There was a water carrier in the handyman's quarters of Qingfeng Sect named Chen Tong.
He had been on the job for three years, after spending the previous seven doing odd jobs at a martial arts school down the mountain.
Everyone in the quarters called him Chen the Fool. When an outer disciple kicked him down in the street, he got up, brushed off the dirt, and apologized with a smile. When his monthly allowance was withheld, he bowed and scraped, never talking back.
Only he knew that the left page of his battered ledger listed firewood, rice, oil, and salt, while the right page recorded one blood debt after another.
For ten years, he had practiced Tongbei Fist, every punch striking nothing but air.
Then, one night, the ancient jade left by his late father was stained with blood, and clarity filled his fist. Suddenly, he saw the truth of the cultivation world: the spiritual energy threads wrapped around the immortals who flew on swords were not invulnerable.
And wherever his Tongbei Fist's force trembled, it could pierce straight through those shields!
Three punches could break a Qi Refining cultivator's protective aura. Ten could shatter a Foundation Establishment cultivator's spiritual light.
But Chen Tong closed his ledger and made a decision that went against his ancestors: he would hold off on fighting for now.
Killing a Qi Refining cultivator would bring the stewards down on him. Killing a Foundation Establishment cultivator would bring a Golden Core elder.
Until he could punch a Divine Transformation cultivator's brains into mush with one blow, it was best to keep hauling water, sweeping floors, and smiling apologetically.
And so the cultivation world gained a ghost:
An outer sect steward vanished without a trace, the culprit unknown. Chen Tong had been tending the fire in the alchemy room at the time.
A demonic cultivator at Foundation Establishment had their dantian shattered by a single punch and died a gruesome death. Chen Tong was selling candied hawthorns at the market down the mountain.
Everyone said a fearsome martial artist had appeared in the cultivation world, coming and going without a trace. Only Chen Tong knew he was just a bookkeeper.
"Who says Tongbei Fist can't kill a Foundation Establishment cultivator?"
"It can. But there's no need."
"Unless... you force me to throw a punch."
Thanks to the readers who have read this far. Unfortunately, the book Tongbei Quan can only reach this point. I had been imagining this setting for a long time, but I failed at the beginning. I later spent time changing 100,000 words, but the effect was minimal. It should have been finished a month ago, but I still want to insist on finishing it for a month. The data is not good, and I have zero income every day. I hope we will meet again if we are destined!
In the past six months, I have used the past to disguise myself for two full years, haha. Stop watching.
Then? I take it it's only been a month?
What you wrote is very good. Who writes a diary?
The details are very poor. There is a golden elixir for foundation building. A foundation building monk can withstand a punch with a force of 100,000 kilograms. This is not foundation building. This is Yuanying old monster. If you don't pay much attention to these details, you can still see it.
(The setting of the novel has collapsed, and what is currently updated is the tens of thousands of words that were saved before. This novel has already begun to be rewritten. Because I, like many readers' comments, think that the setting is good, but the content is too fake and empty, the protagonist's personality changes too quickly, and the boxing skills are invincible too fast. The whole process is fighting and killing, without the development and character foreshadowing of the fantasy of immortality, which makes people tired and boring, and the writing will not be long. New content will be updated in the next two days, sorry.)
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Core settings: [Martial arts realm: Ming Jin→Dark Jin→Hua Jin→Dan Jin→Gang Jin→Seeing the Gods and Not Breaking→Martial Arts Connecting the Gods] [The realm of cultivating immortals: Qi training (1-9 levels) → Foundation building (early/middle/late stage) → Golden elixir (three levels of human/earth/heaven) → Nascent Soul → Transformation into gods → Overcoming tribulations] [Ming Jin|Qi training level 1-3; Dark Jin|Qi training level 4-9; Hua Jin|Foundation building stage; Dan Jin|Golden elixir; Gang Jin|Nascent Soul; Seeing the gods and not breaking down|Transforming gods and above; Martial arts to the gods|Overcoming tribulations]