3000 years later

On the second day of February in the seventh year of Kaiyuan, Qinglong Festival, Yangzhou.

Li Chengen was 18 years old, and this was the first time he went south.I saw that this place is completely different from the slightly cold solar terms in early spring in Luoyang.

"Master Qin, is this the West Lake?" Li Chengen couldn't hide his excitement, pointing at the sparkling lake and said, "It's so beautiful!"

Qin Yiyan smiled lightly: "There is heaven above, and Suzhou and Hangzhou below. The ancients are right."

It has been about a year since Qin Yiyan happened to meet Li Chengen (Note 1) who was covered in injuries outside Luoyang City last year.At the beginning, he just saw the shadow of Li Jingye, the British prince, in Li Chengen's eyebrows, so he rescued him and returned to Tiance Mansion.Unexpectedly, this child is really the descendant of the Li family who was brutally exterminated during the Anti-Zhou period.

The Li family has been loyal to Li Tang for generations. The first British Duke Li Ji was the founding hero of the Tang Dynasty. When the third generation British Duke Li Jingye was in power, he wanted to change the name of the country to Zhou.In order to maintain the orthodoxy of the Li and Tang Dynasties, the Li family raised troops to fight against the Zhou Dynasty, and finally implicated the whole family because of being outnumbered. Only the youngest son Li Chengen escaped under the desperate protection of the generals of the family, and has since been raised by his sister and brother-in-law.

After wandering for 17 years, Li Chengen finally regained his original identity and position, and restored the hereditary title of British Duke by order of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, and took charge of Tiance Mansion.

Probably because of his blood and blood, he did have the talent to practice martial arts with soldiers. Although Li Chengen started martial arts quite late, he made rapid progress, which made Qin Yiyan very pleased.

West Lake Hidden Sword Villa has not been rising for a long time, but it has already become famous all over the world. The famous sword competition held every ten years invites heroes from all over the world to try their swords.At the first famous sword competition ten years ago, Gongsun Ying won the sword "Yu Shen" by defeating all the heroes in "Sword Dance".

This time, the sword brought out by the Tibetan Sword Villa is called "Zhengyang". It is three feet seven inches long and weighs 30 taels.It is made by collecting fragments of five kinds of sky fires and fused at high temperature. The sword energy is fierce, and it can kill demons and evil spirits, making it difficult for all demons to invade.A total of seven sword invitations were received: Sword Master Tuoba Sinan, Chief Lingshan of Shaolin Dharma Hall, Mingjiao leader Lu Weilou, Chunyang Palace Xie Yunliu, Shence general Wu Jing, head of Kunlun Daoist Tianyun, and Tiance General Li Chengen.

Not only Li Chengen himself was surprised, but Qin Yiyan was also quite puzzled by the fact that he received the sword invitation that the heroes of the world were fascinated by.The rest of the invitees were all well-known masters in the Jianghu. Only Li Chengen had just returned to the Tiance Mansion. Although he was the leader, he was still young and not proficient in martial arts. It was really puzzling why he was favored by the Hidden Sword Villa.

"Although the Tiance Mansion is under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, it is half immersed in the rivers and lakes after all. Cheng En has to accept the sword invitation, which is the affirmation from the martial arts people that he is in charge of the Tiance Mansion. You might as well go and see it." Tang Xuanzong said .

So Qin Yiyan took Li Chengen all the way south to Yangzhou.

As I walked, I heard bursts of vocal music from above the West Lake, which was melodious and refreshing.Li Chengen looked around, and saw a huge painting boat approaching the embankment. The boat was full of brightly dressed and handsome women, all carrying a pair of swords.The painting boat docked, and all the women got off the boat one by one. The fragrant flowers were fragrant while walking, and the rings were tinkling, which attracted passers-by to stop.

Li Chengen thought of his first love when he looked at it. After he settled down in Tiance Mansion, he also went back to Luoyang City to look for him, but the clothing store was already empty, and there was no trace left.

There was a huge crowd, and they just passed by.

"It's people from Yiyinglou (Note 2)..." Qin Yiyan sighed softly, "They're here too."

"Yiying Building?"

"Who doesn't know the Yiying Tower created by the world-renowned Gongsun Auntie? Zhongzong also invited her into the palace in the first year of Shenlong." Qin Yiyan was obviously lucky enough to watch the amazing sword dance back then. "There is such a sword in the world." The method is gentle and sentimental in the eyes, gorgeous and flawless, but it can kill people in an instant."

Li Chengen was thinking about his first love, when he heard the sound of breaking through the sky, he turned sideways to hide, and a small stone passed by.Qin Yiyan didn't pay attention to this side just now, and was taken aback. He was relieved to see that Li Chengen was fine.

"Haha, silly boy!" There was a crisp laugh, and Li Qin and his wife looked up, only to see a little girl in her teens, wearing pale pink and elegant Yiyinglou clothes, smiling like a delicate peony, "Say You are in a daze!"

"Xiaoqi, don't be rude!" A woman walking in front turned around and pulled the little girl over, and saluted Li and Qin, "Junior Sister is young and ignorant, please invite the two of you, Haihan."

"Third Senior Sister... I didn't hurt him..."

"You also said, quickly make an apology to others."

"It's okay." Li Chengen returned the courtesy, "Your junior sister is just playing around, it's harmless."

"Oh..." The little girl jumped in front of Li Chengen in three steps and two times, and said with a smile, "Little brother, yes-no-start-up!"

The little girl walked out with her senior sisters for a long time, then turned her head and waved to Li Chengen: "Little brother, goodbye——"

"That should be the 'Qixiu' from Yiyinglou. I think that little girl is the youngest Yanxiu." Qin Yiyan introduced, "It's getting late, let's hurry to the Hidden Sword Villa."

The Famous Sword Competition lasted for more than 20 days, and it was very exciting. Even the "Snow Demon" Wang Yifeng came to participate in the competition. In the end, the sword master Tuoba Sinan won the championship with Li Wangsheng, the chief disciple of Chunyang Palace. Zhengyang sword.

But these are not important to Li Chengen, his greatest achievement is meeting that person.

His love and protection for the next few decades came from this.

=============================== 3000 years later =BY=Yishui Hanyan============== ===============

There are still two days left in the National Day holiday, and the little apprentice Li Jinglan has already reached level 70. There is no doubt that the full level will be reached within two days.

When a character reaches level 70, it's time to go to the map of the corresponding level to do task upgrades. At this time, the masters can basically ignore it.Because apprentices can form a lot of players of the same level on the corresponding map, it is a very efficient thing to do task upgrades together in a team, and you can also meet many friends.

Chu Lancang looked at the game interface, and felt that even if he didn't take Li Jinglan to do the mission, there was nothing else to do, so he typed: "70, I will accompany you to clear the mission."

[Team Li Jinglan] Good!By the way, master, why don't you ever do world daily tasks (Note 3) or something?

[Team Ye Ranqiu] finds it troublesome.

[Team Li Jinglan]...When you reach 80 and don't do anything, then what are you playing, master?

[Team Ye Ranqiu] Hehe.

Since the creation of this character, Chu Lancang didn't find a master or form a team with others to upgrade, just ran the task silently by himself, and it took more than a month to reach the full level.The gang he entered was very deserted, and basically no one spoke, but it was very in line with his wishes.

He thought he was disheartened, but he still couldn't bear to part with this virtual world.

The incident two months ago really exhausted him both physically and mentally—it was not only due to the betrayal of a close friend, but also a complete disappointment with the friendship that he thought was strong but was actually vulnerable.

Every time he logs in to the game, he can see the high-spirited Tibetan sword in the Southern Emperor suit standing with his sword, but he can only skip this character who can no longer appear in the game, and choose the ID of "Ye Ranqiu" to log in.

The glory and glory of the past, the memories of riding horses in the rivers and lakes, will be dusty and will be slowly forgotten.

I also thought about practicing other martial arts, but when I chose the martial arts at level 15, Chu Lancang still entered the Tibetan Sword Villa-he was always reluctant to part with this martial arts, every NPC, every corner in the villa, every skill of Tibetan Sword , He knows everything by heart and cannot forget it.

He also doesn't understand why he has such a strong sense of belonging to this sect, which means that he has worshiped for a lifetime and will live up to it all his life.

I don't want to enter the camp anymore, and I don't want to do the world's daily tasks anymore, because I will meet my former friends or enemies.Chu Lancang just wanted to spend the last reluctance in the game alone, and leave here completely when he finally felt bored and had nothing to do and no attachment.

It was a coincidence that Li Jinglan was accepted as an apprentice.

That day when he was standing in a daze in the school outside Chang'an, a trumpet came in bouncing in, took a bunch of tasks, looked around, ran up to him, and whispered: "Handsome, are you there?"

【Ye Ranqiu】?

[Li Jinglan] I have accepted a task to serve tea to my master... But my master is not here, can I ask you to be my master temporarily?

[Ye Ranqiu] It doesn't matter if you do this task or not.

[Li Jinglan] Isn't it fun?Playing games means doing these tasks is interesting... It’s okay, I’ll leave the school when I’m done, I don’t need you to take me~~~

"Playing games is the fun of doing these tasks." This sentence knocked into his heart.

Chu Lancang thought of when he first started playing J3, he formed a team with Ji Ningyu and several people to clear missions map by map.At that time, the game hadn’t been out for a long time, and the hidden sword profession had just been released. The few of them happily upgraded, reached the full level, downloaded the book, and entered the camp together... Every small story mission has been carefully read and done.

At that time.Their equipment was mediocre, they didn't make their mark in the online game world, and they didn't have the reputation of being surrounded by crowds wherever they went.It is a common thing to be wiped out by the group after brushing the book, and have been despised and bullied by players with good equipment... But when I think about it, it was actually the happiest period of time.

Who said that the best time to play games is actually the rookie stage when you just don't know anything.

But that time can never go back.