Chapter 29: Winter and the Cold

Thousands of miles of yellow clouds and daylight, the north wind blows geese and snow. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info More than ten days of intermittent snowfall, so that the entire Huashan up and down the ice clear, the temperature also dropped sharply, the rare Huashan rime continued to condense, in front of Situ Xuan unfolded a landscape painting.

The bluestone road up and down the mountain is steep and difficult, and now it is covered with snow.

The handymen in the kitchen have limited martial arts, so since the beginning of winter, it has become Situ Xuan's daily task to deliver food to Zhao Bufan, who is in retreat on the cliff of Siguo, every day.

Situ Xuan followed Yue Buqun to Xi'an in midsummer, and when the party returned to Huashan for more than half a year, Yue Buqun returned to Huashan to teach Linghu Chong for a few days, and then packed his bags and went to Lotus Peak to retreat, intending to break through the innate realm in one fell swoop.

At first, Ning Zhong moved to Lotus Peak to take care of it nearby, and now Ning Zhong is pregnant in July and August, and his body is inconvenient, so he was taken back to Jade Girl Peak by Ning Qingcheng before the heavy snowfall, and Situ Xuan delivered meals to Yue Buqun every day.

Only bitter Situ Xuan, every morning he had to climb up the Siguo Cliff to bring Zhao Bufan a day's food, and in the evening he had to go back and forth to Xifeng Lotus Peak to serve his master Yue Buqun.

Although it takes a lot of time to come and go, there is a bit of artistic conception in the fog and snow, and when going down the mountain, you can also ride a roller coaster on some sections of the mountain road, enjoying the thrill of running at high speed and flying close to the ground.

Yue Buqun and Zhao Bufan are not sitting on the death line, they do not have contact with outsiders at all, they can chat with Situ Xuan for a long time every day, and talk about the harvest of retreat and penance and the newly comprehended swordsmanship, which has benefited Situ Xuan a lot.

In the past six months since returning to the mountain, Ling Hu Chong has studied and practiced hard, without Yue Buqun's strict requirements for his sword moves, Ling Hu Chong has completely learned the 'Xiyi Sword Technique' and 'Yangwu Sword Technique', and Ling Hu Chong's sword learning talent has amazed everyone in the Huashan faction, and the power of the sword bone is undoubtedly revealed.

But Ling Hu Chong's internal force cultivation is still sparse, and on the Jade Girl Peak, where the mountain wind is cold and the water is dripping into ice, it is not surprising that he is frostbitten. Because most of the disciples of the Huashan faction have internal support, there are not many winter clothes prepared on the mountain, or Ning Zhong holds his stomach and changes out a few cloth jackets for Ling Hu Chong overnight.

In such a cold weather, there is only a small stove in the house, and the stove goes out at night, and everyone has to face a difficult choice. Whether to leave the warm bed and make a fire to keep warm, or stay in the bed to fight the increasingly cold night.

Situ Xuan once proposed to improve the heating conditions, such as building the Dilong Heating Road, and the unified heating of the entire Huashan station, but Ning Qingcheng vetoed it.

According to Ning Qingcheng's statement, the weather is colder, and you only need to run the internal force for a few more weeks to resist, so why bother. The Huashan faction did not deliberately treat the disciples in the sect, and the reason why the various sects chose to establish a sect in the famous mountains and rivers was actually out of the same considerations. The famous mountains and rivers are rich in aura, far away from the distractions of the world, which can make people concentrate on practicing martial arts and swords, and the mountains are cool and pleasant in summer, and although it is difficult in winter, they can also polish their will and internal strength, which are all good for careful calculation.

Situ Xuan thought to himself that this was also the case, in the past, he had to deliberately sleep on the cold ice bed in the Iron Sword Gate, but now the entire Huashan Sect is a big ice mound, and the money for this cold ice bed has been saved. Anyway, Situ Xuan's internal strength is small, and the cold and heat are already invasive, so he has to urge Ling Hu Chong to cultivate his internal strength diligently after Ling Hu Chong recovers from his illness.

In the past, Situ Xuan didn't like to discipline Ling Hu Chong, but now that he is strict, he really has a bit of the prestige of 'eldest brother is like a father', and Ling Hu Chong also admires and envies Situ Xuan's martial arts, but he is also very obedient.

The heavy snow that disturbed not only froze Huashan, but also seemed to freeze Situ Xuan's enterprising mentality, Situ Xuan returned from the Jade Girl Peak in the morning, and he had to rush to listen to Ning Qingcheng's easy learning class, and then followed Li Buyi to practice the 'Chaoyang One Qi Sword', after more than half a year of persistent study, Situ Xuan finally mastered all the three hundred and sixty moves of the 'Chaoyang One Qi Sword', and now he has begun to comprehend the 'Twenty-four Solar Terms'.

After learning the sword with Li Buying, Situ Xuan had to hurry up and send food to Yue Buqun, otherwise he would have to rush back to the mountain at night when the time was late, although Situ Xuan had achieved success, but his night vision was poor, and once he discussed martial arts with Yue Buqun, and he returned to Huashan after dark, and he walked slowly, so that Situ Xuan swore that he would never walk at night again. Every day when I came back to the house, I was exhausted, and I could barely review the easy-to-learn lessons, but I really couldn't find time to practice swordsmanship, so I could only practice for a short time before the morning class.

It's just that such busyness makes Situ Xuan's spirit and spirit unified, and he climbs up and down the mountain every day, not only practicing internal force light skills, but also giving him time to think about swordsmanship and specialize in swordsmanship, and he realized the last move of the '24 solar terms' yesterday, and it is also the most powerful move 'Da Han'.

Situ Xuan remembered that when Li Bugong competed with Yue Buqun, he also used this 'great cold' where all things condensed and vitality was extinguished, and then the spring blossomed and the dead trees sprouted, transforming this extinction force into vitality and using a more powerful 'spring'. Situ Xuan is going to spend a year to comprehend the '24 solar terms', and next year he is not going to learn new swordsmanship, he has to use all his mind to comprehend the change of the four seasons and the alternation of solar terms.

He wants to feel the return of spring to the earth and the revival of all things, he wants to witness the first thunder of the year, he wants to go to the fields to see the agricultural proverb that 'Xiaoman is dissatisfied, and the mango seeds do not care', he wants to sit and watch the continuous heavy rain, lightning and thunder, he wants to experience the distortion of the air in the hot summer and hot steam, and the white dew is frost when the fruit is harvested, and the frost falls on the fields of green onions, orange and orange green, autumn chrysanthemums bloom, and hibiscus blooms, and the winter solstice when the autumn wind falls and the leaves fall, the heaven and the earth are bleak, and everything withers, and finally the ice and snow cover, the sky is cold and the earth freezes, and the little cold that extinguishes all things. The Great Cold.

The goal that Situ Xuan set for himself was to at least fully comprehend the '24 solar terms' and begin to learn the second realm of 'Rising Sun One Qi Sword' envisioned by Li Buful, 'Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter'. Situ Xuan faintly felt that if he experienced it with his heart during this year, coupled with good luck, if he could feel a trace of the reincarnation of the four seasons and the artistic conception of the rotation of heaven and earth, Situ Xuan's sword heart, sword theory, and sword path cultivation would be enough to support him to reach the innate extreme realm.

The 'Great Cold' he comprehended was demonstrated to Li Buying, so that Li couldn't help but sigh at Situ Xuan's talented sword heart. Later, he told Li Buzhu about his guess about the artistic conception of the reincarnation of the four seasons, which made Li Buzhu even more frightened.

But Li Buyi also said that the artistic conception of the reincarnation of the four seasons is very close to the avenue of heaven and earth, and even he himself only has a vague feeling, wanting to touch this artistic conception, without decades of precipitation, before the mood and internal force have reached the peak, do not force it.

Although it should be true, Situ Xuan knew in his heart that he was a person who had crossed over, and he continued to witness the questioning process of Zhang Boduan, the real person of Ziyang, in his dreams, coupled with Jian Xin's understanding of swordsmanship and extraordinary comprehension of artistic conception, he may not have this opportunity to comprehend the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.

Moreover, the biggest problem that plagued Li Buying, the slow cultivation of internal force, was not a big problem for Situ Xuan. As long as he waits until he is fifteen or sixteen years old, his body is fully grown, and his meridians are stable and tenacious, he can completely push his internal strength to a half-step innate and begin to accumulate for the innate realm.

Situ Xuan said goodbye to Li Buying, took Yue Buqun's food from the kitchen, covered it with a small cotton pad, and flew down the mountain with the food box. Without waiting to go down to the mountain gate, he climbed the steps at a fork in the road and headed for the top of the lotus peak.

There are several abandoned Taoist temples on Lotus Peak, all of which were built by Taoist priests who practiced in Huashan during the Song and Yuan dynasties, but after the rise of the Huashan faction, these Taoist priests were either assimilated and slowly joined the Huashan faction, or gradually withered away Taoism, and now the five peaks of Huashan have completely become the industry of the Huashan faction.

Unlike the Jade Girl Peak, Zhao Bufan can only live in the cave, but there is a small courtyard on the top of the Lotus Peak, and Yue Buqun lives in the courtyard. Situ Xuan pushed the door into the courtyard and shouted, "Master, the apprentice is here." ”

Different from the past, in the past, the time when Situ Xuan delivered meals was about fixed, Yue Buqun generally did not practice during this time, he would come out to meet, chat and inspect or impart some knowledge by the way, but today after Situ Xuan greeted him, he didn't see Yue Buqun go out.

Situ Xuan was puzzled in his heart, just when he saw the food box he brought yesterday on the stone table outside the house, Situ Xuan walked to the food box and found a folded note, opened it and knew that Yue Buqun had practiced to the key point, and was ready to close the five senses and dive into the depths of his soul and break through the innate realm in one fell swoop.

Without opening his mouth to say hello again, Situ Xuan put the new food box into the side room, wrapped it in a quilt to keep warm, and picked up the empty food box and went down the mountain reflexively. On the way down the mountain, Situ Xuan's mood was uncertain, his thoughts kept beating, and he couldn't think or comprehend swordsmanship at all. I vaguely felt that I had done something wrong, but I couldn't think of it. When he returned to Huashan and passed by the Sword Intent Volley Hall, when he felt Ning Qingcheng's breath, Situ Xuan reacted, and it seemed that there was a top master peeking at him.