Cui Jianyi took a deep breath, looked at the middle-aged man in front of him and asked incredulously, "Does Ye Xiangyi know that she has already entered the sixth realm?"

The middle-aged man shook his head, "She's still in the fifth realm, but she's ...... almost from breaking the realm."

These words made Cui Jianyi feel uneasy in his heart, and Ye Xiangzhi knew what kind of shock he would bring to Chang'an when he went down the mountain. Cui Jianyi laughed at himself: "Those geniuses in Chang'an are going crazy for a while, if they don't break through the Six Realms, they will be humiliated by waiting for Chang'an to discuss the sword next year!"

The middle-aged man calmly looked at Cui Jianyi's embarrassed appearance, he knew that if he told him what Ye Xiangzhi knew, it would be tantamount to adding fuel to the fire, but if he wanted to make his disciple gain more, he could only do this.

"The reason why this sword monument can be called the first sword intent in the world is not just because of an imaginary name. The middle-aged man looked at Cui Jianyi and said, "Think about it, what you should fight for, and what you can fight for." ”

After saying this, the man turned to leave.

Cui Jianyi looked at the back of the middle-aged man leaving, and then he turned to look up at the sword monument standing upright. He muttered in a low voice, "What I should fight, what can I fight?"

He stared at the tiny and messy lines on the sword tablet with burning eyes, and suddenly, a bright light flashed in his eyes.

......

The rain continued to fall for three days without any signs of stopping, and green smoke slowly drifted out of the cave and melted into the rain.

At the entrance of the cave, a young man walked on his horse, punching on the spot, and his breath continued to swallow as the fist exploded. He frowned, sweat already breaking out on his forehead, as if he was enduring the pain.

This is called bone forging.

While boxing, the boy recalled what Da Bai had said to him yesterday, "Your body is like a bottle, and after day after day of Naling, the bottle will always be full." If you want to continue Naling, there are only two ways. One is to gather qi dantian and condense the aura, this is the road taken by the qi practitioner, your spiritual roots are wasted, and this road is impassable. Another way is to forge bones, inhale the spiritual energy in the mouth, and force it out of the body. When the vitality of heaven and earth penetrates into the flesh and bones, you will feel extremely painful, which is the so-called quenching of the body on the rivers and lakes. ”

Shao Young said to himself, "Only by making my muscles and bones stronger can my body continue to absorb spirits, otherwise no matter how much Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi I inhale, it will eventually spit out with my mouth and nose." ”

Forging bones hurts, as if someone is hitting your bones with a hammer, and only when all the vitality of heaven and earth is forced out of your body, the sharp and sharp pain will gradually dissipate. However, if the spiritual energy is constantly absorbed in the mouth and continuously forced out of the body, the pain will be uninterrupted.

After two days, Ling Jiang basically mastered the number of ways to forge bones, at first, every breath of spiritual qi incorporated, less than one-tenth of it could be forced out through the flesh and bones, and after several exercises, six or seven tenths of a breath of spiritual energy could be forced out.

The bones of his body are also gradually becoming stronger in the process of forging bones again and again. Maybe in another month or two, I will see the weak scholarly spirit from him. In this regard, although Da Bai didn't say it, he secretly praised Ling Jiang's understanding in his heart.

Just like Na Ling at that time, he learned very quickly, and now he has a very fast grasp of the way of forging bones.

In fact, there are two kinds of bone forging, one is internal training, and the other is boiling. The so-called boiling is to whip the body with a leather whip and other sharp weapons, so that the speed will be much faster, but it will also be easy to leave internal injuries, and it needs to be soaked in liquid medicine in time to relieve, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable.

Now that Ling Jiang is running around, he naturally doesn't have this environment to boil his body, so he can only use the vitality of heaven and earth to transform from the inside out bit by bit.

"Maybe give him ten years or so, and it shouldn't be a problem to cross the five mountains. Da Bai looked at the figure of the young man punching hard at the entrance of the cave, and couldn't help but murmur in a low voice.

This is the difference between a martial artist and a qi practitioner, the former does not rely on any heaven and earth chances, and there is no innate advantage of physical differences, all relying on a practice of words and comprehension of words. If it weren't for the fact that the martial artist couldn't step into the immortal realm after all, the martial artist on the eightfold mountain in this world should be several times more.

After noon on this day, the rain suddenly became smaller, and the dense fog in the mountains gradually dissipated, and the clear blue sky was as clean as ever, as if the heavy rain for three days had washed the world thoroughly.

In the evening, the long-lost remnant sun appeared in the western sky, although it was only a momentary effort, it was enough to make people feel comfortable. Ling Jiang sat quietly at the entrance of the cave, staring at the wisp of the remnant sun with his eyes stupidly, until it disappeared into the night like ink, and then came back to his senses.

In the early morning of the next day, the four of Lingjiang got up early in the morning, packed their bags and walked out of the cave, and walked cautiously on the slippery mountain road. It was still gloomy today, but the wind was blowing hard, and the muddy mountain road dried up quickly.

The four of them spent most of the day walking across the mountainside, and when they came to the foot of the mountain, they were only separated by a river from Tonghai City.

Looking from the riverside, you can already vaguely see the Tonghai City Tower two miles away, which makes Ya'er and Chen Baohan quite happy. After being trapped in the mountains for several days, I was tired of it, and I couldn't wait to change to a new place immediately.

Ling Jiang looked at a small boat docked on the riverside, and a family sat not far from the boat.

The family stayed in the yard, the husband chopped wood, the wife sewed clothes, and the little girl trotted to chase a little black dog, laughing from time to time, and the family of three was happy.

When everyone came to the gate of the courtyard, Ling Jiang was about to step forward and knock on the door, but the man in the courtyard couldn't help but stop chopping firewood and looked at the four people outside the door with a firewood knife in his hand. He was dressed in a black shirt, barefoot, and his beard was very long, and if he took his hat and went to the boat, he would look like a fishing boatman in a landscape painting.

The man asked, "Are you going to cross the river?"

"Yes, can you take us across the river?" Ling Jiang asked with a nod.

When the man heard this, he immediately waved his hand, "You have to cross the river, and if you go ten miles upstream, you will see a bridge, so you can go over there." ”

"Isn't there a boat here? Why do you have to go far away?" Chen Baohan asked suspiciously.

Ling Jiang was also very puzzled in his heart, he seemed to remember that when he went to Tonghai City to catch the exam, it was also this boatman who ferried. Now that the ship is fine, why is this business not done?

The man shook his head and said, "You don't know? You can't cross people here before March in early spring, as it has been in previous years. ”

"What can we do about this? If we have to walk twenty miles back and forth according to the boatman, it is difficult to say whether we can walk through Haicheng before dark. When Ya'er heard this, she said anxiously.

"Is there anything unspeakable?" Ling Jiang asked softly.

When the man heard this, he shook his head helplessly, beckoned Neiko to serve tea, stepped forward to open the door, and invited Ling Jiang and the four of them to sit down in the courtyard.

After a while, a pot of hot tea was brought out, Ya'er didn't drink it without the habit of drinking tea, and Chen Baohan played with the seven or eight-year-old girl, picking up the little black dog and petting it.

I saw the man take a sip of tea lightly and said slowly, "This river is called Tonghai River, just more than ten years ago, the first fish in the river turned into a spirit and turned into a river demon of this river, and I don't know how many passers-by were pulled into the river by it and never came out again." If it had been a few years earlier, I might have given you a little more silver, and I might have carried you there. But since he almost died at its hands once, he didn't dare to take this risk again. ”

Ling Jiang glanced at his wife, seemingly concentrating on sewing clothes, but his eyes peeked towards him from time to time.

Ling Jiang then asked, "When I rushed to Tonghai City to take the exam last year, why didn't I hear such a thing as a river demon?"

The man shook his head and said, "You're the fifteen-year-old scholar who won the show, right? Don't you know, this river demon didn't grow up in this Tonghai River, but he just came here every winter to escape the cold. Despite becoming a refinement, this habit has not changed. So as long as it doesn't come back to cross the river for the winter, there will be no problems. Normally, they leave after March in early spring. ”

"Tonghai City hasn't thought of a way to solve this matter?" Da Bai asked with a solemn face.

"Of course I thought about it. The man sneered, "I don't know how much money I spent to invite the master to come here to collect the demon, who thinks that the river demon is also strange and shrewd, but if you know that someone is coming to collect the demon, you will hide and dare not come out." Once, a demon hunter did not believe in this evil and drove a boat alone to the middle of the river to collect the demon, and the result was that the boat was overturned by the river demon, and the Taoist master could not swim and drowned alive. ”

"This is also ...... It's too child's play, isn't it?" Ling Jiang didn't know whether to laugh or cry now, and he was embarrassed to come out to catch demons with this little ability, who would he fool?

The man suddenly lowered his voice and said: "You don't know what kind of person our Tonghaicheng County Commander is, he is unwilling to pay a lot of money to collect demons, so he just spent some money to find a few charlatans to make a show and appease the people." ”

"Brute!" Da Bai scolded when he heard this.

His words frightened the boatman's face changed, and he hurriedly pulled Dabai and said, "You can't talk nonsense, if you hear it, you will be killed!"

Ling Jiang asked, "So this matter is so over?"

"Otherwise," said the boatman, helplessly, "the river demon doesn't stay here all the time, as long as he doesn't cross the river by early spring and March." Besides, behind this Tonghai River, there are some small towns in poor ravines, and no one may come out of the mountains for ten days and half a month, and the government is too lazy to take care of this errand. ”

"That's ......," Ling Jiang nodded.

It's not that they don't want to go out of the mountains, but they have to walk a long way to get out of the mountains, unless they are idle and have nothing to do, otherwise who wants to go out?

"I don't think it's too early, you will leave for Tonghai City before dark, it's better to stay here for a night, and it's not too late to hurry tomorrow." The boatman said softly.

Da Bai immediately shook his head, "No need. ”

"Da Bai, are you going to walk at night? Even if you do, maybe there is a curfew in the city, how can you enter the city?" Ling Jiang asked suspiciously.

Dabai said, "Boatman, can you lend us a boat to cross the river? ”

When the boatman heard this, he was taken aback again, and waved his hand again and again, "Young man, this is not a joke, you have never seen that river demon, and you swallowed people with one mouth." ”

"Yes, Brother Dabai, this is too dangerous. Ya'er chimed in, "Let's go tomorrow, it doesn't hurt to walk an extra twenty miles, anyway, it's not too late." ”

I saw Da Bai stand up, turned his head and glanced at Ling Jiang, "Do you dare to come with me?"

Ling Jiang sat on the chair and looked up at Da Bai's determined expression, knowing that it was not a joke. Obviously, Dabai wants to kill the demon and eliminate harm for the people.

Although he has seen Dabai's methods, if he wants to kill this river demon, it is too reluctant, right? After all, when he reaches the river, it is other people's territory, and his own life is not equal to being pinched in his hands?

"Are you scared?" Da Bai asked softly.

"I ...... Go and go!" Ling Jiang hesitated for a moment, and then stood up with his heart in his heart.

"Childe ......" Ya'er grabbed Ling Jiang's hand suddenly, her eyes full of reluctance and worry.

Seeing Ling Jiang and Da Bai constantly walking out of the courtyard, the boatman's wife couldn't sit still, "Old man, stop them quickly." ”

"Alas......" The boatman sighed helplessly, looking at the backs of Da Bai and Ling Jiang, and didn't know what to say for a while.