Mortal Bones

But he actually had nothing to refute about this reason. The Seven Peaks Competition was held once every six years, and it was normal for new disciples to want to go and take a look.

"Today is a day off for you."

As San San Jushi said this, he raised his hand towards the rusty sword on the cliff.

With a "clang" sound, the rusty sword was pulled out from the cliff, and then flew back to San San Jushi's hand with a "swish".

"But the next practice will be harder and harder. If you want to become a real sword cultivator, the first thing is to control this sword more freely than your arm."

As he said this, he held up the rusty sword with his hand, and then swung his arm violently.

With the sound of a sword ringing, the flying sword in San San Jushi's hand immediately turned into a stream of light and flew straight towards the cliff.

And at the moment when it was about to pierce the cliff, San San Jushi raised his arm and swept the sword in front of him.

In an instant, the rusty sword turned into countless sword lights, and these sword lights gathered into a colorful gust of wind, which suddenly blew over the cliff.

"Boom!"

Amidst the loud noise, the originally bare cliff was suddenly engraved with dense words.

"One sword has three thousand words. When your sword-controlling skills reach this level, you can come and learn my sword skills from Jian Jiu."

San San Lay Buddhist crossed his arms and looked at the cliff in front of him with a proud face.

...

The main peak of Qingxuan Sect.

In front of the Five Ancestors Pond.

This is the place where Qingxuan Sect worships the five ancestors who founded Qingxuan Sect. In the green pond, there are huge statues of the five ancestors. These five huge statues form a circle, and at the center of the circle is an extremely wide sword-testing platform.

Looking down from a high place, it seems that the five ancestors are sitting around a huge stone table.

The layout of this sword test field is similar to the sword control field of the first peak. There is a huge open space in the center, and there are cloud towers around that can be used as stands.

Although today's match is the least important one in the competition, the seats in the cloud tower have been filled with disciples from the seven peaks early.

"The seven peaks competition held every six years is actually a competition held by the five ancestors to resolve disputes within the sect. It was said to be held once every sixty years at first, but later the peak masters thought the time was too long, so they changed it to once every six years."

"But although the time has changed, the number of matches and rules of the competition have not changed."

"For example, according to the rules set by the five ancestors, there are seven matches in the seven peaks competition, and the entire competition will last for about a month. Taiping, the fourth match you are going to participate in is called "Dripping Water Wears Away Stone", and it should be held in half a month if nothing goes wrong."

Zhao Linglong, who sat down early, carefully told Xu Taiping about the origin of the seven peaks competition and some rules.

"I heard from Senior Brother Qingxiao about the general rules of these seven competitions. It seems that except for the last one, asking Qingxuan for sword, the rest are not direct fights between disciples."

Xu Taiping asked Zhao Linglong a question in his mind.

"That's right."

Zhao Linglong nodded and then explained to Xu Taiping:

"In order to avoid casualties among disciples in the sect, the Fifth Ancestor did not arrange too many direct fights. Even if it was asking Qingxuan for sword, after one party admitted defeat, they were not allowed to kill again."

"This approach seems to be completely different from the Seven Peaks Selection."

Xu Taiping said thoughtfully.

"The Fifth Ancestor is kind, unlike some people who are stubborn and self-righteous, and don't care about the life and death of their disciples when they do things."

Zhao Linglong snorted with a hint of meaning.

Xu Taiping naturally knew who the "some people" Zhao Linglong was referring to.

"Is Qingxuan different from before?"

Xu Taiping was a little curious about what Qingxuan looked like before.

"I heard from some senior brothers that during the time of the Fifth Ancestor, the mountain gate of Qingxuan Sect was not in Yunlu Mountain, but in a secret place that was dozens of times larger and had dozens of times more spiritual energy than Yunlu Mountain. Later, for some unknown reason, they were forced to move to Yunlu."

"It was from that time that Qingxuan Sect became worse and worse, and even some of the sect's internal skills and manuals were taken away by other sects."

"And in my father's generation, Senior Brother Su Chan suddenly appeared, one man and one sword, and challenged for the Nine Prefectures Sword Champion. This originally gave Qingxuan hope of revival, but I never thought that Senior Brother Su Chan would eventually degenerate and enter the devil's way. If it weren't for the junior uncle who came back from the war and turned the tide, I'm afraid Qingxuan would no longer exist."

Zhao Linglong whispered with some emotion.

"What are you two whispering about?"

Just then, a beautiful face suddenly came close to Zhao Linglong.

"Senior Sister Zi Yan, why are you scaring me!"

Zhao Linglong, who was startled, lightly hit the woman on the shoulder.

The person who came was none other than Xu Ziyan, a disciple of the Sixth Peak.

And behind Xu Ziyan, there was Lin Buyu, who had not been seen for a long time.

"Senior Sister Ziyan, Junior Sister Buyu, please sit here."

Xu Taiping made way for Xu Ziyan and Lin Buyu to sit down.

However, Lin Buyu did not sit in the seat between Zhao Linglong and Xu Ziyan, but went straight to the left of Xu Taiping and found an empty seat to sit down.

The little girl always did her own thing, and everyone did not think there was anything wrong with it, so they let her go.

"Taiping, you seem to have grown taller again."

Xu Ziyan, who was sitting on the right side of Xu Taiping, stretched out her hand and gestured with some surprise.

"Well, I have indeed grown a little taller recently."

Xu Taiping nodded and answered very seriously.

I don’t know if it’s because of practicing the Yandi Hongluo Body Forging Technique, but in just one or two months, his height has increased at a visible speed, and now he is as tall as Senior Brother Qingxiao.

Xu Ziyan was amused by Xu Taiping’s serious answer.

“Sister Buyu seems to have grown a lot taller recently, almost as tall as me.”

Zhao Linglong’s eyes fell on Lin Buyu on Xu Taiping’s left.

“Really?”

Lin Buyu raised his head when he heard it.

But she didn’t look at Zhao Linglong, but cast an inquiring look at Xu Taiping.