There is a large river in Xihe, and the name is Longjiang.

The Longjiang River runs for 20,000 miles, from east to west, passing through Chengzhou, Chuanyuan, Dalin, Longzhou, Yancang, Heqing, Nanji, Shutai eight prefectures, running through hundreds of big cities, is one of the most important trade routes in the Xihe continent.

There are more than 100 tributaries of the Longjiang River, and the longest five are also called the Xiaolongjiang River, which are the Lingjiang River, the Hanjiang River, the Huaijiang River, the Yongjiang River and the Liaojiang River.

The Lingjiang River branches from the Longjiang River, flows from the northwest to the southeast, and the three-thousand-mile river covers more than 100 large and small cities in Longzhou.

Xiling City is built along the river, and the Lingjiang River, which is one mile wide, divides Xiling City into two, that is, the south of Xiling River and the north of Xiling River.

The Lingjiang River, which runs through more than 100 cities, is also the most important economic source of Xiling, and to this day, water transportation is also one of the most important industries in Xiling City.

Because Xiling is located in the middle of Longzhou and the center of the Lingjiang River Basin, it has naturally become a flourishing commercial giant city.

The Lingjiang waterway is also one of the most convenient modes of transportation in Longzhou.

midnight

Under the Lingjiang Bridge, a sturdy teenager stood beside the bridge pier, looking at the rolling Lingjiang River with emotion.

The young man is slender and straight, although he is an ordinary plain clothes, but he also has a sharp edge, unlike ordinary teenagers.

At the age of seventeen or eighteen, his facial features are indeed extremely upright and heroic, but a scar between the left eyebrow divides the eyebrow into two halves, adding a bit of fierce temperament.

The young man stood for a long time holding a white jade in his hand, a cloud-patterned bat on the white jade, a huge Korean character.

After a while, Fang Han took the white jade in his arms and glanced in the direction of Wutang.

Today is probably his last day of surviving as a student of the Tang Clan's Martial Arts Hall.

As soon as tomorrow, Wutang will find out the fact of defection, and the Tang family, a wealthy family in Xiling, will hunt down and kill them as traitors.

Being hostile to such a behemoth would inevitably make normal people feel frightened, but in Fang Han's eyes, he was indeed calm and arrogant.

"He can take his place!"

For as long as he can remember, he's known that he's not very human.

He looked down on the old man Fang who adopted him, because the old man would only beg on the street, there were many good people in Xiling North City, and the old man could always ask for a lot of money, but before he could bring it back to the west of the city, it was snatched up by the strong hooligan ruffian, and the old man was always knocked to the ground.

This is a waste, he can't be a person like him, Fang Han set his first ambition, to be a robber ruffian.

Soon after, the old man died. Fortunately, Fang Han was actually kidnapped by the ruffians, along with dozens of other children.

This undoubtedly brought him closer to his first dream.

The ruffians taught them to steal, and Fang Han learned it very seriously, because he felt that this was the most crucial step to complete his dream, so Fang Han learned it very quickly, and soon after, his skills were even more skilled than the old thief who taught them.

He was a natural fit for him to become one of the best thieves.

It was at this time that he discovered that the thief could not do it, because among the children in the same period, there was a thief with the same skill as him who was caught red-handed.

The stolen man, regardless of whether he was a child or not, took his neck and poured it on the ground, and Fang Han saw this familiar guy spit out his internal organs and died convulsively on the ground.

The thief's clothes were stripped of by the other little beggars, and his body was dumped in the deserted grave, naked and exposed to the sky, and a skilled thief became a corpse in an instant.

Fang Han felt that one day he would be poured on the ground, and he was very desperate.

The ruffian who kidnapped them was surnamed Liao, no one knew his real name, only that the people on the street called him Fat Liao, he was one of the biggest ruffians on Linfu Street, with dozens of thugs under his hands, hundreds of thieves and beggars.

Maybe it was luck, maybe it was high talent, Fang Han survived the most terrifying years.

As the other thieves died and were crippled one by one, Fang Han was the only one left in the same period, and Fat Liao promoted Fang Han to become the little leader of the thieves.

His job became teaching other kids how to steal and then taking them out on the streets.

This made Fang Han overjoyed.

Because even if those thieves were caught red-handed and maimed one day, Fang Han would not be harmed, which made him feel the whole thing.

Therefore, Fang Han did it very carefully, and his methods were even more cruel than the ruffians, training those kidnapped orphans day and night, so that they could become qualified thieves, and only if there were enough thieves at the bottom, Fang Han didn't have to play in person.

Fang Han is the best, because he can lead people to steal dozens of gold coins every day, so Fat Liao also values him very much, and even wants Fang Han to be his righteous son, Fang Han is grateful, because he feels that Fat Liao is his idol, and he dreams of becoming a person like him.

Until one day, a middle-aged man with a knife broke into Fat Liao's stronghold, he was holding a beggar and was full of murderous intentions.

At that time, Fat Liao was eating with dozens of thugs, and when he saw the middle-aged man who broke in with a knife, he laughed.

They don't believe at all that a thin middle-aged man can do anything to them, you must know that among these thugs, there are more than a dozen peaks of the mortal realm, even if the middle-aged person is in the mortal realm, he can't please them.

The middle-aged man asked the beggar in his arms amid laughter, "Is that them?"

The beggar's eyes were full of horror, and he nodded and threw himself on the middle-aged man's shoulder.

Fang Han was also laughing, because he knew this beggar, one of the children who was kidnapped by the ruffians with him, it seemed that his name was Gu Shi, and when the ruffians taught them to steal, he refused to learn.

So the ruffians pulled out Gushi's tongue and cut off his hands in front of the other children.

"If you don't want to learn, then beg. The ruffian looked coldly at the wailing Gu Shi and said.

Fang Han didn't think there was anything wrong, but the scene in front of him made him feel that he was outrageously wrong.

When the middle-aged man raised his head again, the intense killing intent seemed to freeze everyone in the audience.

Holding Gu Shi in one hand and a long knife in the other, he burst into the crowd and killed one person in one step.

The ferocious killing intent made these ruffians who lived on the edge of the knife every day afraid of the liver and gall, useless to resist, useless to beg for mercy, the middle-aged man was like a Shura, and in the blink of an eye, the thugs in the lobby were split into broken corpses, and the blood was full of anger.

Fang Han saw that his father-in-law, Fat Liao, was so frightened that he was so scared that he was urinating and feces.

It shouldn't be like this, Fang Han watched in disbelief as the middle-aged man cut off Fat Liao's limbs, and watched Liao Fat wail and die in a pool of blood.

The middle-aged man did not kill Fang Han, but ruined his life, and also left a deep imprint in his heart, the power of a martial artist, terrifying.

With the death of Fat Liao and the thugs, everything for him was gone, and in just one day, a new ruffian came to take over Liao Fat's territory and take care of all the beggars and thieves.

Fang Han was one of the thieves who was taken into custody, but for some reason, after the new boss beat him, he drove him to an old mansion to serve a cripple.

The crippled surnamed Zhang, although he is lame on two legs, is a good counterfeiter.

Fang Han felt that it was good to learn a craft, at least it was safer than stealing, so he decided to apprentice with Fake Zhang.

But every night after that, he could dream of the middle-aged man who broke into the lobby with a knife.

That kind of ferocity and domineering, every time he thought about it, he could make Fang Han tremble with excitement, and he couldn't help himself.

Finally, one day, these dreams and impulses turned into desires.

I want to be a martial artist, I want to take other people's lives, Fang Han said fiercely in the mirror.

He began to pay attention to martial arts, and inquired that the martial arts hall could teach people martial arts and train martial artists.

However, there are two ways to accept apprentices in the martial arts hall.

One is the apprentice, the apprentice pays the money and comes to the martial arts hall every day to take classes to ensure that you build a foundation.

The second is the disciple, the disciple needs an expensive investment fee, and in the future, he will eat and live in the martial arts hall, and the hall master will not only teach you the exercises, but also teach you martial arts.

After all, everyone can cultivate, but not everyone can do martial arts.

Fang Han was penniless, but he knew that this martial arts disciple was his chance to become a martial artist, but the huge investment fee of up to a thousand gold was a big mountain in front of him.