A drop of sweat slowly slipped down the bridge of his nose, and then dripped into the scorched earth on the ground, and a young man in a battered prison uniform ran tirelessly on the vast grassland, staring ahead with a pair of calm eyes under the dim cloudy sky.

The ground under his feet was scorched and uneven, and the shoes he was wearing had long since worn out, and he didn't know where he had lost them, but it couldn't stop Siyi's determination in the slightest, and he ran naked, gasping for air, but he didn't mean to stop at all.

"Can you run faster, Xiao Siyi, your body is too slack, too slack......" In the sky, a handsome man in a green shirt stood tall and shouted calmly, "Since you have chosen the path of the sword, then you must have a strong physique and extraordinary perseverance, without these conditions, choose the way of the sword, then you are seeking your own death." ”

Siyi didn't say a word, gritted his teeth and ran forward, the surrounding scenery was always the same, and he returned to the boundless barren grassland at the beginning.

After running for I don't know how long, the man in the green shirt high in the air finally said compassionately: "It's okay, it's time to eat, I'm hungry." ”

Hearing this, Siyi was like being pardoned, and suddenly lay on the ground, his eyes looked at the sky, his chest was panting rapidly, and a burst of soreness in his calf and stomach came into his brain. But before he could rest, he dropped a bloody beast leg in the air and smashed it on his face, choking on a mouthful of dirty blood. A voice sounded in my ears: "Don't be busy resting, roast it first." ”

With a helpless sigh, Si Yi trembled and got up, took out the flint and got busy, from beginning to end, without saying a word. The man in the green shirt slowly fell to the ground, looking at all this, his eyes secretly showed a hint of approval.

Raising the beast's legs high, slowly roasting in the uncertain flames, Siyi sighed in his heart, this is also no way, who let himself say it. At that time, Si Yi had a resolute look on his face and asked the man in green shirt to help him, but at the same time, he also agreed to five conditions, which really made people feel unreasonable.

The first is to let yourself take care of his diet and daily life, which is understandable, find a servant; second, once you go out, you must inherit the way of the sword; third, you have to tell yourself about the changes in the outside world, which is estimated to be locked up here for many years, and it is boring. The first three points are easy to understand, but the last two are incomprehensible.

One is to let himself go out, help him find someone, as for what the person looks like, what characteristics, the man in the green shirt shook his head, saying that he didn't know, at that time he stood silently on the cliff, calmly looked at the sky, and said softly: "What has become of him now, I don't know, but he has a very simple knife." ”

The other is even more absurd, the man in the green shirt wants Siyi to promise that if one day, he becomes stronger, he must come to him and fight with himself heartily and endlessly.

These are all extremely strange requests, but Siyi didn't think about it that much at all, so he nodded and agreed. It didn't take long for the man in the green shirt to fly back to the barren grassland with Siyi, allowing him to run aimlessly here and exercise his physique.

When the meat was cooked, they sat down on the ground and ate it by the brook. During the banquet, Siyi asked curiously, "Senior, how can I get out here?"

The man in the green shirt replied easily: "It's easy, go out if you want to." ”

Siyi rolled his eyes for a while, and muttered in a low voice: "It's so easy, then why are you still here?"

Although the voice was small, it couldn't escape the man's ears, the man smiled faintly, pointing to the small scar on the left side of his face, "Because of the agreement, the gentleman's agreement, I lost, I have to stay here for two thousand years, I can't come to the world, since I agreed, of course I have to do it." ”

Si Yi was taken aback, what did he mean by this? Did he mean that he couldn't be trapped here at all? What could leave a character like him here was just a promise. Suddenly remembered again, and hurriedly continued to ask: "Senior, you said that you have a lot of marks on your body, why is this?"

The man leisurely recalled: "I am here, it has been almost a thousand years, it is very dangerous here, but there are countless people who come here to explore, whenever someone comes in, I must go over to share the victory with them, and determine life and death, otherwise, my skills will be slack, many of them lost the mark on me before death, maybe unwilling, I hope that there will be latecomers to take revenge, I will not break it, let them, only in this way, there will be more strong people to come, of course, you are an exception." ”

"Dangerous?" Si Yi grinned down a piece of skin and inhaled it, and took a sip of the spring, "That's it here, I've been here for so long, at most there are strange beasts in that volcano, and it's dangerous, this grassland and you are safe." ”

"The frog at the bottom of the well. The man looked at him with contempt in his eyes, "How can the prestige of the two poles here be called in vain? The vastness of this place makes you unable to imagine that the dangerous places here are retreated by people and gods, and there are only two places that are temporarily safe in the huge polar land, and it is precisely this barren grassland and the blue valley where I have that you have just met, and I must say that this heavenly way is unpredictable." ”

Si Yiqi said: "Could it be that there are other places here?"

"Of course there is, it's so big that you can't imagine it. ”

"Have all the seniors been there?"

"Almost, nine times out of ten. ”

"By the way, why did the seniors do it with those who came in, it seems that the seniors are afraid of their own slackness. "Si Yi has never figured this out, is it just because this sword cultivator is crazy in battle?

"Because ......" The man groaned slightly, revealing the answer frankly: "I still have one person who has not been defeated." ”

After hearing this, Si Yi sighed in his heart, it turned out that even if he was a strong man, he had a goal to pursue, what about himself?

"Those who persevere, the goal will eventually be achieved. When the man saw Siyi's expression, he frowned and said.

"Thank you, seniors. ”

The man saw that he had almost eaten, stood up with a smile and clapped his hands, and said, "After cleaning up, you can continue, you still have a long way to go, and when you grow up day by day, you will go to this vast and barren grassland to experience, so that you can truly realize the prestige of these two poles." ”

Watching Xiao Siyi finish packing up his things and exercising endlessly, the man stood with his hands in the air, his green shirt fluttering slightly, although his expression was calm, but he rarely recalled the past in his heart, stared at the figure running below, and sighed silently: It's the Medicine King's Mansion...... Counting, I only owed her a favor back then, and I don't know what happened to her now, maybe she soared. No matter what, no matter what, Heavenly Dao cause and effect, I will take care of your descendants today, I hope you can see that I am not unsaved.

In this way, under the man's gaze, Siyi ran through one journey after another, lifting one boulder after another, and exercising endlessly. At first, he could barely remember the days by memory, but then he became numb, and vaguely remembered that he had eaten more than 500 meals, taken more than 100 baths, and his clothes had long been worn out, so he could only make do with the animal skin that the man gave him.

Suddenly, one day, the man stopped him, slowly fell to the ground, and asked seriously: "Okay, from now on, I want to ask you one last question, do you really want to walk on the path of the sword?"

Siyi dropped the boulder he was holding high, and replied calmly: "It's still the same." ”

The man asked again: "The road of the sword is difficult, the road of the sword is confused, the road of the sword is confused, and the road of the sword requires great perseverance and perseverance, have you realized it?"

"No complaints, no regrets. ”

"Why did you learn swords?"

"Because," Si Yi smiled calmly, but the resolute look in his eyes did not diminish at all, "Because from now on, my name is Chu Xunyu......"

The man nodded with satisfaction, and then gently put his hand on Siyi's shoulder, silently, the surrounding environment quietly changed, and appeared in a strange place. Siyi looked at the scene in front of him and was surprised, he had never been here, but what appeared in the field of vision was piles of weapons and magic weapons, etc., etc., countless and countless, piled up into mountains, some were upside down on the ground, and some were hanging on the treetops, as high as several zhang. Looking at the hill, Siyi looked at the man suspiciously.

Such an expression was obviously expected by the man, and the man said quietly: "Here, there are the relics of the people I have killed, as well as the things of the monks who have fallen here since I came here, everything that is intact has been collected and piled up here by me, you go and take a look, but you have to remember that what you need is a sword." ”

Si Yi looked at this situation in his heart, and couldn't help but be shocked, it turned out that so many people came to these two poles in history, it seems that he was really a frog at the bottom of the well before, and he thought that not many people dared to come, and it was not recorded in the classics at home, it does not mean that there is none.

Seeing that there was no greed in Siyi's eyes, the man was greatly satisfied, the word "greed" is one of the biggest obstacles to sword cultivation, if you take it when you see the treasure, then the great perseverance will be gone, and before Siyi can do it, he will kill him first.

Step by step into the hill, Siyi's eyes are also looking around, the sky here is white, perhaps it should be said that it is miserable, not a single cloud can be seen, there is a white and miserable feeling, the land here, there are grass everywhere, but there is a little vitality. These scattered things around it seem to be indeed as the man said, there are all dynasties and generations, and it seems that there are all kinds of exercises to practice, including medicine cultivation, Buddha cultivation, sword cultivation, etc., and there are even many that I can't see the way.

So many things, once when the master was still alive, how brilliant, how glorious, but now, lying here quietly, the glory of the past is gone. Looking at such a scene, Siyi was also disappointed in his heart, and he didn't know what to choose.

Standing in the center, he suddenly remembered that the man said that he needed a sword cultivator's sword, so Si Yi paid attention to it, not far away, there happened to be a black long sword stuck obliquely in the soil, and at first I thought it was a black stick, because there was no difference between the sword body and the hilt, and it was all because its sword protection was too short.

Curiously walked over, touched it with his hand, the sword body was cold, bladeless, but it gave people a feeling of being extremely sharp, Siyi's heart was inexplicably trembling into the brain, a faint sad atmosphere filled the surroundings, tears were about to burst out, and the mouth lamented: "Why is this sword so desolate? ”

Having made up his mind, he turned around and shouted to the man not far away, "I'll choose it." ”

The man's expression was stunned, his brows furrowed slightly, and he couldn't help but say, "This sword ......"