Volume 1 The Man Under the Umbrella Chapter 16 Sharpening the Sword
Childe Beitai squatted at the gate with an umbrella, watching the students who came early in the morning shrink through the bamboo forest to the courtyard.
It was a long time before Nandao opened the door, walked out, rubbed his eyes, pretended to be surprised to look at the snow, and said, "Why is it snowing?" β
"Who knows." Beitai squatted there and said nonchalantly.
Nandao looked at the door for a while, then went back to the room and came out with a shovel, sighing.
"Looks like you're comfortable with this kind of life." Kitatai said as he looked at Nanjima, who had begun to shovel snow.
Nandao held an umbrella in one hand and shoveled snow in the other, and said helplessly: "Then what should I do?" Is it too late to please your old man now? β
Beitai snorted lightly and said, "It's late, belated flattery, it's cheaper than anything else." β
"That's right, why didn't you bring someone out today."
"Those people are too stupid to suit my son's appetite." Beitai stood up, tore off a piece of green vine from the wall next to him, put it in his mouth and chewed it, and then spit it out, "Damn, it's so bitter." Then he saw Nandao stop and look at him strangely.
"I'm curious, what kind of family background can raise a strange son like you." Nanjima said as she continued to shovel snow on the road in the yard.
Beitai leisurely followed behind Nandao and said, "It's not big, it's nothing more than that the entire Nanyi City belongs to my family." β
βοΌβ Nandao suddenly looked back at Beitai.
Beitai looked at Nandao and said calmly: "Nanyicheng's surname is Bei, don't you know?" β
Nandao turned his head, shook his head and said, "I really don't know. β
"Then you are indeed lonely." Beitai spit out the chewed green vine aside, "But it's not interesting like this, Nanyi City is my family, what else is there to fight for in life?" It's impossible to secretly rebel and rob the position of Kamigawa in Huaidu. β
Nandao was silent for a while, and said, "This is the first time I've heard someone call His Majesty's name. β
Beitai wandered in the courtyard indifferently and said, "The emperor is far away, and he can't hear it." β
"I thought that he ended the dispute between the two races, and he would be respected somehow, no matter how bad he was, he was also a big demon who had lived for a thousand years, so he had to be in awe."
While Nagijima shoveled the snow and spoke, he found that Kitadai seemed to be silent.
Looking back, I saw Beitai standing in the courtyard looking at the snow on the courtyard wall, and then looked back at Nandao and said:
"To put it nicely, Nanyi City is my family's, to put it mildly, whether it is the Hanging Courtyard or the Human Sword Sect, or the Heavenly Hell Division in Nanyi City, they are all above Nanyi City."
Nandao listened in silence and asked, "Why is this happening?" β
Beitai said softly: "Because of my ancestor, there was a person named Bei Gu earlier, one of the seven sons and three swords many years ago. β
"I haven't heard of it."
"Senior brother, you should have heard of it."
"Who is it?"
"Hangu Guan Dao Sheng, Li Lack One."
Nandao fell silent.
"People are talking about the great road out of Hangu, but when Hanyaguan really disappears from the world, they are always worried that Hanguguan will come back again."
Beitai chuckled softly and looked at the green bamboos in the Hanging Courtyard, "So you see, even the Hanging Courtyard has to assign me to the Witch Ghost Courtyard, not the Qingniu Courtyard." β
Nandao lowered his head and shoveled the snow, still a little puzzled, and said, "Why are they so afraid of Hanguguan?" β
Beitai sneered and said: "Back then, even characters like Sword Saint Tsing Yi would have a sense of awe for Hanguguan, not to mention them, as long as Hanguguan stayed in the world for a day, those of them who had ghosts in their hearts would never be at ease." β
Nandao listened to the resentment in Beitai's words, and seemed to understand why Beitai would stand in the rain for a long time that day, silent for a while, and said: "Although I don't know what happened back then, it sounds like you are really miserable. β
Beitai chuckled softly and shook his head and walked towards the courtyard.
"What's so miserable about me, I'm so happy."
Nandao looked at Beitai's back and asked, "What are you going to do?" β
"Go to the Witch Ghost Monastery to practice."
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Nandao shoveled all the morning, and cleared all the roads in the Hanging Courtyard, and originally wanted to go to the library to have a look, but I was afraid that I would miss the time to go to Jingsi Lake, so I ate something in the canteen of Wenhua Temple, and went to the Qingniu Temple.
When I passed by, I also saw Zhang Xiaoyu sitting in the pulpit and dozing off, and the students below were sitting in the snow under the apricot trees, talking casually with their swords on their knees. Nandao thought they were discussing kendo, but after listening for a while, he realized that they were all discussing how to play mahjong.
Wrong people's children, wrong people's children.
Nanjima sighed and left.
Mr. Xie is very normal, and he is telling the students about the cultivation methods of the Northern Qingtian Dao.
Mr. Mei was also inside, holding a large thermos, looking at them happily.
When she crossed the apricot blossom path to Jingsi Lake, Qiu Xi'er sat at the end of the corridor, facing the quiet lake, quietly reading a book.
The eaves of the cloister and the magnolia trees were all snow-white, and it was impossible to distinguish between flowers and snow.
Nandao was afraid of startling her, so she carefully stepped on the snow on the road. It's just that he hasn't walked far before he hears Qiu Xi'er's cold voice ringing by the lake.
"There's a sword over there."
Nandao looked around for a while, only to find that there was a four-foot long sword under the magnolia tree by the lake, and there was a grinding stone next to it.
Nandao walked over and picked it up, and found that it was just an ordinary iron sword, and it hadn't even been sharpened.
"Sharpen your sword."
Qiu Xi'er still said without raising her head.
Nandao squatted down by the grinding stone, thought about it, looked at Qiu Xi'er and asked, "How to grind?" β
Qiu Xi'er said calmly: "Grind as much as you want, grind as long as you want." β
Nandao looked at the sword in his hand, then at the whetstone, was silent for a while, and rubbed the sword on the whetstone.
"I'm done, sir."
Qiu Xi'er put away the scroll and looked over to the South Island.
Nan Dao saw Qiu Xi'er's silent gaze, scratched his head and said, "Or will I grind again?" β
"No need."
Qiu Xi'er walked towards Nandao with the scroll in her hand, reached out and picked up the sword that Nandao had sharpened, glanced at it, reversed the blade of the sword, handed it to Nandao, and then walked along Jingsi Lake towards the other side of the lake.
Nandao followed with a sword for some unknown reason.
The two stopped at a lawn on the other side of the lake, Qiu Xi'er looked back at Nandao and said, "Do you know the difference between the three major sword sects in the world? β
Nandao shook his head, saluted with his sword, and said, "Sir, please speak." β
Qiu Xi'er turned to look at the lake, raised her hand, and a stalk flew out of the lake and landed in her hand.
Nandao looked at the sword intently, but was a little surprised, because it was not a good sword, on the contrary, it was extremely tattered, the body of the sword was full of cracks, and the blade was full of gaps, as if it would break at any time.
Two words are engraved on the sword.
Translucent.
It has the same name as the contemporary Grinding Sword Cliff Lord.
Qiu Xi'er looked at the sword in her hand and said calmly: "The Liuyun Sword Sect arose before the Great Dao, and the sword at that time was a weapon held in the hand. β
As the words fell, the aura around Qiu Xi'er's body changed, and it was integrated with the sword, and it instantly deceived her, Nandao had not yet seen it clearly, and the cold light had stopped in front of her throat, and she could even feel the cold chill on the tip of the sword.
Nanjima swallowed half of his saliva and stopped.
Qiu Xi'er calmly put away her sword and stood up, holding her sword behind her.
"Isn't the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect cultivating?"
Nan Dao thought about Fang Cai's sword and asked with trepidation.
Qiu Xi'er said calmly: "Of course they cultivate, but because for them, the sword came earlier than the Dao, so they cultivated the Dao in order to better hold the sword, break through the Dao blockade faster, and send the sword into their throats." β
"I see." Nandao suddenly realized, and then asked, "What about the sword that sharpens the sword cliff?" β
"The original name of the Grinding Sword Cliff was the Ten Year Sword Sect, which means ten years of sharpening a sword, and it is also the founder of the Sword Intent School, but it has not given up the core of the Retro Sword School. People are on the cliff, the sword travels thousands of miles, and the sword intent is vast and unstoppable. β
After Qiu Xi'er finished speaking, the sword of retort behind him erupted with thousands of sword intent, like a high cliff waterfall, looking up and feeling a thousand jun, and then suspended on the lake, the sword intent shot out like a streamer, and suddenly disappeared on the shore of the meditation lake.
When Nandao was still wondering where the sword intent went, he heard Zhang Xiaoyu's scream faintly coming from the side of the preaching - "Ah! Fuck, who's going to stab me in the ass? β
As the sword intent dissipated, the Qiushui Sword fell into the lake again.
Qiu Xi'er looked at Nan Dao and said calmly: "As for the Human Sword Sect, it was born from the way of sword intent in the Sword Grinding Cliff, and used the cause and effect sword to cut the past and the future. β
"What's that like?" Nanjima asked curiously.
Qiu Xi'er looked at the ripples in the lake and said calmly, "I won't. β
"......" Nandao looked at the honest Qiu Xi'er, and was speechless for a while. So which kendo is stronger? β
Qiu Xi'er said calmly: "There is no one stronger, when the three swords in the world are the representatives of the three great swords." β
"Which three swords?"
"Demon Emperor Shenhe, Liuyun Sword Sect Chen Yunxi, Human Sword Sect Cong Blade."
Nandao nodded thoughtfully.
"If you want to learn the causal sword, you can go and ask Zhang Xiaoyu, he is the proud protΓ©gΓ© of Master Cong Blade, and the only one who has learned the fruit sword."
After Qiu Xi'er finished speaking, she was about to leave with the scroll in her hand.
Nandao savored this sentence carefully, and always felt that something was wrong.
Then he reacted, ran over to stop Qiu Xi'er, and hurriedly said: "I don't want to learn, I don't want to learn, don't be angry, sir." β
Qiu Xi'er held the scroll and raised her hand, Nandao quickly stretched out her hand, closed her eyes and said as if she were at home, "Please punish Mr." β
Qiu Xi'er silently looked at Nan Dao who was waiting to be punished in front of her, and did not fight, but just put the book in Nan Dao's hand.
Nandao opened his eyes and looked at the book in his hand, a little confused.
Qiu Xi'er bypassed the South Island, walked towards Jingsi Lake, and said calmly, "What am I doing beating you?" This is an introductory analysis of kendo written by Mr. Yunhu, you can take a look. β
"Oh." Nandao nodded, looked at Qiu Xi'er's back, bowed, and said, "Thank you, sir." β
After hesitating for a moment, Nandao shouted to Qiu Xi'er, who had already walked to the lake, "Sir is really not angry..... Hmm β
Before he finished speaking, his mouth was sealed by a sword intent,
"In the Lake of Meditation, don't shout." Qiu Xi'er glanced back at Nandao and left the place from the trail.
It does seem to be angry.
Nandao sighed and walked to the cloister with the scroll and sat down.
The scroll in his hand still had the warmth in Qiu Xi'er's hand.
Nandao felt like she had shaken her hand, so she smirked.
Energetic, he opened the scroll and said to himself: "It's very pleasant, you should love and practice!" That's it. β