The continuous autumn rain fell from the autumn water to the sky.
Just like Li Tianlan’s journey.
Tongtian Port is close to the sea and is the largest port city in Beihai Province. It is also one of the largest port cities in northern Central Continent. It is the most open city in the entire Beihai Province. To a certain extent, it can be regarded as the Imperial Soldier Mountain's contribution to the entire Beihai Province.
The cage set by the dark world.
Tongtian Port is a mixed bag, with cruise ships and cargo ships from all over the world docking at every moment of the day, and floating populations from all over the world everywhere. This is not a problem that is difficult to control at all, but simply uncontrollable.
It is precisely for this reason that Tongtian Port has become the best choice for the major dark forces to infiltrate the Beihai Province. It can even be said to be the only choice.
Tongtian Port is the epitome of the dark world of Beihai Province. I don’t know how many dark forces, large and small, are lurking here. They trade with various people, exchange information, and even trade with the Wang family of Beihai. In this calm port city, almost everyone
There are undercurrents surging all day long. The Beihai Wang family gathered these chaos together and controlled the chaotic situation to the greatest extent. Over the years, the Beihai Wang family has lost a lot because of Tongtian Port, but gained more. Here, is
The North Sea Province is the only window open to the dark world.
A family that can sit in Tongtian Port and control all this chaos is naturally not an ordinary family.
The Tongtian Chen clan has endured for eternity, is as stable as a rock, and is as motionless as a mountain.
The Chen Clan in Tongtian Port can be regarded as the top sword-wielding family in the past fifty years. As far as this generation is concerned, the Chen Clan can even be regarded as the strongest among the seven sword-wielding families, and currently
Look, there is no sign of decadence or decay at all.
Chen Guojing, the governor of Beihai Province, is now the most dazzling figure in the Southeast Group. It is almost certain that he will leave Beihai Province and go to Wuyue to succeed Wang Qinglei in a few years.
Chen Guoyu, the leader of the Chen clan, controls Tongtian Port and is deeply trusted by Wang Tianzong. He is the Sword Emperor's most trusted right-hand man.
Chen Guofeng, the third eldest son of the Chen clan, codenamed Xuan Ming, is stationed at Dibing Mountain and controls all the intelligence systems of the entire Beihai Province. He is almost the eyes and ears of the entire Beihai Province.
This is the Chen clan, deep-rooted and as solid as a rock.
As far as Zhongzhou is concerned, the Chen family is the political powerhouse in the entire Zhongzhou; as far as Beihai is concerned, the Chen family is an important cornerstone of the entire Beihai.
The first female prime minister since the founding of Zhongzhou was from the Chen clan.
For Li Tianlan, after the Tianguang Soul Locking Platform, the Chen clan in Tongtian Port is the second target he is about to conquer or destroy.
That's all.
In the continuous autumn rain, Li Tianlan walked into a restaurant with a map in his hand.
The restaurant is located in the northwest of Tongtian Port, less than twenty miles away from Hualou Mountain. The headquarters of the Chen family is right on Hualou Mountain.
Li Tianlan found a place to sit down, looked down at the map, and put the map aside casually.
"welcome."
A middle-aged man stood in front of Li Tianlan, bowing slightly and smiling.
His smile was not warm or respectful, but it was impeccable, with a hint of persistence.
This doesn't seem to be a waiter in the restaurant, but the owner of the restaurant.
Li Tianlan glanced at him and said calmly, "Let's get something to eat."
The boss smiled and handed over a menu and said softly: "This is the best restaurant in Tongtian Port. In recent years, His Majesty the Sword Emperor and Governor Chen have dined here. What do you need? Everything is free today."
"free?"
Li Tianlan raised his eyebrows and looked at him with a playful look in his eyes.
"free."
The boss nodded calmly, his smile unchanged: "This is the way of hospitality in Tongtian Port. Before His Highness falls, a table of food and wine should be sent to His Highness on his way."
Li Tianlan slowly put down the menu, looked at the boss, and said nothing.
The boss still had a smile on his face, and his voice was very calm: "Serve His Highness wine, and ask for the best wine."
"you know me."
Li Tianlan said slowly.
"Everything in Tongtian Port is under the watchful eye of His Majesty the Sword Emperor, and also under the watchful eye of the Chen clan."
The boss picked up the menu and said: "If your highness can't choose, how about I give you one of each of our signature dishes?"
Li Tianlan laughed: "You said I will perish?"
"On Hualou Mountain, under the Eternal Sword, is your destination."
The waiter served cold dishes.
The boss nodded and put away the menu: "Excuse me."
Li Tianlan looked at his back and remained silent.
The cold dishes were placed on the table, and the waiter carefully held a bottle of fifty-year-old Maotai in his hands and brought it over, followed by a bottle of red wine that Li Tianlan didn't recognize.
Li Tianlan watched motionless.
The autumn rain is still falling.
The restaurant door was pushed open.
A dirty white dress floated in.
A little mud covered her face, blocking her cold and charming face. She sat opposite Li Tianlan and looked straight at him.
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, like a dirty stray cat.
She stretched out her hand and faced Li Tianlan with a hoarse voice: "Give me back the autumn water."
Li Tianlan glanced at her and said nothing.
He walked all the way from Qiushui to Tongtian, and the seriously injured girl followed him.
He was adjusting his condition bit by bit, while the girl's condition was getting weaker and weaker, but she always persisted and wanted to get back the faith and glory that her family had insisted on for many years.
"They all say that the Chen family is now the strongest among the sword-wielding families. Is this correct?"
Li Tianlan suddenly asked.
"Give it back to me."
Huangfu Qiushui looked at Li Tianlan seriously and stretched out his dirty little hands.
"answer my question."
Li Tianlan knocked on the table.
Huangfu Qiu Shui grasped it with his little hands, clenching and loosening it.
She took a deep breath and said coldly: "The seven sword-wielding families have had ups and downs over the past hundreds of years, but in terms of overall strength, two of them have never fallen out of the top families, not just in Beihai, but even across the world.
They can all be regarded as the top wealthy families, one is the Tongtian Chen Clan, and the other is the Floating Island Tang Clan. You can't succeed, even if you take away Qiushui, you can't take away the faith of the seven sword-wielding families."
She looked at Li Tianlan, her charming and cold eyes full of ice and snow: "There is a dead end in front of you, and you will die on the road!"
"This is what everyone in Tongtian Port is looking forward to."
The owner of the restaurant came over with a plate of mutton. He placed the dish in front of Li Tianlan and looked into Li Tianlan's eyes: "Your Highness is an enemy of Beihai Province and tens of millions of people. We respect your choice.
But the outcome has already been determined.”
He opened the Maotai on the table and poured himself a glass: "I would like to propose a drink to Your Highness. If Your Highness has any requests, please come to me and I will try my best to satisfy you. I wish Your Highness a good journey."
He drank the wine in one gulp and said calmly: "The food and wine are not poisonous. Your Highness can enjoy it with confidence. You are qualified to be the enemy of Beihai Province. Facing a real enemy, Beihai will not bother to use such despicable methods."
He nodded, turned around and walked into the kitchen to continue serving food.
Li Tianlan silently picked up the wine glass and took a sip of wine.
"I appreciate the North Sea like this."
He held the cup and spoke in a low voice.
After a pause, he shook his head and said slowly: "No, I respect Bei Hai like this. Even if he is an enemy, he still cannot make people feel bad."
"You can't win."
Huangfu Qiushui looked at Li Tianlan with cold eyes.
"I respect everything he has done for Beihai."
Li Tianlan poured himself another glass of wine.
He held the wine glass and was lost in thought.
In fact, what no one knows is that what impressed him most when he came to Beihai was not the sacrifice of life by the famous generals and the demon army on Lingtai Mountain, nor the calmness of the Huangfu family in the face of the catastrophe, nor the persistence, stubbornness and persistence of Huangfu Qiushui.
Confidence is also not about the endless heritage of the seven major families and the upcoming battles.
What touched him the most was actually the couple standing in front of him when he came to Qiushui.
That's the sentence.
Promise to His Majesty the Sword Emperor.
This sentence alone is the Beihai in his heart.
With these words alone, Wang Tianzong is the most outstanding patriarch of the Wang family in Beihai.
He respects all of this, but must destroy it all.
But what makes him a little helpless is that even if he destroys Beihai, he still hopes that hundreds of years later, his Li family and his East Palace will become like the Wang family in Beihai today.
That kind of deep-rooted loyalty and belief is the most shocking power he has ever seen.
Wang Tianzong is the well-deserved clan leader, the best clan leader.
It is also his strongest enemy, even his only enemy.
Li Tianlan silently drank the wine in his glass, his eyes becoming calmer.
The seven sword-wielding families, Emperor Bingshan...
Everything he did was to push that man down from the supreme altar.
The Sky Light Locking Spirit Platform is just the first step.
He held the wine glass and looked in the direction of Hualou Mountain, so quiet that it seemed to turn into a shadow.
Various signature dishes in the restaurant were served continuously, and the entire table was soon covered.
The boss came up again holding a huge wooden box.
He placed the wooden box in the center of the dining table and said with a smile, "Your Highness has no appetite?"
Li Tianlan glanced at him and said nothing.
"I also have a dish to go with the wine. This is a gift from the Chen family. I hope your highness will like it."
Li Tianlan raised his eyebrows.
The boss gently opened the wooden box and looked at Li Tianlan's expression without any fear in his eyes.
Huangfu Qiu Shui suddenly exclaimed, his face turned pale.
Li Tianlan watched all this quietly.
Unprepared, extremely unexpected, the sudden witnessing process was so clear, the wooden box
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It seemed very far away, very blurry, but fell into his sight in an instant and became clear. Everything became a clear consciousness and appeared in his mind.
Inside the wooden box, there is a human head!
The head was very clean, with no blood stains, but it was greyish-blue, and the pair of dead-grey eyes were open quietly, looking at Li Tianlan, full of ghostly eyes.
Li Tianlan's body stiffened for a moment.
His pupils contracted and he looked at the head in front of him and remained silent for a long time.
The figure looked at him quietly.
At this moment, Li Tianlan's whole person seemed to have changed.
That's not the murderous intent and sword energy surging.
Instead, he who was becoming more and more illusory seemed to become real in an instant, and the reality was a bit dazzling.
He silently picked up the wine glass and poured himself a glass of wine.
Then he took an empty glass, poured another glass of wine, and placed it in front of the person's head.
"When I was young..."
He opened his mouth and his voice was hoarse: "I'm not too young. When I was eight years old... I was very naughty. At that time, our family lived on the border, in the barren mountains and old forests. Ha, the conditions were very poor. The conditions at that time were difficult, in Zhongzhou.
The supplies given to us often don’t last long, the rice will become moldy, and the water will go bad..."
He lowered his head and looked at the exquisite and fragrant dishes on the table: "The food at that time was really unpalatable. Moldy rice was boiled with spoiled water, and the porridge was black and had a smell.
taste..."
He shook his head vigorously, his voice was a bit messy and incoherent: "It doesn't taste good, it tastes too bad. At that time, in the deep mountains and old forests, you could occasionally encounter some prey, but there were so many of us, even if there were prey,
Each person couldn't get much. That year, a wild boar was shot in the camp, weighing more than two hundred kilograms. Ha, grandpa divided the meat. Everyone got half a kilogram of wild boar. Grandpa ground the pork and put it in the
The porridge was tasteless, but the meat was so fragrant. I finished the pork porridge and was playing outside. At that time, a girl named Yoona was eating meat skewers. They were very small meat skewers. I wanted to eat them.
, he went to rob me, and my sister beat me up, but his father found out, well, that was Uncle Tiger..."
"Uncle Tiger slapped the little sister and gave me the remaining skewers. That night I secretly went to their house and heard Uncle Tiger coaxing his daughter. He said it was not far from our camp.
There is still meat in the Tiannan Army camp. I will get some some other day so that we little guys can eat enough..."
Amidst the sound of his fingers tapping the rim of the cup, Li Tianlan's eyes were a little dazed: "At that time, I didn't know anything about the cruelty of the enemy and ourselves. I only knew that there was meat to eat in the Tiannan Army's camp, so I didn't practice swordsmanship that night, and secretly went alone.
I ran out of the camp and wanted to go to the Tiannan Army's barracks to find some food."
"The camp was found, but of course you can't steal it. Before I even got close to the camp, the Tiannan Army's patrol team pushed me to the ground. They slapped me in the face and cursed me with words I couldn't understand. Someone
He wanted to open my belly with a bayonet and hung me on a tree..."
"At that time, I was scared to death and didn't want to eat meat anymore. But when I was really about to be killed by them, Uncle Tiger showed up and slaughtered six patrol teams by himself. It was like a god coming down to earth.
The Tiannan Army sent a regiment of troops to chase us into Zhongzhou and chased us for nearly thirty miles. The Tiannan Army at that time had many masters. Uncle Hu was shot several times and his whole body was covered in blood, but he kept protecting us.
Me, at that time, he still smiled at me and said that if you want to eat meat, you can’t come here by yourself, it’s too dangerous, and he will get it for me... Whatever I like, he will get it for me.”
"I was stupid back then. I said I liked sister Yoona. Ha, Uncle Hu was so silly. He seemed to be very happy. He said he would marry sister Yoona to me when he grows up. He is waiting to drink our wedding wine."
"Snapped..."
With a shattering sound, the wine glass was completely crushed.
The drinks flowed out.
Li Tianlan took another cup and filled it with liquor, his arms trembling slightly.
"After that, there will be no later... The Tiannan Army often invades the border. The people in the camp are busy fighting, and there are fewer and fewer people. Many uncles and uncles who loved me have died. Uncle Tiger also disappeared in a battle.
When I was twelve years old, my sixteen-year-old sister Yoona also died. She was humiliated by the Tiannan Army and even had her belly opened with a bayonet..."
"I always thought Uncle Tiger was dead too, until I saw him again."
He looked at Huangfu Qiushui, his eyes full of strange calm: "Do you know where he is now?"
Huangfu Qiushui's face became increasingly pale. At this moment, Li Tianlan exuded not only danger, but also danger.
Li Tianlan looked down at the head in front of him.
He drank all the wine in the glass, stretched out his hand, and picked up the head.
He leaned down, kissed the cold forehead gently, and murmured to himself: "Uncle Tiger...you are here..."
In the almost suffocating atmosphere, Li Tianlan held the head in his hands and looked at the owner of the restaurant, and said softly: "Thank the Chen family for me for the gift..."
He paused and shook his head: "No, I'll thank you personally."