Prologue

Chixia Mountain, located in the central part of the mainland, stretches for 800 miles. The dense forest is as vast as the sea. The valley is full of birdsong and flowers, and there are countless springs and waterfalls. It is known as the world's number one "paradise on earth".

　　In the area near the northern part of Chixia Mountain, there is a villa named "Xianyun Villa". The owner of Xianyun Villa is the world-famous celebrity - Pang Yun.

　　Speaking of Pang Yun, he is well-known both in the martial arts world and in the court. 12 years ago, the previous emperor passed away, and the current emperor ascended the throne amid controversy. For a time, princes from all over the country rose up in arms, and a total of seven princes claimed that they were the heirs to the throne. The Great Jin Dynasty was in chaos and was about to fall apart.

　　At the age of 20, Pang Yun, the son of Qingzhou giant Pang Yingtian, suddenly appeared and entered everyone's vision as the top scholar in literature and the third place in martial arts in the year when the emperor ascended the throne. In the palace examination of Tiande Hall, he cleverly solved the difficult problems set by three great scholars of the time and the emperor, prompting the world to overcome all objections and appoint him as a military advisor to go to war with the army.

　　In just 6 years, with his help, the emperor pacified the world, and in the process, he also made great contributions. However, he finally resigned when the emperor ordered him to be promoted to the position of left prime minister. He left the capital with his newly married wife, the current queen's sister, the famous socialite Tang Yuxian, and lived in seclusion in Chixia Mountain, leading a life that he envied only mandarin ducks and not immortals.

　　Tonight, Chixia Mountain should be completely silent. However, at Xianyun Villa, flames were shooting up into the sky. A large number of men in black were surrounding Xianyun Villa. The villa was full of fire. Hundreds of men in black were holding swords with flashing cold light and were constantly killing people in the villa. A large number of farmhands and maids fell in a pool of blood, leaving no one alive.

　　In a corner of the villa, three people, two adults and one child, were looking at the villa which was engulfed in blood and fire. They were the Pang family of three: the owner Pang Yun, his wife Tang Yuxian, and their 5-year-old son, Pang Jun.

　　Pang Yun looked at his wife's jade-like face and said gently, "Xian'er, you and Jun'er should leave quickly. If you leave from here, you can go to the depths of Chixia Mountain and then leave here through a small path. I will help you to cover your back. After you leave, you should first go to Liuye Village in Wuding Mountain, Dingzhou. After I get away, I will go there to find you and your son."

　　"No, I want to be with you, Pang Lang." Tang Yuxian's face was pale.

　　"Dad, I want to be with you too." Pang Jun held his father's hand and looked at him eagerly.

　　Pang Yun felt extremely sad, but he hardened his heart and shouted angrily: "Go quickly, don't distract me!"

　　Seeing her husband's furious and cowardly appearance, Tang Yuxian had to grit her teeth, took her son's hand and said, "Let's go, Jun'er, don't distract your father." Little Pang Jun could only watch his father's figure as he was pulled away from the villa by his mother.

　　After watching his wife and son leave, Pang Yun breathed a sigh of relief, drew out his three-foot-long sword, and stood quietly in the yard. Not long after, a large number of men in black rushed into the yard and surrounded him.

　　Pang Yun looked at them, chuckled and said, "Although I may not be perfect in everything I do, I always try my best. I wonder which big shot I offended, and why my whole family was slaughtered tonight? Even if I die today, I will die knowingly."

　　A man walked out from the crowd of men in black. He didn't say anything, but just raised his hand. Five men in black came forward with knives, aiming directly at Pang Yun's vital points. Pang Yun drew his sword to fight back. There was a flash of swords and shadows, and every move was murderous.

　　After all, Pang Yun was once a top martial arts champion and he had practiced martial arts for many years, so his kung fu had not declined. He was fighting one against five and actually had the upper hand. The leader of the men in black frowned, waved his hand, and five more men in black came out and attacked Pang Yun again.

　　Pang Yun is the son of Pang Yingtian, a great martial artist in Qingzhou. When Pang Yingtian was alive, he was famous for his pair of sky-splitting palms and his edgeless sword. Pang Yun also learned from him and used the family heirloom edgeless sword to withstand the attack of ten black-clad assassins.

　　Seeing how powerful Pang Yun was, the leader in black became impatient with his men and could no longer bear it. He pulled out a shiny black hidden weapon from his arms, secretly used his internal force, and without even caring about his own people, he went straight to several vital points on Pang Yun's body.

　　With a cry of "Ah", Pang Yun had already spent all his energy under the siege of ten men in black. He had hinted that he needed to pay attention to the leader of the men in black, but he was still hit in the vitals by the leader's hidden weapon. He fell to the ground, with disbelief in his eyes: "Bone-crushing nail?! You, you are..."

　　At this time, the leader in black finally spoke: "The man is innocent but is guilty of possessing the treasure. Pang Yun, do you understand?" As he spoke, he looked into Pang Yun's eyes that already understood, drew out his sword, stabbed it into Pang Yun's chest, and blood splattered three feet.

　　Pang Jun, who was fleeing with his mother, turned his head and glanced at home. With his amazing eyesight, he happened to see his father being stabbed in the chest with a sword and falling to the ground. He couldn't help but wail, "Daddy!"

　　When Tang Yuxian heard her son's wailing, she turned around and saw that her husband had been killed by the thieves. She was so sad that she almost fainted.

　　Tang Yuxian dragged Pang Jun and fled through the forest, one foot deep and one foot shallow. Suddenly, Tang Yuxian's foot slipped and stepped into empty space. The outside of her left foot and leg touched the ground and she could no longer move. At this time, both mother and son could vaguely hear other people's voices and see the light of torches in the distance. Tang Yuxian looked at her son, stroked Pang Jun's face, and said in a crying voice: "Jun'er, go quickly, mother can't walk anymore, go quickly, don't worry about me."

　　"mother!"

　　"Hurry up, it will be too late if you don't leave now!" Tang Yuxian pushed and shoved her son, shouting, "The farther the better!"

　　Pang Jun looked back every three steps, looking at his mother who was getting farther and farther away, and finally disappeared from his sight. Tang Yuxian, seeing that her son had escaped without a trace, finally felt relieved. At this time, the torches were approaching, and several men in black found Tang Yuxian and surrounded her. Some of them had lustful eyes and approached her. Tang Yuxian looked sad, she pulled out her hairpin, pointed the sharp end at her neck, and prepared to stab it.

　　At this time, there was a sound of breaking through the air, and two sharp arrows flew out from nowhere and pierced directly into the throats of the two men in black. They died on the spot. Then a group of guards in brocade uniforms suddenly appeared. The men in black raised their swords to fight, but the brocade guards cooperated well and were numerous. The team of men in black who besieged Tang Yuxian was quickly killed. A man who seemed to be the leader came to Tang Yuxian and asked, "Madam, are you okay?"

　　Tang Yuxian looked at the leader and was about to say that she wanted to find her son, but before she could say anything, she felt dizzy and fainted on the ground...

　　After leaving his mother, Pang Jun kept running. He didn't know how long he ran before he stopped. He turned around and looked back, trying to find the place where he and his mother had just parted, or the place where the torch was flashing, but unfortunately, he didn't find it. He planned to go back to that place to find his mother, but just as he was about to set off, he heard a series of low roars from the dense forest. In the depths of the darkness, there were several pairs of eyes as big as copper bells. With the help of the moonlight, he vaguely saw that they were several wolves, all of them with bloody mouths, drops of wolf saliva dripping on the ground, their eyes fixed on Pang Jun.

　　Although Pang Jun had been learning literature and martial arts since childhood, his father Pang Yun began to teach him the internal power formula of the Sky-Splitting Palm last year. However, his internal power was still at the basic stage. Moreover, he was hungry and thirsty now. He might not be able to defeat even one, let alone three jackals. But there was no other way. If he didn't fight to the death, he would be eaten by the wolves. He had no choice but to bite the bullet and take out a small knife passed down in his family to protect himself.

　　Suddenly, a wolf quickly took two steps back, then lay down on its front legs, bent its body into a bow shape, let out a long howl, and flew into the air. Its body drew a long arc in the air and pounced towards Pang Jun. Pang Jun dodged and stabbed forward with his knife, but the jackal was just a feint and landed safely about ten feet to the side of Pang Jun. The moment it landed, it quickly took a few steps back and pounced again.

　　In several fights, Pang Jun avoided the jackal's attacks safely, but there was no way to please the jackal. He did not cause any harm to the jackal, but his physical strength was seriously depleted. Facing another attack from the jackal, Pang Jun made up his mind and stopped dodging. He just stabbed forward with the dagger. With a "hiss", the wolf's claws scratched his clothes and left three bloody marks on his chest, and the wolf itself was stabbed in the throat by the dagger and died.

　　After trying his best to kill a wolf, Pang Jun was already at the end of his strength. After fleeing all night and fighting with wolves, he didn't even have the strength to stand. Seeing the remaining two wolves slowly approaching, Pang Jun was helpless. He thought to himself: "My parents tried their best to create a chance for me to escape, but I ended up being eaten by wolves. But it doesn't matter, Dad and Mom, your child is here to accompany you." Thinking of this, he collapsed to the ground, closed his eyes, and waited for death to come.

　　Suddenly, a clear bell sound came from the dense forest, attracting the attention of the two wolves. They were wary of the bells and stared fiercely at the direction where the bells came from. Not long after, a carriage came from a distance. There were two bells hanging on the carriage. The sound just now was made by them. A pretty woman was sitting in the carriage. She was driving the carriage. When she saw the situation on the roadside, she stopped.

　　A charming female voice came from the carriage: "Qingwen, why did you stop the carriage?"

　　The woman in the car stared at the two wolves and said respectfully to the woman in the car, "Holy Lord, there are three jackals on the road, and a child who fainted. It seems that the child killed one of the jackals."

　　"Oh? Interesting. Qingwen, bring the child up here."

　　"Yes, Holy Lord." Qingwen stood up in response. With two "swoosh" sounds breaking through the air, two hidden weapons hit the two jackals at the same time. The jackals' brains burst on the spot and they died. Then, she walked over, picked up Pang Jun and handed him to the door curtain of the car.

　　Then, a pair of smooth and white hands like jade reached out from the car and took Pang Jun over. The female voice inside was heard saying, "What a handsome child! Apart from other things, it would be a good thing to raise him, train him well, and let him climb into bed and serve you obediently. Besides, judging from his bones, he is also a good material for martial arts. It's decided. From today on, he is my apprentice. Do you understand?"

　　"I understand."

　　"Let's keep going."

　　"Yes." The carriage continued to move forward, and the sound of the bells rang again, echoing in the mountains...

　　In the 13th year of Wude in the Jin Dynasty, the family of the famous official Pang Yun was brutally murdered. The murderer was the "Chixia Bandits", a gang of vicious bandits that had been wreaking havoc in the Central Plains for many years. Pang Yun's son Pang Jun was missing, and his wife Tang Yuxian was rescued by Wei Wang Yang Tong who had just returned from a victorious battle. The leader of the "Chixia Bandits", Luo Yizhang, was killed by Wei Wang's guards commander Li Changluo. Since then, the "Chixia Bandits" became a loose sand and could no longer wreak havoc on the people.

　　Three months later, Prince of Wei Yang Tong suddenly proposed to Tang Yuxian, who was temporarily living in the Prince of Wei's mansion, and requested to take her as a concubine. For some reason, Tang Yuxian, who had always been well-educated and sensible, actually agreed to Yang Tong's absurd request and became the Prince of Wei's second concubine. Her status in the mansion was second only to the principal wife Ma. At the beginning of the second year, Tang Yuxian gave birth to a daughter and named her Yang Yue. The emperor issued an edict to confer her the title of Princess Yaoyue.

　　In the 16th year of Wude in the Jin Dynasty, the wife of Prince of Wei, Ma, died of illness. In grief, the Prince of Wei wrote to the emperor requesting to appoint his second wife, Tang Yuxian, as the principal wife. The emperor readily agreed. So far, the two Tang beauties, one elder sister and one younger sister, who were the most beautiful women in Beijing 15 years ago, became the principal wives of the two brothers, Prince of Wei Yang Tong and Emperor Yang Shao, respectively, and became the most noble sisters in the world.