Chapter Twenty-Three: The Witch God Order
In the Sword Pavilion, the two sat opposite each other, and although Yuan Qi wanted to listen to their conversation, he was still sent into the house by the master.
"Your apprentice has good qualifications, and he is also a good person! I can see that he cares about you very much, so it's better to let him listen to it!" Beichen said.
"In a good Puyu, it needs to be tempered, he lacks crisis, and he always keeps himself in a comfortable state, which is what worries me the most!" Tuke said.
Beichen smiled slightly, waved his big hand, put two pots of wine on the table, took one pot for himself, and gave the other pot to Tuke.
Tuke's eyes touched slightly, he filled himself with a glass, touched Beichen, drank it all, and said, "It's been a long time since I've drunk this spirit!"
"Wild wine, drink is refreshing!" Beichen stared at Tuke and said heavily, "It's been ten years, I've been in the Central Plains for ten years, I've been to all places, I've drunk wine from all over the place, but I still miss the taste of my hometown!"
Tuke shook his head and said: "Each has its own merits, although the wild wine is strong, the boldness of drinking it all can indeed make people feel happy, but it lacks endless stamina, although the wine of the Central Plains is not strong enough, but the stamina is full, if you taste it carefully, it will have a different taste!"
"Then do you like the wilderness, or do you prefer the Central Plains!" Beichen asked flatly.
"I don't like it, it's just that I've been staying for a long time, it's just a matter of getting used to it!" Tuke stared at his wine glass, took a sip, and tasted back: "People are like this, there are many times, habits are the most important!"
"Look at you like this, it's a good life!" Beichen also took a sip and tasted back, "In the past ten years, I have traveled a lot of places and experienced a lot of things with a down-and-out body, and now I am thinking back to the events of the year, and I still have some regrets in my heart!"
"You and I can sit here and drink together, it proves that you have let go!" Tuke looked at Beichen and said, "I still remember that Master once said that among the three of us, you are the youngest, although you are excellent in archery, but you have a lot of obsessions, and Hongchen training your heart is the key to your breakthrough." ”
Beichen nodded, was silent for a moment, and looked at Tuke: "What about you?"
"I'm different from you, when I left, I had already made it clear that I had no relationship with the wilderness!" Tuke responded, "Over the years, the wilderness has been friendly with the Central Plains, and I have no intention of attacking, although I am dissatisfied with Simon's actions in my heart, but now I am relieved!"
Beichen didn't say a word, picked up the wine glass and took a sip slowly.
"You're not here to talk to me, what the hell is going on, tell me!" Tuke picked up the topic.
A gray token appeared on the table, and the token was engraved with three large characters "Sacrifice to the Gods".
Tuke glanced at the token indifferently: "I have been away from the wilderness for many years, do you think that his sacrifice to the gods will be revered by me?"
Beichen still didn't speak, and drank another glass of wine on the table. With a flash of spiritual light, the sacrificial decree rose into the air, emitting a jet-black aura that manifested another token phantom.
"This is!" Tuke was shocked, on the phantom of the token, a carved picture came to life, it was a scene of escape, corpses were all over the field, wives and wives were scattered, everywhere, and at the top, a demon opened its scarlet mouth, and its bloodthirsty eyes were staring at the crowd below, although it was a reflection, it seemed to be in it!
"Witch God Order!" Tuke's face was solemn, he stood up, stared at the reflection carefully, and asked, "The Witch God Order has appeared again?"
Beichen nodded: "If it weren't for that, I wouldn't have come to you!" The current wilderness is not stable, the seal of the Witch God Tomb still needs to be strengthened, and no one knows the formation better than you in the wilderness, so it is necessary for you to strengthen the seal!"
"I'll think about it!" Turke's face showed a rare hesitation as he turned and went to the study without looking back.
"Okay! I'll stay here for the next few days, waiting for your news!" Beichen looked at Tuke's back and sighed, "You still care about the wilderness!"
In the early morning of the next day, Yuan got up very early, although his cultivation was sealed, he still did his homework every day, and he still did not slack off. In the courtyard, Beichen also swept away the decadent appearance of that day, changed into a blue dress, holding a black longbow, heroic and domineering. At this time, he was carefully wiping against the longbow.
"Brother Beichen! It's early!" Yuan Qi greeted.
"Little brother, where are you going?" asked Beichen.
"I'm going to cut bamboo! This is what Master asked me to do!" Yuan Qi responded.
"Uh, then take me with you, I'll have nothing to do when I slow down!" Beichen picked up his longbow and smiled at Yuan Qi.
Yuan Qiqi answered! Suddenly, I saw a figure of Edgeworth leaving, it was his master Tuke, and when he reacted, the person had already flown away, and if he looked at the direction, it was the location of the Palace of Absolute Love.
As if he had expected it, a smile hung on the corner of Beichen's mouth, and he signaled, "Let's go!"
Yuan Qi was puzzled, and for some reason, he had an ominous premonition.
"Brother Beichen, it's here!" Yuan got up and went to the bamboo forest, picked up an axe, and skillfully chopped it at the bamboo joint.
"Little brother, how long have you been with your master!" Beichen asked, standing aside.
"Brother Beichen, my name is Yuan Qi, you can call me Xiaoqi, I only entered the master's door half a year ago!" Yuan Qi said as he chopped bamboo.
"Then what does your master usually do?" Beichen was very concerned about Tuke's life here.
"Actually, it's nothing special, it's just to deal with some things in the door, and I will sit in the courtyard and drink every night, just like yesterday!" Yuan Qi responded.
Beichen nodded, not knowing what he was thinking, and did not speak.
"Brother Beichen, what is the matter with you coming to the master this time!" Yuan Qi remembered the incident when the master hurried to the Palace of Despair just now, and couldn't help but connect the two.
"Xiaoqi!" Beichen asked casually, "How do you get along with Master?"
"Master has been very kind to me, and has saved my life several times!" Yuan Qi agreed with Master Tuke, "If it weren't for Master, I wouldn't be where I am today."
"Then what will happen to you if your master wants to leave Qingcheng!" Beichen asked calmly.
Yuan Qi was stunned and looked at Beichen in surprise.
Beichen nodded, acquiesced in Yuan Qi's guess, and said: "I don't know, everything depends on his own decision, no one can influence it!"
"What happened?" asked Yuan Qi.
"You'll know when your master comes back!" Beichen explained.
In the Hall of Despair, Tuke knelt in the hall, and Wan Qing's face was flustered for the first time.
"Brother Tu!" Wan Qing frowned, "Why do you want to resign from the position of Sword Elder, do you want to leave Qingcheng?"
"Please atone for your sins, I have a reason why I have to go back!" Tuke's face was resolute.
"Have you forgotten what Simon did to you back then?"
"In the face of righteousness, all grievances are not important!" Tuke explained, "The wilderness is very unstable at the moment, if it is just Simon's sacrificial order, I don't care at all, but this witch god order is not trivial, it is rumored that once the witch god comes out, it will not only be the wilderness that suffers, but also the Central Plains, so I must leave!"
Wan Qing picked up Tuke and sighed: "Old friend, today's Central Plains is also an eventful autumn, if you leave, it will be equivalent to cutting off my Qingcheng arm!"
"The boss is serious!" Tuke said, "Before I leave, everything will definitely be dealt with, and I don't think Qingcheng Mountain will be affected by this!"
"What about Yuan Qi, do you still have an apprentice here?" Wan Qing asked.
"I'll take care of this, he'll understand!" Tuke sighed as well.
"Then if your trip is over, you will go back to Qingcheng Mountain!" Wan Qing was very reluctant, but also hoped that Tuke would leave a promise.
"Brother Wan, you have the grace of knowing me, after the end of this trip, if my life is still alive, I will definitely return to Qingcheng!" Tuke couldn't bear to refuse, so he had to leave a glimmer of hope, although he knew that this hope was very slim.
"In that case, my position as the sword elder of Qingcheng Mountain will always be kept for you until the day you return!" Wan Qing's voice was a little firm.
"Thank you, master!" Tuke was a little moved, and said helplessly, "I'm afraid I won't have a chance to see this fairy sword conference!"
"Leaving so soon?" Wan Qing was surprised.
Tuke nodded: "I'll go and explain the affairs of the door!"
Holding the Sword Pavilion, Yuan Qi felt very bad, since he heard the news that the master was leaving, he was completely stunned!
Tuke's face changed slightly, and he glared at Beichen.
"Don't look at me, you can do it yourself!" Beichen spread his hands, expressing his helplessness, he didn't expect that Yuan Qi would be so intent on restraint.
Tuke was stared at by Yuan Qi like this, a little overwhelmed, and scolded with a smile: "Stinky boy, what do you see, Master is not a beauty!"
"Master, take me with you! Xiao Qi wants to follow you!" Yuan Qi said.
"No!" Tuke flatly refused, "I'm not here to play in the mountains and rivers, your cultivation is still shallow, so let's stay in Qingcheng Mountain honestly!"
"But if the master leaves, what should I do if Xiao Qi is gone, this Sword Pavilion is still called the Sword Pavilion without the master?" Yuan Qi's voice was slightly crying.
"Don't worry about this, I've already talked to the head of the sect, the elders of Qingcheng Mountain, whatever you choose, they won't refuse!" Tuke assured.
"No, I don't want it, I just want Master!" Yuan Qi's tone was firm.
"Why do you bother!" Tuke sighed, "There is no banquet in the world, you are talented and intelligent, sooner or later you will achieve great things, if you are interested, take care of you and my master and apprentice, you can go to the wilderness to find me in the future!"
"Master, do you have to go?" persuasion was useless, and Yuan Qi was very unwilling.
Tuke nodded: "It's imperative, let's go in a few days." ”
Yuan Qi looked at the master without saying a word, turned around and silently returned to the room. When he arrived at the house, he couldn't hold back his crying anymore, just like when Uncle Gu was in the past.
In the next few days, Tuke went out early and returned late every day to arrange his affairs before leaving, Yuan Qi put down his homework and prepared a sumptuous dinner for the master every night, which really made Tuke startled, and marveled that Yuan Qi's cooking skills were so good, and he had made dinner in vain during this time, but he was also very happy, because he was leaving, at least in terms of eating, there was no need to worry.
On the afternoon before Tuke was leaving, Yuan Qi sat in the courtyard, holding a piece of wood, and a carving knife in his hand carefully recalled the posture of the town during the duel between Master and Beichen that day, and carved it gently. The master is leaving, what is his specialty, the only thing he likes is carving, I think the master should like it.
On a mountain in the distance, Tuke and Beichen stood side by side, observing Yuan Qi in the courtyard. The skillful sword skill surprised Beichen, and he looked at Tuke suspiciously, but on the other hand, Tuke's face did not change at all, as if everything had nothing to do with him.
"This kind of knife skill, the wrist strength is brought into full play, and the proportion is almost perfect, it is by no means something that can be practiced overnight!" Beichen exclaimed, "Isn't this the person you have been looking for who can inherit your scimitar?"
Tuke was still silent, still watching so quietly, on the day he received the apprentice, he had already seen that Yuan Qi had a slender wrist, although he looked no different from ordinary people, but what kind of person he was, such a strong wrist strength could not be practiced overnight, and in the later contact, he found that he paid great attention to details, whether it was practicing or doing things, his strength and proportion were very good. What a match between this and his scimitar skills, but if it is peaceful today, he always has a mind in his heart. That's why I hesitated.
"Senior brother, do you remember the scene when we apprenticed?" Tuke said slowly after a long time.
Beichen said silently: "Of course I remember, the three great stunts of the wilderness, bows and arrows, scimitars and witchcraft, were controlled by the three of us at that time!"
"That's right, in the wilderness, the scimitar represents killing, when I was in charge of the scimitar, the killing caused by the scimitar was actually no less than Simon, and then I was disheartened, and when I arrived in the Central Plains, my heart was calm, and I regretted the original killing, you asked me where the scimitar was, I can tell you now, I lost it!" Tuke turned his head, looked at Beichen, and said solemnly, "If Hongchen's heart training is the key to your breakthrough, then this scimitar is the shackles that have been imprisoning my cultivation." ”
Beichen thought about it carefully, picked up the bow and arrow on his back and looked at it again, and asked, "In this way, the strongest point may become an obstacle to breakthrough?"
"Maybe, maybe not, I've been in Qingcheng Mountain for so many years, the Central Plains' cultivation method has long been familiar and can't be more familiar, Taoism pays attention to everything and goes with the flow, pursues the original heart, and the cultivation of the state of mind is the top priority. The so-called three thousand avenues, that is, different people have different paths, only to find the way that fits with themselves, in order to chase to the extreme, my scimitar is extremely murderous, rash practice, I am afraid that it will affect its heart, even if I can finally be as detached as I am, but it is just to follow my old path. Tuke looked at the sky and said lightly.
"What's wrong?" Beichen asked, sensing that Tuk was serious.
"You and I have been away from the wilderness for nearly ten years, Simon is in the position of sacrificing gods, your archery and my sword attack, I am afraid that he has already mastered it, and with his own witchcraft, our trip can be described as more than lucky!" Tuke said.
"Hmph, I'm afraid of what he's doing, and he's not alone in improving, the strength of you and me is already different from what it used to be, plus now that the witch god order has been born, he also has scruples, and when the time comes, it's time to settle the general account with him ten years ago. At the mention of Simon, a chill flashed on Beichen's handsome face.
"Don't do that!" said Tuke, "no matter what he has done before, the Witch God Decree is the most important thing, and it must not be in direct conflict unless it is absolutely necessary, have you forgotten what Master said before he died?"
Beichen was silent, holding the bow and arrow on his back tightly.
"It's not getting early, let's go back, we'll leave early tomorrow morning!" Tuke turned around and left first.
In the evening, in the courtyard of the Sword Pavilion, Yuan Qi made a table of meals early, and the three of them sat at the table and ate it, and Tuke rarely smiled and praised him for making delicious food.
"In two days, the Fairy Sword Contest will begin, and I haven't seen you sign up, I don't know what you think?" Tuke asked as he ate.
"Master, my injuries haven't healed yet, even if I sign up, I'll just make others laugh at that time!" Yuan Qi said.
"It's okay! This time you should be to increase your knowledge! You haven't been cultivating for a long time, and you lack actual combat experience, so learning more from other people will be beneficial in the future!" Tuke said.
"Yes, disciple knows!" Yuan Qi lowered his head, took out a puppet from his arms, and handed it to the master, "Master, the disciple knows that he can't keep you, this is a wooden figure I carved, and the disciple wants to give it to the master." ”
Tuke was stunned for a moment, and took it, the wood was very small, and the carving was exactly what he looked like when he faced off with Beichen, and the carving was very realistic, especially the strand of hair on the corner of his mouth, which was lifelike, which moved his heart for a while.
"Haha!" Beichen laughed, took the wooden man, looked left and right, and said, "Little Brother Yuan, why don't you carve one for me, I was also very handsome that day!"
Yuan Qi was embarrassed: "Brother Beichen, if you want it, I'll go back and carve one for you!"
"No need!" Beichen shook his head, "Don't get me wrong, I really want it, but I'm afraid it's too late, we're going to leave early tomorrow morning, if there's still a chance to meet, you're carving one for me!"
With tears in his eyes, Yuan Qi looked at Beichen, then at Master, and nodded heavily!
"I'll see you again!" Yuan Qi swore in his heart!