"Child, all your efforts are in vain."

In 1946, after the Second Global War, Zhengguo, which ended the Southeast Battle and the Pacific War, began to recuperate.

And at the age of thirteen, Liu Li began to inherit the martial arts inherited from the family.

Every morning when he wakes up and before he practices early, the first thing he hears is his father's calm but not encouraging voice.

"All this is meaningless."

A father is gentle, a father is strong, and a father is never willing to speak harsh words to his children.

My father has no right arm.

The Liu family is one of the few families in the Zheng Kingdom that have inherited the complete set of spiritual martial arts tactics. This is extremely rare for most Lingwu families who lack classics due to the cut off spiritual energy and the death of successors.

Because warriors in the spiritual era are prone to die prematurely, they can survive thousands of years of war and remain intact, and have made a famous inheritance, which is enough to prove the superiority of inheritance and the excellence of the heirs.

As for the Liu family, all boys in the Liu family who have such a reputation, must start to undergo preliminary martial arts training to polish their bodies and cultivate the physical fitness required for subsequent training when they begin to develop during adolescence.

However, there is a strange tradition in the Liu family - although martial arts training is compulsory, if the children of the Liu family really want to quit and vow to never practice martial arts again in their lives, never get in touch with this teaching, and always give up the family's inheritance forever, then they can no longer inherit the family's martial arts and become an ordinary person.

No one will despise people who quit. Everyone thinks this is a normal choice, just as some people like to eat durian, while others don’t like it.

Since that's the case, then don't force it.

In fact, before Liu Li, his cousins ​​gave up the path of martial arts because they could not stand the hard martial arts training.

But Liu Li is different.

"Good morning, father."

Every morning, when he just woke up, after hearing his father's calm voice, he always replied in the same calm voice: "What is the morning training?"

Liu Li actually didn't understand why there was such a tradition in the family, and why his father, who never spoke harshly, always looked for opportunities to attack him in the morning, saying that all this was meaningless and futile...

But it doesn't matter, he never takes it to heart anyway.

Liu Li is very heartful and forgetful about bad moods. This may be a talent for martial arts, which can make him always calm and focused on training, day after day.

The martial arts inherited by the Liu family are not mysterious, but they are not simple. Even if they can only practice and guide them in the era of no spirit, if they want to learn them perfectly, they will need to practice hard day and night for more than ten years to achieve success.

After all, this is not a simple move routine, there are also many contents for cultivating the body, many of which exceed the limits of the human body, and most of them should be something that can only be practiced normally when you have spiritual power.

The spiritual energy is cut off, and many originally simple physical strengthening processes can only be achieved through hard practice day after day, so that the initial guidance process that geniuses can only take a few days to complete can consume decades of ordinary materials.

Many people, most of the Liu family's children, quit because they could not bear it in the middle of training. In Liu Li's generation, there were only two people who insisted on learning, himself, and his cousin who was also stubborn.

Unlike Liu Li who regards martial arts as a very difficult hobby, this cousin insists on practicing martial arts because of his simple rebellious psychology.

——You don’t let me learn, think it’s futile to learn martial arts? I just want to practice martial arts and achieve something for you to show!

The hard martial arts process accompanied the two children through their childhood.

Run with weight, swing your fists and swords, exercise your steps, master balance, breathe, meditate and refine your spirits...

While the other children were playing, the two teenagers spent every spare time in the training room, every weekend afternoon.

"You can't fight for the strong and win, you can't use martial arts on other ordinary people, you can't think you are strong, and you can bully the weak."

My father at that time always warned Liu Li like this.

['Martial Arts' is a tool for the weak to hit the stronger ones, and'Martial Arts' is the ladder used by the strong to challenge the higher peaks.'Martial Arts should not be used on the weak ones. This behavior is a humiliation of the word'mart'].

Liu Li has always been a good boy. He felt that what his father said was right, and he shouldn't have done this.

After all, for him, martial arts is just a hobby. As long as no one is bullying him, he will naturally not use his interests and hobbies to bully others, just like no one wants to bully others with the erhu.

--indeed.

When punching the weak, you also need to use skills, use the muscles that have been trained for a long time, and use the skills that have soaked his sweat for so many years in the cold and summer...

This kind of thing really insults his fists.

As time goes by, Liu Li continues to grow older and he is also proficient in martial arts.

Soon, 1952.

When Liu Li was nineteen years old, his one-armed father stood in the training ground and sighed.

"I have nothing to teach you."

Some lonely men said this: "As long as you continue to hone your boxing skills, maintain your own state, occasionally discuss with your cousin, and increase your practical experience, you should be able to successfully reach the level of a master and become a teacher who can establish a sect and teach martial arts."

"In this era, you have reached the extreme - if you move up, you will have no way."

“Just a master?”

Liu Li, who received such an evaluation, was so confused at the time, and even asked with a hint of dissatisfaction: "Is there no stronger realm? I think I can still become stronger, not just that."

Until now, sixty-seven years later, Liu Li still remembers the slightly sad look when his father touched his missing right arm.

"Liu Li, this effort is futile."

"In such an era, practicing martial arts is meaningless."

The father never lies. The father never deceives. The father never exaggerates his son.

My father always only tells the truth.

Liu Li knew that what his father said was correct at all.

His ten-year practice of hard work was indeed futile in a sense.

Because this world has the existence of "technology".

Because in this world, there is a "gun".

same.

Because there was once the existence of the "Extraordinary".

Because there was once the existence of "spiritual energy" in this world.

After adulthood, Liu Li, who graduated from a B-level academy, was not easy to find a job due to professional reasons. The same is true for his cousin, who is half a year younger than him. The two were at home and went for interviews from time to time to see if they could have good luck and hired him in a company that urgently needed people.

The Second Global War ended and the world economy was extremely prosperous. Theoretically, even if a beggar who didn't know anything came to the city, it would not be difficult to find a job.

However, the two seemed to be unlucky. They were obviously graduates from the academy, but they couldn't find a position that met their requirements.

And one day, Liu Li, who was returning home from the job hunting site, heard a conversation between his father and a strange man.

"No, at least I don't agree. Our Liu family has shed too much blood during the war and will not continue!"

The father's tone was heavy, and even a little reproachful tone said: "Don't come again - don't pull the younger generation into this world again!"

"Don't you understand? In this era without spiritual energy, what is the difference between those who have no awakening martial arts practitioners facing guns in front of those talented people and ordinary people with bare hands and empty fists?"

"...I understand what you mean. OK, I won't come again."

The man who replied seemed a little inappropriate and ashamed. After hearing his father's harsh refusal, he even breathed a sigh of relief, and then picked up his hat and prepared to leave.

When the man opened the door and saw Liu Li, he was stunned for a moment.

"Such a good martial arts seed..." he murmured in a low voice.

Liu Li happened to see his father's sad and helpless expression through the opened door.

"What are you talking about? Why is the atmosphere so stiff?" Liu Lishun joked at that time, wanting to liven up the atmosphere.

But he didn't expect that this was the beginning of his journey of no return.

Since the young and ignorant young Liu Li became a member of the National Security Bureau and then the leader of the special operations team. He then practiced and fought all the way, shining in the energy war in the middle of the First World Island, gradually becoming a national commander, and then becoming a national commander. It has been a full sixty-seven years since he was a member of the National Security Bureau.

Sixty-seven years is twice the average life expectancy of the civilians in the human dynasty two thousand years ago.

Sixty-seven years are enough to make a young man who has just become a master of martial arts, advance to a higher level, and have a lot of disciples and grandchildren, and have a huge inheritance. It is enough to make a master of martial arts age and live up to his own prosperity, and even unable to hold his chopsticks.

Sixty-seven years are enough for people to experience a long life, separation from life and death, and indelible love and hatred arise in their hearts, or to see through everything and watch the life, death, decline and prosperity of all things in the world indifferently.

In sixty-seven years, the regretful father passed away, the gentle and loving mother passed away. Even the cousin who practiced martial arts together died because of open and secret struggles and spy operations among extraordinary people from various countries during the energy war.

During these sixty-seven years, I gradually became an old man with almost no companions, walking lonely on my own path.

After such a long time, Liu Li had clearly understood the meaning of what his father said back then.

Indeed, his efforts were indeed futile at that time.

This world exists only after the ability of "awakening", and can surpass human limits by the body alone.

Just like the strongest man on Earth who awakened Yinglong's blood and Zhuzhou's blood, at the beginning of his awakening, he surpassed the power of ordinary humans to train hard throughout his life. Even if ordinary people want to snatch him naked, they will be directly shattered by his swelling muscles.

The skill is meaningful? He punched the force without any effect. He directly made a hole for someone. He grabbed it with one hand and could crush the thigh bones directly. The parry was just to provide the other party with a target.

Holding a gun is even more of a joke. In the eyes of such people, what is the difference between bullets and faster paper airplanes?

When facing these monsters, you must not treat them as humans. You must do your best and you must not despise them just because the other party has not practiced skills.

This is how my cousin died. He forgot the essence of martial arts and forgot that "martial arts" is a tool for the weak to fight against the strong, a tool created by humans with weak power, in order to fight against other naturally stronger people, stronger beasts, and even stronger practitioners.

He forgot the motto of [using one's strengths, attacking the enemy's weaknesses].

Martial arts can make the weak resist the strong, and can also make the strong stronger.

But facing genius cultivators who can withstand bullets with muscles, distort steel with thoughts, and can resist small-scale troops with one's own strength. Even in the age of no spirit, they can force themselves to rely on their talents, achieve some results in their practice, and reach the realm of awakening.

The tool of Wu is too fragile for ordinary people.

Thinking of this.

In 2019, Zhengguo, Qingzhou, and Jiuxuan Realm Time and Space Sect.

Due to the fluctuations of the time and space gate, endless spiritual energy swept again, and the two spiritual tides collided, forming a huge whirlwind, turning the entire Qingzhou Plain into a haze sky with dust.

The strong old man who had grown white hair in front of the space-time gate but was unwilling to turn it black stood in front of the huge space-time crack with his hands behind his back.

His eyes were distant, as if he had recalled the past.

And in front of him, there were constant fluctuations, and many intentions were traveling from the different time and space realms to reach the "Immortal Heaven" Hongwang and his Hongtian Guard.

Liu Li recalled many things. He recalled that his cousin, in the middle of the World Island, fought against an unknown foreign extraordinary organization. After knocking down more than a dozen ordinary cultivators, he was tremblingly powerful and controlled the thunder and fire.
To be continued...