After passing the Sword Pavilion, passing through Mianzhou, Hanzhou, and Chengdu, all the way in a hurry, but Grandma Tong's injuries have a tendency to worsen, although I used the true qi of the North Ming to give her life to heal, it is only a drop in the bucket. Li Qiushui's sword qi cut off the main meridians of Grandma Tong, and it is a miracle that she has been able to hold out until now, thanks to Grandma Tong's cultivation of Taoist exercises since childhood, Rao is also becoming more and more depressed, and she is sleepy from time to time.

But when he arrived in Chengdu, Wu Xingyun's spirit became stronger, and he opened his mouth and ordered: "Go to the Guangji Pharmacy in the city, show this jade pendant to the shopkeeper, and ask him to take us to the Eternal Life Valley." ”

This is not difficult, Chengdu is a big city, there is a branch of Tianxiang Pavilion, I asked the people of Tianxiang Pavilion to take us to a busy pharmacy, the signboard on the dragon flying phoenix dance with two words "Guangji", the font is vigorous and powerful, as if to break out of the air, it looks quite a certain unique rhythm. The pharmacy is located next to the main road in the city, the crowd is shoulder to shoulder, it is very lively, the pharmacy is very large, covers an area of about two acres, there are seven entrances, there is a big medicine cabinet inside, there are at least hundreds of kinds of medicines alone, more than a dozen guys are busy grabbing medicine for people, and there is a doctor at the table next to him to cut the pulse to diagnose the disease, everything is busy and orderly.

A person in charge of the scene stepped forward and asked respectfully: "A few masters, I don't know what you have to do in my pharmacy?" ”

I said lightly: "If you have something to see the shopkeeper of your store, please let me know." ”

The steward frowned slightly, hugged his hand and said, "Please wait a moment, and report it when you go down." ”

Not long after, a shopkeeper in his fifties walked out from behind, and when he saw a group of us, he was slightly stunned, and then seemed to remember something, walked up quickly, raised his hand respectfully, and said: "Open in Xia Sun Valley, add to the shopkeeper of Guangjitang, you have come from afar, please go down to the back hall to have tea." "I felt a slight admiration in my heart, although this shopkeeper is a little old, but he walks quickly and quietly, his eyes are hidden, and it is obvious that his internal cultivation is quite good, not a simple person.

Fu Minyi and Yu Po and others stayed in the side hall to rest, I helped Grandma Tong to walk back with the shopkeeper, through the long corridor and courtyard, to a more private small hall at the back, the servant served tea and then retreated, the shopkeeper Sun respectfully hugged his fists to me and Grandma Tong and said: "Two servants of the wind and dust, to my Sichuan Guangji Hall, I don't know what to see?" ”

Grandma Tong was seriously injured and didn't want to speak, so I clasped my fists and saluted back: "In my aunt Su Murong Fu, this is my uncle Tianshan Tong's grandmother, please take a look at this jade pendant and take us to Changsheng Valley." ”

Shopkeeper Sun respectfully took the jade pendant, looked at it for a while, and looked at Grandma Tong and me for a long time, as if to identify our intentions. Grandma Tong snorted heavily: "What do you look at, what about the little Xu who used to look at the store?" ”

Shopkeeper Sun smiled bitterly: "What the predecessors said is the family teacher Xu Cisheng? His old man has already traveled all over the world. The predecessors have an old relationship with the Valley of Eternal Life? But Changsheng Valley has not seen outsiders for a long time, this jade pendant is real, I can transfer it to the elders of the valley on my behalf, but whether I see it or not, it depends on the meaning of the elders of the valley. ”

Grandma Tong said unceremoniously: "Then why don't you go quickly, don't you lead the way?" ”

Shopkeeper Sun said, "Please come with me." ”

We followed the shopkeeper Sun to the outside to get on a carriage, went directly out of the city to the south, walked for about half a day, got off, this is already a suburb, the mountains in the distance are heavy, as if there are many secrets. Shopkeeper Sun raised his hand and continued to walk into the mountain, walking for about two hours, passing through two hills, and passing a line of heaven before stopping in front of a valley.

There are two middle-aged people on duty at Taniguchi, one is sitting cross-legged as if he is meditating, and the other is practicing his kung fu with a horse step, both of them have their eyes closed, and it seems that they can practice like this for a lifetime. Before we could get closer, we both opened their eyes at the same time and stared at us with intense eyes.

The man in front of him frowned slightly and asked, "Shopkeeper Sun, you don't see outsiders in Changsheng Valley, have you forgotten?" ”

Shopkeeper Sun smiled and said: "Lao Xia, these two are more special, this is Wu Xingyun's senior, this is Gusu Murong Fu." This is the immortal pendant given by the predecessor of Wu, you can take a look. ”

The man surnamed Xia took the jade pendant and looked at it carefully, then turned it to the man who stood up on the side, and said solemnly: "It turned out to be Wu Xingyun's predecessor and Gusunan Murong, I heard that Murong Gongzi recently killed the Quartet in Western Xia, defeated the top masters of Daliao and Western Xia in a row, and came and went freely among the ten thousand armies, and was called the sword god Murong Fu in the martial arts, and admired it." ”

The man surnamed Xia is neither humble nor arrogant when he speaks, and he has the style of a general. I hugged my fists and said: "Your Excellency has praised it falsely, it is all spread by people in the rivers and lakes, and Murong Fulang has a false name, but I don't know what Your Excellency is called?" ”

"In Xia Mudi, this is my brother Chen Ge. Please wait a moment, and let me pass through the valley master. Then he walked to a large black iron bell hanging from a pine tree, took up a stick, and struck it three times, and the sound was clear, and it was far into the valley.

Wu Xingyun, who was standing beside me, didn't say a word, but looked at the iron bell slightly, as if he remembered something. After a while, I heard the sound of someone rushing quickly, and then a thirteen or fourteen-year-old child came out of the valley mouth, and I was slightly impressed, this child was not a big grade, but his light achievements were not bad.

The boy glanced at us, took the jade pendant from Xia Mudi's hand, and then bowed and said, "Distinguished guests, please come with me." ”

After walking a hundred meters into the Valley of Eternal Life, passing through a small forest, I saw several exquisite wooden houses, and the child guided me into the living room, where I saw a tall middle-aged scribe who was engrossed in making tea, and the child stood beside him after handing over the jade pendant.

But Wu Xingyun said disdainfully: "Pretending to be a ghost, Xu Ziping, Grandma Tong is not here to drink tea." ”

The middle-aged scribe named Xu Ziping picked up the teapot, poured three cups of hot tea, raised his hand to signal us to sit down, and the children served hot tea, the tea was green, and the needle-shaped tea leaves were suspended in it.

Xu Ziping picked up the tea and said: "Wu'er is still so impatient, it hasn't changed for so many years, you are seriously injured, this is my newly made pine needle spirit tea, drinking it is good for your body." ”

Wu Xingyun silently picked up the hot tea, drank it dry in one gulp, and didn't say a word.

I slowly tasted this pine needle spirit tea, with a certain charm in the fragrance, as if listening to Yu Yan playing the piano, refreshing, nothing more than yes.

After drinking half of the tea, Xu Ziping asked, "Wu'er is here, what's the matter?" This piece of immortal pendant has been kept by your free sect for many years, but I can't imagine that you still used it in the end, is it for healing? ”

Wu Xingyun coughed for a while, and said hoarsely: "No, I am very old, and it is difficult to recover from serious injuries, but we have been fighting in the Freedom Sect for so many years, and we must never forget the teachings of the ancestors of the Creation Sect, this is the head of the new generation of our Freedom Sect, I hope he can study in the Immortal Valley for a while." ”

Xu Ziping sighed: "After so many years, are you still thinking about the "Recipe for Longevity" that I sent?" ”

"Not bad! The old body has not had much time, and after so many years of cultivation, it has not been able to reach the realm of the ancestors' freedom, not because of the poor understanding of the old body, but because of the incomplete martial arts practiced. ”

Xu Ziping said lightly: "However, the "Recipe for Eternal Life" is the supreme classic of my Eternal Life Valley, and it has never been passed on, so I'm afraid I won't be able to agree to your request." ”

Grandma Tong took a breath, stood up and laughed: "I think that when your faction invited me to send the patriarch to attack the Demon Sect together, there was an agreement that the two factions were in the same breath, and their respective martial arts classics could learn from each other. If this is the case, Grandma Tong has nothing to say, Murong, let's go. ”

Xu Ziping frowned and said: "Yes, the two factions of your and me do have a precedent of learning from each other's martial arts classics, and your self-respecting skills are closely related to the longevity of our faction, but not any disciple of the Xiaoyao faction can casually ask for the secrets of our faction, only the head of the Xiaoyao faction or the descendants of the disciples who have been approved by our faction have the right to come forward to negotiate the exchange of secret books." ”

Wu Xingyun retorted: "Gusu Murong Fu is the descendant disciple of the previous generation of the head of the sect Wu Yazi sent by me, who was awarded the Easy Sword and the Seven Treasure Wrench, and is also the only person recognized by my Tianshan Tong Grandma, if he is not qualified, who will have it?" ”

Xu Ziping snorted lightly, his eyes fell on the long sword he was carrying behind me, and his face changed slightly: "You sit down for a while, let me discuss with the elders in the sect, and then reply." After saying that, he stood up and left the hall with a slight shake.

I slightly rin the middle-aged scribe's body and light skills, raised his right hand and put it on the palm of Grandma Tong, outputting a true qi to sort out the chaotic aura for her, and then asked with some puzzlement: "Uncle Shi, there are countless martial arts classics of our Xiaoyao School, which are rare in the world, and the sword technique of heaven and man is even more powerful, and I can't finish learning it myself, so why bother to ask others for martial arts?" ”

Wu Xingyun smiled bitterly: "Before the age of forty, I also thought like you, but it's a pity that the later I practiced martial arts, the more I discovered the shortcomings of our free sect martial arts. Usually martial arts people practice martial arts, pursuing the greater the power and the better, the more skills the better, but ignoring the limitations of the human body. After all, we are mortal beings in the flesh, and no matter how hard we try, there is always a limit to what we can achieve. Only by entering the innate from the day after tomorrow, reshaping the physical body with the aura of heaven and earth, and using the void to control the reality, and the unity of heaven and man, can we break through the bottleneck and reach the supreme realm of truly being free and leisurely and swimming in infinity. This is also the goal that Shibo has always pursued since the day he started cultivating, but unfortunately my fate has been ill-fated and I have never been able to break through myself on the basis of my school's martial arts classics. ”

I was surprised and said, "What does Uncle Shi mean is that the martial arts of my school belong to the acquired exercises, and only the 'Recipe for Longevity' is an innate martial arts?" ”

"Yes, not only that, what you come into contact with when you walk in the martial arts, whether it is the highest classics of Shaolin or the Demon Sect, no matter how subtle the martial arts, is only an acquired exercise. Among the martial arts, as far as I know, only Changsheng Valley and Cihang Jingzhai retain the innate exercises. ”

I said silently: "But I think that the Heavenly Sword Technique of my sect also has the innate characteristics that my master said, and it is unknown for my master and nephew to break through the innate in the future." ”

Wu Xingyun said: "Yes, the Heavenly Sword Technique is the supreme martial arts of my Freedom Sect, and it is also the supreme method of my Sect that dominated the world in the era when there were many innate masters, and it is also an innate sword technique, with infinite power, but Murong, you have been cultivating for so long, can you control this sword technique?" Even if you have deep internal strength and go all out, how long can you use this sword technique? Half an hour? ”

I 赧 (nǎn) said: "Don't say half an hour, the master and nephew can only use at most twenty moves in a row and must stop or switch to other martial arts, the consumption of internal force by the Heavenly Sword Technique is indeed very large, which is also the reason why the Western Xia warriors can bully more and less, if there is infinite internal force, then even thousands of troops and horses Murong can go." ”

Wu Xingyun nodded and said, "The key point is not that your internal strength is not deep enough, but that you lack the support of an innate technique, and after the internal force is consumed, it cannot be quickly replenished from between heaven and earth." In fact, the ancestor of this school is also one of the top sects with innate internal strength, that martial arts is called Xiaoyao Yufeng, it is said that practicing to the top can live with heaven and earth, but unfortunately the seventh generation of the head died suddenly, and did not teach it. ”