If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 3: This Qin Dynasty has too much martial virtue
"Whoo, whoo, whoo"

Xiao Yu retracted the dagger, ignoring the sticky, black blood foam on the sand, looked up at the sky with tired eyes, spread out his limbs, lay straight, and gasped for breath.

She was very grateful in her heart. Although she still didn't understand the principle, the golden finger of "Da Mie Ba" was really powerful.

Since traveling to this world, "Da Mie Ba" has never let her down - she has never met a "godfather" who cannot be "worshipped and killed" by her.

Well, even though she is young, she has been worshipping godfathers since she was a child. As of this year, she has had 37 godfathers, which makes her a long-time "filial son".

Including the cavalry sergeant just now, there are thirty-eight, nearly forty godfathers, and now they are all dead.

Some had malicious intentions and were stabbed to death by her, like Ge Qing before; some died in accidents or were murdered - not by her.

The adoptive fathers who were not killed by her seemed to be not strong enough. Not long after she worshipped them, they died in accidents.

While feeling fortunate, Xiaoyu also had a strong sense of crisis: "Da Mie Ba" was very powerful, but her own strength had reached a bottleneck.

The so-called "bottleneck of own power" can be simply said that "Da Mie Ba" can find the vital point of "godfather", but her power is too weak to execute it.

For example, today’s battle with the “Great Gangqi Master” Ge Qing.

If he were stronger, and his Qi was more solid and complete, she would probably be defeated, and it would be useless to use breathing techniques to squeeze out her physical energy.

Even if "Da Mie Ba" helped her find the flaw in the "Gan Qi Shield", her own strength and speed were not enough for her to cut through the Gang Qi Shield before Ge Qing counterattacked.

This was the second time she encountered a bottleneck, and she came into contact with the "miracle power" of the ancient world.

The first time she encountered a bottleneck in her own strength was eight years ago, when she witnessed overwhelming physical strength.

Eight years ago, she first met her godfather, Sha Zong, a friend of her late father.

Shazong is the nineteenth warrior of the Shaman tribe. The Shaman tribe has few entertainment activities and often has wrestling competitions. Those who rank at the top are called "warriors."

How could he kill the barbarian warrior who could “tear tigers and leopards apart alive” if he was neither born with supernatural powers nor knew any martial arts?

Of course, it was Shazong who raised her and helped her survive in the wild hilly tribe of Liusha River, so she had no reason to be a "filial daughter".

However, no matter whether she was sincere or malicious, the "Great Dad-killer" would be activated instantly as long as she called him dad and he dared to answer, and would begin to deduce the "method of killing dad" that she could perform in reality.

To break through the first bottleneck of "physical strength", she still relied on "Da Mie Ba" and deduced an "extreme (chicken blood) breathing method" that madly squeezed her physical energy.

That is the “explosion” just now.

The force and speed of the explosion almost reached the limit of what her body could endure.

After the explosion, she was very weak, as she is now, and needed to rest for several days.

"The extreme breathing method is enough to deal with the sand warriors who don't know martial arts, but now the 'civilized people' who know martial arts have come. In the future, we will definitely encounter immortals, such as Wukong, Guanyin, and Tathagata."

Xiaoyu lay on the ground, his consciousness once again sinking into the "Purple Palace" in his mind.

To break through the first "physical bottleneck", she relied on Zifu.

She was hit by a mysterious purple light and came to the primitive world inexplicably.

After that, the purple light remained in the depths of her soul, forming a purple space.

Xiaoyu really didn't know what it was, so he called it "Purple Mansion".

Zifu is the real body of "Da Mie Ba", and it can deduce the "method of destroying Ba" by itself like a supercomputer.

It's very strange that it only applies to "godfathers" ("godmothers" have yet to be verified, and there are currently "small samples" and I haven't tried it).

For a while, Xiao Yu suspected that he was possessed by "Lü Bu's immortal spirit."

But after verification by more than thirty godfathers, she was convinced that "Zi Fu" did not have any self-will at all.

Even the operation of the Purple Palace continued to consume her brain power and energy.

It is obvious that Zifu's computing power is part of her brain power.

Xiaoyu suspected that the purple light transformed a part of her soul into the "Purple Palace" that could deduce the method to destroy her father.

After worshipping her adoptive father, she was weak for two months because she continued to consume her physical and mental energy to make the Purple Palace work, and to deduce a method to strengthen her body and complete the sneak attack to kill Sha Zong.

She didn't really want to kill the "long-term meal ticket" and the "novice bodyguard".

She just wanted to gain the power to kill the "Nineteenth Warrior of the Tribe".

Meal tickets and bodyguards are not as reliable as the power in your own hands!
So how do you increase your physical strength?
When Xiao Yu learned that he lived by the Quicksand River, he understood that immortal techniques or magical medicines and elixirs were the best ways to improve physical fitness.

However, the Xisha barbarians lived in a desert and did not even have the basic breathing method. Xiao Yu was so hardworking that he spent ten years exploring the potential of the tribe, and only then did he develop "poison skills" - the skill of preparing all kinds of poisons and hidden weapons to harm people.

The so-called "19th Warrior of the Tribe" and "1st Warrior" are basically born with supernatural powers and rely purely on talent and luck to make a living.

In desperation, Xiaoyu could only try to create his own "internal power": increasing strength through the rhythm of lung breathing.

If she relies on herself alone, she will never achieve anything in her life.

Fortunately, she has a golden finger!

Zifu is like a super Taoist computer, and it has been operating until the physical conditions for "killing godfather Shazong" are met.

Xiaoyu sends his "breathing experiment data" into Zifu, which will immediately give positive feedback.

Finally, after continuous testing and directional deduction of the purple space, she came up with a "Chicken Blood Breathing Method" that had a decent effect but also had quite serious side effects.

With the help of Zifu, Xiaoyu can adjust his breathing instantly and stimulate his body to burst out with strength and speed that is not beyond his physical limits.

"To break through the second bottleneck of my own strength, I must learn a martial art. I have been trying to figure it out on my own for nearly ten years, but apart from making the Chicken Blood Breathing Method more explosive, I have gained almost nothing.

Alas, I don’t know martial arts, but the enemy does!”

Xiao Yu's heart moved. He took a few breaths and struggled to get up. He endured the pain in his dislocated wrist and carefully searched the cavalry captain's body.

The time traveler's innate skill "Corpse Touching" is activated!

"Damn it! As a warrior, why didn't you carry the secret manual with you and study it all the time?! You are so careless and undiligence, no wonder you were beaten to death by a ten-year-old kid like me at such an old age, bah!"

Not counting weapons like sabers and ox-horn bows, Xiao Yu only touched a leopard-head bronze plate, a purse containing mandarin ducks playing in the water, and a few dimes of silver.

She didn’t open the treasure chest that she desired so much - the martial arts secrets.

She spat and put the thing she had taken out back intact.

Silver is useless.

Not to mention silver, she has collected seven or eight pieces of half-pound gold nuggets over the past ten years.

But the sand dunes are too barren and it is difficult to spend the money.

The purse containing the mandarin ducks playing in the water was kept close to the cavalry captain's skin.

She had originally held out great hope, but after opening it, she only saw two tufts of hair tangled together.

There were seal characters engraved on both sides of the leopard-head bronze plate. With just one glance, Xiaoyu could recognize the big character "Shu" on the front.

Although it is seal script, it is almost the same as the modern "Shu".

The small words on the back seemed to be the other person's name. She could make out the word "Qing", but she was not sure about the other one.

"This thing should be an 'identity card'. Several armored cavalrymen also wore badges around their waists. But they were all made of hardwood. This leopard-head bronze badge probably also functions as a 'military token'."

Xiao Yuzui knew in his heart that "dog tags" were not exclusive to American soldiers.

The ancestors of the Chinese people invented "waist badges" and "talisman badges" thousands of years ago, and many ordinary soldiers had them.

"Alas, the Chinese nation in this world is too full of martial virtue. This is the Liusha River, not the Yellow River or the Yangtze River. How come they have come here?!"

Xiaoyu looked at the rolling hills to the northwest.

Even from more than thirty miles away, one could still see the red and black smoke produced by the burning. It was as if the god of death stretched out his claws from the sky and inserted them into the ground, and the shadow of death enveloped the dune land.

That was her hometown in this life, and now it was ravaged by the cavalry of Shu Kingdom.

She was a time traveler and her entire clan was exterminated.

"Why make such a big fuss just for a Xisha tribe that is about to collapse? At least give us a chance to surrender!"

Xiao Yu felt uncomfortable when he saw the place where he had lived for ten years being trampled and burned by the Shu cavalry.

A year ago, the Lu State further west led the surrounding vassal states and barbarian tribes to form the "Alliance of Thirty-Six Princes" and together attacked the Great Shu State south of the Shaqiu.

The "Xisha Barbarians" to which she belonged also received an invitation from the Dalu Kingdom to become one of the thirty-six princes.

She had very little information outside of the tribes she had come into contact with in her life. She only knew that the State of Lu and the Great Shu seemed to be paying tribute to the Great Chinese Empire, the Qin Dynasty.

Well, now the Central Plains is ruled by the Qin Dynasty.

The states of Lu and Shu were completely different from what she remembered and had moved to the west of the Liusha River.

Moreover, the relationship between the Great Qin Empire and its vassal states in the west was very complicated. At least there must be some hidden secrets, otherwise there wouldn't have been thirty-six countries besieging the Great Qin's loyalist country - Western Shu.

Among the thirty-six allied countries, she only knew about the Xishaman land where she was.

Xishaman, as its name suggests, is a barbarian tribe located on the hills on the west bank, close to the Liusha River. Speaking of the barbarians, she felt aggrieved and wanted to defend herself: they look no different from the "Han people", with black hair, black eyes, and yellow skin, with only three-dimensional facial features and milky white skin at most. The difference is not as obvious as that between Reba, Nazha and the Han women in the previous life, so why do they keep calling them "barbarian women" and "Shaman"?
In order to participate in the "Alliance of Princes" led by the State of Lu, the Xisha Man temporarily upgraded their tribe to the "Sand Dune Kingdom".

The tribal leader, "Shatou", Xiaoyu's 37th adoptive father, jumped from the "headman" of the tribe to the "King of Dune" who was equal to the kings of the western countries. At least in terms of appearance, their status were equal. King Lu and King Dune had drunk the blood covenant wine!
Seriously speaking, Xiaoyu is now considered a "Western Princess", although the entire Dune Kingdom has a population of less than 30,000.

When the Thirty-Six-Nation Alliance was formed, she did not oppose it, although it would have been useless.

She had read Journey to the West, recognized the Quicksand River, and knew that the Chinese Empire was in the far east. The Quicksand River was the hometown of Monk Sha. Even with the company of Wukong, it would take Monk Tang several years to reach the east bank of the Quicksand River.

To cross the Quicksand River, Guanyin needs help to transform the "Skeleton Boat".

So Xiaoyu naturally believed that the chaos in the countries west of the Liusha River had nothing to do with the Eastern Celestial Empire.

The distance is too far.

After crossing the "Liangjie Mountain", it is no longer the territory of the Celestial Empire, and even crosses the Southern Continent.

The countries in Hezhou, Xiniu are in chaos, what is the matter with the great Chinese country in Jambuzhou, Nan?
Even the Buddha Tathagata cannot take care of such a wide range of matters.

When the thirty-six nations formed an alliance, Xiaoyu never considered the reaction of "real hometown, Great China" at all.

As a result, the thirty-six countries had just formed an alliance in late summer last year, but as soon as spring came this year, the Qin cavalry crossed tens of thousands of miles, beyond her understanding and cognition, and actually crossed the 800-mile Quicksand River!
The subsequent plot is simple and brutal.

Like plowing a yard and sweeping a hole, like autumn wind sweeping fallen leaves, the Marquis of Lieyang of the Great Qin defeated the alliance of thirty-six princes and put them into disarray.

Half a month ago, news came from the south (from the Shaman warriors who escaped from the south) that the "Xi Lu Kingdom", with a territory of tens of thousands of miles, 50 million people, a million armored soldiers, thousands of brave generals, and immortals to protect the country, was destroyed by the Lieyang Marquis of the Qin Dynasty two months ago.

Marquis Lieyang burned down the palace of the King of Lu, as well as 18,000 royal family members and related personnel in the palace, and buried 500,000 soldiers of the State of Lu outside the city.

The killing was so severe that the capital of Lu, Jinyang, flowed like a river of blood. Every household was in mourning and the whole city was filled with weeping.

As for Xiaoyu's thirty-seventh godfather, "Sand Dune King".
It is said that after the first wave of charge by the Qin cavalry ended, the old adoptive father and five thousand Shaman warriors disappeared without a trace, completely vanishing on the battlefield outside "Tianmen Town", as if they had never appeared.

Not running away.

If the King of Dune had the ability to escape with 5,000 Sand Barbarians, he would be the number one legend and the number one god of war among the Western vassal states, and the Sand Barbarians' hometown would not have suffered the disaster it has today.

Xiaoyu was afraid of death, and Shaman had no custom of recruiting female warriors. She planned to wait until the Rebellion of the Thirty-Six Kingdoms was over, bid farewell to her "father", and rely on the relationship of the Thirty-Six Kingdoms Alliance to go to Xilu or Nanshu to "study abroad" with the nugget of gold.

Now even "Princess Yu" has been chased to the Quicksand River by the cavalry squad. The tragic scene in the tribe's lair can be imagined.

In order to join the great alliance of princes, the "King of Dune" drained the essence of the entire tribe, five thousand sand barbarian warriors!

It certainly cannot be compared with the 800,000 troops of the Great Lu Kingdom and the millions of lions of the Thirty-Six Kingdoms, but the entire newly born "Shaqiu Kingdom" has less than 30,000 people.
As a result, on the battlefield where the Qin cavalry was charging, the "foundation of the Dune Kingdom" was like a puddle of urine on the sea tide, without even a ripple.

The two "envoys" stationed in the State of Xilu were lucky enough to survive and rushed back to their hometown with great difficulty to report the death half a month ago.

This morning, as the sun just came out, Xiaoyu was standing at the door of his own earthen kiln, brushing his teeth with a homemade small brush, when a large group of armored cavalry rushed into the "capital" of the Xisha barbarians.

She threw away her toothbrush and ran away, but was still caught up by a cavalry squad.

"Only women, children, and the sick are left in the tribe. They are completely unable to resist. Sand Dune is completely destroyed."

Xiaoyu sighed, turned around and stopped thinking about the tribe. He quickened his pace and ran quickly towards the Quicksand River in the east.

The ten-man cavalry team she killed was definitely not the entire Shu Cavalry Corps.

It is even less likely that Cavalry Sergeant Ge Qing is the strongest among them.

Xiaoyu has been stained with the blood of her fellow Shu cavalrymen. If she is caught by them and swallows the poison needle hidden between her teeth, that would be her best outcome.

So she must get away from the Sand Barbarians' territory immediately.

"Please bless me, Monk Sha, and don't let me encounter a water monster. Monk Sha himself is a man-eating monster. I hope he hasn't moved into the 'Liusha River View Villa' yet."

Xiaoyu didn't take off her clothes and walked directly into the Quicksand River.

"Three Pure Ones, Jade Emperor, Buddha, I have built a shrine for you and brought livestock to you every year. Please protect me from encountering monsters and not being discovered by the Shu cavalry. Even if you want me to die, please protect my true spirit and let me be reborn in the great country of China in the next life."

Having said this, she suddenly stopped and looked thoughtful.

Finally, she bent down and took out the leopard skin bag and trap around her waist, the dagger at the bend of her leg, the miniature flying syringe hidden between her toes, and more than twenty other life-threatening items.

The leopard skin bag is very waterproof. In the past, Xiaoyu took it swimming without getting wet. The "three thousand life-threatening" things inside: poison lime, soul-stirring powder, bone-rotting water, eye-piercing poison spikes, invisible throat-cutting rope, and monkey wine that could kill you in a moment.
“Plop, plop.”

Xiaoyu felt reluctant and there was an obvious look of pain on his face, but his hands moved cleanly and neatly, throwing all the old friends who had accompanied him in "roaming the sand dunes" for many years into the depths of the distant quicksand river.

She killed a squad of Shu cavalry.

She is the murderer, and every little bit in her hand is a murder weapon.

The murderer and the murder weapon together are called "conclusive evidence", and the Shu cavalry will definitely eat her alive.

Now throw away all the weapons. Even if the Buddha and the Three Pure Ones do not bless her, if the one in ten thousand misfortune happens - she is caught by the cavalry, she is just an unarmed and weak girl. There is a certain probability that she can survive by pretending to be pitiful and innocent.

She kept praying to gods and Buddhas, but in her heart she believed more in herself.

Throwing away the murder weapon, Xiao Yu no longer hesitated. She used both hands to paddle the weak water in front of her, and walked deeper and deeper step by step until the river water completely flooded over her head.

This was her plan to avoid subsequent pursuit.

The Liusha River is undoubtedly a rare Jedi on earth, and the Ruoshui River is so dry that even goose feathers cannot float and reed catkins will sink to the bottom.

But in the final analysis, the biggest threat of weak water is that its density is zero, and anyone who falls into the water will sink.

The Quicksand River is not a bottomless abyss that sinks infinitely.

Like other large rivers, the Liusha River gradually deepens from the shore to the center of the river.

The shallow water on the shore, even if it is weak, will not drown people.

Xiaoyu is not going to cross the river now.

She used the Weak Water to conceal her figure and cleanse all traces, in order to avoid being hunted down by a powerful figure with unknown extraordinary powers among the Shu cavalry.

As long as she was careful and didn't slip into the middle of the river; as long as her luck wasn't too bad and the fairies in the river smelled the "fragrance of living human flesh" in the water, she would be safe.

At least for her, who grew up by the Liusha River and has studied Ruoshui for more than ten years, her life will not be in danger.

Ordinary people cannot withstand soaking in the Weak Water. Even the armored knights of Shu Kingdom dare not easily come into contact with the Weak Water. It doesn't matter to her to soak in it for a day and a night.

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