Chapter 17: Descending the Mountain
On the Thousand Peerless Peaks, the Floating Cloud Sword Sect.
At night, when everyone was already resting, Xu Fan sat cross-legged on the bed.
After a while, a faint layer of golden light appeared on his body, and Sanskrit characters appeared faintly on it, rotating around his body, forming an invisible air cover, almost the same as the bald monk in Hantan at the beginning.
After running for a few weeks, Xu Fan opened his eyes, a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and after eight years of practice, the Bodhicitta Sutra was finally a little successful.
The meridians in the body are full of continuous true qi, except that the heart veins are still incomplete, and the physical fitness has been greatly improved compared to before.
As for the other peerless Water Dragon Yin Sword Technique, Xu Fan has completely mastered it, although the power is not as powerful as the original master of the man in black, it is not much different.
It's just that these two kinds of mastery can only be used as a means to press the bottom of the box, and they can't be shown.
What puzzled Xu Fan was that over the years, his Floating Cloud Sword Technique had been very proficient. However, the Ziyang Secret Book, who was very confident at the beginning, did not make much progress, and I don't know why, whenever he cultivated a trace of Ziyang True Qi, before he could penetrate the meridians, he disappeared without a trace.
On the contrary, it confirms the fact that the talent is ordinary.
I glanced at the stars in the sky, and on the top of the mountain, those stars were even brighter.
Early the next morning, Li Haotian walked in with a sword in his hand, now he is eighteen years old, and he is the first person under the Suhe throne when it comes to cultivation, even the senior brother Fei Yue and the second senior brother Wei Mian are difficult to match.
The talent of the demon shows his talent.
Xu Fan raised his head and smiled: "Haotian." ”
Li Haotian became more calm, his handsome face was like a handsome son, he sat down and said to Xu Fan: "Xiao Fan, this morning Senior Brother called us to the Zhenwu Palace, I don't know what is important, you clean up, let's go over." ”
Xu Fan nodded, pulled up his hair casually, tied it with a hemp rope, put on his clothes, lifted his sword and walked towards the Zhenwu Hall with Li Haotian.
"Senior Brother Xu, Senior Brother Li, you are here too."
As soon as he entered the door, he heard a voice like a bird and a yellow warbler, Xu Fan's heart was hot, and he looked in the direction of the sound.
I saw that there was already a slim girl standing in the hall, she was about ten years old, with bright eyes and bright teeth, cardamom in her prime, and carrying a long sword.
is a good woman, it is Nian Shuiyin.
Li Haotian just nodded faintly, and then stood silently.
It's also strange to say that as he gets older, Xu Fan is still the one with a bit of woodenness and inferiority, and Li Haotian also has a tendency to move closer to the second senior brother Wei Mian, with a tense face all day long, except for facing Xu Fan, he talks less and less at other times.
Nian Shuiyin didn't care, stared at Xu Fan, and didn't cover his mouth and chuckle until he stared at Xu Fan a little embarrassed.
After many years, Xu Fan is still easy to blush.
Coughing lightly to hide his embarrassment, Xu Fan opened his mouth to explain: "I was also pulled over by Haotian, I heard that Senior Brother Fei called me and waited." ”
Nian Shuiyin sighed lightly and said, "This is strange, I was also told by Senior Sister Xu that Senior Brother asked me to come to the main hall." ”
While the two were talking in a whisper, Fei Yue walked in from outside the door.
The early morning sun shone in the hall, and the three teenagers standing there had grown up, and several years had passed in a blink of an eye, and Fei Yue was a little emotional for a while.
Restraining his mind a little, he looked at Li Haotian and the others, and said: "The three of you are the youngest disciples of my sect, and among them, Haotian's martial arts have far surpassed that of Brother Wei, which really makes Brother Wei ashamed." A few days ago, Master sent me a message to Feige, saying that someone had trusted that there had recently been a flower thief in Qingshan City, and that many women from good families had been poisoned by him. ”
After a pause, looking at the expressions on the faces of the three of them, Li Haotian's face was indifferent and could not see joy and anger, Xu Fan's face flashed with anger, Nian Shuiyin gritted his teeth, and pulled out a trace of the sword.
Very satisfied with their appearance, Fei Yue continued: "You have been studying in the door for several years, but you have never set foot in the rivers and lakes in the real sense. A thief who only dares to pick flowers in many places is not expected to be a master. ”
"Even if you are defeated, my sect's light skills are enough to make you escape. If it really comes to this point, you must remember not to underestimate the enemy and return to the sect immediately, waiting for the Master's decision. ”
Li Haotian is already the number one master in the sect except for Su He, although Xu Fan and Nian Shuiyin are not strong, it is inevitable that they will walk the rivers and lakes in the future, and the three of them just take this opportunity to accumulate experience.
After saying that, he told them to pack their bags and go down the mountain.
After breakfast, Xu Fan and the three of them went back to clean up, in fact, in addition to carrying a burden, they also received dozens of taels of silver from Wei Mian as a coil, and they hurriedly went down the mountain with their swords.
For this situation, other disciples are also accustomed to it, after all, since the entry, there will be some injustices under the mountain every year, and there are always some disciples who go down the mountain to punish the evil and eliminate the adultererous.
Before leaving, Xu Yunyun said a few words to Nian Shuiyin. As for her other senior sister Zhang Ying, she met a scholar when she went down the mountain a few years ago, and the two fell in love, so they left the Sword Sect to marry a wife and teach children.
At the foot of the mountain, Nian Shuiyin looked at Li Haotian and praised: "Senior Brother Li is worthy of being the first disciple, when he walked down from the top of the mountain, his face did not change at all, and his breathing was still very even. ”
Li Haotian glanced at her and didn't answer, he had heard such compliments many times over the years. looked at Xu Fan again, saw that his face was a little pale, and said apologetically: "Xiaofan, I'm sorry, I also want to see your entry over the years, and I have quickened my pace a little, are you okay?" ”
Xu Fan shook his head and said softly, "It's okay, it's just a little panting." ”
Then he sighed and said: "Haotian, do you remember, when I went up the ladder with you, we walked all the way for two days, and now in less than an hour, we walked down. The physiognomy was right, learning martial arts can really make you stronger. ”
Li Haotian also remembered the original physiognomy master, sneered at the corner of his mouth, and said in his heart: I don't know how to get him right, I thought he was really a master, but now it seems that he is just a charlatan.
He simply didn't say more words to the phase master, and said, "Let's rest for a while, and then get up and go to Qingshan City." ”
Just idle and nothing, although the three of them have different levels of martial arts, but it does not affect the years of learning, each of them lifted a breath of true luck under their feet, only to feel that the body instantly became much lighter, the toes stepped lightly, the shrubs and weeds about a few feet high became one support point after another, from a distance, the three of them have front and back, fast and slow, like dragonflies dotting water, standing on the grass and flying.
After more than an hour, a behemoth appeared in front of them in the distance.
The city wall is about a few feet high, with rows of guards standing on it, and the city gate is wide open, and there is an endless stream of pedestrians coming and going.
There were two soldiers standing at the door, probably because they had been on duty for a long time, they had already become veteran oilers, and they also turned a blind eye to those who came in and out.
Occasionally, when they entered a few people with weapons, they raised their eyes slightly, and said a few words weakly, and as for those who went out of the city with weapons, they didn't raise their heads and didn't bother to speak.
When Xu Fan and the three of them walked to the gate of the city, the soldier looked up at the clothes on their bodies, and said lightly: "The city has not been very stable in the past few days, and it is not possible to break the law and discipline after entering the city, do you know?" ”
Xu Fan and they nodded yes, the soldier didn't say anything more, and got out of the way.
After all, the Floating Cloud Sword Sect is within a radius of 100 miles from Qingshan City, and many chivalrous people are righteous and law-abiding, and they can be regarded as a righteous and awe-inspiring sect, and the word Fuyun on their clothing is a golden signboard.
After walking into the city gate, Xu Fan and Nian Shuiyin were instantly attracted by the prosperous scene in front of them, Li Haotian This is the second time he has come here, because he has eaten too much closed-door soup before, and his senses of this place are not very good, so he is different from the two of them.
"Senior Brother Xu, look at this sugar man, it's really good-looking."
"Senior Brother Xu, look at here, there are so many people, wow, it turns out that they are acting in shadow puppetry, it's so beautiful."
"Senior Brother Xu, this breathing fire is good, that person opens his mouth, and the fire comes out, and I don't know if he is hot with the flame in his mouth."
"There are rock sugar gourds here, I still ate them when I was a child, and they are delicious in my memory."
Along the way, Nian Shuiyin was full of interest in everything, Xu Fan was so happy to see her on the side, there was an inexplicable warm current in his heart, and there was even an impulse that he wanted to rush forward and hug the girl in front of him.
But when I thought of my heart, a trace of gloom flashed in the depths of my eyes.
From the gate of the city to the center of the city, there are more and more people, street hawkers, peddlers and pawns, and so on.
"Hit the tip and live in the store, the best beef, the twenty-year-old daughter is red, please be in the guest officer."
The three of them followed the voice, and an inn called Tongfu appeared in their field of vision.
Li Haotian walked forward, the shopkeeper's eyes were sharp, and he saw the word Fuyun on their clothes at a glance, and he also knew that the other party must be a disciple of the Fuyun Sword Sect, although these people are not rich, they are not weak, and the face of that kind of power naturally does not dare to show it.
He put the white rag on his shoulder, walked to the door with a smile on his face, and greeted Xu Fan and the others: "A few young heroes are the young talents of the Floating Cloud Sword Sect, the Floating Cloud Sword Sect is our first-class gate sect in Qingshan City, how many people can come to the small shop, is the small shop full of brilliance, a few young heroes, hit the tip or live in the store?" ”
Stretch out your hand and don't hit the smiling person, although Li Haotian was not less cold-eyed and ridiculed by these shopkeepers many years ago, but the world is like this, and the treatment is naturally different with different identities.
"We're going to stay in the hotel, and then serve the food in your store, no signature dishes are needed, just ordinary ones that can fill your stomach."
Li Haotian commanded as he walked.
Signature dishes are generally very expensive, and they come down the mountain to experience, not to enjoy life. What's more, Wei Mian didn't give much silver, three people would cost a few taels of silver to stay in the inn for a day, and I didn't know if the silver on his body could support him to catch the flower thief.
The Floating Cloud Sword Sect does not produce anything, and a small part of all the silver taels is the worship of each disciple, and more is the gift of the locals after going down the mountain to eliminate evil and punish traitors.
It is not too much to say that it is a little poor.