In the courtyard, Zhuo Rusui looked at the scene in front of the stone pagoda, feeling a bit complicated.
Those green leaves seemed to fall on Gu Qing's body, but they actually kept a small distance from his clothes, about a few pages of a book.
This was the sign that the sword wills were about to leave his body, and it was also a sign that the Sword Ghost was about to take shape. It meant that he was very close to the middle state of the Free Travel, about thirty days away.
Zhuo Rusui and Zhao Layue had been in the middle state of the Free Travel for many years, and they were on the verge of breaking through to the upper state of the Free Travel. Though they were much ahead of Gu Qing, he was still surprised by Gu Qing's Cultivation speed.
Even though the overflowing spiritual awareness of the Zen Master and Jing Jiu sitting in the meditation room and discussing Dao helped Gu Qing a lot, Cultivation depended on oneself.
Zhuo Rusui knew that Gu Qing was the sword attendant of Big Brother Guo Nanshan and Gu Han's concubine brother. He was indeed talented in Cultivation, and Liangwang Peak paid special attention to him. However, no matter how talented Gu Qing was in Cultivation, he couldn't be better than Zhuo Rusui. Compared to those outstanding disciples of Liangwang Peak, Gu Qing wasn't special at all. Moreover, Gu Qing had been busy dealing with the affairs of Shenmo Peak over the years. Later, he stayed in Zhaoge City to teach Crown Prince Jing Yao, and recently he was busy dealing with the affairs of Aoyama for Jing Jiu …
Under such circumstances, his Cultivation wasn't affected at all. How did he do it?
Looking at the falling leaves, Zhuo Rusui suddenly had an idea.
It was during the Inherited Sword Competition that Gu Qing used the Six-Dragon Sword Style in order to defeat Jing Jiu. As a result, he was punished by the sect rules and his Cultivation was suspended for three years.
During those three years, Gu Qing lived on Shenmo Peak, chopped wood to build the house, and spent time with the monkeys. Later, he became the personal disciple of Jing Jiu.
The change should have started from that moment.
Zhuo Rusui felt the pressure. He decided that from now on, he would sleep less and practice more.
He walked up to the stone pagoda and sat down not far from Gu Qing. He closed his eyes and began to cultivate.
Looking at this scene, Zhao Layue did not say anything, but her eyes were slightly worried.
Ah Da stood up and rubbed his head to comfort him, thinking that there was nothing to worry about. Didn't Liu Ci and Yuan Qijing do the same back then?
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Jing Jiu and Zen Master were reading in the room.
Zhao Layue, Zhuo Rusui, and Gu Qing were cultivating in the courtyard.
Ada was sleeping.
Monk Dachang was sweeping the floor.
Time slowly passed by in this pattern.
The summer deepened, then lightened, and the wind rose again.
However, today's wind had nothing to do with the pages that were turning on their own. Instead, it was the first hint of autumn in the world.
Zhao Layue got up and walked out of the Tranquil Garden.
Ada opened his eyes and meowed. He jumped into the courtyard, stepped on the stone pagoda soundlessly and landed in her bosom.
Zhuo Rusui opened his eyes and looked at Zhao Layue.
Zhao Layue said, "I'm going out for a walk."
Zhuo Rusui thought for a while and stood up. He shook off the fallen leaves on his body and said, "I'm going with you."
The two of them were at the critical moment of breaking through the upper state of the Free Travel. They were standing on the threshold and only needed to take the last step.
However, cultivation was like this. The last step was often the most difficult one.
Even though they were of natural Dao quality and were rare geniuses in Cultivation, they still needed a lot of time to break through, and they also needed a critical opportunity.
After all, they were still in the category of normal geniuses, unlike Jing Jiu, who could break through the new state by lying on a bamboo chair or taking a bath in the Blue Lake.
They had been sitting in the Tranquil Garden for dozens of days, but the critical opportunity hadn't come yet. It might be helpful for them to walk around in heaven and earth and seek some inspiration.
Before they left the Tranquil Garden, Zhuo Rusui took a look at Gu Qing and found that he was still meditating. Zhuo Rusui couldn't help but feel puzzled, wondering why he was so diligent.
Zhao Layue said, "He has been busy with affairs these years, so he doesn't have much time for Cultivation. So he treasures it very much."
Hearing this, Zhuo Rusui couldn't help but sympathize with Gu Qing.
The two of them walked out of the Tranquil Garden and strolled in the temple.
Zhuo Rusui said, "Cultivation is the foundation of a Cultivation practitioner. Young Brother Gu Qing has been working hard."
"It's always hard to be the Sect Master," said Zhao Layue.
Ada raised his head in her bosom and glanced at her.
Zhuo Rusui said, "Young Senior Master, are you trying to persuade me to give up? That's impossible. The position of Sect Master was given to Young Senior Master by my Master. I have no objection to it, but who knows what will happen in the future? "
Zhao Layue said, "You are not Guo Nanshan. Why are you so persistent?"
Zhuo Rusui said with a smile, "Because I am more talented and younger. I hope to be older than Big Brother Nanshan. Most importantly, I have a good relationship with the Sect Master."
If these words had come out of someone else's mouth, it would have sounded like bragging and would have been annoying. But when he said it, it made people feel a sense of respect.
Ada looked at this young man with eyes full of appreciation.
Zhao Layue didn't say anything more.
"Young Senior Master, have you always had a problem with me because I won against you in the Sword Trial?"
Zhuo Rusui asked innocently, "What can I do to appease your anger?"
He knew very well that although Zhao Layue had kept a low profile in the Shenmo Peak in recent years, no one could surpass her influence on the Sect Master. If he wanted to improve his relationship with the Sect Master, at least to be on par with Gu Qing, it was better to serve this young Senior Master first than to freeload at the Shenmo Peak and kill many people for the Sect Master.
Thinking of the Sword Trial, he felt a little regretful. What's the big deal about two more years of closed-door training? Why are you in such a hurry?
Zhao Layue said, "You can't really defeat me. What's wrong with me?"
Hearing this, Zhuo Rusui suddenly forgot to please her and said, "You suppressed the Thoughtless Sword at that time, but how do you know that I didn't hide anything?"
Zhao Layue said expressionlessly, "If you really hid something, you wouldn't have said these boring words now."
The two of them walked to the middle of the Guocheng Temple during this interesting or boring conversation. There was a grand hall not far from them.
In a few days, the special Plum Meeting would be held in this grand hall, and all the Cultivation sects in Chaotian would be present.
It was unclear how the Aoyama Sect would deal with the forceful attack of the Zhongzhou School.
Walking past the pagoda forest, they found a quiet meditation room to the side. The sound of scripts could be heard from a farther place, which was melodious and calming.
"Is this the White Mountain meditation room?" Zhuo Rusui asked with narrowed eyes.
Taiping Zhenren had lived there for a few years.
Thinking of the turbulence caused by the Grandmaster in the world, Zhuo Rusui felt a sense of pride in addition to the fear in his heart.
Many disciples of Aoyama should have the same feeling. After all, those evil deeds happened more than three hundred years ago, and few people had witnessed them with their own eyes.
Beauty and awe could only come from a distance. Zhao Layue didn't have the same feeling as Zhuo Rusui.
It was because she often saw figures like Jing Jiu, and she had pursued Taiping Zhenren in person.
Back in the Guocheng Temple, she pursued him from the Tranquil Garden to the lonely peak outside the temple, and then went to Ōzawa. She took a risk to break through the state in the process of pursuing him.
Thinking about it, it was indeed a shocking event, but few people in the world knew about it.
After leaving the pagoda forest and coming to the kitchen in the front of the temple, Zhao Layue said, "The Young Mysterious Dark Master has been cooking here for a few years."
Zhuo Rusui felt sentimental, thinking that a demonic god of the first generation had become a cook, the late emperor had lived in seclusion here, and the Grandmaster had been the Chief Monk here.
The Guocheng Temple was indeed a marvelous place.
By then, he had found that Zhao Layue came here specifically to see these places. "What did Senior Master Zhao feel?" he asked.
"What was the occasion when you broke through the state last time?" asked Zhao Layue.
"I killed people in the Illusionary Realm of the Green Sky Mirror," said Zhuo Rusui.
"I killed people as well," said Zhao Layue.
Zhuo Rusui thought that she was indeed a member of the same generation.
Speaking of killing people, the fights with the swordsmen brought her the most mental impact and inspiration.
Since Zhao Layue met Jing Jiu, she had seldom had the opportunity to fight with the swordsmen. It was the pursuit of Taiping Zhenren that brought her the most inspiration.
The reason she left the Tranquil Garden that day was to review the experience and find some opportunities to break through the state.
After leaving the Guocheng Temple, she came to the vegetable garden. It had been neglected for many years, and the house was covered with dust, and some of the furniture was even rotten.
It was here that Liu Shisui heard her sword sound. He chased after her without hesitation and joined hands with her to hunt her down.
Zhao Layue went to the kitchen and searched around, but found nothing. The water in the pickle jar had dried up, and the radishes and cowpeas had gone bad a long time ago, so there was no way they could be eaten.
"Are you hungry?" asked Zhuo Rusui.
Zhao Layue said, "The temple is full of radishes and cabbages; it's too dull to eat."
Zhuo Rusui was a bit startled, thinking that what she said was so carefree, and that the Senior Master Zhao was indeed a member of the same generation.
The two of them rode their swords after leaving the vegetable garden.
There were no towns around the Guocheng Temple, so there was no hotpot restaurant nearby. It was not appropriate for them to go to the village to eat. As such, they decided to barbecue bear paws or roast tiger meat. Ferocious beasts like bears and tigers could only be found in the deep mountains, and the place Zhao Layue wanted to go to was the deep mountains.
The eastern side of the mountain was full of precipices. It was here that she successfully broke through the state, and then joined hands with Liu Shisui to wound Taiping Zhenren.
At this moment, the Thoughtless Sword suddenly trembled slightly.
Zhuo Rusui also sensed a pure and sharp sword will of Aoyama.
The two of them looked down the precipice.
There was a mountain stream, and there was a forest by the stream.
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While Zhao Layue and Zhuo Rusui were looking for pickles in the vegetable garden, Xiao He, who knew how to make pickles, was washing her face by the stream.
She and Liu Shisui had left the Thousand Miles Wind Corridor for more than ten days. Seeing that they were not far from the Guocheng Temple, and that they could return to the vegetable garden that brought her the most peaceful time, she was in a good mood.
But in the next moment, her good mood was shattered by the sudden appearance of those human Cultivation practitioners.
"You, a fox spirit from Bulao Lin, dare to parade in broad daylight? Do you really think that the orthodox Cultivation Path has no one to deal with you?"
The speaker was an elder of the Kunlun Sect, and his energy was extremely profound.
More than ten disciples of the Kunlun Sect stood together, looking at the stream with vigilance.
An old monk stood upstream of the stream with a solemn expression.
Hearing the words of the Kunlun Sect elder, a hint of killing intent flashed in Xiao He's eyes.
Liu Shisui walked out of the forest, looked at those people, and asked, "What do you want?"
The name of the Kunlun Sect elder was Chen Wen. He led the team to participate in the meeting of the Guocheng Temple, so his Cultivation state was extremely high.
He knew Liu Shisui's identity, so he said with an indifferent expression, "You should still be locked up in the Sword Jail of Aoyama. But since the Aoyama Sect dared to let go of a demon like Taiping, it's not a big deal for them to let you go secretly. But that's your own business, and I don't want to meddle in it. But you shouldn't protect this fox spirit; otherwise, don't blame us for being impolite."
Xiao He raised her eyebrows slightly, and said in a cold voice, "Do you know the relationship between us and the Immortal Sect Master of Aoyama?"
"Are you talking about Jing Jiu? The great Aoyama Sect has chosen a little kid to be the sect master. What a joke! "
Chen Wen, the elder of the Kunlun Sect, said while staring into Liu Shisui's eyes, "And you, as a disciple of Yimaozhai, you are protecting this evil fox spirit. How did House Master Bu teach you?"
Hearing this, Liu Shisui knew he didn't have to say anything else. He motioned for Xiao He to stand behind him, and said to the other party, "Come on."
Those disciples of the Kunlun Sect were startled. It took them a while to understand what he meant, and they couldn't help but laugh out loud, thinking it was ridiculous.
They looked at Liu Shisui with eyes full of mockery and pity, as if they were looking at a lunatic.
(End of this chapter)
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