The Legend of the Young Swordsman: A Prequel - A Phantom Melody Embarks on a Journey Through the Mar

Upon seeing someone lying on the ground, the hunter's first reaction was to stop and carefully observe the situation. Seeing no other movement around him, he cautiously approached Helian Yun Shen.

He took out an arrow from his back and poked Helian Yun Shen with it. Despite being tested like this, Helian Yun Shen kept his eyes closed and pretended to be unconscious.

"Is it dead?"

The hunter spoke in a language that Helian Yun Shen could hardly understand. Hearing this, Helian Yun Shen thought to himself, "This language sounds like a dialect."

On the hunter's side

Standing there, silently contemplating whether or not to help Helian Yun Shen, she took only two steps before stopping, gazing at the depths of the dense forest. Turning to look at Helian Yun Shen, she murmured, "Leaving him here like this, he might get eaten by wild animals. Perhaps we should save his life!"

In the end, kindness prevailed over everything. The hunter returned to Helian Yun Shen's side, checked his breathing, and then helped him up, carrying him on his back instead of going hunting again, and headed towards the village.

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In a quiet little mountain village

"Er Gouzi, where have you been? You went hunting and brought back a dead body?" A villager of the same generation couldn't help but ask, looking at Helian Yun Shen on Er Gouzi's back. Er Gouzi chuckled and didn't say anything.

Carrying Helian Yun Shen on his back, he continued towards home.

Back home

Xiulian, Er Gouzi's wife, looked at Helian Yunshen being carried back by Er Gouzi and said somewhat unhappily, "Why did you bring someone back from hunting? We're not well-off to begin with, why do you care about this!"

“If this person were left lying in the woods, he might get eaten by wild animals. It would be good to save his life if we saw him.” Er Gouzi replied with a simple smile to his wife’s complaints.

Helian Yun Shen, who was pretending to be unconscious, couldn't understand the conversation between the two, but he could tell they seemed to be arguing. This made Helian Yun Shen feel a little guilty, after all, this person wasn't a bad person, and it was because of him that they had argued with his wife.

"You cook something at home, and I'll go and ask the village doctor to come and examine this young man."

"understood!"

Er Gouzi's wife was very unhappy with what he was doing, but she eventually agreed. Hearing his wife's agreement, Er Gouzi excitedly ran out to fetch a doctor.

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Two weeks have passed in the blink of an eye.

By pretending to be mute and suffering from amnesia, Helian Yun Shen managed to survive in this village. As for seeing a doctor, he could easily fool them by circulating his inner energy.

So to this day, no one has doubted Helian Yun Shen.

In the past two weeks, Helian Yun Shen has also mastered a lot of the local language.

"Er Gouzi, what are you preparing?"

That morning, Helian Yun Shen saw Er Gou Zi preparing some things at home, which made him very curious. He reached out and gestured to Er Gou Zi, asking him a question.

Faced with Helian Yun Shen's gestures, Er Gouzi, having spent some time with him, clearly understood what was going on. He stretched out his own hands and gestured slightly in response to Helian Yun Shen:

"The Potian Sect is currently recruiting disciples, and I'd like to send my son there to see if he can get into the sect and become a chivalrous hero in the future."

Don't hunt here like I did.

"Broken Heaven Gate? Is this a sect in this world?"

Hearing this name, Helian Yun pondered in his heart.

After pondering for a long time, he stopped and looked at Er Gouzi gesturing:

"Can I come with you?"

"no problem!"

The simple-minded Er Gouzi didn't say much and agreed directly. However, Er Gouzi's wife, Xiulian, was not happy to hear this. Although her face was not very good, she still prepared some food for Helian Yunshen.

Afternoon

The four set off immediately. Along the way, Helian Yun Shen tried his best to familiarize himself with the surroundings, while Er Gouzi kept chattering to Helian Yun Shen:

"This Broken Cloud Sect is incredibly powerful. Their sect leader is at the Transcendental Realm, and no one around here can defeat him. I hope my son can reach that level someday."

As they talked, Er Gouzi began to fantasize about his son reaching the level he envisioned. Helian Yun Shen was a little puzzled when he heard the words "thoroughly understand the realm".

"What exactly is the Thorough Earth Realm? Is it the same as the Free and Easy Earth Realm? If so, it's not a very powerful realm, is it? Or is the so-called Thorough Earth Realm comparable to my Earth Immortal Realm?"

He pondered this matter with some doubt, then looked at Er Gouzi's son. Based on Helian Yun Shen's interactions with Er Gouzi's son over this period, the child's martial arts talent wasn't too bad.

If he were to work hard in Beili, he might reach the strength of the Free and Unfettered Heaven Realm, and even if he doesn't reach that level, he could at least reach the half-step Free and Unfettered Heaven Realm. Becoming a top-tier expert is unlikely.

But becoming a master of martial arts is still possible.

"Dad, don't worry, I will definitely be able to pass the recruitment standards of the Potianmen. When I have achieved something, I will take you away from that village."

Our family is moving to a better place to live.

Pingping looked at her father and spoke sincerely to her parents. At the same time, she turned to Helian Yunshen and said, "Uncle Shen, I can protect you then. If anyone bullies you, I will avenge you."

Hearing the child's sincere words, Helian Yun smiled slightly and reached out to touch Pingping's hair.

At this moment, Helian Yun Shen was somewhat confused.

"The people here are so simple and honest, why would they want to invade our Central Plains? Don't the ordinary people here know anything about this?"

No one could answer Helian Yun Shen's question. He dared not ask it here, fearing it would expose his identity. It would be terrible if it led to his death, and it would also implicate Er Gouzi's family.

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The group traveled along the narrow path for three days before finally seeing a larger pipe. This path was much more crowded than the narrow path they had traveled on before.

Helian Yun Shen took in all sorts of people, and became wary of those carrying weapons. Er Gouzi's family looked at these armed people walking on the official road with envy in their eyes.

Pingping, in particular, was even more envious.

"You two should stop staring at other people like that, or we'll be in big trouble if we offend them."

Seeing the gazes of her husband Er Gouzi and son Pingping, Xiulian couldn't help but point them at the two of them and give them a reminder.