Golden Greenery

"Ah——~~~~"

Zhang Zhongjian flicked the sword in his hand, and Yang Yi's chest was cut open, causing him to wail again in pain.

There were already seven or eight such wounds on his body, all the same three inches long, just deep enough to open his flesh, but not hurting deeper. In other words, Yang Yi is in pain, but he will not die.

Zhang Zhongjian is a famous martial artist in the Tang Dynasty and a world-renowned swordsman along with Yuan Tiangang. His control over the Longquan sword in his hand has reached its peak.

The bearded Zhang Zhongjian did not tie Yang Yi up or torture him because there was no need for it. There was a huge gap in martial arts fighting ability between the two. One was on the top of the highest mountain and the other knew nothing in the ditch at the bottom of the valley. If Yang Yi lets go, he won't be able to run or hide.

Yang Yi had no time to regret and could only keep screaming and begging for mercy. He was extremely frightened.

Yang Yi met Zhang Zhongjian not long after his senior brother Yuan Tiangang returned to Shu County. Cheng Zhijie and Li Jing must be blamed for this.

Duke Wei and Minister of War Li Jing came to visit Cheng Zhijie and fell in love with him just like Cheng Zhijie fell in love with Yang Yi. Li Jing has been to Cheng Mansion many times over the years, and he has seen Yang Yi before, but he didn't notice it before, but he noticed it this time.

Yang Yi didn't feel anything weird at the time because he was stupid.

Li Jing praised Yang Yi for his good looks and asked Cheng Zhijie for Yang Yi, saying that he wanted him to be his retinue and take him to Hexi. Li Jing will visit Hexi on behalf of the imperial court and the Ministry of War in a few days.

Cheng Zhijie didn't care. Yang Yi was just an idle waste in his Yulin Weiben. Except for his contribution to the invention of football, the rest was useless.

Lao Cheng said to let Yang Yi see it by himself. Lao Cheng was actually chasing people away, but he didn't say it explicitly, but Yang Yi couldn't tell.

He was moved and asked Li Jing: "Are we going to Hexi to fight?" Yang Yi was afraid of death. If there was a war, he would never dare to go.

Li Jing stroked his long beard and laughed: "I and Duke Lu have already pacified Hexi. The Turks have fled and fled. Where can we fight now?" Duke Lu is the collection of Hou Jun.

As long as there is no war, Yang Yi happily said: "Okay, I am willing."

Li Jing was the number one martial artist on horseback in the Tang Dynasty, and he could defeat all the invincible fighters in the world with a horse spear in his hand. As the saying goes, what you lack is what you yearn for. Yang Yi, who does not know martial arts, has always admired Li Jing very much.

And since Luo Ji's death, Yang Yi has regained the idea of ​​​​finding who he is.

After twenty years of searching in Chang'an City, I found nothing. If I go outside and look around, I might find something.

The reason why he did not go to Shu County with Yuan Tiangang was because Yang Yi always suspected that the real reason why Lao Yuan went to Shu County was to avoid him and dislike him.

People in the Tang Dynasty all had a strong attachment to the frontier fortress. Yang Yi had lived in Chang'an City for twenty years and was deeply affected by this sentiment. He yearned for Hexi far more than Shu County.

So, he followed Li Jing.

Soon Li Jing set off westward with Youshen Wuwei, and of course Yang Yi, but his happy journey ended within a few days.

After arriving in Qinzhou, a guest came to Li Jing's residence, Zhang Zhongjian, known as the Qiu-bearded Guest.

Yang Yi learned many stories about Zhang Zhongjian from his senior brother Yuan Tiangang.

Lao Yuan said that although Zhang Zhongjian claimed to be a member of the Taoist sect, he was actually a deviant sect, and his martial arts master was a Kunlun slave. People in the Tang Dynasty collectively called people with dark skin color Kunlun slaves. No matter they were pitch black, bright black, semi-black or polished black, they were all called Kunlun slaves.

According to Lao Yuan, Zhang Zhongjian's Kunlun slave master was probably the guardian of a mysterious sect in the far west outside the Tang Dynasty, and he must also be a great martial artist. This can be inferred from Zhang Zhongjian's swordsmanship achievements.

As for the level of Zhang Zhongjian's martial arts, Lao Yuan has never fought against him. In fact, top martial artists like them avoid competing with each other.

But both Lao Yuan and Zhang Zhongjian competed with another female martial artist in the Tang Dynasty who was famous for her superb swordsmanship. Her name was Gongsun Auntie.

Lao Yuan defeated Aunt Gongsun on the 63rd move, and Zhang Zhongjian won on the 55th move. Aunt Gongsun said to Lao Yuan: You and Zhang Zhongjian will be neck and neck within 80 moves, you will fall behind within 100 moves, and you will be defeated within 120 moves.

This is why Lao Yuan feels that he may not be as good as Zhang Zhongjian. Aunt Gongsun's martial arts judgment is more powerful than her swordsmanship.

Zhang Zhongjian, Li Jing, and Li Jing's wife Zhang Hongfu are three sworn brothers and sisters. Yang Yi is a little confused about how Li Jing and Zhang Hongfu became a couple.

When he saw Zhang Zhongjian with a curly beard at the palace of the Duke of Wei in Qinzhou, and then looked at Li Jing with a three-foot willow beard, and Li Jing's eldest son Li Derjian with a big beard, Yang Yi felt that he seemed to have discovered something.

But no matter what, two brothers, one immediately became invincible in the world, and the other took the sword and became the best in the Tang Dynasty. They were really quite generous. Moreover, Zhang Hongfu is also a somewhat famous female martial artist. No one can afford to offend these three brothers and sisters.

Li Jing said: "Yang Yi, this is my sworn brother Zhang Zhongjian, you go with him."

Yang Yi immediately felt something was wrong, but at this time he was already a little white rabbit with no ability to resist.

Zhang Zhongjian took Yang Yi all the way east to north, either in a carriage or on horseback. After sleeping in the open for a month, they arrived at this place called Fuyu. It is much colder and more desolate than Chang'an. Compared with Chang'an, the cities of Buyeo are just villages.

Arriving in his own city, Zhang Zhongjian made his purpose clear: "Yang Yi, I have actually noticed you for a long time. It has been twenty years since you and Yuan Tiangang came out of the mountains. It is said that you were twenty-nine years old twenty years ago, but you See for yourself how you look like a forty-nine-year-old."

"Yang Yi, I want to know the truth about your immortality. Tell me, or I will kill you."

It has been rare since ancient times for people to live seventy years, and reaching sixty is considered a long life. Those who practice martial arts, those who practice Taoism, the rich and those who are officials can live longer, while ordinary people in the Tang Dynasty are basically in their forties or fifties.

It is normal for people from Chang'an to call themselves "Old Man" when they reach thirty. When Yang Yi met Yuan Tiangang that year, he said that he was "nine in his twenties" because he didn't want to be an old man. In fact, he was not sure how old he was.

Yang Yi looks like a young man in his twenties. He was like this twenty years ago and he is still like this now, without any change.

The authorities are obsessed with this. Yang Yi didn't realize this about himself, and Datang didn't have anything that could record a person's appearance with just a click. It would be difficult to detect anything wrong without direct comparison.

Looking back now, compared with twenty years ago, Cheng Zhijie was too old to look like a human being, and many people in the Yulin Guards had died of old age. Fortunately for Senior Brother Yuan, he is a practitioner of Taoism and martial arts, and his appearance is not as aging as that of ordinary people.

In the final analysis, Yang Yi himself was negligent, but his weirdness would inevitably be noticed by interested people. Now I don’t know whether this interested person is Li Jing or Zhang Zhongjian, but Yang Yi fell into Zhang Zhongjian’s hands.

Yang Yi was afraid of death, so he told Zhang Zhongjian everything about him as quickly as possible, but he didn't believe it at all, not even anyone else.

So Zhang Zhongjian started to strike him with his sword.

In the empty and simple hall, more than a dozen large fire pots set up were burning with blazing flames. The walls were also painted and carved with flame patterns, and even the stone pillars were circled with fire patterns.

Zhang Zhongjian, who was wearing a bright red robe, looked like a devil to Yang Yi, and his miserable screams echoed in the hall.

For a month, Zhang Zhongjian would make thirteen wounds on Yang Yi every time, and then wait for the wounds to scar, then torture him again and make thirteen more wounds. Yang Yi's body was already covered with scars, as horrible as a spider web.

But Yang Yi really doesn't know why he is immortal, or why he seems to be immortal.

So Zhang Zhongjian believed it because he himself was tired of it.

"Forget it, I won't embarrass you."

Although Yang Yi is stupid, he doesn't believe that he will let him go.

"I will kill you directly, and then burn it into a bone elixir with fire. Regardless of whether it is useful or not, it is still a token of my heart to present it to the leader."

"Yang Yi, there is no injustice or enmity. Don't blame me. You can only blame yourself for your misfortune." After saying that, he raised Long Quan in his hand and wanted to stab Yang Yi's throat.

Yang Yi was desperate. He regretted following Yuan Tiangang out of Zhongnan Mountain twenty years ago.

"Senior brother——, Lao Yuan——, Yuan Tiangang——, you stinky bull nose, you said I would die behind you, but I am going to die today——"

A long roar came from the air outside the hall.

"Hey! Don't harm my junior brother, Yuan Tiangang is here. Zhang San, take your orders and come!"