Xu Baichuan and Anan, who left the village, slowly walked on a rugged mountain road overgrown with weeds, listening to the song of kingfishers in the jungle.

However, this curiosity did not last long, and was soon replaced by boredom, after all, there are only a few kinds of scenery on the mountain road, even if the birdsong is too pleasant, and the wind is too pleasant, it will feel boring over time.

In the end, Anan didn't have the same bouncing appearance as he had when he first left the village.

Xu Baichuan walked in front of her, his palms merged into sword fingers, and from time to time he fell and cut off some clumps of thorns.

After all, this mountain road has not been inhabited for a long time, and it has long been occupied by weeds and thorns, and if you want to pass here, you must cut down the thorns.

After most of the day, the mountain road came to an end, followed by a long-standing iron chain bridge, the wooden deck had long been broken clean with the wind and rain, and now only two iron cables covered with red and black rust were left, connecting the two ends.

Xu Baichuan walked to the side of the chain bridge, glanced at it, and then picked up a stone from the ground and threw it down, and the stone fell, and it took a long time before there was an empty echo.

Xu Baichuan tugged at the corners of his mouth, turned his head to look at Anan with a curious face, thought about it for a while, and then said softly: "There is no way to walk here, all that remains is these two iron cables connecting the two ends, if you want to go over, you have to pass through this iron cable, I don't have to do it, you will be a little difficult." ”

Anan took a few steps forward and walked to his side, looked down tentatively, and saw a deep place, so he sighed with a bitter face, and said, "That...... So let's go back and find a new way. ”

Xu Baichuan hesitated for a moment, looked at Anan, who had been timid for a year, and said cautiously in a tentative tone: "If we go back, it will take more than half a day, and there may not be a road, so it will take a lot of time, it is not worth it, I have a way, I don't know if you want to." ”

Anan took a few steps back, a little farther away from the cliff, and after hearing Xu Baichuan's words, he asked curiously, "What is the method?"

Xu Baichuan threw another stone down the cliff, listened to the echo, and said with some uncertainty: "Why don't I take you over?"

As soon as she finished speaking, the girl Anan, who was listening attentively, nodded hurriedly, quietly walked to Xu Baichuan's side, and said with a smile that this is the best, and it can go over and save the road, which is the best way in the world.

Xu Baichuan nodded when he heard this, Anan could agree best, and if he didn't agree, he would have to turn back again.

He took the autumn wind off, held the sword in his hand, and handed the scabbard to Anan, who didn't know why.

Anan held the scabbard tightly, vaguely feeling that something was wrong, but she couldn't say it, this thing was a little different from what she had imagined.

Xu Baichuan didn't know what Anan was thinking, he just asked her to pay attention.

Anan still felt confused, but soon he couldn't care about being confused, and the scabbard in his hand emitted a soft white light with Xu Baichuan's thoughts, and he actually took her to slowly float up in the air and fly towards the other end of the chain bridge.

Looking at the cliff below, Anan closed his eyes tightly, even though he had reached the other end safely, stepping on the soft soil, he refused to open his eyes for a long time, until Xu Baichuan patted her shoulder, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

Hanging the autumn wind on his waist again, there was another mountain road with a different world in front of him, Xu Baichuan said with a smile: "Let's go, the next road should be much smoother, presumably in a few days you will be able to walk out of this mountain and see people." ”

Anan had a bitter face: "If you have to walk such a long mountain road, there is no way to go faster, Xu Gongzi, you are a cultivator, you can't appear outside the mountain all at once?"

Xu Baichuan was noncommittal, he never thought that he was a cultivation immortal, at most he was just a sword cultivator who was seeking in the way of the sword, and if he wanted to reach the realm of the end of the world in an instant, there was still a long way to go, and he might have it in the future if he appeared outside the mountain in one step, but at least he couldn't reach it now.

Xu Baichuan smiled and said softly: "If you can be so light, I will take you to this mountain road, this end of the world, why don't you let me travel, okay, don't think about these useful and useless, it is the right thing to hurry with peace of mind, you will not want to stay on this mountain for a while." ”

Anan tilted her head and thought about it, and quickly nodded, she really didn't want to stay on this mountain for long, the difficulty of the road was secondary, the most important thing was that there would be a lot of snakes, insects, rats and ants along the way, and they wanted to leave some traces on her, even if they were frightened away by the insect repellent charm given to her by Xu Baichuan in the end, but at the moment of appearance, it was enough to make her frightened.

Stepping on the road again, this time it was no longer a rugged mountain road, but a yellow mud path covered with weeds and gravel, which was much easier to walk than the rugged mountain road when it was not raining, so the next road, the two walked extremely fast.

By sunset, he had already walked more than 20 miles.

That night, the two set up a tent in a clearing in the woods.

Xu Baichuan collected a lot of dry firewood, and soon a bonfire was lit, on which were two roasted golden wild trees, which were being taken care of by Anan.

Looking at the faint night, Xu Baichuan carried his wine bottle and leaned against the trunk of a tree, thinking about his thoughts.

Before he knew it, he had been practicing the sword for almost four years, and if this autumn passed, it would be a real four years.

He once thought that he would practice swords very quickly, and it would not take long to set foot on a very high realm, and he would be replaced by a big sword cultivator, and then he would kill a person to rescue the old Taoist priest who had been trapped in Yizhuang for a hundred years, but he watched this way from a distance, and it was not how smooth, and he gradually broke through, although it was extremely fast in the eyes of others, and he was an out-and-out genius, but in his own opinion, it was extremely slow, and he was trapped by the realm, and he had a lot of things he wanted to do, but he couldn't do it.

He thought about picking up his sword to find Emperor Qingyuan, asking why he wanted to kill all the sword cultivators, and he also wanted to learn from the old Taoist priest to go to the holy places of the three religions to reason like the old Taoist priest who broke through Confucianism, and even thought about standing with the blue-shirted sword immortal, what kind of romance it should be, but now he just dared to think about it.

In the final analysis, the realm cultivation is not enough.

The teenager who drinks under the moon carries the expectations of too many people and has a lot of discomfort.

Anan wrapped a prepared rabbit in a wide leaf, handed it to Xu Baichuan with a slight smile, and watched the young man who was obviously worried about slowly take a bite of rabbit meat, Anan thought about it and asked a doubt that had just been tightly occupied in his heart shortly after birth.

"Young Master Xu, can you live for a long time!"

Xu Baichuan took a sip of wine, and snorted, unlike ordinary people who have a lifespan of up to 100 years, as long as they embark on that path of cultivation, every time they cross a realm, they will be baptized by the power of heaven and earth, and their lifespan will be a cut higher, even if they are just the first to enter the threshold to reach the first realm, they can survive for a hundred years, and according to rumors, every saint who has cultivated to the realm of Tianque has a lifespan of thousands of years, and even with the deepening of the understanding between heaven and earth, the lifespan will gradually increase, and it is not difficult to reach tens of thousands of years.

Anan sat on a clean stump, gently supported his head with his right hand, and asked again, "Young Master Xu, will you never grow old?" ”

Xu Baichuan finished eating the rabbit meat in his hand, showed a clean smile, looked at the girl who asked knowingly, thought about it, and said softly: "It should be regarded as the appearance of the fur, but with the change of the mind of the cultivator, the old man and the young man only need an instant, and the immortal who is nostalgic for the ever-changing red dust from the world is like this." ”

As soon as the words fell, he laughed at himself again, and muttered to himself: "How can there be immortals in this world, the road to immortality has long been broken, maybe the only one who can be counted is my generation of sword immortals." ”

Anan listened to these words, and felt inexplicably melancholy in her heart, she is a mortal, and she will grow old soon, although she is now in the green onion, but it will not last for decades, maybe it will only take a few years to be sharpened by life to give birth to an old appearance in advance, this kind of thing she has seen a lot in the village, many green onion women who have married, and they will become stout women in a year or two, which is far from the green onion in the past.

Maybe when she gets old, she will go to the grave, Xu Baichuan is still such a young man.

is like Deng Chunyao, who has been waiting at the bottom of the mountain for decades.

As the night deepened, Xu Baichuan looked at Anan who couldn't stop dozing, shook his head, and was ready to wake her up and let her go to the tent to rest.

Anan opened his eyes in a daze, looked at Xu Baichuan with a natural expression, yawned, and got up from the stump.

She knew that Xu Baichuan was going to sit outside for another night.

When he walked into the tent, Anan suddenly asked, "Master Xu, can I become a sword cultivator who slays demons and destroys demons like you?"

Xu Baichuan was stunned, frowned, and did not answer quickly, he was actually reluctant to Anan to become a sword cultivator, there was not much why, it was simply that this road was not easy to walk, compared to the three sects that were on the road, the sword cultivation road was an iron cable that spanned the cliffs, there were flying eagles hovering on the head, there were fierce beasts in front of and behind him, and below was the cliff, a slight wrong step would be life and death, and the previous efforts would be lost, so practicing the sword is the most difficult, those swordsmen who have practiced the sword, just a poor cultivation method, it doesn't hurt to give it, but it can also help him, and Anan is just an ordinary girl, if he holds the sword, she has to face countless hardships and obstacles alone, and maybe she will blame Xu Baichuan for letting her embark on this road in the future.

Then, as a long-suffering sword cultivator, he shook his head lightly at Anan who had a look of expectation on his face.

The meaning is obvious.

Anan's hope faded away, and he only lost his face when he turned to it.

This girl, who had other ideas in her heart, felt a little unhappy.

Xu Baichuan sighed, opened his mouth, and finally didn't say anything again, just said that it was late at night, rest early, and he would have to hurry tomorrow.

And he sat outside, as always, thinking about things alone.

In the tent, Anan was in this fairly spacious place, rolling around, even if the night was already very deep, but he still couldn't sleep, thinking about it, he decided not to sleep, and instead lifted the corner of the tent, looking at the blurred moonlight sprinkled in the forest.

There was a boy in the moonlight, wielding a sword at the moon.

For some reason, Anan suddenly remembered a poem she had heard in the village before, and she read softly: "The sword qi spans 30,000 miles, and the sword light chills 19 continents." ”

Xu Baichuan put away his sword and stood up, just when he heard this poem, he couldn't help but lose his mind for a moment, 30,000 miles of sword qi, that sword path has to be extremely high, as far as he knows, Yang Yi, who is almost standing at the peak, is only 3,000 miles of sword qi, 30,000 miles, and he has to get the capital of the sword immortal.

He looked at Anan, who showed a small head, thought for a while, and said softly: "If you want to learn the sword, I can guide you, as for whether it will be successful or not, it all depends on the will of heaven." ”