The last time Li Jian saw Yun Xi, it was when Qian Chao encountered the challenge of those children from aristocratic families outside the clan. That was when Qian Chao won ten games in a row. The last time was when Qian Chao fought against Bai Lin and defeated Bai Lin. After that, Yunxi was worried that Bai Lin was injured, so she hurried over to check. Because she was so angry at the time, Li Jian was worried that she would take action against Qian Chao, so she stopped her.
From then on, the next meeting was today in the arena of the Cheng Guan En Trial.
Compared with a year ago, Yunxi has not changed much. She is dressed in a clean and decent green dress often worn by Five Spirits female disciples, which makes her figure look slender and slim. Her black hair is tied up in a bun casually. Wearing an ordinary hosta and no other accessories, Li Jian admired this simple and plain dress. This woman's facial features were exquisite and beautiful. The only flaw was that she always seemed to have a full face. Cold, and...compared with the previous impression, this woman's eyes are sharper. This is probably the biggest change in Yunxi.
Seeing Li Jian standing there steadily, Yun Xi understood that the other party was unwilling to take action first, so he said "be careful" and then took action.
I have to say that Li Jian was a little careless!
Relying on his previous experience of fighting with Yunxi, he was waiting for Yunxi to form a sword formula with his fingers before starting a fierce and unusually fierce fight!
But... Yunxi turned out to be like him, standing firmly with his back to Chengguan Tower and facing him, without any intention of moving. When Li Jian was wondering, he suddenly felt a chill in his heart, and a huge sense of crisis filled him instantly. All over his body...
The people watching the battle in the audience could not see clearly at first. The competition had already begun. However, they did not see the flash of sword light or the clang of swords on the stage, nor did they see any movements from both sides. The two people were actually facing each other all the time. Standing still, as if they were looking at each other at the same time, everyone was puzzled when they suddenly saw a cold light suddenly shining behind Li Jian, and then they did not see clearly how Li Jian moved, the sword In the midst of the roar, I saw him move to one side on the ring in an instant, and narrowly missed the cold light coming from behind. The cold light appeared and disappeared suddenly. He missed the blow and immediately Disappeared, and then before everyone knew what happened, they saw Li Jian's figure flying back like a stagger. Only then did people find a cold light shining from Li Jian's waist and abdomen towards everyone. The direction became more and more powerful, and when he was almost sprinting under the ring, he disappeared like a ball of light and shadow. Only then did someone scream out in surprise!
But Li Jian on the stage did not dare to slack off in the slightest. He had to concentrate and fully use his senses. Although Yun Xi was far away on the opposite side, there was no safe place within a few feet around him. , from time to time, a sharp sword edge appeared from a strange angle, and a straight cold light pierced towards him in the roar, and then disappeared bizarrely after he dodged hastily, like a sword jumping out of the water to prey. Monsters are like monsters. Don't think that everything will be fine if you avoid it. When the sword edge disappears, another edge suddenly appears from a place Li Jian didn't expect. And because the sword is so fast, even if the sword edge disappears, the remaining sword will remain. The shadow still moved forward in the air, giving people the illusion that the sword was still thrusting forward, but at this time the heart-stopping sword cry had already sounded from another direction behind Li Jian!
Every time the sword roared suddenly, it was very close to Li Jian, and it was getting closer. This forced Li Jian to completely let go of his body skills at the beginning of the competition, and his green robe flew into the ring in a ball. The green shadow kept flashing back and forth in the cold light, and in sharp contrast was the woman. From the beginning to now, the woman stood there motionless, looking at her calmly. The opponent dodges in the sword light trap full of death threats, and remains unmoved despite frequent dangers.
Everyone watching the battle in the audience held their breath after the first few exclamations. They stared with wide eyes at the sword cultivator competition that had become extremely dangerous since the beginning. After watching for a while, everyone in the audience was stunned. A strange feeling, there seems to be some deep hatred between these two people, at least that is the case for the woman named Yun. There is no difference between victory and defeat. This is almost a life and death battle on the ring!
The perspective of everyone in the audience is from the bottom up, but if they look down from above, the scene is different. Whenever Li Jian dodges, a dense sword light will pass by him. The cold light never stopped, and the harsh whistling sounds never stopped. As Li Jian kept dodging, the pierced sword shadows dissipated one by one, and the remaining shadows before dissipating. The shadows of swords on the arena were still criss-crossing, like a dangerous iron net of cold light, trapping Li Jian in the middle!
This scene cannot be seen by the many watching disciples below the ring. It can only be seen clearly from the Chengguan Tower.
Naturally, this method of Yunxi also fell into the eyes of Fairy Leng Yue.
The reason why Fairy Leng Yue flatly refused to accept Yun Xi as a disciple was not because Yun Xi had no talent in sword cultivation. On the contrary, Fairy Leng Yue could see at that time that this woman was a talented person, but ... No matter how talented you are, you may not be suitable to become a sword cultivator. Mu Xiufeng always only looks at the character of his disciples rather than his qualifications. It is precisely because Yunxi’s character was not favored by Fairy Leng Yue that he was rejected. .
What is Yunxi's character?
In Fairy Lengyue's view, Yunxi has a high self-esteem, is deep-seated and narrow-minded, caressing and paranoid. For such a person to become a sword cultivator, it is easy to have the means but difficult to achieve, and in the long run, becoming a sword cultivator will be difficult. Xiu was not a good thing for Yunxi, so after seeing Yunxi clearly, Fairy Lengyue flatly refused. Even after the lobbyists came one after another and made her extremely annoyed, she simply told the outside world directly. He said that he was in seclusion and could not even see those people.
Well, it was this move that made Yunxi, who had a strong sense of self-esteem, feel deeply hurt. Her respect for Fairy Leng Yue gradually turned into resentment. Later, she heard that Fairy Leng Yue... After falling in love with Li Jian, Yunxi, who was extremely competitive, started to resent Fairy Leng Yue and Li Jian. This gave her the idea of retaliating against Fairy Leng Yue in disguise. After preparing for a long time , today is the final appearance of her revenge!
"It looks a bit like it."
Fairy Leng Yue looked downstairs and said softly, and then glanced at Ling Yue next to her. Well, this girl's face changed from the previous nervousness to the scene where Yun Xi seemed to be suppressing Li Jian on the ring. It turned into overjoyed, presumably because I saw hope of winning the bet again. Alas, this girl Ling Yue is not bad, but she is too playful. It would be great if her methods could catch up with Yun Xi.
On the arena, the big net woven by sword light became tighter and tighter, and the mesh became finer and finer. The sounds of sword sounds were intertwined into a long and harsh sword roar, in which Li Jian was already To the point where it was inconvenient to move, and the sword light was about to penetrate his body...
In fact, everyone in the audience was even more puzzled, weren't there two sword cultivators? How come the automatic player named Li Jian never saw him use a sword in the beginning?
Finally, Yun Xi's persecution reached the extreme. At this moment, Li Jian's right hand grasped a long sword with blazing white light, and immediately slashed forward with a "ding" sound. When the sword was slashed out, Li Jian also held a short sword with blazing white light in his left hand and flipped it on his back, causing another "dang" sound.
It was obviously two swords, but in the ears of the disciples in the audience, there was an almost indistinguishable "ding-dong" sound of the spirit swords clashing.
Li Jian drew his sword, but Yun Xi's offensive suddenly stopped. A spiritual sword with cold light hung two feet in front of Li Jian, ready to go. Yun Xi carefully looked at the long and short sword in Li Jian's hand. After looking at the two spiritual swords with blazing white light for a while, I breathed a sigh of relief. The first fight between her and Li Jian was so fierce, but Li Jian only used a sword to deal with her from beginning to end. If Bai Lin hadn't told her later, she would have thought that her fight with Li Jian was at least a draw.
Now, just a short time after the competition started, he had forced out both of Li Jian's swords. Yunxi was quite satisfied with his hard work over the past year.
"Congratulations to Miss Yun for improving your skills." Li Jian said sincerely when the other party stopped.
"Master Li's body skills are exquisite." Yun Xi also replied.
Then the spiritual sword in front of Li Jian facing him suddenly flashed, but what really stabbed him was a straight cold light that suddenly appeared behind him!
This time, many of the watching disciples sitting in front saw clearly. Many people exclaimed "Ah". The sword was clearly in front of them, but when the sword light flashed, the sword edge came from behind. Many people couldn't help but think. If he were facing that woman, would he be able to withstand such a sword?
Fairy Lengyue and an elder sword cultivator were not the only ones watching the battle upstairs in Chengguan. Today, Mu Xiufeng’s person in charge, Yan Shuang’s master, Senior Lu Suyang, was also there, and next to him was one of Mu Xiufeng’s elders, Sun. Well, this time The person also appeared in the previous article. He was the one who escorted the Jiugen Bai family and his party from Jiugenyuan to the Wuling Sect. It was also the elder Sun who approached Leng Yue many times about Yunxi's apprenticeship. In Fairy's Cave, Elder Sun had to give up after Fairy Lengyue went into seclusion and stopped seeing guests. However, she was dissatisfied with Fairy Lengyue. Later, Fairy Lengyue decided to accept a disciple when she first met Li Jian. He was also blocked by Elder Sun. Elder Sun knew something about what happened today, and he naturally wanted to see what happened out of concern. Lu Suyang had the same idea.
"In terms of swordsmanship, this girl has actually reached this level." Lu Suyang said.
"Haha, Miss Yun is still very good...it's just a pity, Kunai is a good teacher!" Elder Sun said.
Lu Suyang naturally knew that Elder Sun had a close relationship with the Yun family, and even more so knew that Elder Sun and Fairy Lengyue were at odds over Yun Xi's apprenticeship. He smiled slightly and then stopped talking.
Offstage.
Everyone seemed to think that Li Jian would turn around to block the sword thrust from behind, but Li Jian did not. As soon as the cold light behind him shone, his body grew a few inches, and his whole body was completely suspended, and then As soon as his body moved, a long green robe was stretched out and went straight towards Yunxi!
Such fast movement, everyone was shocked to see that Li Jian was so fast that he couldn't even catch up to the cold light behind him!
The cold light chased the afterimage left by Li Jian for a while and then suddenly disappeared. Before the shadow of the sword disappeared, a cold light flashed somewhere between Li Jian and Yun Xi, and there was a roar, cold and cold. The sword pointed at Li Jian's chest and stabbed hard!
Li Jian's speed did not slow down. Just when Yun Xi's spiritual sword was about to reach his body, he mistakenly moved towards Yun Xi!
It came again, Yun Xi frowned slightly, she didn't want to fight Li Jian up close.
During the distance between Li Jian and Yun Xi, there were two or three "ding-dong" sword sounds along the way. Li Jian's sword and Yun Xi's sword struck each other fiercely more than once, but regardless of Yun Xi's appearance, After all, the sword was more frequent, but it couldn't stop Li Jian from approaching her quickly!
Three feet, two feet, one foot...
The originally indifferent expression on Yun Xi's face finally turned cold, and his eyes became even sharper!
Suddenly, the people who watched the battle on the stage and the elders of Dan Dan's elders in Chengguan Building were all shining, and the "Ding Ding Dang Dang" sword sounds suddenly burst out!
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Eye swordsmanship, this is a method that Li Jian, as a sword cultivator, will probably never master in his entire life.
The reason is also very simple, because Li Jian and Yun Xi followed two completely different paths of sword cultivation.
For sword cultivators, in addition to the two factions of "Qingxiu" and "Danchen" based on whether they can be possessed by demons or not, there is another way to distinguish them, and that is to differentiate based on the number of ways they approach the enemy.
For example, Yan Shuang, Gu Yuan, and Yun Xi who were fighting fiercely with Li Jian. They were all swordsmen. The method they used was to control the spiritual sword to fly out against the enemy. Someone once called it a "flying sword". group".
As for Li Jian, Liang Bake, who won a match yesterday, and even Xiao Yi, a casual swordsman who was recruited by Wen Liang and later died from the poisonous bees in the Hanging Corpse Valley, they are all good at close combat with sharp swords. Therefore, some people call this the "Sword Fighting Sect". Compared with the "Flying Sword Sect", the "Sword Fighting Sect" seems to have fewer people.
Of course, there is also a kind of person who has both sides, just like the white disciple who was defeated first by Qian Chao and then by Liang Bake. He has two swords, one can fly and hurt people, and the other can be held tightly in his hand. Let him fight with the enemy in close quarters, but this kind of sword cultivator is even more uncommon.
Because Li Jian is the main character in the article, and he is also a rare "sword fighting sect" among sword cultivators. Because of him, the article does not mention much about another sword cultivator sect, the "Flying Sword Sect", but Here it is necessary to explain some of the advanced methods of the "Flying Sword Sect".
The previous article described the scene where Yun Xi, Yan Shuang and Gu Yuan were fighting with others. When they were fighting against enemies, they were no different from ordinary monks. They all used hand techniques to control their spiritual swords. What was different from ordinary monks was that their The power of the spirit sword is even more powerful.
Sword cultivators of the Flying Sword Sect have to practice the Heart Techniques and Hand Techniques diligently from the beginning. The Heart Techniques are similar to incantations, while the Hand Techniques are made using five or ten fingers to form a hand seal. Only by combining the two can the spirit sword fly out. Well, when the swordsmanship disciples of the Flying Sword Sect first started practicing swordsmanship, they not only had to form hand seals seriously, but also had to recite the inner secrets. However, with the passage of time, the improvement of swordsmanship and the purity of methods, the first thing that is not relied on is the heart formula recited loudly, just recite it silently in the heart, and the next thing that can be omitted is the hand formula , but it takes a long time to get to this point. Yan Shuang and Gu Yuan still couldn't omit the step of hand tactics during the previous fight. However, these two people were already familiar with the opponent's tricks, so they used their swords sharply and quickly.
It is the first small achievement of the Flying Sword Sect to reach the point where it is no longer necessary to use hand formulas to issue swords. At this time, to defend the enemy, there is no need to recite formulas or form seals with both hands. What you see is the sword light. And, so it is called "eye sword technique".
That is Yun Xi's method now. When she dealt with Li Jian, she didn't see any movement at all. She just stood there quietly, and the spirit sword suddenly came and went away strangely. As long as her sharp eyes saw it, the spirit sword It will roar and fly past.
This is also the reason why Li Jian didn't expect it at first and was a little embarrassed.
The second small achievement after "Eye Sword Art" is called "Heart Sword Art".
The so-called "when the heart senses it, the sword light will kill it", that is, as long as the opponent can be noticed and distinguished by the swordsman, the spirit sword can catch up and kill him. However, it must reach the level of "mind sword skill". One of the biggest requirements for sword cultivators is that the "Sword Heart Qingming" must reach a certain level of heat.
Among the sword cultivators we know so far, Yan Shuang has already mastered the "eye sword technique", but the "sword heart clarity" is still a little behind, so he has not yet reached the state of "heart sword technique", while Gu Yuan has just barely reached the "mind sword technique" It's just the level of swordsmanship.
As for Yunxi, speaking of her talent, she is really not bad. The "Sword Heart Qingming" seems to be higher than Yanshuang, but she is just at the beginning of the "subtle" level.
Let’s talk about Li Jian here. He relied on his innate and amazing power of induction to make rapid progress in "Sword Heart Clarity". So far, his "Sword Heart Clarity" has surpassed the two categories of "subtlety" and "selflessness". The state is currently the state of "I am".
With the help of "Sword Heart Clearness", one can find and lock the opponent firmly, and then stab the opponent with the spiritual sword without any movement. Even if the opponent is behind the back in a crowd and in a hidden place where it is not easy to detect, he can kill him with one sword. Such a state is It is a bit more advanced than the "eye sword technique", so it is called the "heart sword technique".
Next, if the sword cultivators of the Flying Sword Sect achieve the realm of "Heart Sword Art" and then achieve the "Intention Sword Art" they dream of.
As for the "Flying Sword Sect"'s "Intent Sword Technique", to change the name we already know, it is what Li Jian realized during the life-and-death battle with the possessed sword cultivator Xiao Yi... the Sword Realm!
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Amidst the sound of swords as dense as the pelting rain, Li Jian on the stage looked like an immortal with eight arms!
Between him and Yun Xi, a ball of dazzling white sword light and a ball of cold sword light collided with each other, without giving in, squeezing each other back and forth, constantly changing shapes.
In fact, the two light groups that can be seen by many disciples in the audience are completely the afterimages left after two people drew their swords. But don't think that the place is empty. The real danger is still in these two groups of swords. Within the light, whether it was Li Jian's green bamboo spiritual sword or Yun Xi's flying sword, whether it was the horizontal slash of the sword blade, the straight thrust of the sword tip, or the lifting, drawing, point, interception, lifting, etc. of the spiritual swords of both sides. The pick, or even the entanglement and tearing of the two swords together, all happened in the two groups of sword lights in an instant. The sword power of both sides was so intense that it was a tie situation for the time being.
Yun Xi was very unwilling to be bullied into getting close by Li Jian, so she used all possible means with a cold face.
When Li Jian was facing the frontal attack, Yun Xi's spiritual sword would stab him from time to time in his waist, back or even top of his head. At this time, Li Jian would have to use his sword to resist.
He didn't need to see it with his own eyes. With the two of them fighting like this, Li Jian's "Sword Heart Clearness" had long been aroused by the opponent. Everything around him, including Yun Xi's every move, the woman's blink, every The panting was in his eyes. To Li Jian, it was like three people standing on the stage. In addition to himself and Yun Xi who were fighting fiercely, there was also Li Jian on the stage, quietly between the two of them. Looking at all this, for the second Li Jian, no matter how fierce the fight between the two sides was, and the afterimages were psychedelic, in his eyes, every move of the two people was slow. He could stand up to Yun Xi's sword. The moment the flashing light appeared from behind Li Jian's vital point, he locked it firmly, and then without saying anything, it was as if he saw it with his own eyes. Li Jian, who was fighting fiercely, could know it, and then either turned around with a sword or a backhand. He saved himself with a sword, but there was an afterimage in the sword light. Such surprise attacks continued, so Li Jian's sword-wielding hand also left layers of afterimages at this time. Amidst Yunxi's rain-like offensive, Li Jian saw Li Jian's sword. The many arms on Jane's shoulders are stacked heavily, like eight arms, protecting herself from the weather and being as stable as a rock!
The sound of the swords was like the whistling of countless slender whips whipping out in the air, and the "ding-dong-dang-dang" of the two swords clashing was like the beating of countless balls on the glazed tiles on the roof of the palace, while the disciples watching the battle were completely They were all attracted by this fight, and they all silently stared at the stage with wide eyes, mesmerized. Even many of the Danjie elders on the Chengguan floor nodded.
For the two people who were doing it on the stage, it was a completely different feeling.
The two of them were completely immersed in this fierce battle that was still evenly matched. The sparkling waves of Tianshui Lake behind Li Jian had long disappeared in Yunxi's eyes, and the solemn and majestic Chengguan Tower behind her It also disappeared in Li Jian's eyes. As for the huge crowd of people watching the battle below the stage, even those Jiedan elders on the Chengguan Tower who paid attention to the importance of this battle were all gone. These two people have nothing to do with each other. For them, the entire world is just a small world like the ring, and the only place in the world that is crowded with people is the opponent in front of them.
There was a time when both of their hearts were filled with a feeling of great joy.
The opponent can immediately know what he has taken with his sword, and he can also immediately fully understand what his opponent has attacked with his sword. They are clearly opponents in front of him, so why are they so familiar with each other? After the swords and swords clashed once, the swords of both sides can come as promised the next time. When they meet again, it is like an appointment, which never fails; in each other's eyes, how fast the other is, how agile they are, and how fast they are. No matter how strange or dangerous the sword power is, the opponent will always have a way to break it. It is as if these two people have rehearsed all this countless times in private. It seems that today's stage is not a competition but a demonstration of swordsmanship to everyone; in a flash of lightning, , through the gap between the sword light and the cold light, the two people's eyes can occasionally touch each other, and they can understand each other's offense and defense at a glance. This feeling is not a competition, not hostility, but a tacit understanding. , just like... talking with a close friend and having a lively and enjoyable conversation...
In the eyes of others, this competition is extremely dangerous, and one mistake could result in blood spilling in the arena. However, in the eyes of the master swordsman, there is a hint of ambiguity!
For this reason, Fairy Lengyue couldn't help but frowned slightly and then relaxed.
Li Jian was greedy for fighting, and Fairy Lengyue discovered a weakness in this future disciple.
Li Jian is greedy for fighting. It seems that this child enjoys the feeling that can only be experienced in fierce battles. This is a weakness. You need to talk to him carefully in the future.
But Yunxi is not...
Yunxi is greedy for victory!
