More than five months ago, when I first entered the stone pagoda, I was still a fifteen-year-old child in the middle level of internal strength. At that time, Wang Qinian was newly mourned, and there were no Jindan warriors in Shunshui Town who could fight with Aung San Baoyan, and the elders in the town were in panic all day long, and pressed the news of Wang Qinian's death again and again.

More than five months later, I re-entered the stone tower in the South Island, which was already sixteen years old. Shunshui Town has become a subject country of Baiyun, and the power of the indigenous people has disappeared.

"The rise and fall of the ages are all laughed at, and a glass of turbid wine is drunk. ”

I seem to have heard someone say that.

Wang Xiangfu sat in the original hall, and Xueren and Wang Qitai sat on the side, which was the same as when I first met him. The slight difference is that there is a small couch next to Xueren, and there is Jiang Yishan, the current regimental training envoy of the Baiyun vassal state, after Wang Qinian and Lu Kewu died, and now the entire army of Baiyun Township is under his command. This person is a warrior at the upper level of the foundation, and he is silent and has no opinions. At the meeting of the five deacons, he said the word "good" more than I said.

Wang Xiangfu's knees were covered with a patched fur blanket that covered his broken legs, and there was nothing below his knees.

I stared blankly at his old blanket for a long time before I remembered that it was rude to look at the disabled like this, not to mention that the other party was once a powerful Jindan warrior.

"Faux pas. ”

I bowed my head and apologized very softly.

"It's okay, I don't go out in the stone tower, and now that I have your golden pill, I don't need to go into battle, so I don't need to put on a façade. Qitai once asked to make me a pair of prosthetic limbs, and I refused him at that time. ”

Wang Xiangfu laughed, and then said,

"I'm going to die in the morning a month later. ”

"Oh!"

I and the others were shocked.

-- When Wang Xiangfu was returning to his old age and childhood, he said that he had ten months to live, but he did not expect that he would come to the end of his life so soon.

"When I fought against Aung San Baoyan, I used up a lot of essence blood, and I lost my legs, and my true essence was gone. I am a person who has returned to the light, and I cannot recover like you young people. The time of death is just around the corner, and there is nothing strange about it - well, Xiaokong, when you fought with Aung San, the speed reached the speed of sound, and the body felt broken?"

He stopped mentioning his own life and death, as if it were a trivial matter as a change of heat and cold, and asked me another question.

I paused for a moment and recalled,

"Well, just like when I didn't go to Jindan before, I overpracticed the exercises, my muscles and internal organs were a little injured, and I would be fine after a few days, and I didn't lack pills at hand. ”

"In the future, you have to pay attention to the people of Jindan, whether they are cultivators or martial artists, subsonic battles do not hinder the physical body much, but after the line of sonic speed, the acupuncture points of the physical body begin to accumulate dark wounds, and the years of Wujiazi that could have been enjoyed will be slowly broken off. Young people are fighting, and the sages are right - when I was a teenager, I fought fiercely with thieves and Yidi in the Central Plains, and I don't know how many times I fought beyond the speed of sound, and at that time it was as easy as drinking water, and it was too late to regret it when I was old. Don't follow in my footsteps. ”

"Follow the teachings. ”

I think that in the future, I can rely on the general outline of the Heavenly Thunder Law to kill people anyway, and I can use martial arts or something to make up for the knife, and there will not be too many opportunities to fight hard with people. What's more, I also want to climb the peak of Yuanying, but I won't be a miser with the longevity of Wujiazi.

"That's the best",

Wang Xiangfu smiled happily and raised his wine glass,

"There are five kinds of blessings in our Chinese world: the first is longevity, the second is wealth, the third is good health, the fourth is peace of mind, and the fifth is knowing the end of one's life and dying without regrets. As a worldly person, I have all five blessings, so congratulate me!"

Xueren and Jiang Yishan had a look on their faces, and Wang Qitai raised a glass to celebrate with a calm expression.

I think what Wang Xiangfu said is the truth - my father is also a martial artist in the upper echelons of Jindan, he has mixed up with a loud name, robbed the most beautiful wife, possessed the gold and silver of the pill on the hill, and had a son like me who is a fairy seedling, but in the end he died in the sea with his own gang, and he did not even live to be sixty years old. In comparison, Wang Xiangfu, who was more than 110 years old and died well, did have great blessings.

"I wish you a good death. ”

I wiped away the tears of missing my father and sincerely toasted him with a glass of wine.

After three rounds of drinking, Wang Xiangfu called Xueren to take an iron box, washed his hands, and solemnly unsealed the box. I wondered what the treasure was, but I saw only a silver seal, and a blue ribbon wrapped around it.

"What kind of mortal thing is this?" I said, I couldn't sense the aura inside.

"You kid doesn't know where to get homeschooling, you don't even know this thing. ”

The drunken Xueren was a little annoyed,

"This is the official seal, the official seal issued by the Taizheng Dynasty of our Central Plains to the civil and military officials! The silver seal and blue ribbon is the qualification of the Son of Heaven to confer the four military attachés, and this seal is clearly engraved with the six ancient seals of the 'Seal of the Rebellious General', which is the Son of Heaven to praise the old patriarch's achievements in resisting the Rakshasa in the north, and sent envoys to award him the token of the rebel army in Yan and Qi all over the country!"

I scratched my head, it turned out to be this kind of bullshit thing, we were born as pirates, and we don't accept the king, where do you recognize it!

My father may have robbed it when he killed the official, and the things that were worse than the elixir and jewelry were probably thrown into the sea.

"Xiao Kongjia used to do a path-cutting business at sea, and it's normal not to know it. ”

Wang Qitai smiled faintly.

"Grock. ”

My heart skipped a beat, and a myriad of thoughts flashed through me in an instant

I looked at Wang Xiangfu's eyes without the slightest fluctuation for a long time, and simply admitted,

"Yes, I am a pirate, Murong Zhi is also a pirate, our whole family is a pirate, my father is a well-known pirate leader in the East China Sea, the first of the Seven Little Dragon Kings. You, and you, when did you know that I was a pirate? Don't say bad things! What are you going to do to the disadvantage of me and Murong Zhi? If you fight again, I will accompany you, and I will continue to play conspiracy. ”

I put a mid-grade rapier on my desk.

Xueren Wuzi and Jiang Yishan are whispering,

“...... How could Sora be a pirate?......

――It seems that the four of them did not collude beforehand.

"Sit back at the table, Sora, we already know your character here, and no one will treat you as a thief or a bad person. ”

Wang Qitai poured a glass of wine for me and himself, and he drank a glass for me first, signaling that I was non-toxic, and then considered it and said,

"About a few months ago, when I was empowering you, the old patriarch found the tattoo on your chest - your father belonged to the Blue Dragon Society of Nangong Tengjiao!"

I subconsciously stroked my chest, Nangong Tengjiao's Green Dragon Society, every male in the gang had to use a rolled up green dragon, which was the mark of the Nangong family's vassals. I've been accustomed to this mark since I was a child, but I didn't expect to forget to erase it after landing on the island.

"Thirty years ago, Nangong Tengjiao and Gongsun Shanjun were the two major man-made disasters in the Central Plains. The two of them cultivated great powers in the Star Sect together, and they coincidentally admired the power in Hongchen, Gongsun Shanjun established the Divine Spear Society and the Pseudo-Qi State to kill people on land, and Nangong established the Blue Dragon Society to kill people at sea. However, Nangong is a little less indiscriminate, he doesn't kill Chinese people much, and he often fights to the death with Gongsun to grab territory - hehe, when our rebels fought with Gongsun's pseudo-Qi, Nangong also gave some supplies to the rebels. ”

Wang Xiangfu sighed,

"Thirty years have passed, is Nangong still alive? ”

"When my father took refuge in Baiyun Township, Nangong Tengjiao seemed to be preparing to accept the imperial court's recruitment, and he got the official seal of a second-rank general. ”

I looked at the "Seal of the Rebellious General" of the fourth grade, and suddenly remembered,

"It's the second-grade 'General Zuo Seal' with a gold seal and purple ribbon, which is bigger than yours. ”

If they hadn't talked about it today, I would have kept these old things in my mind until I forgot them.

"The authority of the world is controlled by the four major sects, and those outsiders steal the mandate of heaven for their own schemes, and do things that reverse right and wrong in the world, my generation has become commonplace. Come to think of it, Nangong can become the second-grade general Zuo, which is nothing more than his Xingzong background and bribery to the imperial court. ”

Wang Qitai sighed and said solemnly to me,

"-- The fact that my brother accepted you as a disciple was fabricated and spread by me. The people don't want their elders to be associated with robbers who kill people and steal goods, so in the future you better forget that you are a pirate, rub off the brand on your chest, and establish your own prestige and morality in front of everyone...... I invite you to come today, the old patriarch wants to announce his will to you--entrusting this four-grade rebel general seal to Xiaokong, which is his first will. Xiaokong, you can take this silver seal!"

I stared intently at the silver seal they handed me.

"The princes of the Central Plains have been divided for a long time, and the successor of each military town is designated by the princes themselves, and then let the imperial court confirm it in form. The old patriarch obtained this seal by virtue of military merits, and if you take this seal, you will inherit the old patriarch and become the four-rank general of the Taizheng Dynasty, that is, the supreme leader of the Baiyun subject country in the future. ”

I've always been Wang Qitai and I was joking when I made me the mayor of the town, but I didn't expect it to come true.

"I don't know anything, and I don't know the official position of the imperial court. I can't and don't want to be a rebel general. I said.

"If the name is not right, it is not right. In the Xiuzhen era, the four-grade military attache seal of the imperial court was only acceptable to martial artists above Jindan, and there was no other person on the island, so it didn't hurt for you to take the seal, even if it was named. ”

Wang Qitai paused,

"Sora, you may not stay on the island forever. You are so young, you will always go to the Central Plains in the future. The storm ring outside the island has subsided, and there are many young people in the subject countries who want to go to a bigger world. If you want to return to the Central Plains, this four-rank official seal is just for self-defense, and it is more reliable than the identity of a pirate......"

- Since he said so, with this official seal, I can pretend to be an official of the imperial court, and it is very convenient to walk in the world, and the reason is similar to the reason why I have just arrived on the island and pretend to be a cultivator.

I put the silver seal into my ring.

"Well, my second will is about the arrangements for going to the Central Plains in the future: if the rebellious general who succeeds me leads the fleet of the Baiyun vassal state back to the Central Plains, I will still obey the Son of Heaven of the imperial court and fight against the enemy countries that have invaded our Central Plains. ”

I lifted my cheeks,

"It's okay to fight with Gongsun, anyway, my father has been fighting with Nangong and Gongsun in the Central Plains. But I don't like to listen to the emperor's commands. ”

"As long as your army's actions are really beneficial to my Huaxia, you can respect the Son of Heaven as the co-lord of China. If there are eunuchs from the imperial court who supervise the army to interfere with you indiscriminately in the future, you will be killed with a knife...... That's what I did in the Central Plains thirty years ago. ”

"Good. ”

-- It couldn't have been easier for such a free warlord.

"The third is my personal matter. My sword has been stained with too much ferocity in this life, and when I die, you will smelt it into pieces and bury it with me in the ground, so that it will not see the light of day again. ”

Everyone only promises.

"Finally, I have a personal request for Sora, which is not included in my will, but I hope Sora will not forget about it. ”

Wang Xiangfu said word by word,

"I don't mind your pirate origins. After so many experiences, we all see your temperament. Although you are sometimes fierce and cunning, you have a bad childhood education, but you are sincere and unpretentious, and your kindness far exceeds evil thoughts, you are a good child...... It's just that Xiao Zhi is not as kind as you, and if she only helps you in the future, there should be no hindrance, but she must not be allowed to touch the position of power-although she is young, her heart is deep and dangerous, and her claws are sharp, and she can only be imprisoned in a cage, and she cannot let go of her reckless behavior-"

"I'm one with her, don't talk bad about her anymore!"

I still couldn't hold it back, and kicked the case over, and the lightning sword was pressed against Wang Xiangfu's throat.

"You reckless child, put away your sword quickly!" Wang Qitai and Xueren scolded.

I snorted, ignored the others, and walked straight out of the stone tower.

"Good medicine is bitter, and advice is against the ear. ”

Wang Xiangfu's last words echoed in my ears.