[System] Eight Wilderness Returns

When we meet in life, there is a time, and when we send you off for thousands of miles, we must say goodbye at last.

Before Su Wangyan took Ximen Chuixue to leave, Chu Ni made another pot of tea using the tea making method Su Wangyan taught him, but held the teapot in his right hand and turned the teacup clockwise to show off the guests.

"If I have free time, I might bring Ye Gucheng to Wanmei Villa to visit my old friend."

Su Wangyan bent the corners of his lips and said, "Wanmei Villa will definitely welcome you warmly."

Chu Ni nodded, and sent the two of them to the shore all the way. Only when the boat that Su Wangyan was on disappeared from sight, Chu Ni lowered his eyes and suppressed all the expressions in his eyes.

In fact, there is no way to make Su Huayan stay, but Chu Ni is unwilling to change Su Huayan's will by other unscrupulous means.They are friends and close friends, so he should respect each other's decision, even if he is extremely unwilling to leave Su Yaoyan in his heart, he will not do anything that will damage the friendship between the two of them.

There are ups and downs in the rivers and lakes, generation after generation of heroes are submerged in the storm, and a new generation of masters is famous all over the world.

Su Huayan's name soon became more and more famous in the Jianghu of the Central Plains. In contrast, Chu Ni, the acting lord of Baiyun City, kept a low profile. It seemed that he deliberately did not want to compete with Su Huayan. leisurely life.

And Ye Gucheng was obsessed with swordsmanship, first there was Ximen Chuuxue, a fellow swordsman who was quite good at swordsmanship, and then there was the thrilling sparring between Chu Ni and Su Wangyan, his swordsmanship became more and more exquisite, and finally, three years later, his swordsmanship was great.

This year, Ye Gucheng was 14 years old.

In the past three years, Baiyun City has not been peaceful either.Among them, the most vigorous one was the suggestion that Chu Ni should get married and have children as soon as possible, which occurred in Baiyun City at some time.This proposal was made on the first day of the new year, and it caused quite a stir in Baiyun City, and it also faintly divided the internal forces of Baiyun City into two factions.

One is the faction that made this suggestion, loyal to Chu Ni, the acting city lord faction, and the other faction is dominated by Ye Lin's former ministers, loyal to Ye's bloodline, because they are afraid that Chu Ni will have his own flesh and blood after marrying a wife and having children, so instead of He is willing to hand over Baiyun City to Ye Gucheng, so he strongly opposes this proposal.

Chu Ni knows the truth that people in high positions can’t help themselves. There are some things that you don’t want to do, and the forces under him will force you to do them. He really doesn’t have much interest in Baiyun City, but this time the confrontation between the two forces started from a certain In this sense, it is also a kind of temptation and persecution of Chu Ni by Chu Ni's subordinates.

When Chu Ni was very annoyed, he directly threw the matter to the group of people who had been arguing for several months, and took Ye Gucheng to nest in the city lord's mansion leisurely.

Ye Gucheng can already be called a young man at this time. He has already mastered swordsmanship at this time, and the childishness on his originally immature face has faded away, and the sharp sword intent is deeply engraved on it, like a sword that has just been unsheathed. With a sharp sword, you are fearless in overcoming thorns and thorns.

When Ye Gucheng pushed the door and entered, the man in the blue and white Taoist robe under the lamp was holding a cloth towel and wiping the long sword in his hand slowly but attentively. The hostility and killing intent in the room were undoubtedly exposed.Perhaps it was because he just took a bath. His long hair was not firmly erected with a hair crown, but was simply fixed with a wooden hairpin. It seemed that it would fall down if he was not careful, but the magic is The hairpin never fell off as expected.

When seeing such a scene, Ye Gucheng was not surprised. Chu Ni regards the sword as life, and takes care and maintenance of the sword very seriously. Even if it is only touched a few times by others, Chu Ni will use a cloth towel Wipe it several times.

But when Ye Gucheng approached, he realized that the sword that Chu Ni wiped was not the Qianye Changsheng sword on his back, but a black scabbard that Ye Gucheng had never seen before, and there was nothing on the sword. Patterned long sword.

Although this sword is not like the Qianye Longevity Sword, which makes people think it is a magical weapon at first glance, but if you look closely, you can still see that it is not comparable to ordinary swords.

"You are here." Chu Ni pulled out the long sword a few inches, and the sword body reflected a sword light under the light of the candle, which flashed leisurely between Chu Ni's eyebrows.Then Chu Ni suddenly inserted the long sword into the scabbard, and then threw it in the direction of Ye Gucheng.

Ye Gucheng reached out to take the black scabbard sword, stood still in front of Chu Ni, and said, "Master."

"Since your swordsmanship has become great, this black scabbard long sword is hard to find in the world. It is made of fine iron from overseas, so it should be my congratulatory gift to you."

Ye Gucheng held the black scabbard sword horizontally in front of his body, and stretched out his hand to stroke the black scabbard, as if he could feel the tremendous power and tacit understanding suppressed in the long sword.

"Thank you, Master." Ye Gucheng clenched the hilt of his sword tightly, and he could see the admiration in his eyes.

"As long as you like it." Seeing Ye Gucheng's expression, Chu Ni knew that the black scabbard sword was quite suitable for him, and he was relieved, "Although this sword does not look very eye-catching, it contains profound If I hadn’t already had the Qianye Longevity Sword, I would have given this sword to you, and I’m giving it to you today in the hope that one day you can truly find your own way of the sword.”

Hearing the words, Ye Gucheng bent slightly towards Chu Ni's direction, and said, "Ye Gucheng will definitely live up to Master's high expectations."

At this time, Ye Gucheng has also grown a lot taller. Just standing like this, he is a little taller than Chu Ni who is sitting on the chair. Chu Ni smiled rarely, patted Ye Gucheng on the shoulder sideways, and said: "You How long have you been under my door?"

"Four years."

"You learned swordsmanship at the age of seven, joined my sect at the age of ten, and mastered swordsmanship at the age of 14. You are so talented, and you have never lived up to the name of my sect." Chu Ni lowered his eyes so that people could not see the expression in his eyes, and said, "Five years ago, Old City Lord Ye entrusted Baiyun City and you to me. In the past five years, you have never disappointed me in terms of swordsmanship or handling of Baiyun City's affairs."

Chu Ni paused, and then said: "Now that you have grown to the point where you can take over Baiyun City, I can also relax."

Ye Gucheng heard Chu Ni's implication, frowned and said: "Master is worried about those people's proposals, those words are just nonsense."

"Vulgar people always make up the majority in the world." Chu Ni snorted coldly, and said, "I have no intention of being in Baiyun City, but others don't think so. There are too many people who make their own opinions. It's Ye Lin's old minister. You have obeyed your advice. Since you have grown to this point, I really don’t want to bother you any more, but before handing over Baiyun City to you, you need to do one thing first.”

In Chu Ni's words, there was a sense of disdain to care about others. He thought he was annoyed by the interruptions these few days, but he seemed to take this opportunity to throw Baiyun City to Ye Gucheng neatly.

Ye Gucheng smiled wryly in his heart, but he also felt that Chu Ni's sentence "the world is always dominated by vulgar people" is indeed true, power is always exciting, let alone Ye Lin's old minister, it is Chu Ni's hand The people who have been cultivated do not believe that Chu Ni has no idea about Baiyun City. No matter how much Chu Ni explains, in the eyes of others, they are just pretending.

Therefore, Chu Ni didn't even bother to explain, and directly used actions to throw Baiyun City, which he regarded as a "burden", to Ye Gucheng.

Taking a deep breath, Ye Gucheng asked, "What is Master asking me to do?"

"You have achieved great swordsmanship. There are only a handful of swordsmen in the world who can beat you, but your sword heart is unstable and you have little experience. What I want you to do is to defeat someone. If your sword wins After passing his sword, then I will return Baiyun City to your hands."

"Who?" Ye Gucheng had a faint premonition in his heart.

"Wanmei Villa, Ximen Chuuxue."

Sure enough it was him.

Ye Gucheng paused the hand holding the black scabbard long sword, and after a moment of silence, he replied: "...Yes."

Chu Ni said: "Ximen Chuuxue is a high-ranking disciple who lied that his sword skills are not inferior to yours. He came here a few months ago and said that Ximen Chuuxue's swordsmanship has also been accomplished. There is some fate between you and him. If that is the case, Three days later, you will go to Wanmei Villa together with me, if you can beat Ximen Chuuxue, then I will have nothing to worry about."

After saying this, Chu Ni stretched out his hand to brush the bun, and gently pulled out the wooden hairpin in his hair. Instantly, the long hair like a waterfall lost its restraint, and fell down like rain. Chu Ni stroked it gently with the sword Passing the wooden hairpin in the shape of a long sword, he said again: "My old friend and I talked nonsense, and I haven't seen him for many years. I don't know how he has been doing well these years."

Turning around, I remembered that Su Wangyan's reputation in Jianghu has been increasing in recent years, and he obviously lived a prosperous life, but he smiled lightly, and raised his hand to shoot out a burst of energy from his fingertips, instantly extinguishing all the lamps and candles in the house.

"I'm tired."

Ye Gucheng responded and exited the house.

The hillside outside Wanmei Villa is full of flowers blooming everywhere.Chu Ni never cared about flowers and plants. At first glance, he just thought that these red and yellow flowers looked quite pleasing to the eye. It seemed that even the dust of his journey had been wiped away by these flowers.

When Chu Ni brought Ye Gucheng to Wanmei Villa, he didn't know Su Guyan when he would arrive, but when Chu Ni walked to the gate of Wanmei Villa, he saw a tall man standing in front of the door. , a blue and white Taoist robe looked very dazzling among the various flowers all over the mountains and plains.

The mountains are full of colorful flowers, but in Chu Ni's eyes, they are not as beautiful and eye-catching as the person standing at the end of the road.

When he got closer, he could see Su Wangyan smiling and looking in Chu Ni's direction.

Su Huayan's appearance is still as handsome as a few years ago, and his blue and white Taoist robes seem to be so clean that they have never been stained with blood. The only difference from before is that Su Huayan's white hair is no longer just tied with hair ropes. It became a ponytail, but it was simply tied up with a wooden hairpin. If you look carefully, you can find that this bun is exactly the same as the hairstyle that Chu Ni casually helped him put up back then.

Chu Ni walked up to Su Huayan, and the two faced each other from a distance, and a bit of warmth flashed across their eyes at the same time.

"How do you know I'm coming back today, or..." Chu Ni bent his lips, and said, "Or have you been waiting for me these days?"

"Is this important?" Su Huayan's eyes flashed for a moment, and he asked back: "Then do you think, is it because we have a good understanding between you and me, or am I waiting for you at the door every day?"

Chu Ni thought for a moment, and replied: "You are right, it is not important. What is important is that you were waiting for me here when I came."

After speaking, the two looked at each other, Chu Ni took a few steps forward, and walked into Wanmei Villa side by side with Su Huayan.