At that time, there was a mountain behind Liuzhuang.
All things move with yin and yang. Xie Xuan stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the mountains and rivers of the north. After traveling around the world for ten years, it’s time to go back and make peace with the past.
Bai Ze often sees such a master. He knows what he is thinking and what he is going to do. He also knows what the result will be after that thing is done. But he couldn't say.
This is something Xie Xuan has to face alone, and no one can be allowed to interfere, even if...
"Bai Ze." Xie Xuan suddenly interrupted his thoughts and asked, "Do you know why I accused you of using your blood to measure your Qi that day?"
"I hope Master will teach me," Bai Ze said.
"It's true that the Nine Heavens of the Sea of Bitterness cannot release true energy outside the body until we cross it." Xie Xuan said, "But before we reach the other side, we can't condense sword energy with one finger. That's false."
"Master, you want to teach me this method?" Bai Ze's eyes lit up.
"Of course." Xie Xuan nodded, "Look at my sword first. My sword only uses true energy, but does not release it. Watch carefully!"
"Yeah!" Bai Ze nodded.
"Here we come!" Xie Xuan secretly channeled Ziyang's true energy, his body remained motionless, and he pointed to the sky, "Heaven and earth are infinite, Taoism is natural. The universe is infinite, please borrow a sword!"
Bai Ze's eyes widened and he couldn't take his eyes away.
"Here comes the sword!" Xie Xuan shouted, but his true energy was not released.
But see you! The mountain peaks and waterfalls flowed upstream. Xie Xuan pointed the three-foot-long silver-white sword energy in the air, like a dragon rising into the sky. The wind and clouds suddenly changed color, and the sword roared like a luan and a phoenix!
"Uh-huh!"
Bai Ze saw only a flash of silver light, and the unparalleled sword energy shot straight into the sky, upwards more than a hundred feet, still unabated with its majesty, as if it was about to tear the sky of Kyushu apart!
"How do you like this sword?" Xie Xuan stood proudly and smiled lightly, "Do you want to learn it?"
"Miaoji, I want to learn!" Bai Ze nodded quickly and asked, "Master, how do you unlock this sword?"
"This sword is the sword of the waterfall." Xie Xuan said, "Everything in the world can be used as a sword. The mediocre people always think that the Qi sword is just a sword transformed from a body of true Qi. But they have never thought that everything in the universe is a sword. Wood, all have the sword intention. The sword intention before it is released is for all things, and the sword intention when it is released is the sword energy!"
"The sun, moon and stars can also be swords?" Bai Ze asked.
"Why not?" Xie Xuan asked.
"Master, teach me!" Bai Ze thanked him, "I want to learn this method of asking and borrowing swords!"
"You should remember this technique." Xie Xuan pointed in the air, and the Taoist brand rushed into Bai Ze's spiritual consciousness. "I will also give you one day to see this waterfall. Come back in the evening and tell me that it What is it?"
After that, he turned around and left.
Bai Ze closed his eyes and concentrated, memorizing the Taoist techniques in his heart, then ran down the mountain before Xie Xuan, rushed to the pool, sat cross-legged on the big bluestone, stared at the waterfall in front of him carefully, and was lost in thought.
"Any grass or tree can be a sword." Bai Ze fell into deep thought, "This hand asking to borrow a sword is really mysterious! But the waterfall is like this. Although I understand that it can be a sword, where is this sword?"
The willow sword in the hand is tangible and can be held with bare hands. But the waterfall sword is invisible, how to hold it?
Bai Ze stayed up and thought about it all night, but still didn't understand, so he had to take a nap with his head covered and wake up to continue his enlightenment.
In the evening, he returned to Liuzhuang, and Xie Xuan asked him, "How was it?"
"I don't understand what it means." Bai Ze answered truthfully.
"Well, we'll see tomorrow." Xie Xuan said, still playing chess with Liu Ling, "By the way, don't slack off in your practice. The ninth level of the sea of suffering cannot be broken through in one day, and you must work hard at ordinary times."
"Yeah." Bai Ze nodded.
For seven days in a row, Bai Ze went to the back mountain of Liuzhuang to watch the Xuanquan Waterfall, but he still couldn't figure out where the waterfall sword was.
On the seventh day, Bai Ze returned to Liuzhuang, only to find that Yuan Fang was not in the courtyard. Xie Xuan and Liu Ling were still playing chess as before.
"How are you today?" Xie Xuan asked him.
"Today the sea of qi is as big as a pool. When I was practicing qi, the sea of qi in my Dantian shook, as if it broke through a certain barrier. It should be the first level of the sea of suffering." Bai Ze said, paused, "As for the waterfall, we still have it. No results.”
"Okay." Xie Xuan Baizi dropped his catalpa tree and said, "Bai Ze, remember, there are some things that cannot be seen with the naked eye. The mind's eye can sometimes see it more clearly."
"Mind's eyes?" Bai Ze thought thoughtfully.
At night, Bai Ze lay on the bed. Chen Yuanfang went to bed, and when he saw him, he lay down side by side and said, "What are you thinking about?"
"How can a waterfall be a sword?" Bai Ze turned over, looked at Yuan Fang, and asked, "I don't see you in the courtyard today. Where have you been?"
"Your master asked me to go up the mountain to chop firewood." Chen Yuanfang replied truthfully, "I will do this every day from now on. I will go up the mountain to chop firewood for an hour, but I will use a willow sword that has been specially shaved off by the master."
The master he was talking about was Liu Ling.
"How can you chop wood with a sword without an edge?" Bai Zeqi asked.
"The old god said that you should practice the sword as heavy first, then as light as possible, and finally as if the sword is heavy and light." Chen Yuanfang also seemed to understand, and frowned, "Anyway, I will do it anyway."
"Okay." Bai Ze sighed, "It seems that it is not easy for you and me. But yes, if practicing swordsmanship is so simple, then wouldn't there be as many sword immortals and sword masters in the world as crucian carp crossing the river?"
"Does Bai Ze want to be such a great person?" Chen Yuanfang asked, "I heard that ten years ago, the unknown swordsman from the village widened the crossing river in front of Liuzhuang Village by more than a hundred feet with one sword. It was really amazing. ! I don’t know when I will be as powerful as him.”
"One day, you will too." Bai Ze said, looking at the roof of the hut, listening to the buzzing of mosquitoes in his ears, and said: "As for me, of course I want to be that kind of person. After all, I can't give my Master, shame on you!"
If the heir of the Sword King is mediocre in swordsmanship, wouldn’t he be a laughing stock in the world?
"Then let's work hard together!" Chen Yuanfang was simple-minded. After hearing Bai Ze's words, he didn't think much and said, "I'm tired. I'll go to bed first. I'll continue chopping firewood tomorrow."
"Well, go to sleep." Bai Ze also closed his eyes.
A night of silence.
The next day, Bai Ze still went to the back mountain of Liuzhuang to learn how to use Xie Xuan's waterfall sword that night.
Cumulonimbus clouds slowly rose into the sky in the distance with majestic momentum, as if heavy rain was coming.
"Master said that some things are invisible to the naked eye, but can be seen more clearly with the mind's eye." Bai Ze held the willow sword in his hand, looked at the hanging spring waterfall in the back mountain, and understood the true meaning.
For three moments, there were bursts of thunder, and cumulonimbus clouds enveloped the city of Heyang. After five lightning flashes, the torrential rain poured down with astonishing momentum.
The water pool was disturbed by the heavy rain, and its color suddenly became turbid. Bai Ze was soaked to the skin, and the sound of the rainstorm silenced the sounds of heaven and earth. All he could hear was the sound of rain.
"The cold pool is quiet, but now the heavy rain is pouring, but it suddenly shows its movement." Bai Ze looked at the turbid water pool, and the rough raindrops made the water boil like a boil.
"If the waterfall I see is water, then what is the water that my mind sees?" Bai Ze suddenly realized, shouted and stood up, "I understand, it is spiritual! The spiritual movement of water!"
He suddenly realized that he remembered Xie Xuan's sword strike that night. The sword energy was like a dragon, spiraling straight into the night sky. There was no trace of the rigidity and straightness of the sword energy. It was clearly only the agility of water!
"The world is infinite, the Tao method is natural!" Bai Ze immediately used the Tao method, swung his sword finger in the air, and shouted: "The universe is infinite, ask me to borrow a sword! Here comes the sword!"
The waterfall flows as usual, and the heavy rain comes indifferently. Bai Ze struck out with his sword, but no sword energy came out of the waterfall at all!
"Although I understand what this sword is, I can't help it, I can't help it!" Bai Ze laughed loudly, standing with the sword, letting the heavy rain hit his whole body, bathing in the desolation.
In the courtyard of Liuzhuang, Xie Xuan and Liu Ling were still playing chess, but the heavy rain was blocked by the locust trees and did not wet their clothes at all.
"My little friend learned the sword in the mountains, Yuan Fang has not returned from cutting firewood, and the rain is pouring, but Taoist Master is like Shen Yue. Not an old boy can compete with this state." Liu Ling held the black stone, annotated the chessboard for a long time, and dropped the black stone. Entering the chess box, he sighed, "I lost again."
"One is back." Xie Xuan said after taking a sip of wine.
Chai Fei was pushed away, and the person who came was none other than Bai Ze.
"You turned back early before the appointed time. You must have the answer in your mind." It was not a question, but an affirmation. Xie Xuan didn't look back and concluded that the person coming was none other than Bai Ze.
"Thank you, Master, for your teachings, and I got the opportunity when it rained heavily." Bai Ze said, "I have obtained the sword that Master gave me that day, but the sword is so majestic that I cannot lift it, so I cannot use it."
"It's just that you don't have enough strength." Xie Xuan said calmly, "When you reach the third level of the sea of suffering and the sea of qi is as big as the mountain behind Liuzhuang, you can naturally lift the sword. So, I told you yesterday, don't let your cultivation fall."
"Yes." Bai Ze bowed respectfully.
"I'll wait for you three months to break through the third level of the Sea of Bitterness." Xie Xuan said, holding nine white pieces, a little bit on his fingertips, forming a dark formation, and throwing it towards Bai Ze, "Then for each piece, you put three sword energies into it. , and then I have something for you to do."
Bai Ze took the chess piece, put it in his arms, and replied: "Within three months, we will break through the third level of the Sea of Suffering!"
"It's not enough." Xie Xuan said, with a flick of his finger, he cut off the edge of the willow sword and said, "From tomorrow onwards, you will go up the mountain with Yuan Fang to chop wood for an hour. When you can cut off a ten-year-old tree with one sword, come back and tell me."
"Okay!" Bai Ze nodded.
"You don't ask me, why do you have to practice sword-controlling as well as Qi Sword?" Xie Xuan asked.
"Everything is a sword." Bai Ze said, "I cultivate invisible swords, but there are tangible swords. Could it be that there are no invisible swords among them? Master's move must let me lift the sword first and participate in the supreme swordsmanship."
It is worthy of being an innate Taoist divine body. Such talent is really extraordinary and can be compared with ordinary talents. Xie Xuan nodded secretly, smiled happily, and said: "Okay, after three months, I will wait for good news!"
"I'll go up the mountain to chop firewood immediately!" Bai Ze held the willow sword, pushed the firewood door open, and ran straight to the back mountain.
The heavy rain blurred the sky and the earth, and the two old men sat opposite each other, listening to the violent sound of the rain.
"One more game." Xie Xuan said.
"Tao Zun." Liu Ling was silent for a moment, took a sip of bitter tea to calm down his shock, and said: "My little friend is so gifted, given time, he will definitely become famous in all of Kyushu!"
Xie Xuan smiled proudly, looked at Liu Ling's healed face, stroked his goatee, and said: "If I, Xie Xuan's disciple, cannot cover the sky with one hand and turn the clouds and rain over, it is not his fault, it is my incompetence."
In his words, the arrogance of the Nine Provinces Sword King, who "breaks the secrets of the sky with one finger", was clearly revealed.
"I just don't know, what will Dao Zun give my little friend after three months?" Liu Ling thought about it again and again before asking.
"It's okay to tell you." Xie Xuan said, "I am a member of the Taoist sect, and I have also done some research on alchemy. I will not stay in Liuzhuang permanently, otherwise disaster will happen. Before leaving, help Yuan Fang, and also help me. That scoundrel is just taking one step further on the road to heaven."
"Ah?" Liu Ling was shocked.
"After three months, I'll ask him to find some elixir for me, that's all." Xie Xuan motioned to Liu Ling to drop his three sons first, and said, "You don't have to worry. If someone comes to Liuzhuang in the future, tell him where I am going. But. He is not a person who will hold everyone in Liuzhuang accountable."
Because he just wants to kill me.
