Sword of Coming

The sage has said that when Heaven is about to confer a great responsibility on a person, he must first work hard on his mind and body.

Wei Bo would run to Luolu Mountain almost every day to bring Chen Ping'an precious medicinal materials from Baofengzhai.

Although Wei Bo could not sympathize with Chen Ping'an's miserable situation during the past two decades, Chen Ping'an's resilience and the ruthlessness of that bad old man surprised Wei Bo.

How big of a "big responsibility" does this have to warrant such a disaster? How can we not let this young man Chen Ping'an, when the world is undergoing great changes, receive bad news from Daoxuan Mountain, and then ask this young man to go to Yijian to become a million-dollar master?

When this idea came to mind, Wei Bo himself felt ridiculous.

The sky is so high and the earth is so vast. You must know that Aquarius Continent is the smallest of the nine continents in the world, not to mention that the continent closest to Xuanxuan Mountain is the Whirlpool Continent with beautiful trees and luxuriant branches. For example, Cao Xi and his like are already extremely powerful land swordsmen, but they are still hardly the best in Nanbosu Continent. The truly top monks are the ancestors of the Yingyin Chen family.

Song Yuzhang, the desolate mountain god, took the initiative to meet Wei Bo once during this period. Wei Bo just chatted with him for a few words, which was far less polite and warm than the first time they met. Both parties knew the reason. Song Yuzhang wanted to be a courteous and loyal minister, and put the interests of Da Li first in everything. At the mountain temple on the top of the mountain, regarding Chen Ping'an, Song Yuzhang spoke straight to the point even in front of Wei Bo, and Wei Bo again It's not like the Clay Bodhisattva didn't have any anger at all, so he left unhappy.

Wei Bo carried his baggage and walked leisurely and slowly up the mountain. When he came to the bamboo house, he found that Chen Ping'an, who was standing near the railing before sparring in the second floor today, had just finished practicing the sword furnace stake setting, and he was actually still there. Taking the initiative to say hello to him, Wei Bo gently threw the baggage worth one hundred thousand taels to the girl in pink skirt, glanced at the child in green sitting cross-legged on the edge of the cliff, and trotted up to the second floor with light steps, making a series of thumps. The sound does not sound like the Beiyue Zhengshen who is about to receive the golden decree, but rather like a waiter.

Although Chen Ping'an was about to "rush to the execution ground", he still smiled and said: "Thank you for your hard work, Master Wei Xian."

"It's not hard work, it's just a few steps, and you can still stroll around and enjoy the scenery every day. Besides, you are a mountain god after all, and you have the responsibility of patrolling."

Wei Bo leaned his elbow on the railing and turned to look at the young man, "I just drank half a bottle of wine. Is this how it works?"

Chen Pingan said with a smile: "I don't know why, but after drinking it, my mood is very different."

Wei Bo nodded and said: "Good thing."

The old man's rich voice came out, "Come in and enjoy the blessing!"

Chen Pingan smiled helplessly and said goodbye to Wei Bo. Wei Bo also smiled bitterly and said nothing, enjoying the blessing? Fortunately, the old man could speak out.

The word "disarming" sounds interesting, but what is the reality? Chen Ping'an was asked to tear open the surface skin and lift off his fingernails!

The term "drawing silk" requires Chen Ping'an to draw his own tendons!

The real test of the school's popularity with this cruel method is that Chen Ping'an was deliberately allowed to do it by himself, and he had to keep his eyes wide open and not move fast enough to "strip out the cocoon" for himself bit by bit.

But even though Wei Bo's scalp was numb, he was also full of expectations for Chen Ping'an's martial arts realm.

How strong is the foundation of the Three Realms that you have worked through in this way? How strong will your combat power be when you fight with people and enemies in the future?

Chen Pingan took off his straw sandals and walked into the empty house. After closing the door, he found the old man sitting cross-legged and reading "Mountain Shaking Book" there, which made the old man frown.

Today, when the old man was practicing Jianlu with Chen Pingan, he suddenly had a whim and said that he wanted to see the boxing chart of Jianlu Zhanzhuang. After Chen Pingan explained it, it was basically the same as what he told Miss Ning. The boxing chart was It is not owned by Chen Ping'an, who is keeping it for others. The boxing techniques and diagrams recorded in the boxing manual cannot be passed on to others, and so on. The old man was so annoyed that he almost wanted to teach the young man a lesson on the spot.

"Is this the Mountain-Shaking Boxing Manual?"

The old man casually threw the boxing manual back to the young man and said with a smile and a sarcastic face: "The opening chapter of Boxing Technique says, 'There is a small insect in my hometown called a worm. Throughout its life, it is different from its kind elsewhere, always carrying rocks into the water.' Hahaha, it turns out they are martial arts warriors from the southeast of Juluzhou. If you listen to these petty words, they are full of earthiness. You can imagine how successful the boxer who wrote this boxing book will be in his lifetime."

"Fortunately, this guy is somewhat self-aware, and he knows that he clearly wrote in the boxing book, 'He has never been among the best in the world's boxing book.' Otherwise, I would have scolded him for being shameless."

"'My boxing technique distinguishes life and death but not victory or defeat, and the punches are heavy but not the moves.' Tsk, tsk, this sentence really makes a toad want to vomit heaven and earth when he opens his mouth. It's so loud. Chen Ping'an, Do you know why the boxing manual explains it like this? It's very simple, because when it comes to determining the outcome, you will always lose more and win less, so you talk about dividing life and death, at most you will end up dead."

Chen Ping'an said gloomily: "If the boxing records are so bad, the old man is still willing to remember the boxing principles in the book so clearly?"

The old man laughed loudly, "The boxing skills described are really weak, but this guy is not afraid of flashing his tongue when he talks. I am very happy to see it. I just treat it like a messy landscape travelogue."

Chen Ping'an didn't refute anything, but he was a little unhappy.

He cherishes this boxing manual very much!

Deep in Chen Ping's heart, he was grateful for the Mountain-Shaking Fist, which was not even inferior to the three wisps of sword energy from the Sword Spirit.

One is a life-saving medicine and the other is a life-saving charm. There is no distinction between superior and inferior, nor should there be. In fact, Chen Ping'an has a rough idea of ​​the pros and cons of Shanshan Boxing, because Ning Yao thinks it's very average. She can learn to practice boxing step by step, but she doesn't think it's a big achievement. Later, Zhu He also witnessed Chen Pingan's walking and standing, and he was not surprised at all.

But Chen Pingan doesn't care about this.

Even if Chen Ping'an lives another ten years or a hundred years, no matter how high his martial arts achievements are at that time, his love for "Mountain Shaking Fist" will only increase, not decrease!

The old man asked with a smile: "Before today's boxing practice, I will ask you a little question. If you answer it correctly, there will be a surprise. If you answer it wrong, hehe."

Chen Pingan swallowed, a little frightened.

The old man stopped his smile and asked in a deep voice: "What do you think is your favorite sentence in the boxing book about throwing away fists and using fists?"

Chen Ping'an said without any hesitation: "Those who will learn my Shanshanquan in the future, even if they are facing the enemy the founder of the Three Religions, remember that our boxing skills can be weak, and we can lose in the fight for victory, but we only have the power of boxing! Never retreat!"

The old man stood up suddenly and said, "Practice boxing!"

Over at the blacksmith shop in the south of the town, a girl was complaining to her father, "Why don't you want my help in making swords?"

The man glanced in the direction of the brand-new sword furnace and said, "Do you know why dad promised that girl to make her this sword?"

The girl nodded and said: "I know, she gave us such a big dragon-slaying platform, which is enough to buy a good sword."

Ruan Qiong shook his head and said: "More than that, I hope that the first sword that I, Ruan Qiong, will create for my sect, no matter who it is forged, will be able to become a blockbuster and make the sword cultivators of the entire Aquarius Continent and even Julu Continent. Everyone knows how sharp this sword is!"

When it comes to this, the blacksmith who dares to make fun of even the small-town drinking woman exudes a strange brilliance, like a master talking eloquently, like a Taoist discussing the Tao, or a monk preaching. The man sitting on the chair holds a hand in his hand. He punched his knees lightly with his fists, his eyes were sharp, but he still had the usual rough and dull feeling, "Then who is the most suitable gift? Wei Jin, who was originally from Fengxue Temple, half of his own family, is suitable both emotionally and rationally. It's a pity that before Ning Yao appeared, Wei Jin had been in seclusion. Since Ning Yao took the initiative to make swords and took out the Dragon Slaying Platform, I certainly wouldn't refuse. After passing the Hanging Mountain, there are several buildings comparable to those in Ju Luzhou. The Holy Land of Sword Cultivators is even more amazing and can win the attention of sword cultivators all over the world."

The existence of the Upside Down Mountain is known as the largest mountain seal in the world. It was originally a small seal, but after falling from the sky, it became a majestic mountain. This is obviously disgusting to the Confucian saints, the Taoist ancestor who lives elsewhere in the world. The second disciple under you not only drove such a nail into the world of Haoran, but also required all Qi practitioners from all continents who go to the Great Wall of Sword Qi through Hanging Mountain to sign a "Mountain Agreement".

Most people don’t know the existence of Hanging Mountain and the Great Wall of Sword Qi. After all, they are almost at the edge of the vast world. For example, the ordinary sect on the mountain in Aquarius Island is located in a corner, with a small door and a small household. You will never hear of it in your life. These two titles. Further up, if you have heard about it and then briefly mentioned it, it will be a topic that is difficult to discuss in depth. Once the news is blocked, and after all, there are thousands of mountains and rivers separated, and the matter has nothing to do with you. But even for the Aquarius Continent sect on the top of the mountain like Fengxue Temple, they still feel that the scene is covered by clouds and fog, and the flowers seen in the fog are separated by one layer, because they are separated by the upside-down mountain, and even more because of the It is the handiwork of the second disciple of Daozu, and it is like a private courtyard "built" in this world.

It's really domineering to the extreme.

The entire vast world is the portal of your Confucianism, but Pindao just wants to independently open up a small garden in your home.

No wonder that before Literary Sage became a saint, he ran to the border between the two worlds and cursed at the second disciple of the Taoist Patriarch. This would become one of the most proud feats of Confucian disciples in the world at that time.

According to some long-circulated sayings, after you go to Daoxuan Mountain, you can look and walk around as you like, but you are not allowed to tell others about certain things. If you tell the truth, the disciples and grandsons of one of the Taoist masters in the world will naturally come to settle accounts with you. And when it comes to this matter, the Seventy-Two Academy of the Three Confucian Schools tend not to get too involved, and at most they mediate for a few words.

As for why the saints who have statues of gods in the Confucian Temple chose to turn a blind eye to this, it probably involves a huge inside story.

Three words, "God" knows.

Ruan Xiu wondered: "Dad, does it have anything to do with why you said so much and you don't want me to help you forge iron swords?"

Ruan Qiong nodded and said: "The sword is of too high quality and the material is too good. You are already at a high level now. I am afraid that if you show real fire, it will be too scary. Nowadays, the small town is full of fish and dragons. If there is any slight disturbance, it will be half It’s something everyone in Aquarius knows.”

Ruan Xiu was even more surprised, "Why don't I just hit an iron and make a peach blossom cake?"

Ruan Qiong snorted coldly: "If I just made a piece of peach blossom cake, it would save my father trouble and effort."

Ruan Xiu said "ha" slightly embarrassed and stopped talking.

In the past year, I haven’t eaten much pastry. When I talk about it, I want to drool and feel a little embarrassed.

Ruan Qiong held it in for a long time, but still couldn't help it, "After that boy heard that he was going to give Ning Yao a sword, he agreed without saying a word. He didn't even ask how far Aquarius Continent was from Daoxuan Mountain. The toad thought Eating swan meat makes you ignorant of the heights of the world!”

Ruan Xiu turned her head and said softly: "Dad, I just like a girl, and I also pay attention to the right match. It's not about getting married. At that time, it's about one origin, which is somewhat reasonable. Now it's just who I like, no matter heaven or earth. of."

Ruan Qiong was stunned, "Do you know he likes Ning Yao?"

Ruan Xiu's eyes widened, "I'm not blind, and it's not like you don't know, Dad. I can see people's hearts, so I should have known it earlier."

Ruan Qiong was so angry that he couldn't utter a single word. He just wished he could walk to Luoluoshanzhulou in one step and punch to death the little mud-legged guy from Mud Bottle Alley.

I don't bully my daughter like this.

Ruan Xiu suddenly laughed, "Dad, you don't think I like Chen Pingan, right? Well, the kind of love I'm talking about is the kind of love between a man and a woman."

Ruan Qiong was a little confused. Although he felt guilty, he still pretended to be relaxed and said harshly: "How could you like that boy? It has nothing to do with his origin. My father is also a poor boy who came from a poor family. There is no need to say more about this. , but my father really doesn’t like Chen Pingan’s appearance, talent, and personality, so he is not worthy of my Xiuxiu.”

Ruan Xiu made a sound, straightened his hands and arms, intertwined his fingers, and looked into the distance, "So Dad, you don't like it."

The dignified military sage almost made his daughter angry to death with such words.

Ruan Qiong bit the bullet and asked, "What about you, Xiu Xiu?"

Ruan Xiu's answer seemed a bit irrelevant and evasive, "Chen Pingan will only like one girl, I know it better than anyone else."

When she said this, the girl smiled happily.

This made Ruan Qiong a little confused, and he couldn't figure out what Xiu Xiu was thinking. After all, he was not Xiu Xiu's mother. As a man, he couldn't really ask questions about love and affection.

Ruan Xiu narrowed her moist and spiritual eyes and said with a smile: "The peach blossom cake is so delicious."

Ruan Qiong stood up suddenly and said dullly: "Dad will buy it for you in the town."

Ruan Xiurou said weakly: "Okay."

Ruan Qiong was angry as he walked. Chen Ping'an was such a jerk, which made my Xiuxiu greedy for more than half a year, and she didn't have any snacks!

My daughter has lost weight!

When Saint Ruan Qiong opened a furnace to forge swords, those monster wild cultivators who entered the country last year were secretly notified. Regardless of whether they wanted to or not, they rushed to the mountains to the west. As for whether they could make money and eliminate disasters, they could successfully enter the mountains and take advantage of the mountains and rivers. The sword intent emitted by the sword furnace after Yun resisted depends on the expressions of the forces on the mountain. Therefore, most of the various monsters who came to take root here have unsightly expressions. Some monsters who did not take this matter seriously, Thinking that he was so advanced in his profession, how could he be frightened by the forged sword far away by the Longxu River, so he insisted on staying in the newly purchased house in the town. The local officials from the two places of the county government and the government office did not force it. Just give this kind of list to the Dali spies in the country.

The mysterious thing about Dao Dao is that Ruan Qiong's sword-making this time is quite weird. He claims that it only has a great influence on the demon clan. It will not hinder the human Qi practitioners. Even the relatively weak ordinary people in the market will not be affected by Ruan Qiong. The aftertaste of Qiong Zhujian spreads.

No wonder there is an old saying circulating at the "foot of the mountain" among immortals: If you don't enter this mountain, you won't enjoy great blessings, but at the same time, you can avoid many worries. For example, when Li Zhudongtian's spells were banned, everyone from the saint Qi Jingchun to Li Huai, to the ancestor of the Li family and all ordinary Qi practitioners were actually suffering. On the other hand, the common people were not aware of it at all.

Later, nearly a hundred wild cultivators who hid in the small town had several conflicts with each other on the way into the mountains. If they disagreed, they would be beaten to death. The Dali court did not interfere in this. As long as the two sides fought, no matter what the situation, Destroy the feng shui of the mountain and turn a blind eye. However, a Six Realm monster who was unwilling to move in the small town got into an argument with the county government official who went to report it. He became so ferocious that he punched the official until he vomited blood and also killed an accompanying military official. They were injured together, and in less than a stick of incense, Feijian sent a message to Xinjian County in the north of the mountain. County Governor Wu Yuan personally ordered that the monster be killed on the spot.

From the beginning to the end, the county government did not use the ancestral monks from the big families in the town, nor did it drive the other monsters who relied on others to absorb spiritual energy. Instead, they dispatched three higher-ranking military secretaries to cooperate with two hundred The elite soldiers of the Great Li army, led by a military general, surrounded the mansion where the demon tribe was located. On the roof, there were all crossbowmen with outstanding physical strength. They used strong bows and powerful crossbows, and the crossbow arrows they used were even more sophisticated. He was specially made by a secret government office and was eventually strangled on the spot.

The Mohist hero Xu Ruo, who was famous in China, and his confidant Liu Yu were standing side by side on a roof not far away, standing idly by and not overstepping their bounds.

At that time, the people watching the battle from a distance were also many foreign forces who bought the hilltop.

If Da Li sent a powerful monk to crush and kill the unruly monster, the impact on those watching the battle would actually be far less than what they saw. Secretary Lang of Da Li Wu was a military monk. , cooperating with the warriors who have fought hundreds of battles on the battlefield, everyone advances and retreats in an orderly manner, and kills monsters with ease. They belong to two groups of people on the mountain and down the mountain, but they can cooperate perfectly.

This is the real horror of the Great Li Dynasty.

Today's boxing training was just to temper his soul, but Chen Ping'an suffered even more.

When the kid in green clothes carried him out, his hands and feet were twitching and he was foaming at the mouth. Even after he was put into the big medicine bucket downstairs, he was still miserable.

When Chen Pingan climbed out of the medicine vat and put on clean clothes, it was late at night again. He picked up the wine bottle, exhaled a breath of filthy breath, stretched out, and sat between the boy in green and the girl in pink skirt. Chen Pingan drank. After taking a sip of the strong drink, it still felt choked and unpleasant, but it felt good, even better than the first time I drank it.

Chen Ping'an sipped the wine in small sips, squinting his eyes and feeling a little tipsy.

Taking advantage of the wine, he asked: "I know there are sword gourds in the world. Do you think they are sold at Baofangzhai?"

The two little guys looked at each other.

The boy in green sighed, "Master, it's really not that I don't want to lend you money. Not to mention whether Baofengzhai is sold or not. Even if it is, firstly, master, you may not be able to grab it. Secondly, even if I lose everything and sell the iron, I won't be able to do it." You may not be able to afford the most common sword-raising gourd."

Chen Ping'an was a little shocked, "So expensive?"

The boy in green nodded vigorously, "There is no most expensive, only more expensive! It's so expensive that it makes all the middle and fifth realm qi practitioners feel pain!

The boy in green stood up and said in a serious tone: "Let's just say that my brother Yujiang Water God, the biggest dream in this life is to have a sword gourd in his left hand and a sword gourd in his right hand. Hey, he is not a swordsman yet, so he must be alive. Damn those sword cultivators who have high standards. As a result, he has only managed to save a low-quality sword gourd. Of course, this has something to do with his lavish spending. Just that fairy alone made him squander it. He has lost the family fortune accumulated over four to five hundred years, and there are still many people who admire him, and he always spends a lot of money on them. Alas, beauty is a disaster, so sir, you are good, you don’t have any luck, don’t worry about this. "

The girl in pink skirt quickly retorted: "No! Sister Ruan just likes our master!"

Chen Ping'an smiled and said: "That's because Miss Ruan is a nice person, not because she likes me. Don't say such nonsense in the future, otherwise Sister Ruan will be really angry and I won't help you."

While talking, Chen Pingan secretly smacked his lips. It turns out that the sword-raising gourd is so valuable. So the first thing he did when he came back down the mountain was to go to the inn and send a letter to Li Baoping, asking her to keep the silver-white sword-raising gourd. , don't bump into each other. He knows that the girl in Aoping is very playful. Maybe one day she will run around the mountain with a red string gourd, and maybe she will smash the gourd out with a swish.

The two little guys glared at each other, both holding back and saying nothing.

Chen Pingan thought about it carefully and added: "Miss Ruan is different from ordinary people. I can't tell you exactly. If Miss Ruan likes me, then I also like Miss Ruan, but this kind of liking is not what you think." That kind of thing.”

The boy in green was relieved.

He was a little worried before that the middle-aged man who didn't like to talk much and didn't look like a saint would one day go to Luolu Mountain with such force that he would punch Chen Ping'an to death with one punch, and then punch himself to death.

The girl in the pink skirt was a little disappointed.

Of course she likes her master the most, and then she also likes Sister Ruan. Wouldn't it be great if the two people she likes can like each other?

So who does the master like?

The girl in the pink skirt knew that the master secretly liked a certain girl.

For example, now she is secretly looking at the master's profile, looking at Chen Pingan's eyes and expression, and she knows that the master is beginning to miss that girl again.

Chen Ping'an's mind traveled thousands of miles away.

There was a girl with eyebrows like distant mountains.

Besides being pretty, she's also very nice.

Even if she was just sitting in a broken house in Mud Bottle Alley without saying anything, she could make the boy full of hope for the future.

But Chen Pingan also knows that whether he likes her or not is his own business; whether she likes him or not is her business.

No matter what, Chen Pingan felt that he had to tell her face to face.

Just like when she had already gone far away, but suddenly felt the need to say goodbye to him, she would turn around and come back with her sword to say goodbye to him in person.

Chen Pingan dare not say that he only likes one girl in his life, but he will never like two girls at the same time.

So he wanted to take a trip for himself.

This was the first time that the boy wanted to do something for himself.

The next day when he was practicing boxing, Chen Pingan casually asked if he needed to find a good sword classic to practice swordsmanship.

As a result, the old man was furious. The original plan of tempering the body became a tempering of the soul. Before that, he tested the effectiveness of boxing in the name of "sparring". He used the drum style of a god to beat the drum with a total of twenty-five punches. Chen Pingan was beaten until he almost cried for father and mother.

The dying Chen Pingan lay on the ground, half dead.

He repeatedly mistakenly believed that he was actually going to die.

The old man was condescending and asked with a sneer: "People are so incompetent that they want to distract themselves from sword practice even before they have mastered their boxing skills?!"

Chen Ping'an, whose face was covered with blood and couldn't see clearly, was so distraught that he vomited blood and replied hoarsely: "I want to ask how to practice sword practice after practicing boxing..."

The old man was obviously stunned for a moment, and when he noticed the young man whose eyes were starting to get angry, he smiled awkwardly and stepped on the young man to knock him out.

It helps to temper the body. There is not much difference between fainting and waking up.

As a result, that night, Chen Ping'an got out of the medicine bucket, changed his clothes, and cursed from the first floor to the second floor, his face was ashen and he gritted his teeth.

The scolding was really unambiguous. He was worthy of being a young man born in Mud Bottle Alley.

The boy in Tsing Yi and the girl in pink skirt were sitting next to them, eating melon seeds. Even the boy in Tsing started to admire his master. He has been practicing boxing for so long. If nothing else, just his courage and courage, the results are outstanding.

After that, Chen Ping'an sat on a bamboo chair and drank sullenly. He drank up the remaining half of the bottle of wine.