Xiyue sat under the pear tree, looking at the tree with her cheeks propped up, her eyes blank.

Duguzhu also gave her a lesson, but there were only two words: planting trees.

She has a seed in her hand, which belongs to this pear tree, and after Dugu Zhu came back from the bamboo forest, he gave her this seed and asked her to plant a tree, saying that it would help her understand the reincarnation of the Northern Underworld.

But Xiyue thought about it for a long time, and she didn't understand what the relationship between planting trees and contemplating the path of reincarnation was.

"What's the use of you just being in a daze here, your predecessors let you plant trees, and you can do it. Long Qingyan came over and said to her.

"But I haven't planted a tree...... Xiyue replied.

Long Qingyan thought for a while and said, "Isn't it just to dig a pit and bury the seeds in it?"

Xiyue sighed and said: "My predecessor said that planting trees can help me understand the way of reincarnation, do you think it can be so simple? Just dig a pit and bury it, you are really ......"

Long Qingyan rolled his eyes and said, "It's very simple to plant trees, but you think too much." ”

Xiyue was skeptical, "Really?"

Long Qingyan said with great certainty: "Really, haven't you heard a word, the road is simple!"

Xiyue stared at him for a long time, and saw that Long Qingyan was a little suspicious that there was something on his face, but he reached out and wiped it, but no.

As a result, Xiyue said: "I can't see that you are very smart." ”

Long Qingyan: "......"

Xiyue went to plant a tree, and Su Chen learned the sword in the bamboo forest, leaving Long Qingyan alone, so he was bored looking at the pear tree.

Dugu Zhu came to his side and asked, "What do you want?"

Long Qingyan was taken aback, quickly stood up, and replied, "No, it's just a little boring alone." ”

Dugu Zhu smiled and said to him, "Come with me." ”

When Long Qingyan heard this, he was immediately in good spirits, this senior master seemed to be ready to guide him, you know, Dugu Zhu had already set foot in the "fairyland", and his cultivation experience was extremely valuable for a little monk like Long Qingyan and the three of them, because Dugu Zhu had walked a section of the road they would take in the future, and with his guidance, they could avoid many detours.

"The exercises I have cultivated are completely different from those of the Dragon Clan, so I can't help you much, but I have lived in seclusion in Yongshan for three hundred years, and I have found a place that may be useful to you. Duguzhu explained.

"Well, the seniors are so bothered, and the juniors are flattered. Long Qing thanked him.

"It's nothing, it's just for the sake of the old man's face. Duguzhu said indifferently.

"By the way, what is the relationship between the senior and the eldest grandson of the White King?" asked Long Qingyan.

Dugu Zhu led the way, and said leisurely: "Three hundred years ago, when I was not in seclusion, I had some intersections with Bai Feilian, and at that time, there were Yunyue and Qingyue from the Northern Underworld, as well as Su Xingfeng, Li Chungang and Xiao Wuxing from Daowu Palace, and some others, but the people who had the deepest friendship at that time were me, Bai Feilian, Su Xingfeng, Yunyue and Bai Jing. ”

Long Qingyan asked curiously, "Did something big happen when you got together?"

It's no wonder that Long Qingyan asked, just these people who said their names by Dugu Zhu all represented a big force, Daowu Palace, the Northern Ice Phoenix, and the Eastern Wilderness Dragon Clan, any of them were stomping their feet, and the heavens and the earth were trembling.

Dugu Zhu let out a long sigh and replied: "That's right, something big has happened, and there is one thing that we all have to work together to solve." ”

Long Qingyan cautiously asked, "What is the matter?"

Dugu Zhu was silent for a while, and only said two words: "Punish the demon!"

While speaking, they had already arrived at the place, this place was still in the Bamboo Sword Valley, Long Qingyan couldn't help but be speechless, the valley seen by the naked eye was not big, but after actually walking through, they found that the Bamboo Sword Valley was actually very vast. And where they are now, they are still not at the edge of the valley.

Here is about five miles away from the bamboo house courtyard, in front of Long Qingyan is a pit, about six feet wide, looking down, the depth is unpredictable, only see a touch of bright red at the bottom of the pit.

"Here?" Long Qingyan vaguely guessed.

"The place where Juyong Mountain is located is a branch of the ancestral vein of Jizhou, and it is one of the dragons that constitute the topography of the two dragons playing with pearls, and it is a spiritual mountain itself, and many spiritual caves have been bred in its mountain. Dugu Zhu said, "This is one of the places I found, called the Sun Pit, which should be useful to you." ”

Long Qingyan was overjoyed, bowed down and said, "Thank you seniors for your success!"

According to Duguzhu, this spiritual cave is the "sun pit" recorded in ancient books, and it will only appear in some special terrain, such as "two dragons playing with pearls", such as the land of pure yang. In order to form a sun crater in these special areas, some conditions must be met: first, there must be an appropriate amount of sun power gathering in the terrain; second, the place where the sun's power gathers must be a sinkhole, that is, a crater smashed by an extraterrestrial meteorite falling on the ground; third, there needs to be something in the pit that attracts the power of the sun, and this kind of divine object is carried by the meteorite, and it is not destroyed by the power of the sun, but becomes a carrying thing, which is called "sun mine" In the end, to form a sun pit, it takes time, and it will take at least 10,000 years to form a slightly rudimentary sun pit, and it will even take millions of years for Dacheng's sun pit.

The Eastern Wilderness has been called the place where the sun rises since ancient times, which is the largest place in the world to the sun, but the eastern wilderness has not been able to form a sun pit, the biggest reason is that the power of the sun there is too strong, once gathered, nothing can withstand the water of the power of the sun in the Eastern Wilderness.

Although the sun pit discovered by Duguzhu is not big, it is a real sun pit, which means that there is not only the gathering of pure sun power, but also the "sun mine" in it, which is a great opportunity for Long Qingyan.

If he obtains the Sun Mine, he will be able to refine the most suitable "Dao Weapon" for himself.

What Duguzhu gave him was really a great gift!

Xiyue took the hoe and went to the outside of the yard, found a flat place, dug a hole, and buried the pear tree seeds in the soil.

Then she sat down beside the pit, staring at it with beautiful eyes.

Dugu Zhu returned from the Sun Pit, and when he saw Xiyue like this, he wanted to say something, but in the end he shook his head and didn't interfere.

Xiyue sat by the pit until the sun set, but there was no movement in the pit.

At this time, someone came behind her, and said to her in a very helpless tone: "You can't understand anything like this." ”

Xiyue looked back and saw that it was Su Chen, so she asked, "Aren't you in the bamboo forest?"

Su Chen said: "Cultivation is not a matter of one or two days, I don't have to soak in the bamboo forest all day. ”

Xiyue asked again, "Then what do you mean by what you just said?"

Su Chen smiled: "You only planted the seed today, do you expect it to grow now?"

Xiyue frowned and said, "Then when will it grow?"

Su Chen said: "Wait slowly, besides, you can't just watch, you have to water and fertilize it, and sometimes turn over the soil, which is more conducive to the growth of seeds." ”

Xiyue suddenly complained with a bitter face: "Why is it so troublesome?" Long Qingyan told me to dig a pit and bury it, it turns out that there are still so many things to do. ”

Su Chen laughed secretly, Xiyue has always prided herself on being erudite, but she didn't know any common sense, but it was not surprising to think that the books she read were all precious classics in various cultivation circles, and there were really no books that introduced these mortal common sense.

After that, Su Chen found a wooden bucket and a water scoop from the courtyard, took Xiyue to the stream near the valley to fetch stream water, taught her to irrigate and turn the soil, and told her that she could go outside the valley to collect some fallen leaves and dead grass to use as fertilizer for the tree seeds.

The seed that Dugu Zhu gave to Xiyue was just an ordinary tree species, and with the help of the spiritual energy in the Bamboo Sword Valley, the growth cycle could be greatly shortened, but if you want to turn into a spiritual object, it will take a long time.

"You know a lot, where did you really learn it?" Xiyue asked Su Chen.

"When I first learned to walk, I helped my uncles and uncles in the village with farm work, which I learned when I was a child. Su Chen said.

"Eh, tell me more about when you were a child. Xiyue nudged Su Chen, "For example, what do you usually do, how do you live, what farm work you do, and so on." ”

Su Chen smiled and said, "What do you know about this?"

Xiyue said: "Oh, you have to tell me about it, I'm studying!"

Su Chen agreed with a smile, and the two sat down by the mound where the tree seeds were buried, and chatted about what happened before Su Chen entered the cultivation realm.

It is obviously a very ordinary peasant life, but Xiyue listens to it with relish, it is another life different from the cultivation world, in the eyes of many people, it is so ordinary that it makes people feel boring, but this is the life of the vast majority of people on the land of Shenzhou, there is no magic weapon, there is no elixir, it is so ordinary and pure.

At least, what Su Chen has experienced is so simple.

When night fell, the grass emitted a faint fluorescence, and it turned out that there were also fluorescent grasses in the Bamboo Sword Valley. Looking up, the sky is full of stars, and a silver belt across the sky, I don't know where it starts, and I don't know where it ends, it is the heavenly river formed by the convergence of countless stars, and the mortal world also calls the heavenly river "Milky Way".

"I've heard that there's a poignant legend about Tianhe," Xiyue said softly as she looked at the Milky Way. Legend has it that there was a fairy who fell in love with a mortal, and the two made a private agreement for life, and they became relatives in the mortal world, but her mother objected to them being together, so she took the fairy away, and her mortal husband wanted to find his wife, but heard that the fairy's mother locked his wife somewhere in the starry sky, and the mortal broke into the starry sky after many difficulties, but died before he could see his wife, and then the fairy was heartbroken, and washed her face with tears every day, and the tears she shed turned into a river, which flowed in the sky, and could be seen at night, and it was said that this river was the heavenly river。 ”

Su Chenqi said: "This kind of folk tale is still recorded in your family's ancient books?"

Xiyue rolled her eyes and said, "Are you telling this story to be true?"

Su Chen shook his head: "It shouldn't be, Tianhe is made of stars, if it is really as said in the story, it is a woman's tears, then doesn't it mean that that woman's tears are comparable to stars? ”

Xiyue held her forehead, feeling that Su Chen didn't understand what she meant at all, so she could only snort at Su Chen with her eyes, got up and went back to her cabin.

Su Chen was very puzzled, scratched the back of his head, and said to himself: "I'm answering her questions seriously, why do you seem to make her unhappy?"

The legend of Tianhe began to circulate in the world about 10 million years ago, at that time, there seemed to be a kind of character in the land of Shenzhou, and it was said that it was the ultimate realm pursued by cultivators, known as the "Extreme Realm of Humanity", and the creatures who could ascend to this realm were revered as "emperors".

If the fairy in the story is a monk in the "Extreme Realm of Humanity", that is, an "emperor", it is not impossible that her tears will turn into stars.

But...... Is that kind of character really emotionally emotional?

Su Chen didn't know, and he didn't bother to think about it, so he looked at the night scene for a while, and went back to the room to rest.

Early the next morning, Su Chen came to the bamboo forest, still holding a bamboo branch in his hand.

"Using bamboo as a sword and learning the sword practice method of mortals, can this allow me to understand the true meaning of sword cultivation?" Su Chen was a little puzzled, but he still followed Dugu Zhu's instructions and began to practice the sword.

He held a bamboo branch like a sword, and began to practice the basic movements of swordsmanship. He couldn't perform the Star Hidden Trace Step, but in the Sword Ancestor Codex, he recorded various body techniques to cooperate with the sword technique, and since it was from the basics, he also chose the simplest footwork.

His body is still smart, the bamboo branches dance like the wind, suddenly split, stab, point, suddenly teasing, collapsing, cutting, cutting, sometimes picking and wiping, sometimes lifting and sometimes hanging, or wearing or hugging, or chopping or racking......

He kept repeating the most basic movements of these swordsmanship, and at the same time thinking about the two questions Duguzhu asked him: What is sword cultivation?

Sword cultivation, the branch of imperial martial arts, a generation of sword ancestors to create this way, is a mortal swordsman with superb swordsmanship, he has been obsessed with the way of the sword all his life, his sword as a companion, has never used other weapons, a three-foot Qingfeng, he has achieved his eternal prestige! And this is also the belief that should be held to become a sword cultivator: cast a sword in a lifetime, this sword is this life, this life is only this sword!

One sword can break ten thousand laws, and one sword can hit the sky!

The way of sword cultivation and the method of sword cultivation are all based on your own sword, let your magic pass through the mysteries, I will break it with a sword, let you have thousands of magic weapons, I will hit it with a sword.

Sword cultivation is a school, but also a kind of faith, give up all the magic weapons, concentrate all your attention on your own three-foot Qingfeng, forge the sword into a supreme weapon that can be seen everywhere in the world, and engrave the way of heaven and the way of man on a sword, and achieve your own supreme Dao fruit.

This is Sword Cultivation! Or rather, this is - Swordsman!

"Yes, what my predecessor said is right, my sword cultivation path went astray at the beginning, sword cultivation needs to concentrate on the sword, what I have learned is too miscellaneous, and it messes up the way of the sword. Su Chen felt in his heart, "But I don't need to abandon everything I have learned, I just have to correct my own path, from now on, I need to devote myself to forging swords, casting my own swords, and cultivating my own swords!"

Su Chen has the Sword Ancestor Codex here, and Dugu Zhu to guide him, it is easy to do this, in fact, earlier, when he regained his cultivation, he was alert, and now with Dugu Zhu's help, he can better face his problems and solve them.

So, what is a sword? Su Chen was asking himself, and he had many answers in his heart, but he always felt that it was not the answer he wanted.

The sword is one of the most common weapons in the world, and has the reputation of "the king of a hundred soldiers", which is brisk, agile, chic and elegant.

The sword has a double blade, which is a weapon for killing, and the warrior is royal, one blade is stained with blood, and the other blade creates a dead soul.

The sword also has a sheath, hidden with a double edge, hidden edge, can be used as a ritual weapon, ordinary people match it, help their own body, generals match it, show the power of the three armies, and the king match it, show the majesty of the country.

However, for cultivators, the sword is not the most suitable instrument for enlightenment, its shape is ordinary, not like the bell, tower, tripod and other secret avenues, the sword weapon is difficult to carry the three thousand avenues, so the monks who are really interested in the extreme realm of humanity will basically not use the sword weapon as their own enlightenment tool to forge.

But is that really the case?

The so-called Three Thousand Great Avenues, is there really no way to be compatible with the sword?

In other words, can't kendo be one of the "Three Thousand Great Roads"?

Jian Zu died young and failed to reach the end of the way of the sword, but he created the way of sword cultivation, which is undoubtedly an unprecedented feat, he has been obsessed with the sword all his life, has a deduction for the road of sword cultivation, and has infinite longing for the future of sword cultivation, but Su Chen believes that he also has regrets, because after him, no sword cultivation can even surpass the realm he has reached, and he may find it even more difficult to believe that after his death, sword cultivation has almost disappeared into the torrent of history.

Su Chen thought a lot while dancing the sword. He forgot that he was there, that he was doing, that he even forgot the time.

The sun rises and the moon sets, and the stars move.

He reacquainted himself with sword cultivation, but on the question of "what is a sword", he fell into confusion, all he thought of was the definition and understanding of sword in the world, but he felt that this was not his answer.

Therefore, what Su Chen has to think about is, for him, what is a sword?

He was suddenly confused, his mind could not jump out of those existing arguments, and his mind was turning over and over those inherent knowledge of the sword.

Su Chen stopped suddenly, his feet were not in order, the bamboo branch in his right hand pointed forward, and his left hand was behind him.

From the moment of movement and stillness, the gang wind blew, rolling up layers of air waves, blowing bamboo leaves all over the sky, but within a foot in front of him, there were no bamboo leaves, and there was no wind and waves.

Su Chen closed his eyes and forced himself to abandon all distractions and listen to the sounds around him.

There was the sound of the wind, the rustle of leaves, the sound of dust rising and falling to the ground, however, he did not hear the so-called "sound of the sword".

Everything was quiet, Su Chen slowly opened his eyes, his expression was very lonely, he glanced at the "bamboo sword" in his hand, and sighed.

Dugu Zhu didn't know when he appeared beside him, and when he saw him like this, he stepped forward and said, "Your life is still very long, don't be in a hurry, come back tomorrow." ”

Su Chen nodded, only to realize that it was already night, so he asked, "I'm in the bamboo forest...... Did you stay all day?"

Dugu Zhu said indifferently: "It's been two days." ”

Su Chen let out an "oh" and didn't say much, and Duguzhu didn't ask him how he was going, it seemed that everything was expected by him.

Xiyue's life in the past two days is very regular, after getting up early, I get some breakfast and eat, and then practice in the morning, and then go to see the growth of pear tree seeds, watering, fertilizing, pulling out weeds if there are weeds, and then loosen the soil according to the situation, get some lunch at noon, continue to look at the seeds in the afternoon, and in the evening, after dinner, I sit under the pear tree in the courtyard to practice, and after the child, go back to the room to rest.

Dugu Zhu has been observing the situation of the three young people, Long Qingyan and Su Chen, these days, he has some idea in his heart, but he can't see through these actions of Xiyue.

"This girl seems to be living a mortal life. ”

In the end, Duguzhu only made such an evaluation.