Thank God for the distress. Under the eaves of the corner of the iron gate, which he could not see, the two men met.

A corner eaves is naturally not a corner of the eaves, but one of the few attractions of the Iron Gate Pass.

This attraction located under the stone wall is famous because a young general of the Zhu Kingdom, one of the "Eight Horses" of the Great Chu Dynasty, built a pavilion behind the stone.

In fact, when it comes to investigation, that pavilion was originally not called a corner eaves.

It was only when the city was built in the northwest that a drunken supervisor approved the demolition of the Leshi Pavilion with a stroke of his pen, but he was stopped by the engineering supervisor who came in a hurry on the way to the demolition, and half of the pavilion was left. Looking beyond the stone wall, the half-remaining pavilion looks like a room hidden in the stone wall, just protruding from a corner.

In a certain year later, a certain scholar of the Great Jin Dynasty, looking for the footsteps of the ancestors, felt that the half of the pavilion was quite elegant, reflecting the sunset stone wall and the scene was magnificent, so according to the handwriting of the young general of the Zhu Kingdom, he wrote a sentence on the stone wall, "a corner of the eaves on the blue sky", and people gradually called this a corner of the eaves.

Tonight, it was already late, so although there was a lamp on the cornice of one corner of the eaves, only two people met here.

Whether it is a face, a body shape, or a middle-aged man who can no longer be ordinary, and an old Taoist with black temples and dusty robes look at each other under a corner of the eaves.

"It's been twenty-five years since Mr. Dugu didn't set foot in Middle-earth."

Ordinary middle-aged people are naturally big brothers. The elder brother's words are as plain as homely, and he can't afford to be in the air, but he is driving people away.

If you have not been involved in the world for twenty-five years, why are you here today, in the here and now?

The old Taoist smiled slightly, and his smile was full of calm and kindness.

"This is the Guanwai Road, not Middle-earth. This corner eaves was preserved by the ancestors, so I came here. ”

The voice of the old Taoist has the flavor of an elder, but it does not make people feel serious.

This is not Middle-earth, and he seems to be the descendant of the overseer of works who saved the pavilion.

The senior brother didn't know if this statement was correct, but he vaguely remembered that there was indeed a person surnamed Dugu among the superintendents who built the northwest back then.

Dugu is a foreign surname, and the supervisor of the year was a Xianbei person, so of course, the old Taoist is also a Xianbei person.

It's just that I don't know if it's the same naturalized Jin people as his ancestors.

Senior Brother was silent for a while, and then said, "You have been living in seclusion in the Yuwen Department for more than twenty years, why do you want to come back?" ”

The old Taoist surnamed Dugu said: "I came because my apprentice is here. ”

The elder brother was silent again. However, he still didn't let the old Taoist wait long, he said: "Yuwen Yong is your apprentice? ”

Dugu Lao Dao smiled: "How does Mr. Big think of me as a disciple?" ”

"Although the tiger is young, it already eats cattle."

Dugu Lao Dao laughed, full of joy.

"How does it compare to your heirs?"

Aggressive. The senior brother smiled slightly and said, "The little family is angry. ”

The old Taoist was stunned, obviously he thought that the senior brother would inevitably belittle Yuwen Yong and elevate Xie Shence, or meritorious deeds, or kung fu, but he didn't expect that it would be such a sentence as "little family spirit".

"It's obviously a man, why do you want to be a woman? Obviously there is a tiger in his heart, but why do cows appreciate peonies? I have all kinds of thoughts in my heart, but why is it shy on my face? ”

"It's too hypocritical. doesn't even have the bearing that a man should have, so sissy, how can she compare to my junior brother? ”

The elder brother is awe-inspiring.

Old Daoist Dugu was stunned, then annoyed, and then smiled bitterly.

"That's what he was like from the time I saw him. If I hadn't bathed him myself, I would have thought he was a girl and it wasn't my fault, so why belittle him so much? ”

Senior Brother Zhengse said: "You have taught him for 20 years, but you have not been able to change his sissy style, which shows that you are not a competent teacher." ”

The apprentice you bathed him was not as good as the junior brother I taught by hand, so you are not as good as me.

"But you can't beat me. Your junior brother can't beat my apprentice. ”

The senior brother smiled slightly: "Their generation is destined not to be as moral as us, and their personal kung fu has nothing to do with the overall situation. As for you saying that I can't beat you, that was twenty-five years ago. ”

"Huh?"

"Now, I'm done."

Dugu Old Daoist was surprised, and then sighed: "Wow! In that case, you do have the potential to draw or even win with me. The world is impermanent, I don't want you to have a happy day I thought that if you died your son, you would never be able to reach the peak again, but you walked out. The old Taoist priest only admired three and a half people in his life, and now with you, he has made up four whole people. ”

The senior brother smiled: "It's really not easy to make you admire." I should be happy. ”

The old Taoist is over seventy years old, but he looks like a man in his forties, if it weren't for his old voice, then standing with the senior brother, he looks younger.

He has experienced a lot and knows many things throughout the ages, including those secrets that are not recorded in the official history and are not passed down in the wild history. Therefore, he looks at people and things, and he is much more objective and comprehensive. Compared with ordinary people, I don't know how much higher the vision and pattern are.

Because of this, there are very few people who can admire him.

It's no wonder that he can say in such a tone that the senior brother can only be regarded as half of the people he admires for such a cultivation, but because the people he admires are not only left in the history books, but can be passed down through the ages, but because of their own quality, it is enough to make people admire for thousands of years.

Of course, among these three and a half people, the man who is known as the Emperor of the Ages should not be merciful. The old Taoist admires him, completely out of the mountains and rivers between men.

It's just that there is a gap of seven or eight hundred years between the old Taoist and Qin Shi Huang, and it is impossible for Qin Shi Huang to have a splendid scholarly bearing.

The elder brother knew that he admired those people, so he was happy to hear that he was able to be on a par with them, even if he could only count half of them.

But he said, "I should be happy," which means that I am still not happy. Even if he's laughing when he speaks.

For the old man mentioned his son, the son who died shortly after birth.

"You're blaming me for sitting on the sidelines. And yet, you know, at that time, I couldn't make a move. "The old Taoist can see the rhythm of the muscles beneath the surface from the skin of the person's face, so as to judge what a person is going to do next, so he can naturally clearly perceive the displeasure of the senior brother. What's more, the aura emanating from Senior Brother has already shown that he is indeed angry.

The old Taoist didn't care whether the senior brother was angry or not, and he said something similar to showing weakness, not because he cared about the feelings of the senior brother, but because he felt the need to explain it for himself.

"I don't think you explain much. Actually you're a person who has never been disdainful of explaining, and now you're explaining, explaining why you didn't make a move back then, so I think, you've changed."

The old Taoist said: "Here Yang Liu Qingqing, you and I are standing here to relax?" ”

The senior brother said: "When you change the topic, you have to prepare to do it, which shows that you have changed." You've become weaker. ”

The old Taoist said: "The previous explanation was just because my disciple often didn't understand things in the years he was studying with me, so I had to explain, and I had to explain it often, so I just explained it casually. As for the character you say, time changes everything. ”

"And getting ready to do it, it's that I know you're going to be here. You left Langya Mountain, left the old monk, naturally you can only come here. Because here are your dead wife and children, and the shocking secret that you are the only heir to the last generation of dead soldiers. ”

"We haven't fought each other for more than twenty years, and to be honest, I'm looking forward to it."

The senior brother said: "You are still a lot of verbose. In that case, it is useless to say more"

The old Taoist's wide sleeved robe was windless and automatic, swollen like a ball, and the dust in his hand swayed like a dragon's whisker.

The senior brother's expression was calm, and he moved slightly, one hand behind his back, and the other hand slightly stretched forward.

Please—

This may be the most exciting battle in the world today, from the beginning to the end, only half a pillar of incense was used, and the two of them combined and fought each other seventy-two moves.

In fact, it didn't count as a fight, because most of the quick attacks, the two missed.

The first sixty-nine moves took less than twenty breaths, while the last three took nearly two-thirds of the time.

If you were to tell the story of the battle with the lamp on the cornice, it would be as if the two were dancing.

Fighting is a very beautiful dance.

The army pursues one-hit killing, and in addition to comparing paths, the rivers and lakes also pay attention to a style. Whether it is the vigorous atmosphere, smart and elegant, or the thunder, or the surging Yellow River, it is all style and momentum.

And these two people are not simply imposing, but free to retract and release, truly mellow and accessible. Between a fist, a kick and a palm, they are all graceful.

It's a pity that there was no audience for this battle. In addition to the stone wall with the inscription of the former scholars of the Great Jin Dynasty "a corner of the eaves on the blue sky", only half of the remnant pavilion remains, and the lamp on the eaves, there is only the sound of the whining wind and the mountain ghosts.

The elder brother stood still, the clothes on his left forearm were already in tatters, and there was still a trace of blood flowing out of the exposed forearm.

Dugu Lao Dao's dust was already bald, and a sleeve was still pinched on the senior brother's right hand.

"Sure enough, it is a great consummation, without any stagnation and fierceness in front of the twenty-five. Much has improved. And I haven't seen the boxing method you just had, and I think that this kind of boxing method of combining rigidity and softness is the result of your great consummation, or maybe you have attained great consummation because of it. ”

"It's amazing."

The old Taoist priest is not an ordinary person, so after only one hand, he knew the key to the senior brother's martial arts refinement over the years.

The senior brother smiled slightly: "It's you who haven't advanced an inch." ”

The old Taoist didn't think it was wrong, and said: "You should know that at our point, it is difficult to move forward by half a step. You've just stepped into this level, so you can still do what we see as a thousand miles a day, but after tonight, you may have another breakthrough, but if you go up, it's an extravagant hope. ”

After speaking, the old Taoist priest sighed, and seemed to think of the scene when he broke through back then. However, when he thought of that year, he had to think of that night, a crazy man and a group of cold-blooded killers.

"I owed Emperor Jin a favor back then, so I promised him one thing. What I didn't expect was that it caused the death of your adoptive father and son. The old Taoist priest felt deeply guilty. However, the old Taoist priest did not regret it. for I owe him to pay it off. As for you and I who owe you, we weren't close friends at the time, and tonight, we've only met four times, so I don't think what I did at that time was wrong. ”

"Because of my selfish desires, I am guilty of killing your most important person. But I'm willing to give anything for the sake of freedom. Life is spared, let alone blood? ”

The senior brother said in a deep voice: "This is the struggle of the knights of the rivers and lakes against fate? ”

"I'm sorry that my struggle has caused your tragedy and made the paradise you have protected all your life a sad place. But now that you're back, you've come out of what you used to be. Then I bless you. As for your willingness to attribute the fault at that time to me, and want to find me to settle the score, the old Taoist priest is not afraid and is waiting at any time. ”

The senior brother said: "I don't blame you anymore. Now all I want is the peace of some people, and the real defeat of you. ”

Old Daoist Dugu smiled, and then turned around in a dashing manner.

After the old Taoist walked out of Sanzhang, the senior brother suddenly said, "Don't you want to know who made me consummated?" ”

The old Taoist stopped abruptly, and his body was a little stiff. "Who?" he asked. ”

The elder brother smiled without saying a word, and turned to leave.

The old man surnamed Dugu Mingqing stood in place and was silent.

After a long time, when the night wind rose again, the old Taoist waved the messy dust and sighed: "It is said that it is your junior brother, not a brother and a teacher." Maybe you think of him as a son. Otherwise, how could it be because of him? ”

Stunned, the old Taoist priest Duguqing shook his head slightly.

"Mr. Big has also learned to play tricks, it's really close to Zhu, red and black."

The old Taoist priest laughed.

When the elder brother exits, it is the time when he walks out of the most suitable distance, and it is best to laugh out loud. Because at that time, he felt that he had broken the knot in his heart. Even he felt that he might break through again.

And the senior brother suddenly asked, and the question he had wanted to ask since he learned about the great consummation of the senior brother, so the opportunity for him to break through was interrupted by Shengsheng.

Once interrupted, he realized that he might not have this opportunity again in this life. Because his heart is no longer bound, and he is at ease, and there is no knot that he can untie.

You are already standing on the top of the mountain, there is no peak to climb, and naturally you can't get even a foot closer to the sky.

"You will guard your Imperial Pavilion for the rest of your life, even if you are in great consummation, you will not be able to escape from a grave after all."

Qin Shi Huang could not escape an immortality. Zhang Kouzhi can't avoid a loyalty. His ancestors couldn't get out of a book. Sima Deguang can't give up a family and a country.

This is the three and a half people who are known as the unparalleled martial arts warriors at that time, and the old Taoist Duguqing admires the most.

plus the elder brother, there are exactly four people.