Chapter 4 Chaos, Yuzhou!
Raindrops as big as beans kept falling. Rainy nights are supposed to be a time for sleep, but in this small sword hut, someone couldn't sleep all night. The oil lamps and candles kept flickering. Yang Shuzi sat cross-legged on the bamboo bed, unable to rest with his eyes. He opened his eyes and his gaze fell on a piece of letter on the table in front of the window. The dark red mark was so eye-catching... That was the mark of the Tang Dynasty's bad guys, and it was also a mark that Yang Shuzi would never be able to wash away in his lifetime!
In another bamboo house, a young girl in her prime tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep for a long time. Tang Dynasty, her senior brother was actually an orphan of the Tang Dynasty royal family. Lu Linxuan still remembered the embarrassed look of her senior brother when she and her senior brother first met. The scenes of the past eight years flashed before her eyes like clouds of smoke, and then overlapped with her senior brother standing opposite the master with a sword today. She suddenly realized how much her senior brother had spoiled her all these years...

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The valley where soldiers are hidden!
In the dark room, three copper coins fell to the ground with a clinking sound, and a hoarse and heavy voice slowly sounded, "The hexagram is messed up..."

An eagle's cry resounded through the sky, and an eagle fell without any sound. A figure instantly appeared in front of the window. This person looked like a man, wearing Tang Dynasty court clothes, a fisherman's straw hat on his head, and a ghost mask on his face. The man waved his hand and took out a secret letter from under the eagle's claws.

The hoarse voice sounded again.

"Studying medicine cannot save the Tang Dynasty..."

"As a descendant of the Tang Dynasty, I shall shoulder my responsibility. Even if it means going against the will of heaven, I will not regret it even if I die..."

“Haha, hahahahahahahaha!” The man crushed the secret letter in his hand into ashes with one hand, then laughed loudly towards the sky. In the extremely silent Cangbing Valley in the dark night, only this laughter lingered for a long time...

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The next day, Lu Linxuan, whose injuries had recovered a lot, appeared outside Li Xingyun's bamboo house early in the morning. With a creak, the bamboo door slowly opened. Li Xingyun stretched and looked at Lu Linxuan who was crossing his arms and said in surprise: "Junior sister, this is the first time I see you so active."

"Hmph, it's all your fault. If you said you would never come back, what on earth were you going to do?" Lu Linxuan actually guessed that Li Xingyun was going to restore the Tang Dynasty, but she didn't understand what she could do alone. Even if she and her master were added, it would be hard for the three of them to protect themselves in this chaotic world, so how could they restore order?

"What are you going to do? To meet someone." Li Xingyun couldn't help but add the second half of the sentence in his mind, "A person who should have died three hundred years ago!"

With the wooden sword he spent a night carving on his waist, Li Xingyun strode forward. There was no way back. "Brother, wait for me!" Lu Linxuan hurried after him, wondering, wasn't it his brother who said this before? Lu Linxuan hadn't realized that in just one day, the offensive and defensive situation had changed.

After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the regional administration followed the Tang system and was named Daozhou Prefecture. Jianlu belonged to Yuzhou in Jiannan Road and was currently under the jurisdiction of the King of Shu. Cangbing Valley was located in the south of the mountain. After Li Xingyun and Lu Linxuan came down the mountain, they went straight to Yuzhou City.

Two days later.

"Brother, where should we go to find the Valley of Hidden Soldiers? Mount Zhongnan is very big, and I have never been to Mount Zhongnan." Lu Linxuan has been in Jianlu for eight years and has never come down the mountain. Naturally, he has never heard of the place called the Valley of Hidden Soldiers. Li Xingyun actually doesn't know the specific location of the Valley of Hidden Soldiers, but he knows that some bad people will definitely come to find him.

"I don't know the exact location of the Cangbing Valley. I'll just have to look for it slowly. However, this is the first time I've come down the mountain in eight years, and Yuzhou City doesn't seem to have changed much." Li Xingyun knew that this was also because the Shu area, which occupied the east and west rivers, had not seen many wars in recent years. The Shu King Wang Jian's rule was one of the few peaceful places in this chaotic world.

"Indeed, looking at the various vendors coming and going at the city gate, it doesn't look like a chaotic world." Lu Linxuan nodded in agreement. At this moment, a delicate voice came from the city, "Get out of the way!" Li Xingyun pulled Lu Linxuan into his arms, frowning slightly, but saw a blue-clothed girl rushing out of the city, with a veil on her face blowing in the wind. Li Xingyun suddenly realized that according to the timeline, this girl should be Ji Ruxue. "Brother, what are you looking at?" Lu Linxuan was originally a little shy when he was pulled into Li Xingyun's arms, but then he noticed that Li Xingyun's eyes were always on the blue-clothed girl. Lu Linxuan immediately snorted and gently pushed Li Xingyun away, but saw Li Xingyun looking towards the city gate and pulling him behind him again. Suddenly, several horses rushed out of Yuzhou City. These knights were wearing black robes, with ghost masks on their faces and crescent-shaped scimitars on their waists.

"This attire is from the Xuanming Sect." Li Xingyun suddenly recalled some memories. Eight years ago, outside the city of Yuzhou, Li Huan and Lu Linxuan's father Lu Youjie died at the hands of the Black and White Impermanence of the Xuanming Sect. And if Li Xingyun remembered correctly, the people who massacred the royal family of Li Tang were also from the Xuanming Sect which was under the rule of Daliang!

"Xuanming Sect?" Lu Linxuan's face suddenly changed when he heard this. He looked at Li Xingyun and asked, "What should I do, Senior Brother?"

"kill."

Li Xingyun shouted softly and immediately chased in the direction of the two groups of people.

A quarter of an hour later, Ji Ruxue was forced into the mountains by the people of Xuanming Sect and had to abandon her horse and flee. The two sides chased each other in the forest. Ji Ruxue was good at light work, but she could not escape from the pursuit of a small team of Xuanming Sect. The two sides finally met head-on.

"Haha, little girl, put down the Fire Ganoderma and I will spare your life." The golden-armored leader of the Xuanming Sect sneered at Ji Ruxue. Shu was not the territory of their Xuanming Sect. If they alarmed the Shu army, it would be bad for them. So they would not take action if they could avoid wasting their energy.

"Hmph, if you want to rob it by force, I'll let you see what you are capable of." Ji Ruxue snorted coldly, drew the sword in her hand, and immediately started fighting with the people from Xuanming Sect. There were ten people in a team of Xuanming Sect, and their golden-armored leader was a warrior of the middle star level, who was on par with Ji Ruxue. At this time, he was hiding behind the crowd, waiting for an opportunity to launch a sneak attack.

Ji Ruxue seemed to be at ease when facing the group of Xuanming Sect members. After all, they were just some miscellaneous soldiers who had just arrived at the small star position and were no match for her at all. She swept her sword across, slashing and stabbing, and immediately two bodies fell to the ground. These miscellaneous soldiers surrounded her, but Ji Ruxue dodged left and right, always at ease, and killed several people from the Xuanming Sect.

The leader in golden armor had been hiding behind his subordinates with his eyes slightly narrowed. When Ji Ruxue was about to clear out all the miscellaneous soldiers, he finally found a chance to attack. He chopped off the sword in Ji Ruxue's hand with a knife and kicked out again. Ji Ruxue immediately vomited blood and flew backwards. The bag on his waist also fell to the ground, revealing a section of dried Ganoderma lucidum.

"Humph, you dare to go against our Xuanming Sect, you really don't know how to live or die!" The golden-armored leader said to the sect members nearby, "Go, collect the fire ganoderma."

A member of the sect immediately stepped forward to collect the Fire Ganoderma and asked, "Boss, what should we do with this woman?"

"Here's a reward for you!" The golden-armored leader waved his hand, but in his mind he had already begun to think about what kind of skills he could exchange for the credit of getting the Fire Ganoderma. The people of the Xuanming Sect all crawled out of corpses, and even the most ordinary little leaders were always ambitious.

"Thank you, leader." After receiving the consent, the Xuanming Sect member rubbed his hands and came under the tree. But before he could do anything, he felt a sharp pain in his throat, and a wooden sword was inserted into his neck!

"Who are you? How dare you interfere in the affairs of the Xuanming Sect?" The golden-armored leader shouted angrily upon hearing the noise, but he saw that the man who had just drawn his sword had disappeared. Whoosh! The sound of breaking through the air from above startled the golden-armored leader. Before he could react, a wooden sword had already landed on his head!
With a puff, Li Xingyun stepped on the golden-armored leader's shoulder and pulled out the wooden sword. Then he landed gracefully and picked up the scattered fire ganoderma. Li Xingyun narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "This ganoderma will be of great use!" As he spoke, Li Xingyun dodged and pointed his sword at Ji Ruxue who had just woken up. Ji Ruxue froze in place. Li Xingyun said softly, "Go back and tell your master that I, Li Xingyun, have taken the fire ganoderma."

(End of this chapter)