It all started 40 years ago.

More than 40 years ago, the Huo family in Lingxi was famous in the fairy world.The head of the Huo family is upright and upright, he eliminates evil, punishes evil and promotes good, sits in Lingxi, and no monsters dare to disturb him.

Mrs. Huo's belly was even more upbeat. She became pregnant not long after she entered the school. After October, she gave birth to a pair of twins.Everyone in the fairy world congratulated, and the Huo family was also overjoyed. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. The head of the Huo family once killed a big demon in a demon-killing battle. Everyone thought that the big demon was eliminated. Escaped from the dead, and became a demon lord after practicing. He secretly planned and carefully prepared, just waiting for the shame of the past to be washed away and revenge.

The Huo family has always kept a low profile. The twins' full moon wine has never been held on a big scale. They did not invite immortals and monks. Instead, they invited people from Lingxi to have a feast of flowing water.Just at the full moon wine, the big demon suddenly appeared, attacking the Huo family and the guests present.The demon lord was determined to take revenge, and he frantically rushed to kill them all. Everyone was attacked without any preparation, and naturally suffered heavy casualties.Especially the Huo family, almost all of them were wiped out. The head of the Huo family fought to the death and entrusted a pair of infant babies to his confidants before dying, so as to save the last trace of blood.

The destruction of the Huo family shocked the entire fairy world.The head of the Huo family was generous and generous during his lifetime, and made many friends in the fairy world. Hearing about this incident, they rushed to Lingxi to deal with the funeral and find out the whereabouts of the twins. revenge.

The big demon was finally captured and died under the crouching demon seal, his soul was scattered and he could not be reborn.However, when everyone searched for the pair of twins along the few remaining clues, they only found one of them in the mass grave.

Another baby, gone.

Everyone thought that only one of the twins survived.Huo Wuji's master, Master Yuandao, took pity on him when his parents died when he was young, and his family was disbanded, so he adopted Huo Wuji.Master Yuandao is both a teacher and a father. He brought up Huo Wuji and found that the child was very talented and a natural swordsman, so he gave him the Wuji Sword given by his master.

Twenty years later, the master passed away and passed away as a fairy.Huo Wuji supported the sect with his own strength, and took the initiative to recruit many disciples in order to avoid being rejected.

Seeing that the sect is becoming more and more prosperous, and the wish of the master before his death is gradually realized, Huo Wuji has done a lot of good deeds. In addition to accepting disciples of his own sect, he also ordered people to take in some homeless civilians with innocent backgrounds, and allowed them to Enter the sect to do handyman.

One day, when he was sitting high in the palace for a banquet, and chatting and laughing happily with everyone, an unremarkable civilian servant passed by the door, raised his eyes, and his face immediately froze.

Huo Ming was stunned, his mind was blank, he turned around and wanted to escape, but Huo Wuji noticed something was wrong.Huo Wuji strode out from the hall, Huo Ming became cruel, tripped with his left foot and tripped his right foot, and fell flat on the ground.It had just rained all night the night before, and he was carrying a broom to sweep fallen leaves outside the hall. Attracted by the voices of people, he was curious, so he secretly moved to the main hall, where handymen are not allowed to set foot on weekdays, in order to peek at the legendary A Taoist immortal master, the infinite sword master... But he never expected that he saw a face exactly like himself!

Without thinking or hesitating, Huo Ming subconsciously threw himself into the flower bed soaked by the rainstorm, rolled his head, his face was covered with mud.

Naturally, Huo Wuji would not help him wipe off the mud on his face with his own hands, but just pulled Huo Ming up and asked someone to take him to clean it, and then forgot about it.

I never thought that a trivial matter became a fork in the road of fate.The two lines that started at the same starting point and drifted away later crossed again and reversed...

From that day on, Huo Ming followed Huo Wuji.He used secret methods to disguise himself, tried his best to attract attention, and his talent was also excellent. He was quickly promoted by a sword cultivator in charge, and advanced from a handyman to an outer disciple.

Through competitions and well-planned performances, Huo Ming rose to the top step by step, and successfully attracted Huo Wuji's attention, standing in front of him.

Although he missed the best age of cultivation and his foundation is not solid, he is diligent and motivated, with excellent talent, but also endures hardships.Huo Wuji appreciates it very much, even though he didn't promote Huo Ming as a direct disciple, he still regards him as his confidant, and he didn't avoid him when he taught sword practice, and let him learn a lot.

It has to be said that Huo Ming was also the son of the Patriarch of the Huo family and Huo Wuji's compatriot brother at any rate. In terms of talent, he was not much worse than Huo Wuji.But the more he stayed by Huo Wuji's side, the more unwilling he became, jealous to the point of distortion.

Why? !

Why are they both born from the same mother's womb, but their fates are completely opposite?

Why did one live in the sky since childhood, while the other got stuck in the mud? !

Although there is no parental upbringing and teaching, Huo Wuji's master treats him very well, and Huo Wuji has never felt the lack of family affection.The first half of his life was almost smooth and carefree - he had a powerful master, and he could learn sword immediately if he wanted to.He grew up in Xianmen, and he was trained as a successor since he was a child, and he was led step by step by his predecessors.What he hears and sees are all righteous chivalrous and elegant postures, he stands upright... like a tree nourished by sunshine and rain, it is tall and tough, and has never grown an inch.

But what about Huo Ming?

After being lost by his subordinates in the chaos, he was picked up by a mortal.That man was probably a depressed lunatic who stole some small money and used it to buy wine.He was drunk and mad for most of the day, beat and scolded Huo Ming frequently, refused to give him food, ordered him to rob and steal, and came back to "make a confession".

Before the age of ten, Huo Ming was simply a human sandbag for his "adoptive father". He was beaten when he was upset, and kicked when he was fine.

It is not easy to survive, let alone practice swords.

Later, he couldn't take it anymore, took advantage of the lunatic's hangover, picked up a machete, and chopped off his head.They lived in no fixed place and often slept on the streets. At that time, they just ran to a place of chaos where demons were infested. If the madman died, the government would not be alarmed, and no one even found a headless corpse on the corner of the street.

Huo Ming was walking aimlessly on the street with bloody hands.There were fleeing people coming and going, and frightened or numb faces flashed in front of his eyes—these people were so weak, even worse than ants, and the demons could crush one to death with a single finger.

He didn't want to die.

Not only does he not want to die, but he also wants to live a better life, even if he climbs up by stepping on other people's bones - he makes deals with the demons in private, which are full of shady business.He bullied others with his pretentious pretentiousness, and learned a lot of heresy, true and false.He has seen too many nasty people and nasty things, and he has learned to pretend. He is cowardly and harmless on the surface, but ruthless on the inside.He did all sorts of bad things, unscrupulous, and almost fell into the devil's way.

However, he has never been in contact with the Xianmen family, and he has always yearned for it in his heart.Occasionally, he also wants to escape from the land of chaos and wash away the dust and mud all over his body.It happened that a family of immortals took him in, so he sneaked in to work as a handyman, only to find that the head of the immortal sect was actually his elder brother.

It was just shock at first, trying to figure out what happened that year.But the closer they got, the more swollen and fermented the resentment.It was also a trivial matter that made Huo Ming so determined to change positions - when he finally had the opportunity to come into contact with the orthodox immortal way, he found that he could not put down the long sword in his hand, almost obsessed.He learned the moves of Wuji swordsmanship faster than anyone else, and he learned them better than anyone else...but he was still not as good as Huo Wuji.

It seems that there is an insurmountable moat and a chasm that cannot be crossed. The higher one goes to practice, the harder it is for Huo Ming.And Huo Wuji can always explain his predicament in one word, and bluntly explain the reason for his bottleneck.At the same time, his Wuji swordsmanship continued to improve, and he was more than capable.

Xu Feng thought to himself, after all, his foundation was poor, and he was late in learning swordsmanship.No matter how obsessed Huo Ming is with swordsmanship, he can't find a pure and transparent heart. Dao heart alone is far behind.He tried his best to practice the sword, but he was still stuck on a certain floor. Seeing this fellow brother proving the Tao with a sword, becoming more and more important in the fairy world, marrying the woman he loves, and having a son of his own, Huo Ming was more and more stimulated Deep, finally unable to hold back.

He planned for a long time, using his position as a confidant, to imitate Huo Wuji's every word, deed, and every action, almost turning himself into Huo Wuji's shadow.At that time, it was the beginning of the chaos in the underworld. Huo Wuji made three confidantes during the battle against demons, and they separated soon due to the situation.The demons are coming in menacingly, and the immortal sect is in danger. Huo Wuji is tired of dealing with the demons, and there are always times when he is injured or neglects.Finally, Huo Ming saw the right time, took advantage of Huo Wuji's serious injury, pretended to take care of him, and made Huo Wuji dazzled with his true face when he was suspicious, and set him into a trap, imprisoned him, and locked him in the death cell for many years...

The Wuji sword fell into Huo Ming's hands, and he replaced Huo Wuji as the sword master. He continued to communicate with He Wuji and others, and completed what the real Huo Wuji hadn't done in time—established the Wuji Sword Sect in Taiyang Mountain .Although Mu Wuqing and others hit it off right away with Huo Wuji and became confidantes, they are actually not familiar with Huo Wuji.Huo Ming succeeded in deceiving others, but he couldn't deceive Huo Wuji's first wife. He wanted to kill Mrs. Huo and the infant Huo Ling, but they disappeared out of thin air.

[That's it,] Xu Feng said to Mu Lin in his heart, [The Promise Sword Master forcibly sent his wife and children away through the teleportation array at the last moment, and sent them to a fairy mountain isolated from the world.Afterwards, Huo Ming moved the sect to Taiyang Mountain, and the chaos in the underworld intensified. When everything subsided, Mrs. Huo was sick and brought her children, and she was unable to look for Huo Wuji anymore. 】

【The truth has been buried for so many years. No one knows what happened. Even Mrs. Huo once thought that the Wuji sword master had died long ago. 】Xu Feng said in a deep voice,【She thought that Huo Ling was still young, and she never revealed a single word in front of Huo Ling. It was not until Huo Ling was 15 years old that he could be alone. Before he died, he gave the relic to Huo Ling and allowed him to go out to explore the truth. 】

【Huo Wuji taught Huo Ming the Wuji sword technique, but he didn't teach him the Wuji mind technique.For so many years, Huo Ming often retreated, either tortured Huo Wuji in the water prison, forcing him to hand over his mind, or he was practicing desperately, trying to break through the bottleneck. 】Xu Feng paused, and said, 【15 years later, Huo Ling visited Taiyang Mountain by chance. At the sword test meeting, Huo Ming saw Huo Ling and began to doubt his identity. The disciples of the inner sect were actually imprisoned by their side, using Huo Ling as a lure over and over again to coerce the Wuji sword master to hand over his mind.Recently, Huo Ming's patience has run out, I'm afraid he's going to kill Huo Ling...]

[This... This is really...] Mu Lin was startled and angry, the veins on his forehead popped up, and his face turned blue with anger.His throat seemed to be choked with an iron lump, he didn't know what to say, he could only hold Xu Feng's hand tightly, and stared at Huo Ling's back with painful and complicated eyes.

The phosphorescent light was dim, and Huo Ling knelt in front of the iron fence, like a weathered stone statue.Xu Feng and Mu Lin heard a few hoarse coughs, accompanied by the sound of water dripping, and the iron chain made a crisp sound as it struggled.

Like an explosion that was extremely suppressed, Huo Ling knelt on the cold ground, with blood in his throat, and it took him a long time to choke in a hoarse voice:

"father……"

As if stabbed by the sound of "Dad", Mu Lin was stunned, and he raised his foot to go down the stone steps to help, but Xu Feng grabbed his arm.

【A Lin, wait. 】Xu Feng shook his head slightly, staring at Mu Lin's red eyes, 【Don't bother, let them stay for a while...】

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