In the tavern of the post station outside the city of He Liu, Menghe County, Youzhou of the Great Shang Empire, the atmosphere was warm.

"General Ziyu won a complete victory, annihilated 20,000 Rakshasa troops, and recovered Qingdai City!" The good news from the front line became the talk of every elated guest.

"The recovery of Montenegro and Baishui counties is in sight, and the blood revenge of millions of compatriots will be avenged!" An old man drank with tears in his eyes, as if he had been decades younger.

Fifty years ago, the Rakshasa Kingdom took advantage of the Great Shang and Great Xia War to send troops to attack the Great Shang Youzhou, killing 200,000 Shang troops and slaughtering more than 1 million people.

Thirty years ago, the new emperor of Dashang ascended the throne, made great efforts, and made five great wishes, one of which was to recover the two counties of Baishui in Montenegro and avenge the sneak attack of the Rakshasa Kingdom. Ten years ago, the royal family of Ziwen resigned from the post of prime minister, changed to Youzhou pastor, the next year ordered his nephew Yu Shuai army to go north, nine years, and the Rakshasa army seven battles, countless small battles, has recaptured more than 20 cities from the Rakshasa country, two years ago, the main force of the Rakshasa Far East Army surrounded the important town of Qingdai City in Baishui County. After more than two years of fierce and bloody repeated fighting, finally the day before yesterday, the general Xu Rong broke through the east gate of Qingdai City, and after the street battle, the Rakshasa army was annihilated and achieved the biggest victory in nine years.

All the guests were jubilant, looking forward to the continuous efforts of the front-line merchant army to recover the white water of Montenegro in one fell swoop. Only at a table in the corner, the atmosphere was a bit dreary.

There were four people seated, a boy of sixteen or seventeen, two girls of about ten years old, and a woman in her early thirties, who appeared to be the mother of the three children. The woman was dressed simply, but her appearance was beautiful, which attracted the attention of many men in the neighborhood, but she kept frowning and depressed, and the young man had been talking to her without saying a word, and she only forced a smile to deal with one or two sentences, as if there was a lot of pressure in her heart, and she couldn't breathe. The young man was not very old, but his figure was already quite tall, close to one meter seventy-five, with ape arms and wolf waist, and his body was vigorous, for some reason, his face was a little pale.

"This lady, where are you going? During the recent war, the road was not very smooth, why don't you go with my brother, so you can take care of it?"

The two mercenary-looking men walked to the four-person table with a big grin, and the younger one bent down in front of the woman and said with a wicked smile.

"Get out!" Before the woman could react, the young man had already snorted coldly, glaring at the two mercenaries fearlessly.

The young mercenary's smile remained unchanged: "This little doll, how can you be disrespectful, in front of adults, it's better to be honest." As he spoke, he ran towards the young man's door with a palm in his right hand, causing the woman and the two girls to scream at the same time, causing the other guests to look in this direction.

The young mercenary didn't use all his strength, he just wanted to give the young man a slap and a little punishment, however, the imaginary picture did not appear, the young man's face was cold, and he grabbed the mercenary's wrist, the mercenary only felt that the young man's fingers were like iron tongs, and he was shocked, and he was about to break free, but he felt a pain in his lower abdomen, and a sturdy man was kicked by the half-grown boy and flew out two or three meters away.

There was silence in the tavern, and then there was a burst of applause, and most of them were people in the rivers and lakes who were afraid that the world would not be chaotic, and they were very interested when they saw someone fighting.

The young mercenary got up from the ground one by one, and because of the anger and shame, his face was flushed, and he pulled out his waist knife with a choking sound, and threw himself at the young man.

His companion grabbed him and shouted, "Why are you still moving!" Although the mercenaries are all ruthless characters who lick blood with knives, they don't want to cause trouble on the side of this official road in broad daylight.

However, the young mercenary was on fire, and he could still take care of this, and pushed the companion away, and the sword flashed like a rainbow, and ran to the young man's door.

The young man saw that he was coming fiercely, and was afraid of hurting his mother and two sisters, so he did not dare to dodge, so he drew his saber and took the knife by force. The swords collided, making a crisp sound of "Zheng", the mercenary only felt that a knife seemed to be split on the rock, the tiger's mouth almost burst, and involuntarily retreated three or four steps, looking up, the young man was still standing motionless, his heart was frightened, but he saw that the young man's body shook, a stream of blood oozed out of his mouth, and he almost fell to the ground. I couldn't help but be overjoyed in my heart, a touch of ruthlessness flashed in my eyes, and I danced the knife again, ready to kill the killer!

The older mercenary who was traveling with him shouted: "No!" and wanted to step forward to stop it, but he couldn't stop it at all, although his companion was young, he was already a Yellow Order Ten Heavens martial artist, two small realms higher than himself, both speed and strength, much stronger than him.

Seeing that the young man was about to die by the sword, the young mercenary suddenly stopped, a short sword no more than a foot and a half long pressed against his neck from the side, if he had rushed a little faster, the sharp blade had already cut through his carotid artery, and he really didn't see how the terrible swordsman tricked him into making a sword.

There was silence in the tavern for a few more seconds, and then there was a low exchange of voices, and many of the men's eyes lit up a little after seeing the swordsman who had crossed the swordsman, and a few of them whistled boldly.

It was a young woman about twenty years old, with a capable short burgundy hair, not tall, only one meter and fifty, and a delicate melon seed face.

The woman turned a blind eye to the obscene gazes around her, only with a slight smile on her face, and said to the young mercenary, "Big brother, the knife skills are good." The voice was slightly hoarse, and there was a charm in it, many people heard it to the bone, but the young mercenary who was held against her sword didn't even dare to come out, the old mercenary hurriedly stepped forward and said in a deep voice: "This girl, we are the subordinates of the deputy head of the Sanshan Mercenary Group, I hope the girl raises her noble hand!"

When the woman heard this, she put away the short sword in her hand and chuckled: "It turned out to be Wang Xiaohu's subordinates, my own people, but I was reckless, but I killed someone who was already seriously injured, and I would inevitably lose the face of Deputy Head Wang." ”

After hearing this, many people looked at the young man, and secretly said that he vomited blood just now because he was seriously injured.

The two mercenaries were stunned for a moment when they heard the woman say that it was their own, and the older mercenary smiled and asked, "I don't know what the girl is called?"

The woman said: "There are many people in your Sanshan group who know me, and I am the Blood Swallow. ”

The faces of the two mercenaries changed drastically at the same time, and the older mercenary said in a trembling voice: "It turned out to be a swallow girl, I am offended." With that, the two hurriedly settled the account with the bartender and fled out of the tavern.

At about the same time, many of the drinkers who were still staring at the blood swallow with obscene eyes also left the table and left the bill.

As if nothing had happened, Blood Swallow walked up to the four of them and smiled at the young man: "I don't know this little brother's surname, he is already the Twelfth Heaven of the Yellow Order at a young age, so powerful!" took out a medicine bottle and handed it over, "This is an elixir for internal injuries, you might as well try it." ”

The young man hugged his fists: "Thank you Miss Yanzi for your help, Yu Cheng is from Taurus City, this is the mother Xue Ping, and these two are sisters." Just as he was about to take the medicine bottle, he saw a jade hand stretched out from the side and blocked the medicine bottle of the blood swallow, but it was Yu Cheng's mother Xue Ping: "Thank you girl, you meet in Pingshui, and you don't dare to accept such a precious gift from the girl." ”

Although Xue Ping was frightened a lot, she had no good impression of this woman who appeared out of thin air to help her group, she only felt that this Blood Swallow was not a good woman at first glance, and looking at the reaction of the guests in the tavern after she reported her name, it was obvious that she was afraid of it, and it was obvious that she was notorious. It was to speak immediately, and put on a posture of rejecting people thousands of miles away.

However, Yu Cheng, although he didn't think that Blood Swallow was a good person, but after all, he had just received the grace of saving his life, and he was quite embarrassed to see his mother in such a posture, and he hugged his fist at Blood Swallow with an apologetic face. Blood Swallow smeared a wisp of gloom on his face, but then as if nothing had happened, he sat back in his seat, and there was a man and a woman in the seat, both of them were about thirty, and when they saw Blood Swallow come back and sit down, they all showed a meaningful smile, which made Blood Swallow sneer.

Yu Cheng and Xue Ping felt that this tavern was not suitable to stay any longer, so they left the table with the two little girls, and the blood swallow watched Yu Cheng go out, and her beautiful eyes were thoughtful.

"It's rare for a ruthless swallow girl to be a good person, but she has met someone who doesn't know how to lift. The man in gray who was sitting in the same seat smiled.

Blood Swallow glared at him, and then lowered his voice: "Ziyang bloodline, if the head of the regiment gets it, it should be able to help him improve his cultivation." ”

The man in gray and the other woman changed color at the same time: "Ziyang bloodline, are you sure?"

In this world, whether it is a human or a demon beast, from cultivating martial arts to practicing other industries and arts, we must follow the laws of this world, or in other words, follow the "Tao" of this world.

Tao begets one, one begets two, two begets three, and three begets all things, and Tao is the mother of all the rules and laws in this world. From the Tao, the eight basic elements that make up this world were born: heaven, earth, thunder, wind, water, fire, mountain, and river.

And whether it is a person, a demon beast, or a flower, grass, fish and insects, no matter what the body structure is, the body has its own eight veins, corresponding to the eight basic elements, in order to commemorate the Emperor Fuxi, these eight veins are generally called the Qianmai, Kun Maiden, Zhen Mai, Xun Mai, Kan Mai, Limai, Gen Mai, and Dui Mai. The practice of martial artists is to gradually break through the blocking nodes in these eight veins. Each time you penetrate a node, the corresponding veins will become correspondingly broader, the strength will also increase, and the strength and agility will also be greatly increased, which is generally referred to as the level realm of a martial artist. Each vein has sixty-four nodes, corresponding to sixty-four small realms, and every sixteen nodes corresponds to a large realm, there are four major realms of heaven and earth, the lowest yellow level, and the highest heavenly level. When all the sixty-four nodes are broken through, and when you reach the peak of the Heavenly Rank, you will reach the limit point of mortal martial arts, and if you can break through, you can transcend the mortal body and enter the ranks of immortals. In fact, in this world, although immortals are very rare, they are not rare, such as Emperor Wuding, the monarch of this great Shang, and this Youzhou Muziwen, according to legend, are all immortals who have broken through the heavenly level.

Everyone's physical conditions are different, generally choose the right vein for themselves to get through, most people specialize in one vein, and some people practice two or three veins at the same time, but practicing multiple veins at the same time will greatly increase the difficulty of breaking through the realm, so those who practice multiple veins at the same time are generally warriors of some professions, in order to obtain a more balanced combat effectiveness, and choose to increase the difficulty of cultivation, such a martial artist, compared to those who practice in a single vein, has the strength to crush each other in the same realm. For example, the Blood Swallow is cultivating the Qianmai, Xun Pulse and Kan Pulse at the same time, among which the Xun Vein has opened up eighteen nodes, so in terms of realm, she is a Xuan-level two-tier heaven, but if she really fights, it is not a problem for her to suppress the single-vein martial artist of the Xuan-level five-fold heaven.

And in this world, there are some gifted cultivators who are born with an extraordinary affinity for certain elements, and when they cultivate the corresponding veins, they will get twice the result with half the effort. Just as the body of fire is naturally suitable for cultivating the vein, and the body of ice is inherently suitable for cultivating the vein, the purple yang bloodline is one of the extremely high-quality of these special bloodlines, corresponding to the four elements of heaven, thunder, fire, and mountain in the eight elements have a strong affinity.

"No wonder that kid is only fifteen or sixteen years old, and he is already the Twelfth Heaven of the Yellow Order. The man in gray said in a deep voice, a hint of a smile on his face was gone.

The three of them looked at each other, nodded almost at the same time, and seemed to have some kind of determination, stood up, and rushed out the door.