Tianxuan Mountain after the rain.
The streets are clear and clean.
Everything was washed away with yesterday's rain.
"Senior, are you feeling better?" Chu Qingxiao, who was walking side by side with Sun Li on the streets of Tianxuan City, asked Sun Li as he turned to look at him.
Early in the morning, after a night of practice, Chu Qingxiao came to Sun Li's small courtyard after breakfast.
The original intention was just to visit the old man - after all, when he arrived yesterday, Sun Li was covered in blood and seemed to have suffered a lot of injuries. Chu Qingxiao still kept it in mind.
However, Sun Li recovered surprisingly well. Just as he was about to knock on the door today, the courtyard door opened by itself. It turned out that Sun Li had nothing to do and was going to go shopping on the street with the prairie fire sword.
When he saw Chu Qingxiao, the old man was also very surprised, and he pulled Chu Qingxiao onto the street without any explanation.
"Nothing happened, just some injuries on my hands."
"That little bastard's abilities are just like that. If it weren't for the prairie fire sword, I would have beaten him to pieces yesterday!"
Sun Li moved his hand that was still bandaged with gauze, and the expression on his face was somewhat resentful. It was obvious that he was a little bit worried about yesterday's defeat.
Chu Qingxiao nodded in agreement.
The two of them just walked side by side on the street, chatting all the time.
Although most of what they said were trivial matters, the two of them didn't feel awkward talking about them. On the contrary, because of the prairie fire sword matter, both parties showed a familiarity that was far beyond what they should have been after just a few contacts.
Like a pair of old friends.
While they were talking, the two came to the busy city in Dongcheng District.
People were coming and going on the street, and vendors on both sides began to sell products of all kinds.
There are children chasing each other on the street, friends chatting together, and beautiful girls wearing beautiful clothes and smiling like flowers.
This is a very pleasing scene.
Full of fireworks.
But looking at this scene, Sun Li suddenly sighed.
When Chu Qingxiao heard this, he looked at the old man beside him. He seemed to understand what he was thinking, and asked at that time: "Senior, are you thinking about what happened yesterday?"
Sun Li seemed to trust Chu Qingxiao very much, but he didn't hide anything. He nodded at this time.
Then, he looked up at the bustling streets: "I have been busy working for Tianxuan Mountain all my life."
"I always thought that this was the holy land for swordsmen in the world."
"Young people learn and hold swords here, and then travel far and wide with swords full of chivalry and courage."
"One generation after another, hundreds and thousands of years have passed, what a wonderful thing..."
Chu Qingxiao listened to Sun Li's words and did not comment, but asked: "What about now?"
"Now?" Sun Li was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head and smiled bitterly: "Now, I'm not so sure."
His figure was a bit stooped due to old age, and his linen clothes were wrinkled in the morning breeze of early autumn, making him look a bit bleak inexplicably.
"I remember that I came to Tianxuan City because when I was a child, I heard my father tell many stories about swordsmen who performed heroic acts of justice. At that time, I thought, one day, I would like to be such a swordsman."
"Take a sword, a jug of wine, and a yellow horse and wander around the world."
"Then I came to Tianxuan City. At that time, it was so big that I could walk from the east to the west of the city in an hour."
"There are not that many people. Tianxuan City only provides a temporary resting place for those who come to sign up. Most of the time, it is quite clean here."
"I stayed here for a year, and then I passed the exam and became an outer disciple."
At this point, the old man paused, as if he was trying to remember something. After a while, he said: "At that time, it seems that there was no such term as a handyman disciple."
"After entering the inner gate, although you can't go to the divine peak, you don't have to stay in Tianxuan City. In Tianxuan Mountain, there are large dormitories for disciples. They have three meals a day. During the holidays, they even give out some money and give a gift. Two new clothes. But they are all uniformed by the disciples, so they don’t look that good, especially those of the outer disciples, which are all gray and white, and I don’t like them very much.”
"I have never heard of Qinghuan Mansion. Although the outer sect's classics are in high demand, if you want to read them, you can still see them if you wait a little longer."
"There is no saying that you need to pay money to participate in the inner sect selection. There are inner sect assessments every spring and autumn. As long as your cultivation meets the standards, you can participate. How is it like now..."
Having said this, Sun Li fell silent again.
The expression on his face became a little complicated at this time.
There is confusion and confusion.
I don't know how to express my anger.
There is also the helplessness and embarrassment of being in the status quo that cannot change the status quo, but cannot feel at ease with it.
Chu Qingxiao somewhat understood his mood: "After all, today is different from the past. There are probably many more disciples in Tianxuan Mountain than there were back then. Maintaining a sect with so many people does require a lot of expenditure..."
In order to comfort the old man in front of him, Chu Qingxiao said some unintentional words that he himself did not quite agree with.
But when he said these words, he didn't get a reply from the old man. He just looked at Chu Qingxiao and asked, "Do you really think so?"
Such a look made Chu Qingxiao stunned, and he felt guilty in his heart.
After all, the old man seemed to have been honest with him, but he...
Thinking of this, Chu Qingxiao also said frankly: "That's not entirely true. At least I think that Tianxuan Mountain, as a prestigious and upright sect, should review the disciples who take it under its sect..."
"Some people who really have no talent in this way should not be accepted as our disciples, given hope to them, and then let them waste here for several years, or even their whole life, this..."
"A little selfish."
If this was the case, if Ziyu listened to it, Xiao Nizi would definitely get furious with her whole-hearted defense of Tianxuan Mountain. She would argue with Chu Qingxiao with a blushing face, and maybe she would pay for it if he made her unable to argue. Show your own silver light and Luoxue, and convince others with "reason".
This kind of thing has happened to Ziyu and Yue Jian countless times.
But after hearing these words, Sun Li nodded after a brief silence: "You are right!"
"After I came back yesterday, I went to the wine shop to find someone and chatted with him."
"In the past, I only knew a little bit about the things in Tianxuan City. After talking about it yesterday, I just found it shocking..."
"In today's Tianxuan Mountain, I can't see any courage and responsibility as the head of the Sword Sect."
"All I have is arrogance and selfishness, and ambition that is so swollen that it makes people feel scared and uneasy..."
Chu Qingxiao looked at the old man saying these words, and the expression on his face became a little more indignant.
"Senior, please don't think too much. Little people like us can't handle this kind of thing, so there's no need to worry unfounded." Chu Qingxiao hurriedly persuaded.
It's just an ordinary scene.
If you mention this to others, they will probably sigh and agree: "That's right. Worrying about these things, it's better to think about what to eat for lunch today."
But Sun Li was obviously no ordinary person.
When he heard this, he turned his head and looked straight at Chu Qingxiao and asked, "What if everyone feels that everything has nothing to do with them."
"Isn't it true that the people above are allowed to do whatever they want and do whatever they want?"
"Today, the people in Shanshuigou were expelled, and no one was able to uphold justice for them."
"But when one day, the expelled people become ourselves, will it be too late to think about rising up to resist?"
Sun Li's words made Chu Qingxiao stunned at that time.
This is actually not a particularly tricky angle.
Even Chu Qingxiao heard similar words said more than once.
But what made Chu Qingxiao feel a little turbulent at this moment was that he saw in Sun Li's already somewhat turbid eyes a kind of firmness and determination that no one else had seen when he said this.
He seemed to agree with this sentence from the bottom of his heart, and he also seemed to be seriously thinking about what he could do.
And this seemingly stupid persistence reminded Chu Qingxiao of the group of Xizhou Jianjia who traveled thousands of miles to Wuling City and finally died in Wuling City.
Probably, if he didn't also have such an obsession, it would seem almost stupid.
Back then, Wuling City would soon be submerged by Zhuyin's beast tide.
There is no Chu Qingxiao standing here today.
"Senior..." Chu Qingxiao wanted to say something at this time.
"Dead people!!!"
But at this moment, an exclamation suddenly came from one side of the street.
Everyone on the street was attracted by the sound at this moment and turned their heads to look.
When Chu Qingxiao and Sun Li came out, they were also stunned. They also followed the sound and saw a crowd rushing to a corner of an alley not far away.
The two of them didn't say much, and just leaned over at this moment.
"This death scene is too tragic..."
"Yeah, who is so vicious? How much hatred must there be? His face was scratched, and his family probably won't be able to claim it."
"Could he be the victim of the recent disappearance case..."
"Probably not. Those missing people all disappeared without a trace, and most of the people currently reported by the Sword Master Hall are young people. This guy looks quite old."
Before he even got closer, Chu Qingxiao heard the passers-by sighing in front of him.
It sounded like the death of the deceased was very tragic. He couldn't help but be a little curious. At this time, he stood on tiptoes and looked at the crowd.
There, lying a man covered in blood.
One of his hands and one of his feet were chopped off and thrown aside like pieces of meat. His face was indeed, as passers-by said, cut to pieces with some kind of sharp weapon, leaving it bloody and unrecognizable.
But the moment he saw this scene clearly, Chu Qingxiao's body trembled, and his face suddenly turned pale...
He knows him!
To be precise, I recognized the beige oil-paper umbrella in the man's arms!
That was the oil-paper umbrella that Chu Qingxiao gave Zhu Renzhao when he left last night!
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