Chapter 15: The Sword Master of the Clouds
It has been a week since Chu Lan assassinated Jin Yuying, and since this week, the revenge of the Jin family, which surprised everyone, has not come as promised.
Jin Qiujiu, who has always been known for his tyranny and retribution, did not immediately retaliate, which made everyone puzzled.
But there are also people who speculate that the Jin family is planning a big plan, and I am afraid it is not as simple as asking the Chu family for compensation.
The rivers and lakes were calm, and Chu Lan's defeat of the "Little Gun Immortal" did not spread to the outside world. But just by killing Jin Yuying, Chu Lan is now famous in the rivers and lakes.
The Jin family did not make a move, but some forces that had always taken the Jin family as their shelter moved.
Although "Yunxiao Mountain" is not a force directly under the Jin family, it has been relying on the Jin family's funding for many years, and has worn a pair of pants with the Jin family behind his back.
There is no snow today, the weather is fine, and the sun is slowly melting the snow.
There is a sword house in the mountain behind the Chu family, which is very simple, but Chu Zhentian and Chu Daiyan used to practice swords here, and there was an inexplicable flow of qi.
And now it has become Chu Lan's place to practice swords.
Chu Lan shuttled in light and shadow, for seven years, since he began to practice swords, there had never been a break.
"Report, Wang Shihao, the owner of Yunxiao Mountain Villa, asked to see him, and the head of the family said that it was up to the young master to decide whether to see him or not. β
Chu Lan put away the sword, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and saw that the housekeeper came to report that ordinary people in the Houshan Sword House were not allowed to enter, and among all the family members, only this big housekeeper who had been in the Chu family for fifty or sixty years.
The housekeeper's name is Zhao Cheng, he is very kind, and he is also very shrewd and capable, everyone calls him Lao Zhao, and the Chu family's practices are well organized by him.
Chu Daiyan once said that Lao Zhao was a master of swords when he was young, and after being defeated by your grandfather, he willingly came to the Chu family to sit as a housekeeper, and he has never made a move over the years.
"Old Zhao, let him come to Jianlu to see me" Chu Lan glanced at Zhao Cheng, the master temperament that really couldn't be seen from him, anyone who looked at it was just an ordinary little old man.
Zhao Cheng responded, didn't say much, and went down.
After a while, an old man holding a long sword came from the sword house in the back mountain.
The old man has white hair and white beard, his spirit is strong, and the sword in his hand is also extremely exquisite, the hilt of the sword is decorated with red spikes, and the single scabbard is carved very exquisitely, which is obviously a divine soldier.
A finch flew up, stood on a branch not far from them, lowered an already slender branch a little, shook its body, and then slowly gathered its feathers.
Wang Shihao is not young, he looks like a master, but he speaks with a mouthful of ruffianism, this contrast is shocking.
"I said boy, I respect the Chu family, how can you dare to kill the young master of the Jin family?"
Wang Shihao said.
Chu Lan didn't speak, just stared straight at him. There was no expression left, no matter what the old man said, he was unmoved.
Wang Shihao was stared at by him for a while, and he was a little weak-hearted, his brows furrowed, and he drank again.
"With your cultivation that has not yet stepped into the Spirit Wheel realm, how did you defeat the two brothers Chu Xian and Chu Dan? The most important thing is that the young master of the Jin family was obviously framed, and you actually killed him indiscriminately, today I will ask for an explanation. β
Chu Lan snorted coldly, showing disdain, this old man was also shameless.
"Let's get out of the sword" Chu Lan didn't want to say much
With a soft sound of "Zheng", Wang Shihao's sword was unsheathed, and it was indeed an extremely handsome sword.
The sword is three feet and seven inches long, much longer than ordinary swords, and the sword body is silver-white, with traces of flowing clouds engraved on it.
"Good Sword"
Chu Lan praised from the bottom of his heart.
"Of course it's a good sword, this Liuyun Sword has been passed down by the ancestors of the past generations, and it came from the hand of He Zishi, a refining master a hundred years ago. β
Wang Shihao couldn't help but feel a little proud when he heard Chu Lan's praise.
He squinted at Chu Lan, and when he saw Chu Lan's simple long sword, as if he was taking revenge on Chu Lan's attitude towards him just now, there was a look of disdain in his eyes.
"Boy, it's hard for you to kill chickens with this sword, let alone fight me. β
"Oh?"
Chu Lan shrugged her shoulders and stepped aside.
Pick up a broken branch from the falling snow and flick your fingers off the remnants of snow on it.
"And how about this one?"
Chu Lan raised the branch and pointed at Wang Shihao.
Wang Shihao was furious. "Look for death!"
Chu Lan chuckled, the most important thing for the so-called strong is not to have a divine weapon, but to have a strong heart is the most important thing.
The sword heart of the Yunxiao Sword Master in front of him was very poor, and he messed up his emotions with just a few actions, and wasted a good sword in vain.
Wang Shihao was angry, and when he came up, he was a killer move, he had never been looked down upon like this.
If you can't beat a hairy boy with a broken branch in your hand, you won't be a laughing stock in the rivers and lakes in the future.
He has the strength of the Spirit Wheel Triple Heaven, which is much higher than Chu Lan, but Chu Lan is not afraid, this Wang Shihao's real combat power is much worse than Chu Teng.
The Liuyun Sword was infused with spiritual power by him, and for a while, it seemed that all the clouds and smoke moved one after another, and after a while, it spread to the area where the two of them were.
Like clouds falling on the horizon, Chu Lan was like being in a fairyland, covered by clouds and mist all around, and he couldn't see anything clearly.
The finch that had just landed on a nearby branch stopped combing its fur and began to stare at the mist that was entwined in the field, as if it was very interested.
Chu Lan was not anxious, holding the branch in his hand and standing quietly.
Suddenly, a cold light flashed in the clouds, and Chu Lan intuitively dodged a sword sideways, and waved it again, but nothing was touched.
Wang Shihao launched dozens of attacks back and forth, but Chu Lan only defended and did not attack, waiting quietly.
"Huh"
Another chill appeared in the void, but this blow was far more violent than the previous ones.
In an instant, almost all the clouds and mist were cut open at this moment, and all the smoke was just a trick to obstruct the eyes, and the real killing move was this sword.
"A sword pierces the sky" Wang Shihao's shout came from the void.
"Little Doyle" Chu Lan said in a deep voice, and the figure that was originally still raised the long sword.
A huge sword intent emanated.
Wang Shihao had never seen such a huge sword intent, and for a while, the move in his hand seemed to slow down.
The finches watching the battle from the sidelines, their feathers exploded, and they hurriedly flew away.
The branches shook and snow fell.
Who could have imagined that a withered branch could burst out with such a powerful sword intent, arrogant and domineering, as if it was about to pierce the clouds in the sky.
The sword qi condensed into a branch, and unswervingly stabbed towards a place in the mist.
I only heard a crisp sound of ding, the clouds and mist dispersed, and the sky and earth were clear again.
Wang Shihao stood still, his pupils contracted sharply, and he trembled as he looked at the Liuyun Sword in his hand.
The broken branch in Chu Lan's hand was unbearable for his sword intent, and it instantly turned into powder after sending out this blow.
And looking at Wang Shihao's hand, a small circular hole appeared on the Liuyun Sword
The front and back are translucent.
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On a moonlit night, the stars are dotted and the shadows of the trees are swaying.
Chu Lan sat on top of the sword house, cross-legged.
Chu Lan recalled the route that Mo Jinyan had guided the spiritual power to run that day, and the wisps of spiritual power silk threads around her gathered and surged towards Chu Lan's body.
Yuehua sprinkled on Chu Lan's body, he concentrated, felt the fluctuations of the spiritual energy around him, and slowly ran the spiritual power in his body with his heart, and after a big week, the spiritual power that was originally gathered in the meridians suddenly disappeared.
Chu Lan let out a long sigh, is it really not good. He thought to himself.
However, he didn't know where the collapsed spiritual power went, but every time he received the spiritual power into his body like this, and then dissipated, and so on, although it could not be stored in the body, but faintly, Chu Lan seemed to feel that his body was stronger than before, and the breath between his mouth and nose was like a dragon around the pillar, which was the scene of the extreme cultivation of the body, so Chu Lan used it to refine his body.
Presumably, the spiritual power that collapsed was just left in the body in a different way, hidden in the blood muscles.
Compared with the quiet Houshan Sword House at this moment, the outside world once again blew up because of Chu Lan.
The Lord of the Cloud Sword lost his heart and ran around the city with the Cloud Sky Sword, laughing like crazy, and from time to time there were tears, not so much that he was laughing, but more like a sad cry to the extreme.
Chu Lan still remembered that at the moment when he defeated Wang Shihao, Wang Shihao's face was like ashes, and he held the Yunxiao Sword for a long time, and then let out a terrible roar, which no longer seemed like a human being. For a moment, the sobs flowed, and it was obvious that it had collapsed.
I only heard him muttering all the time, "I have practiced swords for dozens of years, and I have been broken by others, what is the sword path I pursue?"
Chu Lan looked at it coldly, frowning slightly.
Chu Lan's record of defeating the Yunxiao Sword with a withered branch has spread all over the rivers and lakes, first killing Wang Yuying, then breaking the Yunxiao Sword, and defeating the white-clothed immortal who has not been known to the outside world, each of the three things is enough to shock the entire rivers and lakes. People have a new definition of waste.
But all this can't move Chu Lan's heart, whether he is called a genius or a waste, he is still him, he is not pretentious, he only seeks swordsmanship.
Nothing was said all night.
Next
In the back mountain, in the morning light, it is still the figure of the sword that has been practicing for seven years.
In the first four years, Chu Lan had seen the sword moves of the Chu family and even the rivers and lakes, and he was dedicated to pursuing the ingenuity of the sword moves. But in the past three years, Chu Lan retreated from his sword moves and begged for his gods, he felt that with the support of sword intent, even rice grains could compete for glory in the sun and the moon, and the gorgeous sword moves were far less practical than the unpretentious moves.
Before the pulse was opened, Chu Lan did not sink here, and after thinking about it for a few days, he decided to use the pressure from the outside world to promote his breakthrough.
The sun was high, and when it was time to eat, Chu Lan soaked his fingers in the secret potion of the Chu family, and then simply washed it with water.
Then I went to my parents' room to eat together.
The Chu family is busy, although it is well managed by the housekeeper and the second uncle Chu Dairui, but Chu Daiyan, who is the head of the family, is also very busy, so most of the time when the family of three meets is at the dinner table in the morning and evening.
Eating silently, the family finished eating quietly, today seems to be different from other days, there is an inexplicable smell in the air.
After the meal, Chu Lan opened his mouth first, "Dad, can you briefly introduce the distribution of demon beasts in Yinyue Mountain to me?"
Chu Daiyan was stunned for a moment, and glanced at Liu Yeqing, both of whom saw the worry in the other party's eyes. But nothing was revealed.
"The outermost part of Yinyue Mountain, that is, the area where your third uncle is responsible for mining Yangyuan Jade, most of them are some ordinary beasts that are not in the ranks, and occasionally there are first-order demon beasts that are infested, which is equivalent to a monk in the realm of refining the body, and then inside, they are basically first-order demon beasts, and it is also the main area of our family's hunting, but there is one exception, that is, Tianyajian, which is known as the third Jedi of Yinyue Mountain, there are basically no first-order demon beasts there, and they are basically all second-order Chu-level demon beasts, which are equivalent to the realm of the first to third grades of the human spirit wheel, and the second-order medium is also infested, which is equivalent to the fourth- to seventh-order demon beastsβ
Chu Lan faintly had a goal in his heart, he had also heard of the three Jedi in Tianyajian, the first place was the center of the Silver Moon Forest, in addition to the infestation of high-level demon beasts, it was said that there was also a pool of lake called the Death Pool. The lake is red, birds can't cross, rumors can look at the past and this life, but in fact, it is fascinating, those who have seen this lake, few come out alive, these rumors are a crazy beggar before he died.
The second Jedi, which is even less well known, is called the "Ghost Forest", which is also known as the "Ghost Forest" by the world , the place is dark and tight, even the plants and trees are born weird, the branches are vertical and horizontal, connecting the sky and the earth, into it, do not see the day, there are very few demon beasts haunted, and the very few demon beasts are also like coming from the blue falling yellow spring, the birth is also evil, a scene of hell on earth, it is rumored that there is an expedition team, a line of more than a dozen people, all are the spiritual wheel of the meridian above the cultivation, holding the divine weapon, after entering, seven days did not come out, and then a passer-by saw it from afar, in the forest, there are several black shadows between the rattan branches, like a human form, the head hits the ground, the body is stiff, like a hanged person, take a closer look, the mouth and tongue are very long, the eyes are staring out, and the people are tightγ
The third Jedi is the end of the world that Chu Daiyan said, "the end of the world leads to the ghost gate, and new graves are added to the wilderness of the world" But compared to the strangeness of the other two, this place is still a place in the world. It is always said in the world that immortals reach the sky with a sword, and the silver moon is separated by two halves. Tianya Creek crosses the Silver Moon Forest, dividing the northern Silver Moon Forest into two, stretching for thousands of zhang, so there is a boundary between Cangzhou and Pizhou, and Silver Moon City is where the border between the two states is located.