Chapter 7 Asking Swordsman in the Mountain
Xun Qingge frowned: "Chen Qingfeng really thinks that Your Majesty will not demolish the ancestor hall of the Xiling Sword Sect and let him be an eternal sinner of the Sword Sect?"
Xun You clasped his hands together and sighed, "He just knew that Your Majesty would destroy his Xiling Sword Sect, and he didn't want to be this sinner for the ages!"
With a seemingly meaningless answer, the intelligent Empress naturally understood the meaning of the national teacher, but she still couldn't figure out the cowardly sect leader who had been allowed to control the dynasty for more than ten years and was tolerant of the strong Qingxi Jianchi everywhere.
She stretched out her jade hand, gently kneaded her eyebrows with her green fingers, and said helplessly: "Can Chen Qingfeng suddenly become crazy?"
"I'm not crazy." Chen Qingfeng, the leader of Xiling Sword Sect, said calmly to the elders in the Ancestor Hall.
The ancestor of Xiling Sword Sect is on a small leeward platform on the top of the snow-capped mountain. The stone-stacked house is simple and rough, always reminding future generations of the hardships of starting a sect.
In the house at this moment, the sect leader Chen Qingfeng sat in the middle, and there were seven elders sitting on four chairs on each side, totaling eight chairs.
Among the seven people, a fat old man was flushed and stood straight, staring at his sect leader.
Hearing the sect leader's answer so calmly, he snorted coldly, "Hmph! Isn't crazy? If you take out the "Sword Sutra of the Heavens", we don't object. That is the right of your sect leader; if you want to reopen the Sword Crown Competition, we also admit it. The court will always make a mistake. But if you ask why the sword mountain is banned, you won't know? That's where the man on the dragon throne is! You are going to drag the entire Sword Sect to bury you with you!"
The two elders nodded repeatedly, one fell into deep thought, and the rest had no expression on their faces.
The crowd was in full swing, and Chen Qingfeng laughed at himself. It seemed that his sect leader had indeed been unpopular over the years and had no prestige.
He picked up a cup of snow water at his hand, moistened his throat, and said to the red-faced old man: "Elder Mo, what do you think of Qingxi Sword Pool?"
The old man with red face was stunned. Unexpectedly, Chen Qingfeng would ask this, spit on the ground, and said contemptuously: "What are they? They are just a dog from the court. They have simply lost the face of the sword cultivator!"
Chen Qingfeng said again: "If we follow the attitude towards us since the founding of the Daduan Dynasty, what kind of ending do you think we will end."
Elder Mo still blushed and his confidence was vented, "It's always difficult to maintain. I've been here for so many years."
Before Chen Qingfeng could speak, a man holding a sword on his left suddenly said, "Fifteen years ago, Empress Xun went up the mountain, and the seventh elder Di Qingsheng was imprisoned at the bottom of the burial sword abyss, and Wenjian Mountain was sealed here; Fourteen years ago, Qingxi Sword Pool was established, Wei Qinghui defected and stole many sword scriptures; Ten years ago, Qingxi Sword Pool conspired to surround and kill disciples who were trained outside the Sword Pool, and only two survived the top ten of the current ten. Our sect wanted to raise an army to question, and 30,000 elite soldiers were in Dayi Town; Nine years ago, the Changtian Sword, one of the four holy swords of our sect, was stolen; Seven years ago, the emperor ordered the destruction of all the files of our sect people involved in the incident that year.
The case and genealogy of the sect; five years ago, Qingxi Sword Cave suddenly surrounded and killed people outside of Shu, and snatched away all the talents who were ready to be sent to the sect, and the place where our sect selected materials was greatly reduced; three years ago, Qingxi Sword Cave replaced our sect’s position above the imperial court ceremony; two years ago, Sixiang Mountain, which had been supporting our sect, was attacked, and the sect moved to Miaojiang 100,000 mountains; a year ago, Danding Cave announced that all contacts with our sect were cut off; half a year ago, Hengduan Daozhuang announced that it would terminate its annual cooperation with our sect; a month ago, it was rumored that Qingxi Sword Cave would challenge our sect at the five sects meeting two years later and replace the position of the head of the five sects of our sect.”
His voice was hoarse, without any emotion, and his speech was extremely fast, but every word was clearly pounding the hearts of everyone in the house.
Chen Qingfeng said sadly: "Please ask everyone, how will this be maintained?"
Elder Mo was speechless, but an old man who had just nodded with him muttered in a low voice, "But you can't take the initiative to seek death."
Everyone in the room was a high-level practitioner. The low voice of his speech simply showed his lack of confidence. Elder Mo seemed to have grabbed the life-saving straw and turned to look at the sect leader in the upper head.
Chen Qingfeng sighed, "If the Sword Sect really died in my hands, I will be a sinner in the sect forever, but can you all be spared in this Ancestral Hall?! Before the killing situation was completed, there was still a glimmer of hope. Since I didn't want to become a Qingxi Sword Pool, and I was not willing to break the foundation of a thousand years, I would work with me to find a future!"
A few elders suddenly stood up and said with a sigh: "No!"
Elder Mo and others had no choice but to stand up and hold their fists and shout "No!"
Chen Qingfeng's eyes looked into the distance from the hut. Although it was not neat enough, he could only do this for the time being.
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A kind of boy and girl on the platform did not know the turbulent storm caused by the appearance of the hill in front of them. They didn't even have any understanding of this mountain. Even Cui Zhi and Lu Qi looked puzzled.
Didn’t it mean that the introductory tests of the Sword Sect are all tests that test your eyesight and control?
What about rolling balls in the plate and closing your eyes to get the sword? You won’t have to climb the mountain again after just walking such a long mountain road?
The man in green clothes stared at the hill in front of him for a long time and turned to look at everyone. Yun Luo found that the crystal clearness appeared in his eyes, and he was a little confused. Could there be a story in this mountain?
The man in Qingshan's voice was slightly hoarse: "The next thing is today's test. This mountain is called Wenjian Mountain. There are 81 steps to climb, and each road is ninety-nine steps. All you have to do is climb up and climb up desperately. The higher the climb, the better. Finally, we will determine the test results based on the number of steps. The top five can directly learn the secret of "The Sword Sutra of the Heavenly Sect" that is not passed on by the sect. The top ten will get the opportunity to enter the second level of the Sword Pavilion. Come on, everyone."
The boy who had just fainted on the road just woke up slowly. When he heard that he was about to climb a mountain, his eyes opened and closed, and he fainted again.
The man in the green shirt raised a small bamboo card and then said, "There are 81 bowls of Yuanqi soup here. If you drink it, you will be able to recover. In addition, as long as you feel that you can't hold on, throw this item out, and falling unconscious and falling to the ground will be considered as the test being terminated."
After saying that, a disciple of the Sword Sect brought the soup bowl and distributed the bamboo cards. Everyone took it one by one, put it down, and drank the Yuanqi soup. He felt a heat flowing through his limbs and bones, and his whole body was filled with vitality and strength.
The fainting boy was also awakened by the man in Qingshan. After drinking the Yuanqi Decoction, he finally felt like he was alive.
"Everyone chooses a road to climb the mountain in the order they arrived at this platform just now. There is a red line before the stone steps. If you cross the red line, it will be considered as a selection. After the selection, there will be light on the stone tablet." The man in the green shirt stretched out his fingers Yun Luo and Pei Zhen, "You two will come first."
Everyone's eyes were all looking at Yun Luo and Pei Zhen with the fingers of the Qingshan Man, knowing that this was the person who took the initiative to support his companions just now. With the powerful words of the Qingshan Man, everyone had no objection.
Yun Luo blushed for the first time, but Pei Zhen was shameless and bowed to everyone with a smile, just like a restaurant shopkeeper. Especially when he found that Cui Zhi and Lu Qi were also looking here curiously, his eyebrows raised, and his heroic face actually gave people a feeling of slutty and despicableness, which made the two girls quickly turn around.
The two said goodbye to the four people whom they had just helped, and the thin young man bowed deeply to Yun Luo and wished him good luck with his smile.
Walking to the front of the team, Yunluo said, "Brother Pei, you will be the first one in a while."
Pei Zhen waved his hand, "Don't, you're the first one." Seeing that Yun Luo was still humble, he lowered his voice and said, "I still want to get close to the fairies!"
Originally ranked first were Cui Zhi and Lu Qi.
Yun Luo rolled his eyes, but his heart felt warm.
After the rounds were set, everyone entered the mountain one by one.
Under the water curtain, Wen Wei had already sat down silently, and at the same time he looked deeply at the sloppy man in another corner, which had never been seen before.
Seeing Yun Luo being the first to choose, Wen Wei silently prayed in his heart: "Don't choose that road."
Yun Luo had already walked to the front of the mountain on the water curtain, bowed to the green shirt and asked, "Is there anything else to pay attention to these mountain climbing stone steps?"
The man in the green shirt seemed to suddenly remember something, and said to Yunluo, "I forgot to tell you that there are eighty-one mountain roads, which are difficult and difficult, and I can't tell from the number. But there is only one, which is extremely difficult. In the past century... no one has reached the top. It is the one with the number eighty-one."
Hearing this, everyone looked at the fainting boy with sympathy. The boy's face, which had finally recovered, suddenly turned pale again.
Pei Zhen turned around with a righteous look on his face and looked at the two girls behind him, and said to Cui Zhi who was slightly in front of him: "This fairy sister, I think that number 81 is no problem for you."
Cui Zhi had a pretty face and frosty, "Get out!"
Yun Luo looked up at this mountain and took the initiative to choose No. 81. What he wanted was to become a practitioner smoothly. If he could avoid all risks, he would not be his habit.
The clouds were walking in front of the mountain, observing silently. Suddenly, a breeze blew by, and my feet slipped, and I fell out. I fell in front of a stone stairs. The tip of my falling fingers barely crossed the red line in front of the stone stairs. The stone tablet in front of the stone stairs suddenly lit up, indicating that someone had chosen.
Pei Zhen was stunned, Cui Zhi and Lu Qi looked at each other. The man in green frowned slightly and looked at the top of the mountain.
Just above the top of the mountain on this side, Chen Qingfeng stood side by side with Jiang Yan, who appeared at some time. Chen Qingfeng frowned and said, "If there is no protection from the state prime minister, my Sword Sect cannot even leave the mountain gate. This little thing is naturally fine. But I can't figure it out."
Jiang Yan smiled slightly, "I can't figure it out, but since the Prime Minister gave the order, it's fine if we do anything that will hinder the overall situation."
Wen Wei under the water curtain murmured: "Is God's will?"
Yun Luo looked up and saw that I, 81, have not fallen for many years, I'm going to do this at a critical moment!
After a burst of indignation, I was helpless and couldn't just let it go.
He stood up and patted the dust on his body, and resolutely stepped into the stone steps, with four big words written on his face, "Take death as if home."
The man in green clothes looked at Pei Zhen and said, "It's your turn."
Pei Zhen thought about it and chose the nearest stone steps next to Yunluo. What if he could get it.
Everyone chose a stone staircase one by one. In the end, the young man's luck broke out at this moment and actually left him a stone staircase. He was very grateful and walked in happily.
Just now, the man in the green shirt was standing alone. He stepped a few steps away, faced Wenjianshan, sat cross-legged, and waited for the result.
As I stepped into the stone steps, the clouds fell like falling in the mist, and the vastness of the four sides were invisible. I could only vaguely hear the sound coming from around me. I walked up, but it seemed like I was hitting a wall and I was trapped on this step.
Chen Qingfeng and Jiang Yan appeared in a pavilion on the hillside. Chen Qingfeng, who is a landlord, handed Jiang Yan a cup of ordinary tea. Jiang Yan took it with both hands and asked, "What is the point of the ninety-nine steps of Jianshan? If it is convenient, can the sect leader solve my doubts?"
Chen Qingfeng smiled, "Since I asked Jianshan to be reborn, these are naturally no secrets."
He turned his head and looked at a small water curtain beside him, which also showed every move on Wenjian Mountain. "The first eleven steps are not difficult, they are all small mechanisms, which test the mountaineer's observation and mind. The sword cultivator has the greatest killing power, but if he only wants to break the trick with his strength, he will never be able to get the great way."
The two figures flew backwards from the stone steps, and then were held on the ground by a gentle force in the air. The two burly boys looked in disbelief. They were trapped in it just now, and were arrogant with their natural divine power, so they thought of knocking it away directly. After three collisions, they were bounced out.
As he got up and was about to go in, the cold voice of the man in the blue shirt rang out, "You are out."
Yun Luo could not hear the movements. He quietly groped on the edge of the stone steps to measure the length and width. Since it was a test, there must be a way out.
Suddenly, his finger touched a slight bulge at the connection between the stone steps and the previous one. The mechanism was delighted.
But he did not move immediately, and carefully explored the entire stone steps. After finding that there was only this strange thing, he gradually became convinced in his heart, pressed it gently, and took a slow and steady step towards the second step.
Chapter completed!