The barrier at Yuchikou was opened, and all the people who came here rushed to Yuchikou, and the capital became much desolate.
In a drug store somewhere on the street, a young man in white left the store carrying a bag of medicine.
The young man did not carry his sword today, and the two swords that accompanied him all the way were left in the inn.
When Shi Yu got up in the morning and went to knock on Li Xiao's door, no one responded for a long time. After pushing the door open, he found that the room was empty. The bedding was neatly stacked on the bed, and there was a cloth bag on the bed.
Li Xiao left behind a bag of silver when he left.
Last night, Helian Xue slept on the bed, and Shi Yu slept soundly on the table.
I got up early, took the money bag left by Li Xiao and left the inn. When I left, I asked the shopkeeper, and I found out that Li Xiao had kept two rooms for three more days when he left.
"Young man, has the barrier at Yuchikou been released?"
A woman's voice came from behind.
Shi Yu looked around and saw a blind woman carrying a big sword standing side by side with a woman wearing black clothes and a bamboo hat.
Shi Yu nodded and said with a smile: "It's already opened. You two should go early, otherwise many opportunities will be taken by others first."
"Thank you!"
The two of them thanked each other and headed out of the city.
Shi Yu turned his back to the two of them and walked towards the inn.
When I entered the inn, I met a strange person. He was a Taoist with gray clothes and tied hair. He looked about the same age as Shi Yu.
The Taoist saw Shi Yu when he stepped out of the inn. He was a stranger to him, but he nodded in greeting.
Shi Yu had no choice but to nod in response, but didn't take it to heart and just thought it was a mistake.
When he returned to his room, Shi Yu asked the shopkeeper to borrow a medicine jar to make medicine.
Stopping at the door of the room, Shi Yu knocked on the door and heard the woman inside say "come in."
Then he pushed open the door and entered.
Helianxue had already gotten up, washed her face, and sat on the edge of the bed. When she saw Shi Yu come in, she smiled at him.
Shi Yu smiled back, put the medicine bag on the table, and said, "You rest first, I'll make the medicine, and I'll call you when I'm ready."
Helianxue nodded.
Shi Yu opened the medicine package and poured the medicinal materials into the medicine jar.
The familiar man took out the fire stick and lit the brazier, blew a few breaths into the flames, and when the fire ignited, he took the medicine jar and went downstairs to get water.
When I came up, I had two more sticks of dry firewood in my hand.
He stuffed the dry firewood into the brazier and placed the medicine jar on top. Then he wiped the sweat from his forehead and sat on a chair to rest for a while.
Seeing Shi Yu's skillful operation, Helianxue, who was sitting on the bed, became a little curious.
This young man doesn't look like he was born into poverty, neither in his clothes nor in his sword. How can he be so skilled at such menial work?
He couldn't help but ask: "Do you often make medicine?"
Hearing Helianxue's question, Shi Yu turned to look at her, smiled, and said, "When I was very young, my mother was ill in bed, and I was the one making medicine every day."
Speaking of this, Shi Yu remembered when he was five or six years old, when his father simply passed away, but his mother was bedridden for a long time and suffered a lot before passing away with reluctance.
Seeing that Shi Yu was in a low mood, Helianxue stopped asking any more questions and changed the subject: "By the way, I don't know what your name is yet."
"Shi Yu." Shi Yu smiled and said, "What about you?"
"Xianji City, He Lianxue." He Lianxue leaned on the edge of the bed with both hands, her eyes falling on the young man's face.
Shi Yu had heard of Xuanji City. It was said that it was originally built by the Mohists to resist the monsters from the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain. Later, the Confucian saints of Dongzhou reached some kind of agreement with the monsters, so that the monsters and the humans were not in conflict with each other.
The machine city will no longer be able to play its original role.
But after all, it was Xuanji City that fought most fiercely with Ten Thousand Beast Mountain, so the two have always had an incompatible relationship.
Shi Yu probably figured out the link and guessed the identity of the man in white who was fighting with Helian Xue at the gate of the city.
Seeing that Shi Yu stopped talking, He Lianxue asked, "What is your relationship with Brother Li?"
Regarding this question, Shi Yu could only smile bitterly. How should I put it? Is he an sworn enemy? Is he half a master? None of them seem right.
Then he said: "He is... not really a friend."
Helian Xue frowned slightly, obviously not very satisfied with the answer, but she didn't ask any more questions.
He Lianxue didn't speak, and Shi Yu became even more silent. He simply took out the sword manual he got from the study in the forest and started to study it.
When Helianxue saw this, he didn't take the initiative to talk to her. She sat cross-legged on the bed and did exercises to heal her injuries.
Recuperation for those who practice Taoism is naturally much simpler than that for those who practice martial arts. They only need to circulate the true energy in the body and attack the veins blocked by congestion, while those who practice martial arts can only rely on medicine to remove congestion and wait for the body to recover naturally.
Therefore, three days was enough for Helianxue. Even if he could not return to his peak state, he could still move freely without the need for others to take care of him.
Shi Yu looked out of the corner of his eye at Helianxue, who was healing his wounds with his eyes closed.
Not only is her hair white, but her skin is also fair, with long eyebrows and red lips. When he closes his eyes, his long eyelashes flicker, adding a bit of playfulness. Shi Yu doesn't know what other people think of him, but in his eyes, he is indeed a person.
beauty.
After just looking at it, Shi Yu withdrew his gaze and read the sword manual.
This sword manual is very strange. It doesn't teach people to practice swords at first, but it makes people do something that sounds simple but is very difficult to do.
Draw a circle with one hand and a square with the other.
It was not that Shi Yu had never seen a similar scene before, but he had seen it in a widely circulated chivalrous novel, but he didn't expect that it could really be used in sword practice.
Shi Yu took out a piece of burnt charcoal from the brazier and squatted on the ground to try it. After several attempts, he only frowned. Instead of drawing two circles, he drew two squares, and then it was crooked, neither round nor square.
He can probably guess the intention of this move. Since it is a two-handed sword, it must cooperate with both hands to achieve maximum effect. If the two-handed sword is used together, then one sword will not have much effect.
But this dual-purpose thing is even more difficult for a meticulous person like Shi Yu.
After practicing for half an hour, Shi Yu lost his patience, threw the charcoal back into the brazier, and wiped off the crooked marks on the ground.
I stood up, opened the lid of the pot, and felt that it was almost done, so I found a bowl and poured the medicine into the bowl. I carried the medicine jar downstairs and filled it with water again, then hurried back to the room and put it on the brazier.
A medicine needs to be boiled twice to get all its properties out, which he has known since he was a child.
After doing all this, Shi Yu glanced at He Lianxue and saw that she was still meditating. He picked up the two swords on the table, walked out of the room, closed the door gently, and went to Li Xiao's room.
After entering the house, he placed the white sword Shuangsheng on the table, pulled out the other sword Jingzhe, and began to practice the "Nine Sword Jue" of the Nine Swords Sect.
Every sword move in the Nine Sword Jue is not difficult. Shi Yu has been practicing for five years and has long been familiar with it. However, it is just empty and useless.
It is not difficult for Shi Yu to complete the nine postures. What is difficult is that starting from the third posture, it is difficult to grasp the essence of that word.