The star wheel is soaring, the heavenly way is circulating, fate is wandering in the sea of people, the heavens are playing thousands of fates, life and death, wealth and wealth, floating and ups and downs in it, how to see through, how to resist, luck can be changed, and destiny is determined.

This once wolf-filled continent now has a rare tranquility and calm, huge plates under the sky, out of the west, blue eyes and high nose bridge, there is a culture of faith, excellent warriors call knights, and there are people who gather fire with bare hands and turn water into ice, calling their methods "magic". East into Huazhou, the Tao, Buddha and other laws of a hundred schools of thought, the practitioner of law enforcement can take off and walk, a thousand miles a day, a few hasty talismans can also call the wind and rain, claiming to be a practitioner. In the middle of the valley peak desert, monsters are rampant, entrenched in it, it can be described as precipitous, and the soldiers of the two sides have been fighting for many years, you come and go, still regardless of the high and low, strong and weak, but it is a pity that the innocent people are implicated in death and injury.

Twelve years ago, the two regions broke out in the border valley between them an earth-shattering war, each of them killed and injured tens of millions, the life was devastated, the history of Huazhou called it "the battle of the valley of ghosts", and the history of the foreign land was called the "Holy War of the Watch Valley", the result of the war was that in the end both sides were greatly injured, and they could only stop and make a friendly oath, which was exchanged for the rare peace now, and the people were only able to recuperate, and in the deep valley, there were only tens of thousands of loyal bones left, taking heaven and earth as their home, as if it was a forbidden area of life.

The external worries have just been solved, the internal troubles are caused, the Buddhism of Mount Meru, the Taoist sect of Jiuhua Cliff, and the Tianyi Pavilion of Tianqitai are all leaders of the hundred schools of Huazhou, in addition to protecting the family and defending the country, but also shouldering the responsibility of slaying demons and demons.

The yellow-haired and blue-eyed soldiers guarding the city in the border city of the foreign land looked at the caravans coming and going nonchalantly, and sighed from time to time, today, it means little to everyone in the foreign land, but today is a very special day for the people of Huazhou.

Today is Chinese New Year's Eve.

In the evening, thousands of miles away in the Heluo City of the Northern Desert Prefecture, hundreds of candles, laughter, Xiaoxiang cold snow, scattered alone, the Luochuan River outside the city has formed a thick layer of ice, the city is in a hurry, so the night snow beauty, but no one appreciates.

A teenager sat alone at the counter of a small bookstore, watching the goose-feather snowflakes flutter in the cold wind. Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, the young man is quietly staring at the snow in a daze, the store looks extremely cold, under the cold and wet air, perhaps he is accompanied by only the thin shadow under the lamp.

"There shouldn't be any customers today!" The flickering candle flame faintly reflected his slightly childish side face, and the glimmer reflected a faint loneliness that did not match his age in his eyes.

"Father, mother, for twelve years, how are you doing in heaven?" a faint voice reverberated in his heart.

On the first day of the new year, the boy drove back to his grandfather's house in Chenjia Village on the outskirts of the city.

"Zimo is here!" a white-haired old woman stood outside the fence and looked at the young man who came in with a smile.

"Grandma, I'm back, Happy New Year! Where's Grandpa?"

"Your grandfather is in the back room, it's cold outside, come in, grandma will cook you your favorite food!"

The boy walked happily and briskly towards the inner room.

"Happy New Year, Grandpa!"

"Zimo is back, he is a year older, he is an adult, he is a man, come and have a few drinks with grandpa. ”

The young man named Zimo smiled and scratched his head.

"It's a pity that your parents went early, otherwise I must be very pleased to see you grow so big now, you love to read since you were a child, I wanted you to study hard, don't get involved in martial arts, and find a safe and stable official position in the future, but unfortunately, this is the situation at home. When the old man said this, his originally happy voice dimmed a little, and then he staggered to his feet. "Come and accompany me to offer incense to your parents!"

"Okay!" Zi Mo's head lowered a little, he knew his own appearance now, he just accomplished nothing, saw the old man stand up, and hurriedly went up to support him.

Dinner is happy, this is the only place where this teenager can feel warm and happy, others don't know, and they don't understand, but he loves this place so much, he wants to get drunk, and when he wakes up, the sun will shine, and he wants not to leave, even if that's it, but he can't do anything to wake up drunk and still face the cold winter, like this snowflake, nowhere to take root.

At night, the slightly drunk Zimo drove the carriage to his residence in the city, returned the carriage to the neighbors, thanked him, and returned to his bookstore. He was stunned for a moment at the dark door, and a strange sadness poured into his heart like a spring, he had actually been used to it for many years, but for some reason he had thought about it from time to time in recent years, perhaps because he felt more and more powerless to do nothing.

He is like being rejected by the world, and perhaps, the only thing that can make him feel warm in the dark is that he still has his grandparents and the people he likes.

Then he sighed lightly and felt for the fire fold and lit the oil lamp in front of the counter.

Guarding the oil lamp, he walked through the bookcases with books to the inner room where he lived, and on a cold night, he took out a yellowed and crumpled old book from the bookcase by the bedside, which was one of the relics left to him by his parents, and he always flipped through it when he was restless.

His father was a swordsman and his mother was a sorcerer, but they both died in battle ten years ago, leaving behind only five bronze fire talismans, an ugly black sword, and three old books.

When he was five or six years old, he followed his father to learn rough swordsmanship, and followed his mother to learn formation techniques, although they were only enlightened, but they were also a small entry, and the five fire talismans were the enlightenment array tools that his mother made for him to practice, which was not a treasure, but he had been carrying it with him for so many years. As for the sword, he had never seen his father hold it, and he had asked his grandfather back then, but unfortunately he didn't know where the sword came from.

And the rest of the books, two are his parents' records of half a lifetime's cultivation experience and travel experience, and one seems to be some kind of spell book, but unfortunately it is obscure, and he himself is only at the beginner level, so he can only read it from time to time in order to calm down.

I don't know how many times he has turned these three books since he was a child, maybe it was because he loved to read since he was a child, and his parents left these books.

After a while, Chen Zimo put down the book, walked to the empty street at the door with the black sword, he danced with the movements in the memory of the past years, the past ten years were like a day, and it seemed that a hundred years had passed, he had long stopped envying those who had parents leading their children to play, at least in his heart.

This set of swordsmanship was taught to him by his father when he was a child, only to see his movements flowing smoothly, sometimes swordsmanship like a dragon, sword qi like a rainbow, sometimes like a huge wave like a mountain and sea, the sword shadow flashed, whirring wind, in one go.

Each sword seems to want to pierce the night, pierce the nightmare of restraint and confusion.

The snow outside the house was getting heavier and heavier, and when he returned to the house, he had fallen asleep at some point, breathing lightly, like a child.

For many years, he has long been accustomed to simplicity and ordinariness, and such a small shopkeeper is the greatest blessing from heaven for him, just like the sword in the snow, the night is so cold, and the sword is also as cold, and there is no other.

Not far from the border, on top of an unknown mountain bag.

The three of them surrounded a man dressed in blue, two of whom were armed with giant axes and seemed ready to attack, and the other clenched his sword as if he was sweeping the battle.

"Your Excellency has made our brother chase after you so hard!" said one of the men with the great axe, in a rather playful tone.

"Can't you be kind to me today?"

"You and other evil ways are punished by everyone, how can you talk about goodness!"

The man in blue sighed softly. "It's a pity that the grasshopper shakes the tree!"

As soon as the words fell, the surrounding cold suddenly rose, and I don't know when a thin sword appeared in the right hand of the blue-clothed man.

"Look at the move!" The person who had been joking before also became serious, and with the giant axe in his hand, he took the lead in slashing at his head, and the giant axe carried the power of ten thousand jun, and the wind was whirring.

At this moment, the seemingly gentle thin sword just casually blocked the attack of the giant axe, and the man's flaws widened, and then the thin sword in the hand of the man in blue stabbed the throat of the giant axe man like a poisonous snake, and blood poured into it in an instant.

The set of movements was smooth, and the person with the giant axe next to him failed to react, and when he saw his companion fall, he found that there was a layer of frost on his leg, and he could no longer move for half a minute. The man in blue passed over the others like a ghost and pressed towards the sword-wielding man. The sword-bearer was just about to draw his sword to defend himself against the enemy, when he saw a flower, and the blue trace was gone, and then his neck was cold, and a dagger was placed on his neck.

At this moment, the man with the giant axe had completely frozen into an ice sculpture, and the man in blue stood behind the man with the sword, holding the thin sword in his right hand and the dagger in his left hand on the neck of the sword-wielding man. With a sound of "Ping~", the sword in the hand of the sword-wielder fell to the ground in fright.

"How long do you have to hide, chasing me for such a long distance, but only sending these minions to come forward, it's too rude, why don't you show up?" said the man in blue coldly.

"Hahaha, I'll just say it's good if we start early and finish early, you have to send someone to try it first!" As he spoke, two people walked out from behind the stone not far away.

One of them was wearing a Taoist robe, with a childlike face and crane hair, and a long beard, while the other was wearing an exotic wizard's white robe, red hair and blue eyes.

"I didn't expect that my dignified Huazhou decent Jiuhua Cliff actually conspired with a foreign church, just to hunt me down, this is spread, I'm afraid that your decent name will be ruined!"

The Dao Chief's face changed, and he glared at the man in blue and said, "You and other people in the world of evil demons are all spurned by everyone, and the grievances of ten years ago should be settled today, you don't have to make any more noise!

A yellow talisman turned into sword qi and flew straight away, the sword qi was like a rainbow, full of murderous aura, and the speed was also extremely fast.

"It seems that you don't care about this man's life, and decency is nothing more than that. The man in blue stepped back, taking a few steps back to open the distance, and the golden sword qi seemed to disregard the life of the person who held the sword before, tore open the man's chest and continued to pursue the man in blue.

The people in blue know that this place is not far from the border defense line, and once there is a big disturbance, it will be troublesome, and most importantly, it will hinder their own plans. Immediately, the thin sword swung lightly a few times, and an ice wall stood in front of him, and the golden sword qi only dropped a little ice chips on it.

The man in blue burst into laughter. "That's it! When I make a move, eat my move!" A cold mist swept from behind the ice wall, like a stormy wave, the ice wall instantly shattered and turned into ice cubes, and the pale blue cold mist seen by the naked eye mixed with ice cubes swept towards the two of them.

The white-robed wizard recited the incantation, and in the blink of an eye, a fireball enveloped him, and two red talismans flew out of the wide Dao robe, turning into golden light and building a golden wall.

"Chase!" the white-robed wizard shouted angrily and turned into white light and disappeared, and the Dao Commander followed closely behind.

When it cleared, the snow had already stopped, Chen Zimo opened the door of the store, carefully swept away the snow that had fallen outside the door overnight, and then returned to the counter, still bored looking at the pedestrians on the street.

At some point, he was woken up from his stupor.

"This little brother, how much is this book?"

Chen Zimo turned his eyes to look at the source of the voice, and the person who asked the price was wearing a linen gray long hooded hood, covering the hood to see the person's face, holding a book about medicinal herbs in his hand, and speaking Huazhou dialect that was not fluent. It can be seen that most of this person is from a foreign land, he has not had a good impression of these tall people with strange hair and eyes since he was a child, although ten years ago after the war between the two sides made an agreement, open to communication, a large number of merchants and adventurers in both places, but he is still very disgusted with these people.

"Forty coins, only Huazhou's currency!" Chen Zimo said lazily, in fact, this book is also twenty coins, but he is very disgusted with foreigners, so he casually doubled.

The person who asked the price before pulled out his sleeves, and then his movements became more and more embarrassing and flustered, Chen Zimo looked at the person coldly, and couldn't help sneering in his heart.

After a few moments, the inquirer took out a book and a wide bag from his bosom, and then took out twenty more coins. "This little brother, do you see if this thing can top the twenty~~~"

"Turn left at the corner of the pawnshop!" Zimo said angrily, but he still swept over, only to see that the book was quite quaint, I don't know if it was black or blue, the title of the book on the cover had long been blurred, and the words "six" and "array" were faintly visible.

The voice of the inquirer was even more cramped. "Little brother, take a closer look!"

While speaking, Zimo saw a girl dressed in a blue dress and gray brocade shawl walk in, glanced at him with a smile, and walked to the bookcase, only to see her light steps, her eyes are decent, her long hair is draped over her shoulders, her skin is better than the snow outside the house, showing a bit of grace and nobility, the cold wind is blowing, the jade cheeks are slightly red, and she smiled when she entered the door and looked at Zimo, and the pear vortex appeared on her left cheek, and the smile was even more with a bit of eccentric temperament, Zimo couldn't help but be stunned, her heart moved, and then she was about to greet her, and it could be seen that the inquirer in front of him was still ready to chatter and be annoyed, and waved his hand helplessly, "Alright, alright, that's it. Then he put away the money, put the book and the bag on the counter, and ignored it, and walked towards the girl on the other side.

Because of the hood, Chen Zimo didn't see the expression of the inquirer, it was an indescribable smile.

"Brother Zimo, Happy New Year!" The girl heard the footsteps, and turned her head to look at Zimo, full of smiles, touching people's hearts.

"Xiao Yun, Happy New Year! How did you run out on such a cold day, by the way, I haven't been to visit Lord Inspector (that is, the general position of the city lord) for a long time, I don't know how I am doing now?"

The girl pouted and said coquettishly: "Brother Zimo only asked my father when he met, and he didn't care about me!"

Zimo scratched his head, embarrassed and didn't know how to speak, and his face became redder and redder.

The girl smirked. "Okay, okay, I'm not kidding you!"

"Little girl, it doesn't seem to have grown up at all! I'm afraid she didn't come to see me this time! It won't be sneaking out again. ”

"Cut~, I'm also an adult this year, and Brother Zimo, you're just a few months older than me, and I haven't seen you for a long time, let's see what's wrong!

"There is no such thing, and it's not like I haven't seen you for a long time, I see you playing around every day, and there is no quiet time!"

"Originally, I was going to send you something, but now I will be trained when we meet, and my kindness has been wasted, no!" and then handed Zimo something.

Zimo took the thing, and it turned out to be a blessing knot made of red thread, with a jade pendant hanging underneath. "It's beautiful!"

"I've been learning from my mother for a long time, and I've heard that this thing can be good luck and avoid evil, do you like it?"

Zimo was stunned for a moment, his face turned even redder, and then he lowered his head and hung the blessing knot on his belt. "How's it going?

"Well, it's so pretty!Oh, by the way, come to my house in the afternoon, my dad has something to look for you!" he said and walked out with a smile.

Only Zimo looked at her beautiful back in a daze, and the strange green expression was like a green plum, unclear.

It's just that he didn't pay attention, as the price inquirer entered the store, there was a young man in linen wearing earthy brown yellow not far from the door who had been watching the store, and after Sun Yun left, the person also disappeared into the bustling crowd without a trace. And as the young man in sackcloth left, a person turned out of the corner of the street, it was the person who asked the price before, looked at the direction in which the young man left, and left a sinister smile on the corner of his mouth.

Then he looked at Chen Zimo, who was still standing in front of the counter in a daze, and muttered to himself: "Entrusted by people, loyal to people, I handed over the book to you, how to use it or not has nothing to do with me, your path will change, the future in this whirlpool of life and death, you don't blame me!" Then he turned around and went to another street, entered an inn, casually threw twenty or sixty coins to the little one who greeted him, and said in a broken Huazhou language: "Give me a table of good wine and food, and then open a good and quiet guest room, and the wine and food will be delivered to the room, and you don't need to look for the rest!" ”