Chapter 188: White Clothes Like Tides (1)
In the second courtyard lobby of Tianyang Mansion, Lu Yi rushed forward and picked up the small sword that Li Zi had lost.
It is a little over two feet long and one finger wide. The whole body is silver and translucent like colored glass. If you look closely, you can see ripples inside the sword like water flow, which is magnificent and full of spirituality.
There was a green light in Lu Yi's eyes. He saw a ray of spiritual light flowing up and down in the sword, and faintly saw the words "Silver Dragon".
The sword fell into Lu Yi's hand, and it jumped violently and restlessly, making a constant "buzzing" sound.
Lu Yi said happily: "What a nice sword! Tsk, I have longed to become a swordsman for a long time."
Lu Yi smiled and looked eagerly at the three Qingyou girls who walked into the lobby.
Green Lemon and Green Meng clapped and laughed: "Great, if Brother Lu is willing to become my disciple, hee!"
Qing You glanced at her two younger sisters and said seriously, "Nonsense! How can a true inner sect disciple of the Great Vajra Temple become a disciple of our Qinglin Sword Pavilion? However, the sword-controlling method is not something particularly rare..."
Qingyou smiled and said, "The sword-controlling skills of Qinglin Sword Pavilion cannot be leaked. However, the ancestors of our Qinglin Sword Pavilion have collected at least three or four hundred kinds of sword-controlling secrets from various sects over the years, and many of them are not inferior to our Qinglin Sword Pavilion."
Lu Yi smiled like a flower and bowed to Qingyou: "Miss Qingyou, we can talk about it.
The man in white clothes is as white as snow and as white as jade, flying in the air with a sword to slay demons.
This was a beautiful dream that Lu Fei had in his previous life.
However, he was born a bit more burly in this life. After learning the "Dragon-Tiger Diamond Body", Lu Yi's height was nearly ten feet, and his physique became as burly as a mountain. Even if he changed into a white robe, he did not look like the sword immortal he had imagined.
But this Silver Dragon Sword is obviously extraordinary. If one can learn the art of wielding the sword and use it for sneak attacks... no, using it as a last resort for self-protection is also good. Who would complain about having too many means?
Qingyou chuckled: "You're welcome. However, there are three types of sword-controlling techniques: controlling the sword with spirit, controlling the sword with blood, and controlling the sword with energy. Controlling the sword with spirit is the best method, but it is the most difficult to get started and it is not easy to practice. It must be combined with extremely advanced methods of refining the spirit to achieve success."
"Using Qi to control the sword is the most common, but also the easiest to master. Even if you are a mortal martial artist, as long as you have mastered the Yuan Gang and have a sword-controlling technique, you can try to control the sword ten miles away and kill people in mid-air."
"Controlling the sword with blood doesn't have many changes, but it has the strongest explosive power, is fierce and fierce, and has the most terrifying short-term lethality . Well, to be honest, it is most suitable for true disciples of the Great Vajra Temple like Brother Lu... You have the most vigorous blood energy."
Qingyou smiled brightly.
Lu Yi touched his chin. Is there so much detail in the art of wielding a sword?
However, he could understand that people have three treasures: essence, energy and spirit, and these three treasures have corresponding sword-wielding skills, which is a natural thing.
"Qinglin Sword Pavilion has always been about controlling swords with the power of God." Lu Yi looked at Qingyou very seriously: "Well, can you choose a matching sword technique for each one? Let me see which one suits me best."
"The three girls have been so kind to me that I am unable to repay them. I will pay for all the fruits and snacks you have in Haojing City." Lu Yi patted his chest hard and made a solemn promise to the three girls.
The three girls smiled at the same time, their smiles were all the same, and their eyes were as beautiful as crescent moons.
Lu Yi began to learn the art of wielding a sword.
At the same time, in Dayin East Border City.
The city wall is three miles high and has the same specifications as the outer city wall of Haojing.
The Dongjie City, which covers hundreds of miles in radius, is like a golden lock, blocking the only passage from Dongshenzhou to the core area of Dayin.
Standing on the east wall of Dongjie City and looking out, you can see a vast expanse of white water. When the wind blows, the waves are several feet high. There are faintly scales lurking, and all kinds of huge fish several feet long, turtles, pythons, crocodiles, etc. It is really impossible to count them all.
There are thirty-six east gates of Dongjie City, large and small. Outside a row of gates is a bridge that is one hundred miles wide and three thousand miles long. This bridge is the only passage to the three thousand miles of water outside.
The pilgrimage teams from various lords of East Shenzhou could only enter the core area of Dayin by passing through this bridge and the gate of Dongjie City every twelve years.
If any of the princes had any ulterior motives and wanted to attack Dongjie City, it would be impossible to capture Dongjie City with the current military strength. The three-mile-high, indestructible city wall was powerless even for a martial arts master at the Pixue Realm. It was impossible to attack it.
But in history, Dongjie City fell many times, but not once was it really lost because of a battle.
Early in the morning, Zhuge Duming brought a large group of his confidants to the east gate tower of Dongjie City, stroked his long beard and looked towards the east.
As the defender of Dongjie City, Zhuge Duming always dressed like a scholar, only wearing scholar's robes, Taoist robes, cloaks, etc. He never wore armor and never carried weapons. He always had a goose feather fan in his hand.
As a direct descendant of the Zhuge family, the second-highest sage family among the six saints of culture and education, nineteen wise men and sixty-three great men, Zhuge Duming's motto is: "Conquer people with virtue!"
Dayin has four major boundary cities in the east, south, west and north, which are the four gateways to Haojing.
With the rise of culture and education, East Shenzhou, as the birthplace of culture and education, was also the most entrenched base camp of cultural and educational forces. The important officials of culture and education spent countless efforts and set off a series of bloody storms in the court. Finally, thirty years ago, they took control of Dongjie City into their own hands.
Zhuge Duming has been in charge of Dongjie City for thirty years.
During the past thirty years, most of the garrison commanders and soldiers of the imperial guards system died, became disabled, went missing, or retired.
Nowadays, the entire Dongjie City is full of people from the City Guard's Office to the City Defense Army. All the officials in important positions are "great virtuous and talented" people with cultural and educational backgrounds. Zhuge Duming is so powerful in Dongjie City that he can cover the sky with one hand.
Early in the morning, on the bridge outside Dongjie City, hundreds of large and small caravans that had camped on the bridge last night had already broken camp and marched towards the smallest city gates in the east.
Along with the roar of mechanisms, driven by underground water power, more than a dozen small city gates no more than ten feet wide slowly opened. Soldiers surrounded the tax officials and strode out of the city gates, enthusiastically welcoming the first wave of fat sheep of the day.
Zhuge Duming held onto the battlement of the city wall and looked down.
Looking down from a height of three miles, people were like ants and caravans were like snakes. Zhuge Duming looked at the caravans slowly entering the city and smiled contemptuously: "They are just swindlers, full of money, vulgar, and vulgar! Ugh!"
Zhuge Duming spat toward the ground.
Then, he looked up at the sky and said quietly, "How vulgar! These bastards who don't read the saints' books, don't understand the saints' etiquette, and spend their whole lives scheming for personal gain, ah, it is because of these businessmen that the morals of Dayin are declining, morality is degraded, and each generation is worse than the previous one!"
Waving a goose feather fan, Zhuge Duming said leisurely: "The emperor is immoral and unjust, and the empress dowager crows at dawn, which is even more disastrous for the country and the people. The holy emperor should rule the country and have children in the deep palace. The affairs of the world should be left to us, the people of the world, to manage..."
"To win over people with virtue, to govern people with virtue, 'virtue' is the eternal and unchangeable truth of this world."
"I, Zhuge Duming, have wasted thirty years, thirty years... With my 'moral' cultivation, if I had not been delayed by this East Boundary City, would the position of Prime Minister have been his, Zhu Chong's?"
On top of the city walls were Zhuge Duming's confidants and most loyal lackeys.
Hearing Zhuge Duming going crazy again, they all nodded hurriedly, frantically trying to please and agree with what he said.
Zhuge Duming smiled proudly and said, "My ancestor was not as good as me in the cultivation of 'virtue'. If I were in my ancestor's position, how could the Zhu family become a saint? This pattern of a saint and five sub-saints will definitely change."
All the confidants were smiling and hurriedly flattered Zhuge Duming.
Zhuge Duming stood on the city gate tower, looking at the red sun rising in the east, and made another cynical attack.
The Wang family, the Cui family, the Linghu family, and many other well-known and prominent families with cultural and educational backgrounds were severely criticized by him.
Zhuge Duming did not even let his own ancestors go and criticized them. You can imagine how good the words were when he criticized these families.
After ranting for a while, Zhuge Duming suddenly frowned.
On the east bridge, the sunlight lifted away the fog covering the bridge surface, revealing a bridge as smooth as a mirror.
A huge cavalry was rushing towards Dongjie City.
The team was so large that from a distance, one could see a sea of white.
The faint sound of horse hooves, like thunder, was carried over by the wind.
The white clothes were like a tide, and the cavalry was advancing at an extremely fast speed.
Zhuge Duming narrowed his eyes and waved his hand. A deputy general stepped hard on the parapet of the city wall. With the sound of subtle mechanisms, several huge bricks of the city wall slid to the left and right, and a nearly ten-foot-long, complexly constructed machine slowly rose from the city wall.
This is a large telescope with a frame made of fine gold, silver, and red copper, and fitted with more than a dozen large and small crystal lenses.
The exquisite structure and the beautifully polished crystal lenses allow the defenders on the city wall to easily see the image on the other side of the bridge three thousand miles away when the weather conditions are good.
Zhuge Duming leaned in front of a small lens the size of a bowl, stared at it with wide eyes, and then snorted coldly.
"They are from Haojian Palace, don't be nervous. The leaders are my uncles... Tsk, a few old guys, isn't it good to keep them in our family to eat, drink, play and tease the little maids? Who are you doing this for?"
"Tsk, this is a big event, at least 300,000 Haojian Palace disciples. Who has offended them?"
Among the white horse team that was roaring like a tide, more than a dozen riders on fast horses holding flags and banners surpassed the team and rushed to the main gate in the middle of the east side of Dongjie City .
From a long distance, a rebuke as loud as the sound of a sword could be heard from afar.
"Haojian Palace is taking action, where is the commander of Dongjie City?"
Zhuge Duming looked down and cursed in a low voice: "You bastards, where is the commander of Dongjie City? I am your uncle, how can I be so loud and noisy?"
Shaking his head, Zhuge Duming waved his hand and said, "Open the city gate and let them in."
A trusted general was stunned and whispered, "Sir, according to the rules of East Boundary City, any team with more than a thousand people and a certain amount of military strength must be strictly inspected before ..."
"Snap!"
Zhuge Duming slapped the man in the face: "Are you blind? The leaders below are all from my Zhuge clan. Are you saying that they will rebel?"
No one on the city wall dared to say a word.
The next moment, huge mechanical mechanisms made a continuous "clang clang" sound, and dozens of large and small city gates on the east side of Dongjie City rose up at the same time.
