The mountains are high and the tigers leap, and the rivers let the fish roam
A big river that divides the Central Plains into two runs through east and west, and only the word Yangtze River can express its majesty. Although the world is in chaos, the people still have to live, especially the fishermen who live on the Yangtze River. 10% of the time and 90% of the time worry about how to live at home.
The ferry boats on the river are still full of guests, but most of them come from north to south. Jiangbei Province has been involved in the war by Luo Yao's million-strong army. The people are as fearful of soldiers as they are of tigers. Every family has three relatives, so most of them who can find places to hide have gone out.
The people with their families took the boat to the south, and when they boarded the boat and looked back to the north of the river, everyone felt a little bit of pain in their hearts. If it weren't for natural disasters and man-made disasters, who would be willing to live in exile
There are a lot of people crossing the river recently, so after the ferry puts people on the south bank, it immediately rushes to the north bank. One more trip can earn hundreds of copper coins, and the most can earn several taels of silver in a day. Especially those wealthy households who spend a lot of money and don't want to be crowded on a boat with others, most of them charter a boat with a lot of money to go south. However, although the fishermen are greedy for the escaped silver of those wealthy households, no one does this.
They will loudly tell those wealthy households that if they want to cross the river, they should honestly take the same boat with everyone, and if they don't like it, don't go up there.
The angry wealthy households cursed, but those fishermen refused.
"I bother!"
A boatman docked the boat on the south bank, watched the well-dressed rich men go ashore with other common people, and then spit out a mouthful of phlegm: "Think it's a big deal if you have a few stinky money? You can only pass if you are willing to carry you." He, if you don’t want to carry you, you just wait to die in the north, you really have such great abilities, what are you running for?”
"What's wrong?"
asked the boatman of the nearby boat.
"It's okay, I scolded those people for chartering a boat."
"Hey, it's rare that Liu Laosan, who regards money as his life, is so generous."
"Fart your uncle, since when did I regard money as my life, that... the year before last, I treated you to a tea egg!"
"Fuck, do you want me to give you back a reed chicken? Liu Laosan, I don't know you yet? If it wasn't for my aunt's words, the boat must be full before leaving. Picking passengers and chartering the boat are not allowed, even poor beggars want it." Zai, how the hell can you have such courage? Ever since my aunt came to our place, you are much more honest than before. Before, everyone looked down on you, but now you are a bit of a man, and you will greet everyone when you have something to do. By the way... my aunt is going to your house today, do you know?"
"ah?"
Liu Laosan was stunned for a moment: "Why did you go to my house!"
He was visibly taken aback.
The boatman said: "Look at your coward, did you pee when you were slapped into the water by your aunt last time? Don't worry, how big is your aunt to know as much as you? She heard that there is a sickness in your family." Heavy old lady, you are greedy for money to see a doctor for my old lady, so I went to your house early in the morning, my aunt said that she still knows some medical skills, see if I can help you."
Liu Laosan's lips twitched a few times, and his nose was sore that he wanted to cry.
"Oh, are you going to cry?!"
The boatman laughed.
"Hush..."
Liu Laosan glared at him: "No one will think you are dumb if you don't speak."
"Please take me across the river."
The two were talking and laughing when suddenly an old voice came from the bank. Liu Laosan took a look, and found that it was an old man who looked old and hunched over. He was wearing a very new dress and a pair of new boots on his feet. It was just because his back seemed to be not straight anymore, so the new clothes did not look very straight.
"Old man, are you going to Jiangbei?"
Liu Laosan hurriedly persuaded: "It doesn't matter whether you are visiting relatives or what, the north is full of chaos, so don't go. It's not that I won't carry you, you won't be able to run away if you are in a state of chaos."
"It's because I'm running out of strength, so I'm in a hurry."
The old man smiled, and stepped onto Liu Laosan's boat: "Let's go, a lot of money is enough for you."
Liu Laosan shook his head: "Don't say I didn't persuade you, look, all the boats going north are empty, but is there a boat carrying guests? A few hundred miles to the north is the battlefield, where the imperial army and Luo Yao It was said that General Liu Enjing led soldiers to stop Luo Yao's soldiers in Firefox City, and General Xu Xiaogong led an army of hundreds of thousands to come from behind. The soldiers killed for a while, so they had to retreat and stationed hundreds of miles north of the river."
"Hey...how did Xu Xiaogong come here?"
asked the hunchbacked old man.
"It was Pang Ba who let him come here. I really don't know who is with whom. When Pang Ba led his army across the river, I asked those soldiers and they said that they were allies with Luo Yao, King Yong. He was with the imperial court. Let Xu Xiaogong's army come over, and stabbed Luo Yao fiercely in the back. These things are what I heard from the guests, anyway, I don't understand."
"Ha ha."
The old man smiled, and stroked the ancient sword in his hand: "It's better to save hundreds of miles, not bad... There is no eternal alliance in this world, especially in troubled times, it is even rarer."
After the old man finished speaking, his face suddenly changed and he murmured: "Unexpectedly... the momentum of hundreds of years is so powerful. I think it is also a general formation in Dalun Temple. It is no wonder that Qingzheng is so powerful. Difficult. It's a pity, if only a few years younger, the oil is exhausted... "
Liu Laosan didn't know what nonsense he was muttering, and didn't bother to ask. He knew that old people had the habit of talking to themselves like this, for example, his old mother would also talk like this, but she was just talking to herself.
"I have hundreds of taels of silver in my package."
The old man smiled at Liu Laosan: "If I fall asleep later, please don't wake me up, and the money will be my reward. Don't touch me, don't call me, no matter what happens, okay?"
"Alright, if you're sleepy, just take a nap for a while."
Liu Laosan smiled at the old man, and said to himself that people like to take naps when they are old.
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Gangbuk-do
Yongjun Camp
Luo Yao looked at the map in front of him and frowned deeply. He had led troops for decades, and he thought he knew a lot about human nature, but he still didn't expect that Pang Ba would lead his troops out of the way, so that Xu Xiaogong attacked from behind. Yong Jun was caught off guard. Up to now, he still abides by the minimum rules, and has not slaughtered all the generals of the imperial court with his strong cultivation base. The first reason is that Zhang Yiyang is in Liu Enjing's army, and the second is because he disdains him.
Even if he is impatient, he doesn't want to look down on himself.
"My lord."
Luo Xiaotu, who had already been named a general, lowered his voice and asked, "Do you want your subordinates to lead the troops to charge again?"
Luo Yao shook his head slightly: "Wait a minute, Pang Ba obviously has an agreement with the imperial court. Those people in Tonggu Academy want to deal with me first. It seems that they are also impatient. If I lead troops to attack Liu Enjing, Pang Ba will He and Xu Xiaogong would immediately lead troops to harass my flank, I underestimated Pang Ba and those people, they crossed the river not to attack Chang'an, but to target me."
Just as he was about to continue to say something, his face suddenly changed: "Everyone, don't go out, no matter what happens outside, you are not allowed to interfere, and those who disobey the order will be executed."
He strode out of the tent and raised his head to look at the southern sky.
There is a flowing rainbow coming from the sky.
"I hid in Sui all those years, and my cultivation was no longer daring to fight with you. Since you came today, I have fulfilled my wish for many years. I have heard for so long that you are the number one person in the Central Plains. After all, there is some confusion in a fight. I am on the west side and you are on the east side. Originally, the two do not invade each other, but I crossed the boundary, so this battle is inevitable."
He looked at the Liuhong and spoke with a solemn expression.
"Have nothing to say to me?"
The ball of light stopped a hundred meters away from Luo Yao and remained motionless.
"That's right, where did all this nonsense come from. Just call."
Luo Yao took a deep breath: "I heard that you only have one sword, no matter who the opponent is, you don't need to use the second sword. Come and try today, can you kill me with one sword?!"
He took a sharp step forward, and golden flames burst out from his body in an instant. The flames were blazing, five or six meters high. But the karmic fire that burned everything gradually changed its shape with Luo Yao's footsteps, and finally turned into a big Buddha sitting cross-legged, enveloping Luo Yao in it. The Buddha's eyebrows are clear, and the golden thread in the body is the blood, which is getting more and more solid. This golden Buddha turned into thousands of hands, and each hand held a method of cultivation.
"No one has ever been able to break my Buddha's Ten Thousand Laws."
Luo Yao looked at the ball of light in the distance: "Come on!"
Evidently, he was overwhelmed with excitement.
He had been looking forward to this battle for too long.
The ball of light suddenly moved forward, turning into a long sword full of antiquity, stabbing straight at Luo Yao's heart, without any fancy, not too fast to be seen clearly, just so straight and upright. It doesn't look very powerful, just like a sword stabbed by a beginner in martial arts.
Luo Yao's face was ferocious, and he shouted again: "Come to fight! I will destroy you, the number one in the Central Plains!"
The ancient sword flew over and pierced the golden Buddha, but the karmic fire that could burn everything had no effect on the ancient sword. The Buddha's heart was pierced by the sword, with a surprised and terrified expression on his face. The same is true for Luo Yao in the Great Buddha, he never imagined that the Buddha Lin, who has gathered all his cultivation base, would not be able to block that ordinary sword!
The sword moved very slowly, but it was not stopped.
The blade of the sword had already entered the Buddha's body and pierced the Buddha's heart. The frightened expression on the Buddha's face became more and more frightening, and ten thousand spells with a thousand hands could not stop a sword coming from the south.
The Buddha exploded away, Luo Yao was shocked, the sword had already reached his heart, and then pierced his skin. He claims that the golden body is immortal, but today he felt the breath of death.
The sword cut through his clothes, skin, and flesh. Luo Yao's face turned pale with fright. He could clearly feel the sword entering his body. on his heart.
It seems that this is a very slow process, but none of those peeping out of the big tent saw what happened.
Luo Yao knew that he was going to die.
For the first time, death was so close.
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North Bank of the Yangtze River
ferry dock
Liu Laosan glanced at the old man who fell asleep cross-legged, and suddenly found that the ancient sword that the old man was holding before was gone. He was startled, and quickly went over to shake the old man: "Old man, did your sword fall into the river? I didn't steal it. Although I am greedy for money, my hands and feet are very clean! Don't blackmail me, I really do." I didn't see it!"
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Yongjun Camp
Luo Yao was in despair. He never thought that with such a cultivation level, he would not be able to stop that ordinary sword. The tip of the sword had already reached his heart, and it didn't take a second to pierce through it.
With a buzzing sound, the light cluster in front of his eyes suddenly dissipated, and an ancient sword floated in midair out of thin air. Where is anyone holding the sword
Luo Yao's pupils shrank suddenly, and he murmured, "It's just a sword?"
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Liu Laosan looked at the beautiful village girl in front of him with a miserable face and explained: "It's really none of my business. He said he wants to sleep for a while and won't let me wake him up. But grandma, who knew he was actually Fell asleep? When he got on the boat, I persuaded him that it would be nice to stay at home at such an old age, but he refused to listen. "
The village girl in a blue floral cotton skirt looked at the old man with a frighteningly pale face. The boatmen didn't know why my aunt's hands were shaking so much, and why her eyes were full of sadness and shock. My aunt has been here for more than a year, and she has never been afraid of anything, but this time, she seemed to be really frightened.
The village girl knelt down and kowtowed three times to the old man.
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Luo Yao pulled out the ancient sword stuck in his heart that was floating in the air, and looked at the blood on the tip of the sword. He just stood there motionless, as if he had turned into a stone statue and lost his vitality.
"One sword breaks ten thousand spells... what a ten thousand stars."
I don't know how long it took, Luo Yao bowed towards the south and said, "You have been taught!"
He got up and ordered: "Go! Make me three thousand white banners, and I want to bury the sword."
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by the Yangtze River
There is a solitary grave
One sword goes seven hundred miles north
sunset
dusk
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In the middle of the river, there seems to be a big fish headed eastward without seeing its head and tail. The kneeling village girl subconsciously glanced back. The river was turbulent, and there were no traces there.
Volume 5 The Death and Life of an Empire