Somewhere in an unknown place on the continent of Central Continent, a small town is ten miles of peach blossoms, and it is undefeated in all seasons, which is quite miraculous, so it is named Peach Blossom Town.

Heavy snow covered the heavens and the earth, the vast expanse was white, and everything was covered in silver.

After the snowfall, the peach blossoms become more and more delicate, white and red.

In the twilight, there is a secluded place in the town called Xuanyuan Lane.

A young man in white was sitting cross-legged on the bed with a red candle lit beside him, carrying a sword box wrapped in Shuzhong cloud brocade, and was looking intently at a wall by the window.

The faint candlelight illuminates the clean face and also illuminates the walls.

There is a huge mural on this wall.

It is very enchanting and eerie in the dim candlelight.

It's like it's painted with blood.

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Loud footsteps could be heard outside the house.

Bai Ma knew that it was Xiaobai who came back from fetching water.

Although Xiaobai is a maid, she is more like a brother and sister who grew up with Shiruma since she was a child.

Shiruma walked out of the house, looked up at the snowstorm, and slowly opened the umbrella.

A landscape painting is painted on the umbrella cloth.

The layout of the painting is huge, and the momentum is naturally magnificent.

The mountains are like dragons, the water is like dragons, and the clouds are like dragons.

On the book "Mountains and rivers are free" four big characters, the pen goes dragon and snake.

There is silence between heaven and earth.

Looking at the delicate Xiaobai carrying a bucket that was extremely inconsistent with her figure, step by step, through the courtyard and the cold winter wind and snow, she came to the simple and simple stove room.

She struggled to stand on her tiptoes and poured the bucket full of water into the large tank, which was half a head taller than her.

After doing all this, Xiaobai put the empty bucket aside, and then sat on the ground panting, not afraid of soiling the white skirt, and took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat on his face.

Suddenly, a sneer broke the silence of heaven and earth.

"Do you sell this servant girl?"

Bai Ma withdrew his gaze that stayed on Xiaobai and followed the prestige.

But he saw a man of his age crouching on the wall, grinning, and making no secret of his disdain.

The man was dressed in a red brocade robe with gold stripes.

It's like in the vast white space between heaven and earth, a fiery red flower suddenly blooms, which is particularly eye-catching.

Of course, the most peculiar thing is not his clothes that are so eye-catching in the world.

It's his yin and yang eyes.

It's a face that's completely alien to a small town.

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The loess walls of every house in Xuanyuan Lane are very low.

In fact, the young man in brocade clothes didn't need to stand on tiptoe at all to see the scene in the courtyard.

But when he talked to Shiruma, he wanted to squat on the wall.

Bai Jian raised his eyebrows slightly, like two thin and light swords, and asked, "Do the guards around you sell them?"

When Xiaobai heard Childe's words, he realized that beside the young man in brocade, there was an old man with silver hair at some point.

The old man's face was carved with furrows like swords.

But the breath of the whole person is not old, but as tall and majestic as a mountain.

He also held an umbrella made of brocade paper for the young man in brocade.

Two teenagers of the same age under the two umbrellas, looking at each other, for tat.

It wasn't until the two umbrellas fell a little white that the brocade-clothed young man retracted his gaze, and the corners of his mouth curled up and said: "Ben Shao teased you, let's get down to business, thanks to you today, I can buy that four-legged koi, and the more I look at it after I go back, the more I like it, and I think I must say thank you to you in person, so I asked Grandpa Shankui to take me to you for days." ”

He threw out a heavy embroidered bag, threw it to Bai Jian's feet, and said with a bright smile: "This is a reward, you and I are two clear." ”

As soon as Bai Ma wanted to speak, the young man in brocade had already jumped off the low wall and turned to leave.

Shiruma frowned, a little displeased.

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Timidly looking at the backs of the pair of grandfathers and grandsons who were drifting away in the wind and snow, Xiaobai walked out of the stove room, came to Gongzi's umbrella, and asked tremblingly: "Childe, are they 'sword buyers'?"

She looked like a panicked young elk.

Faced with Xiaobai's trembling question, Bai Jian could not deny.

He knew that the young man in brocade would definitely be the dawn of hope for a family in a small town.

is a powerful "sword buyer".

However, Shiruma doesn't like him, and can even be said to hate him.

Because the young man in brocade robbed not an ordinary koi.

That koi can turn into a dragon.

Just when Bai Jian's two thin and light eyebrows were about to squeeze together, Xiao Bai suddenly asked timidly: "Childe, do we have a 'sword buyer'?"

At this point, night has fallen.

Bai Jian was stunned, looked up, and the starry sky was bright.

After a long time, he said slowly: "Naturally, there is." ”

As if he had made up his mind, Xiao Bai took out an ancient order from his waist, and a very good-looking strange flower was carved on it, and the tip of his nose said sourly: "If this token is fake, my identity is also fake, I don't have any 'sword buyers' at all, and Yunmengshan has never had a disciple of mine at all...... Will you leave me behind?"

Bai Jian sighed softly and said, "Don't blame your father and mother for not coming to you, Peach Blossom Town is not an ordinary place after all......"

Speaking of this, Bai Jian suddenly changed the topic and said: "I've had a hard time in the town over the years, if the people of Yunmengshan treat you badly in the future, and you are unhappy, then I will take you back, build the largest mansion, and cook your favorite duck rice every day......

When Xiaobai heard this, he burst into tears and laughed: "Eat every day, won't you get tired?"

Her apricot eyes were shining, and so was her beautiful face.

It's as if the starry sky is rushing towards her.

Twelve-year-old Xiaobai smiled so happily for the first time.

The people of the entire Peach Blossom Town are waiting for the arrival of the "sword buyer", and Bai Jian and Xiaobai are also waiting for the arrival of the "sword buyer".

One is so that future generations can get out of the town and get ahead.

One is for some people who have to be killed, and some things that have to be done.

However, no one noticed that in the wind and snow at night, a four-legged snake quietly crawled into the small courtyard.

No one noticed that the maidservant Xiaobai's eyes gradually turned into red gold and sparkling.

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The sky and the earth were dark, and countless white clouds were floating in the sky, and the remnants of the sun were like blood.

A young man in white wakes up from a wide river of blood.

This river of blood was very straight, like an incomparably sharp sword, domineering across the center of the earth, cutting the entire earth into two parts, north and south.

The light that was not bright fell on the eyes of the young man in white.

His eyes are like a sea, seemingly calm and clear, but incomparably deep and wide, hiding countless storms and waves.

There is anger, exhaustion, incomprehension, and some vicissitudes that are completely inconsistent with age.

This young man in white is naturally Shiruma.

"It's annoying. He frowned, rather annoyed.

It is really annoying if a person has been repeating the same dream every night since birth.

Around the River of Blood, there is an endless field.

The wilderness is desolate, and apart from the earth and loess, there are a dazzling array of swords.

Countless swords were stuck in the ground, and the blades of the swords were piercing with blood.

The cold glow reflected by the blade through the sky was bitingly cold, but the bright red blood was as hot as fire.

This is the world of ice and fire.

After a few moments, all the emotions in Shiruma's eyes disappeared, and only a calm remained.

Because in his eyes, on the other side of the river of blood, a great avenue appeared.

The avenue is as straight as a sword, but there is no sword on the road.

At the end of the road, there is a huge throne.

The throne was filled with countless swords, and those swords were more magnificent, majestic, sacred, and ancient than the countless swords in the wasteland, as if the gods had once conquered the four directions.

Chapter 2: The Sword Bone

These swords were plunged into the huge black throne, which of course made the throne ugly and weird.

But this huge throne is not weird, nor is it ugly.

It is sacred and solemn, noble and domineering, like an unclimbable mountain standing there, standing up to the sky and the earth.

Underneath the throne, there were countless bright red blood stains and white bones.

Blood is the imprint of fire, and bones are the cold of death.

But those swords on the throne, colder.

At either end of the throne, two vague and distorted black figures stood, like heinous demons and ghosts.

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The next day, the snow stopped, and the pale golden sunlight shone in from the distant horizon.

Under the blue sky, a beautiful rainbow bridge was hung.

In front of the stove where the stove had not yet lit the fire, Xiaobai found that the four-legged snake was born very strangely, and between the beautiful eyebrows, there was a strong dislike and disgust, as if two tigers had met.

The four-legged snake was not vicious, it just lazily raised its head, glanced at Xiaobai, and then curled up, ready to continue a long hibernation.

Follow the centuries-old customs of the town.

If there are snakes burrowing into their homes, it is a good sign.

The owner must not expel or kill him.

But Xiaobai didn't believe in these customs and ghosts and gods in the town, as if he only felt that he was being ignored, and suddenly became angry, grabbed the four-legged snake, and threw it out of the yard.

I never thought that the four-legged snake that had been smashed to pieces would become more and more frustrated, and went towards the courtyard again and again.

At first it was a stove room.

Next up is the back room where the white room is located.

Xiaobai, who usually rarely gets angry, was so angry that he threw it into the small courtyard next door.

The boy next door is surnamed Tu Xin, and his father and mother died early, like rootless duckweed and catkins, drifting in the wind, and the life is very hard.

For some reason, Xiaobai doesn't like him.

But Bai Jian thinks that Tu Xin is very similar to him, but he also has a bit of sympathy.

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When Xiaobai and the four-legged snake were "two tigers fighting", Bai Ma was holding a pen and ink, and added many more brushes to the huge, bright red wall painting.

After doing all this, Shiruma felt very satisfied, so he put away his pen and ink, and glanced at the white umbrella with the four big characters of "Landscape Freedom" in the corner of the wall.

Then he touched the sword box on his back, which was wrapped in Shuzhong cloud brocade, and pushed the door out.

Xiao Bai, who was angry and cleaned up the four-legged snake, walked out of the stove room, looked at the figure bathed in the sun from a distance, and felt like a fairy, and the anger in his heart was washed away in an instant, and he was frozen in place, a little stunned.

The morning light sprinkled and bathed in a white room that was not stained by wind and dust, but he remembered that dream again.

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Bai Ma, who was in the river of blood, suddenly remembered what that person had said to him.

- It is impossible for one to step into the same river twice.

Is that really the case?

He had stepped into this river of blood like a sword countless times.

The wind in the wasteland is as sharp as a sword.

But for some reason, he couldn't shred the white clothes in the white room, it just made him sting.

It's as if you've been stabbed by countless swords, again and again, and it's very painful.

In the midst of such great pain, Shiruma walked step by step towards the avenue that was as straight as a sword on the other side of the blood river.

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Shiruma walked across the river and stepped on the avenue as straight as a sword.

The day was full of earthquakes.

The countless swords in the wasteland began to vibrate violently.

Thousands of sword sounds were superimposed on each other, forming a low, long, ancient, and domineering movement, which resounded throughout the world.

It's like some kind of divine comedy, and it's like the war drums of heaven and earth.

Shiruma endured the pain of ten thousand swords and continued to move forward.

Underneath the throne at the end of the avenue, there were countless bright red blood stains and white bones.

Blood is the imprint of fire, and bones are the cold of death.

But those swords on the throne, colder.

Two vague and distorted black figures beside the throne stepped down from the throne and said softly and sincerely, "We are waiting for your return...... Back to the throne!"

Shiruma walked to the throne with a wooden expression.

His clear and clean eyes were filled with endless sword and fire.

The two dark shadows kneeling on one knee were lonely, and the one who walked to the throne was even more lonely.

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When Shiruma opened the door to welcome the morning light, the gate on the east side of the town was also pushed open.

Peach Blossom Town is only a third-rate town in Daqin, and there are dozens of sword furnaces shaped like sleeping dragons in the four fields around the town, and the swords cast are extremely famous.

Since the unification of the world by Great Qin, it has taken on the important task of "forging swords by order".

Every year, the royal envoy will select a certain number of sword embryos from the sword furnace in the town and order someone to send them to the palace.

After a few months, people from the palace will enter the town and allocate money to show the satisfaction of the nobles in the palace and their encouragement to the town's sword furnace.

The residents of the town can also mix food and clothing because of this.

As a result, the world is impermanent, and an urgent decree was sent to the town.

The town suddenly lost the talisman of "Casting a Sword by Order", and the town's sword furnace was sealed clean overnight.

The town is not surrounded by walls.

Around the town, including the town, not to mention the bandits, even thieves and thieves are rare.

So the nominal city gate is actually nothing more than a row of old fences that are crooked.

So-so has such a place for pedestrians, cars and horses to pass, even if it is the face of Peach Blossom Town.

At the nominally easternmost and westernmost "city gates" of the town, there is a person who is responsible for the entry and exit of the town's merchants, as well as night ban patrols, and usually collects some letters sent back from outside.

And here, naturally, there is one more errand to deliver letters.