(This chapter will explain some background, with a word count of 5000+++ and a bit wordy in language, but it has the effect of connecting the past and the future for the whole text.) Ask for a collection, thank you. ）

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On the big boat, there was a slight chill on the splint at night, but in such an environment, Li Ding slept very deeply, he hadn't slept so quietly for too long.

Under the starlight, a strange subtle fluctuation suddenly rippled from Li Ding's body, but no one could sense it. It's just that Li Ding's expression became a little painful at this moment, and his consciousness was pulled by something and gradually sank into the depths of memory.

In a trance, a calm sea appeared in front of me, and above the sea, a canoe was quietly moored there, slightly undulating.

On the canoe, an old man and a young man quietly stared at a white wooden strip floating on the sea, and suddenly the wooden strip sank downward, and the young man with a thin face had a sharp look in his eyes, and he hurriedly pulled the fishing line in his hand, but found that the hook that was pulled out of the water was empty.

The young man raised his eyebrows and looked back at the old man behind him, and an extremely illusory feeling arose. But the old man's loving smile seemed so real again, and the young man was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly smiled: "Look, I said I can't do it." After speaking, he showed an expression of nonchalance.

The old man's wrinkled dark face, with a hint of helplessness in his loving smile, reached out and rubbed the young man's head, and said: "The most important thing in fishing is to be patient, not too urgent, you have to wait for the fish to bite the hook and then pull the line, you have been so absent-minded, how can you catch a fish." ”

The boy nodded, grabbed a small insect from the bamboo basket next to him, hung it on the hook, and threw the hook to the surface again.

The old man continued in a low voice: "You will soon be fifteen years old, and you will participate in the Chengren Ceremony next year, and you can't go on like this, your body is too poor to do heavy work, and if you can't even fish, it depends on how you get a wife." ”

"I said that I would serve my father alone for the rest of my life, and when my father was gone, I would go to the mainland to see the strange things that my father said. The young man stuck his tongue out at the old man and smiled.

"Haha, stinky boy, you curse Daddy to death!" The old man also smiled, "I didn't see you marry a wife, I must have lived a good life, I married you Li Ding back then, just because I wanted you to add Ding to the entrance earlier, Dad, I look forward to hugging my grandson!" As he spoke, the old man scratched the young man's nose fiercely with his hand.

The boy was Li Ding, and he touched his nose with his hand, but found that it didn't hurt at all.

"I won't take a wife. Li Ding put away his smile and said in a daze. The old man's face turned pale, but he smiled and said: "Silly boy, how can you say such a thing, I said that if you don't marry a wife, your father won't be able to hold his grandson." However, Li Ding instantly became naughty and judged the two from before, looked at the sea and whispered: "If you marry a wife, you will have a child, and if you give birth to a child, you should raise him, but why do my parents give birth to me but don't want me." ”

The smile on the old man's face froze instantly, and he pondered for a moment before he said, "It's not that they don't want you, it's that they can't be by your side anymore." Back then, the place where I picked you up was a rocky reef, a place of death for those who are not familiar with the sea, and ships often wrecked and sank there. You were lucky enough to be washed up on a bare reef, and if I had passed by a little later, you might have been swallowed up by the rising tide. ”

Li Ding listened quietly, holding the edge of the canoe with his palm, and did not speak again. The old man sighed and said with a solemn expression: "Don't think too much about this, go back, it's almost time to eat." ”

Li Ding nodded, and slowly pulled up the slender fishing line and put it away. Looking back at the old man who was worried, he suddenly asked the old man: "Daddy, your medical skills were learned from the pharmacists on the merchant ships in the past, and those books in the tribe are said to have been given by the people on the merchant ships.

Li Ding is deliberately changing the topic, because this is not the first time Li Ding has asked these questions, Li Ding doesn't want to make the old man unhappy with his previous words, and the old man naturally feels it.

The hand holding the boat pulp slowly rowed, and the old man said lightly: "Of course it's true, but your physique is too weak, and the old people in the tribe will not agree to you to participate in the cultivation selection, this is the only opportunity for the people in the tribe to go to the mainland." To tell you the truth, you may not like to hear it, with your physique, even if you go, there will be no results. ”

"I don't want to participate in any selection, and besides, why do I have to participate in the selection, aren't those partners not selected?" Li Ding said pretending to be nonchalant.

"You don't understand this yet, there are some things that I will naturally tell you after you have performed the Chengren ceremony, and I have not been to the mainland for more than 20 years. The old man showed a thoughtful expression, and suddenly said: "In this way, as long as you can learn to fish, and you can help Aunt Liu and them make a hundred fish skin clothes in the coming year, I will promise to take you to the mainland once, okay?"

"Really!" Li Ding showed a smile on his face again, and jumped up happily, making the canoe shake from side to side. The old man shook his head, stabilized the canoe with a pulp, and said, "But the most important thing now is to learn how to fish first, if you still can't even fish, I haven't said this." As he spoke, he smiled mysteriously.

"Dad, don't use this method to provoke me, I just want to see if the mainland is really as magical as they say, if you can't go, it doesn't matter. Li Ding smiled slyly, "How can I say that I am still young, I believe that I will always find an opportunity, if it is not good, I will sneak on a merchant ship as I said last time." ”

"You must not do this!" cried the old man, "if you get on board without permission, you will be sold." ”

"Haha...... I just like to see my dad nervous. Li Ding suddenly covered his stomach and smiled, "Don't worry, Dad, I won't do that kind of stupid thing, Uncle Lehi and their words I have in mind, although those merchant ships are different from the bandits, but who knows what bad things they do behind their backs." ”

"It's good that you know. The old man shook his head helplessly and said, but Li Ding smiled mischievously and looked at the sea.

Here, looking at Li Ding, who always kept his thoughts in his heart, the old man fell into deep thought.

And Li Ding could deeply feel all this at this time, as if his heart had entered the old man's mind at this moment.

For Li Ding, the old man was really helpless. Although Li Ding was regarded as a monk, the old man did not hide the fact that he was an orphan. In the eyes of the old man, Li Ding is more naughty than other children, and he is a little smarter, but although his body has no diseases since he was a child, he is much thinner than other teenagers in the tribe, and his literacy is faster than other children, but he is stupid in learning life skills.

Under the care of the old man, Li Ding has been living carefree, but what Li Ding doesn't know is that the old man's tribe is too small, and if any group wants to survive and develop, it can't do without a certain strength. As long as one of those selected teenagers becomes a cultivator, even if it is just to enter the ordinary sect, and then learn some skills and come back, it is a powerful guarantee for the tribe, but the power of the bloodline of the people in the tribe is too weak. For decades, except for the old man himself and the middle-aged man named Li Hai, no one has succeeded in Qiyuan.

Cultivation is actually something that everyone in this world knows, and the old man's tribe has also had strong people, but as time goes by, the old man's tribe is getting weaker and weaker, and even the exercises and martial arts are lost later. Although Qi Yuan was successful, because they had no exercises, they only naturally refined some Yuan Qi through the induction of the aura of heaven and earth, and their strength was much greater than that of ordinary people, but it was not worth mentioning compared to real cultivators.

In fact, the old man never understood why Li Ding, who had never cared about cultivation, always longed for the mainland. The old man knew that it was a place full of intrigues and tricks, and he didn't want Li Ding to go there, he just hoped that his tribe would always be safe and sound, and the people in the tribe could live a good life all the time.

But while hope is beautiful, the reality is often brutal. Everything that followed was like a replay of memory, which made Li Ding miserable.

The canoe quickly paddled across the sea, and gradually a small island came into view, and smoke could be seen rising from the island in the distance.

"It's about the same time, and you will be able to eat the grilled fish made by your Aunt Liu in a while. Pulling his thoughts back and looking in the direction of the island, the old man quickened his paddle, and the canoe swept across the water like an arrow from a string.

"No, Daddy, look, it looks like the house is on fire. Li Ding stood up violently, pointed ahead and said.

As the canoe gets closer to the island, the things on the island are getting clearer. On a hillside on the island, there were wooden houses built next to each other, but most of them had been set on fire, and faintly weeping and screaming came from the island.

The old man's face tightened, and as soon as the canoe landed, he said to Li Ding: "Stay in the boat and don't move." Yet he himself was running up the hill with a swift pace.

On the hillside, dozens of strong men in black armed with spears and scimitars were surrounding a wooden house, the middle group was clearly outnumbered by the strong men in black, but many of them were women and children. Even the young men, all covered in blood, gasping for breath with the support of the women, looking at the costumes, were the people of the tribe.

A woman's cry of pain came from the hut, causing the black-clad men to smile with a silvery smile on their faces, while the tribesmen just stood there with fear on their faces and listened.

"Hand over everything of value, or I'll kill you all." A bald man with a scar on his face shouted, the long dark red scar extending from his left eye to the right corner of his mouth, and the children hiding behind the adults shivered with a vicious expression.

"We only need gold and silver coins, and all those who know each other should be handed over, otherwise our eldest brother will be unhappy, but he will really kill him." Scarface said with a wicked smile as a big man with a spear in his hand.

"We ...... There is no gold, only fish. An older middle-aged man whispered timidly. The scarface was stunned for a moment, and immediately said angrily: "** is it not to fool me." After speaking, he snatched the spear in the hand of the big man next to him, and inserted a shot into the abdomen of the middle-aged man, who didn't even let out a scream, but bent down in pain and fell to the ground, instantly losing his life.

"Haha...... If anyone still says that there is no gold, this is the end. Scarface laughed wildly, and slashed at the shoulder of the dead middle-aged man, as if he were chopping a piece of wood, and for a moment blood splattered everywhere. Two people in the frightened tribe fainted on the spot, and the children were even more frightened and wanted to scream loudly, but they were immediately covered by adults.

"Oh hehe......" A strange laugh suddenly came from inside the wooden house, and at the same time, the woman's shouting stopped abruptly. As the door of the wooden house was opened, a one-eyed man walked out of the door while pulling his pants, and said in a sharp voice to Scarface: "The taste of the little lady is really good, but the neck is a little brittle, and it will be broken by accident." ”

"If you like to do this, tell that guy to lead the way, find the gold and get out of here. Scarface said with a displeased expression.

"Hehe......" The one-eyed man laughed again, and turned to look for something in the crowd.

"Whoosh......"

Suddenly, a sound of breaking wind came from behind him, and the one-eyed man turned his head sharply, and a long thing hit him on the head heavily, and the one-eyed man suddenly broke his head and fell to the ground heavily.

"Who?" Scarface shouted angrily, and when it became clear that it was a boat pulp that had injured the one-eyed man, he noticed that an old man had appeared behind them at some point.

"Daddy Touren!" the people who were surrounded suddenly shouted in surprise, as if this suddenly appeared thin old man was their savior, but as the surprise on everyone's faces disappeared in an instant, anyone with a discerning eye could see that under the eyes of many tigers, this old man could not do anything at all.

"What's the matter, why did these pirates touch them, Lehi?" said the old man hurriedly. However, none of the surrounding tribesmen answered the old man's question, except for the frightened murmuring of the child.

". The one-eyed man shook his forehead and stood up from the ground, a few streaks of blood flowing across his distorted face, his eyes full of murderous intent, and his vicious expression became more and more hideous. "You mean that stupid big guy who doesn't have long eyes, right? We have already chopped it into meat and thrown it into the sea to feed the fish. ”

Hearing this, the old man trembled with anger, and shouted bitterly to the tribesmen: "Xili, I said that you will be killed by money sooner or later, but is this how you protect the tribe......?" The old man pointed at the cowardly men in the tribe, "Why did you just let your women and children be surrounded by pirates here, have you all forgotten that these are murderous things without blinking, what will be the result once they go ashore?"

At the shouts of the old man, a sturdy middle-aged man half-squatting in the crowd shook his body and slowly stood up with a pale face. Facing the black-clad men with spears and scimitars around him, his eyes revealed a visceral fear. In the distance, when the old man's resentful eyes shot at him, he just opened his mouth wide in a daze.

"Hahaha...... I'm looking for you, is your guy Xili? I had to thank you just now, don't you say it? Scarface groped for the scars on his face with his hands and smiled wickedly at the one-eyed man.

The one-eyed man pressed his bleeding forehead, the killing intent in his eyes became more and more intense, glanced at Na Xili, lowered his voice and gritted his teeth: "Don't worry, when the gold is found, I will definitely use two big bags to exchange for your fish skin clothes, but ...... I will put the gold in your ...... Next to the corpse. Kill, I'll kill all these stupid things for me. ”

"Kill ......" scimitar was raised, and the one-eyed man rushed towards the crowd first, and the first knife was to cut down the middle-aged man named Xili, and the rest of the bandits immediately joined the massacre.

"Ah......h

Blood splattered in the midst of the miserable screams, and one tribesman was slashed to the ground one after another, and then pierced through the body with spears. This scene made the old man's eyes turn red in an instant.

"Are you just waiting for death? Don't you have long hands and long feet?" Seeing that the people in the tribe were killed one by one, the old man rushed towards the pirates with a pair of fleshy palms, and his heart-rending shouts pierced the ears of every tribesman like sharp arrows through the scattered blood mist, which made people's hearts tremble.

"Ah......" Behind the old man, Li Ding held a stone and rushed to a pirate first, knocking the stone heavily on the big man's waist. But Li Ding's strength was too small, the big man just trembled, and a vicious punch knocked him to the ground, a trace of blood flowed out with Li Ding's stubborn little mouth, but another bandit next to him held a spear and stabbed it in front of him.

"Poof. In Li Ding's stunned face, a figure suddenly blocked in front of him. It was the head man's father, the spear pierced his shoulder, and the hot blood sprayed Li Ding's face.

"Daddy!" Li Ding hurriedly reached out to support the crumbling thin body, but the body suddenly exploded and frantically crashed into the owner of the spear. It was unimaginable that such a thin body knocked the whole pirate out of the air.

"Silly boy, didn't you tell you not to come over?" The old man glanced back at Li Ding, his eyes were full of pain, but he shouted loudly at the crowd: "Protect your children......"

The old man's frantic roar seemed to have finally awakened the blood surnames of those fellow Mune, whether it was a wounded youth or a weak woman, they were all stunned for a moment, and then rushed towards the pirates with red eyes. Finally, the encirclement of the pirates was torn open, and the old man and some women ran to the hill in panic with some children and some children.

Killing cries, screams, a path completely stained red with flowing blood. By the time the survivors rushed to the cave on the top of the mountain, there were less than a dozen people left.

"Will ...... Put the child in a barrel. With red eyes, the old man pointed to the large wooden barrel in which the grain was stored in the stone house and said to everyone. The two young men who were mixed with blood hurriedly opened the wooden barrel, poured out the food inside, and said hurriedly: "What should I do?" The old man leaned against the stone wall, a mouthful of blood spurted out, looked at the young man and the other three frightened children and said: "Let them go in, push down from here, maybe they still have a chance of life." ”

"......No," a woman cried out in her arms, "he will fall to his death, but he will fall into the sea, how will he live?" ”

"But if you stay, you're dead!" cried the old man.

Outside the stone house, the sound of hurried footsteps was getting closer and closer, and it was obvious that the tribesmen who were blocking the pirates had all been killed. The woman's hand holding the child let go and clenched, and grasped and let go, and pain was written all over her face.

"Quick, put it in. The old man shouted again. Li Ding hugged the old man, "No, I want to be with the head man again." The old man smiled bitterly and said, "Remember, if you can survive, you must live well." Turning his head towards the innermost statue in the cave, the old man shouted in a trembling voice, "O Genshin...... Please protect these children and survive safely......"

At this moment, Li Ding's hands and feet seemed to be entangled by something, no matter how hard he tried, it was useless. In Li Ding's powerless struggle, he was stuffed into the barrel, he couldn't see the old man for the last time, in a blood red, he entered a state of dizziness, and the whole person was about to fall apart.

"Daddy......"

An exclamation broke the silence of the night sky, and Li Ding, who was asleep, woke up in a cold sweat. The whole body was weakly paralyzed, but he found that the Nine Desolations Relics were still in his hands.

In the night, the pair of sloppy eyes gradually became resolute, and the weak hand actually clenched the Nine Desolations Record.