Chapter 12: The Beginning

Youzhou City, located in the extreme east of the mainland, is rarely visited

Although it is a city, there are very few people who have entered this city on the rivers and lakes, and even fewer can come out after entering the city.

In fact, not only people from outside, but also people from Youzhou rarely walk around the rivers and lakes, and it has been more than 2,000 years since the last time people from Youzhou appeared on the rivers and lakes.

Today, the gate of Youzhou, which has been closed for a long time, is slowly opened.

A bearded old man stood at the gate of the city, a breeze blowing, and the tattered trouser legs fluttered in the wind, looking a little funny.

His slender right hand hung down weakly, clenching his fists casually, and on the top of the five fist peaks, the thick calluses were visible to the naked eye.

His spine was pressed up by the heavy coffin on his left shoulder, which had already fallen off several pieces of lacquer, and the countless swords and sword carvings on the coffin were shocking.

Looking closely, his left shoulder collapsed significantly downwards compared to his right, as if it had been crushed by the coffin. The cloudy and yellowed eyes exude a strange light, and just staring at it makes people shudder.

He glanced inside the city, and walked away slowly with steady steps, as if the heavy coffin on his shoulders did not burden him in the slightest.

A few days later, an astonishing news spread all over the rivers and lakes, and the coffin was sent to the people in the secluded mansion and reappeared in the rivers and lakes.

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The first day of June

After the Chijiang River, it is the south of the Yangtze River, and the Chijiang River is three hundred miles to the south, outside the city of Jiangzhou.

Next to the official road, Mobei was resting next to a big tree, this road was the only way to go from Qingzhou to Zhumen, and his second destination this time was Zhumen.

More than a month ago, he received a flying pigeon biography from Zhumenmen on Kunlun Mountain, and it was this letter that made him go down Kunlun Mountain after living in Kunlun for a long time, and it was this letter that informed him of the death of the Sword Sect.

Zhu Men was far away in the south, but he knew a lot about his relationship with the Sword Sect, and he sent this letter because he expected that he would not ignore the news of the Sword Sect's death.

He is not familiar with Zhu Men, but Zhu Menmen is one of the ten grandmasters on the rivers and lakes, a master who has been famous for a long time, but he has also heard of it after he went down the mountain, in his opinion, Zhu Men is obviously too concerned about him, an unknown junior.

Before he went down the mountain, there were only three people on the rivers and lakes who knew about his existence, and it was obvious that Zhang Xiaoyu was not included among them.

Therefore, he is bound to go to Zhumen in person, and he will meet this Zhumen master for a while, and he also knows that Zhang Xiaoxiao must be waiting for him to come to the door in person.

Just as he was thinking about it, a cry for help came from ahead.

"Help."

Mobei opened his eyes and followed the sound to look forward, and a moment later, several figures appeared from the woods.

A girl with a double ponytail was being chased and killed by several people in red robes, only to see that the girl looked flustered, her originally delicate face was also gray at the moment, and her white plain clothes were stained with mottled blood, and she didn't know if it was her own or someone else's.

In a panic, the girl saw a sturdy young man in a tiger skin perched on the side of the road, and immediately pounced on it as if she had seen a life-saving straw.

At this time, Mobei had already stood up, and when he saw the girl rushing over, he immediately guessed what the other party was doing.

Although the girl looked embarrassed, the look on her face was full of cunning.

"Help, hero, someone is going to bully the little girl."

The girl dodged and cleverly hid behind Mobei.

Before Mobei could speak, several men in red had already greeted him.

"Boy, it's none of your business, get out of the way if you know each other."

The man at the head looked serious, raised the long knife in his hand, and pointed at Mobei.

Although Mobei knew what the girl was having, he was young and vigorous after all, and he couldn't get used to such a thing of everyone bullying a weak woman, so he naturally refused to be obedient, and said coldly at the moment

"Don't."

The man at the head of the group froze, then burst out laughing, and his companions behind him followed suit.

"Boy, people who dare to make trouble with us are really rare in the rivers and lakes, tell me, are you from the west or from the north."

Mobei was a little puzzled, whether it was from the west or from the north, did it matter.

Seeing Mo Bei's puzzled eyes, someone in the group of men in red came to the leading man's side and bowed his head and said

"Senior brother, this kid can't even understand this, it doesn't seem to be from those two families."

The leading man nodded, and the look he looked at Mo Bei suddenly had some appreciation.

"It seems to be a fledgling stunned boy, it's really strong."

The crowd behind him, someone suggested

"Senior brother, it's important to get down to business."

The leading man's expression was straight, and the long knife in his hand appeared coldly, as if he was about to cut at Mobei at any time, and he said coldly

"Boy, this is your own death, and you can't blame us."

"Poof"

The faint sound of breaking the air came from the long knife in the hand of the leading man, and his knife was surprisingly fast.

This is the origin of his nickname for Mo Xiao's quick knife, and he slammed into Mo's north door with a knife.

Mo Bei looked at this knife quietly, there was no panic in his eyes, but he was a little amazed, this knife was as fast as a sudden wind, he had seen someone stronger than him since he went down the mountain, but he had never seen a knife faster than him.

Although Mobei's sword is not known for its speed, he is already a great master after all, and no matter how fast the sword of an ordinary master is, it is nothing more than this in his eyes, yes, this person's internal strength is not deep, but he has definitely put a lot of effort into the swordsmanship.

He laughed heartily, and with a soft groan of the long sword in his hand, he met him.

"Bump!"

The collision of swords splashed a faint spark, and a look of surprise flashed in Mo Xiao's eyes, and then he regained his composure.

"What a precise sword."

After a sigh of admiration, the sword separated, the man's eyes were full of admiration, and the right hand holding the long knife hung on the ground at will, but then, the long knife in his right hand was held backwards, only in the blink of an eye, a shallow trace was drawn on the ground, sparks splashed, and the long knife was in Mobei's eyes, from the bottom up, and it was a very fast knife.

Mo Bei's eyes finally changed, this knife was not only faster than the previous one, but also more unexpected than the previous one.

Just when the blade was about to cut through Mo Bei's abdomen, Mo Bei's left hand appeared strangely in front of the blade, only to see his left hand flick his fingers lightly, and the blade trembled violently, Mo Xiao only felt that his arm was numb for a while, and he involuntarily let go of the knife.

The long knife was thrown to the ground with a clang.

Mo Xiao looked at the young man in front of him in disbelief, his lips pale.

"You're a grandmaster!"

With just a flick of his fingers, he shot down his knife, and this internal force is at least at the grandmaster level.

Mo Bei's eyes were also full of surprise at this time, if it weren't for his internal strength far surpassing this person, the knife just now could indeed pose a threat to him.

Mo Xiao's expression changed, and he flew back, and he yelled eagerly

"Set up the formation, this is the Grandmaster!"

The companions behind him were shocked when they heard this, but they acted instantly, and in the blink of an eye, including Mo Xiao, six people surrounded Mo Bei and the girl in the middle, Mo Xiao stood in the middle of the formation, at this time, his shock mood had recovered, and he said calmly

"A grandmaster of your age is indeed amazing, I Mo Xiao is crisscrossing the rivers and lakes, don't say that I have seen it, I have never heard of it, but if you are a grandmaster or a genius, it is also unlucky for you to encounter the wrong knife formation of our sword gate today."

When the girl behind Mobei saw this battle, her expression changed greatly, and she said nervously in Mobei's ear

"Hero, you can't stand it, this is a formation that is as famous as the Sword Pavilion's burly sword formation."

Mo Bei's demeanor was calm, the long sword in his hand hung on the ground casually, he looked around, without the slightest panic.

Mo Xiao saw it in his eyes, and the admiration in his eyes was even worse.

"Fight!"

The two long knives went hand in hand, attacking Mobei head-on, and at the same time, the two long knives on the back came backwards.

Mobei hugged the girl's waist, jumped up gently, stepped lightly on one of the knife blades with his toes, the fish jumped over the heads of the four people, and smoothly dodged the blow, at this time, the two flanks rose into the air, Mobei had not yet landed, but he couldn't move in the air, seeing the two long knives coming from the left and right sides, Mobei's body made a perfect turn in the air, and narrowly avoided this killer blow.

But what Mobei didn't expect was that the attack of the two was still just a feint, just when the two of them staggered in front of Mobei, and the three of them were about to separate in the air, the two of them strangely let go of the right hand holding the knife, and the long knife slipped down, but was caught by their outstretched left hand in an instant, and after catching the long knife, the left hand stabbed back to Mobei who was in the middle in a surprising posture.

This is definitely an unavoidable blow, and what is even more terrifying is that at this time, the other four people are already standing where Mobei landed, even if Mobei can dodge the killing blow in the air, he will never be able to avoid the thunderous blow of the four people underground.

The girl leaned on Mo Bei's side, her eyes full of despair, but at this time, she suddenly felt a wall of qi fluctuating towards her like ripples, she looked at Mo Bei in surprise, not knowing what he was doing.

Mo Bei really couldn't dodge this blow, and the two long knives were steadily inserted into Mo Bei and the girl, but when the long knife was still a foot away from Mo Bei, he felt that a wall of qi was inserted out of thin air, soft and weak, but he felt blocked, and they exerted force with their left hand, but they couldn't make the long knife any further.

In this way, in the surprised eyes of the four people on the ground, the three people in the sky landed smoothly in an extremely delicate posture, and the four of them took out the knife in an instant, and the knife stabbed steadily towards Mobei, but it also stopped a foot in front of Mobei.

A few people just stopped for a few breaths, and the sound of heavy breathing came.

Mo Xiao's lips were dry, he looked at the stagnant long knife in his hand, felt the feeling of blockage coming from the tip of the knife, and felt dizzy.

"Are you, Grand Master?"

"Boom!"

The invisible wall of qi outside Mo Bei's body exploded, and wave after wave of air currents swept outward, knocking the six people back a few steps.

The girl only felt a gust of breeze blowing on her face, and the desperate situation before a few breaths was easily resolved by the young man beside her.

Mo Bei let go of the girl, walked towards Mo Xiao, who was already looking sluggish, and asked lightly

"You're from the Knife Gate?"

Mo Xiao nodded, facing a great grandmaster, he no longer had the courage to generate any trace of resistance.

"Why are you chasing her?"

The girl's head emerged from behind Mo Bei, and she said coquettishly

"Hmph, these disciples of the Great Gate Sect are just bullying people on weekdays, and recently I don't know what kind of madness they have, arresting people everywhere, even a weak woman like me will not let go."

Mobei looked at Mo Xiao and looked forward to his answer.

Mo Xiao said hurriedly

"We were only ordered by the door master, and this girl looks like the girl the door master said, so this is ......"

The girl said angrily

"Okay, it turns out that your master is still an old pervert, and he dares to blatantly catch the girl."

Mo Xiao saw that Mo Bei's expression was getting worse and worse, and he hurriedly explained

"No, the god Ming Dan in the door was stolen recently, and the owner of the door ordered the search for the thief king and a girl."

When the girl heard this, her eyebrows immediately rose up, and she said angrily

"Which of you dogs saw me with the King of Thieves."

Mo Xiao was stunned for a moment, he finally came back to his senses, he thought about it carefully, it seemed that this was indeed the case.

Mo Bei said lightly

"What does the girl you're looking for look like?"

Mo Xiao recalled for a moment and said

"Double ponytails, delicate appearance, about thirteen or fourteen years old."

Mobei looked at the girl beside him carefully and said suspiciously

"They're talking about you."

The girl's two big eyes sparkled, looking at Mobei innocently.

Mo Bei was helpless for a while, he looked at Mo Xiao and said

"Since it's a misunderstanding, then you can go, she's not the person you're looking for."

Mo Xiao still wanted to speak, but when he saw the slight chill in Mo Bei's eyes, he had to wave his hand helplessly.

"Withdraw!"

The girl waved her pink fist at their backs, and her delicate facial features were squeezed together, but she still looked a little cute.

When Mobei saw the people from the knife gate leaving, he also turned around to leave.

"Hmm!"

But he was held by the girl's slender arms.

"What are you doing?"

Mo Bei frowned, but the girl grabbed Mo Bei's arm and refused to let go, looking down, but saw the girl's iconic big eyes, staring at him with a flutter.

"Hero, take me with you."

Contrary to the girl's expectations, Mo Bei nodded without any thought.

"Okay."

Mobei agreed so simply that she didn't expect it, and a hint of surprise flashed in her big fluttering eyes.

Mo Bei looked at her expressionlessly, making her feel a little unable to see through this young man.

The twin ponytails sway lightly with the breeze

"Hello, my name is Hatsuxia."

Mobei was silent for a while.

"Mobei."

"Mobei, where are you going?"

"Continue south."

And just like that, a strange duo continued their way south.