—178 A.D.——

"The more powerful a person is, the more arrogant he is, and the more arrogant he is, the more powerful he is, and when others destroy his arrogance, the so-called 'powerful' will also collapse."

This passage that Tong Yuan usually said most often was still incomprehensible to Zhao Yun, who was now ten years old and quite precocious.

"So, whose arrogance is Master going to destroy?" He looked at Tong Yuan, who was preparing his weapons and armor, and asked curiously.

"I hope so," Tong Yuan responded, "It is also possible that the 'arrogance' of the teacher has been destroyed." ”

"That means that Master may not be able to beat the other party?" Zhao Yun blinked: "Then wouldn't it be better not to go?" ”

"Huh...... The reason why I have to go is also because of the 'arrogance' of the teacher," Tong Yuan touched Zhao Yun's little head with his empty hand, shook his head and sighed: "The teacher just happened to be an apprentice in Jizhou, but 'he' was 'promoted' nearby, which can be called the arrangement of fate." ”

"......" Zhao Yun couldn't understand it at all, but he couldn't bear to blurt out the sentence "I don't understand".

According to Tong Yuan's teaching in the past few years, he can "ask if he doesn't understand", but he is not allowed to say words that are meaningless to both professors and professors, such as "I don't understand" or "I can't understand".

However, Zhao Yun happened to be in a state of "not understanding anything" at this time, and could only continue to look at Tong Yuan who was preparing in a daze.

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This is the western part of Jizhou, the fief of a certain Han clan, Changshan State.

Changshan was originally called Hengshan, but because the emperor of the Han Dynasty liked the meaning of the word "Heng", at least two emperors used it to name their sons, and one took it as the emperor's name. He was not afraid of being ridiculed by the world, so he applauded him.

Since the prince cared about nothing but taxes, the ministers he appointed also worked up and down, and the responsibility for maintaining the basic operation of the fiefdom was piled on the county officials in various places, which also led to the unrestricted expansion of the family's power here, and the Zhao family was one of them.

Zhao Yun's father, the contemporary head of the Zhao family, is called ...... Zhao Ba.

Because the Zhao family was originally a descendant of Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue in the early Han Dynasty, it is natural that he would not be named, Zhao Ba tried to change his name to Zhao Xin when he became an adult, but was reprimanded by his father Zhao Dian and was not allowed, so he gave himself the word "Liangfu", and he would never be named in front of people.

This Zhao Ba ...... Zhao Liangfu felt that he had suffered the loss of his name, and after his wife became pregnant, he named his unborn child Zhao Feng and Zhao Yun.

After the two children were sensible, after learning this allusion, Zhao Feng teased Zhao Yun and called him "Sister Yun", although Zhao Yun was not angry, but because of the height and strength of this brother, there was no way to take him.

So, when the "Sharpshooter" Tong Yuan passed by, took a fancy to Zhao Yun's qualifications, and wanted to accept him as an apprentice, he agreed to it.

Tong Yuan noticed the vague contradiction between the Zhao brothers, and he didn't say anything, but after visiting him, he accepted Zhao Feng and taught them together in the same way.

As a result, although they are compatriots of the same mother, Zhao Yun's entry in martial arts is thousands of times faster than Zhao Feng's, and when Zhao Feng was just able to stumble and finish his marksmanship, Zhao Yun could already use a cork stick to whip away the weapons in the hands of the guards who were waiting for him.

In the end, Zhao Feng took the initiative to find Tong Yuan and asked him to change to a more practical set of rough and shallow knife techniques, which gave full play to his advantages of being strong and strong, although it was not a problem to deal with more than ten thieves, but the strength only stopped there.

At this point, Zhao Yun's idea of "learning the skills to teach his brother a lesson" was finally silently eliminated, after all, if he challenged it now, it would be a complete bully.

Tong Yuan received a good apprentice, and by the way, he also helped him solve family conflicts, so he was naturally satisfied, and he left some small problems behind.

For example, because Zhao Feng always shouts from Yunmei Yunmei, he just wants to regain his identity as a "younger brother", but he never thought that he can actually compete for his "brother" because he is a twin.

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The place where Tong Yuan taught Zhao Yun's martial arts was a strange glade in the Changshan Mountains, deep in the jungle shaded by layers of tree trunks, branches and shrubs, there was a "clearing" with a very flat ground and nothing clean.

Judging by the remaining traces of the ground, the path of the stream and the shape of the pond, it is believed that there should have been a small village that was half farming, half hunting, and also raising fish, but it suddenly disappeared, as if someone had moved them all to another place by "immortal means".

Tong Yuan didn't care about this, and Zhao Yun's eyesight had not yet reached the point where he could keenly spot those traces.

The surrounding trees seemed to be eager to invade the clearing, but they could only stretch around the clearing, and sadly served as a target for the pair of masters and apprentices to test the power of their moves.

Tong Yuan's housekeeping marksmanship, called [Hundred Birds and Phoenix Gun], is said to have been created by imitating the movements of birds, and is composed of many poems, although they are all limericks, such as "Two yellow orioles sing green willows, and the moon falls and the sky is full of frost; A few early warblers compete for warm trees, and they seem to be familiar with the return of the swallow" or something, there are a total of one hundred and one formulas, and the last one is the only one that does not become a poem.

As a "magic gun", Tong Yuan's marksmanship has long been free from the restrictions of one move and one style, if you want to, it is not a problem to get a "gun mark" like the "Traces of Heaven" made by the "Sword Saint" Wang Yue a few years ago, but for the balance of the court and the civil forces, it is better not to make deeds that can be compared between the two of them.

Although there is no need to use fixed moves, Tong Yuan taught Zhao Yun that when he returned to the basics and reused this "Hundred Birds and Phoenix Spear", every move was in line with the nature of heaven and earth, just like the real "Hundred Birds", which amazed Zhao Yun, and repeatedly said that he would also create his own marksmanship, in the name of the dragon, it was called "Seven Detective Dragon Spear".

In this regard, Tong Yuan just smiled and did not comment.

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"Here we are." In the glade, Tong Yuan finally straightened his armor and looked at the sky with a silver spear.

Boom –

The trees and branches that had originally covered the open space were forced by Tong Yuan's directional eruption to retreat one after another, revealing the vast sky.

"What's coming?" Zhao Yun, who was not surprised by his master's strength, also looked up, but found nothing except the blue sky, scattered broken clouds, and the sound of howling wind.

"A guy who has just stepped into the realm where he is a teacher, and arrogantly thinks that he is invincible in the world," Tong Yuan clenched his gun and looked at the sky: "There are at least five 'people' who can stop him, but the location where the division is located happens to be the closest." ”

"Master," Zhao Yun put aside questions such as "what realm" and "which guy", and said with a wink: "If there are only five people with the same strength as him, then it is indeed invincible in the world, right?" ”

......Tong Yuan was dumbfounded, and then forcibly diverted the topic: "This person, you should have heard, is Zhang Jiao, the famous Taiping Dao Ancestor in Jizhou, because he was born as a monk, and his fighting style is different from that of a teacher, you can hide on the edge of the open space and watch, and accumulate experience for those who have similar 'peerless' in the future." ”

After that, Tong Yuan didn't wait for Zhao Yun to ask anything more, looked at the sky, squatted slightly, and a silver flame suddenly rose around his body, completely obscuring his figure.

At the same time, a howling wind swept from east to west from far and near, even shattering all the clouds in its path.

Tong Yuan straightened up suddenly, and the silver spear pointed straight towards the sky.

At this moment, many traces of birds that Zhao Yun had seen from the moves taught by Tong Yuan had completely disappeared, and at this moment, the moves drawn by this "magic spear" were not white cranes with bright wings, water herons taking off, and geese returning from the south, but a phoenix that was extremely angry because the airspace was invaded by outsiders!

The silver flame turned into the king of a hundred birds in fantasy and legend as if it were substance, and flashed with dazzling multicolored light, accompanied by Tong Yuan's action of raising his gun, with a pillar of silver blazing light that penetrated the sky and pointed straight at the sky.

"It's a pity ......," Zhao Yun subconsciously said what he thought in his heart.

Because this "Hundred Birds and Phoenix" was completely missed, it happened to be stopped directly in front of the "wind", but there were no more results.

"Pity? If he really hits, he will feel unworthy of waiting for him with great fanfare. The white flames and colorful phoenix phantoms on Tong Yuan's body were gradually disappearing, but the threat of that silver spear was getting stronger and stronger, in Zhao Yun's opinion, it was like a bonfire in the dark night, and it was extremely difficult to ignore it.

"Who is Your Excellency, and why do you want to block the way of the poor?" The "wind" that swept in the sky couldn't really ignore this spear shadow in the end, so it lowered its altitude with a roar, and changed into the appearance of a middle-aged Taoist in front of Tong Yuan and Zhao Yun.

While the master was talking to him, Zhao Yun carefully observed the person named "Zhang Jiao", who was wearing a light yellow robe and a strange crown on his head, and he looked powerless, and even put on a posture like a person who knew no martial arts at all, as for the staff...... It's more like a crutch, only those eyes reveal a confident glow that only Master Tong Yuan occasionally mentions when he mentions his martial arts.

"'Sharpshooter' Tong Yuan, please!" Without saying a few words, Tong Yuan took the initiative to attack with "a hundred birds and a phoenix".

This blow that Zhao Yun thought was bound to hit, but it was missed again, and Zhang Jiao in place turned into a phantom and disappeared, and then appeared on Tong Yuan's side, the long staff in his hand was brewing some kind of spell that was almost completed, he seemed to be laughing, and seemed to be saying to himself: "I said a long time ago that there is a limit to the talent of 'people'. ”