PS: Daoist Master Xiao wants to read at noon. This request is too much! Even if I vomit blood, I can't do it. Not once, but twice is possible!
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Lou Xiaoyi didn't know what to say. This was a sad story because a cultivator had a thought that shouldn't exist in this era.
This made him feel a little ashamed. This should have been his way of thinking.
"So you used the excuse of chasing to kill this person who pretended to be a pure scholar! The problem is that you should have been told his real purpose, so you could have pretended to chase, but you shouldn't have really killed him! "
Li Shang didn't comment, "I've finished. What about you? Why did you kill your own fellow disciple? "
Lou Xiaoyi smiled bitterly, "He might not even be my fellow disciple! In the Fifth Ring, not every Swordsman is a disciple of Xuanyuan! "
Li Shang was startled, but soon understood. He had already guessed the truth of the matter.
In the Fifth Ring, there were three Swordsman sects: Xuanyuan Sword Sect, Wei Sword Mountain, and Firmament Sword Sect. Xuanyuan was a sect that combined the inner and outer swords, and was also the strongest. Wei Sword Mountain was the outer sword sect, while Firmament Sword Sect was the inner sword sect. Although they were in different areas, Xuanyuan in the West, Wei Sword Mountain in Erhai, and Firmament Sword Sect in the Southeast, their sword alliance had been unbreakable for tens of thousands of years. It was also the most important cornerstone for the survival of the Sword Vein in the Fifth Ring.
In fact, there was also a hidden Sword Vein in the Fifth Ring, but it didn't form a sect by itself. Instead, it merged with the orthodoxy of the Three Pure Ones and became an important branch of the Three Pure Ones. It was called the Cloud Top Courtyard.
The people in the courtyard were all Swordsman. Their inheritance came from the ancient Qing Kong, the orthodoxy of the Cloud Top Sword Palace. They had always had an inseparable connection with the Three Pure Ones. Later on, they simply merged into the Three Pure Ones. They were also an inheritance that had both inner and outer swords. Perhaps they were not as strong as Xuanyuan, but compared to the Wei Sword Mountain and the Firmament Sword Sect, their strength was not too far off.
The Fifth Ring Swordsman probably came from these four places. Since this Swordsman dared to kill, he was definitely not an ally of the Wei Sword Sect or the Firmament Sword Sect. The biggest possibility was that he came from the Cloud Peak Courtyard under the Three Pure Ones.
Logically speaking, it also made sense. In view of the tens of thousands of years of accumulated hatred between the Three Pure Ones and the Xuanyuan, they were the top forces that did not get along with each other. It was normal for them to do something to each other.
Judging from Dazzling's behavior, why was his target Li Shang? And not Xuanyuan's external sword? In fact, the reason was simple. The Three Pure Ones did not want to kill a Xuanyuan Swordsman, but wanted to drive a wedge between the Wan Jingliu and Xuanyuan in the Western Region!
This was a long and time-consuming plan. In fact, this plan had been carried out for a long time and could be considered to have achieved partial success. For tens of thousands of years, the two sects that came from different regions and did not know each other had coexisted in the Western Region. From cautious probing to careful contact, their relationship slowly deteriorated to the awkward state it was in now. On the surface, they were united, but on the inside, they were fighting each other. In this process, the Three Pure Ones and the Wushang Sect had subtly influenced and added fuel to the fire.
For example, this time, for an unimportant mine, a group of Foundation Establishment cultivators fought a battle of wits and courage. In the end, the Wan Jingliu cultivator was brazenly killed by the Xuanyuan Swordsman. This news was bound to spread among the cultivators of the Wan Jingliu, adding another blood debt. Although this was under the unspoken rules of the Fifth Ring, if this happened too often, the relationship between the two sides would inevitably be irreconcilable. History was slowly settled, fermented, and slowly accumulated until the day a qualitative change occurred.
Even if the higher-ups of the Wan Jingliu were fully aware of this, so what? History never looked at the truth. It only looked at the trend. Once the trend was formed, the truth would not play any role in it!
This was the power of the top Dharma cultivation sects.
These were still too far away from them. Puny Foundation Establishment cultivators did not even have the ability to turn a stone wheel, let alone stop the wheel of history.
The two of them were very silent. The outcome of the situation was not good for either of them. How to clean up their mess was the problem that they should be thinking about!
Li Shang had truly broken the rule of killing a fellow sect member. No matter the reason, for his friends, for his hometown, for the hundreds of thousands of people on both sides of the Red River, cultivation sects did not consider this. They valued the unity of the sect more. Killing from the top, like a real book, he, Li Shang, did not have the qualifications!
Lou Xiaoyi was also in a difficult position. To be honest, he was actually not sure where Brilliant's roots came from. His judgment came from two aspects.
One was that his words were indeed meant to test Brilliant, but the way he tested him was different from what Brilliant thought!
Brilliant's answer was perfect, but it was this perfection that made Lou Xiaoyi suspicious! This was because Guang Bei had once said in a casual conversation that the inner Swordsman did not care about the affairs of the outer sword. This was a common pride! For example, Guang Bei did not even know who the outer sword palace master was, let alone the deputy palace master! There were tens of thousands of outer swords, and Jin Dan's outer swords were also numerous. Which inner swordsman would differentiate between these?
However, Brilliant could accurately say that Gu Gang was not the palace master, but the deputy palace master. Either it was a coincidence that he was familiar with them, and the probability was very small, or he deliberately remembered it for a certain purpose!
Of course, there were other signs. Why was Brilliant able to accurately intercept him? His mental strength was his greatest reliance. His divine sense surpassed Brilliant's, so how did he manage to track him? Unless, Brilliant knew his purpose! And he did not reveal any of these details!
In addition, Brilliant's posture when he drew his sword was very graceful, with one hand behind his back and the other pointing forward! As an inner sword, the flying sword came out from the Niwan Palace. What did it have to do with the hands?
In Xuanyuan, the core principle of drawing the sword from the inner sword was: Sudden!
Never make any movements that would allow the opponent to guess the intention of the sword, no matter how graceful or elegant the movements were. It was said that this was a rule set by a great cultivator in Xuanyuan. Not only did the inner sword have to be like this, the outer sword had to be like this too!
Don't act cool, don't play cool, don't talk nonsense …
Combining all the above, Lou Xiaoyi judged that this person was most likely not a Xuanyuan Swordsman, but a fake! Among the three people, the other's purpose was very obvious, but he was unpredictable. He was the biggest variable. To the lazy Lou Xiaoyi, this was the best way to solve the problem.
He respected the sect of the inner sword and was grateful to Guang Bei, but this did not mean that he would love the house and its crow!
A house was a house, and a crow was a crow. How could they be mixed together?
But all these were just guesses! He failed his mission, but he did not do anything constructive. The mission reward would be gone, and his ranking might rise. This was not something he wanted to see …
But both of them were wise men. There was no problem that could stop two people with ulterior motives. Soon, both of them looked at each other and smiled.
Lou Xiaoyi was shameless. "The mission was completed well. I killed a spy who pretended to be Pure Shu, and I also know the secret of the mine …"
Li Shang was shameless. "Although the inner sword is very strong, it is still not a match for me on the ranking list! My ranking is going to rise again! "
Both of them looked at each other and smiled.
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