flstandardbreds Chapter 153: The Unsolved Case of the Massacre
Chapter 153: The Unsolved Case of the Massacre
Lu Bei was shocked to find out that his father was once a young swordsman.
In the world of Shenwu, people who have reached the level of heaven and above will have a title. Some are called immortals, some are called gods, and some are called saints. They all represent the world's yearning for the prosperous age of immortals and gods in ancient times, and also represent the world's recognition of the powerful strength of these people.
Most of the titles here are self-proclaimed, and some are self-proclaimed. Generally speaking, those who use self-proclaimed titles are well-known figures and famous in the area.
For example, the Sword Saint of Great Chu was personally conferred the title by the current Great Chu Emperor, Chu He, and was also gifted with a luxurious villa, a ten-mile peach forest, and countless fine wines, all in order to keep the famous Gai Nie who had fled to the Central Plains of China in anger.
At that time, Lu Yunchuan was called the Free and Easy Sword Immortal, and was known by people in the martial arts world and the world.
Almost everyone of that generation was impressed by this free and easy and chivalrous swordsman, because Lu Yunchuan at that time was invincible among his peers in the world, but he was also unruly and loved freedom.
Many people love him, admire him and appreciate him. He is a heroic and handsome swordsman.
Gai Nie looked out the window, lost in memories.
Time flies and the past is like smoke.
Time goes back fifty years.
In the Central Plains of China, at the foot of the Qinling Sacred Mountain, there is a prosperous city with a population of one million, named Qincheng.
This was the ancestral land of the Qin Dynasty eight thousand years ago, and it was also a historical city that was once glorious.
At that time, Lu Yunchuan and Gai Nie were two carefree teenagers living here, one was nine years old, the other six. They did not know each other, one lived in the south of the city, the other in the north.
Suddenly, one day fifty years ago, Qincheng inexplicably ushered in its end. A group of soldiers covered in black armor with only sinister eyes showing inexplicably attacked this huge city.
This army has a total of about a thousand people, but everyone in it has reached a realm above the realm of spiritual travel. The leader is even a mysterious super-powerful man, a master of the Dao!
After these thousand men appeared, they immediately massacred Qincheng without explanation, slaughtering every living thing within sight. The commander-in-chief even killed Qincheng's then-lord, Qin Mo, a master of the Heavenly Realm, on the spot, annihilating his entire being.
It seemed that they came here only to kill and did not rob any property.
The massacre lasted for a day and a night, with blood flowing everywhere and corpses scattered all over the ground. In the end, the blood really gathered into a river, staining the land within a radius of hundreds of miles.
Finally, after the blood had dried up and the mysterious army confirmed that there was no survivor, they set fire to the city, flattened all the houses, and left.
This tragic event of destroying the city shocked the Tang Dynasty, the Emperor Wu City, and the entire world of Shenwu.
No one knew what the intention of those people was in brutally slaughtering millions of people in the city, nor did anyone know where they came from or what force they belonged to. In the end, this tragedy of the city's destruction became an unsolved case in Wudi City that has not been solved to this day.
What the mysterious army didn't know was that not all the people in that city died, and two young men still survived.
A nine-year-old boy, Lu Yunchuan, used the tortoise breathing technique he learned from the wandering Taoist priest to fake his death and hid in the cellar to avoid being searched.
There was also a six-year-old boy named Gai Nie who fell seriously ill and fainted. He had no breath or heartbeat, and his family thought he was dead and buried him hastily.
The young boy Lu Yunchuan crawled out from the sea of corpses and blood, facing the ruins all around, he was lost and helpless, crying loudly.
When he was tired of crying, Lu Yunchuan's eyes became firm and mature.
He was very hungry at this time, and began to walk out of the city, preparing to go to the next city two hundred miles away to find food.
When he walked to the north of the city, Lu Yunchuan suddenly heard the crying of children and the sound of stones hitting wooden boards.
He was startled at the time, thinking he had seen a ghost. He was about to leave this strange place, but he clearly heard the sound coming from the ground beneath his feet, and the vibration of the stone hitting the wooden board also came from the soles of his feet.
Lu Yunchuan thought that the child was also hiding in the cellar like him and survived by chance.
So he began to look for tools to dig the soil. When he dug out a small coffin, he was shocked again, thinking it was a ghost, and tried to run away.
At this time, clear calls and shouts were heard from the small coffin again, and the sound gradually weakened.
Lu Yunchuan finally couldn't get over the hurdle in his heart, and came back with gritted teeth.
He picked up a broken shovel to give himself courage, and as he pried open the coffin, he angrily muttered to himself, "Go away, demons and monsters! I'm not afraid of you."
Finally, he successfully pried open the coffin and rescued a five or six-year-old boy who was weak, short and pale.
This young man was Gai Nie.
When Lu Yunchuan saw that the child was pale and wearing loose mourning clothes, he was frightened again and thought it was a "little ghost".
But when he saw that the child was younger than himself, he plucked up his courage and raised the shovel to scare the "little devil".
Unexpectedly, the young man Gai Nie fainted again because he had been suffocating for too long and was weak.
Lu Yunchuan was stunned on the spot. He looked carefully for a long time before realizing that it was a living person.
At this time, flames were still burning all around. Lu Yunchuan had no choice but to carry the young man, who was a head shorter than him, on his back and set out again on his journey to find human habitation.
Gai Nie finally woke up on the way, feeling very thirsty.
Lu Yunchuan handed him the water bottle he had picked up on the roadside. There was only the last drop of clean water left in it, which he had originally intended to keep for himself.
Gai Nie took a sip and regained his strength.
So the two young men set out together on a journey to find human habitation.
The two of them had no water or food on the road and almost couldn't hold on for many times.
Every time the young Gai Nie was about to faint and give up, the determined and mature Lu Yunchuan would support him and persuade him to hold on.
In this way, the two walked on the deserted road for three days and three nights, and only replenished some water in a small puddle during this period.
When the two men were so hungry that they were dizzy and seeing stars, they finally saw their savior, who was also their future master.
Shi Qingquan, an outer sect elder from the Xinghe Sword Sect.
When Shi Qingquan was flying in the air, he accidentally glanced down and saw two young men walking stubbornly. At that moment, he was moved and inexplicably liked the two young men.
So he landed on the ground, rescued the two, and brought them back to the sect to be his disciples.
Lu Yunchuan is the senior brother and Gai Nie is the junior brother.
However, Shi Qingquan didn't know at this time that the two disciples he had accepted in his life would shine brightly in the Xinghe Sword Sect in the future, and even allowed him, an outer sect elder, to be promoted to an inner sect elder.