After playing at the foot of the mountain for such a day, it was already dark by the time Gu Sanyue returned to her and Xu Huaigu's small house on the mountain.
Xu Huaigu was meditating in the house, and Gu Sanyue added some firewood to the stove without disturbing him.
Then she took out the knife Xu Huaigu gave her, pushed open the door and started practicing in the yard.
This is what Xu Huaigu told her this morning. You can play what you should, but you can't do less practicing swordsmanship. Probably because it was getting dark, the cold wind in the mountains became more and more arrogant.
Every gust of wind, fueled by the severe cold, seemed to be a knife that cut people's flesh. Although the cold was unbearable, with her second-level martial artist's physique, she would definitely not get sick, but she would just have to suffer a little bit.
Every time she felt like giving up, she would think of the eight years she spent wandering in East Fuyao Island, and the conversation Xu Huaigu had with her on the top of the cliff in Fuyao Island.
Then, she will continue practicing. Not long after, she broke out in sweat. As soon as the crystal snowflakes landed on her body, they immediately turned into water droplets, mixed with sweat, and slowly flowed from her skin.
When she was completely immersed in it, all that was left in her heart was the knife in her hand. As the sword flickered, everything in the outside world—snowflakes, pine trees, and the moon—seemed to no longer exist for her.
This time when practicing swordplay on Xueye, Gu Sanyue could clearly feel that his swordsmanship had improved a lot.
This was a rare opportunity, so after she finished practicing for the day, she didn't stop until the sun rose the next day.
The winter nights were long, and she practiced sword practice for seven hours that night. Seeing the red sun gradually gushing out from the horizon, Gu Sanyue finally stopped.
She rested for a while, went back to the house, made a pot of hot tea, poured a cup for Xu Huaigu, drank enough, and then fell asleep.
Xu Huaigu had been meditating and practicing and ignored her. She slept very comfortably this time, and she didn't know how long it took before she woke up.
After taking a breath of fresh air and sobering up, she got out of bed and saw Xu Huaigu sitting by the stove, adding fuel to the dying fire.
Gu Sanyue glanced at the sky outside and saw that it was already dark. He was surprised and said: "Oh, why is it getting dark again? How long have I been sleeping?" Xu Huaigu replied calmly: "The whole day." Gu March was a little embarrassed and said, "It's all my fault that I was too tired from practicing sword practice last night, and I didn't know I slept for so long." Xu Huaigu nodded, not blaming her.
Gu Sanyue got up and went to make tea, but she heard Xu Huaigu say: "Pack up your things, we will set off at dawn tomorrow morning." She stopped what she was doing and asked doubtfully: "Doesn't it mean that we will wait until the opening ceremony is over? Are you leaving? Why are you in such a hurry?" Xu Huaigu glanced at her, smiled meaningfully, and said, "What do you think?" Gu Sanyue was stunned for a while, then slammed his head and exclaimed, "Oh no! ! Could it be that the opening ceremony of the sect is today and I fell asleep?" Xu Huaigu smiled and nodded.
Gu Sanyue's heart suddenly sank. He regretted it so much that he wanted to slap himself. This was the opening ceremony that I had longed to see, how could I sleep through it?
Gu Sanyue, Gu Sanyue, you might as well just sleep to death! She was heartbroken and said sadly: "Master, why didn't you wake me up!" But Xu Huaigu said: "I see you are sleeping deeply, and I don't have the heart to wake you up." Gu Sanyue was angry and anxious, holding the teapot He stood there for a long time, and finally he could only sigh, helplessly grabbed a handful of tea leaves and threw them into the teapot, then added water to make tea.
Xu Huaigu then said: "Don't be too upset. I have some good news here. Do you want to hear it?" Gu Sanyue said unhappily: "Master, tell me." Xu Huaigu asked softly: "Is it the third realm?" ?" Gu Sanyue was startled, and then he began to carefully explore his body.
Different from the spiritual energy practiced by monks, what martial artists practice is a breath of true energy originating from the body. Gu Sanyue controlled the zhenqi in his body and circulated the muscles and bones of his body for a week. Only then did he realize that the zhenqi had indeed increased compared to yesterday, and his physical body seemed to have improved a lot than before.
It seems that I have really broken through this state of sleep today. Fortunately, Xu Huaigu didn't wake him up, otherwise this rare opportunity to break through would have slipped away.
Seeing Gu Sanyue's surprised expression, Xu Huaigu knew that his guess was correct. However, before Yue Yue was overjoyed, Xu Huaigu reminded: "Be careful, a martial artist's breakthrough is always between life and death. If you can break through by practicing swordsmanship in the yard like this, the realm is definitely not stable enough." , I still can’t slack off at ordinary times." Gu Sanyue raised his eyebrows and nodded happily.
Xu Huaigu said: "Continue to make tea." Gu Sanyue got the order and was still thinking about it happily while burning tea.
After the tea was boiling hot, the master and apprentice drank hot tea and warmed themselves up by the fire.
This night passed quietly. ...Xu Huaigu and Gu Sanyue didn't sleep all night, so they naturally packed their luggage early. Just when it was dawning the next morning, they got up and continued to Xinyu Sect.
When the two of them came down the mountain, it happened to be the time when these disciples from Bailiang Mountain went up the mountain to do their homework. So I walked along and met many disciples walking up the mountain.
Among them, the oldest ones are about fifteen or sixteen years old, and the younger ones are seven or eight years old. Where there are young people, there will be life.
After a period of getting to know each other, some people have formed small groups one after another. They were in small groups, chatting and laughing with each other, so the mountain climbing road became much easier.
Unlike others, Xu Huaigu and Gu Sanyue went down the mountain against the flow of people, which inevitably attracted the curious eyes of many disciples.
Yesterday, the boy named Cheng Yiqing stopped in his tracks when he saw Gu Sanyue, bowed respectfully, and said, "Hello, senior brother and senior sister." It turned out that Xu Huaigu and Xu Songtu had similar body shapes, and the light in this early morning It was not good either. When she saw Gu Sanyue, she mistakenly recognized Xu Huaigu next to her as Xu Songtu, so they greeted her together.
Xu Huaigu said with a smile: "Who is your senior brother and who is your senior sister? What's the matter, you just entered the sect and you are thinking of recruiting me into Bailiang Mountain? What your sect master can't do, you can do it It's very smooth." Cheng Yiqing looked up and saw that he had recognized the wrong person. He suddenly became anxious and quickly lowered his head, feeling terrified in his heart.
I have long heard from the elders in the family that the great monks on the mountain have weird tempers, and they must pay attention to their words and deeds.
And this person recognized the wrong person as soon as they went up the mountain. It sounds like this monk has a good background, which may be a disaster.
Gu Sanyue glanced at Xu Huaigu angrily and said, "Master, why are you scaring him?" Xu Huaigu just smiled and said nothing.
Gu Sanyue stepped forward, helped up Cheng Yiqing who was still bowing respectfully and did not dare to raise his head, and said kindly: "My master is joking with you." But Cheng Yiqing was still afraid and did not dare to raise his head.
Gu Sanyue came close to his ear and said with a smile: "He is just such an old naughty boy, teasing you for fun, don't be afraid." Xu Huaigu curled his lips and muttered: "No matter how big or small you are, how can you call me master?" What?" Gu Sanyue ignored him, but took out a small bag of tea from his pocket, put it in Cheng Yiqing's hand, and said with a smile: "Take this. This is Xianjia tea, drink it slowly. , which is beneficial to practice." Cheng Yiqing's eyes widened, he looked at the bag of tea leaves, then looked up at Gu Sanyue, and nodded vigorously.
After saying these words, Gu Sanyue stood up, looked at each other and Xu Huaigu, and then the two of them continued down the mountain.
Cheng Yiqing carefully put away the tea leaves, turned around and watched the two of them disappear on the gravel road, and then suddenly realized that he had accepted someone else's things before he could say thank you, which was inappropriate.
But Xu Huaigu and Gu Sanyue were already out of sight, so he had no choice but to shout loudly in the direction of going down the mountain: "Thank you, Sister Fairy!" This move immediately attracted the attention of many people around. Cheng Yiqing felt a little embarrassed, so he Continue walking up the mountain.
Cheng Yiqing was thinking about this all the way up the mountain, and he didn't know if the sister heard it. By the way, I forgot to ask her name.
But then he thought that if he was given another chance and she stood in front of him, he probably wouldn't dare to ask.
Fortunately, he knew that Xu Songtu must know this sister's name, and he could just ask Xu Songtu insinuatingly when he had the opportunity in the future.
Speaking of the two people who came down the mountain, of course they heard these words of thanks. Xu Huaigu smiled evilly and said, "Have you fallen in love with that kid?" Gu Sanyue
He made a "che" sound and said, "How is it possible that he is still so young?" Xu Huaigu still refused to let her go, jokingly saying: "For us monks, age is not a problem. At worst, we should learn from Zhu Yan in the future. The technique is not difficult." Gu Sanyue disagreed and retorted: "If I help him out, it will be regarded as a favor to him. Master, you sealed the bride named He with a small bead in Suchang City that day. What’s the red envelope?” Xu Huaigu saw that she was using himself to refute, and quickly explained: “What I do is called forming good karma.” Gu Sanyule said with a smile: “Then what I do is also forming good karma. How about your master? You can form a good relationship, but you don't allow me to form a good relationship?" Xu Huaigu was so angry that he puffed his beard and stared at him, saying, "Where did you learn this skill of talking nonsense?" Gu Sanyue replied plausibly: "It was all taught by the master. That's great!" Now it was Xu Huaigu's turn to remain silent.
As the two continued walking down the mountain, he began to think about other things. In less than two years since Gu Sanyue started following him from Fuyao Continent, he has already broken through the three realms. To be honest, this speed is a bit exaggerated.
Gu Sanyue interrupted: "Master, do you have a woman you like?" Xu Huaigu paused and ignored her.
Gu Sanyue then continued: "Master, you have never told me, what are you going to do in Xinyu Sect? Are you going to see the woman you like?" Xu Huaigu stopped and looked at the clouds in the sky, his expression changed from He was solemn as never before.
Gu Sanyue was so frightened that he knew that his words had touched Xu Huaigu's taboo, and he was afraid that Xu Huaigu would abandon him when he was angry.
She quickly changed her face to look like she was aware of her mistake, lowered her head cautiously, and begged: "Master, don't blame me, I know I was wrong, and I will never say it again in the future." Xu Huaigu pulled his mind away from the memories. When he came back, he shook his head and said, "It's okay, I don't blame you." So the two of them continued walking down the mountain, but Gu Sanyue could see that Xu Huaigu was still worried.
Xu Huaigu was actually thinking that if Zuo Qiuxun was still here and heard Gu Sanyue asking him if he had a woman he liked, he would have said in a sour tone: "Oh, how can Xu Jianxian not have a woman he likes? You But I don't know, your master is the Great Love Sage! Let me count for you..." As he thought about it, Zuo Qiuxun's tone and appearance gradually emerged in front of his eyes.
I really miss it. On the way down the mountain, Gu Sanyue was scared to death. Because when Xu Huaigu was in a daze, she seemed to see two tears falling on his cheeks.
