Bai Ze didn't give up, climbed up, gritted his teeth, and stabbed him with the sword again. He used the "Sword One Breaking Armor" taught by Ouyang Mu, which was extremely fast.
Tao Hongjing still didn't draw his sword, and Huang Shan stabbed him in the face. He only turned sideways to avoid the sword, then stretched out his foot, tripping Bai Ze, causing him to stumble, and he fell to the ground with his arms and legs stretched out. It hurts.
"Haha, I think it's better for you to stop practicing the sword. First, carry two buckets of water and stab the horse for three to five years. Then you can practice your sword focus and then start again." Tao Hongjing said.
"Come again!" Bai Ze climbed up, unconvinced, and mentally talked to the Nine-Colored Deer. The ghost mark on the eyebrow mountain suddenly lit up, and the emerald green light immediately ignited the boy's whole body.
Climb the three levels in one breath and reach the other shore!
"Huh?" Tao Hongjing was surprised and stopped laughing, "The secret method to improve your realm in a short time?"
"Sword One, Waterfall!" Bai Ze didn't say much, and he shot the first sword that he had learned in the way of swordsmanship, Waterfall.
The blue and green sword energy came out vertically and horizontally, pouring like a waterfall, and hooded towards Tao Hongjing. The old man hesitated for a moment, then drew his sword. He raised his sword and forced the sword energy of the waterfall to change its path, soar into the sky and disappear into the sky.
The strong wind of sword energy blew Tao Hongjing's hair and beard flying. The old man stepped forward and pressed back the emerald pure Yang Qi rushing in Bai Ze's body with his finger, pushing him back to the sea of misery. Then he stretched out his hand to grab the nine-color deer from Caught out of the seal of Wufengjian.
Bai Ze was shocked and inexplicably horrified. Staring at Tao Hongjing nervously, he thought that the old man's strength should be at least at the Venerable level, but he did not expect that his methods were so terrifying that he could pull the spirit deer out of the seal with his bare hands!
"Chirp!" Jiuselu was restless. He was suddenly pulled out of the seal. You can imagine the fear in his heart. But it couldn't move, just because Tao Hongjing blocked its escape route with his sword, and it didn't dare to take the road away.
Jian Gang, the realm of sword energy.
Bai Ze secretly twitched his Adam's apple. Something was wrong with Tao Hongjing's expression when he looked at Jiuselu. The unprecedented seriousness made Bai Ze feel like a mountainous pressure was surrounding him, as if even his breathing was sticky.
Tao Hongjing looked at it for a long time, then released his finger, and the sword gang disappeared without a trace. The Nine-Colored Lu fled in a hurry, ducked into the seal of the Edgeless Sword, and left behind a sentence: "This old man is so scary."
"Teacher?" Bai Ze asked when he saw Tao Hongjing was silent.
Tao Hongjing raised his head and glanced at Bai Ze. Without saying anything, he walked towards the sword furnace with his hands behind his back and said, "I agree with that sword, it's not bad. It's just that you'd better use less of this secret method of ascending three levels of Qi. Otherwise it's really going to happen." The speed of Qi gathering is too fast, and your soul strength cannot keep up, and the illusion of the sea of suffering you encounter when crossing the sea of suffering will kill you."
Bai Ze nodded. He had not considered the side effects of Luling Jade. If he hadn't been so competitive today, he would never have gone through three levels so easily.
"Take the first swordsmanship secret book on the stone table and study it hard when you go back." Tao Hongjing took out a red-gold iron block from the sword furnace, grabbed the black gold hammer, and started beating it.
Bai Ze knew that Tao Hongjing meant to see off his guests, so he didn't say much at the moment. He picked up the first secret book "Five Elements Sword Manual" that was held down by the tea bowl, said goodbye, and pushed the door open to go out.
It was already evening, and as soon as Bai Ze went out, he felt a cold feeling behind him. Only then did he realize that his back was covered in cold sweat. Now that the cold wind was blowing, he was so cold that he had goosebumps all over his body.
"Brother Lu, the way the old man looked at you just now was unusual, as if he was looking at someone through you." Bai Ze communicated with Ling Lu mentally and asked him, "Do you know him?"
"You are also a rare beast." Jiuselu rarely talked to Bai Ze, and said with fear in his tone: "Have you never heard of Huayangzi's name? He is one of the top alchemy masters in the north. Want me? Said, he didn’t look familiar to me, but saw that I was thinking about whether I could make an elixir if I was thrown into the alchemy furnace.”
Huayangzi.
Bai Ze suddenly realized and remembered, "It turned out to be him." The legendary Taoist general in the Northern Territory, from observing stars and gases to refining elixirs, to creating his own unique mental method, integrating the Taoist technique of "Tao follows nature" The person who achieved great success was known as the "Transparent Real Man", and people in the world gave him the title of Half-Immortal Huayangzi and Tao Hongjing.
Why did he become a swordsmith when we met him now? Bai Ze couldn't understand this.
"You should take it easy." Jiuselu said again, tremblingly, obviously frightened by Tao Hongjing's sword. "There are rumors in the world that when he was young, this old man used living people to refine elixirs. He didn't know whether they were safe or not. Fuck you..."
Bai Ze was frightened into a cold sweat again for no reason.
…
It's night, in Tao Hongjing's courtyard.
It was rare that the old man was not forging iron, and the fire in the sword furnace was still burning, but he was sitting at the stone table drinking tea from a large bowl. But as he ate, he finally felt that it was not enough, so he fished up the wine jar from under the table, opened the mud seal, poured a bowl of wine, and drank heavily, along with the two plates of side dishes he bought on the table.
Xie Xuan appeared at this time, pushing the door open and entering with a gust of cold wind.
"I thought you wouldn't come." Tao Hongjing said without looking back.
"But I'm here after all." Xie Xuan brought a roasted chicken, a roasted suckling goose, and a bag of peanuts fresh from the frying pan, as well as a stack of green onion pancakes that were still steaming.
The Half-Immortal and the Sword Emperor were stomping their feet, and the whole northern territory was shaken by them.
But one of them was unshaven, like a savage. One of them is wearing a sheepskin coat and wearing a pair of broken straw sandals, like a country man.
Xie Xuan sat down without any hesitation, placed the things on the stone table, tore off a roasted chicken leg, gnawed on it, and pushed the empty wine bowl in front of him to Tao Hongjing, gesturing for him to pour wine.
Tao Hongjing really poured the wine.
Xie Xuan was not polite, grabbed the wine bowl and drank it all in one gulp, exclaiming, "Good wine." After saying that, he took out a white jade bottle from his arms and pushed it to Tao Hongjing, "I've made the elixir you want. "
Tao Hongjing looked at the old man in front of him who could not be said to be a close friend or a long-time enemy. He grinned, took the white jade bottle meaningfully, put it in his arms, and said, "Thank you Daoxuan, thank you Daoxuan, I really didn't expect that you are so bold." To that extent, you actually dare to plot against the half-step sword immortal King Zhihuan. You said that you can cut off the secret of heaven with one finger and end your own path to immortality. Now that you plot against Wang Zhihuan, do you really think that he is dead?"
"I wouldn't believe the man who forced that old monster Li Muzhi to use his sword a hundred years ago. He died so silently." Xie Xuan said, eating roasted chicken legs, "But Jiuzhou Jianghu, after all, a hundred There has been no news about him for years, which is also an indisputable fact.”
"Aren't you afraid that Wang Zhihuan is really alive and will be born in the future and kill your precious apprentice?" Tao Hongjing tore off the remaining roasted chicken legs, gnawed on them, and asked him.
"With her here, what should I be afraid of?" Xie Xuan said.
Tao Hongjing sneered and said: "People in the world say that I, Tao Hongjing, are heartless, but they don't know that you, Xie Xuan, are even more ruthless. She has waited for Wang Zhihuan for a hundred years, and in exchange for that, you tricked her into teaching her skills to your apprentice, and she was willing to transform into a sword. Spirit, become that kind of thing that is neither dead nor alive?"
Xie Xuan poured another bowl of wine and drank, but remained silent.
"Xie Xuan, tell me, what exactly are you going to do?" Tao Hongjing asked him.
"I want another Sword Immortal to emerge from this land of Kyushu." Xie Xuan stared into Tao Hongjing's eyes and his words were shocking.
Hearing this, Tao Hongjing didn't speak for a long time, and then burst into laughter and said, "I didn't expect you to be so crazy! But how many geniuses are there in Jiuzhou? Two hundred years have passed, except for the alternation of sword immortals between Kong Zhou and Li Mu. Has there ever been a new swordsman? As powerful as Wang Zhihuan, there are few opponents in the world of Zangfeng Sword. Why not still be defeated by Li Muzhi? In the end, he did not know whether to live or die for a hundred years, and even his only disciple became a living dead who had no love and righteousness. Sword Spirit! Why do you think that boy can become a Sword Immortal? Just because of his innate Dao embryo? Hehe, there is no shortage of such divine bodies in Kyushu!"
"So, I want you to help me." Xie Xuan said.
"Shall I help you?" Tao Hongjing almost lifted the table and hit Xie Xuan's old face. "I'll help you. If Wang Zhihuan is still alive, do you think I can stop him, or do you think your apprentice can stop him?"
"She can stop it." Xie Xuan opened his mouth and blocked Tao Hongjing with one sentence. "Besides, he has not been born for a hundred years. Do you really think he is still alive? Is it possible? He is already dead. Li Muzhi's light sword came out and he was not alive. People can survive.”
"What exactly are you going to do if you want that boy to become the new Sword Immortal?" Tao Hongjing asked him word for word.
"Hua Yangzi, Hua Yangzi." Xie Xuan sighed, "It's useless for you to be called a half-immortal, but you are blind. Do you think I just cut off the secrets of heaven and end my own path to immortality just because of love? Do you think Li Mu Now that I have ascended to the legendary realm and become a land god, why have I been reluctant to take the step of opening the sky and ascending to heaven?"
After saying that, he suddenly coughed.
Tao Hongjing was so smart that he immediately sensed something was wrong. He stepped forward and opened Xie Xuan's sheepskin coat, and surprisingly saw a bloody palm print on his chest!
"Blood Transforming Palm?!" Tao Hongjing lost his voice, "How is this possible! Wasn't Li Tianxing killed by you twelve years ago?"
"What's impossible?" Xie Xuan slapped his hand away, pulled up his clothes, and said, "Do you think I'm still the Nine Provinces Sword King who dominated the world back then? The world is about to change, Hua Yangzi. This time I Entered Dushan and met the King of Dushan."
"Dushan, Snowwing Wolf King?" Tao Hongjing asked.
"The era of thousands of races has arrived." Xie Xuan said, pointing to the land under his feet, "From here on, the national war in the north will start again. Seventy years ago, it was because of the Confucian strategists. Seventy years later, because of the Confucian strategists, Alien Rise.”
Tao Hongjing frowned and didn't speak for a long time, just drinking. Xie Xuan gave Tao Hongjing a piece of scallion pancake and said, "Try it. A little girl named Caiyun made it. It's very fragrant."
Tao Hongjing took two bites of the green onion pancake, but couldn't taste it. Seeing that his food was tasteless, Xie Xuan stood up and prepared to leave.
"Xie Xuan, your injury." Tao Hongjing said.
Xie Xuan paused for a moment before pushing the door open, without looking back, and said, "There are many people in the world who want to kill me, but if it weren't for him, no one would be able to kill me."
"He will regret it." Tao Hongjing said.
"He will." Xie Xuan smiled.
"You will regret it too." Tao Hongjing drank a large bowl and swallowed it in one gulp.
"I won't." Xie Xuan pushed open the door and stepped half-foot out of the door. The cold wind outside the door blew his goatee up.
"I haven't promised to help you, and you just left like this?" Tao Hongjing asked him.
Xie Xuan just smiled, went out and closed the door. He glanced at the room where Bai Ze was, but did not go in. Instead, he walked alone through the empty alley and disappeared into the cold night.
