11. The Cliff of Pure Uniformity
After Dugu Chengying left the capital of Xuanguo, he deliberately took a detour to worship his parents.
Although he doesn't remember their appearance anymore, Dugu Chengying often thanks his parents for giving him a good skin when he dresses in the mirror. A good face, a noble identity, and a boundless mana are enough to make him omnipotent in the Seven Kingdoms.
Dugu and his wife were originally buried in a dilapidated village near Xuanming Mountain, but later moved into this tomb of the teacher of the Xuan Kingdom because of his outstanding achievements.
Excluding the emperor's mausoleum, Shiling is the second-highest level mausoleum of the deceased in the Xuan Kingdom.
Dugu Chengying had secretly checked Dugu and his wife before, but found nothing.
Only a few days later, I received a letter with a small number:
Dugu, a wife and a son. His son Dugu Chengying, who had meritorious service in quelling the rebellion, was sealed as the Marquis of War, and was given the residence of the Marquis of Ding.
Dugu Chengying burned the letter after reading it, and this set of rhetoric originated from the boundless East. Since he can't remember clearly, and there is no real and useful information, he simply doesn't check.
Dugu Chengying worshiped his parents. Yan Shuang sent him an edict from the Snow Palace.
This edict is the silver sand that Dugu Chengying took the initiative to send to the door. The corner of his mouth smiled evilly, and he went to break the formation after the comparison with You, and the time was just right.
His opponent, the Shadow Descendant Prince, had arrived at Xuanming Mountain ahead of schedule.
Like Dugu Chengying, Yu gradually also intends to go to the Snow Palace to break the seventy-two formations of the cherry forest. However, the target of the Shadow Gradually is the legendary Ice Sword. If he could get that sword, no one would dare to beak him again.
The news of the competition between Dugu Chengying and Cangming Shizi soon spread throughout the Seven Kingdoms.
Even the lord of the Lion Camel Country, who had just been classified as the territory of the Xuan Kingdom, also had the idea of watching the battle, so he set off from the Lion Camel to Xuanming Mountain in the name of thanks. After watching this once-in-a-century competition, I will return to King Xuan's palace to see the boundless East.
The fourteenth day of the lunar month, the top of the Xuan Netherworld.
Before the two protagonists appeared, many masters from the Seven Kingdoms were gathered on the Cliff of Pure Balance, which was very lively.
"Mantuo and Ghost Snake actually came to join in the fun. ”
"That's nature, the swordsmanship practiced by Dugu Chengying comes from the ghost, do you think they can't come?"
"I heard that it originated from Mantuo, brother, are you talking nonsense? ”
"Who do you think will win? Last time, you won by luck, and this time I'm afraid that the warlord wants revenge. ”
"I don't think so. The swordsmanship of the faint world is unpredictable, and he has been practicing with a mandal master for many years. The last time was by no means a simple fluke victory, it was a proper victory with strength. ”
"Just think so of you! Our war marquis of the Xuan Kingdom is invincible and invincible. Last time, it must have been because of the diplomatic relations between the two countries, so he won, and it is not a loss of face, and this time he will definitely defeat him. ”
"You big men are chattering, like a resentful woman. ”
It was a woman in a purple garment who said this.
"You are a little girl who is not at home embroidering and playing the piano, and she came to this pure cliff to see what to compete. ”
"Hahaha, don't you come here to choose a Lang Jun to go back. ”
"That's not to be a fool's errand! The people who come here to watch the battle are all talented children, and there are many handsome ones. Could it be that Chengdu has taken over?"
"Do I only know that a man can have three wives and four concubines, and a woman can have many husbands?"
"Isn't that **? Just having a baby, you don't know who your father is, right?"
"Hahaha!"
The men were still talking about the protagonist before, and they immediately teased the girl in purple.
The purple-clothed girl's eyes swept over the gossipy people one by one, and in the snap of her fingers, the group of noisy men were hung one after another on the cliff of the Chunjun Cliff, their hair was messy, their upper bodies were **, and the top person was tightly tied to a rattan that was not too thick, and they didn't dare to move.
The sound of more than a dozen men shouting "help" echoed on the cliff.
Dugu Chengying under the mountain looked up and vaguely saw something hanging on the top of the mountain, and when he got to the top of the mountain, he realized that it was more than a dozen people who were strung into the shape of rock sugar gourds and asked for help.
Dugu Chengying saw Yu gradually for the second time, and felt that his breath was even more turbid than before.
You gradually realized that Dugu Chengying was injured, and it was not an ordinary injury. Reasonably, he should have refused to meet today's battle, but morally, he had to be invited.
This is a sword battle between two masters from two countries.
You can't use spells, you can't use hidden weapons.
Whoever is wounded first by the opponent's sword loses.
Last time, Dugu Chengying was scratched by the faint Tangxi Sword when he was not paying attention. A tiny scratch also loses the game. That was the first time he lost to someone else.
After a long life, Dugu Chengying enjoyed the feeling of emptiness for too long.
And the appearance of Yu gradually made his pursuit of swordsmanship go further.
After saluting each other, Yu gradually politely asked Dugu Chengying to make the first move.
"Please. ”
"I am older than you. You'd better come first. ”
Dugu Chengying and Youjian can be regarded as people of the same generation, but he pretended to be an old man.
The Tangxi sword gradually brightened, and the hilt was a golden dragon carving pattern, and the blade was extremely sharp.
Although the old wound has not healed, this time it must not be defeated by Youchu.
The unity of man and sword is the highest level of swordsmanship. Dugu Chengying silently recited the swordsmanship, and the person was already floating in mid-air, holding the Zhan Lu sword and descending from the sky, only to see a silver light rising around, aggressively approaching the chest of the faint man.
You was gradually forced to the edge of the Pure Elegance Cliff by this cold air, and one more step, it would be shattered.
Dugu Chengying's sword style this time is extraordinarily sharp, hissing and breaking the wind, and the fallen leaves are collapsing.
Suddenly, Yu gradually threw his sword and admitted defeat.
"I throw in the towel. ”
What does this mean? Dugu Chengying forcibly took Jin Dan before going up the mountain to temporarily suppress his old injuries, the purpose was to win Youxuan. But Youjian suddenly admitted defeat and stopped fighting, which really made Dugu Chengying depressed.
Not to mention how precious the golden pill is, the contempt after taking it can make Dugu Chengying's mana lose most of it. For this competition, he had to change his swordsmanship, although it was not fatal, but it could repel Yu gradually very well.
The gradual abandonment of the sword and the admission of defeat are naturally not out of sincerity. On the one hand, he couldn't see the flaws in Dugu Chengying's swordsmanship clearly, but during the fight, he felt that the sword qi emitted by the unity of human swords was too powerful to resist, but he didn't know that in less than two hours, Dugu Chengying would be defeated due to exhaustion. On the other hand, the ultimate purpose of his trip to Xuanming Mountain was the Snow Palace, not the winner or loser of this competition. broke the seventy-two cherry forest formations of the Snow Palace, and his position in Cangming was truly as stable as Mount Tai, and no one dared to put his beak inside and outside the court.
For the sake of status and power, he is bound to win the seventy-two formations of Sakurabayashi.
"Wait. "Dugu Chengying is willing to let him go like this.
"This is a swordsmanship competition between me and you, and the rule is that whoever hurts the other party first wins. Won't you break the good agreement you made like this, and what will save my face?"
"The warlord of Xuan is the best in the world in swordsmanship, and he is convinced of the next defeat. I have already suffered a minor injury, but because the wound will heal itself since I was a child, it will not bleed, and the warlord will naturally not be able to see. ”
You gradually raised her arm, only to see that the clothes on her left arm were all torn, revealing the color of her skin.
Is that so...... Dugu Chengying was still very puzzled, how could he be injured and not see blood. When he was clearly comparing swords, he didn't hear the sound of his clothes tearing. With his keen hearing, Zhan Lu Jian could hear clearly even if he just cut through the silk handkerchief.
After saying that, he turned around and left the cliff of pure precision with his entourage.
Dugu Chengying saw the distant back, and heard the sound of the rattan breaking next to him: it turned out that the group of people who had been tied up before were pulled up, and there was still a little silver tael on the edge of their clothes that were taken off.
The young man's mind was much stronger than that of his older brothers. seems to be low-key and calm, but in fact, he is too thoughtful, cautious in his behavior, and thoughtful in all aspects.
Such a vicissitudes of life, Dugu Chengying will inevitably take a head-on photo with him when the two countries are at war in the future.
Tranquility and tranquility are only necessary before a storm, such as the fighting that occurs many years later.
You gradually followed another path into the depths of Xuanming Mountain. The sooner you break the formation, the more chance you have to choose people; One more chance, one step closer to the Xuanbing Sword. The result of the sword comparison is definitely not as good as one ten-thousandth of the Xuanbing Sword.
Dugu Chengying was not happy at all. It seems to have won him, and it always feels like losing to him.
The people watching the battle also dispersed one after another, and it seemed that their direction was not under the mountain.
- Snow Palace!
Dugu Chengying remembered the edict a few days ago, he was also going.
"You say, are all the girls in the snow palace as beautiful as fairies?"
"That's nature. ”
"Do you know that Snow Flying? That's really a fairy coming down to earth. ”
No wonder Dongfang Mo is infatuated with her. ”
"Isn't it?"
Where is Xue Feitian good-looking? Dugu Chengying only has his silver sand in his eyes, and that is a fairy.
"Ahem. He coughed twice, and the man in front of him reluctantly stepped aside to make way for him.
"Why are you making way for him? It's already narrow. "It's still the girl in purple.
"That's the war marquis of the Xuan Kingdom, who wears a poor mask all the year round. A young man whispered to her.
It is rumored that the Snow Palace is located in the depths of Xuanming Mountain, and the specific location has never been told to the world.
The content of this notice in Yinsha is extremely comfortable, and the process is a bit difficult. The first thing to find is the location of the Snow Palace, and then to break the formation. In addition, in the depths of Xuanming Mountain, there is also a mysterious entrance to the white abyss.
The matter of this mysterious entrance was only known to the Qing Xuan Elder of the Xuan Sect and the Jade Lady of the Snow Palace.
"You, come here. Dugu Chengying said to a man.
The man shuddered and refused to move, huddled to the side.
"If you want to live, be quick. ”
He walked in front of Dugu Chengying in small steps.
Dugu Chengying calculated that the effect of Jindan's medicine was almost up, and he had to arrange for others to explore the way forward.
The man who walked in front originally came to Xuanming Mountain to learn art, and by chance he watched this sword competition. Only then did he realize his shallow qualifications, and he still went home to cultivate the land and work as a farmer.
"Hou ...... Master Hou, five miles west of this forest is the Snow Palace. ”
The man did not dare to go any further, and made up an excuse to flee.
"Are you afraid?" Dugu Chengying saw through his lies at a glance, dressed plainly and without any mana.
"If you keep up, I can arrange for you to come to the Hou Mansion on an errand, and it will be more than enough for your whole family. "Since you are the son and daughter of an ordinary family, you don't want to be skilled, so making a living is the first place.
When the man heard such a promise, his hanging heart slowly relaxed.
"The villain thanked Master Hou for his great kindness. But the location of this snow palace, the villain has only seen it outside the bamboo forest, it should be in the west, as for how far the road is, the villain does not know. ”
Half-truths and half-truths, but he is too careful.
has been in the high hall of the Xuan Kingdom for a long time, in addition to figuring out the holy will, there is only mutual suspicion left between the courtiers.
Dugu Chengying and the man walked in the direction of the bamboo forest, and a purple-clothed girl quietly followed behind them.
Dugu Chengying had already noticed that he was being followed. She can chase after such a large bamboo forest, if she is not very familiar with this place, it is not shallow. It's just a woman he has never met, and he has no interest at all.
It's better to find the Snow Palace first and break the seventy-two formations of the cherry forest.
The Snow Palace is indeed on the west side of the forest, but the Seventy-two Formations of the Cherry Blossom Forest are on the east side. The east-west cherry blossom forest formation is cleverly conceived and the formation is changeable. Ordinary people enter the deep realm of Xuanming Mountain and Forest, just like being in the fairyland of Yaochi. Everything you see and hear is the most beautiful thing in the world, and there are similarities with the hidden overlap full of illusions. The biggest difference is that there is no backlash when you use your own spells here.
After walking about ten miles, a patch of cherry trees suddenly appeared in front of them.
This is probably the entrance to the 72 formations of the Sakurabayashi Forest.
As soon as the man who had gone to explore the way first stepped into the cherry forest, his figure disappeared from sight.
Under the cherry trees, the delicate flowers like silk are tied up one by one, like a large white floating cloud, like snow is better than snow. The layers are dense and dense, and the branches are about to be bent.
The cherry blossom trees on the side stand or lean among the petals, and the wind sweeps through the branches, bringing down a group of fluttering and waf-moving powder rains.
Dugu Chengying walked in the huge cherry forest for a long time, and the faint sound of swords kept coming from his ears. Although the seventy-two formations of Sakurabaya are extremely dangerous, the men in this world flock to the world to marry a beauty.
He seemed to see two or three masked women fighting with other masters in this formation, and thought to himself that someone was deliberately trying to take advantage of the opportunity to get rid of some competitors, and he had not done such a thing as killing people with a knife.
It was already the sunset before entering the battle, but it was already early the next morning when I left the battle.
Dugu Chengying didn't expect that with his cultivation, it would take a whole night to break the formation.
In fact, he didn't encounter any killers and traps in this formation, which was a bit unexpected. There are countless people in the Seven Kingdoms who want to kill him, and if his whereabouts are not well hidden, a hundred lives will not be enough to die.
It seems that this Sakura forest array has been waiting for him to pass through.
Whenever he walked under a cherry blossom tree, the petals that fell on the ground also pointed out the direction for him very spiritually, and the surrounding cherry blossom trees would consciously stagger away.
When he walked out of the formation, he turned back and couldn't see a single cherry tree.
"Even if you broke the formation and came to the Snow Palace, why did you still wear a mask and not show your true face?"
This voice was the purple-clothed girl who followed him all the way to the Snow Palace.
Mask? The faint man who came down the mountain in advance to find the Snow Palace had just broken the formation, and he was three teas later than Dugu Chengying.
Yu gradually felt surprised that Dugu Chengying walked out of the formation unscathed, and there was not even a trace of the corner of his clothes. When he was competing with the sword, he was obviously injured, but after breaking the formation, he was still in good spirits, which made Yu gradually confused.
As Dugu Chengying expected, the girl in purple went straight to the Snow Palace.
Thousands of masters from all over the world heard the news and came to Xuanming Mountain, and there were only less than twenty people who successfully came out of battle at this moment.
Dugu Chengying took a general look at the others, and there were more or less blood stains on the corners of each of their clothes, and they were more or less injured by the formation, or they killed each other in the same formation.
He was the only one, dressed in a black robe and entered the seventy-two formations of the cherry forest, with a body of pale pink petals.
The real power of the war marquis of the Xuan Kingdom cannot be underestimated.
More than a dozen masters with minor injuries sincerely admired Dugu Chengying, no wonder he was called the god of war.
This time. Dugu Chengying has only one goal.