Mu Chuan had long anticipated this day would come.
But he never expected that Yuan Yuan would choose this method of revenge...
The Great Qi is now beset by internal and external troubles.
At this point, military power is the real power.
However, on the battlefield, swords and spears have no eyes...
Looking at his disciple, who was exceptionally handsome but whose eyes held only cold, murderous intent, Mu Chuan sighed inwardly.
Holding up the gourd, Mu Chuan took a big gulp of wine and then beckoned to Yuan Yuan: "Yuan boy, come with your master somewhere."
Yuan Yuan pursed his lips: "Master, I'm not young anymore."
Mu Chuan stared with his drunken eyes: "Are you the master, or am I the master? If I say you're young, then you're young!"
Yuan Yuan's lips twitched, and he strode over to Mu Chuan's side.
Mu Chuan threw off the tiger-skin blanket, got up from the recliner, hiccuped in the warm winter sun, and reached out to pull Yuan Yuan along: "Come with me!"
As he pulled Yuan Yuan along, sometimes lightly and sometimes heavily, he said, "Your senior brother has already been sent to the State of Chu on business."
"It'll probably be at least six months before he can come back..."
Yuan Yuan replied calmly, "No wonder, I didn't see him when I came back from this trip."
Mu Chuan said blankly, "He did send a message back saying that he saw your former relatives."
Former relatives?
Madam Yuan and Yuan Ning?
In recent years, he has never taken the initiative to inquire about Madam Yuan and Yuan Ning, and he always deliberately avoids them whenever he goes on a mission.
Unexpectedly, four years later, he heard news of them again...
Yuan Yuan said coldly, "My family all died when I was twelve years old. Those who abandoned me were not my relatives."
“Young Master Yuan…” Mu Chuan began, “Madam Yuan died the year after the Yuan family was wiped out.”
Yuan Ning is still alive. He has changed his name to Xie Ning and has taken on a master named He Yin.
That Heyin is the son of an old friend of mine, not much older than you, and he has a great talent for medicine…”
"When did Master become so nosy?" Yuan Yuan coldly interrupted Mu Chuan: "Master has had too much to drink today. He shouldn't drink anymore for the next few days."
The doctor said you should quit drinking.
If I keep drinking like this, I'll eventually drink myself completely under the table.
Upon hearing this, Mu Chuan paused in his tracks: "If I told you not to seek revenge, would you listen to me and not seek revenge?"
“This is not the same thing,” Yuan Yuan said coldly.
Mu Chuan chuckled: "My desire to live a muddled life is just as strong as your desire to avenge your family and yourself."
Yuan Yuan: "..."
Over the years, Mu Chuan has either been drunk or on his way to be drunk...
Thinking that this might be the last time the master and disciple would have a heart-to-heart talk, Yuan Yuan asked, "Master, is there someone or something you can't let go of?"
Mu Chuan suddenly stopped and turned his head.
Yuan Yuan met his gaze quietly.
The master and apprentice gazed at each other silently for a long time.
After a long while, Mu Chuan slowly spoke: "Once upon a time, I had a woman I admired very much."
I once thought that I would definitely ask her for her hand in marriage.
However, just when I made up my mind to marry her, she suddenly said that she was pregnant with another man's child.
She was overjoyed, thinking she could marry that man, but in the end, he abandoned her and her child.
My senior sister died in childbirth, and even in her dying moments, she kept calling out that damned man…
Upon hearing this, Yuan Yuan looked up and scrutinized Mu Chuan: "So, Ying is the child of the woman you once admired?"
Mu Chuan: "..."
Mu Chuan stared wide-eyed at him: "How did you know?!"
Could it be that he said something he shouldn't have after getting drunk one of those times?
That's not right!
Although he loves to drink, he has excellent manners when drunk!
"Is that hard to guess?" Yuan Yuan asked Mu Chuan calmly.
Mu Chuan clicked his tongue, grabbed Yuan Yuan, and forcibly changed the subject: "We have other things to do today!"
Enough with the nonsense, come with me!
After speaking, he used his internal energy and lightness skill to lead Yuan Yuan to the back gate, leap over the courtyard wall, and go up the back mountain.
Behind the mountain, there is a tall natural waterfall.
Mu Chuan led Yuan Yuan through the waterfall and directly into the cave within it.
Upon entering the cave, Mu Chuan staggered a couple of times, took out a tinderbox from his pocket, blew on it, then channeled his inner energy into his fingertips and flicked it lightly.
Instantly, the sparks flew off in four different directions.
The torch was lit.
Instantly, the cave was illuminated as brightly as day.
Yuan Yuan used his internal energy to dry his wet clothes and looked into the depths of the cave.
There, a stone bed was placed.
White mist floated around the stone bed.
Mu Chuan stuffed the tinderbox into his damp clothes and pointed to the stone bed: "Get on."
Yuan Yuan frowned: "Master..."
Mu Chuan, a disheveled but handsome man not yet forty, puffed out his beard and glared, "Don't waste time, go up!"
Yuan Yuan had no choice but to comply.
He took off his black boots, lifted his black robe, and with a long stride, stepped onto the stone bed.
A chill seeped up from the soles of my feet and straight up to the top of my head.
Yuan Yuan shuddered, his breath quickened, and he was about to channel his inner energy.
"Don't move!" Mu Chuan stopped him in time.
Yuan Yuan shivered again from the cold.
Suddenly, Mu Chuan leaped up and stood beside him.
Mu Chuan, unusually serious, said, "Sit cross-legged!"
Yuan Yuan did as instructed.
As soon as he sat down, a pair of large hands, imbued with powerful internal energy, covered his back.
Immediately afterwards, a continuous stream of internal energy, carrying a scorching heat, forcefully penetrated his body...
Yuan Yuan was shocked: "Master!"
"Shut up!" Mu Chuan said while transferring his internal energy, "Hold your breath and concentrate!"
Yuan Yuan tried to struggle, but Mu Chuan rebuked him, "If you dare to resist, either you will die, or your master will perish!"
Yuan Yuan passively chose to remain silent, holding his breath and concentrating...
Two hours passed in the blink of an eye.
Two hours later...
Mu Chuan withdrew his internal energy, opened his eyes and said, "Circulate your internal energy and take a look around your body."
Yuan Yuan's lips were somewhat pale, but his face was flushed, and the veins on his forehead were bulging.
If it weren't for his extraordinary physique, exceptional talent, and relentless training over the past few years, he probably wouldn't have been able to withstand Mu Chuan's internal energy long ago...
He opened his mouth, and a trickle of blood seeped out from the corner of his mouth.
Yuan Yuan spoke in a hoarse voice: "Master... I'm sorry..."
Mu Chuan sobered up completely.
He sat on the cold stone bed and said, "It's just twenty years of internal energy. If it can save your life, it's worth it."
Twenty years of experience?
Yuan Yuan was somewhat shocked: "Master..."
Mu Chuan interrupted him, muttering to himself, "Let's do it secretly, don't tell Ying."
Yuan Yuan: "..."
Yuan Yuan tidied himself up, changing his appearance to something too conspicuous and prone to attracting trouble. The next day, he rode hundreds of miles to the Xiling Army camp.
When he registered to join the army, he directly registered the two characters "Yuan Yuan".
He spent one hundred taels of silver and the commander directly assigned him to the Iron Cavalry Assault Team.
The first mission was to launch a surprise attack on the Xiqiu army camp stationed on the border of Daqi...
On the tenth day after joining the army, Yuan Yuan, an unknown soldier, took the head of the general of the Xiqiu vanguard and made a brilliant contribution!
At that time, the deputy commander of the Iron Cavalry Assault Team was killed in the Xiqiu military camp, and the battle was fierce. Yuan Yuan, who was both brave and resourceful, was promoted directly.
Each time Yuan Yuan returned carrying his longsword and covered in bruises, his level slowly increased.
He rose from a common soldier to a general commanding an army of 200,000 in just two years.
His body was covered with countless wounds.
The wound in the tiger's mouth never truly healed.
That winter.
An assassination attempt threw the Great Qi imperial palace into complete chaos.
On a snowy night, the city gates were wide open, and an army of 100,000 besieged the capital. Three thousand cavalrymen rushed straight toward the palace gates.
The young general leading the group was dressed in flowing red robes, with jet-black hair and a handsome face...
His name is Yuan Yuan.
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