Alienated Martial Arts.

Chapter 342 Fortune
The sky will be bright, and the morning light will be slightly dew.

A hare came out of the hole, looked around vigilantly, and then began to look for grass stalks that could still enter.

The faint smell of blood drifted with the wind.

A few wild wolves followed, their fur stained with ice, snow and mud, as if wearing a layer of gray armor.

Whoosh!
The hare panicked and fled desperately.

Almost bumped into the rocks near the entrance of the cave.

The alpha wolf noticed the movement made by the rabbit, but he didn't seem to come to hunt at all. Although they were already skinny and hungry, they didn't know if they could last until the spring came.

They were completely attracted by the tent not far away.

A few crows with black feathers and red eyes landed, and soon disappeared into the tent.

The smell of blood seems to be stronger.

The wolves leaned down and moved forward slowly.

The closer they got to the tent, the more restless they became.

After all, this is not any other place, but the territory of those two-legged terrifying two-legged beasts.

And it is the most dangerous core area.

For every prairie wolf, the fear of human beings is inherent. This is a memory condensed with countless blood. It has already been deeply engraved deep in the blood, and it will never be forgotten from generation to generation.

If it weren't for the fact that this winter was really tough, they wouldn't be so reckless, following a smell of blood, they would come straight to the settlement of the Northern Wilderness tribe.

But today is a bit strange.

The alpha wolf stopped and crouched down in the snow.

Minimize the exposed area of ​​the body as much as possible.

In its simple memory, it shouldn't be this quiet here.

Even in the middle of the night, there should be various noises and sounds.

But at this time, the sky is approaching dawn, but there is a deathly emptiness and silence.

Although it can't think and can only act with experience and instinct, it also smells something unusual.

It was mixed with the strong smell of blood, and got into its nostrils together.

Finally, the alpha wolf stood up and started walking towards the outermost tent.

A body lay frozen and frozen behind the tent.

Then, as if a mysterious switch was turned on, more and more corpses came into their sight.

Their breathing became heavy.

The impatient ones have already started to lower their heads to eat.

The sharp teeth gnawed on the frozen flesh, making a series of clicking sounds.

Suddenly, there was a soft crash.

The cotton curtain of a tent was lifted from the inside.

A tall and slender figure stepped out.

"It's a pack of wolves, they probably found it following the smell of blood."

Ni Tang glanced at it from afar, then turned around and said, "Do you want me to dispose of them?"

"I see, don't worry about them."

Wei Tao nodded, took a sip from the bag full of kumiss, and turned his gaze to the old man in green shirt in front of him again.

The master of the hidden sword pavilion sighed, "Can you give me a drink?"

"No."

Wei Tao directly refused, "I am a kind-hearted person, and I don't want to see other people's labor fruits being wasted."

Facing the puzzled eyes of the master of the hidden sword pavilion, he added, "You have such a big hole in your stomach that it will leak out after drinking. If it's not a waste, what is it?"

"Okay, the pavilion master continued, maybe if I listen to you, I can reward you with a sip of wine."

"The old man should have been plotted against."

The master of the hidden sword pavilion moved his body with difficulty to make himself a little more comfortable.

"Just when I entered the Northern Wilderness, I met a very strange person.

He looks ordinary and nothing special, but in my perception, he looks like a entangled and twisted black shadow, which is incompatible with the surrounding environment, but can blend into it in a strange way.

This person made a sneak attack without any warning, wounded one of the old man's disciples, and then I cut him in half with my swordsmanship and took his life. "

"I didn't take this matter too seriously at first, I just thought it was an ordinary attack.

After all, the world is so big, there are so many warriors, all kinds of weird cultivation techniques emerge in endlessly, and there are so many people who don't have long eyes that they can be killed. If such a guy is killed, it will be over, and I haven't paid enough attention to it.

But looking back now, the killing of that person was not the end, but just the beginning.

My disciple should have been planted the seeds at that time, and was eroded and disturbed without knowing it.

Then, in the follow-up contact in daily life and on the road, even I accidentally got caught up, which finally led to a series of things happened last night.

And the old man's disciples who came to stay in the tent were also implicated, causing bloody killings in this settlement. "

Wei Tao fell into deep thought, stroking a strand of hair as black as ink between his fingers.

He drank the wine in the bag in one gulp, and stood up slowly, "I can be sure that this thing is not Youxuan Guisi, but after careful observation and perception, it seems to have an inexplicable connection with Guisi.

As the master of the Cangjian Pavilion, the old gentleman also likes to read extensively and read all kinds of classics. Can you recognize what is the root of it? "

"I haven't seen it before, so I dare not speak freely."

The master of the Cangjian Pavilion shook his head, and after a moment of silence, he continued, "But after I came to my senses, I went back to the details of last night again and again, and I came up with a guess, and I don't know whether it is right or wrong."

Wei Tao picked up another wine bag, "You have a story and I have wine, let's not talk about whether it is true or not, it is reasonable to tell it first and listen to it."

The master of the hidden sword pavilion said slowly, "The chaos in the Jiange pavilion a hundred years ago may have the shadow of this kind of thing."

"The chaos of a hundred years ago."

Wei Tao's eyes flashed, "What do you mean, the war in the West and the Jiange's coming from the east are actually related to this thing?"

"Among the classics of our sect, there used to be fragments of records that contained the intent of the sword.

When the old man first saw this, he was a little confused for a long time, so he couldn't figure out why there is still such a way of passing on the sword intent that everyone understands in practice. "

"Later, the old man met a martial artist from the Dingxuan Sect in Mozhou, and learned from him the secret of Gui Shufang's reappearance of Youxuan and Weisi, the head of Dingxuan's Xiutongxin Knot.

At the beginning, I thought I had found the origin of the silk-like thread and the sword intent, and I was even quite surprised, thinking that the sages of my sect were really powerful, and they were able to reproduce this thing a hundred years ago. The Tingjiao Sect has advanced more than Jiazi's time.

But after in-depth research, it was discovered that the Youxuan Guisi could not carry the sword intent at all, so this thing and the Youxuan Guisi are not the same thing, but they are similar in some respects.

Then I looked through all the texts left by the ancestors of this sect with doubts, which mainly focused on practice experience and various diaries, and discovered secrets that I hadn't noticed before. "

"What secret?"

While talking, Wei Tao put the wine bag to the mouth of the Master of the Hidden Sword Pavilion, and let him gulp down.

The master of the Cangjian Pavilion slowly breathed out the breath of alcohol, "I never thought that being able to breathe and panting, and having a sip of wine, would become such a luxury."

He closed his eyes and pondered for a moment before continuing.

"I looked through the records of the seniors in the pavilion, and found that after they carried the sword intent, the content of their writing changed suddenly, as if they had changed people, and even gave people a feeling of crazy distortion and confusion. .

After that, there was the chaos in the northern wilderness and the western pole in southern Xinjiang. Jiange originally adhered to the motto of "cutting common fate with the sword and being independent in the world", but driven by this increasingly crazy emotion, it joined the chaos in the western pole. . "

The master of the Cangjian Pavilion opened his eyes, and a slight smile appeared on his bloodless face, "During the period, the divine will shone, and various spiritual wills manifested, and even the seven blessed lands of the Great Zhou Sect had various changes.

You should also know what happened later, Emperor Wu of the Great Zhou Dynasty was born out of nowhere, and suppressed all the chaos until today, a hundred years later. "

Wei Tao remained silent and listened quietly.

Time passed little by little.

It wasn't until the master of the hidden sword pavilion stopped talking that he asked again, "What does the master of the night pavilion think about the statement that the world is in chaos because of the manifestation of the divine will?"

"The past is dusty and hard to recall. If you want to find out the true meaning of this sentence, you have to ask Emperor Wu what is going on in his heart."

"Governor Ye said that he didn't say anything. Although the emperor's corpse has risen from the Nine Sacred Mountains, there is only a trace of obsession left. How can it be possible to answer various questions like ordinary people?"

The master of the Cangjian Pavilion sighed, "Perhaps the world should have been in chaos a hundred years ago, but it is precisely because of the powerful suppression of this emperor who has the highest cultivation level in the world and his status as the Great Zhou Emperor, that the chaos was postponed for a hundred years. .

And the words that God's will appears and the world is chaotic, it shows that he also knows that everything he has done is just delaying, not completely solving and eradicating.

As for how long it can be delayed, one year, ten years, or a hundred years, I don't think even Emperor Wu himself can be sure, and he can't even calculate the approximate time. "

"It seems that his old man doesn't believe in the wisdom of future generations."

Wei Tao picked up the third bag of milk wine, uncorked it and took a sip, "Otherwise, he wouldn't have made such an arrangement during his lifetime, even if it disturbed his long sleep after death."

Speaking of this, he suddenly thought of something, "Just now Pavilion Master Ye mentioned that the elders of Jiange had a great change of mind and twisted wildly.

Then Emperor Wu kept copying the Jinghong post at the last moment of his life, and seemed to have fallen into madness. Could there be any connection between the two? "

The master of the Cangjian Pavilion fell into deep thought, and asked after a long time, "I have never seen the emperor's corpse, and I don't know if there are any traces of these black silk threads on the emperor's corpse, so I dare not speak nonsense."

Wei Tao said, "If I can judge by this standard, then I'm sure I don't have one."

"Oh?"

The master of the hidden sword pavilion tried his best to look up, "Could it be that you have come into contact with the emperor's corpse at close range?"

"I've been in contact with him, and I even checked two tricks with his old man. I was blown away by two Huangji seals, and it took me a long time to recover."

As Wei Tao spoke, he picked up the wine bag, drank half of it himself, and then sent the remaining half to the mouth of the master of the Tibetan Sword Pavilion.

He watched the wine bag become empty little by little, and asked with a serious expression, "Master Ye, do you want to eat some more dried meat to go with the wine?"

"No, it's enough."

The master of the Cangjian Pavilion slowly shook his head, "I used to like to serve wine with books the most. Although the conditions are poor now and there are no classics to read with wine at hand, it is also very happy to be able to sit and communicate with you, a rising star. , Endless aftertaste."

Wei Tao nodded and said, "Senior ascended to the realm of law, the realm is high, and the swordsmanship is strong, this junior will remember it in his heart.

If the senior hadn't been disturbed by the erosion, could maintain a clear sword heart, and truly display the law he had realized, it is still unknown what the outcome of the battle last night would be. "

The master of the Cangjian Pavilion just smiled at this, "Time is also fate, and fate is also fate. It is meaningless to think too much about what has happened."

Speaking of this, he looked up again, his eyes did not hide the color of surprise and emotion, "It has only been a long time, and most of the sword wounds on your body have healed.

Even the secret method of Vajra that has reached the level of yin and yang, it is impossible to have such a strong recovery ability. What kind of practice method is this? "

Wei Tao opened another wine bag, with a calm expression, and said in a gentle tone, "Actually, it's not a profound secret method, it's just the Xuanwu True Solution to Turtles and Snakes."

"Xuanwu true solution, tortoise and snake?"

The master of the hidden sword pavilion was silent for a moment, and slowly said word by word, "Although the old man is in the West pole sword pavilion, I have dabbled in the martial arts skills taught by the Great Zhou sect.

I don't dare to say anything else, but for the Xuanwu True Solution to the Turtle and Snake Chapter, I have done in-depth research at the beginning, but I can't figure out how it can reach such a high level. "

Wei Tao smiled again, "The pavilion master thinks that it can't reach such a high level, just because you haven't studied it deeply enough, and haven't really reached the realm of gradual growth of basalt, and enlightenment of turtles and snakes."

"Basalt is growing, and turtles and snakes are reviving?"

The master of the hidden sword pavilion seemed to have thought of something, and fell silent immediately.

After a long time, he sighed and said, "You are so young, but you can reach an astonishing height, in the eyes of this old man, you can no longer be described as amazingly talented.

Even Emperor Wu of the Great Zhou Dynasty a hundred years ago, when he was the same age as you, might not have achieved as much as you. "

After a pause, the master of the hidden sword pavilion turned his head to look at the door.

His eyes fell on Ni Tang, who was dismantling the wooden table of the sword box and reassembling the solid wood boards.

He continued in a sighing tone, "And your partner, who has excellent aptitude in sword practice, if I had met her in the early years, I would have accepted her as a closed disciple and devoted all my efforts to cultivating her."

"The master of the pavilion is too famous. Regarding the talent in martial arts practice, I have always had a very clear understanding of myself. It is definitely not a genius, at most it is just a mediocrity."

"If you are mediocre, then this old man can only be a fool."

The master of the Cangjian Pavilion laughed, "No, I'm not even an idiot. Compared to you, I feel like a monkey who can just wave a branch."

Wei Tao shook his head, "Maybe the pavilion master doesn't know yet, but when monkeys get down from the trees to walk independently and then learn to use tools, it represents the arrival of a new era."

"Oh? This formulation is very interesting. This is the first time this old man has heard of it. Can you explain it in detail?"

Then the two chatted very happily, sitting opposite each other and talking.

Take a few sips from the wine bag from time to time.

It looks like an old friend reunited after a long absence, gathering in the tent to have a drink.

Even if there is no food, the enthusiasm is still undiminished.

Time passed little by little.

I don't know who said what, and the two laughed at the same time.

Just smiling and laughing, the atmosphere in the tent became strangely dull.

Wei Tao suppressed his smile and put away the wine bag he had just finished drinking, "The auspicious time has come, does the pavilion master have any funeral arrangements?"

"Death is like a lamp going out, everything is empty, and there is no point in arranging or not arranging."

The master of the Cangjian Pavilion also restrained his smile, "But for the sake of refreshing the wine, I have two words for you."

"Pavilion master, please speak, the younger generation is all ears."

"For these things that look like black hair, don't take it lightly and be too careless before you really figure out its root."

Wei Tao nodded, deeply convinced of this.

The master of the hidden sword pavilion sighed, and then closed his eyes little by little.

"The second thing is that misfortune is blessed, and good fortune is dependent on misfortune. The two of you have practiced the teaching method and reached such a state at a young age. It is unknown whether you will be able to climb step by step in the future and reach an unprecedented level.

This is a good thing, but it is not necessarily a good thing. It is necessary to strengthen one's heart and see one's nature clearly, so as not to end up on a path of crazy distortion and self-destruction. "

"Thank you for your farewell words, senior."

Wei Tao cleaned up his clothes and gave a deep salute.

When he straightened his body, a cold light flashed suddenly.

The master of the Hidden Sword Pavilion slowly lowered his head, and looked at the Sancai Killing Sword piercing into his vitals, with a smile on his face.

"Being able to die under the sword of the three talents of our sect is another kind of return to the roots of fallen leaves."

He opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something more.

In the end, he failed to fulfill his wish, and died with his head tilted to the side.

Ni Xuan came slowly and helped to contain the body of the master of the hidden sword pavilion.

Wrap him in a brand new blanket and put him in the coffin that was just made with a few table boards.

Click!

The lid of the coffin was tightly closed, covering the calm face inside.

Not long after, the two leveled out the newly dug pit, pierced a row of broken long swords into the soil, and let them sleep forever with the owner of the Hidden Sword Pavilion.

Wei Tao sighed softly, "The old man is a wonderful person, it's a pity."

He slowly got up and looked towards the northern sky where the dark clouds gathered, "After several bursts of Brahma's spirit, it suddenly disappeared, and I don't know what happened."

Ni Xuan said, "It may be silence, it may be power accumulation, and of course it may be concealment. Before we find the Brahma feast in the Northern Wilderness Golden Tent, everything can happen."

Wei Tao thought for a moment, then changed the topic a moment later, "Just last night, I clearly sensed the aura of the Zen mind of the patron of the dark abyss, but I searched for it later but found nothing.

I don't know whether he was attacked suddenly like the master of the hidden sword pavilion, or he was afraid of being broken by me, so he deliberately avoided seeing him. "

Ni Xuan said, "Junior brother bears the spiritual meaning of the dark abyss, and my cultivation of the Hunyuan chapter absorbs the earth energy of Qinglin Mountain, which seems to be somewhat related to the aura of the black abyss.

Next, we will work together to perform actions. As long as Chanxin Buddha makes another move, we should be able to roughly determine his position. "

Wei Tao nodded, "After this matter is over, we can leave. Unfortunately, without the guidance of Brahma's spirit, it will be more difficult to find the location of the golden tent. I don't know if we will miss the final confrontation between Emperor Wu and Brahma."

Before he finished speaking, he remained silent without warning.

His body tensed up a little bit, as if he was facing a formidable enemy.

Ni Tang next to him frowned slightly, his expression became solemn and solemn at this moment.

Accompanied by a pleasant jingle, the two of them turned around slowly at the same time and looked behind.

All they saw was a beautiful woman in complicated palace attire, slowly walking out from behind a tent not far away, and approaching them.

Step by step, dresses fluttered in the wind, and ornaments jingled, adding a bit of freshness to the settlement full of dead bodies at dawn.

But when she got closer, she could see that her movements were mechanically stiff, coupled with the red line on her neck, it suddenly turned life into death, and it was a little more weird that was indescribable.

Wei Tao only glanced at her, then moved his eyes away from her.

He looked over the tent and continued to look back far away.

Borrowing the slightly whitish light of the sky, Wei Tao vaguely saw a standing motionless figure, also looking towards this side.

It seemed to be a man in a golden suit with a high crown.

Quietly standing in the white snow, as if he had been waiting there for a long time, just for the two of them to turn around and look back.

Ni Yan took a deep breath, and then exhaled lightly.

The voice suddenly became very soft at this moment, "Gao Guan Jin Fu, this person is Emperor Wu of the Great Zhou?"

"It's just an old friend. I didn't know that I could meet him here."

A smile appeared on Wei Tao's face, and he patted Ni Tang's arm lightly, "Senior Sister, go first, I'll go over to catch up with him, and I'll be back in a while."

"If the younger brother doesn't leave, I won't leave either."

Ni Tang held his palm with his backhand, and returned a clear smile, "Since we are old friends, you should introduce us to each other, so that it is not considered a loss of due courtesy."

Wei Tao was silent for a moment, and finally nodded slowly.

He took a deep breath of cool air, and slowly calmed down his turbulent state of mind.

When he opened his mouth again, there was an inexplicable sigh, "Just like what the Master of the Hidden Sword Pavilion said just now, time is also fate, and fate is also fate. I don't know whether our fortune is good or bad, but we can be here at this time. In this place, I met this person suddenly."

"However, the interesting thing is, could it be that he knew that Senior Sister and I were a couple, so when he came to find us, he didn't bring other masters under his command, but only brought a concubine, which also made a couple.

From this point of view, Emperor Wu was also a fastidious person. "

(End of this chapter)