In Tianlan City.
This is a high stone platform, and the stone is mined from the nearby Liuguang River. But I am afraid that except for the glacier that is said to flow with jade, there will never be such a large jade in this world.
Yes, this high platform is made of raw jade material that has not been cut or polished. If the jade reserves in Liuguang River are exhausted one day in the distant future, then this high platform will become the largest jade reserve in the world.
This is the Moon Watching Platform, the highest place in the entire Tianlan City. However, except for a very few people, others are not qualified to come to its feet.
It's just that all the residents of Tianlan City can see the high platform standing in the distance as long as they raise their heads, as quiet as a mountain amid the clouds and mist. They all know the astonishing wealth that this high platform represents, and this intimidates the Lord of Tianlan City. power and prestige.
Tianlan City The Ren family has controlled Tianlan City for more than a thousand years. Although it has gone through twists and turns, it has never declined. Therefore, no one has ever been lucky enough to pry off a piece of jade from the moon-watching platform built by the first ancestors.
Tianlan City is already extremely high, but the Moon Watching Platform is even higher. It is built on the top of the solitary peak closest to Tianlan City. Under the peak is the manor of the Lord of Tianlan City.
This is a very strange thing. The city lord's palace is not built in the city, but it is a well-known thing if it is placed in Tianlan City.
Because when the first head of the Ren family settled in Tianlan Mountain, there was no Tianlan City.
Wangyue Peak is a good family territory, but it is not suitable for building a city.
The head of the family built the Moon Watching Platform and the Moon Watching Villa, and then over hundreds of years, under the leadership of the Ren family, Tianlan City was built one after another at the bottom of this mountain valley.
First there is the city lord, and then there is Tianlan City.
This is also common sense to the residents of Tianlan City.
The Lanye Empire should not have had frontier officials, because it had just given birth to one of the three greatest emperors in the history of this continent, and the power of the government was divided between the emperor and the parliament, and the central authority was extremely powerful.
But for Tianlan City, both the emperor and the subsequent council maintained a respect close to that of Ye Yecheng.
The day after Emperor Yuan Tai took over Yanshi City, Ren Xia Sheng, then the lord of Tianlan City, conveyed his intention to surrender to the emperor through a messenger. At that time, Emperor Yuan Tai gave him two choices.
The first option is to move the whole family to Lanlan City, and Tianlan City will be handed over to the branch. At the same time, the Tianlan Ren family ceases to exist, and is replaced by the Lan surname, the seventh family of the Lanye Empire.
The second option is to continue to live in Tianlan City, and you can choose whether to become a member of the fifth family named Lan.
For this empire, the surname Lan is a symbol of the top nobility. The resources and preferential treatment he enjoys even exceed those of the royal family in the conventional sense. Being the seventh family with the surname Lan symbolizes near-total autonomy, backed by heaven. They in Lancheng can compete with any family named Lan without any scruples.
But Ren Xiasheng refused.
His reply was only eight words.
"Although Liangyuan is good, it is not my hometown."
After receiving the letter and replying to the letter, Emperor Yuan Tai laughed loudly, summoned the envoy, and gave the order one by one, and he said it would be handled accordingly.
So from then on, Lord Tianlan became one of the two major city lords in the ten-person council.
The position of Lord of Tianlan City will be passed down from generation to generation of the Ren family, and the empire will recognize it and provide support when necessary.
Tianlan City leads its own army, and the three thousand miles of snowfields under the Holy Snow Mountain are the territory of Tianlan City. Among the people, the Lord of Tianlan City is also known as the King of the North.
Not without reason.
It was also in view of Tianlan City's unique historical status that Lan Mu entrusted Ye Qing to send his handwritten letter to Qiu Ke, the director of Tianlan City who had not left Holy Snow Mountain for decades, and hoped to send this favor to Ye green.
Just like no one would dislike the friendship of a princess, but similarly, no one can have too much friendship from Lord Tianlan.
Ren Qiuke was standing on the moon-watching platform at this time.
The viewing platform is extremely high, so high that the clouds and mist are undulating, and the mist is like smoke. The entire Tianlan City is crawling under its feet like a model.
But at this moment, standing alone on such a high jade platform, one can't help but feel lonely.
But Ren Qiuke himself is a lonely genius.
The Tianlan Ren family has the highest family heritage, but Ren Qiuke is extremely dazzling even in its history of more than a thousand years.
He started training at the age of four and showed the same outstanding potential in magic swordsmanship. If he were an ordinary genius, he would probably choose the path of a magic swordsman directly.
However, he gave up magic when he was six years old and focused on martial arts.
Strictly speaking, he specializes in kendo.
Since then, he has been on the road to success.
At the age of nine, he first mastered the art of swordsmanship and advanced to the green rank. From then on, the ordinary samurai in the family were no longer a match for a child.
At the age of fourteen, he achieved a minor level of swordsmanship and broke through to the realm of the earth. On the day of promotion, he held a sword and went down the mountain. He crossed three thousand miles of snowfield with a single sword. In three months, he killed more than a thousand enemies, and finally sacrificed his blood to the sword.
At the age of twenty-four, he reached the peak of the twenty-eighth level and touched the threshold of the heaven.
However, this pause lasted for thirty years.
The road to heaven emphasizes no regrets at the entrance. Even if you are indulgent and unruly, like in the spring of the fourth year of Qingli, you reached the twenty-eighth level at the age of seventeen, but you suppressed yourself for two years. Even if you are on the line between life and death in the city of eternal night, you have never thought about it. Advance on the battlefield.
Therefore, once he advanced, he would be like the sun rising in the east. In the first battle, surrounded by thousands of people, he would assassinate Emperor Steqenli and ascend to the throne of Oden City on his own initiative.
It's just that reaching the peak of level 28 is an insurmountable hurdle for anyone. Even if you can advance to level 28, it's all natural talent, but among them, only less than 11 can finally reach the heaven. , so in Putian Continent, even though the martial arts developed after the Three Saints and reached its peak in ten thousand years, the number of people in the Heaven Realm, excluding the Yin people, was still only a few hundred.
Therefore, even though Ren Qiuke has been known as the number one person in the Heaven Realm for thirty years, and can even remain undefeated in the Heaven Realm, there are always people who believe that the Tianlan City Lord has the ultimate talent.
He was so obsessed with swordsmanship that he was the only one with swordsmanship, so it was ten times harder for ordinary people to break the barriers between the inside and outside and achieve the heavenly realm.
But for some, common sense is just something to break down.
Thirty years later, the fifty-four-year-old Ren Qiuke challenged four Heavenly Realm masters from the Lanye Empire. He fought one against four. He advanced during the battle and defeated the four Heavenly Realm masters with a single sword.
From then on, the name of Tianlan City Lord truly became an absolute powerhouse that shocked the entire Northern Territory.
This incident happened only five years ago, so the current Lord of Tianlan City is already fifty-nine years old.
For those who are strong in the heavenly realm, as long as they are willing, their life span of hundreds of years is within reach. For them, sixty years old is only equivalent to twenty years old for ordinary people, and is just the beginning of life.
But for Ren Qiuke, his life has been too long.
He was obsessed with swords and refused to marry a wife when he was young because of lack of energy. However, when the elders of the clan discovered that his energy could never be diverted to things other than swords, he was already too powerful to be controlled by the clan.
So he still didn't have a wife.
Today, the Lord of Tianlan City is fifty-nine years old, but he has no heirs. Spending fifty-nine years of his life alone with a sword is simply unimaginable to ordinary people, but to him, it seems that he was born like this. .
He has never cared about this matter. Heavenly warriors have a long lifespan, and he can still be the city lord for at least a hundred more years. As long as he adopts a nephew, he can inherit his position, so he is not overly worried.
However, the elder of the clan soon discovered that he did not even intend to adopt his nephew for the time being.
The reason is still limited energy.
So this lonely city lord stood on the high platform, and he didn't feel anything yet. Everyone who could see him couldn't help but think of these six words.
"Doomed lonely life."
However, at this time, a voice slowly sounded behind him.
"Haoyue, meet the city lord."
Ren Qiuke is in Xuanyi, with blue hair and black eyes.
Unlike most people in the North, he has a thin bloodline from the St Empire. The Ren family of Tianlan originally came from the central part of the continent. Later, the whole family moved north to Tianlan, and there was little intermarriage with the local residents. Therefore, the blood of the Ren family It has always been unique in the entire northern region, and this is not a strange thing.
On the contrary, due to the unique status of the Tianlan Ren family, the price of blue dye in the Tianlan City area has remained high, and even the sales of black jade pieces that can change the color of the eyes have been increasing. Therefore, if someone commits a crime in Tianlan City, He has blue hair and black eyes. The first thing the executioner will do is to check whether it is a forgery. If it is genuine, then it will be handed over to the Ren family for their own disposal.
Strictly speaking, he is a very handsome man. He looks to be in his early thirties. His facial lines are like a statue carved from black rock. He turned around slightly after hearing this and looked at the woman in white kneeling on one knee under the stage. The light from his eyes was as sharp as a sword.
"I told you." He spoke in a low voice with a sullen look on his face. His voice was like a strong wind beating against the pines and cypresses. The sound had fallen, but the meaning was still there.
Haoyue still knelt on one knee, without raising her head, and replied calmly: "Haoyue promised to be your shadow guard, so naturally he has to perform the courtesy of superior and inferior.
Ren Qiuke's face was obviously impatient: "You are just a shadow guard on your own initiative. I have no objection, so you just stay here. But since you are here, then you should act according to my rules."
Haoyue did not retreat at all, still lowering her head and replied: "This is the only repayment for saving my life. The city lord's rules are not appropriate in Haoyue's opinion."
Ren Qiuke is not good at arguing with others, let alone a woman who seems reasonable but is determined to pretend to be confused.
So he sighed: "Get up."
"The original agreement was to be a shadow guard for ten years. Now it has been seven years. When the ten years are over, the contract is not allowed to be renewed."
Haoyue shook her head: "Having done enough work as a shadow guard, you can still be a bodyguard. Even if the city lord has no shortage of guards, Haoyue will be more than enough to be the city lord's staff."
Ren Qiuke couldn't help but frown: "Then you still package all the competitors and send them to me?"
"Naturally, the one with the most talent will win." Haoyue stood up after hearing the order, nodded and confirmed seriously.
"Then why are you willing to leave?" Even a strong man in the heavenly realm couldn't help but press his forehead and asked in distress.
Haoyue was suffocated - in her expectation, she did not leave this plan.
So subconsciously, she spit out what was in her heart: "On the day of the city lord's wedding, Haoyue will naturally leave."
As soon as these words came out, this usually gentle and calm woman couldn't help but cover her mouth gently, and a very light blush instantly appeared on her face. You must know that the skin color of the Snow Tong clan is extremely white, so any trace of blood can be clearly seen.
She never thought that she would still be so at a loss when facing this person, even though she had been by his side for seven years.
Ren Qiuke suppressed his anger. At this moment, he didn't even realize the hidden meaning of Haoyue's words. He just gave a direct answer from his sword heart.
"I'm so obsessed with swordsmanship that I'm afraid I won't get married in this life, so are you going to stay by my side for the rest of my life?"
Haoyue was not surprised that this guy would ignore the most important thing, but at this time she was already a little confused, so she blurted out her answer.
"What's so difficult about life?"
Only then did Haoyue realize that she had really disgraced the Xuetong clan. Her face, as white as jade, was so hot that it almost caught fire. She already knew that there was no way to continue the conversation, and her huge sense of shame urged her to leave as soon as possible. this place.
So she immediately turned around, and her voice became smooth and cold to a normal level at this moment.
"Haoyue suddenly remembered that there are still important matters at hand, so he should leave first."
But she was no longer retreating, but running away.
The white figure flashed in the air, leaving only an ice mark that slowly dissipated.
Ren Qiuke looked at the white ice mark that slowly dissipated, with no smile on his face.
He turned around lightly, looked at the undulating snow sea and cloud waves in the distance, sighed, and whispered: "What is the meaning of the word love?"
No matter how stupid Tianlan City Lord is, no matter how devoted he is to the lonely life, he will not be able to understand the little girl's little thoughts.
But he couldn't understand it.
As long as you are a normal person, you will not miss Haoyue. Even Ye Qing, because of her long-standing tendency to favor both men and women, is very fond of Haoyue when she sees him.
Haoyue's character, cultivation, status and origins are all top choices. Even if she is assigned to be the head wife of any royal family in the three empires, she will be a high-ranking wife.
Putting aside his appearance, at the age of twenty-six and with a peak level of cultivation at level twenty-eight, he is naturally a top genius in the mortal world. Even the Hermits are among the most elite group of people.
But the most important thing is her identity.
She is a member of the Yin tribe, and she is also the Xue Tong tribe that is currently least interested in the situation on the mainland. Once she marries, she can gain the friendship of the Yin tribe. You must know that it is because of the generations of marriage between the Os family and the Nihuang tribe that they can stabilize the three major clans. royal status.
But because of this, he couldn't accept it.
There is no man who does not love such a woman, unless there is something wrong with the man himself.
Ren Qiuke is naturally a normal man. If he doesn't marry a wife, he really lacks energy.
This is no joke.
A woman like Haoyue is willing to stay here as a mere shadow guard for ten years. Naturally, what she pursues is not his strength, identity, and status, but his person himself.
But this was the only thing that Ren Qiuke could not give Haoyue.
He knew that he would be a qualified city lord and a clan leader, but he could not be a husband and father.
Now Haoyue only maintains daily contact with him as a shadow guard, and it is purely on a business level. If Haoyue really becomes his wife, then naturally she cannot be allowed to continue to hold such a position. At that time, the relationship will undoubtedly deteriorate. .
He has been in seclusion for at least a month, and his daily necessities are very simple. The emotional exchange that Haoyue wants is the exchange between family members, which is the only thing that he cannot provide.
He had a clear mind, so he chose to put this relationship aside after seeing through all this. However, he did not expect that after seven years of pretending to be a piece of wood, Haoyue actually endured it for seven years.
He loves this proud and elegant woman, so he hopes to give her better happiness.
But I originally thought that after five years, Haoyue would give up and leave, but now three years later, another three years, and three years later, another three years later, it seems that it is almost nine years, and Haoyue still plans to stay.
He couldn't sit still any longer.
But at this time, Ren Qiuke suddenly turned around strangely.
A streak of ice flashed away.
Haoyue in white stood at the foot of the steps, her face still red and almost bleeding.
Ren Qiuke really didn't expect that this woman just said such embarrassing words. According to her normal personality, she would never see him again for a month.
But why is it so unusual today?
Haoyue lowered her head, and there was a purple pinch mark on the back of her fair hand.
No one has the ability or courage to offend a hidden being like this, but this pinch mark was left by herself.
Haoyue's voice was full of regret and shame, so her voice was as low as the sound of a mosquito: "My subordinate has neglected his duty, and there is a guest who wants to see the city lord."
Although it was very low, such a sound could not be missed by Ren Qiuke.
But for some reason, Ren Qiuke suddenly felt that Haoyue looked really good-looking like this, so subconsciously, he quietly replied: "The voice was too soft, please repeat."
His voice was still businesslike, but to Haoyue's ears, this moment was indescribably hateful.
It's completely different from the usual abomination.
However, Haoyue still clenched her fists and made a loud bang sound, and repeated it in a low voice. This time, the voice was even lower than before.
Ren Qiuke pretended to be indifferent and said calmly: "I told you, the voice is too low."
Haoyue gritted her silver teeth and looked coldly at City Master Xuanyi on the stage. Her red eyes were full of shame and anger. She bit her lip gently and then took a deep breath.
"Lord City Lord, I have a guest to see you!"
This sound was a bit shocking. Haoyue's face turned pale because she breathed too hard, and almost all the strength in her body was drained. She muttered in a low voice: "It's okay now."
This sound is actually the lowest.
However, Ren Qiuke finally couldn't maintain his serious appearance, and couldn't help but chuckle, as if spring came from a cliff: "Okay, okay."
"Go and let them come see you."
When Haoyue turned around, Ren Qiuke looked at her white back and couldn't help but murmured: "I never thought you could be so cute."
Saying this, he sighed: "How wonderful it would be if I met you thirty years ago."
"At that time, I still had the courage to hug you."
