Chapter 2253: Awaiting History to Record

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“Aiyo – pain! Pain! Pain! Sister, let go, let go!”

The increasingly fat and strong Sun Xiaoyan hurried forward with small, quick steps, baring his teeth and twisting his mouth to beg for mercy.

Beside him, Sun Xiaoman twisted his ear, leading him forward with big strides. Because of the difference in height and body type, Sun Xiaoman was practically floating and walking on air. Sun Xiaoyan also had to effortfully tilt his fat neck to avoid having his ear pulled off.

“Now you know pain, huh?” Sun Xiaoman sneered repeatedly. “Who was it just now who was thinking about trying hands with me?”

“Where would I dare, sister?” Sun Xiaoyan said with a tearful face. “I was greeting you, really greeting!”

“Greeting, and used Dao technique?” Sun Xiaoman asked.

“Wasn’t it just to let sister check my homework? So many years since we’ve met!” Sun Xiaoyan swore to the sky. “Heaven and earth are my witnesses, I am loyal to my sister with all my heart, I wouldn’t dare have the slightest thought of provocation. Mother is the first, sister is the second, heaven is the third, and I am the fourth!”

As he spoke, he pouted his mouth. “You’ve beaten me since I was small, and now you’re still beating me when I’m this big. Don’t I have any face?”

His fat face began to contort, and his eyes looked like they were truly about to squeeze out tears.

Sun Xiaoman let go of his ear, raised her hand, and slapped him on the back of the head, making his fat jiggle. Then she pointed at his nose. “Immediately go in front of mother, dare to cry and try—how old are you already!”

Sun Xiaoyan, who had been very good at crying since he was small, immediately straightened his expression, even squeezing out a smile.

Sun Xiaoman, who had followed Wang Xiao to practice her fist and travel the world, was returning to her hometown for the first time in many years.

Three Mountain City’s three famous mountains – Jade Balance had already tilted, Fly Come had already flown, leaving only Vertical Pen Peak standing alone. But Three Mountain City’s name was still called this, and no one had changed it to Single Mountain City.

Just like Sun Xiaoyan was still a fatty, he had just gone from small fat to big fat.

How could he be so fat!

This question didn’t seem to be a question for Dou Yuemei, who casually stuffed a basin of braised pig trotters into Sun Xiaoyan’s arms.

Sun Xiaoyan hugged the pig trotters and started to gnaw.

Dou Yuemei gently waved her hand. “Little Man, come here to mother.”

They hadn’t met for quite a few years, and her heart was inevitably full of longing. No matter how boisterous Sun Xiaoman was, at this moment her heart softened a hundred times, her eyes turned red, and she threw herself into her mother’s arms. “Mother!”

“Good child…” Dou Yuemei hugged her daughter, gently stroked her hair, and as she stroked, she found an ear and suddenly twisted it—

“Sun Xiaoman! You heartless one! You’ve been gone for so many years! Your mother’s blooming face and moon-like appearance have already turned yellow and wrinkled, and you haven’t even come back to take a look!”

Sun Xiaoman always ate soft and not hard. Since Dou Yuemei dared to twist her ear, she argued loudly, “A good woman has ambition in all directions, how can she be tied down by family matters!”

But although she argued with her mouth, she still tried to soften her ear. The strong and spicy mother who had held up the sky in her impression could no longer twist her martial body.

She was growing rapidly, while her mother, forever stopped at the Inner Mansion realm, would still grow old step by step.

Dou Yuemei’s willow eyebrows inverted. “I knew early on that you, Sun Xiaoman, had ambition in all directions. When I gave birth to you that year, I should have found a basin and put you in it, letting you drift with the waves and wander to the ends of the earth. It would have saved your old mother from being sad now!”

Sun Xiaoyan almost buried his face in the rice basin, pretending to eat pig trotters. But he stole a glance at his sister being scolded, happy to the point where the corners of his mouth couldn’t be kept down.

Sun Xiaoman knew her old mother’s temper. Although she had never submitted since she was small, this time she compromised once and said coquettishly, “Mother, don’t twist, my ear is going to break, wu wu wu—”

“Hiss—” Dou Yuemei sucked in a cold breath. “Who did you learn this from?”

But after all, she let go of her hand.

“From you!” Sun Xiaoman said jokingly. “You were really good at it when I was little—”

She realized she had said the wrong thing and quickly changed the subject. “Just as I came back, I saw it was very noisy outside. What are they arguing about?”

Dou Yuemei seemed unaware and only sighed. “This court has had three policies in ten years, each one different. How can everyone not have opinions? The city head changes kings, but it doesn’t change the noble surnames. But changing orders in the morning and evening, achieving nothing, only hurts the common people!”

Within the entire Zhuang country, Three Mountain City was absolutely one of the city domains most adaptable to Qi Ming’s new policy.

Because the people here had suffered greatly from fierce beasts. From the former city lord Sun Heng to countless warriors in the city domain’s history, they didn’t know the truth about the beast nest, yet for the sake of fighting against the beast nest, they had dedicated themselves generation after generation.

Three Mountain City had suffered from the beast nest for a long time!

But this city domain was also the most difficult to accept the truth about the beast nest, because the disaster that had destroyed countless families was actually created by man. Tens of thousands of common people paid taxes to the country, and were unknowingly used by the country, becoming pill medicine and firewood.

How could the people’s hearts not be shaken?

Fortunately, the court could blame everything on Zhuang Gao Xian, who had already been overthrown and killed, and use the new policy to signal a farewell to the past, thereby gaining understanding.

As Qi Ming’s new policy was pushed forward, the entire public opinion of Three Mountain City was united in refusing the beast nest. The court also fully considered the people’s mood, so Three Mountain City was removed from the nest area.

These past few years, Three Mountain City had indeed been calm and peaceful. The people of Three Mountain City were diligent and brave, and in an era they completely believed in, they worked hard to open up the future.

But the wind and clouds were so unpredictable, and the new policy ended after five years. In the blink of an eye, the old political group was either dead or gone, and when people died, the policies stopped.

Now the court wanted to rebuild the beast nest in the Three Mountain City domain!

The old wound hadn’t healed, and the new hatred was still remembered, how could the people not make noise?

Dou Yuemei knew deeply that the people’s resistance was meaningless, only “acceptance” and “having to accept.” She had already had a deep understanding of this reality when she was blocked by Du Ru Hui while trying to move a mountain.

But as a high official of a city, the parents of the people, how could she advise everyone not to resist and accept all of this?

During this period, she could only worry and sigh!

After hearing everything her mother said, Sun Xiaoman frowned. She had no good feelings at all towards the Zhuang Court under the leadership of the Dao Gate. “If it really doesn’t work, we’ll just go. Your daughter has this pair of fists, the world is so big, where isn’t there a place for us two mothers to shelter?”

“Mother three!” Sun Xiaoyan interjected in the middle of his busy eating.

“Your brother can go with you, but I can’t,” Dou Yuemei said calmly. “Even though Zhuang Court has ten thousand bad things, and Three Mountain City has ten thousand torments, this is the responsibility your dad left behind. Your dad is gone, and I have to carry it.”

The power of this sentence had already been proven by the past.

“I’m not going either! I also have responsibility!” Sun Xiaoyan declared loudly while gnawing on a pig trotter.

Whether it was responsibility or not was put aside, it was obvious who was easier to get beaten by. He just wouldn’t go with Sun Xiaoman!

Sun Xiaoman stared fiercely at him.

“Sister—” Sun Xiaoyan hesitated and passed a pig trotter over. “Do you want some?”

Before Sun Xiaoman could finish shaking her head, he took it back, muttering as he gnawed, “Sister, where is that master you call ‘world’s first martial husband’?”

Wang Xiao didn’t enter the city to see his old friends, Sun Xiaoman didn’t say, and Dou Yuemei didn’t ask either.

The already dead Sun Heng was a person who wasn’t particularly talented in cultivation, but had a very strong personality and personal charm. Sun Heng, Dou Yuemei, and Wang Xiao had known each other when they were humble, traveled the world together as partners, and were very good friends. Later, Dou Yuemei followed Sun Heng back to his hometown, while Wang Xiao wandered the human world alone, continuing his path of martial arts.

To be precise, Wang Xiao’s sudden progress in cultivation actually began after Dou Yuemei married Sun Heng. Although he had been stronger than his two friends in talent before, it wasn’t that obvious.

Wang Xiao liked Dou Yuemei, Wang Xiao knew this, and Dou Yuemei also knew it. But Wang Xiao never said anything, because Dou Yuemei’s attitude was very clear, if he said something, they wouldn’t even be friends.

So he even avoided meeting her.

“Not claiming it! His first was punched out,” Sun Xiaoman said. “He’s gone back to Qin country now. He said he wants to go back and get something he should take, so he gave me a holiday—I just happened to come home to take a look.”

The Wang family of Great Qin was an emerging prestigious family in the western border. But tracing its history, it had quite a few years, it was just that it had only truly risen in recent centuries, listing its name among the noble families within the pass.

Among them, the true person Wang Zhao, who held military affairs in the army, was overflowing with talent and had military strategies surpassing others, evidently a representative of the young and strong faction of Qin country generals.

While Wang Xiao was actually from a side branch of this family, his family was poor from a young age, he wasn’t valued, and he left Qin country very early to wander alone, finally relying on his own fists to carve out a piece of the sky.

Dou Yuemei only knew this much about Wang Xiao’s past, and didn’t understand what Wang Xiao meant by “go back to get something he should take.” But she understood Wang Xiao, knowing that this person was not reckless, would not let emotion lead him to make a dizzy decision, and they indeed couldn’t help Wang Xiao in any way.

Then she just rubbed Sun Xiaoman’s hair. “Didn’t you say practicing martial arts can make you taller? Why haven’t you grown? Now you’re already three circles smaller than your brother.”

Sun Xiaoman looked at Sun Xiaoyan with dislike. “Who can compare with him and not be several circles smaller? Look at how you raised him!”

She added, “Oh, there’s a fatty in Qi country who is fatter than him. I saw him in Linzi with master last time. He’s already a Hou! He’s Jiang Wang’s good brother. Do you still remember Jiang Wang?”

“Cabinet Elder Jiang! How could I not remember?” Sun Xiaoyan was full of interest. “Yang Xingyong and Zhao Tiehe still mention him often. During the discussion of the Dao in the three cities initially, he gave us Dao merit, he’s a good person.”

“A good person may not be a good evaluation,” Dou Yuemei said.

“How is a good person not a good evaluation?” Sun Xiaoyan was very opinionated. “In my opinion, it’s a very good evaluation!”

“Then mother hopes you always think so,” Dou Yuemei looked at Sun Xiaoman. “Little Man, you’ve followed your master to travel south and north for so many years—what do you think?”

“I think he won’t care how others evaluate him.” Sun Xiaoman lightly gripped her five fingers into a fist, and her cultivation at the twenty-first heaven of the martial way was no longer hidden.

She was calm and relaxed in the city lord’s mansion, talking and laughing freely.

Outside the city lord’s mansion, however, qi and blood smoke was rising, drums were breaking the cloud sea, rushing towards the high sky!

The last suitable place to build a beast nest in Three Mountain City was Vertical Pen Peak.

There was Sun Heng’s stele at Vertical Pen Peak, which Dou Yuemei had personally erected. Sun Heng had exhausted his strength and died there while cleaning up Vertical Pen Peak.

As Sun Heng’s daughter, Sun Xiaoman would absolutely not allow a beast nest to be built there again, and specifically issued a warning with her fist. She said, “Because Jiang Wang is the same as my master, they are both true strong people.”

Dou Yuemei was silent for a moment, then asked, “Isn’t your master going to take that step?”

Sun Xiaoman only said, “Before that, he wants to settle cause and effect.”

As the era developed to today, the cultivation world already had such a consensus—martial way is a grand avenue.

This is not a branch of the current cultivation system, but another great road that can be parallel to the current cultivation system. Although it has not truly been walked out yet, more and more people are throwing themselves into it. Zhongli Yan, the heaven pride of Chu country, is just one well-known example.

But even if everyone knows it can reach a limitlessly high place, as long as no one reaches the top, it will not be established. There is a piece of fog in front that cannot be seen clearly, and no one knows what is there.

Perhaps before the limit, it is a broken road. Perhaps the stone blocking the road in front is an unbreakable heavenly rule.

Throwing oneself into this road is still an adventure.

Wang Xiao is the pioneer who walks at the very front.

The martial way has no absolute peak until now, history is waiting for people to write.

Many people all think they are the one who writes history, but only when the tide of the era completely rolls over can they know who will leave their name in the end.

Within this year, True Person Jiang has always been busy realizing his bold words in Heaven Capital City. Demon world, border wilderness, Yu Abyss, he has been going back and forth non-stop in these three places, continuously creating opportunities, killing until now the demonic and Asura are all very nervous.

In the past, Cave True powers could traverse a place at will and come and go freely, but now they basically don’t dare to fall alone on the front line.

It can almost be said that he has changed the situation on the battlefield with his own power.

But everyone understands that everything now is just a small fight, and all sides are restraining their claws at the moment.

The true war is still on the way, just about to come. It is a giant sword hanging over their heads but whose shape cannot be seen clearly now, only when it falls can they know which side fate will flow towards—

Or continue the protagonist’s heavenly fate, or go towards a more dark era than ancient times.

At the present stage, the frequent actions of the entire present world are because no one dares to light that one war. The higher one stands, the more one understands the weight of history.

Jiang Wang left Chu country, just flying horizontally through the air, but before flying five hundred li, he suddenly pressed down his sword light.

Here is a piece of wild land going in the direction of Song country—the wild lands in the southern domain are especially numerous, either because miasma accumulates, or because various large sects leave taboos, in short, many places are unwilling to be managed.

Jiang Wang did not fall for no reason, he was startled by a wisp of qi machine touching him, so he descended to see who was the sacred one.

But he saw the miasma turn into clear light, and in the empty ground between the forests, a bamboo mat was spread out.

A wide-robed, wide-sleeved, high-crowned, broad-belted old man was sitting on the bamboo mat, with an incense burner on his left and several volumes of books on his right.

In this season when late spring had already passed and early summer had just arrived, he and this piece of mountain forest together formed a refreshing painting.

“Old man knows me?” Jiang Wang asked after landing.

This old man’s silver hair was all under his high crown, his face was red, and his voice was very powerful, giving people a feeling of upright fullness. “Who in the world doesn’t know gentleman!”

Jiang Wang bowed his hands and saluted. “I still don’t know who the old man is.”

“A leftover of a fallen country, how can there be a prosperous name?” The old man reached out a hand and gestured. “Please sit.”

Jiang Wang roughly knew who this person was, so he followed the old man’s example and sat down properly opposite the old man. He tried his best to make his posture standard, but it was obviously not strict enough to pass inspection.

The old man looked at him quietly for a while and said, “You don’t learn礼.”

Jiang someone was formerly in Qi, his侯爵礼仪 was not standard, and he never saw anyone chatter about it, even the Qi emperor didn’t mind, and the礼官 still praised his graceful style.

This old man was quite picky—quite like being a teacher to others.

Jiang Wang simply supported his knees with both hands and relaxed. “My father taught me礼 when he was in the world. He taught me mutual respect, give and take, but he didn’t teach me cumbersome things. Please forgive me, old mister.”

The old man didn’t seem offended, and of course, he didn’t look happy either, he just said, “Old husband is Yan Sheng.”

“Old mister Yan.” Jiang Wang looked at him. “May I know why cabinet down invited me with your qi machine?”

Yan Sheng looked at Jiang Wang with a complex gaze, was silent for a moment, then said, “Old husband is an old person of the East Palace of the last generation prince of Yang country, ashamed to be the prince’s tutor, I truly did not benefit the country. Today, it happened that you flew over, and I felt something for a while, hence the impudent invitation.”

He paused, then continued, “The last moment of the founding princess of Great Yang was spent by your side. Old husband wants to ask—concerning Yang country, did she have any entrustment?”

This strong person at the Yan Dao level, who knows how strong a True Monarch he is, his last sentence was slightly trembling.

Jiang Wang felt many emotions in this instant, and the earlier bit of being picky and unhappy also scattered.

He imagined many kinds of answers, but looking into this old man’s eyes, he finally said, “Predecessor Ji, she had no entrustment to me.”

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