East Xuanzhou, Taixu Mountain.

Eight hundred peaks face the big top, nine of which are especially great, like the pillars of optimus, and the stars hold the moon around a low peak dozens of zhang high. At first glance, the low peak looks like it was cut off by a giant sword, so it is called Half Section.

On the peak of the half-section peak, there is a huge pit that I don't know whether it is naturally formed or dug the day after tomorrow, the pit is more than ten zhang deep, the diameter is more than three hundred zhang, just like a lake, but there is no water in the lake, but it is densely filled with all kinds of famous swords, piled up like a mountain, there are at least tens of thousands of handles.

This is the Dongxuan Sword Pond that is recognized as having the most hidden swords in the martial arts and is famous all over the world.

In the rivers and lakes, if there is a rising star who wants to become famous overnight, the best way is to come to this sword pool and choose a favorite sword, and then smoothly bring it out of the Great Xuan Sword Sect, and he will become famous all over the world in a few days. It's easy to say, but in the past 100 years, there are very few people who can do it.

Gu Shenfei, the current leader of the sword path leader Beicheng City, did it, Chen Zhiwu, the fifth-ranked great sword protector on the sword god list, and Yang Fengze and Liang Yunti, the sixth-ranked sword gods of the old and new generations, did it.

Even Cai Lanting, who is now ranked first on the Divine Sword List, once broke into the Eastern Xuan Sword Pool alone and successfully obtained a sword, but abandoned it and inserted it into the stone lion next to the gate of the Great Xuan Sword Sect. But his lantern in the toilet was tantamount to looking for death, and instead of making Ximen Donglou angry, he obediently let him leave. As soon as the news spread, the world was in an uproar.

Since then, Cai Lanting has become a figure who monopolizes half of the magic sword list, and has also attracted countless people who think they have the ability to imitate them, but all of them end up with no bones and miserable ends.

But there are exceptions, fifteen years ago, there was an unknown swordsman like Cai Lanting, who walked up to the halfway peak and took a big sword from the sword pool. Then the swordsman carved the word "scabbard" on the scabbard cast by the dark iron with his fingers in full view of everyone, and then pulled out the peerless sword and threw it back into the sword pool, leaving with the "scabbard" that was originally a scabbard. And this nameless swordsman with absurd behavior is the great sword king Bai Pusheng, who will be ranked second on the list of divine swords in the future and eighth on the list of masters in the world.

And all the martial arts masters who have moved the world through the Dongxuan Sword Pool, no matter what their future achievements are, all of them have great respect for the East Building of the West Gate, but there is one person who is an exception.

At this moment, on the half-section of the peak, not far from the Dongxuan Sword Pond where the sword qi is crisscrossed, there is an octagonal ancient pavilion, and two old men in the pavilion are sitting opposite each other on the stone bench with splendid cotton balls, facing a game of black and white chessboard, and the fight is in full swing. On the stone table where the chessboard is placed, there are two chess boxes, black and white, containing black and white chess pieces. The two old men who played chess were also dressed in black and white, but the old man in black held a white child, while the old man in white held a black child.

There was a silent young man in black standing next to the two old men, if it weren't for his deep family background, the young man would never be qualified to stand here and watch chess, but it was a pity that he couldn't be half interested in facing such a wonderful chess game.

The young man in black turned his head sideways and looked at the sword pool not far away, where the sword was piled up, and his heart fluctuated. He thought of the purple-clothed young man who called him Brother Long, he thought of the white-haired girl who ran hard in the snowy mountains and canyons, he thought of the young master of the Red Lotus who was almost the same as him but was extremely weak, and at the same time, he also thought of the person who was dressed like a snow-white fox fur and carved jade, how dare she glare at him? Thinking of this, the corners of Ximen Feilong's mouth raised a touch of arc.

After the old man in black fell on the opposite side, his brows suddenly furrowed, and the white man in his hand did not fall or not, just stagnant in the air.

Although the old man in white has passed the age of ear shun, his demeanor is chic and his temperament is extraordinary, and from his vicissitudes of life, he can still see the peerless elegance of his youth. He looked at the black-clothed old man who was more than thirty years older than himself on the other side, and said with a smile: "Old fox, why don't you fall behind?

The old man in black was the West Gate East Building, he smiled and sighed: "Hey, Xiao Cai, Xiao Cai, every time I play chess with you, the old man feels powerless, you are a person, there is really no chess at all, how can you play chess by such unscrupulous means to win? What a waste of this good game of chess." After speaking, the east building of the West Gate actually threw the sunspot in his hand into the chess box, with a look of regret.

The old man in white laughed, "If you lose, you lose, how can there be so many bullshit reasons, I wait for martial artists to practice martial arts, isn't it just to win? Winning is better than losing, right?"

He also laughed when he heard this, and said: "Yo, when did you Cai Lanting, who is the best in the world in swords, books and chess, willing to admit that he is a martial artist? ”

It turned out that this old man in white, who was better than the East Building of the West Gate on the chessboard, was Cai Lanting, the second in the world on the master list. Cai Lanting used a knife in his early years, but he didn't use it after he was thirty-five years old, and later he was still carried into the list of divine knives by people who used knives in the world, and he also accepted it calmly.

In addition to his superb martial arts, Cai Lanting also has a deep knowledge of calligraphy, chess and Xuanmen, so he is as arrogant as him, and he has always been reluctant to admit that he is just a person in the rivers and lakes. You know, this old man's words are worth a thousand gold is hard to find, if someone wants to ask him to take a look at feng shui, it is even more foolish dream, if you want to find him to compare the knife, it is even more impossible, the Lanting Villa where he lives is secretly in line with the mystic art of the Nine Palaces Bagua Qimen Dunjia, it is said that no one has been able to break into it so far.

In the face of the jokes of the West Gate East Building, Cai Lanting turned a deaf ear, he said: "A martial artist is a martial artist, but my martial artist will not only know martial arts, but also some side doors, this is all due to interest, when I was young, I cared about other people's comments, and I wanted to make myself as different as possible. ”

The West Gate and East Building were silent.

Cai Lanting squinted his eyes at him and continued: "Old fox, are you not convinced? You are almost a hundred years old, why are you still so unavoidable?"

Ximen Donglou glanced at his grandson beside him, and he smiled, "The old man has a successor, why can't he see it, but you, who have learned so much, must not even be able to find a successor to the mantle, right?

Cai Lanting snorted coldly when he heard this, "Old fox, old fox, don't you deny it anymore, some time ago, I watched the sky at night, and found that Ziwei Xingdong slanted into Taixu, and a touch of purple qi came from the east, but you should tell me, did you deliberately do it? You are doing this too much, and you are not afraid of bringing destruction to your Dongxuan Sword Pool?"

Ximen Donglou was shocked when he heard this, but his face was unwavering, and he said lightly: "What kind of natural disasters and man-made disasters come from the east of the purple air, you kid don't talk to the old man here, the old man just accepted a closed disciple in purple clothes, how can there be so many messy things?"

Cai Lanting knew it in his heart when he heard this, and looked at the East Building of the West Gate for a long time, and the latter quipped: "What, show me the face again? Then you can tell me, how many years can the old man live? If you say it wrong, I will slap you kid with a few big ears, haha......"

Cai Lanting didn't speak, but silently picked up three black chess pieces from the chessboard seemingly casually and put them into the chess box in front of him.

Ximen Feilong, who was silent on the side, changed his face, thought about it, and still didn't speak.

Ximen Donglou didn't seem to pay attention to his actions just now, and suddenly said something that didn't match the preface: "A few days ago, my Ximen family recruited a son-in-law, that kid is a little interesting, he himself practices swords, but since he has entered the Dongxuan Sword Pool, he naturally wants to abandon the sword and practice swords, but that kid doesn't use his right hand to use his left hand, the people in the sect asked him why he is like this, but he doesn't want to say the reason, Xiao Cai, you have always been a last resort, can you guess the purpose of his this?"

Cai Lanting pondered for a moment and shook his head.

Ximen Donglou didn't continue to ask, he rubbed his tired eyes, and said with a smile: "It's really old, I've only played three games of chess, and I'm a little in a trance, so let's go here today, you can do it yourself." ”

After speaking, he glanced at his grandson Ximen Feilong, then slowly got up, smiled, and muttered to himself: "The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and there are talents in the rivers and mountains, and the wind and clouds are scattered overnight, why are you afraid of the name behind you?"

I don't know why, Ximen Donglou, who has always been old and strong, he is a little depressed at the moment, the hand full of wrinkles, unprecedentedly put on his grandson's shoulder, Ximen Feilong was stunned, and then walked side by side with his grandfather, but there was a trace of sadness between his eyebrows, but it was fleeting.

Cai Lanting still sat quietly in the ancient pavilion, watching the departure of the pair of grandchildren until the figures of the two disappeared, he came back to his senses, glanced at the chess game in front of him again, and re-put the three sunspots back in place, and then stretched out his two fingers to take out a white piece from the chessboard in the east building of the West Gate.

However, the white-clothed and gray-haired old man did not have the slightest smug look on his face, but instead a touch of desolation emerged for the first time, and then laughed at himself.

At this moment, outside the ancient pavilion, a young man who was slightly older than Ximen Feilong walked in, born elegant and handsome, at first glance, he looked like a weak scholar, although he also wore black clothes and held a long sword, but he did not have the arrogance of Ximen Feilong that people could not get close to.

This person is none other than Su Chenyang, the son-in-law of the Ximen family.

Su Chenyang came to the ancient pavilion, and without saying a word, he knelt down, this was the third time he knelt to this old man.

Cai Lanting glanced at the young man, he sighed, and said, "Get up and play a few games of chess with me." ”

Su Chenyang was overjoyed in his heart, and stumbled on the bluestone slab outside the ancient pavilion, and then got up and walked into the pavilion to sit opposite the old man.

Looking at the young man who silently packed up the chess pieces, Cai Lanting couldn't help but think that he had been so young, and he was unruly at that time, he could be said to have done all kinds of rampant things, such as finding the current calligrapher Li Xiaoru to compete for calligraphy, competing with Zhuge Ye, the holy hand of the Great Zhou Chess Altar, fighting with the immortals on Longhu Mountain, Ren Daoyuan, and breaking into Hongya Valley alone to challenge the world's first Sun Hongya, etc.......

But what makes people all over the world remember and relish is that he came to the Dongxuan Sword Pool to successfully take the sword without using this section of martial arts story, the Great Xuanjian Sect faced him so provocatively, the Ximen Sword Crown, which was in full swing at that time, really couldn't help him? No, it was really the old fox of Ximen who admired him, so he would rather let the people of the martial arts in the world laugh at him behind his back for being famous, and did not kill him.

Cai Lanting will never forget this love. He retracted his thoughts, okay, since you have spoken in the West Gate and East Building, Cai should return your favor.

In the ancient pavilion, an old man and a young man played a game in their hands, and there were words in their mouths......