"Ah!" Ye Hengyuan instinctively screamed, took two steps back in a row, and sat back on the bed at once. It took a full five seconds for him to come back to his senses, and his eyes were staring directly at the middle-aged man in front of him.

The man in front of him had the appearance of the most decent man he had ever seen. Short cyan hair like steel needles stood straight up to the sky, jade-like eyes were bright and deep, a high nose, sharp lips, and a short mustache. The figure is slender but not thin, and the spotless military uniform is wrapped with strong six-pack abs, and a cloak hangs down naturally, covering the entire solid back. The broad shoulders carry two long epaulettes, each with a shining Venus. There were no medals on the neckline of the blouse, but only a swirl-shaped pattern embroidered. The swirl is sky blue, but there are wisps of turquoise patterns on the inside. In Ye Hengyuan's memory, there has never been a person like the person in front of him-it is right to say that he is radiant, or that he has an extraordinary temperament. After all, the people in the town are basically either farmers or craftsmen, and even the white-clothed scholar like that day can already be regarded as a noble person to him.

"Don't be nervous," Qiu Bai smiled and raised his hand slightly, "Relax." ”

Chen Jian and Wang Qian followed behind, secretly glancing at each other, but they didn't dare to make any sound. They had never seen their immediate boss look like that. Although Qiu Bai is a general who loves nurses and soldiers, he only stepped forward to pat him on the shoulder and say a few words of encouragement during his usual training, and he never showed such a warm smile.

"Ah...... Hmm......" Ye Hengyuan didn't react, his hands were on his knees in front of him, and his body shrank back slightly, looking like a small beast that had met a natural enemy.

"You guys go out first," Qiu Bai said, turning his head to Chen Jian and Wang Qian, "if you need something, I'll call you." ”

"Yes, General!" Chen Jian and Wang Qian saluted at the same time, exited the room, and closed the door.

Ye Hengyuan shook his head and looked at Qiu Bai's face carefully. He felt that the person in front of him did not look like a general leading troops into battle at all, but more of a scholar who was well-versed in the past and the present, or a clever hermit. He didn't know why he thought that.

"Did you rest well?" Qiu Bai sat on the edge of the other bed and faced Ye Hengyuan, "Does breakfast suit your appetite?"

"Huh?" Ye Hengyuan was stunned for a moment, "It's still ...... Ok......"

"Well," Huber nodded, stood up from the side of the bed, and said with a smile, "It's okay, don't be nervous, and don't be afraid." I'll protect you. Everyone here will. ”

Qiu ...... General Qiu," Ye Hengyuan struggled to move his lips and teeth, swallowing a mouthful of saliva, "Did you save me?"

"You don't have to be so polite," Qiu Bai smiled, "so to speak." But it was you who really saved you. ”

"Is it me?" Ye Hengyuan didn't understand.

"Yes," said Huber, "if you don't make it out, there's nothing I can do." I really didn't expect you to be able to escape from a lightning attack of that level. ”

Ye Hengyuan's expression darkened, he lowered his head, shook his head slowly, and his body trembled slightly, as if he didn't want to recall that terrifying scene.

"I know you must be in a lot of pain," Mr. Huber said, "and I can understand that." ”

"General," Ye Hengyuan lowered his head, his voice an octave lower, "You searched the entire town, right?"

"Yes," Qiu Bai nodded, "It's not just Qingyan Town, we've searched all the surrounding villages as well. ”

"All ...... Village?" Ye Hengyuan raised his head, "Are they all destroyed?"

"Well," Qiu Bai had to nod, "the entire village around Qingyan Town has been destroyed. No one survived but you, neither soldiers nor civilians. ”

Ye Hengyuan closed his eyes hard, gently clenched his teeth, clenched his fists, and buried his head in order to prevent Qiu Bai from seeing his expression.

Qiu Bai sat next to Ye Hengyuan, put his right arm on his shoulder, and gently stroked his back.

"If it's uncomfortable, don't think about it yet. Don't push yourself now. Revenge is never an overnight thing. ”

"General," Ye Hengyuan shook his head, "Why did you save me?"

"Why?" Qiu Bai smiled, "this is what I should do." Defending the homeland and the country and the people is the duty of our soldiers. What's more, the country needs your strength. ”

"My strength?" Ye Hengyuan was confused, "What strength do I have?"

Qiu Bai didn't answer immediately, just looked at Ye Hengyuan with a smile.

"Huh?" Ye Hengyuan understood, and jumped up from the bed all of a sudden, "You...... You mean...... I...... My martial spirit?"

"Yes," Qiu Bai nodded, "Do you want to know why your martial spirit has waited until now to awaken?"

Ye Hengyuan was like a little boy who was hungry for fruit candy in the hands of the grocery store owner, nodding his head like a chicken pecking at broken rice.

"You should know, right?" Qiu Bai nodded gently, "Since the birth of the Cangling Continent, spiritual power has appeared on the continent. In other words, the entire Cangling Continent was formed by spiritual power. If there was no spiritual power, there would be no Cangling Continent today. Any creature that lives on the Cangling Continent has a certain amount of spiritual power to a greater or lesser extent. Even a fly. ”

"And since there are humans on the Cangling Continent, humans also have martial spirits. Martial spirit is a substance naturally generated in the human body after the combination of spiritual power and the human body, when it is in the human body, it is only a part of its own spiritual power, but when it is released outside the body, it will become an actual object. Theoretically, it could be anything in this world, like a knife, a bow and arrow, or even a pen, a piece of paper, or a leaf. But it can only be dead or plant, never animal. Since ancient times, there has been no precedent for using animals as martial spirits. ”

"Then why is this?, why can't martial spirits be animals?" Ye Hengyuan asked.

"I don't know," Mr. Huber said, "and perhaps no one has yet been able to give a definite answer." For thousands of years, the people on the Cangling Continent have been making progress. With the evolution of human beings, as well as the discovery and study of spiritual power by human beings, there are more and more people who possess martial spirits, but this proportion is always very small, at most only one-tenth. In other words, in the entire Cangling Continent, only ten percent of the people at most have the possibility of possessing martial spirits. And among them, only about seventy percent can become spiritual masters. ”

"Generally speaking, for people who have martial spirits, the martial spirits in their bodies are already present when they are born. But only when they were about twelve years old could their martial spirits awaken. Either it is a natural awakening or a specialized spiritual power appraiser to help with the awakening. ”

"Then what's going on with me like this?" Ye Hengyuan was a little impatient.

"Your situation," Qiu Bai stood up from the side of the bed, straightened his body, faced Ye Hengyuan, and looked at this handsome young man who was almost as tall as himself, "There is only one reason. ”

"What is it?"

"Your martial spirit is too powerful. Qiu Bai uttered these eight words almost word for word.

"Too ...... Too powerful?" Ye Hengyuan suspected that he had misheard.

"That's right," Qiu Bai's eyes widened, his cyan eyes like a pool of bottomless blue water, "Some overly powerful martial spirits can't awaken until the host is eighteen years old, that is, when all the functions of the body are fully developed. Because, the body that is not fully developed cannot carry their power. In the history of the Cangling Kingdom, every person with such a martial spirit has become a top powerhouse. ”

"Top ...... Top powerhouse?" Ye Hengyuan's mouth opened wider than the mouth of a toad, and his chin almost touched the Adam's apple, "Will ...... General, are you sure ...... Are you sure you're talking about me?"

"There can be no mistake," Huber's tone was categorical, "by the way, what's your name?"

"Uh, my name is Ye Hengyuan," Ye Hengyuan raised his hand and quickly sorted out his facial expressions that had been distorted to the point that he couldn't do it, "Ye Ye, eternal Heng, Yuanyuan." ”

Ye Hengyuan...... Ye Hengyuan......"

As if he remembered something, the expression on Qiu Bai's face suddenly darkened.

"What a name...... It's like him......"

"General, what's wrong?" Ye Hengyuan cautiously stepped forward and asked.

"It's nothing," Qiu Bai shook his head, "Did you grow up in Qingyan Town?"

"Oh, no," Ye Hengyuan said, "I grew up in Qingpu Village. My grandfather was the old village chief of Qingpu Village, and he was the one who adopted me. When I was fifteen years old, I came to the town for an apprenticeship. Later, when the chef left, I became the head chef in the restaurant. Before the accident in the town, my grandfather told me about my background and said that I was brought here. ”

"Old village chief...... Qiu Bai nodded, "Sure enough...... Great......"

"General, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing," Qiu Bai waved his hand, his eyes became firm, and he looked at Ye Hengyuan, "Are you willing to go with me?" Perhaps, I can help you find your biological parents. ”

"Huh?" Ye Hengyuan almost jumped up, "General, are you telling the truth?"

"Of course it's true," Qiu Bai smiled, "I'll ask you one more question." Do you know where the spiritual power comes from?"

"I don't know. Ye Hengyuan shook his head.

"Alright," Qiu Bai smiled and waved his hand, "then you can sit down first." Sit tight. I'll show you something. ”

Ye Hengyuan sat back on the bed in disbelief, put his hands on his sides, and grasped the edge of the bed hard, curious and nervous.

"Hum—" A slight roar rang out. A layer of transparent spiritual power fluctuations instantly spread out from Qiu Bai's body, enveloping the entire room. In the next second, an incomparably powerful blue-green spiritual power was released, centering on his body like a whirlpool, and frantically rotating in a clockwise direction.

"Hmm-"

Ye Hengyuan lowered his head vigorously, shrunk his body, his upper body was lying on his knees, his hands were clenched into fists hard, and he desperately released his spiritual power to protect his body. This spiritual power was completely different from the gentle spiritual power he had felt before, not only with a strong sense of oppression, but also with a sharp feeling like a sharp knife, as if it was about to tear him to pieces.

Qiu Bai slowly stretched his right hand forward. All the spiritual power was instantly gathered into his right hand, condensed, and formed. The next second, in his hand, there was an extra spear. The spear was pale cyan throughout, gradually lightening from the tail to the tip, and the tip of the spear emitted a shining blue-gold glow. The spear is carved with circles and circles of quaint lines, and if you don't look closely, you can hardly tell what is drawn.

At the moment when the spear appeared, the dragon pattern Fang Tian Halberd also poured out of Ye Hengyuan's body. The two martial spirits emitted a turquoise spiritual power fluctuation at the same time, shooting at each other separately. The two spiritual power fluctuations collided in the air and joined together.

In the next second, the spiritual power ball that had appeared before slowly rose from Qiu Bai's body again. Its outer layer is milky white, and the inner layer is turquoise swirls with a faint golden glow. He slowly withdrew the spiritual power he had released, and temporarily suspended the spiritual power induction between himself and Ye Hengyuan. The feeling of oppression like the mountains and tsunamis has also temporarily receded.

"This ...... It's ......"

Ye Hengyuan raised his head and looked at the spiritual power ball in the air like a round of cyan sun, dumbfounded.

"This is the Spirit Core," Qiu Bai said lightly, "something that our Twelve Spirit Generals possess and protect. ”

"What...... What?!" Ye Hengyuan turned over and jumped up from the edge of the bed, "Spirit ...... Spirit?!"

"Yes," Qiu Bai nodded, "All spiritual power comes from one thing, and that is the spiritual core. To be exact, it should be the earliest spirit core on the entire continent. ”

"As early as the birth of the Cangling Continent, there was a spirit core in the center of the continent. All the spiritual power comes from it. To this day, it still exists in the capital of our Cangling Kingdom, under the northern suburbs of Cangling City. All the spirit masters in the whole continent call it the mother nucleus. Because, the first evolution of all living things on the entire continent was all due to its nurturing. From this point of view, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the mother of the entire Cangling Continent. ”

"With the change of continents and the evolution of species, the mother nucleus itself began to change constantly, or rather evolve. At the beginning of the formation of the human state, the mother nucleus underwent an anomaly, splitting into four other spirit cores. We call them split-nucleus. These four subnuclei are all malignant mutations of the parent nucleus, scattered in the four corners of the continent, south, south, north, and west. And these four corners happen to be the location of the other four countries of the continent today. Soon after, the Central Plains of the continent centered on the mother core was unified, and today's Cangling Kingdom was established. The four corners of the continent were also centered on these four sub-cores, and the other four countries of today were established. It was precisely because of these four sub-cores that the other four countries gradually launched their aggression against the Cangling Kingdom. ”

"Why did they invade us?" Ye Hengyuan asked.

"Because they covet the abundant resources and vast land of the Cangling Country, as well as the power contained in the mother nucleus," Qiu Bai said, "Moreover, the four sub-nuclei are all malignant mutants, and while feeding the citizens of the other four countries, they also imperceptibly instill the genes of the invaders in the four nations." The citizens of the other four countries were all affected by the mutated spiritual power. It's like pollution. You know what pollution is, right?"

"Hmm. Ye Hengyuan remembered a black-hearted oil dealer who had come to Qingpu Village when he was a child and dumped inferior oil into the river, and nodded.

"It is precisely because of the mutation of spiritual power and the instability of the split nucleus that various natural disasters almost always occur in the other four countries. But even so, their aggression still threatens the survival of the Cangling Kingdom at all times. Although the national strength of the Cangling Kingdom was the most powerful among the five countries in the entire continent, it could not be compared to the sum of the other four countries after all. In the first few decades, we, the Cangling Kingdom, have almost always been in a position of being passively beaten. It wasn't until eight hundred years ago that the mother nucleus felt the crisis of the entire Cangling Kingdom and itself, and once again fissioned, splitting into twelve relatively weak daughter nuclei. Subsequently, there was the original twelve spirit generals who guarded and owned the sub-core, also known as the twelve spirit generals. ”