Chapter 44: The World of Rivers and Lakes
The night in Huashan is still so quiet, Li Liu solemnly put the score of "Laughing, Proud, Jianghu" under the pillow. Although he couldn't understand any of the characters on it, this was the hard work of Liu and Qu. There is no one on Huashan who understands the rhythm of music, and Li Liu can't study anything by himself.
After putting the book away, Li Liubian and his clothes lay on the [bed]. Although Li Liu has an external lock blue, he has not felt the slightest fatigue after practicing with everyone for a day. But because of the fact that his skills were full, Li Liu thought about it for a day. Although the body is not tired, the heart is embarrassed. When there are troubles that cannot be solved, Li Liu's way of dealing with them is to sleep to relieve a thousand sorrows, and wake up to a new sky.
As soon as he closed his eyes, Li Liu fell asleep. For a time-traveler who is always vigilant, this is not like this. In the vastness, Li Liu found himself in the middle of a huge courtyard paved with blue bricks. The sky is full of endless snowflakes, and the surrounding pavilions are looming, which is an elegant and fresh ancient city scene in the snow.
"This is ......" At a glance, every corner of the city seems so familiar.
"Why did I dream of Domineering City?" shook off the snowflakes on his shoulders, and Li Liu muttered to himself.
Li Liu found that he was still wearing the thirteenth [level] system suit of the Tianba Sword Gate. The difference is that there is an extra ninth-level Tang knife on his back. Yes, it's a ninth-level Tang knife. This is the system Tang Knife that Li Liu bought in the store when he was playing the game, not the Tang Knife that Li Liu spent money to build in the Xiaoao World, which is similar to the [Miao] knife.
Faintly, Li Liu felt that this was not a dream, but a real domineering city.
Li Liu made the most stupid move and twisted his thighs hard.
"Hiss......" In the cold of the snowy sky, the pain seemed to have been deepened a lot, and the pain made Li Liu gasp for air.
In the past, when I saw someone pinching himself in novels or TV movies to confirm whether he was dreaming, Li Liu always felt that person was too stupid, so stupid that he couldn't be boundless. Li Liu never expected that he would play such a stupid role one day, but at least it proved that this place was indeed not a dream, but real.
Did you cross over again? I finally began to get used to the life of smiling and proud, and inexplicably penetrated into the world of rivers and lakes. Li Liu looked up at the beautiful snowflakes in the sky sadly, and felt that his life was like a coffee table, which was full of all kinds of cups......
"Yes, you're not dreaming. An old voice rang out abruptly in the desolate air.
Li Liu was startled and turned around to look at the place where the voice came from.
This is an old man, who looks at least sixty years old. The rickety body looked so fragile in the cold wind, but Li Liu didn't dare to despise it at all. With Li Liu's current cultivation, the person who can quietly appear behind Li Liu will be an ordinary person? Although Li Liu was a little distracted just now, he would not be casually deceived by others without realizing it. This old man is definitely a master, and Li Liu faintly feels that if he does it, he will definitely not be able to hold out ten moves.
The most important thing is that Li Liu did not feel the murderous aura in the old man. If the old man really wanted to be unfavorable to himself, he would have already done it just now. Li Liu could feel kindness in the old man's eyes, and even a little kindness. It seems that Li Liu is a part of this place, and he is closely related to the people or things here.
"Uncle, the younger generation is polite. Li Liu clenched his fists and owed himself to the old man.
The old man smiled kindly and waved his hand: "Li Xiaozi doesn't need to be polite, I'm just an NPC in the system, I call it 'Heavenly Remnant Charming'." You can call me 'Heaven', or 'Lost Age'. ”
"System NPC? Heavenly Remnant Charming?" Li Liu looked at the system character in front of him in disbelief, "Heavenly Remnant Charming" Isn't it the NPC who presides over the warehouse in the Jianghu game? Li Liu still remembers that the first NPC he saw when he first entered the rivers and lakes was the warehouse in the city.
"Yes, I'm the NPC in charge of the warehouse. As if he knew what Li Liu was thinking, Tianyan smiled charmingly and said, "However, now I am a real human body of flesh and blood just like you." ”
It's amazing, what the hell is this system! Li Liu's heart suddenly tightened: "You mean, this is the system of the Jianghu game, and I am now a real body?"
Tianzhu was charming as if he really had a heart, and explained to Li Liu with a smile: "Yes, this is a small world opened up by the system with the background of Jianghu games. The people and things in this world are the same as the world you are in, they are all real worlds. This world and the world of Xiaoao exist at the same time, and the world of Xiaoao, you, and the world of rivers and lakes are all in a relationship of common dependence. ”
Seeing that Li Liu looked like he didn't understand, Tianyan was charming and continued: "The world of laughter is a real world. Now you are attached to this small world to survive, but the small world of rivers and lakes opened up by the system is dependent on you to survive. But because you are not a person who is proud of the world, even if the world collapses, you can come to the small world of rivers and lakes to continue to survive. But if you die, the small world of rivers and lakes will also collapse with your demise. ”
Li Liu was originally a person who had crossed into the world of Xiaoao, and Li Liu understood what the heavenly remnants said at once. With the small world of rivers and lakes opened up by the system, it is equivalent to an additional way to save life. Although I couldn't understand how the middle thousand and small thousand worlds were divided by the charming Tianzhuan, the benefits to himself were enough to make Li Liu happy. Perhaps, the real world in which I lived in my previous life is a big world.
Tianyan coughed charmingly and said, "Don't be too happy, you can't enter the small world of rivers and lakes with your true body now." The world of Xiaoao you are in is a small world created by a master based on an unreal novel. After thousands of years of evolution, it has evolved into a middle thousand worlds. Although the system is magical, it can't break the rules of the world. Before you enter the innate realm, you can only appear in the small world of rivers and lakes in the state of a soul. ”
"Soul state?" Li Liu pinched his face in disbelief and patted his body again. This is clearly the real flesh, who are you coaxing? Moreover, it has only been about 20 years since Cha Lao's novel was published, how can a world created based on Cha Lao's novel have gone through thousands of years in the blink of an eye?
Ignoring Li Liu's contemptuous eyes, Tianyan charmingly said, "I told you, the system is magical." When you first came to the world of laughter, the system created a real body for you. What's more, in this small world dominated by the system, the system is an omnipotent god. Isn't it just another doppelganger, meaningless? As for the time problem of the Xiaoao world, the main god there is also omnipotent, not to mention a thousand years, even if it is ten thousand years, ten thousand years can be adjusted and controlled at will. As long as the main god of the laughing proud world is willing, it is not impossible to set the time of the laughing proud and the time of the real world as ten thousand years. Only a moment has passed in real time, and 10,000 years have passed in the world of Xiaoao. Your journey from the afterlife to the world of laughter is a real miracle in itself, isn't it acceptable for anything else?"
The current self and the self in the world of Xiaoao are both systematically shaped, that is, the self in the real world is really dead. Li Liu couldn't help but feel a burst of desolation, but quickly put this emotion aside. As for the other things, it is indeed as the Heavenly Remnant Charming said, in fact, there is nothing impossible.
"If a thousand years have passed since the time of the world, the real world is just a blink of an eye. Doesn't that mean that I have been cultivating here for a thousand years, and then I have traveled back, and nothing has changed in reality. I can also meet the people I want to meet and do what I haven't done. God, can I still go back to my original world?" Although he knew that it was impossible, Li Liu still chose to ask.
"Theoretically, it's impossible, the system can't be estimated. ”
Getting such an answer, Li Liu smiled indifferently, and the so-called all-powerful system actually came up with a theory.
"However, if you cultivate to the strength of being able to control time and ignore space, you can travel through thousands of worlds at will. Perhaps you can find the world you once had in many parallel spaces. ”
"As long as you have enough strength, you can travel through space at will, control time, and see your mother and younger brother. Li Liu clenched his fists and secretly made up his mind.
Li Liu didn't continue to dwell on these things that were still out of reach, and began to ask some of the questions he was most worried about: "Why did I suddenly come to the small world of rivers and lakes in my sleep? I came here, what should I do if I want to return to the world of Xiaoao? I came here, what is the state of my body in the world of Xiaoao? What should I do if I encounter danger? If I am killed in Xiaoao's body, will I and this world in this world disappear?"
"The small world of rivers and lakes was opened up to improve your strength, and here you can learn all the martial arts skills of the Tianba Sword Gate. The time of the small world of rivers and lakes is not proportional to the world of laughter, and three months in the small world of rivers and lakes is equivalent to an hour of the world of laughter. Moreover, if your body is in danger in the world, the system will alert you and send you back. You can cultivate in this world to improve your strength. When you return to Xiaoao, all the skills you have learned in the rivers and lakes will be brought back. At the same time, you can bring back half of the cultivation you have obtained in the Jianghu world, and it will not affect your strength in the Jianghu world. ”
After listening to Tianwan's charming words, Li Liu was pleasantly surprised to grasp a key point, that is, the time difference between here and the world of Xiaoao. An hour is worth three months, which means that after staying in the world of rivers and lakes for 90 days, only two hours have passed when I returned to the world of Xiaoao. With eight hours of sleep in one night, you can spend a year in the world of rivers and lakes, and you can take back half of the cultivation you have cultivated, and you can cultivate for half a year in one night! This is simply a super cheat to help you cultivate!
Tianyan suddenly sneered: "I need to remind you that the world of rivers and lakes is a real and independent world. In this world, everyone has their own way of thinking and living. Your identity is just an ordinary disciple of the Tianba Sword Sect, you need to rely on your own efforts to climb up step by step, and only by being appreciated by the elders of the sect can you learn better martial arts. Because you don't know that you are the master of the system, no character in the world will give you special care. Of course, the system will also give you a little perk, so that you can have an endless life. In other words, even if you live here for 100,000 years, you will not overdraw your life. And if you are killed and died in the world of rivers and lakes, you can also be resurrected like a game character. Other Jianghu characters do not have this kind of treatment, and they can live for hundreds, hundreds, and thousands of years according to their cultivation. And being killed will not be resurrected. ”
Without waiting for Li Liu to digest it, Tianyan Charming smiled evilly and pointed to the distance: "The person who is looking for you is here, this world is very exciting and dangerous, enjoy it." ”
The Heavenly Remnant disappeared, and I saw in the distance a person who was also wearing a thirteenth level suit of the Heavenly Tyrant Sword Gate was galloping towards Li Liu, and his mouth kept shouting: "Li Liu, Li Liu, I have received the task of the division, let's go quickly!"
Does this person know me? Li Liu was puzzled for a while, and suddenly a burst of information came to his mind. Li Liu looked at the people who were getting closer and closer, and the face became clearer and more familiar. His name is Aojing, and like Li Liu, he is an orphan at the foot of the snowy mountain. Ten years ago, they were brought back to Overbearing City by the foreign affairs disciples of the Tianba Sword Sect and became a member of the Tianba Sword Gate.
The two grew up together and had the best relationship. In addition, they have a group of friends who are like brothers.
Lan Feng and Lan Wu, whose father was engaged in weapons trading in Longkou Pass, relied on their father's relationship to worship the Tianba Sword Gate five years ago. There is also a little girl named Bing'er who was picked up from outside by Shangguan Protector seven years ago, because she didn't know her surname, she was surnamed Li with Li Liu. The five of them are like compatriots, and many years ago they followed the example of the ancients and worshiped together as brothers and sisters in the Wushen Temple.
The eldest brother, Lan Feng, is twenty years old this year. Because he is strong and tiger-headed, Li Liu likes to call him a blue cat. The double cultivation of the Tianba Daomen single knife and qin, the strength is also superior among the young disciples of the Tianba Daomen.
The second brother, Lan Wu, is eighteen years old this year and is Lan Feng's younger brother. Every night is nagging and domineering, the snow in the city is not good, and there are no stars to count. Everyone thought he was funny, so they gave him the nickname of counting stars. The kid took a different path and fell in love with the twin knives that added to his defense.
The third brother Li Liu, seventeen this year, has practiced martial arts hard since he was a child, likes the domineering Tang Dao, and his strength is the first of the five.
The fourth brother, Ao Jing, is also seventeen years old, but he is two months younger than Li Liu. He loves Tang Dao, and his strength is slightly inferior to Lan Feng.
The fifth sister, Li Bing'er, is 16 years old this year. Bing'er, who calls herself pure, is the closed disciple of Meng Xue, the daughter of the Sword Emperor. A lyre is superb, and its strength is catching up with the deceased Meng Xue.
Receiving the memories that the system poured into his brain, Li Liu couldn't help but be stunned on the spot. Because these five friends are Li Liu's best friends in real games. In the years that have passed, they have leveled up together, done missions together, and played equipment together.
"Let's go, let's go kill Yin Jiubai together. Didn't you say that at the end of the month, you must be qualified to teach intermediate skills? Shangguan Protector said that as long as we kill the leader of the ironclad soldiers, Yin Jiubai, they will teach us a set of intermediate sword techniques. ”
Li Liu was patted on the shoulder, and what he saw was Aojing's childish little face, with a hopeful smile on it.
Li Liu has seen photos of Aojing's reality, and this Aojing really looks very similar to him in reality. However, Li Liu knew that this Aojing was not really Aojing. He is just a character systematically created according to Li Liu's realistic memories, although this world is also a real small world.
"If you kill Yin Jiubai, you will be able to learn an intermediate sword technique?" Li Liu asked in disbelief.
As soon as Li Liu's voice fell, suddenly a "ding" sound sounded in his mind, and a system prompt sounded: Ding! Team up with your friends to complete the task of killing the leader of the ironclad soldiers, Yin Jiubai. After the task is completed, you will be taught the intermediate single knife skill Thunder Kill. Penalty for mission failure: The primary single sword skill Desperate Four Styles is reduced by 10 levels.
"Of course, brother for more than ten years, how can I lie to you. Let's go, it's far away from Yin Jiubai's station. If we don't get back sooner, we'll have to spend the night in the snow. After Aojing finished speaking, he picked up the snow and ran towards the outside of the city.
To be able to learn intermediate skills, this task must be completed. It's just that the punishment for failure is unacceptable, try to do it as hard as you can. Li Liu shrugged helplessly and followed, seeing Aojing's relaxed and freehand appearance, it seemed that the silver and white human head was as simple as picking up things, and he had no choice but to give up if he wanted to inquire about the enemy's reality again.
As soon as I left the west gate, I saw two people jumping down from the stone tablet in the distance. Only when I got closer to the front did I see that these two people were also wearing the thirteenth level black suit of the Heavenly Tyrant Sword Gate. One man was burly, with a height of one meter eighty-six, and he carried a pale red nine-curved snake sword diagonally on his back. It can be seen from Li Liu's eyes that this is an artifact.
When Li Liu saw him, he subconsciously shouted: "Blue cat." ”
"Little calf, you can't call me a blue cat again, you have to call me Brother Feng. Lan Feng scolded Li Liu with a smile, but there was no unhappy expression on his face. It's all these brothers, and he likes whatever he calls them.
"Third brother, I heard that you went on a long trip, but fortunately you caught up with this mission. Otherwise, you will have to wait until next year to take the Intermediate Skills Qualification Exam. Lan Wu, who is 1.82 meters tall, flicked the double knife on his waist with his fingers and said lightly. Although the tone was flat, Li Liu could see in his eyes the excitement of seeing Xiao Bie again.
Li Liu laughed and said, "I went to Qunxiong City to count the stars, but the second brother didn't count." ”
Lan Wu shook his bangs coolly: "Brother has grown up, and he doesn't count the stars anymore." Now it's the Twin Swordsmen, the Blue Dancing Dragon!"
Aojing quipped: "What a stinky fart, even if it is a war dragon, it is also a dragon that counts stars." Didn't you say that five people were going together?"
Lan Feng raised his head and gestured to the right. Li Liu and Ao Jing looked at each other, and saw a beautiful and arrogant figure standing on the edge of the cliff.
"Little sister!" Aojing brought his hand to his lips and shouted at the beauty.
The figure in the distance looked back, and when he saw Li Liu, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes. Li Bing'er came to Li Liu and the others in one longitudinal leap, Li Liu only felt that the figure in front of him flashed, and a warm body threw himself into his arms.
"Brother. Li Bing'er called softly, and then buried her head in Li Liu's majestic chest and was silent.
After the system was implanted in the memories of the world of rivers and lakes, Li Liu felt as if he had really lived in this world for seventeen years, and he had sincere and deep feelings for several people. At the moment, Li Liu naturally touched Li Bing'er's hair, but this Li Bing'er was shaped by the system according to the sister Li Liu recognized in the real game.
"You two don't grind, we must get back from our mission before dark. Aojing smiled and reminded kindly.
When Li Bing'er left Li Liu's arms, the eldest brother Lan Feng shouted: "Let's go!"
The five of them greeted the flying snow and galloped towards the Yin Jiubai station.
More than an hour later, Li Liu and his party came to a valley. A few people hid on a hill, quietly looking at the dozens of tents in the valley.
Aojing whispered to a few people: "This valley is called the Valley of Death, and the people who occupy this place are the target of our mission this time, Yin Jiubai. Silver Jiubai is a small leader in the Celestial God Sect, and there are hundreds of demons under his command. ”
"Little demon?" A hint of color flashed in Li Liu's eyes, he didn't expect that this time he was facing a person.
"Yes," Aojing nodded, "The Heavenly God Sect is full of beasts and animals cultivating into humanoid monsters, and this Yin Jiubai heard that it is only a thousand-year-old zombie cultivating into an adult." The little demons under his command are also zombies, animals, and beasts who have cultivated and transformed into shapes, or half-humans. ”
Lan Feng said: "The Heavenly God Sect attacked the human race hundreds of years ago, if it weren't for the Martial God Lord leading the Three Dao Alliances of Good, Evil, and Demon to defeat them, the human race would have been ruled by the Demon Clan. Since the death of the Martial God, good and evil have turned against each other because of Miss Meng Xue's affairs, the alliance of the three factions has collapsed, and the remnants of the Heavenly God Sect have begun to compete with humans for sovereignty again. Fortunately, the Celestial God Cult has not yet recovered from the great war that has been fought for hundreds of years, and there are more and more human masters, so a stalemate has formed. As long as we don't attack on a large scale and only destroy a few small strongholds of the Celestial God Cult, the Celestial God Cult will not take action. Therefore, Yin Jiubai has become the object of our backward practice. ”
Li Liu looked at the tents and the orderly patrol of the demon clan soldiers below, and said hesitantly: "There are hundreds of demon soldiers below, and there are only five of us, so I'm afraid this mission is a bit suspenseful." ”
Lan Feng said: "With the strength of the five of us, it may be a little difficult to say that we can completely annihilate these hundreds of demon soldiers. However, our mission is only to obtain the head of Yinjiubai, not to destroy this stronghold completely. Wait a minute, the five of us are divided into three groups and break through to the Chinese army from the left, center and right directions. When he saw Yin Jiubai, he quickly evacuated after the joint killing. ”
Lan Wu quipped: "If the third brother is afraid, follow me when you go down, and I will take care of you." ”
Li Bing'er also looked at Li Liu seriously, and said firmly: "Brother, I will protect you." ”
Khan, Waterfall Khan! Being held by the disciples of Huashan in the world of Xiaoao has not been so despised for a long time. It's a big deal, but you can be resurrected anyway. Li Liuyi gritted his teeth and pulled out the Tang knife on his back: "I'll go in the middle, who will be in a group with me?"
Lan Feng saw that Li Liu was ruthless, and said with a faint smile: "I will enter from the left side, Xingxing will enter from the right side, and the third brother will take Xiao Jing and Bing'er to the middle road." ”
Lan Wu glared at Lan Feng angrily: "Don't call me Star, please call me War Dragon!"
The amusement of the two brothers made everyone laugh and dilute the tense atmosphere before the battle.
Li Liu pulled out the ninth-level Tang knife on his back, and the cold wind swept the blade with snowflakes, and the Tang knife let out a soft groan. A familiar feeling came from the blade to the brain, and Li Liu sighed secretly: "A good knife, it is worthy of being produced by the system, and it is much stronger than the one that Master built for me." ”
With a knife in his hand, Li Liuhao suddenly became angry, and shouted: "Kill!" The sound fell, and the snow was launched without a trace, and he pounced on the demon village first. Li Bing'er and Ao Jing also took out their weapons and followed.