The land of the Southern Barbarians, deep in the 100,000 mountains.

In this largest mountain group in Kyushu, endless mountain peaks reach into the sky, fairy birds and beasts, tigers, scorpions and poisonous snakes, as well as ancient and primitive cannibals and various bloodthirsty tribes.

In the past five years, Zhao Zhishui has been practicing in this environment every day, practicing extremely hard, using the most extreme methods to temper herself, polishing herself in the limit, and allowing herself to grow rapidly.

Thirteen of them, she almost died because she went mad or was attacked by powerful demon beasts while she was cultivating, or by some mysterious hermit tribe handed down from ancient times. Before her retreat, she said to her master, Chu Chou, "Master, even if the apprentice's life is in danger, please don't help the apprentice." ”

Chu Chou looked at her stubborn and stubborn eyes at that time, sighed in his heart, and nodded slightly.

Chu Chou didn't want Zhao Zhishui to participate in that last battle, and he never told this apprentice he brought up single-handedly. But Zhao Zhishui, who was extremely intelligent, knew what the master was going to do early. Therefore, in the bottom of my heart, I always want to improve myself and keep breaking through until my height reaches the side of the Master, and I can fight side by side with the Master.

Chu Chou didn't know Zhao Zhishui's thoughts, but he never broke it. He knew that he would listen to everything Zhao Zhishui said, but only this matter, he understood that Zhao Zhishui could not be explained.

Zhao Zhishui is also amazing, so that the well-informed Chu Chou nodded secretly. Two years ago, Zhao Zhishui stepped from the realm of the eight-rank grandmaster to the realm of the eight-rank pinnacle of the great grandmaster. After two years of polishing, her realm has become more and more stable, and she is moving towards the realm of Jiupin Gai.

Chu Chou had already seen from afar the day when Zhao Zhishui entered the realm of the Nine Grades of the World, and even reached the legendary realm of the peak of the Nine Grades like himself. Although he felt that he could not see that day, he was still very relieved.

It was another day at dusk, and Zhao Zhishui dragged her scarred body back.

"That hidden demon ancestor did it again?" Chu Chou took the porridge that had been made and handed it to Zhao Zhishui.

"Hmm. Zhao Zhishui nodded tiredly, but her eyes were bright.

When Chu Chou took Zhao Zhishui into the 100,000 Great Mountain, he sensed that the second time he went to the rivers and lakes to find the lilac-like woman, and when he walked to the land of the Southern Barbarians, he felt a powerful aura that was almost as powerful as his own.

It's just that he didn't have the heart to look for it at that time, and he was already excited and happy when he first walked the rivers and lakes to become a great sword immortal, because he was admired all over the world, and at that time, he only had her in his eyes. In a world without any brilliance, looking for it.

The reclusive person probably also felt Chu Chou back then, so he didn't show up. It wasn't until this time when Chu Chou came to the 100,000 Mountains of the Southern Barbarian Land for the third time that the hidden man appeared.

When the hidden man revealed his identity, Chu Chou was not a little surprised. Now, even if the three ancestor saints appeared in front of him together, his face did not change, and his heart was unwavering.

That person who came was the demon ancestor of the Southern Barbarian Demon Clan, who cultivated to the peak realm of the Nine Grades, and cultivated to the realm of internal strength, which can be said to have reached the extreme.

On that day five years ago, Chu Chou asked the Southern Barbarian Demon Ancestor: "Didn't you help the Southern Barbarian Empire, why didn't you go to Zhongzhou to join the war?"

"It seems that the rumors that I am helping the Nanban Empire are really widespread. The thin old man touched his beardless chin and smiled.

Chu Chou nodded: "In the land of the Southern Barbarians, no one is your opponent. The old patriarch of the barbarian tribe may have the strength to fight with you, and if you fight hard, you will be seriously injured and he will die. ”

The bearded old man with a thin body nodded with a smile: "I'm not interested in those behaviors that compete for the general trend of the world, it's just ...... I've been itching for 10,000 years. Back then, when I fought with the ancestors of the Three Sects, it was very uncomfortable! They never fought with me alone, and every time I fought, I had to talk nonsense for a long time, which was annoying!"

As the Demon Ancestor spoke, a dirty word burst out of his mouth, and he looked indignant, it seemed that he had been aggrieved ten thousand years ago.

"What, you want to fight with me?" Chu Chou just asked lightly at that time, without any timidity.

"If you don't work hard, if you work hard, you will be seriously injured and I will die. It's uncomfortable, I've lived for so many thousands of years, and I haven't lived enough. The thin bearded old man rubbed his hands and laughed, like a scoundrel old man in the market, without the demeanor of a generation of demon ancestors.

However, the demon ancestor of the demon clan in the Eastern Regions, the West Pole, the Northern Wilderness, and the Southern Barbarians, only this person is the most powerful. Even if the four demon ancestors are all cultivators at the peak realm of the Nine Grades now, he is also the first person in the world to be the first in the world.

However, in front of Chu Chou, no matter what identity or strength, as long as he uses his sword, he is invincible and never loses a single bit.

Chu Chou nodded in agreement, but the premise was that this old demon ancestor, who had lived for endless years, would personally polish Zhao Zhishui from time to time.

In the past five years, Zhao Zhishui has either observed all things in the world by himself, gone to the Great Dao of Enlightenment and Enlightenment, or went to the Nanban Demon Ancestor who lived in seclusion in the 100,000 mountains to accept the beating of the old-timer.

Every time she was beaten, she was covered in blood, and the scars on her body had not completely solidified, and she would have to be beaten again in a few days. She had to wash it first every time and change her clothes to go back, otherwise she would worry the master again.

Of course, Chu Chou knew about it a long time ago, but he didn't say anything. This kind of suffering, when he first walked the rivers and lakes, he ate a lot. Although he felt a little sorry for his disciples, he didn't open his mouth to pretentiously care about and ask. His disciple does not have to suffer the suffering of the world. But his sorrowful disciple is not incapable of suffering!

"Master, I feel that the bottleneck is a little loose, and I should soon enter the realm of the Nine Rank World. After Zhao Zhishui drank Chu Chou's five-grain porridge for her, she said happily.

Chu Chou nodded slightly, "Very good." After cultivating for a while, we will leave Nanban. ”

"Go to Zhongzhou?" Zhao Zhishui was not happy for the master praising her this time, but when she heard the master say that she was going to Zhongzhou, her heart suddenly became heavy. Is it coming so soon? Zhao Zhishui has become nervous for the first time in so many years.

"Hmm. For the division, I want to go to Zhongzhou. Chu Chou nodded.

"Master, I'm going with you!" Zhao Zhishui stood up and said a little excitedly when he heard the meaning of Chu Chou's words.

Chu Chou smiled faintly, this was the first time Chu Chou smiled in the past ten years, "Zhishui, this time is different." As the teacher went to Zhongzhou this time, there are important things to do. ”

"Zhishui, you are not young, you are twenty-five years old this year, right? It's not too young, it's time to find a good man to marry. The only thing that worries about the teacher now is you, except for her. As a teacher, I hope you don't learn from me, I only hope that you can spend the rest of your life in peace and happiness. The rest of your life is long, long, the days are always trickle, you are still young, and you should not be responsible for your good years because of anyone else. ”

Chu Chou said softly, touching Zhao Zhishui's head with one hand and helping her wipe away the tears on her face with the other, just like when the master and apprentice first met.

Zhao Zhishui couldn't cry anymore, her face was full of tears, her voice trembling to the ground was full of panic and uneasiness, "No...... Master...... No...... No...... I can't leave your ...... Can't......"

Chu Chou still said gently: "Why don't we make an agreement between the master and apprentice?"

Zhao Zhishui didn't speak, she was still sobbing constantly, with tears on her face.

Chu Chou wiped her tears and said, "As long as you reach the realm of the Nine Grades, as a teacher, I will let you come to Zhongzhou to find me." Okay?"

Zhao Zhishui shook his head vigorously.

Chu Chou stood up with a serious face: "Zhao Zhishui, I'm not your master anymore?!"

Zhao Zhishui looked miserable and panicked, and was stunned after hearing this, and looked at Chu Chou blankly.

"Speak!I'm not your master anymore?!"

Zhao Zhishui nodded vigorously.

"As a disciple of the master, if you don't listen to the master, you will be rebellious!"

Zhao Zhishui forgot to cry at this time, forgot everything in the world, and just stared blankly at this master who had never lost his temper with her once in the past twenty years, and had never shouted at her once.

"Master ordered you, if you don't reach the Nine Rank realm, you are not allowed to come to Zhongzhou, Zhao Zhishui, did you hear that?!" Chu Chou scolded loudly.

Zhao Zhishui also stood up, raised her head slightly, looked at the master, stared for a long time, and then raised her sleeves, wiped away the tears on her face, and her voice was choked: "I heard it." Master, I will do it. ”

"If you don't do it, I will expel you from the sect, understand?!" Chu Chou asked loudly.

"Ming...... Understood......" Zhao Zhishui's face twitched in pain, and the tears in her eyes had subsided. But there are no tears in the eyes, but there are tears in the heart.

Chu Chou glanced at Zhao Zhishui, who had a painful face, took a deep breath, and turned around and left with a calm face.

Zhao Zhishui gasped silently, as if she was being grabbed by her neck, she opened her mouth wide, looked at the master's distant back, and stretched out her right hand, but she couldn't catch up with the master's footsteps. I can only watch the back of the master as he keeps moving away.

The sunset at dusk was silently pouring on her emaciated figure, and the trees and flowers were silent at this time, even the autumn wind and the autumn cicadas hanging high on the branches no longer gave a sound. In those eyes as clear as a clear spring, there was a back that walked firmly and without looking back.

She smiled wryly and closed her eyes, not knowing what to remember.

When Chu Chou left, he went to the hermitage of the Southern Barbarian Demon Ancestor.

Next to the thatched hut, he had a discussion with the Demon Ancestor.

"Every time I hit so hard, although the effect is obvious, although it is very beneficial to my only descendant disciple, I still feel distressed. Moreover, you really don't know how important it is. My Chu Chou disciple is not something that anyone can bully. This was the only thing Chu Chou said to the Demon Ancestor at the peak of the Nine Grades.

Then, Chu Chou's three fists and three swords, the demon ancestor whose strength was world-famous and could be described as the first person in the demon clan, was sent flying for 80,000 miles, and he was seriously injured and vomited blood.

Three fists and three swords, Chu Chou did his best.

He let out a long breath. His face was still calm, as calm as the Dead Sea without wind or waves.

Chu Chou glanced in the direction where Zhao Zhishui was again, then turned his head and did not look back.

He looked up in the direction of Zhongzhou, walking in the afterglow of the setting sun, his pace getting faster and more determined.