"Answer me, why do you practice martial arts!"

"Answer me, why do you practice martial arts!"

"Answer me, why do you practice martial arts!"

The deafening rebuke echoed in the middle of the void, Shang Zhengyu seemed to have just woken up from his memories, he shook his dizzy head, recalled all the things before, looked at the phantom of the Heavenly Sword Dongfang, and his eyes changed from blurry to resolute.

"I want to be stronger!" Shang Zhengyu replied categorically.

It is precisely because of this that he worships Bai Cangtian as his father-in-law, and it is precisely because of this that he will suffer great changes in his life after that. Bai Cangtian took him away from the village where he originally lived, taught him to practice martial arts, taught him to kill, and taught him to become a top killer of the young generation who changed color when he heard and shocked when he saw him!

The twentieth place on the original killer list, cold-faced Shura, Shang Huai'an!

"Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!"

Another deafening thunderbolt exploded, and the sword light cut out by the phantom of the Heavenly Sword Dongfang immediately converged, and the escaping sword gang immediately rubbed several blood marks on Shang Zhengyu's body, and the blood was dripping!

"Dare to ask the seniors, what is wrong with the juniors?!"

Shang Zhengyu gritted his teeth and endured the tearing pain, his eyes were still resolute, this was his answer, the answer that he had insisted on since he practiced martial arts!

"Answer me, why do you practice martial arts!"

I don't know where in the void immediately came a clear sword sound, from far and near, directly hitting Shang Zhengyu's heart, Shang Zhengyu immediately spurted out a mouthful of blood, and fell into darkness for the third time.

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Twenty years ago, in the winter, the snow was heavy and the forest was bitterly cold.

"Stop, grab him, he snatched my steamed bun!"

A group of teenagers shouted and chased after a child who was younger than them in front of him, the child in front of him was unkempt, and his clothes were so torn that they were like several thin layers of cloth hanging on his body, and they had no effect of keeping out the cold.

"Let you run!"

First, a teenager stepped up in three or two steps, and knocked the child in front of him to the ground with a punch, and then a group of teenagers swarmed up, punching and kicking the child, looking at the cruelty There was no mercy at all.

A slightly thinner teenager pulled the child up, only to find that the steamed bun was long gone, and the child's cheeks were bulging, apparently struggling to swallow something.

"Dead and leftover, you deserve that your father and mother don't want you, return the steamed buns to me!" The young man was about to reach out to open the child's mouth, but the child bit the finger that reached into his mouth fiercely, and immediately screamed. "Ahhh

"You are looking for death!" the stout boy in the lead punched the child to the ground again, and then all the teenagers beat the child again.

The child stubbornly curled up, holding the back of his head with both hands, but he still couldn't stand the rain-like fists and feet.

A burst of blood poured into his mouth, accompanied by an unbearable urge to retch, the child covered his mouth with both hands, his teeth tightened, and finally did not protrude for half a minute, and swallowed half of the steamed bun in his mouth with blood in his stomach.

Finally, it's finally swallowed.

I could have survived two more days.

This beating was not in vain.

Thinking like this, the child fainted in a daze.

That year, Shang Zhengyu was seven years old.

That year, he was still called Shang Huai'an.

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"Answer me, why do you practice martial arts!"

"Answer me, why do you practice martial arts!"

"Answer me, why do you practice martial arts!"

Heavenly Sword Dongfang's voice was still echoing in his ears, but Shang Zhengyu still fell into calm, it had been a long time, he hadn't remembered the memories of his childhood for a long time, and he still remembered that after those teenagers left, he finally got up from the snow, and his body was completely unable to exert half of his strength.

If he hadn't been lucky enough to meet a wandering monk and be taken to a temple on the mountain, I am afraid that I would have become a corpse in the snow on the side of the road in that winter.

Shang Zhengyu looked at his hands, looked at the sword light close at hand, and quietly confided the words buried in the deepest part of his heart that he almost forgot by himself.

"I just want to live. ”

The phantom of the Heavenly Sword Dongfang looked at Shang Zhengyu and couldn't see joy or sorrow. The sword light that exuded bursts of aura flew back into the distance from in front of Shang Zhengyu with a wave of his hand, and turned into that brilliant sea of light again.

Colorful and endless.

"This is your Dao heart, understand?" Heavenly Sword Dongfang's phantom turned around, as if he was about to leave.

"Senior, please wait a minute. ”

Shang Zhengyu suddenly came back to his senses and shouted at the phantom of the Heavenly Sword Dongfang that was already gradually disappearing.

"Thank you seniors for waking up, but Shang didn't dare to agree with his predecessors on this matter. ”

Whether it is to live, become strong or take revenge, these are all traces of Shang's journey from the past, but they do not represent Shang's future. ”

"Obsessed with everything, and everything that may be faced in the future, and greet their arrival with the best self, this is Shang's true authentic heart!"

"Do you want to be the number one in the world?" For no reason, the phantom of the Heavenly Sword Dongfang, who had been far away, stopped again, and even glanced back at Shang Zhengyu again.

"I don't want to!" Shang Zhengyu replied very clearly and clearly. "But Shang doesn't want to lose to anyone, including the number one in the world!"

"Hahahahaha-"

With a long laugh, the phantom of the Heavenly Sword Dongfang was finally completely gone, and with his disappearance, Shang Zhengyu suddenly felt that the world was spinning, and that familiar feeling was clearly telling him:

Came out on their own.

"Whew-"

Shang Zhengyu opened his eyes and saw a room full of people!

Dongfang Jie, Wei Changge, Nalan Shu, Jiang Cui, Xiuniang...... There are also Dongfang Ling, Dongfang Long, and Lao Sixteen who came in from outside the door......

It feels good to have escaped death.

"Brother Shang, you really scared me to death this time, do you know what happened just now?" Dongfang Jie looked at Shang Zhengyu with a serious face, as if looking at a monster: "Just now, Tundou emitted a colorful light, and then jumped out from the roof and went in the direction of Wangsui Mountain."

"Presumably the three-day period has arrived, and I didn't send the swallowing bucket to the Hidden Sword Cave on time, so the Heavenly Sword senior took it back. Shang Zhengyu smiled quite indifferently, the swallowing bucket that was originally lying flat on his lap had disappeared at this moment, would there be any other explanation.

He didn't believe anyone could steal Swallow without him knowing.

But then Wei Changge's words made Shang Zhengyu stunned immediately. "Then Brother Shang, do you know how long you have been in the sword?"

"Isn't it a day?" Shang Zhengyu's subconscious answer made everyone completely speechless.

Nalan Shu stretched out her left hand, and then felt that it was not enough, and gestured her right hand out again. "Seven days, it's been seven days since we found out that you entered the Meditation Path. ”

"That's eight days, I was going to feel it for only one day, but I didn't expect it to drag on for so long, and I earned it. Shang Zhengyu scratched the back of his head and said with a smile.

Several people looked at him and were immediately speechless. Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, but no one spoke first, but Dongfang Ling said weakly behind the crowd: "I see that Brother Shang is hungry, or ...... Eating and talking?"

"Why did I forget this, quick, hurry up and prepare a meal!" Dongfang Jie slapped his head, just in time to hear a grunt, okay, Shang Zhengyu's stomach screamed.

Shang Zhengyu looked at everyone and smiled. "I know what you want to ask, do you want to ask me what I think?"

Although they were embarrassed, everyone nodded in unison.

You know, this is an insight about kendo!

Shang Zhengyu looked at Dongfang Jie with some evil: "Brother Dongfang, I heard that you have a famous wine in Wanzhou, called 'Zhexian Wine', I don't know ......."

Dongfang Jie immediately patted his chest and said: "What I have in my house is all twenty years old, how many do you want!"

"Brother Wei, it's good to have wine, but if you can play a song......"

"Brother Shang wants to hear anything, you can say it! I will play with the embroidery girl to ensure that you are happy. ”

"Jiang Cui, I heard Rou Wei say that you are quite good at bending your waist and dancing, and you already have the eight or nine points of Liu's predecessors, I don't know ......."

"Ah, Brother Shang, you're so bad, you know this!" Jiang Cui pouted. "Then you have to promise to tell us before and after, otherwise, Jiang Cui will not follow you!"

As she spoke, Jiang Cui immediately ran up and hugged Shang Zhengyu's arm and dangled it, and her playful appearance suddenly made everyone happy.