After the death of the head of the Qing family, Phantom Cloud Hall dominated Qingping County. And because of the death of the head of the Qing family, the status of the Qing family plummeted. Although there were still five acquired level masters in their family, they could not recover the decline. Phantom Cloud Hall occupied all the minerals of the Qing family, and the wealth expanded rapidly.

Among them, the head of the Murong family and the head of the Lei family were already stuck in the consummation of the acquired realm, and after obtaining the inheritance of the black and white bosses, they had a lot of resources to support them, and in three days, they successively achieved innate succession.

The strength of Phantom Cloud Hall has taken a big step forward, and during this period, uninvited guests came to visit.

The person who came was a middle-aged man with fairy wind bones, Jian Yu Xing eyebrows, white clothes fluttering, just standing at the door of the Phantom Cloud Hall. The Murong family master and the Lei family master, who were newly promoted to the Innate Realm, walked out of the Phantom Cloud Hall.

Seeing that the person in front of him looked good, the two family heads did not dare to act rashly, among which the Murong family head arched his hand and said, "Dare to ask Mr. why did he come to my Phantom Cloud Hall?"

The middle-aged man said indifferently: "It's okay." ”

The head of the Lei family was a little angry, "It's okay, why are you blocking the door?"

The middle-aged man continued to say indifferently: "Noisy. ”

The head of the Lei family said angrily: "Obviously I am here to find fault, Brother Murong, let's go together." "Now they are also strong in the innate realm, and they have the confidence to speak.

The two came up together, and just wanted to perform a trick, only to see the middle-aged man shake his head helplessly, and then waved his hand, and the head of the Murong family and the head of the Lei family had five or six more sword wounds on their bodies, and they fell to the ground with serious injuries.

The two of them lay on the ground and looked at the middle-aged man in horror, what had just happened? They didn't even know how they were hurt?

A guard standing at the door, seeing this, hurriedly ran into the Phantom Cloud Hall. The middle-aged man didn't stop the guard, he was waiting for the main lord to appear.

After a while, Han Feng walked out of the Phantom Cloud Hall, didn't say anything, and stabbed directly at the middle-aged man with the golden dragon spear.

When he first came out, Han Feng couldn't detect the fluctuations in the middle-aged man's strength, and the guards had just told him that the visitors from outside the door had seriously injured the two elders with a wave of his hand. In the face of such an opponent, he must go all out, this is not a deer world, so he does not have to hide his blood.

I saw that Han Feng's body was shining with golden light, and in a trance, a golden dragon flew out of the golden light and merged into the golden dragon spear. The golden dragon spear in his hand began to change, the head of the spear head appeared, and the body of the spear turned into a dragon body.

Looking at this golden dragon offensive, the bystanders collapsed directly to the ground.

In the face of the sudden attack of the golden dragon, the middle-aged man took out a three-foot sword unhurriedly and swung it lightly to hit the attacking golden dragon. The golden dragon disappeared directly, and at the same time, the golden light on Han Feng's body also faded directly.

The middle-aged man swung his sword again, and eighteen sword wounds directly appeared on Han Feng's body.

Looking at the injured Han Feng, the middle-aged man sighed, "You pretend to be a disciple of my Phantom Cloud Sect, you deserve to die." As he spoke, he began to swing his sword.

Han Feng watched the middle-aged man swing his sword, but his body couldn't move, and the eighteen sword wounds just now directly sealed his acupoint. So he could only smile bitterly in his heart helplessly, and he had no fear of death. Because dying in the Forest of Dreams is not real death, but an exit from the Forest of Dreams.

Just when Han Feng thought that he was going to die and withdraw, a white cloth appeared, and seeing the maple leaves on it, Han Feng suddenly felt that he would not exit the secret realm.

The white-clothed figure was Xingchen, and the thirty-mile radius of this Qinglong Town was under his surveillance. He could naturally see the battle here, so he appeared at this critical time.

After appearing, Xingchen held the Xingyao Sword and directly attacked the air, quickly attacking eighteen times, eighteen flashes of weapon collision appeared in the air, and the sound of eighteen weapon collisions appeared in a row.

Han Feng saw the flash, heard the collision, and exclaimed loudly: ", it turns out that the uncle's attack is invisible. No wonder I couldn't beat him. ”

At this time, Xingchen actually held the Xingyao Sword and closed his eyes.

Han Feng had already regained his mobility, and when he saw Xingchen close his eyes, he said with disdain: "You guy is pretending again, don't tell me, you can still fight with your eyes closed." ”

Xingchen shook his head, "Brother Feng, stay away." "The strange attack of the middle-aged man is indeed invisible, and whether it is sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste, or thoughts, hallucination thoughts, or shadow demon abilities, they cannot detect the existence of the attack. But somehow, the stars could feel the attack.

Han Feng wanted to say something, but Xingchen suddenly held his sword with five sword flowers in a row, blocking the attack. One of the attacks appeared in Han Feng's heart, Han Feng didn't say anything anymore, reached out and patted Xingchen's shoulder, nodded firmly with his eyes, and then walked into the Phantom Cloud Hall without looking back.

Some of the onlookers from the Phantom Cloud Hall also stayed away from here, taking the two seriously injured elders with them.

So a group of people watched from a distance, and a middle-aged man and a teenager fought in the air.

As he was playing, the middle-aged man stopped, and he looked at Xingchen with admiration, "Young man, follow me." ”

Xingchen didn't reply immediately, the middle-aged man smiled, and the sword in his hand stabbed at the sky before he said, "Can I go now?" At this time, the necks of all the subordinates of the Phantom Cloud Hall present were restrained by hidden attacks.

Xingchen nodded at this time, and Han Feng, who was watching the battle from a distance, immediately rushed over and pulled Xingchen along.

Xingchen had no choice but to say, "Brother Feng, I'll be back." Remember, find a way to infiltrate the exploration team of the imperial prince, and the Fire Source Bead may be on the Sea Fire Island. After speaking, Xingchen walked to the middle-aged man's side, flew into the sky with the other party, and disappeared.

On the small Qinglong Mountain not far from Qinglong Town, two figures had just fallen, and another figure appeared beside them, and said coquettishly to the middle-aged man among them: "Master, you are back, alas, why did you bring him?"

The two figures that fell were the middle-aged man and Xingchen who had left Qinglong Town, and the figure waiting here was Ziyun who had been taken away by Xingchen before. After she got back her thousand-mile communication array, she began to contact her master and told her story again. Finally, her master got angry and came out of the Phantom Cloud Mountains.

In the scene before this happened in Qinglong Town, a mysterious master came to challenge, the elder of the Phantom Cloud Hall was seriously injured, and the hall master was slightly injured.

The middle-aged man smiled and said, "I take him, naturally I have my reasoning, Ziyun disciple don't ask more." ”

Ziyun suddenly turned his back to the middle-aged man angrily.

The middle-aged man smiled helplessly, while Xingchen looked at Ziyun with an expressionless face, although the other party had an extraordinary appearance, his personality was not the type Xingchen liked.

Finally, under the order of the middle-aged man, the group of three flew into the sky again and flew into the distance.

After returning to the Phantom Cloud Mountain Range, the middle-aged man took Xingchen into his cave and ordered the five apprentices not to go near his cave no matter what happened.

The other senior brothers didn't feel anything yet, and they scattered one after another, except Ziyun, who stood alone not far from the Shizun Cave Mansion.

At this time, there was no lamp in the cave, but the light was clear, and the walls of the cave were full of swords. In one of the rooms, Xingchen and the middle-aged man sat cross-legged, a foot apart.

When he was just sitting cross-legged, Xingchen was still a little suspicious, did this middle-aged man bring himself here just to meet his eyes?

After Xingchen Fox hesitated for a while, the middle-aged man finally spoke: "My Dao number Phantom Cloud is the head of the Phantom Cloud Sect, and I am also the third owner of the Phantom Cloud Dao Number. Your name is Xingchen, right, and you must be wondering why I brought you back?"

Xingchen nodded.

Only then did the middle-aged man explain: "Because you and I are fellow believers. Otherwise, how could you use your Innate Realm cultivation to detect my attack!"

Xingchen had some questions, "Fellow Daoists?" Also, detect the attack?

Phantom Cloud nodded, and took out his three-foot sword, "My sword is the sword of the hermit, the small is hidden in the mountains, and the big is hidden in the heaven and earth." As he spoke, a sword intent spiritual power came out from the three-foot sharp sword, as if it did not exist in this world at all. With that, Phantom Cloud looked at the stars and made a gesture of please.

Xingchen took out the Xingyao Sword and said: "Junior Xingchen, Dao Sword Xi, my sword is the sword of freedom, for the sake of freedom, I am not afraid of power, and help the weak." As he spoke, the Xingyao Sword swallowed sword intent spiritual power.

Phantom Cloud smiled knowingly, "Very good, it is difficult for one of the ten million swordsmen to embark on the path of swordsmanship." Finally let me meet another fellow believer. I'm not alone. ”

Xingchen put away the Xingyao Sword and bowed his hand: "Dare to ask the seniors for guidance, how to condense the sword soul to control the sword domain?"

Phantom Cloud smiled, "How do you know that I will be able to answer your question?"

Xingchen immediately explained: "To be able to easily defuse my brother's offensive, the senior must be a saint-level strength." Moreover, if the predecessors didn't understand the sword domain, how could they condense the sword intent spiritual power attack in the air. Besides, when my predecessors brought me here, they must have a heart for guidance. ”

Phantom Cloud stared at the stars for a long time before laughing, "You are very smart, I am a guide to you, but unless you promise me a condition." ”

Xingchen immediately said respectfully: "Senior, please say, if the junior can do it, he will do his best." ”

Phantom Cloud waved his hand, and the door of the cave opened, and now Ziyun not far from the door flew in uncontrollably. Only then did Phantom Yun say: "Marry my good apprentice Ziyun as his wife, and I will instruct you." ”

When Ziyun heard Shizun's words, he glanced at Xingchen angrily, "It must be you, bewitching Shizun, and Shizun wants to marry me to you." ”

Xingchen glanced at Ziyun with a look of disgust, "Just you, I don't want to stick it upside down." ”

When Ziyun heard this, he pointed to the stars, "You, you, I'm so good-looking, you actually said no." Then he looked at Phantom Cloud, "Master, lock him up in my cave for a month, the apprentice doesn't believe it, he doesn't have any feelings for the apprentice." ”

Phantom Cloud nodded, "That's a good idea. ”

Seeing this, Xingchen shouted, "Psychotic!" and then immediately wanted to escape, but unfortunately, after the phantom cloud opened the sword domain, he fell into a coma directly.

When the star awoke again, he found himself tied to a pillar in a stone chamber with ropes. With a slight force, the rope broke. Just as he wanted to leave here, Ziyun appeared in front of him and said with a smile: "If you run away, my master will go to Qinglong Town again." ”

Xingchen looked at Ziyun and said in a somewhat unkind tone, "What do you want?"

Ziyun smiled: "Just live with this girl for a month, and at that time, you can leave if you want." For a month, she didn't believe that the stars would have no feelings for her.

Xingchen glanced at Ziyun and sighed, now that his brother Han Feng was in Qinglong Town, he could only stay here for a full month.

In the following time, Xingchen either studied kendo, or practiced the "Water Yuan Pulse Washing Technique". And Ziyun has been dangling in front of Xingchen's eyes, intending to make Xingchen feel for her.

It's a pity that Xingchen just thinks that Ziyun is too dazzling in his heart.

After getting along for three or four days, under the swaying of Ziyun, Xingchen did not make any progress, so he had to play the phantom purple bamboo flute to soothe his heart.

And Ziyun shook in front of the stars once or twice, then stopped shaking, sitting on the side with his hands on his chin and staring at the stars that were playing.

Time passed little by little, and soon another ten days passed. During these ten days, the purple clouds no longer dangled in front of the stars. Whenever the stars played the flute, she would always come over and listen quietly.

Once, Xingchen was playing the flute and remembered his parents, and the flute was full of longing.

Ziyun on the side actually shed tears silently.

Ziyun originally lived in a happy home, and when she was a child, whenever she cried, her father would always play the flute, and her mother would sing lullaby softly. However, all this disappeared in a chaos.

When she was five years old, a large army stormed their home, and her parents were accused of rebellion and died in the chaos, but she was rescued by her master Phantom Cloud and brought back to the Phantom Cloud Mountains.

This time, after Xingchen finished playing, Ziyun took out a folded old piece of paper from his storage ring and handed it to Xingchen, "Xingchen, can you blow this for me?"

Xingchen took the old paper in a daze and sighed: "Although I can pick leaves and blow music, it doesn't mean that I can take an old paper and blow it." ”

Ziyun suddenly said angrily: "It's not the old paper, it's the flute music on it." You can open it and see it. ”

Xingchen opened the old paper at this time, and the flute music on it was composed with Gongshang Jiao Zhengyu, that is, five tones and twelve rhythms. After reading it, Xingchen said: "This is a lullaby, played on a flute, it is not appropriate." ”

Ziyun immediately made a gesture, "If you don't blow, I'll tell Shizun that you want to run." ”

Xingchen immediately surrendered, "Sister Ziyun, my good sister, I'll blow it, can't you do it?"

Ziyun smiled triumphantly, "This time it's about the same. With that, he put away the old paper.

Xingchen picked up the purple bamboo flute, closed his eyes, and quickly recalled the lullaby in his heart before opening his eyes and starting to play.

Soon, the lullaby echoed in the cave. Ziyun closed his eyes and recalled the happy times of his childhood.

When the lullaby ended, Ziyun opened her eyes and looked at Xingchen, at this time, she didn't know that she already had a good impression of Xingchen. One day after that, Ziyun suddenly looked at Xingchen and asked, "Xingchen, I'm very happy with you, what about you?"

Xingchen shook his head, "I don't feel it. ”

When Ziyun heard this, he was a little disappointed in his heart, so he didn't bother with the stars anymore. Soon the sun set on the West Mountain, and in the middle of the night, in the cave, Xingchen's own stone room door was suddenly opened, and Xingchen opened his eyes and found that it was Ziyun.

Just as he wanted to ask, Ziyun stretched out his hand and put it to his mouth, "Shhh ”

Xingchen was a little puzzled, "Why? Didn't you lock me up? Why did you let me go?" ”

Ziyun immediately shouted: "Where are there so many words, let you go because I like ......" As he spoke, he immediately covered his small mouth.

Xingchen asked, "Like me, can't you." I don't like this kind of person. ”

Ziyun was anxious, and immediately said angrily: "What nonsense, who likes you, I mean I can do whatever I like?

Xingchen actually shook his head, "If you don't go, I'm not leaving." I'm just waiting to see you. ”

Ziyun's expression became even more anxious, and he pulled Xingchen towards the outside of the cave, and said as he walked: "If you don't leave, the master will kill you at that time." ”

Xingchen stopped and shook his head, "I see my way here, and I won't go until I get guidance." ”

Ziyun looked at Xingchen with a somewhat struggling expression, and after a long while, he said solemnly, "I'll help you." I pretend to be married to you, and he will naturally guide you. ”

Xingchen looked at Ziyun in disbelief, "Are you crazy? What good will it do you to do that? Once that's the case, your reputation will be ruined." ”

Ziyun turned his back and said angrily: "You don't like me, what do I do, what does it matter to you? Anyway, my temperament is like this, I can do whatever I want! It's just a fake marriage, don't you dare to do this for the sake of the Tao." ”

Xingchen stood there without speaking, turned back to his stone chamber, and continued to close his eyes and recuperate.

Ziyun turned around and saw the back of Xingchen leaving. If she really can't help it, this fake marriage is settled.

Time passed, and soon, the sun was rising, and before the month of January had arrived, Phantom Cloud actually called the stars to his cave.

The two sat opposite each other, Phantom Cloud looked at Xingchen with a relieved expression, and said, "I'm very happy that you and Ziyun can come together." Ziyun has a poor background, so her temper is a little arrogant. I'm glad to hand her over to you. ”

When Xingchen heard this, he didn't know what was going on? It must have been Ziyun who was behind his back and secretly said something to Phantom Cloud, so Phantom Cloud would be like this. It's just that he just wanted to explain, but was directly interrupted by Phantom Cloud, "Since everyone is your own person, I'll talk to you about kendo." ”

Hearing this, Xingchen swallowed his words and changed his words: "Please also ask your seniors to teach you." ”

Only then did Phantom Cloud begin to explain. Kendo, condensing sword intent can be regarded as stepping into the road of swordsmanship, and after that, it is to reach the three levels of heaven, earth and man, in order to condense the sword soul and achieve the holy level.

There are three levels of heaven, earth and man, which are the heavenly soul, the earth spirit, and the popularity. The three are not divided into before and after, like the phantom cloud itself condenses in order, it is the first earth spirit and then the heavenly soul, and finally the five apprentices are collected before they gather popularity. Heaven, earth and man are complete, condensing the sword soul.

"Heaven is ruthless, earthly and humane. Phantom Cloud sighed, and then looked at Xingchen, "Xingchen, although I have gone farther than you on the road of swordsmanship, but kendo is one of the great avenues of the earth, and I can only give you guidance, how to perceive kendo depends on yourself." ”

Xingchen got up directly, then knelt on the ground, and bowed three times and nine times. Although the phantom cloud only shows the stars the way forward, it is gracious and reinvented.

And Phantom Cloud also accepted the gift of three kneels and nine bows from the stars with peace of mind.

After saluting, Xingchen got up and said, "Seniors, juniors need to be guided, and they need to go to the mortal world to practice and practice. I don't know if the seniors can let the juniors leave. ”

Phantom Cloud opened his mouth and asked, "What should I do about you and Ziyun?"

Xingchen replied: "Cultivators have no worries, why rush for a while, Ziyun can go to practice with the juniors." As Xingchen finished speaking, he glanced at Phantom Cloud cautiously.

Hearing Xingchen's words, Phantom Cloud nodded, "It's okay, I won't rush you, Ziyun really hasn't experienced much." When you are done with the experience, it is not too late to form a marriage. Go back too, and I'll do it for you tomorrow. ”

Xingchen got up at this time, now there is only this way, in Phantom Cloud, a clear excuse will only make things worse.

Before, he could shirk it, but now, Phantom Cloud is so happy, it must be something Ziyun said. Now, I'm afraid that Xingchen will show a trace of reluctance again, and Phantom Cloud will do it directly.

Xingchen had a smile on his face and withdrew from the cave, and it wasn't until he entered Ziyun's cave that his expression softened a little.