Yan Dechang's words reminded Yan Liqiang of the last time he won the top three in the Qinghe County National Martial Arts County Examination and returned home that night. Yan Dechang said this when he was drunk -
"Xue Lian... did you see... our son... ranked first among the top three... I promised you before... that I would raise Li Qiang well... when he becomes capable in the future... I will let... let him avenge you... and then I... can come to you without any worries... just wait for me..."
Although Yan Liqiang pretended that he had not heard Yan Dechang's nonsense the next day, the words Yan Dechang said at that time were deeply engraved in Yan Liqiang's heart.
As the saying goes, truth comes out when drunk. Yan Dechang's words made Yan Liqiang understand that there might be a past in his family that Yan Dechang was unwilling to mention to him again, and this past was related to his mother, whom he had never had any impression of in this world.
Yan Liqiang only knew that his mother's original name was He Xuelian. Later, she married his father and took his father's surname. From childhood to adulthood, Yan Dechang had always been reluctant to talk about his mother's affairs. Yan Liqiang once thought that his mother died of illness when he was still an infant, just as Yan Dechang said. However, after Yan Dechang got drunk that time, Yan Liqiang knew that there must be another story behind this.
In the "dream" brought to him by the Heavenly Dao Divine Stone, Yan Liqiang always remembered the words that Yan Dechang told him at the most critical moment that day. "Remember to destroy the seven tribes of Shatu and avenge your mother!"
At that time, he did not have the ability to destroy the seven tribes of Shatu, but at the last moment of life and death, Yan Dechang still yelled out these words.
This matter has always been on Yan Liqiang's mind, but because Yan Dechang didn't want to talk about it, he could only pretend that he didn't know until now...
"There are some things that I should let you know now!" Yan Dechang looked at Yan Liqiang with an affectionate gaze, then raised his eyes with a look of emotion and reminiscence on his face, "That day, when I heard that the Emperor had appointed you as the Protector of Qiyun, I felt that this might be God's will. The grudge between our family and the seven tribes of Shatu might have to be settled with you. I thought we would never have this chance in our lifetime!"
"My mother didn't die of illness, but because of the Shatu Seven Tribes. Is that right?" Yan Liqiang asked calmly.
"It seems that I was indeed drunk that time, and made you hear some words that you shouldn't have heard!" Yan Dechang shook his head with a bitter look on his face.
"Why didn't you ever tell me about this before?"
"It's not that I don't want to mention it to you, but there are too many things involved in this matter. With the abilities of my father and I, it's impossible to avenge your mother. I'm afraid you'll do something stupid after knowing it, so I haven't dared to tell you. Rather than watching you die, it's better to let you know nothing and live peacefully, get married and have children. Maybe this is the best choice, and it's also your mother's wish!"
"What exactly happened?" Yan Liqiang asked.
"Let me show you something!" Yan Dechang stood up and went under the bed in his room. He pulled out an old iron-rimmed wooden cabinet that had been used for who knows how many years and opened it. The cabinet was filled with old clothes and the like. Yan Liqiang pressed hard on a wooden board on the side of the cabinet. With a "click", the wooden board was taken down by Yan Dechang. Behind the eight wooden boards, there was a layer, and in the layer, there was something wrapped in red silk cloth. Yan Dechang carefully took out the red cloth from the layer, then returned to Yan Liqiang, put the thing on the table, and untied the red silk cloth layer by layer. Finally, what appeared in front of Yan Liqiang was a black metal token with an extremely smooth surface, only the size of a palm.
"What's this?"
"Bite off your finger and drip a drop of blood on it!"
Yan Liqiang glanced at Yan Dechang, and without hesitation, he bit the index finger of his right hand and dripped a drop of blood on it.
Red blood dripped onto the pitch-black token. In just a blink of an eye, Yan Liqiang saw the pitch-black token absorbed the drop of blood he had dripped on it. Then, within a few seconds, the pitch-black token slowly changed. It had a layer of hazy light. In that light, a blood-red word "Token" appeared in the middle of the token. Around that word "Token" were vast mountains formed by wave-like water cloud patterns, and a vast grassland.
"The original prototype of this token was a piece of strange meteorite that fell from outer space on the grassland. Two hundred years ago, Gulang, the governor of Qiyun who ruled the entire Qiyun Mountains and Gulang Grassland, got that piece of strange meteorite and had it made into this token. This token is called Shuiyun Token. Because of the strange properties of the meteorite, some secret methods were used when it was made. So after this token was cast, it had a strange property. As long as the descendants of the Qiyun governor drop their own blood on it, the Shuiyun Token will show a water cloud pattern..."
What a shock, this is a shock!
Listening to his father's calm voice, Yan Liqiang felt his head buzzing. His brain froze for a moment, and he had no idea what to say. The Emperor had just appointed him as the Qiyun Supervisor, but he didn't expect that he was actually the descendant of the previous Qiyun Supervisor. This probability was like winning the lottery...
Seeing that Yan Liqiang didn't know what to say, Yan Dechang stroked the token in his hand and continued to speak calmly, "Before the seven Shatu tribes moved to the Gulang grassland, this token was in the hands of Qi Yun, and it had been passed down for generations. After the seven Shatu tribes moved to the Gulang grassland, one day, Qi Yun, the then governor, called one of his most loyal attendants over, gave the token to the attendant, and asked the attendant to leave Qi Yun Mountain and return to the interior of the country with his newly born son, because the attendant's wife had just given birth to a child, and the child died at birth and did not survive. At the same time, one of Qi Yun's wives also gave birth to a child, so Qi Yun exchanged the two children and told the public that the dead child was his, and his son was secretly taken to Ganzhou by the attendant..."
"Not long after the attendant of Governor Qi Yun brought his child to Ganzhou, the Governor Qi Yun's mansion was suddenly attacked by bandits overnight, and everyone was killed. No one from Governor Qi Yun's lineage was left outside the Great Wall. Later, the Shatu people became the rulers of Qi Yun Mountain and Gulang Grassland. The loyal attendant took the blood orphan of Governor Qi Yun and lived a completely different life in Ganzhou. The blood orphan of Governor Qi Yun, on the surface, was a blacksmith. He also had a beautiful daughter and two apprentices. One of the two apprentices was lucky enough to marry the beautiful daughter and had a child. The child also took his father's surname and was named Yan Liqiang!"
When talking about the past, Yan Dechang couldn't help but shed tears. When Yan Liqiang heard his true life story for the first time, his eyes gradually turned red...
“Your grandfather’s identity at the time was a blacksmith, but in fact, he was thinking about practicing peerless martial arts every day so that he could go back for revenge. The reason why your grandfather died was not because of illness, but because he was too eager to achieve success in practicing martial arts. He became obsessed and contracted a serious illness, and finally died!
(End of this chapter)