The Dao Heart of Jianghu

Lu Chen, a village boy from a poor mountain hamlet, lives in a leaky thatched hut with his family. His eldest brother has been crippled by thugs, and his little sister is skin and bones. The whole village laughs at him for being worthless. But deep in his bones, he has a stubborn streak—if anyone dares to harm his family, he will fight them with his life. The day Zhao Laosan stomps on his face and sneers, 'The Lu family is destined for poverty,' he stumbles upon a warm stone on the cliff where his father fell. An ancient voice thunders in his mind—the first turn of the Ninefold Body-Forge Art sears into his bones. From then on, the youth rises against the tide: the second turn cripples Zhao Laosan, the third turn lets him take on twenty foes alone, the fourth turn sees him storm the sect headquarters to rescue his mother, imprisoned for sixteen years, and the fifth turn lets him slay a top assassin of the Netherworld Hall. With every breakthrough, another opponent falls at his feet. From his village to the martial world tournament, from martial arts to the path of immortality, and from mortal combat to the struggles of the celestial realm, every fight is brutal and bloody. But his true enemy is never in the open—hidden within the ledger his father left behind lies a secret organization that controls most of the martial world. In this life, he seeks not to stand above all, but to ensure no one can ever hurt those he holds dear. This is the tale of a poor boy's rise, every battle a satisfying, hard-hitting triumph. — Description from novelcodex.org