Outside the tavern, the rain poured down. The middle-aged man in armor told his cavalrymen to move Liang Shu’s dead body onto the horse’s back and take it back to the North Military Government. This military official from the government didn’t even dare to ask about the old Confucian scholar’s background. He would rather explain to the North Military Government than take the risk of being injured or killed by that old Confucian scholar.
Dozens of cavalrymen went away silently in the heavy rain and took away nothing, but Mr. Liang’s life and countless arrows were lost.
In the tavern, Li Fuyao and the old Confucian scholar sat face to face while drinking and had a small talk. The old man was a scholar and occasionally talked about the elementary books those scholars knew but stopped at a certain point in the beginning, being afraid that Li Fuyao knew nothing as he was not a Confucian cultivator. However, in the end, after he found that this boy knew a lot, he
The Confucian scholars of the past said that it was better to walk ten thousand miles than to read ten thousand books, and this old Confucian scholar might be the best example. This old scholar who had been to many places was quite learned, which made Li Fuyao admire him.The rain hadn’t stopped, but the teenage girl finally opened her eyes. Afterward, this girl who slept soundly after drinking some wine soon became sober. She sat straight and then had a look at the tavern’s situation. She didn’t ask but found that it was still raining. Then she sat there and looked calm.The old Confucian scholar drank a lot but didn’t seem to be drunk. Seeing that the girl woke up, he didn’t pay attention to her but stood up. He pulled that middle-aged woman aside and said something. The woman pondered unwillingly for quite a while before nodding.The old Confucian scholar returned to his seat and then stated, “In late spring this year, the Daoist assembly wh
Since the rain stopped and the sun showed up before they came to the tavern, Wang Yanqing thought it was not the right time for him to see that old master yet, so he wasn’t anxious to go to the tavern. He just told the coachman to walk along the official road slowly and listened to Chunshui who was reading the book Travel around the World at the Age of Sixty. He nodded occasionally and his expression didn’t change.The book Travel around the World at the Age of Sixty in Chunshui’s hand was written by a poor scholar, who was travelling for a lifetime. That scholar was at a low stage and wasn’t learned enough, and his writing skill was not very good in Wang Yanqing’s eyes, but the words were affectionate and sincere, and it was a nice book. The scholar whose name wasn’t remembered had only one book handed down in the world. The emperor of Yanling loved this book very much. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have chosen it in person and told Chunshui to take it out of the imperial pal
After leaving the tavern, Li Fuyao and Qing Huai continued to walk northward. This was the north area of Yanling, not far away from the border, so after they walked for a short time, they could reach the border and then the two who had walked for such a long distance together would part with each other. In Li Fuyao’s opinion, what had happened in the tavern was meaningful. Although he had planned to take Liang Shu as his whetstone to finish the first stage of swordsmen, he didn’t take actions and his plan was in vain. However, he didn’t feel disappointed. After all, he had seen two real scholars in the tavern, so he wouldn’t be in a bad mood. But he checked the time these days and found that there was only half a month before the late spring and it was limited, so he thought that Qing Huai wouldn’t go to the Sword Mountain with him. When they were at the border of Yanling, it must be time for them to get separated, so he had a feeling of loss.Li Fuyao had read an essay
The teenage boy in a bad mood walked to Sword Mountain with that broken machete on his back. He left the ferry but didn’t find an official road. The post roads in the Dayu Empire were worse than those in Yanling and Liangxi, and it was much worse at the border, so it was normal that he couldn’t see it.But after he walked along a mountain path for half a day, he saw another great river. This river flew in a different direction from the river at the border. Fortunately, it happened to flow to Sword Mountain’s direction. Li Fuyao stood at the ferry and pondered for a while. Then he went into a medium boat directly, which was not big, so only one boatman rowed. The middle-aged boatman was strong. He smiled and invited Li Fuyao into the boat after receiving his money. There were not many passengers in the boat, only seven or eight. With Li Fuyao added, there were less than ten people. The boatman didn’t tell these people to wait at the ferry till the boat was full. He rowed
In fact, before leaving the boat, Li Fuyao knew that the couple were not ordinary people, not common people at least, but he didn’t need to investigate their identity. Since the couple didn’t intend to harm him, in some words unpleasant to hear, even if they were unforgivable and evil people, Li Fuyao might not take actions. He was not that kind of hero who would like to handle everything unfair with his sword.As a matter of fact, the biggest problem he faced now was not that he didn’t want to be that kind of hero, but he didn’t have the ability.Sword Mountain which was regarded as a sacred place by the swordsmen all over the world was at the border of Dayu, but it was hard to describe its location. At least, it was not marked on the map of Dayu bought by Li Fuyao. Although it was the last place to pass down the swordsmanship and was famous in Dayu, not many people had been there, and fewer people could reach the mountaintop.Li Fuyao with a
Although Liu Yuanlu had the thousand-mile ring given by Li Fuyao, when he rowed to Green Lake, he was still scared. The peaceful Green Lake looked pleasant, but at the thought of the water demon in the lake water, Liu Yuanlu’s arms and legs trembled involuntarily.Meanwhile, Li Fuyao, this teenage boy who brought a broken machete sat on the bow quietly after going board and tried to gather his vital energy in his heart, without revealing it. He didn’t know which stage the water demon was at, but as long as it hadn’t entered the fourth stage, the Fundamental Stage, he could probably fight against it. Not to mention who would win, at least he wouldn’t be swallowed by the demon as soon as he saw it.The boat moved for fifteen minutes. They still couldn’t see the foot of Menchen Mountain, but as they didn’t see the water demon on the way, Liu Yuanlu got relieved.He wiped the sweat on his forehead and asked, “Mr. Li, did this water demon leave to f
Liu Yuanlu dared to bet that most people might wet themselves when they saw such a huge green tortoise, and especially when this tortoise opened a big bloody mouth, but he didn’t. He didn’t wet himself although his legs trembled.However, Liu Yuanlu was open-mouthed when he saw that the teenage boy standing on the bow didn’t dodge but waved the broken machete in his hand after seeing the huge tortoise break the water and emerge. But more than that, this teenage boy didn’t stop after he waved the machete. Instead, he stood on tiptoe at the bow and got several meters taller at once. He kicked the huge tortoise’s head and then chopped it severely with the machete. However, as soon as the tortoise noticed something wrong, it shrank its head into the shell. The broken machete knocked the tortoise’s shell full of green alga and another chip was left on the blade.Li Fuyao was forced to move backward because of this huge force, but when he was tossing in the air,
The huge tortoise was trapped on the lake surface indirectly, and when it wanted to retreat at last, it couldn’t escape, so it was killed by Li Fuyao. Then Li Fuyao got the chance to enter the second stage of swordsmen. The man under the lake thought this thing came to a successful issue, so after the huge tortoise died, he didn’t stay here but returned to the great river where he had been. As for the huge tortoise’s carcass, it was useful, but since Li Fuyao had said that he would give it to the boatman, the man wouldn’t want to grab it. After he went back to his domain, if nothing else, as he planned, he would travel around the rivers within an area of one thousand miles these days and deliverer his decision, in case that there was something wrong.After this fish demon who could be called the top one in the rivers within one thousand miles left here, three people walked out of a shabby temple on the top of Menchen Mountain.The shabby temple was really b