Taiyi is close to the sky, and even the mountains are connected to the sea. The white clouds look back, and the blue mist enters to see nothing.

The reckless Qinling Mountains are the most victorious in the south. The forests are lush and lush, and the mountains are majestic and undulating. Ten thousand years of empty mountains hear the roar of tigers, thousands of miles of glory and cui listen to the sound of waterfalls. The song of the warbler and the language of the swallow, the cry of the crane and the ape, can be described as the creation of the Lingxiu, the blessed land and the cave.

The mountain stream is murmuring, only looking at Shen Yuan's coarse cloth and short brown, sitting cross-legged on the bluestone, with five hearts facing the sky, and the luck is swallowed. For a while, the dantian was warm, and the true qi in the body followed the second vein of Ren Du and converged in the dantian, after repeating these few small weeks, Shen Yuan exhaled a long breath of turbidity, slowly opened his eyes, and felt that his ears were clear and his eyes were clear, and his whole body was comfortable.

He stood up and stretched his waist, and if an acquaintance saw him, he would surely say that he had grown a lot taller and stronger.

Now it is close to the Mid-Autumn Festival, the mountain breeze is slow, and the autumn is deep. Shen Yuan was satisfied, just when he was practicing, the "Mixed Yuan True Qi" had already broken through to the second layer!

He was so happy that he hurried to the cave where Gongye and the retreat were located, wanting to make peace with Gongye the good news. But when he entered the cave, there was no shadow of Gongye peace.

This cave is at a glance, in addition to a straw mat, eight swords, there is also a little bit of life. Shen Yuan saw that his master's sword was still there, and he didn't think he had gone far.

"Master, Master!" Shen Yuan was only worried about Gongye and the insane attack, so he stood at the entrance of the cave and shouted loudly. After calling for a long time, only Shen Yuan's voice echoed in the mountain, and Gongye He did not appear.

Suddenly, not far away, a bird flew in the forest.

Shen Yuan saw it and shouted that it was not good! Hurriedly ran in which direction, and said secretly: "Oh no, I'm afraid that the master has another seizure! These days, the master has become more and more diligent, how can this be good!"

As soon as he entered the forest, Shen Yuan smelled a bloody breath and couldn't help but be a little worried. And when he had gone on more than a mile, he saw a roe deer lying in the woods, and blood was pouring all over the ground.

Shen Yuan approached and took a closer look, a pointed branch ran through the chest of the roe deer, and said secretly: "This place is deep in this Zhongnan Mountain, deserted, this roe deer should have been beaten by the master, but where did the master go at this moment?"

Looking around, Shen Yuan never found any trace of Gongyehe.

"Click", only to hear the sound of a broken branch over his head, Shen Yuan looked up and saw that Gongye He had climbed the tree, cowering and looking frightened.

"Oops!

Since separating from the parents and sisters of the Huang family in Putuo Mountain, Shen Yuan rushed to Nanshan with Gongye and Zhongnanshan. Counting the days, it has been nearly two months now.

On the way here, it really made Shen Yuan nervous. Gongyehe's madness attacks every few days, irregular.

Sometimes the seizures are two or three days apart, sometimes seven or eight days, and when the seizures occur, I don't remember who I am, let alone who Shen Yuan is!

Sometimes when he has a seizure, he becomes extremely murderous, and even Shen Yuan can't dissuade him.

Gong Yehe's wave-breaking sword, after the arrow rolled down the mountain, disappeared. Maybe it fell on the mountain, or maybe it fell into the river.

He didn't have this sword in his hand, and at first he would let others go because of it, but then he seemed to think of the other ones behind him, and he caused a lot of killings for a while, and it also involved the lives of more than a dozen innocent people, and even Shen Yuan had three or two times, and almost died under Gongyehe's sword.

And sometimes he is demented and forgetful, not only forgetting his martial arts, but he doesn't even remember what he did just now, he panics when he encounters a little fright, and blindly hides behind Shen Yuan, a yellow-mouthed child.

It was really not a taste in Shen Yuan's heart, and he felt sorry for him. This sword slave Gongyehe, who everyone on the rivers and lakes has heard of, has actually reached such a situation!

Fortunately, this madness only happened once for a day, and after one night, the famous sword slave Gongye He reappeared in the rivers and lakes.

However, as long as Gongye and the two do not have a seizure, the master and apprentice are as usual, but they are shy in their pockets, just because the silver has long been dispersed from the river.

The two people's bodies are less than two taels of silver, the delicacies are not enjoyable, most of the time, are coarse tea and light rice, even steamed buns can not afford to eat, then find some wild fruits to satisfy hunger, or in the mountains and forests to hunt game to eat.

It wasn't until he met a rich man on the way who was rich and unkind, Gongye and Lian were frightened, not only ate a few meals of wine and meat, but also bought four or five hundred taels of silver, found a burden to pack, and then continued on the road.

Fortunately, there was no attack of madness in those two days, otherwise it would have been another river of blood.

I bought a carriage and a few sets of clothes to change in, and since then my life has been safe for a while. Xu had nothing to do with this money, but one day, Gongye He suddenly fell ill, and most of the remaining four hundred silver was lost.

If it weren't for Shen Yuan struggling to protect the last hundred taels, the master and apprentice would have drunk the northwest wind again.

After a long lesson, Gongye and simply put all the money on Shen Yuan, so as not to end up penniless again!

Taking advantage of his sobriety, Shen Yuan asked Gongye and himself how he was separated from him, only to hear Gongye and recall, he didn't know how, he used the swordsmanship in the "Nine Character Sword Sutra", the true qi was retrograde, and then he was hit by an arrow, and the poison of impermanence also broke through the acupoint at the same time, and then he didn't know anything.

When he woke up again, he had already fallen into the river and slowly sank with Shen Yuan, who was drowning at that time and had long been unconscious.

Gongyehe rescued Shen Yuan ashore and forced out of the river in his abdomen, wondering about his internal injuries and why he couldn't detect the poison of impermanence, before he could take care of himself, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his head, and when he regained his clarity, he didn't know where he had reached, let alone where Shen Yuan was.

After listening to what happened, Shen Yuan suddenly realized why he didn't sink into the river and drown.

Now, although Shen Yuan is a little accustomed to Gongye and those strange actions when he was sick, he still can't cry or laugh when he sees that the master is hiding in the tree and not coming down.

"Master, come down quickly, it's too high up there, be careful of falling!"

only looked at Gongye and that look frightened, and said, "You...... Who are you? Don't come here! If you want to come, I'll do it, I'll ...... Anyway, you little monster, stay away from me!"

"Master, I'm Shen Yuan, don't you remember me?"

"Shen Yuan, Yuan'er, Yuan'er," Gong Yehe frowned, trying to think, in his vague impression, he only felt that this name was familiar, and said, "Who is Yuan'er? I don't know you!"

"Master, take a good look, I'm your apprentice!

Gongye He looked at Shen Yuan carefully in a daze, and exclaimed fiercely: "My precious apprentice!"

Shen Yuan was overjoyed and said, "Master, do you think about it?"

But looking at the tree, Gong Yehe's face immediately changed, he glared at Shen Yuan angrily, and said, "I remember!

"Hey, it's still the same!" Shen Yuan was helpless, so he had to sigh lightly!

Shen Yuan only wanted to take two steps forward, but he saw Gongyehe hurriedly hugging the tree branch, shouting: "Don't come up! If you dare to come up, I will jump down!"

"Okay, okay, I won't move, Master, you must be careful!"

Shen Yuan was thinking about finding a way to get Gongye and go down the tree. Suddenly, a fishy wind broke out in the forest! In an instant, there was silence in the mountains!

When he raised his eyes to look at Gongyehe again, he saw him struggling behind him, stretching out his finger and pointing.

Shen Yuan suddenly felt bad, swallowed hard and spit, only to hear that thunderous gasp getting closer and closer! Shen Yuan was so frightened at this time that his legs seemed to be filled with lead, and he didn't even have the strength to lift it, let alone dare to move!

Look at Gongyehe on the tree, clapping his hands and snickering!

When Shen Yuan saw this, his heart suddenly cooled by half! He had the courage to slowly turn his head to look, and his heart was completely cold!

I saw a white-fronted tiger staring at Shen Yuan only about ten steps behind him. The fangs that came out from time to time, accompanied by a low roar, obviously regarded Shen Yuan as a delicacy on the plate!

It's good that I didn't see it before, but now that I saw it, Shen Yuan sat even more paralyzed on the ground! The tiger was huge, and that claw alone was the size of a plate!

Suddenly, a tiger roar resounded through the heavens and the earth, and a gust of wind arose, and the grass and trees trembled!

The pair of front paws pressed forward slightly, and when they saw it, they rushed towards Shen Yuan.

Shen Yuan's eyes were closed, and he wailed in his heart: "It's over, it's dead!" But his mouth instinctively shouted, "Master save me!"

Suddenly, another gust of wind rose, closed his eyes and waited for a while, Shen Yuan only felt strange, the tiger's bloody mouth didn't tear itself, as if there was no movement!

Shen Yuan sat on the ground, cautiously opened his eyes and peeked secretly, only to see a pair of legs standing in front of him. Shen Yuan let out a sigh, and it was at that critical moment that the master came to his senses and rescued him.

Overjoyed, Shen Yuan got up and was about to call Master, but when he looked up, he found that this back was not Gongyehe.

The head is full of silver threads hanging down like a river of heaven, even this height is a head taller than Gongye He, one hand behind his back, the other hand is holding a bamboo stick, a moon-white robe, and he has the fairy wind bones.

Looking at the tree again, Gongye He's eyes were all blurred, falling on the white-robed old man.

Shen Yuan respectfully clasped his fists behind him, and said, "Boy Shen Yuan, thank the old immortal for saving his life!"

The white-robed old man looked sideways, nodded and smiled: "Your name is Shen Yuan?

I saw that this old man had a childish face, he couldn't tell his age, his eyebrows and eyes were full of heroism, and his three locks of long hair hung down to his waist, moving with the wind.

Shen Yuan only felt that the old man in front of him was both in the world and outside the world! When he didn't speak, he looked like an immortal; when he spoke, although he was unfathomable, he felt like a neighbor's family.

Shen Yuan was really surprised, but he didn't know how to ask. Hearing that the old man praised his name as good, Shen Yuan hurriedly said: "Old immortal, this name was given by my father, I don't know what it means, since the old fairy said it is good, it may be really good." In the end, Shen Yuan also laughed.

While he was talking, the tiger paced from side to side. Xu is fang was just lifted away by the sleeve of the white-robed old man in front of him, and he was unwilling, and he was thinking about how to take revenge at the moment, so he was hungry for these two people.

I saw that its tiger eyes were fierce, its front paws were on the ground, and it pressed hard! It jumped in the air in an instant, and pounced again! But this beast seemed to be popular, and deliberately pounced, and the waist and crotch were twisted, and the tiger claws were lifted upward!

At the same time, the white-robed old man rolled up his sleeves, and the tiger was swept away.

At that moment, Shen Yuan just opened his mouth to remind the white-robed old man, but before the voice could be issued, he was only stunned!

At this time, I heard the white-robed old man shouting at the tiger: "You brute, don't you retreat, you have to die!" His eyes widened, and two essences flashed.

When the beast saw it, it seemed to understand the human language again, and roared twice, full of unwillingness. Sure enough, he was about to become fine, and he knew that the person in front of him was not easy to mess with, so he roared again and ran away in disgrace!

Seeing such a god, Shen Yuan's mouth couldn't close. The white-robed old man called out several times: "Little friend, little friend?"

Only then did Shen Yuan react, and said again and again: "Don't dare, don't dare, old immortal, the kid is really surprised, offended, offended!"

The white-robed old man shook his head and said with a faint smile: "Little friends don't have to be like this," and pointed to Gongyehe on the tree, "That's?"

Shen Yuan suddenly thought that the old immortal in front of him might be able to cure Master's madness and internal injuries! He immediately knelt on the ground, bowed and bowed, and begged: "Please be merciful to the old immortal and save my master!"

"Is that your master?" the white-robed old man looked at Gongye and looked stupid at the moment.

Gong Yehe noticed the gaze of the white-robed old man, and with a look of fear, he stretched his head behind the trunk of the tree and hidden.

Shen Yuan replied, "This person is the little master! Master's illness will attack every few days, and the symptoms will not be the same. I heard that the master was retrograde because he practiced the "Nine-Character Sword Sutra", and then added the poison of impermanence, this became like this!"

"Hmm, the Nine-Character Sword Sutra?" the white-robed old man raised his eyebrows when he heard these four words.

Shen Yuan seemed to know when he heard the tone of the white-robed old man, and asked again, "Old Immortal, do you know this sword technique?"

"Ah, haha," the white-robed old man smiled, stroked his long beard, and said: "Penglai Sword Pavilion's peerless learning, who in the world does not know? However, it is said that the mental method of this nine-character sword scripture has long been missing, not to mention that this sword technique is the secret of Penglai Sword Pavilion, how did your master practice it?"

"I didn't know," Shen Yuan figured it out at this time, it turned out that he didn't have a mental method, "and I heard from the master that he won a bet with Ji Wanli, the master of the Sword Pavilion, and he only realized it there for five years at once, but he only practiced the first three words." ”

"Oh, this perseverance is really admirable. The white-robed old man's heart moved, but what he said was light and light, "However, if you tell me how he was poisoned and how to use the sword, I can give it a try, but whether it can be cured, the old man can't guarantee it." ”

Shen Yuan made this matter clear at the moment, and what he was thinking in his heart was that as long as he could cure his master, he could do whatever he wanted. When Shen Yuan met this white-robed old man, he wanted to grab a life-saving straw, and a glimmer of hope ignited in his heart.

After hearing this, the white-robed old man looked at Gongyehe who was cowering on the tree again, and said to Shen Yuan: "For your filial piety, the old man should try his best." ”

I saw the bamboo stick in his hand come out of his hand, and then I heard a "bang", and the bamboo stick went straight into the trunk of the tree that Gongye and climbed on.

The stick shook countless fallen leaves. The next moment, it was even more impressive for Shen Yuan's five-body throw!

The white-robed old man tapped the ground under his feet at the same time, jumped out, stepped on the slowly falling leaves, and walked towards Gongye He as if he was walking smoothly.

Gong Yehe didn't dare to look at it, Shen Yuan looked below, and saw the white-robed old man flying up, only two or three breaths, he approached Gong Yehe's body, knocked Gong Yehe unconscious with one palm, and brought him down.

Helping Gongyehe back into the cave, the white-robed old man stretched out his hand to take his pulse, but Shen Yuan didn't dare to make a sound, just waited silently.

After a few moments, the old man connected more than a dozen meridian acupoints, and then helped Gongyehe with one hand and sat cross-legged. The four palms pressed against each other, and for a while, both of them were sweating profusely.

But after a moment, the white-robed old man frowned, sighed lightly, and withdrew his palm.

Shen Yuan was full of worries, and hurriedly asked, "Old Immortal, how is my master?"

"Let's let the old man try again. ”

After that, he took out the needle bag from his arms, spread it out, and asked Shen Yuan to light an oil lamp and put it beside the old man.

took off Gongyehe's clothes, and only saw that the white-robed old man had nine stitches in turn.

Seeing that the technique was fast and steady, and the acupuncture points pierced were not bad at all, taking advantage of the free breath, Shen Yuan asked, "Isn't the old immortal a miracle doctor?"

"Don't dare to be, the old man is just Langzhong in the village under the mountain. ”

Shen Yuan knew that there were quite a few hermits in this Zhongnan Mountain, and seeing that this old fairy-like figure was reluctant to say more, Shen Yuan stopped asking questions with interest.

Wait a few more moments, and the needle is finished. See Gongye and sleep peacefully. Shen Yuan was also temporarily relieved.

The white-robed old man wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, sighed lightly, and said, "This impermanence and poison, the old man has also heard of it, it is made by Miao Jiang Qi Gu. The old man's medical skills are not perfect, and now he can only temporarily suppress the condition, but he still can't avoid attacks. ”

Shen Yuan listened to the clouds and asked again: "Old immortal, is there no cure?"

"If you want to say that this poison is fortunately ingested less, otherwise it would have become a walking corpse a long time ago. Fortunately, although the poison has been in the brain, it has not spread, I think it is the "Nine Character Sword Sutra" that makes his true qi retrograde, and inadvertently this impermanence is contained. ”

When Shen Yuan heard this, he didn't expect that Master's injury would be so difficult to treat. He arched his hand and pleaded: "Dare to ask the old fairy to help me save my master!"

"That's fine!" said the white-robed old man, "There is a fate between you and me, I'll try again." ”

Shen Yuan was overjoyed and said, "Thank you old immortal!"

"So in two days' time, there will be a brook ten miles west of this place, and there is a hut on the bank, and you will go there to find me. "With that, go slowly.

Gongye and he slept until the next morning, and then woke up. But I don't remember anything that happened before. After asking Shen Yuan, he realized that there was such a high-ranking person living in seclusion around here.

If Shen Yuan has to take him to find it, it is better to have a fight. Especially after listening to this person's means of performing light skills, he asked himself that he was inferior to this person, so he was even more itchy.

I only listened to Gongye and said: "Good apprentice, for the teacher, please take me to find that master, you also know that Lao Tzu can't bear to be lonely, and his hands itch when he sees such a master!"

Shen Yuan sat on the ground, turned his head, and ignored it. Gong Ye was so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks, and chased after him, "If you take me there, I will teach you the third layer of "Mixed Yuan True Qi"! and teach you three other sets of swordsmanship!"

"Master, you said that my foundation is not strong, so I can't be impatient and greedy!" After saying that, Shen Yuan turned to the other end, in short, he didn't look at Gongyehe.

Gongye He was choked by these words, and said angrily for a while: "Do you still know that Lao Tzu is your master?

"No, no, no!"

"No, no, Lao Tzu won't teach you martial arts, and will expel you from the division!"

As soon as Shen Yuan heard this, he got up and left!

"Where are you going?" Gongye and seeing that Shen Yuan was leaving, he was really a little panicked!

"Anyway, you want to expel me from the school, what do you care about me?"

"Oops!" Gongye jumped to his feet angrily, "I really convinced you!

"Really?" Shen Yuan stopped and asked back.

"Really!" Gongye said with a dark face, "Damn, just like your father, the stones in the pit are smelly and hard!"

"Don't talk about my father!"

"If you don't say it, you won't say it!"

Two days later, Shen Yuan said goodbye and went to the place where the white-robed old man said.

Before coming out, Gongyehe deliberately said that he wanted to retreat, and Shen Yuan did not doubt him, but in fact, Gongyehe had already made a plan, as long as Shen Yuan walked on the front foot, he would quietly follow behind, once he saw that person, Shen Yuan, the stinky boy, had no choice!

Shen Yuan followed what the white-robed old man said, and sure enough, he found the thatched hut by the stream. It's just that after calling for a long time, no one answered. He tried to push the door, and it squeaked open. It's just that there's a figure in this room.

On the table, there was a gourd, three books, and a note left behind.

Seeing this situation, Gongye He couldn't hide it, and grabbed the door and entered the room.

"Master, you, you actually tricked me!"

Gongye and the old man blushed and laughed dryly. Grab the note and read it.

It's just that after reading it, Gongyehe's face became solemn, silent, and turned around after putting down the note.

Shen Yuan was surprised, copied it up and read it again, only to see that the note read: "Shen Yuan Xiaoyou, the gourd is a pill made by the old man, one pill a day, a total of the number of full moons." Although it can suppress the poison, it cannot be completely solved. This poison is difficult to solve, this disease is difficult to treat, according to this inference, how long the master can live depends on creation, or one or two years, or more than ten years. The old man's medical skills are not good, but he has tried his best, and he is really ashamed, so he has no shame to say goodbye. I hope you will study those three ancient books for you. ”

Putting down the note, the depression in his chest was uneasy, and it took a while to come to his senses, and he said in his heart: "Master must have been disheartened when he saw this note."

Shen Yuan looked at the books again, which were "Tao Te Ching", "Nanhua Jing" and "Hug Puzi". He didn't know why the white-robed old man kept these three books with him, but Shen Yuan felt that it was always good to read more, so he simply accepted it.

He knew that the old man must spare no effort, if he wanted to be perfunctory, why bother to spend those weeks that day? It was always better to have this elixir than not to have it.

He returned to the cave with the gourd in his hand, only to see Gongye and sitting cross-legged on the straw mat, closing his eyes and pondering, silent.

As soon as Shen Yuan was about to speak, he saw Gongyehe raise his hand to stop, and listened to Gongyehe and said: "Put down this gourd, you will move to live under the mountain, and Lao Tzu will retreat." ”

"Master, how long is this retreat?"

"I don't know. In addition, you can only put the food delivered at the entrance of the cave every day, these days, you must be motivated in your practice, and you must not be lazy!"

Shen Yuan was at a loss, but when he saw Gongye and Zhengse talking, he didn't dare to refute, so he had to respond.

In the following days, Gongye took the pill, and the interval between the onset of the disease became stable and regular. Shen Yuan found that every nine days, Master's madness would attack.

But when he was sober, he didn't know what was being carved in the cave.

Until three months later.

On this day, the snow is falling, and the South Mountain is covered in silver, and the pines and cypresses are evergreen.

Shen Yuan came to the cave again to deliver food with Gongyehe. But today, I didn't hear the sound of chiseling. Shen Yuan was a little worried, so he went into the cave to summon.

However, Gongye He disappeared again, and he walked with a sword. Shen Yuan counted the days and knew that today was not the day of the onset of the disease, so he couldn't help but think again: "Where did Master go?"

Suddenly, Shen Yuan's eyes lit up, how could this cave be much bigger than before? And on the rock wall inside the cave, countless sword moves and swordsmanship were depicted. And on that mat, there is also a book of "Mixed Yuan True Qi" mental secrets.

Shen Yuan suddenly had a bad thought, he searched all over the mountains and mountains, the villages and towns within a radius of twenty miles, and no one had ever seen Gongye He!

The snow fell for seven days in a row, and finally stopped. But Shen Yuan stood alone in the snow practicing his sword, but he knew in his heart that the master would not come back.