For dozens of days after the initial test, everything was uneventful.

The snow-covered Lonely Mountain weather has become a little warmer.

But people are still wrapped in thick clothes, and it seems that they can't get the slightest bit of wind and cold.

After dozens of days, a snowstorm began to fall on the lonely mountain.

This means that in the last season of winter, the weather slowly changes and warms up.

Zhang Ze will still go to try the sword outside the forest.

I didn't enter the forest, nor did I practice swords, but just stood quietly outside the forest and watched the sword shadow float in the forest.

Occasionally, I think of the guy who is far away in the wilderness. The climate there is dozens of times colder than here, and even in the middle of summer, it is still freezing and biting, I wonder if he has enough clothes?

The left division would also knock on the wooden door in the courtyard every few days.

That time, he expressed his intention not to apprentice to the teacher, but the left master did not seem to give up, and every time he came, he still asked about the cultivation.

He said about it later.

"You are indeed a good teacher, but I still cannot look up to you as a teacher. ”

Zuo Shi still smiled flatly: "You passed the preliminary exam, what does this mean?"

"It shows that my feelings are not wrong. ”

"Also, I wonder what you're hiding?"

"Many disciples were injured by the sword light in the first attempt, but you successfully walked out of the sword forest. ”

"Isn't it meant to be hidden?"

Zhang Ze looked around blankly, but in fact there was nothing around, and then said with a confused face: "I can't understand what you say." ”

Zuo Shi smiled: "When you first came to Gushan, people thought you were really wasted and idle, but now it seems that you are not. ”

Zhang Ze had already touched his head and said, "Huh?"

Zuo Shi said: "Su Ye's vision is really good. ”

Zuo Shi continued: "If you don't want to apprentice that day, I will cancel the idea of accepting you as an apprentice. ”

Zhang Ze has already said: "It must be this preliminary test that made you have the idea of accepting me as a disciple again. ”

Master Zuo smiled and said, "When I first met you, you said that you would not practice or practice swords, but now that you have passed the preliminary exam, it means that you are already a cultivator, so why can't I change my mind?"

Zhang Ze smiled helplessly, and suddenly his expression became serious, and said: "The inheritance of thousands of years: one daughter does not serve the second husband, you ......"

Zuo Shi suddenly restrained his smile, looked at him and said, "Could it be that you are already there?"

Zhang Ze has nodded and said, "That's the reason." ”

Of course, Zuo Shi knows this ethical rule, and naturally no one can risk being scolded by the world to violate it.

Zuo Shi's face suddenly became cold, and he said, "Then who are you?"

Zhang Ze has sighed: "I didn't inherit the teacher again, and I didn't violate that rule." I am me, Lonely Mountain is still Lonely Mountain, I am a little sword boy of Lonely Mountain. ”

There was a rare touch of complicated emotions in Zuo Shi's calm eyes, and he sighed for a long time: "No wonder, no wonder." ”

Snow on the eaves kept sliding down and falling in the yard.

The dry firewood on the steps was neatly arranged, but it was not damp.

The left division is gone.

Never came again.

Zhang Ze sighed in his heart: "It's okay to explain it like this." ”

......

Night, clouds, lonely mountains, starlight and yards.

The clouds and mist of the lonely mountain do not disperse all year round, but the starlight is still scattered in the courtyard through some cloud cracks.

There is no moon.

The weather was still a little cold at night, and the snow on the eaves that had melted during the day was frozen again.

Zhang Ze has been asleep for a long time.

The candles in the room still glowed as yellow as soybeans. He does not have the habit of blowing out the lamp when he sleeps.

The child hour will pass.

Suddenly there was a light outside the window, and then it was fleeting.

It was by no means the first appearance of moonlight, but an extremely cold sword light.

Then I heard the sound of the window breaking.

Although the starlight is bright, it is still difficult to see at night.

The man was dressed in black, as if he had blended into the night.

Long after the sword light broke through the window, the man in black sneered and wanted to jump up, but he was suddenly forced to stand in place by a sudden sword intent from inside the house.

With a "squeak", the wooden door opened.

Starlight greeted, but Zhang Ze was already sleepy-eyed and looked at the courtyard, the man in black.

The man in black said coldly, "That sword intent didn't even kill you?"

Zhang Ze rubbed his eyes and said, "Your voice is very hoarse, it is definitely not the sound of your throat, and you have come here to kill me at night, I have a grudge against you?"

The man in black snorted coldly, and was about to jump up again, but was slashed by a sword light, and the black sleeve on his left slipped to the ground.

Blood.

The man in black looked at the bloody hole on his left arm*, and said angrily, "You actually know how to practice?"

Sword.

The sword with a deep, deep rust.

Nameless Sword.

But there was not a trace of blood on the sword.

Zhang Ze had already frozen his palm in the air, and the sword flew back in his hand.

"It's true that I don't practice, but that doesn't mean I can't practice, did I say that I can't practice?"

The man in black said coldly, "Who are you?"

In the night sky, there were no stars, only a few stars in the clouds.

"That's what I should have asked you. ”

"You'd better not run away again. ”

"This sword is rusty and looks useless, but it is dangerous. ”

The man in black snorted coldly, and suddenly stabbed with a sword.

Zhang Ze had already taken out the sword, and without a sword move, he went straight away, and soon, as if he had not taken out the sword at all.

One trick is done.

There was still no blood on the sword.

The man in black fell to the ground, his right arm on his left shoulder.

Starlight and snow.

Blood stained red.

The man in black shouted, "Impossible!

A cold wind stabbed the wound cold, painful.

The man in black endured the pain, but his left hand was still searching for the sword.

He still picked up his sword.

But he could never stand up.

No courage.

Shock, anger, and now fear.

What kind of person can hide here?

The realm just now was far above him.

"Take a gamble. Zhang Ze threw the sword in the air and said, "If the tip of the sword sticks to the ground when the sword falls, you can go." If the sword hits the ground first, you will die. ”

The sword has fallen.

With a "snort", the sword was firmly planted on the ground.

Zhang Ze sighed: "You go." ”

The man in black struggled to stand up, and just as he was about to leave, Zhang Ze suddenly stabbed forward.

The black cloth slipped down, and although the starlight was not too bright, they could still see each other's faces clearly.

Zhang Ze said lightly: "It's you?"

The man in black said coldly, "Do you want to regret it?"

Zhang Ze had waved his hand and said, "No." ”

The man in black exhaled lightly and leaped into the night.

Zhang Ze had already said to the black shadow: "Your assassination is a failure, let's cultivate again at the outer gate." ”

The back had disappeared into the night.

Zhang Ze had already looked at the blood stains on the ground and the corners of his clothes, and did not say anything more.

At this time, the sword suddenly made a voice and said, "Let him go?"

Zhang Ze has already said: "He has already left, and he really holds a grudge." ”

The voice in the sword said: "If it weren't for the fact that there were two parts of my soul in this sword, and I sensed that sword intent earlier, you would have been killed by that sword intent, how could you defeat him so easily?"

Zhang Ze has already said: "I can pass the preliminary examination, and it seems that I have to thank you." ”

The voice in the sword snorted coldly, and he didn't say anything more.

Zhang Ze stretched his waist and said: "It's really annoying to be disturbed in the middle of the night, I hope there won't be these troubles in the second half of the night." ”

With that, he went back to the house.

The starlight was in the clouds.

Night.