Lingxu, Sword Coffin, Blind Swordsman

As night fell, a waist-thick wooden stake appeared in Li Guanqi's backyard.

Looking at the brand-new stake, the corners of Li Guanqi's mouth curved up slightly.

Then, he adopted a stance and began to practice his punches.

The sounds of thumping echoed from the courtyard on the mountainside, attracting a little girl who was running around.

She lay on the roof, watching the young man with the stone box on his back frantically striking the wooden stake.

Every punch sent countless wood chips flying.

His tense body constantly shifted and moved.

Yu Suian lay on the roof, her big eyes filled with disbelief.

"This guy is actually treating the wooden stake in front of him as an imaginary enemy!"

"What a powerful… blind man."

"What is he carrying on his back…"

After finishing his punches, Li Guanqi, covered in sweat, prepared to get up, take a bath, and rest.

He was very much looking forward to his first class in the sect the next day.

Moreover, he felt that becoming a disciple of Li Nanting today was a good thing.

At least, in his perception, the old man's eyes were very pure and without malice when he looked at him.

He put down the sword box, immersed his whole body in the bathtub, and took a comfortable soak.

However, the little girl on the roof had sneaked into the courtyard at some point.

She was sneaking towards Li Guanqi's room.

Li Guanqi's ears twitched, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, so he ignored her.

Suddenly!

"Ahhh! (ｷ｀ﾟДﾟ´)!!"

Clang!

"Help~"

Li Guanqi immediately grabbed a piece of clothing, wrapped it around himself, and rushed out the door.

As soon as he went out, he saw a small figure pressed under the sword box, with her hands flailing around.

She was also muttering 'Help~' in her mouth.

Li Guanqi quickly lifted the sword box with one hand and pulled the little girl out from underneath with the other.

The little girl's face was black, the bun in her mouth hadn't been swallowed, and the bun in her hand hadn't been dropped.

Her porcelain doll-like face wrinkled up, and she said to Li Guanqi very solemnly.

"I'm injured, you have to take responsibility!"

Li Guanqi was amused by this little girl. She sneaked in by herself, accidentally knocked over the sword box, and got hit.

Now she wants him to take responsibility.

However, just as Li Guanqi was about to say something, he suddenly noticed that the little girl's face was a little flushed.

He quickly crouched down to check her out and said in a deep voice, "Does your chest hurt?"

Yu Suian's eyes were slightly red, and big tears fell down, and she nodded.

Li Guanqi quickly comforted her, "It's okay, it's okay, don't move, I'll put on my clothes and take you to find someone right away."

Li Guanqi immediately returned to the room to put on his clothes, picked up the little girl, and rushed out the door.

He was going up the mountain to find his master!

He felt that when the sword box hit her just now, it happened to break the little girl's ribs.

On the way, Li Guanqi was afraid that the little girl would be scared, so he softly asked, "What's your name? I've seen you twice and still don't know your name."

The little girl felt like it didn't hurt so much, so she quickly took a bite of the bun to calm her nerves.

She said in a clear voice, "My name is Yu Suian, and I'm six years old."

Li Guanqi was slightly stunned, he didn't expect the little girl's name to be quite nice.

Finally, Li Guanqi found Li Nanting, who hadn't slept yet, and after a lot of fuss, the little girl fell asleep in Li Nanting's arms.

Looking at the little girl sleeping soundly on Li Nanting's body, Li Guanqi asked curiously.

"Whose child is this little girl? I've seen her twice in the peak."

Li Nanting covered her with the quilt and patted her gently.

"Little Bun is not anyone's child, I picked her up when I went down the mountain three years ago."

"Picked up?"

"That's right, picked up."

"Three years ago, there was a famine in the northern region under the jurisdiction of the Great Xia Sword Sect."

"There was a drought for two whole years, and the farmers had no harvest. I went there to prepare to use a spirit spell to bring rain."

"I saw the little girl squatting on the side of the road, with a woman lying next to her who had starved to death."

"I brought her back, and I bought her a hot meat bun on the way."

"I still remember the way the little girl looked up at me, it was so bright."

"She said to me that it was the best thing she had ever eaten!"

Li Guanqi silently listened to the old man telling about the little girl.

This couldn't help but remind Li Guanqi of himself as a child.

It seems that they didn't have a good time…

No wonder he saw Yu Suian holding a bun in her hand both times he saw her.

It turned out that her past was also so full of hardships.

The old man looked at Li Guanqi's appearance and said softly, "Why do I feel like you have a lot of empathy."

Li Guanqi showed a bitter smile on the corner of his mouth, looked up at the night sky, and said softly.

"Well… the former me, took my sister's pension, ten strings of copper coins, and cremated my sister."

"After returning home, I personally砍killed my distant uncle who was addicted to gambling and caused my mother to become seriously ill and die."

"In the heavy snow, I picked up two饅頭s on the way home with my sister's ashes."

"The饅頭s were hard and馊, but for me at that time, they were人间美味."

"It was also on that day that I went to the cremation shop twice."

Li Guanqi said these things softly, his voice was calm and without any fluctuations.

But the old man looked at the young man with heartache in his eyes, stretched out his other hand to put it around the young man's shoulder, and said softly.

"It's okay, everything is in the past, in the future, you can treat your master and fellow disciples as your relatives, and Tianlei Peak as your home."

An old man and two children sitting in the courtyard seemed particularly harmonious.

The next morning, Li Guanqi woke up from a strange bed, and after waking up, he found that he had fallen asleep on the old man's shoulder yesterday in a daze.

This time he actually slept directly in Li Nanting's room.

At this time, there were at least two hours before dawn, and the old man was sitting on the futon practicing.

Li Guanqi also got up, simply cleaned up, and then started practicing his punches in the backyard.

Every punch and every kick was done very seriously, with bursts of wind.

I don't know when the old man stood outside the door quietly watching, and couldn't help but nod slightly.

Li Guanqi had been practicing this set of punches for a full eight years, and every subtle change in each punch was under his control.

It was also because of so many years of continuous punching and walking piles that he had perfect control over every muscle in his body.

When Li Guanqi turned around after finishing his punches, he found that the old man was behind him, and he couldn't help but give him a thumbs up.

Then the old man personally punched Li Guanqi again with the punches he had just punched.

The whole set of basic boxing techniques was smooth and free, and 收放自如.

This also gave Li Guanqi a lot of inspiration.

Seeing him in a contemplative state, the old man smiled and said, "Okay, you will know the key to these things when you think about them later."

"If you don't hurry to Tianshui Peak now, you'll be late."

"Lan He doesn't like people being late the most."

Li Guanqi then noticed that it was already dawn, so he quickly cleaned up.

Before going out, he did not forget to come to Li Nanting and say hello: "Master, this disciple is going out."

"Hahaha, good, good, go quickly."