C1 A Teenager in the Dragon Lake

Dragon Abyss Swamp — The ancient Wasteland that was sealed here was something no one knew about. Countless gigantic mountain ranges criss-crossed each other. Ancient trees towered above the earth, and the howls of tigers and apes could be heard everywhere. The overgrown shrubs, the flowing ancient river, the running Ancient Beast, the thick Vine hanging from the ancient tree, it was all a scene of primordial history.

In the eastern part of the Wasteland, there was an extremely mysterious region, which was covered by fog all year round. Seated at the foot of a small mountain range that was around five kilometers to the east of that area was a small village that was about forty odd families — — Yuan Loong Ancient Village.

The Yuan Loong Ancient Village was located within the Ancient Desolation Mountain Range. The surrounding mountains were towering and boundless like an endless sea.

Early in the morning, when the sun had just risen and the essence energy of the world was dense, it was the best time of the day.

The morning light scattered down, enveloping the small village that only had forty or so households. In the center of the village, there was a square altar that was particularly eye-catching. It was especially so for the broken stone tablet.

The houses in the village were built side by side. Only a small hut broke the pattern and was built on the edge of the village. It was about a hundred meters away from the rest of the houses.

The hut was built against a small bamboo forest. At this moment, in the forest, there was a skinny boy with a bare upper body. He was holding a stone block that weighed several dozen kilograms with both hands and waving his arms. He was currently working hard to improve his physique.

The youth looked to be around twelve years old. His face had a sickly paleness, but his eyes were bright and clear. His black hair was dense, and his small face was filled with determination and tenacity.

As he waved his arms, sweat poured down the young man's body like rain. His chest heaved up and down as he panted heavily. The most eye-catching thing was that there were two intersecting vicious scars on his lower abdomen and back. They were over half a foot long, and were extremely shocking to look at.

"Phew —" The youngster gasped for breath. He was already exhausted, so he sat down on his butt. His hands grabbed the ground, and his fingertips dug into the dirt. Veins throbbed on his forehead. His heart was filled with indignation and unwillingness. He hated himself for not being able to compare to the most ordinary of people with such a weak physique!

In the village, a group of youths were cultivating and reaching the foundation of the Body Refinement Realm. They ranged from seven to thirteen years old, and some wore coarse clothes, while others wore beast skin clothing.

"Hey!"

A teenager rushed to the center of the village, grabbed a stone block the size of a wooden basin with one hand and raised it above his head in one breath. He was only about seven years old and was smaller than the rest of the teenagers, but his arm strength was astonishing.

The stone block was about the size of three hundred Jin. A seven year old boy was able to easily lift it over his head with just one arm. This kind of physique was considered outstanding among all the youngsters in the village.

"Oh? Snot Baby, you can actually lift a 300 Jin stone block so easily. You're quite amazing." A thirteen year old young man wearing beast skin clothes jokingly laughed. When the rest of the youths heard this, all of them loudly laughed.

"I can lift a three-hundred-pound stone block long ago, okay?" Snot Baby wiped her mucus with her hand and snorted. Her face turned red uncontrollably. She had been ridiculed by her friends for the past few years regarding the runny nose.

"Hahaha, watch me!" That youth wearing beast skin clothes laughed loudly as he walked over. He grabbed the several thousand jin stone block in front of him, and with a light shake of his arm, muscles bulged out.

"Brother Er Hu is becoming more and more powerful. In a year, I think I'll be able to go with Uncle Hu and the rest to the desolate forest to hunt ferocious beasts." The group of children looked at Er Huzi with envy. They were very curious about the world outside the village.

In front of a small thatched cottage near the village, the skinny boy raised his pale face and silently looked at them, his eyes full of longing. He wished that he could be like Er Huzi, able to lift thousands of pounds of stones with a wave of his arm.

Chu Feng knew that it would be too difficult for him to have that kind of power. In these two years, he had been training his body every day. However, his weakened Qi and blood condition did not change at all. It was impossible for him to completely build his body and reach the first level of the Refinement Realm.

Chu Feng didn't understand why his body was so weak, it couldn't even compare to the most ordinary of people! He slowly lowered his head and looked at the sinister scar on his abdomen. He had a feeling that his condition was related to these scars.

In this vast Wasteland, if any child were to grow up to be a teenager, their strength would at least be a thousand kilograms. In comparison, Chu Feng was truly powerless. His weak physique was almost impossible to see within this Wasteland, and could be said to be one in a million.

In the Wasteland, the people were valiant and hunted for a living for generations. The strong physique was the foundation of survival. In the eyes of the villagers, Chu Feng's frail body would never be able to go out hunting with his seniors. He would have to rely on the villagers to keep him alive until he died of old age.

During the past two years, Chu Feng would try his best to recall the memories of the scars on his lower abdomen and back whenever it was late at night. However, no matter how hard Chu Feng tried to remember, the memories of the past were all blurry.

Two years ago, when Chu Feng woke up from his coma, his memory also started from that time. In other words, he couldn't remember anything from before.

It was precisely because of this unknown situation that Chu Feng felt even more nervous. However, he knew that his body had most likely undergone some kind of special change. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been so ridiculously weak.

In these two years, Chu Feng's strength, including that of the village's women, couldn't be compared. He couldn't help being mocked and ridiculed by others. He had had enough of this kind of life!

"My body... I don't want to be looked down upon by others, and I don't want my mother to silently endure the gossip of others because of me! " Chu Feng clenched his fists until his knuckles turned white. He gritted his teeth as a sharp line appeared on his face. He repeated this to himself over and over again in his heart.

"You bunch of brats, hurry up and train!" At this moment, a rough voice suddenly rang out like a clap of thunder. A burly, tanned middle-aged man came to the village empty space. He fiercely glared at the teasing children and shouted, "Hurry up and practice for laozi, otherwise your butts will be slapped into eighteen pieces!"

"Tch!" Snot Baby curled her lips and whispered, "Uncle Hu is only talking a little bit less. If you really dare to hit me, my father will definitely not let you off."

"Little bastard …" The middle-aged man's facial muscles twitched. He waved his palm and shouted, "Snot Baby, do you believe that your father will be the first one to make an example out of you?!"

Snot Baby's neck shrunk as she sucked in the two strands of snot from her lips and quickly retreated into the crowd, not saying another word. When the other children saw this, they all burst into laughter.

"What are you laughing at!" The middle-aged man, Hu Yi, glared and shouted: "Show off well today, people from the Lee Mountain Clan will come to our village to inspect later. If you perform well, and get favored by the Lee Mountain Clan people, you might get the chance to cultivate in a big clan a year from now. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity, not only will you have boundless prospects, you will also be able to protect our village. If anyone disgraces our village in a bit, I, your father, will smash their butt into pieces! "

"Ah!" Uncle Hu, you aren't lying to us? The people from Lee Mountain Clan are coming? " The youngsters were all extremely shocked and excited. Their eyes were all filled with yearning and anticipation.

In front of the thatched cottage at the edge of the village, Chu Feng was also stunned when he heard Hu Yi's words. He was the same age as his other children, filled with curiosity and yearning towards Lee Mountain Clan. Because Lee Mountain Clan was a large clan, it was at least a colossus to people with Yuan Loong Ancient Village. With a population of several tens of thousands, it possessed many powerful experts.

Yuan Loong Ancient Village and the surrounding villages that were a few hundred kilometers in radius were mostly under the jurisdiction of Lee Mountain Clan. Chu Feng had often heard people in the village talking about how people within the Lee Mountain Clan lived a life of luxury and food. They never had to worry about food because they had a lot of strong people who could easily kill large ferocious beasts.

"Body Refinement Secret Stage is mainly focused on stimulating one's own potential and training the body. The morning sun has just risen and the essence energy within is pure. This is the best time for cultivation and should not be wasted! " The middle-aged man said seriously, his voice was full of energy, very imposing, "First level of body building, second level of flesh and blood refinement, third level of muscles and bones refinement, fourth level of meridians refinement, fifth level of organs refinement. With every increase of one level, one arm would gain 2000 pounds of strength. Reaching the fifth stage of the Body Refinement Secret Stage meant that one's arm would have at least ten thousand kilograms of strength. Those with strong physiques could reach fifteen thousand kilograms of strength with a single arm during the fifth stage of the Body Refinement Secret Stage. I hope one day, some of you will also be able to reach the peak of the fifth stage with one arm strength of 15,000 Jin, to give us face with our Yuan Loong Ancient Village! "

Er Huzi raised his tanned face and patted his chest with a face full of confidence: "Dad! When I reach the peak of the fifth level of the Refinement Realm, my one arm will definitely have fifteen thousand kilograms of power, and then, I'll let those Chai Village fellows know how powerful I am! "

"Huh? Brother Erhu is bragging. No one in a hundred li or so has been able to reach fifteen thousand Jin in one arm." Snot Baby sneered and suddenly thought of something. She stuck out her tongue to lick her nose and whispered, "If Brother Chu Feng hadn't been injured, with his physique, he would have easily reached this standard, but …"

Hearing Snot Baby's words, most of the children present became silent. Regret and sympathy emerged on their faces. A few people sneered, one of them who was the same age as Er Huzi said with a disdainful tone, "A cripple is a cripple, so what if his blood was strong in the past, that's all in the past. The fact is, he can't cultivate now, any woman in our village is stronger than him."

"Yeah, I really don't know why we have to provide them with things. It would be better to feed them to the dogs, what a waste!"

"Sigh, who told me to have such a beautiful and peerless mother? Furthermore, her background is miserable, so naturally, I can get sympathy for her."

"Look, Chu Feng obviously can't cultivate, but he still pretends to train his body every day. "What are you pretending for, I just want my seniors to give him some of the spirit medicine they gathered while hunting."

"Someone like him wants to waste spiritual medicine. Isn't it a complete waste of heaven's treasure?" "It would be better to die than to live off of someone else's help. If I were him, I would have long run into his head and killed him. How would I have the face to live on in this world? This is such a disgrace to our village …"

A few teenagers didn't like weak bodies like Chu Feng. They thought he had humiliated the village and even wasted food. His words were sharp and his voice was loud, so it naturally reached Chu Feng's ears.

When Er Huzi and Snot Baby heard this, they glared at each other and said angrily, "You guys are too much. Wu Tie has already done it, and you guys don't even have any sympathy. How dare you mock him!"

On the other side, the stone block in Chu Feng's hand fell to the ground with a bang. The words of ridicule and ridicule were like needles piercing his heart. But at the same time, his heart surged with great waves, because this was the first time he heard someone talk about his bloodline!

All these years, Chu Feng had been facing too many mockery, ridicule and contempt. Although he was angry, he did not have the strength to fight back. He could only grit his teeth, bend his bones and bear it in silence.

Every time he heard this ridicule and ridicule, Chu Feng would wonder if he could lift thousands of pounds with one arm, would the other boys of the same age mock him like this? In the end, it was because he was too weak. In this people's valiant Wasteland, if he wanted to live with dignity, he had to possess great strength!

"What exactly is my bloodline? What happened two years ago?" "Why would they say that my bloodline was powerful in the past …" Chu Feng clenched his fists tightly. At this moment, he seemed to have seen a glimmer of hope. At the same time, he was extremely eager to know what had happened to him!

"Er Huzi, I really don't know what you guys are thinking. He is clearly a cripple that has lost face for our village, and yet you still want to protect him. Could it be that just because of his miserable background, he has been living here for years without food?"

"Even if the food he's been given all these years is to raise a dog, he can still guard the house and call it a dog. Raising such a useless person is not as good as raising a dog."

"All of you shut up!" Hu Yi shouted with an ugly expression. His eyes were like bronze bells and his anger was about to burst out. He was like an angry lion, scaring the other ridiculing youths so much that their faces turned pale and they went silent.

After the group of children had all quieted down, Hu Yi let out a deep sigh. He turned around and looked at the edge of the village. His gaze fell on Chu Feng, who was waving his arm with the stone block in his hand, and a trace of sadness flashed across his eyes. He was very clear about what happened to Chu Feng. It was simply too tragic that no one would be able to bear to witness it.