The Nine Clans are the nine giant beasts that stand above the Cangze, and they are an incomparably huge collection of interests, and countless monks with various purposes have thrown themselves in, incarnated as part of this giant beast, and formed this behemoth.

Although the Nine Clans are powerful, the monks in the world have their own aspirations, and there are also various forces independent of the Nine Clans, and the idle clouds and wild cranes that are independent of various forces yearn for an unrestrained and comfortable life.

Countless idle forces, idle clouds and wild cranes, were independent of the jurisdiction of the Nine Clans, and they acted casually, forming a mixed rivers and lakes.

As the old saying goes: chivalry is forbidden by force.

These forces in the rivers and lakes, the monks who walk the world, will not abide by the rules of the Nine Clans at all, act willfully and recklessly, and judge right and wrong all by their own hearts.

In the eyes of the Nine Clans, these willful and unruly forces are the greatest source of chaos and instability.

Although the Nine Clans want to replace them, although the Jianghu forces are loose, in terms of their size and number of monks, they far exceed any independent clan, and the Nine Clans cannot work together, so they have always adopted a suppressive attitude towards these Jianghu forces.

They don't dare to press too hard, any single clan can withstand the counterattack of the entire Jianghu forces!

In the spring of the 532nd year of Tianxingji, in the territory of Zhongzhou.

Among the rivers and lakes outside the nine clans, there is a famous inverted tavern, which is known to monks all over the world, and the dragon and crouching tiger are hidden in this tavern, which is as high as the realm of peeping into the sky, and the lowest is also the realm of hearing that can fly in the sky.

Countless monks have wondered why they have chosen such a strange name, hanging upside down? What a strange name, strange people, and strange taverns!

The inverted tavern falls on the side of the Tianshui River, the first major river that runs through Zhongzhou, in the middle of the abandoned sword lake.

Although the name of the abandoned sword lake is a lake, it cannot see the edge from afar, and the sky and water are all the same color, just like the boundless sea.

The edge of the abandoned sword lake is even more innumerable sects and clans, these are not listed for the time being, let's talk about the inverted hanging tavern in the lake.

There is a giant tree in the lake, the giant tree is not straight to the sky, but protrudes from the lake surface more than ten zhang high, then grows around, the dragon pan knotted into a ball, and this upside-down hanging wine sits on the giant tree in the middle of the lake.

The upside-down tavern takes the petals of this giant tree to make wine, the wine is fragrant, and the aura is overflowing, even if this monk's strong physique, drinking more will make you dizzy.

Today, the upside-down tavern is still bustling with people, and monks from all over the world gather here, talking loudly to each other, either exaggerated or true.

In the window of the upside-down tavern, a man in black sits alone, which contrasts sharply with the surrounding bustle, and is extremely conspicuous.

Spring is the flowering season of the giant tree in the middle of the lake, the pink petals hang all over the giant tree, the breeze blows, the petals fall with the wind, a petal flutters in the air, fluttering, and falls into the glass of the man in black, the wine in the cup, ripples in circles.

When the man in black saw this scene, he was suddenly stunned, all this was so similar.

By the window, the breeze blew, the petals fell into the cup, and the woman in red who suddenly appeared in front of her snatched the wine glass with the petals in her hand with one hand and drank it all.

The petals stuck to his red lips, and she stuck out her tongue and rolled them into her mouth, and laughed out loud, uninhibited.

The past was so clear, so clear that he could still remember the smile of the woman in red, the curvature of the corners of her mouth, the fragrance that came with her, the style of her eyebrows, as if everything happened yesterday, just now!

There was a sharp pain in his heart in an instant, and he raised his head suddenly, but found that the place opposite him was empty, where did the woman in red come from......

The corners of his mouth hooked up a wry smile, and he drank the wine in the glass, along with the petals in the glass.

I don't know why, at this moment, there was a commotion in the tavern.

"Old Chen, I'm afraid you're older than me when you opened this tavern! ”

This man is shirtless, covered with hair, although he speaks, his facial features are still a little different from ordinary people.

Although he belongs to the human race, he is obviously a person of a different race, and if this is placed in the Nine Clans outside the Heavenly Domain, then his status is like a slave clan like a domestic animal.

The people around him didn't care about him, as if they were used to it.

The people around him also opened their mouths and chimed in: "Old Chen, let's talk about it, I'm happy to say it, everyone can drink two more jars." ”

There was a lot of commotion.

This old Chen Tou has established an upside-down tavern for a hundred years, although his cultivation is profound, but he does not put on any master shelves, he is very easy-going, and he mingles with everyone.

Lao Chen Tou saw this commotion, and hurriedly raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet.

He cleared his throat and said slowly in that hoarse voice: "Today, Old Chen, I will tell you a story about a swordsman in the ordinary rivers and lakes!"

Some people around were not happy: "Jianghu swordsman, old Chen, don't fool us! A Jianghu swordsman is at most the peak of the transcendent realm, and ten psionic energy levels will reach the sky!"

Some people chimed in: "All of you here, if you can cross this abandoned sword lake, at least you can fly in the sky and release your spiritual energy!"

"The lowest energy level in the Wenzhi Realm is more than two hundred, and I can pick out all the mortal swordsmen by myself!"

The commotion around them became louder and louder, and Lao Chen Tou didn't care, and only after they all complained did Lao Chen Tou speak.

He spoke, "He is the only mortal swordsman who has entered this upside-down tavern in the past hundred years!

As soon as he said this, the people around him were stunned for a moment, and the quiet needles around him could be heard, and even those wine boys who made wine in the backyard knew that after their tavern owner began to tell stories again, the wine stopped brewing, and they all ran out to listen to the story.

The whispers around gradually increased, and then the voices became louder and louder, until the last one was noisy and red-faced.

Someone said, "No way! Without relying on the aura, without relying on the boat, how could he cross the water of this tavern to the shore of the lake?"

Someone retorted: "This old Chen Tou is serious, do you think everyone is as bullish as you!"

"Old Chen, aren't you old and confused, coax us like three-year-old children!"

"Old Chen, you didn't start to coax us all in order to sell more of these jars of wine. ”

"Old Chen, you have changed, and you have become fond of bragging!"

Most of the taverns were made up of young monks, few of whom were older.

These young people obviously don't believe in this story very much, and even if they are older, those who believe in this old Chen Tou are also skeptical.

There are many giant beasts in this lake, and the mortal world has built a boat that is nearly ten zhang high and about twenty zhang long, and the part of the boat that leaks out of the water after launching is also seven zhang.

is such a huge ship, and it only sailed out of five or six thousand zhang before it lost the mouth of the giant beast and sank to the bottom of the lake!

At this time, someone suddenly spoke: "Could it be that your old Chen Tou made an exception and let other monks bring him in?"

As soon as he said this, he won the approval of the crowd, because the rule of the upside-down tavern was to enter the hall by himself.

Everyone is accustomed to it, as soon as Lao Chen Tou said that there was a mortal swordsman entering the museum, he naturally thought that this swordsman entered the museum on his own, and how could a mortal cross this lake?

They didn't believe that the old man was lying and bragging, and they didn't believe that a mortal could cross these distances, and this statement was the only explanation!

Everyone laughed at Old Chen and coaxed them.

Old Chen didn't answer, he just said to himself: "That day, he just relied on his body to cultivate to the extreme of the mundane realm, and he stepped a thousand feet away!"

"I didn't fall into the lake until my body was exhausted!"

The onlookers exclaimed: "Light Gong cultivated to the extreme, it is indeed possible to tread water, but stepping a thousand feet away is unheard of!"

"Even if he is an immortal genius in the mortal world, that's all, if there is no aura in his body, it means that the power he can exert is limited, and his limit is not high!"

"It's just a thousand feet, the center of the lake is thousands of feet away from here, there are devouring beasts in the lake, let alone people, and the big ships of the mortal world can't escape their fangs and huge mouths!"

"Your old Chen Tou was happy to see Hunting and saved his life?"

Old Chen Tou shook his head, meaning that he didn't save the swordsman.

He continued: "I already noticed him when he stepped out of the thousand, his body was empty, there was no aura reaction, I naturally thought that he would die!"

Everyone thought the same way: "Exhausted, without aura in his body, if there is no one to help him, how can he escape from the mouth of the giant beast?"

Old Chen Tou said: "I thought that after he fell into the water, he would return, but I never expected that he would swim straight over without looking back!"

No one present was shocked: "I'm afraid he's not crazy! This lake is full of giant beasts, and some of them can even fight with the Knowing the True Realm!"

Old Chen Tou said again: "He was not lucky, a fish comparable to the Yuan Realm swallowed his whole person in one bite. ”

The audience thought that the matter had come to this point, and it should be a senior who saved him.

Old Chen Tou said slowly: "I thought he was burying the belly of the fish, but I didn't pay attention anymore! Who knew that after a quarter of an hour or two, he appeared on the surface of the water again!"

"Above the surface of the water, he is five thousand feet from the tavern!"

Everyone began to have an attitude of disbelief in this matter, because it was too incredible for a mortal to cross this abandoned sword lake.

If it weren't for the fact that these words came out of Old Chen's mouth, they would definitely take this as a joke!

Mortals who crossed the Abandoned Sword Lake swam over? Daoist friends, you really know how to laugh!

But when the words came out of Lao Chen's mouth, it proved that the credibility was extremely high, and those who had questioned Lao Chentou were not slapped in the face in the end?

Once they accepted and believed this fact, and then listened to Lao Chen Tou tell this story, everyone was left with amazement in their hearts.

"A mortal without aura, who broke open the belly of the fish with his own strength, and still held his breath in the water for a quarter of an hour or two?"

If he were a monk, with such a tenacious heart, no matter what his qualifications were, he would not be an obscure person in the end!

Some people couldn't help but exclaim: "If he is a monk, I am afraid that there will be another famous figure in this world......