Fourteen years ago. West Liangcangzhou. Ziyang Road.

Twenty miles ahead, it is the pass between the leaves and the Great Song Dynasty.

This place is full of yellow sand all year round, poor mountains and bad waters, and the passers are also full of wind and dust, try not to stay.

The official road is overgrown with weeds, and the roadside is even more desolate.

Of course, the food served in the restaurant is not very good, and the meat is only served a few times a year, and the vegetables are so bitter that it is hard to swallow, and the rice is mixed with mud and sand that cannot be washed away no matter what.

But for the children who live here, being able to sneak into such a shop, even if it is only half of a steamed bun stained with sand and gravel, is considered a supreme delicacy.

It is unimaginable that the Great Song Dynasty has been founded for nearly 50 years, and there will be such a place. Hugh said that the grandeur and glory of the imperial capital, even if it is close to a hundred miles away, the richness of Shu is not the slightest light here.

It was the same desolate desert he was familiar with, no different from twenty years ago. If you want to eat here, steel knives are better than copper plates.

Despite this, the knife-wielding man walked into the shop and exchanged the copper coins for a meal that tasted like chewing wax.

He ate quickly, but stopped when he noticed a child lying on the edge of the table.

The child looked to be only four or five years old, kneeling on a chair to climb the table, and was drooling at the steamed bun in his hand.

The knife-wielding man broke off half of the steamed bun in his hand and threw it across half of the table.

As soon as the child took it, he devoured it. A man and a woman at the next table saw this and left the shop with a smile.

Of course, the knife-wielding knew what they were laughing at.

Once you give alms to one of the children, all the children will surround you, like a hungry wolf seeing a dying deer in the wilderness.

The knife wielder ignored the children, and his kindness was of course limited.

After eating, the knife-wielding man left the shop as if no one was around. Under the release of the qi engine, naturally no one could get close to him.

Rao was so, and there was still a figure that staggered out from the back of the shop, and followed him far away.

The knife wielder didn't want to turn back, and if he wanted to speed up his pace, it would be very easy to get rid of the child.

Besides, when he came to Ziyang Dao, his goal was not to follow this path to make leaves like most people.

The knife-wielding man soon strayed off the main road, and there was no road any further, only an endless stream of wind and sand, and a sand mountain that seemed to change no matter how far he went.

That kid shouldn't be chasing after him again. The knife-wielder thought so, and turned around, only to find that the thin figure was still following behind, staggering.

He sighed. Letting such a weak child into the desert is undoubtedly killing him with his own hands. He had just given him a steamed bun, and he didn't want to waste food like this.

The knife-wielding man flew to the child's side, intending to pick him up and throw him back to the official road, but was surprised to find that the child was not chasing him empty-handed.

The reason why the steps are heavy is because the child is dragging an extremely heavy water bag in his hand.

"When you go into the desert, you have to drink water. ”

Seeing him turn back, the child's clear eyes showed a look of serenity, and he laboriously lifted the water bag and lifted it in front of him.

Only then did he realize that it was a girl.

The girl ate and said: "In the desert, water, water is hard to find. Here's the water, give, give it. Change, and steamed buns. ”

The knife-wielder froze.

It's not like a wild dog that is fed, stupidly following the person who feeds it.

It's about repaying the favor.

For the kindness of half a steamed bun, she chose to exchange it for a big bag of water that she couldn't move.

The knife-wielding looked at her reddened hands in pain and asked, "Where did you get the water?"

The girl blinked and whispered, "Stole." ”

The knife-wielder said in a deep voice, "Go back." ”

The girl pursed her lips and said nothing.

The knife-wielder said helplessly: "If you don't want to go back, you can only go deeper." Follow me, understand?"

"Where are you going?" the girl asked.

"Walk through this desert to an ancient country that has been lost. I was there, some enemies. ”

"Are you going to kill someone?"

"Sort of. The knife-wielder muttered for a moment, "But I won't teach you." That's not a good thing. ”

The girl doesn't seem to understand.

The knife-wielder sighed again, stood up, and looked up at the endless desert.

"Accompany me on this journey, even if it's the exchange of half a steamed bun. Then you have to take a bag of water yourself and send it back to them. ”

The girl thought for a moment and nodded vigorously: "Okay!"

"What's your name?"

"Yue'er. ”

"Don't you have a surname?"

"It's called Yue'er. ”

"The moon is too short, your name is Yue Shu. Forget it, it's okay to call Yue Zhishu. Remembered. ”

......

Of course, in the end, the knife-wielding man did not let Yue Zhishu leave.

He fell for the tricks of the Tangut people, not only did he pounce on the air, but instead of finding their capital in the yellow sand, he was generalized and fell into the quicksand tomb group that was difficult to escape even if it was a first-class realm.

If it weren't for Yue Zhishu's strong sense of direction since he was a child, and he found a way to escape in the shortest possible time, he was afraid that if he was as strong as a knife-wielding soldier, he would also be trapped and killed in the ancient tomb by those Tangut people.

Since then, the sword-wielding has lost all clues that they can trace the Tanguts. On the contrary, there is a rumor circulating on the rivers and lakes that the martial arts alliance leader of Tangjiabao seems to have some inexplicable relationship with the remnants of Western Xia in the desert.

This is naturally a misunderstanding. But there are enough misunderstandings that the Jianghu people have put on him, and he really doesn't bother to clarify them one by one.

He left Tangjiabao alone in December, and when he returned in April, he brought back a girl.

Fourteen years have passed in a flash. He has no queen in his life, and sometimes he feels that Yue Zhishu looks very much like Zhao Xilian.

If she can give birth to a daughter for him, I'm afraid that by now, she should be as old as Yue Zhishu.

Dongfang Lianmo often thinks like this.

And now, fourteen years later, in front of his lifelong enemy, the only sustenance for many years has been completely shattered.

Dongfang Lian Mo would never have thought that Yue Zhishu, who had accompanied him for fourteen years, would be a spy sent by Xie Hui from the beginning.

Seeing that Dongfang Lian Mo was still full of shock, even Xie Hui shook his head helplessly.

He opened his lips lightly and said in an almost inaudible voice: "Speaking of this, even the old man has to thank you. If you hadn't personally entered the desert and risked your life, and you wanted to annihilate the group of Tanguts with your own strength, the old man would not have been able to gain their trust so easily, and thus established a firm foothold outside the two dynasties. ”

He was sure that with Dongfang Lianmo's skills, he could hear what he was saying, but everyone in the audience must not know why.

And such a shocking secret is exactly what anyone except Dongfang Lianmo will not believe even if they know it.

Dongfang Lianmo, who has been suspected of being closely related to the Xia State for many years, is actually the one who took the lead in trying to exterminate the remnants of the Western Xia Party. Even if Zhao Wu'an is as clear as Zhao Wu'an, when he learns such news, he is afraid that he will be suspicious.

Yue Zhishu smiled lightly: "The helmsman is right, my father-in-law is indeed brave and brave. Until now, he is unwilling to accept the fact that he has failed. ”

Every word she said was like a silver needle piercing her heart, a pain she had never experienced.

Dongfang Lian Mo clenched his fists tightly, his expression became unprecedentedly hideous, and he stared at Xie Hui as if he wanted to tear him to pieces with his eyes.

"I haven't been defeated yet...... This seat is Dongfang Lianmo, and it is the leader of the Martial Arts Alliance! Xie Hui, if you want to make this seat admit defeat based on these alone, it is absolutely impossible!"

Xie Hui was silent for a moment, "Really?"

"Don't forget that this seat is the best in the world, and it is a martial artist who proves the Tao with strength! It is true that this game of 20 years has been lost by this seat. But don't even try to win. ”

Dongfang Lianmo's voice was cold and low, like a wolf in the underworld.

There would never be a person who thought that the servants behind Xie Hui who were as dense as black clouds would be idle people, and Dongfang Lianmo certainly understood that those people were quite tricky.

But no matter what, he is still the number one in the world, the pinnacle of the real Creation Realm, and he is only one step away from the Heavenly Destiny Realm.

is only one step away from Zhao Xilian's realm back then, and his unfulfilled long-cherished wishes are all one step away.

Since there is only one last wish left in this life, even if he loses the position of the leader of the martial arts alliance, it is nothing to the lone wolf.

A homeless lone wolf doesn't need warmth. It's enough to just fight.

It's not enough to just kill and unravel. He wants to completely tear apart the black cloud behind him, he wants to watch their flesh and blood fly in Jinguan City, he wants to tear open Xie Hui's chest with his own hands, and tear out that twilight heart fiercely and destroy it completely!

The unprecedented momentum rose from the body of this martial arts alliance master, and the entire Jinguan City thundered.

Dongfang Lianmo's eyes seemed to be thunderous.

“...... Xie Hui, just accept your life. ”

Dongfang Lian Mo flew out.

That's the look that only people who have lost everything.

Xie Hui sighed quietly.

"Do you really think that you are still the best in the world?"

The black-robed man suddenly rushed forward, blocking between Xie Hui and Dongfang Lianmo, his thin five fingers opened, and Dongfang Lianmo faced each other head-on.

The energy suddenly stirred out, and it rang through the hall like a thunderbolt, and the two tables and chairs near the broken high platform flew up and flew up, shattering in the air and splashing wood.

The melodious sound of the piano sounded, like a clear spring flowing in the mountains.

Dongfang Lianmo found out that at some point, Yue Zhishu began to play the qin.

She would use the sound of the piano to control those ghouls, and although there were others who could do this, Yue Zhishu was indeed the best at it.

After all, under the teaching of Dongfang Lianmo over the years, Yue Zhishu is proficient in music and rhythm, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and he also knows everything.

But this time, the sound of the piano was not played to control the ghouls. Compared to controlling those ghouls, what Yue Zhishu is controlling now is a more terrifying master.

Dongfang Lian's eyes widened in surprise: "How could it be ......?"

"In the past fourteen years, why do you think you have never been able to reach the Heavenly Mandate Realm?"

Xie Hui looked at Dongfang Lian Mo who was close at hand with a natural expression.

"After all, after fourteen years of getting along day and night, it is too easy for Yue Zhishu to destroy you. ”