"Boss, come on."
A voice woke Chen Lei from his deep thought. He looked up and found himself standing in the Chen family's martial arts arena. A group of young men and women in black training clothes, full of vigor and energy, were practicing the Chen family's basic martial art, the Wild Wind Palm, with punches and kicks, exhaling and shouting, and sweating profusely under the supervision of an instructor.
Chen Lei felt as if he was dreaming. The person who had just spoken to him was none other than Chen Fan, his best brother in his boyhood. However, more than ten years later, during a escort mission, Chen Fan was killed by a monster while trying to protect Chen Lei, and no trace of his body was left.
It was from then on that Chen Lei awakened his strongest physique in the heavy rain and embarked on the journey of martial arts. He made rapid progress along the way and achieved the title of Martial Emperor and the nickname of Thunder Emperor, but Chen Fan became a permanent regret in his heart.
"I remember that I was going through the strongest tribulation at the God Peak. I only remember the last round of the strongest tribulation. The thunder was like the sea, drowning me in an instant. Could it be that I failed to go through the tribulation? If I failed to go through the tribulation, my soul should be destroyed. But this doesn't look like I succeeded in going through the tribulation. If I succeeded in going through the tribulation, I should become a god. How could I go back to my youth?"
Chen Lei felt that his head was a mess. Even though he was a great emperor in his past and had rich experience and extensive knowledge, he didn't know how to explain his current situation.
"I, Chen Lei, had many hardships when I was young. I entered the martial arts world when I was nearly thirty. Since then, I have made great progress and became a martial arts emperor. I am revered as the Thunder Emperor by later generations. Even I didn't expect that I was born with the physique of a holy thunder body. Only by integrating a trace of thunder and lightning energy can I condense my true energy and enter the martial arts world. It can be said that I wasted more than ten years in vain. If I could lay a solid foundation at the most critical moment, how could I have so many regrets and unwillingness in my life?"
Unable to figure out why, Chen Lei simply stopped thinking about it. Since God had given him a chance to live again, he must grasp it firmly. He must make up for all the regrets of his previous life in this life. He must completely crush his previous life's enemies in this life. He must change the miserable fate of his beloved who died young in his previous life in this life. In this life, he must firmly grasp his destiny in his own hands and become a god against the will of heaven.
"Chen Lei, what are you doing? Why don't you continue to practice? Although it is impossible for you to condense your true energy in the assessment in five days, you should practice more diligently. Our Chen family does not want useless disciples even if they are just menial disciples."
The person who was speaking was the instructor Chen Lianshan, who was in his forties and had reached the fifth level of the Qi realm. He was responsible for teaching the younger generation of disciples in the Chen family. Chen Lianshan had a strange temper. He was extremely gentle to disciples with good talents, but was extremely strict, even harsh, with those with poor talents, and would often impose inhumane corporal punishments on them. Among the younger generation of disciples, the less talented disciples were like mice seeing a cat when they saw Chen Lianshan.
At this time, Chen Lianshan stood in front of Chen Lei, staring at Chen Lei fiercely with two sharp glances in his eyes.
"Chen Lei, you are already fifteen years old this year. In five days, you will have a family assessment. According to the family's rule, those who have not reached the true energy realm by the age of fifteen will be demoted to the shops outside the family and start as the lowest-level menial disciples. Although you were once the Chen family's leading genius, your martial arts foundation is now broken, and it is definitely impossible for you to reach the true energy realm. If you even lose your diligence, how will you survive in the future? Do you really want to be a parasite that eats and waits for death?"