WU DONG QIAN - KUN
Chapter 1: lin dong

“Wuu.”

As Lin Dong gathered every strength to open his heavy eyelids, a simple, rough yet neat room appeared before his eyes. This familiar scene caused him to blink confusedly, unable to understand why he was here, although soon after, he immediately turned his head in a flash of understanding. Sure enough he saw two figures of a man and a woman sitting at a table in the room.

"Mother's father……"

As Lin Dong stared at the two figures, he became excited and cried softly.

"Dong-er, are you awake?"

Hearing her cries, the woman first turned her head, as she saw Lin Dong finally opening his eyes, she immediately exclaimed in happiness.

Dressed rather modestly and about thirty years old, her cheek line gave an elegant impression to her face as well as a kind of soft and grumpy feeling. This was Lin Dong's mother, Liu Yan.

"Unskilled yet you fight with others, you really ask for trouble."

Sitting beside the woman was a man who looked to be around thirty or forty years old. His body was a little weak yet he had a hint of firmness in his eyebrows, he also seemed to suffer from serious injuries due to his pale face which in turn covered most of his firmness. This was Lin Dong's father, Lin Xiao.

Turning to face his father who was often resolute, Lin Dong seemed to show a hint of fear, pulling his neck back, though as soon as he somewhat defiantly declared: "Who asked them to call my father useless right in front of my face ..."

As he spoke, Lin Dong grabbed to feel the still sore wound on his chest, and clenched his teeth. Today was only one of the tests for the Lin Family and he had only come down to measure his progress. Today's setback hardly undermines his confidence in himself as he has only been training for about half a year and he doesn't expect to make much progress. He remains confident that with the same time and conditions to train, he will not lose to anyone.

Nevertheless, right after the test ended, as Lin Dong prepared to go home, he met a fellow who had a bad history with him. His original plan was to ignore the man, but after several rounds of deliberate provocation, he could not stand it anymore and in a moment of rage, the young and hot-blooded Lin Dong attacked the provocateurs. Nonetheless, the result was clearly like daylight as he was immediately knocked out by a heavy blow ……

“Lin Shan, you better remember this! Next time, I swear to crush your head into mush, or my name is not Lin Dong!”

Lin Dong gritted his teeth. The one Lin Shan mentioned, was the perpetrator of this incident, and also the number one enemy in Lin Dong's heart. Because their father had a bad blood relationship between them, Lin Shan was constantly trying to make Lin Dong uncomfortable, and the latest incident was just one of many.

One moment he firmly clenched his jaw, but the next, Lin Dong hung his head sadly. Although Lin Shan was extremely vile, the fact remained that he was currently already at the 4th layer of the Tempered Body. In the Lin family, this kind of achievement was considered better than average. Compared to the 2nd layer where Lin Dong was, it was indeed much better.

In the path of exercise, the body must be trained first because it all starts with one's body. After all, the human body was the most mysterious thing in the world.

To put it simply, Tempered Body was cultivating one's body, allowing one's body to gradually strengthen and eventually grow stronger from the outside inward. When the muscles and bones within the body had strengthened to a certain level, it would bring out Yuan Power seeds. Only when the Yuan Power seedlings appeared naturally within the body could one be called a true practitioner.

Tempered Body is divided into 9 layers, the difference between the first 3 layers is insignificant as it only improves a little bit of one's body and physical foundation. Only when the body had cultivated to the 4th layer would the advantages of training gradually appear. At that rate, the skin would slowly harden to be as strong as wood or stone, and the strength and speed of both would increase substantially.

Since Lin Shan was currently at that level, Lin Dong, who had only mastered the 2nd layer of Tempered Body, had clearly lost.

As for why there was a difference between the two, even though the two of them were of the same age, it was not because of the difference in their potential. For the Tempered Body level, talent was not a key factor, it could even be said that anyone could train in it. However, how far they can advance, will depend on one's wealth and affinity.

Nonetheless, to reach the 9th layer of the Tempered body was an extremely difficult and tiring affair. This was because only by constantly pushing the boundaries of one's physical body could one's body gradually grow stronger.

However this way of testing one's limits was similar to squeezing out the potential in one's body. If one's body did not recover enough after 'squeezing', one's body would be injured due to tension. At that time, not only will the training be affected but the entire body will be riddled with injuries. A loss overall.

Thus, as one attempt to master the Tempered Body, they would need various nourishing elixirs to supplement their bodies before they could progress with their training. However, since these herbs were mostly expensive commodities, those without sufficient wealth would not be able to afford them.

This is what is called wealth!

The reason why Lin Shan was able to surpass Lin Dong by as much as 2 layers was not because he had trained for half a year more but mostly because his father was in charge of the finances within the Lin family. Compared to Lin Dong who did not have this fortune and therefore access to potions to nourish his body. Thus his training progress was naturally much slower than the previous one .......

Suddenly, when Lin Xiao heard Lin Dong mutter, his palm that was on the table clenched tightly, as his expression grew darker. To the side, Liu Yan who had seen this change immediately gestured to Lin Dong with his eyes before the latter hurriedly closed his mouth.

"There is no need to whine, concentrate on training and the others will naturally be silent."

Lin Xiao waved his hand as he said: "Liu Yan, grab that Red Ginseng and pass it to Dong-er, with Red Ginseng, the training should be a little faster. There is only half a year left until the family competition, if he does not take advantage of this time to train, he will only humiliate us. ”

"Xiao-ge, that Red Ginseng is for your wound......" Liu Yan hurriedly said before he fell unconscious.

“I've become a useless person, no matter what medicine is used, everything will be in vain. In the future, I will spend more time to find potions on the mountain for Dong-er.” Lin Xiao declared in a self-mocking tone as he shook his head.

"Father is useless, Dad used to be the strongest practitioner in the family excluding grandfather!" Hearing Lin Xiao's words, Lin Dong exclaimed, red-faced. As a child, his father was the greatest figure in his heart.

“Strongest Practitioner...”.

Lin Xiao involuntarily clenched his fists tightly as a deep pain flashed across his face. A moment later, he stood up and tiredly walked outside the room.

"Liu Yan, make a tonic for our child, my wounds are fine, it's been years, what's the point of one Red Ginseng stick?"

Gazing at his somewhat decrepit back, Liu Yan's eyes turned red, who could imagine that the man who had once been the most talented and outstanding man in Qingyang City would end up in such a slump.

“Mother, don't cry, Dong-er promises that she will work hard in her training. And when the time comes, I will find a way to heal father.” Lin Dong softly said as he pulled at the corner of Liu Yan's clothes.

“Dong-er, don't blame your father if he's hard on you. It was only because he had devoted everything to you, after all, that you should know that you were his only hope. ”

Liu Yan muttered softly as he lowered his head, lightly wiping his eyes and caressing Lin Dong's small head while he stared at the sincere expression on Lin Dong's young and gentle face.

"The Fruit of the Vermillion Blood Freeze ......" Hearing these words, Liu Yan was slightly surprised. Despite this, he helplessly shook his head: “It's not easy to become the top three in the family competition, it's good that you have a heart. Mom will go first and brew Red Ginseng for you.”

When he finished, Liu Yan turned to walk out of the room. In the current younger generation within the Lin family, there were already a few who had obtained decent achievements, he said, therefore it was not easy for Lin Dong to enter the top three and obtain the Vermillion Blood Freezing Fruit. Therefore, he did not take this matter too seriously.

As he stared at the departing Liu Yan, Lin Dong's lips pursed tightly, clenching his small fists: "Mother, rest assured, I will definitely get the Vermillion Blood Freezing Fruit and heal the wounds on father's body!"

As Lin Dong thought of Lin Xiao's injury, a deep hatred suddenly appeared in his eyes. The reason why father is often ridiculed by many in the family is because of that one man!

The Lin Family that Lin Dong had was only a small family, even in Qingyang City, they could not be considered the best. Yet this mediocre-looking Lin family had a very respectable background that would shock many people: they were from the Lin Clan.

One of the four great clans of the Great Yan dynasty, the Lin Clan!

From a certain point of view, the Lin Family of Qingyang City could be considered an extension of the Lin Clan, yet to Lin Dong who had never traveled more than a hundred miles from Qingyang City, it was still the Lin Dong, the incredible strength of the Lin Clan in the Great Yan. Dynasties are just another foreign and far away thing.

What Lin Dong knew from the pieces of information obtained from his father, was that the branch they were in had actually once been part of the inner circle of the Lin Clan. It was only because of one mission. The failure of grandfather Lin Dong in that mission had caused great harm to the clan, as a result, he was expelled from the inner circle and banished to Qingyang City.

Here, he established this little Lin Family and during these decades, he had tried everything he could to fulfill a lifelong dream: to return to the inner circle of the Lin Clan.

But all his efforts don't mean much. Everything he had accomplished was not even worth mentioning to the great and unrivalled Lin Clan. Hence, he could only turn his attention elsewhere, such as the Ten Years Clan Meeting of the Lin Clan.

This was the most important meeting of the Lin Clan and also a very famous event in the entire Great Yan Dynasty. Held every ten years, each meeting presented the perfect opportunity for the younger generation in the clan to be in the spotlight and make a name for themselves. Moreover, many of the prizes for this great competition were naturally very generous, so they would attract greedy gazes. However, the most interesting warning to grandfather Lin Dong lies in the fact that as long as one can enter the top ten in this meeting, even if you are an outsider of the clan, it is only that you are an outsider to the clan, You will be promoted to the inner circle unhindered and gain unparalleled honor.

Thus, the clan meeting had become a new dawn in the long night of despair of grandfather Lin Dong. But because of his age that is no longer able, then he put all his hopes on his five sons who came from different mothers. Naturally the most outstanding of them all, Lin Dong's father, became the grandfather and ray of hope of the entire Lin Family.

Although Lin Dong's father bore this heavy burden on his shoulders, he did not betray their expectations. Among the 5 brothers, he was the earliest to break through the 9th Layer of the Tempered Body, and advance to the "Yuan" stage". Furthermore, in four short years, he once again broke through the "Yuan" stage to become the 2nd Heavenly Yuan master in the Lin Family after Lin Zhentian's grandfather.

This spectacular advance caused the usually quiet and stern grandfather to bring up a friendly and contented smile on his aged face whenever he met his father. It is said that in ten long years, this was when grandfather smiled the most.

However, when the Ten Years Clan Meeting finally arrived, the result shocked all the members of the Lin Family, and left them deep within the abyss of despair.

One move!

In just one move, his father, the shining ray of hope for the Lin Family, was ruthlessly defeated!

Furthermore, this happened in the first match right at the start of the meeting!

Years of hope and nurture crumbled into dust in that short period of time.

The final reward for the loser was countless strange gazes as well as endless mockery. Like a pack of stray dogs, they returned to Qingyang City in defeat.

That night, his father left the inner district of the Lin Family and moved to live on a small, secluded hill in the farthest part of the Lin Family territory. From then on, he never again touched anything from the Lin Clan. He said he had lost the right to do so.

However, luck never comes in pairs; disaster never strikes alone.

After that defeat, what Lin Xiao had bestowed was not just depression. After that, he was even more sad to find that the person he had fought with had not only defeated him with a single palm but also, without the slightest bit of mercy, using Yuan power that was almost like a ferocious beast to smash the insides of his body to shreds was total chaos.

With an injury of this level, Lin Xiao lost his Heavenly Yuan level of strength and returned to the Worldly Yuan level. In addition, a serious injury also caused the channels in his body to be disrupted and blocked, and no matter how he practiced, he found further progress to be almost impossible.

Within the family, what was once a respectful gaze gradually turns into***** and disappointment ......

Faced with disaster after disaster, Lin Xiao finally gave up all hope. Every time he got drunk, he would furiously hit his own chest. The blunt thud broke his mother's heart as he quietly stood by the side and wiped away her falling tears. Although Lin Dong was young when he witnessed this scene, he felt as if his heart was torn to shreds. At the same time, in his young heart, the seeds of hatred were secretly planted on the man who had humiliated and destroyed his father.

Not only did he destroy my father but he also destroyed his family!

As for the man in question, then, Lin Dong coincidentally heard his uncle and the others call him with a hateful and helpless tone.

At 10, he started training.

At the age of 12 he broke through the 9th Tempered Body Layer to enter the Yuan territory.

At the age of 14, he advanced to the Worldly Yuan level.

At the age of 17 he advanced to the Heavenly Yuan level.

At the age of 25, the Yuan Qi in his body exchanged Yin and Yang, finally successfully forming Dan. Like a goldfish that became a dragon, in one move, it joined the ranks of some rare people in the Great Yan Dynasty who had once formed Yuan Dan before the age of 30.

His life stories were practically one after another legendary achievements.

His name was Lin Langtian.

In his room, Lin Dong clenched his fists tightly, as a thick hatred appeared in his eyes.