In the few days after Lin Manliu and Ning Ke sighed, they rushed to Yuezhou non-stop. Fortunately, they never encountered heavy rain like the one in Yangfeng Valley in the past few days, and their traveling speed was not hindered.
During these days, before setting off in the early morning, the boy in short shirt practiced the swordsmanship skills he had learned, and continued on his way when Ning Ke woke up.
While resting the horses on the way during the day, Lin Manliu took out two pancakes from his bag and the sage classics borrowed from Mr. Mo, or some other books, and then threw a pancake to the poor scholar next to him. After that, I started to read these books.
At night, even before taking a break, the boy in a short shirt would have to review the news he heard while passing through villages and towns in the past few days with Ning Ke in order to speculate on the changes in the current situation before taking a break.
Today is the third day of our journey to Yuezhou, July 14th, and we are halfway through the journey. Since riding the horse in the early morning, he has not stopped to rest until the sun is high at noon.
"Brother Lin...how much rest do you need?" Ning Ke said breathlessly from behind Lin Manliu. Since no one was around, he naturally changed his name back to his original title.
"Then let's find a stream to rest in front of, so that Xiao Huang can drink some water." Lin Manliu didn't look back. When he answered, he was looking around for a stream.
Having entered Jiangnan Road, the mountain roads in the forest naturally grow next to the water. It didn't take long to find a small stream with gurgling water and a peaceful and peaceful scene.
Lin Manliu went to the stream bank, got off his horse, led Xiao Huang to a shallow puddle in the stream, and let Xiao Huang drink water on his own.
The little yellow horse lowered its head, muzzle and nose, and submerged into the stream. Lin Manliu took out some pancakes from the bag, sat aside and shouted at him. When the little yellow heard the sound, he turned his head and looked at the boy.
The short-shirted boy threw the piece of pancake in his hand. Xiao Huang opened his mouth and took the pancake into his mouth and began to chew slowly. After chewing, he began to drink water from the stream again. From time to time, he spewed out a series of pancakes in the water due to his panting. bubbles, so cute.
Ning Ke, on the other hand, casually led the horse to the stream and found a place to rest under the shade of a tree. She didn't care about the horse at all. She quietly watched the scene between the boy and the horse without saying a word for a long time.
"Lin Manliu, do you even treat an animal like this?" Ning Ke was really bored and said.
"Of course, not everyone treats people like this, but some who are close to them, of course, take care of them," the young man replied casually.
"Are you close to this little yellow horse?" Ning Ke wondered.
"Isn't that right? This is the pony that Miss Yue gave me at that time. It followed me from Jiangnan back to Southern Xinjiang. Now it has come here from Southern Xinjiang. In the future, it may go further and meet more people. ..." The boy in a short shirt turned around and said with a hearty laugh.
It's the moon girl again. I really don't know what the moon girl this boy always talks about looks like, which makes him so fascinated.
"You didn't treat me like an injured person like this before!" Ning Ke remembered that when he injured his leg earlier, the treatment at the hands of this idiot was not as good as the little yellow horse in front of him.
"It is essential to be on guard against others. When I first met Brother Ning, I was naturally wary. I hope you will forgive me..." Lin Manliu had no choice but to explain when he saw the poor scholar in front of him bringing up old things.
After the young man finished speaking, he began to touch his own baggage again, as if he was looking for something.
"Now that we are so familiar with each other, when will you bring me tea and water?" Ning Ke closed his eyes to rest, rested his head on his hands, and said with a smile.
Ning Ke, who originally expected that the young man would argue with her for some reason, was met by Lin Manliu who said: "The injury is healed, but you have no hands or feet? Why are you so whiny?"
Ning Ke's face darkened for a moment, and then he jumped up. Before even looking at Lin Manliu's position, he shouted: "Lin Manliu, you!!!".
She was about to finish what she was about to say when she saw the young man's appearance suddenly stopped. She saw that the young man beside the stream was flipping through a booklet and did not look at her at all.
"What is this in your hand? Why isn't it Mr. Mo's notes and those classics from a few days ago?" Ning Ke wondered.
"An old liar sold me martial arts secrets!" the young man said in a joking tone.
Ning Ke took a few steps closer, knelt down in front of the young man and looked at the contents of the booklet. Seeing that Lin Manliu did not avoid it, he once again said doubtfully: "Isn't it a martial arts secret book? I have never been allowed to avoid it." .
"The old liar said afterwards that it was just an ordinary landscape book, so it doesn't matter," the boy in a short shirt responded. Ning Ke also saw clearly the contents of the booklet. The two pages were about the summer scenery of Yuezhou Lake, and there was annotation on the top of the page:
"The level of the lake in August is too clear and too empty". Then he talked about what he saw and heard when he visited Yuezhou Lake in the summer, which was roughly like this: the lake in Yuezhou is known as Yunmengze.
In the summer, the ferry boat travels in the lake. The lush and lush vegetation on the lakeshore is nourished by the water of Yunmengze Lake.
The water in the lake is also turbid and flexible, vast and connected to the sky. When the wind blows from time to time, the lake water can also be shaken by the waves hitting the shore, shaking the tall buildings in the mountains and forests beside the lake. Even the snowy grand view tower can only become this. A scene in Yunmeng Ze.
"It's really just a landscape book. What's it called? Can you still be fooled into thinking it's a martial arts secret book?" Ning Ke became interested and asked like a young man.
Lin Manliu chuckled lightly and closed the book. Ning Ke saw the four words "Seeking Mountains and Asking Waters" written on the cover. Someone added three words at the end of the four words.
"Sword Raising Jue".
"So this booklet is called... Searching Mountains and Waters to Raise Sword Art?" Ning Ke said, looking at the extremely casual book cover.
Lin Manliu nodded and said: "The old liar said it was called Shanshui Yangjian Jue, which sounds easy to me." Ning Ke said awkwardly: "...What a good name."
However, Ning Ke was immediately alerted. Lin Manliu would definitely not waste time looking through these. Could it be...
"In addition to those sword skills and sword moves, your method of adjusting your inner breath is this Shanshui Sword Art...?" Ning Ke looked at the young man with extremely suspicious and disbelieving eyes.
Lin Manliu remained silent, just nodded, and then continued to flip through the book "Landscapes and Swordsmanship" in his hand.
"Even if it's just an ordinary landscape book, don't watch it with others casually from now on," Ning Ke said suddenly.
It was like reminding the young man not to show this booklet to others easily. Lin Manliu turned around and asked, "What's the explanation?".
Ning Ke pointed to the pamphlet in the young man's hand and said: "Perhaps for the old liar you are talking about, he feels that these are just some of his casual notes on his daily experiences, and for you, it is an opportunity to understand the changes in his mood. Then adjust and consolidate the foundation of your own inner breath method. Presumably your inner breath and breathing method follows a line in the book, and through this line, you can make yourself move and change your breath differently than usual."
The young man began to nod after listening to Ning Ke's words. Recalling the day when I learned Xia Yan's mottled shadow, when I asked the old liar, he even laughed at me for thinking that I could reach the sky in one step by seeing all the mountains, rivers, grass, trees, sun, moon and stars.
Ye Dangting was sitting next to him at that time. Why he said that, he must know better than Ning Ke.
"Are you starting to think about the person who handed you this "Sword-raising Art of Landscape"? Why did he tell you that this is just an ordinary book?" Ning Ke saw that the young man was silent, so he continued to speak.
"In order for me not to be trapped by the scenes in the book, after all, the mountains and rivers nourish the sword, and the mountains and rivers nourish the sword. It is not about walking through the mountains and rivers of the predecessors, but walking out of my own landscape path?" Lin Manliu seemed to have a sudden realization.
"Correct answer!" Ning Ke clapped his hands and said, sighing in his heart that this idiot is not too stupid after all.
"Thank you, Brother Ning, for clearing up the confusion!" Lin Manliu said gratefully.
"Then let me see your pamphlet?" Ning Ke said jokingly.
"Here!" The boy in a short shirt didn't hesitate at all, and handed the book "Landscape Sword-Raising Technique" directly to Ning Ke.
Ning Ke saw how Lin Manliu had forgotten what he just said. He raised his hand and immediately slapped the handed booklet back to the young man. He said angrily: "Didn't I just tell you not to show it to others at will? ! Your brain is all muddled, and you won’t listen to anything you say!”.
"Brother Ning, take a look, it's okay," the young man just replied with a smile. Ning Ke looked at the smile of the boy in a short shirt in front of him, his expression was a little dull... What was this idiot thinking... Let me take a look. It's okay. What if I encounter a bad guy in the future? Just Lin Manliu , you look like a good old man, sooner or later you will be deceived. "Don't look, don't look. Have you rested? If you have rested, continue on your way."
"Ning Ke stood up and walked towards his horse's position.
"Well, rush to Yuezhou early to finish the matter, or find out everything and go back to find Mr. Mo as soon as possible," Lin Manliu said in response.
After finishing speaking, the young man in short shirt organized his books and put them back into his bag. At the same time, he patted Xiao Huang's belly. After resting, Xiao Huang shook his head happily, as if telling the young man that he could do it at any time. Set off.
After the two of them had packed up all their things, they got on their horses together and continued to follow the mountain road to the east.
"According to our schedule, it will take at least three days to reach Yuezhou," Ning Ke said while looking at the mountain road ahead.
"It's very fast to get to Yuezhou before the great heat... I just don't know what will happen in southern Xinjiang by then," Lin Manliu said in response, but there was already a worried look on his face.
"Both you and your uncle are aware of the possible movements of the Evil Slaughter Sect. Your uncle will naturally make arrangements so that the Heaven and Earth Alliance can catch up with the Evil Slaughter Sect as much as possible. There is no need to worry," Ning Ke said comfortingly.
"I'm afraid I'll be plotted against by those thieves again..." The boy in a short shirt still couldn't help but think of the tragic incident in Yangfeng Valley.
Only those who have truly experienced the battle of Yangfeng Valley know that the Tiandi Alliance Qianzhou and his party are not what the storytellers in the town and village have said in the past few days. Or in the eyes of some Jianghu people, the Heaven and Earth Alliance had already given a head-on blow to the Tu Evil Sect that disrupted the peace of the martial arts world.
The Heaven and Earth Alliance has now spread throughout the southern Jianghu, and it is said to be another good story after half a century ago when various factions jointly assisted the Yanyang Dynasty to unify the Central Plains.
Some even say that this time the Heaven and Earth Alliance's heroic feat of slaying the evil Tu Sect will be remembered for hundreds of years and will be praised by various sects in the martial arts world.
