At Chen time, the sun had just climbed up the mountain, and the residents of Kunshi Town lived by the rule of working at sunrise and resting at sunset. The shops in the town had already opened, and the shopkeeper of the porridge shop selling breakfast was shouting at the door.
Li Xiao and Shi Yu did not stay in the town. They each drank a bowl of porridge and filled their luggage with the food they would need in the future. Li Xiao's wine bag was also filled with wine. It was no longer the cheapest bad wine, but the cheapest.
It was replaced with aged Huadiao.
In Li Xiao's words, now that I have money, I have to buy good stuff, not good stuff if it's cheap.
Shi Yu couldn't say much. After all, the money belonged to Li Xiao, and it was Li Xiao's business how to spend it. Now Li Xiao paid for his food and drinks, so he had no objection.
The life with Li Xiao is far inferior to the life of fine clothing and fine food in Jiujianmen, but this is not a big problem for Shi Yu.
Before being brought into the Nine Swords Sect by Han Qianye, he was born in a peasant family. He lost his parents when he was young and grew up eating the food of hundreds of families.
Han Qianye took a fancy to him, which undoubtedly made him, a country chicken, fly to the branches and become a phoenix. His peers were envious and jealous. Of course, he also suddenly became the public enemy of the talented swordsmen of his generation.
Although he had no worries about food and clothing during his five years in the Nine Swords Sect, his life was not satisfactory. Han Qianye accepted him as an outsider as a disciple, and his peers in the Nine Swords Sect naturally alienated him. Therefore, he had almost no friends in the Nine Swords Sect.
friend.
The only person I can talk about as a friend is a boy of the same age who has no talent for practicing swordsmanship and spends all day cleaning the study room with a broom.
It's just that the young man's status was so low that Shi Yu didn't even see him in the crowd when he left the Nine Swords Sect.
Li Xiao patted Shi Yu on the shoulder, bringing the dazed young man back from his thoughts.
The whole family left Kunshi Town facing the sunrise.
After leaving Kunshi Town, there is no more climbing over mountains and ridges. The pipeline to Jinpan Country is flat, and occasionally pedestrians and carriages pass by, making it a little more crowded.
"The Kingdom of Jinpan is not big. Let's walk quickly and not rest at night. We will try to reach the capital before dawn tomorrow morning." Li Xiao walked in front, taking a sip of wine from time to time. He was very addicted to alcohol.
Shi Yu shook his bag, nodded, and quickly followed Li Xiao's pace.
The two of them walked in silence for two miles. Perhaps it was too awkward, so Shi Yu was the first to break it: "Li Xiao, do you have many friends?"
"Not many, you can even say very few. When I was not famous, I made some fair-weather friends. There are not many who can be considered real friends." Li Xiao said without looking back.
Shi Yu asked: "What about Jin Panguo?"
Li Xiao thought for a moment and then said: "It's a relatively good one."
Shi Yu asked again: "Who is he?"
Li Xiao took a sip of wine and said with a smile: "I am a scholar, and I also like to drink. My drinking capacity is far worse than mine, and the quality of the wine is not good."
After getting acquainted with Li Xiao, Shi Yu talked more. He said, "If he can be friends with you, then he must be very powerful, right?"
Li Xiao shook his head with a smile and said: "My kung fu is not great at all, but my words are very good."
Shi Yu nodded and said, "All scholars are like this."
Li Xiao did not speak and was silent for a short time.
Shi Yu asked: "Now you are naturally a top-notch swordsman in the world. If you compare with a practitioner, what level can you probably reach?"
Li Xiao touched his chin and thought for a while before saying: "I can probably win the Taixu Realm for sure, and I should be able to draw a tie against the Mahayana Realm."
Shi Yu was stunned. Even a top swordsman like Li Xiao could only compete with monks in the Mahayana realm. In this case, it is not unreasonable for people who practice Taoism to be called gods on the mountain.
Shi Yu has been in the Nine Swords Sect for five years and is naturally no stranger to practitioners.
In addition to people like Li Xiao and Han Qianye who are pure martial arts practitioners in the world, there is another type of people who have embarked on the path of spiritual cultivation. These people are usually called practitioners or Qigong practitioners.
They mostly practice in sects on the mountains where spiritual energy is abundant and rarely travel around the world, so they are regarded as mountain gods by the mortals in the world.
What is different from those who practice martial arts is that they have realms divided, from low to high: foundation building, consecration, fusion, heartbeat, golden elixir, Yuanying, out-of-body, distraction, integration, cave, Mahayana, crossing
Tribulation.
There are twelve realms of cultivation, and each realm is a threshold.
It is said that when a Qi practitioner reaches the Golden Core realm, he can control the wind and fly. This is something that ordinary warriors cannot achieve in their entire lives.
A martial artist with good Qinggong skills, like Li Xiao, can fly in the air for short distances. However, flying in the wind like a Qigong practitioner is absolutely impossible.
But after all, Li Xiao is a world-famous swordsman, but he can only compete with the Mahayana realm. So in this way, the martial artist seems to be a bit shorter than the Qi refiner, which makes Shi Yu a little surprised.
"I didn't expect that the best swordsman in the world like you could only be tied with a Mahayana realm Qi practitioner." Shi Yu murmured, feeling a little disappointed for no reason.
Unexpectedly, Li Xiao hit Shi Yu on the head with a chestnut, causing Shi Yu to grimace in pain.
Seeing Shi Yu covering his head and looking confused, Li Xiao rubbed his hair again and said with a smile: "The number one in the world is actually a joke. People in the world are ignorant and short-sighted, but they don't know where the land under our feet is.
Is it a world? It’s just a continent. What I call the world’s best is just a continent.”
Shi Yu was stunned for a moment and asked, "What do you mean?"
Li Xiao breathed a sigh of relief and said: "The world we live in is actually just a continent on the sea. It also has a name, 'Dongsheng Shenzhou'. In addition to our continent, there are eight other continents like this continent in the world.
Sir, so, do you think I am number one in the world?"
Shi Yu stayed where he was. He never imagined that the world he was in now was so big. This was also the first time he heard such a conclusion. Even Han Qianye had never said it before when he was at Nine Swords Gate.
Li Xiao casually grabbed a piece of dogtail grass from the roadside and held it in his mouth. He held his head while walking and said: "The world is bigger than you think, but now you don't have to think so much. How many people spend their entire lives continuously..."
You can't even leave this continent, it's still too far away for you, wait until you can defeat me, and then think about visiting other continents."
Shi Yu suddenly thought of a question and asked, "Have you been to other continents?"
Li Xiao curled his lips, shook his head and said, "No."
Shi Yu asked, "Then how do you know so much?"
Li Xiao chuckled and said, "My friend who is studying said that. He should have been there."
Shi Yu was a little confused and asked, "Didn't you say that his kung fu is not great?"
Li Xiao said nonchalantly: "I didn't say that his cultivation ability wasn't great."
Shi Yu's eyes lit up and he asked, "Is he a Taoist?"
Li Xiao took a sip of wine and sighed: "Yes, and the cultivation level is not low."
Then Li Xiao became a little annoyed and continued: "When he crossed the sea with his sword, I should have followed him shamelessly, otherwise I wouldn't have even left Dongzhou until now."
Shi Yu scratched his head and asked, "He also uses a sword?"
Li Xiao nodded and said: "Not only do we swordsmen use swords, but they Qi practitioners also use swords. These people are called sword cultivators. The difference with us is that their swords are not held in their hands, but in the sky."
fly."
Shi Yu's eyes were full of brilliance, and the young boy immediately became interested in sword cultivators who could fly with swords.
Li Xiao slapped Shi Yu on the forehead, laughed and scolded: "You haven't learned to walk yet, and you want to fly?"
Shi Yu scratched his head awkwardly.
Li Xiao then added: "From now on, you can only practice swordsmanship with me as a swordsman. If you want to practice as a swordsman, you must defeat me first."
Shi Yu could only nod with a wry smile.
At this time, another seed was planted in the young man's heart. One day, he would definitely like that sword cultivator, ride a sword across the sea, and visit other continents.
Of course, the prerequisite is to practice swordsmanship first and travel all over the continent with a sword.
Li Xiao talks a lot less recently, and Shi Yu doesn't speak unless he asks him. So Shi Yu breaks the silence every time.
Shi Yu asked a question that he had always wanted to know but no one could tell him: "Li Xiao, since there are gods, ghosts and demons in the world, can a Qi practitioner really become an immortal?"
Originally, he didn't believe in ghosts and gods before, but after meeting the female ghost in red in Kunwu Mountain, he couldn't help but disbelieve.
"Of course!" Li Xiao nodded. "Otherwise, why is the last stage of a Qi Master called transcending tribulation? What does transcending tribulation do? Isn't it just to transform into an immortal?"
Shi Yu frowned and asked, "Are there really many people who have become immortals?"
Li Xiao shook his head and said sadly: "When the tribulation was passed, six heavenly tribulations fell from the sky. Those who survived were immortals. If they could not survive, they would not even have the chance to be reincarnated. This natural chasm has blocked the way to heaven for so many practitioners. How can it be so great?
It’s difficult, let alone becoming an immortal, how many people in the world have reached this level?”
Shi Yu was indifferent.
Once you enter the path of immortality, you will ascend to heaven. If you don't enter the gate of heaven, you will turn into ashes.
But there are so many people who, throughout their entire lives, cannot even see the edge of catastrophe.
The life of a person who practices Taoism seems to be much more tiring than that of a person who practices martial arts.
"So, what's so good about cultivating Taoism? What about practicing swordsmanship, or becoming an immortal? It's not as good as swordsmen like me who can use their swords as they please, kill people as they please, or drink as they please." Li Xiao walked in front, drinking heavily, his clothes fluttering, and he was cool and unrestrained.
Pleasure.
Seeing Li Xiao like this, Shi Yu's melancholy dissipated a bit.
He quickly caught up with Li Xiao, grabbed the wine bag from Li Xiao, took a swig, and said boldly: "Kill one person in ten steps, and leave no trace in a thousand miles!"
Li Xiao kicked Shi Yu on the butt and scolded him with a smile: "I expect you to kill people, why don't you just point your fingers at the shit? Don't be like those scholars who chew on words, but don't say it yet, these two lines of poetry are really good."
Shi Yu scratched his head and smiled, and said, "Isn't this something I learned under the influence of Great Swordsman Li?"
Li Xiao laughed loudly, put his big hand on Shi Yu's forehead, and said: "Not bad, not bad, I have learned how to flatter and make progress. This is what young people should be like. It's great to be full of energy, but lifeless all day long."
What's going on?"
"But having said that, when we get to the capital of Jinpan Kingdom, I have to buy you a wine bag. Otherwise, what's the point of your kid always stealing my wine?"
Shi Yu smiled and said, "I prefer gourds."
Li Xiao held the young man's hand, laughed endlessly, looked up to the sky, took a sip of wine, and said, "Then gourd." This chapter has been completed!