Chapter 25: The Battle of the Grandmasters
Li Chengtang told Ayiyi that Xingchen Island is full of star flowers, the scenery is different from the grassland desert, the smoke and waves are vast on all sides, the scenery is very beautiful, and you can see the invisible scenery of the north. Said Ayiyi yearning.
Li Chengtang asked Ayiyi to recover from her injuries and come to him again, and finally moved her to follow Xu Shengcheng and leave.
Qin Haotian and Ran Fei knew that Li Chengtang was a descendant of the one hundred and twenty-third generation of Emperor Yao, and their expressions of respect for Li Chengtang became respectful. The people of Huaxia respected the three emperors and five emperors, and Yao was one of the five emperors, Qin Haotian and Ran Fei did not dare to slack off when they heard it.
Especially after knowing his ambition to "establish a heart for heaven and earth, a life for the people, a continuation of the past generations, and peace for all generations", he was more convinced and vowed to follow.
More than half a month passed, and Li Chengtang's injuries gradually recovered. The true qi scattered in the limbs and hundreds of bones also condensed little by little. After martial arts reach the realm of grandmasters, they can become small worlds of their own, and once the true qi turns, they can absorb the aura of the surrounding heaven and earth. The body naturally accelerates recovery.
Li Chengtang meditated every day, practiced the "Xuantian Returning to the Yuan Jue" diligently, circulated throughout the body, and recovered to the eight successful powers in a few days.
These days, Cen Shen has also come to visit Li Chengtang many times, and now he is joining the army under Wang Zhonghei's account, and he is thriving. Li Chengtang took advantage of his leisure time to teach him a set of swordsmanship, let him practice it diligently, and told him that this swordsmanship was very effective in killing enemies on the battlefield to protect himself.
Ran Jingjing is also much more restrained and flamboyant than before, but she still dresses up in front of Li Chengtang every day to attract Li Chengtang's attention. The good thing is that since I have suffered many losses, I have worked a lot harder in practicing martial arts than before. Meng Lang also began to admire Li Chengtang from the bottom of his heart, and no longer competed with him and was jealous, but hoped that his junior sister could get her wish.
Of course, Li Chengtang knew about Ran Jingjing's thoughts, and these days, Ran Jingjing didn't let the people of the "Wild Camel Garden" approach him at all, and took care of them in person at the bedside, and Li Chengtang only remembered this feeling. In my free time, I dialed a lot of swordsmanship for Jingjing.
Ran Jingjing was not stupid in the first place, otherwise Aunt Gongsun would not use her as a mantle for the future. It's just that she didn't want to be here before, and she was too lazy. Now that there is a lover in person, his understanding suddenly explodes, coupled with the original foundation and the current hard work, the swordsmanship has improved by leaps and bounds.
She was originally only a fifth-stage cultivator, but in just one month, she broke through the seventh-stage and chased Ran Fei's realm. Ran Fei looked at the natural surprise and was happy. It seems that the development of the Ran family is going to fall on Ran Jingjing. Ran Jingjing herself also gained a lot of confidence and became very interested in martial arts.
Li Chengtang was also very surprised by her kendo roots.
In addition, Li Chengtang also taught Ran Fei and Meng Lang some swordsmanship by the way. Xingchen Island has collected thousands of years of martial arts classics, which is naturally not trivial. Everyone has different developments in martial arts cultivation.
Of course, the ones who benefited the most were Ran Jingjing and Qin Haotian, and Qin Haotian also admired Ran Jingjing's roots and bones very much, and taught her his kendo experience.
It's late autumn in the blink of an eye, and the weather is getting colder. Li Chengtang calculated the time, they had been in Lingzhou for more than three months. According to the information reported by the "Procuratorate", Xiao Gushan Gu Wuya had several martial arts battles after obtaining the "Dragon Sword", and many people were killed by him. He is currently trapped in Yongqiu Qi County by the Shaolin faction.
It is said that the Shaolin faction invited several famous and decent families on the rivers and lakes to form an alliance to chase and intercept the lonely boundless, vowing to kill this big devil who has plagued the martial arts for decades. The Shaolin faction even regarded the "Dragon Sword" as the cause of the disaster, and wanted to detain the "Dragon Sword" in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion of the Shaolin Temple, and be guarded by the Shaolin Master Rujian, so as to eliminate the turmoil in the rivers and lakes.
If you see the master, there is a name of "such as seeing such as coming" in the rivers and lakes, and it is rumored that he has already attained Buddhism, his mana is boundless, and his martial arts cultivation is even more unfathomable.
Since the opening of the Tang Dynasty, the Shaolin Temple has become the leader of the martial arts alliance in the Jianghu sect because of its ability to support the dragon. Raise your arms and exhale, and all factions will respond.
Li Chengtang originally planned to go directly to Ran's house in Weizhou, but now that Ran Fei and Qin Haotian are attached to him, he needs to be rectified. He planned to take the "Wujianmen" of the Ran family and Shu Dao as his base in the future, and his grandfather did not give him the authority of the "Procuratorate", if he wanted to develop, he would establish his own organization outside the "Procuratorate", and the "Wujianmen" and the Ran family happened to radiate the Central Plains diagonally from east to west, which was the best layout.
If you go to Weizhou, you can take a good look at it, and secondly, you can investigate the clues about the fate of the "Dragon Sword", he has a hunch that the Ran family's "Flying Sword Decision" must be involved with the "Dragon Sword". In order to achieve his ambition, he felt that he had to improve his martial arts cultivation.
Yongqiu is located in Henan Province, now after hearing the news that Lonely Wuya is trapped in Qi County, he discussed with everyone to go to Yongqiu first and then transfer to Weizhou, he is afraid that if the "Dragon Sword" is Shaolin Rujian Master go, it will be much more difficult to come back.
Because no one knows what realm it is when you see the master's martial arts cultivation. He had never touched anyone, but everyone knew that he was a martial arts master.
He is not on the "Jianghu Xuan Evaluation List", in fact, Ximen Ji Xuan's "Martial Arts Evaluation List" cannot be evaluated at all for the dormant and hidden real masters, and it is possible to be on the list only when it appears, so the "Jianghu Xuan Evaluation List" is evaluated every year.
It is estimated that there will be big changes in this year's "Jianghu Xuan Evaluation List", and it is not clear that there will be a master of the Great Arhat Realm, if there is, then this master is very likely to be. Because he has lived too long, from the founding of the Tang Dynasty to the present.
Everyone was discussing the matter of passing through Yongqiu, and suddenly saw Wu Tingting hurriedly walking in with a letter in her hand, her face was very ugly. He looked very worried.
Li Chengtang took the letter, which was a war letter, Nangong Qingwu's war letter. Seeing the war book, Li Chengtang knew that Nalan Ruoruo had returned safely.
This Princess Ruoruo, who is called Jiu'er, has helped him too much, and he has been in the rivers and lakes for so long, and he only owes her, so he has been worried about Jiu'er when he left.
Jiu'er's delay in leaving is also to buy him time, as a hostage, as long as she leaves safely, then the battle between Nangong Qingwu and Li Chengtang will inevitably begin. The people of Jianghu were faithful, and at that time, Li Chengtang had no signs of recovery, and he would definitely die if he participated in the war.
But now he has not fully recovered, and everyone is worried.
Qin Haotian was a witness to the war at that time. Nangong Qingwu has withdrawn from the army, and in its current form, it is estimated that he will definitely be scolded by An Lushan when he goes back. Now that he is asking for a war, Li Chengtang must promise to fight.
The battle was set at the foot of Helan Mountain three days later, and only Li Chengtang and Nangong Qingwu were allowed to settle all grievances.
Li Chengtang asked everyone not to wait for him, and went directly to Yongqiu three days later, and Shangguan Chi contacted him with the "Procuratorate" to leave him a message. Qin Haotian's cultivation is the highest, let Qin Haotian protect everyone.
Li Chengtang told everyone that he would not be so stupid, and he would really have a big battle with Nangong Qingwu, and then he would take the opportunity to escape and rush to find them.
Ran Jingjing cried a lot, but everyone knew that the two great grandmasters were competing, and they couldn't help at all, but they were a drag on the show, and they only believed that even if Li Chengtang couldn't beat Nangong Qingwu, it should be no problem to protect himself and escape. And the top priority is to pursue the whereabouts of the "Dragon Sword", which is really to help Li Chengtang.
Three days later, in the drizzle, Qin Haotian led a group of people to bid farewell to Wang Zhongsi and the people in the "Wild Camel Garden", and marched to Henan Road via Yanzhou.
At the foot of Helan Mountain, on top of two hills, in the drizzle, it was unusually cold, and there was a person standing on each side.
A person in a white robe, white hair, white eyebrows, and white beard, but with a violent face.
One person is dressed in a black clothes, with a bright appearance and a heroic face.
One white and one black, between white and black, the sky and the earth are gloomy, and the climate changes suddenly. The originally drizzly and cold weather turned out to be steaming up bursts of mist, and the scorching wind was hunting.
The two great masters each form a small world.
"Coming?"
"It's coming!"
"The bad old man has a big plan in the world, killing the old man's junior brother, and causing the old man to be laughed at, and today it will be all together!"
Li Chengtang smiled, "The predecessors have been famous for a long time, and they should be as good as a stream, but they are the ones who slaughter dogs, and Li Chengtang took it!" ”
Nangong Qingwu stopped talking, and started with the Kunlun faction, a style of "blue sea and flowing clouds", and slashed at Li Chengtang. This style of swordsmanship Qiu Fangcheng once used, so that Li Chengtang was injured by the sword.
At this time, in the hands of Nangong Qingwu, the weather is very different, the sword is swallowed, the sword qi reaches dozens of zhang, and the waves are magnificent, turning the raindrops into clouds and mist.
Li Chengtang still used Ran Jingjing's sword, knowing that the other party was powerful, he was afraid of damage, so he didn't dare to take it hard. used a move "Sword Kunlun", and within the small world, thousands of sword curtains were provoked to raindrops, resisting the power of Nangong Qingwu's slash.
But the hill where Li Chengtang was still flattened by his sword. Li Chengtang was shocked.
Nangong Qingwu enters the Tao with art, Li Chengtang enters the Tao with Taoism, Nangong Qingwu is naturally higher than Li Chengtang in swordsmanship, and Li Chengtang and the "Dragon Sword" fellow practitioner "Xuantian Returns to the Yuan Jue", don't look young, but he is not weaker than Nangong Qingwu in true qi cultivation, and his kendo comprehension is also higher than him. It's just that Nangong Qingwu has been immersed in swordsmanship for decades after all, and he has rich experience in actual combat, while Li Chengtang has only been out of the rivers and lakes for a short time, and he has not fully recovered after being injured. Therefore, Li Chengtang tried not to have a hard time with Nangong Qingwu, and mainly dodged.
After Li Chengtang made a move of "Sword Kunlun", he immediately flew up and jumped into the air, and a sword transformed into a thousand swords, virtual and real, sprinkled towards Nangong Qingwu, and the endless rain was cut apart. The sword qi slashed on the ground and "snorted", and the ravines were vertical and horizontal.
Li Chengtang's idea was that he didn't dare to touch it if he was injured, so he used a fast sword to force Nangong Qingwu not to collide with him.
Nangong Qingwu originally entered the Tao with a technique, the swordsmanship became faster, the white-robed figure turned into a cloud of white mist, avoiding Li Chengtang's sword style, and clasped his sword with both hands in mid-air, a style of "white rainbow through the sun", and a huge force penetrated through Li Chengtang.
Li Chengtang couldn't dodge in mid-air, feeling the flow of wind and clouds in the small world, turning into a light hong, with this penetrating force, he retreated a hundred feet away.
Nangong Qingwu roared: "Xiao'er is leaving!" Immediately followed by a move "Cloud Breaking Style", the body and sword were united, and he continued to stab directly at Li Chengtang's chest.
Li Chengtang knew that he would not be able to win him even before he was injured, let alone now, so he used the procrastination trick to continue to sweep back with the wind.
Both of them have reached the great grandmaster in their martial arts cultivation, and they can feel the small world, use the power of nature, and borrow the wind to walk. As soon as he ran and chased, two lights and shadows, one white and one black, flashed in the sky, and it was dozens of miles in an instant.
Li Chengtang flew for half an hour, and he didn't know where he was now, Nangong Qingwu was still chasing after him, and he didn't fall half a step. Li Chengtang thought to himself: This old man's martial arts are indeed good, but he can't leave his life here.
shouted: "Nangong Lao'er, I fought with you, is it really impossible for you to live or die!" If you want revenge, we'll fight another day! ”
His strength has only recovered eight or ninety percent, and after flying for so long, his qi is slightly sluggish, and he falls to the cloud. Seeing that this was a mountain stream and dense forest, he plunged into it and flew close to the ground.
After walking for dozens of miles, I felt that the qi and blood were surging, the true qi was disordered, and there were signs of recurrence of old injuries. Hurriedly stopped breathing, thinking that he should get rid of this old man now.
He fought with Nangong Qingwu, although most of them escaped, but both of them were urging the true qi to use the mastery of the Xiaoqian world, which was very costly. He didn't recover from the original injury in his heart, but his true qi had recovered eight or ninety percent, and this time he only felt that the pain in his heart was unbearable, and the corners of his mouth began to be bloody again.
Li Chengtang had just run his true qi for a week, which calmed the pain in his body a little. Then I heard the sky shout: "The child is dead!" ”
Nangong Qingwu fell from the sky like a thunderbolt, a style of "flowing clouds and shooting the sun", a sword and a fist fell on the head, and the grass and trees within a zhang were broken, forming a big pit.
Li Chengtang hurriedly responded to the battle, flying sideways, and the thought of "this old man is really difficult to get rid of" just came to his heart.
Nangong Qingwu has another "cloud cutting style", and the sleeves of the robe are waved horizontally. Trees and flying rocks all smashed towards Li Chengtang. The power of the small world, the surrounding situation immediately changed, this old man really fought for his life.
Li Chengtang had to slash at Nangong Qingwu with a sword and attack him to save himself.
Nangong Qingwu ignored it, and was cut out of a blood groove by Li Chengtang. And Li Chengtang was also smashed by this wave, his eyes were black, and he felt that there was a cliff behind him, and he fell unconscious.