Hua Lanting's parents are Han Chinese, and their ancestors migrated from Jiangnan to escape the war. When he was seven years old, his parents died of illness one after another, leaving him alone to be cared for by several families in the neighborhood.

The local people are simple, he has been very sensible since he was a child, and he already knows at a young age to help adults dig wells and make salt to repay his upbringing, although those families are unable to provide him with school, but they have not become idle because no one is in charge.

The first turning point in his life occurred when he was nine years old, when an old man came to the village alone with a cart of books, saying that he had resigned from his official position and had come to live in seclusion. The village Shangwen atmosphere is very strong, seeing that the old man is knowledgeable, he left him here to open a small private school to teach some children in the village to read for a living, the location was chosen in the ancestral home of Hualan Ting, and Hualan Ting was also accepted by the old man as a scholar, and the two have been dependent on each other since then.

The old man's surname is Dai, and he likes Hua Lanting's young and sensible people very much, and the two get along with each other more and more. Hua Lanting is very smart and studious, and the old man is knowledgeable, knows a lot, during the day Hua Lanting and other children listen to the class, and the old man often tells him a lot of miscellaneous anecdotes alone at night.

Since he was ten years old, the old man would take him out on a trip every year in his spare time in winter and summer, and traveled to many famous mountains and rivers and prefectures. In the past few years, the young Hua Lanting has learned more about the world, and has seen more of the various forms of society in the world, and his personality and personality have become more stoic and steady, and he is more mature than children of the same age.

Originally, Hua Lanting thought that life could go on so plainly and peacefully, but who knew that something happened when he was thirteen years old, and Hua Lanting still remembers the details of that day very clearly.

That day, Hua Lanting had fallen asleep, but was awakened by the sound in the courtyard, and when he got up to check, he found that the old man he usually called the teacher was not in his own house, and the village was very safe, and there were few people.

When it was nearly dawn, I heard the sound of the door in the courtyard, and when I went out to look, I saw the old man staggering in, and his chest was stained with blood.

He was so startled that he was about to scream, but the old man dragged him into the house and told him to silence. I saw that the old man first took out a pill from a cabinet and swallowed it, then changed into clean clothes and meditated on the bed for half an hour, before his face turned from white to red, and then he opened his mouth to tell a story about the past that shocked Hua Lanting.

It turned out that the old man's real name was Dianlan, and he was an ordinary official of the Qintianjian Star Viewing Hall who was responsible for observing celestial phenomena, formulating calendars, and calculating good fortune and evil in the Sun and Moon Dynasty.

Diane Lan was not eye-catching in the Qintian Prison, but for a period of time, his calculations suddenly became very effective, and he deduced in advance the occurrence of several events that were favorable to the imperial court, and was promoted to the deputy supervisor, but unexpectedly aroused the suspicion of the Qintian Supervisor, and began to suppress Dianan Lan from all sides, for fear that he would replace him. The prison is ruthless and has a great background in the court, Dai Anlan was worried about attracting murder, so he was forced to resign in desperation to avoid trouble, and chose to settle in the Yunlong Mansion in a remote corner.

Diane Blue thought that this was the end of it, he had never married in his life, and he wanted to teach here until his old age. And he was cautious, he never went out after settling down, until a year later, when he felt that no one inquired about his origin, he began to travel with Hua Lan Ting, and decided to pass on what he had learned in his life to Hua Lan Ting before he was old, so as not to attract attention, and he didn't want to be found here.

That night, it was the three masters of the internal affairs office of the court who lured him outside the village and forced him to ask him the secret of the sudden improvement of the heavenly machine calculation.

After talking, he learned that the prison did not let go of the search for his whereabouts later, but after repeatedly finding it, it faded, but he didn't expect that the backstage of the prison was sent to Yunlong Mansion to do other things, and it was a coincidence that these three people happened to be the people who were entrusted to track his tracks at that time, and they still inadvertently learned his location and appearance, and rushed to the village to investigate under suspicion before confirming that other people would not actually expose their whereabouts.

The three insisted on taking Dianan Lan back to Beijing, but Dianan Lan didn't want to be obtained by the prison because of the secret that his master's arithmetic ability had greatly improved, so he resisted.

The three of them didn't know that Dianan Lan was actually carrying martial arts, and they were carelessly killed by Dianan Lan with a heavy hand, and the remaining one was killed and buried on the spot after being interrogated.

Hua Lanting had also seen the vendetta in the rivers and lakes when he was traveling, although he was terrified when he heard that the murder was being buried, he still couldn't help but feel uneasy and asked, "Teacher, you are injured, does it matter?"

Diane Lan smiled slightly: "Good boy, I know that I care about the teacher first, it seems that I am not wrong." The three of them fought back on the verge of death, I was hit by the first two people with a palm and a knife, but it was not fatal, but in the end, the secret feeding of the poison by the Ministry of Internal Affairs was powerful, I was shocked and scattered, and I couldn't control the spread of the poison, although there was a Shimen pill to resolve it, but it was not right, there was no antidote to the three people, I am afraid that the teacher would not survive for a year and a half. ”

Hua Lanting was shocked: "How is that good? Let's go to the capital to find an antidote." ”

Dianan Lan shook her head: "No, I have to heal now, don't say that the capital is far away, I shouldn't travel far, even if I go, you and I can't fight the forces of the prison." Life and death have life, and my master once calculated for me once, saying that I had a quiet nature and a peaceful life, but at the age of fifty-seven there was a great calamity, and I only said that there seemed to be a glimmer of life. ”

"Now it is so, even though I am suffering, I can still not die for a while. Don't panic, I still have something to say to you, I originally wanted to tell you this in a few years when you are eighteen years old, but now I can only advance. ”

"As a teacher from one of the three hidden doors of the rivers and lakes of the frost maple Luohui Pavilion, the master was very prosperous more than a hundred years ago, and then because of the difficulty of learning the exercises, the disciples withered down and disappeared, and now the name is still there, but the reputation is not visible in the world. In my generation, there are only two disciples, and I also have a junior disciple named Jiang Zhecheng. ”

"There are two types of mastery skills, one is martial arts, and the other is heavenly skills. I don't like to fight as a teacher.,Inherited a number of skills.,Although I also learned some shallow kung fu in my spare time.,But it's just for self-defense and health.,Except for the use of it when I was young, I didn't do much cultivation and didn't show it again.。 ”

"My junior brother Jiang is talented, intoxicated with martial arts, inherited the lineage of martial arts, he did not walk in the rivers and lakes after his art, but went to the mountains to seek a breakthrough in the higher realm of martial arts, I was very affectionate when the two of them were in the same door, but then gradually broke off contact. The two brothers have their own idiots, and I later joined the imperial court Qin Tianjian so that I could refer to the various ancient books in it to continue to study the number of heavenly machines, and you know what happened later. ”

Speaking of this, the old man's eyes shimmered and he looked at Hua Lanting and asked, "Let me ask you, are you willing to formally apprentice and pass on my mantle?"

Where would Hua Lanting refuse at this time, the old man was already his only relative in the world, so he knelt down and bowed, and Diane Lan was very relieved after receiving the salute: "Although it is late, and there is not much time, I can only lead you to the entrance, but after all, the master's art is not self-defeating, and after all, there is this." As he spoke, the old man untied something from his neck.

Hua Lanting looked up and saw that it was a jade brand-like thing, the size of a baby's palm, showing an irregular flat shape, non-gold and non-iron like jade, no material to see, faintly blue-green brilliance flowing.

Diane Lan said: "This is what the prison chief wants, in fact, he still doesn't know what it is, only that I must have a secret." This thing was passed on to me by the master, and the master called it the Sky Blue Smoke Jade. “

"This thing is nameless, not a family heirloom, but hundreds of years ago a head of the ancestor accidentally obtained, at first did not know what use, felt that the material was special and stayed, the earliest white, during which three things happened, only to know that this is a rare treasure in the world. ”

"The first time was to block a mortal attack for the ancestor, so I found that this thing was extremely hard and there was nothing to hurt. ”

"The second time was when it was passed on to my master's master, when the color turned blue and white one day, a mantra appeared in my master's mind, and after reciting the mantra, an invisible storage space the size of a drawer would be opened, which was unheard of and shocking, and it was the biggest secret of this door. The so-called guilt of Huaibi, this matter has been passed on by the head of the family for generations, and in my generation, this space is already the size of a cabinet, and now the number of techniques and most of the secret books of martial arts are kept in it. “

"The third anomaly happened to me, after the color of the sky blue smoke jade gradually turned to turquoise, one day I suddenly found that I was unusually clear when calculating arithmetic, like divine help, and the things that were difficult to solve in the past became clear at a glance, and usually the calculation of heaven will be imposed on my own backlash phenomenon disappeared, and my spirit is getting stronger and stronger, and even the internal strength that has been stagnant for many years has grown on its own, otherwise with my previous cultivation, I may not be the opponent of the three masters of the internal affairs department. ”

After taking a sip of water, Dianlan continued: "I was very excited at that time, I lost my vigilance, and I helped the imperial court to calculate the heavenly machine successfully and get promoted several times in a row, which caused the jealousy of the supervisor to have follow-up these things, but because of this, I formed a master-apprentice relationship with you. “

"According to the inference of several generations of patriarchs, the sky blue smoke jade should come from outside the sky, which can absorb the aura of heaven and earth and change the color, and the darker and richer the color, the more functions. As a teacher, I will pass on this jade to you today, hoping that you can discover more effects. But until you can control it and protect yourself, don't make it public. ”

After this day, Dianan Lan first claimed that he was sick and did not go out to recuperate, and a month later, the poison began to stabilize. Although Dianlan interrogated and learned that the three people came to look for him because they were greedy and did not inform other people in the government to know, for the sake of safety, the two still bid farewell to Laohupo Village, where they had lived for many years, and moved hundreds of miles south to live in more remote mountainous areas.