Chapter 2 Primer

The tree enters the roof and the stone road is new, Clouds and grass are very clean. Haze is unconscious, Mizuki Kong suspects the back of the dream. Often Jiming Rock next month, From time to time, the dog barks in the spring in the cave. I don't know where this place lives, You must ask the master about Taoyuan. ——(Tang) Cao Tang's "Imitation of Peach Garden" The green water is like brocade crepe, and the sound of the spring is like the wind blowing in the ring. In the depths of Tiantai Mountain, green mountains and green valleys are like embroidered screens, and a mountain stream winds out from between the cliffs on both sides, as clear as silver, forming a bead-like pool in the valley.A sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl was squatting by the pool, scooping up cool stream water and spraying it on her face.A childish face was reflected on the water.

After washing his face, he stood up and looked around.On the east side is a majestic and steep mountain, with a magnificent appearance, but there are a pair of round stones on the top of the mountain, like a girl's double buns. "Finally found the Shuangnvfeng." The girl sighed.She has traveled through mountains and rivers for several days.Although there are maps to guide, Tiantai Mountain stretches for hundreds of miles, with deep valleys and far-reaching valleys, and few people. It is not easy to find the "Taoyuan"!She got lost several times along the way, and finally met a few people, and she suspected that she was the enemy following her, so not only did she not dare to go forward to ask, but she carefully hid herself.

"'Under the Shuangnv Peak, beside the Mingyu Stream, go upstream, and find the Taoyuan of the Fairy Valley.' According to him, after passing the Huixian Stone by the Jinqiao Lake, walk along the Mingyu Stream to the Shuangnvfeng, It's almost there. But there are rocks and bushes on both sides of Mingyujian, where is there a way to go?" The girl was thinking to herself, when she suddenly saw a white light flashing between the green hills, as if startled.The girl looked over curiously, but the white light disappeared again.After a while, with a "poof", a small deer covered in snow landed on the opposite side of the mountain stream.The white deer turned his head sideways, and glanced at the girl, his eyes were clear and distant.The girl was about to wade across the water, but the white deer suddenly jumped up and flew towards the green cliff, like feathers, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

At sunset, a red peach grove appeared on the upper reaches of the river, and the green peach blossoms bloomed like clouds and brocades, as bright as a bright glow.Bypassing a boulder, a green bamboo forest spreads out in front of you.The girl saw that it was the Xiangfei Bamboo unique to the land of Huxiang, and said in her heart: "Here we are." There is a small courtyard hidden in the bamboo forest, with woven bamboo fences, bamboo doors and bamboo tiles, which is very delicate and unique.Sitting in the courtyard was a little woman, teasing a baby in her arms, her face full of contentment.Although the young woman was dressed in a homely way, she still looked radiant, unlike ordinary women.

The girl didn't know how to greet the young woman, hesitated for a long time, and suddenly called out: "Brother!" "Haha, little girl, I've seen you coming a long time ago!" A tall young man flew out from the bamboo forest and landed in front of the girl, suddenly his feet softened and he pretended to fall.The girl opened her mouth wide in shock.However, when the young man turned around, he stood still and laughed: "Ayan, what are you doing here?" Ah Yan curled her lips as if she wanted to cry.When the young man saw this, his heart sank.She found a letter from her backpack and thrust it in front of him: "It's written to you by senior brother."

After reading it hastily, the young man's face suddenly changed, and he asked sadly, "How long have you been away?" Ah Yan said: "Half a month. I'm afraid Master has..." The boy was stunned.For a moment, several expressions flashed across his face.After a while, he turned his head and said to the young woman sitting in the courtyard: "Mingzhu, Master is seriously ill, I have to rush back immediately!" The young woman looked a little hesitant, she walked over with the baby in her arms and said, "Are you leaving tomorrow?" The young man's voice was a little difficult, and he said, "Let's go now!"

"Why is it so urgent?" "Good sister, master and wife treat me and Ah Yan with such kindness as a mountain, and love beyond flesh and blood." "But those senior brothers of yours are not on good terms with you..." "It's two different things." "Hey, if you want to go, I can't stop you." The young woman showed resentment.She put the baby in the boy's arms, turned around and went into the room, and came out after packing a small bundle.She held a long sword in her hand and held it in front of the young man: "Take self-defense with you on the road."

The boy took the sword, and the two looked at each other knowingly.Ah Yan took a look, the sword was simple and unique in style, and there were two ancient seals engraved on the hilt: "Qingjue". The young man pondered for a moment, then said: "Mingzhu, I want to take Xiang'er back with me." The young woman opened her eyes wide and said, "How can this be done? Xiang'er is only one year old, how can he endure the turbulent journey?" The young man said: "I am very worried about leaving you mother and daughter here. Although your father said that he would no longer intervene in our affairs, it is difficult for others..."

"Hey, how dare they do anything to me?" "Not necessarily..." The young man thought for a while, and said sincerely, "Actually... I want to show Master and Mistress our Xiang'er. Now that Master...is probably the last chance. I will go together. After we got married, we never went to thank Master." The young woman said irritably: "I know what your plan is. But, I stay here, I am very comfortable, so I don't miss your master and wife, and I don't want to see your amazing brothers. I won't go with you , you don't want to take my Xiang'er away!"

The young man knew that his wife was too self-willed and had nothing to think about, so he handed the baby back to the young woman, and while turning around to go out, he told: "Mingzhu, I'm going right now, be careful yourself. Ah Yan, you're tired from walking too, tonight Stay with your sister-in-law for one night, and chase me on the road tomorrow." Ah Yan nodded.The young woman said softly, "Come back early." The boy turned his head and smiled at her, then suddenly slapped her across the face and hit the young woman! The young woman was taken aback, and instinctively turned sideways to dodge, saying that it was too late, then soon, the baby in her arms had already been snatched away by the boy.The young woman jumped up and asked, "You, what are you doing?"

As soon as the young man backed away, he ran a few feet away and said, "Mingzhu, come with me! My master has already..." "I just won't go!" The young woman stomped her feet angrily, but she still refused to chase out, "You stole my Xiang'er, I won't let you go, I won't let you go!" The young man shouted far away: "It's fine if you really don't want to come, I can't force you. Before the master died, I can only apologize by myself. But Xiang'er has to go back to the master's gate with me. You have to rely on me." The young woman knew she was wrong, so she could only say loudly: "If you don't bring Xiang'er back to me properly, you will never see me again!" "Don't worry, I will take good care of her." The boy's voice gradually faded away. Ah Yan and the young woman stood opposite each other, speechless for a while, watching the bright red petals of the peach blossom fly down one by one, each lost in thought.After a while, Ah Yan finally said: "Sister, I miss Master too, so I will leave tomorrow morning." "Ok." "Sister... On the way I came, I saw your white deer. Is it here?" Hearing this, the young woman said calmly, "It's not here. It's watching the sunset on the top of Chicheng Mountain at this time of day." Three days later, the boy came to the foot of Lushan Mountain.He returned home like an arrow, walked very fast along the way, and almost never slept well.In this way, the baby in his arms would not be able to cling to him, choking and crying endlessly.The young man felt sorry for his daughter and kept coaxing her. He also regretted that he was reckless and caused the young girl to suffer away from her mother.Fortunately, the daughter cried along the way, and did not get sick.It was hot at noon that day, so he sat down in the shade of a tree, coaxed his daughter to sleep, and gradually closed his eyes. When he woke up suddenly, the baby beside him was gone. This shock was no small matter.It must be known that with his cultivation base, even if he has been driving hard for days and sleeps too soundly, it is absolutely impossible for someone to take the baby away from him without knowing it, unless - the opponent is a top expert in lightness kung fu.Thinking of this, he couldn't help frowning.But where exactly is the child? The young man looked around anxiously.This is the sphere of influence of the Lushan faction, the great martial arts school, who would attack him?Suddenly there was a cry of a baby from the top of the mountain, the young man was shocked, and hurriedly started to rush to the top of the mountain.Although he knew that this must be the enemy's trick to lure him, but his beloved daughter was on top, so he couldn't care less about it. The top of the mountain seemed empty, with the baby lying on an outcropping rock on the edge of the cliff.The young man rushed over to pick up the child, and felt pity when he saw her white and delicate face was flushed red from the sun. "Hehehe..." There was a burst of wild laughter from behind, as if there were six or seven people.Although under the scorching sun, this laughter also makes people chill in the frost and snow. The young man said coldly: "So it's Brother Huang!" The leader, a man in his thirties, kept silent, and a person next to him said sharply: "It's not just senior brother, our seven brothers are here! Tantai Shuran, what kind of thing are you, dare to make trouble with our Tiantai sect! Our little junior sister is a first-class beauty in the martial arts world, but letting you, a rascal, kidnap us is simply an insult to our Tiantai faction. The Tiantai Seven Swords must not tolerate you, and must be angry for senior brother!" The young man knew that a fierce battle was inevitable, so he said calmly: "The seven of you are all defeated by me, and even the commander lost to me. Today, you are provoking again, maybe you plan to fight alone?" The man gritted his teeth and said: "Let you taste our 'Qiongtai Sword Formation'!" After a few "swipes", the seven people immediately held their long swords in their hands and formed a crescent shape, surrounding the teenagers. The boy stood facing the cliff without looking back.But he held the baby tightly with his left hand, and picked up a dead branch from the ground with his right hand.Suddenly he jumped up and flew towards Senior Brother Tiantai in the middle of the sword array, his movements were extremely fast.Seeing that the elder brother's eyes were about to be poked blind by him, suddenly the boy's wrist flicked, and his right hand changed direction, but the dead branch hit the wrist of a person at the end of the sword array.No one saw clearly how he changed his moves, but saw that the young man had landed firmly behind the sword formation, and said with a smile: "Good sword formation!" There was no alarm, but the sword formation of the seven Tiantai disciples was disrupted by him.That elder brother knew that he was being merciful, so he couldn't help feeling embarrassed, the long sword in the hand of the person at the end of the sword array almost flew away, and he felt terrified, if the young man used a real sword, his palm would be lost. After pausing for a while, the senior brother shouted: "Juniors, come on!" The seven long swords stabbed at the young man one after another, each sword coming in a strange and strange way, continuous and fast No match.The young man knew very well that the Tiantai swordsmanship had a unique path, it was a unique skill in the martial arts, and he couldn't underestimate the enemy, so he concentrated all his attention on it, and slashed away with one sword at a time.This Qiongtai Sword Formation is very ingeniously designed, aiming to make people focus on one thing and lose another.The elder brother's sword slashed straight at the young man's face, and the young man had no choice but to seal it with his sword. At this time, another person swept his lower body from behind, and he was expected to be unable to avoid it.Unexpectedly, the young man twisted his body to the side, the dead branch in his hand stuck to the senior brother's sword, he followed the trend to the left, and the blade of the sword stabbed straight at the person behind him. The end of this sword array is exquisite and meticulous.If you want to disrupt, you have to break through each one!So he started to swim, like threading flowers around a tree, picking east and west among the seven people.Sure enough, the sword formation started to become chaotic again, and several rooftop disciples were stabbed severely by dead branches a few times.However, the Tiantai School is good at lightness kung fu, and the skill of flying through the sky is unparalleled in the world.This sword array also made full use of this advantage. The figures of several disciples were light and quick, and they were unpredictable. Often, just as the young man messed up a person's steps, that person would move his body and quickly change to another position; People saw the opportunity, and the sword array immediately changed to another formation, and surrounded them again, which was dizzying.That young man's swordsmanship is superb, if he also uses lightness kung fu to chase and compete with them, it is expected that he will also win.However, he was afraid of disturbing the child in his arms, so he didn't dare to take risks, and only broke through in the middle of the sword array.Unable to attack for a long time, he gradually became restless. The young man suddenly let out a long cry, and the seven disciples of the rooftop couldn't help being stunned for a moment. Looking at the young man again, there was a gleaming green sword in his hand.The elder brother was full of resentment, and screamed: "Unexpectedly, the Qing Jue sword is in your hands!" He seemed to have turned into a wild beast, and rushed towards the young man, completely killing both of them. The young man didn't want to fight for a long time, so he took out a sharp weapon. Unexpectedly, Senior Brother Huang went so desperately when he saw this sword.Even if he dodged so fast, there was still a deep gash on his left arm, dripping with blood.When the baby saw the blood, he cried "Wow".The young man was furious, and he didn't care about showing mercy.It must be known that his swordsmanship has been taught by a stranger, and it is rare to meet an opponent in the whole world.I saw him standing upright like a mountain, seeing the moves and breaking the moves, seeing the moves and breaking the moves, with a long sword, sweeping and hitting, chopping, stabbing and cutting, he did not back down!While the figure was swaying, only the light of the Qingjue Excalibur was weaved like a tangle, and the light surpassed the sun and the moon.Where the sword light passed, green blood splashed, accompanied by the baby's crying. After a scuffle, the seven rooftop disciples all fell to the ground, their acupuncture points were poked and they couldn't get up.It turned out that the boy still didn't want to hurt their lives after all, but he was also seriously injured, with blood bubbling from his shoulders, knees, etc., and he was also cut on his lower abdomen.The boy sat down on the ground, ignoring his injuries, and quickly coaxed the baby in his arms to stop crying, just worried that she would be frightened by this fierce battle. Brother Tiantai fell to the ground panting, unable to move, suddenly said: "The appointment is at noon, why are you here now?" The young man was startled, turned his head, and saw a masked man in black standing quietly behind him at some point.The figure of that person is so familiar, the young man stared into his eyes and said in surprise, "You..." While still in astonishment, the man suddenly kicked the youth's Qing Jue sword into the deep valley below the cliff, and said coldly: "You are known as the number one swordsman in the world, but if you don't use a sword, you can beat it." Me?" Seeing this, the big brother Tiantai pounced, as if desperately trying to grab the sword back. Another disciple said: "Senior brother, no, the flowers at the bottom of the Valley of Splendid Blossoms have already bloomed, it is extremely dangerous." The masked man's palms had already slammed down on the young man, and the young man walked past and shouted, "Why? Why are you against me?" The masked man sneered and said, "Don't you understand?" Dozens of quick palms were slapped down again.That person has superb internal strength, exquisite palm technique, and he is like a master between poking and stabbing.The young man lost his sword, and was still holding the baby in his left hand. In addition, he was exhausted from the fierce battle, so he was no match for the masked man.After a few strokes, he was at a disadvantage. He was quick to wit, turned his right hand into a sword, and used his miraculous swordsmanship.Although a fleshy palm can't compare with a sword, but when it is used in a dangerous situation, it is even a tie with the masked man. The masked man's skill is far superior to those of the Tiantai disciples, he planned to take it down within a few moves, but he didn't expect that the young man was seriously injured, and he could still resist it.Suddenly, he moved and changed steps, as fast as a shooting star, flashed to the left of the boy, and even pointed at the boy. The boy should have jumped out, but he was afraid of frightening the child, so he could only turn on the ground, lift his body lightly, and pull up with the masked man's fingers.The masked man smiled coldly, turned his fingers into palms, and patted the boy.The two palms met, the young man felt a shock in his chest, stars appeared in his eyes, and he almost vomited blood.The soles of his feet wobbled, and he hurriedly backed away, suddenly felt that the palm of his hand was firmly sucked by the opponent, and he couldn't pull it back.The two fought with each other with their internal strength, slowly exhausting.The young man was gradually failing under the heavy pressure, and felt that all the bones in his body were about to fall apart. The masked man sneered and said: "You only focus on studying swordsmanship and don't talk about internal strength cultivation. You will know the disadvantages today, right?" The young man finally realized that this time the masked man really wanted to put him to death. In the midst of life and death, I suddenly heard someone shouting: "Brother, brother!" The young man felt sore, but thought: "Okay, Ah Yan is here, Xiang'er is saved." At this time, the masked man also seemed to have a heartbeat, and the attractiveness in his palm disappeared unconsciously.The young man thought that the opportunity must not be missed, he quickly withdrew his palm and jumped back.This jump was intended to jump out of the range of the masked man's palms, but unexpectedly he exhausted so much energy that he almost ran out of energy, he just lifted his feet up after the jump.The masked man glared at him fiercely, and pushed his palms towards his chest.With a sway of his body, the boy floated to the bottom of the cliff.At this critical moment, the boy exerted all his strength, swung his left arm, and threw the baby in his arms up.The child was thrown to the edge of the cliff, crying heart-piercingly. Unexpectedly, there was a section of dead tree on the cliff wall, which happened to hang the boy's clothes.The young man escaped death, looked up, Ah Yan rushed to the edge of the cliff crying, "Brother, brother!" desperately stretched out his hand to pull him.The dead tree was not far from the top of the cliff, but the two of them couldn't reach it anyway.Ah Yan slipped and rolled down too! The young man stretched out his hand, grabbed Ah Yan, and hung her on the dead tree, but Ah Yan said: "No, brother, no!" The boy looked up and couldn't help sighing.It turned out that the tree had been decayed for a long time, but it was only loosely attached to the rock wall. When the boy fell down, he pulled it so that it was almost out of support. Slides out slowly, won't last long! On the cliff, the beloved daughter was still wailing.Heartbroken, the young man tore off a piece of white cloth that hadn't been stained with blood from his shirt, bit his finger, drew a few strokes hastily, and said, "Ah Yan, I'll throw you up when I gain strength. Let Xiang'er go to find her mother." Ah Yan cried: "I don't want it, brother, I'll die with you!" The young man looked around and saw that the roots of the dead tree were only connected to the rock wall. The young man said, "Nonsense! I only have you as my sister, how can you die! Xiang'er is still on the top, only you can save her. He... He won't kill you!" Before the words were finished, the dead tree had already fallen.The boy stuffed the blood book into Ah Yan's hand, and with the last of his strength, he threw her up. Below the abyss is thick clouds and mist.I saw the ethereal green shirt, like a flying bird, swallowed by the vast waves of smoke in an instant. Ah Yan staggered up.The masked man stood there blankly, as if he was overwhelmed by the scene just now.The baby was lying at his feet.Ah Yan shouted: "You are not allowed to touch her!" The masked man said slowly: "I don't want to kill her, but how dare I let her stay in this world..." At this time, Ah Yan experienced a sudden change, and his heart suddenly became clear like a mirror.She rushed over and held the baby in her arms. The masked man knew that her martial arts were far inferior to his own, so he let her go.Looking at the tree shadows at the foot of the mountain, Ah Yan suddenly had an idea, quietly tucked the blood book in the baby's swaddle, and said to the masked man: "If you dare to harm this child, I will definitely not let you go in the future. Actually, you It's better to kill me and leave the life of the child. You want to kill the grass and roots, just because you are afraid that she will get revenge when she grows up. But now she doesn't understand anything. In the future, only I will tell her who her father-killing enemy is. How about this, You kill me! There will be no problem." The masked man sighed: "Ayan, your thoughts are always so weird. But if I kill both of you, aunt and nephew, wouldn't it be easier!" Ah Yan sneered and said: "Then you will kill!" The masked man lowered his head and said in a trembling voice, "How did I know you were coming? You knew that I... couldn't do anything to you." Ah Yan screamed sadly: "You really can't? But you can cruelly attack my own brother! I must save this child! One life for another, how about it?" The masked man was silent for a while, then suddenly stretched out his hand and brushed towards Ah Yan.Ah Yan felt a chill in her heart, she had only bet that the masked man could still take into account a trace of old friendship, so she had to protect her brother's orphan even if she went all out.Unexpectedly, he really refused to let him go!She threw the baby far away and lost consciousness. The masked man saw that Ah Yan was hit on the acupoints and fainted, so he pulled out a dagger and stabbed at the baby on the ground.Strange to say, the child was crying hard at first, but suddenly stopped sobbing when he saw the light of the dagger, and stared at the masked man with a pair of eyes as clear as water.The masked man was also stunned, looking at Yuxue's cute little baby girl, he couldn't stab it with a dagger no matter what. Suddenly, he felt that the surrounding atmosphere was a bit strange, and when he turned around, all the disciples of the Tiantai sect who had fallen to the ground had disappeared.While he was wondering, he caught a glimpse of a strange shadow on the ground, casting from behind him, like an old tree—but he clearly remembered that there was no tree here! The shadow seemed to have become a human figure again, haggard and sharp.There seemed to be a pair of falcon eyes staring at him.He couldn't help slipping his hand, and the dagger fell with a clang, cutting the baby's delicate cheek.The baby let out a "wow" and burst into tears again.The masked man was in such a state of confusion at the moment, he didn't dare to look back at all, picked up Ah Yan who had fallen on the ground, and ran away like a fly. There were only a few pools of blood left on the cliff, and it was empty.Under the desolate sky, only the baby was still sobbing in a voice that had been hoarse from crying.