Chapter 139: Ultimate Sword and Peak Half Sword
Ping Shanhai's voice spread throughout the Demon Sect, and Lu Xun on the back mountain heard it clearly.
At this moment, Lin Chan was cooking porridge for Lu Xun, while Lu Xun was waiting by the side, waiting for his beloved disciple to feed him.
Then, I heard this voice.
"What's going on?" Lu Xun was a little confused.
The timid Lin Chan was frightened by the sudden voice and thought that the man had a very loud voice.
Lu Xun walked out of the kitchen and saw his third brother Zhuge Laifu and Mao Nanbei were also outside.
He hurried forward and asked, "Third Senior Brother, Fourth Senior Sister, what happened?"
Mao Nanbei and Zhuge Laifu turned their heads to look at him and asked in unison, "Don't you know about the bet between our Demon Sect and Yijian Mountain and Wanjian Mountain?"
"I don't know!" Lu Xun replied, but he vaguely felt that he had forgotten something.
This is strange, is there any bet? Did I hear this plot when I played "Tianchen" in my previous life?
It seems... there is a little impression.
"So you haven't made any preparations?" Mao Nanbei blinked his big eyes, looked up at Lu Xun and said.
"What should I prepare for?" Lu Xun pointed at his nose, becoming more and more confused.
Mao Nanbei and Zhuge Laifu looked at each other, and then briefly told Lu Xun about the matters related to the bet.
Lu Xun: “…”
"I guess Shen Yan thought that the senior brothers and sisters in the back mountain would tell me, and the senior brothers and sisters in the back mountain thought that Shen Yan had already told me, and then... they all tacitly didn't say anything."
The people in the Demon Sect are as deceptive as ever!
The bet was divided into three rounds. The first round was between representatives from Yijian Mountain and Wanjian Mountain to face off against the Bandao Sword Qi in Jieying Peak.
The second match is between representatives from Yijian Mountain and Wanjian Mountain against the sword masters sent by the Demon Sect.
These two matches had nothing to do with Lu Xun. The one that had something to do with him was the third match - the battle of newcomers.
“Among the Demon Sect’s new disciples over the past three years, is there anyone who is more capable than me in the art of swordsmanship?” Lu Xun thought to himself.
"The answer is no!" Lu Xun asked himself and answered himself in his heart.
It is true that Lin Chan was born with a sword fetus, but the time she spent practicing was too short, even shorter than Lu Xun’s.
Lu Xun, like him, was born a sword fetus, so he was of course a more suitable candidate.
It's just that as the person involved, he was completely unaware of it a few minutes ago...
“I don’t know if you guys are being disrespectful to me or to Yijian Mountain and Wanjian Mountain by doing this…” Lu Xun was too tired to complain in his heart.
But if you think about it carefully, there were foreshadowings already.
When Shen Yan guessed that he was born with a sword, he was so happy that he was like a child without hair. I guess he had been looking forward to this day.
During this period, Lu Xun was in seclusion and was frantically studying the master's calligraphy at night. Others thought that he had a sense of urgency and that he knew the truth.
“But it doesn’t matter. As a member of the Demon Sect, I will naturally try my best for the benefit of the sect!” Lu Xun looked at the task prompt that suddenly popped up in front of him and said loudly in his heart.
"[Ding! You have triggered the mission: Ask the Sword, do you accept it?]"
This was clearly a hidden mission, so Lu Xun decisively chose [Receive].
Is it important to prepare early?
I'm just an emotionless task machine!
He looked at the content of the mission, which was to let him win the third rookie battle.
Of course, there is another major premise, that is, the Demon Sect should not win or lose consecutively in the first two games.
Because the bet is based on a best-of-three format, whether it is a winning streak or a losing streak, the third rookie battle is meaningless.
It is said that in the past few years, the Demon Sect did not accept any new sword-fighting talents. The reason why they always won was because they did not lose in the previous two games.
That is why the battle between the newcomers, who seems to have the least momentum, is placed in the last match.
If Lu Xun had the opportunity to play, he only needed to win the match to get the mission reward.
If there is no chance to play, this mission will be automatically invalidated.
Lu Xun: “（╯‵□′）╯︵┻━┻”
What the hell is going on? It makes me feel so confused. As a member of the Demon Sect, I should expect the Demon Sect to win the first two games in a row! Dog game!
But the rewards for this mission are so generous, 100,000 experience points, 1 point of swordsmanship qualification, 3,000 points of sect reputation, plus a swordsmanship skill upgrade coupon!
This temptation is too much!
Just judging from the current situation, the first sword-chasing match is about to begin!
Lu Xun turned his head to look at Third Senior Brother and Mao Nanbei, and asked, "Third Senior Brother, Fourth Senior Sister, the first round is the half-way sword energy in Jieying Peak, and the third round is for me, so who will do the second round?"
Mao Nanbei was eating his fingers while paying attention to the dynamics of Jieying Peak. After hearing Lu Xun's words, he replied: "In the past few years, it was Second Senior Sister who took action. But Second Senior Sister is now imprisoned in the bamboo forest. I don't know if it is convenient for her to take action now."
Zhuge Laifu waved his hand and said, "No problem. Even if Second Senior Sister is not convenient, there are others who can do it for her. You don't have to worry about the second game."
After he finished speaking, Zhuge Laifu's squinting eyes almost narrowed into a slit, and he said in a deep voice: "On the contrary, Ping Shanhai almost broke the half-way sword energy of Senior Brother three years ago. The outcome of this first sword-asking contest is hard to predict."
After saying that, he turned around and looked at Lu Xun, and said with a smile: "Then the pressure will probably fall on Junior Brother."
Lu Xun didn't care about it. He had always been a person with a good attitude. At this moment, he was still in the mood to ask: "Third Senior Brother, Fourth Senior Sister, do you know what the founder of Jianshan left behind in my Demon Sect?"
Third Senior Brother Zhuge Laifu shook his head and said, "I don't know, the master didn't say."
Lu Xun glanced in the direction of Jieying Peak, his expression slightly solemn.
After he recalled it carefully, he remembered that something was wrong.
Lu Xun guessed that if he had not traveled through time, and things had gone as they normally would, the Demon Sect would have... lost this time.
Because the player had heard about this plot in the previous life, and the player only knew about this past event when the NPC let it slip when chatting with him.
But the strange thing is that although Yijianshan and Wanjianshan won and won back the things left by their ancestors, the top leaders of Yijianshan and Wanjianshan remained silent as to what these things were.
As for the specific contents of these three sword-chasing battles, not much has been circulated outside, only a few words.
To be precise, the Demon Sect, Yijian Mountain and Wanjian Mountain are all deliberately avoiding mentioning this matter!
Because of this, Lu Xun did not have a very deep impression of this plot.
As far as he could remember, the reason he knew about this plot was because the players from Demon Sect, Yijian Mountain and Wanjian Mountain brought up this matter when they were verbally attacking each other in the forum. He glanced at it and didn't take it seriously.
Since this plot happened a few years before the public beta, it had nothing to do with him. This caused Lu Xun to not think about this for a while, and he did not write this down in his little notebook filled with all kinds of plots in his memory.
This is a kind of thinking inertia of human beings. Before encountering this incident, Lu Xun probably couldn't even remember this plot.
“Now it seems that there is a huge pit that can be dug deep!” Lu Xun said in his heart.
Now was not the time to think about this, but he suddenly remembered something and asked, "Third Senior Brother, Fourth Senior Sister, the sword energy of Jieying Peak has to be deployed every three years, so there won't be any loss?"
If there is loss, it will be easier for the opponent to win if you waste more time.
The third senior brother shook his head and replied, "This half sword energy is the first link of the Demon Sect's mountain protection formation. It can absorb spiritual energy from the mountain protection formation to nourish itself. Although it will not become stronger, it will not become weaker either."
Lu Xun nodded, finally understanding that it could be charged...
At this moment, almost everyone in the Demon Sect was paying attention to the situation at Jieying Peak, except for the gentleman who was still in the house, and no one knew what he was doing.
It seemed that as the instigator of this bet, he did not take it too seriously.
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Under Shen Yan's control, a tiny crack opened in the Demon Sect's mountain protection formation.
After all, if there is no gap, no attacks from outsiders can get in.
The first sword-chasing contest was against the half-sword energy in Jieying Peak, not against the Demon Sect's mountain protection formation.
The mountain protection formation was created by the master. With the mountain protection formation blocking the way, Ping Shanhai's sword energy couldn't get in at all.
Although the half sword energy in the Jieying Peak is the first link of the mountain protection formation, it does not mean that the first link only has this half sword energy. Other formations will also operate with it. If there is no opening of a gap in the formation , it would be a bit bullying.
Ping Shanhai was floating in the air, holding the magic sword horizontally in front of him, his eyes looking straight at Jieying Peak.
He didn't take any action until the mountain protection formation opened a gap for him.
——The magic sword is unsheathed!
The unsheathed divine sword was wrapped in a strong sword energy!
The purpose of Yijian Mountain is to break all swords with one sword, so the sword practitioners in Yijian Mountain always have their best sword, and some sword practitioners even only practice one sword in their entire life!
Therefore, many sand sculpture players who joined Yijian Mountain "follow the local customs" and spend a lot of experience points on Yijian, and they especially like to try out one trick.
When fighting with others, he always likes to shout out the names of sword moves. The scene is roughly like this:
"Take my sword! Gale Sword!"
"Take another blow from me! Gale Sword!"
"Come again! Still with the Gale Sword!"
"Didn't expect that? It's the Gale Sword again!"
Of course, this is a minority among the players, and it does not mean that all sword practitioners in Yijian Mountain only practice one sword.
It’s just that they are more focused on practicing the sword to the best of their ability first.
However, it is true that most of the sword cultivators in Yijian Mountain only practice one set of sword techniques throughout their lives. While practicing only one set of sword techniques, they also specialize in one of the sword techniques.
The opposite of this is naturally Wanjian Mountain.
Wan Jianshan advocates learning more, which can then help people draw inferences from one instance to another and verify each other.
Therefore, most of the sword practitioners in Wanjian Mountain learn many sets of sword techniques, and they only need to be proficient in them without seeking perfection. Their sword moves can be said to be endless.
Players who have their own colors summarized Wanjian Mountain and Yijian Mountain with a four-character phrase - nine shallow and one deep!
The former practices more but shallowly, while the latter practices less but deeply.
To sum up, even in Yijian Mountain, those who only practice one sword throughout their life are a minority among the minority, and Ping Shanhai happens to be one of the minority!
His sword move was a very simple one, just a sword-drawing technique.
But when he used this move, the feeling it gave people was very different!
The sword intent contained in it is as vast and boundless as the ocean. Ordinary practitioners would never be able to tell its depth.
On the Jieying Peak, Shen Yan and others couldn't help but frown slightly.
Compared with three years ago, Ping Shanhai has obviously learned something new!
The half-sword energy in Jieying Peak could no longer hold back and shot out directly!
In comparison, this half of the sword energy does not have the sword intent.
Yes, Yan Li was in seclusion, and this half of the sword energy had remained in Jieying Peak for so many years, so the sword intent had long since dissipated completely.
Even if it has no sword power, even if it is only half of the sword energy, no challenger has ever defeated it so far!
If Ping Shanhai's sword energy is like the sea, then this half of the sword energy will be like the magic needle that stabilizes the sea!
At this moment, what we need to see is whether the sea will swallow it up completely, or it will directly use its force to control the sea!
The sword energy collided directly with each other.
Half of it came from Yan Li's sword energy, and the other one came from the magic sword left by the founder of the Sword Sect.
In an instant, all the stars in the dark sky seemed to disappear completely.
Powerful waves spread out from the air, and Shen Yan directly activated the mountain protection formation, trying to absorb these aftereffects into the formation and dissolve them.
Otherwise, this large area outside the Demon Sect’s mountain gate would be destroyed by the aftermath of these two swords!
He didn't want a mess in front of his house, as his husband, who loved beauty and cleanliness, might get angry.
The mountain protection formation created by the master absorbed all the aftermath of the sword energy like a cow drinking water, so as to avoid any adverse effects.
But even so, changes occurred around.
It had been snowing for several days straight during the Spring Festival, and the surroundings were covered in snow. The snow was so thick that even a southerner like Lu Xun had never seen it before.
And at this moment, outside the Demon Sect’s mountain gate, all the snow within a radius of dozens of miles disappeared completely!
The Demon Sect’s mountain gate was covered in silver.
Outside the Demon Sect’s mountain gate, the snow melted.
It seems like there are two worlds separated by a moment.
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On the small hillside, even though the disciples of Yijian Mountain and Wanjian Mountain had never gotten along with each other in the past, they were now united in spirit.
They were all looking at each other, and kept saying, "Who won? Who won this?"
Compared with when Ping Shanhai was knocked away three years ago, the current situation is a bit confusing.
Could it be a draw?
How to calculate win or loss in case of a tie?
Unlike these elite disciples, several elders with high levels of cultivation present already had the answer in their hearts.
Shen Yan and others on Jieying Peak also have the answer.
At this moment, a shocking sword sound came from the Demon Sect’s mountain gate.
It comes from the top of Mount Zang.
Coming from the nearby sword energy!
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