“Alas,“ Zhang Zhengli let out a long sigh, but then a smile appeared on his face, ‘I thought I was a dead man, but I never expected that a noble person would appear from the sky and give me hope.’
”Master, how long will it take for you to recover?“ Lu Wei asked with joy in his heart.
”You will be able to use two-thirds of your strength after ten days, and you will be completely recovered after twenty days. Wei’er, that young boy is not someone to be trifled with. If you follow him, you will definitely achieve great things in the future.”
“I don’t see anything special about him,“ the young man said with a scoff.
”In the future, you will know.” The old man slowly closed his eyes and began to practice his qigong to heal his injury.
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Lu Weixian, a descendant of Lu Da, a founding hero of the Chu Huai Kingdom. Back then, Lu Da’s fearsome reputation and peerless martial arts skills, which included a sword that could swallow the sky and destroy the sun, struck fear into the hearts of his enemies. The emperor of the Empire of the Setting Sun, Qiu Rifang, once lamented, “If I had Lu Da, I would have unified the continent by now.” Back then, it was Lu Da who led the army that stopped the 800,000-strong army of the Empire of the Setting Sun from crossing the river with just 400,000 troops at Qinghe.
However, seven generations later, the Lu family began to decline. By the time of Lu Weixian’s grandfather’s generation, the family was already extremely poor. When Lu Weixian was seven years old, his father died of an unexpected illness. It was only with his mother’s needlework that he was able to raise him. When he was 12 years old, his mother finally fell ill due to overwork. The old man next door told him that his mother’s illness was not serious and that she would be fine as long as she could eat well for a while. After hearing this, Xiaowei went straight out into the street to beg, but no one gave him anything all day. Out of desperation, Xiaowei first stole a few buns from a bakery as he passed by and ran away. However, he was discovered and chased after. Xiaowei refused to let go of the buns in his hands, hiding them under his body. Although he was beaten up and his face was bruised, he still hunched his back, afraid of crushing the buns under him. At that moment, Zhang Zhengli, who was passing by, couldn’t bear to watch and stopped the man who was beating Xiaowei. He paid for Xiaowei and
Zhang Zhengli helped Xiaowei Xian get up from the ground first, and after asking about the cause and effect of the incident, he was moved by Xiaowei Xian’s filial piety. Coupled with Xiaowei Xian’s innate outstanding talent and his diligent practice of the family’s breathing method, Zhang Zhengli was moved to take him as a disciple. He stayed at Xiaowei Xian’s house for one and a half years, and led Xiaowei Xian into the hall of martial arts. Six months after Zhang Zhengli left, Lu Weixian’s mother finally died from overwork, so Lu Weixian went to a car dealership and got a job sweeping the floor.