Wuyang country, Quang Binh City.

As a small country between the vast world of Yunzhou, Wuyang is unremarkable. The national strength is weak, and the royal family does not dare to start a war with the surrounding areas, but they are happy to be peaceful.

But in recent years, there has been a once-in-a-century flood in Mengjiang, which runs through Yunzhou, making several small people in the downstream miserable and miserable, and this is Wuyang.

As soon as the natural disaster passed, the man-made disaster came. King Wuyang's cultivation is really not high, he worked day and night for this flood, his heart was haggard, and he accidentally contracted the wind and cold, and died in the spring of this year.

When he went, there was an undercurrent in the royal city, and the prince was only eight or nine years old now, so it was really difficult to take on a big responsibility. So the brother of the former king acted as the court, and he was very ambitious, and wanted to completely implement this country.

This time, the princelings and the acting king's party made a lot of trouble in the imperial court, and even the people in Guangping City could easily get two or three scandals in the palace...

Guangping City is one of the largest cities in Wuyang Kingdom except Wangcheng, close to the Mengjiang River, with a developed economy and the land of fish and rice. However, it was too far away from the royal city, and although it was nominally under the jurisdiction of the Wuyang royal family, it was actually controlled by the Lingxi faction on Lingxi Mountain on the outskirts of the city.

This Lingxi sect is one of the best sects within a radius of 300 miles, and the nearby mortals regard this place as the land of immortals, and offer incense to the monks of this sect all year round.

Wuyang Country is not big, but it is a thousand miles of land, and there are only three cultivation sects with some names: White Deer Academy, Lingxi Sect, and Cloud Witch Sect.

The White Deer Academy, located in the royal city, is the most powerful, founded by the royal family itself, providing the royal family with a large number of civil servants and military generals, almost all over the officialdom of Wuyang State, making the Wuyang royal family sit firmly in the country for nearly a hundred years.

The Lingxi faction on the outskirts of Guangping City is a cutting-edge force that has risen in the past fifty or sixty years, occupying Lingxi Mountain, one of the few Lingshan in Wuyang Kingdom, and has developed rapidly, and it has been on an equal footing with Bailu Academy in just a few decades.

The origin of the Cloud Witch Sect is mysterious, and there is no fixed address of the sect. The reason why it is listed as one of the three major cultivation forces is because twenty years ago, the Lingxi Sect opened the patriarch and the royal family ancestor joined forces, and the two major forces surrounded and suppressed the strange Cloud Witch Sect, but they were not able to get the slightest benefit.

There are even rumors that the two have teamed up to deal with the Cloud Witch Sect Leader, but they can only fight evenly. After this battle, the two major forces acquiesced to the existence of the Cloud Witch Sect, whose missionary methods were close to cults.

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Although Quang Binh City has been devastated by the flood three years ago, it is now prosperous again. The pavilions and pavilions are scattered, the hawkers are endless, and there are cars and horses galloping from time to time, which startles a noisy.

"Meat buns, freshly baked meat buns, one by one, delicious and inexpensive"

On a slightly muddy side street, a small shop along the street is selling food points, and the steamer opens and closes, white steam gushes out, and the fragrance spreads in all directions. The white and round meat buns have just been baked, and many people have come to buy them. After a while, the height of the cage gradually decreased, and only the last drawer remained.

Across the street, two teenagers in ragged clothes, barely able to avoid their bodies, crouched in the corner, staring at the steamed bun shop that kept coming from the aroma.

"Dumb, today your brother Xu will take you to have a good meal, look at yourself, you are as thin as a monkey"

One of them, who looked a little older, and couldn't see a few taels of flesh on his body, said to another boy who also looked like a bamboo pole, and his eyes rolled wildly, making people think that he had a bad stomach.

The other bamboo pole was as hungry as the former, and his long hair was in a mess, and flies flew around them. His eyes are not like a teenager, he is groggy, only the facial features on his face full of dirt are three-dimensional.

"Thanks... Thank you"

"Yo, it's rare! The dumb man is willing to speak, don't be in a hurry to thank me, you Brother Xu and I just became the leader of the beggars in the south of the city, my name is La... What kind of human heart is Ranna?"

"Winning hearts and minds"

The younger boy had no expression on his face, but the corners of his mouth twitched unnaturally.

This so-called Brother Xu is indeed the leader of the beggar gang in the south of the city.

However, the south of the city is full of poor people, and this street is already the largest commercial street in the south of the city, which is only one zhang wide and two miles long. The brothers begged here all year round without a few drops of oil and water, and it was common for them to be hungry.

Because one of them cherishes words like gold and lives like a dumb man, while the other likes to spit fragrant and have a bad belly, they are often not welcomed among the beggars in the north of the city. Finally, in the late autumn of last year, he was driven to the south of the city with three old beggars who did not want to come.

And the three old beggars, even with the relief of these two little beggars who were hungry, could not survive the cold winter of Layue. Now, in the south of the city, only these two thin little beggars like monkeys are begging here.

This slightly older brother Xu made himself the leader of the Chengnan Beggar Gang a few days ago. So the Chengnan Beggar Gang, which only had two people, was established in a daze.

"Shopkeeper, how much is this bun?"

The two little beggars were already standing in front of the steamed bun shop at this time, with steaming steamed buns on the steamer, and Brother Xu looked towards the shop.

The middle-aged shopkeeper has long lost his curiosity about these two little beggars, and they have been walking around in front of the store for a year, and they can buy them once in the future.

Hearing the little beggar's words, the shopkeeper was a little surprised, thinking that the sun had come out in the west, and the two little beggars had really come to him to buy steamed buns.

However, this store has also been in business for many years, and I have seen a lot of three religions and nine streams, so I don't think about it anymore, and I said, "Buns are one article"

"This one is also a text?" Brother Xu pointed to another drawer of buns on one side that few people bought.

The shopkeeper shook his head and said, "This one is vegetarian, cabbage filling, one or two."

Brother Xu didn't seem to be satisfied, looked around, and pointed to a drawer of buns directly on the ground. There were only a few buns left, and the skin was yellow, and there was no heat.

"This? This is what I took back to feed the pigs, and I sold the leftover buns yesterday, what, do you want it? One article gives you four"

"Who do you look down on?" The boy was not happy to hear this, so he took down a rag bag wrapped around his trouser belt, opened it and looked inside, looked at the impatient shopkeeper again, touched the only two pennies in it, and carefully pulled out one and handed it to the shopkeeper

"Yes, that's the one, I'll give you four for my master!"

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"Eat, eat, look at what" Brother Xu handed the buns in the oiled paper to the two dumb men, seeing that the dumb man was still looking at the steaming meat buns in the steamer, and pulled the dumb man back to the corner where the two of them were squatting just now.

The dumb man ate the steamed buns that tasted the same as chewing wax, and the hard skin made his teeth hurt, looking at Brother Xu, who was squatting there and eating with relish, there was a trace of gratitude hidden in his eyes.

This dumb man is none other than the former pride of the sky, the young sect master of the Qingcang Sect who can decide the life and death of tens of millions of people in Qingcang Star with a single thought, Liu Chen.

Five years ago, Liu Chen appeared in a dense forest with that white light. In a coma, when he was almost killed by a wild beast, he was rescued by a middle-aged hunter who happened to be hunting nearby.

After the hunter carried the immobile Liu Chen home, and talked to his ordinary but gentle woman, the couple decided to do their best to save the young man, who was dressed in tatters but was obviously of extraordinary origin.

After half a year of treatment and rehabilitation, Liu Chen gradually recovered his health. But he was desperate to find that his own cultivation had turned into nothingness with the shattering of the dantian qi sea.

He didn't know where he was, and he didn't know where to go, he was still immersed in the grief of losing Ah Zi and his grandfather, and he couldn't extricate himself day and night.

However, the couple had no children under their knees, and raised Liu Chen as their own flesh and blood, so that their deep guard was gradually reduced, and they gradually integrated into this ordinary but warm life.

The good times did not last long, and the flood that Mengjiang had encountered in a hundred years broke the peace of this place. The flood spread violently, and plagues were rampant everywhere they passed.

This middle-aged couple, a mortal, was accidentally infected with the plague, but failed to last long, and both died.

And although Liu Chen's cultivation is completely lost, his physique is still several times better than that of mortals. Although this plague did not have the slightest impact on Liu Chen himself, it broke his hard-won peaceful life and mood again.

After he buried the middle-aged couple with his own hands and guarded the tomb for three months. In a daze, he followed the fleeing crowd to the nearest big city within a radius of 100 miles, Guangping City.

When he came to this Guangping City, Liu Chen was already penniless. Since he was a child, he learned a lot of hunting skills except for the year he spent with the hunter couple, and he had no means to survive.

He struggled in the city for two years, working as a sweeper, as a coolie, and as a tavern handyman. However, due to his young age and lack of skills, he often can't do it for a few days and is disliked by the owner. In the end, he fell to the north of the city and became a little beggar.

Liu Chen endured the destruction of the sect, the departure of his relatives, the death of the middle-aged couple, and the humiliation of the struggle to survive in Guangping City. He became more and more reticent and no longer easily spoken.

Over time, he gained the title of mute among the beggars, and every time he went out to beg, most of them gained nothing, and gradually became unpopular with the beggars.

Except for Brother Xu, who is about the same age as him.

This Brother Xu, his real name is Xu Yan. After inadvertently discovering the half of the fish-shaped jade pendant hidden in Liu Chen's clothes, in order to make Liu Chen believe that he could keep a secret for him, he would not be unfavorable to him in order to covet this jade pendant.

In front of Liu Chen, he took out the black wooden plaque he put in his dirty pants, with a "Xu" engraved on the front and a "Disaster" engraved on the back...

After this incident, the two seemed to get acquainted. Xu Yan is articulate and can often beg for more than others. Although he doesn't have a good temper with anyone, he has always been stingy and at the same time, he is very righteous to Liu Chen.

In Xu Yan's own words, the two must be people who share the same disease, just like the storyteller, they are babies that the big family has to lose in various critical situations. The tokens that each proved their identity were the best evidence for the guess.

Liu Chen naturally didn't tell him his true origin and identity, and scoffed at his thoughts. However, Liu Chen believes in Xu Yan's conjecture about his own life experience.

Although the black wooden plaque seemed ordinary, the mystical patterns depicted on it were even more mysterious and complex than any rune array that Liu Chen had seen in the sect back then.

After being driven to the south of the city together, Xu Yan often went out to beg, and often came back with blood stains and bruises on his body, raising a small three elders and four beggars. Now the two depend on each other, and although they live a hard life, they are full and hungry, but they are also happy.

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