C73

Chapter 73 - Opening of a troubled world

The story began with Ankang County.

An old man asked Guan Yan anxiously: "Guan Yan, is what you said true? Young Master Zhang, Young Master Li, and Young Master Chen, are they really famous? " Guan Yan, however, sighed and said, "That's the luck! Sigh! Under the luck of time, there would naturally be a hero that came along with it! It was a pity that all the living beings in this world had fallen into a deep abyss of suffering! Sigh! Sigh! Could they turn the tables and end this chaotic world? "Sigh!"

Although the old man did not understand Guan Yan's words, he still had something that he wanted to ask Guan Yan: "Can I, Liu Jian, personally see them succeed or not? Can you live that long? " Guan Yan picked up a dry branch from the ground and pointed it at Fan Mansion. He then wrote a few words on the ground with the branch, "When you meet Jiang, stop". Liu Jian still didn't know what was going on when he saw this situation. But when the question was asked, Guan Yan had already left.

Liu Jian stood there in a daze. He couldn't figure it out no matter how he thought about it. What is the mystery of this?

It was a magnificent house. On the plaque above the gate, the words "Fan Mansion" were written in large letters. This was where a famous family lived. This family had been doing business for generations and was also very generous.

Suddenly, cries of alarm sounded from the manor. He saw a fifteen-year-old boy holding a sharp sword knock a person over. The person that was knocked over fell onto the ground that was filled with water and dyed the ground red. The blood continued to flow downwards, slowly draining away the energy in the person's life that had been knocked down. The man lying in the pool of blood gasped for breath, and his feet shook violently at first, but gradually became weaker. The man on the ground tried his best to detain his life, but it was too late, too late. His eyes were sad, glazed, staring. He didn't want his life to slowly drain away until he died … Those eyes that were filled with sorrow and infinite nostalgia for the human world were constantly staring at him.

While the youth was still in shock, he had actually distanced himself from the people he had killed and arrived in a forest. For some unknown reason, a strange feeling of fear had quickly filled up the boy's entire body, every nerve and every cell in his body permeated with an unprecedented feeling of fear that no one would ever be able to encounter in their entire lives. That feeling of fear had given birth to despair, a complete and utter despair …

The youth was astonished by this feeling. This was the first time in his life that he felt a fear that was even more terrifying than death!

And for some reason, the youth suddenly felt that this feeling of fear had suddenly disappeared. The youth came to the Maple Forest. From the maple tree, scarlet fiery leaves constantly fell, but these leaves weren't withered or yellow. They only followed the gusts of wind as they floated down.

In the arms of the youth lay a very, very beautiful woman. The woman had a happy smile on her face as she closed her eyes. The youth immediately felt his heart ache. It was extremely painful! Behind the youth stood another incomparably beautiful girl. She was looking sorrowfully at the youth as well as the girl that lay in his arms …

The youth immediately felt his heart shatter into countless pieces. This sort of pain could not be expressed by words or words!

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" The boy let out a long hiss and kicked the quilt that covered him to the ground. He suddenly jumped up and panted heavily. He was still shaken by the nightmare he had just had. From time to time, the youth would touch the cold sweat on his forehead. Because he was afraid that the youth's clothes would be drenched in the cold sweat.

I said with lingering fear, "Strange! How could I have dreamed such a dream! How strange! Everything in the dream was engraved so clearly in my mind! Sigh! This dream was just like his own personal experience! This was too terrifying! "Hu!"

"Fourth brother!" "What's wrong with you!" Three men rushed in at the sound of the shout. Those three are Li Xiong, Chen Zhi, and Zhang Tie. They are my three sworn brothers and due to my age, I was placed last.

Li Xiong, Chen Zhi and Zhang Tie looked at me with concern. When I saw that my three sworn brothers were feeling nervous, I sighed and said, "My three brothers, I am fine! It was just a nightmare! "Hu!" I thought back to the nightmare I had just experienced and the lingering fear in my heart. Chen Zhi frowned: "Seeing you like this! Your dreams must be terrible! "

I told my strange dream to Li Xiong and the other brothers. The three brothers were also amazed when they heard it, and didn't understand why I had such a strange dream.

Li Xiong thought for a while, then said: "Fourth brother, isn't this all because you're too tired? Sigh! How about Fan Li and the others go to the capital to play and relax? And take a look at the Great Thousand World! We can't stay in our remote hometown all day! He wanted to go out and have a look! What about it? "Do you agree?"

I asked, "All three elder brothers are going?" Chen Zhi said with yearning: "The capital Luo Yang is my big man's capital and also the biggest city, if you don't go and take a look, how can you do it? Although the destination of this trip is a little far, I feel that we will definitely reap some rewards! " Zhang Tie laughed lewdly: "On the road, it's best if you can meet a peerless beauty! There were many beauties in the Central Plains! To be able to be with such a peerless beauty in this life is truly a life without regrets! " Li Xiong pointed at Zhang Tie and said, "You! Always the same! But it's true, as long as I can see a peerless beauty! " Zhang Tie laughed and said, "We will definitely meet beautiful women!"

Fan Li also laughed and asked: "It's good to go to Luo Yang! I wonder when will the three brothers set off? " Li Xiong replied: "Pack up tomorrow, we'll set off the day after tomorrow!" Chen Zhi, Zhang Tie and Fan Li said in unison, "Alright!"

Li Xiong said: "I hope that I will be able to meet Master on the way! They left just like that! Master... " Zhang Tie looked at Li Xiong. It was clear that he, like Li Xiong, was also missing his own master.

The four of them did not know that there were four people secretly watching them from the rooftops. One of them said to a man with a full face of whiskers: "[Note 3] Fire, Fan Li's disciples still miss them a lot! Sigh! Fan Li and the others hide from them, is that okay?! " Raging Flames replied, "Kong Kim, your disciples are already fifteen years old. It's time for you to have your own life! Furthermore, Fan Li had taught them everything they could! to see if they can comprehend and fully display Fan Li's martial arts in the future! If it really is like this, then Fan Li and the others can be considered to be as far as brothers Ran Ming! "

Guan Yan nodded his head and said: "That's right! That's right! Fan Li indeed had the Heaven's Eyes! However, his Heaven's Eyes were still hidden! "Haha!" Zuo Ci asked in shock, "What!? You said that Fan Li has the Heaven's Eyes! " Guan Lu nodded and said: "That's right! When Liu Jian asked Fan Li to calculate their fate for them, Fan Li had already seen through it! Just now, he had calculated everything he had done in his dream just like Fan Li calculated his fate! People with the Heaven's Eyes could often predict the future! All his dreams will come true! Sigh! This is the suffering of his life! "

When Fire and King Kong heard this, Qi Qi nervously asked Guan Yan, "What will the future be like for our son?" Guan Yan shook his head and said, "Heaven is not to be revealed!" Raging Flames and King Kong knew that Guan Wanshan was not willing to speak, so they naturally had no other choice.

Zuo Ci laughed and said: "Interesting! How interesting! Fire, King Kong, didn't you two ask me to take Fan Li as my disciple? I can think, think! Haha! If Fan Li can really teach me a lesson, I will take him in as my disciple! "

When Fire and King Kong heard this, they were overjoyed, and thanked Zuo Ci together: "We thank Taoist Priest on behalf of Li Er!" Zuo Ci immediately said: "Hmph! Don't thank me so quickly! I haven't decided yet! " Fire and King Kong looked at each other and laughed. Obviously, the two of them had the confidence that Zuo Ci would take Fan Li as his disciple.

Fire and King Kong then said to Zuo Ci and Guan Wei, "Leader, we are going to find a place to train! No matter what, we must take revenge for the humiliation of being defeated by the world's number one Overlord Sword! We'll be taking our leave first! "

Zuo Ci said: "I'm leaving anyway! I'm going back to play with Little Black! "Haha!" Guan Yan said: "I'm going to travel everywhere! See you later! " The four of them then dispersed.

The next day, my three brothers and I set out on the road, talking and laughing, but the people we saw on the road were refugees, and we were very surprised by that.

When the four of them arrived at the Wan City's territory, what they saw was not only the civilian fleeing but also the miserable sight of the corpses that littered the ground. Come on! Give me something to eat! " Many of them were dressed in tattered clothes. Skinny people were begging with a rotten bowl in their hands.

"Ah!" Where are you? " Many parents were crying out for their lost children. There were also many children who kept wiping away their tears as they tried to find their parents … A poor mother, carrying her child's corpse on her back, kept comforting him, "Son, we'll be in a safe place soon! You'll be able to live a good life! You have to hold on! " The rest of the family looked at their pitiful mother helplessly …

The screams of the displaced people and their wails echoed through the skies.

I asked in shock, "How did this happen?" Li Xiong looked at those men who had sold their children in exchange for a biscuit and were gnawing on it fiercely, and Li Xiong unknowingly said sorrowfully: "This, this, how did it become like this? What happened? "

In order to understand the truth of the matter, I greeted an old granny who was hurrying on her way. "Greetings, granny!" The old granny sized me up and also replied, "Hello, young man! I wonder what business do you have with the old lady? "

I pointed at the refugees who were fleeing. With furrowed brows, I asked, "Grandma, what's going on? Why are so many people fleeing? " After a long sigh, the grandma looked at me and said, "Does little brother really not know? The Zhang Jiao who called himself 'Daoist Tai Ping' a while ago started an army and rebelled! The soldiers were fighting with the rebel army not far ahead! We were fleeing from the enemy! It's a mess right now, little brother. I don't think you're from here, so you'd better be careful! It's better to leave this place as soon as possible and return to your hometown! "

When the four of us heard this, we were shocked. Zhang Jiao started a rebellion! Even so, do the officials not care about you refugees? Won't we put you in place? " The old granny said with a wry smile, "The government cares about us? Little brother, have you ever heard of 'The Hanoi man eats the woman, and the Henan man eats the woman'? "

Zhang Tie nodded his head, and said: "I have heard of it! The Emperor only knew how to enjoy himself and appoint eunuchs like Zhang Jean, causing the citizens to be unable to live a peaceful life! "Desolation is everywhere!" "Sigh!" After a heavy sigh, the old granny said with tears streaming down her face, "When did officials treat us as people?!" The lives of the commoners were truly bitter! "Now that we have lost our land, we are forced to leave our homes, and it will be hard for us to even fill our stomachs!" "Sigh!" After sighing heavily, the old granny continued, "You all actually know how chaotic this world is. I advise you all to quickly go home!" As the grandma was talking, her stomach rumbled several times. It was obvious that the old granny was hungry.

Therefore, I took out the dry rations and handed it over to the old granny. "Old granny, I have some dry rations. You can take them to eat!" The old granny looked at me with grateful eyes and refused, "How can I take your things! I appreciate your kindness! " I forcefully stuffed the dry rations I brought with me into Grandma's hands, took out the money and stuffed it in Grandma's hands. "I don't have much money left, so this is all I can give you!" The old granny thanked him profusely, "Thank you! Thank you! You really are great people! " The old granny said to a little girl who was hiding beside her: "Xiao Ying, come and greet your benefactor!"

I saw a very pretty girl hiding behind the grandma. She bowed to the four of us and then hid behind the grandma. Although the little girl was dressed like a boy, with a dirty face, it was impossible to hide her natural beauty. She was truly a born beauty!

For some reason, when the four of us saw the little girl, we had the feeling that she had a very noble temperament, a feeling that would make people feel respect for her. When Fan Li first saw Xiao Ying, his heart suddenly shivered, he felt an extremely strange sensation, but it only lasted for a moment! I felt a little strange.

Seeing that Xiao Ying was pretty beautiful, Zhang Tie became interested and asked the old granny: "Old granny, is this your granddaughter?"

The old granny said, "That's right! She was a bitter child! He had never had a father since he was young. But who would have thought that there would be a war? During the escape, my wife and her mother and I were separated, and now only I and my granddaughter are together! "Sigh!" The old granny seemed very sad when she said this. My eyes filled with tears and I said, "What a pity! "Sigh!" Zhang Tie was staring at Xiao Ying a few more times, probably attracted by her beauty.

Chen Zhi then pointed to a distance ahead of them, and said: "Look! Those soldiers actually dared to rob the common people! This is too hateful! " Zhang Tie said: "Let's go teach those guys a lesson!" Li Xiong said: "I agree!"

Just as the four of us were about to go over, we saw a man standing up and shouting at the soldiers and soldiers, and the soldiers running away with their heads in their hands! Seeing this, I said to my three brothers, "This man must not be simple! He might have been an official, or else he wouldn't have scared the soldiers so much! I want to see that person! " Li Xiong and the other two all agreed to it. Let's go up and get to know him! "Let's see what kind of person he is!"

When I walked in front of that person, I didn't know why that person released a force that forced me to kneel down and worship that person, but what was weird was that Li Xiong, Chen Zhi, and Zhang Tie couldn't help but kneel down before that person. That person supported them and was about to kneel down. "Little brothers, what are you doing?"

The four of them looked at each other, not understanding why they couldn't control themselves. In any case, they were forced to kneel before that person.

I was shocked. "Why? Why? That person had a domineering aura, and that domineering aura made people want to kneel to him? Who the hell is he? "It seems like this person is not simple!"

[NOTE 1]: Ankang County includes the present Nanning City of Guangxi, Yongning County and Hengxian County. The county center of Ankang County is now Hengzhou Town, Hengxu County, Guangxi, built in the Western Han Dynasty Wudi Yuan Ding six years (111 BC).

[Note 2]: Thesheuo Yang is indeed the Luoyang. Because the Han Dynasty Emperor thinks that her Han Dynasty is blessed, and that the capital's Luoyang has water in its words, and that the current dynasty will be affected by the five elements, she changed the Luoyang to the Luo Yang. Thus, when Han Dynasty wrote the word "Luo," he used this word instead of "Luo." When she arrived at the Cao Wei, he used the word "Luo" instead. The Cao Wei believed that her dynasty was Earth, and using the five elements to change the word "Luo" back to water was beneficial to her dynasty.

[Note 3]: Fire and King Kong, as well as Li Xiong, Chen Zhi, Zhang Tie, and Fan Li are all self-created people.

[Note 4]: 'Man in Hanoi eats women, and woman in Henan province' is a sentence that Fan Li copied from the history books. It describes the hardships of life in those times, Henan in Han Dynasty and northern Henan in the Yellow River, the region south and north of the Yellow River.