Unlike the ordinary days on the mountain, several earth-shattering events have happened in the world below the mountain.

The first piece.

On the third day of the lunar month, in the morning, 'Eight Desolation Valley'.

There was an extremely boring grandmaster-level figure in the rivers and lakes who drew a picture of the location of all the sects with numbers in 'Kyushu' in his spare time, and found an amazing coincidence, according to the picture, there are nine sects whose names are exactly the same as Dai Jiu's shoes according to the direction of the acquired gossip, three on the left and seven on the right, two or four for the shoulder, six or eight for the foot, and the Luo Shu of the five middle palaces, these nine factions are the 'Nine Secluded Mansion', 'Eight Desolate Valleys', '(Fanhai) Seven Stupas', 'Six (Shen) Dao Shu', 'Five Yin Palace', 'Four Immortal Pavilions',' 'Sanshengdu', 'Bipolar Island' and 'One and Only One'.

This discovery made the grandmaster very happy, so he announced this interesting result to the rivers and lakes, and for a while, the good deeds on the rivers and lakes all rushed to give these nine sects a combined name, what 'Luo Jiu League', 'Luo Shu League', 'Tianshu League', 'Nine Palace Sect', 'Kyushu Sect' Among them, someone gave the longest name according to the endless evolution characteristics of Luoshu, as if it was called 'Great Yan Infinite Synthesis Heavenly Polar Elephant...... Kyushu is the same sect'.

No matter what it's called, in short, the nine sects that are not related to each other were inserted together, and the head of the nine factions was very unhappy at that time, but the people in the rivers and lakes don't care if you are happy or not, you are not happy with you, I call mine, among the nine factions, but where one sends a character or something everyone will link the nine factions for comparison, at that time, all kinds of names are flying all over the sky, and the names of the nine factions are no less than ten, and later a martial arts conference was held for this purpose, and as a result, you said that your name is good, and my name is second, he said that his name makes sense, and many parties do not give in, and finally toThe 'Nine Sects of Lormon', a new name that is not ostentatious or loud, named the Nine Sects.

The people of the nine factions resisted but had to admit this title, you must know that the 'Nine Hidden Mansions' among the nine factions was headed by the super master 'Yi Yu Chengtian' who shook the ancient and the present, and the heavens and latitudes were in charge, and even he did not object, and the other eight factions had to admit it, strangely, they were originally unwilling to die. The people who are in the same stream and the people who are in the same stream and dirty have a common name in the nine factions actually began to move around with each other, and then they got along and couldn't get along, there were those who made trouble, there were those who united, there were those who admired each other, and there were those who looked down on each other, no matter what, the nine factions were used to talk about things together, and it was difficult to be independent anymore.

'Eight Desolation Valley' in the 'Tianmang Dynasty' by the northeast position, out of the capital to the northeast, a into the 'Beichuan' territory not a hundred miles to see a big mountain, 'Eight Desolation Valley' is located in the valley of the mountain, the place has its own climate, the valley inside and outside the valley is completely two worlds, often the valley rains outside the valley and the valley is sunny, the disaster and famine in the past few years outside the valley is almost no grain, the valley is occasionally a little rain, original' The disciples of the Eight Desolation Valley do not grow food, and there are only two ways to survive in this year, either to rebel and rob other people's food, or to find a way to grow it themselves, and it is almost impossible to buy it north of the river, not to mention that the high price of rice is no longer something that normal people can afford.

Zhong Bayin's martial arts are not too powerful, but his vision is not bad, at the beginning of the first year of the famine in the first year of Tianlu, he chose a place with fertile water and grass in the valley to eradicate a huge flower garden, and all of them were replanted into rice, and then the rice could not be planted and then changed to wheat, sweet potatoes, and more wasteland was reclaimed.

The people of the 'Eight Desolate Valley' have sweet potatoes almost every day, and the disciples of the 'Eight Desolate Valley' have a kind of heartburn every day, and they squat in the thatched house for half an hour, but when the sweet potatoes dug out of the ground this year are three or four percent less than last year, the faces of all the disciples have changed, and if this continues, the 'Eight Desolate Valley' is about to be completely devastated.

Zhong Bayin sat on the stone bench at the mouth of the valley, holding a letter in his hand and couldn't make a decision.

'Eight Desolate Valley' is one of the 'Nine Factions of Luomen', not to mention the bottom, but it is not far from the bottom, from the day the Jianghu people put their nine factions together, in the hands of successive valley masters, the strength of the 'Eight Desolate Valley' has not entered the top five, never, except for one valley master - the current valley lord Zhong Bayin.

Zhong Bayin is arrogant, hardworking, broad-minded, and has good martial arts, but unfortunately in the 'Luomen Nine Schools', these are far from enough, Zhong Bayin is not a talented person, his martial arts stop at the first-class master and it is difficult to progress, but he will teach his disciples, and he is lucky to accept Jing Xihuang, to be precise, Jing Xihuang is not how good his qualifications are, the problem is that he has tenacity, dares to try, and dares to try with his life, so the 'Eight Desolate Valley' has been born in the past two hundred years, and it can even be said that the strongest master in history was born.

Jing Xihuang is very bland, if he succeeds, he will succeed, it's not a big deal, but Zhong Bayin is not bland, because he is an apprentice. Eight Desolate Valley's from the bottom to the first in the nine factions, he can't wait to give everything to his apprentice, so he is closer to Jing Xihuang than his own son, when he first learned of Jing Xihuang's death, Zhong Gu's heart was like a basin of cold water poured on hot coal, he really planned to use all the power of the whole faction (Gu) to avenge Jing Xihuang, even if he died with the enemy, and later found that Jing Xihuang was just fake death He was happier than Jing Xihuang's wife and mother.

Now, the world is in turmoil, and he has a once-in-a-lifetime good opportunity to rise in the Eight Desolate Valleys, but he is a little uneasy, if it is his own business, he will not hesitate, but he thinks that he has no ability to turn the tide, as a human teacher, he is not good to talk to his apprentices, especially not to talk to the apprentices who have retired once, especially the wives and mothers of the apprentices who have retired once.

As the valley master, he hoped that his sect would flourish and cultivate more independent disciples, rather than relying on just one apprentice to be the temporary first of the nine sects.

As a master, he wants his apprentices to get ahead, and as a master, he doesn't want his apprentices to be in danger.

"Master, you still can't decide?"

Zhong Bayin's disciple asked on the side, this disciple is Zhou Bing who went to the 'Qinlong Tower' to invite Mo Youfan that day, today he is a little more stable than a few years ago, and his strength has greatly improved under the guidance of Jing Xihuang in the past few years, and he has chased Zhong Bayin to become the third person in the door.

There are many disciples in the 'Eight Desolation Valley', Jing Xihuang has lived in seclusion in the 'Eight Desolation Valley' for more than one day, others have not become the third person in the 'Eight Desolation Valley', and Zhong Bayin's own son has not become the No. 3 person in the 'Eight Desolation Valley', only Zhou Bing has made such rapid progress, which shows that he is a caring person.

Zhong Bayin has relied heavily on Zhou Bing this year, and when he asked, he sighed and said: "It's not that you can't decide, it's not easy to speak, you also know that your senior brother is a filial son, the old lady's body has been worse than a year in the past two years, and his eyes can't see clearly last year, so it's a little cruel for him to leave at this time, not to mention that his identity is already a dead person in the outside world, since he faked his death to avoid worldly grievances, why bother to wade into this troubled water again?"

Zhou Bing said: "Yajia is elegant, people are vulgar, people are inseparable from the valley, and it is inevitable that the valley will be vulgar, the senior brother is indifferent to fame and fortune, no one forced him back then, didn't he also enter the palace as a guard? ”

Zhong Bayin smiled and said, "You have taught Master a lesson." ”

Zhou Bing said: "Don't dare, the master accepts so many disciples who don't want to eat us, don't want to drink, what we ask for is naturally to support the old age and send them to the end, carry forward my 'Eight Desolate Valley' lintel, the disciples have learned literary and martial arts, but they cherish themselves, and they are inevitably suspected of being liars." ”

Zhong Bayin smiled and said, "According to you, it's a deal between us?"

Zhou Bing said: "Parents and children and grandchildren are nothing more than that, but they have not said it explicitly, in the disciple's opinion, the master should give the letter to the senior brother and let the senior brother decide for himself, the disciple thinks that the senior brother has spent money on food, clothing, housing and transportation in the past few years, and he must be sorry in his heart." ”

Zhong Bayin nodded, just stood up, suddenly paused again, turned around and said: "In this way, you go to the old lady for me to find out, if the old lady is willing to discuss with your senior brother again, if the old lady is not happy, forget it, our family is not a big business to eat and drink in two people, I don't believe that this famine is not over." ”

Zhou Bing said: "Disciple, go to the old lady." ”

"Senior Brother Zhou, okay take me along?" Just as Zhou Bing was about to leave, an eleven or twelve-year-old girl ran out from the depths of the valley, this girl was born with red lips and white teeth, beautiful appearance, and Zhong Bayin was a little similar to Zhong Bayin between her eyebrows, it was Zhong Bayin's youngest daughter Zhong Qin, this old guy actually gave birth to a daughter at a young age.

"No, your Senior Brother Zhou is doing business, don't go and make trouble for me. Before Zhou Bing could speak, Zhong Bayin glared at his little daughter and stopped her.

Zhong Qin was dissatisfied: "If you don't let me go, I'll tell Senior Brother Jing what you just said, see how embarrassed your old man is." ”

"You dare?" Zhong Bayin snorted again, his tone was stern, but there was no anger in it.

"Master is really getting more and more indulgent as he gets older, this child is used to not being big. Zhou Bing shook his head with a smile and walked towards the valley by himself.

'Eight Desolation Valley' is very large, the terrain in the valley is more complicated, in order to avoid the mud and rocks on the mountain, it is necessary to manually dig a canal to divert the torrent on the mountain on rainy days, and also need to avoid some steep places, so not all places can build houses, with the increase of the disciples of the 'Eight Desolation Valley' and the erosion of the mountain flood, the original house collapsed a lot, and the rest is no longer enough to live, so the sixth valley master pushed six or seven miles into the valley to find a suitable place to live and build a house, and settled the families of the disciples in the valley there, so far' The Eight Desolate Valleys are divided into inner valleys and outer valleys, and when it comes to Zhong Bayin's hands, there are a large number of disciples, and there are even more family members, and the outer valley alone naturally can't accommodate these many people.

Most of the martial arts exercises and other business in the valley are carried out in the outer valley, and the family members of the inner valley are responsible for laundry, cooking, etc., Jing Xihuang's wife and mother live in the inner valley, Zhou Bing's father died of illness, he was newly married the year before last, his wife gave birth to a son, and his mother and wife and children are also in the inner valley.

During the day, the disciples work in the outer valley, and only the disciples on duty are left in the inner valley to be responsible for protection, and most of the disciples return to the inner valley to rest at night, and the disciples on duty stay in the outer valley to watch the door. Eight Wilderness Valley's land farming, there are also pigs and chickens, in short, each has something to do to supplement the family, life is dull but also happy, if it is not for Zhou Bing's father died of illness a few years ago, his family is even more happy.

The road of six or seven miles is very fast for martial arts practitioners, the valley is silent, and several disciples of the 'Eight Desolate Valley' who are responsible for protecting and patrolling are nowhere to be found, probably because they are afraid of the cold and hide in the house, Zhou Bing is quite dissatisfied in his heart. No matter how Zhong Bayin emphasized, how to teach, these disciples are full of promises, how to be lazy or how to be lazy when they turn their heads, less than 30 people in the valley two or three hundred disciples can really do things with their hearts, especially in the past two years, many uncles, uncles and their disciples are also indifferent.

"When the famine passes, I will ask Master to recruit a group of new people to come in and replace these guys. Zhou Bing thought in his heart, and he had already walked outside the fence where Jing Xihuang's mother and wife were.

"Aunt, sister-in-law, disciple Zhou Bing begged to see. Zhou Bing didn't dare to make a mistake, so he stood outside the fence and shouted, shouting, and no one in the courtyard replied.

"Is my sister-in-law at home?" Zhou Bing shouted again, there was still no movement in the courtyard, Zhou Bing faintly felt a little uneasy, Jing Xihuang's wife is a cripple, and his mother's health has not been very good recently, where will these two go early in the morning?

"Sister-in-law, aunt?" Zhou Bing shouted again, there was still no sound inside, Zhou Bing walked into the fence courtyard regardless of etiquette, the door was covered Zhou Bing pushed the door in, the house was simply furnished, there was a casserole for boiling medicine at the pot table, a medicine bowl was broken on the ground, porcelain pieces were scattered everywhere, and the room exuded a smell of decoction and medicine, Zhou Bing hurriedly looked at the kang and saw an old woman and a middle-aged woman lying with her head facing in and feet facing out, these two people were Jing Xihuang's mother and wife, Zhou Bing's head. Hum', two steps to the kang, with a finger probing the snort of the two, the two have stopped breathing, he used his fingers on the necks of the two people, both of them have blue and purple finger marks on their necks, there is still residual warmth at the hand, but the pulse has stopped, obviously just died.

"Mom, daughter-in-law. Zhou Bing suddenly thought of his mother, wife and children at home, and he was so frightened that he didn't have time to inform the senior brothers and master of the 'Eight Desolation Valley', so he rushed out of the door and ran desperately to his home.