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The valley often echoes with the sound of running water and fallen leaves. The water in the lake flows from high to lowland, passing through the dense forest, flowing through the water wheel, and moistening thousands of acres of fertile farmland. There will never be a lack of things for people to survive here.
A happy life where everything is available and what you see is what you get may not completely eliminate all delusions and evil thoughts. In many cases, this will become the source of more evil.
What can be concluded is that there is absolutely no person in this world who has no desires and desires. Survival, this most primitive desire, supports everyone until now without disappearing from the world yesterday.
In this red leaf valley, there is such a peaceful town where all kinds of bad habits still exist. Why can it be so peaceful and peaceful that it seems to be far away from the world, almost like a paradise?
Hongye Town is a place surrounded by mountains to the east and west, with only one mountain road in and out. Most of the people in the town understand each other, what is the purpose of coming and what is the background of who is going. Only the purpose and details of Taipingdao are unknown to anyone. As long as people follow the path of peace, they will not only practice the art of immortality and enlightenment, but also incorporate Mohist ideas to make everyone love each other and eliminate fighting.
Based on this, over time, this place gradually developed its own set of rules. Under the careful care of Taiping Road, the government here is just a decoration. Rather than laws, the townspeople feel that dogma is what they should abide by.
When enough people are bound by dogma, the extent of its influence cannot be based solely on the current situation. Especially in this remote valley, where information is limited and materials are abundant, it is easy for people to develop a kind of ideological dependence and inertia. They naively think that the reason why they live such a life without competing with the world is because of themselves. Well done.
Various bad habits, including forcing every family to sacrifice their first child as a "human sacrifice", will only be passed down from one generation to the next without any external intervention. Even if one of them suddenly wakes up, or even slightly expresses his intention to break the rules, the companions around him will do their best to stop him.
Some people are willing to put on shackles themselves, just so that one day they can become more skillful in putting shackles on others. At this point, it's more like a normal person to join in with other people.
Countless victims died in the furnace before they could feel the colorful world. This extremely regrettable and indignant situation continued one day, and in this small town that was completely bewitched by Taiping Road, an "uninvited guest" who had not been seen in decades was finally welcomed.
The young swordsman walked along the water source on the hillside, sitting on a heavy draft horse, followed by a beautiful singer, who was also riding a horse.
The first people who saw this pair of mysterious travelers were villagers who were still working on the farmland outside the town, but the news soon spread to other people's ears, probably because of the singer with gorgeous makeup and people like her. , but they don’t often appear in the valley. The swordsman next to her, on the other hand, had a murderous look on his face. Only this kind of person would often bypass the official road and walk into this deep red-leaf valley to settle down.
Soon, the travelers tied up their horses and walked into an inn in the town.
The shopkeeper walked out of the tea room without thinking, and looked at Bai Feng who showed up first. Seeing that he was serious in speech and carrying a long sword at his waist, he thought he was just a passerby who only stayed for one night and left, so he flattered him and said, "Your Majesty, but You just came after a long journey, do you want me to entertain you with good wine and good food?"
"Hmm..." Bai Feng responded casually, then found a place to sit down.
"Store!" Murong Yan followed closely, first bowing to show respect for her companion's rudeness, and then said: "We don't drink, we have to be on the road tomorrow!"
The store owner looked at the singer with a scarf on her face and said, "Oh! I understand, let's get ready now." After that, he trotted to the kitchen to prepare the meal with surprise in his heart. He thought: "Could it be that some noble person is passing by and can make some money and put it in his pocket?"
But he didn't expect that the other party had no money to settle the bill.
After a while, when the food on the table was almost empty, the woman suddenly mentioned something in front of the shop owner and said: "Brother A Niu gave all the money to that girl, how can we pay for the food?" "
"Haha, then Yaoyao also gave away the change of clothes and the self-defense dagger she was carrying. What are your plans?" Bai Feng's sneer was like a sharp sword, cutting someone into pieces. Some people’s dreams.
The store owner knew that the business would not work out, and now he had lost a lot of money. He immediately whispered to the boy next to him for a moment and asked him to go outside to call friends and thugs, intending to punish the two freeloaders in front of him with them. The charlatan.
"Remembering the first time I came here, my mood was completely different..." Murong Yan watched the boy walking away outside the inn, looking very melancholy, and said, "Brother A Niu, are you really planning to do this? "
"There is no other way."
This cold voice again, this puzzling answer again. After hearing this, the store owner felt that their trip was premeditated, because they had been here before and knew that the government offices here had long been abolished and the laws were excessive, and they immediately became even more angry.
When the sound of dense and disorderly footsteps sounded outside the door, the store owner and the servants immediately stood up and attacked the pair of travelers, shouting: "How dare you eat for free here, you idiot? "
"What's the matter? You want to drive me away?" As soon as Bai Feng finished speaking, he picked up the sword at his waist, then threw it heavily on the table, and threatened: "I will only say this once, you will all be deceived by Taiping Dao. Now, the real art of immortality is in my hands!"
As soon as this statement came out, it immediately aroused different opinions.
"What? What the hell is he talking about?"
"He's just saying harsh words, no matter what his crazy words are! There are more than a dozen of us here together, how can we not put him down?"
"Well said, let's go together and strip them naked and send them to the Immortal!"
The tallest and most ferocious among them, and the one who most wanted to make a mark, took the lead in attacking.
"Ah ha, take Grandpa's axe!" The sword light passed by and there was a clang, and the inn instantly became silent.
I saw that this guy was cut into two pieces with the axe. The Longming Sword drew a beautiful white light in the air, and hit the opponent's head with the logging ax, cutting off half of the guy's head, leaving it all white. His brains were stained with blood and spewed out, splattering all over the floor.
Bai Feng stood there without changing his expression, pointed his sword at the ground, glanced behind him, and said comfortingly: "Yao Yao, I have told you before that a contest is a contest, and a killing is a killing. After all, it is not a good sight. matter."
