Guigu faction, the top of Yunmeng Mountain, the sword training platform.

Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang, who had returned from training, finished their morning class, and after collecting their swords, they stood on the top of the mountain in a rare way, overlooking the scenery under the cliff of the sword training platform.

Clouds and mist filled the valley, white and vast, sometimes clear, sometimes hazy, and the whole world seemed to be shrouded in a misty fog, unable to distinguish the boundary between heaven and earth. The breeze blows, the fog pushes the fog, the clouds follow the clouds, one moves, one stagnates, one condenses, one disperses......

The white clouds in the sky are like white clothes, and the beard is changed like a dog. In the blink of an eye, time flies, and it has been almost three years since the days in the Ghost Valley.

Today is the day before the expiration of the three-year period, and it is also the day before the decisive battle of the disciples of Guigu.

"This is the scenery that should be seen from a high place." Wei Zhuang looked at the small things under the mountain, many beautiful scenery in the bottom of his eyes, beautiful, and at the same time, there was a sense of Ling Ran at a glance at the mountains.

"The so-called strong. Is it to stand at the top of everyone? Gai Nie, who watched the sea of clouds churning, suddenly broke the calm of the valley and looked at the changing clouds and said.

"If you don't trample people under your feet. How can he look up at you and admit that you are strong. Wei Zhuang replied lightly.

"Is this the only way to survive?" Ganie asked.

"The law of the jungle. It's just the nature of all things in the world. Wei Zhuang replied in a cold voice, he understood that the senior brother must have softened for some reason, and suddenly began to hesitate.

"Although we are the same family, we must fight to the death, this is also nature?" Gagnie questioned.

"This is the rule of the strongest cultivator in the Ghost Valley, passed down from generation to generation, and each generation is the overlord who dominates the world." Wei Zhuang said yearningly, he also hopes that one day he can go down in history like his ancestors.

"Conquering the world?" Gai Nie said a little confused, he didn't know if his future would also dominate the world, would this be what he wanted?

"Isn't that why we're here?" Wei Zhuang retorted.

"But can we be considered strong if we are driven by such rules?" Ganie retorted again.

"The three-year period is over, there will be a war between you and me, and this question will soon be answered." Wei Zhuang said with a burning look in his eyes.

"If the question asked is problematic in itself. What's the answer? Ganie asked rhetorically.

"Humph! Senior brother, you can't be scared, right? will say such nonsense that does not know what to do. Wei Zhuang turned his head and said slightly defiantly.

"Xiaozhuang, I'm not afraid to fight with you." Gai Nie said calmly and confidently.

"Whether you are afraid or not, I only know one thing, one of us will fall on the day of the decisive battle." Wei Zhuang's eyes were firm, and he said with a resolute will.

The two suddenly regained their composure, and looked at the churning sea of clouds without saying a word, but neither of them knew what the other party was thinking.

The clouds and mist are surging with the wind, unpredictable, and the future is like this cloud, and no one can predict its specific changes.

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Today is a very important day, a day that has a significant impact on Weizhuang, Gai Nie, the Guigu faction, and even the future pattern of the world. The battle between the two contemporary disciples of the Guigu Sect will start today, and the teacher will officially be released, and the hidden dragon will ascend to heaven.

Wei Zhuang was a little excited and a little scared. I am excited that after three years of cultivation in Guigu, today I finally have completed my merits and can successfully become a teacher; What I'm afraid of is that compared with my senior brother Gai Nie, who is the strongest person, win this competition, take charge of Guigu, become the real successor of Guigu, succeed the master and succeed the new generation of Guiguzi, and then dominate the world.

At the top of Yunmeng Mountain, on the platform where he usually practiced swords and martial arts, Wei Zhuang came here early, closed his eyes and ran the "Guigu Tuna Technique" to absorb the purple qi from the east, soothing the excitement and tension in his heart, and waiting for the divine moment to come.

At one hour, about 8:15 in the later generations, Wei Zhuang heard the sound of "click" footsteps. But Wei Zhuang heard that it was just a person's footsteps, and it was Master's, not the footsteps of the person he had dreamed of and had always wanted to surpass.

What about Senior Brother Gai Nie? Why didn't he come, today's competition? Wei Zhuang had an ominous premonition, and hurriedly opened his eyes and looked at Master Guiguzi.

When he saw the master approaching alone, Wei Zhuang anxiously asked, "Master, where is the senior brother?" Why hasn't he come yet? ”

Looking at Wei Zhuang's anxious and eager eyes, Guiguzi replied calmly: "Nie'er, he left, he gave up this competition, left a letter and left." In this competition, Xiaozhuang, you won, from today on, you are the real Guigu heir, a new generation of Guiguzi, you will represent the Guigu to change the fate of the world, the responsibility of the world falls on you, work hard! ”

Master Guiguzi threw the letter in his hand, Wei Zhuang hurriedly grabbed it, and quickly unfolded it, only to see a small character written on it with Zhao Guoseal: Master, Xiaozhuang, I'm leaving.

"No, I don't believe it, how could Senior Brother leave, the decisive battle between us hasn't been going on yet, how can he leave!"

The ominous premonition became a reality, and Wei Zhuang felt a little joy when the original master announced that he would become the heir of the Guigu Valley, but what followed was a loss and a burst of anger in his heart.

The glory of a swordsman comes from fighting with the sword in his hand, and even if he fails, he will not have too many regrets. Senior brother Gai Nie did not lose his trust, left the book and left, the winner of this competition easily fell into the hands of Wei Zhuang, but Wei Zhuang did not have the pride of the imaginary winner. He just felt shame, deep shame, he didn't need the mercy of others, he wanted to get what he wanted by his own strength.

On this day, from morning to night, Wei Zhuang stood here steadily, motionless, not even knowing when the master would leave, he just stood dumbfounded. He hoped it was just a dream, a bizarre and ridiculous dream.

However, the next day, Master's Dundun teachings and succession ceremony shattered Wei Zhuang's poor dream, and he finally became the real successor of the Guigu faction and became the new Guiguzi.

"Master, I want to leave." After Wei Zhuang finished the Guigu succession ceremony, he said firmly to Master Guiguzi.

Guiguzi looked at Wei Zhuang with a stubborn face in front of him, and said slowly: "Yes, you are also leaving?" Your competitive spirit is sometimes not a good thing. The eldest husband should be able to take it and put it down, and not be confined to the gains and losses of one thing or another. ”

Wei Zhuang protested: "I haven't picked it up, let alone put it down, there are some things worth my hard work to pursue." ”

"You go to the secret room of the Ghost Valley and take what you should take, let's go, the turmoil of the times requires you to use the technique of vertical and horizontal shutting to calm down." Guiguzi sighed lightly and handed over a token and a silk book. It seems that he had already guessed that Wei Zhuang would leave.

Wei Zhuang took the token, knelt down on his knees and kowtowed heavily to Master Guiguzi nine times. He got up and said, "Master, take care," and turned to leave.

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The Tibetan Scripture Cave, a stone chamber formed by hollowing out soil and stones from the belly of Yunmeng Mountain, collects the classic books and works that the Guigu School has painstakingly collected for nearly a thousand years. On the rows of wooden shelves, they are neatly placed according to astronomy and geography, medical divination and astrology, and military books and war strategies. Masterpieces such as "Guanzi", "Zhou Yi", "Spring and Autumn", and "The Art of War" can also be found in it.

Walking into the vast sea of books, Wei Zhuang's footsteps did not stop, he and his senior brother Gai Nie have been reading and studying most of the books here in the past three years, and this time he came in to obtain more important things.

Walk straight to the eastern corner of the cave, where a bronze orc candlestick glows with a dim glow. Wei Zhuang stretched out his hand, held the lower end of the candlestick, twisted it to the left, and with a "click", the stone wall not far away sank, revealing a square hole the size of a bowl.

Wei Zhuang took out the token of the head of the house - the Guigu Flag Seal from his arms, walked up to the inside, tightly fitted, and turned right nine times. The method of opening the secret room came from the silk book given by the master, otherwise he would not have known the location and technique.

With a "bang", the stone slab under Wei Zhuang's feet shrank inward, and a deep dark passage appeared, and Wei Zhuang accidentally fell down and landed on the stone steps of Yongdao.

The winding bluestone road was nearly 100 meters, and Wei Zhuang guessed that he should now be deep in the center of Yunmeng Mountain. After going through the many creepy and cold sweating mechanisms, Wei Zhuang finally came to the end of the road.

At the end of the road is the stone door, engraved with the four words of 'vertical and horizontal secret room', after Wei Zhuang opens with the Guigu flag door seal, revealing a stone room with a square circle.

The stone room is simple, there are four portraits of people hanging on the stone walls on the left, middle and right, Wei Zhuang knows at a glance that this is the portrait of Wang Xu, the patriarch of the Guigu Valley and the "Four Masters of the Guigu Valley" - Zhang Yi, Su Qin, Sun Bin and Pang Juan. In the middle of the place is a stone platform with several objects on it.

Three ancient books, a battle robe, a sword, and a ring, is this the inheritance that Master asked me to take? It's so shabby, the Guigu faction is so poor! Wei Zhuang said silently in his heart.

But when he looked through these inconspicuous things, he realized how ridiculous his thoughts were.

The three ancient books are "Guiguzi", "The Seven Techniques of the Yin Fu of the Benjing", and "Vertical and Horizontal Swordsmanship", as soon as Wei Zhuang saw the title of the book, his eyes were like a hungry wolf seeing the prey emitting green light, this is a really good thing, and the "Swordsmanship" that he has been dreaming of for his senior brother can finally be obtained.

That robe is the secret 'vertical and horizontal robe' of the Guigu faction, and according to legend, when Su Qin matched the seal of the six countries, the monarchs of the six countries collected skilled craftsmen to weave it for self-defense, which was exquisite and gorgeous, and the defense was good.

The ring is called the 'Gangxing Ring', a symbol of the heads of the past dynasties, as bright as the stars, exquisite and unique, passed down from generation to generation.

The rest of the sword, Wei Zhuang slowly pulled it out of the scabbard, only to see a ball of brilliance blooming out, like the water of the Fu Hibiscus graceful and clear, the carving on the hilt of the sword like the stars running out of a deep light, the sword body, the sword light is integrated, like clear water overflowing the pond calmly and soothing, and the sword blade is like a cliff towering and majestic, and the sword body is engraved with the word 'Chunjun' in Wu Chinese characters.

This sword was forged by the sword-casting master Ou Yezi, which was originally stored in the deep palace by King Goujian of Yue, and was exiled to Chu after the fall of the Yue Kingdom and was collected by King Huai of Chu. When Zhang Yisan said that King Chu Huai, he got it and passed it down.

The Guigu faction has a profound heritage, and it is worthy of a thousand-year-old inheritance, and it seems that he will not be bad in the future, Wei Zhuang thought silently.

The top of Yunmeng Mountain, the sword training platform. Wei Zhuang came here after receiving the inheritance, and he was alone.

Wei Zhuang didn't know how he walked down from the sword training platform yesterday and returned to the small courtyard, and he didn't know what he had been thinking about all day yesterday, he spent this day in a daze, and he felt terrible.

Perhaps, the strong are destined to be lonely all their lives! Wei Zhuang sighed and said silently in his heart.

From today onwards, I'm going to embark on a journey across the world, farewell, my ghost valley!

Wei Zhuang stretched out his hand to catch a yellow leaf falling in the wind on the ancient tree, held it in his hand, and turned to leave.