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Several bishops and elders all had expressions of admiration on their faces, and they all smiled and said: "I can't imagine that the royal court's warriors are so powerful, it seems that our Bright Empire has finally produced another sword saint warrior! There is another fighter on the land protected by the true god to defend the dignity of the gods, now those northern heretics should be careful! In the future, when we fight again, our strength will definitely increase greatly!"

Listening to the admiration of these people in his ears, His Majesty the Pope Corsica VI had a calm face, there was no expression of joy and amazement on his face, but he sneered in his heart: "Fighter for the defense of the gods...... Hum...... He was powerful, but was he really a devout believer? besides...... Swordmaster? Is it just a Swordmaster?"

His gaze drifted to the "Dracula's Spear" stuck in the ground, and his brow finally relaxed, no matter what, it's always a joy to kill a guy at the level of a prince of the blood clan tonight, and get this legendary magic weapon......

Half of the street outside the Prince's Palace has been shattered, not only has the entire Prince's Palace been almost razed to the ground, but the outer wall has long since been torn apart, and even the fortified castle has been half stepped on, and the remaining half is also crumbling. [No pop-up novel network] Bayan and hundreds of private dead soldiers in the prince's mansion died and scattered. Even the mansions of other royal families and nobles around the Prince's Palace were affected, many of the buildings were cracked and collapsed, the walls were scattered, and some of the stone slabs on the outer half of the street closest to the battle site were completely lifted. Luo Di had just walked out with Mr. Qiu, and saw a pair of soldiers from the Imperial Capital Security Office had arrived, they came a little late, and they were busy in a mess at the moment.

The commander of the Imperial Capital Security Office was already as dead as ashes, and the last time Duke Tulip was assassinated, he almost forced himself to commit suicide. In the end, it was said that almost the entire imperial capital was turned over before it was overcome in fear, and this time it was even more remarkable that the prince's mansion was scorched to earth, and it was within the imperial capital! Looking at this appearance, it is estimated that there are few living people in it.

The low-level warlock who helped the Imperial Capital Religious Institute stay outside, telling himself that His Majesty the Pope of the Religious Institute inside was subduing demons and exterminating demons with a few bishops, and the commander of the security office here had begun to pray silently. Just beg His Royal Highness not to do anything...... Otherwise, he, the commander in charge of the security of the imperial capital, would only need to draw his sword and wipe his neck.

When he was sweating profusely, Mr. Qiu walked over from the end of the long street, and the security commander rushed over as if he had seen a savior, and he was almost about to hug Mr. Qiu.

Mr. Qiu glanced at him and said in a low voice, "His Majesty the Pope is inside." It's a Bloodline that is in turmoil, and it's been killed...... You don't have to worry about yourself, it's not your responsibility. ”

The commander breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but Mr. Qiu's later words made him look like ashes again.

I only heard Mr. Qiu add lightly: "But the son of His Royal Highness, Young Master Bayan died for the country." ”

This sentence can make this commander almost sit on the ground on the spot - His Majesty's nephew is dead? So under the emperor's anger, does he, the commander in charge of the safety of the imperial capital, still have his life?

With this faceless leader, Mr. Qiu sighed and smiled slightly: "Don't be afraid. Your Majesty will not be angry about this matter, but will be happy. ”

Finished, leaving this inexplicable leader, Mr. Qiu took Luo Di and left. This commander stood there and couldn't figure it out even if he broke his head--Isn't Young Master Bayan the Emperor's own nephew? Why is His Majesty happy when he dies?

This kind of pressure between high-level powers is not something that a small commander of his humble status can comprehend.

Later, Mr. Qiu's words were confirmed, and His Majesty the Emperor did not pursue the commander of the imperial capital in the end, but gave an order, saying that he handled the aftermath properly and had merit, and said that he praised him greatly. The commander who made it was up and down in his heart, and he just thought: In the Imperial Academy, the teacher said that a companion is like a tiger, and this is really true...... The emperor's mind is really hard to guess......

Of course, these are later words and will not be mentioned.

Luo Di followed Mr. Qiu all the way out, at this moment the sky was already bright, except for the chaos of the residences of those royal nobles, the streets of the other imperial capital were normal people coming and going...... Originally, there was an earthquake and thunder last night, and I heard that the homes of those noble lords were destroyed, which is interesting news...... Hmph, let them look domineering on weekdays......!

The civilians in the streets and alleys were all talking, but there were more soldiers from the police station patrolling the streets than before.

In broad daylight, you can't fly all over the sky. Luo Di honestly followed Mr. Qiu all the way to the gate of the city, and then went out of the city to a town on the outskirts of the imperial capital.

I stopped in front of a small house outside the town.

"This is my home. Mr. Qiu's tone was calm: "Once upon a time, home." ”

Walking into the courtyard, it looks very depressed and dilapidated, and the ground is full of fallen leaves, as if no one has been here for a long time. Mr. Qiu said lightly: "I usually live in the palace now, and I rarely come here. But it's a secluded place, and it's safe for you to live here......" His tone suddenly became a little sharper, and he slowly added: "Lord Tulip." ”

Luo Di's body shook, his face immediately changed, he took a step back, and looked at Mr. Qiu in surprise.

"Is it strange?" Mr. Qiu smiled faintly: "I was very strange at the beginning, why Seth, who didn't know any swordsmanship at all, suddenly became a new Tulip Duke who was invincible in the northwest." I saw you tonight, and the swordsmanship you used...... I think Nicole begged me to guide you...... If I don't understand it yet, then I'm a fool. ”

"With that, you're sure?" said Roddy, a little wary.

Mr. Qiu smiled faintly: "I wasn't sure yet, but ...... But I have one thing in mind. ”

"What?"

"Remember when you passed the knighthood test? I was actually there, but the samurai in our court were hidden in the dark to defend Your Majesty...... At that time, I wondered, why is your vindictive spirit so familiar to me...... I couldn't figure it out, but now I understand...... Because the fighting qi in your body is cultivated according to the seed of power I gave you. Mr. Qiu smiled calmly: "Don't worry, I won't harm you." ”

Luo Di looked at Mr. Qiu's calm face, and a feeling of trust arose in his heart, and finally relaxed his clenched fist.

Mr. Qiu smiled again: "What's the matter with the dragon aura on your body?"

Luo Di shook his head: "This matter is a long story...... I ......"

Mr. Qiu waved his hand and said lightly: "I'm not interrogating you, if you don't want to say it, it's okay." When I first saw you, I actually liked you. You are different from those young people I have seen who practice swordsmanship, and you have a strange aura about you...... You're a lot like what I was when I was younger. ”

After a pause, he said with a pleasant face: "I am very happy that you have become very strong now, but ......" His expression gradually became serious: "You shouldn't make trouble like this in the imperial capital." After all, this is the heart of the empire, and you will always cause a lot of trouble if you make such a reckless fuss. ”

The stubborn thought in Roddy's heart rose, his eyebrows raised, and he said loudly, "Why not? I'm just going to make such a big fuss, and talk about all those bastards being destroyed!" After a pause, he recounted the events of last night in a deep voice.

Mr. Qiu's face was calm, and he stood here listening to Luo Di even when he heard the news of Qiaoqiao's death, he only raised his eyebrows and did not speak.

"So you're desperate to make a fuss?" Mr. Qiu waited for Luo Di to finish speaking, and shook his head: "You're still too young...... There are many things that cannot be solved by your sharpness...... When I was young, like you, I always thought that anything could be solved with a sword, but in fact, ...... This is not the case. ”

He showed a somewhat desolate expression on his face, suddenly smiled reluctantly, and said lightly: "I can't tell you much about these things...... I...... I don't have much time. After a pause, he smiled at Roddy, like a loving father to his stubborn son, and said gently: "I ask you, you said that you came back from the south for Miss Nicole, so have you thought about what the consequences will be after you make such a big fuss?"

Roddy was stunned for a moment and did not speak.

Mr. Cho continued, "Miss Nicole takes the family very seriously, otherwise she wouldn't have asked you to pretend to be Seth to revitalize the family...... In fact, this incident was originally a mistake. It's not easy for Miss Nicole to reject the Emperor's marriage proposal for you...... If she was only interested in the revitalization of the family, she would have promised the emperor a long time ago. But why didn't she send someone to tell you? Just because she was afraid that you would return to the imperial capital in a hurry...... Have you thought about the consequences? What is the crime of a general who is outside the emperor and returns to the imperial capital without being summoned by the emperor? That is the iron law set by the Abbasid Emperor back then!!"

"You're making a fuss, you're you, you're not Duke Tulip anymore. It's good that you have to get rid of this identity in order to be with Miss Nicole. But...... But have you thought about the future......? Are you going to elope away with Miss Nicole, leaving the Tulip family to fall with a bang?"

Seeing that Roddy didn't speak, Mr. Qiu raised his eyebrows, and suddenly shouted: "You only want to get rid of the status of Duke Tulip, so have you thought about how you can be with Miss Nicole in the future?

Glancing at Roddy, he slowly whispered: "If you don't want to be Duke Tulip, can't you be Duke Roddy? If you don't want to be the commander of Tulip, can't you be a Commander of Roddy? You are still you, but apart from Tulip, can't you re-erect a banner for the Empire?"

Roddy's body shook, and two fine lights immediately appeared in his eyes!

Re-erect a flag?

Target!

If he was to leave with Nicole right now - would Nicole Ken give up the Tulip family's business? Ken watched the centuries-old family collapse?

Even if it's Roddy himself, is he willing to leave Ziggy? Leave Gordon's Commanders? Leave the warriors who swore to defend him and sacrificed him?

"Don't go see Nicole just now. Mr. Qiu said in a low voice, "You have stayed here for the past two days...... I'll teach you something. ”

"Teach me something?" Roddy's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but say excitedly, "What do you mean...... You're going to take me as an apprentice?"

Roddy is Roddy after all, no matter how powerful he is now, he still can't get rid of the original simple big boy in his heart.

Become the apprentice of the Empire's first samurai, Mr. Qiu!Become the apprentice of the most respected samurai in the Empire!

In the hearts of the thousands of young samurai of the Empire, who has not dreamed of this? Even Luo Di himself, when he was a civilian student of the Imperial Academy, had dreamed of this kind of dream many times......

Mr. Qiu saw the glint in Luo Di's eyes, suddenly shook his head, and laughed in a low voice: "Wrong, it's not my apprentice." Your current strength has almost reached the level of Sword Saint Warrior, what qualifications do I have to be your teacher?" he smiled as if he was very pleased: "When I was young, Duke Tulip once helped me, and I said that if I accept apprentices in the future, I will only accept his sons. It's a pity that this guy Seth doesn't have the slightest interest in kendo. ”

With the disappointed look in Luo Di's eyes, Mr. Qiu smiled faintly: "What I can guide you is not how to improve your strength...... Rather, your kendo. ”

"Kendo?" Roddy had a blank look in his eyes.

In fact, he has always been proud of his swordsmanship, and when the Imperial Cadets learned swordsmanship, his swordsmanship was solid! Even after his strength improved, the Carter instructor of the Tulip Family was full of praise for his solid swordsmanship. As for the cultivation of Douqi, as well as the current strong strength, it is all obtained from a series of adventures, not his own ability. The only swordsmanship is that he has really cultivated!!

Mr. Qiu saw the confusion in Luo Di's eyes, shook his head, and said in a low voice: "Swordsmanship is not as simple as you imagined...... If it weren't for the practice of swordsmanship, I wouldn't have ...... Alas......"

He suddenly sighed in a low voice, looked at the dilapidated courtyard, showed an indifferent look in his eyes, and said in a low voice: "Just now I advised you not to make a fuss about Nicole, don't be too impulsive...... Actually, I admire your courage in my heart...... It's a pity that I didn't have the courage of you back then. ”

His eyes flickered, as if he were caught in a memory.

"I said you can't elope with Nicole...... Hum...... Elope...... That's a heavy sentence...... What if I could elope with her? If we could all let it go......"

Finally coming back to his senses, Mr. Qiu took a deep look at Luo Di and said in a low voice: "Work hard, I hope you don't repeat my mistakes!"

The sadness in Mr. Qiu's eyes made Luo Di's heart tremble, it seems that this master who is quiet everywhere also has his own sad past in his heart!

It's just that what kind of person is a woman who makes people like Mr. Qiu sad?

"Curious?" Mr. Qiu smiled: "It's all about my youth...... he said lightly: "When I was young, I was like you, I had a little achievement in swordsmanship, and I fell in love with a noble girl...... Afterward...... After all, she couldn't have married me, a civilian samurai...... She's married to ......" Speaking of this, Mr. Qiu shook his head. It's as if you want to shake off all these thoughts in your head.

He slowly walked under a tree, and suddenly turned around and smiled: "What is the sword in your heart?"

Luo Di thought for a moment and said, "It's power! It's a weapon that can destroy the enemy!"

Mr. Qiu shook his head and smiled, and said lightly, "I asked about the sword, not the weapon." Any weapon is a power, a tool that can destroy the enemy. But the sword, what is it in your heart?"

Seeing the blankness in Luo Di's eyes, Mr. Qiu's tone gradually became serious, and he said in a deep voice: "Your biggest flaw is that you have been harmed by the swordsmanship cultivation spread by the empire! In my opinion, the so-called vast majority of samurai in the empire use swords in the wrong way! They use swords to chop and slash...... Hmph, one by one will only use brute force, I don't think it will make a difference if they change to a burning stick in their hands. ”

Luo Di couldn't help but smile: "Isn't it wrong to use a sword to chop and chop?"

Mr. Qiu shook his head: "It's not wrong...... But that's not how the sword works!"

He closed his eyes and said solemnly: "The sword is a noble weapon, it is lighter than a spear, sharper than a dagger, more flexible than an axe, and more versatile than a scimitar! But all the swordsmanship cultivation of the empire seems to have turned the sword into a nondescript thing, and in the hands of those people, the sword is used as a spear to sweep, as a dagger to stab, as an axe to split, and as a scimitar to cut...... Hum...... Is that a sword?"

He opened his eyes, looked at Luo Di, and said slowly in an extremely serious tone: "The sword is not practiced. It's 'cultivated'!"

Mr. Qiu stretched out a finger and said lightly: "What I taught you is 'cultivating the sword with your body'!"

His tone seemed a little cold: "After I turned forty, I no longer used a sword...... Do you know why?" He smiled indifferently: "Because the sword is me, I am the sword!" (sorry, use Gu Long's set, after all, Ximen Fuxue is my favorite martial arts character)

"Do you see this fluttering leaf? If you hit with your fist, sweep with a spear, or chop with an axe, it will only be shaken away by your strength......"

He closed his eyes, his fingers swiped slightly, and a trace of sharp sword qi shot out - this breath was not violent, not earth-shattering, but it seemed to easily tear a slowly falling leaf in half.

After the sword qi, there was loneliness. So, the wind is gone, the flowers are gone, the moon is gone, the years are gone, and the sword is gone.

"The sword is in my hand, turning into anger and sharpness between my fingers, stabbing at the warmth of spring, stabbing at the arrogance of summer, stabbing at the style of autumn, and stabbing at the coldness of winter. ”

So says the Empire's No. 1 swordsman!

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