The night was getting deeper, but Xiyue was still in high spirits, turned out all the fine wines collected by Dugu Zhu, and drank them with Su Chen.

The taste of Tang pear water is sweet and sour, Xiao Zi is sitting on the table, his tail is shaking from side to side from time to time, and a pair of small paws are holding a small porcelain bowl and drinking with relish. At this time, Xiyue was already slightly drunk, her cheeks were slightly red, her hands were on her cheeks, and her smiling eyes were charming.

"In the heavens, I wish to be a winged bird, and on the earth, I wish to be a ...... of Lian Lizhi" Xiyue burped while reading the poem, maybe the smell of wine was a little smoky, she stretched out her hand and fanned it, and then continued: "Do you think I will meet someone who is so infatuated with me?"

Su Chen replied noncommittally: "Maybe, it's just your ending......"

Xiyue stared at him and asked, "How did it end?"

Su Chen chuckled and said, "Who knows, what kind of person must be the person who can stay with the Northern Heavenly Maiden for life in this world?"

Xiyue suddenly said to Su Chen with a bitter face: "The bad is my identity, hey......"

Su Chen said with relief: "Life that has not experienced emotional tempering is unsatisfactory, everything is just fate, fate is here, and your identity can't be stopped." ”

"Yes...... It's ......" After Xiyue drank another glass of wine, she fell asleep on the table before she finished speaking.

"Yes. Su Chen got up, came to her side, picked her up sideways and sent her back to the room.

After settling Xiyue, Su Chen returned to the courtyard, packed everything up, and sat up under the pear tree. Although Dugu Zhu's wine is not strong, it has a lot of stamina, and Xiyue drank more than Su Chen, so she naturally got drunk quickly. Su Chen was very restrained, drinking slowly, compared to Xiyue, he was like a little daughter-in-law.

I don't know if it's the reason why I told that story to Xiyue, Su Chen thought of himself for no reason, and thought of the person who should also be in the north now.

"Sometimes I think, do I really have such a deep love for you?" Su Chen looked up at the night sky, it was jet black, and there were tiny white dots falling down, which were snowflakes.

He stretched out his hand to catch a snowflake, but it was quickly melted by the body temperature, and Su Chen laughed at himself: "You and I are not all the way, I still have a little delusion." ”

"Brother, what are you feeling?" Long Qingyan's voice suddenly came.

Su Chen turned his head to see that his friend was coming out of the room, so he asked, "When did you come back, why don't you come over for a drink or two?"

Long Qingyan smiled and said, "I'll be back early in the morning, but seeing that you and Xiyue are chatting so happily, I don't bother you." With that, he sat down casually beside Su Chen and let out a long sigh.

"What, you also have something on your mind?" asked Su Chen.

"Hey, I'm in love. Long Qingyan replied, "My childhood sweetheart's lover is still in the Eastern Wilderness, and I don't know when I will be able to go back and marry her." ”

Su Chen was surprised, this was the first time he heard Long Qingyan talk about this, so he said: "You are the crown prince of the Dragon Clan, you can go back if you want to go back, marry her if you want to marry her, who else will oppose you?"

Long Qingyan smiled bitterly: "It sounds good, I am the prince of the Dragon Clan, in fact, in the Dragon Clan, except for my master, your master, and a few friends, no one takes me seriously." There has been a rumor in the Eastern Wilderness that I was just pushed out by the master as a tool to inspire the younger generation of the dragon clan. In fact, I have suffered a lot of white eyes since I was a child, and I am used to seeing those people in front of one set and one behind the other. So I hate the East Wilderness, and if I could, I would never go back for the rest of my life. ”

When he suffered all the white eyes in the Eastern Wilderness, there were only three people who treated him differently at the earliest, one was his master, one was naturally his lover Qingyu, and the third was Bai Jing, who was already a wife at that time, and when he returned to the Eastern Wilderness to visit relatives, he met Long Qingyan who was still a child, which brought Long Qingyan the warmth of a mother.

Su Chen said: "But your lover is still there." ”

Long Qingyan continued: "Yes, Qingyu is still in the Eastern Wilderness, I want to take her away and be a free and easy fairy couple." ”

"Is she willing to leave?"

"I don't know, I didn't ask her, and I never mentioned it to her. ”

"Hey, you really should ask her first, otherwise one day you go back and want to take her away, but you find that it backfires, I'm afraid it will be a very heavy blow. Feelings should not be wishful thinking, if you are willing, she must also be willing, the two of you can come together, and there is always a distance between what you ask forcibly. ”

"I'm in love with her and I'm going to respect her wishes, but I really want her to leave with me. ”

"And when are you going to go back again?"

"When I am 100 years old, Donghuang will re-elect the prince, I will go back at that time, and then take her away, and never return to Donghuang again. ”

"Isn't that still a long time? And if she doesn't want to leave, what will you choose? Turn around and leave, or stay in the East Wilderness for her?"

"I ......"

Long Qingyan was suddenly speechless, he fell into hard thinking, did he stay in the place he hated for love, or chose to give up precious feelings for the sake of freedom? Both sides couldn't give up, but when this kind of choice really happened, how should he choose?

Su Chen is very calm, this is the trade-off that Long Qingyan will face in the future, and he has already "experienced" a similar trade-off, but the initiative is not in his hands. He sighed: "The most difficult thing in life is to make trade-offs, you at least have the initiative, unlike me, you don't even have the power to struggle, and you were directly sentenced to death." ”

Long Qingyan looked at him and asked, "What have you been through?"

Su Chen replied: "What can it be, isn't it just that he has been abandoned?"

That was when he was still thirteen or fourteen years old, Su Xingfeng's apprentice was not very old, but his cultivation talent was amazing, he entered the Jindan stage at such an age, and he was considered a top genius in Daowu Palace, although he had not left the master much, his reputation had already spread.

When Su Xingfeng traveled around the world in his early years, he made many friends, one of whom is now the head of the Lan family in Kyushu. After Su Chen celebrated his fourteenth birthday, Bai Jing began to worry about his life events, thinking about telling Su Chen a good family matter.

It happened that during the Cold Food Festival that year, Su Chen wanted to go back to his hometown in Shuzhou to sweep the tomb of Aunt Wang, so the master's family accompanied him. After paying tribute to the old man who had raised him for six years, Su Xingfeng wanted to visit an old friend by the way, who was the head of the Lan family in Tianfu City, Lanqin River.

The Lan family warmly entertained Su Xingfeng's family and invited the Su family to stay for a while, Su Xingfeng readily agreed, so he stayed and stayed in Tianfu City.

It was this year that Su Chen met the woman who can be called "first love", the eldest daughter of Lanqin River, Lan Yujun.

One is a young talent from the first sect of the Immortal Dao today, the other is the delicate pearl of the ancient family, and at this age when love is just beginning, after getting along, Su Chen and Lan Yujun have feelings for each other.

Bai Jing saw the matter of these two young people clearly, but although she intended to talk about this family matter, the Lan family did not respond positively for some reason.

Until the Su family was ready to return to the master, the Lan family did not come down.

On the day he left, when Lan Yujun said goodbye, he said to Su Chen: "I will become the head of the Lan family in the future, and you must also come on, you must go to the place where the predecessors could not go." ”

Su Chen didn't know that his life would fall into the abyss two years later, so he agreed with a smile: "Then we have made an appointment, and when I reach the peak of cultivation, I will marry you." ”

Lan Yujun blushed, smiled, waved at him, and said goodbye.

However, two years later, when Su Chen was dying in the world, he found that among the people who pursued him were people from the Lan family. From the mouth of the Lan family, he learned the reason why the Lan family did not respond to the relationship with the Su family, and unexpectedly learned that Lan Yujun had been engaged to the heir of another ancient human family.

This was before he met Xiyue, so when Xiyue met him later, he was silent all day long, always depressed.

"Why did the Lan family want to hunt you down?" asked Long Qing puzzled.

"Lanqinhe and Shizun are old friends, I guess it was Li Chungang who passed the so-called truth to Lanqinhe, so he sent someone to kill me. However, I don't think it's going to be that simple, it's just that I don't have the time to find out. Su Chen replied, his expression rather gloomy.

"It seems that the Lan family was not in a hurry to agree to the marriage between you and Lan Yujun, it was a choice between you and another person, and in the end, you had an accident, and the Lan family chose someone else. Long Qing said.

"I guess that's the case. Su Chen sighed, "But I don't blame the Lan family, their choice can only be said to be more beneficial to the family, which is understandable." ”

"What about Lan Yujun, what does she think?" asked Long Qingyan again.

"I don't know, and I haven't had a chance to see her again. Su Chen shook his head, his tone was a little helpless and a little sad, "But I know that she at least believes me." "This is still the only news about Lan Yujun that Su Chen got after meeting Yu Jing, and besides, I don't know anything.

"Forget it, I don't have the heart to think about these children's feelings now, I practice hard, and it is the right thing to avenge my master, my mother and my little sister as soon as possible. Su Chen swept away his frustration and stood up, "It's snowing, I'll go and rest first, and I can't relax anymore from tomorrow." ”

"Okay, come on, brother. Long Qingyan also stood up, patted him on the shoulder and said, "You still have me and Xiyue, as well as Senior Dugu." ”

Su Chen smiled and turned back to the room.

Long Qing said to himself: "Everyone has a difficult place, but we should all be fortunate that there are always people by our side in this world." ”

With that, he slowly went back to his bedroom.

Not long after, Xiyue pushed open the window and muttered, "Two big men talk on a snowy night, tsk......"

Dugu Zhu still did not come back, and after Su Chen was able to practice normally, he cultivated in the spring of the second year and directly broke into the Jindan Eight Heavens, while Xiyue followed her daily practice and went one step further in about the same time and entered the Jindan Six Heavens.

In this way, in the summer of this year, the two entered the next small realm almost at the same time, a Jindan Nine Heavens and a Seven Heavens.

And Long Qingyan's cultivation was also consolidated in the early stage of refining gods, but he was very puzzled by this coincidence between Su Chen and Xiyue, and one night when the three of them were having dinner together, he expressed his doubts, and as a result, Su Chen and Xiyue also noticed that something was wrong.

"I remembered that there was a strange thing before, when I was in the Qitian Mountain Range, at that time, Xiyue had just entered the Golden Pill Period, but when I recovered to the Sixth Heaven Cultivation, her cultivation also skyrocketed to the Third Heaven, at that time I thought it was the result of her accumulation, but now it doesn't seem so simple. Su Chen touched his chin and thought as he spoke.

"Is there any special connection between the two of you?" Long Qingyan wondered.

"Huh?" Su Chen and Xi Yue looked at each other, and at the same time thought of "creating life against fate", this spell can be called thaumaturgy, Xi Yue saved Su Chen's life with this technique, and he can also communicate with him with the cross mark in the palm of his hand. When Su Chen was trapped by the demons, Xiyue's Yuan Shen accidentally entered Su Chen's body and helped him tide over the difficulties, and later, when Su Chen was on the verge of demonization, Xiyue also awakened Su Chen's sanity through the cross imprint. Today, they still find it a little incredible.

When Long Qingyan mentioned this, Su Chen and Xiyue suddenly had a feeling, and Xiyue said: "Could it be that the rebellion is not only for the two of us to communicate with each other, but also to affect each other's cultivation progress?"

Su Chen said in disbelief: "How can there be such a spell against the sky? If it is really the effect of rebellion, then even if Xiyue does not cultivate, as long as I keep improving, she will not be too far behind?"

Long Qingyan said: "Maybe it's not the case, although the two of you broke through the level at a similar time, there is a sequence in time, and both are current cultivators to the extent that they can break the level, so after one of them breaks the level, the other will be affected because of this thaumaturgy." ”

Xiyue agreed, and Su Chen's speculation she also thought of it, but she felt that it was too, where could there be such a good thing as pie in the sky, and Long Qingyan's statement was more reasonable, so she was inclined to the latter.

"Tut-tut......" Long Qingyan suddenly laughed strangely, "Yuan, it's wonderful!"

Chen and Yue glared at him together, and Xiyue pouted, "Have you been cleaning up lately?" Wash the dishes for me!

"Chirp!" Xiao Zi was elated, and it was finally her turn to turn over and be the master!

Long Qingyan smiled, stacked the dishes, chopsticks and plates together, held it firmly with one hand, and walked to the kitchen with Xiao Zi in the other, so angry that Xiao Zi screamed.

Another winter is coming, and Su Chen has finally reached the end of the Jindan period, and is about to break into the god refining period. However, he didn't have a headache about refining Dao weapons, he must have used swords as Dao weapons, and the question was just what to use to forge swords. Long Qingyan had already refined the Dao Weapon Dragon Pattern Knife, and Xiyue hadn't reached the time yet, so both of them were helping Su Chen refer to how to forge their own "Dao Sword".

"Except for the Sun Mine, there is nothing else suitable for refining in Bamboo Sword Valley, why don't you take it slow first, and let's go outside and look for it?" Xiyue proposed.

"Dao weapon, the selection of materials is also very important, you use the sword as a Dao weapon, if you can get the natural near-Dao divine material, you can make up for the lack of form. Long Qingyan also said.

"Not really. Su Chen said, "As mentioned in the Sword Ancestor Codex, the sword of sword cultivation is not necessarily tangible and fixed, because after cultivating to a certain realm, picking leaves and flying flowers can be used as swords, not sticking to the form, and the gods can be enough." That's why I think it's more important to practice the kendo realm than to forge a tangible sword. ”

Although this is very reasonable, when facing a real enemy, there are some things that cannot be ignored and can be fatal. Long Qingyan said solemnly.

"You don't have to be as casual as a certain two hundred and five!" Xiyue frowned.

"Hey, hey, hey, who are you talking about?" Long Qingyan was not happy when he heard this.

"Who do you care I am? Xiyue snorted.

In fact, Su Chen would not just forge a sword for himself casually, he was flipping through the Sword Ancestor Codex, which was one of the few things he left on his body after leaving Daowu Palace, and it was also one of the most precious.

Dugu Zhu enlightened him once, bringing his sword cultivation path back on track, and now he needs to enter the most critical cultivation stage for sword cultivation, which is "refining gods". For ordinary monks, this period is called "refining gods", but when it comes to sword cultivation, perhaps it should be renamed "sword casting".

The sword of sword cultivation, which accompanies the master for a lifetime, is a weapon for sword cultivation and warfare, and it is also a Taoist weapon for sword cultivation, and it takes a whole stage of cultivation to do the only thing - sword casting.

So Su Chen won't be sloppy.

He flipped through the chapters on sword forging in the codex, and the ancestors had all gained from their life's practice. According to the patriarch, during this period, the sword cultivation was not to refine the infant like an ordinary monk, but to use the power of the infant to forge the sword, but this sword is not a physical sword, and it is more appropriate to call it a "sword soul".

Replace the Yuan Infant with a sword soul, but the sword soul is not only the soul of sword cultivation, but also the soul of the "Dao Sword". However, ordinary monks will not let the Yuan Infant become the soul of the "Dao Weapon", because the Yuan Infant is like a second life for the monk, such as being injected into the magic weapon, once the magic weapon is damaged, the Yuan Infant will also be damaged. The damage to the primordial infant is even worse than the direct damage to the physical body, because the "god" of the monk is in the primordial infant.

As far as sword cultivation is concerned, the same is true for sword souls.

But the sword soul is also different, that is, when casting the "sword soul", the god of sword cultivation is separated from the sword soul, refining the sword soul in the way of refining the weapon, and using the sword cultivator's own divine thoughts as a guide to give the sword soul a new "life", so when the sword cultivator gets the material suitable for refining the "Dao Sword", the sword soul can be injected into the sword. And before that, sword cultivation could even directly use the sword soul as a non-substantive weapon.

Su Chen told the two friends about the record on the Sword Ancestor Codex, which surprised Xi Yue and Long Qingyan, and after being surprised, Xi Yue asked, "What about the 'god' of sword cultivation?"

Su Chen said: "God is still a god, but it does not exist in a fixed form, depending on the choice of sword cultivation, it can be scattered in the physical body, it can also be condensed in the center of the eyebrows, or hidden in the sea of consciousness." ”

Xi Yue nodded thoughtfully as she said, "So, the difference between the Sword Soul and the Yuan Infant is that the Sword Soul is not equal to the second life of the Sword Cultivator. Doesn't that mean that sword cultivation only has one life?"

Su Chen said with a smile: "You can think so, but sword cultivation is also about cultivating the primordial god, a powerful sword cultivator, the primordial god and the physical body are equally powerful, and the immortality of the primordial god is equivalent to having a second life." ”

The two friends suddenly realized, and Long Qing said: "In this way, you don't need to refine the Dao weapon now, you only need to refine the sword soul first, and then refine the Dao weapon when you find the right materials in the future." ”

"Exactly. ”

The patriarch had already given guidance, but Su Chen had not reached the realm before, even if he had already seen these contents, he didn't really understand them. Now it's different, he is about to step into the sword forging realm of sword cultivation, and many things that he didn't understand before can now be understood.

"Then I'll go to the bamboo forest for retreat, and I'll come back when the sword is finished. Su Chen said, put away the Sword Ancestor Codex, and walked towards the bamboo forest.

"Ah Yue, now that Su Chen has also entered the God Refining Period, you can't lag behind. Long Qingyan said to Xiyue, but the meaning of ridicule in his words was very strong.

"Isn't it the God Refining Period? For this Heavenly Maiden, it's not like playing at home. Xiyue snorted dissatisfied, turned around and went outside the courtyard, it was still early, she had to continue to take care of the pear tree.

Long Qing smiled but said nothing, he was also going to practice, it was only a year, and Su Chen caught up with him, which made him feel a little pressured in his heart. However, he was not afraid, after all, he entered this realm one step earlier than Su Chen, and he was still one step ahead after all.