Sword of Coming

Chapter 895

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The light of the mountains fell suddenly, and the moonlight gradually rose.

There is a light in the sky in the world.

A Peijiang river that winds into the sea is rich in water vapor. There are sixteen large and small docks along the river section for the mooring of ferries on the mountain. Business is prosperous. Every dock is surrounded by water and built small towns. For example, in Huaihuang County, after nightfall, the lights are as bright as the day, dojo stand in great numbers on both sides, there are many rivers and lakes entrances, even in the eyes of the Earth Master just entered, you can see the great martial arts here. The crowning one continent.

Wu Tan has traveled far to other continents for more than 20 years, and now he is heading to Wild Desolate World. In addition, this Martial Saint is too unconcerned about accepting disciples. So far he has only charged an Opening Mountain Disciple, so Tree Leaf Continent’s End Boundary Martial Artist, there is only one Ye Yunyun left, which gives Pushan a very high reputation.

“One continent boxing method, only in Pushan.”

And Pushan Yuncaotang really deserves this praise. Every year it teaches boxing in Lixia and Lidong according to the ancestral rule. Except for the secret technique of Yuncaotang, which does not teach the pile and frame, the rest are not hidden and willing. We will give all kinds of Martial Artists who come to learn boxing. At the same time, every Pushan Martial Artist who goes down the mountain will hold three public martial arts performances, learn martial arts, or feed people, if there are Martial Artists of the same realm If you win, you can win a full house and be invited to the Yuncaotang as a guest.

It seems that the bright moon in the sky pampers the water here, and the river is covered with bright moonlight, like a galaxy on earth, the night is quiet, the river breeze is slow, the scenery is pleasant, relaxed and joyful.

A tourist boat going down the river, there are only two floors above the deck, one dwarf. As long as there are passing cruise ships passing by, it is often the situation where others bow their heads and look up.

At an open-air tea stand on the second floor, Chen Ping asked a tea lady for two pots of mountain tea, a pot of Yunwu tea and a pot of Laocong narcissus, and she gave some cakes and fruits for free.

Ferry tea lady just tried her best to promote this daffodil tea. It is said to be a famous rock tea from a fairy mountain in Aquarius Continent. It is extremely difficult to obtain. A century-old tea tree is said to be high, and a thousand years can be said to be old. So the price is expensive. , If the customer feels the taste is average, but if you say something bad, you can get a 50% discount on Lou Chuan.

Seeing her posture, if she doesn’t order a pot of Laocong narcissus, she probably won’t give me a snack.

Chen Ping with a smile on his face is another evildoer made by the fellow Dong Bancheng.

Spring water, tea leaves, Immortal Family fermented wine, tea and wine utensils, all items that have been famous in Aquarius Continent for a few years, especially those with high quality and low price, are estimated to be at least half of them inseparable from Dong Shuijing.

Tea is of course good tea. Xu Yuanxia’s unengraved landscape travel notes specifically recorded this kind of Laocong Narcissus. The problem is that the old Cong Narcissus that Brother Xu could drink back then, the tea is in the local area. The price is high and low, you can imagine.

As a result, I just moved a place with the intercontinental ferry. A pot of tea here costs two snowflakes for money. Need a snowflake money?

Dong Shuijing, an extraordinary natural talent in business, had to start with Ascension Realm.

Chen Ping took the last piece of Seated Oblivion Pill from Qinghu Palace from his sleeve and swallowed it with tea.

There is no need to doubt the follow-up medicine pill of Qinghu Palace, there will definitely be one or two furnaces of Yui Wan delivered to Xiandu Mountain soon.

According to Lu Lao Divine Immortal’s way of life, not to mention Chen Ping himself, together with the lower sect, in the next few hundred years, will not worry that the Seated Oblivion Pill will not be enough.

In the words of Divine Immortal, it is the good thing of my own family, of course, it is to keep close to my family first.

It’s okay, Unrestrained Mountain and Qingping Peak will reciprocate themselves. In the future, the Water Spiritual Qi of Pure Boundary Mountain will only be more abundant than when Qinghu Palace was at its peak.

After three more docks, about two hundred miles of waterway, you can reach the Mountain Sect entrance of Pushan Yuncaotang.

Pei Qian asked: “Master, Yun Caotang Martial Artist went down the mountain to feed people, can we learn from Unrestrained Mountain?”

Chen Ping nodded, “Of course you can learn.”

Cao Qinglang said: “The premise is that the doorway is good, the Martial Artist on the mountain is strong enough, and when dealing with people down the mountain, the words can not be too casual, how to say, the fist is in the ring, and the fist is also outside the fist. , Otherwise, Ming teaches fist seriously and feeds the fists carefully, but only because one or two words are wrong, which makes people misunderstand, they will be nasty. If you don’t say smashing signs, you will continue to disputes and get enemies everywhere. If you don’t need several decades, you will be nasty. I was isolated by the world. When the time comes, we were obviously out of good intentions, but when we turned around, we were slurred. No one could stand it. One came and went. One side disliked the other side without conscience, and the other side felt that the other side was imposing manner. .”

Pei Qian said: “Our house style is not good?”

Cao Qinglang said with a smile: “Everything will stand in advance, and nothing will be abandoned if not.”

Chen Ping took a sip of tea, nodded said with a smile: “Everything is good.”

What kind of trick is this? It’s really good to start dísciple and proud students.

The river breeze is fine and the waves are sparkling. After winter, even if it is on the boat upstairs, tourists will not feel cold.

This is due to the thick roots of Pushan, which makes the surrounding mountains and rivers, even when the snow melts, the atmosphere is still warm, like a natural earthen stove.

Yuncaotang Ye clan is also a recognized big landlord on the mountain, with a lot of land deeds, even the two small country mountains, plus two big lakes, are actually the private property of Pushan.

Four people gathered around the table to drink tea, Chen Ping raised his legs and took out the dry tobacco rod, which is only made of Azure Bamboo, which is common in the mountains. The cigarette holder is from the Dragon Beard River and is carved from a White Jade Stone. A bag of golden tobacco , Was crushed into a small ball by Chen Ping.

Learning Old Head Yang to smoke cigarettes, there are only two situations. Either you need to think about things with your heart and think about the long-term and near-worries together, otherwise it is like now, there is nothing to think about today.

Xiao Mo borrowed a bright moonlight, while drinking tea, while reading a book of literati’s notes and novels dedicated to writing that mysterious and faint light, there was an allusion about this Peijiang.

Because on the main road of Peijiang, in Yuanwei two places, there is a long-standing water temple built to worship the Eastern Sea woman and Qinghongjun. The most surprising thing is the different shrines and temples. However, the local people worshipped two gods of water together, which is a bit similar to some Earth Temple’s earth fathers and earth wives. According to the book, the water god Empress, who was built at the source of Peijiang, was formerly an Eastern Sea dragon girl. She liked writing and ink since she was a child, but because the aquatic spirit belongs to Flood Dragon, he was born unable to “carry words”, so She often led the maid of the Dragon Palace, transformed into a lady of the mortal world, traveled by boat through Tonghai Peijiang, and asked the borrowing scholars to help copy the content of the book, and treasure it in the Dragon Palace Boudoir Book Building, so as to show off with her peers. Unexpectedly, it provokes the coveted beauty of a land mountain monarch, and ordered the interception at the entrance of the sea, let the mountain’s subordinate Qinghonghongjun take the lead, overturn the dragon boat, after the mountain monarch succeeded, a golden house to keep one’s mistress, Jianglong The female was imprisoned in the boundary of the source of Peijiang and built a palace for her. Every time the dragon girl cried, Peijiang would cause floods. The monarch had to allow her to look at the sea from the temple where Peijiang enters the sea every ten years. , A solution for homesickness…

Xiaomo toasted and drank the unique Yunwu tea from Pushan and Peijiang, and said with emotion: “Hateful mountain monarch, coveting beauty, abuse of public equipment, poor dragon girl, and hard to return home.” [19459002 ]

Chen Ping said with a smile: “Xiaomo, you can walk alone to the Qinghong Temple into Haikou. Anyway, it is only seven or eight hundred miles of waterway, and the truth is coming in a flash. What is the truth? I saw the two parties at the same time. Just ask it face to face.”

Xiao Mo said: “Wait for Young Master to finish talking with Pu Shan, then Xiao Mo will see if he has the opportunity to visit Qinghong Temple.”

Pei Qian said: “Different from Xiaomo Mister’s notes on the mountain, in fact, there is a different version of the legend on the mountain, saying that the dragon girl was originally to escape the marriage, and she was unwilling to leave Peijiang because she had already dealt with that. Since the Qinghong Jun has his heart, he asked the Shan Jun to act together. The Shan Jun pityed them for the poor couple, but as the Great Mountain Jun, it is inconvenient to cast aside all considerations for face with the Dragon Palace forces, plus the Qinghong Jun under his subordinates. The golden body Divine Idol is not good enough, and it is not right for the distinguished dragon girl gate. The dragon palace is powerful and pays attention to the bloodline. This marriage is absolutely not allowed, so I have to be a villain.”

Cao Qinglang nodded and said: “This statement is more reliable.”

Xiao Mo suddenly said: “In this way, the mountain monarch is respectable, and the dragon girl and the Qinghong monarch are gratifying. Although they do not have a husband and wife status, they are indeed inadequate, but it is far better than the distance. The two sides want the river to be separated forever.”

Chen Ping smiled and didn’t speak, just vomiting a cloud in a leisurely manner. If the millet grains are here, there must be more talk.

The Pushan Cloud Thatched Cottage that the entire group will visit, the martial arts lineage, which is similar to the Pure White Continent’s Leigong Temple, although it is famous for being a continent, it is a small boxing type that is extremely difficult for Innate to open its branches and leaves. The threshold High and strict, people who learn boxing want to reach a higher-level, and the skills are profound, which is not easy.

The Burning Incense of Pushan Yuncaotang is a bit similar to the half-descendant jungle of the Buddhist daoist sect. Yuncaotang has always been surnamed Ye, just like Yunku blessed land has been surnamed Jiang. Because of the contemporary Pushan Ye’s Patriarch, Ye Yunyun likes to wear yellow cloth, so she is nicknamed yellow cloth Yun.

Previously, on the Tree Leaf Continent mountain, ten people from the history of Martial Dao on a continent were selected.

There are only two people alive, except for Martial Saint Wu Tan, who wears a bamboo sword and a wooden gun, and Ye Yunyun, who likes to wear yellow cloth.

One man and one woman, two martial arts masters, there is no record of boxing so far, just like everyone minds their own business, each boxing in Banzhou.

It’s just that the former likes singlehanded to walk the rivers and lakes, coupled with the reputation of both praise and derogation, naturally not as good as yellow cloth Yun and Pushan in Tree Leaf Continent, echoing each other, the shadows gathered.

In private, the cultivator on the mountain actually complained against Wu Tan. The reason is that this martial arts Number One Person is neither a master nor a family. After a great battle, from beginning to end, he only gained fame in the mountains and rivers of Biezhou, punching fiercely, killing demons constantly, and watched the mountains and rivers of his hometown become ruins.

Pei Qian said softly: “Master, this Senior Ye, the last time I met at Huang Heji, it seemed that he was just an agitated bottleneck, and his foundation is also average. Even if he barely ranks among the ten, he should be ranked last. , At most eighth and ninth, it shouldn’t be sixth.”

There are many immortal masters on the Shanshui Mansion Newspaper, who are arguing for the yellow cloth Yun, and feel that this ranking is too low, so they should be ranked behind Wu Tan.

Pei Qian felt that this kind of thing was a trivial matter.

Chen Ping said with a smile: “If you add Ye Grandmaster’s Original Purity Realm cultivation base, it will be sixth, and the problem is not big.”

But if you just use martial arts to judge the competition, as Pei Qian said, the ranking of Martial Artist Ye Yunyun is hanging in the bottom.

This kind of thing, to put it awkwardly, is that today’s people will not speak when they bullied the ancients.

On the other hand, Wu Tan is ranked fourth, but it is not a big problem.

And the originator of Pushan Yuncaotang, the heaven blessed genius who created Pushan boxing with six immortal pictures, actually ranked fifth.

This End Boundary Martial Artist, Ye Yugu, ranks third in the Ye family’s ancestral hall that worships the gods and makes sacrifices in time, and is also revered as the unmoving ancestor.

This person once made a great reputation in Central Plains Divine Continent, and later got a very bold evaluation, “I was alone, two sixty years cycle punched three continents”.

The so-called Three Continents is my hometown Tree Leaf Sect, plus Aquarius Continent in the north and Entirely Reed Continent in the north. As for the Aquarius Continent at that time, it can only be counted by Lazhuang Ding.

In Chen Ping’s view, if nothing else, Ye Yugu had not yet reached the last level of End Boundary when he was at the martial arts Peak. It is estimated that because he could not break the bottleneck of the return to the true level, he had walked the world in exchange for aspiration. Ye Yugu, who has a great atmosphere, but has little effect. He had to switch to the Original Purity Realm and the Upper Five Realms as a cultivator. Ye Yugu can naturally have more lifespan. With a strong foundation, look for opportunities to make further progress on the way to learn Martial Dao.

It’s just that Ye Yunyun only wears yellow cloth, which reminds Chen Ping of Little Baoping.

I don’t know which expert and what premonition is involved in this yellow cloth Yun.

Chen Ping’s thoughts are far away. His own Sword Sect, Sword Sect, is not like upper sect Unrestrained Mountain. It has a “Sword Sect” suffix, but it seems that Cui Dongshan intends to make the lower sect. A huge monster, a sword cultivator, of course, must have it. This is the foundation of a sword dao sect that has been immovable for thousands of years, but there are more Qi Refiners of all kinds. This is the luxuriant branches that a Great Sect should have.

The larger sect mountain top has hundreds or even thousands of people at every turn, such as Righteous Sun Mountain. The Divine Order Sect of Aquarius Continent has a clear Pond Paradise of medium rank. The sect is registered in the dísciple, and even has as many as two thousand people. Some Great Sects of Central Plains Divine Continent, plus the lower sect and the hilltops of the vassal, can be as many as Tens of thousands of people, of course, all impossible are Qi Refiners, which are included in the immortal master family in the mountains, as well as the servant girls of the peaks, Immortal Mansion, handyman, etc.

Roughly divided into Ancestral Hall, Inner Sect, Outer Gate, the Imperial City, imperial city, outer city, and the surrounding vassal hills in the same capital, it is the land of Gyeonggi. If there is a lower sect, then Similar to the construction of a companion capital.

Few people in the mountains are like water without a source.

However, if Mountain Sect does not have several ingenious ways of inheritance, it is a tree without roots, and it can’t retain the monastic materials, and it’s also difficult to have a flourishing atmosphere.

Just like Chen Ping’s self-buried river water temple next to the monument for praying for rain, it is the most suitable for cultivation, and many big mountains in Grand Virtue World will have one or even several ancestral entry methods. 、Immortal Art can help dísciple to open up as soon as possible. After becoming a Qi Refiner, you can also enter the Cave Mansion Realm as soon as possible. The mountain is fast and the footsteps are steady. Such Immortal Family Secret Manual and Tao Jue are respectively known as “open door” and ” “Leading the Way” will directly determine the depth of an Immortal Family Sect, which can attract a large number of monastic embryos, and work hand in hand to break the boundary in the early stage of climbing.

And similar to praying for rain, it is a kind of mountainside Taoism, which can avoid the hidden danger of a sect that is not connected.

In fact, if Chen Ping is really going to do everything, there is an immediate way, and there is a shortcut.

Dragon Riding Alley, the white-haired boy who is still only “handyman dísciple”, inherited most of Wu Shuangjiang’s memories, except for some unspread secrets, which he kept, and was uniquely distinguished by Wu Shuangjiang. Secret Technique bans memory like a mountain, but in the “miscellaneous learning”, it is still very impressive, so the white-haired boy himself is like a half-year-old Taoist secret library, but Chen Ping is neither willing nor appropriate to open this mouth. .

The predecessor was the natural heavenly demon “箜篌” in addition to the female cultivator, who was just a guest at Unrestrained Mountain.

Whether it is Unrestrained Mountain or Qingping Sword Sect, there is a long way to go, and the future can be expected.

There is a woman at the side table, slightly frowned, waving her hand to disperse the smoke.

She has tolerated the man next to the table for a long time, and the smoke swayed in the wind, causing most of the tea fragrance on her side to be lost.

It’s just this kind of thing, she is always not suitable to talk more, just like drinking in the same restaurant, if anyone makes a loud noise, but it is also a loud voice at the wine table.

Chen Ping noticed the woman’s movement, and quickly put away the dry tobacco rod, and cast her apologetic sight.

The woman slightly smiled, nodded tribute.

She thought about it for a while, and then held a cup of straw in her hand as a gift.

After all, the cultivator on the mountain travels outside. It is very rare that the azure clothes customer is willing to show weakness like this.

According to some Shanshui Mansion newspapers that came to other continents, if it is in the North Entirely Reed Continent, if the other party does not shoot the table, it is considered polite to say “what are you looking at”.

So today’s Tree Leaf Continent cultivator, even if someone travels across continents, Southern Whirling Continent will be preferred, and they are never willing to take the initiative to go to the northern two continents.

I probably found that the azure clothes guest was as timid as a mouse, but it must not be the immortal master of those Great Immortal family origins.

Therefore, there was a table of tea guests not far away. A tall man with a powerful Confucius and Wu asked: “The little girl has a good tone. Who gives the qualifications to dare to rank these martial arts Grandmasters on the top of the mountain, Random finger-pointing?”

Really rich, who would choose this small broken ship to enjoy the scenery along the Peijiang River? This is not the case for my own entire group. It is the Yuwen Young Master who is of origin royal descendant and has a good track record. In order to understand the suffering of the people, it will be no problem to directly take out a talisman on the mountain and travel to Peijiang. As a servant, the man is also a Sixth Realm Martial Artist who is only half a step away from the title of Grandmaster, plus he is also an admirer of yellow cloth Yun, of course, he can’t stand a young woman talking nonsense over there.

With such a big tone, why don’t you go and fight with yellow cloth Yun Wen? Don’t say it’s Ye Shanzhu. You can’t even see it. It’s the dísciple of Xue Fuzi with her. If there is a questioning punch, when the time comes, don’t be beaten and cry.

Pei Qian said indifferently: “Teacher to succeed.”

There is a handsome pampered young master on that table, who seems to be the leader. He holds a folding fan close together, hangs a pocket and cute Peach Wood Sword fan pendant with golden silk thread, and asks with a smile: “Dare to ask the girl’s last name.” You are so famous, who are you from whom?”

Pei Qian said: “The rivers and lakes meet by chance, strangers coming together by chance, why ask for names.”

The man who was the first to speak, could not understand the old-fashioned language of a little girl, and the teacup knocked the table heavily, saying with a smile: “Who borrowed your courage to dare to talk to Yuwen Young Master like this?”

Pei Qian squinted the man, laughed and said: “Fists and feet.”

The man laughed irritably, and said angrily: “Who taught such a prickly lady?!”

Chen Ping said with a smile: “I.”

Previously, Chen Ping made a crappy excuse at his own Ye Yundu, which was just under the name of Lingbi Mountain, saying that he had caught something and changed his mind to start. Turning back alone, using the cloud and water body, walked to the prison where Qi Refiner was used in Lingbi Mountain, and went to meet the guy who dared to wipe Pei Qian in the shop. He didn’t charge money, and taught him a man who was away from home for free. The simple truth of “bad eyes always have to manage good hands”.

By the way, I asked about the origins of this group of people. They originally belonged to the old Great Xia Dynasty prince of the old Great Xia Dynasty, who was like them. They were worshipped by the Imperial Family who went out to make money. Each is also responsible for a secret mission, recruiting the immortal masters of the old immortal masters whose hilltops collapsed and displaced, as well as the Shanze rogue cultivator, and the green forest heroes who fell into the grass. Their own Imperial Court does not care about the origin at all, and the hero does not ask for the source. As long as you are willing to nod your head, take a trip to “Capital”, and then record files and household tribal registration in the Ministry of Rites, you can ascending to the skies with a single leap, and immediately become the worship master of the Great Xia Dynasty, eat royal food, and gain official status. living in ease and comfort.

Probably it was the immortal master who was traveling down the mountain. He had never seen such a chat. On the contrary, he found it interesting and not so annoyed.

all around Someone can’t help but laugh out loud.

Among them, the two women at different tables, Qiubo Yingying, full of affection, look at the same person by appointment.

The person they peeked at was Cao Qinglang.

What a handsome man, gentle and elegant, with a scholarly flavor.

As for the other two men at the same table, their appearance is not bad, especially the man with a hosta and azure clothes long coat…It’s a pity that they are a bit older.

The pampered young master surnamed Yuwen, holding a folding fan in his hand, and cup one fist in the other hand with both hands, said with a smile: “No words, don’t mind.”

Chen Ping raised the teacup to the table, indicating that it would be OK.

The cruise ship is near a dock.

Since the boxing is in Pushan, the Martial Artist of the foreign town, the boxing must be famous, of course, it is also only in Pushan.

There is a water ring next to the dock, and a large Yin-Yang Fish picture is paved with black and white stone on the mountain, which is extremely strong.

There are just two long-established experts in the arena, both Golden Body Realm Martial Artists, who deserve the title of Grandmaster. The two sides met here to compete tonight.

A middle-aged Martial Artist with inferior skills was hit in the chest by an old man fiercely with a two-handed cannon. By coincidence, the man who flew out, hit his back directly on a passing color boat. The old man’s fist is extremely heavy, momentum is big, power is deep, and the man can’t let all his strength go. A boat was hit and left the water instantly, flipping several times out of thin air. Tourists on the boat and dumplings usually fall into the water.

There is no need for the Master to speak, and Pei Qian’s figure is no longer visible at the table. She puts her single palm on the big ship about to fall into the river and gently pushes it to stabilize it on the surface of the river.

Those who fell into the water in the Peijiang River were dragged by one after another fist, and they were brought back to the boat one after another like being dragged by their collars.

Pei Qian pressed it under his palm again to break up the turbulent waves that were swept by his fists, so as not to affect his cruise ship.

Returning to the cruise ship, before taking a seat, I saw the two Martial Artists, one stepping on the river surface, the other on the shore ring, cup one fist in the other hand with myself far away. Thank you, the middle-aged Martial Artist who stepped on the water and stopped. With a sincere look, he invited Pei Qian to come ashore for a while. Pei Qian was just a cup one fist in the other hand, so he declined.

The immortal master began to fidget, especially the man who had a “chatter” with Pei Qian. Until this moment, I really understand what is meant by teacher, fist, and strangers coming together by chance. Don’t ask Name.

This little girl turned out to be a Martial Dao Grandmaster from Distant Roaming Realm? !

Chen Ping and that table of immortal master played said with a smile: “no effort at all, don’t give it to your heart.”

The pampered young master surnamed Yuwen was a bit awkward and relieved.

Just say that the two women who were in love with Cao Qinglang at first sight, then look at the azure clothed man who is not the hostess, it seems that they are not too old.

It is a pity that in the Pushan area, any immortal master is forbidden to open the illusion.

And Pushan Yuncaotang dísciple, cultivation in the mountains, must be focused and not distracted, and will ban all kinds of landscape residences.

Therefore, the previous ban on the Tianxia Dibao in the Confucian Temple had almost no effect on the Pushan dísciple. Only the dísciple who had gone down the mountain would feel that it has several points of regret.

The family rules are heavy and the doorway is strict, both inside and outside Pushan dare not violate the restrictions.

Chen Ping landed at a dock, and there is still twenty li or so mountain roads to go away from the Mountain Sect of Yuncaotang in Pushan.

And that Pushan itself is actually not a big mountain, the scale of the mountain may not be as large as the mountain of the crown prince of a small country.

In fact, the group of people led by Yuwen Young Master should have disembarked here, carrying a secret letter from the emperor’s imperial pen to discuss important matters with the Master Xue in Yuncaotang.

It’s just that the young pampered young master hesitated for a while, still planning to disembark at a dock ferry and take a detour to see more scenery.

Xiao Mo carried a bamboo box on his back, holding a trekking stick, lightly tapping the green bamboo stick, and asked with a smile: “Young Master, Yun Caotang, such as Immortal Technique, martial arts and Sect, are rare, right?” [ 19459002]

Chen Ping smiled and pointed to Pei Qian, “You have to ask her, Pei Qian has walked through the continent more and more knowledge.”

Pei Qian is a little embarrassed. There are so many continents that he has walked through. He just walks along the way, absent-minded, and has to be halved, but if the Master is not, it is doubled.

I made a half-price discount and Master doubled it, but it was a big difference.

Just seeing Xiaomo waiting for his answer, Pei Qian had to say: “The number of cultivation paths of the Yuncaotang dísciple is not very common in Grand Virtue World. However, if Pushan dísciple succeeds in Core Formation, it may become Golden Body Realm Martial Artist, unless you are a first-class genius and get permission from Ancestral Hall, you can continue to walk two paths at the same time. In addition, you need to choose one of the two, you can only focus on Qi Refining or martial arts. Central Plains Divine Continent, there is a sect, there are not many people on the hill, Ancestral Hall sword cultivator without exception, will be a talisman cultivator. In the history of Golden Armor Continent, there is also a sect, similar to Pu Shan, but it also appears a pill concocting ability It’s just that Mountain Sect was defeated by the Wild Monster Race, and now there are less than ten dísciples left. There is only one earth fairy. Their Sect Founder and teachers are all killed in battle. They don’t even have a Daoist, they think It is very difficult to restore the old glory of sect.”

Pei Qian once fought side by side with them on several battlefields in Golden Armor Continent from south to north.

She also rescued the young land fairy who had the ambition to die.

Chen Ping explained: “This is because there are many piles of Pushan boxing, which are very ingenious and have a long history. They are derived from the six’the immortal pictures’ passed down by Pushan ancestors, and they are named as waterfall watching pictures. The martial arts of Yuncaotang has been inherited from generation to generation, coupled with the continuous improvement and supplementation of the mountain masters and Sect Founder of the past. Finally, with six immortal pictures, More than 60 piles and boxing moves were derived, and then there is the saying that “stakes come from the picture, punches go to the picture”.”

Such a Sect, as Pei Qian said, looking at the entire Grand Virtue World is not too much. Although the cultivator walks on two roads and is tenacious, the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages, but the disadvantages are not small, such as not far away. This cloud-covered Pushan mountain has a higher level of skill, but it has not yet been able to become an Immortal Family. In fact, there have been two opportunities in Pushan’s history. One was Sect Founder Ye Yugu. After entering the Original Purity Realm, going down the mountain to visit friends after exiting customs, I have to go to reminisce with Xun Yuan, my best friend of Jade Tablet Sect.

It’s a pity that this trip down the mountain came out of a catastrophic disaster. I don’t know why, he was tricked by an expert, but Ye Yugu was seriously injured and returned, but he died and didn’t say who it was. Even with Ancestral Hall and the dísciple. , It seems to not mention a word. This is another unsolved case on the mountain that has been puzzled for thousands of years.

Until now, Tree Leaf Continent has started to turn over the old accounts. It is so popular that it has noses and eyes, as if you have seen it with your own eyes. It is said that Tree Leaf Sect is the ancestor of ZTE, who has a narrow reputation. Yugu joined the Immortal Realm, and with an End Boundary boxing technique, a Pushan who had been in the mountains for less than a hundred years, might be able to directly wrestle with Tree Leaf Sect. Therefore, Du Mao personally went out and intercepted the dead hand secretly, and finally made Ye Yugu fall into a terrible state. Within a few years of returning to Pushan, he was seriously injured and died.

Another opportunity was Ye Yunyun, besides Martial Dao End Boundary, she was also a relatively unremarkable Original Purity Realm cultivator, but was delayed by that battle, and Ye Yunyun was on the list of Upper Five Realms. , I just raised a mouth casually in Pushan Ancestral Hall, and members of Ancestral Hall are not allowed to disclose the matter. Now I don’t want to report the matter to Great Fu Academy. Obviously, at least in the near future, Pushan has not taken advantage of the situation. Plan.

It seems that Pu Shan is always a little bit so funny when it comes to sect, God’s will.

God is not beautiful?

Like compensation, the seventh fairy picture that Ye Yunyun got recently is extremely precious and invaluable.

Chen Ping listened to Jiang Shangzhen emphatically mentioned, it is a picture of a wall, the rank is higher than the ancestral six pictures.

And before leaving Grand Virtue World, the chief of the week also left a letter on Unrestrained Mountain mentioning this.

According to Jiang Shangzhen’s letter, the origin of this picture is extremely unusual. It depicts a monk wearing a robe on the back, but wearing a Taoist crown, holding a jade wat, and facing a mural.

There are paintings in the painting, and on the mural there is a rubbing of Ancient Bronze Cauldron and thousands of ancient seal characters densely packed.

Pei Qian suddenly said with a smile: “Master, since Huang Ting’s elder sister has returned to her hometown, when shall we find her?”

She still has a very good impression of the elder sister. The face is cold and warm, which is very different from Sui Youbian anyway.

Chen Ping said: “When the time comes, we first go back to Xiandu Mountain, and then go to the small dragon Qiu together.”

Walking on a secluded road leading to Pushan Mountain Sect.

Chen Ping couldn’t help taking out the dry tobacco stem again, squinting to think about things.

Why Pushan was able to escape the ruined mountains and rivers of Lu Chen on a continent, this is actually a very intriguing thing.

On the mountain, from Supporting Divination Sect to Mount Taiping, even if it is the Jade Tablet Sect, although the ancestral business will not be cut off from Burning Incense, there are not a few living people left in an Ancestral Hall. Until now, every time we discuss matters , Half of the seats are still empty.

At the foot of the mountain, only one guarded the national blessing and continued the Great Quan Dynasty. The frontier soldiers died in countless battles, but they could only retreat step by step, and finally barely died Shouyi in Mirage City without losing.

Only Pushan, seems to have just fought a few painless mountain battles, loud thunder, but only tiny drops of rain, a few military tents, great demon, watched from a distance, somehow, there was a tacit understanding , Did not really make a move against Pushan.

Otherwise, Ye Yunyun would not have thought of going to the Great Quan Dynasty to fight.

According to Cui Dongshan, it was Wen Haizhou who had high hopes for this humble Pushan.

Chen Ping is clear at one point, involving the pure Martial Artist’s broken head and the reopening of Divine Dao in the world.

但是如今的Tree Leaf Continent cultivator ，对此都有意无意忽略了此事，只当是蒲山云草堂叶氏祖荫庇护，flood of good fortune fills the heavens 。

临近Mountain Sect ，Chen Ping 才收起旱烟杆。

这玩意儿，还是不太习惯，呛人，更呛自己，好像比喝酒更难。

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small dragon 湫Ancestral Mountain ，龙眠山，Ancestral Hall 所在山顶，又名心意尖。

有一位身为外来户的女冠，在此结茅cultivation 。问剑过后，她还不走。

将一把ancient sword 钉入山顶大地，好像如此一来，山顶就算成了她的地盘。

只是哪怕是small dragon 湫cultivator ，也不得不承认，女子问剑之姿，风神潇洒。

亏得small dragon 湫已经尽量封锁消息，再加上如今Tree Leaf Continent 就没几个成气候的Immortal Family Sect ，山上邸报数量不多，不然这要是传出去，会被外人笑掉大牙的。

不同Yu Haoran 别洲，Tree Leaf Continent 是出了名的闭塞，就像个暮气沉沉却居功自大的Old Antique 。

所以出了个姜尚真，才会变得那么热闹。

Supporting Divination Sect 和Mount Taiping ，两座so great a sect ，如今都只剩下一人，好似独苗。

女冠黄庭，此刻站在崖畔，双手拄剑，抬头望月。

她是在五彩天下跻身的Original Purity Realm 。在那边运气不错，机缘连连，不过这种天降Good Fortune ，对她来说，自幼就习以为常了。

反正小时候就有个路过Mount Taiping 的云游expert ，说她是吉人天相了。

之前一剑劈开Mountain Protecting Great Array 的山水禁制，再一剑重伤small dragon 湫山主，最后一剑将Ancestral Hall divided into two 。

她仗剑悬空，与瞠目结舌的一山cultivator ，只撂下两句话。

“之后谁来接剑，小心死人。”

“不过谁要是能接下三剑，你家的Ancestral Hall ，我出钱来修。”

当然无人胆敢接剑。

这位Mount Taiping 女冠，黄庭。是昔年Tree Leaf Continent 最富有Legendary 色彩的female cultivator 之一。

Jade Tablet Sect 姜尚真的dogshit luck ，Mount Taiping 黄庭的Good Fortune ，并称一洲双璧。

黄庭此次突如其来的重返家乡，让整座small dragon 湫大出所料，因为当初Tree Leaf Continent 大门开启，通往那座崭新天下避难，儒家文庙当时订立了一个百年期限，之后才会按时开门，

所以黄庭的突兀现身，才会让small dragon 湫completely unprepared ，其实之前有个外乡人走了趟Mount Taiping 遗址，就已经让small dragon 湫察觉到苗头不对，等到黄庭现身问剑，就彻底了死心了。

如今Ancestral Hall 议事，不是想着赶人，而是商量着如何跟一人即sect 的那位女冠sword cultivator ，如何赔罪，才愿意搬出Ancestral Hall ，哪怕不离开心意尖，挪个地方也好。

small dragon 湫如今真正Steward 的那位Nascent Soul Cultivator ，他原本打算新官上任三把火，帮助师门占据Mount Taiping 遗址，收拢那些残余Dao Rhyme ，再加上自己的某件Life Source 物，试图重新炼出一把明月镜，in public or in private ，都是一桩Great Dao 裨益，这可比打造一座供人游览的“野园”更实在。

黄庭环顾all around ，small dragon 湫all around ，是水乡泽国，而护山供奉分左右，是一头并非搬山之属的罕见摘月猿，和一头大鼋。

此外山水辖境中，又有一尾成精的巨青和一头大鲶，并无Imperial Court 封正，自封了什么旒河Great Saint 和潢水大王。只是听说在那场大战期间，都跑了，大战落幕，又都回了。

只是small dragon 湫也没有与这两位水伯计较什么。约莫是觉得两位Golden Core ，don’t let one’s own fertile water flow into others’ field ，当个摆设也好。

small dragon 湫的Suppressing Mountain 之宝，是一枚谷雨bottle gourd 。

挨了她一剑的女子山主，Dao Name 清霜上人。

只不过如今真正Steward 的，却是她的Junior Brother ，志大才疏，temperament 不正。

道理很简单，一剑斩开山水禁制，正在闭关的清霜上人，不惜破关而出，接下了黄庭的second sword ，反观那位男子，好像更喜欢看戏，如今正在偷着乐呢。毕竟山主Senior Sister 如此一来，需要闭关修养更久了，没个forty-fifty 年一sixty years cycle 的，休想恢复原先realm 。此人有件Life Source 物，是一杆鱼竿，好像能够将一轮水中明月作鱼饵，与Dragon King Basket ，有异曲同工之妙。

如今only one 个敢靠近茅屋的small dragon 湫cultivator ，是个年轻female cultivator ，名为令狐蕉鱼，Dao Name 拂暑。

山中cultivator 的Dao Name ，就像山下男子及冠的那个字，Qi Refiner 不是随便就能拥有的，得是跻身Middle Five Realms 的Cave Mansion Realm 才行。

爹娘都是small dragon 湫cultivator ，是一双山中Dao Companion ，little girl 作为独女，自然宠爱万分，只是他们都在山外战死了，原本可以不用死的，听说是外边有故友，必须相救，可能在很多人眼中，甚至是在small dragon 湫自家cultivator 眼中，这是自己courting death ，简直可笑至极。但是黄庭半点不觉得可笑。

所以才会让那个叫令狐蕉鱼的little girl 来这边“作客”。

little girl 腰悬一只碧螺，是喊山之流的法宝，有点类似驱山铎，不过只能做成对mountain god 、土地“训山”之事，不如后者那般possess great magical power ，可以驱逐山岳、赶山入海。

这座small dragon 湫，好像跟山不太对付，比如山上有座煮stone platform ，山外还有条滚山江。

唯一Interesting 的地方，是古有两位the immortal ，曾在山中对弈，松下只留一局残棋，不知人间春去秋来。

黄庭去那边逛过，确实有点门道。

她转过头，看到了little girl 朝这边走来，等对方走近了，黄庭就走向茅屋，little girl 就跟着，极有默契。

茅屋内，唯有一床一凳，入冬后，再添了一只火盆，角落放着一袋子木炭，黄庭坐在床边，双脚踩在火盆边沿，身体前倾，手持火钳，拨弄炭火。

令狐蕉鱼蹲在一旁，伸手取暖。

黄庭说道：“有凳子不坐？”

令狐蕉鱼这才起身挪步，坐在那条长凳上，与黄庭围炉对坐。

黄庭随口说道：“令狐蕉鱼，又焦又糊的鱼？给你取了这么个名字，你爹娘怎么想的？”

令狐蕉鱼said with a smile ：“黄婷elder sister ，这里边是有门道的哦，当年mother 怀上我后，有天做梦，梦见一丛芭蕉绿荫下水潭幽幽，有条鱼儿，上浮游到岸边，鱼儿抬头与mother 对视，还说话了。爹娘都觉得是吉兆，就有了我这么个名字。”

如今山上，长辈和same sect ，都会刻意绕开她爹娘不说，当然是好心，怕她伤心。

可其实她不会多想的，甚至会觉得，

爹娘是那么好的人，为什么不说几句呢，肯定是高兴过于伤心的。

比如现在。

黄庭问道：“北边的Aquarius Continent ，有那大、small dragon 湫，跟你们有渊源吗？”

令狐蕉鱼一脸茫然，“啊？”

她是头一回听说Aquarius Continent 那边也有个small dragon 湫。

黄庭问道：“想不想跟我去Mount Taiping 修道？”

令狐蕉鱼想了想，摇摇头，怯生生道：“不了吧。”

黄庭也只是临时起意，随口一说，little girl 不愿意就算了，jokingly said ：“反正你不愁嫁。”

云窟blessed land 最新的花神山胭脂榜，眼前这个flat little girl ，刚好位列其中。

令狐蕉鱼有些难为情，抬头看了眼炭火光亮映照下的女冠elder sister ，对方可要比自己好看多了。

黄庭指了指墙壁上挂着的一把佩剑，said with a smile ：“跟你不一样，我是sword cultivator 。脸蛋漂不漂亮，可当不了饭吃。”

至于那把从五彩天下带回的佩剑，是她从一处Secret Realm 遗址中捡来的。

约莫是仙兵有灵，算是自动recognizing Master ，亮起a sword light ，就直奔她而来，她当时只是跟在一大帮immortal master 后头看热闹，

见那些Middle Five Realms Divine Immortal 们又是布阵，又是啥的，忙忙碌碌很辛苦，而她就是无聊散心，那会儿的五彩天下，一个Golden Core 地仙，就敢establishing the sect 了。

此外黄庭在那边，还收了个little girl 当disciple ，好像是个在五彩天下诞生的“本土”child 。

只是这次没一起带回来，把child 交给Ascend City 照顾了，毕竟在那座五彩天下，其实也有一座山头，立碑篆刻Mount Taiping 三字。

方圆千里之内，cultivator 莫入，否则就是与她问剑。

之所以能够破例离开五彩天下，是因为那个first under the heavens 人的Ning Yao ，unfathomable mystery 找到了她。

Ning Yao 当时身边还跟着个unearthly 的少女，手持绿竹杖，腰悬抄手砚，好像叫郭竹酒。

little girl 说话很有意思，自称是隐官大人的嫡传dísciple ，sword technique 一般般，拳法很结实。

Ning Yao 跟黄庭说了些Tree Leaf Continent Mount Taiping 的近况，说Chen Ping 在那边打乱了small dragon 湫企图占据旧址的谋划。

还说黄庭如果愿意重返家乡，帮忙郭竹酒在那条光阴长河中护道一程，作为感谢，文庙不会阻拦，此地Mount Taiping “lower sect ”，Ascend City 可以帮忙照看百年……

黄庭当时看着那个与自己好像打商量的背剑匣女子。

真是难为这位五彩天下的Number One Person 了。

当时郭竹酒loudly said ：“师娘珍重。”

然后少女压低嗓音道：“师娘，你放心，我到了Aquarius Continent 的Unrestrained Mountain ，要是发现有那些狐媚子，胆敢三番五次死皮赖脸纠缠Master ，呵，那就别怪我手下不留情了。”

little girl 做了个抹脖子的手势。

Ning Yao 摸了摸少女的脑袋，神色温柔，said with a smile ：“你那个Master ，fearing nothing in Heaven or Earth 的，最怕某事，刚好此事我最清楚。”

直到那一刻，黄庭才通过郭竹酒的先后三个称呼，惊讶发现一个真相，原来郭竹酒的Master ，就是Great Wall of Sword Qi 隐官，也就是Unrestrained Mountain Chen Ping 。

黄庭心知肚明，如果不是因为Chen Ping ，以Ning Yao 跟自己八竿子打不着的关系，没必要在文庙那边白白浪费一份功德。

再看那Ning Yao 的脸色与眼神，黄庭就觉得很有意思，你是Ning Yao ，也会这般女子吗？

不过这可能就是女子，就是喜欢吧。愿意为了某个人，变得不那么像自己。

令狐蕉鱼低着头，怯生生道：“黄庭elder sister ，Ancestral Master 让我与你问句话，我不敢拒绝，也不敢与你说。”

黄庭忍俊不禁，想了想，说道：“没事，你就跟他说，我在这边哪天待烦了，自会离开。”

令狐蕉鱼使劲nodded 。

既然有了个答复，那就无事一身轻了。

瞥了眼单纯的little girl ，黄庭sighed ，破例重复询问一句，“真不随我cultivation ？”

令狐蕉鱼轻轻摇头，弯下腰，使劲盯着炉子里边的炭火，小声道：“每年都要给爹娘上坟的。去了Mount Taiping cultivation ，就做不成了。”

黄庭nodded ，un’ed 。

Mount Taiping ，如今只余自己一人。

身在在哪里，Mount Taiping 就在哪里。

身在异乡，只觉孤单。

返回家乡，反而孤独。

Tree Leaf Continent 中部一个刚刚恢复national blessing 的小国，在柳州一处治所在县城，大战过去这么些年，如今终于恢复几分生气了。

夜宵摊子，一位书生和个fatty 坐一桌，各自吃着一碗滚烫的螺蛳粉。

其实一路走来，从秋天走入冬季，两人，properly speaking 是两鬼，他们也曾在山下见过那溪水磨坊旁，过河的运粮车队，盘车滚滚，old man 肩挑长杆，挂着一只野鸡。

民以食为天，Old Ox 在身边。田家占气候，共说此丰年。

这会儿夜宵摊桌上，其实两只碗不算小，只是相较于Emerald Jade Floating Palace 的那种碗，就显得尤其小巧了。

fatty 一边吃一边摇头，“这肉桂，差点意思。酸笋也没有用那春笋里边的黄泥尖，至于泡山椒就更不提了，还不如之前做客的埋河水府。”

书生拿筷子轻轻敲了敲桌面，“差不多就可以了，五文钱一大碗的螺蛳粉，够价廉物美了，你还想怎样？”

关键是这个fatty 碎嘴得像个婆姨，已经差不多是两大碗下肚了，而且看架势，还能再来一碗。

给自己取了个化名“姑苏”的fatty ，突然停下筷子，lifts the head ，伸手抹了把嘴，再往桌子底板抹了抹，“一直憋着不说，也就只好憋着不问，都憋得我hovered between life and death 了，先前那趟渡水，你咋个回事？是瞧见谁了？还是给你逮住一条漏网大鱼了？明摆着是好事，又不是那俏婆姨，有啥不可以分享的，独乐乐不如众乐乐。”

钟魁抬起手，打算结账。

fatty 急眼了，嚷嚷道：“干嘛，牙缝都没填满，我还要再来一碗的。”

钟魁没搭理他，不过掏钱的时候，直接给了四碗螺蛳粉的铜钱。

fatty 打了个饱嗝，还算有点眼力劲，要是搁以往，可以升官。

钟魁袖手而坐，由着眼前这个fatty 吃第二碗螺蛳粉。

这家伙也真是个少有的，传闻年少时嗜赌如命，neglect sleep and forget about food ，游手好闲，不事操行，在这个fatty 篡位立国之前，曾经亲手拿棋盘砸死过人，也曾在大街上，被个不知他身份的女子，当面打耳光却不还手。

既能说些酸文，说那金鞭美少年，去跃青骢马，当时春衫薄，杏花吹满头。

就像这会儿，也能说那人饿极了，再一干活，吃饭就香，吃饱喝足，沾枕头就睡。睡觉就能踏实，别说不会再去惦念白天瞧见的大姑娘，就连皇Imperial Capital 不怯了，哪还有闲工夫去想那些有的没的。

钟魁轻声道：“穷治百病，是一个很苦的说法。”

that fatty 卷了一大筷子螺蛳粉，闻起来是臭，吃起来贼香，撇撇嘴，“再苦又能如何，不还是得乖乖认命，水有源树有根，山有the whole sequence of events ，人有birth, aging, sickness and death ，既然是God 订立的规矩，咱们不低头也得低头。再说了，我可不是你们scholar ，不讲究什么哀哉between Heaven and Earth ，生民常苦辛。退一万步说，我后世的名声再差，可是在当年，我还当皇帝坐Dragon Throne 那会儿，自家老百姓伸长脖子让别国cultivator 砍，你看他们敢砍吗？所以要我说啊，如今北边的那个Great Li Dynasty Song Clan ，至多也就算是我当年早早做成的realm 了。”

钟魁said with a smile ：“这种豪言壮语，不如先余着。”

姑苏咧嘴一笑，“当那人面又如何，老子照说不误。”

其实双方原本早就该去往Great Fu Academy 了，之所以改变路线，一路绕水再绕山，晃荡到此地，还能如何，还不是钟魁大爷主意多。

姑苏可没有算卦的ability ，不晓得钟魁到底想什么，以前自己还当官没穿dragon robe 的时候，那个比自己还temperamental 的前Imperial Emperor ，时不时就会拉个算命Mister 过来，让他们给自己算命，何时会死。算卦Mister 们的下场，可想而知。

Great Fu Academy ，是旧址重建。而书院新任山长，来自Great Li Dynasty 的Forest Deer Academy ，程龙舟，并且是那条Yellow Court Country 万年水蛟的Monster Race 真名。

等到fatty 吃完，钟魁带他去往一座县City God Temple ，government office 崭新，而且是位新任县City God 爷。

姑苏问道：“钟brother ，怎么不直接去州City God 那边？实在不行，咱哥俩去郡City God 抖搂威风也成呐。”

因为同时是州、府治所在，故而Provincial Governor government office 、府衙与县衙皆同在一城，而且还是两个附郭县在一城的格局，也好，可以算是一双难兄难弟了，按照官场上的门道，这就叫三生不幸知县附郭，三生作恶附郭省城。与附郭County Magistrate 相似，一地City God 爷也是差不多的处境，甚至当起官来还要更难些。

先前白天在城内闲逛了一圈，他们打听到了些little daoist 消息，据说这边的两个附郭县，这两年都在争那个“首县”头衔。

附郭县间的排序，generally speaking 是以历史长短来排序的，但是例如“上元”、“仁和”这种嘉名的县，似乎会优先。

如今钟魁transcendent position ，类似稗官野史里边，那种帮着His Majesty The Emperor “巡行天下，抚军按民”的钦差大臣。

哪怕钟魁其实暂时还没有个正儿八经的酆都官身，但是就像演义小说里边写得差不多，手持Imperial’s Sword ，可以先斩后奏。所以比起地方上的封疆大臣，权柄更大，因为钟魁完全可以便宜行事。

钟魁站在门口，不着急登门入内，突然说道：“先前我收到了一封密信。”

姑苏双手使劲揉着脸，“咋的，你那个朋友，除了打断仙簪城，又做成啥出格事啦？来，不妨说说看，看能不能吓死我。”

钟魁以心声said with a smile ：“没什么，就是有人抢走了半条曳落河，再一举搬空了托月山，斩杀一头Ascension Realm great demon ，联手迁徙明月皓彩去往Azure Nether World 。”

姑苏laughed 道：“我还以为多major event 儿呢，也就那样。”

fatty 擦了擦额头，还好，没有汗水。

“钟兄的朋友，就是我的朋友了，既然都是朋友，那还谈什么realm 呢，要我说啊，你那朋友，越看越俊俏，男人就得这样，乍一看，不如何，却能让旁人越看越精彩。”

姑苏高高竖起大拇指，“钟魁，你交朋友，还是很可以的，在这件事上，我确实不如你，得给你竖个诚心实意的大拇指。”

见钟魁faint smile ，fatty 用大拇指蹭了蹭脸庞，“他这相貌，在我年轻那会儿，都得让他三分！”

这个fatty ，明摆着开始亡羊补牢了。

之前还觉得年轻隐官，能够拐骗那Ning Yao 当Dao Companion ，就是个定然擅长花言巧语的大猪蹄子，是个肠胃不好、吃不得粗粮的主儿。

结果一听说蛮荒腹地那边的这几桩天大变故。

姑苏再联系钟魁与那great demon 乌啼的那场对话内容。 fatty 用屁股想，都知道是谁做出来的一连串勾当了。

哪怕不是Chen Ping 的亲自递剑，可好歹是这位年轻隐官带头领衔，功劳大了去，所以立即见风转舵，“这等千年不遇的豪杰，回头must 帮我引荐引荐，别说称兄道弟了，就算喊他一声哥，我不亏心。”

钟魁said with a smile ：“马上就能见面了。”

回望一眼街道，钟魁突然临时改变注意，said with a smile ：“找个地方喝酒去。”

fatty 拍胸脯道：“老规矩，我结账！”

钟魁looked towards fatty 。

fatty 悻悻然道：“新规矩，以后一律我结账，事先说好，喝花酒除外啊。”

不然按照他姑苏大爷的一贯宗旨，做人不贪大方二字，当鬼莫贪豪爽二字。

钟魁笑问道：“听说你一直珍藏着玉版十三行？”

fatty 转头fiercely 呸了一声，“哪个史官猪油蒙心了，泼我脏水坏我名声！”

钟魁patted fatty 的肩膀，“没有的话，我劝你就别见我那个朋友了，悠着点，他这个人很记仇的。”

一旁fatty 眼珠子急转，开始权衡利弊。

钟魁走向一处路边酒肆，落座后，就开始默默喝酒。

聪明人愿意做傻事，好人可以做成壮举。

何为侠客，就是in the bones 流淌着一条江湖。

今宵爽快，有客有酒，趁一天风清月白。

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夜幕沉沉，到了蒲山云草堂的Mountain Sect 口，Chen Ping 与两位门房cultivator 自报身份。

不过比起上次，多了个仙都山的身份。

门房这边显然被打过招呼了，只听说过“曹沫”，便让曹immortal master 稍候，立即以一只折纸而成的青鸟符传递此事。

小陌打量了一眼，有点眼熟。这一道蒲山秘传的传信talisman ，女子骑乘青鸟状。

很快就有两人赶来Mountain Sect 这边，迎接Chen Ping 这一行贵客。

薛怀，Distant Roaming Realm Martial Artist ，这位老者相貌清癯，气态儒雅，头戴纶巾，飘然出尘有古意。

所以虽是martial arts Grandmaster ，却在山外一直被敬称为薛夫子。

薛怀身边跟随一位divine poise and sagelike features 的老Nascent Soul Cultivator ，手捧拂尘。

上次为人护道，薛怀在游历云窟blessed land 的黄鹤矶时，就已经与曹沫和郑钱打过照面。

作为叶芸芸的嫡传dísciple 之一，薛怀与那个Golden Peak Temple 的首席供奉芦鹰，同为一大帮youngster 的护Daoist 。

Master 叶芸芸当时本想与曹沫问拳，那个曹沫却自称是Junior ，并且婉拒了问拳一事。

听Master 事后说，那个姜尚真说好友曹沫此人，接连拒绝了三次。

可既然对方是郑钱的Master ，薛怀倒不至于觉得是曹沫如何deliberately mystifying 了。

别说是对方亲手教出的一位高徒，能够在Golden Armor Continent 和Aquarius Continent 两处战场slaughter all sides ，杀妖无数，救人亦多，何况这位dísciple ，还有那与大端曹慈问拳四场的壮举，就算是薛怀自己，哪怕是个Distant Roaming Realm Martial Artist ，也不觉得自己能够做出别人一个dísciple 的类似事迹，只说与曹慈问拳一事，估计曹慈simply 不乐意出手吧。

薛怀在方才覆地远游的下山途中，其实第一眼就看到了Cao Qinglang ，还有那个手持行山杖的小陌。

薛怀cup one fist in the other hand 歉意道：“曹immortal master ，我Master 与一位朋友出门游历了，不在山上，只是离着不算太远，Ancestral Hall 已经Flying Sword 传信，至多一个时辰，就可以返回蒲山。”

一旁Nascent Soul 老immortal master 打了个拂尘，稽首致礼，毕恭毕敬道：“檀溶，ancient wood 檀，水盛溶。如今忝为蒲山掌律，拜见曹immortal master 。”

不是老immortal master 好说话，见人就给Great Classic of Rites ，事实上，在蒲山Ancestral Hall ，檀溶是出了名的不好说话，Patriarch 兼山主的yellow cloth 芸不Steward ，就由不得檀溶不立规矩当恶人了。

而且天下仙山、Sect 的掌律Sect Founder ，几乎就没几个是好脾气的。

实在是自家蒲山，与这位maintaining a young appearance 的曹immortal master ，结结实实欠了一份天大人情，之前Qinghu Palace 陆雍的一位嫡传daoist ，主动登门蒲山，送来了足足两炉子羽化丸，一颗Divine Immortal 钱都没收。

按照山主的说法，正是眼前这位曹immortal master ，帮忙蒲山与Qinghu Palace 牵线搭桥。

Chen Ping cup one fist in the other hand said with a smile ：“久闻檀掌律是山上的金石大家，珍藏印蜕千册印章万方，Junior 肯定要借此良机，逛一逛的檀掌律的千金万石斋。”

“不曾想曹immortal master 也有此好？”

檀溶脸上笑容更浓，需知这位老Nascent Soul ，生平最瘙痒处有二，一是在半百岁数，就已是蒲山Ancestral Hall 的“两金”嫡传，既是Golden Core Realm cultivator ，又是Golden Body Realm Martial Artist ，故而曾经亲手篆刻一对私人藏书印。再就檀溶这印谱印章的收藏极丰了。

檀溶领着这拨来自仙都山的客人，一同御风去往蒲山待客之处，位于邻近山巅Ancestral Hall 的崖外云海上。

只有款待贵客，云草堂才会拣选此地，白云深处有一棵绿意葱茏的参天古树，荫覆数亩，围以一圈white jade 栏杆。

云草堂dísciple ，无论男女，皆多才情，几乎人人精通琴棋书画，很大功劳，来源于此。

先前一路上与那位曹immortal master 相谈甚欢，起先还以为对方聊起金石一道，只是说些惠而不费拉近关系的客套话，不料双方越聊越投缘，说起某些知者寥寥的印蜕，对方臧否评语，往往一语中的，极有见地，绝不是上山前临时抱佛脚，看几本印谱书籍就能够说出来的行家话。

小陌就又想明白了一个道理，十八般武艺傍身，绝不会闲置，总有用到时。

Pei Qian 斜瞥一眼某人，好像是说我Master 会的，你会吗？怎么当的得意dísciple ？

Cao Qinglang 无可奈何，没来由有些怀念那个Junior Sister Guo 。

郭竹酒要是在这里，最头疼的，就该是Pei Qian 了。

每逢树上百花绽放，花开一朵，便有一位玲珑可爱的娇俏女子，现身其中，它们都是炼形成功的花卉草木精魅之属。

这等山上独一份的绝美Immortal Family 景致，颇为消耗Heaven and Earth Spirit Qi 不说，即便是檀溶和薛怀，也不是谁想见就能见到的。蒲山历代Patriarch ，对那些Little Brat 一向礼敬，不可随意打搅它们的清修。所以Little Brat 们脾气不小，经常消极怠工，一旦花开，躺那儿趴那儿completely motionless ，可就要闹笑话了。又不是没有过这样的尴尬局面，训又训不得，打骂更不舍得，还能如何，要知道上次两位贵客登门，可是Jade Tablet Sect 的老Sect Master 荀渊，领着新Sect Master 姜尚真，联袂拜访蒲山。

上次花开时，骂声无数，此起彼伏，甚至还有不少精魅，或叉腰或跳脚，朝那姜尚真吐口水。

那个吊儿郎当的新Sect Master ，便四处飞奔，双手捧起接那场“雨水”，还舔着张脸，连连道谢呢。

最后还撂下一句“好雨知时节，遇我乃发生。”

这般贵客，少来为妙。

所以这次掌律檀溶下山之前，专程来这边事先打过招呼，还得昧着良心说今天这拨贵客，其中那个曹沫，虽然顶着个Jade Tablet Sect 末等guest official 的身份，可他其实与那姜尚真半颗铜钱的关系都没有的。然后老掌律自己担心弄巧成拙，再郑重其事说了那两炉子Qinghu Palace Seated Oblivion Pill 的事情，以及那个“郑钱”的事迹，小精魅们便神色殷勤，早早就十分憧憬了。

白云如铺在天上的地衣，亮如白昼。

在作星象排列的十数White Jade Stone 凳旁，檀溶等客人们都已落座后，老immortal master 就从袖中取出一枚色如碧玉的青铜小磬，以手指轻敲三下，清越悠扬。

树上从高到低，次第花开，花中女子们或身姿曼妙，dancing lightly and gracefully ，或抚琴或吹笛，以古言古语传唱歌谣，她们身形长约一指，皆Divine Immortal 娥眉，作古鬟髻，衣衫烟霓，裙袖广长，香气环旋，景象旖旎且Immortal Qi 缥缈。

等到异象结束，Chen Ping 起身与那些栖居古树的仙真们cup one fist in the other hand 致谢，小陌三人当然是跟着起身。

其中有一袖珍女子，悬佩white jade 灵玺，头戴古朴太真冠，容眸流眄，神姿清发，她挪数步，站在花瓣旁边，问道：“曹immortal master ，听檀掌律说尊驾来自Jade Tablet Sect ？可认得那位战功彪炳的姜老Sect Master ？”

檀溶立即担心不已，只是这种事情，又不好以心声提醒曹沫什么。

Chen Ping 却早已心领神会，出门在外，尤其是在女子面前，谁说自家与姜尚真是朋友，傻不傻，故而without the slightest hesitation 摇头said with a smile ：“曹沫只是个rateless 的Jade Tablet Sect guest official ，哪里能够有幸认得姜老Sect Master ，absolutely 高攀不起的。”

我家Unrestrained Mountain ，只有周肥周首席，从无什么姜尚真。

那女子似乎将信将疑，最后只是tsk tsk 摇头道：“男人呦。”

她倒是没有继续多问什么。

蒲山的酒水，比云雾茶名气更大，在山上被誉为小百花酿。

只送不卖，蒲山又不缺钱。

光是蒲山之外七十余处山水租金，所以蒲山管钱的Sect Founder ，历来是最轻松的。先前一次Ancestral Hall 议事，商量大战过后，各地收取租金一事，叶芸芸关于此事，言简意赅，只给了两个字，算了。

叶芸芸一般不太参与具体庶务，挣钱花钱，都是当那arm-flinging shopkeeper ，可是她只要每次现身，历来是一言堂。

山主发话，也就不用讨论什么了，蒲山很快递话出去，不管是名山great mountain 还是江河湖泊，祠庙，只要是名正言顺的继任者，一律免租百年。

等着叶芸芸返回山头，檀溶再次与那曹immortal master 谢过两炉羽衣丸一事。

要不是那个管钱的Old Money Grubber ，如今在外奔波，忙碌购置几个新山头，不然此次曹immortal master 造访云草堂，就他那么没皮没脸的Old Guy ，估计都得鞠躬道谢才甘心，因为此人的几位嫡传dísciple ，就都各自分到了一颗羽衣丸，使得破境一事，要么更有把握，要么就是有了眉目。

Chen Ping 笑着说自己当初只是帮忙提了一嘴，说蒲山打算购买一炉Seated Oblivion Pill ，也没有想到Qinghu Palace 最后会送出，估计还是因为陆老Divine Immortal 他由衷认可蒲山的门风，不然最多就是买卖价格上有所实惠。

真相如何，檀溶和薛怀当然心知肚明，只是对方有意这么说，算是帮着蒲山抬轿子，终究是颜面有光的事情。

双方随口聊到了那个吴殳的开山Head Disciple ，Golden Body Realm Martial Artist 郭白箓。

薛怀对这个Junior ，不吝赞美，笃定郭白箓未来的Martial Dao 成就，会很高，一个二十岁的Golden Body Realm ，关键是年纪轻轻就拿过了两次最强二字，武运在身。

Chen Ping nodded 说了句，郭白箓肯定前途不可限量。

Pei Qian 正襟危坐，面无表情。

不管是纯粹Martial Artist ，还是山上cultivator ，如今都认可一事。

那就是以Great Origin Dynasty 的曹慈领衔，由他单独一人，带头走在最前方，在martial arts 道路上一骑绝尘。

此外曹慈的身后，比如眼前这个Aquarius Continent 的郑钱，Central Plains Divine Continent 的郁狷夫，以及类似Tree Leaf Continent 的郭白箓，这些在近二十年内得过“最强”二字的，算是最有real value 的younger generation ，毕竟是浩然、蛮荒两座天下的最强某境。

薛怀犹豫了一下，还是放弃了与郑钱切磋拳法的念头，终究是贵客，对方entire group 还没见着Master ，自己就跟人打一架，不合礼数。

再说了，本就是一场胜负无悬念的问拳。

薛怀还真不觉得自己能够在郑钱手底下走过二十招。

撑不撑得过十招？就得试试看才知道了。

闲话说尽，酒过三巡，山主还是没有赶回蒲山，比预期晚了，檀溶只好带着曹immortal master entire group 去往自家的千金万石斋。

一般客人，休想踏足此地，一方方珍爱藏印如豪杰白眼看天。书似美人，何必抛媚眼给blind 看。

当蒲山掌律言及那百Sword Immortal 印谱和皕Sword Immortal 印谱，自己暂时未能收录，遗憾不已。

只说已经与两条外乡跨洲渡船的Steward ，都one after another 打好招呼了，must 帮自己与Pure White Continent 那处山头重金购买，连同路费算在其中便是，反正价格多贵都没问题。

其中一位去过Upside Down Mountain 的渡船老Steward ，每每谈及那位Great Wall of Sword Qi 的年轻隐官，必会keep on saying “新任隐官”，从不称呼为什么“末代隐官”，渡船Steward 那叫一个眉眼飞扬，说自己虽然未能亲眼与新任隐官面对面商议，但是后来在Upside Down Mountain 的春幡斋，他落座的那张椅子，离着隐官那条宝座，可就只隔了两条椅子！与邵云岩、晏Sword Immortal 和纳兰焕彩几人议事结束后，他去摸过那条椅子的椅背，沾沾Immortal Qi ，檀掌律你别笑，当时我只是起身慢了些许，比不过那拨臭shameless 的同行，结果还得排队呢。

好一通唾沫四溅的言语，说得蒲山掌律didn’t know whether to cry or laugh ，Great Wall of Sword Qi ，当然知晓，只是更多消息，其实也就没什么了。

Tree Leaf Continent 历来不问天下事别洲事。

可毕竟是有求于人，檀溶当时就只能做个样子，nodded with a smile ，等到对方说别笑的时候，老掌律就只能真的板起脸不笑了。

最后老Steward 开始boasting 皮不打草稿了，说你要是早点讨要那两本印谱就好了，我与那位新任隐官打个商量，白送都有可能的。

檀溶当时还能如何，继续nodded 称是。

此刻老immortal master 却没有发现，除了身边那个神色自若的曹immortal master ，之外三位客人，都神色古怪起来。

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在蒲山地界的边缘，沛江源头的一处水神祠庙内，一处雅静厢房，有个yellow cloth 女子，正在跟两个朋友一起饮茶，正是那种从Aquarius Continent 那边远销本洲的老枞水仙，喝得她直皱眉头，已经用上了沛江头等泉水煮茶，结果还是这般滋味，到底是谁定的价格，掉钱眼里了吧。

屋内其余三位，皆是女子，其中一位，便是这处祠庙的东道主，被山上immortal master 俗称为“Eastern Sea 妇”的水神Empress ，姓寇名渲渠，如果不是yellow cloth 芸nodded 要喝这外乡岩茶，她还真不好意拿出来待客。

叶芸芸这次前来祠庙，是跟寇渲渠聊些走江的具体事宜，因为是沛江水神，没有在沛江走水的道理，毫无意义，所以叶芸芸先前与Great Quan Dynasty 那边谈妥了，选中了那条旧大渎龙宫所在的埋河，还是皇帝姚近之亲自出面聊的，很顺利。

那位埋河水神，Lord of Emerald Jade Floating Palace 柳柔，也很好商量，很快就回信一封Mirage City Imperial Palace ，就俩字，欢迎。

在叶芸芸对面，坐着个姿纤细的少女，粉霞红绶藕丝裙，披鹤氅。

她看着只是young girl 的容貌，却是Tree Leaf Continent 一个资历极老的Nascent Soul Realm 了。

正是White Dragon 洞的当代洞主，名叫许清渚，Dao Name 闰月。

美姿容，神情萧散，有林下风气。

许清渚自幼喜欢赤足行走，有那“终身无履袜”的古怪习惯。

而蒲山云草堂之所以会参加那场桃叶之盟，还是Golden Peak Temple 杜含灵建言，由她来当的说客，不过就只用一个理由，许清渚便说服了原本不愿意掺和此事的好友yellow cloth 芸。

Tree Leaf Continent 需要一个愿意出拳、且不计代价、不谈后果的End Boundary Martial Artist ，来震慑别洲cultivator 。

许清渚先前已经在蒲山做客，待了好一段时日，因为她很快就要闭关，破境一事，成败未知。

最后一个女子，年纪最小，cultivation 最低，她是叶芸芸的Junior ，叶氏子弟叶璇玑，这位年轻female cultivator 的家族Old Ancestor ，是叶芸芸的兄长，一直管着云草堂的财库。

叶璇玑只要是出门在外，都习惯身穿一件龙女湘裙法袍，腕戴一串明珠手钏。她抬起茶碗时，抬了抬手腕，瞥了眼珍爱手钏，偷偷一笑。

因为那位如今身为天下陆地水运之主的澹澹夫人，让渌水坑放出话来，府中再无虬珠，一颗都没剩下。故而这种明珠手钏，就算是已成绝唱了。故而如今在山上，手钏价格暴涨，比原价翻了两番都不止。可惜当年她掏光了腰包，再与same sect 借钱，也只买了三串pearl in the palm 钏。所以如今在蒲山当God of Wealth 的那位自家Old Ancestor ，再sorry 成天说她胡乱花钱了。

许清渚说道：“我需要马上要回山闭关，就无法在岸上为渲渠从旁护道了。”

寇渲渠举起酒碗，还是来自Aquarius Continent 的一只仿花神杯，said with a beautiful smile ：“哪敢让洞主护道，未来若是还能走渎，再来劳驾洞主。”

神色冷清的许清渚，也随之一笑，举起那只还算烧造精良的茶杯，“共勉。”

喝过了茶水，叶芸芸没让寇选渠同行，三人出了祠庙，在沛江源头的岸边散步。

许清渚摸了摸一旁叶璇玑的脑袋，笑问道：“璇玑，这次难得跟随山主出门，有没有偷买邸报？”

叶璇玑瞥了眼既是叶氏Patriarch 又是蒲山山主的yellow cloth 芸。

没敢说。

叶芸芸说道：“只要不将看过的山水邸报带回蒲山就可以了。”

叶璇玑这才打开了话匣子，与山主和闰月senior 说了好些北边Aquarius Continent 和北Entirely Reed Continent 的奇人趣事。

比如听说Aquarius Continent Northern Mountain Draping Clouds Mountain ，又要举办夜游宴了。

可惜自家Tree Leaf Continent 的山水邸报，消息太过滞后，况且很多山上事都是increasingly distort the truth ，不然就是照搬抄录Aquarius Continent 的邸报内容，故而是那二道甚至是三道贩子了，意思不大。比如直到现在，叶璇玑才知道那个北Entirely Reed Continent 骸骨滩的披麻宗竺泉，竟然早就卸任了Sect Master 一职。还有那在Central Plains 文庙议事期间，有个横空出世的不知名expert ，自称“嫩Daoist ”，道法无敌，术法Heavenspan 得一塌糊涂，竟然打得一位老飞升毫无还手之力，再有九True Immortal 馆的一位the immortal ，同样在那是非之地的鸳鸯渚，被一个来历不明的年轻Sword Immortal ，问剑一场，前者差点死翘翘。当然还有那个名叫Unrestrained Mountain 的不知名山头，一场观礼同洲sect Righteous Sun Mountain ，惹出了天大的动静，说是mountains bursting and ground splitting 都毫不夸张呢。

听到这场观礼，许清渚终于开口said with a smile ：“芸芸，巧了，那个年轻山主，好像名叫Chen Ping ，他与你是差不多的登山路数，既是cultivator ，还是martial arts Grandmaster 。”

叶芸芸显然也已经听说对方的名号，摇头道：“说是差不多，其实差很多，对方不单单是Qi Refiner ，还是sword cultivator ，更是一个跟Snow Wind Temple Great Sword Immortal Wei Jin 差不多，是四十来岁跻身的Original Purity Realm 。如果只是按照邸报上边的说法，我如果能够与之问拳一场，胜算不大。”

许清渚tsk tsk 两声，“这种话也就yellow cloth 芸说来不腰疼了。”

她继而有些神色幽怨，“constantly comparing oneself to others will only make one angry ，你出门一趟，就白得了两炉子羽衣丸，看我，在家中没挪步，就招惹了Great Quan Dynasty 的那位surnamed Yao 的府尹大人。”

叶芸芸言语一向直接，“这就叫屋大人少，多生精怪作祟。屋this lowly one 多，易生口舌是非。”

许清渚气得不轻，伸手拧了拧叶芸芸的胳膊。

叶芸芸不理会，只是眉宇间淡淡愁绪，仿佛忧虑比许清渚更多几分。

许清渚的嫡传dísciple 当中，有个昵称麟子的child ，名叫马麟士，这个Little Bastard 一趟出门游历，没少闯祸，先是在Great Quan Dynasty 的Mirage City ，跟个独臂cripple ，大闹一场，事后才知道竟然是Capital 府尹，Great Quan Dynasty 女帝的younger brother ，从Grade 1 的郡王。

之后又在Jiang Clan 云窟blessed land 那边，跟一拨人起了冲突，连累尤期被一个自称绰号“无敌小神拳”的child ，当场踹翻在地，而且看上去，还是那种毫无还手之力的碾压。一个cultivation 的，只差一步就是地仙的Dragon Gate Realm cultivator ，竟然给个练拳的child fiercely 教训了一顿。

但是White Dragon 洞这边，一场Ancestral Hall 议事过后，就再没有半点念头，要去刨根问底，跟谁兴师问罪。

一来她这个担任洞主多年的Ancestral Master ，嫌麻烦，何况是她如今处于即将闭关、试图破境的关键时刻，山上山外的红尘庶务，最好都别去沾碰。

再者White Dragon 洞更怕一个大麻烦越惹越大，为了面子，伤了里子，只会得不偿失。

无论是Great Quan Dynasty 的一位郡王兼Capital 府尹，还是云窟blessed land ，那个当时就站在叶芸芸身边的男子，一口一个“叶elder sister ”，何等轻佻放浪，竟然都没能让叶芸芸说什么，已经很能说明事情了。何况当时那拨child 身边，还有个deep and unmeasurable 的white clothed youth ，言语之中，完全没有将White Dragon 洞放在眼里。

那个不到十岁就跻身Cave Mansion Realm 的爱徒，于是就被她禁足了，在山中cultivation 瞧着挺老实一child ，不曾想一下山，就成了个惹事精。

并非叶芸芸故意往好友伤口上撒盐。

而是自家山头隐忧，确实比天大了。

一些个内幕，别说外人许清渚，就连叶璇玑这个丫头都不知晓。

比如那个郭白箓，一个天资极好、极其年轻的Golden Body Realm Martial Artist 。

在对方离开蒲山地界没多久，就遭遇了一场悄无声息的袭杀，极其凶险，只是被姜尚真从中作梗，郭白箓才堪堪躲过那场原本注定无迹可寻的无妄之灾。以姜尚真的realm 和手段，都未能将那个assassin 真正拿下，assassin 好像用了一道极其brilliant 的替死法。

之后Martial Saint 吴殳，得到蒲山云草堂的跨洲Flying Sword 传讯，便立即悄然返回一趟家乡Tree Leaf Continent 。

他原本打算与叶芸芸问拳一场。只是竟然被叶芸芸拒绝了，吴殳虽然倍感意外，却也没有勉强。

倒不是因为dísciple 郭白箓被sneak attack 一事，就要迁怒于蒲山，远远不至于，而是吴殳觉得自己刚好“顺路和顺便”。

归功于姜尚真的早早提醒，担心自己和吴殳都一并落入某个陷阱，叶芸芸才没有答应那场期待已久的吴殳问拳。

之后叶芸芸就开始秘密梳理那条脉络，一幅the immortal 面壁图，只见背影，不见画中人容貌。

颇has several points of “命时相背，非世所容”之感。

故而外界传闻，说蒲山云草堂的yellow cloth 芸，准备闭关，从此搁置martial arts ，潜心修道，想要捞个长生不朽的Ascension Realm ，还真不是什么捕风捉影的无稽之谈。

叶芸芸突然自言自语道：“以后蒲山不如就跟着解禁邸报？好像形势也由不得我们装聋作哑了。”

Tree Leaf Continent 终究再不是当年那个eyes high above the top 的Tree Leaf Continent 了。

当年的“除了Central Plains 皆是中下洲”，如今就成了个天大的笑话。

而且从今往后，注定会被其余八洲笑话百年千年。

以前在山下王朝，地方官遇到外出的Capital 吏部官员，有那见官大Level 3 的说法。

如今Tree Leaf Continent ，见到别洲cultivator ，尤其是Aquarius Continent ，好像差不多就是这样个处境，何其窝囊，何等憋屈。

叶芸芸转头说道：“闰月，预祝闭关成功。”

许清渚自嘲道：“即便侥幸跻身Upper Five Realms ，又能如何，矮人看戏何曾见，都是随人说短长。”

北边那个小小Aquarius Continent ，等到战事惨烈，Great Li Dynasty 竟然能够单凭一国之力，forcibly 阻滞蛮荒大军的脚步，以至于双方一直从Old Dragon City 打到中部大渎，一洲底蕴，真正As the water recedes, the rocks appear 后，才让外人惊骇发现竟是那般hidden dragons and crouching tigers 。

叶璇玑突然whispered ：“祖奶奶，邸报上说那位Unrestrained Mountain 陈Sword Immortal ，也是一袭azure clothes 头别玉簪的妆扮呢，而且那位年轻山主还有个Opening Mountain Disciple ，好像叫Pei Qian ，haha ，郑钱，挣钱，Pei Qian ，赔钱……”

叶芸芸said while staring ：“多读书，勤cultivation ，少说几句傻话。”

叶璇玑立即焉了，耷拉着脑袋，哦了一声。

叶芸芸抬起手，捻住一只青鸟talisman ，打开折纸看了眼内容，收起talisman 入袖，与好友说道：“闰月，山上来了客人，是与我一起回蒲山？”

许清渚said with a smile ：“算了，going on a scenic tour 得差不多了，我直接打道回府。”

叶芸芸想了想，“我送一section of the road 程，让璇玑先回山。”

叶璇玑得了Sect Founder 奶奶的那Dharma Dao Decree ，立即匆匆御风返回蒲山。

与许清渚御风北游，许清渚笑问道：“能不能问是谁，可以让你必须连夜赶去待客？”

叶芸芸said with a smile ：“就是那个能够让Qinghu Palace 送来两壶羽衣丸的外乡贵客，照理说，我其实应该在Mountain Sect 口迎接。”

许清渚神采奕奕，“我改主意了，与你一起回蒲山！那个曹immortal master 相貌如何，年纪多大，有无Dao Companion ？”

叶芸芸说道：“继续赶路。”

最后与许清渚在beyond a thousand li 作别，双方御风速度不快，毕竟此次这位White Dragon 洞主，是要闭Life and Death Trial 。

可即便如此，她依旧要比叶璇玑更早返回蒲山。

因为等到叶芸芸与好友道别，再放开手脚，换成End Boundary Martial Artist 覆地远游，一路fast as lightning ，天上有雷鸣声。

蒲山待客之地，换成了一座位于山巅崖畔的听云看雨亭。

Chen Ping 只让小陌在亭外一处white jade 广场赏景，Pei Qian 和Cao Qinglang 已经分别下榻Immortal Mansion 两座相邻宅邸。

Chen Ping 与这位yellow cloth 芸，有了一场开诚布公的谈心。

一番straight to the point 的言语，自报身份。

Unrestrained Mountain Chen Ping ，即将在Tree Leaf Continent 仙都山创建lower sect ，邀请Senior Ye 参加明年立春的sect 庆典。

而且姜尚真，正是Unrestrained Mountain 的首席供奉。

叶芸芸没有任何怀疑，难怪姜尚真上次在云窟blessed land ，跟眼前这个azure clothes 客如此亲近。

而“曹沫”又为何自称Junior ，因为只是一个才山下才算不惑之之年的youngster 啊。

她在震惊之余，更加坚定一事，不但需要解禁自家山头邸报，将来还要多与别家Immortal Mansion 购买几封邸报，那点Divine Immortal 钱，不可节俭。

以前是担心云草堂dísciple 会分心，如今各洲外乡newly arrived dragon ，明里暗里诸多作为，哪里由得将来的蒲山云草堂不分心？

叶芸芸神色肃穆，问道：“陈Sword Immortal 是想要靠着lower sect ，与Jade Tablet Sect 联手，好一南一北里应外合，在我们Tree Leaf Continent ……订立一个群雄俯首的山上规矩？”

Chen Ping 摇头道：“Unrestrained Mountain 不作此想，但是可能将来的某些行事，给外人的感觉，却是如此作为。至于姜尚真，他只是我们Unrestrained Mountain 的首席供奉，可是Unrestrained Mountain 与Jade Tablet Sect 却没有任何利益纠葛。”

叶芸芸slightly frowned ，倒不会觉得对方说了两句废话。

山上的傻子都看得出来，如今的Tree Leaf Continent ，商场如战场，就是个Military School of Thought 必争之地，不然那些跨洲渡船，来Tree Leaf Continent 作甚？只说那个驱山渡的Sword Immortal 许君，总不至于喜欢待在那处山顶每天喝西北风吧。

Chen Ping 继续说道：“我所谓的这个‘外人’，既说Tree Leaf Continent 本土cultivator ，也说来自我家乡那边的Aquarius Continent cultivator ，简单说来，仙都山之外，概不例外。”

叶芸芸掏出两壶自家酒酿，抛给对方一壶，自己仰头喝了口酒，手背擦了擦嘴角，问道：“如果陈Sword Immortal 真能言出必行，很容易里外不是人，最终落个两边都不讨好，那么陈Sword Immortal 图个什么，从不至于是天生就喜好主持公道吧？”

Chen Ping 说道：“lower sect 想要壮大，钱当然会挣，地盘当然会争，仙都山将来肯定还会四处寻找修道胚子，但是行事风格，会讲分寸，会与山上山下都讲道理，不会像那象棋，你吃我我吃你，或是相互兑子，到最后不管谁胜出，双方都是一局残棋了。”

叶芸芸笑问道：“所以更像是一盘围棋？除非被陈Sword Immortal 和仙都山屠了大龙，那么输者留在棋盘上的棋子，一样可以剩下颇多？”

手谈一事，yellow cloth 芸其实堪称当之无愧的山上国手，只是她与外人弈棋极少，而她的dísciple 薛怀，棋力之高，在山外号称一洲前十，可在她这个Master 这边，薛怀就从无赢过一局。

Chen Ping hearing this 不语，只是笑着举起酒壶，与叶芸芸各自饮酒。

叶芸芸喝过酒，果然是fair and reasonable character ，“劳烦陈Sword Immortal 给我句准话！”

Chen Ping nodded and said ：“就是如叶山主所说，而且我们lower sect 的第一Sect Master ，棋力极高，即便放眼整个Grand Virtue World ，都是有数的expert 。”

叶芸芸问道：“不是郑……Pei Qian ？难道是那个Qi Refiner 的Cao Qinglang ？”

Chen Ping 摇头said with a smile ：“都不是，等到叶山主亲自参加庆典就知道了。”

叶芸芸犹豫了一下，each minding their own business 摇头，“陈山主，我还是得说句不好听的，你凭什么要在外乡与外乡人讲理？甚至还愿意不惜为难家乡人？”

山中虎患害人，为虎作伥更可恨。

叶芸芸绝对不允许自己的蒲山云草堂，unconsciously 被人牵着鼻子走，最终做出任何违背本意和良心的举动。

如果今天这位即将拥有lower sect 的年轻Sword Immortal ，无法真正说服自己，那么叶芸芸甚至会照价再翻倍，折算成一大笔Divine Immortal 钱，与Qinghu Palace 归还那两炉羽衣丸，也绝不让蒲山与仙都山有任何关联。

Chen Ping 沉默片刻，以心声说道：“我家Mister ，Dao Fusion 三洲之地，其中就有你们Tree Leaf Continent 。”

叶芸芸刚要饮酒，赶紧收起酒壶，震惊道：“陈Sword Immortal 的Mister ，是那位重新恢复文庙陪祀身份的Literary Saint Mister ？！”

“这种事情，我敢乱说吗？”

Chen Ping said with a smile ：“叶山主，蒲山邸报一事，真的可以解禁了，如果不出意外的话，以后一个个的山上消息，就是一笔笔Divine Immortal 钱了。咱们毕竟都不是只愁没地方花钱的周首席，凭良心辛苦挣钱，不嫌钱多压手的。”

今夜凉亭议事，对方没说半句废话，不曾想叶芸芸反而忍了再忍，她终究还是忍不住说了句废话，“那你岂不是就是Imperial Teacher Cui 的Junior Brother 了？”

Chen Ping nodded and said ：“当然是。”

叶芸芸蓦然而笑，“陈Mister ，赶早不如赶巧，我们不如下一局？！你要是赢了，别说参加lower sect 庆典，我给你们仙都山当个记名guest official 都成。”

Chen Ping 微said with a smile ：“今天就算了，以后肯定有机会的。”

可能还需要先跟我的某位自称“尽得Mister 棋法真传”的得意dísciple ，先下几局。

叶芸芸见对方貌似不愿下棋，惋惜不已，只是总不really strong 拉着对方手谈，天底下没有这样的地主之谊。

得怪自己，下棋一事名声不显，估计是被对方嫌弃skill 不高了？

回头她就找dísciple 薛怀教拳一场，old fellow 在山外边下了that many 盘棋，都不说你到底是与谁学的棋？

Chen Ping 问道：“叶山主，那幅the immortal 面壁图，能否借我一看？”

叶芸芸nodded ，从袖中摸出一支卷轴，轻轻抛给对方。

她才发现两人位置，在一座不大的凉亭里边，相隔最远的距离。

Chen Ping 将那卷画轴悬空身前，再将手中酒壶放在一旁，随后双指并拢，轻轻一抹，画卷缓缓摊开，眯起眼，仔细端详起来。

Chen Ping 没有抬头，继续缓缓摊开那幅极长画卷，才刚刚看完序文而已，以心声问道：“先前听姜尚真说过一事，说叶山主跻身Original Purity Realm 后，之所以没有完成先祖夙愿，帮助蒲山名正言顺地成为sect ，这其中好像涉及到了一个秘密？关于此事，姜尚真没有多说半句，只是让我以后亲自登门询问叶山主。”

叶芸芸说道：“先祖去世前，曾经留下一句遗言，让后世山主代代相传，而且只能是亲口传授，在Tree Leaf Sect 封山之前，蒲山不得跻身sect 。”

Chen Ping lifts the head ，说道：“郭白箓被刺杀一事，看似对方beat the grass to scare the snake ，youngster 有惊无险，其实是……姜尚真做的。”

叶芸芸有些惊讶，只是她很快就想明白其中关节，said with a smile ：“确实是他的一贯作风。做件好事，都会挨骂。”

如果不是因为此事，叶芸芸说不定还真就答应了吴殳的那场问拳。

吴殳问拳，可没有什么点到为止的说法，这也是这位Martial Saint 被人诟病的根源所在，出手太重，武德有缺，那几场名动四方的问拳，接拳之人，都没什么好下场，其中一位昔年同为End Boundary Martial Artist 的Great Grandmaster ，甚至就直接因为问拳太重，体魄山河，支离破碎。

他极为器重的开山Head Disciple 郭白箓，如果真在蒲山云草堂的眼皮子底下，Martial Dao 断绝，恐怕吴殳再深明大义，问拳一事，再不重，也不轻。

一旦叶芸芸重伤，或是Martial Dao 跌境，那么拥有这幅the immortal 面壁图的叶芸芸，就只有一个选择了，就此转去专心cultivation 。

叶芸芸放下酒壶，抬起一手，打了个圆相，一个圆，期间停顿数次，就好像将一连串关键处，closely linked with one another ，起始于这幅面壁图，又终于这幅仙图。敢如此plot against ，又能如此plot against 一位End Boundary Martial Artist 、Original Purity Realm Qi Refiner 的叶芸芸，

最少得是the immortal 起步。同时如今的Tree Leaf Continent ，是没有Ascension Realm 的。杜懋，荀渊，都已死。姜尚真短暂跻身过Ascension Realm ，却在大战中跌境了，韦滢还只是一位Immortal Realm sword cultivator 。上次云窟blessed land 与姜尚真相逢，提及过Golden Peak Temple 的Nascent Soul Realm 观主，杜含灵。在更早之前，叶芸芸在Great Quan Dynasty 的桃叶渡，见过杜含灵一面，双方聊得不多，当时更多是好友许清渚在与之对话。

姜尚真之前在黄鹤矶，已经提醒过叶芸芸要小心两事一人。

面壁图的由来，吴殳的问拳，Golden Peak Temple 杜含灵。

矛头直指杜含灵，其实那会儿姜尚真就只差没有与叶芸芸挑明，真要想求个修道安稳，没有万一，就得直接打死杜含灵。

叶芸芸之前笃定这幅画卷的the whole sequence of events ，并无半点纰漏。姜尚真却说没有丝毫问题，就一定有大问题。

甚至还说，如果曹沫没有出现的话，他就会跟随自己，潜藏在蒲山云草堂，帮忙护道，看看能否揪出一两个吃里扒外、图谋不轨的货色。

最后姜尚真使劲拍胸脯，言之凿凿，solemnly vowed ，说叶elder sister 你就等着吧，很快那个跟自己同样擅长破境、更擅长压境的杜观主，就会是Original Purity Realm 了。

Golden Peak Temple ，sect 候补，杜含灵跻身Original Purity Realm ，Golden Peak Temple 顺势跻身Haoran Sect 门之列，名正言顺，where water flows, a canal is formed 。

天之象地之形，七现二隐，Heaven and Earth’s Law Manifestation ，此阵一起，以Golden Peak Temple 自身山头所在，炼为天枢，九炉烹日月，铁尺敕thunder ，晓炼五湖水，夜煎Big Dipper 星。坐镇大阵之中，杜含灵的realm ，equivalent to 一位“领阵司杀”的the immortal 。在Tree Leaf Continent 北部，完全无敌手。就可以取代Burning Incense 凋零的Tree Leaf Sect ，成为半洲山河的Immortal Family 执牛耳者，not just in name only, but also in reality 的山上君王，以桃叶之盟作为躯壳，领衔群雄，外与别洲势力较劲，实则内与南边的Jade Tablet Sect 遥遥对峙，起大阵，升sect ，争destiny ，聚时势，最终等同于将半洲山河收入囊中……

Chen Ping 好像看出叶芸芸的所思所想，said with a smile ：“杜观主是枭雄，成major event 者。”

在春山书院，Chen Ping 就与自家Mister 提及过此事，与Mister 言语，没什么忌讳不忌讳的，Chen Ping 直接说了心中猜想，Golden Peak Temple 和杜含灵，极有可能，早年见过文海周密。

old scholar 揪须，可是到最后，也只能给了个“静观其变”的说法，再让final disciple 多留意几分。

一幅面壁图，画卷已经完整摊放Chen Ping 身前。

Chen Ping 犹豫了一下，“叶山主，我有个猜测。可能是无稽之谈，还会有点冒犯，所以希望叶山主听过就算。”

叶芸芸said with a smile ：“陈Mister 直说便是。”

虽说此人是姜尚真的山上挚友，有那“物以类聚，人以群分”的嫌疑，不过先后两次相处下来，对方大致品行如何，叶芸芸还是心中有数的，跟姜尚真不是一路人，绝对不像是个喜欢沾花惹草的。

这幅Immortal Family 长卷，序文跋语和钤印花押极多，不过是皆是赝品，只是字迹和印文都模仿得几近真迹。其中有一句跋语，取自山谷Daoist 的那句毕竟几人得真鹿，不知终日梦为鱼。 Chen Ping 可以保证，这句诗句，就是formation eye 所在，或者说之一。

Chen Ping slowly said ：“极有可能，是有个人遥遥躲在幕后，只等叶山主walking right into a trap ，误入其中，比如面壁闭关试图打破Original Purity Realm bottleneck 之时，画中此人，就会转头。如果再打个不太恰当的比方，所有跋文印章，是集字，是化典，更是障眼法，归根结底，就是一座用心险恶array ，最终可能炼字成一首蛊惑人心的‘会真诗’，届时那个幕后人就可以飘然而至蒲山密室，对方好似一头解禁脱困的化外heavenly demon ，早就盯上了叶山主，只等你主动打开画卷所有禁制，届时梦里不知身是客，那人就可以强行与叶山主结为……片刻的Dao Companion 。”

有些言语，Chen Ping 不宜说得太过露骨，比如云雨之梦，鱼水之欢之类的。

虽说Daoism Sex Technique ，是unorthodox way ，却非歪魔邪道。 cultivator on the path of cultivation ，不会将此术其视若洪水猛兽。但是这一幅，当然是例外。

层层Formation ，雾里看花，是为了掩盖某个真相，比如这幅所谓的the immortal 面壁图，其实就是一幅……春宫图了。

叶芸芸盯着Chen Ping 片刻，nodded said solemnly ：“陈山主，我有数了。”

无异于Expulsion Order 。

Chen Ping 识趣起身告辞，重新收起画卷归还叶芸芸，拿着那壶酒离开凉亭。

瞧瞧，这就是说真话的下场。

叶芸芸心情沉重，sighed ，使劲摇晃脑袋，她收起画卷，面朝那个已经走出凉亭的azure clothes 背影，cup one fist in the other hand 道：“谢过陈Mister 提醒！”

Chen Ping 转头，脚步不停，笑着摆手。

叶芸芸快步走下台阶，跟上那位腰悬双刀的陈Sword Immortal ，好奇问道：“陈Mister 此次为何出门佩刀？”

Chen Ping said with a smile ：“这次来Tree Leaf Continent 创建lower sect ，没觉得会有什么打打杀杀的机会。”

有小陌在身边嘛。