Volume 5: The First Song Three Hundred and Twenty-Three: The Examination of Chengguan Grace (6)
The last time Li Jian saw Yun Xi, it was Qian Chao who met those children from the family outside the sect to challenge, that is, the time when Qian Chao won ten games in a row, the last time was Qian Chao against Bai Lin, after defeating Bai Lin, Yun Xi was worried that Bai Lin was injured, so he hurried over to check, because she was fierce at the time, Li Jian was worried that she would make a move that would be unfavorable to Qian Chao, so he stopped him.
Since then, we have met again in the ring of today's Chengguan Grace Test.
Compared with a year ago, Yun Xi has not changed much, a cyan dress often worn by female disciples of the Five Spirits is clean and decent, making her figure look slender and slender, the hair of the black canopy is rolled into a bun at will, pinned to an ordinary hosta, and there are no other accessories, this simple and plain dress makes Li Jian appreciate it very much, this woman's facial features are exquisite, which can be called beautiful, the fly in the ointment is that she always seems to be full of coldness, and ...... Compared with the previous impression, this woman's eyes are sharper, which is probably the biggest change in Yunxi's woman.
Seeing that Li Jian had been standing there steadily, Yun Xi understood that the other party was unwilling to strike first, so after saying "Be careful", he made a move.
I have to say that Li Jian is a little careless!
With his previous experience in fighting Yun Xi, he was waiting, waiting for Yun Xi to form a sword trick with his fingers before starting a fierce and abnormal fight!
But...... Yun Xi was actually like him, standing with his back to Chengguanlou facing him, without the slightest intention of moving, when Li Jianzheng was wondering, he suddenly felt a chill in his heart, and a huge sense of crisis instantly filled his whole body......
The crowd watching the battle in the audience began to see very vaguely, the competition has begun, but there is neither a sword light flashing on the stage, nor a sword clanging, let alone any movement on both sides, these two people have been standing opposite each other without moving, as if they are facing each other at the same time, when all the people are puzzled, suddenly they saw the cold light behind Li Jian's back suddenly shining, and then they didn't see how Li Jian moved, and the sword roared and saw that he instantly moved to one side in the ring. Dangerously let go of the cold light stabbed behind him, the cold light suddenly appeared and disappeared, missed a hit, and disappeared immediately, and then when everyone didn't know what was happening, they saw Li Jian's figure staggering backwards, and then people found that the brilliance of a little cold light from Li Jian's waist and abdomen was getting stronger and stronger in the direction of everyone, and when they almost sprinted to the ring, they disappeared like a ball of light and shadow, and only then did someone exclaim!
And Li Jian on the stage did not dare to slack off at this time, he had to concentrate and give full play to his senses, although Yun Xi was far away, but it was not a safe place within a few zhang around him, from time to time a sharp sword blade appeared from a strange angle, and a straight cold light stabbed at him in the whistling, and then disappeared mysteriously after he had some hasty dodges, like a monster jumping out of the water to prey, don't think that everything will be fine if you dodge the past, The time when the sword blade disappeared was when another sharp edge suddenly appeared from a place that Li Jian couldn't imagine, and because the sword momentum was too fast, even if the sword blade disappeared, the remaining sword shadow was still slashing forward in the air, giving people the illusion that the sword blade was still stabbing forward, but at this time, the palpitating sword sound had already sounded from another direction behind Li Jian!
Every time the sudden sword roar is very close to Li Jian, and it is getting closer and closer, which makes Li Jian have to completely let go of his body at the beginning of the competition, and the cyan phantom on the ring in the green robe is flying in the cold of the Dao Dao and keeps flashing back and forth, and in stark contrast is the woman, from the beginning to the present, the woman has stood there without moving, calmly watching her opponent dodge in the sword light trap full of death threats, allowing the opponent to be in danger but not moved at all.
Everyone in the audience who watched the battle held their breath after a few exclamations at the beginning, and stared at this sword cultivation competition that became dangerous and abnormal after the beginning, and after watching it for a while, everyone in the audience had a strange feeling, there seemed to be some deep enmity between the two, at least the woman surnamed Yun was like this, where is the difference between victory and defeat, this is almost a battle for life and death in the ring!
The perspective of everyone in the audience is from the bottom up, and if you look down from above, the scene is different, whenever Li Jian's figure dodges at the same time, it is immediately a Sensen sword light passing by him, Li Jian does not stop, the cold light never stops, and the piercing whistling sound has not stopped, with Li Jian's continuous dodging, the sword shadows that pierced the air dissipated one by one, and the sword shadows remaining in the ring before dissipation are still criss-crossed, just like a dangerous cold light iron net that nets Li Jian in the center!
This scene was not visible to the many disciples watching the battle under the ring, and it could only be seen clearly from the Chengguan Tower.
Naturally, Yunxi's method also fell into the eyes of the Cold Moon Fairy.
The reason why the Cold Moon Fairy categorically refused to accept Yun Xi as a disciple at the beginning was not because Yun Xi had no talent in sword cultivation, on the contrary, the Cold Moon Fairy could see that this woman was a talented person at that time, but ...... No matter how talented he is, he is not necessarily suitable for becoming a sword cultivator, Mu Xiufeng has always only looked at his heart and not his qualifications, and it is precisely because Yun Xi's heart is not matched by the Cold Moon Fairy that he will be rejected.
What kind of mind is Yunxi?
In the eyes of the Cold Moon Fairy, Yun Xi has a very high opinion of herself, the city is deep and narrow-minded, calculating and paranoid and long-hearted, such a person becomes a sword cultivator, it is easy to have means but difficult to achieve, and in the long run, it is not a good thing for Yun Xi to become a sword cultivator, so after seeing Yun Xi through, Cold Moon Fairy categorically refused, and even after the lobbyists who came to her came one after another to make her annoyed, she simply said to the public that she was in retreat, and she didn't even see those people.
Well, it was this move that made Yun Xi, who had a strong sense of self-esteem, feel deeply hurt, and her respect for the Cold Moon Fairy gradually turned from the previous respect to resentment, and then after hearing that the Cold Moon Fairy fell in love with Li Jian at a glance, the highly competitive Yun Xi had a little resentment towards the Cold Moon Fairy and Li Jian, which made her come up with the idea of revenge against the Cold Moon Fairy in disguise, after preparing for a long time, today, it is her final appearance of this revenge!
"It's a bit of a look."
Fairy Leng Yue looked downstairs and whispered, and then glanced at Lingyue next to her, well, this girl is now looking at the scene where Yun Xi seems to have been suppressing Li Jian in the ring, her face has changed from the previous apprehension to joy, and she thinks that she has seen the hope of winning the bet again. Alas, Lingyue's girl is not bad, but it's a pity that she is too playful, if her means can catch up with Yunxi.
In the ring, the big net woven by sword light became tighter and tighter, and the mesh became more and more dense, and the sound of swords intertwined together had become a long piercing sword roar, and Li Jian had reached the point where it was inconvenient to move, and he saw that the sword light was about to penetrate his body......
In fact, everyone in the audience was even more puzzled, weren't they two sword cultivators, why hadn't the automatic hand named Li Jian seen him play a sword in the first place?
Finally, Yunxi's persecution reached the extreme, and at this moment, Li Jian's right hand grasped a white light blazing long sword with a false grasp, and immediately slashed forward, "ding", and at the same time as this sword was cut out, Li Jian also held a white blazing short sword in his left hand and reversed it in the direction of his back, and "dang" made another sound.
It was obviously two swords, but in the ears of all the disciples in the audience, it was the sound of an almost inseparable spirit sword exchange of "clanging bells".
Li Jian took out his sword, but Yun Xi's offensive suddenly stopped, and a cold and shining spirit sword was hanging two feet in front of Li Jian's body, ready to attack, Yun Xi carefully looked at the two white light blazing spirit swords in Li Jian's hand, one long and one short, and only breathed a sigh of relief after watching it for a while. How fierce the first fight between her and Li Jian was, but Li Jian only used a sword against herself from beginning to end, if it weren't for Bai Lin telling her later, she thought that she had at least a draw with Li Jian that time.
Now, it has only been long since the start of the competition, and he has forced Li Jian's double swords out, and Yun Xi is still quite satisfied with his penance in the past year.
"Congratulations to Miss Yun for her improvement." Li Jian saw that the other party stopped, so he said from the bottom of his heart.
"Li Gongzi's body is exquisite." Yun Xi also replied.
Then the spirit sword facing him in front of Li Jian suddenly flashed, but what really pierced him was a straight cold light that suddenly appeared behind him!
This time, many of the disciples who were sitting in front of them saw it clearly, and many of them let out an exclamation of "ah", obviously the sword was in front of them, but when the sword light flashed, the blade of the sword came from behind, and many people couldn't help but think about changing themselves to the opposite of that woman, can they resist such a sword?
Chengguan upstairs watched the battle not only the Cold Moon Fairy a sword cultivation elder, today, Mu Xiufeng's principal, Yan Shuang's master Lu Suyang's predecessor is also there, and next to him is a Elder Sun of Mu Xiufeng, well, this person also appeared in the previous article, that is, the one who escorted the Nine Immortals Bai Clan and his party from the Nine Immortals Plain to the Five Spirits Sect before, and it was this Elder Sun who found the Cold Moon Fairy's cave many times for Yun Xi's apprenticeship, and later after the Cold Moon Fairy retreated and did not see the guests, this Sun Elder had to give up, but he was dissatisfied with the Cold Moon Fairy, Later, the Cold Moon Fairy wanted to accept an apprentice when she saw Li Jian for the first time, but she was also stopped by this Elder Sun. Elder Sun knew some inside information about today's matter, so he naturally wanted to take a look at the matter when he was concerned, and Lu Suyang also had the same thought.
"Swordsmanship, this girl has actually reached this realm." Lu Suyang said.
"Hehe, Miss Yun is still very good...... It's a pity, there is no good teacher! Elder Sun said.
Lu Suyang naturally knew that Elder Sun had a very close relationship with the Yun family, and even more so knew that Elder Sun and Fairy Cold Moon had a quarrel because of Yun Xi's apprenticeship, so he stopped saying a word after smiling slightly.
Offstage.
Everyone seemed to think that Li Jian would turn around and resist the sword stabbed in the back first, but Li Jian didn't, as soon as the cold light behind him shone, his body grew a few inches, and the whole person was completely suspended, and then as soon as his body moved, a long green robe remnant was dragged straight towards Yunxi!
With such a fast body, everyone was shocked to see that Li Jian's figure was so fast that he couldn't even catch up with the cold mang behind him!
The cold light chased after a while in the afterimage left by Li Jian and disappeared, and before the sword shadow disappeared, a cold light flashed on a certain place between Li Jian and Yun Xi, and with a roar, the cold sword blade stabbed at Li Jian's chest!
Li Jian's speed did not decrease, and he continued to go towards Yunxi with a wrong body just as Yun Xi's spirit sword was about to die!
Here it is again, Yun Xi frowned slightly, she didn't want to fight Li Jian in close quarters.
In the distance between Li Jian rushing to Yun Xi's body, there were two or three "clanging" sword sounds on the way, Li Jian's sword and Yun Xi's sword slashed each other fiercely more than once, but no matter how frequent Yun Xi's sword was, it couldn't stop Li Jian from coming closer to her quickly!
Three zhang, two zhang, one zhang......
The originally indifferent expression on Yun Xi's face finally became cold, and his gaze became sharper!
Suddenly, the faces of the people watching the battle in the audience and the faces of the elders in the window of Chengguan Tower were all illuminated by the continuous sword light, and the sound of "clanging" swords suddenly erupted intensively!
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Eye swordsmanship, this is a means that Li Jian will probably not master in his life as a sword cultivator
And the reason is very simple, it is because Li Jian and Yun Xi are taking two completely different sword cultivation paths.
For sword cultivation, in addition to the two factions of "Qing Xiu" and "Dust" that are divided into the criterion of not entering the demon, there is also a way to distinguish it, that is, to distinguish it by the number of paths against the enemy.
For example, Yan Shuang, such as Gu Yuan, and Yun Xi who was fighting with Li Jian, they were all sword cultivators, and the means they used were to manipulate the spirit sword to fly out against the enemy, and some people had called it the "Flying Sword Sect" before.
And Li Jian, as well as Liang Baike, who won more than one game yesterday, and even Xiao Yi, a loose sword cultivator who was recruited by Wen Liang and later died under the poisonous bees of the Hanging Corpse Valley, they are all good at hand-to-hand combat with swords, so some people call this the "Sword Fighting Faction", compared to the "Flying Sword Faction", the "Sword Fighting Faction" is scarce.
Of course, there is a kind of both sides, just like the white disciple who was defeated in the hands of Qian Chao and then in the hands of Liang Baike, he has two swords, one can fly the sword to hurt people, and the other is held tightly in his hand to fight with the enemy in close quarters, but this kind of sword cultivation is even more uncommon.
Because Li Jian is the main character in the text, and he is also a rare "sword fighting faction" in sword cultivation, because of him, there is not much involved in the article about another sword cultivation school, the "Flying Sword School", but here it is necessary to make some explanations about some of the advanced means of the "Flying Sword School".
As described in the previous article, Yun Xi, Yan Shuang and Gu Yuan fought with others, when they resisted the enemy, they were no different from ordinary monks, they all used their skills to manipulate their spirit swords, and the difference from ordinary monks was that their spirit swords were more powerful.
From the beginning of the sword cultivation of the Flying Sword Sect, they have to practice the heart trick and hand trick, the heart trick is similar to a spell, and the hand trick is to form a mudra with five or ten fingers, and the two can only make the spirit sword fly out. Well, when the sword cultivation disciples of the Flying Sword Sect first practiced swordsmanship, they not only had to seriously make hand seals, but even had to recite the heart formula. But with the practice for a long time, the improvement of sword cultivation and the purity of the means, the first thing that does not depend on is the heart formula that is recited aloud, as long as it is recited silently in the heart, the next thing that can be omitted is the hand formula, but it takes a not short stage to get to this point, before Yan Shuang and Gu Yuan still could not omit this step in the battle, but these two people have already been familiar with the trick, so the sword is sharp and fast.
It really reached the point where the sword no longer needs to use the hand formula, which is the first small achievement of the flying sword faction, at this time, the enemy, neither need to recite the mantra nor seal with both hands, what you see is within the reach of the sword, so it is called "eye swordsmanship".
That is Yun Xi's method now, she didn't see any action at all when dealing with Li Jian, just stood there quietly, and the spirit sword suddenly came and went bizarrely, as long as it was seen by her sharp eyes, the spirit sword would whistling and flying past.
This is also the reason why Li Jian didn't expect it at first, so he was a little embarrassed.
The second small achievement after "Eye Swordsmanship" is called "Heart Swordsmanship".
The so-called "heart has a feeling, the sword light is slashed", that is, as long as the opponent can be detected and distinguished by the sword cultivator, then the spirit sword can be chased and killed before it is close, but to reach the level of "heart swordsmanship", the biggest requirement for sword cultivation is that "sword heart is clear" must reach a certain temperature.
Among the sword cultivation we know at present, Yan Shuang has mastered the "Eye Swordsmanship", and the "Sword Heart Clearing" is still a little worse, so he has not yet reached the realm of "Heart Swordsmanship", while Gu Yuan has just barely reached the level of "Eye Swordsmanship".
As for Yun Xi, speaking of which, her talent is really not bad, and "Sword Heart Clearing" seems to be above the frost, but it is only a "subtle" realm that has just started.
Here we have to talk about Li Jian, he relied on his natural amazing induction power to make rapid progress in the "Sword Heart Clearing", and now his "Sword Heart Clearing" has crossed the two realms of "subtlety" and "selflessness", and is now the realm of "having me".
With the help of "Kenshin Qingming" to find and firmly lock the opponent, and then the spirit sword stabbed past without any action, even if the opponent is behind the crowd in a hidden place can also be slashed with a sword, such a realm is a few points higher than the "eye swordsmanship", so it is called "heart swordsmanship".
Next, if the sword cultivators of the Flying Sword Sect reach the realm of "Heart Sword Technique", if they have any further achievements, it will be the "Intention Sword Technique" they dream of.
And the "Flying Sword Sect's" "Yi Sword Technique", another name that we already know, is what Li Jian realized when he fought with Xiao Yi, the sword cultivator who had fallen into the demon, when he fought for the death and death...... Sword Realm!
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In the dense sound of swords, Li Jian in the ring was like an immortal with eight arms!
Between him and Yun Xi, a blazing white dazzling sword light and a chilling sword light collided with each other, without giving in, squeezing each other around, constantly changing their forms.
In fact, the two light clusters that can be seen by many disciples in the audience are completely the afterimages left by the two people after they took out the sword, but don't think that it is empty, the real danger is still within these two sword lights, whether it is Li Jian's green bamboo spirit sword or Yun Xi's stabbing flying sword, whether it is the horizontal slash of the blade, the straight stab of the tip of the sword, or the teasing, pumping, pointing, intercepting, lifting, picking, and even the two swords entangled and tearing together, all of them happened in an instant in these two groups of sword light, and the sword momentum of both sides was dense and non-stop, For the time being, it's a tie.
Yun Xi was very reluctant to be bullied by Li Jian to get close, so he tried his best with a cold face.
And when Li Jian was dealing with the frontal attack, from time to time Yunxi's spirit sword stabbed from his waist, back and even the top of his head, and whenever Li Jian had to use his sword to resist.
He didn't have to see it with his own eyes, at this time, when the two of them were fighting like this, Li Jian's "Sword Heart Qingming" had already been hooked by the other party, everything around him, including Yun Xi's every move, the woman's blink and a gasp were in his eyes, for Li Jian, it was like three people standing on the stage, in addition to himself and Yun Xi who were in the fierce fight, there was also a Li Jian on the stage who was quietly watching all this between the two, for this second Li Jian, the fight between the two sides was fierce and then afterimage psychedelic, In his eyes, the two of them were slow in every move, he could lock Yunxi's sword firmly the moment it appeared from the vital point behind Li Jian, and then he didn't need to speak, as if he had seen it with his own eyes, Li Jian, who was fighting fiercely, could know it, and then either turned around with a sword or a backhand sword to relieve himself, the sword light had an afterimage, such a surprise attack continued, so Li Jian's sword-wielding hand also left layers of aftermath at this time, in Yunxi's rainstorm-like offensive, I saw Li Jian's shoulders with multiple arms stacked heavily, It's really like eight arms to keep yourself through the wind and rain, steady as a rock!
The sound of the sword is like the whistle of countless slender leather whips in the air, and the "jingle bell" of the two swords hitting each other is like countless balls beating on the glazed tiles on the roof of the palace, and the disciples watching the battle in the audience are completely attracted by this battle, one by one, they just stared at the stage with wide eyes and were fascinated, and even many of the elders on the Chengguan floor also nodded their heads.
For the two people who are doing it on stage, it is a completely different feeling.
The two of them were completely immersed in this fierce battle that was still evenly matched, the sparkling waves of Tianshui Lake behind Li Jian had long disappeared in Yun Xi's eyes, and the solemn and majestic Chengguan Building behind her had also disappeared in Li Jian's eyes, as for the crowd of people watching the battle in the audience, even the elders of Chengguan Tower, who were important to the identity of this battle, were all gone, what lakes and mountains, what victories and defeats, honor and disgrace, had nothing to do with these two people, for them, The whole world is completely left with the small world of the ring, and the bustle of the world is only the opponent in front of you.
There was a time when both of their hearts were filled with a feeling of great joy.
If you take it with your sword, the opponent will know it immediately, and when the opponent attacks with your sword, you will immediately understand that you are obviously the opponent in front of you, why are you so familiar with each other? After the sword and the sword are exchanged once, the next time the swords of both sides can come as promised, and when they meet again, it is as if they were agreed, and they never fail; In each other's eyes, how fast the other party is, how agile he is, no matter how strange and dangerous his sword is, the other party always has a way to crack it, just as these two have rehearsed all this in private countless times, but it seems that today's stage is not a competition but a demonstration of swordsmanship to everyone; Between the lightning and the fire, through the gap between the sword light and the cold light, the eyes of the two can occasionally touch each other, and the other party's attack and defense can be seen at a glance...... Talking with friends and confidants is very enjoyable and speculative......
This competition is extremely dangerous in the eyes of others, and an accident is the end of the bloody ring, but in the eyes of the sword cultivation master, there is a trace of ambiguity!
For this reason, the Cold Moon Fairy couldn't help frowning slightly, and then she was relieved.
Li Jian was greedy, and the Cold Moon Fairy discovered a weakness of this future disciple.
Li Jian is greedy, it seems that this child enjoys the feeling that can only be experienced in the fierce battle, this is a weakness, and I have to talk to him about it in the future.
But Yunxi is not......
Yun Xi is greedy!