"Shen seniors are geniuses, they have lived up to the expectations of Ning Qingyang's predecessors, and after going to the mountain for fifteen years, they have all comprehended the swordsmanship spirit and lifelong learning of Ning Qingyang's predecessors, and have become the first outstanding disciple of the eighty-ninth generation of Wudao Mountain. A hundred years later, before Ning Qingyang closed his death, he gave the personal sword that he had worn for half his life to Patriarch Shen, asking him to inherit the spirit of kendo and his righteousness, and continue his style and jealousy. ”

Xu Daoyun asked, "That... Since Senior Shen is a closed disciple of Senior Ning Qingyang of the Northern Martial Sword Palace, how could he become the first generation of Confucian family heads of the Mystical Xuanmen?"

Chen Rui sighed and said leisurely: "This is related to the distinction between good and evil in the hearts of the monks, and the deep-rooted prejudices. ”

"Ning Qingyang's predecessors said before the retreat that if they don't come out within three years, they will set up a stone tablet outside the cave and engrave the tomb of Ning Qingyang of the Beiwu Sword Palace, Patriarch Shen waited outside the cave for three years, but the door of the cave still did not open, he knew that his master had returned to the west of the sky, so he set up a tombstone outside the door according to his instructions, and from then on, the hill became the forbidden place of the Sword Palace. ”

"Senior Shen has been on the mountain for eighteen years, and he yearns for the vast world outside, plus his cultivation to be superb, and the inheritance of swordsmanship and the genius Ning Qingyang are also profound and mysterious, and there are few enemies, so he got the permission of the sect and traveled down the mountain. ”

After Patriarch Shen went down the mountain, he immediately made a name for himself in the rivers and lakes, all of which praised his chivalrous courage and wonderful swordsmanship, he was unwilling to be only majestic in a small place, and was inspired to go to a bigger and farther place to open his eyes, so he took one person and one sword, walked out of thousands of miles away, went through ****, encountered countless dangerous things, but they were all thrilling and dangerous, and turned danger into relief. ”

Later, he passed by Shanyang County, Dafengzhou, and heard that the local residents said that on the Poxu Mountain, there would be a sound of ghosts crying wolves on the night of the full moon, and at that time, the mountains and forests would inevitably blow a strong wind, blowing people and animals restlessly, and in the long run, they did not dare to go to the Poxu Mountain, but the nearby residents who were disturbed were frightened every day, and they begged the city to defend it several times, but they only vaguely agreed, saying what to wait and see, but they just did not send troops to conscript. ”

Patriarch Shen guessed what kind of cult monk should be doing it, so he took advantage of the night wind to sneak into the Broken Void Mountain to find out, and saw that it was a group of evil cultivators, as a righteous person, and a person in the Beiwu Sword Palace, he naturally would not let the cult do evil and stand by. Relying on his cultivation to be strong and his swordsmanship is amazing, he didn't look for helpers, he killed the generals alone, broke the strange formation they cast under the full moon, wiped his sword to kill all the cult monks, and found a baby girl who was still in swaddling clothes from the eye of the formation. ”

"Senior Shen had good thoughts, took the baby girl down the mountain, and found many people to take her in, but every time the baby left her hand, she had to cry and cry, crying to death, almost out of breath. Senior Shen couldn't bear it, so he took the girl by his side to be a little disciple who served tea and water, and the two joined hands to explore the rivers and lakes. ”

More than ten years have passed in a flash, and the little girl in the infant has become a slim and lovely girl. In the autobiography of Shen's predecessors, it was written that she was extremely beautiful and cute, with eyes like black gems, a face like ripe tomatoes, skin like clotted fat, blown-fold bullets, slight eyebrows, and ruddy cherry lips, extremely beautiful. ”

Xu Daoyun felt strange in his heart, thinking that this senior Shen had observed quite carefully.

She didn't have no name, so Master Zu named her Ran Yan, the two have been together for more than ten years, and they have always been commensurate with master and apprentice, but in fact, they are also teachers and friends, and jokes and jokes are commonplace. Ran Yan is a very likable girl, smart, lively and optimistic, likes to laugh, no matter what kind of situation, no matter how dangerous it is, she will always show a sunny smile in winter to comfort Senior Shen. ”

Patriarch Shen also liked her very much, and knew that the two were fated, so he accepted her as a closed disciple, and handed over all the martial arts and swordsmanship learned from Ning Qingyang's predecessors to her, and never hid it. Ran Yan is very smart and extremely talented, quite the shadow of Patriarch Shen when he practiced with Ning Qingyang's predecessors, what kind of incomprehensible move formulas can be understood at a glance, and he is born to practice martial arts. ”

"Senior Shen is nearly thirty years old and Ran Yan is different, this gap is naturally an old cow eating your tender grass for ordinary people, but for cultivators, especially for cultivators like Ancestor Shen, it is not a problem to live for a hundred years, for them, it is not worth mentioning. ”

Chen Rui chuckled and said: "As the saying goes, love arises over time, although the age difference between their master and apprentice is quite large, they are both handsome and young. Although Patriarch Shen is a superb cultivator, his affection for men and women is also as ignorant as a child, and he only knows that the time with his apprentice is very happy, and he doesn't know what love or love is. ”

Xu Daoyun asked: "What happened to them later?"

Later, Patriarch Shen and Ran Yan secretly fell in love with each other, Patriarch Shen is a piece of wood that doesn't know anything about men and women, but Ran Yan is not, she has been smart and clever since she was a child, her heart is exquisite, she understands her own mind, and she poured out her emotions on her birthday. ”

"But where has Patriarch Shen experienced such a thing? vaguely refused to give others an answer, Ran Yan was disheartened, and she was confused all day long, because she didn't want to eat, Patriarch Shen saw that she was happy, so he took her back to the Beiwu Sword Palace. ”

"After living in the mountains for three years, Ran Yan closed the door almost every day, and Patriarch Shen did not have Ran Yan's company, and every day for three years was like a year, he asked himself, only then did he find that his heart had completely fallen on Ran Yan, and nothing could shake it. ”

"Patriarch Shen came to Ran Yan's retreat cave mansion and knew that she would go out for ventilation every three days, so he stood in front of the door for three days. The two finally met, Patriarch Shen confessed his heart, Ran Yan abandoned his previous suspicions, and the two became the fairy couple of the Beiwu Sword Palace, and even the envy of all the people in the rivers and lakes, which was rumored to be a good story for a while. ”

Xu Daoyun smiled with relief, but when he saw Chen Rui shaking his head and sighing, he chuckled in his heart, subconsciously held his breath, had a bad premonition, and hurriedly asked, "Mr. Chen, what happened later?"

Chen Rui glanced at them and said, "You forgot where did Senior Shen pick up Ran Yan from?"

Xu Daoyun blurted out: "In the eyes of the Broken Void Mountain Cult Formation, this... Isn't it?"

"Not bad. Chen Rui nodded and sighed, "Ran Yan is the concubine of the Demon Sect Master of the Netherworld Palace. ”

"The Netherworld Palace is located in the Xizhou Tomb Forest, and the disciples in the palace are strange and impermanent, cruel in their methods, and they kidnap the villagers everywhere to cultivate evil skills, so ordinary people dare not easily approach the tomb forest within a thousand miles. The Nine Yin Skills passed down by the heads of the past dynasties are even more ruthless, coupled with the strange Soul Forcing Finger and the Seven Kills Cloud Piercing Technique, which made the Jianghu monks frightened. ”

"Back then, on the Void Mountain, the formation arranged by those cult monks was to use the Nine Yin Gong left by the previous palace master to merge the formation into Ran Yan's body. Eighteen years later, on the night of the full moon, Ran Yan revealed her demonic nature, and Senior Shen forcibly pressed her demonic qi with his superb cultivation that shook the ancient and the present, but Ran Yan's demonic nature shocked the palace master of the Netherworld Palace who was hundreds of thousands of miles away in the Xizhou Tomb Forest, and she immediately led many evil cultivators under her door to trek thousands of miles to besiege the Beiwu Sword Palace, asking them to return to the young palace master. ”

"The Beiwu Sword Palace is naturally not afraid of the Netherworld Palace, but as a righteous path sect, how can he take in a cult young palace master on the mountain? Although Senior Master Shen tried his best to protect him, he was only one person after all, and he had more than enough heart but not enough strength, so he could only watch Ran Yan being brought back by the Netherworld Palace but was powerless to stop it. ”

But Senior Shen naturally would not give up lightly, in the following decades, he has been searching for news and traces of the Netherworld Palace, but in the vast rivers and lakes, what he has to do is almost to find a needle in the bottom of the sea, it is as difficult as climbing to the sky, and he has never seen Ran Yan since this time. ”

He was disheartened, and he no longer had the original attachment and dependence on the Beiwu Sword Palace, which had abandoned Ran Yan, and with the permission of the elders of the Taishang, he broke away from the Sword Palace and came to Jiangzhou to serve as the head of the Confucian family. ”

"But will the fate in this world be interrupted because they can't meet each other, Ran Yan and Shen Shen's predecessors expressed their hearts to each other on the one-heart platform of the Beiwu Sword Palace, although they were finally intolerable to the two factions of good and evil, and were forced to live and die, but Ran Yan was pregnant with Shen's senior's child. ”

"Patriarch Shen has been in the rivers and lakes for decades, and he can be regarded as having his hands and eyes in the rivers and lakes, and in the next twenty years, he has been constantly looking for the whereabouts of the Netherworld, and has naturally cultivated many ears and eyes of the party, as long as there is news of the Netherworld, he will have to travel tens of millions of miles to inform him. ”

"The so-called world has no impermeable walls, and everyone didn't know that the young palace master of the Netherworld Palace was pregnant at the beginning, but it was rumored decades later. ”

Xu Daoyun hurriedly asked, "Did Patriarch Shen go to her?"

Chen Rui shook his head, "Decades of loneliness and loneliness, although it is extremely difficult, Senior Shen also understands a truth, the two of them are good and evil after all, as long as you know that she is okay, the so-called seeing each other is better than knowing each other." If the two meet again, how can they endure the loneliness of dozens or hundreds of years? At that time, the emotions will be out of control, and that will inevitably set off a war of good and evil that has balanced thousands of years. ”

"Although it is a matter of course for righteous people to punish adultery and eliminate evil, but in this way, there will be trouble, the people will not be able to make a living, countless innocent people will be implicated in this, and their families will be ruined, which is not what Shen wanted to see. ”

"I have spent 20 years in vain, and I have been in a mess, like a walking corpse, and there is no brilliance on my face. It wasn't until Senior Shen learned that he and Ran Yan had a child that a glimmer of hope was rekindled, knowing that the fate he had only seen with her was not broken, although he couldn't meet, at least through this new life, he witnessed their unforgettable, sworn love, and a fairy couple that countless Jianghu monks envied. ”

Xu Daoyun's face softened, as the saying goes, it is better to demolish ten temples than break a marriage, a good couple of partners, and they will be separated forever by the distinction between good and evil. Since then, the two have not seen each other again until they died, although there is a crystallization of love, but there will still be regrets in the end.

Xu Daoyun thought to himself, if it is himself, no matter what kind of war between good and evil, will it affect the heavens and the earth, as long as the two of them truly love each other, it is not allowed by all sentient beings, and they must be with their beloved, if sentient beings stop it, kill sentient beings.

But at the same time, he also expressed understanding and sympathy for Shen's predecessor's approach, he sacrificed his own happiness, even if he left endless regrets, he had to keep the peace of the world, such a small love for big love, which is not only admirable, but also made future generations shake their heads and sigh.

Sure enough, there is no such thing as the best of both worlds, and many times if we want to maintain one thing, we have to give up another precious thing, and the choice between them is up to our own hearts.

Shen Haocang, who took the common people of the world as his own responsibility and completely inherited the kendo spirit and heroic righteousness of Ning Zhengyang's predecessors, resolutely gave up his most cherished person and chose the right decision in the eyes of the world.

I don't know how many full moon nights hang, Shen Haocang stood alone on the star-picking tower of Wensheng Mountain and looked up at the sea of stars, every time he thought of that girl's smile, he would always show a bright smile that he had never seen in front of people in the daytime......

Xu Daoyun suddenly thought of something, pointed to the sword pillar in the distance of the mountain, and asked, "Mr. Chen, you still haven't said what this sword pillar is about?"

"Oh, it was Shen who thought the mountain was too wide, so he split a valley with a sword, and the sword qi remained in the valley for decades, and it was also because this place was a place where the aura of heaven and earth was gathered, and the earth's crust had moved for thousands of years, and it had experienced many cold and summers, and had survived several natural disasters, and it slowly gave birth to a seven-foot-high sword pillar in the valley, and the perennial sword qi lingered, and it lasted for a long time, but increased day by day. ”

"The ancestors of each family were afraid that the sword qi released by the sword pillar would dissipate one day, so they used the magic circle to trap the sword qi, and all the disciples of the hundred schools could go to the sword pillar to sense the sword qi and practice the way of the sword. It's a pity that over the years, sword cultivation has gradually declined, and there are only a handful of excellent sword cultivators, and there are fewer and fewer disciples who go to the sword pillar to sense. ”

Chen Rui saw Xu Daoyun's yearning look on his face, and said with a smile: "Okay, you don't have to be envious, there will be an opportunity to cultivate under the sword pillar in the future." ”

Xu Daoyun nodded, looking at the sword pillar that pierced into the sky in the distance, his eyes burning.

What kind of power can he use a sword to cut down a sword qi that pierces clouds and cracks stones on the Baizhang high mountain, and what kind of means does Ancestor Shen have, who caused the appearance of this valley, has a sword qi that has remained in the valley for decades, and has also reversed the mountain situation and grown a sword pillar for his disciples to cultivate and comprehend.

It's really a tree planted by the predecessors and enjoyed by the later generations.

The two walked up to Swallowing Tiger Mountain, and saw that the shouts and cheers in the school field shook the sky, Xu Daoyun was unclear, but Chen Rui laughed, "It's started." ”

Xu Daoyun's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly quickened his pace and walked over, his eyes swept through the crowd below, but he didn't find Tie Niu's figure. Immediately, he looked up at the ring again, grinning, it turned out that the iron bull had already played.

There was a ten-person melee in the ring, Tie Niu held a halberd in his hand, opened and closed widely, and the fierce true qi spread everywhere, forcing several people who joined forces to besiege him to not get close at all, but retreated step by step, almost withdrawing from the ring.

Chen Rui said: "Your brother seems to have been targeted. ”

Xu Daoyun grinned, "With these stinky fish and rotten shrimp alone, if you want to calculate the iron bull, I'm afraid it's not enough." ”