After dinner, Lu Chuan drank alone in the hall, saying that he was drinking, but in fact, he was thinking about things a lot of time, and he didn't have much time to think about drinking.

The shopkeeper couldn't bother him when he saw him, so he moved a chair and sat at the door to watch the door for Lu Chuan.

On weekdays, most of him had gone back to sleep at this time, but today Lu Chuan explained that he was going to come at night and set up wine and dishes, so he didn't go to rest, but he didn't feel sleepy for the sake of silver.

After dusk, the shopkeeper didn't know what he was thinking, lowered his head, and didn't hear footsteps, but there was a pair of boots as far as his eyes could see, and the shopkeeper looked up, almost pulled his pants in fright, only to see an old man with gray hair in front of him, his face was full of scars, and he was like a ghost running out of the underworld.

He groaned, turned around and was about to run, but heard Lu Chuan say, "Senior, you are here." ”

Only then did the shopkeeper know that this was the guest Lu Chuan wanted to invite, so he hurriedly invited Zhang Siye inside, and arranged the food under the pretext, and ran away without a trace.

Lu Chuan smiled slightly, and respectfully invited Zhang Shaotian to the upper seat, and greeted him as a junior, "Junior, Lu Chuan, meet the smiling impermanence, Zhang Lao Swordsman." ”

Zhang Shaotian nodded, "The old man bothered late at night, didn't disturb the young man's practice, right?"

"The juniors are a little lazy during this time, and they don't practice much at night. ”

"It's a pity to keep going like this...... Let me tell you a story first. ”

"Seniors, please speak, juniors listen. ”

"Don't be a senior, you are an apprentice of Qinglian Zhenren, just call me uncle. ”

"It's Uncle Shi. ”

“...... Why don't you ask this uncle if he has any water?"

Uncle Shi laughed. ”

"Actually, I don't have any friendship with your master, but I have a real person with your uncle Zu Jingzhen, Zhen Quan and Zhen Ximeng, and they are good friends. ”

"Uncle Jingzhen, it's a pity that his old man left early, and Chuan didn't have a chance to meet him. ”

"No, he's not dead. ”

"I didn't ...... But the younger generation has been on Wudang Mountain for ten years, and he has never heard anyone mention his old man. ”

"Back then, your grandfather was the head of your master, and he went up the mountain to kill more than ten people of Jingzi's generation and admirals, including Jingzhen's brother, Jingzhen went to Dongying to practice martial arts in a fit of anger, and when he came back, your grandfather had already died, and he stayed in the Heavenly Palace. ”

"Heavenly Palace ......"

"Since I've said this, I'll ask by the way, did you refuse the help of the Lotus Gate, did you have another way, or was it just the courage of a horseman?"

"Oh, don't hide it from Uncle Shi, Chuan has something to do with the master of the Heavenly Palace, but he just went to ask for someone, so he shouldn't be able to compete in martial arts. If there are too many people, it may be ...... Something is not beautiful. ”

"So I understand, it's far away, I'll continue to talk about this story, it was almost fifty years ago, when your grandfather was not born, there were two famous young knights in the rivers and lakes at that time, one is the youngest disciple of Wudang Jingzi, the last sword of the Wudang Twelve Swords, Jingzhen, and the other is me, thunderous and fishy, smiling impermanence Zhang Shaotian. At that time, we were just like you before, whether it was age, ability, or state of mind. That's the pony who thinks the road is narrow at first glance, and the roc spreads his wings and hates the sky, knowing that he has himself but not knowing anyone, and there is no sky in his eyes. Therefore, in the fourth year of Tianshun, the ten absolute disasters outside the Guan, and I couldn't sit still when I tried to unify the martial arts, so I first wrote a letter to Jingzhen, and then got up and went to the Guanwai. Fortunately, he went down the mountain to do errands at that time and didn't receive my letter, otherwise, I'm afraid we wouldn't have had the opportunity to talk face-to-face like this. ”

Zhang Shaotian smiled slightly when he said this, picked up the wine glass and drank it all, Lu Chuan didn't speak, just poured the wine again, and waited for Zhang Siye to say the following.

Zhang Shaotian pursed his lips and continued: "I am known as smiling impermanence, but not because I look ugly, the word impermanence is moody impermanence, not black and white impermanence. ”

"Uncle Shi's injury was left at that time, right?"

"Not bad. I make the sword, so I first fought with the sword, the sword of the sword is deep in the mystery of the inner swordsmanship and its own family, and the victory is experienced, if I don't win in defeat, but also fight him. Now that I think about it, I was also a little younger and more vigorous at that time, and I was squeezed by them for a few sentences, so I only rested for a while, and began to compete with them in the second game, and the battle was fierce. My swordsmanship is known for its swiftness and sharpness, but the swordsmanship is more ferocious than my swordsmanship, plus I had a fierce battle before, my strength was not strong, and I struggled to support more than 50 moves, and I was hit by more than 30 knives, and my face was completely ruined. ”

"Sichuan heard the elders say that the ten peers outside the Guanwai back then, in terms of martial arts, all of them had the ability to start a sect and establish a sect, and the senior uncle was not yet able to defeat one of them in the year of the weak crown, but the two of them only ruined their faces, not the difference in their heads, and they really could be called the king of the sword. ”

"The King of the Sword...... At that time, if I had heard you say this, I would have jumped up from the sickbed to find you desperately. ”

"If it had been a few months ago, it would have been the same. ”

"So do you think this change is good or bad?"

"This ...... Chuan didn't dare to say it, but if he let the swordsmen of the world come to see it, it should be good. ”

"The swordsmen in the world think like this, so the swordsmen in the world are not the real 'swordsmen', if your grandfather or your uncle is alive, you wouldn't think so...... But if the two of them were alive, I wouldn't need to bother talking here. I am the same kind of person as you, so there are three people in the world who can convince me, one is Jingzhen, he is not under me in terms of talent, diligence, and all aspects, but unfortunately he later went to Dongying, learned some killing techniques, and practiced swordsmanship. Killing seems to be more effective than the Central Plains martial arts, closer to the origin of martial arts, but in fact, it is not, martial arts, in itself, is not for killing, for physical fitness, for self-cultivation, killing, is just its last branch, there is no distinction between primary and secondary, it is difficult to reach the great success. This is one of the things I've figured out over the years.

One is your uncle, when he was studying art in the Diancang School, I knew that there was such a rising star in the rivers and lakes; when he roamed the rivers and lakes, and fought all over the three mountains and five mountains in the south and north of the Yangtze River, I knew that this person was by no means a thing in the pool; when he picked seven big villages with a sword in Lingui, I knew that the Central Plains martial arts had not encountered the first in the world for a hundred years. He...... I don't want to talk about it because he's unique, and someone like me, at least there's Tranquility and you who echo each other, but he's ...... No.

Another one is your grandfather, when I fled back from the Guanwai, I heard that your grandfather went up to the Snow Mountain alone, killed three people with one enemy and ten battles outside the Guan, forced the remaining seven people to retreat to the rivers and lakes, and finally retreated, I knew what is outside the people, what is outside the sky. In terms of age, your grandfather is older than me, he was in his thirties at that time, half older than me, but in terms of the time of fame, I am several years earlier than him, and the battle is the first battle he really came out of. But his martial arts, let alone comparable, I didn't even dare to think about it at that time. I'm a narrow winner one-on-one, and he can beat ten alone, which is more than enough...... From that moment on, I couldn't hold a sword anymore, because I didn't know how to practice my sword, how my sword should come out, what my sword would look like in the end, would it be just a flower in the moon mirror in the water, and I could only look at it for the rest of my life? ”

Lu Chuan added wine to the two wine glasses again with an expressionless face, lowered his head and said lightly: "It turns out that Uncle Shi has seen it." ”

Zhang Shaotian stared at his face tightly, and asked word by word: "I dare to say, although you put the sword in front of him today, if my third brother really moves, you can't use a sword, even if he puts his chest against your sword, you can't stab it, because your sword is dull, rusty, and useless." ”

Lu Chuan's hand trembled for a moment, and then his whole body trembled.

Zhang Shaotian took a deep breath, leaned closer to Lu Chuan, and asked in a low voice: "What I can't figure out is, who made you so defeated?

Lu Chuan was silent, in pain, struggling, did not speak, Zhang Shaotian did not ask, did not move, just waited quietly.

After a while, Lu Chuan swallowed his saliva and said with difficulty: "I...... I didn't lose to anyone, I lost to myself...... I fought with Xi Zhenzi in Wuyi Palace for more than half a month, and when I could take him a hundred moves, he said that if they joined forces, they would be able to pass sixty or seventy rounds in front of the Snow Mountain Divine Hero Old Man Zhong, and the Snow Mountain Divine Hero ...... I can't even get through fifty photos under my uncle...... When I heard this, I felt like the sky was falling, I couldn't even see any hope, I ......"

Barely speaking of this, Lu Chuan began to gasp for breath, and he couldn't even say half a word anymore.

Zhang Shaotian patted him on the back, signaling that it was enough to say this, and sent a pure and supple true qi into his body.

Lu Chuan's breath calmed down a bit, but the spirit of strong support was also completely collapsed at this time, and the whole person looked as if he had aged by more than ten years in an instant.

Zhang Shaotian sighed, "So that's the case...... If you can't break this demon, I'm afraid it's really useless. ”

"Please also ask Uncle Shi to teach me!"

"There are only two ways to get out, one is that you slowly figure it out by yourself and come out naturally, but the process may be very long, a year or two, or even ten or twenty years. The other is to find another reason for yourself to have to pick up the sword, pick up the sword first, and then think about the swordsmanship. ”

"Reason to pick up the sword......

"Originally, I wanted to go to the Heavenly Palace to save Mr. Wang and Xiao Jiang, maybe it was an opportunity, but since you and Duan Hao have an old relationship, it is estimated that you will not need it, and now you have to find it yourself. ”

Chuan wrote it down. ”

"If you want to hurry, you can't get there, don't be too anxious, you know that what should be there will always come...... Speaking of which, I heard Brother Zhong say that the Ten Absolute Masters outside the border are making trouble again, isn't the revenge you want to take revenge related to them?"

"It's them. ”

"They...... If there is no accident, the skill should be between me and the best, but unfortunately you have a problem with the sword now, otherwise we have a hand, and you will know how much difference there is...... But don't worry too much, just a few of them are not dead, three are dead outside the gate, two are dead in the capital, even if the rest are alive, there are only five people, I am one, Brother Zhong is one, and you have a relationship with your grandfather, and you have a relationship with your uncle, you can find two or three more casually, let's go and take care of it, what a big idea, look at your worries. ”

Lu Chuan smiled, "Uncle Shi is right. ”

"Anyway, you have been expelled from the sect by Qinglian Zhenren, from tonight onwards, you can tell others that you are my Zhang Shaotian's apprentice. ”

"That'...... Didn't the disciples take advantage of the great advantage? ”

Zhang Shaotian said with a straight face: "I want to see you do what Jing Zhen and I failed to do." ”

Lu Chuan stood up with a rub, picked up his clothes and knelt in front of Zhang Siye, and solemnly kowtowed three times, "The disciple has written it down." ”

The fourth master laughed, "You don't need so many courtesies, neither of us is a person who likes red tape, just know it in our hearts, come, continue to drink." ”

Lu Chuan sat down again, filled Zhang Shaotian with wine, and asked with a smile: "Master, since I have said this, the disciple will ask one more thing, is the sword master who competed with your old martial arts at the beginning the Kongtong faction, Feixingzi?"

"This ...... How do you know?"

"I should have thought of it...... Then I don't know where the kindness of the Lotus Gate and the Heavenly Palace came from?"

"It's a long story, do you know that there are often pirates on the southeast coast?"

"The disciples have heard that since the Hongxi period, the Japanese people have not paid tribute for a long time, harassed and plundered along the coast, and after the edict of Xuanzong, they are still unwilling and watch from time to time. The Japanese are cunning, often carry weapons on the boat, haunt the seashore, if they see an opportunity to take advantage of it, they use the weapons they bring to plunder, if they see that they can't do it, they show their own things and claim to be tribute, and it has been decades so far. ”

"The people along the coast are suffering unspeakably. Lotus Gate, the root of which is the green forest origin, the door of the division is also negligent in discipline, has been tired by the unscrupulous, was classified in the lower three gates, walking the rivers and lakes to see countless white eyes. This situation was particularly violent in the Song Dynasty, which almost broke its roots in the encirclement and suppression of the government. Later, the head of the gate had some reflection, in the current dynasty, although in the eyes of the world, my Lotus Gate is still a thief of the lower three gates, in fact, it has changed a lot, especially after your third master took charge of the portal, strict door rules, expelled the green forest bandits, and ordered the disciples of the Lotus Gate to patrol the coast, which really protected the people of the eight provinces of Minzhou, in Minzhou, the Lotus Gate is much more reliable than the government. But a few years ago, for some reason, Duan Hao began to let the Japanese go ashore, and the coast of Quanzhou was burned all over the wilderness, and blood flowed like a river. I don't know how many Li people's families were ruined, and I don't know how many Lotus Sect disciples died under the sword. In addition to our heartache, we found out the truth and went to find Duan Hao's theory, but we didn't expect that this fight was strong, and it didn't understand human nature at all! ”

“......”