I practice ruthless way

Far away in the clouds, there are two figures, one white and one black.Among them, the man in white clothes is Shen Jiankong, he is holding a flying sword, standing on the sword, looking at the distance and said: "The little girl dances well."

Shen Juan sat beside him, stretched out his feet to step on the clouds, picked up the jug, took a sip of the wine, and said in a low voice:

"She is not supposed to exist in this world. She should have died when she was born. Back then, Jiang Shuyue forcibly rescued her, but she couldn't cure her physical weakness. Martial arts training was impossible, so she was asked to practice dancing. That’s how you keep your spirits up.”

"Jiang Shuyue took care of her for several years. When the two parted, the little girl said that one day she would dance to shock the world and let Jiang Shuyue see her. Now that she has danced at the Famous Flowers, she has fulfilled that promise."

Shen Jiankong didn't know about this past, but he had gone through so many life and death, he had long been indifferent to the worldly affairs, and couldn't feel much, so he said: "The apprentice you picked is not bad."

"I've always had a good eye." Shen Juan's tone was a little proud.

"I think so." Shen Jiankong raised his eyebrows slightly, agreeing with this statement.

Shen Juan took another sip of wine, as if feeling emotional: "However, the road of my future apprentice should be a bit bumpy."

"After all, it is the last phoenix in the world." Shen Jiankong said, "Without the support of the elders, the journey would be difficult."

"It sounds like you're talking about the last royal family." Shen Juan said in a drawn-out tone.

Under the clouds, in the east of Shenjing City, the sky wind howls.This restaurant specializing in the business of practitioners is very lively.

In the private room on the second floor, Qu Wei Mo, Qian Ma Zhao, and Shi Tang sat around the table drinking and eating.The Taoist surnamed Zhou did not participate in their celebration banquet, and his whereabouts are unknown.

Just now when he entered the building, Shitang waved his big hand to order Xiao Lai Tianfeng to serve his signature dishes and the most expensive dishes. The wine he asked for was also old wine, so the room was full of fragrance.

Shitang served tea instead of wine to a few people in the seat. After sitting down, Qu Hanxing asked: "Miss Shi, I don't understand something."

"You said."

Qu Hanxing looked at her: "Others go to the top of the country for the sake of gaining fame, but you just jump and leave when you go up, and the people below don't even know your identity and name. This is very different from what I imagined. So I am very happy." Curious, why do you have such a deep obsession with famous flowers?"

"I... I promised someone before that I must dance for her. She is my savior and a practitioner. After saving me back then, she left not long ago. I don't know how to find her. So he came up with such a trick." Shitang was silent for a moment before speaking.

Qian San leaned over: "Then do you think... did he see it?"

Shitang smiled: "She likes to be lively, and she will come to this festival in the future, so she will be able to see it."

"What does he look like? Which sect does he belong to? Let's find it for you." Mo Juntian said.

Qu Hanxing also said: "Do you know his name? If you can't find it in Shenjingcheng, we will go back and find out for you!"

"There's no need for that." Shitang smiled and waved her hands, "Even if she didn't see it, my heart has already come. She also said back then that it's good when the heart comes."

After saying that, he greeted everyone to continue eating.

After a while, the carved door of the private room was pushed open, Qu Hanxing thought it was the waiter who was serving the food, turned to look over it, and was pleasantly surprised: "Brother Man!"

Shitang stood up: "Xiao Man!"

Xiao Man nodded slightly and greeted everyone.

"Are you done with the chores?"

Wei Chuyun pulled away the chair beside him, Xiao Man sat over and said, "It's over."

On the way here, Xiao Man pushed the realm back to the original upper realm of Baoxu, so no one showed any surprise.Qian San poured a glass of wine, got up and said to Xiao Man:

"Senior Brother Xiao, I would like to toast you. If you hadn't told the people in Shenjing City to 'shut up', maybe we would have died."

Ma Wu and Zhao Liu also toasted and stood up: "Senior Brother Xiao, I respect you too!"

"I also respect, thanks to Xiao Man!" Shitang filled his teacup with water, Qu Hanxing and Mo Juntian also picked up their wine glasses and joined the toast.Xiao Man lowered his eyes, showing hesitation: "I don't know how to drink."

"This is fruit wine, sweet!" Qu Hanxing said.

Shitang then said: "Try it, try it..."

Wei Chuyun glanced around the crowd, and said softly to Xiao Man, "If you don't like it, don't drink it."

But Xiao Man's face was obviously shaken. He stared at the jug on the table for a moment, poured a small half of it into his glass, and said, "I'll take a sip."

Xiao Man sipped slightly, his expression became very strange.

It is indeed sweet, with sourness in the sweetness, and astringency in the sourness, which is a bit scalding to the throat.All in all, it's an indescribable feeling.

Qu Hanxing smiled and asked, "How?"

"It's average." Xiao Man put down his glass, unwilling to taste it again.

Wei Chuyun filled a bowl of soup and put it in Xiao Man's hand.It is pure white and delicate squab soup. The pigeon meat is rich in aura, the bones are stewed crispy, and some green onions are sprinkled on the surface for decoration, which is extraordinarily delicious.

Xiao Man thanked him, took a sip, and put down the spoon.

From the moment he entered the door, he was very absent-minded.

That opportunity is still in my heart, and the other end is connected to Yan Wushu, which is erratic, as if it is false or real.

Say it is false, but it has a strong sense of existence, let him chase this mystery, and easily find Yan Wushu; say it is real, but he can't grasp it, like an invisible spider thread, from Yan Wushu's eyes. One end stretched out, stirring the heartstrings from time to time.

It would be great if it was real spider silk, then it could be cut with a sword.

Xiao Man once heard that only a small number of Taoist couples who are in love with each other will give birth to opportunities.He couldn't help but find it ridiculous, and thinking about it, he felt that the law of heaven was probably at work again.

After thinking for a moment, Xiao Man made a knife with his hands, gathered his spiritual power, and made a chopping movement.

The direction is naturally that opportunity.

The wind blew up, the hands fell, and the spiritual power was released, but—except that the cups and bowls on the table were broken, and the corners of the table were scratched, nothing happened.

Xiao Man narrowed his eyes, how can he cut them off?

"Brother Man, what are you doing?" Qu Hanxing asked in surprise when he found Xiao Man's situation here.

Xiao Man squeezed out a cleansing technique and threw it on the table, saying solemnly: "Understand what you have learned today."

Qu Hanxing's eyes widened: "Don't be so anxious!"

"I'm in a hurry." Xiao Man smiled, "Leave me alone, eat first."

"Oh." Qu Hanxing turned around.

After finishing their long-awaited dinner, a group of people took to the street.The parade of floats was over, and the performance of Famous Flowers All over the Country was also over, but the festival was still going on, and all kinds of small stalls on the street had not been put away, and there were many tourists and horses and horses.

Xiao Man walked a little slowly, hanging on the tail of the team, thinking about the things on his mind.Wei Chuyun slowed down, came to his side, and said in a low voice: "Do you have something to worry about, and it has something to do with the chores you went to deal with earlier?"

"No, I'm just thinking about some Taoism." Xiao Man denied without thinking.

Wei Chuyun said quickly, "I would like to discuss the details with you."

Xiao Man didn't know how to answer these words, so he had no choice but to smile and said, "I haven't figured out the taste yet, so I don't know how to describe it."

The crowd stopped and walked, and visited the whole festival, they naturally didn't want to go back to the post house, so Qian San led them to find a good inn nearby to rest.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next day, the breeze and drizzle added a lot of coolness to the city of Shenjing. Passers-by on the road held up umbrellas. If you look down from above, the umbrellas of various colors move slowly in the long street, as if blooming in clusters. A cluster of flowers.

The wind passed by the corner of the clothes, hiding the fragrance of autumn osmanthus, and when he came to the gate of the post station, Shitang gave a blessing to everyone: "Everyone, let's say goodbye."

"You really don't need us to take you back?" Qu Hanxing said, "Brother Man Yufeng, or take Wei Ge's cloud boat, you will be there in a while."

Shitang shook her head: "Thank you for your kindness. I have been locked up in the courtyard by my family since I was a child. I have never been to those places in person. I want to walk around with my own legs."

Hearing this, Xiao Man didn't force her, and told her in a low voice: "Be careful on the road, and if you encounter trouble, use the sound transmission talisman to contact us."

"I will." Shitang held up an umbrella and crossed the threshold, smiling and waving to everyone, "The mountains are high and the waters long!"

She walks briskly, turning the handle of the umbrella from time to time to let the umbrella cover out of the circle, and occasionally encountering a place with stagnant water, she lifts her skirt and jumps over.

Not long after, they reached the intersection, turned around and embarked on another road.

Yan Wushu appeared quietly as always, standing in front of Shitang, and handed her a small porcelain bottle: "This medicine is for you, it can prolong your life."

"No need!" Shitang was slightly stunned, then smiled and waved her hands, "I'm already very satisfied, the next road, I can go wherever I can go."

She refused flatly, with a determined look.Yan Wushu looked at her and said "OK", "Is there anything else I can help you with?"

Shitang raised her head, glanced at the sky over the edge of the umbrella, and said to him: "You must remember that you promised me to give Xiao Man and the others an excellent job in this mission."

"I will." Yan Wushu nodded.

"Well, there's nothing else to do, goodbye." Shitang said.

Yan Wushu: "Goodbye."

Shitang picked up her steps and continued to move forward, seeming to have a purpose, but also aimlessly.

It was raining lightly in Shenjing City, and the pedestrians were laughing and laughing, and she also slowly laughed.

It's goodbye, and it's also goodbye.

The road of life comes to an end, she is dressed in light clothes, joyful and free and easy.

Gushan Baihua Peak.

This was originally the noisiest peak among the twelve peaks of Gushan, but now it is exceptionally quiet.The low-level disciples who were noisy all day long went out to practice, and the only sound in the mountains and forests was birdsong and gurgling water.

Xiao Man and his party completed the task, visited Shenjing City again, and naturally chose to return.Wei Chuyun got off the cloud boat, said goodbye to everyone, and said he was going to retreat.Qu Hanxing and Mo Juntian dragged Xiao Man into their dormitory, and the three of them lay on the bed together.

"It's only been less than half a month, but I feel like it's been several years." Qu Hanxing hugged the pillow, yawned slowly, then looked at Xiao Man, and said, "Brother Man, you are finally willing to be with me." We're lying sideways on the same bed."

Xiao Man lay between Qu Hanxing and Mo Juntian, with his hands on his stomach, his posture reserved and orderly.Recalling what happened in Shenjing City, I also felt emotional, and said: "Occasionally, it's not bad."

Qu Hanxing stretched his legs: "There seems to be no more training tasks, we have to stay on Baihua Peak until the sword test meeting."

"Isn't that considered a mission?" Mo Juntian retorted, "The sword test conference is the final assessment, and less than [-]% of our group of disciples can stay, so the situation is quite serious."

As soon as this remark came out, Qu Hanxing fell silent.He raised the pillow, covered his eyes, and asked feebly, "Where do you want to go if you pass the sword test?"

Mo Juntian: "I want to go to Lanfeng."

Qu Hanxing: "Where's Brother Man?"

"Me?" Xiao Man didn't expect Qu Hanxing to ask him, and he didn't know how to answer.

"You should stay in Xueyi Peak, right?" Qu Hanxing took the pillow away again, his eyes rolled slightly, "You have lived on Xueyi Peak for a long time, and that Senior Wu also took good care of you, Xueyi Peak The peak master is also the youngest and most energetic among the peak masters of the twelve peaks, so staying there will only benefit you a lot."

Never thought Xiao Man shook his head: "I don't want to go to Xueyi Peak."

Qu Hanxing was quite surprised, looked sideways at Xiao Man, and asked, "Then where are you going?"

"I don't know." Xiao Man told the truth, and then threw the question back, "What about you?"

"I... Brother Man and Brother Wei will definitely pass the sword test! Xiao Mo, if you work so hard, you will definitely be able to." Qu Hanxing pondered for a long time, "As for me... maybe... hey! So I think about this in advance It's no use..."

Hearing what he said, Xiao Man planned to give a few words of encouragement. Mo Juntian was more direct than him, got up with a bang, walked to Qu Hanxing, and dragged him up from the bed: "Don't lie down, go practice sword."

Qu Hanxing struggled: "We just came back!"

"Wei Chuyun is the one with the highest realm among us. He has already retreated, how can we slack off?" Mo Juntian said plausibly, and then asked Xiao Man: "Xiao Man, are you coming?"

"I don't practice sword these few days, I'll go to the back peak." Xiao Man said.

Qu Hanxing's expression changed drastically, and he looked shocked: "Houfeng with the name 'Ghost Peak'?"

"Although that place is frighteningly cold, it's a good place to hone your mind." Xiao Man nodded, "Why don't we go together?"

"No, no, Xiao Mo and I will go to the practice field!" Hearing what he said, Qu Hanxing pulled Mo Juntian and ran away.

Looking at the back of his almost fleeing, Xiao Man couldn't help but smile.

After laughing, he got up, went to the courtyard, and closed the door for them.

Houfeng belongs to Baihua Peak, which is a mountain that rises abruptly from the northwest side. Although it is not as good as Tingyun Peak, which is the loneliest and most solitary mountain, it is more dangerous.

The cold air is lingering here all the year round, the vegetation cannot grow, and the sunlight can't reach here. The mountains and rocks are weird and uneven, and the placement is also strange. At first glance, it looks very gloomy, and few disciples are willing to come here.

The wind passing by seems to be whimpering and crying, and when it hits the face, it is like a knife cutting.The more you go up, the stronger the wind and the heavier the cold air, and the knife cuts you like a sharp needle piercing the bone.

Xiao did not change his face, walked all the way to the highest point, cleared the clouds and mists, found a platform where people could sit, and sat down with his clothes on.

The wind here is very suitable for body forging, and also suitable for sharpening swords.

The opportunity cannot be cut off, probably because the sword is not sharp enough, so Xiao Man imagined himself as a sword, sitting here for three days.

There is no cloudy or sunny day on Houfeng, except for rain or snow, it is always cloudy here; at night, Houfeng is even darker, and the sun cannot penetrate the clouds here, let alone the moonlight?

In the cold and dark night, Houfeng ushered in the second guest.

It is a woman, the level is not low, she has come to Guiyuan, but she has never used a sword, but walks on the mountain road with her feet.The light here is dim, but it is not difficult to identify this person. It is Meng Jiaoxi who troubled Xiao Man in the formation class, and also Elder Meng who forced Xiao Man to hand over his inner alchemy on Xueyi Peak.

She was dressed in black, with a gloomy complexion, holding a magic weapon, and stopped and walked, as if she was looking for something.

Halfway through the walk, the jade ring on her waist lit up, Meng Lanshan quickly stopped and said in a low voice, "A Lin?"

The voice directly transmitted to her sea of ​​consciousness: "After killing, bring his body to Huamancheng, and don't leave it in Gushan. I will personally send someone to deal with it."

"Okay." Meng Lanshan nodded.

The person Meng Lanshan was looking for was Xiao Man.

For Xiao Man's experience this time, Ji Wuji, the leader of Baihua Peak, gave him a very high evaluation. He is also a man of high cultivation, and he ranks in the forefront of this group of low-level disciples. It is a sure thing to pass the sword test meeting.

Right now, he and Yan Wushu haven't held a joint registration ceremony, so he has no status, but if a low-level disciple on Baihua Peak is really favored by a peak master or elder, accepted as an apprentice, or justifiably entered Xueyi Peak, he will want to get rid of it in the future , it is not easy.

Now that Ji Wuji is out on errands, there is no one to supervise her on the peak, and she is in Yuanyuan Realm, so killing a Baoxu Shangjing, isn't it easy?

What's more, this is Houfeng, so if you die here, it won't disturb anyone at all.

Thinking like this, Meng Lanshan reacted to the magic weapon in her hand.

Xiao Man is located on the top of the back peak, it is extremely cold here, thick clouds gather around him, he can hardly see his figure, the dew is heavy, his clothes are completely wet.

He stayed here for three days, allowing his body to be tempered by the wind knife and hammer, his eyes downcast, and he had already reached a state of ecstasy.But maybe the habit inherited from Yan Wushu is too deep, even so, he still keeps his mind on the outside, guarding against danger and accidents.

The moment Meng Lanshan stepped into the back peak, he noticed it.At the same time, what she noticed was the killing intent she deliberately concealed, but still revealed inadvertently.

Xiao Man didn't move, Meng Lanshan didn't stop.

When she climbed from the bottom of the peak to the top and stepped onto the platform, Xiao Man raised her eyes and grabbed the sword with her backhand.

Xiao Man has never been polite to those who want to kill him.

Xiao Man no longer suppressed his state, and in an instant he was promoted to the upper state that he should have.The sword came out neatly, and the light of the sword was obscured by heavy clouds and thick fog. This is really a good place to kill people.

Meng Lanshan retreated subconsciously to avoid it, and then switched from defense to offense, glanced at the person opposite, and slashed out the long sword in her hand, "You actually defended a boundary?"

Xiao Man didn't answer.

He saw that at this time, flames rose from the sword and swung upwards to meet Meng Lanshan's sword.

when--

Dang!

With two crisp sounds in succession, the real fire of the phoenix directly fused Meng Lanshan's sword.

Xiao Man's sword couldn't bear the real fire, and it broke and fell to the ground.Xiao Man threw away the hilt of the sword without changing his face, turned his wrist and slapped Meng Lanshan's heart with the fire in his palm!

The real fire did not enter his body, he purposely gave Meng Lanshan a sigh of relief, so that she would not be burned to death by the real fire of Phoenix immediately.Meng Lanshan took a few steps back, looked down at the bloody hole in her chest, and then looked at Xiao Man in shock, in disbelief:

"A mere Shouyi..."

"I'm not as easy to bully as you imagined." Xiao Man looked at her with a calm tone, "Why does Lin Wu want you to kill me?"

"Of course it's because you blocked the way!" Meng Lanshan smiled coldly.

When the words fell to the ground, the phoenix fire burned directly from her wound to her heart.

The shrill scream resounded through the mountains.

But this is Houfeng, which has the name of "ghost peak", and no one cares about it.

Meng Lanshan's body fell to the ground, Xiao Man stood a little further away, expressionless.

This is not the first time Xiao Man has killed people. In Shenjing City, he has killed many people.But this is the first time he has faced the question of what to do with the dead body.

If you use real fire to burn it, you are actually wasting real fire, but Meng Lanshan is from Qingyun Peak. There are rumors that after breaking through to the Taixuan Realm, you can become an elder. There must be some background. The corpse of such a person , where do you want to throw it?

Throw it to the bottom of the mountain to feed the wild beasts?Of course not.

Ask the peak master of Xingyun Peak Tan Wenzhou to borrow a bottle of corpse water?Could it be that he took the initiative to leave evidence.

Could it be... Dig a hole and bury it?It must be a strange case after many years.

Or burn it with real fire.Xiao Man sighed inwardly, and was about to make a move, but saw someone coming through the air.

The visitor pressed Xiao Man's hand and said, "I'll handle it."

It was Yan Wushu, still in the black clothes, with a very calm tone.

He didn't even ask who the person who died on the ground was, took out a bottle of corpse water, and poured it directly on the ground.

"This is Meng Lanshan." Xiao Man whispered.

Yan Wushu said "Oh" flatly.

Xiao Man frowned, and added: "People from Qingyun Peak."

"So what?" Yan Wushu said lightly, not caring about the identity of this person, "He is just a dead person now."

Between the words, the corpse turned into a puddle of muddy water, flowing down the sloped stone surface.

Yan Wushu raised his eyes and looked around, "This Bai Huafeng..."

But he hesitated to speak.After a while, Yan Wushu turned his head to look at Xiao Man, and said: "It's not safe here, come back to Xueyi Peak with me, and come back to the sword test meeting."

Xiao Man picked up his broken sword and said, "Thank you for your kindness, but it doesn't have to be like this."