Chapter 9: The Soul of the Locust Tree Forged in Blood
A long, long time ago, there was a martial arts family surnamed Yan in Danzhou, they were proud of learning martial arts, and their disciples were innumerable, or even said that there were people all over the world. They used martial arts to meet friends, and often did some things to rob the rich and help the poor, eliminate violence and peace, so they were very famous and prestigious in Danzhou and even in several neighboring states.
That is, about 400 years ago, Yan Baihe, a direct disciple of the Yan family, created a resounding name "White Crane Fly" on the road, and later simply established a gang called "White Crane Gate".
In fact, Yan Baihe should not establish a sect, after all, the tree is easy to attract wind. Originally, the ancestors of the past dynasties were all friends with martial arts, and both friends and disciples were all over the world, but because they often robbed the rich and helped the poor, and eliminated violence and peace, why not be enemies everywhere.
But after all, it was just a family act before, and the matter of robbing the rich and helping the poor, eliminating violence and peace and goodness, whether it was the state government or some gangs, would strongly support it on the surface. Therefore, even if there are many enemies, the Yan family is fearless.
One is because the Yan family is strong in martial arts, and the other is supported by the state government and all the gangs, so no matter what, those enemies who hate the Yan family, even those who dare to seek revenge and cause trouble, can only take revenge on the grounds of killing people to pay for their lives.
Even if there are occasional assassinations, they are also individual acts and have nothing to do with any group. In this way, there is nothing to say in black and white. Therefore, the Yan family is also comfortable with entertainment.
But after Yan Baihe created a gang, the family was dominant and had the meaning of dominating the rivers and lakes. This upsets the previous balance all at once. With the growing strength of the White Crane Gate, the White Crane Gate has nominally become the largest gang. But in fact, he put himself on the cusp of the wind. At the very end, a situation appeared, that is, all the former enemies, all the gangs began to be hostile to the White Crane Gate. Later, there was even a joint resistance to the White Crane Gate.
Only then did Yan Baihe realize the seriousness of the situation. But people can't help themselves in the rivers and lakes, and they can't get out at this time, because at that time, even if he wants to dissolve Baihemen, he will definitely be killed by all the gangs and all the enemies. Of course, if it's just Yan Baihe himself, it's nothing. But people in the rivers and lakes are like people, if they don't destroy a family, then they may repeat themselves at any time! All this has become a situation of endless death.
Of course, Yan Baihe didn't want the Yan family to be lost in his hands, so he tried his best to fight back. With the foundation of the Yan family's martial arts and the disciples of the sect, they dealt with the enemies of the past and several major sects at that time.
The war lasted for several years, but with the brutality of the war, some disciples had to start thinking about their own family and had to start giving up.
Yan Baihe finally realized that the Yan family was about to be destroyed, so he began to evacuate the family. But at this time, the outside world has become united, and as soon as someone in the Yan family goes out, they will be blocked and killed.
One day more than 400 years ago, the various major sects and the Yan family's former enemies, whether they were black * or white. They all launched an attack on the Yan family at the same time. This day must be the day of the Yan family's annihilation.
Yan Baihe watched his friends die for himself one by one, and it may also affect the families of these friends, and he also saw his relatives die in front of his eyes one by one.
Yan Baihe is not for anything else, one is for those friends who are still alive, old subordinates and their relatives and friends, and the other is for the sake of his Yan family's incense to avoid extinction, he resolutely made the so-called "duel oath" on the rivers and lakes.
The so-called "dueling oath" actually does not have the color of a duel at all, and some only have the desolation of the loser. That is, the loser commits suicide in the most tragic way, usually in the most humiliating way, in exchange for the minimum requirements allowed by the other party.
At the same time, the winner must also fulfill what he has promised in the future, even if the losing party is dead. Otherwise, there will be a damnation.
For the sake of the bloodline, the Yan family's "dueling oath" request after deliberation is very simple, that is, in order to preserve the bloodline of the clan, except for the life of Yan Baihe's sixteen-year-old son Yan Xiaotian, a weak scholar who is not good at martial arts, the rest of the family will be self-determined!
But Yan Baihe, as the owner of the White Crane Gate, also put forward a request at the same time, that is, he must not continue to slaughter the people of the White Crane Gate. In response, Hakuhemen withdrew 500 miles from the capital of Mizhou, and promised never to seek revenge on all those who participated in today's war. Today I will spare your lives, and all grievances will end here.
The representatives of the various factions agreed to the "dueling oath", but at the same time put forward two demands. First, the Yan family can only continue the Yan family's fireworks by Yan Xiaotian alone, and he needs to break the Qi Sea Cave on the spot to avoid learning martial arts in the future. And you need to take a heavy oath not to leave a family tree, and even not to leave a message for future generations to do today's related things.
For the "White Crane Gate", it is necessary to hand over 10 of 9 percent of the property. From now on, you must not mention today's events, let alone leave a book for revenge in the future. That is, to this day, all grievances have been written off.
If one of the above points cannot be achieved, the Yan family will completely cut off their children and grandchildren from suffering from heaven. The White Crane Gate will also suffer from the disaster of extinction, and at the same time, it will also accumulate family members. For the sake of insurance, Yan Baihe also asked all sects to promise not to follow or explore Yan Xiaotian's whereabouts in the future.
On that day, Yan Xiaotian staggered and cried and went with the last bit of blood of the whole clan.
There are more than 500 people in the Yan Baihe family, except for Yan Xiaotian, regardless of men and women, young and old, who collectively cut themselves on the training ground used by the family to cultivate the children of their own family. There was a river of blood that day, so much so that an old locust tree that was usually used to practice boxing and tie sandbags was watered with blood because of the low terrain.
It is said that this old poplar locust tree has 3 adults hugging thick, not to mention a towering tree, but it is definitely the king of locust trees. This tree can be said to be earlier than the Yan family.
The Yan family only knows that the Yan family has had the old locust tree since the Yan family was here, and this old locust tree has always been used as a training ground to practice boxing and tying sandbags. There must be bleeding from practicing boxing, so this locust tree is watered with the blood of the Yan family.
It is said that the blood soul of the immortal cultivation world is that a person uses his own blood to contaminate even an object for many years, or soak it with it. Hundreds of thousands of years, even a stone can become a spirit, and this spirit recognizes this person as its biological parent.
The people of the same clan of a family have provided blood to a tree for many years, in fact, they also meet the conditions for casting blood souls, but they are even more demanding, that is, there has been no irrelevant blood contamination in the past few hundred years, and there is a chance of failure eight or nine times out of ten. Because of the effect of blood relationship, and hundreds of years have passed since such a work, this meets the conditions for casting blood souls in the immortal cultivation world.
This old locust tree has been in essence for a long time, and the suicide of the whole clan on that day is here, and it is even better to irrigate this big tree. In fact, all the daughters-in-law of the Yan family who died here that day did not have the same bloodline, but because women did not know martial arts or that martial arts were not the same, and because of women's love of beauty or cruelty that they could not bear to wipe their necks, so all women and children were poisons to drink, and there was no blood that could flow to the locust tree. It was on that day that the tree began to come to consciousness.
When Yan Baihe had a lot of past, he sighed that as a martial arts family, he had a place of worship from all over the world, but after all, the ups and downs were so great that he never thought that he would be desolate now. Even if you want to leave a little bloodline to continue, you have to die such a humiliating death for other clansmen. But he will never have the opportunity to take revenge.
But Yan Baihe is not a child after all, and after thinking about it, maybe this is not a good thing for Yan Xiaotian. One is that he is not good at martial arts, and the other is that Yan Xiaotian's return to ordinary people has nothing to do with the grievances of the rivers and lakes, which may be the best ending. But Yan Baihe is still depressed, after all, even if he is a descendant of Yan Xiaotian, he will not have a family tree, this is a shame after all!
Before Yan Baihe left, he sighed tragically: "All this is a road of no return!"
When the blood splashed all over the tree with blood when he killed himself, this old locust tree could be said to be not a tree at all. It may be said that he is a goblin, and from a human point of view, Yan Baihe is the regenerated parent of this locust tree.
The locust tree was watching Yan Baihe die, and at that time, he was angry and wanted to cast a spell to slaughter the entire people involved in the battle. But because of the "dueling oath", he had to endure it, because if he did this, then Yan Baihe's revenge would be avenged, but his last wish would also be extinguished. After all, this is the last thing Yan Baihe wants to see.
Because of the reason for the existence of the "duel oath", the locust tree spirit also figured it out later. In fact, Yan Xiaotian and his descendants becoming an ordinary person to continue the bloodline is actually the happiest thing, and it is also the result of Yan Baihe's most hopeful future. Therefore, the locust tree spirit did not intervene in any way later.