Chapter 251: Shaking the Earth and Shaking the Heavens, Ten Years of Dinner! (2-in-1)
The hawker knew all about Song Changming’s deeds, but he didn’t know that the Song Changming right in front of him was the Dragon Sword Hero Song in his mouth.
In this era without the Internet, most people know his name but not his appearance. This is normal.
Now, Su Qingqing had a candied haws in one hand and a candied man in the other, completely satisfied.
Song Changming came all the way here to witness Gu Wenhui ascending the throne and proclaiming himself emperor. Naturally, it was not just to join in the fun.
Witnessing the occurrence of major events, even if he does not actually participate in them, has practical benefits.
If the annual evaluation can be improved to a certain extent, the final reward will naturally be better.
Of course, even Li Jinyu, who is regarded as a divine fortune teller, cannot understand these secrets.
After proclaiming himself emperor, Gu Wenhui reorganized the imperial team.
Some are happy and some are sad.
Many high officials in the imperial court and the families behind them fell into decline, while some new nobles rose up and became celebrities in the court.
And Gu Wenhui did not stop the sword in his hand, and directly sent out a large army in the name of the new emperor to sweep away the remaining dozen states and counties.
Anyone who does not surrender to him will be eradicated and completely defeated head-on with absolute military power.
He had already planned these things before attacking Yunling City.
Now when it moves, it is like thunder, and the army is invincible, sweeping all the way.
Everyone knows that this is probably the last battle for Dai Lai to dominate the world!
After Song Changming returned to Wangyue County, it didn't take long for him to receive this year's annual evaluation.
[Annual evaluation: A year that witnessed history! 】
[In terms of martial arts: This year, your martial arts cultivation has been very fruitful. You have gathered the fifth cyclone, reached the fifth level of Qi refining, learned and started the third-grade Zhengyang Technique, and completed the eighth-grade Flying Thunder Technique]
[In terms of performance: This year's performance has been outstanding. You faced the sword master Nan Wuji and defeated many powerful enemies from outside the territory. 】
[In terms of power and fame: This year you have become a martial arts expert known to the world, your stories are being spread in the streets and alleys, and the Changming Society under your command has become a first-class force in the world]
[Family aspect: Being alone, points will be deducted for loneliness]
[Event: 1, contact the innate! 2. The new emperor ascended the throne, the Kingdom of Dalai was established, and witnessed history! 】
[Please select an annual award. 】
[1. Lifespan +5000. 2. Lifespan -2000, improve inner Qi cultivation. 3. Lifespan -3000, can upgrade a related physique (good sword practice, strong martial arts, light as wind, Qi practitioner, meditator). 4. Lifespan consumed -400, attribute points +4. 】
[Note: You can choose two of the four items as rewards. 】
"Sure enough." Song Changming said secretly.
Such a major history of establishing a new country, even if you don't participate in it, just as an observer, witnessing the process, it is worthy of being nominated as an event, which can improve his evaluation points a lot.
In addition, several key events such as breaking through the fifth level of Qi refining this time, acquiring a set of third-grade martial arts, and dueling with the world's best sword master have also raised the annual evaluation points a lot.
The final annual reward made Song Changming's eyes light up.
Although no new physical characteristics appeared this time, he was able to further upgrade the several green-level physical characteristics he originally possessed!
This was the reward he had been waiting for for a long time.
His green-level physical characteristics have been almost fully developed over the years.
Only the blue grade dragon body is still accompanying his body refining process, constantly strengthening his physical potential.
But if those green-level physical characteristics cannot be continuously upgraded and strengthened, other things will be fine. What he is most worried about is whether there will be a bottleneck in body training in the future and the potential of the body will be developed to the limit.
After all, he has now developed his physical body, especially his strength, to the level of eight elephants, even close to the strength of nine elephants.
This is already an amazing and terrifying power that other warriors can hardly imagine.
It can be said that to what extent his physical body can be strengthened in the future depends entirely on these physical characteristics of his and the physical potential brought by his talent attributes.
Even if it cost him a full three thousand years of life, he did not hesitate to choose this reward.
Although the huge consumption of life span made him feel heartbroken, it was equivalent to exchanging his life for his talent potential.
He has accumulated many years of life expectancy, and he can still afford it now!
If it really doesn't work, the worst thing to do is to make up for future annual rewards by choosing a few times and adding life span.
But this time, for the second reward item of choosing two out of four, he chose the four-point attribute value that made him covet.
Although he also wanted to choose the reward for improving his inner energy cultivation, he now has the physical characteristics of a green-level energy refiner, and his daily inner energy cultivation speed is already very fast.
Unless he encounters a big crisis in the near future and urgently needs to improve his cultivation and strengthen his strength, the priority of improving the internal energy cultivation reward item is now not as high as these four attribute values in his eyes.
In the previous five years of mediocre cultivation, when the annual rewards were not very good, he basically chose attribute values.
He knew very well that only by continuously adding up these qualifications and attributes, could he continue to touch higher levels of martial arts realm and climb up step by step.
Currently, his spiritual attribute has reached forty-six points.
The root attribute reached fifty-four points.
He once thought that these two values should be considered very high.
But it depends on who you compare it to.
If compared with ordinary martial artists, his talent value would make him a martial arts wizard, standing out from the crowd.
But after walking around Longmen Ridge, he found that his talent value was not too outstanding among the martial arts experts from outside the region, let alone those innate experts from the Ancient Yuan Kingdom.
If the bonus to his daily evaluation of his training status and the annual rewards were removed, his training performance would be much inferior. He estimated that he would not be as good as Nan Wuji and Su Yaoguang.
It may not even be as good as Nan Chenguang.
In general, not counting panel support, among the top martial arts experts in Dahan, he considers that he can only barely reach the mid-range in terms of pure training qualifications. level, not top-notch at all.
In this regard, he has a clear self-awareness.
After thinking for a while, Song Changming first added these four attribute values to his spiritual attribute, making it reach fifty points.
This will speed up his progress in practicing martial arts, and will also increase the concentration of his mental power.
Both were what he needed.
Especially when his third-grade Zhengyang Jue is so difficult to practice, he needs to improve his spiritual attributes.
Then comes the focus of this annual award.
He wants to upgrade a physical characteristic.
In addition to the dragon body, which is already a blue grade, the remaining five physical characteristics can be upgraded.
Among them, no matter which one he upgrades, the help and impact on him will not be small.
Unfortunately, this time he can only choose one of the five.
This time he thought about it for a long time before deciding to strengthen the characteristic "Strong and Powerful".
The reason why this characteristic is strengthened is because what he is most likely to reach the bottleneck limit first is his strength enhancement.
Therefore, if he wants to improve his qualification potential, he also hopes to improve the direction related to strength first and raise the upper limit of this bottleneck.
As for several other physical characteristics, just wait for the opportunity to upgrade later.
After confirming, within a moment, the original green grade Kong Wu's powerful characteristics on his panel turned into an upgraded version glowing with blue light.
The blue physical characteristic ‘shakes the earth and shakes the sky’!
Then, before he could take a closer look, he felt something strange coming from his body.
He wasn't surprised, this was just the beginning of the initial transformation.
Every time he obtains a new characteristic, especially the higher-level new characteristic, it will always bring about a more intuitive physical change for him immediately.
His heart was pounding like a war drum, and his blood was surging violently like ocean waves.
Waves of hot energy seemed to be generated out of thin air, washing over his body repeatedly, as if reshaping his entire body.
After a long time, he seemed to have been reborn and regained a new lease of life.
A thick layer of impurity sweat was discharged from the surface of the body. Song Changming had already prepared and jumped into the bath bucket to take a bath and rinse.
Open the panel and take a closer look at the new features after your upgrade.
Shake the Earth and Shake the Sky (Blue): A person born with supernatural power has extremely high strength growth characteristics. When developed to the limit, he can shake the heaven and the earth and shake the mountains and rivers!
"Are you born with divine power?" Song Changming secretly asked himself.
It has to be said that when it comes to the physical characteristics of the first blue level, the description becomes exaggerated.
The power to shake the earth and the sky!
It sounds extraordinary!
He reached out and clenched his fist in the water, and heard a bang. Half the bucket of water seemed to have been crushed by Song Changming's hand and splashed out.
"The power of nine elephants!"
Song Changming was very confident and judged how much terrifying power his body contained at the moment.
Before upgrading this characteristic, he was still some distance away from the power of the Nine Elephants. Now, not only has he reached the power of the Nine Elephants in one fell swoop, he has also overflowed!
This can be regarded as a modest gain before developing this new feature.
Of course, he will not be satisfied with this already very powerful power. After the new characteristics are further developed, his power level will increase infinitely!
The acquisition of this new characteristic made him feel that even if he really couldn't reach the innate realm, so what? !
In the future, when his punch smashes the mountains of those sects, he would like to see if the so-called innate strong men in those sects dare to say anything to him!
"It would be best if I could step into the innate world. If not, I will find my own path of cultivation!" Song Changming murmured to himself.
Diners second year. Emperor Gu's cavalry swept across all directions, and after one year, they successfully recovered all fifty-two states and counties.
Anyone who dared to disobey during the process would be put to death. Those who surrendered would still have a chance to survive if they surrendered their troops.
Since then, Dinah's world has been completely unified!
The common people who have suffered for more than 20 years have finally ushered in the peace they longed for.
Everyone is praising the new emperor and praising the establishment of the Dalai Dynasty!
There will be no more wars in the world, and people will no longer have to worry about being displaced or having their wives and children separated.
The age of peace and prosperity seems to be coming soon.
However.
In the fifth year of Dalai, foreign cults colluded with the remnants of the Great Han Dynasty to launch a revival war that could be recorded in history.
Emperor Gu personally went on a military expedition and joined forces with the major hidden sects in the world to fight against the evil cults and the remnants of the Great Han.
The remnant party of Dahan was quickly defeated, but the cult members outside the territory were very resilient, sometimes hiding, sometimes emerging, fighting endlessly against the entire Da Lai Dynasty, and they were endlessly troubled.
Fortunately, compared to the past eras of war and chaos when dynasties collapsed and heroes were divided, now it is only the raging evil cults from outside the territory that are causing more disruption to the martial arts world.
For ordinary people, the impact on the huge world of Dalai is not very big, at least not to the point of shaking the foundation of the dynasty. Only the people in some places are affected.
then.
Diners ten years.
Ten years have passed like a storm, and life has changed many times.
Time flies by in a blink of an eye.
The green mountains remain the same and the green water flows forever. What has changed the most is the various things in the human world.
Wangyue County.
As the border state and county closest to the outside world, it is also the most severely invaded by foreign cults.
A town fell, was recaptured, and fell again, and this could be repeated for a full ten years!
If Wangyue Pavilion, the hidden sect, had not been stationed here, this state and county would have been completely classified as a foreign territory.
In fact, even if Hope Moon Pavilion was there, he had never gained much advantage in the war with the cult.
Without Su Yaoguang, the deterrent and suppressive power of Wangyue Pavilion is far less powerful than it once was.
Fortunately, Gu Wenhui, who was far away in the Yunling capital, did not abandon Wangyue County. He sent a group of powerful generals and troops to garrison and join forces with Wangyue Pavilion to fight against the foreign cults.
Coupled with the help of other ambitious people from the Jianghu, the entire Wangyue County can be defended.
Wangyue County, Liuzhai.
In the tenth year of the Dalai Dynasty, the house is still the same, but it looks a little older.
The courtyard walls are cracked and falling off, the houses are primitive, and the passage of time has brought a heavy sense of age.
In the courtyard, the old trees planted were bare and had lost all their leaves.
A few crows landed on the branches in the courtyard, shaking their heads and pretending to comb their hair. Their small black eyes stared at the old tree from time to time, sizing up the old body.
They faintly smelled the smell of decay.
Song Changming suddenly raised his eyes to look at the black crows, his eyes showing a bit of displeasure.
I saw the flick of his fingers without trace, and a few invisible winds scared away the black crows in an instant.
Liu Dingsheng in front of him was completely unaware. He was frowning and staring at the chessboard in front of him, focused and serious.
A gust of wind blew by, and a few yellow leaves on the ground were lifted up and fell on their chessboard.
Liu Dingsheng pushed the fallen leaves to the ground, looked at them for a while, then suddenly put down the chess piece in his hand, sighed softly, and said helplessly: "Chang Ming, I can't beat you anymore."
"The kid won by luck." Song Changming shook his head.
Liu Dingsheng shook his head and laughed, saying nothing more.
He knew very well that there was no chance, as Song Changming's chess skills had already surpassed him by many.
Another gust of autumn wind blew through, bringing some coolness to the courtyard.
Liu Dingsheng took a sip of tea and looked at the wind and clouds in the sky above the courtyard wall with some confusion.
"Unknowingly, ten years have passed since the Dalai Dynasty. Is the world peaceful?"
"Compared with the war-torn times in the past, it is now peaceful. Only the evil cults outside the territory are still causing trouble." Song Changming replied truthfully.
Liu Dingsheng has long since stopped taking care of things, and many things in the outside world are no longer as well-informed as they used to be.
"Really?" Liu Dingsheng murmured.
"Time flies so fast, as if I was in Dahan yesterday, and today I am in Dalai. After all, I should be a citizen of Dahan, and today's Dalai has nothing to do with me."
Liu Dingsheng had spent his whole life in the Great Han Dynasty. The matter of the people of the Great Han had already been deeply imprinted in his mind and could no longer be changed.
He is a person from the old era, and all his memories are left in Dahan and that era.
Song Changming seemed to be aware of it, and looked at Liu Dingsheng in front of him, becoming more and more silent.
"It's getting colder. It's Changming. It's time for me to go and rest." After being speechless for a while, Liu Dingsheng suddenly stood up and said with a smile.
After that, he slowly walked into the back room with his hands behind his back.
Song Changming was alone, sitting quietly in the courtyard, looking at the finished chessboard.
Many emotions surged through my heart.
He thought he had looked away after so many years, but when this moment appeared again, he still felt lost.
After a while, he sighed and stood up to find Liu Ziwen.
"Let someone call Miss Yan'er." Song Changming said.
After Liu Ziwen heard this, he reacted instantly and strode to the back room.
They saw Liu Dingsheng lying quietly on the bed, eyes closed, and had left peacefully.
"Mr. Liu has already told me about my funeral, and I will make arrangements for it." Liu Ziwen said with a sad look on his face and red eyes.
"Um"
A few days later, in a bamboo forest on a hilltop outside the county city.
This is the burial place that Liu Dingsheng himself had chosen long ago, and now he is buried here as he wished.
Liu Dingsheng had made countless friends and confidants in his life, but in the end, only Song Changming, Liu Yaner, Liu Ziwen and other close people who got along day and night were the only ones who could come to see him off for the last time.
All the acquaintances he had met in the past had basically turned into bones and loess, and he was the last one to die.
Song Changming placed a chessboard in front of the grave, and Liu Ziwen took Liu Dingsheng's favorite wine and placed it beside it.
Liu Yaner hung a bouquet of flowers on the grave.
Nowadays, she has a mature charm, and her temperament is more and more similar to that of her master, Fairy Yuehan, with a coldness.
Her eyes were filled with tears, but she didn't let the tears fall. She just pursed her lips and held them back.
The character she had honed over the years did not allow her to cry delicately, and she only felt sad and sad in her heart.
The last relative in the world has passed away. From now on, she will walk alone in this world, pursuing martial arts wholeheartedly, and following her master to revitalize Wangyue Pavilion!
Such Liu Yan'er has grown up and there is no need for Song Changming to protect her all the time.
"Brother Liu, Brother Song, you go back first, I will guard this place." Liu Yan'er said to the others.
As Liu Dingsheng's only granddaughter, it was reasonable for her to be left to take care of the grave.
"It doesn't matter, I'll stay a little longer." Song Changming said.
Liu Ziwen didn't plan to leave either.
It wasn't until the grave guarding was over that everyone returned to Liu's house.
Liu Dingsheng's subordinates, channels, and assets have all been entrusted to Liu Ziwen long ago.
In other words, Liu Ziwen is their new boss.
As for Liu Yan'er, she was doing very well in Wangyue Pavilion and had her own martial arts path to follow. Naturally, she had no time to take care of the trivial affairs of Liu Dingsheng's subordinates.
Liu Dingsheng knew this, so he handed everything over to Liu Ziwen and let him take complete control.
Originally, Liu Dingsheng also considered entrusting it to Song Changming.
After all, in terms of strength, Song Changming can definitely protect his subordinates, including Liu Ziwen, who has a very strong backer.
In this way, he can give a fairly ideal explanation to his subordinates after he leaves.
But Song Changming didn't accept it. After all, Liu Ziwen was always there to take care of all the affairs under Liu Dingsheng.
It's somewhat unjustifiable for him to intervene at this time.
If Liu Ziwen really encounters a dangerous and desperate situation, he will not sit idly by and watch based on their relationship.
On the way back, Song Changming calmed down his thoughts and raised his eyes to look into the distance, which was the direction outside the territory.
To be more precise, it is the direction of the abyss!
Ten long years have passed, and it’s time for him to move on!
(End of this chapter)