Chapter 1 The Fu Family's Plan

The Fu family had always planned to unite all the major clans and families around them to establish a sect.

However, each family had its own agenda, and they had never been able to achieve it.

In recent years, the Fu family's patience seemed to be waning, and their actions were becoming more and more aggressive.

This had also forced the other families to form alliances to jointly resist the Fu family.

"The pressure from Fu Qingchen is increasing, and there are faint signs of outside forces behind him. The patriarch is also acting out of necessity."

Li Cheng Yi listened quietly.

At the same time, he gradually developed a concrete idea of the concept of a base point.

'If I simply use vitality and life force, there might be a big problem. But if I use growth and change to determine the base point, or use survival opportunity to determine the base point...'

He pondered, while his parents discussed his marriage to the side.

After a while, his father seemed to ask a question.

Li Cheng Yi agreed without much thought. In any case, as far as he was concerned, when he grew up in the future, he would definitely make his own decisions about his important matters.

Whether he agreed now or not would have no impact on the future.

After dinner, the two called Li Cheng Yi to the second courtyard, the central courtyard.

"What I am good at is the Azure Sea Swordplay, one of the sixteen first-class martial arts of the family. Your mother is good at her family's Jade Cloud Skill, but due to family restrictions, if you learn the Jade Cloud Skill, you can only learn the first three levels, so the most suitable one is still the Azure Sea Swordplay that I practice."

"Then Azure Sea Swordplay it is," said Li Cheng Yi.

Looking at his son's indifferent expression, Gongshan Qingyang's mouth twitched.

Although they were destined to be non-combat personnel in the future, wasn't it a bit wrong to be so unconcerned?

"The Azure Sea Swordplay is upright and peaceful, and there is no risk of qi deviation. It follows a grand and majestic path, with sword shadows like roaring sea waves, a frontal and forceful fighting style."

"But the disadvantages are also obvious." Gongshan Qingyang sighed, "That is, it has high requirements for strength, speed, precision, and mental state. It can be said to be a model of family martial arts that is easy to learn but difficult to master."

"I'll learn this one," Li Cheng Yi nodded.

"Let me make it clear first, the Azure Sea Swordplay requires one to store the Azure Sea artistic conception in the heart in order to cultivate the Surging Wave Sword Intent. Therefore, if you have any questions, you can go to the beach outside to observe the Azure Sea, and you may gain something."

"Yes."

Next, Gongshan Qingyang began to explain the details required for practicing the swordplay.

The Azure Sea Swordplay has a total of nine levels. As a first-class martial art, when it is cultivated to the highest level, one will naturally generate tremendous power like surging waves in the body. It is the best family martial art for growing strength and forging the body.

Many direct lineage disciples will practice one or two levels of the Azure Sea Swordplay before practicing the peerless martial art, the Scorching Sun Melting Star Art.

"Now, watch carefully." Gongshan Qingyang pinched his hand, and a blue True Essence flew out of thin air, condensing into a pure blue long sword, which he held in his hand.

Li Cheng Yi's eyelids twitched at this move.

Just from the sword in the other party's hand, he could sense that the sword was like a super high-explosive bomb. Once it exploded, hundreds of meters around might be wiped out.

This was just an ordinary first-class martial art, and it was just a move that his sickly father casually used to teach a child, and it already had such power...

This place...is a bit strong.

"The Azure Sea Swordplay emphasizes stacking."

Gongshan Qingyang raised his sword and pointed it straight ahead.

"Its most fundamental basic sword stance is the entry stance, Gathering White Lines."

Swish!

With a flick of his wrist, the blue blade suddenly swung out a white sword light in a fan shape.

At first glance, the sword light was like a white line of waves surging from the seaside.

"This is Gathering White Lines. Only by mastering this foundation can you learn the various subsequent moves on this basis." Gongshan Qingyang dispersed the True Essence sword, and his wife handed over a wooden sword, which he gave to Li Cheng Yi.

"You try it. First, get the posture right. How to hold the sword also needs to be standard, otherwise your wrist will be permanently damaged."

Li Cheng Yi took the sword and carefully recalled the scene just now.

"It doesn't look too difficult," he said.

"It's not difficult, but you also need to practice carefully, because you need to practice until you can use this move freely from any angle and any posture," Gongshan Qingyang said with a smile.

This kid is as ambitious and likes to brag as he was back then.

You must know that it took him a full three days to completely master this move.

"Understood, I will practice hard," Li Cheng Yi nodded.

He picked up the wooden sword and began to pose, but from the beginning, his posture was wrong, and Gongshan Qingyang stepped forward to correct it.

"The Azure Sea Swordplay is a swordplay that is constantly stacked and doubled on the basis of this move. With each level up, the power doubles, the coverage area doubles, and the frontal attack power is not bad. Every time you break through a level, you will gain an increase in physical strength throughout your body, which is quite cost-effective for foundation building. So, remember not to be lazy."

"What happens when you stack to the ninth level?" Li Cheng Yi suddenly asked.

"Uh... the ninth level is naturally very powerful, but since the creation of this swordplay, no one has ever reached the eighth level, let alone the ninth level," his father replied.

"Why?"

"Because this skill has too many restrictions, the requirements for weapons are extremely high, and the difficulty of cultivation is also extremely high. Most people can't continue to practice after two or three levels. In addition, the power of the ninth level described in the swordplay is far less powerful than peerless martial arts, so everyone is naturally willing to spend their time on peerless martial arts."

Gongshan Qingyang sighed.

"After all, a person's life is only a hundred years. It takes decades to practice a martial art, and you have to start from a young age to get started. If you delay too much, your limit will be completely set for the rest of your life."

"How long does it take to cultivate to 90% perfection?" Li Cheng Yi asked again.

Gongshan Qingyang looked at his son's somewhat serious face, paused, and still answered.

"About fifty years. Even if you succeed, you will only be an ordinary first-class master whose strength is greatly reduced without a sword."

"Understood," Li Cheng Yi nodded.

"Now that you understand, let's start."

His powerful comprehension, amplified three times by Hua Yu, allowed him to understand the essence of the previous move in an instant.

But this was of little significance, because the greatest function of the foundation of the sword stance was not just to learn it, but to use it to absorb external forces, so as to integrate and temper them into one's own True Essence.

The Azure Sea Swordplay cultivates a special power called Sea Essence, which is similar to internal force, but stronger than internal force, and is gentle and tenacious, nourishes the body, and can enhance the body's recovery power and increase bone density.

This was very much to Li Cheng Yi's liking.

Only by accumulating enough Sea Essence and completing the cultivation of the corresponding sword moves can one continue to enter the next level.

Looking at it this way, the martial arts here have a kind of combination of internal and external skills in Midlante.

Soon, after learning the basic sword stance, Li Cheng Yi continued to immerse himself in practicing Gathering White Lines.

Every day after finishing his literary classes, he would go home and practice alone.

His parents would occasionally give pointers at home, but most of the time they were not around, and only the maidservants took the younger siblings to scurry around.

Time slowly passed.

More than half a month passed in a blink of an eye.

In the Gongshan family's literary class, the teacher took out a book, but instead of starting the class directly as usual, he waved to the outside.

Soon, little lolis walked in shyly and sat in the empty seats in the classroom.

Li Cheng Yi noticed that no wonder the girls in the class had been getting up and leaving one after another.

Were they making room for these little guys?

"From today onwards, new students will join our literary class. They are not from our Gongshan family, but are from other major clans of the same level who have come to exchange what they have learned. Everyone is welcome." The teacher took the lead in applauding.

All the children also applauded.

Li Cheng Yi noticed that there was a girl sitting in front of him, wearing a black waist-cinching dress, with a strange belt with a spider pattern on her waist, and her eyes were a strange purple-red.

"My name is Han Zong Di. Are you called Gongshan Zhu?" The girl was nearly ten years old and a head taller than Li Cheng Yi, but she faintly exuded a strange beast-like aura.

"Yes, do you know me?" Li Cheng Yi looked at the other party without changing his expression. He was still thinking about what concept to use as a base point to establish a dimension.

"Yes, we will get married and sleep together in the future." The girl Han Zong Di grinned, revealing a mouthful of beast-like fangs. A faint bloody smell spread from her body.

"I don't want to get married, especially not to a weak branch like you."

Branch?

Li Cheng Yi was stunned. "Aren't you a branch?" He looked at the other party.

"I am the main branch, the main branch of the Han Zong family," the girl said with a smile.

While Li Cheng Yi was talking to the girl, Gongshan Qingyang was arguing in the courtyard in front of the family ancestral hall.

"Are you crazy!!? You want me to betroth Zhu'er to that little blood beast Han Zong Di!?? Father! This shouldn't be your idea!?"

Inside the courtyard, the family's senior management, including the patriarch, were all there, and more than a dozen people gathered together, sitting on scattered chairs.

Gongshan Qingyang stood alone, his face flushed, glaring at his father and siblings.

"Han Zong Di is from the main branch. It's still a great honor for you to let her marry your Zhu'er." The eldest son, Gongshan Qinghong, picked up his teacup and took a sip gently.

"What did she do before? Why don't you mention it??! Why should my son bear this kind of risk!?" Gongshan Qingyang said angrily.

Han Zong Di had been raised by alien beasts before. After being found, she was engaged to someone, and she bit the first child she was engaged to on the spot.

The second engagement was fine because the adults were watching, but it still didn't take long before the engagement object was bitten into a serious injury and almost didn't recover.

Then came the third one, with the same result, but because they were prepared in advance, the injury was slightly lighter.

In the end, there was really no way. She had been beaten many times, and binding her was useless. The Han Zong family couldn't stand it anymore. After discovering that her bloodline had been somewhat mutated and was not pure main branch blood, they simply used her to marry the Gongshan family.

Now she was assigned to Li Cheng Yi.

"Han Zong's family only has one child of suitable age, and there is no doubt about this."

The patriarch Gongshan Rong glanced at his son. His long-standing prestige rushed out, immediately scaring Gongshan Qingyang so much that his body trembled, and he almost knelt down with weak knees.

"The other main branch children are not suitable, and the distant branches are not worthy. Your eldest son is the most suitable. Okay, next topic." Gongshan Rong said lightly. The decision was completely made.

This strong old man with long hair constantly burning like the sun and releasing dazzling light had the final say in the entire family. Once he made a decision, if anyone dared to refute him, he would be beaten severely if he was lucky, and directly expelled and his martial arts abolished if he was unlucky.

The Han Zong family didn't like Han Zong Di, but he liked this kind of personality. Moreover, Han Zong Di's bloodline aptitude was very strong, and it was enough to have face to say it. That was enough.

(End of chapter)