After saying this arrogant declaration, Shen Li disappeared into the vast night again as before, with an extremely coquettish attitude

Before leaving, he didn't forget to grin at Xu Zi'an

The footsteps are still loose and unique, and they are clear in the sound of frogs and cicadas, but it is amazing that I don't hear the familiar dog barking

Could it be that these wild dogs who have been wandering on the streets for a long time smelled the domineering spirit that Shen Li carried at this time? So they chose to shut up very wisely, in case they were made into five-spiced dog meat by this man who had no lower limit!

I don't know if it was because of Shen Li's fierce aura before leaving, or because of the joy that his fantasy about Kyoto City was about to become a reality, the young man who had always been as calm as a shallow stream also learned Shen Li's posture when he left, looked in the direction of Kyoto from afar, and then shouted loudly in an equally vicious voice

"Tremble, Kyoto, Lao Tzu is here"

But in response to him were bursts of barking dogs, as well as the shouting of the families who were awakened

............

Death itself is a thing, but Xu Zi'an and Shen Li know that what the two of them personally say will die is actually two different things

Xu Zi'an said that he would die, referring to the fact that Kyoto City was really dangerous for Shen Li, although Shen Li's bold words just now were indeed arrogant, but the young man believed that the truth would not be so simple

If it is really as unbridled as Shen Li said, with Shen Li's always arrogant and uninhibited character, how could he be willing to live in such a mountain town for so many years? Except for offending some big people and having to hide here for refuge, there seems to be no reasonable explanation

Therefore, Xu Zi'an was reluctant to let Shen Li enter Beijing with him, because he didn't know if the big people Shen Li offended back then would forget Shen Li because of time

As for Shen Li's saying that he will die, he refers to the so-called illness on Xu Zi'an's body, but this disease is not so much a disease as a young man's life

He doesn't have a Xuanfu in his heart, which means that the boy will not be able to practice, or rather, as long as the boy cultivates, he will die

The cultivation of the Great Dao is cumbersome and mysterious, but in the final analysis, it is nothing more than the process of introducing the true essence of heaven and earth into the body through meditation and understanding, and using the power of heaven and earth to nourish and refine the hidden veins and mysteries in the body, and finally be strong enough to break away from the rules of the world

In this process, the heart Xuanfu, which is located in the center of the human body, is undoubtedly a very important part

Just like a river, if the river water continues to flow and irrigate, but there is no lake or sea at the end of the river that can accommodate the water, over time, the whole river will overflow due to too much water

The Xuanfu located in the heart is the sea that can accommodate the river water, and the river channel for the river water to flow is the meridians in the body, and the river water is the true element of heaven and earth, and the process of extraditing the true element into the body is the cultivation

Xu Zi'an does not have a Xuanfu in his heart, which means that he has no place where he can accommodate the accumulation of true yuan, if he introduces the true yuan into his body, over time, he will definitely explode and die because of the excessive accumulation of true yuan

This seems to be a dead knot, but it is not without a solution, and the most direct and effective way is not to practice

But how cruel is this kind of thing, even cruel, the avenue is three thousand prosperous, and the scenery outside the world is even more infinite, there is no one in the world who does not yearn for it? Who doesn't want to see if there is really another piece of plum garden in the temple behind the thousand mountains, and whether there are really countless broken swords in the back pool of the Sword Pavilion? Can the sword magic really be thousands of miles in an instant? Is the divine passage code really like the legend can go against the sky?

Xu Zi'an also wanted to take a look, but the premise of all this was to break this so-called dead knot, that is, fate

If there is one place in this world that can change the constitution of a teenager, it is one of the hundreds of temples in Kyoto Castle called Nankei Academy

It was a magical place that was already legendary enough, and it seemed to be extremely good at creating miracles

Of course, this is just a speculation, and it is very likely that where the boy really goes, he still can't change anything

But if you don't even try, how can you have no regrets in your heart?

How can you have peace of mind?

............

The next day

When the first rays of morning light finally crossed the mountain peak and penetrated the dense forest to this town, the rooster had actually passed about a quarter of an hour

Xu Zi'an got up and looked at the dampness on the bedding, only to remember that he forgot to close the doors and windows before going to bed last night, and the dew in the mountains and the dampness after the rain entered the house through the doors and windows, wetting the bunk and covering it

The town was washed by yesterday's drizzle, and at this time it was as clean as a river lotus in the silt, and the pieces of water on the bluestone streets had long since disappeared into the stones with time, and although there were still some ugly mosses on the roadside, it was fortunately not much

Xu Zi'an got up very early, but there are still many people in the town who got up earlier than him, so when he walked to his courtyard with the old door, the street was actually very lively

Listening to the slightly urging squeak of the old door behind him, the young man rubbed his slightly lackluster eyebrows and muttered quietly

"Okay, okay, don't worry, I'll definitely refuel you before leaving"

Looking at the rocking chair, the old chair was empty, Shen Li really hadn't gone home yet, but he wasn't too worried about it, anyway, Shen Li often didn't return all night, and usually came back before breakfast was ready

Well......... If you don't come back before breakfast, you'll definitely come back before dinner, and if you don't come back before dinner, there's only two possibilities

Either he won by gambling in a gambling house, or he drank too much wine in a cheap prostitute, anyway, for a middle-aged decadent uncle, the joy of life is nothing more than these two

While walking towards the courtyard, Xu Zi'an couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart while thinking about which face powder could scrape off a two-pound prostitute bustard

Wait a minute.........

The boy stopped abruptly because he remembered something very important

In the past few days, he has been busy with the township examination and assessment, and he can't spare time to take care of Shen Li's things, so where did the capital that supported him to go to the gambling house and visit the brothel come from?

Thinking about it carefully, the young man's face turned dark and he hurriedly ran to a corner of the room, pushed open the thick wooden cabinet, carefully pulled out a well-hidden old brick, and groped under the old brick for a while, until the touch in his hand told him that the wooden box was still there, and the young man breathed a long sigh of relief

Luckily it's still there, it's still there

There are some scattered silver taels in the box, and the accumulation of a lot of them looks quite gratifying, but in fact, the total is only more than two hundred taels, and even a slightly larger silver ingot can't be found, and it seems a bit redundant to hide it so hidden, but the young man knows very well that if he doesn't hide it well, God knows that Shen Li's lack of virtue was a whim that day, and he really dared to take all these belongings to go to the brothel to play a lot of money

I can't afford to toss like that

Locked the box, shook the old brick again and put it back in its place, and finally moved the wooden cabinet back with great effort, and after a while, there was already a layer of fine sweat on his forehead

Wiping his sweat, Xu Zi'an secretly wanted to go back and change to a convenient place? It's really a bit difficult to move around like this, but when I think about it, those places that are easy to take are not too hidden, and when can I keep Qi Shen Li will find out, pat his chest, and comfort himself It's better to work hard, at least we are not down-to-earth

But he seems to have forgotten something

As he is about to enter Beijing, it doesn't really make much difference where he hides his belongings

Although the journey into Beijing is carried out by the imperial court's convoy to pick up and drop off, and there are some post stations on the way that can provide free food and accommodation, but the imperial court will not care about the expenses after entering Beijing, so these seem gratifying, but carefully calculated that it is actually just a few days of ordinary tea and wine in Kyoto City

He knew that prices in Kyoto were extremely expensive, but he really didn't know that the price gap could be so high under the same sky............

Because the silver was still there, the young man couldn't help but be very happy, and he went out again with joy, and the urging of the old door was inexplicably much more pleasant, and he put a basin of water in the courtyard, and without washing his mouth first, he got up and walked to the firewood room

Where is there a knife, the blade is narrow and long, and there are several groove marks on the surface of the knife, which looks as ordinary as all simple knives, but it is relatively brighter

Holding the knife, quietly, his wrist suddenly picked, as in all previous mornings, the young man practiced that strange and hard knife technique again under the morning breeze

The young man's face looked very serious at this time, but this seriousness was not the calm of the usual days, but an extremely difficult solemnity, as if this ordinary knife suddenly had a weight of ten thousand pounds, but the knife was actually still an ordinary firewood knife, and what caused this change was only the so-called strange knife technique

In fact, this set of knife techniques is not very profound and subtle, if it is disassembled, it is nothing more than some simple basic actions such as horizontal slashing, vertical chopping, oblique picking, and swinging, even if it is a young child in a small town, it seems that it can swing a few times casually

But for some reason, when all the movements are connected, there is a very difficult and jerky feeling, as if someone has grabbed his throat, or hit his heart with a heavy hammer, which is extremely uncomfortable

This set of knife techniques was passed on to him by Shen Li

Afraid of the mountains and remote, there are very few laws that can be cultivated in the mountains, and most of them are also some sword cultivation and body quenching techniques

Therefore, the only person who can teach Xu Zi'an's knife technique is Shen Li, a master who does not look like a master outside the world, but is actually taller than a master outside the world

According to Shen Li, this set of knife techniques was created by a character who was so strong that even he had to admire, but like the end of all heroic stories, this fierce character disappeared inexplicably after a period of time in the world at the peak of the years, leaving only this set of knife techniques so that future generations can come to admire his awesomeness

While lamenting that history is always strikingly similar, most fierce people can't avoid the pitiful end of disappearing inexplicably, and Xu Zi'an, who was still young at the time, really practiced like a treasure

However, after practicing for many days, he finally realized that he was paralyzed like a dog after a knife practice

In this world, there will be people who are as arrogant as Shen Li admires?

Even if there really is, shouldn't the sword technique created by this fierce man also be extremely powerful? Not to mention that there will be a vision of heaven and earth between swinging the knife, at least there should be some decent mantra exercises that can be used for reference

And if it's really coherent and smooth, it's fine, but every time I swing the knife, the jerky heaviness doesn't talk about it at all

This jerky feeling is like when everyone is wantonly swaying on the paper, every time you have to stop the pen in the most enjoyable place, and the emotions that have been brewing for a long time are woken up by a loud slap

If it's just a few times a while, it's just a few times, but every time you turn around, you have to go through this weird feeling that is not only itchy but also extremely uncomfortable......

However, for such a long time, the young man still persevered with great difficulty, because he had always had a faint feeling that compared to the so-called secret techniques that Shen Li had taught him in the past, this set of knife techniques might be really powerful

Because every time he practiced this set, the tip of the knife would give him a sense of pleasure, and in addition to this exhilaration, there would even be a layer of pale green mist on the tip of his knife from time to time

Jerky is the jerkiness of the knife itself, and the pleasure is the aftertaste of the blade, as if the knife has its own idea, and this idea is shared with him

He knew that this set of sword techniques must be very powerful, but he didn't know that this common sense with the knife was the legendary knife sense, and which layer of pale cyan aura was the mysterious sword intent that countless cultivators could not find

And he, in a sense, is also a gifted boy in the mouth of the world