Yan Zhou’s sword posture was strange. Now, he was standing with his left leg on the ground and the other leg on this knee. He leaned backward in an exaggerated way and his white beard and hair were hanging. He looked as if drinking but there was no wine pot on his hand but a sword. The sword grazed across his face and pointed at the ground in a bending manner. He was like an arch bridge.
This posture didn’t sustain too long. Yan Zhou suddenly stood up straight as if an arhat altered his move in the dream. As he twisted and turned around, his robe was like a cutting knife. With a whoosh, he slumped over the ground. The sword went along a weird trajectory and got held into his arms. His body fell with face upward but his collars were still somewhat away from the ground.
Ning Changjiu found the sword posture a bit familiar but he couldn’t recall where he had seen it.
Then, Yan Zhou’s body touched the ground and his hands loosened.
A light was burning dimly in the room. Ning Xiaoling crept into the room and sensed the vague sword Qi. She turned her head and saw her fellow disciple sitting on the bed in meditation alone with a serious countenance. He seemed not to notice her arrival.Ning Xiaoling let out a sigh of relief, thinking that her current cultivation level was too high for her fellow disciple to found her appearance.She snickered and felt more confident about her mastery of the Taoist Hidden Breathing Techniques. Then, she turned around, closed the door gently and sneaked to her fellow disciple to observe his face during cultivation, feeling that he was more or less like the fallen immortal in the story.She was a bit confused. Every wing room was equipped with the cattail hassock for the disciple. Why did her fellow disciple have to sit on the bed for cultivation? Well... The quilt was somewhat messy. Her fellow disciple was always a tidy and decent man.
Lu Jiajia cast an angry glance at her and said, “What do you want to do now?”Ning Xiaoling shrank and wanted to retreat but thinking that if she didn’t try harder, she would be “separated” from her fellow disciple forever. She still braced herself to say, “I just haven’t seen you for a long time. Since we met tonight, I want to...stay with you for a little while.”Lu Jiajia looked at Ning Xiaoling and thought of the month they had spent in the darkness. It was her dereliction of duty that she couldn’t protect them. Hence, she couldn’t help feeling guilty and then said with a soft tone, “What do you want to do with me then?”Ning Xiaoling let out a sigh of relief inwardly and then said, “Master, actually, the more I think, the more I feel something is wrong. I don’t think you came to Changjiu’s room late at night only to talk about this issue.”Lu Jiajia’s face turned slightly cold. She thought, “I’ve given you an inch and y
Lerou slightly leaned aside and looked through the slot between his body and the door.She wanted to let Aunt-master Yazhu catch Ning Changjiu having affairs with Ning Xiaoling but on second thought, she thought since Ning Changjiu was somewhat mysterious at other times, he might be of value. She could use what happened tonight to blackmail him. It would be more fun if she got the goods on him on her own.Therefore, after deliberate consideration, she decided to cope with this alone.“I’m not sure whether my eyes deceived me. Just now, when I got out of my room, I happened to see Xiaoling enter your room,” Lerou looked around and said slowly, “This is not consistent with the rule.”Ning Changjiu answered, “You must have seen it wrong.”Lerou saw the wooden pieces piled up on the ground and felt even surer, saying in a nearly authoritative tone, “Get out of my way. It is still not too late to come clean to me now
In the early morning, the chirps in Tianku Peak were like messy tweedles. The snow on the summit of the peak started to melt and led to a long white fall on the cliff. While the fall flowed into the clouds and scattered in the fogs, the brown branches had sprouted in many gardens down the peak. The sunny day seemed able to make a whole spring.The sword fighting mock in the early spring of the four peaks would be held seven days later. The new assessment of the outer peak would be conducted at the same time. Every year, two or three disciples would be selected to ascend the summit and learn the true swordsmanship of the Oracle Sword Heavenly Sect.These days, many disciples had started to practice swordsmanship on the summit of the peak before the day broke. When the sword was drawn out and taken back, the wrist caused the vibration of the sword tip, leading to sword chirps reverberating through the summit of the peak.This morning’s cla
In the following days, Ning Changjiu’s life became a bit invariable.In the morning class, he accompanied Ning Xiaoling through the sword classics reading. Lu Jiajia would talk of some sword principles in class. Yet, as to these sword principles, Ning Changjiu would overturn them and teach her again on that night.Therefore, most of the time, the sword principles Lu Jiajia talked about were the most confusing to her. She took the opportunity to tell Ning Changjiu and then listened to his opinions at night.In some sense, Ning Changjiu used his profound knowledge gained in two lives to educate Lu Jiajia but they didn’t lay it bare and remained their current relationship.Lu Jiajia thought that she would become used to the feeling as the body forging went on. However, over time, she found her perception increasingly acute. The light of the golden crow was not fierce hammering but a spring breeze. When the spring breeze blew pa
The dark grey fog rolled and foamed. In the extreme darkness, the clouds of fog were like deathly light. Within the grey fog, the smoke and fog were like the intertwining and wriggling snakes. They surged towards the direction where Ning Changjiu fell and yet, didn’t dare to approach him due to the fear for the golden crow’s light.Feeling that he was falling, Ning Changjiu exerted the only consciousness to bite the tip of his tongue. The pain made him gain temporary sobriety. He opened his golden pupils. He couldn’t see the edge of the cliff. Those small snakes formed by the smoke and fog came to his view. There were so many of them, which were like limp corpses taking the shape of a hurricane-like inverted cone. Only by one glance, it would make one’s blood freeze.While falling rapidly, Ning Changjiu thrust around with his sword. Luckily, he didn’t get too far away from the cliff. The sword reached the hard cliff wall shortly.He inje
The light pillar shook with a whistle of the wind. Ning Changjiu’s previous fascination was gone. His eyes sparkled in the sword light. In the depths of his eyes was the stone-like straight face of the old man.The lifeless face of the old man proclaimed as the tomb watcher was shocked by the sword wind. He didn’t expect a junior would attack him.However, it didn’t matter whether he had expected it or not. He reached out his deathly gray fingers which seemed to have been weathered for years. When his fingers hit the blade of Ning Changjiu, they didn’t shiver at all or get injured at all.“Young man, what are you doing?” The tomb watcher’s words were slightly cadenced. His eyes were as turbid as those of a blind man, “You don’t trust me?”Of course Ning Changjiu didn’t believe him. As far as he knew, those reduced to being trapped here should be sinful people in the peak. If the old man was really a capable cultivator, why c
Looking at the old man who bent over his desk recording, Ning Changjiu finally recalled that not only the sword fighting mock but also the exam of the outer peak was held today for a while.He held his head and felt that he had forgotten something important.Having waited for a while, the old man noticed that Ning Changjiu still didn’t speak so he raised his head and asked curiously, “What? Are you too nervous? In this case, just go aside and make way for those who are not nervous.”Ning Changjiu figured that he might as well give it a try since he was here anyway.“How will the exam be carried out?” Ning Changjiu asked.The old man was dazed for a moment and looked up at him with an angry facial expression, saying, “What’s your name? Mr. Sun has spent more than 15 minutes talking about that. And you didn’t hear any of it?”Ning Changjiu didn’t know how to refute him.Ning Changjiu’s su