Time flies, nine years have passed, Xue Yan has been slim under the care of everyone, and Shi Yu has grown into a young man.

Although the quiet and peaceful days made them slowly dilute their hatred and gradually integrate into ordinary life, Chen Chen still didn't seem to be able to completely let go of the past, and Xueyan's dumb illness also became a heart disease in his heart.

In order to heal Xueyan, he visited Song Ren's home again and again, begging him to cure Xueyan.

The Song family is respected in the village for their medical skills, and the benevolent doctor is the good name of Mr. Song Lin, who has the highest medical skills, is over sixty years old, and is generous, and has won the trust of the villagers. Chen Chen asked him to help treat Xueyan, and he also happily went, seeing a doctor and saving people is one of his great hobbies.

It's just that this disease is extremely peculiar, it seems simple, but in fact there is no cure, after taking a few pairs of bitter medicines, there is no effect, and it is treated with acupuncture, but there is still no reaction, so angry that Song Ren doctor is exclaiming: Strange and wonderful.

He was moved by Chen Chen's sincerity and promised to try again, but it didn't necessarily work, and he used a few pairs of home remedies, but it still didn't work, so he had to declare a permanent failure.

In order to help Xueyan collect rare medicines, Chen Chen went to the depths of the forest many times to find medicine. For the people of Drinking Spring Village, the forest they are in is so big, and Drinking Spring Village is only on the periphery of the forest, because to the west of the forest, although there are many rare medicinal materials, there are many dangers inside, there are many strange birds and beasts living there, the deeper you go, the more ferocious the beasts you encounter, and the higher the degree of danger.

For the depths of the forest. In the past 600 years, it is not that no one has explored the depths, but the forest is too dangerous, and there are many unheard of beasts living in it, so the location of Yinquan Village is a relatively safe place for human beings in this forest today.

When Chen Chen decided to go deeper into the forest alone, it was tantamount to gambling with his own life. However, it is not the first time for him to block this life.

Every time he returned, he was bleeding and injured, although in the end it turned out that these medicines could not cure Xueyan, but for him, after trying, he knew that he had no regrets.

In Shi Yu's eyes, Uncle Chen is a mysterious and powerful person. His martial arts are unfathomable, he is proficient in all eighteen weapons, and he is the best at swordsmanship and knife skills, which deeply impressed Shi Yu.

When he was ten years old, Shi Yu was also determined to learn from Uncle Chen, and Uncle Chen was also willing to teach him, but he was only asked to choose one to learn, to specialize in one first, and then to learn others after he had learned something, so he chose to learn swordsmanship without hesitation.

Uncle Chen said: Okay, then from now on, you will be my apprentice, I will be your master, and I will teach you to practice the Fa, read and write.

Shi Yu happily immediately knelt down and kowtowed.

But Shi Yu is used to it, usually call him Uncle Chen, since Chen Chen was rescued by the villagers, he has become the last person in the village to move in, and the two families have become close neighbors, as the saying goes, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, and the Shi family is still Chen Chen's life-saving benefactor, so he kisses and kisses, Shi Yu often comes to learn swords, and the time he spends with Uncle Chen Xueyan is no less than the time at home.

In the past so long together, Uncle Chen has never been angry with him, whether it is towards Xue Yan or others, Shi Yu has never seen anger on his face, and even the tone of his speech is always with humility.

Shi Yu first felt weird, and then felt admiration, perhaps, this is the demeanor that only people who have experienced life and death will have.

The mystery of Uncle Chen is that he always likes to look up at the sunset alone, with a melancholy expression. Occasionally, Shi Yu walked behind him, but he didn't react.

Moreover, he likes to look thoughtfully outside the house where it is raining, and his expression is equally focused, making people wonder what is going on in his heart.

Since he was a child, Shi Yu discovered Uncle Chen's special hobby, once, when he saw Uncle Chen's focused expression, he suddenly thought of the frog listening to the rain on the lotus leaves in the pond, the young Shi Yu couldn't help laughing, but he was afraid that Uncle Chen would hear it, so he ran away with a smile.

The rain outside is still falling, Shi Yu and Xue Yan are no longer frolicking, the two are holding wooden swords, you come and go, compared to the sword. This is one of their daily training methods, to enhance their combat effectiveness through actual combat training.

Xue Yan's sword shot extremely fast, and she could always catch the gap in Shi Yu's defense in an instant, and Shi Yu had to be forced to forcibly speed up the defense, completely contained, at this time, as long as she was slightly distracted, she would leave a bigger flaw that could not be repaired. Several times, Xue Yan's sword swept to the placket of Shi Yu's clothes, but fortunately, this was a wooden sword and did not cut the clothes.

Of course, this is not all of Shi Yu's strength, Shi Yu knows that if his strength is full, he should be stronger than Xue Yan.

In terms of hand skills, Shi Yu is not as fast as Xue Yan, but if he superimposes the sword technique with Shi Yu's light skill, he is confident that he can dexterously avoid Xue Yan's fast sword and look for opportunities to win with one blow.

Of course, this is just his tactical conjecture, he will not do this to Xue Yan, not to mention, not to use light skills is a rule that Uncle Chen made for him, only in this way can the swordsmanship be exercised to the greatest extent.

For this reason, Shi Yu even deliberately tried not to move his pace, of course, under the attack of Xueyan's storm, it was impossible not to move at all.

The offense and defense of the two sides gradually became anxious, and Shi Yu's passive defense gradually became slower, at this time, as long as Xue Yan grasped the opportunity and made a big move, the battle could be ended, but the naughty little Xue Yan seemed to have enough strength, and she didn't plan to take Shi Yu down there.

She was like a naughty kitten playing with her prey, making Shi Yu feel what it means to be defenseless, using the wooden sword in her hand, she first attacked Shi Yu's head, and the next move could attack Shi Yu's feet, deliberately lengthening Shi Yu's defense.

Poor Shi Yu, under Xue Yan's intensive attack, jumped up and down like a dance, unable to look at each other, sweat beads gradually appeared on his forehead, and although Xue Yan also had warm cheeks, she smiled proudly.

"Xiaoyu, Xueyan, take a break. Hearing this voice, Shi Yu knew that it was Uncle Chen who was coming, and he took the opportunity to look behind him while fighting.

Uncle Chen stood there with a tea set in his hand, "You've been practicing for so long, come and drink some tea."

"Okay!" Shi Yuge blocked a sword from Xueyan's right, and responded as he retreated.

Xue Yan saw Shi Yu retreating, didn't think much about it, an arrow step, the wooden sword was in her hand, her body leaned forward, and she followed closely, the speed was fast, Shi Yu wanted to get out of the battle, and her thoughts were already a little lax, when she looked up, she saw the familiar immature and serious little face, and quickly approached her, and then came over, as well as the tip of the sword that was stabbed from the front, she was slightly stunned, and thought: It's not good......

Hurriedly raised the wooden sword in his hand to hit the stabbing sword, but it can be clearly seen that the timing is a lot slower, and the force of swinging out is also a little too strong, this is a reaction of Shi Yu's instinct, if this sword is stabbed, with the help of the strength of the forward rush, this power will definitely not be small.

At this time, the rain sword had already swung out, but it did not encounter any resistance, and it hit the void. It turned out that Xue Yan had discovered the flaw, she saw Shi Yu's sword swinging, she did not hit it hard, but returned her hand to put the sword away, Shi Yu's sword swung out forcefully into the air, and her hand was thrown to the side, and it took a short time to collect the strength in her hand at this time.

On Xue Yan's side, with the help of the power of the forward rush, she had rushed to Shi Yu, and then quickly turned around with a beautiful turn, and went around Shi Yu's back, all of this happened in an instant, with smooth movements and one go.

Shi Yu exerted too much force, and he was feeling that it was difficult to retract his strength, and a wooden sword was already on his shoulder, and there was warmth on his back.

Xue Yan held the sword in her backhand, her delicate body trembled slightly, and she was panting and leaning on Shi Yu's back, and finally she ended the trial with one move.

Shi Yu spread his hands lightly, making a helpless expression, and as soon as his hand was loosened, the wooden sword naturally slipped down, indicating that he had completely lost, and he had been with Xueyan for a long time, and Shi Yu seemed to have become a drama spirit.

Xueyan put away the wooden sword, showed her trademark smile, and patted Shi Yu's shoulder mischievously, saying: Young man, you still need to practice. If I could have spoken at this point, I would have heard her laughing sarcastically.

"Haha, this Nizi ......" Shi Yu secretly laughed in his heart, thinking it was both funny and funny.

Putting away the wooden sword, the two walked towards Uncle Chen.

Two cups of tea were handed over, Shi Yu immediately drank it all, the tea is a good tea, but Shi Yu will not taste tea, one cup is poured in, not enough to quench his thirst, and he poured another cup.

"Has the rain stopped outside, Uncle Chen?" I haven't heard thunder for a long time, and I don't know if the rain has stopped outside, so out of curiosity, Shi Yu asked casually.

"The rain of June, as far as it is said to be a walk, is still a storm one moment, blowing darkly, like a ghost crying and howling, and the next moment it suddenly stops, and the wind is light and the rain is stopped, as if the heavens are playing around. However, it rained and refreshed a lot. ”

"Maybe it's the rainy fairy grandpa passing by here. Xueyan expressed her thoughts in sign language.

"Well, what Xue Yan said makes a lot of sense, and it really might be the case when I think about it. Chen Chen nodded approvingly

"Uncle Chen, are there really immortals in the world? If there are, then why don't they show up?" Since he was a child, Shi Yu's grandmother likes to tell him some myths and legends...... He has memorized all the stories, but as he grows up, he begins to wonder if there are really immortals in this world.

"Immortals, this is originally a belief or a non-believe, Uncle Chen has never seen a fairy, but since you ask this question, Uncle Chen can tell you a story, maybe he can answer your question. ”

"Well, I like to listen to stories. Shi Yu brought a stool for Chen Chen to sit down, and he sat on the ground himself, which was clean. Xueyan came over and sat next to Shi Yu, also ready to listen to the story.

"The story I'm going to tell has something to do with Xueyan. ”

"What is the connection between Xue Yan and the immortals?" Shi Yu looked puzzled, Xue Yan was also stunned, and her curiosity swelled.

"Listen to me slowly. Chen Chen said unhurriedly,

"In other words, this story happened more than 500 years ago, in a place called Yuezhaoguo. ”

"Yuezhaoguo?" Shi Yu shouted.

"Do you know this place?" asked Chen Chen with some surprise.

"Is it about Xue Yan's life experience in the Moon Zhao Kingdom?" Shi Yu asked rhetorically.

Of course, Shi Yu knew about Yuezhaoguo, and he also knew what this place meant to Uncle Chen's Xueyan, it represented the land of sorrow, so even if Shi Yu knew, he never mentioned it, but he didn't expect Uncle Chen to take the initiative to mention it this time. It seems that the damage caused to them by the past has slowly faded enough to face it calmly.

"Exactly. Chen Chen replied, "That's Xueyan and my hometown, and what I want to tell is the story of Xueyan's ancestor, the first empress of Yuezhao Kingdom." ”

Xueyan blinked and listened silently.

Chen Chen continued: "Before Xueyan's ancestors founded the country, there were many tribes living in the land of Yuezhao Kingdom, these tribes were big and small, and their relationship was sometimes good and bad, when it was good, the tribes married each other and united into a larger tribe, and when it was bad, two tribes fought with each other, or two or three tribes united together and fought with other tribes. In this way, in order to defeat the opponent, the tribes continued to mingle, and gradually evolved into thirteen small states, but the war never ended, but the scale became larger and larger, and more and more people died. ”

"Why do they have to fight?" Shi Yu had not finished listening, and many questions had already arisen.

"There are many reasons for this, at first, maybe it was just to fight for land, and later, I can't tell, sometimes it's to fight for more land, and sometimes it's just to vent anger and revenge on the enemy. ”

"I still don't understand. Shi Yu spread his hands.

"If you don't understand, you don't understand, there's no need to delve into it, you have lived in this simple and kind village since you were a child, and you can't feel how complicated people's hearts are in the outside world. But that's not the point, let me tell the story first. ”

Shi Yu nodded, and Chen Chen also continued: "Once a war starts, the people will be killed, injured, and displaced, in the final analysis, it is the people who suffer. Therefore, such troubled times must be ended, however, there seems to be a delicate balance between these thirteen countries, although there are wars every year, no one country has the ability to defeat other countries and unify the remaining twelve countries, forming a situation of great unification. Until the appearance of Xueyan's ancestors. Xueyan's ancestors were not the royal family of any of the thirteen countries, they had no power, and no one even knew her background, but with the followers of some people, they developed an army, and then continued to conquer the city, and in less than three years, they established the Yuezhao Kingdom. ”

It is said that Emperor Zu was able to start from scratch and unify Yuezhao in such a short period of time, which has nothing to do with her beauty, but Emperor Zu not only has beauty, but also has a divine power, which seems to be a bit contradictory, but it is true that you can succeed in a war not just by being beautiful. Legend has it that although Emperor Zu seems to be weak and weak, she can ride a horse, shoot arrows, dance knives and make guns, and can easily pull a big bow of more than 200 catties and lift a boulder weighing 1,000 catties. Therefore, the people of Yuezhao country regard the ancestral emperor as a god-like existence, and every family will put a spiritual seat of the ancestral emperor on the spiritual platform, praying for her to bless the long-term peace and stability of the Yuezhao country in future generations. ”

"Speaking of which, you must be wondering if Xue Yan's ancestor is infinitely powerful, and if she is an immortal?" Chen Chen glanced at them with a smile and said with some teasing.

Shi Yu and Xue Yan were fascinated by what they heard, and nodded obediently.

"In fact, folk legends, most of them are rumors to spread falsely, there are dozens of legends about the ancestral emperor, all of them are apocryphal, but the legend about her infinite power is true, back then, the ancestor of our Chen family is one of the followers around the ancestral emperor, he followed the ancestral emperor for a long time, and saw the ancestral emperor on the battlefield with a woman's body, fighting alone with the pride of dozens of people, which is simply impossible for ordinary people to do. Later, in order to commemorate this history, the ancestor of our Chen family engraved what he saw and heard on the tombstone, and this story has also become the family history of our Chen family from generation to generation. ”

Uncle Chen almost finished the story in one breath, Shi Yu reminisced about it, and after thinking about it carefully, he changed his opinion and no longer doubted the existence of the immortals. After all, Uncle Chen's family history is true, and it is also reasonable to say that Xue Yan is the descendant of the gods, Xue Yan is not only beautiful, but also has a force value that cannot be underestimated, and her ancestor, the legendary empress, is very similar.