Daxia Yuanzhou, Malan City.
In the night sky, there was howling wind and heavy rain.
The rain hits the tiles on every roof in the city, making a ticking sound as it wanders into every street.
The water on the ground boiled, turning into a swamp and a vast mist.
Li Yuan was walking under the eaves, and the lotus robe on his body was mostly wet by the rain. The wind, unwilling to be outdone, still blew the black robe and made a hunting sound.
It was already late at night, the lights of thousands of houses were extinguished, and the whole city seemed to be filled with nothing but wind and rain.
"Baicaoju, we've finally arrived."
After walking for an unknown amount of time, Li Yuan finally looked up, revealing a pair of fiery eyes under his cloak, and murmured.
"Boom!"
The sound of slamming the store door sounded.
"Who? Is something wrong?"
Questions came from the store.
"Shopkeeper, I want to sell a Stephanotis plant."
Li Yuan replied.
"Spirited Herbs costs a thousand gold. Do you have money?"
"Yes, yes."
"Qiang!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of long knives clashing sounded in the alleyway beside him.
"No, this aura is from the Shentu family."
Li Yuan suddenly frowned, turned around suddenly, and walked straight to the street.
The speed was so fast that the whole person was like a bolt of lightning, breaking through the rain curtain and passing through.
"Hey! Li Yuan, did you run away..."
"Tomorrow is your Li family's annual cultivation test. I know that in order to keep your identity as the young patriarch, you will come to Baicaoju late at night to buy Thousand Golden Grass!"
"Hand over your dragon-shaped bones. Leaving them in your useless body will only cause these precious bones to be covered in dust."
A series of joking voices came from the alley.
Immediately afterwards, five or six people rushed out of the alleyway, holding long knives, and they all laughed ferociously.
Suddenly, Li Yuan felt a strong wind behind him, passing through the entire street, setting off a sonic boom, and the rainwater was dispersed, hitting his vest directly.
"Sixth level of Qi refining realm."
Li Yuan's heart sank, and his face suddenly changed. He thought of various ways to avoid it in an instant, and then with a quick step, he rushed behind a beast-shaped stone statue on the street.
"Bang!"
The fierce wind hit the stone statue, and it exploded immediately. A strong wind of energy swept away, and Li Yuan was knocked directly onto the eaves of the street.
"Crack! Crack!"
Dozens of tiles flew up, then fell to the ground, shattering into pieces.
Grasping the broken eaves with one arm, Li Yuan used all his strength to throw his body onto the roof.
"Shen Tu Meng! How dare you attack me in the city."
Li Yuan turned his head, looked at the people headed by several black figures on the street, and shouted angrily.
"Not bad! You can actually guess it's me."
The leader in black, who was stared at by Li Yuan, sneered, then forcefully tore off the bamboo hat on his head and threw it heavily to the ground.
Shentu raised his head to the sky, closed his eyes tightly, took a deep breath, let the rain wash over him, and then said coldly: "The wind is strong enough tonight and the rain is heavy enough. If I take your precious bones, no one will know that it was me." of."
"Boss, that kid ran away."
Hearing this, Shentu suddenly opened his eyes and saw Li Yuan wearing a lotus robe on the roof, like an arrow from the string, breaking through the rain curtain with unstoppable momentum and heading straight to the east.
"Well! Why don't you hurry up and chase me!"
Shentu slapped the black-clothed man next to him, and then stamped his feet on the ground, shaking off the rainwater, and flew straight up to the roof, catching up with him.
Several others also hurriedly followed.
At this moment, Li Yuan's figure flashed across the roof like a giant shadow, exploding at a speed that far exceeded his own level of cultivation. He actually opened some distance between him and Shentu Meng, and it was getting wider and wider.
………
The wind stops and the rain stops, the night goes by and the sun rises.
Thousands of mountains are green, and there are no clouds in the sky.
The citizens of Malan City started to walk out of their homes one after another, and the streets gradually became lively.
"call……"
Slowly exhaling a breath, Li Yuan still felt physically and mentally exhausted after several hours of practice.
"It feels like I'm almost an old man in his seventies.
“The life is disappearing.
“The harder you practice, the weaker the vitality in your body becomes.
“It’s been three years, and it’s been falling every year. This year, I fell three times.
"It seems like today is going to be the joke of the whole clan again! Damn it!"
After a while, Li Yuanjing felt the vitality in his body, his handsome face suddenly became more angry, and sharp curses came from his mouth.
"Shentu Meng, that bastard, doesn't he know that the dragon bone on my body is gone?
"One day...
"never mind……"
"Young Patriarch, the Great Elder invites you to go to the Test Square for the annual cultivation test!"
Just as he was about to rest for a while, an old woman's voice came from outside the room.
"oh."
After reluctantly responding casually, Li Yuan got out of bed, opened the room, and walked out.
He faced an old woman in blue clothes outside the room, showed a smile that was uglier than crying, and said, "Let's go, Butler Qingxin."
"Sigh, if the Dragon Transformation Bone on the Young Patriarch's body had not disappeared, I'm afraid he would be a ninth-level Qi Refining Realm expert on par with the Patriarch now. Maybe he can even reach the Yuanli Realm, but it's a pity..."
Looking at the handsome face of the young man, the old woman in green nodded gently, but her cloudy eyes showed a trace of regret, and she sighed secretly in her heart.
Li Yuan, the son of the head of the Li family, one of the three major families in Malan City, can be said to be born with a golden key.
Because when he was born, a unique dragon bone was born in his body.
As long as nothing unexpected happens, he can be said to be a natural Nirvana powerhouse.
Anyone who is born with dragon bones will surely enter the realm of nirvana before the age of fifty.
He practiced qi at the age of three and reached the eighth level of qi refining at the age of fifteen. He is the absolute number one genius in Malan City and is respected by thousands of people.
Everyone thought that before he turned eighteen, he would definitely be able to break through the ninth level of the Qi Refining Realm, successfully condense a pool of Qi, cultivate Yuan Power, step into the Yuan Power Realm, and become the only Yuan Power Realm expert in his family within a hundred years.
Unfortunately, his journey to heaven has just begun, and he fell from the altar.
Three years ago, Li Yuan's reputation in the family reached its peak, and he was very likely to become the only Nirvana genius in the history of the Li family. Suddenly, he suffered the most tragic blow since his birth.
After twelve years of training, his cultivation reached the eighth level of the Qi Refining Realm, which became the pinnacle of his cultivation.
In the next three years, his cultivation level fell again and again.
At the age of sixteen, he fell to the seventh level of Qi Refining Realm.
At the age of seventeen, he fell to the fifth level.
Now he has just turned eighteen and has fallen directly to the second level.
No matter how hard he tried, his cultivation level just couldn't improve even half an inch. Instead, it kept falling again and again.
After falling from the altar, his reputation as a genius was gradually replaced by trash.
Those originally respectful glances turned into disdain and ridicule.
Just a month ago, the Dragon Transformation Bone that he was so proud of had completely disappeared.
The dragon bone is gone.
This means that he is not much different from ordinary practitioners.
If this continues, I'm afraid he won't even be as good as ordinary people.
Li Yuan was also puzzled as to why the unique Hualong Bone disappeared.
This kind of blow made Li Yuan become decadent.
He dreamed countless times that he was back at the top.
He is still the confident genius with immeasurable potential.
When he woke up from the dream, the weak vitality in his body had to be awakened by reality. Maybe he would never have a chance to get up again.
Today is the family's annual test of cultivation, and all the clan members are excited.
But he has to face an even more cruel result, which is the result of this test. Without the cultivation of the fourth level of Qi Refining Realm, the identity of the young patriarch will also be taken away.
The results of last year's test showed that he was still at the fifth level of Qi Refining Realm.
But this year, it has dropped three levels.
Li Yuan has always lived in seclusion, but not many people know his true cultivation level.
It will be made public today, and I feel like I am being sent to the execution ground.
Li Yuan followed the old woman in Tsing Yi through the many courtyards and arrived at the examination square with a radius of fifty or sixty feet on the cliff behind the family.
Near the edge of the cliff, there stood a ten-foot-high stone tablet, which was used to test cultivation.
It is said that it was established by a strong man in the family who successfully entered the Yuanli realm a hundred years ago.
At this moment, there were thousands of figures crowding around the square, their eyes filled with excitement and heat.
Different cultivation means different resources obtained in the next year.
"Li Ming, fifth level of Qi Refining Realm!"
Five light grooves lit up on the test stone tablet. An old man in blue shirt below took a look and said loudly.
"Li Yuan, everyone has been waiting for you for a long time!"
At this time, the old man in green shirt saw Li Yuan being brought to the square by the old woman in green shirt and shouted indifferently.
"Is this going to be a death sentence?"
Hearing this, Li Yuan's face suddenly sank and he murmured in his mouth.
Although he was extremely reluctant, everyone in the square specially made a way for him, giving him a feeling of welcome.
Indeed, until he was sixteen, he was admired by everyone.
But in the past two years, those admiring looks have turned into ridicule.
Walking on this specially set aside road, he felt as if he was carrying a mountain on his back.
The test stone tablet at the end was like a mountain of ten thousand feet, exuding majestic pressure, which made him feel breathless.
Unknowingly, beads of sweat rolled down his handsome face.
Climb the stone stairs and place your palms on the stone tablet.
"Buzz!"
He seemed to feel a roar, as if God was judging why his dragon bones disappeared.
"Li Yuan, second level of Qi Refining Realm!"
I don't know how long it took, but a cold voice suddenly sounded in his ears.
Immediately afterwards, an uproar broke out around them, full of ridicule.
Obviously, this result was unexpected by everyone.
Eighteen years old, second level of Qi Refining Realm.
Isn't this just like trash?
He raised his head and glanced at the two light grooves on the huge stone tablet, and there was a hint of self-mockery in the corner of his mouth.
Withdrawing the infused vitality, he took his palm away from the stone tablet, immediately turned around, dragged his tired body down the stone stairs, passed through the crowd, and rushed out of the test square.
"Second level? The cultivation level of this genius in our Li family has dropped even further than in the past two years!"
"Hey, isn't it a joke that he may become the only genius in the Nirvana realm in the history of the Li family?"
"That's right, the whole Malan City is watching our Li family's joke. This loser has really brought the family's face into disrepute."
"What Malan City is, it's the entire Yuanzhou, no, it's the entire Daxia."
"Such a waste still serves as the young patriarch."
"It's not like there is a patriarch father."
"Young Master, this kind of waste should have been expelled from the family long ago."
"Don't worry, the second level of Qi Refining Realm has lost the qualification to succeed the clan leader."
"Hey, that genius from the past who had the ability to transform into a dragon bone?"
"You have the dragon bone in your body, but you are only at the second level of Qi Refining Realm at the age of eighteen. What a big joke."
"He is useless with these precious bones, so they should be removed from him and transplanted into us."
"Don't think about it. I heard that the dragon bone on his body disappeared."
"What, how is that possible?"
"How is it impossible? Otherwise, how could he be at the second level of Qi Refining Realm?"
"That is, maybe you have done something to offend God and make God angry."
………
The young man in blue robe who wanted to rush out of the square accepted the tide of ridicule from behind, like sharp blades piercing into his body, making his breathing quicken.
"Li Yuan, in twelve days, the elders will depose you as the clan leader. Even if your father is the clan leader, they can't protect you."
Suddenly, a bone-chilling sound came from the test stone tablet, hitting Li Yuan's soul and causing him to pause in his forward steps.
"Li Minglin, sixth level of Qi Refining Realm!"
Immediately afterwards, an excited and excited voice came from the mouth of the old man in blue under the test stone tablet.
