"It is said that when the two realms of the river fought in the first battle, my emperor drove the expedition in person, that tragedy! An old man with a long beard on the stage spoke like a river, and from time to time he gestured twice, as if he had experienced it lightly.

"Eh, old man Liu, don't be verbose, we've all heard this. Talk about something new, right now."

The slightly chubby middle-aged man in the audience said impatiently. The old man on the stage is called Liu Yizhang, who sold medicinal materials in various places in his early years, and thought that he was a person in the rivers and lakes, well-informed, and opened a teahouse in Chaoyang City in his later years to make a living by telling stories.

In the corner of the door sat a young man in green clothes, who was out of place with the other people in the teahouse, and he knew that he was a rich kid at a glance.

It is precisely because of this that one person sits at a table, but he is also happy to be clean, this person's name is Su Huai, and he is the third son of the Su family, one of the three major families in Yanguo.

And what the middle-aged man asked Old Man Liu to talk about was related to Su Huai. Besides, although the old man Liu was interrupted, he was not angry, he raised the tea bowl in front of the table and took a sip, still speaking clearly on the stage.

"At present, the most lively thing in Chaoyang City is the three-trick appointment between Su Huai Gongzi and Princess Yue, and the beginning and end of this matter have to be traced back to eighteen years ago."

"Childe, you are here again, Madame is looking for you!" A Tsing Yi Xiao Si strode in and said to Su Huai.

"Don't listen to this old man's nonsense, come back with me!"

"Okay, okay, since my mother called me, let's go quickly." After that, he got up and walked out of the teahouse with Tsing Yi Xiao Si.

This Tsing Yi Xiao Si's name is Shepherd Boy, and he is Su Huai's entourage. His father was an ordinary general of the Su family, and after his father died in the war, he was taken to the mansion by the Su family and was responsible for taking care of Su Huai.

And his mother stayed in the countryside to guard a few acres of land, plus the supplies left by his father in his early years and the Su family, he also had no worries about food and clothing.

The shepherd boy's greatest wish was to have a big house in the capital and take his mother to live there.

"Childe, what is Old Man Liu talking about today?" The shepherd boy couldn't help but ask after a few steps out of the teahouse.

"Didn't you say that the words in the teahouse are all nonsense?"

"Well, I—I'm just curious." The shepherd boy scratched his head, looking a little embarrassed.

"Hehe, in fact, what Liu Yizhang said is not all nonsense, the most lively thing in Chaoyang City at the moment is indeed my three-trick appointment with Princess Yue, and the root of this matter is indeed eighteen years ago. At that time, after the Great Victory in the Battle of the Two Realms, he was ambushed by an enemy country on the way back, and the target was His Majesty. And because his mother was pregnant with Rokko and because his father had made great contributions in the Great War, His Majesty allowed his mother to ride in the same car with him."

Speaking of this, Su Huai couldn't help but leak a wry smile.

"And then," the shepherd boy couldn't help but ask.

"As the saying goes, blessings and misfortunes depend on misfortunes, and blessings lurk. The enemy country sent all first-class dead soldiers, and at the cost of dozens of deaths, let two dead soldiers approach His Majesty's carriage. And one of them won a chance to shoot for the second dead soldier with his own life, but what they never expected was that there was another person in His Majesty's dragon chariot, and the only chance to shoot was also blocked by his mother."

Speaking of this, Su Huai couldn't help but shake his head, looking a little helpless.

"That's why Childe was born weak and sickly." As soon as the words came out, the shepherd boy seemed to realize something, and immediately covered his mouth with his hand, and looked at Su Huai from the corner of his eye, for fear of making Su Huai unhappy.

"Don't worry, after so many years, I have already seen it, and I won't be angry with you, but you can't mention this matter to your mother, it's a mother's heart disease."

Su Huai said lightly with a smile.

"Uh-huh, uh-huh, the shepherd boy knows". Seeing that Su Huai was not angry, the shepherd boy said five ums in a row, as if he had fallen on a big stone in his heart, and breathed a long sigh of relief.

The sky of Chaoyang City in September is particularly high, the sun hanging on the edge of the sky casts a trace of warmth, so that the pedestrians walking on the road are a little more lazy, only the occasional cool breeze will make people wrap their clothes tightly, and perceive a trace of coolness.

Sometimes I don't know how people in these two costumes feel when they meet. At this time, the monk who was walking towards Su Huai looked particularly strange, dressed in a cotton jacket but bare-chested, I don't know if it was cold or hot.

Looking at the appearance of this monk who is seventeen or eighteen years old, he feels that his eyebrows are clear and beautiful, but if he looks closely, he seems to be dumbfounded, if it is not for the incense scar on his head, he really can't tell that he is a little monk.

When Su Huai was talking to the shepherd boy, the little monk had already walked up,

"Donor, little monk Fang Yuan, can the donor of your land open a convenient hand and make a good relationship with my Buddha, Amitabha", I saw this little monk called Fang Yuan clasped his hands together and said to Su Huai, and looked at Su Huai with a blank look after speaking.

Su Huai looked at this little monk named Fang Yuan, and he also folded his hands and said to Fang Yuan

"Amitabha, make a good fate, make a good fate", it's not that Su Huai didn't understand what Monk Fang Yuan meant, it's just that in the past few days, he has been disturbed by Princess Yue's three-trick covenant, and he intends to have fun.

"Well, that is, the little monk is here to transform fate", Fang Yuan said hesitantly, but the eyes that looked at Su Huai were even more determined.

It is no wonder that the little monk Fang Yuan is like this, although he has traveled north and south with his master since he was a child, he mostly lives in places such as temples and farmhouses.

But it was the first time for a country like Chaoyang City to visit. Today, there is still nothing in the city, this is not that there is anything wrong with Fang Yuan.

But most of the people I see in the city today are ordinary people in ordinary clothes, who often help the poor people when they traveled with the master, and now how can they bear to turn into a fate for them, you must know that you have been adopted by the master since childhood, and the master is like a god-like existence in Fang Yuan's eyes.

And the rest of the people are either rich businessmen with full faces, or they are all equipped with weapons, which makes people prohibitive, in today's era of respecting martial arts, even civil ministers will wear swords on their waists, not to mention military generals and people in the rivers and lakes.

Su Huai was the first person he met today who was gorgeously dressed and did not carry weapons, just like identifying Su Huai.

"It's so easy to draw a circle", Su Huai looked at it again, Fang Yuan said with a smile, hearing this, Fang Yuan immediately smiled, but in a flash, he returned to calm.

"Lend me your pen and books," Su Huai said, looking at the book in Fang Yuan's hand.

"This is the merit book, what do you want him to do", although Fang Yuan didn't know what Su Huai wanted the merit book to do, he still handed it over.

Ministry of merit, Su Huai took the book and muttered, opened it and found that the whole book was empty, it turned out that I was still the first person destined for this little monk, thinking of this, Su Huai couldn't help but slightly curl the corners of his mouth and squinted at Fang Yuan again, only to see the little monk staring at him tightly, seeing Su Huai looking at himself Fang Yuan turned his head to look at the shepherd boy.

After staring at Fang Yuan for a while, Su Huai picked up the pen and was about to drop it on the book, as if he remembered something, he turned his head to look at the shepherd boy violently, and Su Huai suddenly looked at the shepherd boy and thought something had happened, looked around and looked up and down and didn't find anything abnormal, just wanted to ask and heard Su Huai say,

"The shepherd boy will give me a copper coin from you," he said, holding out his hand to the shepherd boy. Although the shepherd boy was full of questions, he hadn't recovered from the sudden stare at Su Huai just now, and he was at a loss, and he didn't ask anything when he heard Su Huai say this, and took out a copper coin from his money bag and gave it to Su Huai without hesitation.

After receiving the copper coin, Su Huai pressed the copper coin on the merit book, drew a circle around the edge of the copper coin, and then gave the merit book and pen to Fang Yuan together with the copper coin that drew the circle.

"How's it going? Su Huai smiled smugly at Fang Yuan. Fang Yuan took the merit book and looked at it, thinking that Su Huai would write his name on it, but he didn't expect to draw a circle, and the hand holding the merit book trembled unconsciously, this is something sent by the master!

"I don't know if the name of the donor can be told to the little monk, the little monk can pray for the donor in front of the Buddha", Fang Yuan looked at Su Huai and said seriously.

"Name, pray for blessing", Su Huai was a little stunned, this monk was tricked, don't you know.

"My name is Su Huai", thinking about it, he still told Fang Yuan his name.

"Amitabha Buddha thank you Su Shishi", Fang Yuan clasped his hands together, and then wrote Su Huai's name neatly on the merit book, and then carefully put away the copper coin and walked in the direction where Su Huai came.

Seeing the monk walking away, Su Huai couldn't help but shake his head, and walked in the direction of his house with the shepherd boy. The Su family is one of the three major families in the Yan Kingdom, and its head is Su Huai's eldest uncle, Su Zhong, and Su Huai's father, Su Yi, is the second in the family.

His grandfather Su Ziyang usually only pays attention to self-cultivation, and everything in the family is managed by Su Huai's uncle.

Not long after leaving Monk Fangyuan, he arrived in front of the gate of Sufu, only to see the red wall and green tiles, and the willows around him were windy, and he couldn't see the end from the gate to the inside.

Su Mansion is the residence of Su Huai's uncle and grandfather, and Su Huai and his parents live in the Zhenguo Mansion not far away, although the two families live separately but usually come and go, every festival Su Huai goes to Su Mansion with his parents to live for a few days, after all, Su Mansion is the root of the Su family.

Passing by Su Mansion far away, you can see the mansion of Zhenguo Gong, although it is not as grand as Su Mansion, but people know at a glance that it is either rich or expensive, and before they arrived at the door, they saw a slave running towards Su Huai, obviously he had been waiting in front of the door for a long time,

"Third son, you can be counted as back, Madame has been waiting in your garden for a long time", the slave said breathlessly as soon as he arrived in front of Su Huai.

"Madame said that you should go and see him as soon as you arrive, so as not to be discovered by the master." Before Su Huai could ask, the slave said again.

"Mother is really?" Su Huai shook his head helplessly after hearing this, and whispered.

"Okay, I know, you go down first, shepherd boy, you go too", after commanding the house slave, Su Huai walked straight into the Zhenguo Mansion and walked towards his residence, Su Huai's home is different from the gorgeous and strict Su Mansion, although it is the home of the military general, it exudes a scholarly atmosphere, and there is no armor and spear, some are just small bridges and flowing water, ancient trees and flowers.

Since the house slave had said not to let the master see it before, Su Huai deliberately detoured to the path, and it took a lot of time to walk to his residence after entering the door.

It is said to be a garden, but in fact, it means that some flowers and trees are planted in front of the bedroom door, and a few stone benches are placed for people to rest.

Walking around the corner of the house around the path, I saw a woman in front of the stone bench looking at me with a smile, as if she knew that Su Huai was about to appear from here.

"Mother, what are you looking for the child?" Although he knew that his mother was looking for him for the martial arts competition two days later, Su Huai still asked.

"Huai'er has two days left to make an appointment with Princess Yue, Su Mu looked at Su Huai and said slowly."

"Hmm", Su Huai nodded.

"Back then, in order to save the emperor, I took the life-killing sword of the dead soldier of the Snow Country, which caused the cold to enter the body, these cold qi was harmless to me, but I never expected it to hurt you in the belly," said this, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh, looked at Su Huai for a pause, and then continued

"And because of my rescue work, the emperor also determined that you were destined for the fetus in Concubine Li's womb at that time, so he agreed that if the fetus in Concubine Li's womb was a man and a girl, he would marry you. The result is also as the emperor's wish, the emperor often boasts of his unique vision for this matter, and it was expected that the two of you would have a fate, but it is a pity that soon after you were born, it was found that your natural meridians were weak and more than twice as thin as ordinary people, which determines that you are destined to have no chance with martial arts in this life, do you understand these Huai'er"?

After speaking, he looked at Su Huai, his eyes full of apologies.

"Don't worry, mother, I'll be fine", Su Huai nodded firmly.

"I just hope that you will be safe and sound in this life, and if you don't want to compete in two days, don't go."

"No, I have to go to the competition in two days." The voice was unusually loud and unmistakable.

"Father," Su Huaigong said. Obviously, Su Huai has more respect for his father, and dependence on his mother.

"The boy of my Su family is upright, and he must not run away without a fight", Su's father said.

"I said I can't go if I can't go", Su Mu's face also became ugly.

"The internal strength of the girl in that month is at least at the beginning of the Xuan level, how can I take it when Huai'er goes", Su Mu's tone became more and more unpolite.

Su Mu turned her head to look at Su Huai,

"Huai'er, you go back first, and leave the rest to your mother." Before Father Su could speak again, Mother Su preemptively said.

"Okay, mother, father and child will go back first." With that, he walked towards his room, and Su Huai understood that staying here would only make his parents quarrel more.

"Let's go to the study and talk", seeing Su Huai leave Su Mu, he said that he walked to the study one after the other.

After Su Huai returned to his room, his mood was obviously much lower, and he found a Taishi chair to lie down and recalled the conversation between his parents just now.

Xuan level!" Su Huai muttered. On this continent, the level of martial artists can be divided into four levels: Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang, and each level is divided into three stages: early, middle, and high.

Each stage is a barrier. Martial artists can improve their internal strength cultivation by spitting out the vitality of heaven and earth, yellow-level martial artists can integrate internal force into their limbs and hundreds of remains, improve their strength, speed and ability to resist blows, and Xuan-level martial artists can further strengthen their perception ability through the improvement of internal force, that is, eyes, ears, mouth and nose.

And the martial artists who have reached the ground level are also called earth immortals, because the martial artists of this level will get an enviable benefit, that is, longevity, and the life span will increase as the cultivation increases.

The heavenly level is also a height that is difficult for people to climb, in the eyes of the people, it is as pure as a god, the Tianji martial artist can forcibly use the heaven and earth vitality, the most direct proof is to be able to fly in the sky, if the flying in the sky is the proof of the Tianji martial artist, then the divine power makes the Tianji martial artist more unfathomable.

The so-called supernatural powers,Originally, it was a means of preserving the lives of high-level demon beasts,A very small number of demon beasts are born with spiritual intelligence,And some of these very few demon beasts with spiritual intelligence can communicate with the heaven and earth energy at birth,Being able to communicate and use the heaven and earth energy means that you can use the divine power,Generally speaking, the innate divine power of demon beasts is an extremely powerful attack skill。

And after hundreds of years, with the continuous battle between human warriors and demon beasts, the warriors continue to learn and study from the demon beasts, so that human beings also have their own magical powers, but most of the human supernatural powers exist in the Tianji martial arts, but there will be no more than twenty Tianji martial artists in the whole continent, and those who can use the supernatural powers below the Tianji are even rarer.

The cultivation of a martial artist is extremely difficult at every level, and like Princess Yue, who is at the beginning of the Xuan level at the age of eighteen, she can already be regarded as a genius only from the perspective of cultivation.

But the strength of a martial artist is not only determined by cultivation, advanced cultivation is indeed powerful, if you learn a powerful martial art, you can also make up for the lack of cultivation.

Therefore, if they are at different stages of the same level, their strength and weakness cannot be distinguished just by looking at their cultivation. Having said that, like Su Huai, who only has a cultivation in the early stage of the yellow level, no matter what kind of martial arts he is, he can't make up for the huge gap in cultivation.

The day after tomorrow is the period of martial arts, whether you go or don't go, you will be humiliated.

"Childe, don't be too sad, master, he has always cared about you", Su Huaizheng was thinking about it when he didn't know when the shepherd boy had already walked in.

"I know that my father asked for the Taiyi Heart Sutra for me just for a glimmer of hope, and I don't know what my father took to exchange this Xuantian Sect's treasure cheats. ”

"That's it, the master has never given up on the son. The shepherd boy followed. Even if everyone gives up, I won't give up on myself, Su Huai thought silently in his heart, and his fists didn't feel clenched.

Almost everyone in the entire Chaoyang City knew that the second master of the Su family had worked hard for the third son of Su, and as long as he heard the news that was helpful to Su Huai's meridians, he would try his best to let Su Huai give it a try.

But after more than ten years, Su Huai still has no progress, and the world only says that Su Huai's rotten wood cannot be carved, and he has failed his father's good intentions.

But in fact, outsiders don't know that Su Huai has worked the hardest in the past ten years. Although Su Huai also knew that his body was not suitable for martial arts, he could not become an excellent martial artist, even if he had a strong backing, he could only ensure that he had no worries about food and clothing, so Su Huai had never given up on himself for more than ten years.

Whether it is the breathing of heaven and earth vitality or the cultivation of martial arts, it has never stopped. It's just that due to physical reasons, Su Huai's absorption of the vitality of heaven and earth is minimal, let alone the use of the internal force of the vitality to enhance the body, most of the time Su Huai has been focused on the penetration of martial arts, and others have been practicing qi and forging their bodies for more than ten years, while Su Huai is enlightened and cultivated.

"Although I have understood the sword finger of Tianluo now, how much can I play? Even if I can't avoid it, my father said yes, how can I run away without a fight?"

"By the way, shepherd boy, did you come to me for something?" Su Huai turned his head to look at the shepherd boy and asked, as if he had just remembered the shepherd boy.

"The lord and the lady are still in the study, son, do you want to bring your dinner first?" asked the shepherd boy.

"Are you still in the study," Su Huai said silently,

"No need, you can go down and rest too, I want to rest early. When he spoke, he felt that Su Huai was a little depressed again.

"Well, the shepherd boy went down first. After speaking, he looked at Su Huai, turned around and walked out of the house.

"I've seen the eldest son", the shepherd boy just went out and met the eldest prince who came on, that is, Su Huai's eldest brother Su Hua.

"It's a shepherd boy, how about the third brother, forget it, I'll go in and take care of it myself." Before the shepherd boy could answer, Su Hua walked in on his own.

The shepherd boy saw the eldest prince walk in, touched his head, and walked out down the corridor.

"It's big brother," Obviously, Su Huai heard the conversation between Su Hua and the shepherd boy, and sat up from the Taishi chair early.

"Just now I passed by the study and heard my mother and father arguing, I was careful that you had something to do, so I came over to take a look. As soon as Su Hua entered the door, he straightforwardly explained his intentions, and he didn't sit down, but kept looking at Su Huai with his eyes.

"Don't worry, big brother, I'm fine, it's just a competition. After speaking, Su Huai looked at Su Hua intently, and subconsciously straightened his waist.

Seeing Su Huai's stubborn appearance, Su Hua couldn't help but sigh secretly,

"I know your thoughts, but I don't want you to compete like my mother, these days when I entered the palace, I saw Princess Guoyue practicing martial arts in the imperial garden, to be honest, his martial arts skills are really average, but in terms of her strength in the early stage of the Xuan level, you can't handle it. ”

"I also know this," when Su Huai said this, he looked helpless and revealed a trace of firmness,

"Just".

"Okay, you don't have to say it," before Su Huai could finish speaking, Su Hua said again

"You can stay at home in peace, and we'll take care of it, and I'll go and see what Uncle means, and it would be much easier if he came forward with his father. After speaking, Su Huai strode out of the house.

"It seems that not only is there a lot of rumors in the city, but even the family is not at peace," Su Huai shook his head and sighed as he watched Su Hua walk out of the house.

After sending Su Hua away, Su Huai only felt physically and mentally tired, and fell on the bed before he knew it, and it was the early morning of the second day