Lu Qingshan's vision was still blurry, but his tense heartstrings relaxed again and again the moment Xia Daoyun appeared.
The scene of a young man and woman reuniting after a long separation really looks like a scene from a strange story novel.
Especially when one party is in a life-or-death crisis and is about to die in the next moment, the other party comes down from the sky with a sword, as if arriving at the exact time. This kind of reunion is even more fictional than a novel.
The only difference is... the stories in books are usually about a hero saving a beauty, but why is it the other way around for this former master and apprentice pair?
The extremely domineering declaration "As long as I, Xia Daoyun, am here, no one can kill him" made Lu Qingshan, who was in a daze and had a gloomy face, laugh unconsciously - anyone who heard this would think that he was a gigolo who was living off Xia Daoyun, and that he was really unreasonable.
But... just eat it. There are so many people who want to eat it but can’t.
The next moment, Lu Qingshan, who had been holding back his breath, finally let out a breath of relief, then closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.
He knew that Luohou's incarnation was very powerful, but he trusted Xia Daoyuan more.
Why need it be light green and light red? It is already the best among flowers.
Just this one comment from the old sect leader Xie Qingyun is enough.
First, it’s not just about appearance, but also talent. There is only one in a generation, or even less.
In this era, Xia Daoyuan is the only one who deserves this description.
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Qin Yitian hurriedly supported Lu Qingshan who was about to fall down.
"Take good care of him." Xia Daoyun stood in front of the two of them, without turning his head, and said in a cold voice.
Qin Yitian pursed his lips, nodded heavily, and then supported the unconscious Lu Qingshan and flew away from the battlefield.
The farther the better.
Because she couldn't be sure how many innocent people would be affected by the fight between the two.
The four green eyes of Luohou's incarnation narrowed slightly, and he just looked at Xia Daoyun.
He seemed not to care at all about Qin Yitian and Lu Qingshan's departure.
"Sword Immortal?" After looking for a long time, Luo Hou's incarnation nodded towards Xia Daoyun, as if exchanging greetings with him, "No wonder he dared to say such a thing."
"The human race has many talented sword cultivators. The two Sword Immortals have been gone for only a few years, and someone has already taken their place. You, and him... If that kid doesn't die today, it will only be a matter of time before he becomes a Sword Immortal."
"He will definitely not die today." Xia Daoyun interrupted the incarnation of Luohou with a cold voice.
“Although I still want to know how you ended up here, I don’t think you will answer,” Luo Hou smiled grimly, “In that case, let me test whether your sword as a new female swordsman can match those three!”
Xia Daoyun remained silent, her blue dress fluttering in the wind.
She held the hilt of the ancient sword called Niu Er with both hands, with the tip of the sword pointing downward, and then pressed down hard.
"Falling sword!"
The burly incarnation of Luohou sneered without saying a word, his face remained calm, but a strange color flashed in his eyes.
No wonder this woman could become a sword immortal in such a short time, it turned out that she had inherited the greatest fortune of the human race.
At this moment, the vast polar night, the sky full of snow and wind, was instantly cut into countless criss-crossing gullies.
It's the sword light.
Millions of sword lights raged in the sky, using the night sky as a chessboard to draw chess lines, the scene was spectacular.
With the blood of Xia Zu, the inheritance of Jian Zong, and the sword of Li Qiubai, how could he be disappointing when he has these three in one body?
The incarnation of Luohu stood still, allowing the chessboard in the sky to fall towards him, and then became the one who broke the game.
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In the blue sky, a man and a woman were flying their swords for thousands of miles, but their postures were a little strange.
The slender woman carried the man on her back, and the man had his arms around the woman's neck.
The man's face looked very ugly and pale, but it was worth mentioning that even his pale face could not conceal his handsome appearance.
The woman's complexion was not much better, it was as pale as gold paper and waxy yellow, but again, her bad complexion could not hide her beautiful appearance.
They look like a pair of desperate mandarin ducks who share the same suffering.
The woman glanced at the particularly conspicuous border mountain range in the distance and said softly, "After passing this mountain range, we will be out of the Black Armor Region."
The man pulled the corners of his mouth, smiling with difficulty but relaxed, "Master..."
"You have already started your apprenticeship." The woman interrupted the man directly.
The man thought about it, as if he was thinking about what would be the most appropriate way to address her. After thinking for a moment, he spoke again.
"Dao Yun..." This name was a little strange, whether it was for a man or a woman, so after it was said, both of them were stunned for a moment.
"Are you a sword immortal?"
"Well," Xia Daoyun, the first female sword immortal in human history, hummed softly with a nasal sound, and explained in a neither light nor heavy tone: "Xia Zun passed the throne to me, and then I spent ten years walking the path that Chang'an Sword Immortal walked in the past, and by the way gathered the luck of Great Xia, and finally promoted to Sword Immortal in the East China Sea."
Facing Jieshi in the east, I can see the vast ocean.
After traveling all over the human realm, she sat in meditation on a reef in the East China Sea for a year before finally developing her own sword path.
The man Xia Daoyun was carrying on her back could only be Lu Qingshan.
Three days had passed since he had swung the Full Moon Sword. Although he had regained consciousness and woken up, he was still far from catching his breath, and he didn't even have the ability to move.
Being in a foreign land, facing many dangers, they had to leave as soon as possible. When Xia Daoyun offered to carry him on her back, Lu Qingshan didn't care about being pretentious.
At this moment, Lu Qingshan's throat was a little dry, and his breathing unconsciously became much heavier. "I passed the throne to you..."
Xia Daoyun said it lightly, but the significance of this sentence is hard to imagine.
In other words, Xia Daoyun's current identity is...
Empress!
Thinking of this, Lu Qingshan widened his eyes unconsciously.
From this angle, he couldn't see Xia Daoyun's face, he could only catch a glimpse of her profile through her hair.
"Hmm." Xia Daoyun responded with a light nasal sound, then twisted her neck unconsciously - Lu Qingshan's unintentionally heavy breathing fell on her skin through his hair, making her feel a little itchy, and a strange feeling that she had never experienced before and was hard to describe arose in her heart.
"Why did you appear in that place at that time?" After a moment of silence, Lu Qingshan asked again.
The abyss is as vast as the sky. Trying to find a person with no news is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Even if he is a sword immortal, there is no reason for him to descend from the sky. Even if there is someone who can do such a thing, it can only be Xia Zu.
What's more, how did Xia Daoyun know that she was in danger?
"Daxia has ruled the sky for 20,000 years, protected the human race, and the world has been united for 20,000 years. As a result, the fate of the country has long been inseparable from the destiny of the human race and has become one." Xia Daoyun explained.
When Daxia prospers, the human race prospers, and vice versa.
"As the lord of Daxia, the fate of the country is concentrated in one person, and accordingly, I also possess the mysterious ability to see the qi."
"When I became a sword immortal, I saw that the luck of the human race increased by one point out of thin air..." The reason why it increased so much was, of course, not only because the human race had one more sword immortal, but also because this sword immortal was the ruler of Da Xia.
"But that's not all. At the same time, the purple air came from the east, and the luck of the human race inexplicably increased by half a point, and it continuously gathered from the distant abyss."
Lu Qingshan was silent.
He already fully understood the reason why the Seven Tribulations Realm Advanced Task [When the Time Comes, Heaven and Earth Will Be of One Power] was suddenly completed - at that moment, it was when Xia Daoyun ascended to the level of Sword Immortal.
No matter what, Xia Daoyun is the master of Jianlai Peak of the Sword Sect.
Her becoming a sword immortal meant that the Sword Sect had one more sword immortal.
The Sword Sect now had a new sword immortal, so as the Sect's leader, he naturally gained more luck and thus completed the task of advancing to the Seven Tribulations Realm ahead of schedule.
As for the fact that the human race's luck increased by half a point, it was probably because of him.
However, Xia Daoyun, the empress of Great Xia, achieved the status of a sword immortal, which only increased the luck of the human race by one point. Could his advancement from the sixth calamity realm to the seventh calamity realm actually increase the luck of the human race by half a point?
Why?
"The abyss is the devil world and the greatest enemy of our Sky. It has been suppressing and weakening the luck of our human race for the past 20,000 years. How could it possibly do something that would boost the luck of our human race?" Xia Daoyun continued.
"After I returned to Chang'an, I learned that you had gone deep into the Demon Realm alone."
Lu Qingshan's trip to Linyuan was a secret among secrets. Apart from Yu Canghai, Xue Wushao, Ji Chuan and Li Shiyi, he also told Xia Zhao - as the supreme ruler of Great Xia, he must ensure that information is fully and smoothly available in order to make better decisions.
"Plus, the coincidence of the purple air coming from the east is obviously related to my achievement of being a sword immortal. From this point of view, the source of this half increase in luck for the human race must be you who is in the abyss and was once my apprentice."
After a pause, Xia Daoyun continued, "More than a month ago, I discovered that the half of my luck that had just increased began to dissipate again, like a hundred rivers flowing, gathering from all over the sky and flowing into the abyss. I knew that something must have happened to you."
More than a month ago, Luo Qiantuo obeyed Luohou's order and retreated from the front line to the Black Armor Region just to kill Lu Qingshan.
"So I followed the path of this scattered destiny, walked through the Tianhe Sea, entered the Demon Realm from the border of the Liyang Realm controlled by the Beimang Demon Clan, and finally found the source of this scattered destiny, which is you."
When Lu Qingshan heard this, he couldn't help but grin.
The ability to observe qi was originally intended to facilitate Xia Daoyun's governance of the country, but because he was a special existence who could influence the destiny of the human race, the art of observing qi was used for navigation only for him.
It's amazing.
"Nonsense," Xia Daoyun couldn't help but scolded him at this point, "Let's not talk about sneaking into the Demon Realm alone, but you are making such a fuss that you don't take your life seriously."
She already knew what Lu Qingshan had been doing in the Black Armor Region during this period of time.
Lu Qingshan smiled helplessly, not daring to explain or refute.
Just because his luck was running out and he knew he might be in danger, but he had no idea what the danger was, Xia Daoyun just ignored it and flew his sword for thousands of miles from Chang'an City in the sky to the Black Armor Region in the abyss without stopping for a moment, for fear of missing out.
In the end, after finally finding him, Xia Daoyun didn't even have time to catch her breath before she had to fight a life-and-death battle with the incarnation of Luohou who mysteriously appeared after disappearing for decades. After that, she had to flee with this burden. She really didn't have time to breathe.
Faced with such efforts, how could he, feeling guilty, dare to talk back?
At the moment, Lu Qingshan was in a terrible condition, and Xia Daoyun was not much better. Not only was his face as pale as gold paper, but the Qi in his body was extremely disordered and causing chaos everywhere - the power of Luohou's incarnation was far beyond Lu Qingshan's imagination. Even though Xia Daoyun was already a sword immortal, he was no match for him.
In their first fight, Xia Daoyun controlled the sword light, turned it into a chessboard, and dropped from the sky, but it was easily broken by the incarnation of Luohou. After that, Xia Daoyun tried his best, but the incarnation of Luohou still countered his moves and walked leisurely in the garden.
If it weren't for some unknown reason, the incarnation of Luohou always paused from time to time when attacking, as if he was restrained by some shackles and unable to exert his full strength, and his energy stopped at the critical moment, giving Xia Daoyuan an opportunity, she might not have been able to escape unscathed.
The two people who survived the disaster were a little nervous at this moment.
"How can an incarnation become so powerful in decades? It is even not inferior to Luohou's original body." Lu Qingshan couldn't understand.
He was certain that there must be a secret in this, and it was impossible to replicate - if it could be replicated, the human race would have ceased to exist long ago.
The question is what happened.
At this level, the vague sense of existence of heaven and man made him realize that this matter was much more complicated than what he saw on the surface.
Whether it was the sudden appearance of Luohu's incarnation, or his skyrocketing strength and abnormal performance during the battle, they all seemed too unreasonable.
——Xia Daoyuan’s appearance was due to fate, so how do we explain the appearance of Luohou’s incarnation?
In silence, the two finally crossed the border of the Black Armor Domain and entered the Burning Moon Domain belonging to the Soldier Demon Clan.
Xia Daoyun is now injured, and has the added burden of Lu Qingshan. If she were to leave the Yang Territory and return to the Human Territory from the Tianhe Sea as she did when she came here, it would take too long and she would most likely be hunted down, so she could only take the risk of going through the Burning Moon Territory, which takes the shortest time, and return to the Eastern Territory from there.
Of course, this also means that there is a war that cannot be avoided.
Because the Burning Moon Region and the Eastern Region are connected by a space channel, and on the other side of the space channel, there is a demon city guarding it.
They had already left the Black Armor Domain and entered the Burning Moon Domain. The Asuras and the Soldier Demons were not on good terms. If Rāhu's incarnation wanted to hunt them down again, he would not be able to do so as recklessly as he did in the Black Armor Domain. Xia Daoyun breathed a sigh of relief.
She glanced at the mountains stretching for thousands of miles below and said, "Let's find a safe place to heal first."
Both she and Lu Qingshan really needed to rest for some time at this moment.
The Mount Everest below is located on the border between the Black Armor Region and the Burning Moon Region. It is far away from the demon city, rarely visited by demons, and full of ferocious wild beasts. It is the most suitable place for recuperation at the moment.
Of course, both of them knew that this was a very risky decision. Since Luo Qiantuo was able to find Lu Qingshan in the wilderness, it meant that Luo Qiantuo mastered a special tracking method.
It is possible that the incarnation of Rahu may also be able to master this tracking method.
But Lu Qingshan and Xia Daoyun had no choice because their physical condition was really not optimistic.
Xia Daoyun chose a steep mountain several hundred feet high, then found a cave on the mountain wall surrounded by ancient trees, and took Lu Qingshan there temporarily.
After putting Lu Qingshan down from his back, Xia Daoyun's eyes flashed with golden light and he looked at Lu Qingshan first.
In her eyes, the half of the human race's luck that had been constantly dissipating finally stopped dissipating at this moment. Of course, it had not yet begun to recover.
This scene was just like when Xia Zhao was standing on the wall of Yanlan Pass and looking east when the Sword Sect marched west.
"We're out of danger for the time being, but we still can't let our guard down." Xia Daoyun said coldly.
Seeing that Lu Qingshan had just stood up with difficulty and was about to fall again, Xia Daoyun frowned, rushed to his side, and supported Lu Qingshan to prevent him from falling to the ground.
"How bad is your situation now?"
Lu Qingshan took a long breath and looked inward.
Not only did he feel weak all over, but his meridians were also aching and twisted. Fortunately, he only lost his life source, not his cultivation.
Lu Qingshan couldn't lie in front of Xia Daoyun, so he could only speak honestly: "In order to kill Luo Qiantuo, I used 30% of my life essence to strike him with my sword. Logically speaking, taking away 30% of my life essence in an instant should be enough to kill a cultivator, but I was probably still young, and the vitality of my life essence couldn't be measured by common sense, so I was lucky enough to make it through."
"Of course, even if he didn't die, after paying such a huge price, he would almost become a disabled person."
With such a serious injury, even if Lu Qingshan recovers, he will suffer from extremely serious sequelae.
For example... Xia Daoyun's eyes "casually" swept across Lu Qingshan's almost white head, with mixed feelings.
After one sword strike, the black hair turned white.
"However, I am very lucky," Lu Qingshan said softly to comfort him, "The Immortal Whale once gave me a chance to survive. With this chance, I will be able to recover to my full potential sooner or later."
In the Tianhe Sea, the Whale God Zhuo gave Lu Qingshan a chance of life, which was used as a proof for Lu Qingshan to communicate with the Changsheng Whale Drum and as a reward for Lu Qingshan's help.
The vitality was so strong that it was unimaginable. It was enough to save his life at the critical moment.
And now is that critical moment.
At this moment, deep inside Lu Qingshan's body, a rich green light full of vitality was continuously releasing vitality, flowing through Lu Qingshan's body and healing his injuries.
If it weren't for the gift from the Immortal Whale, how could he have regained consciousness and woken up so quickly?
"You have a lot of opportunities." Xia Daoyun said.
"It's not just chance, there are many means as well. Even though I'm a sword immortal now, I can't say that I can definitely put Luo Qiantuo in such a situation." After knowing that Lu Qingshan was safe, Xia Daoyun finally had the heart to think about other things. Then he thought of Luo Qiantuo, who was almost unrecognizable in human form when he arrived at the battlefield.
"It's a pity that I couldn't kill him, I was almost there..." Thinking of Luo Qiantuo, Lu Qingshan couldn't help feeling heartbroken.
Even if Rāhu's incarnation appeared a moment later, Luo Qiantuo would have been deader than dead.
Of course, he is the same.
Even if Xia Daoyun arrived a moment later, he would have already died.
So, is this God's will?
Lu Qingshan looked at Xia Daoyun, wanting to say something but finding it difficult to open his mouth.
During his not-so-long cultivation career, any cultivator whose cultivation level he caught up with would only see the gap between them getting bigger and bigger, and eventually be left far behind by him.
The only exception was Xia Daoyun. It was clear that the difference in their cultivation was almost zero, but Xia Daoyun achieved the status of Sword Immortal before him and left him behind.
Whether it was the former identity of his master or the pressure brought by his current cultivation as a sword immortal, Lu Qingshan found it difficult to speak.
Moreover, in some aspects, Lu Qingshan did think that he was not very good at it.
As if seeing Lu Qingshan's hesitation and hesitation, Xia Daoyun suddenly asked, "What is that sentence?"
"Um?"
"What was the sentence you should have said to me at that time?" Xia Daoyun was very patient.
Lu Qingshan gritted his teeth and finally spoke.
"Dao Yun, apart from practicing swordsmanship, have you ever thought about matters of the heart before?" he asked.
"No, except for the sword," Xia Daoyun shook his head calmly and said, "I see all living things as grass and trees."
As expected... Lu Qingshan had expected this, but he couldn't help but feel disappointed.
"But you are different." Looking at Lu Qingshan's eyes that suddenly dimmed, Xia Daoyun raised the corners of his mouth slightly and said softly: "Only you are...Qingshan."
Lu Qingshan looked up suddenly as if struck by lightning, staring straight into Xia Daoyun's eyes, which were as majestic as mountains and rivers.
Xia Daoyun did not dodge or evade, and was very open and confident.
I see how charming the green mountains are.
I guess the green mountains see me like this.