Chapter 27 Persistence
"Good!"
The applause was thunderous, and the "dry" position was completely another world. Everyone was shouting loudly, obsessed with the two beautiful figures on the stage.
The glow of the amber and Zhu Aya, and the endless blue light of the Tianya Divine Sword, reflect this place as if it were a fairyland on earth, and it is extremely beautiful. But what is even more beautiful is the two young women flying around, this competition from the morning until now, an hour has passed, and the two sides still have no winner. Especially Tian Ling'er of Dazhu Peak, under Lu Xueqi's Tianya Divine Sword, has been supported by attack and defense for so long and has not shown defeat, which is very surprising.
Needless to say, Tian Buyi, Su Ru, Master Shuiyue and other seniors are all in the audience, and even the head of Dao Xuan Zhenren is also sitting on the chair, watching the competition of jΔ«ng Cai, with a smile on his lips and nodding frequently, very pleased.
Tian Buyi and Su Ru were even more nervous, but seeing that Tian Ling'er's Taoism was smart, he did not fall behind at all, and his heart was also relaxed. Tian Buyi glanced at his wife beside him, saw that she looked nervous, and said softly: "Relax, Ling'er is fine." β
Su Ru turned her head to look at her husband, smiled slightly, and turned her head to look at the stage again. Tian Buyi shook his head slightly, and suddenly noticed that the disciples watching behind him, and even the other disciples of the various veins in the distance, were all moving.
He turned his head to look, and for a moment he thought that his cultivation was deep, and he was also stunned for a moment.
In a narrow passage where the crowd automatically moved away, Zhang Xiaofan walked over slowly, his clothes were all burnt, and there was even light smoke in some places, and there were large pieces of burnt black everywhere on his face, hands, and body, and a pungent smell greeted him. Everyone could see that he was walking very hard, as if he had exhausted all his strength with every step, but for some reason he still persistently walked forward, walking.
Tian Buyi just watched his youngest disciple slowly come over, and without saying a word, his short and fat body left his seat and stood up, Su Ru felt something, glanced at her husband strangely, and then realized that something was wrong, followed his gaze, and suddenly his face turned white, and he immediately stood up.
At this time, more people are looking here.
Zhang Xiaofan walked in front of Tian Buyi, Tian Buyi looked at his most neglected disciple in this Pingrì, looking at him who didn't know the so-called stubbornness, but a burst of uncontrollable anger suddenly surged in his heart, this anger was so strong that although he tried his best to suppress it, everyone still heard his anger: "Old Seven, which guy actually hurt you so much, isn't it enough to win?"
Su Ru's body was shocked, and when she heard that her husband was really angry for this little disciple who looked down on her, she was a little worried, and pulled Tian Buyi, but her eyes immediately fell on Zhang Xiaofan.
On both sides, all the disciples under the Great Bamboo Peak Sect stayed in place because they were too stunned, and forgot to help the junior brother.
On the stage, Lu Xueqi and Tian Ling'er were fighting fiercely, and the magic weapon was flying around in the air, and the fairy spirit was awe-inspiring.
Zhang Xiaofan took a deep look at the stage, then looked at the master in front of him, and saw the angry look on his fat face, as if there was still a trace of care.
He shook his head exhaustedly and said in a low voice, "No, Master, I won." β
After speaking, he only felt a dizziness in his mind, and in an instant the sky was dark, and he fell to the ground with a thud and fainted.
Zhang Xiaofan fell to the ground and didn't wake up, but what he said before he fainted made the disciples stunned from the top of the Great Bamboo Peak to Tian Buyi and down to all the disciples, and after a while, Tian Buyi and the others reacted and helped Zhang Xiaofan up.
Tian Buyi took a closer look and found that this little apprentice's body was almost scarred as if he had been roasted by a fire, but there was nothing wrong with his internal organs, and he fainted mostly because of exhaustion, and he didn't know what happened to the competition just now. He groaned, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw that more and more people around him were looking here, he didn't want to stand here and be watched by everyone, so he picked up Zhang Xiaofan and whispered to Su Ru: "I'll take Lao Qi back, you are here to watch Ling'er." β
Su Ru frowned, but still nodded, glanced at Zhang Xiaofan, whose eyes were closed, and the anxious look on his face could no longer be hidden. The people from Dazhufeng next to him also came over, and Du Bishu said, "Master, I'll go with you too." β
Tian Buyi shook his head and said, "No." β
At this moment, even Dao Xuan Zhenren's attention was attracted and said, "Senior Brother Tian, is this your disciple, what's wrong?"
Tian Buyi said lightly: "He didn't learn art, and he suffered some minor injuries, so I took him to treat him, but he was lost." β
Dao Xuan Zhenren nodded, turned around, and looked at the jΔ«ng cai fight on the stage again. As Tian Buyi walked out of the crowd with Zhang Xiaofan in his arms, the matter quickly calmed down, and people were excited again for the two beauties on the stage, only a few young disciples who stood on the periphery of the crowd inadvertently found that most of the disciples in the Fenghui Peak had blue faces, and they gathered in groups into the distance.
If Zhang Xiaofan was here, he would definitely see that it was a place where Zeng Shushu competed.
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Under the Nine Secluded Shadows, the Yama Palace, full of raging fires, scorching people crying and screaming, bloody and scorching, smelling yΓΉ vomit, Zhang Xiaofan only felt that the world was spinning, but only in a moment, he suddenly returned to many years ago, that calm small mountain village, the breeze is like a promise, faint and pleasant.
However, a thunderclap resounded in the sky, the sky was cloudy like a mountain, like the waves of the angry sea, and in a blink of an eye, the kind and kind villagers turned into dead corpses like a mountain, and the peaceful village became a hell on earth!
"No!"
He cried out with all his might, tensing his muscles, and a piercing pain came from his chest, causing him to gasp, tremble, and wake up.
"Ah, wake up, Xiao Fan is awake. The familiar voice, which was almost engraved in the depths of my heart, sounded for the first time, with a little worry and joy. Zhang Xiaofan opened his eyes and saw Tian Ling'er.
It seems that she is back to the past, she is dressed in red, with amber and vermilion silk still wrapped around her waist, her hair is soft and draped from her white neck, lining her somewhat pale face, as well as those bright eyes, pure pupils, Zhang Xiaofan even saw his own shadow from there.
He shouted in the depths of his heart.
Zhang Xiaofan looked at her without even blinking his eyes, if this moment became eternal, how good it would be!
In the house, everyone from Dazhufeng gathered around, Tian Buyi stepped forward to check his pulse, nodded and said, "Okay, it's okay." β
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and they all showed reassuring smiles.
Zhang Xiaofan glanced around, and saw that everyone in Dazhufeng was here, he was lying on the bed in the room, all the senior brothers were standing on the ground, and Tian Buyi and Su Ru were sitting on the chairs in front of the bed.
"What's wrong?"
Tian Ling'er smiled and said: "You won't forget it so quickly, during the day, you competed with Pengchang in Fenghui Peak, and when you came back, you fainted, which scared people a lot, but fortunately, it was no big deal." β
Zhang Xiaofan moved, and sure enough, in addition to being a little tired, only there was some pain in his chest, and there was nothing else to do, so he couldn't help but be surprised: "How can this be, I obviously have all on my body"
Tian Buyi intercepted: "Those burnt ones are just skin injuries, just rub them with my Qingyunmen secret elixir, you only have a heavy blow to your chest now, but the bone meridians have not shifted and vibrate, just rest a few times." β
Su Ru, who was sitting on the side, smiled and said, "Xiaofan, you haven't thanked the master yet, if he hadn't personally rescued him this time, you would have to recuperate for at least half a year from the external injury." β
Zhang Xiaofan was taken aback, and was very surprised in his heart, but his gratitude was still overflowing, and he said in a low voice: "The disciple is incompetent, and he has dragged down the master again." β
Tian Buyi snorted, his face turned cold, and said, "Where are you incompetent, now you are the most capable person in Dazhu Peak!"
Zhang Xiaofan was shocked again, he didn't know what Tian Buyi meant by this sentence, so he had to say: "Master, I, no, like senior sister, ah, and senior brothers, they are far better than me, I don't dare" He said as he spoke, but his voice lowered, and he only looked at the senior brothers standing in front of him and Tian Ling'er's face was a little strange at this time, especially the senior brother standing in front of everyone, his face looked very pale today, and the whole person was full of vitality, and he looked like he was shaking.
Su Ru sighed and said, "Daxin, move a chair for your senior brother to sit on." β
Lu Daxin hurriedly responded, took a chair from the side and put it next to Song Daren, Song Daren wanted to refuse, but his body shook a few times, and finally sat down and gasped.
Zhang Xiaofan was stunned and said, "Senior brother, what's wrong with you?"
Song Daren smiled bitterly, but did not speak. On the side, the fourth elder He Dazhi said: "Little junior brother, now that the Seven Veins Martial Arts have reached the fourth round, you are the only one left in our Great Bamboo Peak." With that, he couldn't help but glance around.
Zhang Xiaofan was stunned for a moment, then remembered something, turned his head to Tian Ling'er who was sitting at the head of the bed and said, "Senior sister, then you too"
Tian Ling'er gloomy and said in a low voice: "I am also defeated." β
Zhang Xiaofan looked at her with a look of disappointment, and felt a pain in his heart, but at this moment, he couldn't allow him to think wildly.
Tian Buyi looked Zhang Xiaofan up and down, sank his face, and said, "Old Seven." β
Zhang Xiaofan's heart jumped, only listening to Tian Buyi's words There seemed to be a faint anger, and then seeing that the master's face was extremely ugly, he couldn't help but feel a little afraid, and said, "Yes, master, what's there?"
Without waiting for him to finish speaking, Tian Buyi stared at Zhang Xiaofan and said categorically: "How did you come to practice the Dao Law in this body?"
Zhang Xiaofan made a loud "buzz" in his head, opened his mouth wide, and didn't know how to speak for a while. He looked at everyone in the room one by one, and saw that the familiar and kind senior brothers in Pingrì also remained silent at this time, and there was doubt in their eyes when they looked at him.
It's no wonder that a stupid little junior brother suddenly became a blockbuster, and no one could accept it in a short period of time.
Under Tian Buyi's aggressive gaze, sweat trickled down Zhang Xiaofan's forehead, and for a moment, he almost rushed out to tell Master SΓΉ that he was practicing a different sect of exercises behind his back, however, when the words came to his mouth, he finally endured it.
He is no longer the ignorant young man who didn't know the world five years ago, in the conversation with the senior brother of the same sect, he already knew the name of Tianyin Temple, and also knew the true identity of the thin old monk named Puzhi that night. Over the years, he has practiced the "Great Brahman" practice alone, but deep down, his gratitude to Puzhi has never diminished.
"I, no, the disciple is stupid, and there has been little progress in cultivating the truth over the years," Zhang Xiaofan lowered his head, not daring to face Tian Buyi's gaze, and said slowly: "Some time ago, the disciple suddenly found that he could drive some things, but the disciple himself couldn't believe it, so, so he didn't dare to tell the master and the master, I didn't expect it."
Tian Buyi sneered and said, "I didn't expect it to be a blockbuster this time!"
Zhang Xiaofan hurriedly said, "No, no, Master"
Tian Buyi was so easy to deceive the past, and said coldly at the moment: "You said that you can drive things, but this must at least have the cultivation of the fourth layer of the Jade Qing Realm, I asked Daren, he only passed on your second layer of the method, then can you tell me, a lonely and unheard master, how did you bypass the third layer of cultivation to the fourth layer realm?"
Zhang Xiaofan stopped talking, and the room was silent.
For a long time, just when Tian Buyi's face was becoming more and more ugly, and everyone's worries were getting heavier and heavier, Zhang Xiaofan got up silently, and it could be seen that he was still very tired, but he still struggled to get out of bed, and then in front of everyone, under the gaze of Tian Ling'er's crystal eyes, he knelt down in front of Tian Buyi.
Tian Buyi was not moved at all, and said coldly: "What?"
Zhang Xiaofan buried his head deeply, his eyes only stared at the small piece of land close at hand under him, did not look to the side even a little more, and said in a low voice: "Master, please punish me." β
Everyone was moved, Tian Buyi was even more angry, Su Ru frowned, and said, "Xiaofan, if you have any scruples, just tell your master directly, why bother?"
Zhang Xiaofan knelt on the ground, motionless.
Tian Buyi sneered twice, laughed angrily, and said, "Okay, good, good! You are a hard bone, and I have also accepted a good disciple!"
Zhang Xiaofan's body trembling as he crawled on the ground, and he didn't know what mood and expression he was in at the moment, there seemed to be someone in this room, and his breathing suddenly became short. I only heard him say in a low voice, "It's all the disciple's fault, please punish me!"
Tian Buyi stood up, with a clatter, the chair under him was torn apart and fell to the ground, everyone changed, only to see him say angrily to Zhang Xiaofan: "It's all your fault, hehe, do you know that stealing art from the master is a taboo in my Qingyun Sect, at least facing the wall for decades, and at worst abolishing the Tao and expelling Qingyun, do you know?"
Zhang Xiaofan raised his head suddenly, looked at Tian Buyi, and saw that the master's face was full of anger, but there was no trace of exaggerated expression, and his heart couldn't help but sink.
"How could this be?" he said bitterly in his heart, he didn't say that when Tian Ling'er passed on his magic recipe privately.
It's just that, after all, he still hasn't looked back.
The room was dead silent, and no one spoke a word.
All that remained was the high and low sound of anxious breathing.
A person's heart, in this silence, was so quietly and coldly cold, as if he was crazy but looking at himself so rationally, Zhang Xiaofan closed his eyes and lowered his head again, like a desperate person slowly took the last step:
"The disciple is not good, please punish the master!"
"Bang!" A strong force surged like a sea of mountains, Zhang Xiaofan's whole person flew backwards, slammed into the wall, fell to the ground in the dust, and spit out a mouthful of blood.
Everyone became sè, led by Song Daren, and the other disciples knelt down in front of Tian Buyi, and said, "Master, you spare the little junior brother!"
Song Daren even said: "Master, I, cough cough, I, it was I who couldn't teach, so I let the little junior brother do something wrong, the fault is all in me, you can spare the little junior brother." β
In the midst of everyone's pleading, Tian Ling'er stood motionless, looking at Zhang Xiaofan who was struggling in pain in the corner of the wall, spilling blood on his clothes, his face was pale without a trace of blood.
Tian Buyi looked at these disciples kneeling at his feet, and then at Zhang Xiaofan, who was still in the corner, his face was full of anger, he snorted angrily, and walked out with a flick of his robe. Su Ru glanced at everyone, shook her head and sighed softly, and said to Song Daren and the others: "You all get up." As he spoke, he looked at Zhang Xiaofan in the distance, and said to Song Daren, who was helped to stand up by He Dazhi: "You go to take care of some Xiaofan, I want to go and see your master." β
Song Daren and the others hurriedly said, "Yes, Master." β
Su Ru sighed softly again and walked out.
Inside the house, everyone looked at each other, and after a while, Tian Ling'er walked over slowly, turned her back to everyone, and helped Zhang Xiaofan up, Zhang Xiaofan had blood foaming out of her mouth, lying in the crook of her arm, and actually smiled.
At that moment, a cool teardrop quietly dripped down the pool of blood on his face.
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At this time, it was already late at night, and above the sea of clouds, the clouds were still drifting, as beautiful as a fairyland.
Tian Buyi stood in the square, looking up at the sky.
But I saw that the night sky was full of stars, and the moon was as cold as frost.
Behind him, there was a familiar sound of footsteps, Su Ru walked to his side, looked up at the starry sky, and said with a faint smile: "Are you in a better mood?"
Tian Buyi snorted, but did not speak.
Su Ru smiled slightly and said, "You can deceive Daren and Ling'er, but you just can't hide it from me." With the force of your sleeve robe, I'm afraid that you are deliberately shaking Xiao Fan's chest meridians, so that the blood accumulated on his chest is forced out of his body, right?"
Tian Buyi looked at the night sky and said nothing.
Su Ru shook his head and said, "It's hundreds of years old, why are you still so desperate to save face!"
Tian Buyi turned his head, glared at his wife, and said, "It's not that you didn't see it, that stinky boy looks like something, 'Master, please punish me!'" He learned Zhang Xiaofan's tone and said angrily: "Obviously he was wrong, but he actually said it very aggrieved, but it was me, the master, who bullied him and forced him to fail?"
Su Ru glanced back in the direction of the accommodation and said, "I don't believe you didn't see it?"
Tian Buyi said: "What?"
Su Ru said lightly: "Ling'er's appearance is very strange, don't you think?"
Tian Buyi snorted.
Su Ru smiled: "You can see it too." Xiao Fan has stayed in Dazhufeng in the past five years and has never gone out, and he can only be privately passed on to him by our disciples. Ling'er has always been good with Xiao Fan, and she relied on us to spoil her, and she dared to do it if she passed it on to Xiao Fan in private. And if she didn't have a ghost in her heart, she would be a person who would stand up for Xiao Fan in everything, and she didn't say a word this time?
Tian Buyi seemed to have thought of his wife's words for a long time, and there was no surprise on his face, but he was still angry, and said unwillingly: "Even if it is Ling'er's fault, but you see that Zhang Xiaofan, this kid, in front of so many disciples, just didn't say anything about me, it's really damned!"
Su Ru smiled, patted her husband lightly on the shoulder, and said angrily: "Aren't you also a child who doesn't admit your mistakes, and you go to strange people's children." Besides, Xiao Fan didn't do this for Ling'er, this intention is very rare!"
Tian Buyi rolled his eyes, but didn't say anything more.
Su Ru glanced at him and said, "Then how are you going to end up after you go back?" The crime of betraying the master and stealing art can be big or small, or we don't go too far for Ling'er's sake, and let Xiao Fan go back to Dazhu Peak, and face the wall in the back mountain for thirty or fifty years." β
Tian Buyi was stunned for a moment, snorted, but said: "Finally, my disciple has only one and a monster, wouldn't it be cheaper for him to face the wall Cangsong and Shang Zhengliang, don't think about it, whether he lives or dies, let him continue to participate in the competition." β
Su Ruyan smiled, her demeanor was moving, she walked up and took her husband's hand, and said with a smile: "I knew that you were hard-mouthed and soft-hearted." β
Tian Buyi's obese face actually turned red, but he immediately returned to normal, glanced around, and said, "Old husband and wife, you are not afraid of other people's jokes." β
Su Ru glanced at him obliquely, his eyes were full of smiles, and said, "What, are you scared when you make the first seat now?" Three hundred years ago, it was also on this Tongtian Peak, when the Seven Veins would compete in martial arts, you secretly ran to my residence late at night and called me here, at that time, my master, Master Zhenyan, and Senior Sister Shuiyue were nearby, and I never saw you afraid!"
Tian Buyi snorted and said with a smile: "Your master was really more than six hundred years old at that time, and he was already old and confused, so I am not afraid;
Su Ru glared at him and said, "Don't say bad things about my teacher and sister! β
Tian Buyi shrugged his shoulders and did not speak. Looking at it in the moonlight, his short and fat body shook a little, quite funny, and he still looked a little proud, no matter how good they are to you, you don't mean to marry me.
Su Ru looked at it in her eyes and couldn't help but sneer: "It's not serious." β
Tian Buyi was in a good mood, reached out to hold his wife's smooth and silky jade hand, and walked slowly in the sea of clouds
"By the way, I forgot something important. β
"What's wrong?"
"That stinky boy used a burning stick as a magic treasure so much that he was angry and forgot to take a look at it. β
"Xiao Fan, he is still practicing privately, and I am afraid that I don't know much about the use of the magic weapon, do you think it's better to find a time to guide him?"
"Hmph, let's see. Last night, the senior brother in charge called a few of us heads, saying that after communicating with Lingzun with spiritism, he found that Lingzun seemed to have made a move because he sensed the evil aura of a certain murderous thing, but then he couldn't find it again. β
"What then?"
"What else can I do, if I can't find it, I can't find it, Lingzun has lived for at least six thousand years, your master is confused at the age of six hundred, and it's not strange that Lingzun is confused now!"
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