The air in the mountain was humid. Lin Tian didn’t dare to make a fire. He was afraid that they would be discovered by the Xiao Family and the Mo Family. He leaned against a thick trunk with Lin Xi in his arms and stared at the raging flames in the darkness afar with forbidding eyes.
Lin Tian felt pain all over, and drowsiness fell upon him at the same time. Before long, he fell asleep.
Leaning against the thick trunk, Lin Tian had a dream. In the dream, he was standing on the vast heaven. He looked out and saw nine obscure figures in front of him, among whom hung a long sword, sparkling.
Suddenly, the nine figures started to move, and reached out to the long sword in the middle at the same time.
Lin Tian widened his eyes. At this moment, the nine people were fighting against each other. Lin Tian saw the sky collapsing and the ground sinking. Meanwhile, lightning was flashing and thunder was rumbling, while rays of divine light were shooting up. The scene looked like the end of the world.
After that, the scene changed again. Lin Tian saw a long sword plunging from the sky through layers of blurry barriers and straight down towards him.
“Oh my god!”
Lin Tian gave a cry and opened his eyes abruptly, his forehead full of cold sweat.
It was still the dark night. Lin Tian was still leaning against the thick trunk behind him, while Lin Xi was still resting in his arms. Maybe she was too grieved to be woken up by his cry. Lin Tian wiped off the sweat on his forehead. The dream was too terrifying just now, and the picture of the long sword dashing towards him in the end just felt too real.
Lin Tian heaved a sigh of relief and then was suddenly startled.
The sword?
Where was the sword in his hand?
Lin Tian remembered when he was holding Lin Xi, the iron sword was grasped in his right hand all the time, but it was nowhere to be seen now!
Thinking of the dream just now, Lin Tian broke out in cold sweat. He looked around, and suddenly found that there were luminous spots in his palm.
Lin Tian raised his right hand to his eyes and his pupils dilated instantly. At this moment, there was a sword mark on his palm, and the shape of the mark was exactly the same as that of the iron sword he had found at the foot of the cliff!
“Well...”
Lin Tian’s pupils contracted.
At this point of time, Lin Tian suddenly had a splitting headache. He just felt as if a huge hammer hit hard against his head, and the fierce pain almost made him scream a few times.
However, the pain didn’t last long before fading away soon.
Lin Tian was wet with sweat all over. After that, he was startled again. At this moment, many mysterious and complicated things popped into his mind. Charms, divine patterns, Taoist stamps, various kinds of extraordinary and dazzling light... At last, a paragraph of obscure ancient scriptures flooded in and was clanging in his mind.
Lin Tian was shocked. What was this? Is it the exercise method of cultivation?
Lin Tian was stunned at this thought.
Lin Tian had drawn all the memories from this body. He knew that the world he was in now was an empire appreciating martial cultivation. It was the spiritual practice, as well as all young people’s dream. Every year, there were countless people hoping to set foot on the road of martial cultivation. However, this practice required the exercise method, which was hard to get. It was impossible for ordinary small families to get it. In Beiyan Empire, the powerful exercise method was mostly controlled by the empire.
Take Fengjian City for example. Both in the vast city and its surrounding area, only Jiuyang Martial Institution set up by Beiyan Empire and several other martial families owned the exercise method of cultivation. However, the exercise method owned by ordinary martial families was quite common, and no match for the one owned by Jiuyang Martial Institution. Besides, those old martial families wouldn’t pass on the exercise method of cultivation to those outsiders. Therefore, countless hot-blooded youngsters who were determined to practice martial cultivation would scramble to get into Jiuyang Martial Institution each year, hoping to be its disciples so that they could learn the powerful exercise method and step on the real path of martial cultivation.
Lin Tian was not the descendant of an old martial family, nor was he enrolled in Jiuyang Martial Institution, but now he might have got the exercise method, so how wouldn’t he be shocked?
Taking a deep breath, Lin Tian reorganized the information popping into his mind quickly. An hour later, his eyes lit up. He had actually sorted out a whole set of exercise methods of cultivation!
It was a kind of body cultivating method called Siji Scriptures!
During martial cultivation, Body Cultivation Stage was the fundamental stage, which mainly aimed at the refinement of blood and flesh, and the exercise of meridians and bones. Even if without the exercise method of cultivation, ordinary people could also do self-cultivation. However, common people could only attain the fifth layer of body cultivation without it. And it was almost impossible for them to move forward after this.Just because of this, the exercise method of cultivation was so precious.Lin Tian calmed down and started to learn Siji Scriptures. The more he read, the more shocked he became. Generally speaking, cultivators using ordinary exercise method could only attain the ninth layer of body cultivation, but Siji Scriptures allowed its cultivators to keep on cultivating and strengthening their physique constantly without ending at all. It was just a top-level body cultivation method.Lin Tian even believed that no other body culti
Day broke. If standing on the mountain, one could see clearly the burned-out Lin Family’s Mansion in Fengjian City. Lin Xi had already woken up. She was looking in the direction of the mansion and sobbing, her tears streaming down.“Xi, don’t cry. Your brother is with you.”Lin Tian consoled her in a tender voice.Lin Xi wiped off the tears, gave a bright smile and said, “Well, as long as my brother is with me, I have nothing to fear.”A lump came into Lin Tian’s throat. How couldn’t he see that the little girl was forcing a smile? He was aware that Lin Xi just didn’t want him to worry about her.An eight-year-old girl was actually so considerate.“Xi, my good girl, I swear that I’ll definitely make them pay back double what they owe us.”He vowed.The sky was already bright. Lin Tian didn’t go back to Fengjian City, but stayed in Qing Mountain for the time being. In the next few
Lin Tian’s face darkened. He stared at the approaching Liu Er, coldness glinting in his eyes.He was thinking about where to find this running dog.“Brother.”Scared, Lin Xi hid herself behind Lin Tian, pulling at his clothes.Lin Tian turned around, squatted down and patted Lin Xi gently on her head. “Xi, don’t be afraid. I’m here.”He asked Lin Xi to stay put, and turned to Liu Er and his people. What Liu Er and Mazi had done to Lin Xi a few days ago was still vivid in Lin Tian’s mind, and he remembered it well. Now he was Lin Xi’s elder brother, while Lin Xi was his only family in this strange world, as well as his younger sister.Lin Tian would never forgive those who hurt his sister!Since Mazi was dead, this Liu Er had to pay for it too!Many people around noticed that something was going on here, and looked in their direction.“It’s him! He is the son of
Actually, Lin Tian really wanted to kill Liu Er, but today was the day of the entrance examination of Jiuyang Martial Institution. If he killed Liu Er here, he might be disqualified from the entrance examination. Therefore, he held himself back.People around were all dumbfounded and shocked.“This guy’s real!”Some said in a low voice.Many of the lookers-on had a weird look on their faces. They were the local young people of Fengjian City, so they knew “Lin Tian” quite well. In their mind, Lin Tian was always mild, or even weak, but now, it seemed that the Lin Tian they knew had changed totally, and the huge contrast surprised them.“Get out of my way!”A commotion was going on not far away.The crowd was pushed aside, and a man and woman walked up. The man was in purple, with a long sword hanging at his waist, and he looked handsome, while the woman was fair, with her hair han
The examination for Jiuyang Martial Institution was divided into three parts: talent, mental power and fighting skills.On this day, the theme of the first exam was: talent.For a martial artist, his talent was the most important thing, because it was the determining factor of his personal achievement in the future. And the so-called “talent”, to put it simply, was his ability to blend with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. If he was not gifted enough, then he was unable to absorb the energy well for cultivation, and thus his future achievement wouldn’t be great.On the contrary, if the martial artist had the ability to blend well with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, then he could absorb enough energy for cultivation. In that case, not only would the cultivation speed be faster, but also his future martial achievement would be greater too. Just because of that, talent test was compulsory in the entry exam for Jiuyang Ma
Nine stars were shining!Nine-star talent!All people on the square in front of Jiuyang Martial Institution were stunned.“Are we dreaming?”Someone muttered. At this moment, everyone’s gaze fell upon Lin Tian. Such a delicate teenager actually possessed nine-star martial talent?After a while, the examiner yelled in surprise, “Great! Fantastic!”What did nine-star talent mean anyway?Since the establishment of Jiuyang Martial Institution, there had never been a disciple with such great talent. Even in the whole Beiyan Empire, martial artists with such talent hardly existed.Lin Tian turned to Mo Sen. “How about this, genius?”He stressed the word “genius”, not concealing his sarcasm at all.Mo Sen’s face darkened, as if he just stepped on dog poop.Xiao Yun was totally dumbfounded. Lin Tian actually had nine-star talent. Nine-star mar
A quarter passed very quickly. Lin Tian asked an elder he was familiar with in town to take care of Lin Xi for the time being, and went to the site for the second test with the other examinees under the examiner.The second test was about mental power!The road of martial cultivation was full of hardships. Talent was important, and so was mental power. If one only had great talent but no strong will, it was likely that he wouldn’t make any achievement in martial cultivation in the future. He would even be less accomplished than those without great talent.There were a lot of temptations in this world, such as power, wealth, beauties. To martial artists, any of them could be deadly. If one didn’t have a strong will, he could get lost and be demotivated.Therefore, talent was just a prerequisite.Without a strong will for martial cultivation, no matter how gifted a martial artist was, it was useless.
Naturally, there was more than one examiner for the second test in the backyard of Jiuyang Martial Institution. At this moment, everyone was stunned. They stared at Lin Tian as if he was a monster.“Mo Ji’s record was broken.”Mu Qing was stupefied.Generally speaking, it took an ordinary person an hour and a half to get out of the three illusionary scenes during the second test. Back then, it had taken Mo Ji a quarter to shatter all the illusionary scenes, which was already astounding, and Mo Ji had refreshed all the historical records of the martial institution.But now, Mo Ji’s record was refreshed again.Half a quarter!It only took Lin Tian half a quarter!Shi Dong gave a bitter smile. “Doesn’t this teenager have any distracting thought in his mind?”As the elder of Jiuyang Martial Institution, Mu Qing and Shi Dong were advanced and sophisticated cultivators, but at th