"No need for that. We help each other and owe each other nothing!"
Hongmeng Daoist said with a sigh of relief.
"Now that this matter is settled, I'm leaving!"
After glancing at the enormous inner world, Xiao Ning decided to leave.
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Chapter 1 Departure
The world of stellar transformation, the primordial chaos.
In the center of the endless chaos, there floated a piece of land several tens of feet in diameter. On this land, there was a thatched hut. In front of the hut grew a thick, low osmanthus tree. Under the osmanthus tree was a stone table and two or three stone stools.
A middle-aged man dressed in a simple linen robe, with his long hair casually draped over his shoulders, sat at one end of the table with a smile on his face.
At the other end sat a tall, slender young man with an imposing presence, who remained silent.
"Thank you, fellow Daoist. My inner world has grown into a middle-thousand world!"
Xiao Ning sat at the other end, slowly opened his eyes, and looked away from his inner world at the two of them.
"Haha, that's good. The future development will depend on you, fellow Daoist!"
Harmony waved his hand and laughed.
"With this matter concluded, Xiao Ning takes his leave!"
With everything settled, Xiao Ning immediately felt the urge to leave.
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The Great Li Dynasty, Longyuan River.
The river flows endlessly, vast and boundless, as if a ten-thousand-foot-long dragon were lurking at the bottom of the river.
This is one of the most important rivers in the territory of the Dali Dynasty, stretching for tens of thousands of miles. Its waters are vast and its waves crash against the shore. It flows past the Longyuan Province, from which the province is named.
From afar, the Longyuan River resembles a giant black dragon coiled on the earth, majestic and grand, fully displaying the glory of the Water element.
The bright moon moved through the lotus-shaped clouds, and the night breeze rustled through the reeds, adding to the beautiful atmosphere.
At this moment, in the reeds, there was a boy of about fifteen or sixteen years old, who was constantly making various movements, as if he were practicing some kind of cultivation method.
To better train his physical strength, he strapped several sandbags to his body and ran, jumped, and rolled around, trying to make his limbs and waist strong and powerful.
The boy's name is Fang Han, and he comes from the Fang family, the most powerful family in Longyuan Province!
The head of the Fang family is the governor of Longyuan Province. There are rumors that the ancestors of the Fang family came from the Yuhua Sect, one of the ten major sects of immortality, and later followed Emperor Taizu Wu of the Dali Dynasty to pacify the world.
Longyuan Province, a place where a dragon lies hidden in the abyss, was originally the capital of the previous dynasty.
After the founding of the Dali Dynasty, it originally intended to establish its capital here, but the land of Longyuan was too humid, so the idea of making it the capital was eventually abandoned.
The Great Li Dynasty was ruled by the element of fire, and its element was fire.
Because it was suppressed by water, it was not suitable to establish the capital in Longyuan, so the capital was established in the south, in the "Lijing".
However, the imperial court handed over the control of this former capital, Longyuan Province, to the Fang family.
This demonstrates the court's trust in the Fang family, and also reveals the immense power of the Fang family.
However, no matter how powerful the Fang family is, it has nothing to do with Fang Han.
Because Fang Han was merely a servant of the Fang family.
His father was a servant in the Fang family, so he was destined to be a servant of the Fang family from birth.
Even his descendants would serve the Fang family for generations to come.
However, Fang Han didn't want things to continue like this.
He was tired of living a life of inferiority and servitude.
From a young age, his father told him, "It is better to be a beggar than a slave."
Therefore, he wanted to change his fate.
How difficult is it to defy fate and change one's destiny?
Therefore, Fang Han could only keep his thoughts to himself all along.
However, just a month ago, he accidentally discovered a sewer that led directly to the silt beneath the artificial hills in the Fang family's inner courtyard.
The Fang family's inner courtyard is where the Fang family's disciples learn martial arts.
He needs power to change his fate.
So, disregarding everything, he risked sneaking into the inner courtyard to secretly learn martial arts.
It's hard to imagine that a lowly servant could sneak into the inner palace and steal the martial arts secrets of his master.
If the master finds out, there is only one way out: death!
This behavior can be described as extremely audacious and reckless, showing an extreme fearlessness of death.
Fortunately, Fang Han was quite lucky. After a month, he finally figured out the general situation of the path of cultivation.