When he is in a difficult mood, Xiao Xuan will choose to go out for a walk.

The night sinks like water.

The long night stretched across the sky, as if a dark curtain had been placed on the earth. As soon as the boy looked up, he saw the stars dotted in the night sky, and felt a fresh breeze blowing on his cheeks.

It was a quiet evening.

However, the silence is only limited to the southern part of the city, where ordinary people live, and once you get to the north of the city, the candles in the teahouses, restaurants, brothels, and casinos will give people the illusion of daylight.

The breeze turned into a fragrant breeze, and the smell of the balsamic gouache used by the rich ladies, singers, and Oiran of the Qinglou was mixed with the smell of wine and sweat in the brightly lit streets and alleys.

Since Xuanyang City is the place where the rich and powerful of the Great Xia Dynasty are most concentrated, it is naturally indispensable to these scenes of singing and singing and dancing every night. Those landlords and old fortunes with a lot of money, as well as wealthy businessmen from other places on the rich side, or powerful dignitaries and nobles, look the same during the day, but at night, after three glasses and two glasses of good wine, they can put down their bodies, tear off their masks, forget all their troubles for a while, and only pursue the pleasures of that moment.

The young man is not good at gambling, not good at drinking, not lustful, he kills but he is not fond of killing, those bewitching and plump figures, or the mouth-watering delicacies of the mountains and seas have no way to make him forget his troubles.

If you can't practice, it's a nuisance.

It was a noisy night.

The women of the Qinglou leaned on the railing, smiling against the railing, and their eyes wandered through the crowd, looking for those men with a rich and noble atmosphere;

The sturdy men who guarded the door of the casino firmly guarded the entrance and exit, and from time to time they would bring out three or two poor eggs who had lost all their money from inside, and they would directly squeeze out an ugly sneer at the really rich customers;

Here, there are many people who are not asleep, they are awake, and they do not notice a teenager who can't even afford a jar of good wine walking alone in the crowd.

Still, someone noticed him.

When the lights dimmed, the young man suddenly looked back.

He also noticed the man.

Not far to the right in front of him, there was the largest, most expensive, and most luxurious Qinglou in Xuanyang.

Tilting Cloud Pavilion.

It's a very cheesy and ugly name, Xiao Xuan has always thought so. However, the dignitaries and nobles in Xuanyang City who like this way don't care, the name is just a symbol, the key is what it can bring you.

The young man's gaze climbed up the pavilion, past the youthful beauty, and saw the man standing in the railing of the top floor.

This is an acquaintance, and he said that he was familiar because Xiao Xuan had already seen him many times, and they had just met not long ago.

This is also a stranger, and he is said to be strange because Xiao Xuan doesn't know his name until today, and he doesn't even know one of his code names or nicknames.

There are only two things he knows about this man.

He is a practitioner.

He's strong.

The man's gaze was like a sword, and when he stood there, his whole person was like a sharp sword.

He was wearing a gray suit, but the sleeve on his left was empty.

He is a one-armed swordsman.

Seeing him standing there, Xiao Xuan couldn't help frowning.

Like him, the one-armed swordsman is a member of the Tianluo Organization, and it is too difficult for him to stand in the crowd without being discovered with his maverick outfit.

In other words, a person like him shouldn't have just appeared in a lively place.

The next moment, he thought about it and was relieved.

Perhaps, he also has no double or more identities, which is enough for him to walk on various occasions in Xuanyang.

The one-armed swordsman looked at him and nodded, motioned for him to come into the building, turned and disappeared behind the railing.

As the most high-end green building in Xuanyang City, the quality of the old bustard, down to every girl and servant, will definitely be much higher than elsewhere. Even though the two young women who were in charge of welcoming guests at the door looked at Xiao Xuan with a strange look in their eyes, and said in their hearts where did this poor and sour young man come from, they were only slightly surprised, and they greeted him warmly in an instant.

Maybe it's to show the difference from other brothels in Qinglou, after entering the hall, there is no too explicit and fragrant scene. In the middle of the lobby, there are a few graceful girls wearing a layer of blue gauze clothes, or playing the piano, or blowing the flute, and there are groups of guests in the hall who are fascinated by listening, but they don't know whether they are drunk because of people or drunk.

Walking past the blue gauze girls, Xiao Xuan randomly found a place to sit down. Maybe the little guy who ran the hall was because he saw the calm and calm of this young man, and he was a little free and extraordinary, so he didn't need Xiao Xuan to greet him, so he naturally served the wine and refreshments, and respectfully asked if he needed to order a few girls to accompany him.

"Stand aside, and I will call you when I need you. ”

The little man looked in the direction from which he had spoken, and saw a one-armed man with a sword standing behind him with a blank face. However, the little guy in the Cloud Tilting Pavilion will not be an ordinary little guy, he is used to seeing big people and big scenes, and he is only slightly surprised by such strange people before retreating.

"I thought that people like you would not come to a place like a brothel in a green house. ”

Xiao Xuan set his eyes on the women who were playing music, he didn't know how to appreciate music, he just habitually observed any unfamiliar face that appeared around him.

This piece is somewhat familiar and very good, but he is not in the mood to enjoy it at the moment.

"My name is Ye Qingshan. ”

The one-armed swordsman sat down beside Xiao Xuan, and when he spoke, he didn't look at the young man on his right, but also looked ahead, looking at the blue-gauze women.

This is a very normal and weird opening sentence.

It is a very common thing for ordinary people to start with their own names when they meet for the first time, and the problem is that neither Xiao Xuan nor this swordsman who calls himself Ye Qingshan are ordinary people. Xiao Xuan has been joining Tianluo for many years, but he has never known or been interested in knowing the other party's name, and he once thought that if the other party didn't take the initiative to say it, he might never know his name.

Ye Qingshan, Xiao Xuan silently recited it once in his heart, and then wrote it down.

Important people and names, he will be deeply engraved in his mind. Ye Qingshan is undoubtedly an important role in the middle-aged man's side and even in the entire Tianluo, although he will not take the initiative to ask, but since the other party takes the initiative to say it, he will definitely write it down.

"Something?"

"Something. ”

Ye Qingshan said that there was something in his mouth, but he was not in a hurry to say the following, but closed his eyes and listened to the song quietly.

As soon as the song was played, he opened his eyes again.

"Before I get down to business, I'd like to say something else. He paused, as if pondering how to phrase it precisely.

After a moment of silence, he continued, "I know you want to practice. ”

Xiao Xuan glanced at him sideways, a little strange why the other party suddenly said this.

"Practicing is not an easy task. ”

His tone was a little stiff, like an old well that had been sealed for many years.

"Of course, I know that cultivation is not easy, if it was easy, I would have done it a long time ago, in fact, none of the things I have done are easy, if I do it because it is easy, and if I don't do it because it is difficult, then there is no point in living. ”

Ye Qingshan rarely thinks about what kind of meaning people have in life, for him, the meaning of his existence is not important, what really matters is what his existence can bring to someone.

"I think you also know that almost all the current cultivation classics and peerless exercises are under the control of those big forces, and ordinary people want to get them, except for taking some extremely dangerous paths, it is impossible to get in touch at all, not to mention that for a completely different cultivator, even if they get the Qingyang Sect's peerless learning or the sword book of the Star Picking Palace, it is useless, no one is behind their backs, and ordinary people will only embark on a desperate road that cannot be turned back. ”

"I don't need any clever texts, I just need to know how to start practicing, and that's enough. ”

Ye Qingshan finally withdrew his gaze from the front and looked at Xiao Xuan fixedly, with some cold light in his eyes, and said with unusual indifference: "Even if someone is willing to teach you, you can't learn it, and even if you learn it, it's meaningless?"

Xiao Xuan frowned and said, "Why?"

"It's too late. ”

Xiao Xuan was silent, it was too late, this was not the first time that someone had mentioned this issue in front of him. He didn't know what Ye Qingshan's cultivation was, but he could be that person's personal guard, and the realm would definitely be good, and the same judgment came out of his mouth, bringing Xiao Xuan a completely different feeling.

However, Xiao Xuan still did not waver.

He hadn't wavered since the moment he decided to start practicing, and of course not now.

"As long as you do it, it's never too late. ”

"That's how you want to practice?"

"Of course. ”

"If I said that if you insisted on thinking like this, I would kill you immediately, would you still say that?"

Feeling the cold breath in the air, Xiao Xuan knew that this person had really made a killing move, and he was not lying to threaten him.

He also knew that if the other party really planned to do it, he would not even have the slightest chance of winning.

Not even the idea of rebellion could arise.

"Even if I were to die by your sword in the next moment, I would still say that. ”

Xiao Xuan's voice was very firm and calm, without the slightest hesitation.

Ye Qingshan looked at his slightly younger side face, and his eyes became a little complicated for the first time. As the middle-aged man said on the Hongfu Building that day, he has always been dissatisfied with this young man.

Due to his cultivation realm, it was impossible for him to directly challenge Xiao Xuan, and he couldn't think of any way to prove that he was far stronger than this young man.

More than who kills? It's ridiculous.

Whoever is faster than anyone else? It's also impossible.

His attempt to prove that the idea of this fifteen-year-old boy who had not yet awakened his soul to practice was nothing more than a fantasy, a young and ignorant impulse, and it did not seem to be very successful at the moment.

What he really cared about was the evaluation of the young man.

Xiao Xuan saw that there was a slight unclear meaning in his eyes, but he didn't want to know what he didn't know behind these meanings.

"That's all the private stuff...... If this is a private matter, then let's get down to business. ”