At the beginning of the flood, gods and demons loomed, and monsters were rampant. The human race seeks a way to gain a foothold, practice martial arts, and strengthen the body. In millions of years, under the development of countless pioneers, two branches of martial arts and spiritual dao were created on the basis of primitive martial arts.

Since then, under the inheritance and evolution of generations, martial artists are no longer limited to refining the physical body externally, but using the physical body and the world as the furnace to temper the true qi and cultivate both internally and externally. However, the spirit abandons refining the body, specializes in cultivating spiritual powers, and enslaves the souls of the world.

However, the world alone respects martial arts as the orthodoxy of the world, aiming at the spirit to disobey the way of heaven, making it difficult for the wandering soul to enter the six realms of reincarnation and being rejected by the world.

The vast land of Shenzhou is the most fertile and fertile, and eight or nine out of ten of the world's population are gathered here. A long time ago, the spirit was regarded as a heresy by the world, and was massacred, and the survivors moved to the land of the Northern Continent barbarians one after another. Although the Lingwu and the two Dao are in the vast land of Shenzhou, there are many people and deep hatred, but they are separated by thousands of feet of high mountains and endless primeval forests, and only the north and south are connected by sea, but they also have their own places and do not set foot in each other.

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August is the hot and rainy season in the south. A fleet of ships laden with cargo had been sailing from south to north for months, and the weather was getting colder day by day.

In front of the guardrail on the deck of the main ship stood a pair of beautiful sisters. Both were seventeen years old. My sister's surname is Cheng, and her sister's surname is Wanqing. The two are half a year apart, they have played since childhood, and although they are not related by blood, they call each other sisters.

The two sisters, dressed in red and white, stood out on the cold wind on the deck.

Sister Mu Wanqing said: "There is a saying in the chapter of "Zhuangzi * Getaway": 'In the north of the poor, there is a dark sea, and Tianchi is also. 'We're definitely in the Heavenly Pond.' ”

Cheng Xue warmed her hands and said: "This place is cold and cold, how can it be Tianchi, at most it is the Stygian Sea." ”

Mu Wanqing stretched out her hand to take Cheng Xue into her arms, and said with a smile: "Cheng Meiren is not happy, do you want this son to sleep tonight?"

Although Cheng Xue had long been accustomed to this sister pretending to be a man and teasing herself, she still couldn't help but faint at this moment, and said with a slight annoyance: "If you are not big or small like this, don't blame me for not accompanying you to Hanxiao City." ”

Mu Wanqing hugged Cheng Xueqiu's slender waist and begged: "Good sister, forgive others, if you don't have your company, how can Qing'er live." ”

Cheng Xue said with a smile: "It's this sentence every time, without me, you really can't live, and when you get married in the future, will you have to worry about your life or death?"

Mu Wanqing looked innocent and said, "If my sister is worried about others, I will marry with my sister-in-law, so that we don't have to be separated." ”

Cheng Xue stomped her feet and said slightly: "Why are you pulling me up, you are so big and not small! ”

Mu Wanqing let out a silver bell-like laugh, patted her chest while dodging, and said, "Ah, my sister is angry again, Qing'er can't live a mile." ”

The two frolicked on the deck, attracting frequent sideways glances from the guys on board. On the deck on the second floor, Mu Hongqi, who was richly dressed and had a wide forehead and square face, stared at his cousins on the deck below, his eyes were full of love, he whispered to the old servant beside him, and turned to enter the cabin.

The old servant walked up to Mu Wanqing, who was caught by Cheng Xue, and approached with a smile, and said softly: "Miss, the master called you to the cabin." ”

Mu Wanqing, who was let go by Cheng Xue, still couldn't help but smile and asked, "Uncle Fu, did Daddy say something?"

The old servant called Uncle Fu shook his head and said, "The old man only told the old slave to summon the young lady to go, and he didn't say anything. ”

"I'm tired, go back to the room to rest, I'll see my uncle in a while, don't bother me again. Cheng Xue said goodbye and walked away.

At the end of the cabin, Mu Wanqing opened the wooden door of the study, threw herself into Mu Hongqi's arms, and asked, "What's the matter with Daddy, how long will it take to arrive in Hanxiao City?"

Mu Hongqi said: "Calling you here is to tell you that after tomorrow, you will arrive in Hanxiao City,"

Mu Wanqing clapped her hands and smiled: "That's really good, I finally want to see the spirit man." When the merchant ship sailed north, she begged her father to agree to take her with her, just to see how different the spirit man with the same name as the warrior was.

Mu Hongqi said: "Don't be happy too early, listen to what I say." Then he said in a deep voice: "Our Mu family has been doing business for generations, and abides by the ancestral precept of 'entering the business and traveling, not involved in martial arts', but after all, the foundation is in the south, and it is also inextricably linked with various martial arts sects.

Mu Wanqing He had seen her father so serious, her eyes were red, she forcibly endured her grievances, and said, "Qing'er remember." ”

Mu Hongqi also felt that his tone was a little heavy, and he said softly: "Qing'er has grown up, she knows how to act, and she won't be as willful as before, right?"

Mu Wanqing nodded.

The daughter is willful and naughty, eccentric, if Mu Hongqi does not preach strictly, he may not provoke right and wrong. What's more, when driving north, Cheng Xue was also secretly pulled onto the boat by her naughty daughter. When he found out, the caravan had been sailing for several days, and it was too late to return.

Moreover, the time for the caravan to arrive and deliver has already been calculated, if it is delayed for a few days, missing the transaction deadline may affect the trade of the Mu family in the north in the future, and then affect the future layout of the Song family behind the Mu family in the north.

If you send your subordinates to drive the boat to send Cheng Xue back, you can't rest assured, once there is a mistake, even if his life is worry-free, he Mu Hongqi will not be able to escape punishment. had to repair a book, and the bird sent a message to the Song clan, and when the merchant ship arrived in Hanxiao City, Cheng Xue was immediately handed over to the eyeliner that the Song clan had placed in the city in the early years. Due to Cheng Xue's special identity, she was originally the granddaughter of the head of the Song family, so Han Xiaocheng and his party had to ensure her safety, if there was a slight mistake, he personally and even his family would suffer the anger from the high-level of the Song family.

After Mu Wanqing left, Mu Hongqi took out a bronze token from his arms, looked at it for a while, sighed and retracted it in his arms, walked to the deck, and looked at the horizon in the distance.

The Mu family was able to rise rapidly in just a few decades and become a very powerful trading family in the south, which was inseparable from the support of the Song family behind it.

This time, the organization of cargo ships to Hanxiao City for trade was in accordance with the instructions of the Song people, taking the lead in laying a trade foundation in the north, and then step by step, establishing a commercial empire that took Hanxiao City as an opportunity to run through the north and south.

In the evening, the cold wind raged.

The fleet was jolting through the waves, making it difficult to sleep in fear. It wasn't until the second half of the night, when the wind slowed down and the sea was calm again, that everyone fell asleep.

In the early morning of the next day, Mu Hongqi was woken up by the cries of the sailors outside, and hurriedly put on his coat and ran onto the deck. I saw that the sea was full of ice floes, and there were many icebergs drifting within a radius of more than ten miles, some of which were more than ten zhang high, and all the 18 large ships of the caravan were trapped.

If these are not enough to make people completely desperate, then what really makes Mu Hongqi and the crew feel dead and hopeless is the icebergs that are still emerging from the seawater, like mushrooms after a rain, breaking through the ground.

Mu Hongqi has been in business for many years and has traveled a lot of places, but he has never heard of such a strange scene. He knew that it was cold in the north, but Hanxiao City was located in the southernmost part of the north, and the climate here should never have such a large iceberg group, and it was located on the coast, this waterway had already been opened up in the north, and there were often local ships coming and going, so it was impossible for such a high-risk risk.

He yelled at the dumbfounded, "Who can tell me what is going on!"

Uncle Fu hurriedly ran to Mu Hongqi's side, and said in a trembling voice: "Master, this iceberg is extremely weird! Before leaving, the Song clan had never mentioned that it would be so dangerous, so many icebergs, and the ship bosses were helpless!"

The icebergs are still emerging from below the surface of the sea, and there are already three big ships that can't dodge it, and the icebergs that emerge pierce the hull of the ship, and in addition to the muffled thunder that keeps coming from under the sea, it is one after another screams.

Without Mu Hongqi's orders, the merchant ships that were still intact had already lowered their wooden boats and sent people to rescue the people who had fallen into the sea.

Suddenly, a nearby iceberg collapsed and disintegrated in the muffled thunder, and the huge waves that stirred up crashed against the left chord of Mu Hongqi's merchant ship, and the rapid thrust made the main ship of the caravan deviate from its course and crash into another nearby merchant ship.

Mu Hongqi yelled at the sailors, "Adjust the sails!"

However, it was too late.

When boarding, the two ships collided, a large hole in the hull of the ship, and the raging sea water plunged into the cabin.

Mu Hongqi grabbed the railing, turned his head and saw the sister who also walked out of the cabin and fell on the deck with a sluggish expression, and shouted to Uncle Fu: "The boat won't last long, go and tell the sailors to put down the wooden boat on the side of the ship and prepare to escape!"

As soon as the words fell, the man had already stumbled to the two sisters and pulled them up.

Cheng Xueqiao's face turned pale with fright, but Mu Wanqing's face was swollen and red, and they all held Mu Hongqi's big hand tightly.

Mu Wanqing was so frightened that she almost cried, tears rolled in her eyes, and said, "Daddy, are we going to die?"

Mu Hongqi clasped the cold little hands of the two girls and comforted: "Xue'er, Qing'er, don't be afraid, this place is already very close to Hanxiao City, and it won't be long before many people will come to check on such a big movement, Uncle Fu has already arranged the boat, and we will be safe if we get on the dinghy." ”

At this time, Uncle Fu, who had gone and returned, ran to him, panting and said: "There are only a few wooden boats in the stern, and those sailors have already put down the wooden boats one after another to escape when they see that the situation is not good, and if they don't leave, they are afraid that the last one will be robbed!" The hull of the ship tilted sharply, and an iceberg broke through the sea and hit the bottom of the ship, almost splitting the big ship in two. Uncle Fu was unsteady on his feet, fell into the icy water, and was instantly swallowed by the huge waves.

Mu Hongqi couldn't bear to look at it, and pulled the two girls to run to the stern of the boat immersed in the seawater.

Due to the deep hatred between the southern warriors and the northern spirits, there were no warriors in the caravan this time, and they were all ordinary sailors hired. Seeing that the merchant ship was about to sink, the sailors who had not yet escaped were too busy to take care of themselves, fighting for the few wooden boats they had, and some simply jumped directly into the sea, trying to swim to the wooden boats that were about to row away, but in the blink of an eye, they were swallowed up by the huge waves and disappeared without a trace. Where would these people care about Mu Hongqi's scolding.

As the icebergs became denser and denser, the entire caravan suffered large and small damage, and the sailors were fleeing from the sinking merchant ships like crazy.

Mu Hongqi held the hands of the two sisters tightly, where were the almost crazy sailors who were fighting, seeing that the scolding was useless, he had to temporarily let go of his daughter's hand, took out a close-fitting dagger and stabbed all the sailors who blocked the way, and shouted angrily: "Get out of my way!"

The dagger was so sharp that it slashed or stabbed blood and gushed blood. As several sailors fell, Mu Hongqi also pulled Cheng Xue and finally came to the wooden boat, and at this time there were three people in the boat, untying the rope hanging from the wooden boat.

The boat was only big enough for four people, and with three sailors in it, where was there a place for their father and daughter?

The sailor who was untying the rope saw Mu Hongqi's eyes bloodshot, and he was already frightened when he opened the bloody road with a dagger, knowing that the wooden boat could not accommodate Mu Hongqi and the two, but he didn't want to die.

The other two sailors on the boat were about to get up and snatch, and when they saw their companions on the field, they knelt down and begged for mercy, but they were also stabbed to death by Mu Hongqi and kicked into the sea.

At this time, Cheng Xue was already stunned, and let Mu Hongqi push her into the boat.

At this time, hearing Mu Wanqing's cry for help, Mu Hongqi turned around to look for his daughter, but found that his daughter had been squeezed behind by the crowd, and he was about to rush into the crowd to find Mu Wanqing.

Suddenly, with the squeak of the eardrums, the rising iceberg completely cut off the merchant ship, and the merchant ship was raised high and sank faster.

"Daddy——!" Mu Wanqing fell in the violent shaking of the hull of the ship, and quickly slid down the deck into the sea.

Mu Hongqi watched his daughter's figure disappear into the turbulent sea, and his head buzzed.

"Daughter!"

Seeing Mu Wanqing fall into the sea, there was no trace, and Mu Hongqi was all gone. However, as the stern of the ship became higher and higher, the speed of the merchant ship sinking faster and faster, he immediately realized that Cheng Xue was still on the boat, if he didn't quickly put down the wooden boat, when the merchant ship sank, under the huge suction, the wooden boat would not be spared, and it would definitely be swallowed by the sea.

On one side is his daughter, and on the other side is the pearl of the palm that is loved by the high-level of the Song family.

He had the heart to find his daughter, even though there was little hope in the face of such a bad situation, reason told him that he must do his best to let Cheng Xue live, because the safety of the family was already tied to Cheng Xue.

Cheng Xuesheng will save the Mu family, and Cheng Xue will die if the Mu family will be destroyed.

Mu Hongqi and even the entire Mu family can't bear the anger from the Song family, even if he loses his beloved daughter, he must try his best to protect the whole snow when all thoughts are destroyed, even if he boards the boat and stays away from the shipwreck, Cheng Xue's hope of surviving is still slim, Mu Hongqi can only do this, not for the individual, but for the entire Mu family, only if Cheng Xue survives, the Mu family can hope to escape the catastrophe under the wrath of the Song family in the future.

At this time, as the merchant ship was cut off by the iceberg, the sailors who had not yet fallen off the merchant ship were even more crazy, and they no longer cared whether they would be killed by Mu Hongqi, anyway, when the merchant ship sank, they would die, and they all rushed to the wooden boat.

After all, Mu Hongqi was only one person, and it was difficult to withstand everyone's pushing, so he immediately jumped on the wooden boat and said to Cheng Xue: "Hurry up!"

Mu Hongqi waved his dagger and cut the hemp rope directly before the sailors rushed up, and the wooden boat fell into the sea when he boarded.

Seeing that the last wooden boat had fallen into the water, the sailors began to jump off one after another, trying to jump into it before the boat was far away.

Cheng Xue looked sluggish, she watched her good sister Mu Wanqing disappear, she was already extremely heartbroken, and tears couldn't stop sliding down her cheeks.

Suddenly, Mu Hongqi, who was desperately paddling, was grabbed by a big hand stretched out from the side of the boat, and was violently dragged into the turbulent water, disappearing without a trace in an instant.

Cheng Xue hurriedly climbed on the edge of the boat to look for Mu Hongqi, but could only see the turbulent water. She shouted heartbreakingly, "Uncle Mu, where are you?"

At this moment, a large hand grabbed the edge of the boat, and a sailor, pale and wet from the cold, struggled desperately to climb onto the wooden boat.

Cheng Xue curled up in the corner, holding on to the edge of the boat with both hands while looking at the sailor with a bloody left cheek.

The sailors ignored her, grabbed the oars and rowed desperately, finally out of danger before the merchant ship sank.

The sailor put down the wooden oar and wiped the blood on the left side of his face, and after wiping it, Cheng Xue found that his left cheek was completely pierced, and he could already see the blood-soaked teeth, and he couldn't help but vomit.

The sailor stared at Cheng Xue and said viciously: "That old thing can really be ruthless for you, how many of us have been killed, even his own daughter doesn't care, he cares about you, I don't care, do you know how difficult it is for Lao Tzu to come up, the old thing is dying in the sea and cuts me in the face, no matter how important you are, because you, the brothers who have worked hard with Lao Tzu for many years are dead, you can also accompany that old thing to feed the fish!"

The sea where the wooden boat was located had just sailed out of the danger zone, and Cheng Xuefu fell into the water and was once again swallowed by the whirlpool formed by the sunken ship.

Cheng Xue didn't struggle, she had never seen so much death with her own eyes, at this time, her mind kept flashing the picture of Mu Hongqi's father and daughter before they died, and finally before losing consciousness, she thought of her grandfather and brother who loved her, as well as her deceased parents.

After Cheng Xue lost consciousness, the necklace she had worn since she was a child began to emit a sparkling light.

As the icebergs ceased to emerge, the sea gradually returned to calm, except for the occasional splash of ice falling on the surface, only to be swallowed up by the oppressive silence.

The sailors who fled for their lives were nowhere to go, leaving only the dense fragments of merchant ships and the large number of floating corpses mixed between the ice floes.

The noise on the deck still seemed to echo in my ears, and it all seemed so unreal, as if it were a nightmare. When she woke up from the dream, Mu Wanqing would still hug Cheng Xue's slender waist and begged: "Good sister, forgive others, how can Qing'er live without your company?"

"Without your company.... Qing'er, how can you live?"

Cheng Xue struggled to open her eyes and found herself lying on the ice, surrounded by blue mist-like gas. In the fog, she couldn't feel the cold of the ice beneath her, and even the slightest warm current entered her body. She looked around, only to realize that she was on a towering iceberg at some point.

Unlike the white color of other icebergs, this iceberg is as blue as the sea.

But she didn't have the heart to care about this, she subconsciously bent her knees, wrapped her jade hands, and rested her chin between her knees, staring blankly at the mess on the sea at this time, thinking of Mu Hongqi's father and daughter and their family members in the south.

With the cold sea breeze, she finally couldn't help crying.

I don't know how long it took, Cheng Xue was tired from crying, and actually sat and fell asleep, but was soon woken up by hunger and fear. This is repeated many times, and consciousness becomes more and more blurred.

Half-asleep, she faintly heard the sound of ice breaking, and when she slowly raised her increasingly heavy eyes, in a trance, it seemed to see a naked man breaking through the iceberg and walking towards her.

Facing the man's unobstructed strong physique, Cheng Xue sighed, her cheeks were dizzy, and her voice seemed to be incomprehensible: "How can you not wear clothes." ”

He then fell into a coma.

The sea breeze blows, and the icebergs drift away with the currents, farther and farther away from the sea where the fleet sank.