Chapter 2

"Is there nothing else you can do?" an old and tired voice asked.

"I'm sorry, I've tried my best. Unfortunately, my meridians are all broken. I'm afraid from now on …"

"Sigh! Doctor, you've tried your best. Here's the consultation fee. Take it. "

"Then, Mr. Zhan, I'll take my leave first."

Zhan Chen seemed to have heard the rustling of the conversation and woke up from his sleep.

Pain! A heart-wrenching pain immediately assaulted his brain, causing him to almost faint again. However, he gritted his teeth and endured it.

"Yes, how can the pain in my body compare to the pain in my heart! I can't lie down anymore. I must stand up and take revenge! "He kept shouting in his heart.

A scene from before appeared in front of his eyes. A rich young master with oily hair and a powdered face pointed at his nose and laughed, "Hahaha, Zhan Chen, is this the so-called genius? Just so-so, just so-so! "

Wang Ba! This was a name that Zhan Chen couldn't help but think of. He was the one who defeated him that day.

It was said to be a battle between two people of the same level, but when he was completely suppressing Wang Ba, the iron rod in his hand mysteriously broke. And this despicable guy took the opportunity to launch a sneak attack and broke all his meridians. In the end, he even spat on his face.

In the end, this mocking words echoed in Zhan Chen's ears for a long time, reminding him not to forget this humiliation!

A month later, Zhan Chen was finally able to get up. He, who usually didn't like to talk, seemed to speak even less now. He didn't even speak all day.

The old father, Zhan Li, looked at Zhan Chen, who was sitting on the bed and looking at the willows outside the dilapidated house through the window. He couldn't help but say, "Chen 'er, cry if you want to! Looking at you like this, how can I be at ease to leave and accompany your deceased mother? Xue Ying! I'm sorry! I didn't take good care of our Chen 'er! "At this point, he actually burst into tears.

Zhan Chen suddenly woke up. He stood up and threw himself to his father's side. He held his father's thin shoulders and said, "Father, I swear I won't do this again! I will definitely pull myself together. "

Zhan Li wiped the tears from the corner of his eyes and tried to smile. "Chen 'er, this is good, this is good. I have a way to explain it to your mother."

Zhan Chen looked at his aged father, so touched that he was speechless. He came from an ordinary family. His father, Zhan Li, was just an ordinary Martial Disciple level nine commoner. His mother, on the other hand, was a servant girl of a rich merchant family. After the two of them got married, their lives were originally harmonious and beautiful.

However, the will of the heavens made fools of people. After giving birth to him, his mother passed away, and from then on, his father was never able to recover from his setback. He never took another step forward on the path of martial arts. However, his father was a great man who had brought him up despite the immense pressure and pain.

Therefore, Zhan Chen had a grand dream since he was young, and that was to stand out from the crowd. And in this Ten Thousand Laws Continent, where the strong were respected, becoming a peerless powerhouse was the only way to return home with glory and riches.

Therefore, Zhan Chen worked very hard. Before he was old enough to learn martial arts, he would go to the nearby Black Plum Town Martial Arts School to watch the children of the aristocratic families practice. Every morning, he would wake up before dawn and walk more than ten miles.

When he returned home, he would practice the moves that he had memorized in the morning. He didn't go to sleep until late at night.

With this kind of hard work, he was accepted into the Black Plum Town Martial Arts School at the age of seven. At the age of fourteen, he reached the seventh level of Martial Disciple.

Originally, he thought that he would be able to go on smoothly like this. However, he attracted the jealousy of Wang Ba, who was also a seventh level Martial Disciple. He was almost twenty years old, but he was worse than a fourteen-year-old child. He couldn't tolerate this grain of sand in his eyes.

Now that Zhan Chen thought about it, all of this was a trap set by Wang Ba. He bribed the teachers in the martial arts school and did something to the sticks used in the competition. Then, he stirred up trouble and lured him to participate in this competition that he was destined to lose … He still remembered the moment he was defeated. The teachers and students in the martial arts school stood by and watched, and Wang Ba's arrogant look.

It had been so long, but it was still vivid in his mind. All of this deeply hurt Zhan Chen's heart. His nails had sunk deep into his palms until blood flowed out. However, he didn't feel it. He just shouted in his heart, "Wang Ba, and all of you who stood by and watched, I will make you pay!"

"Chen 'er, what's wrong? Are you not feeling well?"

His father's words pulled him back to reality. To prevent his father from worrying, Zhan Chen quickly smiled and said, "Father, I'm fine. I was just thinking about what I want to do in the future to serve you for the rest of my life."

Hearing his son's words, Zhan Li's face was also full of joy. He said, "Chen 'er, it's good that you can think it through. Although you can't practice martial arts anymore, your limbs are not broken yet. Just find some work and it will be enough for us to spend our daily expenses. Stay away from those things and don't fight so that you can live a long life!"

"Hey! Dad, I'll listen to you. " Zhan Chen quickly pretended to be happy and said. After a pause, he said, "Dad, I want to go out for a walk. I haven't gotten out of bed for a month. My heart is so stuffy."

"Okay! Don't go too far. I'm still waiting for you to eat. "

Leaving his broken thatched house, Zhan Chen walked aimlessly to Black Plum Town. Along the way, a few children who were playing saw him walking over and whispered to each other.

"Hey, isn't that the genius, Zhan Chen?"

"What genius, he's just a waste. I heard that his meridians have all been destroyed. He can't practice martial arts anymore."

"No way?"

"Hey, if you don't believe me, just watch."

At this time, a nine-year-old boy swaggered in front of Zhan Chen and said, "Are you Zhan Chen?"

Zhan Chen raised his head and asked, "What do you want?"

"Hehe, nothing, I just want to see you kneel down." The boy said with a proud smile.

Zhan Chen clenched his teeth and said, "What if I say no?"

"Hey, kid, you have guts. Then you have to ask my fist if it agrees."

Zhan Chen stared at him and didn't answer. Seeing that he really didn't know how to appreciate kindness, the boy went forward and hit him. Zhan Chen instinctively put on his usual fighting posture and wanted to fight back. However, when he raised his hand, he felt an empty feeling coming from his meridians.

"Bang!" The boy's hand easily blocked Zhan Chen's block and then punched him in the chest. Zhan Chen immediately bent over in pain.

"See!" cried the boy arrogantly. He's just a paper tiger. Let's attack him together. "

Only then did his playmates behind him dispel their scruples. They swarmed over and started punching and kicking Zhan Chen.

Zhan Chen used his hands to cover his head and rolled on the ground. Compared to the pain on his body, the humiliation in his heart made him feel more uncomfortable. Yes, without martial arts, even children could be bullied at will. Living was worse than a dog!

"Stop right now!" A tender voice called out from behind him.

The boys couldn't help but stop. Zhan Chen also took the opportunity to get up. He looked behind him and saw an extremely beautiful girl in her sixties. She opened the curtain and walked out of the palanquin. She had bright eyes and white teeth. Her eyebrows were long and slender. Her nose was tall and straight. Her lips were red and moist. Her jet black hair draped over her shoulders. She looked like a fairy that had descended to the mortal world.

Everyone was mesmerized by her beauty.

At this time, the servant girl next to the young lady said, "Why aren't you guys moving away? This is our Su family's second young lady!"

"Not good! It's the Su family's second young lady, Su Yun. "One of the boys seemed to have thought of something.

"Let's retreat!"

"Okay!"

The little bastards discussed for a while, then ran away in all directions like a wisp of smoke.

Zhan Chen was also startled. The Su, Wang, Li and Yang families were known as the four big families of Black Plum Village. It was said that each family had a Revered Martial Artist. In Black Plum Village, they could cover the sky with one hand. Based on his current situation, it was best not to get involved with them.

Thus, he took another deep look at Su Yun, firmly engraving her appearance in his mind. He owed her a favor, then turned around and walked behind her.

"Eh? You are really strange! The young lady saved you. Why didn't you say a word of thanks … "The young lady's servant girl called out to him.

"Forget it, Ying 'er." Su Yun persuaded her.

At this time, Zhan Chen's hair was disheveled. He looked like a savage. His strong self-esteem didn't allow him to stay here. He just wanted to run to the outskirts and get away from these people.

He ran along the road that he was familiar with. He ran to the mountain behind their village. Finally, he stopped in a valley. There was a grave there. On the gravestone was written, "Beloved Wife Xue Ying's Grave."

Zhan Chen's knees bent and he knelt down. He, who had always been strong and never shed tears, suddenly burst into tears. Yes, he left all the grievances and pain in his heart here, and only here, to his mother, whom he had never met before.

At this time, the heavens seemed to be moved by his sorrow and started to rain heavily.

Zhan Chen couldn't help but shout, "Mother, did you hear my grievances? What do you want me to do in this world where the weak are prey to the strong? "

But no one answered him.

Zhan Chen couldn't help but fall into deep thought. In the Ten Thousand Laws Continent, martial arts were highly respected. There were many sects. It was said that there were hundreds of thousands of sects! In the decline of the dynasty, it was only a vassal of the big sects.

In this world, children had to accept the ideological education of martial arts from birth. They had to exercise from an early age to lay a solid foundation. At the age of 8, they could go to the county martial arts school to take the entrance exam. Those with excellent results could get the opportunity to continue to study martial arts, while the others would be ruthlessly eliminated.

In the Ten Thousand Laws Continent, the martial artists were divided into six levels: Martial Disciple, Martial Master, Martial Revered, King Wu, Emperor Wu, and Martial Saint. It was said that there was another realm above Martial Saint, but that only existed in the legends. People called them immortals. They could go up to the sky, go down to the earth, overturn the river and stir up the sea. They were omnipotent. However, those secrets were not accessible to ordinary people.

Martial Disciple was divided into twelve levels. After breaking through the Martial Disciple realm, one would become a Martial Master. For every ten people who practiced martial arts, only one person had the hope to break through to Martial Master. And from Martial Master to Martial Revered, it was even more difficult. Only one in a hundred people could succeed. So on and so forth, the number of people who could break through to the next level would decrease, and the difficulty would increase. This was the structure of a pyramid. Only by reaching the Martial Saint realm could one stand at the top of this world and look down on the heroes.