Chapter 3: Reunion in the Ghost Valley

After two years of hard searching, Gai Nie really found the world-famous Guiguzi, who lived in a fairyland-like Guiguzi. People say that if you enter the ghost valley, you must first go through a lot of tempering, and finally you can see the ghost valley like an immortal.

Hidden deep in the mountains, those who come to seek it need to swim through a rushing river, climb a mountain that reaches into the sky, avoid or kill the beasts in the woods, and walk for dozens of miles to get there. Many teenagers yearn for this place, but they can't bear the test here. However, when you arrive at the Ghost Valley, you will find that there is actually a path leading to the outside of the Ghost Valley, which is full of peach blossoms in spring, gardenias in summer, laurel flowers in autumn, and plum blossoms in winter. This is an important barrier as a ghost valley, and anyone who wants to enter from this path from the outside world will get lost in the fragrance of this flower. People in the valley will bring a string of agarwood bracelets before entering and leaving, and the agarwood will wake up and will not be confused in the fragrance of flowers.

Gai Nie has been in this ghost valley for a whole month, and every day except for carrying water, chopping wood, watering trees, and cleaning the valley, the master has never taught him any swordsmanship. He asked the master, and the master said that he still needed to wait for someone, and Gai Nie wanted to come, this person must be his opponent.

However, although Guiguzi didn't teach him any swordsmanship, he liked to fight with him in the evening, saying that it was a sparring, but for Gai Nie, it was beating. Knocked to the ground over and over again, and reprimanded over and over again, this painful process persists until the sun sets completely. When the night came, Gai Nie was lying on the bed with a sore body, and he had to finish those monotonous things at dawn tomorrow.

Gai Nie didn't complain, he felt that the master did this completely to train himself and prepare for his future studies.

It was the autumn equinox again, and in the evening, Gai Nie rested under the tree and waited for the master to come and teach, but he didn't see the master coming. The master is an extremely punctual person and never comes late. Gai Nie meditated in his heart, so he took the wooden sword and hurried to the master's house.

The master's house was tall and large, and there was a slightly smaller house next to it, and Gai Nie had never seen anyone living there, perhaps reserved for someone.

The master was standing in front of his house, his robe slightly puffed up in the autumn breeze, his gray hair and beard neatly combed, his eyes closed, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes showing signs of age. Next to him stood a young man, dressed in dark black and with a red headband.

Sure enough, it's you! Weizhuang.

The master opened his eyes and looked at Gai Nie, who stepped forward, and introduced him to a person he was already familiar with: "Nie'er, his name is Wei Zhuang, you can call him 'Xiao Zhuang', from now on he will be your junior brother." ”

"Xiao Zhuang." Gai Nie didn't know what it was like, but he still called Wei Zhuang.

"Master," Wei Zhuang didn't look at Gai Nie, turned to Guiguzi and said, "Gai Nie, this guy is a year younger than me, and he didn't enter the valley much earlier than me. ”

"It turns out that you know each other," Guiguzi looked at them left and right, and then turned to Gai Nie, "What if Xiao Zhuang doesn't want to call you senior brother?" ”

"It's okay, he can just call me by name."

"That's not good, there are rules for the door, and there must be a division between brothers and sisters. Otherwise, you will have a competition, and whoever loses will call the other party a senior brother. ”

"Obey the master." Wei Zhuang looked very happy.

Ganie nodded reluctantly.

"Gai Nie, neither of us has tried before, this time, I want to see if you have the strength to beat me!" Wei Zhuang had a defiant smile on his face.

Gai Nie threw away the wooden sword in his hand, looked at Wei Zhuang with a frown, and said nothing.

The setting sun shone on the two teenagers who were in a pose. Guiguzi walked to his house and sat there meditating, his glasses closed, completely oblivious to the good show that was about to be played out in front of him. Because of the winner of this competition, he already knew it in his heart.

The autumn wind blew up the fallen leaves on the ground, Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang flew towards each other like arrows on the string, "bang", the force of the collision of the two arms bounced the two of them away, Wei Zhuang punched Gai Nie's chest, this punch was firmly grasped by Gai Nie, Wei Zhuang raised his leg and kicked towards Gai Nie's head, Gai Nie let go of Wei Zhuang's fist, a lower waist easily dodged Wei Zhuang's attack, and then a backflip dodged Wei Zhuang's sweep to his legs. Gai Nie, who stood up straight, crossed his arms and received a powerful palm from Wei Zhuang, which made him slide back some distance.

It's time to play for real!

Gai Nie looked up at Wei Zhuang with a smug face in front of him, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly.

Then I'll accompany you!

Wei Zhuang rushed over and attacked Gai Nie's head, Gai Nie leaned back slightly, quickly got up and grabbed Wei Zhuang's arm, and attacked his armpit with his palm, Wei Zhuang struggled to withdraw his arm, and then another leg, this time Gai Nie slid back sensitively, and gave Wei Zhuang's leg a thrust with his palm, Wei Zhuang was forced to turn around, and before he could put down his leg to balance, Gai Nie kicked Wei Zhuang's only standing leg. Wei Zhuang's entire body was in the air, and he fell to the ground on his back.

"Stand up." Guiguzi, who was sitting on the side with his eyes closed, opened his mouth.

Wei Zhuang stood up and stepped forward again to compete with Gai Nie. This time he had a long heart, and he punched and kicked very quickly, so as not to be caught by Gai Nie, he punched and kicked at Gai Nie with a fast speed, and Gai Nie kept guarding him. Wei Zhuang later made Gai Nie a little overwhelmed, and he staggered back a few steps, but before he could come back to his senses, Wei Zhuang had already reached his face and punched Gai Nie on the bridge of his nose.

Gai Nie took a few more steps back, lowered his head and tapped his nose with his knuckles, and he saw the blood. At the same time, Wei Zhuang stepped forward with his fist again, this time the speed was still very fast and the power was also great, but he was grabbed by Gai Nie with one hand, Gai Nie slowly looked up at Wei Zhuang, and Wei Zhuang saw anger in his eyes that he had never seen before. Gai Nie quickly hit Wei Zhuang with his other fist, Wei Zhuang could only barely accept the move, and Gai Nie kicked Wei Zhuang's side of the body quickly and repeatedly with his legs, and Wei Zhuang's arm on this side struggled to grab Gai Nie's legs. After being kicked a dozen times, he finally caught it, but what he didn't expect was that Gai Nie immediately let go of his arm, lifted the supporting leg, and straightened his whole body, quickly spinning to get rid of Wei Zhuang. Wei Zhuang had no choice but to let go of his hand, but before he could react, Gai Nie kicked him in the chest, and he flew backwards and fell to the ground.

"Stand up." Guiguzi opened his mouth again.

Wei Zhuang barely stood up and threw himself into the fight, and for the next few rounds, he didn't have an advantage, and finally was knocked to the ground out of breath. Gai Nie, who was standing on the side, also bent down, his arms propped up on his legs, gasping for air, the blood from his nose staining his dark white coat red.

Suddenly, Wei Zhuang stretched out his hand to Gai Nie, Gai Nie stepped forward and wanted to pull him up, but he was pulled down by Wei Zhuang and lay on the ground, Wei Zhuang turned over and rode on Gai Nie, pulling Gai Nie's hair tied behind.

"You want me to call you 'Senior Brother', you are still tender." Wei Zhuang leaned over to Gai Nie's ear and said softly.

"Don't pull my hair."

"What's the matter, I'll just pull it," Wei Zhuang was very pleased, "No matter what, you lose now, come, call 'Senior Brother'." ”

"I repeat, don't pull my hair!"

Wei Zhuang saw that Gai Nie still didn't call himself "senior brother", so he slammed Gai Nie very unfamiliarly. Gai Nie suddenly turned over, the two of them were lying on their backs on the ground, he hit Wei Zhuang's arm hard with his elbow, Wei Zhuang let go of Gai Nie's hair in pain, Gai Nie turned over and sat on Wei Zhuang, and hit Wei Zhuang's head with his fist.

"Nie'er! Stop it! Guiguzi stood up and was about to step forward to stop Gai Nie, he didn't expect the two friends who had known each other to fight like this.

"Stop!" A girl's voice was heard in the distance.

But it was too late, Gai Nie threw this punch and hit Wei Zhuang one after another. The usual sound of leaves, birds, and streams suddenly disappeared without a trace. Only Gai Nie's fist was left, "Bang, bang, bang......" Guiguzi and Xiaohan looked at this scene in surprise, and no one had the courage to step forward to stop it.

Gai Nie had enough, his face was expressionless, and he got up and left.