That year, that cicada, that sword

Chapter 20 Chapter 36

The night was calm, and the old man sat by Xu Beiyou's side all night.

The old man looked at the white belly that appeared on the horizon, and whispered to himself: "You travel north, you know the south but you travel north. The old guy gave him such a name. I'm afraid he hasn't forgotten what happened back then. Do you still want to make a comeback? Go wrestle with Sapphire again?"

When the sky was bright, Xu Beiyou groaned and woke up leisurely.

At this time, Xu Beiyou only felt sore all over his body, and his mouth was thirsty. Zhiyun, who was standing by, hurriedly handed him a bamboo tube filled with clear water. He sat up and moved his body again, only to feel that the vitality in his body seemed to flow like a river, coming out from the sea of ​​energy in his lower dantian, swimming among the bones, as if he had infinite power, and he could smash a big rock with a wave of his hand.

The old man sitting not far away said: "Now you are almost at the third rank, because this is the first time you have absorbed the sword energy and spirit, a lot of sword energy was wasted on developing the dantian, and some of the sword energy and spirit are like mud The sand sinks at the bottom of the river, hidden in your limbs and hundred orifices, when you can use all these sword qi for your own use, when you are at the second rank."

Xu Beiyou froze for a moment, instead of getting up in a hurry, he closed his eyes and began to feel his current situation quietly.Just now he felt that the vitality in his body was abundant, now he felt it quietly, and found that the vitality in his body was not only abundant but also fierce, and when he walked around, he felt a faint tingling pain in his veins, which really lived up to the name of sword energy, Xu Beiyou opened his eyes Opening his eyes, he sighed and said to himself: "Does this count as my stepping up to the sky?"

The old man shook his head and said with a smile: "Climbing to the sky? It's too early to say that. Wait until you pass the first-rank realm, and then talk about the word "climbing to the sky."

Xu Beiyou smiled, suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly asked, "Master, Tian Lan?"

The old man calmly said: "Since Tianlan was absorbed by you with sword energy and spirit, it would be a piece of scrap iron in other people's hands, but it is still a magic weapon in your hand, and it is closely related to you. Your boy holds Tianlan in his hand. At that time, it could barely be regarded as stepping into the threshold of the unity of human and sword."

Xu Beiyou showed joy behind hearing the words.

"The unity of human and sword is just a mystical words of ordinary people. To put it bluntly, it means that you have just entered the room in the real way of swordsmanship. It is unreasonable to be far away from the perfect and extraordinary. You can do this when you don't hold Tianlan. At that time, Tianlan It is your Tianlan."

The old man who had been sitting all night slowly got up and said to Zhiyun: "Little girl, let's go over there and let him get used to it here alone."

The old man said adapting, of course, does not mean adapting to the surrounding environment, but to allow Xu Beiyou to adapt to his own cultivation. After all, these cultivations do not come from step-by-step cultivation, but skyrocketing. In the embarrassing situation where the time is not working, in order to prevent mistakes at critical moments, Xu Beiyou still listened to his master and obediently began to adapt to this brand-new cultivation base.

It was at this time, in Longnan City, under Zhang Shihong's gossip, the two powerful figures from the Dark Guard and Zhenmo Palace finally met.The person from Zhenmo Hall was Ye Zui, the deacon who had just arrived in Longnan, while the secret guard was a charming woman whose real name was unknown, only a code name known as Gu Yan.

Although Gu Yan is more than 30 years old, and in some places, she is almost the age to be a grandmother, but from her face, there are not many traces of the years, and the charm is natural, especially those long legs, absolutely Can completely squeeze a man dry under the bed.But in front of this woman, even Zhang Shihong, the eldest son of Tai Sui in Longnan City, looked at her only briefly, and did not overdo it.Not only because she was born in a dark guard, but also because she is the most trusted confidant of Lu Chen, acting governor of the Northwest Dark Guard Mansion.

In the main hall of a separate courtyard under Zhang Shihong's contract, Ye Zui and Gu Yan sat opposite each other. Compared with Gu Yan's charm and enchantment, Ye Zui inevitably seemed a bit staid and impersonal. Every move is rigid, even if it kills someone.

Ye Zui opened his mouth slowly, with a rotten taste as if he had just crawled out of the demon-suppressing well, and said word by word: "I heard that many people died in the dark guards, five internal guards died, and a fourth-rank official also died. Inspectors and a fourth-rank captain."

Gu Yan's expression was calm, not at all surprised that Ye Zui would know such details, his tone was light, and his voice contained the sense of decadence of a mature woman after going through vicissitudes, "The reason why these adults will die is not because of you The Daomen Suppressing Devil Palace is not good at doing things, and it has suppressed the remnants of the Sword Sect for so many years without any success, and now there are still remnants of the Sword Sect who dare to openly commit crimes in the world."

Ye Zui's face was expressionless, and his voice remained the same, "How about our Town Demon Palace, it's not your turn to tell the secret guards, I just want to know one thing, who is the person who killed so many of you?" ?”

Gu Yan sneered, "We have no choice but to kill an expert who can kill more than a hundred hidden guards without harming a single bit. Don't you have a way? Calling out 36 big deacons is almost the same!"

Ye Zui said calmly: "How about my background in Taoism, I don't think I need to waste my words. There are many so-called experts in the town of suppressing demons. When it is time to take action, someone will take action. Don't bother you."

Gu Yan chuckled, "As expected of a character from the Taoist sect, his tone is unusual, even a sword fairy figure is not in his eyes."

When Ye Zui heard the word "Sword Immortal", Ye Zui's pupils shrank slightly, but the expression on his face was still impassive, making it impossible to see the slightest clue, and said coldly: "I just want to hear a word from you, that person's Identity, know or don’t know? It’s that simple.”

Gu Yan took a deep look at him, and simply said: "I don't know."

Ye Zui got up from his seat without hesitation, intending to leave.

"Director Ye, don't be in a hurry to leave." Gu Yan also got up and said: "Although my secret guards haven't found out who the real culprit is, but according to the investigation of the masters in the house, it is undoubtedly the work of the sword sect, and it is still the case. A big fish."

Ye Zui stopped and looked at her calmly, "Why do you see that?"

Gu Yan smiled slightly, "Sword 36 has reappeared in the world, is it considered a big fish?"

This time Ye Zui finally couldn't keep his face calm and said in shock, "Is it really Jian 36?"

"It's guaranteed to be a fake." The woman smiled Yan Yan, "Jianzong 36, swords and swords are different. If you go down, you will break the clouds, and if you go up, you will see the sun, moon and stars. With each step, the sword will be used, and the world will be crossed every step of the way."

Ye Zui murmured: "There are not many people who know how to use sword 36, they must be close and trusted descendants of Shangguan Xianchen. Looking at the entire Jianzong, the Great Sword Slave, the leader of all sword slaves, followed Shangguan Xianchen to die. Huang Zhang Chongguang died at the hands of our Daoist Master Weichen. The Princess of Wei Zhang Xueyao was not implicated because of her old relationship with the head teacher. Now she lives in seclusion in Jiangdu and does not care about world affairs. Jianzong's first disciple and several elders."

Gu Yan said flatly: "No matter who it is, we small people can't interfere."

In the eyes of ordinary people, the magistrate and the chief assistant of the first dynasty are big figures who are out of reach.But in fact, the gap between the two cannot be counted. Many big people in the eyes of ordinary people are actually small people.For a truly great person, there is not much difference between a small person and an existence smaller than a small person.

What Ye Zui said next made Gu Yan feel extremely shocked, even though she had expected it.

"Hall Master has personally rushed to the northwest."

(End of this chapter)