Heroine Yin's Background

Heroine Yin's Background

Heroine Yin showed astonishing martial arts talent at a very young age, and fortunately, it was thanks to this talent that she won her parents' favor. Otherwise, she probably would have been sold off as a maid or a child bride to someone else before she reached the age of ten, so they could try again for a boy.

After discovering their daughter's talent, her parents started treating her a little better, teaching her martial arts and literacy.

Obviously, the heroine did not like reading.

When she was little, Heroine Yin grew taller than girls her own age, and naturally, she was a whole head taller than boys her own age, too. Her strength was astonishingly great, and her physical fitness was outrageously high, yet she was extremely fond of fighting. Whenever her parents took her to sponge off drinks and meals with friends in the martial arts world, she could take on several people at once and pin the host's children to the ground, making them cry and beg for mercy.

At times like this, Heroine Yin's parents would usually pretend to give her a beating, but afterward, they would secretly buy her a meat bun to eat or put some fatty pork scraps in the stir-fry.

When Heroine Yin was young and clueless, knowing nothing at all, she only knew that hitting people got her beaten by her parents, and then, inexplicably, she got meat to eat, which gradually fostered her habit of loving fights.

Yet on a summer night, everything ended.

Heroine Yin was fourteen that year, and at such a tender age, she had already blossomed into a poised and graceful young woman, standing one hundred and fifty centimeters tall, almost as tall as her father. Heroine Yin had not failed her talent, either; at only fourteen, her parents could already barely fight her to a draw. If they used sabers, her parents could not even defeat her.

That day was sweltering and dry; a sudden commotion of horse hooves spread to the village entrance, instantly filling everyone with terror.

Heroine Yin's parents seemed to have sensed the crisis the moment the empty crack of a horsewhip exploded at the far end of the village, and they hastily hid her in a haystack on a small hill not far away, then turned back to face this group of uninvited guests alone.

Through a gap in the haystack, Heroine Yin opened her eyes wide, blankly watching everything below.

The order the opposing side received seemed to be to leave no survivors, and even fully armed government soldiers were unwilling to engage in close combat with two desperate martial artists in cramped houses. Thus, an arrow glowing with orange-red light pierced the darkness of the night, followed by a sheet of a rain of fire that rose from the ground like locusts...

Houses constructed of grey, aged wood and bone-dry thatch were ignited in an instant!

The raging fire that engulfed the entire house filled Heroine Yin's young, pure eyes. In her ears, she seemed to hear the swift whistling of government arrows tearing through the night sky, the neighing of war horses, the drum-like pounding of iron hooves on the ground, as well as the cold commands issued by the leading officer and the battle cries of the soldiers. Her parents' defenses and pleas for mercy were swallowed up in the harsh clamor in the blink of an eye.

Her parents died, their heads hacked off by soldiers to be taken back for a reward, leaving behind two headless corpses that no one dared to bury.

Young Heroine Yin did not move a muscle, not daring to make a sound, her tears of grief and fear having long since blurred her vision.

She vaguely remembered what her parents said in her ear when they shoved her into the haystack: "Listen to me, Dandan, just hide right here and don't move. It'll be very dangerous if you go out!"

"This sweep of martial artists by the authorities is on a massive scale. We can't run away, but we have nothing to do with the Yingtian Alliance, so we don't need to be afraid. If we get caught, find a chance to run and go look for your Uncle Le."

"We have connections with the Flying Fish Ravine, a prestigious orthodox sect in the martial arts world. They will definitely bail us out!"

"If you get caught, we're finished!"

"Do you understand?"

At the time, Heroine Yin's face was full of panic, and she nodded continuously.

Clearly, her parents had miscalculated.

The newcomers had no intention of capturing them at all, nor were they even ordinary government soldiers; they were well-equipped border troops just transferred back from the frontier!

Heroine Yin did not dare to emerge from the haystack, staying there for several full days. When hungry, she ate dry grass, and she was almost on the verge of fainting from starvation before the man she called "uncle" found her.

Because her martial arts talent was truly one in ten thousand, that man decided to raise her, taking her as his adopted daughter in the hope that one day he could rely on her to live a decent life.

And so, Heroine Yin changed locations, resuming her martial arts training and starting life anew, gradually growing up.

Harboring a sea of blood-deep hatred, she trained frantically in martial arts, producing results within a very short time that greatly astonished that man. At the time, she had only one thought in her mind: find those government soldiers to avenge her parents! Even later, when she chose to step into the martial arts world and unceasingly absorbed any advanced martial arts technique she could learn during her travels, it was all to avenge her parents.

Pity that until much later did she realize how naive this thought was.

And it was also much later that she learned that just a few days before her parents were killed, the Prefect of Hengzhou, in joint petition with the Provincial Commander to the central court, borrowed a full thirty thousand troops from the Prince of Western Pacification to suppress the great quagmire of the martial arts world in Hengzhou! Under the encirclement and suppression of thirty thousand elite soldiers and fierce generals, it took only a single day for the Flying Fish Ravine, a renowned orthodox sect passed down through generations for hundreds of years in the martial arts world, to be trampled to the ground! Up and down the entire Flying Fish Ravine, unexpectedly only a handful of humble servants had hidden well enough to survive by sheer luck!

The best Southern School Flying Fish Saber Technique in the martial arts world, renowned experts, three thousand disciples with three thousand sabers, the great master who had once cleaved a Cape Stone Tablet with a single slash, the Western Pacification Saber, and all the rest... under the volley of arrow arrays and the charge of heavy cavalry, not a single one survived!

As for the murderers who had killed her parents back then, she did not remember a single one. With one hundred thousand Western Pacification border troops, it was impossible for her to carry a saber and go from door to door asking whether they were the ones who killed her parents.

Heroine Yin fell into utter despair for a period of time.

Later on, martial artists did launch a counterattack, assassinating that prefect at the cost of massive casualties and even infiltrating the imperial palace... But these were matters that had nothing to do with Heroine Yin, and she had merely heard fragments of it from others.

Clearly, Cheng Yun had dreamed of Heroine Yin this time.

Before going to sleep, he had guessed whether he would dream of Heroine Yin tonight, and as it turned out, he really had.

This time, Cheng Yun felt slightly surprised because he was not projecting himself into Heroine Yin's past perspective to witness her world, but rather watching the events happening around her from a god's-eye view. Moreover, it seemed the meditation method the Old Mage taught him was having some effect, making his resistance somewhat stronger. Thus, the spacetime node instilled more content into him—he felt as though he had taken a whirlwind tour in a single night, skimming through all the major events of the heroine's first twenty years!

Cheng Yun sat up from the bed, rubbing his temples involuntarily as he felt he had grasped the main point of the heroine's world...

Height!

The heroine's father was at most one hundred and fifty centimeters tall, which was considered quite short among males in that world. Taking the heroine as a reference, the average height of males in her world should be around one hundred and fifty-three centimeters. So the heroine... actually really could be considered to have a model figure!

Then came the problem.

How did her father manage to sire her?

That "uncle" of hers was quite tall, though.

Cheng Yun shook his head and glanced at the time, surprised to find it was already nearly eleven o'clock. He hurriedly put on his clothes and got out of bed.