Chapter 1: Ten Years

The vicissitudes of life, the sun and the moon change. Ten years is just an inconspicuous moment in the long river of years. Legend has it that many years ago, humans were just vassals of powerful mythical beasts. At that time, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth was abundant, and many divine beasts with the strength to destroy the world and a long lifespan were born. And human beings, who appear incomparably small in front of them, are the lowest creatures in the biosphere. You have to rely on the strong, and work day and night for them, or you will become the ration of other creatures. But there are always variables between heaven and earth, and although human beings are weak, they revere heaven and earth, worship nature, and actively comply with the wishes of the Creator. So, at some point, the first cultivator appeared among the human race. Unlike those divine beasts that are destined for strength at the moment of birth, although human beings have a low starting point, they are better because their strength can grow with hard work and opportunity. As a result, after millions of years of succession, human beings have been ruled by various divine beasts at the beginning, to fighting against divine beasts, and now that the divine beasts have not been born for many years, and human beings have become the masters of heaven and earth. The hardships and blood and tears in it cannot be explained clearly in a few words. Over the long years, human beings have also perfected their own set of cultivation systems, which are divided into the four realms of man, yuan, earth, and heaven, and human beings have also comprehended countless exercises that can use the power of heaven and earth. These exercises can be divided into secret arts, spells, Taoist techniques, and legendary forbidden techniques according to their power and the amount of power they use to help them with the power of heaven and earth. It is with this complete system that many strong people have appeared in human beings who are proud of the heavens and the earth, and they are not weaker than the legendary divine beasts.

Yechen stood on the high platform, stood with his hands behind his back, and looked at a group of children playing in the distance with a smile. I saw that in the center of the group of children, there was a young man with clear eyebrows, ruddy lips, slender eyes, and extremely smart. The boy is six points similar to Yechen, but he lacks the sharpness and roughness on Yechen's face, and is replaced by delicacy and softness, which makes people feel bright, and secretly says that he is a handsome young man, he is the son of Yechen and An Qing - Ye Feiyu. And they are simulating a war, these children are making extremely serious appearances one by one, and several children who play the enemy army have sad faces, which makes people laugh. Ye Feiyu sat on a small wooden chair and listened carefully to the battle report under his command, "Report General Ye, the 70,000 troops of Zhao State have arrived in the city." The person next to him began to whisper, the military heart wavered, Ye Feiyu stood up from the chair, looked at the people below, walked a few steps back and forth, and suddenly said, "Command the whole army, I have something to say." Yechen looked at his son with a serious look, and couldn't help but smile. The war that this group of children are imitating is the battle of their own fame - the Battle of Dragon Slaying City, looking at his son's little face that is somewhat similar to himself, Yechen seems to see himself at that time. It was nine years ago, when a war was launched between the Qin and Tang states, and both countries injected a large number of troops, and fought for more than half a month near Zhennan Pass at the junction of the two countries, with countless casualties. In that battle, the Tang ** team was commanded by the old general Wu Jitian, and Ye Chen was leading 10,000 soldiers to camp in Dragon Cutting City at the border with Zhao State. After hearing the news of the war, although Yechen also wanted to participate in that battle, he had to stay here to monitor the whereabouts of Zhao's ** team and prevent a fire in the backyard. However, the relationship between Zhao and Tang has always been good, so only 10,000 people were sent just in case, but most people felt that this was a redundant move and thought that Zhao would not send troops. But the development of things exceeded too many people's expectations, Zhao not only took advantage of the fire to rob, but also dispatched an army of 70,000 at one time, led by Wang Qi, a famous wise general of Zhao State, intending to capture Tang State in one fell swoop. After Yechen received the information, he knew that if he abandoned the city and fled, or even cowered in the city, the army of Zhao would definitely go straight to the capital Chang'an, causing the Tang Dynasty to fall into a place of no return. So he made up his mind, walked out of the camp, looked at the restless soldiers in the camp, and shouted "Silence!" All the soldiers heard his voice, as if they had found the backbone, and they all stopped talking and looked at him. Yechen looked directly into their gaze and said in a deep voice, "What I'm going to say next is not good news for you. I've decided to go out of the city to defend against the enemy, and if any of you feel like I've made the wrong decision, you can raise your hand and tell me. "The people below, you look at me, I look at you, there are many things mixed in their eyes, but none of them raise their hands. Yechen was silent for a few minutes, and when he saw that everyone didn't speak, he continued, "Okay, it's worthy of my soldiers, and they are all gentlemen." Here, I think everyone knows what the outcome would be if Zhao Guo's miscellaneous past was left unchecked. At that time, even if we are all alive, we will all be sinners and homeless people in the Tang Kingdom. Therefore, today, we must not retreat, even if the enemy is outnumbered, we must fight to the end! If this battle is a great victory, I will definitely be the emperor and reward everyone for their meritorious deeds. If I am defeated, I will face the emperor and the people without shame, and I should apologize for my crimes. When I go to hell, I will also guide everyone's souls, and we will return to Datang in the next life!" At this point, Yechen drew his sword and pointed to the sky, shouting, "Whoever fights with me today is my brother!" Everyone below heard this, and said in unison, "I am willing to follow the general to the death!" Yechen laughed, "Haha, worthy of being my brother." Okay, okay, let's kill it today!Where is the Yejia Army?" A hundred soldiers with powerful breaths stood up below, "The Yejia Army is here, willing to wait for the general's dispatch." Yechen said, "You go out with me first, and take the head of the enemy leader." The others followed, pinning down the army. ”

Wang Qi sat on a war horse, playing with a jade pendant in his hand, and his personal guards beside him. In front of him was Dragon Slaying City, but he didn't care, as if he was not here to fight but to play. He was calculating in his heart how to conquer Chang'an at the lowest cost and in the shortest time, his head was spinning rapidly, and one idea after another appeared and was rejected, not thinking about the defenders of Dragon Slaying City in front of him at all. He concluded that the 10,000 Tang troops in the city would not dare to fight against his own army, and as long as he left 10,000 or 20,000 people to watch over them and supply his front army, he would have no worries about the future. Just as he suddenly had an idea and came up with a good idea, the gate of Dragon Slaying City in front of him suddenly and slowly opened. Wang Qi frowned, obviously upset by the interruption of his train of thought. He looked up and saw a tall and mighty general, holding a sharp sword in his hand, and more than a hundred soldiers behind him, slowly walking towards him. Wang Qi felt very puzzled. Because if these people are here to surrender, then why should they look at themselves with murderous intent. But if you're here to fight, it's not enough for you to stuff your teeth. So he beckoned one of his guards and asked him to come forward and ask. The guard walked up to Yechen and just wanted to speak, only to see Yechen raise his sword and sweep it, and the person's head was already separated from his body. Wang Qi was shocked in his heart and ordered, "Kill them for me." Instead, he stepped back. Ye Chen's face faced with the thousands of troops in front of him, he was not panicked, his eyes were always staring at Wang Qi on horseback, the Xingchen Sword in his hand waved repeatedly, bringing bursts of bloody rain, and the Ye family army behind him also strode forward, following closely behind Ye Chen, clearing the enemies on both sides of him, as more and more enemy troops rushed up, Ye Chen's footsteps became faster and faster, and his hands were no longer a simple slash, but the Xingchen Sword Technique. I saw that he sometimes used his strength to split Huashan and sweep the sword in all directions to clear the enemy in front of him, and sometimes he sprinted up for a short distance with his swagger, and when the enemy's attack was too dense, he would also defend with a drop of water. Although it is in the middle of thousands of people, it is like entering a no-man's land. Suddenly, Yechen found that Wang Qi was not far from him, so he sprinted, threw off the Yejia army, and killed Wang Qi, Wang Qi panicked on the battlefield for the first time, he felt that there was nothing to stop this person not far away, seeing that Yechen locked himself, Wang Qi panicked, and his usually witty mind became inflexible. He just kept retreating backwards while ordering the soldiers around him to stop him. But Yechen seems to be tireless, and the more he fights, the more courageous he becomes. Suddenly, Ye Chen's hand increased the output of spiritual power, and a sword swept all directions, the power was twice as great as before, killing all the people in front of him, and then sprinting quickly, Wang Qi only felt that Ye Chen's figure was constantly enlarged and magnified in front of his eyes. Then he saw a sword light from far and near, incomparably gorgeous

Yechen held Wang Qi's head in his hand, surrounded by soldiers from the Zhao Kingdom, who saw with their own eyes that their lord would be killed by the people in front of them, but none of them dared to step forward. Yechen also ignored them, picked up a spear from the ground, stuck Wang Qi's head on it, raised it high, and used Yuan Li to shout, "God bless me Tang!" The Tang soldiers in the distance saw that the enemy's main general had been killed, and their morale was also greatly boosted for a while, and they pandered, "God bless me Tang!" Ye Chen was holding a spear in one hand, the human head on it was still dripping blood, and the other hand was holding the Xingchen Sword, rampage through the crowd, as long as Ye Chen was there, the Zhao army there must be in a mess, and the scene of Ye Chen's killing of his own general just now seemed to be right in front of him, so no one dared to take him even a blow. In this way, 10,000 people under the leadership of Yechen defeated the 70,000 army to a crush, with countless casualties, and Yechen became famous in a battle. Subsequently, Yechen guided many famous battles, and made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty with his extraordinary strength and unexpected ghost strategies. Today's saint once commented that he "fought three thousand miles in one body, and once served as a million divisions with one sword." And the most well-known thing about Yechen in the past ten years is not these, but the relocation of Yejia. Three years after the Battle of Dragon Slaying City, Yechen asked the emperor to relocate the entire Yejia family to Zhennan City to defend the national border. As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused an uproar in the Ye family, and some elders resolutely opposed it, among which the great elder was the most, and he was forced to die. It turned out that it involved the attribution of the throne of the Tang State. Two hundred years ago, the royal family of the Tang Kingdom was not the Li family, but the Ye family. According to rumors, the ancestors of the Ye family came here thousands of years ago, fought for many years, and finally established the Tang Kingdom. The people of the family who do not stay overnight are naturally warlike, so every emperor will personally lead troops to fight, and this situation is even more serious in the generation of Emperor Wu of Tang. Emperor Wu of Tang had no interest in national politics and only wanted to fight, and finally something went wrong. At that time, Emperor Wu of Tang was attacking a small country on the frontier, and the Qin State had the support of the Holy Bishop, and its strength increased greatly. Although Emperor Wu of Tang tried his best to attack, he was never able to drive away the Qin army, and he was so sad and angry that he almost wanted to commit suicide. But after the Qin army occupied Chang'an, it burned, killed and looted, which caused a revolt within the Tang State, and under the leadership of the great Confucian Li Zhi, a powerful underground force was slowly formed. In the end, under the internal and external peace, the Qin army was finally defeated at the flat slope near Chang'an and the Tang State was recaptured. After a deep review of his mistakes, he realized that if the Ye family continued to rule, mistakes like his own would definitely happen again, and he might not have the opportunity to do so today. So he made a decision that shocked the whole country - to cede the throne to Li Zhi, become the general of the Tang State, and implement the rule of culture. Although there was a lot of controversy at the beginning, with the development of several decades, the Tang State became stronger and stronger, and the Chinese people were convinced. But there are always people within the Ye family who oppose Emperor Tang Wu's actions, thinking that he is a traitor to the Ye family and wants to restore the throne of the Ye family. The Great Elder is one of them, when he learned the news that Yechen wanted to move, he understood that if he left Chang'an, it would be even more difficult to restore the status of the Yechen, so he strongly opposed it and recognized it as confronting Yechen, but Yechen ignored it completely, and completed the project despite their opposition. The Great Elder was so angry that he secretly contacted the spies of the Qin State, intending to assassinate Ye Chen. But he was found to have been beheaded. However, Yechen did not anger the Great Elder's family because of this, but entrusted the Great Elder's son with a heavy responsibility. After the Yejia moved to Zhennan City, Yechen practiced all day long, repaired the city tower, and went out to fight a lot less, so his image gradually became mysterious in the Tang Army.