"Li Ku, if you want to stand out, I can write you a letter of recommendation from Dayu Academy. However, whether or not you can get in will depend on your own abilities."
Old Iron Head placed his walking stick on a haystack to the side, removed the tobacco pipe at his waist, and then placed it between his teeth. He took out a flint and lit it. The fiery light illuminated his stubbled face, a blade scar running from his cheekbone to his lower jaw, sinister and eye-catching like a centipede's. According to him, this was left behind by an Asura Race officer he killed back then, the achievement he was most proud of in his life. However, Li Ku heard from another elder who was helping out in the kitchen that before that Asura Race officer died, he left him with a lame leg, and the blade scar on his face was something he accidentally left behind when he was practicing with the blade. The tobacco leaf, a specialty of Changzhou's border region, was hot and spicy, making the horses on the side snort. This one-legged sixty something year old man who had already raised war horses in the stables for ten years wasn't worried in the slightest that the scattered sparks would ignite the haystack. When the horses saw the flames, they became restless and restless.
"You are just a horse breeder, yet you want to give me a recommendation? You overestimate yourself." Li Ku who was sitting on the roof hooked his feet onto the roof beam, his upper body hanging down softly like a willow branch. His black clothes and pants made him look like an upside-down spider in the dark night. However, his eyes were bright and bright, the weak flame from the burning tobacco leaf, before his tender vigor, was too ashamed to raise his head. He was a mountain villager from a small mountain village on the border of Changzhou. Ten years ago, the village suffered from a military disaster. When he was only eight years old, he escaped and was adopted by Old Iron Head.
"Horse breeder? Back then, this old one served in Long Qing's Protector Army, becoming a military imperial envoy. That was a major fifth rank official! " Old Iron Head glared at Li Ku. "Did you think that after serving a few more years in Black Iron Camp, you would have the qualifications to join Long Qing's Protector Army? This old one is telling you, if you don't come from Dayu Academy, you will only be a lowly worker!"
"Yes, I know. Then, you made a mistake and were chased out. However, what is so good about the academy? Can a greenhouse flower fight? "Li Ku said in disdain.
Old Iron Head took a drag on his pipe and slowly narrowed his eyes. "Why did I adopt a stupid and short-sighted guy like you? Truly powerful people didn't need to go onto the battlefield to be able to use soldiers as chess pieces to move about freely. Among those who held high positions in the imperial court, which one of them was not from Dayu Academy? Let me tell you, if you want to be a high-ranking official in the imperial court of the Dragon Emperor, you must have the mark of the Dragon Emperor, which is the Dayu Academy. "
Li Ku thought for a long time, and then quietly said, "What if I don't want to be a chess piece?"
Old Iron Head's expression froze, as if this was the first time he met Li Ku, looking at him with shock. Only after a long time had passed did he slowly say, "Then you have to become an extremely formidable cultivator, formidable to the point where no one can kill you."
Li Ku turned around and sat back down, looking towards the endless stellar streams above him. "Old man, you should just write me this letter."
"You don't want to go?"
"I've heard that the academy will provide us with techniques. I want to become a cultivator and be the master of my own destiny!"
…
The rain was extremely heavy, the shoddy temple extremely crowded. When Li Ku hurried over, almost all of the places he could stand on were occupied. His arrival drew many curious gazes. These gazes, in Li Ku's eyes, were as weak and powerless as sheep, completely lacking the life-reaping pressure of the foreign invaders. He disdainfully walked towards the youngster who looked to be the largest, the gaze the fiercest. This youngster was a head taller than Li Ku, extremely sturdy. From his attire, it seemed like he was also heading to Dayu Academy's entrance examination. He domineeringly occupied the entire divine table alone.
"You, come down and go outside." Li Ku patted the rainwater off his body, not even giving the robust youngster a look.
"Why should I?" The robust youngster said coldly.
"Just because I can take your life." Li Ku said.
"I'll send you on your way first!" The robust youngster glared out, a grabbing hand grabbing towards Li Ku's arm. He decided that he was going to crush Li Ku's arm joints section by section to punish him for his disrespect towards him.
Li Ku avoided this grab for some reason, moreover grabbing the robust youngster's wrist instead, pulling. The latter immediately lost his center of gravity, involuntarily falling onto the ground. He wanted to use force to shake the ground, bounce his body back up, but his wrist was twisted by Li Ku. The intense pain made him lose most of his strength to resist. Li Ku then added a knee, firmly suppressing him on the ground.
"Even your flowery fists and impractical legs dare embarrass yourself before me?!" Li Ku released a vicious laugh. His right hand raised, also forming a grabbing stance, grabbing a chunk of the robust youngster's back like a poisonous dragon. This area affected all of the muscles on his back, it could be said that pulling one part would affect the entire body.
"Ah …" A miserable scream sounded from the robust youngster's mouth. A large bruise strangely swelled from his back, the other parts of his body visible. Li Ku raised his left hand, a sinister smile on his face. He was just about to break those bones one by one when he suddenly heard a sweet-sounding voice.
"Brother, where it is possible to let people off, one should forgive them. It's not like he offended you, why must you be so vicious?"
"Little girl, I knew you were hiding up there. If you want to watch a show, then watch a show, don't meddle in other people's business!"
Li Ku still wanted to continue, but he discovered that his body was pushed aside by a wave of gentle power, inwardly shocked. This was the power of a cultivator?
The robust youngster broke free, rushing into the rain for his life, not daring to turn around again.
There were a few people who ran from the shoddy temple. They didn't have the courage to stay under the same roof as Li Ku.
Li Ku didn't act out, calmly raising his head. The little girl he was talking about didn't move from the beam. He felt restraining fear towards the power of cultivators, so he didn't chase after her, as if nothing happened, directly lying down on the altar to sleep. When he woke up again, the sky was already bright, the rain also stopping. The half of the sky that had just cleared up after the rain hung a beautiful rainbow. The people in the shoddy temple had all left, only that little girl standing at the entrance, as if she was admiring this rare scenery.
Dragon Emperor's climate was much better than Chang Province's. In Li Ku's opinion, Dragon Emperor was a giant greenhouse, raising flowers that didn't even have the strength to truss a chicken. They would snap under a single blow from Chang Province's cold winds.
Due to his lack of understanding towards cultivators, Li Ku didn't plan on provoking this little girl. After packing up his own things, he was about to leave, but unexpectedly, that little girl stopped him at the entrance. He inwardly swore viciously. Before the other party opened her mouth, he secretly drew a dagger, about to give the other party a vicious blow. However, he was then pushed back by the miraculous power similar to last night.
"What are you doing?" He hid the dagger in his sleeves, staring at this woman like a lone wolf.
"From your methods, you should have come from Chang Province's army. On the battlefield, this is understandable, but how can you use the same method to treat ordinary people? You are too vicious, many people will be harmed because of you. I don't want to kill you either, so … "The woman's words were clear and logical, but her conclusion was a bit hesitant.
Li Ku took a few steps forward, fiercely drawing the dagger. The woman's upper body just happened to turn around, the early morning sunlight scattering down on her snow-white tender dimples, producing two small flowers that were a bit tipsy, beautiful beyond compare. The woman's nose was straight, the contours of her face clear, as if she was a mixed-blood. He had never seen such a pretty little girl with such white skin before. He was immediately stupefied. He stared blankly for a long time, and only then did he understand that the two small flowers on this little girl's face were clearly a bashful blush.
"So?" He asked in a stupefied manner.
The woman said, "That is why from now on, I am going to follow you, keep you in check, not let you harm others. Right … "She revealed a sweet smile." I am called Bai Xing, what is your name? "
"Bai Xing?" Li Ku said.
"Right, I like the stars during the day, so I am called Bai Xing." Bai Xing pointed towards the sky and said.
"There are stars during the day?"
"There are, just that they are covered by the sun's radiance."
"How do you know?"
"I just know."
Many years later, Bai Xing laid in the crook of Li Ku's arm, asking him why he ran the first time he saw her. Li Ku gently said to her, "When I look into your eyes, what is reflected in my pupils are the stars and great seas."
"Don't follow me, or else I will kill you!" Li Ku hurriedly escaped through the window, his heart beating extremely quickly. He thought that his illness wasn't light, that he was about to die. He didn't want to die in front of Bai Xing. However, he looked down on the power of cultivators too much. How could his flesh power match a cultivator's movement technique?
After the twenty-seventh time he was stopped from hunting, he finally couldn't hold himself back anymore, cursing at Bai Xing in the forest, "Stinky woman, just what did I do to offend you, not even letting me eat meat? Who do you think you are?!"
Bai Xing calmly said, "Just now, that little deer hasn't been born for that long, yet you already want to eat its meat. This is too cruel, I cannot let this type of thing happen." While speaking, she fetched some firewood, cooked a pot of millet porridge, and then gave a bowl to Li Ku.
Li Ku's stomach was currently rumbling from hunger, helplessly accepting it. The porridge wasn't just rice, there was also preserved meat, fruits, and vegetables. However, after eating it for more than twenty days, he had long grown sick of it. He saw Bai Xing take small bites of a piece of preserved meat, saying with disdain, "What are you pretending to be kind for? You clearly eat meat yourself."
Bai Xing seriously said, "If I don't eat meat, I will easily get hungry."
Li Ku said, "Then why don't you let me hunt? That venison is so fragrant, you don't want to eat it?"
Bai Xing said, "I understand the principle of natural selection, the strong preying on the weak, but the heavens have the virtue of cherishing life. If hunting isn't to fill one's stomach, then it is to willfully kill the innocent. Since I brought meat with me, why do you have to harm them? "
Li Ku inwardly said hatefully, "Then how much meat did you bring?"
Bai Xing said, "Not much, only enough for us to eat for two days."
Li Ku's eyes lit up. He was about to continue, but Bai Xing suddenly seriously added, "That is why we have to hurry to Heavenly Capital within two days, or else we will starve."
"Why do I have to starve with you?" Li Ku was inconsolable.
Bai Xing smiled sweetly. "Because you can't beat me."
PS: He had previously admired Ai when he was young, vowing that in this vast ocean, a boulder cannot move ~ ~ Li Ku's chapter has finally arrived. Of course, as the final volume of the fourth volume, the core theme is still the 'Dragon God Diagram'. I will do my best to portray Li Ku's story as concise and complete as possible.
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