Golden Greenery

Mu Yue doesn't hate Wu Huiqing or Niu Xiaoqing. Although she lied to her for sixteen years, no one can really feel resentment towards a woman who has been with him intimately for sixteen years.

He didn't know who he should hate. Gao Lishi? It seems that you can hate, but there is no point in hating without power, unless Mu Yue now has the courage and ability to sneak back to Chang'an City to kill the Tang Sword Sect.

Perhaps the only advantage of living for more than a hundred years is that you know exactly how much you weigh.

Li Bai may have the ability to kill Gao Lishi, maybe not, but he certainly doesn't have the ability to deal with the entire Hidden Cloud Pavilion. What's more, Mu Yue always feels that he should be a happy young man, and it is not easy to let the desire for revenge suppress his life.

Forget it, that's it, let Li Bai think that everything is over, leaving a sword immortal to the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and an unparalleled poetry immortal to future generations.

Therefore, Mu Yue was tired of living and wanted to die.

It turns out that this is really not my Datang. I am just a rash intruder who is incompatible with the Tang Dynasty.

Immortality is not a perfect thing, but it has sadness that normal people cannot compare to. Always seeing people close to you die one after another can make people feel that life itself is meaningless.

From Luo Ji to Yuan Tiangang, and then from Zhang Guo to Wu Huiqing, life seems to be just a dream.

Datang is also a dream, Mu Yue wants to wake up or die.

But he couldn't die. The plague killed half of the people in the village, but Mu Yue was unscathed. What he pulled out was always soft and hard, and dry and thin.

The threat of death makes the living villagers become sad and violent. They no longer help each other and are no longer kind. At first, the villagers were just looking for opportunities to kill those patients who were still having diarrhea to prevent the spread of the plague, but soon they turned into attacking each other indiscriminately.

After killing two neighbors who tried to kill him, Mu Yue set his house on fire. On the tenth month after Xiaoqing's death, he left Suiye River.

Wu Huiqing's ashes are buried under the house. That is her grave.

There was no way to go back to the Central Plains, so Mu Yue did not go east, but went west and completely left the Tang Dynasty.

Senior brother Lao Zhangtou once told him that finding who he is is actually looking for a lock and a key. Using the key to open the lock opens the way home.

A lock may be a person, an object, a place, or even a thing or a sentence.

key,

Maybe it's a person, an object, a place, or even a thing or a sentence.

So Mu Yue, who wanted to wake up, went to the west to find the key and lock.

Li Bai once told Mu Yue: Your sword skills are very solid. These factors of stability and ruthlessness are more solid than most martial artists who use swords.

After seventy-nine years of hard training in the mountains, it would be impossible for any person not to be solid.

The swordsman Li Bai said that Mu Yue's biggest problem in martial arts was that his ability to adapt was too weak and his experience against enemies was almost zero.

Brother Mu, you fight too little.

Li Bai told Mu Yue that he had killed twenty-seven people since he started practicing swordsmanship. Of course, they were all thieves or bad guys who deserved to be killed. Moreover, he practices with other swordsmen almost every day. He has broken nine Green Lotus Swords in seven years, and now he has the tenth one.

Brother Mu, how many swords have you broken?

I don't have any, but I have thrown away a handful.

So Mu Yue, who wanted to die, decided to ride on his horse and pick up a sword to find someone to fight.

However, before he had fought enough fights and the cheap sword in his hand was still intact, he encountered a war two days away from Suiye River Village.

The war between the Anxi Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty and the black-clad Dashi. This place, called Talas, was already outside the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

Mu Yue heard Li Bai say that there were countless countries besides the Tang Dynasty, but only three could barely compare with the Tang Dynasty in military terms, namely Tubo, Da Qin, and Dashi.

The proud and martial Tang Dynasty was undoubtedly the most militarily powerful country among the four, and the Battle of Talos fully reflected this.

The 8,000 Tang troops in the Anxi Protectorate and the 18,000 Turkic Geluolu tribe who followed the Tang army, totaling 26,000 people, defeated the 200,000-strong black-clad coalition army and retreated steadily.

The Tang army in this era was truly invincible.

Even if the black-clad Dashi added another hundred thousand troops, and even if the Geluolu people rebelled midway, the eight thousand Tang army would still be defeated after a month.

Six thousand were killed in battle, a thousand and a half were captured, and another five hundred escaped.

Mu Yue was not a Tang army, and he was not even sure he was a Tang person. Like all other civilians, he hid away from the battlefield.

But some things still cannot be avoided.

The defeated Tang army, exhausted by the seven cavalrymen, was overtaken by more than thirty cavalrymen wielding scimitars in the valley. The Tang army formed a loose formation and fought hard. Mu Yue, who was enjoying his horse leisurely, thought for a moment. Out of wanting to die and fight, he got on his horse, drew his sword and charged forward.

Regardless of whether it is true or not, at least in terms of appearance, Mu Yue believes that he is the closest to the Tang Dynasty.

After a fierce battle, all the more than thirty cavalrymen were beheaded, and only two Tang people were left, Mu Yue and a middle-aged soldier.

In the next two days, the two of them broke through five waves of pursuit by the food alliance. Mu Yue also broke his sword for the first time, but they finally returned to the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

Although 8,000 Tang troops were killed, the Anxi Protectorate still had 10,000 elite troops stationed there. To the east of Congling and in the Central Plains, the Tang Dynasty still had a million armored warriors. As long as they are willing, Datang's cavalry can crush any place in the world.

The Dashi army did not dare to enter the territory of the Tang Dynasty easily.

Mu Yue stopped his horse, he did not want to go any further.

The soldier said: "Brother, follow me back to the Protectorate of Anxi and follow me to Chang'an. I will protect you as a general."

Mu Yue smiled: "Thank you for your kindness. I won't go, I want to find the lost things."

"What did you lose? I can give you a lot of gold, enough to buy a new one."

"I lost a key and a lock, I have to find them."

"Brother, I hope you will think again and come with me to Chang'an."

Mu Yue cupped his hands and said, "Farewell."

"Go on." Jun Han threw his sword to Mu Yue. "This sword comes from Goryeo. It's called Qingshuang. It's the sharpest sword in the world. I give it to you."

"It's disrespectful, thank you very much."

Mu Yue turned around and rode towards the west. The soldier shouted from behind: "Brother, if you go to Chang'an in the future, remember to come to me. Don't forget, my name is Gao Xianzhi."

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After that, in order to find locks and keys, Mu Yue traveled to almost all places outside the Tang Dynasty that Ma Hoo could reach, including the extreme north, the extreme west, and the extreme south, almost all countries.

Tubo, Dashi, Tianzhu, Srivijaya, Shiwei, Persia, Daqin, Frank... I have seen people of every appearance, and many animals and scenery that I have never seen before.

Along the way, he never found the key or lock. In order to die, he has been fighting, killing countless people, and escaping countless times.

When he returned to the burial place of Wu Huiqing by the Suiye River, it was no longer the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and the river changed its course so that there was no trace of the original village, as if it had never existed.

Maybe the village was just a dream for him, and there was never a village there.

So, Mu Yue returned to the Tang Dynasty again, and the Tang Dynasty at this time was no longer the Tang Dynasty. When he walked into the dilapidated Chang'an City, one hundred and thirty years had passed since the day he and Lao Zhangtou walked out of Qixia Gate.