Chapter 177 4.37 Bloody Night (2)

At the same time, the sea surface was 4 kilometers away from Hanshui Village. A flat, black speedboat glided from the lightless sea. In order to maintain concealment, no lighting measures were taken throughout the ship.

In the darkness, a steady baritone voice slowly said: "Shangxian, we are here!"

“This is the village of the Viking noble ‘Loki Starrag’!”

"Um"

This is an old voice, and it can be judged that the answerer is no longer young. When he spoke, everyone around him immediately shut up, giving the old man room to speak.

"According to what 'Little Luozi' said, the 'Jade Seal' he found fell into the hands of this Viking lord?"

"Yes." The calm baritone answered cleanly and without any trace of sloppiness.

"Um"

"I still understand Xiao Luozi's methods!"

"As far as his true eyesight, knowledge and mind are concerned, there is no problem in being a 'treasure appraiser' in Paris. But this man, in his thirties, insists on marrying a foreign woman. For this reason He also rejected Prince Li Yu’s niece, haha, it’s really unreasonable!”

"Although today's Tang Dynasty is no longer the scene of the 'Kaiyuan Dynasty' 200 years ago, the 'Li Family of the Tang Dynasty' is still not something that ordinary people can disobey. It's impossible for Luo Chuan not to understand such a simple truth!"

"Haha, what Patriarch Hongjun said is right. We monks must cut off the seven emotions and six desires, because all these human emotions are the roots of trouble!"

"The lust for women caused Mr. Xuanzong to alienate himself from the government, and ultimately laid the foundation for the Anshi Rebellion. His filial piety towards his parents made Guo Ziyi, a master of military art, not go out to lead troops until he was 58 years old. By the time he put down the Anshi Rebellion, he was already 66 years old!

What use is a 66-year-old man in the court? ! If he could abandon the bad rules and lead his troops to save the world as soon as possible, our Eastern Tang Dynasty would definitely not be like this today! "

Whenever the Anshi Rebellion, which turned from prosperity to decline in the Tang Dynasty, is mentioned, every Tang person who has experienced that chaotic era will feel sad. They watched as a wealthy and powerful country that had never appeared on earth collapsed rapidly within eight years, turning into what it is today.

"Qinghe Zhenren", who is 98 years old this year, is naturally no exception.

39 years ago, when the Anshi Rebellion broke out, he was the junior disciple of "Qingyun Zhenren", the boss of Izumo Trading Company, and was serving as the postmaster of the transit station in the Great Khan's Protectorate in Tochara, an important node on the Silk Road.

This official position was not conspicuous within the borders of the Tang Dynasty, but it became particularly important when it came to the border gates guarded by Jiedushi. All merchants traveling between the East and West on the Silk Road had to pass through his post station to change horses, replenish water and food, and obtain customs clearance certificates. At the same time, he was protected by the army under his command.

The originally peaceful days were ruthlessly shattered on a bloody night.

On December 16, 755 AD, the Anshi Rebellion broke out.

An Lushan, who served as the envoy of Fanyang, Pinglu, and Hedong, mobilized 150,000 Tang soldiers, Tongluo, Xi, Khitan, and Shiwei, a total of 200,000, to "worry about the danger of the country" and carry out a secret edict to attack. Yang Guozhong used this as an excuse to raise troops in Fan Yang.

This former "Sogdian" nobleman in the Western Regions finally began to challenge the dominance of the Li family of the Tang Dynasty after decades of secret management.

An Lushan's mutiny had been planned for a long time. At the same time that the three northeastern towns launched the mutiny, the countries in the Western Regions immediately responded to the call and launched rebellions at the same time, echoing their "heroes" in the north and breaking into the Tang Dynasty!

Almost overnight, the Western Region turned into chaos.

Qinghe Zhenren, who knew nothing about the rebellion, was surprised to find that all the Indo-European brothers who were originally like a family revolted! The businessmen from the Western Regions who used to nod and bow to them, wishing to kneel at their feet and kiss the toes of their shoes, raised their butcher knives and roared, turning into robbers who were killing madly.

They frantically killed every Tang merchant they saw along the way, insulted their families, and robbed their wealth.

For a moment, everyone seemed to have turned into demons!

The 59-year-old Qinghe master was an ordinary swordsman who had just reached the "foundation-building stage". He led his brothers in the trading company to fight desperately, and started a long road home from Tochara, thousands of miles away.

Along the way, the humble and polite Loulan people, Qiuci people and Cheshi people all regained their original ferocious faces. Looking back at this time, Master Qinghe didn't know how he completed this long journey of thousands of miles back home. He only knew that when he returned to Lanzhou Prefecture, Longyou Road, he was the only one left in his team.

His three-bedroom wife, seven children, nearly a hundred people in the escort team, and his vast wealth were all lost in this journey home.

**

Seeing his junior brother in such a miserable state, the boss of Izumo Trading Company, "Qingyun Zhenren", sent him back to the Shushan Sword School where they practiced for training. However, this journey of escape has completely changed Qinghe. He no longer believed in this country, nor did he believe that Tang could become powerful again simply by doing business and earning money from the tribe.

On the bloody escape, he felt that except for the flying sword in his hand, nothing was trustworthy. The Tang people should brutally suppress the Fan people and rule them with fear instead of benevolence and justice!

Let them fully understand what the sky above them really looks like.

Qinghe spent 20 years in seclusion in Shushan.

During this period, he cut off his emotions and lived with monkeys in a cave in the back of Shushan Mountain, practicing the art of killing. 20 years later, when he came out of the mountain, he had crossed from the foundation-building stage to the golden elixir stage, and the second stage of the Nascent Soul stage.

It was only one step away from the "Golden Immortal Realm" where the head of Shushan "Ling Xuzi" was.

On the day Qinghe came out of retreat, dark clouds covered the sky and heavy rain fell from the sky. When Qinghe, wearing a tattered straw raincoat, stepped on the flying sword and flew into the "Shushan Sword Tomb", the place where the head of the sect practiced, Ling Xuzi felt that he saw a walking corpse whose three souls and seven spirits had been melted into ashes.

He didn't know what to say to this disciple who was full of dead silence in his heart, so he could only wave his hand helplessly.

The next day, True Man Qingyun took him down the mountain.

***

Qinghe, who came down the mountain, had no mercy in his heart that belonged to ordinary people.

At this time, the An-Shi Rebellion had been quelled. Although the Tang Dynasty suffered from this disaster and was littered with corpses, its remaining size still maintained the title of "the world's largest country". The re-submitted tribes entered the Tang Dynasty again to learn the advanced technology and culture of the Tang people, and seek opportunities to trade with them. Everyone around him seemed to have forgotten this bloody incident.

Only Qinghe Zhenren.

The 20 years of seclusion made his life forever solidified in that bloody escape. Especially after he came out of seclusion, his combat power increased greatly! At this time, he cultivated a five-color Yuanying, and the abundant spiritual energy that continued to grow in his body allowed him to kill people with a simple look.

If the foreign tribes were slightly disobedient to him, he would use a sword to break their legs, wrists and eyes, or walk to their homes and kill their entire families. From 90-year-old old men to babbling children, Qinghe urged the flying sword to slaughter them like chopping weeds. After killing everyone, he would even hang their bodies on kites and fly them high in the sky, in order to make all the aliens live in fear day and night.

At this point, True Man Qingyun realized that his junior brother had completely "collapsed". His problem was not in his body, but in his heart.

This man is already a "half-step demon cultivator". Keeping him in the country will only bring countless troubles to the order that the Li family has finally reestablished. In desperation, he can only take him to the Western Continent far away from his homeland to act as a thug for the Izumo Trading Company and help the trading company deal with some tough bones.

The "bone" he needs to deal with today is Loki Starrag.