The Fortunate Demoniac Little Village Doctor-Chapter 1475 - 800: Furnace
The clouds rolled up and the green mountains layered, amidst the famous mountains and rivers of the eastern Central State, a peculiar peak descended from the sky, embedded within the landscape. This place shrouded in fairy mist was where the prestigious sect of the Human Realm, the Star-Gazing Pavilion, resided.
The Star-Gazing Pavilion was one of the Six Great Sects of the Human Realm, its influence towering over the others.
Ever since the Star-Gazing Pavilion’s inception, Xuanxing Mountain had been a place flourishing with incense, a dreamland for countless seekers of the Righteous Path hoping to tread the path of Cultivation. Therefore, today’s once-in-a-decade master selection ceremony was particularly grand. Hundreds of disciples from the upper, middle, and lower Outer Courts, dressed in clothes symbolizing their respective courts, stood reverently around the high platform of disciple selection, awaiting the most important day of their lives. As long as they received the approval of the Star Furnace, they could enter the Inner Court, becoming formal disciples of the Star-Gazing Pavilion.
Lin Feng stood in the center of the lower court, tugging at his hem to make his clothes fit better. Looking at his plain white clothes that bordered on simplicity, then at the luxurious clothing of the middle and upper courts, ten years of humiliation surged in his heart.
Like most students of the lower court, Lin Feng was an orphan, taken in and raised by the Star-Gazing Pavilion. Unlike those from the middle and upper courts who came from rich or even noble families, Lin Feng and others like him did not contribute even a penny worth of incense offerings to the pavilion but were instead raised by it, naturally making them inferior in every way at the Star-Gazing Pavilion.
That wasn’t all. Because they weren’t formal Inner Court disciples, the Outer Court disciples didn’t live with the sect leader and the formal disciples, making it extremely difficult to even see them. As a result, the stewards managing the three Outer Courts, having been bribed by the middle and upper court students, naturally assigned all the hard and dirty tasks to those from the lower court.
In the eyes of the middle and upper court students, Lin Feng and others were just servants or slaves, treated with condescension and disrespect, akin to dogs, with only human faces and names.
Lin Feng still remembered at the age of seven, when he stepped on a student from the upper court’s shoe, he was beaten by a group until he lay under an old locust tree for three days. Everyone passing by, including the stewards, turned a blind eye; some even mocked and jeered, waiting for Lin Feng to die so they could drag his body away for burial. If it weren’t for the sect leader’s visit to inspect the Outer Court on the fourth day, Lin Feng might have died under the locust tree. To the Star-Gazing Pavilion, the life and death of someone regarded as a dog were insignificant. Orphans without parents came to the mountain and bowed to the court daily; they truly didn’t lack someone like Lin Feng.
Since that day when he narrowly escaped death, Lin Feng swore in his heart that he would never bow his head from then on, preferring to die rather than lose his dignity. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺
From that day forward, Lin Feng stopped trying to be smooth and accommodating and stopped being servile. He retaliated tenfold or a hundredfold against all bullying from the upper and middle court students, even at the cost of his life.
The first time, Lin Feng was beaten black and blue by Zhou Li and his group, with blood streaming from all seven orifices and eyes so swollen that he couldn’t see anything, yet stubborn defiance remained in his eyes.
The second time, Lin Feng was rescued by fellow court students because he had been beaten into unconsciousness, yet he still held onto a defiant smile.
The third time, Lin Feng’s face was stepped on by Li Ding from the upper court. He managed to stand up and punch Li Ding, beating him black and blue, while Lin Feng suffered just as much physically.
The fourth time...the fifth time...until Lin Feng couldn’t count the number of times. As long as he had a breath left, he would resist to the end.
Finally, at some point, one time, Lin Feng once again fought with students from the upper court. As usual, he was beaten into unconsciousness. But unlike usual, this time he wasn’t alone.
All the lower court students stood behind Lin Feng without prior agreement, turning his individual struggle into a collective resistance by the lower court students.
The cost of instigating a mass brawl was disastrous. The upper court, suffering losses, bribed the stewards and harshly punished the lower court students. However, due to the widespread involvement, Lin Feng ultimately retained his qualification to remain in the Star-Gazing Pavilion.
From then on, Lin Feng became the leader of the lower court. Under his leadership, the entire lower court no longer suffered any substantial bullying, but disdain and contempt in words and glances still persisted. In private, the upper court students even gave Lin Feng the nickname "Foolish Dog Leader," which made Lin Feng feel even more pained.
"Hmph!" Lin Feng, standing below the high platform, looked at the Star Furnace blazing on the stage. He couldn’t help but clench his fists tightly. As long as he got the recognition of the Star Furnace, he could become a true disciple of the Star-Gazing Pavilion. At that time, no one would look down on him, and the poverty and lowliness branded into him could be wiped out in an instant.
Born into poverty, orphaned, these were not things Lin Feng could change. He accepted these fates, but he absolutely rejected the fate imposed on him, to be made to become a dog instead of a person!
"Oooo...oooo..." In the sky, among the clouds, a disciple riding on a wind-taming eagle blew the dragon rhinoceros horn, its deep and distant sound echoing across the entire peak of Xuanxing Mountain. On the majestic mountaintop, thousands of disciples from the Star-Gazing Pavilion stood on a platform carved flat by the ingenious work of Nature.
This was the venue for the master selection assembly at the Star-Gazing Pavilion for thousands of years, a passage to the internal seven courts of the pavilion!
