, martial artists, martial masters, martial emperors, martial emperors, martial emperors, martial saints, and martial gods. Each level is divided into nine grades, and the ninth grade is the peak of this level.
"I'm just a reminder! Such a inferior person also wants to become a disciple of the Xiao family, which is simply a dream! I don't know how he dies! Don't remind him! Let him rush to see when he can rush to!" Xiao Jihan said sternly.
Xiao Jihan was obviously the head of these people. After he said this, Xiao Jifeng didn't dare to say anything else, but Xiao Jifeng didn't understand why Xiao Jihan seemed to hate the boy in a gang-clad clothes?
To be continued...