Chapter 1 Tragic changes in the mountain village

escape!

Run away!

Under the broad daylight, there were piles of dead bodies. Houses collapsed and screams of misery continued.

Two teenagers ran desperately in this hell.

"Clang!"

They unlocked the door of a duplex building, rushed in, and locked the door shut. Behind them, the entire mountain town was burning.

"Gu Feng, someone is chasing me——"

Ye Ziqi pushed the window paper outwards and opened a crack, shouting anxiously.

He saw a man approaching the building with a knife. His bronze skin was exposed to the cold winter wind, with a cyan eagle tattooed on it.

When the strong muscles rise and fall with the man's violent breathing, the eagle's wings also close and expand, as if chasing prey under the pale red cloud waves.

Barbarians!

The helpless townspeople outside were still running around randomly. One of them was picked up by a barbarian, and he screamed like crazy. Finally, he was like a piece of firewood being split open by a saber!

Ye Ziqi watched this scene in his eyes and his whole body was shaking uncontrollably.

Another young man named Gu Feng was trying to move the cabinet and block the door.

This is a library, and there is no shortage of tall bookcases.

But the weight of knowledge forced him to give up this idea, so he grabbed Ye Ziqi who was lying on the window:

"Why did your father let you come here?"

"My father said that there is an underground library under the library. He asked me to find my cousin and hide in it together - Gu Feng, is my sister Lingsha still alive?"

"What do you think? Have these barbarians ever survived?" Gu Feng threw Ye Ziqi down, and tears suddenly burst out of the delicate boy's eyes.

"Gu Feng...did I do something wrong? If I didn't stay in the library reading all day and neglecting martial arts training, everyone wouldn't-"

Gu Feng sighed, his junior brother was too kind and too fragile. How could he practice ruthless swordsmanship like this?

"Stop thinking nonsense," Gu Feng helped Ye Ziqi's shoulders: "What does it have to do with you? Even if you can train like me, do you think I can defeat three barbarians at the same time? The barbarians who entered the mountain this time,

But there are more than three hundred!”

"But I am a useless person, I have accomplished nothing..."

Gu Feng shook his head gently and did not blame Ye Ziqi for his weakness. Because just now, when he used his sword to rescue Ye Ziqi from the barbarian sword, his father's body was lying at Ye Ziqi's feet.

And Ye Lingsha was the girl who was in love with Ye Ziqi. She would come to his and Ye Ziqi's martial arts training ground every day and accompany them to laugh and chat. The three of them got along day and night, like a day for five years.

But when the barbarians suddenly invaded their mountain town, everything came to nothing.

Ye Ziqi reluctantly stood up and found the secret door of the underground library, but when he turned around, he found that Gu Feng was still standing by the window, motionless.

"Gu Feng, why don't you come over?"

"Two barbarians are running over... No, there are more behind them."

Gu Feng looked out the window coldly. The villagers who had fled here were being slaughtered one by one, and the screams came through the door.

"They saw me killing their people and came after me. I'll lure them away. You go to the underground library and hide yourself."

Ye Ziqi's eyes were incredibly wide: "Gu Feng, don't..."

"Zi Ziqi!" Gu Feng roared, making Zi Qi stunned. "Hide it well and avenge everyone in our town in the future!

You can do it by yourself. You are much braver than you think, and you will definitely be able to practice swordsmanship well. If you don't believe it, just think about how you stopped me from dying!"

Ye Ziqi stared at Gu Feng blankly. At this moment when this mountain town was in ruins and his life was at stake, past events surged out of his memory.

As early as a year ago, there were rumors in the town that barbarians were invading the country. The king even sent troops from the royal capital to attack the barbarians in the north.

At that time, the army's supply line was short of manpower, so it forced several laborers from the town. Among them was Gu Feng's father, who was also the master who taught Gu Feng and Ye Ziqi how to practice swordsmanship.

If you go there, you will die on the battlefield.

When the news came, Gu Feng blamed the result on the sergeant who forcibly recruited his father into the army. He took his sword and went to the capital to take revenge - the disciple avenged his master and his son avenged his father!

It is conceivable that no matter whether he could successfully kill the sergeant at that time, he would definitely put his life in the city.

Ye Ziqi also got the news, but ran into the library and stayed there for two hours, then chased Gu Feng madly with his sword in hand. After a night, he finally caught up with him on the outskirts of the city.

That day, in the cold and windy wilderness outside the royal capital, Ye Ziqi proposed to Gu Feng that the two of them engage in a duel. As long as Gu Feng defeated him in the duel, he would not stop him. Otherwise, he would return with him.

Go to town.

Gu Feng agreed.

As a result, Ye Ziqi defeated Gu Feng for the only time.

His attack was particularly fierce that day. Gu Feng only fought with his sword for more than ten rounds before his sword suddenly broke.

Afterwards, Gu Feng could only follow Ye Ziqi back to the mountain town.

After a period of time, news came from the city. It was revealed that the sergeant had deliberately allowed the civilian laborers to enter dangerous territory on the battlefield in order to embezzle the funds allocated to recruit civilian laborers, so that they could be massacred by the barbarians.

Then he lied that the money had been issued and could not be recovered, and hid the money in his own pocket. This incident caused public outrage in the city, and the government sentenced him to death.

On the day of the execution, both Ye Ziqi and Gu Feng sneaked into the city and watched their enemies' heads fall to the ground. Then they went back and burned paper money in front of their master's tomb.

From then on, Gu Feng saw the potential of Ye Ziqi in martial arts. He saw that although Ye Ziqi was easily soft-hearted and timid, he could burst out with the power to sacrifice his life when fighting for others. Therefore, at this moment,

Said these words to Ye Ziqi.

When Ye Ziqi heard that Gu Feng mentioned this matter at this time, he immediately understood that Gu Feng was going to die just like a year ago to repay his life-saving grace. He hurriedly reached out to hold Gu Feng.

Feng Yijiao.

But he suffered repeated blows and his strength could no longer be used up. Gu Feng just waved his leg and swept his hand away.

"No, don't..." Ye Ziqi shouted hoarsely. He wanted to say that what Gu Feng said was wrong. He had no courage or ability to take revenge. He was able to defeat Gu Feng that time only because he used some cheating methods.

.

So, please don't leave.

But Gu Feng no longer gave him a chance to speak. He strode out of the library and locked the door behind him.

Ye Ziqi climbed to the door and smashed it, making a "clang" sound.

"Yi Zi!" Gu Feng's voice came through the crack in the door, "My father and Ling Sha are watching from the sky. I can't let her brother die again."

"Bang, bang!"

"Finally, Ye Zi, let me tell you one more thing -"

"Bang, bang!"

"I like Ye Lingsha too."

"Bang bang bang!"

"Beast, eat the sword!!!"

Gu Feng roared angrily, and then his voice suddenly stopped. Through the door panel, only the sound of swords clashing could be heard.

Ye Ziqi's fingers were all clasped on the door, his forehead was red from the impact, and he leaned against the door panel, sobbing.

The sound of screams and the smell of blood can be clearly transmitted into this library even through the door panel.

Then, he turned his head and looked at the dim dusty bookcase in the building, his eyes clearly shining brightly.

Ye Ziqi has a secret.

He can read demon books and even use a little magic.

Because he was a child who grew up in a library, and his grandfather Ye Gao was the person in charge of managing the library in the town. Before he learned how to read poems and recognize characters, he would stay here every day, peeking at the paintings collected by his grandfather and painted by monsters.

Books, guess the meaning of the characters inside.

Unknowingly, I fell deeper and deeper into it.

The children in the town alienated him because of this, saying that he was a "little master" and that he was worthy of being the grandson of the library manager.

Only Gu Feng was willing to talk to him and teach him martial arts, like an older brother.

He must not let him die.

"The God of Cold has an edict, commanding all living things to be sealed." Ye Ziqi opened his mouth softly and said as if he was talking in a dream.

Under his hand, a ball of flame suddenly ignited. Unexpectedly, at some point, a demon book that sealed the power of fire that he held under his hand started to burn spontaneously because of the rudimentary seal-deciphering technique that his grandfather had taught him.

Ye Ziqi waved his hand and threw the fireball towards the bookcase aside. The flames immediately spread along the stack of books and set the entire bookcase on fire!

The library is the place where the fire demon is most proud of. With the billowing smoke, the flames burned from one bookcase to another. In a moment, the surrounding leaves were all involved in the sea of ​​​​fire!

Suddenly, countless ghostly and gloomy voices sounded, just like walking in the forest late at night, and the eerie footsteps suddenly sounded in the darkness behind, like the sound of countless insects gathering and swarming.

"As expected." Ye Ziqi said quietly.

In the Demon Book, it is recorded that the screams of a large group of creatures dying at the same time can spread the sound all the way to the gods, and these sounds can open up a channel for dialogue between humans and gods.
To be continued...