The last martial saint
There are men, women, wine, villains and decency in this story.
"I'm a Martial Saint!"
An unkempt drunk. Shaking into the tavern. The mouth is snoring and yelling. He tapped the top of the counter with his dirty hand.
"Come to an altar of twenty-year-old flower carvings,"
"Three gold coins!" I said with a smile.
The drunken man put his hand into his tattered shirt and dug it out for a long time. Only took out a large handful of copper plates.
"Forget it. Cheap you kid. The drunken man smiled at me with his mouth full of wine. Then he threw me a tattered old book.
"Then I can't sell it to you. Why don't you have a bowl of burning knives?" I glanced at the writing on the cover. It reads "Beast Fire Decision" crookedly. At first glance, he drank too much and wrote it himself.
"I'm Shi Xuan. The drunk man said with a grin. Then he looked up and showed me his face.
"Beast fire?" I woke up in an instant. This name resounded throughout the Martial Continent seven years ago.
"I'm that Shi Xuan. The drunk stumbled into his chair. It seems that I will bring him the twenty-year-old flower carving.
I hurriedly put away the exercise. Then he picked up one of the largest jars and followed.
"Flower carving?"
"Flower carving!"
The drunk casually lifted the seal and unsealed it. Then he lifted the jar and took a sip.
"Uncle Shi, tell the little one your story. ”
"That's not a happy story!" the drunk muttered to himself. My mind felt like I had gone back to the past.
Shi Xuan's family is the largest swordsman family in the entire Martial Continent. He was the only son of the patriarch. The entire Martial Continent is a world where the strong are respected. And when it comes to the commonality of the patriarchs of the family. It should be wisdom. As the leading big brother. Whether it's a conspiracy or a normal strategy. These people all have brains like human spirits. If there are exceptions. That's Shi Xuan.
Childhood. His father trained him as a successor. But the heavens didn't fulfill people's wishes. This kid, who is destined to become the successor of the family, does not like cultivation and scheming, but likes to tame beasts. And one tame is twenty years.
When Shi Xuan is thirty years old. His father finally couldn't take it anymore. Expel him from the family. What his father said to him at the time. He still remembers.
The drunkard lifted the jar and took a big sip. The crystal clear liquor hung on his dirty beard. He smirked and said, "At that time, my father said: The patriarch of the Swordsman family can't be a horse breeder and a monkey. You're not going to be a patriarch anymore. ”
"And then?"
"I met her!" the drunkard's eyes welled up with endless sweetness.
"I'm out of bounds. I thought I would be at ease to tame the beast for a lifetime. Turned out to be a day in a tavern. I can't afford to buy my daughter Hong when she wants to drink a bowl of Huadiao to make up the numbers. She showed up!"
Daughter Red and Huadiao are the same wine. When the girl is born. Fathers will choose the best corn in that year. A batch of rice wine is brewed and stored in the ground. When the daughter gets married, it is dug out as a dowry banquet to invite guests. Endless liquor is sold to taverns. That's why I call my daughter red. And the origin of the flower carving is very unlucky. The people were afflicted. Not all girls live to be married. In case the young girl dies. Life is forced. Generally, the family will still dig up the previously hidden wine and sell it. This wine can't be called red. And it's called flower carving. Take the meaning of withering flowers.
"Marry me, okay. I said to the girl.
"The fortune teller said I couldn't get married until I was nineteen. I'm sixteen years old now, and my husband will be a powerful man in the world. "The girl's voice has shattered my lifelong dream of taming animals. I released all my horses and monkeys the same day.
The drunkard's hands began to tremble. It was as if I saw the sixteen-year-old face in the reflection in the wine.
"And then?"
"I'm starting to kill!" the drunk said with a grin. But it makes people feel that he is more cruel than the ancient beasts at this time.
"Oh" I started to get interested. It is rumored that Shi Xuan has killed many people. A lot of righteous heroes. The evil of the Devil's Way. In the end, it was abolished by several sects on the mainland. And all this because of this woman?
"You've heard of it?" he sneered. Laugh at those who were burned to death by him. Is he still laughing at me? or laughing at himself?
"The path of the strong is made of bones. I don't have much time. Only less than three years. So I started cultivating like crazy. Crazy killing. You've heard of it. I should have killed them all. Everyone was scared out of my mind. I became the strongest man in the world. ”
He drank another full bowl of wine. He was the same as when he first sat in. Already drunk. Or maybe not drunk at all.
"Everyone is afraid of me!" he said lightly, and the loneliness could not be hidden in his indifferent tone.
"I created that "Beast Fire Recipe" alone, and in just three years, I became the top existence on the "Martial Immortal" continent! In fact, there were many martial immortals on the continent at that time, but they were all old monsters who were greedy for life and afraid of death, and no one dared to compete with me!" This was the first time he had shown a proud dark color when he entered the house, and when he talked about his high spirits back then, his face was full of pride.
"But when I got back to the tavern, she was gone!"
The smugness on the drunk's face disappeared in an instant, and the hand holding the wine bowl kept trembling, which made me suspect that the previous moment of high spirits was my delusion.
"Do you know who I'm talking about?" the drunken man asked me, drunk.
Of course, I know that if Shi Xuan's name is as dazzling as the sun, then Han Weiting's name is the glow that accompanies the sun.
Because Han Weiting is Shi Xuan's wife.
"And how did she become your wife?" I asked the drunk
It was six years ago in the New Year, when decent people from the mainland gathered in the land of the Southern Barbarians to exterminate the so-called Demon Cult "Witch Wine Gang". It is rumored that at that time, this demon cult used young children as a guide to make wine. Almost all the famous and decent people went. At that time, the demon cultists disguised themselves as civilians to escape, and the so-called famous and decent people slaughtered civilians frantically in order to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and all the villages in the entire Nanban were slaughtered at that time.
Among the fleeing civilians, Shi Xuan unexpectedly met the woman who haunted his dreams, and after ecstasy, Shi Xuan left the matter of the "Witch Wine Gang" behind him, rescued Han Weiting, who was dying at the time, and returned to the swordsman family without looking back.
Three months later, Han Weiting became the young lady of the Swordsman family. She was nineteen years old
The drunk smiled mockingly and said, "He didn't say he loved me at all, but I told her that I wanted to marry her, and she didn't refuse." I knew she came from an extraordinary way, but I was Shi Xuan, and I thought I could protect him at that time. ”
I didn't answer and waited for the drunk to continue.
"In the following year, we were together every day, I took care of her everything, and tried my best to please her every day, so... She grew to have a smile on her face, just as I had seen him for the first time in the tavern. The drunkard laughed, the first from the bottom of his heart since he entered the tavern.
"If you've ever seen that smile, you'll understand me later!" the drunk coughed with a laugh.
I nodded hurriedly, this Han Weiting's beauty has been legendary in the entire Martial Continent for many years.
"You've heard about the aftermath!" the drunkard's face suddenly darkened.
"Five years ago, there were rumors about the battle in my wild land. I replied
Five years ago, Xuanmen, a decent giant on the Martial Continent, invited the "Martial Immortals" on the Continent to participate in the Heroes Meeting. It is said that there is news that it has become the key artifact of the legendary "Martial Saint" realm, the "Martial Saint Tablet". The ultimate dream of all cultivators on the Martial Continent was the "Martial Saint" realm recorded in the ancient books. It is recorded in ancient books that there are three ways to become a martial saint: engraved stele, letter, and boiled heart. The so-called engraved stele is to engrave the name of the cultivator on the "Martial Saint Tablet", you can break through the "Martial Immortal" and become a Martial Saint, although it sounds very simple, but the three "Martial Saint Monuments" handed down from ancient times have long been destroyed in the competition between the Martial Immortals, and one is missing. Lixin, on the other hand, is to open up a sect on the Martial Continent and get the support of the beliefs of all the people on the continent, so as to become holy, this method is particularly difficult, and it requires cultivators to be supported by all the beliefs on the Martial Continent, and the specific operation method has long been lost. The "boiled heart" is a legendary wine, and the history of wine is almost as long as the history of the human race. In ancient times, there were many ways to make sake. The wine drunk now is made from the essence of grains or flowers and fruits, and the "boiled heart" is said to be brewed with the essence of human beings, that is, human blood. Although it is written in the book that drinking the "boiled heart" wine can be sanctified immediately. However, the method of making this wine has also long been lost. So that time when I heard the news of the "Martial Saint Monument", almost all the "Martial Immortals" on the mainland went crazy.
"I'm going too!" the drunkard gritted his teeth, and said with a trembling hand holding the wine: "Just when I was about to arrive at the Xuanmen, I received a flying pigeon summons, telling me that the Xuanmen called me this time to transfer the tiger from the mountain, and at this time, the master of the Xuanmen Gate was rushing to my house with twenty martial immortals. ”
The drunkard's voice also began to tremble: "I know that Tingting is not an ordinary person, and I also know that she has a relationship with the "Witch Wine Gang", but I didn't expect her to be the daughter of the leader of the Witch Wine Gang!"
Shi Xuan frantically rushed to the family, but when he arrived at the family, he heard the sound of shouting and killing in the distance.
"My father leaned against the doorframe of his home, facing twenty-one martial immortals, covered in blood. It's out of breath. The drunkard picked up the wine jar, poured a mouthful directly into the king's mouth, and tears flowed down: "What my father wants has never been a young master, he just wants a son, even if his son is a horse breeder, I hurt him!"
"And then!" I couldn't help but be saddened.
"I've never used so many beast fires in my life! They were all burned to death by me, and even the Yuan Shen was refined! Then I fled south with Tingting, but it didn't take long for me to be unable to run. A mocking smile appeared on the drunkard's face: "They wanted to kill me in the first place." The letter was written to me by them, and it was smeared with "Chemical Martial Powder", and I was so excited that I didn't watch out at all. ”
"You go first, I'm highly poisoned, and if I use the power of force, I will die of poison, I'll recuperate here for a while, and then I'll chase you!" Shi Xuan said to Han Weiting.
Han Weiting just put his hand on his lower abdomen and touched it: "Go to the tavern where you met me alive to find my two girls, and I left you a jar of good wine there." ”
Shi Xuan suddenly felt that her life was a joke, and she didn't understand her father's love for her until today, and when she decided to stay and fight for her life, she learned that Han Weiting was pregnant with her child.
"Let's go!" This was Shi Xuan's last sentence to Han Weiting.
Han Weiting left, Shi Xuan stood in the center of the road, in fact, he lied to her, this "chemical martial arts" will continue to erode the martial power of the poisoned, if he recuperates here, those martial immortals will bypass him and easily catch up with Han Weiting. So what he had to do was not to sit down and expel the poison, but to stop those pursuers with his life.
Soon, the remaining nineteen martial immortals caught up, at this time Shi Xuan could no longer use the power of martial arts, he sincerely thanked himself for not learning and not using techniques for those years, allowing him to create his own strange technique of beast fire duel, he couldn't use the power of martial arts, but he could still use beast fire.
"If you want to die, just come!" Shi Xuan laughed wildly.
Without the support of martial arts, Shi Xuan's devoured seven beast fires were quickly used up, and in the end, he was punched by the master of the Xuanmen Gate and was caught by everyone. Shi Xuan is a genius and a madman, in order to marry Han Weiting, he thought of a way to devour the beast fire and become a strong man, in order to become famous in the world within three years, he actually attracted the attention of the divine beast Phoenix, and the most incomprehensible thing is that he actually succeeded, when he used all his strength to release the phoenix's "Rebirth Flame", the strong people present finally understood what the "Beast Fire Burning Sky" meant, and in that battle, seven more "Martial Immortals" were completely killed. If Shi Xuan hadn't been poisoned, it was still unknown who would win and who would lose.
I don't know if Tingting ran out, whether she can run away, forget it, no matter what the result is, it's not something that she can change now.
Shi Xuan closed his eyes, what about him, now he just wants to have a good rest, if he has another sip of old wine to drink, then it will be the best.
"The Martial Saint Monument is here, let him go!" a familiar voice came.
Han Weiting came back, standing in the center of the intersection with a pale face, holding a piece of brocade in his hand, on which was drawn a delicate map, recording the location of the "Martial Saint Monument" that the entire continent was crazy about.
"Why do we believe you?" The Xuanmen Sect Master's eyebrows were burned in the battle just now, and he looked at Han Weiting with a scorched face
"There is a price for becoming a martial saint, if you engrave your name on the martial saint tablet, you must cut off all the love threads, you can't have true feelings for any woman, otherwise you will die of demons, he is my husband, of course I don't want him to become a martial saint, so this "martial saint tablet" is useless to me!" Han Weiting said lightly.
"Then why didn't you hand it over sooner?"
"A year ago, you killed my father with your own hands, I can't wait to cut you with a thousand knives, how can it make you stronger, so that I have no chance of revenge in the future, you swear with your heart and demons, you will let my husband go, this treasure map is yours. Han Weiting raised a fire fold in her left hand and pressed it towards the treasure map.
"Okay, I promise you. Seeing this, the master of the Xuanmen Gate hurriedly swore an oath, then stepped forward quickly, pulled the treasure map in Han Weiting's hand, and after confirming it repeatedly, he nodded to the others, and then looked at Han Weiting indifferently.
"I promised to let him go, but I didn't promise to let you go, a slut bent on killing me!" said the master of the Xuanmen Gate, gritting his teeth
Han Weiting glanced at Shi Xuan affectionately, took two steps back and smiled sadly: "I understand, you said that you would let him go!"
The master of the Xuanmen Gate nodded: "Of course, I swear by my heart demon, as long as he doesn't come to seek death again, we won't trouble him!"
Before the master of the Xuanmen Gate could speak, a touch of blood red splashed at Shi Xuan's feet, Han Weiting's right hand held a dagger, slashed across his snow-white neck, and then the whole person fell heavily in the middle of the road.
Bright red blood penetrated the entire road surface.
When the drunk man finished speaking, he was already in pain, and his eyes seemed to have dried up tears. There was a look of despair in his eyes.
"So, the master of the Xuanmen Gate let you go?" I asked with a sigh.
"That chemical weapon is the most poisonous poison on the Martial Continent, the poisoned person's martial veins will be slowly corroded by the toxin, and they can no longer absorb any martial power, and without the support of martial power, I am a wasted person, and the beast fire devoured in my body will gradually be extinguished. And he got the "Martial Saint Tablet" and will soon become a Martial Saint. I have no hope of revenge for the rest of my life, and leaving me with this remnant is no threat to him. The drunkard let out that mocking laugh at this time.
"Alas. I sighed. Nothing can be said.
"But who would have thought that Madame would really leave me a jar of good wine. The drunk sneered again. "That's the last jar of heart-cooking wine left on the entire continent. ”
"Boiled heart wine!" I couldn't help but exclaim, "Boiled heart wine that can make people sanctified on the ground?"
The drunk man pointed at himself, and his smile revealed a trace of cruelty: "Madame is right, there is a price to become a martial saint, and the most cruel thing is to cook the heart, although the strength will skyrocket, but every day it will suffer like the heart being boiled by a blazing fire, Madame buried this jar of wine in the ground of the tavern, and also wrote the side effects of the wine." But I didn't hesitate to drink it up. Now I can feel my heart being burned on the fire all the time, but so what, there is a flame in the place of my heart now, providing endless martial energy around me. Became my eighth beast fire.
"When Madame left, I was just twenty years old, and from then on, I only drank Huadiao for twenty years. After drinking your good wine, it's time for me to go. After the drunkard finished speaking, he stumbled out of the door, I was afraid that he would fall, so I chased him out to look, only to see his back walking towards the center of the continent. In the very center of the continent, there is the largest sect in the entire continent - Xuanmen!
"Probably ... I heard Shi Xuan say in a cold voice, "Maybe there will be no more martial saints in the entire continent in the future." ”