Chapter 97: Jianghu is a circle

quick--

Faster!

Yue Guanshan spared no effort along the way, and only slowed down his pace when he reached the street. Looking at the mess in front of the mansion and the faint red smell flowing out of the rubble, he felt his legs becoming increasingly weak.

I'm late?
After five years of going around in circles, the Jianghu finally came back to the Yue family?

Although he had hated the surname he once carried for countless days and nights, when this moment really came, his heart still felt like it was being stabbed by a knife.

He had also rushed up to the father and son with red eyes and drew his sword against them, but when he looked at their hateful faces, memories of the past came flooding back like a tide.

It was bitterly cold outside the Great Wall, and his elder brother had been out escorting his father since he was twelve years old. Only he, the youngest one, was able to stay at home all those years and endure the hardships without worries.

Whenever the camel bells rang or the sound of cart axles approached, the child would run out. The melons, grapes and exquisite toys that his father and brother brought back from outside filled his entire youth.

Those ten years of life were not fake after all!

"what--"

"what--"

As he panted, the white mist that came out of his mouth was messed up by the night rain, just like his heart at the moment.

"mother--"

Suddenly, a girl's heart-wrenching cry was heard in the quiet mansion.

"Ping'er!"

Yue Guanshan suddenly raised his head, panic welling up in his heart. He then clenched the rusty knife in his hand and was about to enter the mansion, but suddenly a dark shadow fell from the eaves and blocked his way.

"Step aside!"

He no longer thought about the fate of his father and brother. His niece was the only one who was innocent. Yue Guanshan was like a lone wolf, growling from his throat:
"How dare you kill a child?"

"Ha ha ha ha--"

The tall figure walked into the dimly lit room, revealing a cold and heroic look: "Yue-Guan-Shan, why do I want to laugh so much when I hear you say this?"

Although they hadn't seen each other for five years, Yue Guanshan recognized the person in front of him in just a moment, and his expression became stunned.

...The world of martial arts is indeed a circle.

The young man with his hands behind his back stared at him for a long while and asked, "Why, are you surprised to see the kid you were back then?"

Five years is neither short nor long, but both of them have changed drastically. It is hard to say what I said that day now, and it seems ridiculous to even think about it.

"Don't stop me—"

Rusty Knife is like a person, his face is covered with dust and frost, but it also contains spots of cold light: "My niece is young, and what happened in the Yu family has nothing to do with her."

Seeing that he avoided talking about what happened back then, Wei Mingqi's face turned cold:
"I was also young back then, and you also told me and my master a bullshit story and called for killing us. Wasn't I innocent then?"

"..."

"The Yu family has eleven members, young and old. Didn't your father and brother also get implicated? How dare you stop others from taking revenge today?"

"..."

Every word was like a knife stabbing into his heart. In the underworld, tit for tat is the norm. There was nothing wrong with the Yue family being in this state. If he could drain all the blood from the family, he could also applaud on the side.

But it’s just like the grief and pain I felt five years ago.

He couldn't pull it out.

The so-called changing of one's surname is nothing but a ridiculous act of covering one's ears and stealing the bell.

What the elder sister of the Yu family said was right. He was just weak in character. Even though he had "broken off relations" with the Yue family, he had never left here and had been hanging around in the countryside under Yu Town.

'It's like a child throwing a tantrum'

Yue Guanshan finally saw himself clearly at this moment. The moment he faced his inner self, he felt the long-lost peace that overwhelmed all the pain, guilt, and entanglement, and closed off his love and hate.

"Step aside."

At this point, Yueguanshan is online.

Wei Mingqi felt the change in the aura. Except for a few people, the other party was undoubtedly the strongest person he had met in the past few years.

and so--

Green scales gradually appeared on both sides of his face. Wei Mingqi raised his hand and silently hooked his finger at the person who wanted to break through.

next moment.

bass--

A cold light flashed, and a rusty knife instantly lost all the wind and frost. The rain curtain around seemed to be slowed down. Only a line of molten silver separated the raindrops between the sky and the earth. When the knife approached, the young man's movements and expressions seemed to remain unchanged.

Is he too slow?

No, the knife was too fast.

叩，
叩，
knock.

With his eyelashes slightly fluttering, Yue Guanshan seemed to hear three light taps from the body of the young man in front of him. It was the sound of blood rushing and meridians dilating. Then, the latter, who was trapped by the knife light, seemed to have broken through a layer of "diaphragm"——

Snapped!
The knee cannon was pushed up, and the clothes on both sides bulged like waves under the pull of force and speed, and then crashed into the oblique blade at the bottom of the steps!

In just a moment, sparks flew between the flesh knee and the steel. Just before the blade began to tremble, Yue Guanshan divinely let go of his hand.

buzz-

The steel knife flew up into the air, deforming and shaking like boiled noodles. Amid the buzzing sounds, Yue Guanshan just stared at its trajectory quietly, and then grabbed the handle again in a flash!
Although the 'tide' had passed several 'waves', the moment Yue Guanshan held it, his palm was still broken by the 'wave' that followed. He had no time to think about what kind of monster was in front of him. Yue Guanshan tried his best to control the restless 'beast' in his hand and paddled forward -

The blade slowly cut through his clothes, and a series of sparks gradually illuminated his eyes. Yue Guanshan lowered his eyelids slightly, but his heart calmed down a little.

Lost.

Swah——

Because he gave up halfway and failed to use all his strength, the knife was caught by the scales halfway through his abdomen, giving Wei Mingqi the opportunity. He crossed his hands like a pair of pliers and broke the battered steel knife in two halves, and then kicked again!
Boom!

Yueguanshan flew backwards like a cannonball and slammed into the high wall opposite. The smoke and dust had no time to dissipate before it was extinguished by the night rain.

"Cough cough." After a while, there was a noise from the rubble.

Half of Yue Guanshan's chest had collapsed, and blood was constantly flowing out of his mouth and nose, mixed with some pieces of internal organs from time to time. If it weren't for his strong physique as a warrior, he would have died by now.

But no matter how strong the body is, once the lungs and internal organs are rotten, one will just wait for death; it is only a matter of sooner or later.

Yue Guan Shan is not afraid of death.

It was a blessing for him to die on such a rainy night and reunite with his family. His heart was no longer heavy, and he could face many things that had been weighing on his heart and that he had not dared to think about before.

With great effort, he turned his head and looked towards the entrance of the mansion, trying to see the figure of that person.

Five years have passed, and he has always dreamed of seeing what she looks like now. He had prepared thousands of words before coming, but in the end he couldn't even say goodbye.

Jingle bell, jingle bell——

The sound of camel bells came to my ears again, and the fishy smell in my nose gradually faded, replaced by the aroma of honeydew melon that I had dreamed of when I was young.

"Guanshan, look what I brought back for you."

"Guanshan, your brother is talking to you."

The boy ignored them and just focused on eating the melon in his hand.

But not for long.

"What? You don't even dare to raise your head. It's obvious that you're not very interesting—"

Hearing the voice, Yue Guanshan instinctively raised his head and looked forward.

"...Sister Qing'er"

The mixture of cold and heat passed away silently under the cover of the night rain.

In front of the mansion.

"call--"

Wei Mingqi let out a long breath in the night.

Although the fight between the two of them lasted only a few breaths, the pressure it brought to him was greater than that of ten so-called masters like Luo Heng.

Five years have passed, and Yue Guanshan is much stronger than before. In terms of skills, he can almost be compared with Xie Beiling. If they were not in a hurry to break through, the battle between the two would not have ended in a short time.

But he is not ashamed.

He talked so much nonsense when they met to let him regulate his breathing, and he fought against the long sword with his bare hands. It can be said that he won with a fair and honest victory.

Now, those who deserved to die and those who didn't deserve to die in the Yue family have finally all been killed together -

"……hiss"

There were light footsteps and sniffling sounds behind him. Wei Mingqi turned around and saw a girl about six or seven years old walking out with tears on her face and bloodstains on her long skirt.

"Ping'er——"

"Ping'er, where are you? Ping'er, Aunt Yu is here to see you!"

Yu Qing's laughter came from the corner behind her.

The girl sniffed her nose, didn't quicken her pace, and even walked past the young man at the door as if he didn't exist, and walked out.

Entering the street in the dense night rain, she looked up and around, and for a while her eyes were attracted by the ruins of Yueguanshan.

"...Second Uncle"

A snorting sound was heard, but there was no response from the ruins.

"Ping'er——"

There was another cry of urging for death from the mansion. The girl raised her hand to wipe her eyes, then turned around to look at Wei Mingqi in front of the mansion, as if she wanted to remember his face.

"..."

"Xiao Langjun~"

A hand reached out from behind and embraced Wei Mingqi's neck. Yu Qing, the woman, walked over to him, holding two spears in her hands, and laughed like a lunatic as if she had drunk fake wine:

"Have you seen my Ping'er——"

Wei Mingqi raised his chin towards the figure on the street.

"Alas."

Mei Xing put her chin on his shoulder and chuckled, "She is really brave. She didn't even run away like this."

Whether a person is courageous or not can be seen from an early age.

Wei Mingqi still remembered the look in the girl's eyes. He had no emotion at all. He turned to Yu Qing and said softly:
"Stop playing, clean up and go back early."

"..."

There was no response from the woman on my shoulder.

half an hour.

“…So much like me back then.”

Because they were so close, Wei Mingqi felt warmth brushing across his cheek: "But I'm not as successful as her. I walk while running."

"..."

Wei Mingqi knew that she was upset, so he reached out and gently took the spear from her hand, then raised his arm in the direction of the girl.

"Woo... I was just scaring her for fun. She was only a little over one year old when the Yu family got into trouble. Let her go."

Yu Qing hugged him with both arms, pressed his face against his back, and said with a trembling smile: "Anyway, you are so powerful, you will not be afraid of her causing trouble in the future. It's different for me. When I get married, what should I do if Master Xie bullies me?"

"Why did my master bully you——"

Wei Mingqi's brain couldn't keep up with her train of thought.

Yu Qing hummed twice, wiped his almond eyes with his hands, and then raised his head and leaned towards him: "Mingqi, accompany me to see my parents."

(End of this chapter)