Chapter 1

A piercing pain shot through Tang Chun, and he woke up.

*Slap...*

He saw a whip flash before his eyes, and another deep, bone-deep lash appeared on his body, naturally adding another terrifying, deep blood groove. Tang Chun glanced at himself and realized he was completely naked.

Moreover, his body was crisscrossed with wounds, making a gruesome sight. His body was covered with large, bead-like drops of blood, as if adorned with tiny, bright red lanterns.

He had clearly been admiring the strange red line in the sky over a quadrangle courtyard in Yanjing City, Huaxia. According to astronomers, it was a comet with a tail colliding with Earth. However, suddenly, the sky turned dark, and the fiery line in the sky bizarrely curved and headed straight for him.

The speed was indescribable. The sky turned dark, and when he woke up, he was being whipped.

He glanced forward and was startled. He saw a huge, intricately carved bed, about three meters wide, reminiscent of the dragon and phoenix bed used by the empresses in the Qing Dynasty.

On the bed sat a beautiful girl in white, with a princess hairstyle and eyebrows as clear and bright as the crescent moon in the sky. Her attire was very similar to that of a proud and unrivaled princess in the palace.

However, at this moment, she was as cold as ice, her eyes filled with extreme anger, and she was grinding her teeth.

"Whip, whip, whip..." the girl shouted.

*Slap, slap, slap...*

A strong man next to her swung a whip soaked in salt water and chili water, fiercely lashing Tang Chun again.

As the intense pain struck again, Tang Chun's mind quickly circled back, and he finally had some idea. It seemed he had hit a stroke of luck and was reborn in the body of a noble named Tang Chun.

His father, Tang Xin, was the Marquis of Nandu, who had been fighting on the border for years. This country was called the Great Yu Dynasty, and the vast Langzhou Prefecture was his father's fief. Although it was just one prefecture, in the Great Yu Dynasty, a prefecture was equivalent to a large city.

Of course, the Great Yu Dynasty was vast, with a territory roughly the size of twenty United States.

The woman sitting on the bed with a cold expression was indeed a real princess, the Third Princess of the Great Yu Dynasty, named Luo Qingchen.

Tang Xin was also a prominent figure in the Great Yu Dynasty. When Luo Qingchen was three years old, King Luo Tenghai of Yu had betrothed her to Tang Chun, thus setting a childhood marriage.

Of course, Tang Chun understood that this was just a means for the royal family to win over his father. In the Great Yu Dynasty, this phenomenon was quite common, especially since the Great Yu Dynasty had many princesses.

Tang Chun had always been weak. In a country where martial arts were prevalent, not knowing martial arts was a tragedy. At sixteen, he had only reached the early Second Rank.

This was a very low level, meaning he could only break two large green bricks stacked together. In the martial artists of the Great Yu Dynasty, this was the lowest level.

For a man of Tang Xin's status, a Third Rank Marquis of the Great Yu Dynasty, to have a son who had only reached the early Second Rank was a great embarrassment.

Even a stable boy in the Tang family had the strength of the Second Rank. Therefore, the title of "a tiger father and a dog son" was honorably bestowed upon the Tang family. The minimum standard for recruitment into the army was the early Second Rank.

Thus, this "bad" news reached the ears of his fiancée, Luo Qingchen, in the capital. Hearing that her future husband was such a weakling, Luo Qingchen naturally felt depressed.

Without high-level martial arts, it meant that she would become a laughingstock in the Great Yu Dynasty, be ridiculed by her siblings, and lose her prestigious status and position.

In the Great Yu Dynasty, martial arts were the main focus. If the prince consort could not have high-level martial arts, it meant he could not contribute to the country's battles. If he was not good at martial arts but excelled in literature, it would still be acceptable.

The Great Yu Dynasty also had civil officials, but Tang Chun was not good at either. He had not even passed the examination for a child scholar.

The lowest threshold for the literary examination was a child scholar, with a selection rate of one in a hundred. Passing the child scholar examination was the first step to becoming a tribute scholar, with a selection rate of one in a thousand. Tribute scholars had a certain status, while child scholars only had the ticket to become a civil official.

Tribute scholars were basically at the threshold of the government. The next step was the provincial examination, with a selection rate of one in ten thousand. Finally, passing the imperial examination allowed one to enter the government. Of course, there were many intricacies involved, but that's a different story.

This was a matter concerning her future happiness, so the Third Princess, Luo Qingchen, brought her entourage to personally assess Tang Chun's abilities.

It was said that the Third Princess wanted to cancel the marriage. However, King Luo Tenghai did not immediately agree, so the Third Princess wanted to gather evidence to persuade her father to annul the marriage. When Tang Xin heard that the princess was coming, he repeatedly instructed Tang Chun to be prepared.

He made Tang Chun repeatedly recite texts like the "Three-Character Classic," "Historical Studies," and "Autumn Gate Military Strategy," supervised by people around the clock. Unfortunately, Tang Chun was not cut out for studying. After a few days of intense effort, he barely managed to memorize a few articles, nearly driving his father to despair.

However, although Tang Chun was not good at either literature or martial arts, he had the audacity to secretly put aphrodisiacs in the Third Princess's bowl during the grand banquet set by Tang Xin. In the heat of the moment, he almost "consummated" the marriage on this large bed.

However, Tang Chun realized that he would not dare to do such a thing. Someone must have played a dirty trick on him, making him the victim—wrongfully accused.

But without evidence, he was now being whipped by the Third Princess. His future was unimaginable. After taking over the memories of this Tang Chun from the Great Yu Dynasty, he glanced at the bed.

Indeed, the bed sheets were in a mess, as if they had just been through a battle. Sitting on the bed, grinding her teeth, was his future beautiful and elegant wife, the Third Princess, Luo Qingchen.

The truth could not be hidden. After the incident, Tang Xin came to beg for forgiveness, leading all the core members of the Tang family to kneel outside. Tang Xin held the imperial sword, a top-grade treasure, high above his head.

"Rogue son, you have offended the sacred body of the princess. Please, Princess, use this sword to behead the rogue son here. I, Tang Xin, will request a reduction in rank and salary from my king. But please, Princess, consider my loyalty to the dynasty and spare the other members of the Tang family. The rogue son deserves to die a thousand deaths..." Tang Xin called out, his heart bleeding.

"Death is too easy for him. I want to torture him for three days and three nights before he dies," Luo Qingchen's voice came, making all the Tang family members shudder. Soon, with the sound of whips, Tang Chun became a living blood person.

"Princess, beheading him is too easy for this traitor. Why not castrate him and hang him in the palace for evil birds to peck at? And don't let them finish in one day. Let them slowly peck away at his flesh, tendons, and blood vessels until they reach his brain," the eunuch Liang Man, who accompanied the Third Princess, suggested.

All the Tang family members outside heard this and felt a chill. Some even soiled themselves without realizing it.

"Better yet, throw this rebel into a pile of starving dogs and let them tear him apart. As long as his flesh is not completely torn, we will use special methods to protect his heart. Let the dogs eat all his flesh and even crush and suck the bones dry. And let this dog see his own white bones," the Third Princess's wet nurse, Tian Juhua, said.

"Damn, you can come up with such a despicable idea," Tang Chun cursed in his heart.

"Protecting the heart, that's a good idea," Luo Qingchen said, biting her lip.

At this moment, two strong, middle-aged men in purple entered. One of them held a silver tray with a sharp, gleaming dagger.

"Princess, I will slowly castrate this boy, severing his roots so that he cannot even have children in his next life," the middle-aged man bowed, and with a flash, the dagger was drawn to Tang Chun's crotch.

Tang Chun knew these two were the so-called royal guards of the Purple Cloak Guard, who were all experts, requiring at least a Tenth Rank to qualify.

These guards protected the most core members of the royal family, and there was a special organization in the palace called the Purple Cloak Guard, which handled major martial affairs.

The royal guards were the elite of the Purple Cloak Guard, similar to the black-suited, cold-blooded bodyguards in the Huaxia Garden. The Purple Cloak Guard was equivalent to a special forces unit like the Dragon Group in modern Huaxia.

"Wait!" Tang Chun suddenly raised his hand and shouted, but naturally, he was slapped by the stern, fat-faced royal guard, and his face immediately swelled.

"What do you have to say?" the Third Princess, Luo Qingchen, coldly glanced at Tang Chun and asked.

"Give me three years. I, Tang Chun, will go to the battlefield to serve the country. If I cannot return with the rank of a Fifth Rank General within three years, you can do whatever you want to me," Tang Chun shouted, using a provocation tactic.

"Ha ha ha..."

Tang Chun's words naturally caused laughter in the hall, and Tang Xin, kneeling by the door, frowned.

"With your current weak Second Rank, you think you can become a Fifth Rank General? That's a joke."

"Tang Chun, you must be delirious. A Fifth Rank General is a position of great prestige, requiring at least an Eighth Rank in martial arts. Moreover, one must have significant military achievements. You would be finished in two moves on the battlefield, disgracing the Great Yu Dynasty," a thin-faced guard sneered.

"If the princess dares not take the bet, then please proceed immediately. I know you don't want to marry me, so you want to get rid of me early. If you don't even have the courage to take this bet, you are not worthy of being the Third Princess of the Great Yu Dynasty," Tang Chun intensified his provocation.

"Ha ha ha..." Luo Qingchen's laughter echoed through the room, reaching the heavens. It was said that Luo Qingchen came from the 'Mountain Support Sect' of the Great Yu Dynasty.

The Mountain Support Sect was one of the top ten sects among the hundreds of sects in the Great Yu Dynasty. It was said to have thousands of disciples, and the Grand Elder, Tie Fei, had reached the 'Qi Tong' realm.

What is the 'Qi Tong' realm? It means using qi to communicate with the divine. With a single breath, one can glide for seven to eight kilometers. A single palm can destroy a tree that requires ten people to encircle it, and from a distance of several hundred meters, one can control qi to kill with a sword.

The martial arts realm in this world, from low to high, starts with the First Rank, and before the innate realm, there are twelve ranks. The innate realm is a huge threshold. Among ten thousand martial artists, only one can break through to the innate realm.

In the innate realm, the body undergoes a complete transformation, like a newborn baby, completely different from ordinary people.

One can lift tens of thousands of pounds, and a palm of qi can kill and shatter stones from a hundred meters away. This is the manifestation of inner qi reaching a semi-liquid state in the dantian. The innate realm is divided into early, middle, late, and great perfection stages, and then one can try to break through to the Qi Gang stage.

In the 'Qi Gang' realm, qi is transformed into a solid form, allowing one to lift tens of thousands of pounds and kill from hundreds of meters away with a wave of the hand. The dantian qi is fully liquid.

Above the Qi Gang realm is the Qi Tong realm, showing its terrifying power.

"What, just laughing and not taking the bet?" Tang Chun coldly snorted, needing to strongly provoke the Third Princess to save his life.

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