Gu Long's World: Starting with the Legend of Chu Liuxiang

Hu Tiehua was unmarried, but Chu Liuxiang was eager to find a wife.

Just as Jiang Fengyue wiped out a notorious band of mountain bandits, Chu Liuxiang came to find him.

Not far from the mountain is a small town, and in that town is a restaurant called Jin'anlou.

Chu Liuxiang and Jiang Fengyue sat upstairs by the window.

Chu Liuxiang didn't speak, he just kept drinking, his face showing a weariness and expression he had never seen before.

Jiang Fengyue neither drank nor tried to persuade Chu Liuxiang to stop. He sighed and asked, "What happened after we parted ways that time?"

When he drank the seventh cup of wine, Chu Liuxiang murmured, "I was invited to the Jin family of Wanshou, where I met a girl named Zhang Jiejie."

Jiang Fengyue laughed and said, "It's not surprising that someone like you could meet a hundred girls in a place like that."

Chu Liuxiang was already tipsy. People who are down on their luck always get drunk faster when they drink, simply because they want to get drunk.

He murmured, "She's different. She's unlike any other woman I've ever known."

Jiang Fengyue couldn't help but laugh out loud. Even a playboy like Chu Liuxiang could suffer heartbreak one day.

Jiang Fengyue smiled slightly and said, "I know she understands you. Of all the girls you know, she understands you the most, which is why you're infatuated with her, isn't it?"

Chu Liuxiang nodded and downed another cup of wine.

Jiang Fengyue sighed, "She abandoned you?"

Chu Liuxiang shouted, "She would never abandon me, never!"

He added sadly, "But I can't find her. No matter how hard I look, I can't find her."

Jiang Fengyue said, "So you've been waiting for her all this time."

Chu Liuxiang murmured, "She will definitely come back."

He added, "You never know when she will leave, and you never know when she will come back."

But Chu Liuxiang believed she would definitely come back.

But she never appeared again.

Jiang Fengyue looked at Chu Liuxiang and said slowly, "You've come here to say goodbye. You're going to a dangerous place where even someone like you isn't sure you'll come back alive."

Chu Liuxiang exclaimed, "As expected, nothing can be hidden from you..."

Jiang Fengyue said, "Tell me, where are you going?"

Jiang Fengyue drank the first cup of wine, not because he wanted to get drunk, but because he was thirsty. Besides, someone like him could never get drunk; wine was nothing more than water to him.

Chu Liuxiang recalled and slowly said, "There is a very mysterious family in this world. Some say they come from the ends of the earth, some say they come from the corners of the sea, some say they come from the desolate ice fields, but no one in the world knows where they came from."

Jiang Fengyue asked, "Is it really that mysterious?"

Jiang Fengyue knew this place, of course, and often thought to herself that this kind of mysterious martial arts reclusive family didn't seem to want to practice martial arts, but rather wanted to cultivate immortality.

He naturally didn't believe in immortals; he only thought it was a cult composed of mentally unstable people.

Chu Liuxiang said, "Some people say this family's surname is Ma, while others say they don't. No one in the world really knows what their surname is."

Jiang Fengyue asked, "Is this family related to your departed lover?"

Chu Liuxiang said, "Someone found me and told me that if I wanted to find her, I could only go to this family."

Jiang Fengyue asked, "So you know where this family is? And you're preparing to set off to find them?"

Chu Liuxiang nodded and said, "Legend has it that they live in a mountain, in a mysterious cave. Some people have gone to look for them, but no one has ever returned, so no one knows if anyone has ever actually seen them."

Jiang Fengyue sighed, "So, for your lover, you'd even go to a place like this?"

Chu Liuxiang said, "I'll go anywhere as long as I can find her."

Jiang Fengyue said, "Didn't you ever think this might be a trap? They put on this whole show just to lure you there."

Chu Liuxiang murmured, "Even if it's a trap, I must find her and get to the bottom of this."

Jiang Fengyue smiled and said, "Alright, if that's the case, let's go now."

He stood up, went to the window, and prepared to leap out.

Chu Liuxiang looked up at him, surprised, and asked, "You're coming with me?"

Jiang Fengyue nodded.

Chu Liuxiang said sadly, "But the dangers of that place are something neither of us could have foreseen."

Jiang Fengyue said, "I dare to go to any place, no matter how dangerous it is. Besides, this place sounds so mysterious to you. I have to go and satisfy my curiosity."

Jiang Fengyue wasn't thinking about helping Chu Liuxiang find Zhang Jiejie. He knew that someone like Chu Liuxiang could never forget a woman, and time would heal all wounds.

He was simply curious about just how skilled the people in that family were in martial arts.

Chu Liuxiang's tightly furrowed brows relaxed, and he laughed loudly, "Good!"

It's unclear when exactly, but Jiang Fengyue had become a very reliable person in Chu Liuxiang's heart. No matter what the problem was, as long as Jiang Fengyue was there, it could be easily solved.

The midday sun shines brightly outside the window, and everything in the world seems full of hope.

Jiang Fengyue left some silver on the table and darted out the window, as swift as a bird.

Chu Liuxiang also jumped down after him.

Do people with superb lightness skills never use the main entrance?

The mountain peak is nestled among white clouds, and the surrounding mountains seem to bow down in submission to it.

The mountain is shrouded in mist and illusion.

It seemed that only the clear flowing water was real, because Jiang Fengyue and Chu Liuxiang were right by the stream.

They walked along the stream until they reached its end.

A gushing spring cascades down from the mountaintop, splashing up a shower of pearls and jade.

Legend has it that at the end of this stream lies a secluded paradise where the most mysterious family in the martial arts world lives. No one knows their whereabouts or their origins.

Jiang Fengyue frowned and asked, "Is this the place we're looking for?"

Chu Liuxiang nodded and said, "I'm afraid they're hiding behind this flying spring."

Jiang Fengyue said, "They live in the Water Curtain Cave, could they be monkeys?"

They crossed the waterfall, but saw nothing.

Chu Liuxiang sat down on the moss-covered bluestone.

Jiang Fengyue stood and looked at him.

His face had lost its former radiance, leaving only paleness and exhaustion.

Jiang Fengyue sighed inwardly, amazed that the magic of love could turn Chu Liuxiang into this.

Chu Liuxiang murmured, "Perhaps that person was lying to me; there is no such place in the world."

Jiang Fengyue sighed deeply and said, "Those kinds of places do exist."

Chu Liuxiang looked up at the white clouds atop the mountain and asked, "So where exactly is it?"

Jiang Fengyue gazed in the direction of the flowing water, his white-robed divine ears activated, and he heard faint footsteps.

Jiang Fengyue said in a deep voice, "As long as we are willing to wait, it will definitely appear."

Suddenly, a figure appeared beside the stream, with black hair tied in a high bun and dressed in green.

When Chu Liuxiang saw that person, he almost stopped breathing.