Chapter 1 Meng Chuan and Yun Qingping
The Great Zhou Dynasty, Wuzhou, and Dongning Prefecture.
At the main entrance of the "Jinghu Dao Temple", one of the eight major prefectures in Dongning Fucheng, a young man with a sword on his waist walked out of the prefecture.
"Senior Brother Meng."
"Hello, Senior Brother Meng."
"I've met Senior Brother Meng."
The other fellow disciples around were quite enthusiastic.
The young man Meng Chuan nodded slightly to these junior brothers and sisters. In fact, many of these "junior brothers and sisters" are older than him. However, the rules of Jinghu Taoist Temple are the first priority. He had already entered the "Shanshui Tower" of Jinghu Taoist Temple two years ago. The twenty-two disciples of Shanshui Tower are also the twenty-two strongest disciples of Jinghu Taoist Temple, and are admired and yearned for by many junior brothers and sisters. Among them, "Senior Brother Meng" is particularly respected because Senior Brother Meng will occasionally give guidance, while other senior brothers and sisters in Shanshui Tower are too lazy to waste time on others.
"Young Master, Young Master." Suddenly, a familiar voice came from the side.
A girl in green ran out from the side. Meng Chuan smiled when he saw this: "Luzhu, why are you here?"
"My lady wants to invite the young master to go to Dongshan to have a trip. There was a heavy snow last night. Dongshan was very beautiful after the snow." The girl in green smiled.
"Go to Dongshan for a trip?" Meng Chuan said with a frown, "Dongshan is too far away. I'm afraid I have to spend the night in Dongshan when I go there and I won't be back tomorrow."
The girl in green smiled and said, "My Yun family happens to have a villa in Dongshan, where you can spend the night."
Meng Chuan shook his head and said, "When I go back, I will tell Qingping that it will be the Yuyang Palace Demon-slaying Fair in more than a month. I need to concentrate on my practice to prepare and cannot accompany her."
"This..." The girl in green hesitated.
"You just say it when you go back." Meng Chuan ordered, "Also, let Qingping spend more time practicing, don't always think about going out for fun."
"Yes." The girl in green had to respond obediently and go back to report.
Meng Chuan shook his head slightly.
He also had a headache about "Yun Qingping" who had made a marriage contract since childhood.
...
Jinghu Taoist temple is built on the east bank of Jinghu Lake, and there are many mansions on the west bank of Jinghu Lake, including one of which is the "Meng Mansion".
"Young 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.
"Just just now, someone was sent to the ancestral home, and the master rushed there immediately." said the guard.
Meng Chuan nodded as if he was thinking about it and entered the mansion.
"Swish swish swish swish!!!" Soon, the sound of arrows was vaguely heard, and Meng Chuan came to the martial arts training ground according to the sound.
In the martial arts training ground, a girl in red was bent her bow and shot arrows. Arrows instantly passed through dozens of feet and shot on the target one after another, and the latter arrow was shot on the shaft of the previous arrow.
Meng Chuan watched the other party practice arrows from the side.
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 his daughter to Meng's mansion and lived there from then on.
July is very similar to himself, both of whom have lost their mother at a very young age. Since childhood, July has been practicing with him and has been practicing to this day and has a deep relationship.
"Achuan, you're back." The girl in red lit up her eyes when she saw Meng Chuan. "It's so boring to shoot these targets. Come on, come on, hurry up and be a target for me. If it weren't for waiting for you, I'd gone to the Taoist temple to practice arrows, and the archery field in the Taoist temple would be much larger than this."
"Okay, I'll be a target for you."
Meng Chuan walked to the center of the martial arts training ground with a smile.
The girl in red changed her arrow bag, and the arrows were not arrowed. Her eyes shone brightly at Meng Chuan: "Achuan, you have to be careful, don't be beaten by me again to the point of bruising and swollen face."
"Be careful, I will break your seven-star bead arrow this time." Meng Chuan was waiting intently.
The girl in red smiled and followed her fingers like a phantom. She instantly pulled her bow and shot an arrow, and she didn't seem to need to aim.
Swish, swish, swish!!! One arrow after another shot. Every time you take an arrow from the back and draw a bow and shoot an arrow, then take an arrow and shoot an arrow... it is as natural as a normal person breathes, and the arrows are as fast as it is, and the power is also extremely great.
"Puff puff puff." The knife on Meng Chuan's waist had been unsheathed.
The knife goes through an arc and a field is formed in front of you. Any arrow shot will be blocked.
"Achuan, your swordsmanship is getting more and more powerful, and you still have to use the Seven-Star continuous pearl arrow." The girl in red said with a smile while shooting an arrow. Obviously, it is very easy to shoot such an arrow.
"call out!"
As soon as the words were finished, the girl in red shot a new arrow, and the arrow broke through the air with a sharp scream.
"Here you come!" Meng Chuan became more and more serious.
"Puff." "Puff."
Meng Chuan's sword goes in an arc, blocking arrows like a ball. However, the seven-star pearl arrow is a killer move that consumes a lot of true energy, and the arrow speed will get faster and faster.
With the sixth arrow alone, Meng Chuan's knife blocked Kong. Then he felt a pain in his chest, and he couldn't help but stagger, and his chest was probably going to be blue and purple.
"I still couldn't stop it." Meng Chuan shook his head and said helplessly.
"You can already block the four killer moves I have cultivated, only the 'Seven Stars Pearl Arrow' is left." The girl in red smiled, "It's already very powerful. When she was in the Taoist temple, no one in the Marrow Cleansing Realm level blocked my 'Three-Level Phantom Arrow', but you can block it."
"I have blocked your bows and arrows since I was a child, of course it is better than those in your Taoist temple." Meng Chuan shook his head, "You still don't have arrows. If you add arrows, the speed of arrows will be faster. I'm afraid I can't stop most of your five killer moves."
"Achuan, haven't you heard of it? In the same realm, no one can withstand the archer's mad attack." The girl in red said proudly.
"July... I've really fought for life and death, I've rushed to you as soon as possible." Meng Chuan snorted.
"Arrowers are all guards." The girl in red curled her lips, "My guard will block you, and then you will become my target. Maybe you will be my guard in the future!"
Meng Chuan smiled.
He knew very well how archers were. In any force, the top archers had a very high status and would be well protected.
My sister, July, is very talented in bows and arrows.
"Achuan, today your dean summons you to the Yuyang Palace demon-slaying event?" Liu Qiyue asked.
"Well, you Lieyang Taoist Courtyard also said it." Meng Chuan asked.
"I said it! I am the only one of the ten disciples in the Marrow Cleansing Realm of Lieyang Taoist Court. The dean directly set a quota for me." Liu Qiyue said, "I am the best at dealing with monsters at the Yuyang Palace Demon Slaying Fair."
Meng Chuan smiled and said, "There are three quotas in the Jinghu Taoist Temple in total. Although I am one of the top ten disciples in the Xiujing Realm, I still have to compete for the quota. If I can't get the quota, I am not qualified to go."
"Then you just work hard." Liu Qiyue laughed.
"Don't be careless. At the Yuyang Palace Demon-slaying Fair, when you face monsters, don't be approached by monsters." Meng Chuan said, "Let's practice first."
As he said that, Meng Chuan suddenly flew over.
"I have the ability to catch up with me."
Liu Qiyue immediately flew away and even turned around and shot an arrow.
...
Another place is the "Yun Family", one of the five major gods and demon families in Dongning Prefecture.
Yun Qingping was making tea for her father "Yun Fu'an".
"Dad, try it." Yun Qingping put a cup of tea in front of her father in a pleasing manner. Suddenly she caught a glimpse of the maid Lu Zhu who came back from a distance. Her eyes lit up and she shouted, "Lu Zhu!"
Luzhu can only pass by obediently.
"How is it, what do Meng Chuan say?" Yun Qingping asked repeatedly.
"Mr. Meng said that it will be the Yuyang Palace Demon-slaying Fair in more than a month. He will devote himself to practicing to prepare. He cannot accompany you to Dongshan for a trip, Miss." Lu Zhu whispered.
"Will you not go?"
Yun Qingping was a little angry, "I just knew how to practice and practice."
"Mr. Meng also asked me to tell the lady to spend more time practicing and not always think about going out for fun." Lu Zhu said again.
"He still cares about me?"
Yun Qingping became more angry.
"I think Meng Chuan is right." Yun Fu, who was sitting there, drank tea happily and said, "You girl should practice well, don't always be greedy for fun."
"Dad, Meng Chuan is like wood." Yun Qingping looked at Yun Fu'an and couldn't help but say, "When I was just the full moon, you made a baby marriage for me and Meng Chuan! But we have completely different personalities. I like to play and invite many friends to play with. But he likes to practice, draw, and likes to be quiet. When I talk to him, I don't talk like a quarrel. In the future, I think of getting married with him, I'm almost crazy."
"You are just too noisy. It's a good thing to have someone who can cure you." Yun Fu'an said with a smile.
Yun Qingping went to her father's side, hugged her father's arm and said coquettishly: "Dad, I beg you, go and talk to the Meng family, talk to Uncle Meng, and terminate the engagement."
"Don't even think about it!" Yun Fu'an drank the tea and denied it directly.
"father!"
Yun Qingping said angrily, "Why did you force me to marry him? Back then, I just knew nothing, so I decided to make a marriage for me. How do you know what Meng Chuan will look like when he grows up? You don't know at all, so you insisted that I marry him. You didn't care about my thoughts at all. Don't you think it's too much?"
"Mengchuan is still good." Yun Fu'an said, "He is the younger generation of the five major gods and demon families in Dongning Mansion, he is very good."
"So what if he is good? I don't like it!" Yun Qingping said angrily, "I don't want to marry a so-called genius who can't even speak together."
Yun Fuan gently put down the teacup, raised his eyelids and looked at his daughter coldly.
Yun Qingping's heart trembled.
But the arrogance in her heart made her stare at her father with her head raised!
"In the past six months, you have told me that you have terminated the engagement six times." Yun Fu'an said coldly, "It seems that my father is too doting on you. I will explain it to you clearly today."
Yun Qingping stared at her father.
Yun Fu'an continued: "The marriage between you and Meng Chuan is not only for you, but also for our Yun family and the Meng family! Although our Yun family is one of the five major gods and demon families, we have only settled in Dongning Mansion for decades, and only have dozens of tribe members, and our foundation is still shallow. The Meng family is a gods and demon family family rooted in Dongning for thousands of years, with more than ten thousand tribes! Meng Chuan's father, "Meng Dajiang", will be the next head of the Meng family. You are the only girl of our third generation of Yun family. If you get married with Meng Chuan, our Yun family and the Meng family can naturally go a step further. This will also be of great benefit to my Yun family."
"Grandfather has cultivated himself into a god and a demon." Yun Qingping retorted, "With grandfather here, no one can shake my Yun family! Since that's the case, why can't I make life more comfortable?"
"Freeze? Freeze means whoever you want to get married, whoever you want to get married?" Yun Fuan said coldly.
"Why, can't it be?" Yun Qingping raised her head and said, "I must sacrifice me for the sake of the family? Dad, don't you feel ashamed?"
"Shut up!"
Yun Fuan stood up in anger, pointed at his daughter angrily, and shouted, "Yun Qingping, you want to go out for fun and have a group of guards. If you want to eat fire dragon fish in the middle of winter, someone will try your best to help you find it. You are not careful in practicing, and there are also a large number of treasures used on you, which will make you reach the Marrow Cleansing Realm this year. I ask the master to guide you one-on-one. You are weak. I ask three guards from the Death Realm to protect you secretly. If you ask the three guards from the Death Realm to pay 500 taels of silver in a month, and there are other treasures to give..."
"Do you know how much the family has paid for your so-called freedom and freedom?" Yun Fu'an stared at his daughter.
Yun Qingping was stunned.
She is not stupid.
After she calculated it briefly, she knew how amazing the family had to pay for her to maintain such a life.
"If you enjoy the benefits of the family, you have to bear what you should bear!" Yun Fu'an shouted angrily, "Just enjoy the benefits, do nothing? Think beautifully!"
"Also, I know there is a little guy in your Taoist temple named Zhang Chong. He has been very attentive to you recently?" Yun Fu'an sneered, "He is a boy from the side of the Zhang family. He is worthy of marrying my Yun Fu'an's daughter, and he doesn't look in the mirror to see which onion he is!"
"Dad, Senior Brother Zhang and I don't..." Yun Qingping asked to explain.
"As long as I find that you have a little bit beyond the rules, it will defame the face of my Yun family and Meng family. Not only will he die, but you! I will clean up the portal!" Yun Fuan looked at his scared daughter coldly, "Don't blame the ruthlessness of being a father at that time."
Yun Qingping felt a chill in her heart.
She had never seen her father so coldly, and she was only fifteen years old this year.
"Daughter." Yun Fu'an's face slowed down, "That's the case with family marriage. No matter how ugly or incompetent he is, you have to marry. Your father and grandfather decided to marry your mother by yourself, and there was no choice! And speaking of this, Meng Chuan has a very good character, so you should be glad."
After saying that, Yun Fuan glanced at the maid Lu Zhu, who was trembling behind his daughter, and ordered: "Lu Zhu, look out for your lady, don't let her make a mistake."
"Yes." Lu Zhu responded quickly.
Yun Fuan then left with his hands behind his back.
Yun Qingping stood there, staring at her father's leaving figure, thinking of the sentence "Even you, I will clear the portal. Don't blame the ruthlessness of being a father at that time." This sentence was indeed a bit exciting to Yun Qingping.
She felt that this world was different from what she had thought for so many years.
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Chapter completed!