Chapter 22: The Courage to Draw the Sword
On the fourth day of the day when Di Yunchen was imprisoned in the ancestral hall of the Grandmaster of the Mountain behind Lingyun Peak, he finally saw the person who brought him food for three consecutive days, a little fat man with a freckled face - Shangguan Yuncong, the second disciple of Shangguan Qianhong.
Shangguan Qianhong, the head of Yuncheng, never married in his life, but he accepted two disciples with his surname, namely the eldest disciple Shangguan Yunming and the second disciple Shangguan Yuncong, who were both disciples and adopted sons. There is a private gossip in Yuncheng Xuanzong that Shangguan Yunming and Shangguan Yuncong are both the illegitimate children of Shangguan Qianhong in the world.
Compared with Shangguan Yunming, who is extremely handsome and talented, Di Yunchen thinks how to look at it, the little fat man in front of him who is full of pockmarks like a dwarf winter melon is like Shangguan Qianhong's illegitimate son, this is not to say that they are similar in appearance, but Shangguan Yuncong is really unsightly, and he belongs to the first batch of people who will be brushed down when selecting disciples, but now he is the second disciple of a sect, which can explain some problems.
Shangguan Yuncong had a harmless smile on his face, looking at Yun Chen, who was sitting at the gate of the small courtyard waiting for him to deliver food, a trace of gloom flashed in his squinted little eyes, and he walked to Yun Chen's side with a bowl of glutinous rice and said with a smile: "I'm hungry, shout Senior Brother to listen, next time I will bring you two bowls of rice, glutinous rice!" Shangguan Yuncong said and shook the rice in his hand from the tip of Yunchen's nose, making Yunchen smell the disgusting sour smell of the rice.
"Hehe..." Yun Chen grinned, his white teeth combined with the gloomy aura around him, making his whole face have a distorted and gloomy taste, which frightened Shangguan Yuncong's hand and the bowl of rice in his hand fell to the ground.
"I'll make you laugh!" Yun Cong, who restrained his smile, stepped on the rice on the ground and the bowl upside down with a stubble, "You can eat tomorrow!"
Yunchen still smiled "hehe...", and did not say anything.
Shangguan Yuncong reflexively returned to Feiyun Hall and reported to Shangguan Qianhongyu: "Master, that waste of Xu Yuefeng has been so scared that he can only giggle, I'm afraid that he will fall off the cliff and die in a few days, you see, there is no need to bring him food in the future." "In fact, Yun Cong also has his own careful thoughts, there are hundreds of disciples up and down Ling Yunfeng, and the master just asked him to deliver food every day, he really doesn't want to go around the haunted ground every day in the future.
Shangguan Qianhong glanced at Shangguan Yuncong, how could he not know the careful thinking of the disciple in his heart, but the eldest disciple Yunming was too upright and pedantic, and the other disciples were not at ease, in case someone passed on the news that Yunchen was stupid, then he was bound to let Yunchen go down the mountain, which was not in line with his original intentions, so he put the errand of delivering food on the head of the second disciple Yun Cong.
"I don't even have this bit of courage, how can I fight the sword world in the future!" Shangguan Qianhong saw Yun Cong's strength and became angry, only he knew in his heart that Yun Cong was his illegitimate son, and giving the eldest disciple Yun Ming Shangguan's surname was just to cover Yun Cong's life experience.
Shangguan Qianhong's cold gaze swept away, Yun Cong trembled with fright, and Lin Qiandong, the law enforcement elder next to him, relieved the siege and said: "Senior Brother Qianzhong's disciple Yunchen is just a lazy person who is not diligent in practicing his five bodies, and it is enough to punish him for three days, otherwise Senior Brother Qianzhong will come back, and with his surname of protecting his shortcomings, I am afraid that he will have to make trouble with us for a while, so it is better to let Yunchen go back to the mountain, so as not to make a fuss between the two peaks." ”
"Why is he messing with me?" Shangguan Qianhong slapped the table and said angrily, "The rule since the opening of the Yuncheng Sect is that if the first seat on the other peaks is not there, and a disciple commits a crime, as the head of the sect, he has the right to discipline and punish on his behalf, and then bring him back to the mountain after his master returns to the mountain!
"Hey!" Facing the open-mouthed and closed-mouthed master of the rules, Lin Qiandong, who was unbearable for Yunchen, could only sigh secretly, he admitted that what the master brother said was reasonable, but he felt that something was wrong, it seemed to be too aimed at Yunchen, but he couldn't change anything.
On the mountain behind Lingyun Peak, Di Yunchen looked at the pile of glutinous rice with broken bowls on the ground for half an hour, and finally decided not to eat it, but what about tomorrow? You can't drink water again tomorrow, right? Yunchen walked to the cliff outside the small courtyard of the ancestral hall, looked at the vines and weeds that climbed down the cliff from the peak, stepped forward to pick up the green and tender ones, chewed a few times with the spring water and swallowed it into his stomach, temporarily suppressed the hunger but couldn't suppress the anger that was already burning in his heart, he knelt down and looked at the sky and shouted angrily in the direction of the front mountain: "Shangguan Qianhong, I your ancestor!" ”
Soon Yunchen discovered that when you are hungry, hate someone in your heart, and soon forget about hunger, which is more effective than eating. For unreasonable people, Yunchen has always had a very good way, such as Di Xinjing, but on this mountain where strength is respected, the only way is to live, and after accumulating strength, he will get it back with interest, as for how to get it back, Yunchen thought of the Feiyun Palace, which is far more magnificent than the buildings on the other four peaks, if Jing'er burned it that day, she should be very happy.
Then Yunchen began to practice the sword, still very slowly....
No matter how humiliated and unwilling he is, this highlights his weakness and powerlessness even more, and he doesn't even have the strength to escape from this cage now, so he can only cultivate harder, and practice with hatred in the center of repression.
In the night, the wind in the ancestral hall howls again, there seems to be a ghost shadow building, this is the method used by the stone statue to exercise Yunchen, and it is also said to prompt him to concentrate on the sword, after Yunchen's three times and twice pleading, the stone statue said: "If you want to save me, he said to help me from a new fossil to a human, you have to survive this hurdle." ”
So Yunchen had no choice but to suppress the panic in his heart and dance with the demon wind and ghosts.
Under the cover of Yuncheng Mountain, a black shadow set off from Qingfeng Town under the cover of night, rising and falling like a frightening flood, and the cliffs and dangerous peaks on Yuncheng Mountain were like a smooth road under his feet, and under the cover of the night and clouds, he lost his figure in an instant.
When he just stepped on the mountain behind Lingyun Peak, the ghost howl that filled the entire small courtyard stopped dumbly, and Yunchen, who was practicing hard, looked back, and before he could make a sound, he was attracted by the long sword in the hand of the black-clothed masked swordsman who suddenly appeared. Yes, he knew this sword, and it was the terrifying sword light emitted by this dark long sword that saved his life under the angry Yun Xue sword, and at the same time made him germinate the determination to learn the sword, but Yun Chen never expected that he would see this swordsman here and now. In his heart, the black-clothed swordsman drawing his sword to help in Ruzhou was just a chance encounter, so if he appeared here again, it would not be an accident.
"Who are you?" Yun Chen asked, turning around with his sword in his words, without the slightest hint of gratitude and politeness.
"Give you two choices, one is to follow me down the mountain, and the other is to stay here and be killed!" the black-clothed swordsman still had a hoarse voice, as if he had deliberately pretended.
"I don't need mercy anymore, especially people who don't even dare to show me their true faces, so I'm going to stay here!" Yunchen, who still wanted to leave during the day, flatly refused.
"Stay here?" the black-clad swordsman looked surprised.
"Yes, whoever imposes it on me and owes it to me, I will be here, and I will get it back in a small amount. ”
"Haha" The black-clothed swordsman laughed loudly, "It's really ignorant, in this kind of low-level Xuanzong, in this rumored haunted place, behind closed doors, and still want to become a master to seek justice? Don't dream, kendo masters, they all grew up in the difficult killing, and if you are here, you will only become a walking corpse full of hatred!"
Yun Chen pretended to be shocked and shouted: "Who are you, what qualifications do you have to take care of me!" Yun Chen wanted to know why this swordsman wanted to help him, there were only so few people in this world who really defended him, and he vaguely felt that this black-clothed swordsman had something to do with his background.
"Draw your sword and let you know what true sword skills are!" the black-clothed swordsman showed off the unsheathed long sword in his hand.
"Why are you helping me!" Yun Chen continued to ask, it was no accident that a kendo master who could emit sword rays came here from thousands of miles away.
"Don't you even have the courage to draw your sword? As a sword cultivator, you can't help who your opponent is, how high the opponent's strength is, and in the face of provocation, you must have the courage to show your sword, do you?"
At the same time, with a "poof", Yunchen had already pulled out the long sword at his waist and swung his sword at the swordsman outside the courtyard!
Yes, at this moment, he finally understood the meaning of "sword gall" in the mouth of the stone statue.
No matter how powerful the opponent is, as a sword cultivator, you must first have the courage to draw your sword!
ps: Ask for a recommendation, probably sign a contract after the new year.