The next few days were calm and there were no more disturbances.
Chu Qingxiao also had some free time. In addition to condensing the breath of the evil spirits and dragons every day, he spent the rest of the time studying the sword medal he also obtained in the Library Pavilion - "Loulan Listens to the Wind".
"Loulan Listening to the Wind" is a technique that condenses the sword's will.
For sword cultivators, sword intention is naturally an extremely important thing.
Its importance, in a certain sense, even exceeds the amount of spiritual power and the strength of the martial soul.
The most typical example is the "Jue of Observing the Sword and Nourishing the Mind" that Chu Zhaozhao practiced in Zengjin.
It is to completely abandon spiritual power, or to completely transform the learned spiritual power into sword intention. Even the martial soul that will be condensed in the future will be closely related to sword intention.
This kind of skill is extreme and the sword is eccentric.
But once it is completed, its combat power cannot be underestimated. This also shows the importance of sword intention to sword cultivators.
Chu Qingxiao, who has reached the fourth realm, has always used swords as weapons, so naturally he should put the matter of condensing sword intent on the agenda.
Sword intent is different from spiritual power.
It cannot be absorbed from heaven and earth.
The sword intent is also different from the spirit dragon breath condensed in Chu Qingxiao's body.
It's not that if you have the skills, you can follow the gourd's pattern and use your spiritual power to transform it.
The condensation of sword intent is complex.
It is the fusion of intention and force.
Only the swordsman's understanding of the sword and the fusion of spiritual power in his body can be transformed into sword intent.
The understanding of the sword also determines the strength of the sword to a large extent.
Even if they have the same Sword Intent method, different monks may develop two Sword Intentions with huge differences due to differences in their perception of the sword.
"Loulan Listens to the Wind" is not much mysterious compared to "Lingsha Dragon Breath Technique" from the Demon Sect.
He was created by a swordsman many years ago.
The swordsman comes from Loulan, a ruined vassal state in the Western Regions.
Loulan was once the most prosperous place among the countries in the Western Region. It is said that during its heyday, the streets of the capital of Loulan were paved with gold, the doors of ordinary people's houses were inlaid with jade, and there were countless priceless night pearls at night. , illuminating the entire king as if it were daylight.
Such a wealthy place will naturally attract bad people to covet it.
Loulan often suffered from wars and chaos because of this. Fortunately, the king of Loulan was kind and the people in the city loved him. They worked together and defeated the evildoers who coveted the treasure time and time again.
However, the years of war still made Loulan miserable.
So the King of Loulan selected seven of the most talented young people from the country and sent them to the Central Plains of the Great Zhou Dynasty at that time to practice martial arts, hoping that after these children returned from their studies, they could keep Loulan peaceful.
The swordsman who understood "Loulan Listens to the Wind" is one of these seven children.
The Central Plains and Loulan are thousands of miles away from each other, and the seven children wandered all the way. When they arrived in the Central Plains, two of them died on the road. Then the five of them shared the gold and silver jewelry given by the King of Loulan before leaving, and each embarked on the path of study. It was agreed that in fifteen years, regardless of whether they have completed their studies or not, they will all meet here and return to Loulan together.
The swordsman who understood "Loulan Listens to the Wind" became a disciple of a swordsman.
He is an orphan. His parents died of a serious illness in his early years, and he relied on the help of the kind people in Loulan City.
So he practiced very hard. Fifteen years later, the young man was already over thirty.
His cultivation has reached the seventh level, and with his wealth, he has bought many cultivation methods, which he plans to bring back to Loulan.
But when he excitedly arrived at the summit he had agreed upon with his companions, he did not see them arriving.
He thought they were delayed by something, so he waited here for another three months, but he did not wait for any of his companions to arrive.
He was disappointed and prepared to return to Loulan alone.
On the way back, we had to eat and sleep in the open air all the way.
But his hometown is right in front of him, and the man doesn't feel it's hard.
A month later, when he walked across the yellow sand to Loulan, where he had been longing for, what he saw was the ruins of a fire-burned building.
He looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief. He rushed into the ruins of Loulan, hoping to find even one living Loulan person, but the fire-burned Loulan only had bones all over the ground.
Later, he found out that Loulan was robbed by a group of robbers.
After many twists and turns, he found the gathering place of the hostile bandits.
It's ridiculous to say that the bandits who razed the entire Loulan City to the ground were only about a hundred people, and the one with the highest cultivation level was only in the fifth realm. They were not worth mentioning in front of the men in the seventh realm.
He only suffered some flesh wounds and killed all the bandits of hundreds of people.
But revenge didn't bring him any pleasure. He brought the bandit leader's head back to the ruins of Loulan, but there was no joy in his heart, only an emptiness.
He just sat there in despair until an old man passed by.
He recognized him as an old man from Loulan.
According to the old man, when Loulan City was destroyed, he hid in the cellar of his house and thus escaped the fire in Loulan City.
Afraid that the villain would return, he fled outside the city and stayed in the wild for a full month before he dared to come back and met the man.
And the time when those gangsters attacked Loulan City was just a month ago...
a month ago.
The old man's words made the man stay where he was.
Those bandits are not very advanced and are no match for men.
If he had not waited for his companions in the Great Zhou, and had not lingered for those three months, he could have returned to Loulan before the bandits attacked Loulan, and he could have prevented all this tragedy from happening.
At that moment, the man lost all hope.
After parting with the old man, he packed his luggage and returned to Dazhou.
He wants to find his four companions, and he wants to ask them why they missed the deadline!
There is a huge crowd, and it is not easy to find them.
But the man had made up his mind, and he regarded this matter as the most important and only thing he needed to do for the rest of his life.
He searched for eight years and finally got a clue.
One of the four people died three years ago. Why he missed the date, he couldn't tell from that person, but after meeting that person's widow and child, he probably had the answer.
After all, he didn't have the heart to dig the man's grave in front of his wife and children. He just cut off a corner of the man's tombstone.
One man indulged in sex and squandered all the gold, silver and jewels given by King Loulan. When the man found him, he was so depressed that he was begging on the street. The man did not kill him, but just chopped off a lock of his hair. It was not because he couldn't bear it, but because he was begging for money on the street. It is the best punishment for him to live in such a state of confusion and be bullied every day.
There was another man who was now extremely wealthy. Relying on the wealth of King Loulan, his business was very big. He had many wives and concubines, and he lived in fine clothes and food all day long. Naturally, he was happy and unwilling to miss Shu. This time, the man killed him.
The last person actually joined a sect honestly and practiced hard.
When the man found him, he was over forty years old and had taken the position of the leader of the sect. He was a highly respected and leading martial arts master in the surrounding states and counties.
He has entered the eighth realm and has countless students.
The man asked him why he missed the deadline, and the other party only said that he is now in a high and powerful position. Although he is in the world, with his spiritual cultivation, almost all the land in the state is for his use. Loulan, a bitter cold land, why bother For that place, give up everything you have worked hard for.
The man was already prepared for such an answer, so he drew his sword and fought with it.
Over the years, he has been traveling around, exhausted mentally and physically, and his cultivation has stopped at the seventh level, far from being the opponent who has reached the eighth level.
He lost.
He escaped back to Loulan with serious injuries.
He placed the corner of the tombstone, the beggar's short hair and the wealthy businessman's head on the ruins of Loulan that he had searched for for eight years.
Then he sat there quietly for three months.
Three months later, he set off again to Dazhou and found the last person.
The other party also knew that he would come back again, so he invited three friends from the same realm, and ordered hundreds of sect disciples to set up a large formation to invite you to enter the urn.
The first time the two met, one-on-one, the opponent was in eight realms and the man was in seven realms, he came back defeated.
The second confrontation was four against one, and there was a hundred-man sword formation. The opponent's strongest four were from the eighth realm, and the remaining hundred people were mostly elite disciples from the fourth and fifth realms. The man was still at the seventh realm.
But this time.
He beheaded eighty people, forced one of the three Fourth Realm Grandmasters to retreat, seriously injured another, and cut off both feet of another.
Finally, he came to his companion, and amidst the cry of the other party kneeling down, his entire cultivation was wasted.
He didn't kill him.
It’s also not because I don’t want to.
But after this battle, he had already run out of energy, and he could not return to Loulan with his head.
Then you can only make the other party live a life worse than death.
At the end of his life, he dragged his dying body to Tianxuan Mountain.
He heard that this place is the best in swordsmanship in the world.
He handed over the swordsmanship he had learned into the hands of the then master of Kamigawa Peak.
He hopes that this book of swordsmanship can be passed down.
Not because he cares about his inheritance.
Just because this is his hometown, the last trace of the vassal kingdom in the Western Region that existed in this world.
He named it "Loulan Listening to the Wind".
The first half of the exercise in "Loulan Listening to the Wind" contains such a story. The handwriting is completely different from the handwriting in the second half of the exercise. It was obviously the master of Shenhe Peak who heard the man's story. Later, it was written for it.
Just like a man's last wish, he wants the world to remember that there once was such a place in the far western region.
And since future generations want to learn his skills, they should record this story for him.
This is a fair deal.
Chu Qingxiao silently recalled what he had read in the library, and also allowed himself to recover from the tragic story.
He took a deep breath, closed his eyes and concentrated, and began to turn the second half of the pages of the book - these were the rubbings he wrote himself after walking out of the library, fearing that he would forget the contents of the book.
He opened the page and looked at the first paragraph recording the exercises.
The Thirteenth Swordsman sat on the yellow sand in his hometown of Loulan, listening to the wind of the desert, and realized this method in March.
It is called "Loulan Listens to the Wind".
The sword is also a soldier.
Soldiers are fierce.
He who holds a sword uses it to defend against the enemy, just like using his body to enter a killing situation...
