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In late spring, all kinds of trees are stretching their waist branches and exuding green leaves. Dongyi City is close to the seaside, and the humid sea breeze blows day and night, which makes the spring here come earlier and faster than elsewhere, and the hidden period of spring is longer.

I don't know how many years this big green tree on the outskirts of the city has been growing here, the trunk is straight and there is no piercing the sky, countless thousands of melted green leaves are gathered into a large umbrella cover at the canopy, which is particularly beautiful and compassionate, blocking the sun in the sky, sprinkling a shadow, covering the people who enter and leave the city.

The tree was so large that the shade was even a few acres long, and there were many pedestrians resting under the tree. Under the tree are those protruding from the soil surface of the knotted roots, just like the thick dragon body, calm and solid, looking around the sword Fan Xian Xiao Emperor three is to rest next to these roots, this strange combination, did not attract passers-by sideways, probably because there have been many strange people in Dongyi City.

Fan Xian sat on the root of the tree, feeling the shade under his buttocks, he didn't know what kind of big tree was behind him, and he didn't bother to explore the roots, just lowered his head to look for ants or mantis that moved dung balls in the roots of the tree, but he didn't find anything.

"How old was she then?"

"Five or six years old, seven or eight years old?" Si Gu Jian sat in a wheelchair, frowned, and thought for a long time, as if his memory had become a little blurred because of the age, and he spat on the ground and said, "It's just a little girl anyway." ”

"How old were you then?"

"Should I be a teenager?" Gu Jian scratched his head and said, "You know that my brain has never been very good, and I can't always remember such complex problems. ”

"I don't think my age is a complicated issue. ”

"Genius is always different from everyone else in some ways. Si Gu Jian obviously didn't care about Fan Xian's sarcasm, and said with a sneer.

"The other side of genius is idiocy. Fan Xian glanced at him lazily and said, "Of course." Everyone knows that you were an idiot when you were a kid. ”

Si Gu Jian didn't say anything, but he was in the same place with Fan Xian's eyes. I tried to find some shadows from the cracks in the ground next to the roots of the trees.

The little emperor Zhan Doudou stood aside indifferently, looking at the old man and the young man who were mad, and he was a little disapproving. The three of them walked here, and they were calm all the way, with the Taoist theory in the world, the identity of the little emperor is naturally the most noble, but it is obvious that whether it is Si Gu Jian or Fan Xian. I don't really care about that.

Si Gu Jian and Fan Xian seemed to be interested in finding ants. has been staying under the green trees, and it seems that there is no intention of leaving. The little emperor frowned slightly, thinking that the courtiers outside the sword house were only afraid that they were still worried about themselves. In addition, he didn't know what would happen next, and he was worried that the old and young would reveal their lives, so he was slightly worried in his heart, and said softly: "Miss Ye is no longer here." You're here for another three years. Nor can she be expected to come back to life. ”

This sentence seems to state one thing, but there are some heart-wrenching thoughts, and the little emperor's resourcefulness and reaction speed have been fully reflected at this moment. In the sword house. Si Gu Jian only briefly mentioned the matter of persuading Fan Xian to rebel, and she caught some vague clues, and tried to point a sentence here.

As soon as these words came out, Si Gu Jian and Fan Xian both raised their heads. glanced at her. She was a little flustered. Fan Xian shrugged and said, "I just think ants are more interesting than people." ”

Looking at Fan Xian, he said in admiration: "When your mother accompanied me to find ants, someone asked us so. That's what she answered. ”

With the four Gu Jian somewhat happily narrated. Fan Xian smiled. It seems that the image from many years ago appears in front of me.

A runny idiot. Squatting under the big green tree, watching the ants move and fight. Maybe you will untie the straps around your waist and pee on the ant's nest. The pedestrians who passed around, and the residents of the interior of Dongyi City, all knew the identity of this big idiot, and when they passed by him, they all had a look of pity and disgust in their eyes, but no one was willing to come forward to talk to him.

Then a blind young servant took a little girl by the hand, came to Dongyi City from afar, came to the big green tree, and found this person who was so focused that he didn't care about what was happening next to him...... Idiot.

The little girl crouched curiously beside the idiot and asked him, "What are you looking at?"

The idiot looked at her impatiently and said, "I'm looking at ants." ”

The little girl sighed, and then began to accompany him to watch the ants, and kept watching for a long time, and then finally someone next to him couldn't look at it, and reminded the young servant that this idiot was the young master of a certain big man in the city, and he was just a fool, so don't let your young lady be stupid with him.

When the little girl heard this, she didn't stand up, but said with a smile: "I just think that sometimes, ants are much more interesting than people." ”

Obviously, the implicit meaning of this sentence is much more mature than the age of this small body. However, the pedestrians and citizens under the tree didn't notice this, they just thought that this Miss Di who didn't know who was born was so good-looking, so clean, just like the daughter of the earth fairy who came out of the painting, and actually squatted with the most famous idiot of the city lord's family, it was really a little unbearable.

Then the little girl beckoned, and the blind young servant, who had been cold like a block of ice, also squatted beside the two of them, although he did not want to squat, but there was no difference between squatting and standing for him, since she liked to let herself squat, then squat.

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"We were just three of us. Si Gu Jian continued his recollection, scratched his cheeks that were a little itchy, and said hoarsely: "I watched the ants fight for a long time, and then I invited them to my house as guests." ”

"Your home?"

"My dead dad is the former city lord of Dongyi City, don't you know?"

"Oh, I've heard of it, but it was a long time ago, and your dead daddy died by your sword a long time ago, I didn't think about it for a while. ”

"The City Lord's Mansion is big and luxurious. Si Gu Jian suddenly grinned, "But I live like a kennel because I'm an idiot." Dead Daddy hates me the most, and my mom is just a girl. You understand what I'm talking about, right?"

I've read a lot of novels like this. Fan Xian nodded, people dared to talk about the sword and went over. However, it does not mean that the Supervisory Yuan has not studied this aspect. He already had a clear understanding of Sigu Jian's life experience, and knew how the idiot lived a life of humiliation and contempt in the City Lord's Mansion, but he only learned today that Sigu Jian's biological mother was a Yahuan, and that Yahuan was afraid that she would die many, many years ago.

"Your mother and Wuzhu. It's the first time I've ever met a local friend in my life. Si Gu Jian suddenly said very seriously: "Although the place where I live is very bad. I couldn't even bring out a cup of tea, but they didn't look down on me and went with me. ”

"Maybe it was because I was an idiot at the time. So I don't think there's anything wrong with that. But it was clear that many people in the City Lord's Mansion thought there was something wrong with this. It is impossible to accept two unknown people living in the mansion, especially with the idiot young master. So a few days later. Ye Zi and Wuzhu left the City Lord's Mansion. I don't care, anyway, during the day, I have to go out to see the ants. On the way, I went to the rented house of the two of them to play. ”

"It's the first time I've ever known. You once had such a relationship with your mother and Uncle Wuzhu. ”

Si Gu Jian frowned, and said in a cold voice: "Could it be that Wuzhu has never mentioned to you the matter of Dongyi City back then?"

"Nope. Fan Xian sat down on the root of the tree and took a thin branch. Unconsciously teasing with the dirt. Ying said: "Uncle later had a much worse memory. ”

"Oh. Wuxiu, this kid, can his memory deteriorate?" Si Gu Jian suddenly laughed. "Isn't that similar to what I looked like an idiot back then. ”

Fan Xian glared at him. He shook his head with a wry smile. "Did you know...... My mother and Uncle Wuzhu ...... Where did it come from?"

This is a thing that has plagued him for more than ten years. Although I can vaguely guess a little, and it is in the cliff of the West Mountain outside the capital city. Sean also mentioned some before he died, but the old man Sean recounted it before he died. It only explained the origin of the mother, but did not mention Uncle Wuzhu.

In Sean's narration, he and Kuhe struggled for thousands of miles. Enter the perimeter of the temple grounds. Then I saw Ye Qingmei. The two of them rescued Ye Qingmei from the temple, but they were separated halfway. At that time, Ye Qingmei was only four years old, and there were still two years or even longer before Dongyi City saw her when Sigu Jian saw her.

During this period of time, what was Ye Qingmei doing, and how did Uncle Wuzhu come to her?

In Sean's recollection, he once mentioned that Ye Qingmei seemed to be deeply worried about someone in the temple, and he couldn't let go of it in his heart, so he would definitely leave, that person ...... Is it Uncle Wuzhu?

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Hearing Fan Xian's question, Si Gu Jian suddenly became extremely quiet, and only after a while did he say quietly: "At that time, it was naturally impossible for me to know where they came from and where they were going...... But then I naturally learned about it slowly. ”

He turned his head slightly, stared at Fan Xian with those bottomless quiet eyes, and said, "Don't you know where Wuzhu came from?"

Fan Xian lowered his head and was silent for a long time, Uncle Wuzhu is a monster, Uncle Wuzhu will not get old, Uncle Wuxiu will not have internal strength, Uncle Wuzhu is very good and powerful, so Uncle Wuzhu ...... He smiled bitterly and said, "Even if Uncle Wuzhu came out of the temple, what about my mother?"

"Nonsense, the blind are all messengers in the temple, your mother is his master, of course she is the fairy in the temple, otherwise she is alone, how could she have done so much in this world?"

However, Fan Xian didn't consciously have any superfluous thoughts, he thought with a wry smile, Mother Ye Qingmei, it is obvious that he is the same as himself, he has a soul that does not belong to this world, what kind of relationship can he have with the temple?

Fan Xian and Si Gu Jian spoke energetically, sighing with recollection, but their voices were naturally tied in one place, and they did not affect anyone under the big tree at all. However, the little emperor of Northern Qi had been standing beside the two of them, quietly listening to all this, and her face gradually turned pale when she heard it, and her hands trembled in her sleeves.

She didn't expect that under this big tree, she would be able to hear such a terrifying secret. She finally understood why Fan Xian, a young man, had self-confidence and even arrogance that was difficult for the world to achieve from the beginning of his life. He dared to be so disdainful of a human emperor, and dared to sit on an equal footing with a great master like Sigu Jian. Dare to speak out and speak unashamedly about the world, trying to control everything in the hands of others.

The little emperor knew that Fan Xian's mother was Ye Qingmei, and he also vaguely knew that there was a blind master behind him, but until today. She just knew. It turned out that the young lady of the Ye family and the blind master had an inexplicable relationship with the temple.

What is a temple? It is a god who floats on the clouds of the nine heavens, indifferently watching the suffering of the world, but does not move at all at all, and is beyond the will of the mortal. It is the legendary guardian of the earth. However, no one knows where the temple is. What is the temple, except that Master Kuhe once saw the temple with his own eyes.

Kuhe kowtowed in front of the temple for three days, and he achieved a great master's ability. Under the big green tree, Miss Ye Jia encountered Sigu Sword. Sigu Jian has changed from an old idiot with a runny nose to a generation of powerhouses with unparalleled swordsmanship, and then for example, His Majesty the Emperor of Qingguo......

The little emperor's short eyelashes trembled uncontrollably. From the beginning of the Great Wei Dynasty to the present. All the people in the world want to see the appearance of the temple with their own eyes, and they want to seek the shadow of heaven and earth from the nothingness. The Great Wei Emperor of the year. It's not just for the sake of immortality. Did you send a team of thousands of people to the north to find the temple?

It turned out that behind Fan Xiandi, there was the shadow of the temple. The little emperor of Northern Qi glanced at Fan Xiandi's silhouette and was extremely shocked in his heart. It's incredibly complex.

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Fan Xian took a deep breath. He said, "What happened next. I should know a little bit about it. After living in Dongyi City for a few years, my mother started a business. This gave rise to the later Diye family. and now Namkyuneiku. ”

"The development of anything. It's not going to be that simple. Si Gu Jian raised his last remaining arm. He raised a finger, "Even if Ye Qingmei is an immortal." She also had no way to do everything she did without any help. She needs help. ”

Xian frowned. looked at the sword and said, "You?"

"That's me. Si Gu Jian said indifferently: "Although I am an idiot, I am the young master in the City Lord's Mansion after all. As long as I control the City Lord's Mansion. The Ye family's business name. Naturally, you can travel freely in Dongyi City. ”

"Understood. Fan Xian lowered his head and said, "The big green tree met by chance. It's not necessarily a chance encounter, in other words. Before she entered Dongyi City, she already knew the situation in the interior of the city, so she chose you. ”

"Not true. A chance encounter is a chance encounter. Si Gu Jian said indifferently: "At least I insist on thinking so. If she's looking for a collaborator. There are so many people better than me, and she has something in her head. It is enough to attract countless riches, and the existence of a blind person can guarantee that she has no real enemies in this world. ”

"What exactly were you doing in the years before you started business?" Fan Xian didn't argue about the question.

"I was continuing to watch the ants, and then practicing the sword, and then one day, the old poison of Fei Jie came. Si Gu Jian yawned, as if it was a bit of a bothersome thing to remember for a long time.

"Oh, the master said that the most glorious thing in his life was to turn an idiot in the interior of Dongyi City into a great grandmaster. Fan Xian laughed.

Looking at the sword and sneering: "I'm just thinking about things in my head, and I'm not really an idiot, what does it have to do with Fei Jie when I become a monster like the Great Grandmaster?"

Fan Xian smiled and said with a smile: "That naturally has something to do with my mother." ”

Si Gu Jian was silent for a moment, and then laughed: "Your mother can pass on the Tianyi Earth Exercise to Kuhe, of course, she can pass on the sword technique to me...... However, I am a genius, and your mother's swordsmanship is useless, and it is really useful, which I later realized by myself. ”

"Well, you seem to be a little more narcissistic than I thought. Fan Xian shrugged, but he knew that what this great master said was the truth, even if the Sigu Sword Technique was one of the earth skills that Ye Qingmei stole from the temple back then, but with the appearance of a mortal, he could cultivate the realm of a grandmaster, not a great genius, great perseverance, and great luck, it was not enough to succeed.

"There are many meanings of genius. "The eyes of the sword are drooping, as if they could close at any moment, never to be able to open again," your mother once said that my genius lies in concentration and indifference. ”

"A person who can watch ants move for ten years is not something that can be found casually. Si Gu Jian said hoarsely: "An idiot who killed tens of thousands of ants one by one with thin wooden branches, it is not easy to find, my luck is good, I met your mother and Wuzhu, and your mother's luck is also good, I met me in Dongyi City." ”

Fan Xian couldn't speak for a long time, secretly savoring this sentence, thinking that decades ago, there was a storm on the mainland, and I don't know how many talented and superb characters emerged, such as bitter lotus, such as a great perseverance, like a sword, like a great ninja, like His Majesty, all appeared at that time, and then Ye Qingmei escaped from the temple with Uncle Wuxiu and met these characters.

Regardless of the realm, no matter how lucky, in terms of talent and will, in this world today, no one can compare with these strong people who have not yet become great grandmasters. Haitang can't do it, her master dares to eat human flesh, Fan Xian can't, his emperor Lao Tzu can endure the supreme pain and despair of the broken meridians, and neither can Wang Shisanlang, his sword saint master doesn't take human life seriously at all. Contemporary young people have their own flaws, each has its own shortcomings, this kind of gap, I don't know how many years and how many ups and downs, to make up for it, and then to touch the layer of paper when heaven and man are born, and finally leap over and become a real great master.

"It's all fate. Fan Xian looked around at the sword and sighed.

Si Gu Jian looked at Fan Xian with a strange expression, and said, "Do you want to learn? ”

Fan Xian's heart froze, knowing that this sword saint was about to tell what he was going to say at this time, a wry smile couldn't help but appear on his face, and he said softly: "I think you should already know, I already know." ”

Sigu Jian said indifferently: "I'm talking about the real Sigu Sword. ”

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Fan Xian's heart was shocked, and he was silent for a long time, and suddenly said, "Actually, there is no difference. The key is still people, the young people of our generation are still not as good as your generation, of course, this gap may gradually narrow, but even if you move everything in the temple to me, what will I do if I practice?"

There was an infinite feeling in his heart, the skills that his mother stole from the temple back then seemed to have been passed on to these great masters respectively, except for Ye Liuyun's Liuyun scattered, and some unclear reasons, the others had been fully proven.

Outside the temple, Kuhe paid the price of serious injuries and rescued Ye Qingmei, who was only four years old at the time, and then obtained the price from Ye Qingmei's hands, which is the supreme method of such a day.

Although the swordsmanship of Sigu Sword was realized by himself with excellent aura and infatuation, it is obvious that if there is no chance encounter under the big green tree, the idiot is still an idiot after all, and he cannot be stimulated, how can he leap into the ranks?

As for the yellow pamphlet that has been following Fan Xian's side, the upper volume is domineering, and the lower volume is the royal road, and after twenty years, he naturally understands that this is what his mother left to Emperor Lao Tzu back then, and then Emperor Lao Tzu left it to himself through Wuzhu's hand somehow.

It was the domineering skill that made Fan Xian feel a sense of frustration in his heart, and he couldn't enter the realm of the royal road. And he also learned the true qi method of Tianyi, and there was no qualitative help, even if the Sigu Sword really had the so-called true Sigu Sword passed on to him today, but what help would it have?

The relics scattered by Ye Qingmei in this world have been gradually picked up by Fan Xian, and one more piece seems to be useless.

"Ye Qingmei grew into a towering blue tree in Dongyi City back then, and I relied on the sword in my hand to gain a position in Dongyi City and become her partner in catching insects next to the big tree. Si Gu Jian closed his eyes slightly, and said softly: "If you can't practice, you have to continue to practice, a tree has to grow, where is it so easy." ”

Fan Xian smiled, walked under the towering azure tree, patted the trunk gently, and said, "I'm not afraid of being greedy and chewing too much, since you must let me learn, then I will reluctantly learn it." ”