Chapter 244: Falling into Practice
() "Huairan Sword Book", created by Zhaoyue Sword Immortal Xiong Jiewu.
At first, this set of swords did not have a name, and it was not until Xiong Jiewu lost his beloved wife that he was depressed and named "Huairan".
Xiong Jiewu, who is an immortal cultivator, did not choose to double cultivate with an immortal cultivator, but married an ordinary girl. This was quite a sensation in the immortal cultivation world at that time. Xiong Jiewu met the girl when he was traveling by chance, but he had no intention of getting married, but he fell in love with the gentle woman out of control. The only pity is that the woman has passed the foundation building period and has no chance to cultivate immortals.
Before getting married, the two had already foreseen the future life and death separation. But when that moment came, Xiong Jiewu still felt that the sky was falling apart, and the world in his eyes seemed to turn gray. After spending dozens of happy years with him, his gentle wife finally died of a sudden illness.
Maybe this moment was earlier than expected, maybe his wife's serious illness worsened too suddenly, Xiong Jiewu never thought that his wife would leave him forever, he always felt that his wife's illness would gradually heal as before. The dying wife had a high fever that did not go away, and the unconscious seed kept holding her husband's hand and muttering his name.
Xiong Jiewu's tears fell in large drops, and while calling his wife's nickname, he kept changing the towel for her. Gradually, his wife's voice became quieter and quieter, and her breath became weaker and weaker, until her slender hand hung down weakly.
Accompanied for decades, a hurried farewell. Xiong Jiewu, who lost his lover, was full of sorrow. Draw your sword, go out of the house, and call out and dance your sword in the vast snow. Snowflakes flew, tears fell. The swordsmanship routine, which has always lacked a finishing touch, is now integrated, and continues in endless grief.
In the midst of great compassion, he suddenly attained enlightenment.
The deceased wife's name is Meng Youran, and in order to remember, the sword technique is named "Huairan".
Maybe it can't match Xiong Jiewu's compassionate state of mind when he created the "Huai Ran" swordsmanship, He Tianyao always feels that the Huairan swordsmanship he cultivates is still a little worse, as if a person only has a body but no soul. Xiong Jiewu's swordsmanship routine was rigid in the first half, but it suddenly became soft in the second half, and the balance of rigidity and softness was not so easy to grasp.
Jiang Chengdong had never practiced Huairan swordsmanship, and he couldn't give He Tianyao guidance, so he could only rely on himself to figure it out. Although he has not yet exerted the power of the "Huairan" swordsmanship, He Tianyao has always firmly believed that it is because he has not yet been able to comprehend the essence of the swordsmanship, and the Zhaoyue Sword Immortal created the "Huairan" swordsmanship in the state of the unity of heaven and man must be a very powerful swordsmanship classic.
In addition, He Tianyao also practiced two other sets of excellent swordsmanship. Needless to say, the "Source Shadow" swordsmanship created by Taiqing Sword Immortal Li Tanchen, and the "Light" swordsmanship created by Jiang Chengdong, the Sword Immortal of Swift Light, is also a must. It's a pity that Jiang Chengdong's determination to create a new sword technique was already a little late, and the time he stayed in the Great Red Realm was no longer enough to perfect the Sword Technique of "Swift Light" to the realm of Tribulation.
"The failure to complete the swordsmanship of "Swift Light" has always been a huge regret in Shizun's heart. In order to repay him for his careful teaching, I must one day perfect it. He Tianyao, who was eavesdropping on the roof, thought in his heart.
Suddenly, his thoughts were interrupted by the sound of conversation in the room again.
"I don't know what kind of realm that kid is now. This is Qian Qiusui's voice.
"Did he easily kill three people without any injuries himself?" said another.
"The blood stains at the scene are all mixed together, and I don't know if the kid is injured. However, judging from the dry food and fruits scattered all over the place, he may not be so easy to win. Qian Qiu then speculated.
"Heh, I'll just say, in thirty years, no matter how powerful it is, it won't surpass the late stage of annihilation. Those three fools you sent were fooled by him, and they lost their lives in carelessness. If we had attacked cleanly from behind our backs from the beginning, the Giant Sword would have already been in our pockets. ”
"Maybe. But luckily I kept a hand, and quietly robbed the two little girls after he left the cave. I heard him say that he seems to be the children of old people, and it is better to take them hostage. Qian Qiu's smug words made He Tianyao's stomach angry, and he couldn't wait to rush in and break his body into pieces.
"Haha, you're good at it. Last time, I forced someone to commit suicide and self-destruct their cultivation, tsk, I can't accept you. Listening to this person's words, it seems that Qian Qiu has done a lot of things that hurt nature and reason.
"I'm angry when I talk about this, what's wrong with following me?" Qian Qiu raised his voice, "Hmph, what I can't get, others can't think of it!"
"Bah!" He Tianyao smacked hard in his heart.
After a pause, Qian Qiu continued: "I just don't know how close the relationship between the so-called 'old man' and that stinky boy is, and whether he will give in for those two children." If ......"
"Don't worry, he is by no means ruthless, since the old people trust each other, if the two children have three longs and two shorts, how can he save face?"
"That being said, if he really breaks the jar, it will be troublesome. It is best to know the intimacy of their relationship, so that he can not sit idly by, but also not go crazy, so that he has to obediently obey our request, hehe......" After speaking, Qian Qiu smiled sinisterly, what a vicious guy.
"Isn't that easy? Just ask the two girls?"
"yes, why didn't I think of that? Haha, let's go!" heard the sound of chairs moving in the room.
He Tianyao quietly put down the tiles he had provoked and slowly drew out his dagger. Next, just wait for the two of them to get out of the house and follow them secretly, and you can know where Aoxue and Lingshuang are being held.
One of these two wicked people is Qian Qiu in the later stage of Dongxu
Then, there should be another one that should be Zhuo Qingfeng, the Great Elder of the Red Sun Vein. Judging from the tone of the conversation between the two, as Tang Junhe described, the smell is similar, and Zhuo Qingfeng is the main one, and Qian Qiu is a deputy.
Originally, He Tianyao thought that Qian Qiusui was just a greedy person who coveted the immortal sword and secretly killed him, but now it seems that his mind is really not ordinarily meticulous. First of all, Qian Qiu was able to judge his identity just by seeing He Tianyao in a hurry, and it seemed to be inferred by perceiving the outstanding quality of the giant immortal sword in He Tianyao's baggage. In addition, while sending out the killer and not forgetting to leave behind, this person's methods are not high.
After waiting for a while, no one pushed the door open, and there was no more conversation in the room. "What's going on?" He Tianyao wondered.
After waiting patiently for a while, he couldn't help it, and once again inserted the dagger into the crack in the tiles, and slowly lifted it. This time he pried the tiles higher and leaned in to peek into the room.
The room was quiet, and there was no one. The teacups on the table were still steaming.
It is impossible for a person to disappear out of thin air, which means that there must be a secret passage in the room! He Tianyao thought about it, and despite the danger, he still decided to go into the house to find out.
He rolled down the eaves, leaned in front of the door, pulled back and flashed in.
Sure enough, there was a hole in the ground in the corner of the house. He Tianyao leaned at the entrance of the cave and looked inside, there was a corridor connected under several steps, and there was occasionally a hazy sound from the depths of the corridor, as if someone was talking far away.
He Tianyao tiptoed down the steps. The moment he entered the tunnel, he glanced back at the room, for some reason, he was a little uneasy, he always felt that there seemed to be something unusual in the house, but after a glance, it seemed that there was nothing.
He took a deep breath and focused, focusing on what was going on in the tunnel. There are several wall lamps on the walls, which illuminate the corridor. The road stretched forward for a few zhang and then turned a corner, and there were stairs that continued downward, and there was another turn at the end of the stairs.
It turned out to be a downward spiraling structure! This means that this is not a secret passage, but a prison cell leading to the prisoners!
"What a red sun vein! Actually dug out a dark room prison in the mountain! God knows how many people they killed!" He Tianyao continued to cautiously probe down with anger.
After turning two corners, the road finally came to an end, here was a row of prisons, He Tianyao counted them, there were ten in total. There was a musty smell of rot in the air, and there seemed to be a faint smell of blood. Each cell had thick iron doors, with only a small window at eye level.
The door to the last of the ten cells was wide open, and from inside came the sound of talking and weeping. It seems that Ao Xue and Ling Shuang are there! He Tianyao held his breath and listened intently to what they were saying.
"It's not easy to do now, I didn't expect it to be the great-great-grandson of Sect Master Zhu, if he knows it in the future......" This is Qian Qiusui talking, it seems that he has already asked the specific identities of Ao Xue and Ling Shuang.
"What are you afraid of? That old guy has already entered the Tiancheng Mountain Domain, have you ever seen him come out for so many years? Surely he won't go down the mountain until he goes down the mountain, and even if he comes down the mountain, he still has to go to the Tiancheng Tribulation, how can he still care about these things?"
"Hmm...... That's right, as long as we don't hurt the lives of the two of them, Sect Master Zhu will definitely not do anything. Qian Qiu said.
"That's because you don't know him. With Sect Master Zhu's fiery temper, if he learned that we were using her great-great-daughter as a hostage, he would definitely be furious. So it's better that he dies during the Tribulation, so as not to be in trouble. ”
"Then if he succeeds in crossing the tribulation and cultivating into a sword immortal, what will we do?"
"It's not easy to settle the two children? It's not so simple to cultivate into a sword immortal, and the time is still long! After the matter is completed, arrange for them to go to the cold moon vein to cultivate, and when they grow up, they will double cultivate with the disciples of the red sun vein, what can Zhu Honglie say? Besides, after all, the Juque sword has strengthened my Chiri lineage, although the means are unseemly, the result is good!"
He Tianyao secretly breathed a sigh of relief, with Zhu Honglie's relationship, it seems that they will not do anything to Ao Xue and Ling Shuang. But even so, they can't just let them imprison the two children, they must be rescued! At this time, only Zhuo Qingfeng and Qian Qiusui were there, and it was an excellent opportunity to rescue the two children! With one enemy against two, He Tianyao was still quite sure.
He placed his hand on the hilt of the sword behind his back and quietly pressed against the wall.
When passing through the third cell, the faint light from the opening of the cell door attracted He Tianyao's attention. The first two cells were pitch black, but this one was lit, and there must be other people in it!
He Tianyao glanced into the room, and his brows furrowed suddenly. The scene in the cell was horrific, one man was tightly tied to a wooden frame with thick iron cables, and even worse, the man's hands, feet, and limbs were cut off, leaving only a scarred torso! The poor man on the wooden frame hung his head and covered his face, and did not move, not knowing whether he was dead or alive.
"Why was that man so tortured so badly? It is better to live like this than to die, at least to avoid the pain of flesh and skin. He Tianyao thought to himself.
But at the moment, I don't have the energy to take care of others, so I have to rescue the two little girls first.
Qian Qiusui's voice came from the cell at the end of the cell: "What's the use of that half-dead guy in Cell C still left?
"C" is the third of the ten heavenly stems, and it seems that the "half-dead guy" Qian Qiusui spoke of is the poor man in the third cell. However, He Tianyao didn't understand who the other people referred to by the words "kill together" were, could it be that there were people in the other cells?
"No, catch them and imprison them together, the one surnamed Lu can't continue to be used for experiments, just grab a new replacement!" a hoarse voice said.
He Tianyao's heart was suddenly shocked, oh no! It turned out that there was another person!
At this moment, there was only a stirring reaction in his mind, why did he feel a little strange in that room just now, he always thought that there were only two people in the room, Zhuo Qingfeng and Qian Qiusui, but there were clearly three teacups on the table!
At that time, He Tianyao had always been concerned about the safety of Ao Xue and Ling Shuang, so he didn't observe carefully, it was his negligence! This mysterious third person actually stayed in the room silently, and went down to the prison with Zhuo Qingfeng and Qian Qiusui silently, and only at this moment did he say the first sentence.
In addition, He Tianyao speculated from the man's words that the so-called "one" contained himself! In this way, they had already discovered that they were eavesdropping on the roof? That person seemed to be deliberately silent, and designed all the way to lure him in!
He Tianyao was a little flustered, that person had obviously been in the room all the time, but he didn't notice it! It seems that his strength should be extraordinary, and he designed to lead him to this prison in order to capture him, which shows the depth of this person's thoughts.
What to do? Forward or Backward?
The panicked hesitation was fleeting, He Tianyao figured it out, the matter of saving people could not be done with the help of others, so what if he broke through once? Anyway, he had planned to directly save the two children by force. Besides, if you can't beat it, it's a big deal to escape, He Tianyao thinks that the three of them still can't help the body of "One Qi and Three Yuan".
"Ho, if you know it, you won't run away, you really have the guts!" the "third person" laughed and walked out of the cell with clapped hands. He has white hair, even his beard is white, and he wears a silver mask on his face, revealing only his eyes and mouth. Qian Qiusui and another middle-aged man followed behind him, smiling at He Tianyao with a malicious smile.
"I didn't expect to be discovered by you. He Tianyao walked generously to the two feet in front of the three of them, and ripped off the headscarf and veil.
"Uncle, is it you, uncle?" came Qin Aoxue's shout from the cell.
He Tianyao responded: "Aoxue, Lingshuang, don't be afraid." Uncle will definitely save you out!"
"Uncle must be careful, they are all big villains!" Qin Lingshuang shouted with the greatest strength.
He Tianyao smiled slightly, and said to the three of them: "Being called a 'big villain' by two innocent children, you immortal cultivators are really 'outstanding', I feel chilled for you!"
"You broke into Chiri Peak at night alone, and you still dared to go without a giant sword, hum, what a big courage!" Qian Qiu said viciously.
"Don't talk nonsense, take your life!" He Tianyao roared angrily and rushed over with his sword.
The masked old man took a step back, and Zhuo Qingfeng and Qian Qiu drew their swords to meet them, and the three of them fought together in the narrow aisle.
With the relationship between the Taiqing and Chiri sects, the enemy should know the "Source Shadow" swordsmanship very well, so He Tianyao used the "Swift Light" swordsmanship passed down by Jiang Chengdong. Qian Qiu is in the late stage of the cave void, and there is too much difference between him and He Tianyao's realm, so there is no need to be afraid at all. According to Tang Junhe, Zhuo Qingfeng is already in the late stage of annihilation, and it is a little more difficult to deal with, but He Tianyao is also sure of victory. What he really cared about was the old man in the mask who hadn't made a move.
Jiang Chengdong's "Swift Light" swordsmanship follows a fast and fast routine, the more narrow the space, the more it can exert its power, because it is inconvenient to dodge, He Tianyao has not used his body method to gain the upper hand in the battle of one enemy and two. In fact, compared with the "Huairan" swordsmanship created by Zhaoyue Sword Immortal Xiong Jiewu, the swordsmanship of "Swift Light" and the body technique of "One Qi and Three Yuan" are more suitable. However, He Tianyao didn't plan to use his body technique too early, and he didn't plan to waste his spiritual power before the old man in the mask made a move.
The old man in the mask stood not far away with his hands in his hands, with a hateful smile on the corner of his mouth, as if he was watching the battle between the three of them.
"What are you doing hiding behind as a turtle with a shrunken head? If you want to go up, let's go up together!" He Tianyao shouted loudly, using the agitation method. It's a bit of a stretch to fight with one, but it's better than having to be distracted and keep an eye out for the old maskedman's sneak attack.
"No, not good. In that case, you will definitely lose, and I want to appreciate your excellent swordsmanship. The old man in the mask was not angry or angry, and responded calmly.
"Old horseman, Hugh wants to underestimate me!" He Tianyao rose up, and after blocking Zhuo Qingfeng's attack, he seized the gap and attacked Qian Qiusui, who was already weak, so he disarmed in three or two strokes, and withdrew from the battle circle.
"Okay! I didn't expect that in just over 30 years, you have actually reached the Mahayana realm! You really deserve the title of 'Genius of Cultivating Immortals'!" The old man in the mask applauded.
He Tianyao snorted coldly, and swung his sword to take the old man in the mask, but was stopped by Zhuo Qingfeng chasing a few swords from the oblique stab.
Zhuo Qingfeng said: "Good boy, it's actually the Mahayana realm, it seems that I still underestimate you!" Before the words fell, his swordsmanship routine suddenly changed greatly, turning defense into offense, and it was also a swift sword move, and he Tianyao started an offensive battle. The two sides came and went, the pace became faster and faster, the figure turned into a phantom, and the sound of the collision of swords was dense and crisp, causing a muffled echo in the aisle, which was endless.
"What's going on with this Zhuo Qingfeng?" He Tianyao thought angrily.
He clearly hadn't eaten the Storm Spirit Pill just now, why did his strength suddenly leap a notch? Could it be that he had been suppressing his own realm? But he was already in the late stage of extinction before, and judging from his current situation, he was at least at the level of the early stage of Mahayana like He Tianyao. Isn't it time for an immortal cultivator who has ascended to the Mahayana realm to enter the Tiancheng Mountain Domain? Why is Zhuo Qingfeng still staying in the Red Sun Vein as an elder?