This middle-aged man who is not good-looking is Shi Dang, the city lord of Stone City. Immediately behind Shi Dangdang was a man in white, with starry eyebrows and sword eyes, a very great appearance, and he carried a long sword behind his back, and he also looked like a swordsman. Behind the man in white, there were two familiar faces, which were the two children brought by Lu Lin's dart team. The little boy still looked at him curiously, but the girl gave Ma Xie a disgusted look and turned her head to the side.

Shi Dangdang strode forward and walked in front of Ma Xie, he was even half a head shorter than the sixteen-year-old Ma Xie, but Ma Xie didn't dare to despise this city lord in his heart at all: if a master like Zhang Shan could die to the ground, this city lord must not be useless as the outside world rumored.

The city lord looked at the scene in the field, and knew what was going on without asking, he instructed everyone to settle Zhang Shan's funeral, and connected Zhang Shan's family to the city lord's mansion, and then called Ma Xie and the white-clothed swordsman to come to the city lord's study together. The city lord and the white-clothed swordsman sat on the top of the central hall, and the two children quietly walked to the side room. The layout of the city lord's study is simple but elegant, which is very different from the inn where Ma Xie lived before, at least it is very clean, Ma Xie looked at the dirty and torn clothes on his body, and he was a little overwhelmed for a while, and he didn't dare to sit casually.

The city lord saw his embarrassment and laughed: "Young man's martial arts are world-famous, and he was born in a paradise land, what are you restrained! Please sit down!" Ma Xie sat down at this time, but he didn't speak for a long time, because Ma Xie had been thinking about something.

"Shaoxia, but he is worried about killing Zhang Shan just now?" Shi City Lord's eyes were sharp, and he obviously knew what Ma Xie was thinking.

Ma Xie said to the Stone City Lord: "I have killed three people before, and I thought that killing people was no different from killing tigers and wolves, but today I ......"

The stone city lord obviously knew what was going on in Ma Xie's heart, and said: "But today you killed Zhang Shan, and no one around you praised your swordsmanship, but they opened you one after another, isn't it." ”

Ma Xie nodded: "Yes." Although I don't know the world, I know that those people look at me differently today than they did in the past. But I can't tell. ”

When the white-clothed swordsman heard this, he arched his hand and said, "Ma Shaoxia, I look for the wind." Can you listen to me?"

Ma Xie bowed his hand in return and listened quietly.

The white-clothed swordsman said, "Can the young man know the difference between the Zhang Shan killed today and the three people killed before?"

Ma Xie said: "The three of them all wanted to take my life before, and this Zhang Shan just wanted to compete with me." ”

The white-clothed swordsman smiled: "The young man is smart. But there is one thing you are wrong, do you think that this Zhang Shan doesn't want to take your life? Zhang Shan's last move, 'Yin and Yang Intertwined', is already a killing move, and the young man just follows his move to break the move, if the move is not broken, I'm afraid it will be you who will die. ”

Ma Xie thought about it carefully, and it was true, "Then why did everyone present look at me like this, as if I had killed the wrong person?"

"Warriors fight each other, saying that they only divide the superior, and do not decide life and death. But if you really want to distinguish between the superior and the inferior, how can you do it without deciding life and death? Therefore, whether a martial artist is powerful or not can only be known when he is desperate for life and death. The battle of life and death embodies the skill, wisdom, will, and fortune of a warrior, just like two hungry tigers, when they see a piece of meat, all the life energy bursts out! The difference between one move is the difference between life and death! That is the real duel. But how many people can regard every exchange as a battle of life and death? Human life is the most precious thing in the world, and most people in the rivers and lakes are like this, no one will take every fight seriously, at least a master like you will not cause Zhang Shan, a person whose martial arts are obviously below you, to die. In the eyes of those doormen, it is not that Zhang Shan intends to kill you, but that you are forced to use a killing move, and you kill Zhang Shan easily, it is inevitable that they will be the next Zhang Shan, and there must be some fear in their hearts? ”

Ma Xie pondered this sentence carefully, although he understood a little, but he didn't fully understand: "Are you saying that in a competition like this, it's good not to kill people? But as long as I make a move, it will be a killing move, and it is difficult for me to control this." ”

Mu Xunfeng said with a smile: "Swordsmanship is a killing technique, and swordsmanship that can't kill people can only be called a game." I'm not saying that it's wrong for Brother Ma to kill people, it's just that you don't understand human feelings, so you may not understand the phrase 'forgive others and spare others'. What's more, although swordsmanship is a killing technique, not all swordsmen are killers. It is your swordsmanship that you will kill people, but who and why do you want to use your swordsmanship? The so-called 'chivalrous' people, at best, are for the country and the people, and at the smallest, they are hoeing the strong and helping the weak. I have said a lot, just to tell Shaoxia that Shaoxia's sword should be a sword for the common people to kill evil dragons and open a sword of peace for the world, not a sword for the sake of fighting for a moment and seeking one's own selfish interests, so that he can be described as a true hero and a real hero!"

When Ma Xie heard this, his heart couldn't help but be a little surging, he always thought that he was a great hero admired by thousands of people by relying on the sword in his hand to fight the invincible hand all over the world, but today when he heard Mu Xunfeng's words, he realized that the things in this world were far from being as simple as he thought. He thought that when he killed the man in purple yesterday, those dart masters were so affectionate to him, and when he killed Zhang Shan today, the doormen in the field were so indifferent to him, it must be these truths that Mu Xunfeng said.

Ma Xie was silent for a long time, it's not that he still doesn't understand the truth of what Mu Xunfeng said, on the contrary, Mu Xunfeng planted the seeds of "morality" in Ma Xie's heart, and quickly took root, he seems to have gradually understood what to do in the future, but there is one thing that makes him even more difficult to let go.

"But I've already killed Zhang Shan. This kind of remorse made Ma Xie feel frightened, he experienced this emotion for the first time, and he felt sad for a while, and he didn't know how to solve it, after all, he killed Zhang Shan not to protect himself, but to make a name for himself, which he could deceive others, but he couldn't deceive himself.

The Stone City Lord and Mu Xunfeng glanced at each other, and the Stone City Lord said: "Ma Xie! That Zhang Shan is also a good man under my door, others don't know about me, since he dares to stand up and fight with you, he is ready to kill you, and he is also ready to be killed by you! Shaoxia doesn't have to be annoyed by this." Mr. Mu also said that those doormen just didn't expect someone to take it seriously, but the things in this world are afraid of the word serious, and the young man's heart is innocent, he is a rare figure in the world, why bother himself for such a young age? Do you keep a hand every time you fight with someone in the future? Every time you wait for someone to kill you? Then it is better to be a monk. ”

Ma Xie didn't know what a "monk" was, and was about to ask, when he heard Mu Xunfeng say again: "What the city lord said is very true, the young man actually doesn't have to worry too much. I just said that I was afraid that the young man would be too murderous and hurt the innocent. But if the people who practice martial arts are all women, then what are we going to do with martial arts? To tell you the truth, I Mu Xunfeng also fought and killed a lot of people when he was young, people who practice martial arts regard reputation as more important than their lives, Zhang Shan is not ashamed to die under your sword, that is the fate of a warrior, how can it not be the long-cherished wish of a warrior. ”

The stone city lord and Mu Xunfeng enlightened Ma Xie with every word, and Ma Xie relaxed his mood at this time. People who practice martial arts should hoe the strong and help the weak, but they can't kill innocents indiscriminately, and thinking of the long-cherished wish of a warrior, Ma Xie also understands that if he chooses, he must want to die under the peerless sword of the world's top swordsman, it is not a bad thing, but a supreme glory.