"Let's start with the four major families in the west, the Su family in the west, that is, the Su royal family, the Guyun Huang family, the Helian family, and the Guan family...... These families have their own strengths, the Su royal family is good at playing the qin, the Guyun family is famous for forging swords, they are the true descendants of the Fallen God Steel Sword, and the Helian family and the Guan family are famous for their swordsmanship. Guan Chang paused at night: "I am a member of the Xilin Guan family, but you also know that like the four major families of your Yin Kingdom, our families have countless divisions, and the relationship between my parents and my family is just to visit the door during the New Year, and I have little to do with my family." ”

"But even so, you still became the sword god of the west. Chu Xianzhao interjected.

When I met Su Shuntian, he was about the same age as you, and he was also a prince, and the two of us became brothers in the Peach Blossom Forest, and I vowed to protect him for the rest of his life, including his children and his grandson, and it was obvious that I broke my promise. The old man sighed

"Go on. Chu Xianzhao didn't give him any chance to be sad.

"Su Shuntian is the second son of the former emperor of Xilin, and there are two older brothers above him, and when the former emperor of Xilin gave Su Shuntian the position of crown prince, jealousy made his two elder brothers almost crazy. I told him early on to be careful with these two royal brothers, but he stubbornly believed that his brother would not harm him. ”

"On the day he ascended the throne as king, his two elder brothers tried to besiege him in the Red Fish Palace, at that time most of the military power was in the hands of his brothers, he was not solid, it can be said that he sat naked on the throne of the west, but he was surrounded by invisible arrows! This tragedy took away countless famous military generals from our west, and I fought side by side with him that night, and the soldiers who usually called me brothers and sisters became my opponents, and they knew that they were not my opponents, but they still fought for the wrong ideas...... The battle continued until the early morning of the next day, and every person lying on the ground was a corpse. ”

"Very sad story. ”

Since then, the twenty-year-old Su Shuntian began his new reigning career, the palace massacre killed countless old ministers of Xilin, for the stability of the country's career, he embarked on the road of reform, brought a new reform to Xilin, he used a large number of young new faces. Almost all of the young Confucian scholars in the court in the west were like him. ”

"In the first five years of Su Shuntian's reign, Xilin was stable and peaceful, and your Yin Kingdom had just experienced the Battle of the Golden Horde, but Xilin gradually recovered from the tragic events of the palace, and gradually became rich and powerful, and his queen gave birth to two lovely children for him, Su Changqing and Su Changyan. ”

Chu Xianzhao nodded.

"But at this moment, I left Xilin, in order to carry out the sword in my heart to travel the world, in the three years I left, a lot of things happened in Xilin, and these things completely changed Su Shuntian. ”

"What happened back then?"

"People are such strange species, they live too long in a comfortable environment, always trying to make a little fun, or even rebel. At that time, Zhuang Tianjin, the city lord of Xilin White Phoenix City, stopped paying high taxes to Xilin at the suggestion of the people, and Su Shuntian was very unhappy when he found out, and personally led the guards to negotiate with Zhuang Tianjin. When Su Shuntian came to the White Phoenix City, the panicked White Phoenix City Lord arrested him and hanged all his guards on the head of the city, and Su Shuntian who woke up was extremely angry, and it was at that time that he awakened the power of Wang Xi. ”

"After learning that the White Phoenix City rebelled, the national teacher Ram Sudong immediately led the army to besiege the White Phoenix City, trying to rescue His Majesty the Emperor, when the army came to the city, they used the siege wood to break open the gate of the White Phoenix City, the entire White Phoenix City as if it had been sacked by the army, the streets were full of soldiers who died in battle, Su Shuntian killed Zhuang Tianjin and his warriors in the city with the power of Wang Xi, the people hid in their homes and shivered, and their Emperor His Majesty wore a blood-stained imperial robe, wandering in the city like a ghost. This is what people told me later, and it is difficult for me to prove the truth or falsehood in it, but the only thing that can be confirmed is ...... That's when Su Shuntian started to go crazy. ”

"My return added some comfort to him, after the disaster in the White Phoenix City, the people of Xilin began to distrust Su Shuntian's rule, and the city lords in Xilin were worried that they would become the next White Phoenix City, and the kingdom's power began to go into chaos. He began to distrust the people around him, even me, and always killed hundreds of people at the slightest thought, and then repented. Under such repeated torture, he gradually became cruel and violent, but the foundation of Xilin was huge, and even if a mad emperor like him came out, he could still maintain his rule, at least until the next generation of new emperors. ”

"Brother Wei Yin, right?"

"Yes, the virtuous ministers who saw the madness of the King of Xilin pinned their hopes on the prince Su Changqing, and even I was no exception. Su Changqing was created when he was six years old to rule the West and correct the mistakes made by his father. He was trained in swordsmanship by me, Confucian and Taoist scriptures were taught by the best scholars, he could read, write, and even speak the dialects of several countries, he studied history, qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, and Buddhist masters taught him the mysteries of Buddhist scriptures, so that he could feel the power of faith. Even under such high-pressure training, he has never shouted bitterness and tiredness, we are very pleased, he was born to be the emperor's material, and when he ascends the throne as king, Xilin will usher in a truly peaceful and prosperous world!"

"Until the King of Xilin became obsessed with forging swords...... "Chu instantly summoned Youyoudao.

"Yes, I remember the day when I had just gotten out of bed and was about to wash up, he came to my room in his dressing gown and told me everything he had dreamed about last night. Uesugi sighed: "He was unwilling to become a mediocre king in the pen of the historian, he decided to follow the instructions in the dream and began to gather the world's swordsmiths to forge weapons for that apocalyptic battle!"

"The War of the Last Days...... Does it really exist?"

"I don't know! I was the first to stand up against him, but he was completely carried away by that ethereal dream, he only gave me two choices, leave Xilin or die in Xilin! What else can I do, I can only leave Xilin with my daughter and go to Qingguo to find her mother!" Guan Changye said angrily.

"What happened later was told to me by an old man, in the three years when the Western Border Kingdom was on the verge of extinction, he never left the Great Red City for half a step, and the blast furnaces used for sword training were everywhere in the Great Red City, which made this hot spring city known as the pearl of the Northern Regions into a miasma, and after the human bones used for sword refining in the city were used up, he began to use the bones of death row prisoners and beggars to refine swords...... Don't look at me in surprise, did you know that human bones can remove impurities from steel, making iron purer and easier to forge a sword of Fallen God steel. You can't learn this method of refining swords with human bones, this is the true essence of the Xilin Divine Sword, the human bones generally used for sword refining are provided by the bone pickers, but now he does not hesitate to slaughter the living in order to forge more swords!"

"At that time, there was a noble son in the city who was arrested by the government for raping prostitutes, which was originally a very common thing, and his parents could settle it with a small amount of money, but King Xilin insisted on sentencing him to death and using his bones to refine swords. ”

As soon as the news came out, the city was in an uproar, and the father of the noble son rushed to the Xilin Palace with all his clan brothers, rushed in, and yelled for the king of Xilin to give him justice. But the king of Xilin arrested them on charges of treason and trespassing into the palace, and put them on the fire, and the place of execution was in the Lotus Square in the west, and all the people of Xilin witnessed this scene, and then he put the noble son in front of the torture platform, and let him watch his father die in the flames, and the king of Xilin broke every bone of him in order to prevent him from breaking up, and he still struggled to save his fathers until he also died in the flames. ”

After that, King Xilin forged thirteen swords from their bones, and he named the group of swords born from the same furnace of molten iron - family. The old man said quietly.

"In the middle of the sword refining period, King Xilin dismissed most of the officials in the imperial court, drove those courtiers to cut wood and mine, and only reserved a few important positions for the Guyun family, who gained unprecedented power and authority, he put those who opposed him to death and took them to practice the sword, and demanded that each city in the territory hand over a certain number of human bones, so that they could be exempted from taxes. The whole country was ruined by him, and he even lifted the army, saying that here you finally understand why Xilin will be occupied by your Yinguo in just one month, until the moment when your Yinguo Iron Cavalry enters Xilin, maybe he understands that your Yinguo Iron Cavalry is not a rogue bandit that can be sent at will. ”

He began to panic, and summoned his vassals and troops, but no matter how many letters were sent, the city lords were slow to reply, and the king of Xilin became more and more frightened, and no one trusted. In the end, he made up his mind and ordered his soldiers to secretly transport the refined swords to Guxia Mountain, so that the remaining 50,000 loyal soldiers could face the heavily armed Yinguo Iron Cavalry!"

"This is a complete massacre...... Chu instantly covered his mouth and widened his eyes, the old man's story completed his understanding of the battle in the west, like a broken road full of swords and corpses spreading from under their feet.

"You also know what happened later, your 100,000 iron cavalry and 30,000 wolf soldiers entered the west, and your number has far suppressed them, where are those soldiers who can't even eat are your opponents. Finally your father threw him into the fire in front of all the people of the West, and everyone thought he was dead, but now you tell me that he is still alive, so who was that man back then?" he sighed again, he had sighed enough today.

"I guess it's a stand-in...... I feel sorry for those who died. ”

Guan Changye slowly turned around and looked directly into Chu Xianzhao's eyes, "The reason why I tell you this is that I hope you don't cling to the sword library anymore, that thing is a mistake for the whole world, the sword library is like a symbol that spreads crazy, now that Xilin no longer exists, you don't want your own country to suffer the same fate as Xilin, just let King Xilin and his sword library become a legend!"

"But now that my father has sent someone to Xilin, they are planning to dig out the sword storehouse......" Chu Xianzhao secretly aimed at the old man.

The old man said disappreciably: "Let them go, even if they find it, they can't open the sword vault without a key." ”

"But ......"

"Say no more, there is nothing in the sword vault that you want, and the day the sword vault opens...... A new war will rise, and the world will face a situation from which it will never recover!"

There seemed to be lava flowing in the depths of his eyes, Chu Xianzhao shivered fiercely, and after a long, long time, he stood up and turned his back to the old man: "It's rare to hear such a story, I'm sorry for everything you have experienced, ...... in the future If I really become Emperor Yin, can I do anything for the people of your west?"

"The war has been over for a long time, you don't need to do anything anymore, you can't give them anything, in fact, most of the people in the west want it...... It's just a home. Guan Changye whispered.

"Listening to your tone, master, you probably think I'm powerless, right?"

Guan Changye was noncommittal.

"By the way, I haven't had time to eat the hawthorn cake that Sister Young Slave just made in the morning today, maybe I can help you think about the taste of starting from the west. Chu Xianzhao took out a paper bag from his arms and handed it to the old man, the old man opened the paper bag, revealing a crystal cake like bloodstone, he pinched a piece and put it in his mouth to chew carefully.

Chu Xianzhao took the long sword and walked in the direction of the weeping eagle, the old man sat quietly on the stone steps, looking down at the sword in his hand, the smell of his hometown spread in his mouth.