Chengping ten years, for Xu Beiyou, is an extremely unusual year, in this year, he met his master Gongsun Zhongmou, after a cicada for a sword, he not only had to see the world's first sword Zhu Xian, but also got the first sword in his life, Tianlan.

After the separation of the old and the young, Gongsun Zhongmou hesitated, but still carried the sword box to the small square village.

Maybe he had the intention to plant flowers and flowers, and he unintentionally planted willows and willows, this time Gongsun Zhongmou met Han Xuan, who had just returned home, in that small courtyard.

Han Xuan sat on the recliner that had been lying for almost ten years, patted his knees gently, closed his eyes and hummed the nameless tune.

Gongsun Zhongmou did not jump over the firewood that was only half a person high, but stretched out his hand and knocked lightly.

"Knock on the wood, because the old man came. Han Xuan opened his eyes and said softly: "I am happy to have friends from afar, please come in." ”

Gongsun Zhongmou pushed open the half-hidden firewood door and said softly, "I thought you didn't want to see me." ”

Han Xuan smiled, "You are an earth immortal of the seventeenth floor realm, I am just a powerless old man, where can I hide?" ”

Gongsun Zhongmou looked up at the high northwest sky above his head, "I didn't expect you to really stay in this cold place for ten years. ”

Han Xuan said calmly: "The northwest is my hometown, I was born and grew up in Si, since I have resigned, where can I go if I don't come here?"

Gongsun Zhongmou smiled bitterly, "Hometown." ”

Han Xuan got up and said, "Since you came from afar, please come into the house and talk about it." ”

The old man with the big sword box on his back shook his head, "No, just say it in the courtyard." ”

Han Xuan didn't force it, and said, "What are you doing here to find me, a dying old man, I am no longer the second assistant of the cabinet, you should go to Lan Yu." ”

Gongsun Zhongmou said: "The gain and loss of power is only temporary, I think that in less than ten years, you will definitely be able to make a comeback and return to the temple." ”

Han Xuan smiled and asked, "Why?"

Gongsun Zhongmou said softly: "The era of martial arts has passed, and in the future, it will be the world ruled by civil officials, and it is also the world of civil officials, the three heroes of the Great Qi of the year, Xu Yan is dead, Duanmu Ruisheng has transferred to the Dark Guard Mansion, only you can balance the blue jade, and the new monarch wants to suppress the blue jade who has been sitting in the temple for decades, and it will inevitably bring you back up." ”

Han Xuan shook his head and said: "It's too early to say, if a new tree can appear on the temple to support the beams, then it will become a joke for me to wait for the price and sell it all these years, and I can only spend the rest of my life in this bitter cold place. ”

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Gongsun Zhongmou was noncommittal, and said instead: "I have seen that child. ”

Han Xuan was slightly stunned and smiled: "You mean Beiyou, this kid, what do you think?"

Gongsun Zhongmou said with emotion: "Although the qualifications are not top-notch, he has a good heart and is a good seedling, and I want him to inherit my kendo." ”

Han Xuan smiled and played: "It's just kendo?"

Gongsun Zhongmou said calmly: "Today's Sword Sect is not as good as before, and I don't have any disciples, if I inherit my Sword Dao, I will inevitably take over the burden of the Sword Sect, as for whether I can become the next Sword Sect Master, it is still too early to say." ”

Han Xuan sighed and said: "You have walked all over the world all these years, but you don't even have a descendant, although I have no cultivation, but I am somewhat proficient in some of the techniques of watching people and looking at qi, looking at your face, it seems that it is not the appearance of longevity, since you are only one floor away from the realm of the eighteenth floor, why bother." ”

Gongsun Zhongmou looked resolute, and said in a deep voice: "The Sword Sect has passed into my hands, and I can't let the Sword Sect return to its former glory, but I must do something, otherwise what kind of face will I have to meet the ranking ancestor of the Sword Sect." ”

Han Xuan was silent for a moment and asked, "Gongsun Zhongmou, are you serious?"

Gongsun Zhongmou said softly: "When I talk about business, I never laugh. ”

Han Xuan nodded and sighed: "This child's background is a little strange, I originally wanted him to be unknown for the rest of his life, spend his life peacefully, and don't get involved in those troubled waters again, but since you have taken a fancy to him, I won't stop you, just make a ten-year covenant with you, how about it?"

"Ten years of appointment?" Gongsun Zhongmou frowned slightly.

"Now he's still a kid, so you and I will wait another ten years, and after ten years, let him choose for himself. Han Xuan said slowly: "At that time, he will also be crowned, no matter what the result is, it is his own choice." ”

Gongsun Zhongmou pondered silently for a long time, nodded and said: "It just so happens that there are still some things in Jiangdu, I want to go back and come to the northwest in ten years." ”

Han Xuan glanced at the sky, "That kid is coming back soon, can't you see it?"

Gongsun Zhongmou shook his head, turned around and left the place in silence.

Han Xuan sat back on the recliner, and it didn't take long for Chai Fei to be pushed away from the outside again, and Xu Beiyou walked in with a sheathed long sword that was almost as tall as himself, "Mr. Sir, today I met an old man, and he gave me a sword!"

"The name of the sword is Tianlan, the sky is the sky of the sky, Lan is a mountain above, a wind below, there is a saying to describe this sword, it is called cast in response to the breath of the eight directions, it is indestructible, it is a rare good sword. Han Xuan said with a smile.

Xu Beiyou asked curiously, "Sir, do you know that old man?"

Han Xuan said softly: "If you leave Xiaofangzhai in the future, go out of the northwest, and be able to get in touch with those monks who come and go, you will know how vast the outside world is, in that vast world, there are sword immortals who can travel 90,000 miles with a sword, you put away this sword, maybe you can become a sword immortal in the future." ”

Xu Beiyou, who was a little inexplicable, nodded heavily.

Han Xuan said to himself: "Gongsun Zhongmou wants you to hold up a sword sect, I won't stop it, but now you can't hold it, the larvae of the cicada must first dive into the ground and lie dormant for ten years before they can break through the ground, and then the golden cicada will shed its shell and fly high, so I will keep you for ten years, and after ten years, it will be handed over to Gongsun Zhongmou, and he will polish you, and then it will soar into the sky." ”

The early winter of the twenty-second year of Chengping.

In Han Xuan's study, the father and son sat around the stove, Han Xuan told Xu Beiyou about the events of the year, it was already late at night, but Han Xuan was not tired at all, and kept talking about his plan with Gongsun Zhongmou, so he became even more excited, and even his voice was a little louder.

Xu Beiyou knew that Mr. and Master had such a conversation back then, touched his chin, and said: "I was still young at the time, and my mind was full of the scene of Zhu Xian coming out of the box, but I didn't remember much of these details, I only remember that at that time, Mr. You yourself were there chattering and cooing, but the voice was still very low, I listened to it for a long time and didn't hear that I was ugly, so I simply didn't listen, let alone go to my heart." ”

Han Xuan said helplessly: "Play the piano to the cow." ”

Xu Beiyou nodded and said: "It's almost like playing the piano to the cow, at that time I didn't read, I didn't know a few big characters, and I never went out of the house, what did you tell me about the outside world, I naturally didn't know anything, and I didn't understand what cicadas have to do with ten years." ”

Han Xuan smiled: "Now you understand?"

Xu Beiyou listened to the sound of rustling snow outside, and said softly: "Now I naturally understand, but unfortunately the master is no longer there." ”