Although Iwanaka also guessed that Dugu Yi and Xue'er would not be out for long, he was still a little surprised when the two returned to the medical hall - they came back less than an hour after going out, but what surprised him even more was that Xue'er was also holding a sword.

"You want to learn the sword?"

Dugu Yi nodded as a matter of course, and Xue'er glanced at Dugu Yi and nodded lightly.

Seeing the two nodding, Ning An on the side also raised the question in his heart: "But there is no master who can teach you, and there is no martial arts cheats, where are you going to learn?"

"Cheats, I have them. Dugu Yi replied succinctly, and pulled Xue'er to the backyard.

"Really?" Iwanaka looked at the backs of the two and shook his head and smiled, then looked at Ning An, who was as confused as him, and said, "Although I don't know what's going on, it's good to make Xue'er happy, let them go." ”

"Hmm!" Ning An nodded in agreement.

Iwanaka and Ning An both thought that Xue'er and Dugu Yi were just a petty game at this time, after all, they couldn't have thought that Dugu Yi, a little beggar, would have supreme martial arts cheats and advanced martial arts cheats, so Iwanaka and Ning An would never have thought that a few years later, these two children would become powerful characters who could make countless masters and strong people tremble as long as they moved!

"Phantom Sword?"

In the backyard, Xue'er took the cheats from Dugu Yi. "Is this what Brother Yi wants to learn?"

Dugu Yi nodded, and said, "Although there are other martial arts cheats, I can't learn them yet, so I can only learn this first." ”

"Can't learn?" Xue'er suspiciously shifted her gaze from the "Phantom Sword" cheats in her hand to Dugu Yi. "Why?"

"Ugh. Dugu Yi scratched his head embarrassedly and smiled: "Qin Qin said that if my cultivation is not a martial artist, even if I learn it, I will not be able to exert the power of that sword technique." ”

"Qinqin?" Xue'er whispered the name of the first person to come out of Dugu Yi's mouth, but the pronunciation was a little wrong.

"What kind of person is she?"

"She......" Dugu Yi turned to look at the northern sky and recalled, the corners of his mouth unconsciously showed a smile, and then said: "To be honest, I don't know her either...... The first time we met, I felt that she was a majestic princess, who could judge life and death with a word; usually she was like a piece of ice that would not melt for thousands of years, but when she laughed, it made people feel like a spring breeze; she talked and behaved elegantly and decently, even if she was angry, she would not scold, but I would rather be beaten by her than see her angry eyes!"

Xue'er looked at Dugu Yi in a daze, it was the first time he had said so many words in one breath.

"What's wrong?" Dugu Yi also sensed that there was something wrong with Xue'er's gaze.

Xue'er shook her head slightly, looked at Dugu Yi on Dugu Yi again, and opened her mouth to ask, "Will she beat people?"

"I don't hit people, I only kill people. Dugu Yi said with emotion: "This is her original words, I don't know whether to say decisive or ruthless? Obviously the same age as me, obviously a girl, but I can't see a trace of mercy and pity in her......"

Xue'er was silent for a while before she spit out: "What a terrible person!"

"So I have to make myself stronger as soon as possible, even if I can't be better than her, at least I have to make sure that I don't lose to her, otherwise I ......"

Dugu Yi didn't finish his sentence, but Xue'er could guess something from the expression on his face.

"Is there a competition between Brother Yi and her?"

Dugu Yi grinned, didn't answer, and instead said, "Don't talk about her, start practicing the sword now." ”

"Hmm!" Xue'er replied and returned the cheats in her hand to Dugu Yi, not asking because she knew that Dugu Yi could not answer, and besides, she was not qualified to intervene between Dugu Yi and the girl.

"Let's watch it too. Dugu Yi pushed the cheats to Cher.

"Hmm!" Cher didn't refuse.

At this point, the sound of the two discussing sword moves sounded in the small backyard. Although there are cheats in hand, it is not easy for the two who have never been exposed to martial arts to learn, and a wrong posture or a wrong step will change the original martial arts, so both of them are extremely careful to write down every move.

The two stared at the cheats of "Phantom Sword" for a long time, and Xue'er looked up and said, "Brother Yi, go try it, if there is something wrong, I will point it out to you next to you." ”

"That's fine, but if you look at it this way, you'll never learn. ”

After Dugu Yi finished speaking, he picked up the heavy sword he had just bought and walked to the middle of the courtyard, and danced the long sword according to the footwork move that he remembered in his mind, but before he finished the move, the long sword fell from his hand to the ground with a "clang".

"Brother Yi?" Xue'er, who had been looking at Dugu Yi, naturally knew what the problem was, picked up the sword beside her and walked towards Dugu Yi. "Let's change this one first. ”

"No, I don't. Dugu Yi shook his head resolutely and bent down to pick up his sword. "This sword is a bit heavy, but I like it very much, as long as I practice more, I will definitely be able to do it. ”

"Is that so?" Cher nodded and retreated to her original location.

Dugu Yi didn't speak again, and swung his heavy sword again, but this time he held the sword tighter.

From this day on, Dugu Yi's every day was occupied by various cultivations: when he got up in the morning, Dugu Yi carried a heavy sword in the courtyard to do exercises to improve his strength, and later felt that the courtyard was too small to run out of the courtyard, from the east of the city to the west of the city, and then back again.

At noon, he practiced swords with Xue'er, and at the beginning, he could only practice alone, and the other person took the cheats to guide him, and slowly, after both of them memorized the sword moves in the cheats, the two also began to practice. Even if he was sweating profusely, Dugu Yi wouldn't stop until dinner.

After dinner, you began to learn words, and after Xue'er taught her everything, the dismantled words were placed in front of Iwanaka.

Time passed day by day but the two of them always insisted on the same, and Iwanaka no longer felt that Dugu Yi and Xue'er were just a whim; so, from not caring at first, he would later do what he could for the two of them, and when he met a cultivator who came to see a doctor, he would ask some questions that needed attention in cultivation, and when he met someone who was good to talk, he would ask Dugu Yi and Xue'er to go into the backyard to give him some guidance.

Finally, at night, Dugu Yi practiced the nameless exercises in his room.

............

Time, you can't see it, you can't touch it, you can't grasp it, you just keep losing, and when you're immersed in something, you can't even feel it, and that's the case with Dugu Yi and Xue'er at the moment.

A year passed in a hurry.

If you want to say that the biggest change this year is Xue'er, from a girl with a closed heart to a seventh-level martial artist who can also go out on the street, and she also completely learned the advanced martial art of the phantom sword yesterday. Because the two of them were together every day, Dugu Yi didn't feel much about Xue'er's change, but those cultivators who had been invited into the backyard by Iwanaka all praised this self-taught girl for her outstanding talent;

And Dugu Yi, who became a third-level martial artist from an ordinary person in just one night, only cultivated from a third-level martial apprentice to a third-level martial artist in a year, although he learned the phantom sword three months earlier than Xue'er, but he was very dissatisfied with this cultivation speed.

"Alas......"

Dugu Yi looked at his hands and sighed deeply.

Hearing Dugu Yi's sigh, Xue'er, who was practicing the nameless exercises on the side, opened her watery eyes and asked softly, "Brother Yi, what's wrong?"

Dugu Yi shook his head lightly and said, "I'm just wondering if I can meet Qin Qin's expectations at this speed." ”

In the past year, Dugu Yi has mentioned Qin Qin to Xue'er many times, and to this day, Xue'er even knows the agreement between Dugu Yi and Qin Qin.

"But Brother Yi has only been cultivating for a year, and he can cultivate to ...... in a year."

Dugu Yi raised his hand to stop Xue'er from continuing, and he said in frustration: "If you don't talk about Qin Qin, even I can't accept such a reason." ”

Hearing this, Xue'er also became sad. "So what to do?"

"yes! What should I do?"

Dugu Yi looked up at the sky, it was not the first time he had thought about this question in this year, but unlike before, he now had a clear answer in his heart - it was time to leave the city that had stayed the longest in years.