In the depths of the Secret Valley, surrounded by mountains, vegetation flourishes, and the sand and gravel shallows, and the thin water is soaked in deep green, and the roots of the old trees are murmuring.

The plank road around the root of the mountain has been unwalked for many years, and it has long been covered with moss, and the tall straight piles have even become a resting place for birds.

Pacing along the plank road, which has been almost unwalked for eternity, leaving behind the staggered vegetation and streams, what is revealed in front of you is a circular lake as smooth as a mirror.

Hidden behind the grass and rocks, the lake stretches its body like a teardrop on the empty valley floor.

There is a hut by the lake, with thatched roofs and wood walls. A few kinds of fruits, rice, and vegetables are planted in the field behind the house, and the path in front of the door is paved with gravel and leads to the mirror-like lake.

After many years, stepping on this road again, Dongfang Lianmo only felt as if he was in a different world. Until I walked around the plank road and stopped in front of the wooden house, I still hadn't come back to my senses.

"Knock, knock, knock" Suddenly there was the sound of wooden sticks hitting the cloth, dull and neat. Dongfang Lian Mo was stunned for a moment, turned to the back of the wooden house, and saw the back of the raccoon squatting by the stream through the melon field and rattan hedge.

It was evidently a woman, dressed in a coarse cloth robe, with her hair haphazardly tied with a wooden hairpin, and her back stiffened.

Huansha Creek. Dongfang Lian Mo looked at the back in a daze, and was distracted for a long time. He didn't make a sound until the woman had washed her clothes, wrung them out and put them in the basin, and got up to leave.

The woman looked back and saw him, obviously startled, and her eyes widened in surprise. Dongfang Lian Mo knew that he was out of shape, and hurriedly lowered his head.

He is obviously a white-haired old man, but his expression is like a teenager at this time. The woman turned her face away, reached out and stroked her sideburns behind her ear, and pressed them lightly.

"It's okay to stand, let's go inside. She whispered.

"The flower path has not been swept, and there is no tea that can be said, and I hope that the alliance leader Haihan. A cup of freshly boiled water was taken from a bamboo cup and placed in front of Dongfang Lianmo.

He said softly that it was okay, and took the hand warmer without disgust. I caught a glimpse of the thick calluses and folds on the woman's hands due to her perennial work, and lowered her eyebrows.

"Why did the Alliance Leader remember to come here today?" the woman asked. Even in front of Dongfang Lianmo, who has a white beard, she is not young.

His gray hair and sallow face were full of scars and folds left by the ruthless years.

Although her eyes are beautiful, they are of no other use than to tell her the appearance of the leaning side when she was young. Dongfang Lianmo said calmly: "This is the last time. Come here again to see you, and see where I grew up. "The empty valley is a quiet lake, and the orchid blooms silently at the foot of the mountain.

A fleeting warmth flashed in the woman's eyes, and then she looked out the window disapprerovingly and said, "Her tomb has been very good all these years. I cut down the tree that drew the lightning, and the lightning struck it, and it never happened again. ”

"Thank you. Dongfang Lian Mo lowered his eyebrows and gently blew the water in the cup.

"What's there to thank for this, I should thank the alliance leader for giving me a home. The woman said.

Dongfang Lian Mo was silent. For a long time, as if he was nostalgic for the old things, he suddenly said: "At the beginning, when the apprentice entered her door, I just wanted a place to eat. It is a great blessing to me to live. The woman meekly stared at the table.

At that time, there were two legends on the rivers and lakes. The first is to make friends with the world's heroes who do not hesitate to pour their wealth into the Jiangnan Silk Village, Xie Xiaoye, Xie Hui. The second is Luo Jianqi, who is alone, walking the rivers and lakes with a sword on his back, and has encountered more than 1,000 battles without defeat in his life.

But she told me not to take these two people seriously. Practicing her kung fu, I will be famous in less than ten years, and at that time, my goal will no longer be these two fleeting characters like meteors breaking through the night, but the unshakable number one in the world.

She was right. In less than ten years after that, Luo Jianqi died in battle, and the entire Jianghu almost forgot about his existence and Xie Hui privately cast soldiers to fight against Liao, and after the defeat of the Great Song Dynasty, it also disappeared. Relying on the secret methods and treasures left by the Xia Kingdom, the Greedy Demon Hall wreaked havoc in the Central Plains, and in the end, it was I who drove them out of the Central Plains Martial Arts from the desert Gobi. It's a pity that she is not there at this time. The woman said lightly: "It sounds like she is very much like an old friend of mine." ”

"It's all about the last people, and it's fun to look like your friends. Dongfang Lian Mo took a sip of water and said with concern,

"The climate here is very different from Mobei, and it's a person, are you still used to living there?"

"I'm used to it, I've been like this for most of my life, and it doesn't matter. The woman replied with a smile.

"Before, wasn't there at least those two children" Dongfang even stopped indifferently.

"They're both pretty good now, right? I don't know if they're still thinking about me. The woman smiled.

Dongfang Lian Mo breathed a sigh of relief, and took over with a wry smile: "Yes, I often hear news from them." ”

"Is it in your way? after all, it's a descendant of Roselle Sword."

"I can't say anything about it. Zhao Wu'an didn't know why he had a great friendship with the prince of Miao Jiang, and the plan was slightly affected, but it didn't cause a disaster. The woman was stunned for a moment, and then muttered: "Yes, it's time to call him Zhao Wu'an" Dongfang Lian Mo smiled: "Only Hu Buxi was named by you?" The woman nodded and did not make a sound.

Outside the house, Zigui chirped. Dongfang Lianmo craned his neck, drank the remaining water in the cup in one gulp, and then gently wiped the corners of his mouth with his sleeve.

"Time is running out, take me to see her. "The way up the mountain was easier than expected. The woman should have come from time to time to prune the weeds and branches, and the loose stones were also broken down the mountain by her, and it had just snowed not long ago, but the vegetation was already flourishing here, and there was a faint appearance of spring.

In the distance, Dongfang Lianmo saw the stone-carved tombstone, and there seemed to be a mulberry branch left by the woman when she came last time.

The stele is four feet high, backed by a mound of earth, and then conveniently surrounded by mountains.

"Have you been here for half a month?" Dongfang Lian Mo looked at the mulberry branch that had not yet rotted.

"I came every half a month, thinking about what I could do to help my seniors, so that she could sleep more peacefully. The woman said gently,

"It's not interesting for me to live alone by the lake"

"Well, thank you. Dongfang Lianmo said softly. After speaking, he looked at the silent tombstone, and his eyes showed a look of serenity.

The tornado of ten miles in the desert Gobi, the position of the leader of the martial arts alliance for forty years, the ups and downs of the entire rivers and lakes are carried by him.

This is where it all began. The savage girl who always shouted that she wanted to call all the famous and decent heads of the world, and she would shave her ears one by one.

The cheap master who was chewing chicken legs and pillowing the Buddha statue on his pillow, and reprimanded him with a head in a down-to-earth manner.

The mysterious girl who had lived with him in the secluded valley for fifteen years, but had never said anything about her past.

She and him shouldn't have met in such a way. If she could choose to be born, Dongfang Lian Mo might have completely abandoned her original name and gathered with her under the same roof earlier.

"You used to admire her, didn't you?" Suddenly, the woman behind her asked such a laughable question.

Dongfang Lian Mo couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Not only in the past, but also now." If he hadn't met her, a genius boy named Dongfang Lianmo might have encountered a completely different life.

He may be famous in the same way, but he will not make this valley his secret, and he will never be desperate to become the master of this martial arts in order to fulfill the last wishes of his loved ones.

She never said anything about her past, but he had gone to investigate, knew and understood everything about her.

"Her father was a leaf maker who was killed by Western Xia spies. Her mother was the sister of the Great Song Dynasty, who had been living in the palace until she was nineteen years old, practicing the world's martial arts, and vowing to avenge her father. When she was nineteen years old, she worshipped a cheap master like me, and after only ten days of getting along, the master drove the crane west, but she completely had an epiphany about the martial arts of the rivers and lakes that she had seen for more than ten years, and the secret mind method taught by the master, overnight, she became the youngest master of the creation realm on the rivers and lakes. Hearing this, the woman behind Dongfang Lian Mo was suddenly startled.

But when she embarked on the road of revenge, she was stopped by her mother's life. ”

"The Great Song Dynasty and the leaves are rivals who regard each other as mortal enemies, and the temples are full of open and secret battles, not to mention the two rivers and lakes. She should have been the first genius in the ages, but she shouldn't have been born in the royal family, she shouldn't have been born after the leaves and the Song people, and she shouldn't have been a daughter. Dongfang Lian Mo smiled: "The human world is so impermanent. If she changes to any family and any kind of identity, it is impossible for her to hide her strength and spend her life like this. Do you say yes, Ran Niang?" Liao Xiaoran trembled: "But why, it is clear that she has become such a master"

"Or did you die so early?" asked Dongfang Lian Mo. Liao Xiaoran bit her lip tightly.

With her identity, once she appears in front of the world, she is destined to set off countless bloody storms and cruel battles. Dongfang Lianmo said slowly,

And since the wish of his life has been unfulfilled, the last wish, of course, will not stop here. "A genius who is not born in the world, but he has fallen in an unknown place.

She exchanged this river and lake for a teenager who was painful, but knew better than her what to do in the future.

"Now I'm also in the realm of creation. The future she wants to see, I will personally send it to her. Dongfang Lian Mo raised his hand, and his fingertips condensed.

"Isn't forty years of martial arts alliance leader enough?" asked Liao Xiaoran. Dongfang Lian sneered.

"What are you talking about, of course it's not enough. ”

"What she wants is for all the worlds to be one, the world to be peaceful, and there is no more pain and hatred. I'm going to do it all for her, no matter what I end up being. "The desire to get from others, the dreams and obsessions born from admiration for others.

"I want to be destiny. ”b。 ：4