In this dark and damp underground palace ruins, although Zhu Suifeng's body was already overwhelmed, he still ignored Ouyang He's persuasion and insisted on telling Ouyang He some of the past events that had happened when his thoughts were still clear.

(18 years ago)

Located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, Tianjimen, an emerging sect in the rivers and lakes, has become the first major sect in the Central Plains martial arts with the full support of the Liang royal family. And the eight top disciples with different talents who were strictly cultivated by Zhu Suifeng became the top masters of the rivers and lakes second only to the "Four Uniques of Sword Casting", known as the "Eight Guests of Heavenly Machines".

At that time, because Tianjimen was already the supreme of martial arts, it also made Tianjimen people bear the important responsibility of punishing adultery and eliminating evil and maintaining the stability of the rivers and lakes to a certain extent.

Once, when Zhu Suifeng learned that the Shuzhong Dirty Clothes Gang had been doing evil on the official road leading from Shuzhong to the Central Plains all the year round, affecting the smooth transportation of important daily necessities such as grain and silk, he ordered the "madman" Wang Xiao, who was still very young at that time, to enter Shu with the "killer" Xuanyuan Ji to assist the local officials in encircling and suppressing the Dirty Clothes Gang.

Shortly after the two arrived in Yuzhou to begin their investigation, the local arrester revealed to them that the Yuzhou government had determined that the Dirty Clothes Gang had colluded with the Su family, the "richest man in Yuzhou", who was in charge of Yuzhou's Cao Yun.

According to the logic of the Yuzhou government, the Dirty Clothes Gang blocked the official road on land, and the merchants would naturally choose safer waterways to transport goods, which would add more additional wealth to the Su family, so the Su family became the biggest beneficiary of this impact.

What the two didn't expect was that the helmsman of the Su family at this time was actually a young woman, that is, Su Han, the second lady of the Su family.

Because her father died suddenly in prison not long ago because he was tortured by the people of Yuzhou Prefecture to extract a confession, and her eldest brother was born with dementia and was difficult to manage the position, Su Han, who had been talented and intelligent since he was a child, was forcibly pushed by fate to the bow of the big ship of the "Su family" that was in turmoil at this moment.

And when Wang Xiao and Xuanyuan Ji saw the mysterious second lady for the first time in the Su family, the two were instantly attracted by Su Han's amazing beauty and temperament. At that time, Su Han, who was born with willow eyebrows and starry eyes, was only dressed in a pale yellow plain clothes, and there were almost no traces of rouge and gouache on his face, it seemed that the second lady of the Su family did not pay as much attention to the makeup of her appearance as other rich ladies.

"I am willing to personally go with the two young heroes to exterminate the Dirty Clothes Gang to prove the innocence of the Su family!" Unexpectedly, after Wang Xiao and Xuanyuan Ji explained their intentions to Su Han, Su Han immediately told the two of them his decision categorically.

After that, together with Su Han, according to the information they had obtained from the Yuzhou Mansion, they wanted to directly kill the nest of the Dirty Clothes Gang in Dasheng Town.

Who knows, when they arrived at Dasheng Town, the town was empty. Soon after, the whole town suddenly burst into flames without warning, and the Dirty Clothes Gang took advantage of the chaos to kill them, and the men and horses brought by Wang Xiao and Xuanyuan Ji soon suffered heavy casualties.

"It's a trap, it looks like they already knew about our plans!" Xuanyuan Ji looked a little annoyed.

"You mean to say that we have the Dirty Clothes Gang in our midst?" Wang Xiao also immediately understood the meaning of Xuanyuan Ji.

So, after exchanging a few words in the face of this sudden unfavorable situation, Xuanyuan Ji and Wang Xiao each led the remaining men and horses to break through in two ways.

On the way to follow Wang Xiao to break through, she was unfortunately shot by a bow and arrow from behind her, so Wang Xiao had to carry her on her back to break through because she was in a hurry.

Subsequently, the men and horses on Wang Xiao's side stopped on the road to resist desperately in order to cover the two of them. Although Wang Xiao couldn't bear it at that time, looking at Su Han, who had fallen into a coma at this moment, he still could only grit his teeth and quickly move away from the sight of the chasing soldiers of the Dirty Clothes Gang.

Later, after simply treating and bandaging Su Han's wounds, Su Han finally regained some strength, and the exhausted two barely found a temple on the side of the road to spend the night in the dark night when they couldn't see their fingers.

But who knows, the only few remaining monks in this temple are actually a group of evil monks who burn, kill, loot and do all kinds of evil. They pretended to receive Wang Xiao and Su Han warmly at that time, but in fact, they were interested in Su Han and tried to do something wrong.

After these evil monks poured medicine into the tea of the two, the two of them, who had already lost their guard due to extreme exhaustion, were immediately attacked.

Fortunately, when the evil monks surrounded Su Han and stared at her with wolf-like eyes ready to attack, Xuanyuan Ji rushed here in time according to the route he had calculated, killed all these evil monks in one fell swoop, and safely rescued Su Han and Wang Xiao from the clutches of the devil.

After this episode, Su Han and Xuanyuan Ji, who saved him, gradually developed ignorant feelings, and as the two showed excellent tacit understanding in the subsequent operation to encircle and suppress the Dirty Clothes Gang, this originally pure comradeship quickly began to heat up.

At the same time, in addition to Xuanyuan Ji, Wang Xiao also deeply admired Su Han in his heart. It's just that his personality has been a little dull and paranoid since he was a child, and he has always buried his love for Su Han and never said it.

In fact, Wang Xiao and Xuanyuan Ji have been in a state of open and secret struggle since they became the same family, especially Wang Xiao has long looked down on each other, thinking that Xuanyuan Ji is just relying on his ancient Yellow Emperor bloodline to steal a place in Tianjimen.

So, watching Su Han and Xuanyuan Ji get closer and closer, the jealousy in Wang Xiao's heart gradually evolved into a strong killing intent.

Soon after, he secretly met with the leader of the Dirty Clothes Gang, hoping to get rid of Xuanyuan Ji with the help of the Dirty Clothes Gang under the pretext of protecting their high-ranking people in the Dirty Clothes Gang.

However, this meeting, which should have been a top secret, was known to Su Han because Su Han followed Wang Xiao to the meeting place.

Immediately afterwards, after Su Han was found out and fell into the encirclement of the Dirty Clothes Gang, Wang Xiao appeared in time and stopped the Dirty Clothes Gang's intention to kill her.

Through Wang Xiao's subsequent persuasion, the Dirty Clothes Gang finally agreed to temporarily put her under house arrest in the territory of the Dirty Clothes Gang.

"I originally thought that you were also a young knight who acted above board, but now it seems that I think too highly of you." In the room, Su Han said indifferently to Wang Xiao, who came to bring her food in person.

"Hehe, I did think about being a loyal person, and that was because I was afraid that I would lose to Xuanyuan Ji in front of Master. However, when I met you, I suddenly changed my mind, in order to have you by my side, even if I will be scolded by the whole world, what is there to fear! Wang Xiao said that his emotions gradually became excited.

"Hmph, compared to a villain like you who stabbed you in the back, Brother Xuanyuan, who is full of chivalrous courage, I don't know how many times better than you!" Su Han also replied emotionally after listening to Wang Xiao's words.

Hearing Su Han's answer, Wang Xiao instantly became furious, and then he forcibly pushed Su Han onto the bed without saying anything, in a vain attempt to forcibly do things with him.

"Hehe, a person like you will never deserve my heart!" Su Han's words suddenly seemed like a thunderbolt from the sky, making Wang Xiao, who fantasized about cooking raw rice into rice, make him succumb to himself, suddenly wake up from his sweet dream.

"Yes, how can you, a fierce woman who does not eat the fireworks of the world, be succumbed only to these mundane things?" Wang Xiao seemed to quickly realize Su Han's incomparably resolute heart, so he immediately sat up from Su Han's body after a long sigh, and prepared to put on his shoes and leave the room.

"Your acupuncture will unravel itself in half an hour. Perhaps, the one who should have taken the place of the cold arrow in your body that night was me! Wang Xiao muttered to himself and walked out of the room, leaving Su Han, who was lying limp on the bed with mixed feelings.

Because the Dirty Clothes Gang took Su Han as a hostage and asked Xuanyuan Ji to return to Dasheng Town alone to make an appointment, Xuanyuan Ji knew that it was a trap but still resolutely went to Dasheng Town.

Following the guidance of a Dirty Clothes Gang guide, Xuanyuan Ji followed him to the ancestral temple in the town, which had not yet been affected by the previous fire.

At this time, in the ancestral temple in Dasheng Town, hundreds of various death row prisoners who had been specially trained by the Dirty Clothes Gang were waiting for Xuanyuan Ji's arrival like wolves.

"These people are all trained outlaws, if you can kill them all, you will naturally be able to meet that girl from the Su family." In the big temple, the leader of the Dirty Clothes Gang organized a warm "welcome ceremony" for Xuanyuan Ji's arrival.

So, on this thunderous night, Xuanyuan Ji, who was full of anger in order to rescue Su Han, experienced an extremely tragic battle, fighting a hundred dead soldiers who fought for survival with the strength of one person.

Although Xuanyuan Ji still fought to the end in this battle, he was also seriously injured and exhausted from killing hundreds of people alone.

In the end, if it weren't for Chu Yi, the Pavilion Master of the Water Heaven Pavilion, who was already well-known in the rivers and lakes back then, who appeared to rescue him in time, Xuanyuan Ji might have died at the hands of the Dirty Clothes Gang.

After this battle, with the help of Chu Yi's subordinates who infiltrated the Dirty Clothes Gang, Su Han successfully used his intelligence to escape from the heavy surveillance of the Dirty Clothes Gang.

"Hmph, if you run away, you will run away, I just agreed to cooperate with you for the sake of money. Remember for me, you're just a watchdog called by Zhu Suifeng, and you're not qualified to point fingers in front of my dirty clothes gang! When Wang Xiao, who knew about this, came to the chief helmsman of the Dirty Clothes Gang to ask about the crime, the leader of the Dirty Clothes Gang said viciously to Wang Xiao with a very unhappy face.

"I remember I seem to have reminded you that if something goes wrong this time, you're going to pay for it. And I'm a person who can always say it and do it! With a cold smile, Wang Xiao leaned into the ear of the leader of the Dirty Clothes Gang and whispered.

Before Wang Xiao's words fell, a large number of well-trained Shu soldiers immediately entered the cave from the various entrances of the underground rudder. At this time, the Dirty Clothes Gang who were in a hurry to fight everywhere at the helm soon suffered heavy losses under the overwhelming combat power advantage of the other party, and the leader of the Dirty Clothes Gang was also killed by Wang Xiao after a fierce battle.

"Burn here, not a single one will be left!" Since Wang Xiao himself is a pure-blooded Shu royal family, after he gave this order categorically, the Shu soldiers who cooperated with him in this encirclement and suppression operation immediately burned this place after killing all the people in the dirty clothes gang.

And as the raging fire burned all the objects in the rudder to ashes, the forces of the Dirty Clothes Gang, which had occupied Shu for many years, were wiped out in this "abnormal" way.

On the other hand, under Su Han's careful care, Xuanyuan Ji's body is gradually recovering. Although Su Han later informed Xuanyuan Ji about Wang Xiao's attempt to assassinate him, Xuanyuan Ji did not seem to have much emotional turmoil, but told Su Han not to tell others about this matter again, and he would find a good time to try to deal with the matter after returning to Tianji Gate.

(Back to Reality)

When he insisted on telling this, Zhu Suifeng suddenly spit out a mouthful of blood, and it seemed that his body that had been eaten by the drug was no longer able to support him to continue talking.

"Senior, don't say it, I'll give you the power again, and you'll be fine!" Ouyang He said with tears in his eyes, and then wanted to continue to input internal force for Zhu Suifeng to maintain his life.

"Girl, don't waste your internal strength for me anymore, you and I both know it's useless." Zhu Suifeng held Ouyang He's arm tightly and stopped her from continuing to pass on her skills to herself.

"Once, after going through the ups and downs in the rivers and lakes, I thought that one day in the future, I would hand over the entire foundation of Tianjimen to Ji'er. Now, perhaps because of God's mercy, when my Tianji Gate suffered such a catastrophe, I was fortunate enough to meet his descendants. Zhu Suifeng looked at Ouyang He with a kind face and said, "Miss Ouyang is good at morality and martial arts, and her chivalrous and courageous spirit is even more incredible. If the girl can promise the old man and take over the position of the master of the Tianji Gate, then the old man will definitely die without regrets. ”

"Ah, this ......" Ouyang He looked a little embarrassed for a while, after all, she thought that she was just a fledgling junior, and it was really difficult to take on this heavy responsibility at such a time.

However, at the moment when Ouyang He's heart was extremely contradictory, Zhu Suifeng, who was already on the verge of dying due to the dissipation of his internal strength, tried his best to hand over an ice crystal jade pendant that was originally tied to his waist into Ouyang He's hands.

"At this point, I can make my own decision. The future of Tianjimen...... Please! As Zhu Suifeng finished the last sentence with an extremely trembling voice, a generation of peerless heroes who had dominated the rivers and lakes but had been wronged for half their lives died in front of Ouyang He's eyes.