Chapter 10: Heart-Eating Sword Soul, Meditation (Part II)
"There are seven of us, six of them are from the Yuwen clan, and I am the Yuwen clan, we are the guardians of this Jingtian blessed land, and we are also the last barrier of the Yuwen family, since you are here today, I will tell you the source of all this"
"Yes, Old Ancestor," Yuwen Qinghe said respectfully.
"From the beginning of the Tang Yu regime, our Yuwen family came here, and found the Jingtian blessed land of the Tuoba clan here, the Tuoba clan did not all occupy the Jingtian blessed land, our Yuwen family found and collected three thousand sword souls and their bodies, after which our Yuwen family and the Tuoba clan were entangled and competed for more than three hundred years, when the Tuoba clan faced the extinction of the clan more than two thousand one hundred years ago, our Yuwen family extended a helping hand to avoid annihilation, and then our two clans ceased war and reconciled, three hundred years of war Our Yuwen clan killed more than 137,000 clansmen, the family made the decision to rescue the Tuoba clan, so that some of the clansmen who advocated the extermination of the Tuoba clan at that time were extremely disappointed, After the Yuwen family reconciled with the Tuoba clan, this lineage of people broke away from the Jingtian blessed land, and when they arrived at Yuancheng, they established a Yuwen clan that was not controlled by the family," the old man in the middle said slowly.
"You should have seen the ruins left by the Tuoba clan here," the old man in the middle continued.
"Yes, Ancestor, there is a note from the Tuoba clan next to the mother sword of the Heavenly Sword, and there are three other mother swords that are Yin Gang, Earth Destroying, and Yang Sha."
"The person who left the note is the thirteenth generation patriarch of the Tuoba clan, and the four swords he mentioned, there are only three in the sword cave of our Yuwen family, and one of them was lost when a clansman went out to deal with clan affairs seven hundred years ago, and for seven hundred years, our Yuwen family has been looking for the whereabouts of this sword, until a few months ago, some traces were found in the Liao Kingdom"
Yuwen Qinghe looked at the old man in the middle and asked, "Old Ancestor, why are the number of those single swords not enough on the way I came?"
"This is one of the conditions for the Tuoba tribe to leave here, a thousand years ago, our two clans found a large blessed land in today's Tai'an City, this blessed land was named Qinglei by us, this is the only large blessed land found in these thousands of years."
"After discovering the Qinglei blessed land, the Tuoba clan was eager to try and constantly provoked our Yuwen family's clansmen, and the contradictions between the two sides have reached the point of irreconcilability. From the time we began to live in this blessed land to the discovery of the Qinglei blessed land, the power of our Yuwen family became stronger and stronger, even the Yuwen clan that split out at the beginning was also competing for the world, at this time our power far exceeded the Tuoba clan, the Tuoba patriarch was worried that the Tuoba clan would not split with us again, and the Tuoba clan would merge with the Yuwen family, and this was what he didn't want to see, so there was a proposal to divide the resources of the two clans in the Jingtian blessed land, and at that time, the ancestor of our vein was Yuwen Batian, and he was the younger brother of the head of our Yuwen family."
"What the old ancestor said is our Yuwen Family Sword Saint"
"Well, it's this Ancestor," replied the one on the far right.
"This old ancestor in the Tuoba tribe proposed that our Yuwen family give up the Qinglei blessed land and a part of the resources of the Jingtian blessed land began to massacre the Tuoba tribe, within a month the Tuoba tribe proposed to divide the resources of the high-level people in the two tribes meeting was basically slaughtered, even the Tuoba patriarch was seriously injured, and finally the Tuoba clan fled to Tai'an, the Tuoba clan shrunk in Tai'an for more than 500 years, and later at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Tuoba clan in order to rise, part of the high-level people in the clan supported the Yuwen Li family, this Yuwen clan Li family was the part of the clan that split out, part of the support of our Yuwen family, irreconcilable contradictions made the Tuoba clan split into Kansai Kanto Tuoba, The Kansai clan supported the Yuwen clan Li Shimin, and the Kanto clan was attached to our Yuwen family, and finally the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Yuwen clan Li family violated the ancestral teachings, chased the Central Plains, and dominated the world. After the change of Xuanwumen, on the one hand, Li Shimin, who was on the throne, in order to appease the Guanxi Tuoba, on the other hand, was afraid of the power of our Yuwen family, and used the power of the imperial court to coerce Jian'an Murong, and the Jiangnan Wang family put pressure on our Yuwen family, and our Yuwen family was forced to compromise like Li Shimin, and the five parties reached an agreement: our Yuwen clan gave up the Qinglei blessed land, the Yuwen family Li family gave up the salt and iron management rights in Luoyang, and the management rights of the Grand Canal for 300 years。 Later, in order to balance the contradictions of Kansai and Kanto Tuoba, appease the forces attached to us, and reduce the combat power lost by Kanto Tuoba due to the border war, the Kanto Tuoba was allowed to send thirty people to the Jingtian Blessed Land every three years to practice and take the sword, but after the death of the sword bearer of the Tuoba clan, the sword must be returned to our Yuwen family and return to the sword cave."
"This is the grievance between our Yuwen family and the Tuoba clan"
The old ancestor in the middle looked at Yuwen Qinghe and nodded, "How old are you this year?"
"Ancestor, Qinghe is eight years old this year"
"The eight-year-old mind is so mature, and my Yuwen family is hopeful"
"Qinghe Xie Ancestor Praise"
"Ancestor, my father is not the bloodline of our Yuwen family, I am following my mother's surname, and my father was a vassal relationship with Murong Xiaoxiao before that Tai'an. My father has been teaching me how to keep my heart and be calm in situations for five years, so I don't panic when I encounter danger."
"It's the person in charge of the Southern Tang Murong Iron Cavalry."
"Ancestor, Qinghe doesn't know this"
"That Southern Tang Murong is a branch left after Jian'an Murong was disabled, Jian'an Murong is a branch of Jian'an Cao's family, and later developed and expanded, replacing and merging the Cao family's own clan, five hundred years ago, it was with our Yuwen family, Yuwen family, Li family, Jiangnan Wang family and listed as the four major clans" The old ancestor in the middle got up and stroked the stone tablet, slowly like Yuwen Qinghe Road: "The Tang Dynasty jumped for three hundred years, and the Murong clan expanded wildly in the first fifty years, gathering most of the resources and wealth in the south, and the power in the south is close to our Yuwen family"
"After Li Shimin's death, Li Zhi was gradually controlled by the Murong family, Wu Meiniang from the Murong family controlled the power of the central court, and began to continuously attack the power of the Li family of the Yuwen family, in order to contain Wu Meiniang and save the power of the Li family of the Yuwen family, the Li family asked for help from our Yuwen family, played the name of the Yuwen family, attracted the ministers who were attached to us, and united the Jiangnan Wang family to fight against the Murong family, and the linkage of the three clans sent Wu Meiniang to the grave"
The old ancestor in the middle turned around and pointed to the stone tablet and said, "This Jiangyun Soul Tablet is from the Jiangyun blessed land of the Murong clan."
"Ancestor, there is something unclear in Qinghe, why don't our Yuwen family participate in the world," Yuwen Qinghe asked.
"Come"
Yuwen Qinghe slowly walked to the Jiangyun Soul Monument, gently touched the Soul Monument, the Soul Monument felt cold, and a picture came from the Soul Monument at the moment of touching, Yuwen Qinghe saw a piece of heaven and earth in the picture, the huge battlefield seemed to be shrouded in the endless earth, the earthquake trembled, the wind and clouds changed, the endless iron horses on the earth galloped and roared, the iron hooves of the war horses trampled through the armor of the warriors, the blood mixed with broken bones sprinkled like the ground, the light rider wearing light shuttle armor, the eyes swept across the battlefield, and quickly stepped forward on the battlefield to harvest the lone foot pawn, only to see that one person head issued"Knock knock" sounded on the ground, the head kept rolling on the ground, as if dead and blind, for a while blood spilled into the sky, and the air was filled with the smell of blood.
Countless fireballs flew into the sky, the clouds in the sky were reflected in the fireball as fiery red, the fireball flew over the front army that rushed into the formation, and fell to the array of the Chinese army, the ground was smashed out of a deep pit a few zhang wide, and the infantry cavalry within a few zhang around was smashed to pieces, and the flying sparks contaminated a few foot soldiers ignited the raging fire, and the foot soldiers resolutely drew their swords and killed themselves.
The ground on the left flank of the battlefield is shattered, the mountain peaks are shattered, the sun seems to have lost its color, and in the center of the battlefield two people face each other, one holding a sword and the other holding a halberd, and the person holding the sword is dressed in white, and his face is delicate, like the one who has not yet reached the crown.
The man with the halberd was dressed in a cloak armor with gold threads, and a pair of golden cloud-climbing boots on his feet, and his face was haggard like that of the old man in the twilight. There is no living person in dozens of miles around the two, there is not a single war horse, the person with the sword obviously occupies the advantage of this battle, and constantly attacks the halberd bearer, the halberd bearer can resist the sharp swordsmanship of the sword bearer, the aftermath of the battle makes the grass and trees within a radius of dozens of miles, the two fight from the sky to the ground, the earth cracks, the soil flies, and the wind sweeps the soil and stones to the battlefield dozens of miles away.
The sandstorm rolled towards the heavy armored infantry, these heavy armored soldiers covered their heads with brown iron armor, their feet wore cloud climbing boots, their hands were wrapped in golden silk, the arm armor was engraved with a tiger's head, and the chest armor was also engraved with a tiger's head, and the soldiers in the front rows were holding heavy shields, with two long swords and a short sword at their waists, and a light shield in the back row, and a sword hanging from the waist of the sword. When the sandstorm struck, thousands of cavalry wearing black iron armor covered with black armor, and the horse's head wrapped in black silk iron armor rushed like brown heavy infantry, the cavalry used the sandstorm to cover the march, and after a while, the cavalry and the heavy infantry collided, the heavy armor shield in the front row withstood the impact of the cavalry, and the Changge in the back row pierced the horse's leg from between the two shields, and the halberd harvested the galloping cavalry.
After a round of impact, the middle of the front row of heavy armor and heavy shields separated a channel, the middle of the heavy infantry quickly contracted inward and at the same time to the middle of the close and pushed forward, the middle of the halberd, the holding of the Ge like the outside of the close, the rear row of light shields forward, quickly formed a fan-shaped area in the middle, while preventing the front row of heavy shield infantry from the back of the enemy.
In the enemy cavalry rushed into the middle battle formation, the heavy armored shield soldiers in the front row quickly closed the passage, in the channel formed by the heavy armored infantry, the horse legs of the cavalry who rushed in were cut off by Changge, and the sword-wielding heavy infantry in the back row entered the middle battle formation, harvesting the soldiers who fell off the horseback and left alone, the light shield soldiers were in a team of three, two people combined the shield to block the horse's hooves, one person crossed out to cut off the horse's legs, and the cavalry was formed, and the hundreds of cavalry troops who rushed into the middle of the heavy infantry were quickly swallowed up.
At the same time, while the heavy infantry surrounded the cavalry, I saw that the enemy cavalry changed from black iron armor to brown heavy armor, chest armor protruded forward, foot armor covered the leg bones, knee armor covered with heavy armor, silk armor covered the neck, wearing a ghostly face, holding an iron hammer, mace, war horses covered with armor, and the rear army held a wide long sword. The rear army of this heavy armored cavalry army followed the front army, riding one horse and one horse, advancing in the shape of a sword.