Eighteen years ago, the wind volcanic forest.

The sun is dusk and yellow, and the twilight is vast. The clouds were like flocculent, passing through the dark and green, the raging fire reflected half of the sky, and when a group of frightened birds flew into the sky and fled, the sound of swords colliding was mixed with a miserable wail, which suddenly broke the original peace in the Shi family's mansion.

The autumn wind is lonely, and the famous house is robbed.

In the dim twilight, the scattered dust revealed a group of fleeing people, each armed with weapons, but with a look of horror and a desperate silence gathered together. On the stone steps, on the roadside, and in the grass around these people, there lay a familiar but bleeding corpse, and the faces of each corpse showed endless hideousness and desolation, and the smell of blood emitted from time to time made people smell and nauseate, and could not bear to look at it directly. But even with such horror, no one in the panicked tribesmen dared to gasp loudly, because among their group, there were two people who would rather give their lives to protect.

In the crowd, a middle-aged man wearing a blood-stained white robe with a cyan iron sword in his hand walked in front of everyone. I saw him, sometimes looking back with a worried look on his face, sometimes frowning and vigilant, and the white robe was already covered with knife marks and bloodstains. And this person is the owner of the Shi family's mansion, the master of the Shi family, who is called the 'Nine Dragons Qingmang Sword' by the Jianghu people, Shi Haonan.

But no matter how famous he is, it is difficult to protect the fate of his family being destroyed and his building collapsing. Overnight, the whole house was engulfed in flames, and the clansmen died unjustly under the knife as outlaws. And at this moment, behind him, all that remains are some unrestrained chickens, old and young women, and the crippled people, who are pitiful and in great distress, and their lives are like ants.

"Hehe, where are Patriarch Shi going?"

Suddenly, a playful sneer came into everyone's ears. When they looked up, they saw a man with a narrow golden knife sitting on the top of the courtyard wall, watching them. This sentence was like a demonic summoning into the hearts of everyone, making people frightened.

Shi Haonan looked up, and immediately glared angrily: "Jinyi Wei is in such a big battle, dare to come and destroy me, isn't his emperor Lao Er afraid that the heroes of the rivers and lakes will learn about this and turn against his world?"

Hearing his words, the man with the golden sword actually smiled slightly and said: "Hehe, so the emperor learned that you had the intention of rebellion, so he asked me to come here to destroy your nine clans." After speaking, the man with the golden knife jumped to the ground with a sideways jump, and then walked towards Shi Haonan's side as if he were strolling leisurely. While walking, he also played with the golden knife in his hand, and continued: "But before destroying you, the Shi family patriarch is willing to leave the family exercises, I heard that the Shi family of the four great families of the Wind Volcano Forest has a good internal strength method, and the deity advises the Shi patriarch to hand it over." Of course, for those servants with foreign surnames, the deity can order them to be spared, so that they can be kept for your house to collect their corpses. ”

"Heh!" Shi Haonan laughed after hearing this, and at the same time stepped forward to the other party: "Say a thousand ways and ten thousand, you are here for my clan's exercises, since you have already framed the lives of hundreds of people in our clan, why do you have to make high-sounding false charges?"

As he spoke, the sword in Shi Haonan's hand was already sharp on the ground, and the sound of friction was piercing, and then he stepped out of a few steps, and the iron sword in his hand suddenly burst into green light, only to see him holding the hilt of the sword with both hands, and when he picked it up, he split a blade horizontally. And just as the sword light that turned into the sword blade flew out, it can be seen that the direction of the sword blade was undoubtedly slashed away until the top of the golden sword's head.

The green glow of the blade seems to come from the soul of hell, and under the fire and moonlight, the fangs are fully displayed, which is extremely terrifying. But unexpectedly, the corner of the golden knife's mouth showed a hint of sarcasm and said: "Hmph, at the end of the strong crossbow, it's just a matter of self-determination." ”

After speaking, the man who saw the golden knife did not dodge the menacing sword, but instead held the scabbard of the golden knife in his hand with one hand, and just blocked the golden knife horizontally in front of him with his backhand. The right hand turned into a palm print, and then a palm struck out, slapping Shi Haonan's chest that stabbed him.

Everything happened too fast, the two fought for only one round, only to hear the sound of "bang", Shi Haonan was hit by the man with the golden knife somehow slapped dozens of steps away, and then fell heavily among the people behind him, and then how dare the Shi family be stupid at this time, and quickly protected Shi Haonan in the crowd, obviously Shi Haonan was seriously injured again.

However, the man with the golden sword didn't seem to be in a hurry to chase and kill, and when he caused the enemy's rear, he seemed to be understated, and he stood still and continued to play with a sarcastic smile, and said: "Hehe, I have heard for a long time that the famous 'Nine Dragons Qingmang Sword', 'Honorary Elder of the Organ Burial Tomb', and 'The First Person of the Wind Volcano Forest' are originally capable of this?

"Poof!" Shi Haonan immediately spurted out a mouthful of blood when he landed, but it didn't seem to be fatal, his face became more and more pale, and it was difficult to stand up again for a while.

At this time, a woman's sobs came from behind Shi Haonan. This woman was only twenty or five years old, extremely beautiful, gorgeously dressed, with a bulging lower abdomen, and was obviously pregnant.

Shi Haonan looked at the woman sideways, his expression showed a hint of unwillingness, and he said to the other person beside him: "Shi Yan, I will be fighting with that guy for a while, you take advantage of the chaos to take the lady to the back mountain forest, where the forest is dense, I am afraid that someone will be able to chase after you." You must remember to me that Madame has the last hope of our historian in her womb, and it all depends on you. ”

Although the man named Shi Yan didn't cry like others, he also burst into tears, nodding vigorously to say yes, but he couldn't say anything. He knew that the patriarch had entrusted the final fate of the Shi family to himself.

Shi Haonan was very relieved to see Shi Yan nodding. Then he stood up violently, and his blood-stained palm reached for the woman's face and stroked it gently. Then he took out a very inconspicuous yellow leather roll from his shirt and stuffed it into the woman's hand. After doing all this, Shi Haonan once again held his sword and stepped away, and with the burning sky, Qingmang rushed towards the man with the golden sword again, and shouted loudly: "Today, I will let you see the true power of my clan's martial arts...!"

As the night wore on, the fire burned for an unknown amount of time before it reduced the huge mansion to ashes, and the corpses were lying on the ground all over the place, but no one came to collect them for them. Let them slowly lose their vitality, then the blood will curdle, and finally it will become cold, cold, and terrifying.

In the forest, the firelight was passing through at a rapid speed, and everywhere I passed, I saw several brocade guards holding torches carefully looking for something. And in a forest not far from them, there were also two people hurrying through at this time.

These two people are Shi Yan, who Shi Haonan fought with his life to escape, and the pregnant woman.

The wind volcanic forest is composed of four surnames: Yan, Luo, Ye and Shi. Although he was not born as an official eunuch, he has a great reputation among the rivers and lakes, just because these four ancestors have each inherited a set of exercises. Legend has it that if someone can learn all these four exercises, then that person will be proud of the world and dominate the rivers and lakes.

But rumors are rumors after all, and no one has really seen them. It's a pity that the current four families will no longer have the existence of the Shi family in the future, because the Shi family is the first target of Bian Chengfeng after taking office. And at this moment, although Shi Haonan is dead, his wife is still alive, maybe Shi Haonan's original intention of fighting with his life in the end is to let the woman leave a descendant for the Shi family.

The autumn wind and fallen leaves, the thick and soft forest is difficult to walk, the roots of the tree hold the woman's pace, the pregnant woman seems to have lost everything in this night, caressing the bulging lower abdomen, desperately fleeing in the forest, tears wet her eyes.

The woman was crying as she ran, but she had to live, and she could see the last look her husband gave her, which was full of trust.

Behind him, the noise of the bustling pursuers was loud, and because the woman was pregnant and had difficulty moving, the speed of escape could be imagined. At this time, Shi Yan behind him suddenly stopped and said: "Madam, Shi Yan can only protect you here, I will lead away those pursuers, take care!"

After Shi Yan finished speaking, he suddenly knelt on the ground, with tears in his eyes, and then kowtowed his head three times to the woman. Without giving the woman a chance to react, Shi Yan turned around and fled in the woman's other direction.

[To be continued]