Condor, the darling of the heavens, the overlord of the sky.

The vast sky, the blue sky, the deep sky, but destined to be conquered by the Condor.

The Condor roams the skies, conceited to consider itself the perfect masterpiece of the Creator, swift and brave enough to hunt down any prey it wants.

I am the Son of God, the perfect hunter, the Eagle thought more than once.

On the empty plain, the Condor had already set its sights on a prey. It's a pity that the poor guy didn't realize it, the Condor kept circling, and it drew a perfect arc to be a divine sword that pierced the heart of the prey!

Sprinting, the Condor's eyes are like torches, this is its instinct, and it is also its proudest place.

As it gets closer to its prey, it grows bigger and more flustered – and it realizes that it is about to turn into a treat.

A dark shadow appeared in front of the Eagle's eyes, and the Condor felt a sharp pain. It returned to the sky, staring at the place where it had been.

It was a species called humans, and the Condor had seen them, and they couldn't fly or run fast, but they used something called a sword.

Obviously, there is more than one hunter today, and the Condor is not the best one.

The young man below held the prey in one hand and pointed the condor with a sword in the other hand and said with a smile: "You are a good hunter, but today I won." With that, he turned and left.

The young man skillfully handled the prey, patted his belly, got up and stood, and said to the mountain range at the end of the grassland: "Let's go!"

His name is Ma Xie, and when he was four years old, he was thrown into this mountain and raised by a white ape who has always been able to speak. The white ape taught Ma Xie all the skills to survive in this forest, and when Ma Xie was six years old, he gave Ma Xie a handful of things tied together with a thin piece of iron and a piece of wood.

"This is a sword, and from today onwards, I will teach you swordsmanship. The white ape said to Ma Xie.

Ma Xie didn't know what a sword was, what swordsmanship was, but when he held the "hilt of the sword" with his hand curiously, he seemed to know how to use this thing by nature.

Ma Xie stood quietly, holding a sword in his right hand, his left hand hanging slightly, and his legs half a step apart, if a swordsman saw Ma Xie at this time, he would find that this child's posture was just like those sword gods who had perfected the realm, without the slightest flaw! A wonderful momentum emanated from this child, rushing straight into the sky.

The legendary peerless swordsman, as long as he holds a long sword in his hand, just put on a "posture", he can cause changes in the wind and clouds, and the heavens and the earth will change color! And this child in front of the white ape at this moment can't help but think of the legends of those swordsmen!

For the next ten years, Ma Xie devoted all of his energy to learning swords. The old ape didn't know where to find a tattered sword book, and as soon as it dawned every day, he forced Ma Xie to practice.

One day, the white ape suddenly said to Ma Xie: "Your swordsmanship has been completed, and you can go down the mountain today." ”

"Can I go down?" Ma Xie was a little surprised.

"After ten years of hard training, no one knows, and one trick is famous all over the world. The white ape said: "I was entrusted by people to support you for sixteen years and teach you martial arts, just so that you can go down the mountain as soon as possible and make a name for yourself in this world!"

Ma Xie had heard the white ape talk about the martial arts competition under the mountain, the grievances of the rivers and lakes, and even heard that there are peerless masters in this world, known as "dragon slayers", holding a long sword, can fight the sky and slay the dragon!

All this made Ma Xie extremely fascinated, and he wanted to know how famous the sword in his hand could be in the rivers and lakes!

Ma Xie immediately packed up the package, took his sword, kowtowed three times to the white ape, and was about to leave.

At the time of parting, the white ape asked, "You have followed me for more than ten years, why have you never asked me about your parents?

Ma Xie laughed: "The one who taught me to you is either my parents or my parents' enemies." If my parents are born but not raised, why should I seek them? This sword will tell me the answer in the end!"

The white ape nodded and said with a smile: "There is a definite number of cause and effect in the world. Go, go, and if there is anything you don't understand, come back to me. ”

Ma Xie listened, turned and left. Walking out of this mountain forest, there was a vast plain, Ma Xie looked back at the mountain forest where he had grown up, and then his eyes moved upwards again: in the deepest part of this mountain forest, there was a mountain peak hidden in the white clouds. No one knows how high this mountain is, and no one knows its name, because no one has ever climbed to the top, he has never been conquered, and no one has the right to name him.

Ma Xie once tried to climb that mountain, but failed halfway through, it was definitely not a mountain that humans could climb, and I heard that only a sacred bird like Kunpeng could go up.

"When I become unparalleled in the world, I will come to you again. Ma Xie swore secretly to the sacred mountain.

After walking south along the prairie for two months, Ma Xie came across a town, which was nothing more than a place where merchants lived, a restaurant, a post house, and a cattle market.

At this time, it was noon, which should have been the time when there were the most merchants, but at this moment, the town was silent, and occasionally a gust of wind blew, and the big flag in front of the restaurant was rattling.

On the banner was written crookedly three words: "Dead Horse Town".

Ma Xie carried the broken sword given to him by the white ape, and walked into the hotel in three steps and two steps.

As soon as he stepped into the hotel, the dim light made Ma Xie's eyes feel very uncomfortable, but what made him even more uncomfortable was that a steel knife was on his neck at this time.

Ma Xie looked at it, and it was not a hotel at all, just a mess of tables, chairs and benches that had been beaten.

Above the lobby, there were two groups of people, one around a bearded nine-foot man and one was a thin but capable middle-aged man dressed in black.

And in front of Ma Xie was a one-armed swordsman, staring at Ma Xie viciously.

"Boy, are you here for dinner?" said the big man.

A group of big men laughed unscrupulously, and then a voice said: "Fourth, hurry up and finish him, it's important to get down to business." It was the thin, lean man who spoke.

The big man called the fourth man looked cold, this kind of thing has long been commonplace for him, and the best way to avoid trouble is to be fast enough in the brain, fast enough with a knife, and fast enough in the horse.

He has been immersed in this trick "Four Slashes in the Wind" for many years, and if he is brought to the martial arts, he can be regarded as being able to make a name for himself. The fourth child has only one one-armed, but his arm strength is amazing, and he is an expert in making knives. Every time he makes a shot, he doesn't do his best, because someone told him that if you have less strength, you will die faster.

This knife is no exception, and the fourth child has enough strength to swing a knife. This knife felt very strange, it was faster and stronger than the previous knives, and the fourth child himself felt incredible, when did his knife technique improve again? In the fourth child's opinion, this knife was perfect, and the young man's head would soon leave his neck.

This was the last thought that came to the brain, which was full of women and swearing, and he didn't think of it, didn't see it, and didn't feel that his body had been split in two from his left shoulder to his right abdomen.

Ma Xie stood quietly in the lobby, and slowly put away the sword made of iron sheets, and a few drops of the fourth child's blood fell from the blade. Ma Xie stared at these big men and asked, "Do you have anything to eat?"