Time flies, spring goes to autumn. There is no sun and moon in the mountains, and in the blink of an eye, it is the beginning of autumn.

It has been a year since I fled into the mountains. Over the past year, Niu Tianya has been collecting medicine every day, hunting beasts, farming, and then fighting against the black ape, and his skills have steadily improved.

In the past year, the biggest harvest is still Tiancangjue.

A year of life in the deep mountains, every day to watch the sunrise and sunset, the clouds rise and disappear, watch the wind and clouds change, the clay kettle thunder, see the vast sea of clouds, swallow the mountains and rivers, watch the wild wind blowing, rolling pine waves, the state of mind of the cow Tianya, with the changes of nature ups and downs. Between the ups and downs, the description of the Heavenly Dao in the first seven sentences of the Heavenly Cangjue is basically integrated and penetrated, and many entanglements are naturally unraveled, and the understanding is deeper.

Although the penetration of the Heavenly Cangjue failed to increase a little skill, it provided the best interpretation for the understanding of ancient martial arts.

Today's Niu Tianya, the momentum around him is completely restrained, like a pearl covered with dust, without the slightest brilliance, no different from ordinary people. Once released, it will be like a mountain collapsing, the sea is crossing, and the rolling coercion is overwhelming, and every move and formula contains the essence of the ancient martial arts' potential, even if the black ape that fights against him every day is steadily suppressed.

But what surprised Niu Tianya the most was that space.

At first, Niu Tianya didn't feel anything, but when his state of mind improved again and again, and when he penetrated the first seven sentences of the Heavenly Cangjue, he opened the space again, but he was surprised to see that it was different from before.

Inside, it's no longer as calm as it used to be. From time to time, the wind blows gently, and there are clouds of fog at different times, and the heavens and the earth seem to be higher and farther, and the space is more expansive. It was an intuition, an intuition that was not seen with the naked eye, but from the heart. He vaguely felt an inexplicable connection with that space. Niu Tianya vaguely felt that the space left by the Gu Wu Mark was not just a dead thing that could be stored, but more like a baby that grew up with his own growth.

The growth of space has made Niu Tianya appear another somewhat supernatural thing.

The original items have been moved to a corner for some reason, and in the center of that space, only two things are still floating and suspended, one is the dark Tianheng battle knife like a pig-killing knife, and the other is the bronze candlestick that was thrown out of the sky by Niu Tianya that day.

When he saw the bronze candlestick appear in space for the first time, Niu Tianya was indeed surprised. He clearly remembered that he didn't pick it up after being beaten out by him that day, and he didn't see it fly back automatically, so when did it fly back?

His own space is in the turbulence of space, and it is the ancient martial arts mark that forcibly breaks through and stabilizes with great magic power and great mana, just like a house, the key to the only door is in his hand, but he did not open the door, and the house has no signs of damage, but when he returned home, there was one more guest.

Niu Tianyaden realized the extraordinaryness of the candlestick, which could stand side by side with the sword in space, floating and spinning, even the original thundering sword. And he has also experimented a few times, whenever and wherever he hits the bronze candlestick, it will automatically fly back, like a well-researched return satellite, and there will never be the slightest deviation.

Although he also knew that the ability of the candlestick was not limited to this, but he studied it repeatedly, but he did not find the slightest clue, once he held it in his hand, it became a dead thing, and perhaps only in that space could he show an extraordinary side.

A year of seclusion, not only Niu Tianya, but also Qianqian and Gu Linger also got great benefits.

Thousands of serious injuries sink the primordial spirit into the primordial infant, urging the primordial infant to complete the cycle of tantric mind.

After a year of cultivation, the body has improved, the heart has healed, and the body has returned to the original level, but the Zhou Tian cycle of Yuan Ying has not stopped. It is engraved like a mark in the hearts of thousands of people.

At first, I didn't feel anything, but as time went on, the cultivation of thousands of people grew rapidly like a great river that gathered countless streams. Yuan Ying is the foundation of human cultivation, and the aura of heaven and earth is absorbed by the body and transformed into true yuan, and finally it is necessary to return to Yuan Ying and strengthen Yuan Ying. Only when the infant grows to a certain level can he step into a certain realm.

In the body of ordinary cultivators, the Yuan Infant is a container used to hold the true essence of cultivation. And Qianqian's Yuan Infant is different. The operation of the tantric mind method makes the primordial infant qualitatively transformed, no longer just the function of a container, but also can operate independently to absorb the aura of heaven and earth.

The absorption of the Yuan Infant is much faster than the body, and it is much stronger, and it is the condensation of the spiritual energy, which is the final destination after the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is refined into the true element. And thousands of blessings due to misfortune have been cultivated. After she recovered, her accumulated cultivation suddenly burst out, allowing her to enter the peak of the late Yuan Infant period in one fell swoop, and she was only one step away from breaking through to the Silent Extinction Period.

Gu Linger also gained a lot during this time.

When she first entered the deep mountains, her soul was thoroughly cleansed and tempered, and her cultivation broke through to the middle stage of the Yuan Infant. And then the time slowly stabilized. And Niu Tianya suddenly thought that he would bring a big stone slab and tinker with it for two days before drawing a crooked person on it. The human body indicates the location of many acupuncture points and major organs, and then connects them vertically and horizontally with eight meridians. After fiddling with everything, he explained it to Gu Linger in detail to help her break through the eight veins of the Qi Sutra.

The Eight Pulses of the Strange Sutra opened, Gu Linger's True Yuan flowed faster, and his energy was more vigorous, and his cultivation had miraculously risen to the peak of the middle stage of the Yuan Infant, and he could break through to the late Yuan Infant stage at any time.

Boom Boom Boom Boom ......

In a series of violent explosions, Niu Tianya landed steadily, and a huge black shadow flew out upside down, falling straight into the waterhole in front of the thatched house.

"Roar ......" roared, and the black shadow quickly rose and fell steadily to the shore, shaking all around, and the crystal water droplets flickered with colorful light under the sunlight and flew around.

"Holy. With an angry scolding, Niu Tianya was caught off guard, was drenched, and became a complete chicken in the soup. The black ape, which was blown away, walked towards the hut without incident.

"Holy shit, you come back to the second brother and see that the second brother will no longer bomb you in. Niu Tianya jumped to his feet and scolded and chased after him.

Next to the meadow, Qianqian and Gu Ling'er walked over slowly, looking at the man and beast chasing and frolicking not far away, their eyes were full of smiles.

"Ling'er, what do you think of him?" Qianqian retracted her gaze and fell on Gu Linger's blown-up face.

"Second brother, he's very good, funny and kind. Gu Linger also turned her head, and her big eyes were crystal clear.

"Don't you hate him anymore?" Qianqian's eyes were interested, with a hint of something different.

"I don't know. Gu Linger lowered her head when she heard this, her eyes full of confusion. Niu Tianya killed Yun Feng and her fellow disciples, but helped her open up the eight veins of the Qi Jing. Although he talked about it, for more than 300 days and nights, except for visiting Qianqian during meals, Niu Tianya never even entered the thatched hut, and at night he lived in the cave behind the house with the blood pupil demon ape Xiao Hei, and never trespassed in the slightest.

Although she is innocent, although she is only seventeen years old, she grew up in the Ancient Sword Academy, and her father Gu Qingfeng has told her more than once to keep a distance from Mo Xiangtian and Yunfeng. Although she didn't understand it very well, from the eyes of Mo Xiangtian and Yun Feng looking at him, she also vaguely read a trace of obscene burning, but Gu Ling'er's identity was deeply hidden.

But in Niu Tianya's eyes, she has never seen it, even when Niu Tianya is babbling nonsense and flirting, her eyes are full of clear innocence.

In Gu Linger's heart, Niu Tianya, who seems to be obscene and lustful, is a hundred times stronger than a hypocrite like Mo Xiangtian who is full of benevolence and morality. It's just that she doesn't want to, let alone admit.

"Ling'er, sometimes, there is only one opportunity, if you don't hold it tightly and hold it in your hands, you will miss it forever and never come back. Qianqian stared at Niu Tianya and the black ape's tumbling and fighting figures, with some loss in her eyes.

Gu Linger was slightly stunned, and looked at Qianqian in surprise.

In her eyes, Qianqian and Niu Tianya are talented women. Born all the way to death, in order to take care of Qianqian, he did not hesitate to offend the ancient sword academy and arrested himself, regardless of the danger every day, and the black ape went deep into the mountains to collect medicine, and even when he came back several times, he was seriously injured, and he still went out the next day after a simple bandage, and the wind and rain for a year, without a single delay. When Qianqian looked at Niu Tianya, there was also an emotion in her eyes. Although Gu Linger was not sure that this was love, she also vaguely felt that there was a tacit understanding between them, but Niu Tianya seemed to be evasive and unwilling to accept it.

"Sister Qianqian, I, I...... I can see that you like the second brother. "Gu Linger was deeply poisoned by the Ancient Sword Academy, her face was flushed, and she barely said the word 'like', but she was already as inaudible as a mosquito.

Qianqian glanced at Gu Ling'er, seemed to hear what she said, a trace of helplessness flashed in her eyes, and then she immediately recovered and smiled: "We are a lifelong friendship, don't think about it." ”

Gu Linger turned her head to look at Qianqian, a little suspicious, and her eyes fell on Niu Tianya again.

Niu Tianya was lying on the grass with the black ape, panting heavily, and the smile on his face was clearly visible.

Over the past year, abandon the wind and rain, abandon the rivers and lakes, and leave everything behind. Niu Tianya seems to have returned to the seven years before he was confined, fully integrating his body and mind into this vast mountain, and returning to the happiest days of his life.

"Niu Tianya. Putting down the pottery bowl and staring at the porridge in the bowl, Qianqian said as if talking to herself, "It's been a year since we entered the mountain." ”

"Well, what's wrong?" Niu Tianya raised his head and glanced at Qianqian as if he was fine, then lowered his head and continued to attack the porridge in the bowl.

"When are you going to go to Dao Void Meditation?" Qianqian raised his head and looked at Niu Tianya, thinking silently in his heart, if it wasn't for himself, I'm afraid he would have met Xinyue a long time ago.

Niu Tianya was slightly stunned, reacted instantly, raised his head and smiled: "Don't worry, just wait." ”

"I'm in a hurry. "In the late autumn cold, the white air rose from the porridge basin in the center of the wooden table, blocking between the two of them, making Qianqian's vision a little hazy.

"What are you going to do in the Dao Void Temple?" Gu Ling'er looked at Niu Tianya with wide eyes, and then at Qianqian, a little unclear.

"Roar ......" In the corner, the black ape raised the empty bowl and screamed.

"What are you going to be along?" Niu Tianya raised his head and glared at the black ape, "Stay here honestly, wait for me to come back." ”

"Roar ......" The black ape glared at Niu Tianya with a pair of blood-red eyes, and shouted dissatisfiedly.

"You go to the top of a fart, you want to smash this and that all day long, and you are not afraid of being smashed one day. Niu Tianya immediately turned-for-tat, trying to widen his eyes and look at the black ape.

"Tomorrow to go. Qianqian's expression was still indifferent, and after speaking, she turned her head to look at Gu Linger and said, "By the way, I'll send you home." ”

Go home? Gu Linger was stunned. For more than a year, although the time is not long, it is memorable. Working at sunrise and resting at sunset, her daily cultivation and labor give her a deep sense of belonging, and subconsciously, she has long regarded this place as her home.

Niu Tianya also put down his rice bowl, nodded, and turned around and took the black ape into the starlight.

"Sister Qianqian, what's wrong with the second brother?" It wasn't until Niu Tianya disappeared that Gu Linger withdrew her gaze and said while cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks on the table.

"He's the most bitter of us. Qianqian sighed and pulled Gu Linger to sit beside him.

In the past year, she got along day and night, especially Gu Ling'er decocted and changed her medicine every day, washed and fed her, so that she also had an inexplicable touch, and after she got better, she became closer to Gu Linger, like a sister, otherwise she would not have said the words of the day.

"What's wrong with the second brother?" Gu Linger got up and made two cups of tea before sitting back beside Niu Tianya, and asked with wide eyes.

Qianqian sighed, and her slender fingers turned the teacup: "That time we were originally going to Dao Xuguan, because Niu Tianya's ...... A friend is in the Tao of the Void, and only when he meets you halfway will there be conflicts, otherwise ......"

Gu Linger noticed that Qianqian's tone paused slightly when she talked about Niu Tianya's friend, and looking at her expression, it seemed that it was not just as simple as a virtual view. It's just that Qianqian didn't want to say these things, and she didn't want to ask, so she nodded and said, "Then let's go on the road tomorrow, I hope the second brother will see you...... The friend can be happy. ”

Qianqian didn't answer, her eyes fell on the night sky outside the window.

Although he didn't say it, wasn't that what he had been looking forward to? Perhaps, it was time to separate......

The morning in the mountains is spectacular. The sky is rolling and the fog is swallowed. Like a majestic giant, he woke up from his slumber, surging vitality erupted, bringing hope for the day!

As soon as the sky was bright, Niu Tianya and the three of them had already cleaned up.

Glancing at the thatched hut where he had lived for a year, the crops that had just been harvested, and the stored grain, Niu Tianya suddenly turned around and walked out of the mountain without looking back.

Qianqian and Gu Linger were also full of emotion. A year of life, no matter what the reason for coming here, has passed, and when I am about to leave, I look back at the road I have traveled, there are worries, tears, grievances, rebellions, hard work, accumulation, sublimation, and qualitative changes. Until now, it has become a deep attachment, just like a wanderer who is about to leave his hometown, his heart is sour, and the corners of his eyes are moist.

There were no words, no sound, the three of them packed their bags, stepped on the morning glow, and disappeared into the sky. On the low hill behind the hut, a lonely black figure always stands, motionless. The blood-red eyes looked at the direction in which the three of them left, and the silent expression was clearly visible.

"Roaring ......"

A loud roar resounded through the mountains and forests, as if to vent the depression in his heart, and seemed to say goodbye to the wanderer. The sound is like rolling waves, coming far, far away!

Niu Tianya, who was walking alone at the forefront, trembled slightly, hesitated for a moment, and walked out of the mountain as if nothing had happened. It's just that it's a lot faster, it seems to be running for its life, it's more like an escape!

100,000 mountains, wild and boundless. Among them, there are many fierce beasts, and there are even more demon beasts rampant among them, flying in the sky and hoarding the earth, omnipotent.

Here, no one dares to fly with a sword, because no one can guarantee when a powerful demon beast tornado will burst out of the dense forest. Unless it is cultivated so strong that it can ignore everything in the heavens. It's just that there are too few such people, or in the heavenly continent, there is no such thing at all, maybe there will be in the fairy world, but they will not come here. This is also the reason why Niu Tianya didn't learn swordsmanship in the first place.

Although they can't fly with their edges, compared to entering the mountain a year ago, the cultivation of the three of them has greatly improved, and the degree is much faster. With one foot on the ground, with a slight jump, it is already three feet away. Niu Tianya is even more exaggerated, every time he crosses, he is over five zhang, like a streamer interspersed in the dense forest, straight to the outside of the mountain.

The three of them walked forward, no one noticed, behind them, a tall black figure followed closely like a thief, between the ups and downs, the distance of the vertical leap was even farther than Niu Tianya, but there was no sound, sneaky, and followed the three of them all the way to the mountain.

At nightfall, the three of them walked into Wuyi Town and went straight into the inn. These three people are Niu Tianya, Qianqian and Gu Ling'er, who have just walked out of the mountains.

After asking for three upper rooms and taking a brief bath, the three of them gathered in the lobby and ordered a table of wine and food.

If the market is the place with the most versions of gossip, then the wine, rice and tea shop is definitely the place with the fastest circulation. Although Wuyi Town is not big, there are also merchants who purchase mountain goods and sell tea, porcelain, and salt, and from time to time there are people from the rivers and lakes who go back and forth with the caravans, and the news of the Middle Earth Cultivation Realm continues to flow in and spread in this small inn hall.

Niu Tianya and the others ate wine and food, listening to all kinds of news. At this moment, outside Wuyi Town, there was a black figure lingering, and it took a long time before entering the mountains and forests.

"There is still a month left before the Lianyun Sword Sect's Dao Conference, and I don't know if I can rush back this time. Niu Tianya and the three of them had just sat down, and a man with a waist knife at the table said.

Niu Tianya turned his head and glanced at it. There are eight people sitting at the table, all wearing short-fitting tight clothes, with weapons hanging from their waists, two of them are not weak in cultivation, and in the late stage of fusion, they have only entered middle age, and it is the limit to be able to break into the Jindan period in their lifetime, and it is difficult to advance an inch.

"Cut, what can we do when we go back? I'm afraid we don't even have the qualifications to enter the door. A man in gray next to him pouted.

"It's better to hear the latest news even if you can't get in than to stay here. The first speaker, dressed in green clothes, looked around as he spoke, with a hint of impatience on his brow.

"He Laosan, you have been in this industry for a long time, why haven't you just entered the industry and have patience. Opposite, a man in black spoke.

He Laosan's face was listless, and he stared at the desktop in a daze: "On the Dao Conference, don't you want to go and see? For the first time in the cultivation realm, those masters in the south and north will definitely come, and when the time comes, it will be an abnormal dragon fight, I can't see it with my own eyes, and I can also hear the latest news from it, here, I'm afraid it was half a month ago, what's the point?"

Hearing this, Niu Tianya and Qianqian glanced at each other. They lived in the mountains for a year, and they didn't hear any rumors in the cultivation realm, but when they went out of the mountain this time, they heard any Taoist conferences, and they were a little puzzled, so they calmed down and continued to listen.

"That's the business of those immortals, let's make some money to support our wives and children. Next to him, the man in gray turned his head and shouted, "Xiao Er, hurry up, I'm starving to death."

"It's coming, it's coming. From afar, Xiao Er answered.

"Hey, you say, who can win this Dao Conference?" He Laosan didn't give up, and looked up at the man in gray and said.

"It's my business, my uncle just eats and sleeps, and when I go back, I get the silver to make new clothes for my wife, and they won't give me a penny if they win. The man in gray rolled his eyes and said.

"Zhang Laosi, I said, why are you old and I can't get along. He Laosan couldn't help but say loudly on his face.

"Alright, you guys. The man in black waved his hand, and then said, "If you want me to see, it's really impossible to say who will win." ”

"Then I can't say for sure, it must be Jiang Yueming, the head of the Lianyun Sword Sect, who won the championship. ”

"Yes, yes, I think it's Jiang Yueming, Lianyun Sword Sect is the first major cultivator of the true sect, and they have teamed up with the Heart Zen Temple and the Ancient Sword Academy to promote this matter, and they will talk about the Tao at their doorstep, and if they don't win the championship again, they will lose the dead. ”

"I don't think so, although Lianyun Sword Sect is known as the No. 1 Great Cultivation True Sect, but it is only limited to Middle Earth, this time I heard that there are people from the Southern Wilderness and Saibei, maybe it will also alarm the Hidden World Sect, if there is a fight, it is really hard to say who can win. ”

Some time ago, that Xuanyu Sect rebel Niu Tianya walked the rivers and lakes with ancient martial arts skills, and in just over a month, he defeated the head of Hengyue, Yuanyu Zhenren, and stepped on the Tiejia Fort, and hit the Ancient Sword Academy hard, didn't some people say that the Hidden World Sect was alarmed, would they send someone down the mountain? I haven't come for so long, and I came back this time? ”

"Hey, don't say it, that Niu Tianya is really powerful, he actually disabled Mo Jianbei of the Ancient Sword Academy with his own strength, that is a well-known figure in the cultivation world, unfortunately, no one has seen him after that battle, if he participates this time, maybe he will defeat the north and south to win the championship. ”

"Come on, let's not mention that there are the heads of various factions staring there, even the Cloud Sword Sect is not something that Niu Tianya can deal with, I recently heard that some time ago, the three most outstanding disciples of the Lianyun Sword Sect were born, slaying demons and destroying demons, fighting swords in all directions, and ending a gang of horse thieves of thousands of people in one go, and then appearing thousands of miles away to kill a thousand-year-old tree demon, if it is right, I estimate that Lianyun Sword Sect is stronger. ”

"No matter how strong they are, can they cripple Mo Jianbei? Niu Tianya is alive and following his meridians, and several bones are beaten into powder, which is also retribution, the Ancient Sword Academy has not done anything good for so many years, and it is difficult to even do business within their jurisdiction, last time I followed Zhang Yuanwai to do business in their jurisdiction, and only two truckloads of salt were sold for four months, I really doubt that the people there didn't eat sea salt? The cloth was finally sold at a loss, Zhang Yuanwai lost at least five hundred taels of silver that time, and when he went home, he heard that he was seriously ill, and he vowed never to go there again. ”

The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention. Niu Tianya and Qianqian were nothing, and Gu Ling'er's face changed greatly, staring at the eight people chatting casually.

"If you don't want anyone to know, you can't do it unless you do. Niu Tianya glanced at Gu Ling'er, took a sip of the wine glass, "If you are a person, you have to say, it's nothing." ”

As soon as Niu Tianya's voice fell, another voice came from next to him: "That Niu Tianya is also really ruthless, he actually destroyed the Xuanyu Sect, and I don't know who started the 'Blood Demon', it is estimated that it has something to do with the group of evil demons in the Tantric Sect." ”

The wine Niu Tianya had just swallowed suddenly came up, choked into his trachea, his face was flushed, he coughed violently, and the indifference in his eyes disappeared instantly, replaced by an expression of crying and laughing.

Retribution, retribution......