Volume 1: The Seven Stars of the Twilight of the World Chapter 53 Re-light Enlightenment
Sword Saint Li Mubai, and finally the sword soared, and the world heard more than he saw. Since then, the Li family has lived in seclusion in Wuyi Mountain in South Vietnam for generations, and no peerless master has been born, and the sword and the unparalleled sword qi have become mythical existences.
Until Li Chongguang, the child, came into the world like a child.
When Li Chongguang was born, he didn't have the legendary visions of Xia Guang Ruicai, but the doll's cry was louder than that of ordinary children.
Originally, the parents thought that this child could study hard, and he would become an official in the future, or a business bank. If he doesn't want him to revive the lintel, at least he can seek peace in troubled times, as for the name Chongguang, according to his grandfather, this kid is destined to regain the power of the Sword Saint.
Everyone just thought it was an old man's joke, but they didn't expect that the child would begin to read and write at the age of three or four, and his extraordinary spirituality would be revealed.
At this age, ordinary children are probably still at the age of playing with mud, throwing stones, or following the big children's buttocks as minions, but Li Chongguang prefers to be alone, and is particularly obsessed with the obscure mental methods left by Li Mubai.
By the time he was five years old, Chongguang was not only literate with 3,000 words, but also rarely in the mood to play with the people around him. His favorite thing to do was to comprehend those unparalleled sword qi mental methods handed down by the Li family alone at Jiuqu Creek, where it was said that Li Mubai had attained the sword enlightenment.
"The intention is too empty, the sword is ninefold, there is no matchless and no edge, and the red dragon is ......"
Imagine a five- or six-year-old child, with his back to the mountains and rivers, sitting silently all day long, only when the wind caresses the corners of his clothes, people can realize that it is not a sculpture, and in the eyes of ordinary people, this is obviously a demon.
Naturally, his mother was distressed, and at first she always tried every means to prevent him from meditating and forced him to go home on time, but after all, she couldn't resist this stubborn child. In the end, Mother Li, who loved her son, had to carry the food box herself and deliver it to Chongguang with three meals a day, not wanting the child to be hungry.
The place where the enlightenment is restored is a flat stone platform protruding from the cliff, and below the platform is the Jiuqu Creek with nine bends and eighteen bends, and there is only a curved path overgrown with thorns when you ascend the stone platform. The mother and son twisted their tempers, and the mother did not listen to her son's dissuasion, insisting on climbing mountains and mountains to deliver food for three meals a day, and was often stabbed by thorns and bruised all over her body.
Chongguang became more and more obsessed with the Enlightenment Sword, and he seemed to feel that the wisp of sword soul left by the Sword Saint in Jiuquxi was waiting to meet him, but the stronger this feeling was, the more indestructible the barrier erected between them became.
The mental method that no one has been able to understand for hundreds of years is not something that can be understood by a sentence of extraordinary talent, whether the Illusory Realm really exists, whether the Nine Heavens are connected to this world, what the peerless sword qi is like, and whether the legendary beast red dragon has really appeared, these questions often make Li Chongguang's mood unable to calm down.
From the age of five to ten, a child, regardless of the cold or heat, always sat on the stone platform, and his mother, a petite woman, also insisted on shuttling on the mountain road.
Finally, one evening, when his mother sat aside again, silently watching Chongguang finish the food and was about to turn to leave, Chongguang suddenly called out to his mother, "Thank you mother for all her hard work over the years." ”
As calm as her usual tone, but this sudden thank you still made Mother Li feel a little unusual, she couldn't help but stop, turned her head to look at the son who was silent, "Chongguang, what's wrong with you?"
"Mother, I want you to see something. ”
Mother Li is even more curious, this child has always been immersed in his own world, how can he not only take the initiative to communicate with himself today, but also seem to have a trace of excitement.
"This is a flowing cloud handed down from our ancestors. ”
As he spoke, Li Chongguang pulled out the ancient sword that had been following him. The scabbard had obviously gone through the vicissitudes of life, not only with stains of rust, but also with the tendons at the hook polished to a dark and shiny color. But once the sword was unsheathed, the killing intent on the double blades suddenly became cold, making Mother Li, who didn't know swordsmanship, shudder.
Although Liuyun sharpened iron like clay, after all, his body length was less than three feet, which was much shorter than an ordinary sword.
"I've always felt the presence of the ancestors above. Li Chongguang faced Li's mother, but he seemed to be talking to himself.
"The ancestors said that the heavy sword has no edge, and the long sword has no edge...... In fact, I've always wanted to find this sword without edges. The son's words were incomprehensible to his mother, but she was his only listener at the moment, and the most devout listener.
"Mother, I think I've found this sword. ”
Although the last sentence made Li Mu still a little confused, she trembled inexplicably in her heart, "Guang'er, what did you say? What did you find?"
"I've found the Peerless Sword......
Li Chongguang slowly stood up, holding the flowing cloud in his hand, and waved it behind his mother, Li Mu instantly felt as if there was a strong wind blowing from her side, and when she wanted to turn around and look again, there was a loud click behind her, and then, as far as the eye could see, a small tree with a thick bowl mouth ten zhang away was actually broken into two at the waist, and the section was flat as if it had been cut off by an axe.
Mother Li's body froze suddenly, and she was speechless for a long time. Although she doesn't practice martial arts, she has only one conclusion, but the genealogy is inherited and the clan is legacious.
"Guang'er, you, you can actually manipulate sword qi?"
"Hmm. Li Chongguang nodded.
Mother Li couldn't be as calm as Li Chongguang, threw away the food box in her hand, rushed forward, and hugged her son in her arms, ten-year-old Li Chongguang was not small, his head was attached to Mother Li's chin, Mother Li pointed her chin on the top of her son's head, and her voice was trembling with excitement, "Guang'er, you are only ten years old, you can master the unparalleled sword qi......?"
Li Chongguang was almost out of breath by Li's mother's embrace, although he was also very excited, but he was extraordinarily calm on the surface, ignoring his mother's muttering, he said to himself, "This sword qi should not be unparalleled, whether it is distance or strength, it is far from the ancestor's sword qi." ”
"Guang'er, you are only ten years old, and you don't even have a teacher, you have realized the unparalleled sword qi on your own, in the eyes of Wei Niang, you are already the most superb person in the world in swordsmanship. Now that you have enlightened, let's go, go home with your mother tonight, and let your father see the real swordsmanship of our Li family......"
Unexpectedly, Li Chongguang interrupted Mother Li's words, "Mother, I can only occasionally feel how the sword qi is stimulated, but I can't control it yet, and besides, what the ancestor said is too void and ninefold, I can't understand it yet." I'm going to continue to do my best here, and I'm trying to find out if the Red Dragon is still here. ”
Mother Li is familiar with her son's temper, and Li Chongguang's decision will not change, but she still can't suppress the excitement in her heart, "Okay, Guang'er, you have to take care of your body, it's cold at night, remember to add more quilts when you sleep in the shack, I'll go back and tell you the news first, the dead ghost father, he has no talent himself, and he can't feel the existence of sword qi at all, so he has been following those who have nothing to do, and wondering if his ancestors have lied." ”
In the forest not far from Shitai, Li Mu asked the craftsman to build a sturdy shack for Li Chongguang, so that even if Li Chongguang did not go home, he could have a place to rest. After Mother Li finished explaining, she happily went back to report to her master.
Li Chongguang's father, Li Wanzong, although he also has the fists and feet of the three-legged cat to defend himself, he himself does not believe in these legends handed down from his ancestors, and he is committed to the world of business, selling cloth.
Although it is not a material for martial arts, Li Wanzong has a good way of doing business, and his business is booming. In his eyes, Li Chongguang didn't know what kind of bewitchment he had, and he stubbornly insisted on understanding the sword and arguing about the Tao, which made him unacceptable as a father.
Wushuang sword qi, the Li family's lost school, his son actually participated, Li's mother happily ran home, must tell the good news to the shopkeeper of the family, one is that his son actually realized the unparalleled sword qi, and the other also wants to take this opportunity to bridge the gap between the father and son.
"Really?" Sure enough, as Mother Li expected, Li Wanzong heard that his son had realized the unparalleled sword qi, his eyes widened, he believed that his wife would not lie to himself, and that disobedient son, if he could come to this point, could it really be the ancestor manifestation.
Li Wanzong specially cooked sheep and slaughtered cattle for this purpose, and went to the ancestral hall of the Li family to worship the ancestors of the past dynasties, where the spirit tablets of the ancestors of the Li family were enshrined.
"Ma'am. In the end, Li Wanzong was still a little worried, "I will secretly follow when I have the opportunity to go back, you let that kid use his sword qi again, and let me see if that kid has done something." ”
"You don't know you kid," Mrs. Li said angrily, "he is so arrogant, how could he want to rely on lies to win our attention." ”
However, Mrs. Li understood what her master meant, that he also wanted to see her son, which was exactly what Mrs. Li really wanted.
On the stone platform, Li Chongguang's joy of comprehending the sword qi did not last long, but he felt that he was being clutched tighter and tighter by a sense of powerlessness. Too Void, Ninefold, Red Dragon...... He silently meditated on the existence of these mental methods in his heart, and asked himself in confusion and helplessness, what does this peerless sword qi have to do with these things.
In the evening of the next day, Li Wanzong finished his business for the day, and watched Mrs. Li carefully pack up the food box, and couldn't help urging Mrs. Li to be more nimble.
Mrs. Li is funny in her heart, her husband always has a serious face, but whenever he encounters something, he is always more composable than his own light. But it was not easy to dismantle the master, so under his repeated urging, he quickened his hands and feet, and the couple helped each other to march towards the stone platform on the mountain.
As the mountain road became more and more difficult to walk, Li Wanzong took the food box in his wife's hand and couldn't help complaining, "This mountain road is so difficult to walk, it's really embarrassing for Mrs. Hmph, that unscrupulous son, I didn't teach him a good lesson after I went up, and hurt my mother to work so hard every day. ”
Mrs. Li held Li Wanzong's wrist, "What did the master say, but I think Guang'er is so assertive, and he is the one who really achieves great things." Isn't the daily work of the master and me just for the sake of our Li family's ability to live and everything to prosper. ”
Thinking that Li Wanzong was in a good mood, he listened to his wife's persuasion, but he didn't refute it, but just looked at the remote mountain road, there was no one around, and he also held his wife's wrist tightly in his hand.
The mountain road is difficult, the wild forest is dense, the afterglow of the setting sun is blocked by the lush branches and leaves, just halfway up the mountain, the figure of the couple is covered by the mottled shadows of the trees, the two have to light a lantern to illuminate, when they bow their heads and concentrate on hurrying, there is a sudden faint cry of a young woman in the depths of the dense forest, "Help!"