Great Zhou Dynasty, Wuzhou, Dongning Mansion.
At the main entrance of 'Jinghu Daoyuan', one of the eight avenues in Dongning Fucheng, a young man with a knife on his waist walked out of the Daoyuan.
"Brother Meng."
"Hello, Senior Brother Meng."
"I met Senior Brother Meng."
The other colleagues around are quite enthusiastic.
The young Meng Chuan nodded slightly to these juniors and juniors. In fact, many of these 'sisters and juniors' were older than him, but the rules of Jinghu Daoist Academy are those who have mastered first. He had already entered the Jinghu Dao two years ago. The 22 disciples of Shanshuilou are also the 22 strongest disciples of Jinghu Daoyuan, and they are admired and yearned by many juniors and sisters. Among them, "Senior Brother Meng" is particularly respected, because Brother Meng will occasionally point them out, while other brothers and sisters of Shanshuilou are too lazy to waste time on others.
"Young Master, Young Master." Suddenly a familiar voice came from the side.
A girl in green clothes ran out from the side, and Meng Chuan smiled when he saw this: "Green bamboo, why are you here?"
"My lady wants to invite my son to go to Dongshan to play together. There was just a heavy snow last night. After the snow, Dongshan is very beautiful." The girl in green smiled.
"Going to Dongshan for a visit?" Meng Chuan frowned and said, "Dongshan is too far away. If you go there, you may have to spend the night in Dongshan, and you won't be able to come back until tomorrow."
The girl in green smiled and said, "My Yun family happens to have a separate courtyard in Dongshan, so I can stay there overnight."
Meng Chuan shook his head and said: "Go back and tell Qingping that the Yuyang Palace Demon Slaying Festival will be held in more than a month. I need to devote myself to practice to prepare, and I can't accompany her there."
"This..." the girl in green hesitated.
"Just tell me when you go back." Meng Chuan ordered, "Also, let Qingping spend more time practicing, and don't always think about going out for fun."
"Yes." The green-clothed girl could only obediently agree, and went back to report.
Meng Chuan shook his head slightly.
He also had some headaches for 'Yun Qingping' who had made a marriage contract since childhood.
…
Jinghu Daoyuan was built on the east bank of Jinghu Lake, and there are many mansions on the west bank of Jinghu Lake, among which there is a "Mengfu".
"Master." There were two guards at the gate of the mansion, and they were quite respectful when they saw Meng Chuan.
"Is my father in the mansion?" Meng Chuan asked.
"The ancestral house sent someone just now, and the master rushed there immediately." The guard said.
Meng Chuan nodded thoughtfully, and entered the mansion.
"咻咻咻!!!" Soon the sound of arrows was faintly heard, and Meng Chuan followed the sound to the training ground.
In the training ground, a girl in red was bending her bow and shooting arrows. Arrows shot through dozens of feet in an instant and hit the target one after another, and the last arrow hit the shaft of the previous arrow.
Meng Chuan watched the other party practice arrows.
Her name is Liu Qiyue, and she is the only daughter of her father's life-and-death brother 'Liu Yebai'.
When I was eight years old...
Liu Yebai brought her daughter to the Meng Mansion and stayed there ever since.
Qiyue is very similar to herself, both of them lost their mothers when they were very young. Since childhood, July has been practicing with her, and she has been practicing with her until now, and her relationship is very deep.
"A Chuan, you're back." The girl in red saw Meng Chuan's eyes light up, "It's really boring to shoot these targets, come on, come on, make me a target. If it wasn't for waiting for you, I would have gone to the Taoist Academy to practice archery a long time ago." , the bow and arrow range of the Taoist monastery is much larger than this."
"Okay, I'll be your target."
Meng Chuan walked to the center of the martial arts field with a smile.
The girl in red changed her quiver, and the arrows were all without arrowheads. She looked at Meng Chuan with bright eyes: "A Chuan, you have to be careful, don't be beaten black and blue by me again."
"Be careful too, I'm going to break your Seven-Star Lianzhu Arrow this time." Meng Chuan waited intently.
The girl in red giggled, followed her fingers like a phantom, and instantly drew the bow and shot the arrow without seeming to need to aim.
Whoosh! ! ! Arrow after arrow, shot one after another. Every time I take the arrow from the back quiver and draw the bow to shoot the arrow, and then take the arrow and draw the bow to shoot the arrow... It's as natural as a normal person's breathing. The arrows are astonishingly fast and powerful.
"Puff puff." The knife on Meng Chuan's waist was out of its sheath.
The knife moved in an arc, forming a faint field in front of him, and any arrows that came would be blocked.
"A Chuan, your sword skills are getting better and better. You still have to use the Seven-Star Lianzhu Arrow." The girl in red said with a smile while shooting the arrow. Obviously, it is very easy to shoot the arrow like this.
"call out!"
As soon as the words fell, the girl in red shot a new arrow, and the arrow pierced through the air with a piercing scream.
"Here we come!" Meng Chuan became more solemn.
"Pfft." "Pfft."
Meng Chuan walked in an arc, blocking arrows like a ball. But the Seven-Star Lianzhu Arrow is a killer move that consumes a lot of true energy, and the arrow speed will become faster and faster.
With only the sixth arrow, Meng Chuan's knife blocked the air, and then he felt a pain in his chest, and he couldn't help but staggered, his chest might be bruised.
"Still can't stop it." Meng Chuan shook his head helplessly.
"I have cultivated the five major killer moves, you can already block the four major killer moves, only the 'Seven Stars Lianzhu Arrow' is left." The girl in red smiled, "It's already very powerful. No one at all levels can block my 'triple phantom arrow', but you can block it."
"I have blocked your bow and arrow since I was a child, of course it is stronger than your Taoist school." Meng Chuan shook his head, "You still don't have arrows, if you add arrows, the speed of the arrows will be faster. Your five killer moves... I'm afraid I can't stop most of them."
"Achuan, haven't you heard? In the same realm, no one can resist the mad attack of a sharpshooter." The girl in red said proudly.
"July... It's a life-and-death fight. I rushed to you in the first place." Meng Chuan snorted.
"All sharp archers have guards." The girl in red curled her lips, "My guards will block you, and then you will become my target. Maybe you will be my guards in the future!"
Meng Chuan smiled.
He is very aware of the horror of the sharp archers. In any force, the top sharp archers have a very high status and will be well protected.
My younger sister, July, is very talented in bows and arrows.
"A Chuan, your dean called you over today, are you talking about the Yuyang Palace Demon Slaying Festival?" Liu Qiyue asked.
"Well, you Lieyang Taoist also said it." Meng Chuan asked.
"Say it! I am the only archer among the ten marrow-washing disciples of Lieyang Taoist Academy, and the headmaster directly assigned me a spot." Liu Qiyue said, "To deal with monsters at the Yuyang Palace Demon Slaying Festival, My sharp archer is the best."
Meng Chuan said with a smile: "Our Jinghu Taoist Academy has a total of three places in the Marrow Cleansing Realm. Although I am one of the top ten disciples in the Marrow Cleansing Realm, I still have to compete for the place. If I don't get a place, I am not eligible to go."
"Then you can fight slowly." Liu Qiyue laughed.
"Don't be careless, at the Yuyang Palace Demon Slaying Festival, when you face monsters, don't be approached by monsters." Meng Chuan said, "Let's practice first."
Speaking of which, Meng Chuan suddenly flew over.
"Have the ability to catch up with me."
Liu Qiyue immediately flew out of the way, and even turned around and shot an arrow.
…
The other place is the 'Yun Family', one of the five great demon families in Dongning Prefecture.
Yun Qingping is making tea for her father 'Yun Fu'an'.
"Father, try it." Yun Qingping flatteringly put a cup of tea in front of her father. Suddenly, she caught a glimpse of the maid Lu Zhu who came back from a distance, her eyes lit up, and she shouted, "Green Bamboo!"
Green Bamboo can only pass obediently.
"How is it? What did Meng Chuan say?" Yun Qingping asked repeatedly.
"Mr. Meng said that the Yuyang Palace Demon Slaying Festival will be held in more than a month. He has to devote himself to his practice to prepare for it. He can't accompany you to Dongshan for a visit." Lu Zhu said in a low voice.
"Aren't you going again?"
Yun Qingping was a little annoyed, "I just know how to practice and practice."
"Mr. Meng also asked me to tell Miss, spend more time practicing and don't always think about going out for fun." Lu Zhu said again.
"He still cares about me?"
Yun Qingping became more and more annoyed.
"I think what Meng Chuan said is quite right." Yun Fu An, who was sitting there, drank tea happily and said, "You girl should practice hard and stop being playful."
"Father, this Meng Chuan is just like a piece of wood." Yun Qingping looked at Yun Fuan and couldn't help but said, "When I was just full moon, you made a baby kiss for me and Meng Chuan! But our temperaments are completely different. .I like to play, and I like to invite many friends to play together. But he likes to practice, draw, and likes to be quiet. When I talk to him, I don’t talk to him. I am going crazy when I think of getting married with him in the future.”
"You're just too noisy. It's a good thing that there happens to be someone who can cure you." Yun Fu'an laughed.
Yun Qingping went to her father's side, hugged her father's arm and said coquettishly: "Father, I beg you, go talk to the Meng family, talk to Uncle Meng, and break off the engagement."
"Don't even think about it!" Yun Fuan directly rejected it while drinking tea.
"father!"
Yun Qingping said angrily, "Why do you insist on forcing me to marry him? Back then, when I was just over the moon, I didn't understand anything, so I made a marriage for me. How do you know what Meng Chuan will be like when he grows up? I don't know, so I insisted on marrying him. You didn't care about my thoughts at all. Don't you think it's too much?"
"Meng Chuan is still pretty good." Yun Fuan said, "The younger generation of the five great demon families in Dongning Mansion, he is pretty good."
"It doesn't matter how good he is, I don't like it!" Yun Qingping said angrily, "I don't want to marry a so-called genius who can't talk together."
Yun Fuan gently put down his teacup, raised his eyelids, and looked at his daughter coldly.
Yun Qingping's heart trembled.
But the arrogance in her heart made her hold her head up and stare at her father!
"In the past six months, you have told me six times that you have broken off the engagement." Yun Fuan said coldly, "It seems that Dad spoils you too much, so I will make it clear to you today."
Yun Qingping stared at her father.
Yun Fu'an continued: "The marriage between you and Meng Chuan is not just a matter between you two. It is also a matter between our Yun family and the Meng family! Although our Yun family is one of the five great gods and demon families, it is also possible to settle in Dongning Mansion." In just a few decades, there are only dozens of clan members, and the foundation is still shallow. The Meng family is a family of gods and demons that has been rooted in Dongning for thousands of years, with more than 10,000 clan members! Meng Chuan's father 'Meng Dajiang' will be the next head of the Meng family. You are the only girl in the third generation of our Yun family, if you marry Meng Chuan, the relationship between our Yun family and the Meng family will naturally take a big step forward. This will also be of great benefit to my Yun family."
"Grandfather has cultivated into a god and demon." Yun Qingping retorted, "With grandfather around, no one can shake my Yun family! If that's the case, why can't you let me live more comfortably?"
"Ziza? Zizai means you can marry whoever you want?" Yun Fuan said coldly.
"Why, can't you?" Yun Qingping raised her head and said, "For the sake of the family, you must sacrifice me? Dad, don't you feel ashamed?"
"Shut up!"
Yun Fuan stood up angrily, pointed at his daughter angrily, and shouted, "Yun Qingping, you want to go out to play, and there are groups of guards and servants. You want to eat dragon fish in winter, and someone will try their best to find it for you. You are not careful in cultivation, and there are a lot of treasures used on you, so that you have reached the marrow washing state this year. I ask a master to guide you one-on-one. Your strength is weak. I will ask three bodyguards to protect you in secret. Please three The bodyguard of the Embryo Realm needs five hundred taels of silver a month, and various other treasures..."
"For your so-called freedom, do you know how much the family has paid?" Yun Fuan stared at his daughter.
Yun Qingping was stunned.
She is not stupid.
After a little calculation, she knew how amazing the family had paid for her to maintain such a life.
"You have enjoyed all the benefits of the family, so you have to bear what you should bear!" Yun Fuan shouted angrily, "Just enjoy the benefits and do nothing? Think beautifully!"
"Also, I know that there is a little guy in your Taoist monastery named Zhang Chong, who has been very attentive to you recently, right?" Yun Fuan sneered, "He is a boy from the Zhang family, and he is also worthy of marrying me, Yun Fuan." Daughter, don't look in the mirror to see which onion you are!"
"Father, Senior Brother Zhang and I didn't..." Yun Qingping wanted to explain.
"As long as I find that you have violated the rules a little bit, and stain the face of my Yun family and Meng family. Not only will he die, but even you! I will clean up the house!" Yun Fuan looked at his frightened daughter coldly, "When the time comes Don't blame the father for being ruthless."
Yun Qingping felt a chill in her heart.
She has never seen such a cold side of her father, and she is only fifteen years old this year.
"Daughter." Yun Fuan calmed down, "Family marriage is like this, no matter how ugly or incompetent he is, you have to marry him. Your father and I married your mother, it was your grandfather's choice, there is no choice! And speaking of it, Meng Chuan's character is very good, you should be lucky."
After finishing speaking, Yun Fuan glanced at the trembling maid Luzhu behind her daughter, and said: "Luzhu, watch your lady for me, don't let her make mistakes."
"Yes." Green Bamboo replied quickly.
Yun Fuan immediately left with his hands behind his back.
Yun Qingping stood there, staring blankly at his father's leaving figure, thinking of the phrase "Even you, I will clean up the house. Don't blame the father for being ruthless." This sentence really stimulated Yun Qingping big.
She felt that the world was different from what she had imagined for so many years.