Martial Arts World Assassin

Chapter 200 The Old Man in the Mountain
Huang Rong knew that Persia was an ancient country in the Western Regions.

The Guangmingding where she followed Huang Sixi this time was actually located on the edge of the Western Regions. It would not be surprising if folk songs from the Western Regions were sung here.

Along the way, she was sightseeing and had a strong interest in the local customs and cultures of the places she passed by.

When she heard the tune "Come like flowing water, go like wind! I don't know where it comes from, where it ends!" around her ears, she felt very sad, and she wanted to explore, so she followed the song to find the past.

After a while, she came back.

She came to the woods and told Huang Sixi what she had seen and heard: "Fourth brother, there is a girl in mourning clothes halfway up the mountain, crying at the grave! She is crying so sadly, I guess either her parents or her husband have died!"

She thought to herself, no wonder the song sounded so sad, it turned out that a relative had passed away.

Huang Sixi asked curiously, "Is she the only one crying?"

"There is also a child with her!" Due to the distance, Huang Rong could not see the specific appearance of the girl and the child, but she was sure that there were two living people in front of the grave:

"The child was very young, only about seven or eight years old, and still didn't know much. He didn't cry, but just knelt in front of the grave and trembled!"

"Shivering?" Huang Sixi looked around. The surroundings were covered with ice and snow. He asked:
"Is it because the weather is too cold and the child is frozen?"

"I think the child was shaking from fear!" Huang Rong made her own judgment:
"There is a cemetery on the hillside. There are graves as far as the eye can see. It is estimated that there are hundreds of them. The child must be afraid of staying in the graves!"

"There are actually hundreds of graves?" Huang Sixi suddenly waved his hand at Huang Rong:
"Let's go down the mountain and take a look!"

He motioned Huang Rong to lead the way and go over to meet the girl and the child.

Just before landing on Guangmingding, Huang Sixi had the Divine Eagle circle in the sky for several circles to explore the terrain on Guangmingding, but he did not find any human figures.

There were quite a lot of buildings on Guangmingding, more than enough to accommodate a thousand people, but the Divine Eagle circled over all the buildings, and Huang Sixi didn't see a living person, which made him feel strange.

If some bloody incident had broken out on Guangmingding recently, resulting in the deaths of a large number of people from the underworld who had been living in seclusion there, it would not be difficult to understand why Huang Sixi could not see any human figures.

"Fourth brother, come this way!"

Huang Rong readily agreed to lead the way, and asked, "Fourth brother, can you tell me the truth, are you related to my family?"

In the past half month, Huang Rong and Huang Sixi have been traveling together on the Divine Condor. The two of them have been together day and night and have talked about a lot of personal matters.

However, Huang Sixi's family background was never revealed to Huang Rong.

When Huang Rong learned that Huang Sixi also had the surname Huang and was a relative of hers, she began to imagine things and concluded that Huang Sixi was her relative.

In fact, Huang Sixi had denied it many times, but Huang Rong just didn't believe it.

Huang Sixi was really fed up with it.

When Huang Rong asked him again, he smiled and said, "You guessed right. I am your distant cousin. According to seniority, I am your father's cousin. You should call me uncle!"

"Uncle?" Huang Rong pursed her lips and said, "I have called you brother for so many days, but today you let me call you uncle. Do you think I am easy to fool? Actually, I am your distant cousin, right?"

"Call me whatever you want!" Huang Sixi did not argue with her: "I accept if you call me brother, I like if you call me uncle, and I have no objection even if you call me grandpa!"

"Bah!" Huang Rong raised her fist and hit Huang Sixi. "How old are you? If I call you grandpa, then my father has to call you uncle! Your joke is a bit too much. If you make such an inappropriate joke again in the future, I will not call you brother anymore. I will call you younger brother! Haha, fourth brother, fourth nephew!"

She also wanted to hit Huang Sixi a few more times to teach him a lesson.

By this time, they had reached the cemetery and came near the girl who was crying at the grave.

The girl heard the footsteps and seemed to be frightened. She quickly stopped crying and wiped her tears with her hand. She held the child beside her in her arms, stood up, and stepped back a few steps. At the same time, she shouted at Huang Sixi and Huang Rong, "Who are you? Why did you trespass into Guangmingding?"

At this moment, Huang Rong looked at the girl's appearance from a close distance and couldn't help but secretly marvel: "This person is so beautiful!"

The girl's hair and eyes were black, but she had a high nose, deep eyes, and skin as white as snow. She was very young, only about sixteen or seventeen years old, but she was extremely tall, almost a head taller than Huang Rong, with exquisite curves and a well-proportioned body. She exuded a thrilling temptation all over her body. Even though Huang Rong thought she was as beautiful as anyone, she was stunned by the beauty of the girl in front of her.

Huang Rong leaned against Huang Sixi's side and whispered, "Fourth brother, this girl looks like a hybrid of people from the Western Regions and people from the Central Plains. You just mentioned that the folk songs this girl sings originated from Persia, so she must be a hybrid of Persia and people from the Central Plains, right?"

Huang Sixi did not deny: "It should be!"

He looked at the mixed-race girl and asked, "What position do you hold in the Ming Cult?"

When the girl heard him talking about the Ming Cult, she answered briefly: "I don't have a position, my father is the leader of the Ming Cult!"

Huang Sixi glanced sideways and found that the tombstone next to the girl was engraved with the words "Tomb of the Ming Cult's Shi Jiaozhu".

He was very surprised: "Is the current leader of the Ming Cult dead?"

The girl looked gloomy and extremely sad: "He was killed and his body was sent to Guangmingding!"

Huang Rong saw that the girl was in tears and looked pitiful, so she comforted her: "Who killed your father? My fourth brother loves to fight for justice, and he is very skilled in martial arts. As long as he is willing to help, he will definitely avenge your father!"

The girl shook her head at Huang Rong and said, "Thank you for your kindness. My father did not die at the hands of someone, but died in an army of thousands of soldiers. I don't know who the enemy is."

"Thousands of troops?" Huang Rong was puzzled: "Did your father go to the war?"

The girl was so sad that she couldn't help crying when she talked about her father. She had no time to answer Huang Rong's questions.

Huang Rong saw her crying and quickly advised her, "Don't cry, girl. Tell us about your father's death first. If you don't explain the situation clearly, we can't help you."

Without waiting for the girl to reply.

The child beside the girl suddenly spoke up: "If you really have good intentions, you don't have to help my father to avenge him, just help my sister! She was threatened by a group of evil bandits and forced to marry the 'old man in the mountains' from the Western Regions. My sister didn't want to leave Bright Summit, so the bandits forced her and planned to abduct her to the Western Regions!" Huang Rong was very indignant when she heard about the forced marriage: "This old man in the mountains is really abominable. He is already old and decrepit, but he actually wants to marry a young girl. He has no shame!"

Huang Sixi corrected him: "The Old Man in the Mountain is not necessarily an old man. This is the title of the leader of an assassin organization in the Western Regions. All the previous leaders of this organization called themselves the 'Old Man in the Mountain'!"

Huang Rong was very surprised: "There is such a strange thing, there is actually an organization leader who calls himself 'old man'?"

When the girl heard this, she wiped her tears and gave Huang Sixi a look of approval: "This gentleman is right. The 'old man in the mountain' is not an old man, but the leader of the Persian Ming Cult! May I ask, gentleman, you know so much about the 'old man in the mountain'. Do you have any connection with my Ming Cult?"

Huang Sixi saw that the girl looked mixed-race, but had the gentle temperament of a Central Plains woman. She must have been taught the etiquette of the Central Plains since she was a child. "First, tell me how your father died. Why did the 'old man in the mountain' force you to get married?"

The girl must have been desperate, so she told the stranger about her predicament: "Sir, you should know that our Zhongyuan Mingjiao actually originated from the Persian Mingjiao, and the disciples in the sect regard the Zhongyuan Mingjiao as a missionary branch of the Persian Mingjiao.

Not long ago, the Persian Mingjiao envoy went to Guangmingding and ordered my father to lead the Mingjiao followers in the Central Plains to fight in the Western Regions of Khwarezm. My father and other followers were deeply grateful for the missionary work of the Persian Grand Master, so they went to Khwarezm to help, but they all died on the way to the battle. "

Huang Sixi pointed to the hundreds of graves nearby and said, "Are these graves built for your father and the members of the Ming Cult in the Central Plains who died in the battle?"

The girl responded, "The leader of the Persian Ming Cult is the 'Old Man in the Mountain'. He was the one who sent back the bodies of my father and the members of the Central Plains Ming Cult. When he saw that my father and the members were all dead or injured, he wanted to annex the Central Plains Ming Cult. He forced me to marry him in order to seize the wealth of the Central Plains Ming Cult!"

Huang Sixi thought, no wonder there were so few people on Guangmingding, they had indeed experienced a bloody incident that resulted in the death of most of the masters on Guangmingding. Even if there were still a group of disciples who survived, they might have been secretly purged by the 'old man in the mountain'.

Currently, only the girl and the child are left to look after the family business at Guangmingding.

But Huang Rong didn't quite understand what he said. She asked Huang Sixi in confusion, "The leader of the Persian Ming Cult is the 'Old Man in the Mountain'. Is the Persian Ming Cult an assassination organization?"

"The Persian Ming Cult is an ancient sect in the Western Regions that has existed for hundreds of years. Originally, the sect was relatively mild. After the 'Old Man in the Mountain' joined the Persian Ming Cult a hundred years ago, the sect became an assassin organization!"

Huang Sixi pointed at the girl and said, "The Persian tune that the girl just sang is actually related to the first generation of 'Old Man in the Mountain' Huoshan!"

"Huo Shan?" Huang Rong smiled and said, "This name sounds like a Middle-earth figure. Fourth brother, can you tell me about this old man Huo Shan?"

Huang Sixi started from the beginning.

It turned out that a hundred years ago, a great wise man named Ye Mang was born in Persia.

In order to spread his ideas, Ye Mang set up a school to teach students. He had three outstanding disciples.

Emo was good at literature, Niruomu was good at politics, and Huoshan was good at martial arts.

The three men were of like mind and pledged to each other to share the joys and sorrows in the future and to never forget their wealth and honor.

Later, Niruomu became successful and became the prime minister of Persia. E'mo and Huoshan came to him for refuge and were treated as honored guests by Niruomu, who gave them official positions and arranged arrangements for them.

Who would have thought that Huo Shan was ambitious and unwilling to be under someone else's command for long, so he launched a conspiracy and rebellion and established an assassination sect. He called himself the "Old Man in the Mountain" and made assassination the sect's main mission.

During the period when Huoshan was traveling in the Western Regions, it was the time when the Crusades were launched. Huoshan sent assassins to kill the leaders of the various countries in the Western Regions at that time.

The warriors under Huoshan's command were all extremely skilled in martial arts. Even the king Edward of England, a country in the far west, was assassinated by Huoshan himself because he had offended Huoshan.

When the Western Regions talk about the 'Old Man in the Mountain' Huoshan, they all change color with fear.

Huoshan ignored the old friendship and sent someone to assassinate the Persian Prime Minister Niromu. Before the Persian Prime Minister died, he sang a Persian tune: "I come like flowing water, and I go like the wind. I don't know where I come from or where I end up!"

This tune was originally composed by E'mo, a disciple of Ye Mang. After being sung by the Persian prime minister, it spread throughout Persia and became a popular song, until it was spread to the Guangmingding of the Mingjiao in the Central Plains.

The 'Old Man in the Mountain' Huoshan once served as the leader of the Persian Mingjiao during his travels in the Western Regions. After Huoshan's death, his successors all called themselves the 'Old Man in the Mountain'.

These "old men in the mountains" held power in the Persian Ming Cult from generation to generation, and naturally introduced the assassination organization into the Persian Ming Cult.

Huang Rong roughly understood the relationship between the Persian Ming Cult and the 'Old Man in the Mountain' after hearing this, but she asked again: "The Persian Ming Cult is just a sect. They should focus on spreading their doctrines. Why did they go to the Western Regions to fight in the Kingdom of Khwarezm?"

Huang Sixi replied, "The Persian Mingjiao has spread its teachings to Khwarazm. A few months ago, Khwarazm had a dispute with the Mongolian Tartars. The Mongolian Tartars gathered grassland cavalry and attacked Khwarazm. Khwarazm could not resist the Mongolian army, so it asked the Persian Mingjiao for help. The Persian Mingjiao then sent its followers to join the war!"

At this point, Huang Rong finally understood that the root of the whole incident was related to the Mongolian Tartars.

The leader and followers of the Ming Cult in the Central Plains all died at the hands of the Mongolian Tartars.

It was a pity that the Central Plains Ming Cult shed their blood for the Persian Ming Cult, but the "Old Man in the Mountain" of the Persian Ming Cult took advantage of the decline of the Central Plains Ming Cult to bully the orphans of the Central Plains Ming Cult.

The girl and the child were both orphans of the Ming Cult in the Central Plains. Their father was from the Central Plains and their mother was Persian. They had lived in Guangmingding since childhood and had never been to the Central Plains.

After they and their siblings were persecuted by the 'Old Man in the Mountain', they didn't know what to do, so they ran to their father's grave and cried bitterly.

After Huang Rong heard the whole story, she turned around and asked Huang Sixi, "Fourth Brother, should we help these two siblings?"

"Of course I want to help!"

Huang Sixi went to Guangmingding to search for the secret method of "The Great Shift of Heaven and Earth", but the leader of the Central Plains Ming Cult had passed away, and the secret method should have been passed down to the brother and sister. If he helped the brother and sister, it would be easier for Huang Sixi to find out the whereabouts of the secret method.

Seeing that Huang Sixi had expressed his opinion, Huang Rong smiled and said to the brother and sister, "Don't worry, since my fourth brother is willing to help you, you will definitely be safe. No matter how powerful that 'old man in the mountain' is, he will have to admit defeat when he sees my fourth brother!"

The girl and the child were incredulous when they heard this: "Sir, are you really willing to resist the 'Old Man in the Mountain'?"

They knew very well that the 'Old Man in the Mountain' was a martial arts expert and had many masters under his command. Huang Sixi was likely to be in great danger if he fought against the 'Old Man in the Mountain' alone.

Huang Sixi said: "I will solve this problem for you. You just need to tell me when the 'old man in the mountain' will arrive at Guangmingding?"

The girl and the child said in unison: "They will be here in three days!"

(End of this chapter)