Chapter 781 - 226: Nuannuan Xue Rises, Six Kingdoms Stand, Path of Chivalry, Human Soul Bond

Chapter 781: Chapter 226: Nuannuan Xue Rises, Six Kingdoms Stand, Path of Chivalry, Human Soul Bond

After speaking, he poured a full cup of wine for Tie Sha.

Tie Sha sighed, "Only the Spring Water Brew is good enough to serve distinguished guests. Good wine is rare, and even if you want to buy it, you can’t."

Li Yuan raised his cup, brought it to his nose, smelled it, showed a look of intoxication, and then smiled, "Smells better than the Spring Dream Brew."

Tie Sha laughed, "How could it be..."

Saying this, he also raised his cup.

The two clinked cups and drank it all, then drank two more pots.

But such wine couldn’t intoxicate martial artists of their high grade like them.

Li Yuan suddenly pulled out a packet of powder from his bosom, slapped it on the table and said, "Heart-Burning Flower Powder."

Tie Sha nodded.

Li Yuan poured the powder into the remaining pot of wine.

Tie Sha didn’t ask anything, just drank it after pouring, and when he was tipsy, he smiled, rubbing his hands, and bowed, "Old friend, I’ll get some side dishes, just drinking is a bit barren, my hospitality is lacking. ℴ

To be honest, I’m great at roasting meat. I used to be at the Holy Fire Palace, always playing with fire every day. Needless to say, I definitely have good control of the heat."

He didn’t hide his identity when entering the city, because the Holy Fire Palace was not an enemy force in the Southern Land, and it had been destroyed in battles with the Lotus Sect before, so there was nothing to hide, thus he spoke openly now.

Li Yuan nodded.

Tie Sha turned and went inside the house, carried a homemade grill, humming a tune as he fetched meat, began to cut, skewer, and roast it...

The aroma of the meat wafted, mingling with the mist of the spring night.

Not far away, Fang Jianlong next door smelled the fragrance and wanted to go out.

But then he saw the young man in white sitting under the moonlight.

He suddenly couldn’t move.

His body became rigid, even though he had faced countless dangers and strong enemies, compared to the young man in front of him, the past... was just fleeting clouds.

In his heart, a peculiar fear arose, and then he secretly convinced himself: Afraid only Old Tie can sit there and drink with him?

While thinking this, his house door creaked open, and a sickly young boy ran out, shouting, "Uncle Tie, Uncle Tie, I want some too!"

This boy was Zhu Qiao’Er’s son — Xiaoyun.

His mother and he had been traveling with Tie Sha for a while, they were well acquainted, it seemed every time they were here, Xiaoyun would run to have some meat.

Fang Jianlong’s mouth twitched, and he had no choice but to brace himself and go out.

Soon, Tie Sha placed grilled meat on the table, he was still cooking more, while Xiaoyun began eating at the table with abandon.

In contrast to Xiaoyun, Fang Jianlong sat stiffly on the side.

Li Yuan asked, "Your son?"

Fang Jianlong slowly shook his head, a pained expression welled up in his eyes.

Seeing this, Tie Sha stuffed a freshly grilled piece of meat into Xiaoyun’s hands, saying, "Go home, give some to your mom, it’s cold outside, don’t come again."

"Okay, Uncle Tie. Thank you, Uncle Tie." The boy took the meat and ran off sensibly.

Tie Sha patted Fang Jianlong’s shoulder, said, "Today we have wine mixed with Heart-Burning Flower, come, drink and talk. There’s nothing to hide among friends."

Fang Jianlong hesitated a bit.

Li Yuan suddenly said, "The Lotus Sect or whatever... that’s all in the past."

Fang Jianlong could hardly believe his ears, he trembled, breathing heavily.

This was his biggest secret, if it was known here, he would have no way out, yet the person in front of him broke it so easily.

Li Yuan said, "Old Tie just told me."

Tie Sha laughed heartily, patting Fang Jianlong’s shoulder, "Sorry, I’m quite connected with this old friend, spoke unintentionally."

Fang Jianlong was no child, he breathed heavily, calmed down for a long while, then began to tell his story.

Things he had never told anyone, now saying them openly, he suddenly felt... it was just that, all in the past.

"So, Xiaoyun is not only not my son, he’s my enemy’s son. I killed his father, killed his grandfather, and killed many in his family."

Fang Jianlong laughed at himself, "I know if the roots are not removed, the grass will grow again in spring, but I don’t want to kill him again. He knows nothing. When he grows up, if he wants revenge, he can find me anytime."

Li Yuan patted his shoulder and raised his cup.

Fang Jianlong was stunned, and raised his cup too.

The two drank it all.

Tie Sha laughed, "We’ve been drinking for so long, and I haven’t asked old friend how to address you?"

Li Yuan said, "Ximen Gucheng, a swordsman, but... I’ve forgotten how to use a sword."

In fact, he was not affected by the Heart-Burning Flower, but Tie Sha and Fang Jianlong were somewhat drunk.

People, when drunk, have more courage, and their words flow more freely.

Fang Jianlong asked, "Why have you forgotten how to use a sword?"

Li Yuan recalled the dense ancestral talismans coursing through his body, each different symbol forming a lotus-like ancestral talisman, the chaos it brought gave him overwhelming vibrating power when he was low grade, but at his current level, this vibrating had surpassed its limits, turning into chaos.

He couldn’t break through the Fourth Grade, couldn’t utilize the domain to gather such power, leading to his power being extremely crude, like a monster such as "Godzilla" that he saw before crossing, instead of a martial artist.

Talisman seeds, in the end, are thoughts.

The many thoughts crowded together, sometimes made him feel chaotic and evil, the cunning and ferocity unintentionally showed earlier were aftereffects of long-term use of this power.

Various thoughts flashed, he said, "Nothing much, just a muddled mind."

After that, he filled the three’s cups with wine and said, "It’s all trivial, let’s drink, drink."

...

...

A few days later.

Li Yuan arrived at the Mianzhou Path.