A young man in a white robe with a slightly dark complexion sat cross-legged on the top of a mountain stream somewhere at the mountain gate of the palace, a large amount of heaven and earth aura lingering around him, and the mist condensed by the mountain stream soaked his robe.

Years later, Li Mengzhou will be eighteen years old.

Just after the New Year, the Imperial Sword Academy also reopened.

The murder of Taijing has long been over, at least on the surface.

And the pair of orphans and widows also sold their family property after the year, left the capital, and are said to have gone to Yan Kingdom, which is the maiden home of the disease-free mother of Tantai.

Li Mengzhou, whose life has temporarily returned to peace, appeared at the mountain gate of the palace every day in the month after the year, when the rooster has not yet crowed.

He learned from the experience of being defeated by the young man who was at the peak of his artistic conception outside the Jialan Temple, trying to find an opportunity to break through the realm again.

The first thing I do when I wake up every day is to make breakfast for Gu Shiyan, then hike to the mountain gate of the palace, meditate and practice on the top of the mountain stream for a while, finish the morning class according to the hour, return to Chaosi Lane at noon to continue to help Gu Shiyan make lunch, and then return to the mountain gate of the palace, stay in the library for several hours, continue to practice on the top of the mountain stream in the evening, and return to Chaosi Lane at the same time.

Every day is like this, it's quite boring.

But Li Mengzhou is doing everything very seriously, except for cooking for Gu Shiyan, who has grievances in his heart, he is still very happy at other times.

Fortunately, Gu Shiyan did not stay in the small courtyard of Chaosi Lane all the time in the month after the New Year.

In addition to waiting for the incident to subside and continue to investigate, Gu Shiyan seems to have other things to do, and has not returned for nearly half a month.

Li Mengzhou naturally didn't worry about what happened to Gu Shiyan, her absence made Li Mengzhou worry a lot, so as not to have to cook for her back and forth every day.

The secret hidden in Gu Shiyan's heart takes time to discover.

How could he not have a secret that Gu Shiyan could not know.

Since they live under one roof temporarily, it is the king to keep their secrets and live in peace without conflict.

Today, as usual, Li Mengzhou has already appeared on the top of the mountain stream of the palace before dawn.

But the difference is that here a second person appears.

Xue Wangwu quietly looked at the young man sitting on the mountain stream, and said softly: "If you can't revive the sea of qi, the realm of commitment is your limit, if you want to break into the upper realm, it will be difficult. ”

Li Mengzhou slowly opened his eyes and said, "Soon, the Inner Courtyard Great Competition will begin, if I can't break into the upper realm, I will probably be blocked outside the gate of the inner courtyard, and the teacher will not be able to really teach me to practice." ”

He rubbed his eyes, which were astringent from lack of sleep, and continued: "And I'm too weak, even if I'm already ahead of many of my peers, but it's not enough. ”

Xue Wangwu said: "Cultivation is gradual, too eager will easily give birth to demons, the best way is to follow the rules step by step." Since you don't think that's enough, what's your reason for wanting to get stronger?"

Li Mengzhou thought about it very seriously, he still felt that his true thoughts could not be told to Xue Wangwei, but the reason why he became stronger could be said.

"To practice is to live, and to become strong is to live better. ”

Xue Wangwu said faintly: "You want to die?"

Li Mengzhou replied with an ugly face: "You are going to die." ”

Xue Wangwu blew his beard and glared, grabbed Li Mengzhou's back erection neck, and directly threw him down the mountain stream, and said in a tone of lesson: "It's not big or small, I cursed my teacher to death before I entered the inner courtyard, if I really taught you, wouldn't I want to reduce my life?"

Puff ...... The sound of falling water reached the top of the mountain.

It was accompanied by a terrible scream.

......

Not yet, in front of the gate of the palace mountain.

The old man in the green robe stretched out his hand and pulled a young man, pointed in a certain direction, and said, "What do you see?"

The boy tried hard to keep his eyes open, the distance of the fugue was limited, but he did see a lot of things.

In front of him, dozens of miles away, there was a magnificent carriage parked, the carriage was swaying slightly, and when there was something blocking it, he could not see the scene in the carriage, but he always felt that the carriage presented a picture that could not be seen by children.

He also saw the woodcutters in the mountains, busy sorting out the dry firewood and tying it all together, worrying about how to carry the excess dry firewood on his back and carry it home.

I also saw horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians coming and going outside the capital.

None of these images are worth paying attention to.

The only thing that made him a little curious was the carriage that swayed in the secret part of the col.

He felt that this might be what the old man wanted him to see.

So he replied very seriously: "An unmanned carriage, there seem to be two people in the carriage, I don't know what they are doing, the carriage is shaking very much. ”

Several black lines appeared on Xue Wang's head.

Naturally, he could see the carriage as well, and he could see more clearly than the boy, in which it was a man and a woman......

His old face turned red, and he quickly coughed lightly, and said pretending to be annoyed: "I asked you to look at a place eighty miles away!

The young man was naturally Li Mengzhou, and when he heard Xue Wang's words, he said speechlessly: "Then you said it earlier." ”

"I'm leaving you to see for yourself. ”

"Teacher, I think you're talking nonsense. ”

“......”

Xue Wangwu raised his forehead and said: "There is a small town eighty miles north of the capital, called Yingshui, it is a very small town, and there is nothing particularly surprising, but there is a person in Yingshui Town who is very famous. ”

"It was a nomadic who appeared in Yingshui Town three years ago, controlled Yingshui with the means of a cultivator, and built a mansion, and the silver taels spent were naturally from those wealthy merchants in Yingshui Town. ”

"The name of this wild man is Pei Ruyu, he is powerful in Yingshui Town, and the people in the yamen do not dare to provoke him, because he knows a certain adult in the Xuanzheng Division, and no one goes to find his trouble, and it is difficult to send the news in the yamen to the capital. ”

"Your cultivation has reached a bottleneck, if you want to break through to the upper realm of Chengyi, you need an opponent to help you fill the sea of qi and break the limit, Pei Ruyu is a good opponent. ”

Li Mengzhou looked at Xue Wangwu in a daze, and said strangely: "It's not the Xuanzheng Division's family in the capital, so can't the news in Yingshui Town reach the capital at all?"

Xue Wangwu said: "The affairs in the yamen were originally under the control of the Xuanzheng Division, if the news was deliberately closed, it would be very easy, and Pei Ruyu didn't do anything too much, and the big people in the capital didn't bother to care, so there was no need to have anything to do with the Xuanzheng Division." ”

Li Mengzhou asked, "Then if I go and kill Pei Ruyu, will I get into any trouble?"

Xue Wangwu smiled and said: "After all, the relationship between Xuanzheng Si and Pei Ruyu is still on the dark side, if it is really known all over the city, Xuanzheng Si will not dare to protect Pei Ruyu, although the power of Xuanzheng Si is very great, but there is also the Heavenly Council to check and balance, not to mention that the entire Jiang Kingdom is Your Majesty's, no matter how bold Xuanzheng Si is, he will not dare to really bend the law for personal gain under His Majesty's nose." ”

He patted Li Mengzhou's shoulder and said with a smile: "What's more, Pei Ruyu is a master who promises to go to the upper realm, and he can enter the peak realm with just one kick at the door, and he can't kill him if you want to." ”

Li Mengzhou said unexpectedly: "The teacher wants to kill me? In front of you, Pei Ruyu may just be a small role, but the master who is close to the peak of the artistic conception is not something I can deal with." ”

He couldn't help but think of the young guard beside Taijing, who was the real peak master of Cheng Cheng Realm, and he used all his means, but he only barely injured the other party, even if Pei Ruyu's cultivation realm was not as good as that young man, it was not an opponent that he could easily defeat.

Xue Wangwu raised his eyebrows and said: "Pei Ruyu is stronger than you, but not much stronger, you can always escape if you can't beat it, and only he is the most suitable to force out all your potential." If you want to become stronger, you must rely on your own ability to kill Pei Ruyu. ”

Li Mengzhou looked at Yingshui Town, eighty miles away, and said calmly: "I have a sword in my hand that can kill anyone in the world. But I don't want to have anything to do with Xuan Zhengsi, and the teacher is sure that after I kill Pei Ruyu, Xuan Zhengsi's knife will not be on my neck?"

Xue Wangxian smiled: "There will always be all kinds of problems in the world, and every age will encounter different problems, don't get entangled in things that shouldn't be entangled, and don't be curious about things that shouldn't be curious." When you stand high enough, you will find that many problems are no longer problems, and many secrets are no longer secrets. ”

Li Mengzhou was thoughtful.

He was a disciple of the Sword Academy of the Imperial Palace, and Xue Wangwei, as the dean of the Sword Academy, was also one of those who stood at the peak of the cultivators of the Jiang Kingdom, so he would naturally protect the disciples under his own sect.

Moreover, the Heavenly Council will not allow its own people to die inexplicably.

With Xue Wangwu and Jiang Tingyu standing behind them, Li Mengzhou really shouldn't be entangled in these small problems.

It's just Pei Ruyu, who has something to do with the Xuanzheng Division, and it's not to slaughter the entire Xuanzheng Division, so what's the harm in killing him?

Although Li Mengzhou was afraid that Pei Ruyu had a cultivation close to the peak of the artistic conception, he was never afraid.

As Xue Wangwei said, if you can't beat it, you can always run it.

"You can't see that although the problem of the sea of qi has been solved, the sea of qi is still a desert scene, if you want to change this situation, you must either find a special supernatural power, or you can only stimulate your potential in the actual battle of life and death, and infuse the sea of qi with vitality. ”

Xue Wangwu paused for a moment and said: "You have already started to practice my Sword Academy's "Leaving the Sword Sutra", but in fact, the "Leaving the Sword Sutra" is not the sword treasure of my Sword Academy, when you really enter the inner courtyard, you may have the opportunity to come into contact with it, but the premise is that you can enter the inner courtyard, for this matter, I will not open the back door for you." ”

"So life and death combat is the most suitable method for you at the moment, and Pei Ruyu is the most suitable person I can help you find. ”

Li Mengzhou subconsciously thought of "Silkworm Annihilation Volume", if the ban on his qi sea was done by that person, then the "Silkworm Annihilation Volume" he left behind may be the foundation of his own strength.

Now that he doesn't have the ability to open the "Silkworm Annihilation Volume", actual combat may indeed be the only way to become stronger at present.

Xue Wangwu looked at the direction where Yingshui Town was located, and said: "With your current cultivation, it won't take long to reach Yingshui even on foot, I will give you one night, and before tomorrow's morning class, you must come back, and Pei Ruyu can't live." ”

"No matter what method you use, your ultimate goal is to kill Pei Ruyu, and you can't be opportunistic without anyone to help you. ”

Xue Wangwu paused for a moment, and said slowly: "Of course, killing people can be done by unscrupulous means, but I still hope that you can defeat him head-on, otherwise the real purpose of the actual battle will be different." Although killing is the goal, the premise is that it can still be used to break the realm. ”

Li Mengzhou nodded, his face resolute.