Volume 1: A stone strikes a thousand waves, the world surrounds Li Daosheng Chapter 96: The unreliable people always arrive last
At the end of November, it started snowing lightly. The snow was flying all over the sky. Some fell on the branches, some fell on the mountain paths, and some fell among the bushes. In a word, it covered a vast expanse of white.
At the foot of Lunjian Mountain, from time to time you can see a few swordsmen walking up the mountain on the snow. Their footprints are left on the mountain road , which is long and obstructed, and there are few people on the mountain paths.
The cold comes in my sleeves, and under the blue sky, there is a thin mist.
But there will be more and more people, and everyone knows this. There are few people now, but the time has not come yet.
Where is this Lunjian Mountain?
This is where the World Sword Alliance is held. Once every three years, swordsmen from all over the world will gather here.
The mountain is over a thousand feet high and the road is rugged and steep. Ordinary people can hardly move on the mountain, and even those with poor martial arts skills have to be careful.
And this is only the first half of the journey. In the second half, the road will be cut off, and what remains are cliffs with no path, and there is almost no place for people to stay.
This mountain is like an upright sword. The higher you go, the more blocked the way is. If you want to join the World Sword Alliance, you must climb this mountain. This is the first step, and it is a step that is enough to screen out most of the people in the martial arts world.
After you climb up the mountain, you will see a very wide platform at the top. It is so wide that it seems as if the mountain was cut in half. It is wide enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people.
There are five sword-fighting arenas on this platform. No one knows who left these sword-fighting arenas behind. All we know is that they are the arenas for the World Sword Alliance.
These five sword platforms are large and one small, with the four surrounding one, and all are polished from a huge stone.
When the World Sword Alliance begins, all swordsmen will sit around the sword-discussing arena and compare their swordsmanship on the four large sword platforms.
Someone will go up to the sword stage first and announce his name. Then the one who thinks he can win can go up to the stage and challenge.
In the end, only one person will be left on each of the four great sword platforms, a person that no one can challenge anymore.
These four people will be the greatest swordsmen in the world, and they will compete to become the best swordsman in the world on the small sword stage in the center.
There are no public officials in the World Sword Alliance. All swordsmen in the world are public officials. However, the World Sword Alliance needs to be included in the roster, and going up the mountain is to be included in the roster.
Only those who can climb up this Sword Mountain are qualified to watch the competition between the famous swords in the world.
In previous years, the top four members of the World Sword Alliance were usually four fixed people, Dugu Bufu, Mu Wu, the Confused Taoist (Zhenqing Taoist), and the Old Man Asking for Swords.
But this year, Mu Wu was not here, and his sworn brother Mu Qing didn't even use a sword.
Therefore, many people are discussing who will be the one standing on Mu Wu's sword platform to the end this time, and there are different opinions on the results.
Some say it will be the rising genius Tie Muyi in recent years, some say it will be Li Si, and some say it will be one of the variables.
In short, the results will be out soon, because the World Sword Alliance is about to begin.
One after another, swordsmen have reached the top of the mountain and sat in the snow.
The World Sword Alliance has no time limit. As long as the competition is not completed to the end, it will not end.
Some swordsmen would bring their own food, but most of them would not eat or drink and would sit on the top of the mountain for ten days or half a month.
Anyway, for top-notch masters, not eating or drinking for more than ten days won’t kill anyone.
This is an ascetic practice, but practicing sword is an ascetic practice.
Dugu Bufu arrived on the third day . That day the mountain was covered with snow. He walked on the white snow, wearing a thick coat and a black fur cloak.
He is afraid of the cold, and everyone in the world knows this.
After going up the mountain, he didn't ask anything and didn't say anything. He just found a place and sat down on the ground with his sword in his arms like all the other swordsmen, waiting for the moment when the sword alliance would begin.
Tie Muyi arrived on the fourth day. What was noticeable was that he no longer carried the seven iron swords that were his trademark, but only one. It seemed that the rumors were true, and he had melted his seven swords.
The Swordsman went up the mountain with the Confused Taoist. One of them was coughing, and the other was confused. They looked at the swordsmen all over the mountain and found a place to sit down.
On the fifth day, a foreigner came. He was a swordsman with an extremely huge stature. The sword on his back was as unusually large as he was.
The foreign swordsman looked at everyone present, grinned, and sat cross-legged on the ground with that ugly smile.
By the seventh day, everyone who was supposed to come had arrived, except for one person.
This was the last day before the Sword Alliance began. Theoretically, once tonight was over and the sky was bright the next morning, the Sword Alliance would officially begin. Those who did not come would be considered as having forfeited.
Dugu Bufu rarely closed his eyes, but kept looking at the clouds below the mountain, as if waiting for someone to appear.
It was a pity that the man never came, which made him look a little disappointed.
After another night, no one went up the mountain anymore. The top of the mountain was already full of people, and the wind and snow were a little lighter.
The day is about to dawn. It seems that the man will not come this year. Almost everyone thinks so.
Of course they knew who Dugu Bufu was waiting for.
Some of the people present had seen that man's sword before, but that man was not a swordsman after all, but a thief.
Tie Muyi looked relieved, because if that person came, it would be very difficult for him.
He came here this year to become the number one in the world.
For this purpose, he even copied the scriptures his mother asked him to copy in advance. No one knows what else he does in a year besides practicing sword and copying scriptures. It is not easy for this child to grow up.
At the horizon, a ray of light had gradually emerged from the clouds. Everyone looked up, waiting for the moment when the light would break through.
At this moment, the wind and snow on the side of the sky suddenly became chaotic.
Dugu Bufu frowned first, and then seemed to raise the corners of his mouth.
The old man with the sword coughed and tapped his back. The confused Taoist was rarely confused because he was not awake yet.
Tie Muyi looked helplessly at the sword on his back. The foreign swordsman held his hands and raised his head.
A figure appeared on the horizon. He seemed to be stepping on a wisp of snow , or on a light cloud, and was coming with the wind.
The figure in white fluttered in the air, brushing away the falling snow, and finally landed on the top of the mountain.
There was another person in his arms, a woman holding a sword.
"Phew, luckily I made it in time." Li Si wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with a sigh.
In his arms, the tiger girl, who was being watched by a group of people, blushed and reached out to pinch Li Si's shoulder hard.
"S." Li Si gasped in pain, put the tiger girl down, looked at her and said, "What are you doing?"
Then, he noticed the swordsmen on both sides who were watching them quietly, smiled awkwardly, pointed at the tiger girl and introduced her.
"Well, this is my cousin."
