The battle at the Tianming Sword Mansion did not spread widely. The Tianming Sword Master did not say anything, and the disciples who remained at the scene did not dare to spread the word easily. Cheng Ling was not the kind of person to talk too much. Everything seemed to have never happened.
Only the next day, the Tianming Sword Master released a news, officially announcing that Cheng Ling had a second kendo order and became the second sword master of the Chaoyang Temple. His status was the same as Zhou Yuanbai's, and he had an independent sword master's house and all privileges. .
As soon as the news came out, the Chaoyang Temple disciples suddenly realized. No wonder Cheng Ling was so defiant that he was able to clear three sword towers. It turned out that he had the second sword order, and Zhou Yuanbai personally welcomed him back to the sect. The higher-ups must have known about everything before. It should all be a test.
Zhou Yuanbai suddenly felt a lot of pressure. After all, they were both swordsmen. He had grown up in the Chaoyang Temple. Now that Cheng Ling had cleared the sword tower, he couldn't lag too far behind. He smiled bitterly, temporarily stopped the trivial matters at hand, and tried his best to improve his combat power.
At the same time, Jian Yinghao is also secretly working hard. After the last time he broke into the 32nd floor of the sword tower, he has improved recently and broke into the 33rd floor. However, it will take some time to pass the level. day.
Cheng Ling fell silent again. He did not move out of Xingkong Sword Mansion. The main sword hero refused to let him go, claiming that with his presence, he still had a target for sword practice. It's just that it's not easy for him to compete because Cheng Ling spends most of his time practicing in the secret realm.
Several mysteries have reached 100%, and what I need to do now is to sort out my own sword skills. The battle with Tian Ming Sword Master made him deeply aware of the gap between the two. Even though his swordsmanship was slightly superior, he was still unbeatable in a single round of swordsmanship.
There are many reasons for this. Basic swordsmanship, use of sword moves, fusion of mysteries, etc. all need to be improved.
Summarizing hundreds of years of monastic experience, I am good at knowledge but short on refinement. I have many ways to deal with the enemy, but few of them have an overwhelming advantage. Now, it is time to immerse myself in it and sort it out.
The knowledge of swordsmanship is already very broad, but what is lacking is to thoroughly grasp the essence of these swordsmanship and maximize its power.
All Cheng Ling could think of was to combine what he had learned to form a set of effective and powerful sword moves. Except for sword control and void annihilation swordsmanship, the swordsmanship taught by the Golden Page has been practiced to the extreme. However, how to extract the essence, remove the dross, integrate it into oneself, and integrate the secrets depends on subsequent understanding.
The advantage of being a Jianzi is that all the resources in the Chaoyang Temple are available for free, and there is no need to contribute points at all. Therefore, Cheng Ling could spend all day in the secret training room, studying new swordsmanship while comprehending.
Of course, he did not give up on refining the elixir for two hours every day. To reciprocate the favor, the Chaoyang Temple has given so many convenient conditions, and he must repay him. With the continuous refining of elixirs in the past few years, the level of alchemy has gradually improved, and he has reached the peak of the eighth-level elixir master.
Time flies, in the blink of an eye, six years have passed.
In the past six years, Jian Yinghao and Zhou Yuanbai have experienced rapid growth in strength, and have successively cleared the third sword tower. Tianming Sword Master was greatly relieved that Sword Hero had just committed suicide. Zhou Yuanbai was trained by the sect with great efforts, but Cheng Ling overcame him from behind, so he had been feeling depressed.
For this reason, he specifically ordered all the trivial matters of the sect to be handled by other sword masters to free up time. Now, the two swordsmen have finally returned to the same starting line. As long as Zhou Yuanbai practices diligently, there may not be no possibility of confrontation.
Another year passed, and the Tianming Sword Master learned the good news. The Starry Sky Sword Master, who had been traveling for decades, returned to the Sword Ancestor Star with his disciple Yan Shilan. In this way, the nine great sword masters of the Chaoyang Temple, except for the Chaoyang Sword Master and the Nine Xuan Sword Master who went to the God's Tomb, all turned around.
In recent years, Zhongyuan Continent has been in turmoil and has experienced frequent changes. It is said that Jiang Haoyang, the new leader of the Wuji Sect, has been promoted to the Eight-Star Immortal Emperor. He has subdued the Misty Snow Sect, Tiandao Sect, Scarlet Blood Sect, Ruixia Immortal Sect and other large and small sects with an iron fist, and has almost unified the entire Zhongyuan Continent.
At the same time, the Buddha Sect and the Demon Clan took advantage of the emptiness of the Dao Sect to attack on a large scale. Not only that, the Black Demon Abyss in the southeast was also ready to move, and there had been several waves of incidents of demons hurting people.
Although the Chaoyang Temple is located among the stars outside the territory, as the saying goes, no matter where it gains absolute advantage, it will be the next step. Moreover, the Zhongyuan Continent is a piece of fat after all. It has many resources that are not available on the stars outside the territory. If the sect wants to develop, these are indispensable.
Unfortunately, Chaoyang Sword Master and Jiu Xuan Sword Master are not in the sect, and they are unable to support themselves. Now that they are better, Starry Sky Sword Master has returned, and the sect has at least one more top-notch combat power.
In the Starry Sky Sword Mansion, a beautiful woman sat high up. She was very tall, and her upper body alone was slightly taller than ordinary people. She was wearing a plain brocade dress, and her long black soft hair was vertical to her waist. Her face is calm, her skin is delicate, her eyebrows are full of charm, and her skin can be broken by blows, just like a beautiful woman in her twenties. Time seems to leave no trace on her face.
Below the woman, two young men, a man and a woman, were sitting. The first one was dressed in red, with long hair tied into a high ponytail hanging behind her head. Her face was as arrogant as a flower, but compared to the previous woman, she lacked a hint of mature charm.
The two women are Xingkong Sword Master and Yan Shilan, and sitting further down is naturally Sword Hero.
After listening to Sword Hero's narration, Starry Sky Sword Master said, "So this second sword master lives in the Kongjian Palace. His name is Cheng Ling, and he is your old friend?"
Jian Yinghao replied: "Yes, I made the decision without permission, I hope Master will forgive me."
"It doesn't matter. I'm traveling and you can't find me. Have you all cleared the third sword tower?"
"Yes, thanks to Brother Ruocheng's guidance, otherwise it would be very difficult for the disciples to pass the level."
"Oh?" Xingkong Sword Master knew how arrogant Jian Yinghao was, and she couldn't help but feel a little interested in someone who could be so respected by him. She glanced at Yan Shilan meaningfully and said, "Lan'er, Yinghao is here. But you are compared to me."
Yan Shilan curled her lips and said: "Master, if you hadn't been traveling with your disciples, maybe I would have been able to pass the sword tower. Now that it's fine, I will be promoted to Sword Master, and there will be no chance. But it's rare for my junior brother to take a fancy to it. , this Cheng Ling seems to have some ability, so the disciple went to show it off."
There is an unwritten rule in the Chaoyang Temple. Only the Sword Master level and below can enter the third sword tower.
One is because of the sword tower itself, the difficulty of clearing the level is similar to the challenger's cultivation level. Generally speaking, most powerful sword masters have improved their power skills and sword domain to a very high level, so challenging again will not help. big.
Secondly, even if the average sword master has not improved his power skills and sword domain to the limit, he will not lower his status to try. If he does not do it, he will be inferior to the monks of the Tianzun period and bring humiliation to himself.
Jian Yinghao was startled. He knew Yan Shilan's temperament very well. As the saying goes, women should not give way to men. Her qualifications and fighting talent were both excellent, and she was not considered second among her peers. He had held the record of breaking into the Sword Tower a long time ago, and it was not until he traveled with his master that he caught up with him.
Now, luckily, her words of praise for Cheng Ling actually aroused her arrogance. He was worried and said hurriedly: "Senior sister, Brother Cheng is still in seclusion. I don't know when he will be able to come out."
"Retreat? That's okay. The worst thing is to wait until he comes out of seclusion. The master said that this time he will not be able to go out for a long time."
Jian Yinghao smiled bitterly in his heart, there was nothing more to say, but from the bottom of his heart, he really hoped that Cheng Ling could have a fight with Yan Shilan. Based on intuition, although the senior sister has been promoted to Sword Master, Cheng Ling has many ways to deal with the enemy, so she may not have no hope of winning.
When I first met him, his cultivation level was above that of Cheng Ling's. Didn't he also become disgraced after their duel?
The Starry Sky Sword Master smiled and said nothing, she had no objection, and it was basically settled at this point.
But who knew that Cheng Ling had been in seclusion for a long time and had not left seclusion for a whole year. Just when Yan Shilan was waiting anxiously, suddenly, a rapid sound of bells sounded on the Sword Ancestor Star.
The expressions of all the monks changed. This was a wake-up call! It only sounds when the Sword Ancestor Star is invaded by a foreign enemy. Who dares to go wild in the Chaoyang Temple after eating the courage of a bear's heart and a leopard's courage?
One after another, figures appeared on the dome. The Celestial Sword Saint, the Starry Sky Sword Saint, the Light Sword Saint, the Phantom Sword Saint, the Five Elements Sword Saint, the Senluo Sword Saint, and the Demon-Slaying Sword Saint all rushed there. They gathered their skills and looked outside the sky. The battleship was surrounded by darkness, and his expression darkened.
Cheng Ling was naturally awakened by the sound of the bell. He didn't know what was going on at first, but with a sweep of his consciousness, he found that many monks were flying up to the dome, and he teleported there.
Among the monks, he knew Zhou Yuanbai and Jian Yinghao. When he saw Jian Yinghao following two stunning women, he didn't bother him. He flew to Zhou Yuanbai's side and asked: "Brother Zhou, what happened? The bell rang just now. What is it?"
Zhou Yuanbai glanced at him and said, "Your master is here!"
"My master?" Cheng Ling was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses and said with a change of expression, "You mean Jiang Haoyang?"
"Who else but him could not help but take action against Chaoyang Temple!" Zhou Yuanbai sighed.
Cheng Ling's heart sank, and when he scanned his consciousness, he saw a dense array of warships outside the stars, at least tens of thousands of them. Could it be that he really planned to attack the Chaoyang Temple?
"Brother Zhou, what is his intention? With these tens of thousands of warships, is he planning to subdue the temple?"
Zhou Yuanbai said: "That's not the case. These battleships are only small battleships with limited accommodation space. Regardless of the large number, there are only hundreds of thousands of monks at best. No matter how conceited Jiang Haoyang is, he will not plan to fight Chaoyang with only such a small amount of strength. The temple is going to war, and if my prediction is correct, the main purpose of his trip is to intimidate, hoping to defeat the enemy without fighting."
Cheng Ling didn't know much about the Immortal Battleship, so he felt relieved after hearing Zhou Yuanbai's analysis. But soon, I started to worry again.
When Jiang Haoyang arrives in person, how should he face it? Although he knows the other party's conspiracy and ambition, at least so far, he has never taken action against him. Instead, he has defended him many times, which is enough to fulfill the responsibility of a division commander.
As for Songfengguan's interception, he could say that he was unaware of it, and he had no corresponding evidence. Once a war breaks out with Chaoyang Temple, which side should we stand on?
For a moment, Cheng Ling felt heartbroken and in a dilemma. He just wanted to leave immediately to avoid seeing the scene of close combat.
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