Exactly thirty-five years ago, in the spring of nine hundred and twenty-fifth year in the calendar of the Roland Empire.
Perhaps many people have already forgotten what happened in the spring of this year. In most people's minds, the only thing worth remembering about this spring more than thirty years ago is that it seemed to come extremely late.
The early cold of early spring swept across the entire central part of the continent. In order to prevent the soldiers from being frozen during the spring drills, the military headquarters rushed to make a batch of thick military uniforms. After busy work, they finally sent them to various places before the spring drills.
among the army.
However, this spring was not just that simple. For the people in the imperial capital, many, many things happened this spring that later affected the entire continent.
In the spring of this year, His Majesty the Emperor Augustine VI formally established the status of his only son, the eldest prince Yawen, as the crown prince. Also in this spring, the patriarch of the Luo Lin family died of illness, and Raymond of the Luo Lin family
Inherited the title of earl, became the new Earl of Luolin, and inherited the fertile Luolin Plain.
Among the young nobles of the empire, the twenty-year-old Raymond is undoubtedly a rising star. His talent, his outstanding martial arts, and his military genius have all made him famous.
All those who are optimistic about him believe that the Luo Lin family, a family of martial arts family, has produced another outstanding patriarch.
At this time, young Earl Raymond's best friend is the eldest prince Yawen, who has just been established as the crown prince. One is a young and promising future imperial general, and the other is the future emperor of the empire.
The good personal relationship makes everyone optimistic about the future of the Luo Lin family... It clearly heralds a future generation of wise kings and good generals. At this time, who would have thought that one day in the future, this man who is considered to be the future emperor will
Will the eldest prince be defeated and die? And the head of the Luo Lin family, who has an unlimited future, will be ruined and dismissed from his position?
At this time, they are young, full of hope, and proud of themselves.
Also in his golden years, there is the patriarch of the Liszt family. He is a famous handsome man in the imperial capital. He is knowledgeable, intelligent and funny. Within just one year after he came to the imperial capital,
. He conquered the entire aristocratic circle of the imperial capital with his personal charm. From music, flowers, art, astronomy, divination, history, dance...it seems that there is nothing that Mr. Liszt can't do. And he is so handsome.
His face like a sun god and his intoxicating smile have attracted countless noble girls and ladies to him.
Even His Majesty the Emperor Augustine VI gave Mr. Liszt a knighthood. Although the knighthood is a low-level title that is not hereditary, the title conferred by His Majesty the Emperor himself doubled Mr. Liszt's worth in the imperial capital.
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At the same time, Mr. Liszt also has a net worth of hundreds of millions and belongs to a famous wealthy family in mainland China. His background is enviable: he is young and rich, and his talent makes him the lover of countless girls.
What is even more memorable is that in the spring of this year, the blue ocean scholar in the imperial capital finally soared into the sky!
In everyone's memory, a middle-aged man named Lan Hai came to the imperial capital about a few years ago. No one knew where this old guy came from. He always wore a plain cotton robe and had long hair.
His hair was spread casually. He chose to live in the south of the city where civilians gathered. On the long street where he lived, everyone saw Mr. Lan Hai walking down the street with a smile every day.
No matter who you are. Even if you are just a bakery owner or a carriage driver, as long as you greet him, he will smile and nod to you.
In the eyes of these civilians, this Mr. Lan Hai is knowledgeable and talented! Because since he came here, he has solved many difficult problems for everyone many times.
If you are sick and cannot afford to see a doctor, then you can ask Mr. Lan Hai for help. He will find some herbal medicines that even professional doctors cannot understand for you. They can cure your injuries very quickly.
At first, people thought that Mr. Lan Hai was a doctor.
Later, when the owner of a poorly managed grocery store next door decided to sell his business and return to his hometown, he couldn't calculate the accounts accumulated over the years. Mr. Lan Hai only did the calculations for him in one afternoon, and put six years' worth of accounts into account.
All accounts have been settled clearly.
At this time, people thought that Mr. Lan Hai was an outstanding accountant.
Later, a businessman in the fur goods business spread all the fur goods in the yard to expose them to the sun, but Mr. Lan Hai ran to tell him that it would be rainy in the next month, and persuaded him to transport all the goods that were afraid of moisture out of the imperial capital.
Went there. The sun was scorching and it was the hottest season of the year. No one listened to Mr. Lan Hai’s advice.
As a result, as Mr. Lan Hai said, two days later, heavy rains poured down. The continuous heavy rains for a month caused many openings in the Lancang Canal, and the fur merchant suffered heavy losses as a result.
After that, everyone thought that Mr. Lan Hai might be a fortune teller.
Later, a tailor wanted to make a new robe for a noble gentleman, but accidentally lost the fabric the nobleman gave him. He went to Mr. Lan Hai for help. But Mr. Lan Hai just casually pulled down a curtain.
A new robe was made out of that curtain, and everyone who saw the robe praised its beautiful style.
At this time, people began to be surprised... Is there anything else that Mr. Lan Hai can't do?
His fame began to spread.
A man who worked as a gardener in a nobleman's house accidentally caused the death of some of the nobleman's favorite pots of flowers. He asked Mr. Lan Hai for help, and after Mr. Lan Hai taught him a few methods, the pots of dead flowers and plants turned out to be...
Can miraculously resurrect.
A businessman who trafficked livestock was deceived by his opponent and spent a lot of money to buy a thousand bad horses. When he faced a loss, he turned to Mr. Lan Hai for help. As a result, Mr. Lan Hai accompanied him to look at the horses and selected two.
The pregnant mare then gave the businessman some instructions.
As a result, the two pregnant mares actually gave birth to two of the best horses! And two years later, the two horses were trained into good horses that can travel thousands of miles. The money from selling these two horses was only
Let the businessman earn back all his capital.
The most amazing thing is that one night, a thief broke into Mr. Lan Hai's house... I don't know what happened. After dawn, the thief had changed into a servant's outfit and stayed with Mr. Lan Hai from then on.
By his side, he became his loyal servant.
Lan Hai's reputation began to spread in the imperial capital. Some civilian families around began to ask Mr. Lan Hai to educate their children.
Three years after Mr. Lan Hai came to the imperial capital, he had become a well-known scholar. Although he lived in a civilian area, ate ordinary bread, did not ride in a carriage, and lived in a simple small courtyard, even
When facing a groom, he would greet him politely.
However, everyone respected this gentleman. Of course, some scholars in the imperial capital did not think so. They believed that the existence of Blue Ocean was an infringement on their identity.
As a scholar, how can he hang out in a dirty urban area? I heard that Lan Hai sometimes goes out without even wearing shoes... This is so rude!
So people began to come to find trouble. They challenged Mr. Lan Hai in the name of discussing knowledge... But without exception, every scholar who came to look for trouble would eventually leave with a face of shame. And Lan Hai still did it every day.
I moved a chair and sat under the locust tree in the yard to bask in the sun.
His fame began to spread to the ears of some nobles. At first, these nobles believed that Lan Hai was just a traditional scholar... just like those "scholars" who needed to please nobles like themselves, brag and flatter themselves, and help themselves to be arty.
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As a result, Lan Hai rejected almost all "invitations".
This move made him become a "country bumpkin who doesn't know how to praise" in the hearts of many nobles.
But coincidentally, in the spring of the nine hundred and twenty-fifth year of the empire, at the triennial academic conference of scholars, unexpectedly, Mr. Lan Hai, who was indifferent to fame and fortune, actually participated.
This is a gathering that gathers almost all the most famous scholars in the imperial capital. This is also the best opportunity for scholars to spread their reputation and improve their status. All the erudite scholars in the empire will promote their own ideas at this conference.
Doctrine and show one's erudition. According to the traditional tradition, anyone who can perform well at this triennial conference will often be hired as a court scholar!
But this time, everyone's style was covered by the blue sea.
Among a large group of scholars dressed in colorful clothes, Lan Hai, who was wearing plain robes and barefoot, was so different. Under the mocking eyes of many, Lan Hai raised three questions to those famous scholars:
The first question: When a person is born as a baby, he is not ashamed of being naked, but why when he grows up, he puts on thick clothes and feels ashamed of being naked?
The second question, he asked, is that for beasts, the whole life is: mating, fighting, and hunting. And the same is true in human life: mating, fighting, and hunting. So, what is the difference between humans and beasts?
, where exactly is it?
The third question was even more interesting. He invited one of the most famous scholars in the imperial capital at that time, and then he asked the scholar to hold a bouquet of blooming flowers, while he ignored everyone's surprised eyes and put a piece of
He held the cow dung in his hands, and then he asked with a smile: What were you thinking about when you saw me? And what were I thinking about when I saw him?
This strange behavior shocked everyone.
In a conference that gathered almost so many famous scholars who could be said to be the most famous in the entire empire, no one could completely answer Lan Hai's three questions.
After a heated discussion, Lan Hai easily announced his answer:
The first question: He told everyone, "When you wear clothes now, it's not your body that's being covered up. It's your inner shame that's being covered up. Babies have no shame."
The second question was about the difference between humans and beasts. No one in the audience could answer it accurately, but Lan Hai easily told everyone: The biggest difference is that we will "think" about this issue here, while beasts will not.
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The third question was even more interesting. He was holding cow dung in his hand and looked at the scholar opposite who was holding flowers. He asked him what he saw when he looked at himself. The scholar was looking at Lan Hai at that time.
With a mocking tone, he said, "What I saw was cow dung." Lan Hai was not angry at all. Instead, he elegantly told the other person, "I saw the flowers in your hand."
Just when the great scholar thought that Lan Hai was submissive to him in disguise, Lan Hai's next words left him completely speechless.
"The cow shit you see in your eyes is because you are thinking about cow shit. The shit flowers I see in my eyes is because I am thinking about flowers... Sir, this is the difference between us before.
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Lan Hai used these three questions to cleverly give these hypocritical scholars the greatest irony. The first question satirized the shame of these guys, the second question satirized their inability to think... and the third question
This question satirizes their inner filthiness.
After saying everything, Lan Hai left with a smile.
Just after this day, Lan Hai's reputation was fully established in the Imperial Capital. He alone silenced hundreds of scholars by asking questions. Afterwards, many people were so ashamed that they left the Imperial Capital.
On this evening in the spring of the 925th year of the Empire, Lan Hai sat under the big locust tree, holding a cup of tea in his hand, and the thief servant whom he had taken in stood quietly behind him.
At this moment, a ten-year-old boy stood outside the door of the small courtyard where Lan Hai lived. He had been standing there all afternoon.
This young man was tall and thin, with a very delicate appearance. The clothes he wore seemed to indicate that he was from a poor family. But he stood there with a different look in his eyes, as if he had a kind of pride in his bones.
He waited from noon until the afternoon, and in the evening, when the door of the small courtyard where Lan Hai lived opened, he walked in.
"Mr. Lan Hai." He just stood at the door, his handsome face full of determination: "I'm here to ask you to accept me as your disciple."
Lan Hai smiled, he didn't get up, he was still sitting there. Holding tea in his hand, he noticed that the shoes on the young child's feet were worn, noticed the dust on the child's face, and noticed the child's thin body.
"You came from far away?"
"...Northwest." The young man replied: "I have been walking for a month, all the way to the imperial capital. I heard your name three days ago. I think you can relieve the confusion in my heart."
"What do you want from me?" Lan Hai became interested in this child.
"Answer." The young man's voice was very low: "Sir, I heard others say that you are the smartest and most knowledgeable person in the imperial capital. I am from the northwest. My family lives in the province of Desa, and my great-great-grandfather was once a nobleman.
.My grandfather was an army officer, and my father became a blacksmith in the army. He told me that the army would protect us. But my sister died three years ago, and my home was invaded by aliens.
When the horse thieves came, the foreign robbers insulted her, cut off her head, and hung her head on the fence in the yard. My mother hugged me and hid in the cellar, and I listened to the robbers insulting my sister.
I heard my sister cry, but my mother covered my mouth and we didn't go out. After the robbers left, my mother cried for three days and three nights, and then she died of illness. My father was killed by a horse thief a year ago, and he was left behind.
All the property I was given was a sword, five copper horns, and one sentence...'Live'. Dear Sir, there are still many people like me in the Northwest Dessa Province. I don't
You know, is this fate determined by benevolent gods? Is it true that our tragic fate cannot be changed?"
The boy's voice was hoarse, and there seemed to be something in his eyes that even Lan Hai couldn't bear to look at.
He saw a cloth bag behind the young man, and inside the bag seemed to be the outline of a sword.
After a long time, Lan Hai sighed. He looked at the boy with an apologetic face: "My child, I'm sorry, I can't answer your question."
A trace of deep disappointment flashed across the boy's childish but firm face. He was about to turn around and leave, but Lan Hai suddenly stopped him: "Wait a minute."
The young man stopped. Lan Hai had already stood up from the chair and walked to the young man's side. He looked into the young man's eyes and whispered: "There are some things that we can't think about the answer to... but not all things can be solved."
You must have the answer before you can do it... Many times, we will do it first and then see the results. We can do it first, even if the attempt fails, then at least we can know that this method is
Even if it doesn't work, this is also a kind of gain. If we just think about it blindly and don't do it, then you may have been thinking about it for a lifetime without any results."
After a pause, he said slowly: "I can't tell you the answer, but I can help you try... My child, what do you want to learn?"
"Wu!" The boy's answer was firm.
Lan Hai smiled: "Wu? You should know that I am a scholar."
The young man was silent. He seemed a little embarrassed and a little disappointed. However, Lan Hai stared at the young man carefully for a while, and then said softly: "Come with me."
With that said, Lan Hai seemed to be about to turn around and walk in, but asked again: "I almost forgot... what's your name?"
"Rodriguez." The boy replied: "You can also call me Rodney."
"Okay, Rodriguez." Lan Hai recited the name softly, and then he smiled: "You are the first disciple I accepted...and, I think if nothing else, you are also the only one who is my disciple."
I am a martial arts disciple."
Rodriguez followed Lan Hai into the house. There was a door in the house with a small room inside.
"This door is never locked." Lan Hai smiled and said, "However, I think you may be the only one besides me who can go in."
The small room inside was not as narrow as it looked from the outside. Lan Hai was obviously a person who knew how to make full use of space. What surprised Rodriguez even more was that there was actually a cloth curtain hanging in the room.
On the curtain, those strange words and patterns... Rodriguez actually recognized them.
"This is..." The young man's face suddenly became very strange: "Is this the writing of those prairie barbarians?"
"Yes." Lan Hai stood in front of the young man and answered calmly.
"Why do you have such a thing here?"
"Because..." Lan Hai smiled and said, "Because I am one of the 'prairie barbarians' you call... If you don't mind. In fact, I am not from Roland Continent. I was born in the grassland.
I am a prairie man."
Rodriguez's expression suddenly changed. He couldn't help but take two steps back and looked at Lan Hai carefully.
Lan Hai's eyes are blue, and there is no trace of the blood of the grassland aliens at all, and his elegant temperament does not have the slightest hint of the bravery of the grassland people.
"Do you think it's strange?" Lan Hai smiled: "Perhaps in your mind, the so-called prairie people are all those tough guys running on horses, right? But, how much do people really know about that prairie?
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As Lan Hai spoke, he gently lifted up the curtain, revealing a long box behind it.
"I come from the grassland, but I am not one of those tribes and herdsmen. At the northern end of that grassland, there is a big snow mountain. The highest peak of that snow mountain. Legend has it that if you stand on it, you can directly raise your hand and touch the sky. On top of the snow mountain,
It is the holy land in the hearts of all grassland peoples, because that place is the cradle of all shamans. Every shaman on the grassland was born in the Snowy Mountains... and the people on the Snowy Mountains are not the same as the races on the grassland.
It's different. Our appearance is very similar to the people of the Roland Empire." Lan Hai said with a smile on his face: "I was born in the snow-capped mountains. It is not the wilderness you imagined. In fact.
...On top of the Snowy Mountains, there are preserved the remains of a civilization that is completely different from Roland Continent, and we, the Snowy Mountain people, claim to be the remaining bloodline of that lost civilization."
Rodriguez was a little surprised: "You..."
"Don't use this expression." Lan Hai smiled faintly: "Since I left the Snowy Mountains, I am no longer a person there. Because I have seen it clearly a long time ago... There are basically a group of people on that mountain.
Madmen...or, in other words, a crazy remnant of the race. I left that mountain and came here just because I didn’t want to continue going crazy with those people.”
After saying that, Lan Hai gently opened the box, and inside was a slender sword!
After opening the box, a cold air from inside the box immediately enveloped the entire room! The young Rodriguez was aroused by the cold air and could not help but tremble slightly. The cold light like the cold moon reflected on his young
On his face, green energy glowed, and strange arcs appeared on the sword's edge. The sword's edge seemed to be enveloped in a layer of transparent and crystal ice, but it could be seen...
It's very sharp!
"The name of this sword is called 'Beauty under the Moon'." Lan Hai sighed softly: "Although I think you are not suitable to use this sword, but... I will lend it to you temporarily. Because of this
Although the sword is powerful, in the future when your martial arts reaches a certain level, it will become a yoke that restrains you. Because this sword does not belong to you, although it can bring you a certain improvement,
But one day, you will find that you cannot exert its true power, and at that time, it will become your constraint."
After a pause, Lan Hai asked: "Didn't your father leave a sword to you? You can put that sword in this box. One day in the future, this beauty under the moon will no longer be able to provide you with it.
When growth becomes your shackles, you can come here and take out the long sword that is your father's relic that you have here. At that time, I will teach you how to cultivate a sword that truly belongs to you.
Sword. A sword that can make your soul and the sword fit together."
Rodriguez stared at the beauty under the moon in the box carefully. Although he was still young, he could still feel the magic and extraordinaryness of this sword... Suddenly, the young man's heart moved: "Sir, whose sword does this belong to?"
Is that what you used?"
"It's mine." Lan Hai seemed to smile: "But now, I can no longer use it."
Rodriguez was a little surprised: "Sir...were you once a warrior?"
A strange expression appeared on Lan Hai's face. He did not immediately answer Rodriguez's words, but stretched out his hand to gently stroke the sword edge of the beauty under the moon. His movements were gentle and delicate, and he sighed softly: "
Not anymore."
Then he seemed to smile: "Everyone who leaves the Snowy Mountains must voluntarily give up something that belongs to them... and what I left behind in the Snowy Mountains is my 'Martial Spirit'."
The young man was a little confused. Young Rodriguez still couldn't understand what Lan Hai said. However, due to the young man's character, all his attention was focused on this "beauty under the moon".
It is so beautiful! Rodriguez has never seen such a beautiful sword! It is so beautiful that it seems to hide all its dangers. The deep chill seems to make people's souls deep.
Deeply, involuntarily trapped in it...
While the boy was in a daze, Lan Hai had already taken out the sword from the box, and Rodriguez quickly held it with both hands.
"Use this sword, I will teach you a kind of martial arts... It's just that this kind of martial arts is not that easy to learn, especially at the beginning, your progress will even be much slower than that of ordinary people, but once
After you truly practice it, you will find that this kind of martial arts is infinitely powerful. Are you... willing?"
With the young man's gentle reply "I do", from then on, there was finally a strong person who made the decision on the continent!
It took a "idiot" twenty-five years to go from level one to level three, and a "genius" who only spent five years from level three to level eight!
Spring of the nine hundred and twenty-fifth year of the Roland Empire.
In the spring of this year, the eldest prince Yawen became the crown prince, and everyone thought that he would become the future emperor.
Raymond Rollin became the new Earl of the Rollin family. The Earl's inauguration banquet was held in the new Earl's Mansion, and outside the hall of the banquet guests, at the back door of the Earl's Mansion, a young groom sat on a carriage.
While he was dozing off, he tightened his clothes and muttered: "Damn it, it's still so cold at night... Oh, that butler is very impressive... Huh, I, Mad, can also become a butler one day.
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And on the same night, to everyone's surprise, Mr. Lister, a popular lover who was admired by countless girls, unexpectedly married a beautiful girl from a poor background. On this wedding night, Mr. Lister faced him
The newlywed wife smiled and said: "My dear, if we have a child in the future, I hope it will be a beautiful daughter... To commemorate our love, I hope to name her after you... Lan-Liszt."
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At the same time, Augustine VI, an emperor who was very happy with his success, had begun to turn his conquests to the northwest. A huge map hung in his bedroom, and in the northwest corner, a circle was heavily drawn...
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When all these things that would affect the future history of the continent happened on the same night, a young man named Rodriguez picked up his swordsmanship in a small house in Lan Hai's house and started
His life's struggle.
"My child, since you are now my student, I want to tell you my real name." Lan Hai looked at this young disciple who was obsessed with the beauty under the moon: "You remember, my real name is."
Blue Haiyue'."
Rodriguez was stunned: "Lan Haiyue? What a strange name."
"It's not the strangest thing." Scholar Blue Ocean smiled softly, and then his face suddenly turned serious: "I want to remind you of one more thing. I ask you to keep this in mind under any circumstances!"
"What?"
"Remember a name, and you must swear to me that you will not be a direct enemy of that person under any circumstances! Because if there is really a devil in this world, then he must be the closest one!"
Lan Hai's expression became extremely serious.
"Yes, teacher, please tell me."
"That man, he is my brother, my biological brother. But I have always felt that maybe when the gods sent his soul to the world, he must have sent it to the wrong place... He should not have been born in my home.
He should directly become a devil... In fact, when I left the Snowy Mountains, he had already been designated as the only candidate to be the next Witch King!"
A strange look flashed in Lan Hai's eyes, and then he smiled bitterly and said: "Maybe it's a coincidence, maybe it's destiny, his name happens to form a strange contrast with mine."
Having said this, the great scholar sighed softly: "His name is... Bai Hechou!"
With this sigh, Lan Hai gently reached out and dipped the water in the tea cup in his hand, and wrote a few words that Rodriguez didn't recognize at all. The young Rodriguez looked at the square-like words.
words, with a surprised expression on his face: "This is..."
"This is the writing on the Snowy Mountains. It is different from the writing on the Roland Empire. The name Bai Hechou is written like this. Perhaps, I am the only one in the empire who recognizes this writing."
Although Lan Hai is knowledgeable and talented, his last sentence was wrong after all.
Because, thirty-five years later, there is still a person on the mainland who recognizes this kind of writing.
