(Another 5,000-word chapter)

"There is no shortage of famous mountains and rivers in Yanling, this dynasty that sits on nearly one-third of the land of mountains and rivers, has been standing in the world for thousands of years, not to mention, just the annals of Yanling historians can deduce it to six thousand years ago, Yanling soldiers are millions, and there are countless excellent leaders in the army, in fact, as long as the Yanling emperor is willing, there will be no other countries in Yanling, but such a dynasty is still subject to the school palace, it can be seen that no matter how strong those secular dynasties are, no matter how powerful, they must also bow down and obey orders when they meet monks, even if Zhou has some backbone, but the end is definitely not good, and now they can't destroy Zhou at once, the second and third time after that, may not survive. ”

All the way to the north, in order to relieve the boredom of the journey, Li Fuyao and Qinghuai occasionally talk about the current situation of their mountains and rivers, but after talking about the relationship between Yanling and the Academy Palace today, Li Fuyao seems a little abnormal, Qinghuai doesn't care about this, just thinks that it is roughly the reason why he was born in Luoyang City and has been in Baiyu Town for many years.

Li Fuyao, who had been silent for a long time, said calmly: "The monks are outsiders, and the secular dynasty can't manage it, but they can always do their own thing, but there are always some monks who will cause trouble to the world, such as those on the banks of the Luosang River, and the secular dynasty can't deal with it, let alone the small remote country of Dazhou." ”

Qinghuai said softly: "In this regard, you can't do anything, the only thing you can do is to go further in the way of the sword, if one day you can go to the height of that sword immortal, you will naturally be able to protect the Zhou country, believe me, whether it is the mountains and rivers or the demon land, whether it is those who are in charge of the Taoist temple or those saints who are not born, no one is willing to provoke a sword immortal, especially for a small country, this kind of price, whether it is a saint or a big demon, is not willing to try, the existence of the sword mountain, is like this." If the three sects insisted on destroying the last inheritance of this swordsman's lineage, Chao Qingqiu would have already gone to the twelve saints with one person and one sword, not that the saints had no way to take this sword immortal, but what the saints cared about was how to become an immortal, and how they were willing to lose the opportunity to become an immortal for a sword immortal? Of course, if one day that sword immortal becomes an immortal before the twelve saints, it will really be unprepared, and if you don't say anything else, no one will dare to provoke you, a swordsman of the mountains and rivers, after all, a sword immortal who has transcended the realm of the sea, where can a saint be able to rival. ”

Li Fuyao turned his head to look at the broken wood knife behind him, his heart moved, and he didn't make any bold words, now he hasn't walked to the sword mountain, and he hasn't really gone up the mountain and then down the mountain as Chen Sheng said, so he can't be called a real swordsman, and the more direct statement is that he doesn't even have a sword now, where can he be a swordsman. It's just that these days I have always heard the name of the sword immortal, and I know that he is likely to be on that sword mountain now, Li Fuyao really wants to meet this Tianzhong talent who can make the sword warrior continue to unify with his own strength, you know, in the past 6,000 years, the three sects in the mountains and rivers have intermittently some people have stepped into the sea realm and become saints, so now the mountains and rivers have the situation of twelve saints, but the swordsman lineage, since the end of the war six thousand years ago, there is only one Chao Qingqiu, and the way of the sword is rugged and difficult, but the more so, the more it can show how amazing and brilliant the sword fairy is。

There is such a senior standing in the distance on the main path of his own cultivation, and everyone will be proud from the bottom of their hearts.

Although it is said that he has made up his mind not to enter Luoyang City, but when he bypasses the Xiongcheng far away, he can still see some outlines of the Xiongcheng, which arouses Li Fuyao many thoughts, he was born in the Yanling Imperial Capital, one of the three major dynasties, and his family background is not very good, but Yin Shi is definitely reasonable, if there is no school palace to visit, to take him to the school palace to study, maybe he will grow up honestly in this giant city, and then he may do some other work, but probably inherit the family's small restaurant, have been a young owner of the restaurant, and then marry a daughter-in-law, have a child, and pass on the ancestry。

"Li Fuyao, what is that tall building?"

Just when he was in a trance, Qinghuai suddenly tugged at his sleeve and pointed to the Xiongcheng in the distance and said.

Li Fuyao's cultivation is low, and he can't see things in the distance, but when he listens to the word high-rise, he knows that Qinghuai is talking about the star-picking tower in Luoyang City. Because the other buildings in Luoyang City are not higher than the city wall, only this star-picking tower is much higher than the city wall, straight into the clouds, according to the realm of Qinghuai, it is not surprising that it can be seen.

Li Fuyao replied, "Picking the Star Tower, the tallest building in Luoyang City, may also be the first tallest building in the mountains and rivers, when this building was built, Emperor Yanling once levied 800,000 people, and it took three years to build, and the reason for the name of the Star Picking Tower is probably that Emperor Yanling feels that standing on the high platform on the top of the building, he can pick the stars by stretching out his hand. It's just a specific function, according to the idlers in Luoyang City, it should be used to worship the sky, but I always feel that it's not that simple, I went there once when I was a child, but I didn't go upstairs, and the court didn't allow other idlers to climb the stairs. ”

Before Li Fuyao's words fell, Qinghuai directly retorted: "It's ridiculous to say that the sacrifice to the heavens is really ridiculous, behind Yanling is the Yanling School Palace, and behind the School Palace is the Confucianism, even if this star-picking tower is to be used for sacrifice, there must be wooden statues of several Confucianism saints on the high platform." ”

Li Fuyao didn't know what the secret was, but said another thing with a smile, "In the year when the school palace selected me to enter the palace, there were no particularly outstanding children, and there was a child surnamed Li with better qualifications, but it was never too good, so there was a saying in Luoyang City at that time, that is, there was no second Li Jiexing in Luoyang City." It's just that I really don't know who this Li Jiexing is, but I think it should be a senior who walked out of Luoyang City, maybe this Xingxing Tower is named after this senior. ”

After finishing speaking, Li Fuyao didn't forget to add, "The child with better qualifications is not me." ”

A smile appeared on Qinghuai's face and he didn't speak.

Li Fuyao didn't look at her, and continued: "There are always some powerful characters in the story, and you don't want to have some connection with those characters." ”

This time Qinghuai asked rhetorically: "Then why can't you become that kind of powerful person, Li Fuyao is no worse than anyone else!"

Hearing this, Li Fuyao's face was full of smiles, just like the previous Qinghuai.

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After the Yanling Emperor went downstairs, he went straight back to the palace, as the decision-maker of a dynasty, the burden on his body is not light, and the time for himself is not much, this dynasty has some things that he needs to make up his mind every day, such as the two things that are now placed before him, the matter of the Zhou State has been decided on the Star Picking Tower, and the Chen State and the Zhou State have both lost and lost, and then no matter who wins or loses, he will let the tiger generals in the Yanling army lead the army to re-plant the territory of the two countries on the military flag of Yanling, and then wipe out all the small countries in those remote places from the mountains and rivers, these are originally the land of Yanling, but they have not been ignored in the pastNow it is a matter of course to want to take it back. As for whether to continue to send people to arrest those two, Emperor Yanling actually didn't really decide, more than a dozen monks who were less than the Qingsi Realm, outsiders seemed to be a lot of wealth, but according to Emperor Yanling, there were actually not many, with such vast mountains and rivers, he could only drive so many people. It's just that the face of the dynasty is actually what he needs to consider.

According to the informant, these two people traveled all the way north, obviously to step out of the territory of Yanling to go to the Dayu Dynasty, and there was no other move to endanger the foundation of Yanling.

After thinking about it for a long time, he wrote his will at the table in the imperial study, and was soon sent by someone to the yamen involved in the matter.

After giving a few excerpts at the table, he lost the red pen and came to the imperial garden outside the imperial study, looking up slightly, a little helpless.

But when he looked up to the east, the Yanling Emperor's expression changed slightly, and he began to have some unbelievable looks on his face.

After a while, he shouted as if he had lost his soul: "Mr. Changgu, you are indeed a great talent in the world!"

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On the star-picking tower in the east of Luoyang City, which is more than 100 zhang high, the wind is surging at this moment.

The top of the tall building was facing the sea of clouds, which was originally quiet and peaceful, but for some reason, now it is unusual, the whole sea of clouds fluctuates, unpredictable, and shines in the sun.

Li Changgu, who was sitting on the high platform, had his sword on his lap, his expression was calm, and the scroll of poems on his side was blown by the wind.

Lightning and thunder began to roar overhead.

The thunder seemed to explode in Li Changgu's ears, if it were an ordinary person, I was afraid that I would have been frightened a long time ago.

The Star Picking Tower, which has not happened for more than 70 years, has indeed happened now, and the prohibitions laid by those Xue Gong have been shocked, which has made the current situation happen.

In the sea of lightning and thunder, there seems to be a golden dragon churning in the sea of clouds, and in the sun, it is even more dazzling.

In the midst of the churning, the dragon with a length of more than ten zhang even circled around Li Changgu's side.

And the initiator just sat on the high platform, calm and silent.

Such a sight is truly terrifying.

When Emperor Yanling had not yet come downstairs, Li Changgu said that one day, a sword would break through this place. In fact, since he never went downstairs without going out of his body seven years ago, the realm has gradually stabilized, and even in this prohibition, he has reached the peak of the previous Taiqing Realm with difficulty, and he is only half a step away from crossing the threshold again and returning to the Morning and Twilight Realm.

So after Emperor Yanling went downstairs, he tried to return to the twilight, but he didn't expect that the ban on the Star Picking Tower would be launched, and it turned out to be a dragon trapping him.

Looking at this golden dragon, Li Changgu said with a smile: "I have never seen a real dragon in the world, and Li Changgu doesn't even believe that there is such a thing in the world. ”

Sure enough, as soon as Li Changgu said these words, it seemed to really anger the golden dragon, although it didn't make any moves, but the distance around Li Changgu was a little closer.

Li Changgu shook his head, and the iron sword in his arms suddenly came out of its sheath.

With a clear sound, this ordinary iron sword that could no longer be ordinary went straight into the clouds, with boundless sword qi, confronting this dragon.

The dragon beard floated, as if asking Li Changgu how dare to use a sword in such a realm?

Li Changgu laughed heartily, "Why don't you dare?"

In fact, on the Star Picking Tower, the effect of using the methods of Confucian monks is much higher than that of swordsmen, but Li Changgu has been determined to no longer use half of the palace techniques since he walked out of the palace, and he can only raise his sword at the moment.

Looking at this yellow dragon, Li Changgu said calmly: "Today I only enter the morning and dusk, and I can't go downstairs." But you have to see how this sword is. ”

The voice did not fall.

The iron sword headed towards the giant dragon head of the Yellow Dragon.

With a sense of peaceful sword intent.

The iron sword and the dragon body just met, and a dazzling golden light burst out, and the iron sword, which was already rusty, began to fade away from the rust in this golden light, and the sword body became shiny.

This abandoned sword was originally just picked up by Li Changgu under a certain mountain cliff and named it Ku Tian, but now he is not afraid of the yellow dragon at all.

Li Changgu silently counted three numbers in his heart.

After counting three, he stood up.

It was at this moment that this swordsman, who had been trapped in this building for more than 70 years, returned to the twilight realm!

The sword aura of the entire star-picking tower is masterful.

Li Changgu held the bitter day short, and a sword was swung, and the sword light flashed.

The iron sword went deep into the dragon's neck, no scales flew sideways, no blood burst out, only the yellow dragon turned into golden light and slowly returned to the sea of clouds.

Li Changgu stood with a sword in his hand, and his demeanor was very similar to that when he walked down the school palace with one person and one sword more than seventy years ago.

On that day, he stood at the foot of Jingkou Mountain and said to himself, "Since I am sanctimonious in the end of my study, then I will raise my sword and ask for a clear conscience." ”

Yes, this halfway scholar who practiced swords did not meet any predecessors who taught him to use swords, but he felt that he could express his chest with swords, so he went to practice swords.

I don't ask for anything else.,In fact, the school palace trapped this person in this building.,And didn't choose to kill him.,One of the reasons is,I still hope that one day, he will find his way back.。

Standing on the high platform of this building, Li Changgu suddenly remembered the poem he wrote when he was young, and couldn't help but recite it softly: "The dangerous building is 100 feet high, and you can pick the stars with your hands." I dare not raise my voice, for fear of frightening the people in heaven. ”

After reading it, he smiled to himself: "Where are there any heavenly people?"

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There is no class in the school palace on Jingkou Mountain today, in fact, there are a lot of such days, after the students enter the school palace, most of them are learning with their own husband, and the time for collective classes together is really not much, and it is not a strange thing that there is no class today.

Some time ago, Gu Yuan, the reading seed of the Japanese School Palace, broke through the self-examination and stepped into the green silk in front of the sacrificial hall, and after so many days, it was still talked about by the people in the School Palace, in addition, the Zhou State scholar who climbed the mountain before, after climbing the mountain, he became the miscellaneous servant of the Library Pavilion also caused a lot of fluctuations, you know, this is said to be a miscellaneous service, but the miscellaneous service of the Library Pavilion is not as good as the miscellaneous labor in other places, the uncle Zhou Xuance who is in charge of the Library Pavilion is terrifying, and he has such a heavy treasure in the Library Pavilion, many students on the mountain hope to be able to get the eyes of this person, not to mention the miscellaneous labor when the time comes, even serve tea and pour water for the uncle every day, It's a pity that the uncle has a strange temperament, and he has been reluctant to let outsiders set foot in this place all these years, and now he has finally made an exception, and he is a scholar from the Zhou Kingdom who has just climbed the mountain, which is naturally a little surprising.

In the afternoon today, Huang Jin walked out of the library pavilion, came to a vacant space in front, and turned out a poem manuscript that he turned out in the library cabinet.

I thought it was really good, so after I was done, I took this manuscript of poetry out and looked at it, but only turned a few pages, and Zhou Xuance, who was originally under a tree in the distance, closed his eyes and recuperated in the distance, and said leisurely: "The original owner of this manuscript of poetry is not treated by the school palace, if you want to see it, you can only hide it and read it quietly, if it is seen by other students, it doesn't matter, they don't know the old things, but if it is seen by other gentlemen and masters, you kid may have to suffer some hardships." ”

Hearing this, Huang Jin's mind was completely off this manuscript of poetry, he turned to look at this terrifying Uncle Zhou, who was said to be of great seniority, and asked with a smile: "Uncle Zhou, the senior who wrote this manuscript of poetry, really did something wrong?"

Zhou Xuance didn't open his eyes, and said with a smile: "It's not clear whether it's wrong or not, it's just that even if that guy did 10,000 things right, the one he did in the end was very wrong." ”

Huang Jin said: "The students listened attentively. ”

Zhou Xuance said patiently: " That guy and you generally climbed the mountain, but before the mountain, he walked thousands of miles, from Luoyang City to this Jingkou Mountain, it seems to be nothing, but he was only eight years old when he climbed the mountain, so even after he climbed the mountain, the old man thought about accepting him as a student, after all, not everyone is the lucky boy of Yanyu, you can meet a reading seed when you travel down the mountain, the old man wants to accept students, but no one dares to rob the old man, but he was rejected by the kid, you dare to think that an eight-year-old child dares to refuse the old man? Well, being rejected is not a bad thing, so the old man looked at what situation this kid could go, and dared to refuse the old man boldly, but the more he got later, the more he felt that this kid really had some doorways, and remembered that before he went down the mountain, it was already in the twilight realm. is so talented, but there is also some proud capital. It's just that this kid is too stubborn, and when he saw something in the school palace that he felt was wrong, he was paranoid and felt that reading was useless, so he turned to practice swords. The way of the sword is the most rugged, the road ahead is far away, the old man doesn't know what this kid is going to practice for, this matter is naturally a big mistake. As for the end, this kid didn't have any remorse, so he was imprisoned, and if you think about it, it's been more than seventy years, and I don't know if that guy has repented in that building. ”

Huang Jin was surprised: "According to what Uncle Zhou said, practicing the sword is doing something wrong?"

Zhou Xuance said angrily: "It's not a wrong thing, it's just that the old man is a little annoyed that this kid chose a sheep intestine path by himself." ”

Huang Jin smiled, he still liked this uncle's temper very much.

Zhou Xuance sighed: "He was originally a person who had the opportunity to go farther and farther on this cultivation road, even if he became the fifth saint of my Confucianism in the future, the old man would not be surprised at all, in the end, it would be a pity." ”

Huang Jin suddenly interjected: "If that senior doesn't feel pity." ”

Zhou Xuance was stunned, yes, according to that kid's temperament, he will leave the school palace when he leaves the school palace, and if he doesn't study, he won't study, how can he feel a pity.

After half a ring, Zhou Xuance turned his head to look at Huang Jin, and threatened: "Don't blame the old man for not reminding you, if you kid also has a ghost mind for a day, you have to practice any sword, don't blame the old man for sending you to be his companion." ”

Huang Jin didn't care about this, "It's not as bold as that senior, but it's also great to meet that senior." ”

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The vision on the Star Picking Tower was shrouded by the prohibition under the Xue Palace, but outsiders couldn't see it really, even the people in Luoyang City just thought that the Star Picking Tower was stormy, and they didn't see the Yellow Dragon at all, and Li Fuyao and Qinghuai, who were dozens of miles outside the city, couldn't see it really, but when Li Changgu took out the sword before, Li Fuyao suddenly felt something, looked at the Star Picking Tower over there, and muttered: "Why do you think that sword fairy is nearby?"