The crowd, wielding weapons, rushed up the mountain!
In the elegant courtyard behind the triple gates, the elderly man whose hair and beard were all white looked at the three sworn brothers, sighed, and walked to the back of the courtyard. He brought out a jar of wine, warming it over the fire. It was the unique Spring-Autumn Drunk from The Number One Manor in the World.
The Fourth Manor Master, Yan Chunqiu, with an imposing na, slowly ward the wine, lifted his head to gaze at the mist that seed like a dragon erging from the sea. He laughed softly, and when he spoke, his tone was still as gentle as ever:
"I had imagined seeing Tingfeng reach such a realm, but I never expected it would be in such a manner."
"She shouldn't have reached this step."
The old man lowered his head, looking at the fire furnace, and softly said:
"She originally had no intention of competing with Mingda for the position of The Number One Manor in the World."
"She loved the Jianghu and its landscapes. She said that with her elder brother's martial arts, wherever she stood would be The Number One Manor in the World."
"That's what she said, but she still couldn't let go..."
The old man stood up and calmly poured three bowls of wine, offering them to the sworn brothers. The taciturn elder and the most benevolent one did not react, but the straightforward Third Manor Master, Bai Yueze, beca extrely angry. He suddenly flicked his sleeve, and a vigorous qi surged, smashing the wine bowls into pieces, splashing wine that dampened Yan Chunqiu's robe.
The old man did not react, rely sitting back in his original place, saying:
"I was there when elder brother gave her the position."
The other three did not show any change in expression, evidently already aware of this matter.
Yan Chunqiu smiled and said:
"She originally was never fond of worldly things, but in the end, she accepted the position. Do you know why? Elder brother also asked her this question at the ti..."
"She told elder brother that she rembered everything that happened here. She loved every plant and tree here, rembered the kindness you all showed her, and said that without these places where everything had once occurred, even if The Number One Manor in the World could be rebuilt, it would no longer be the original manor."
"The manor should have the footsteps of her second master carrying her on a snowy night, the mountain where the third brother scolded her and where she hid, the spring flowers that bloom beautifully at the foot of the mountain, the sound from your side of the mountain, and every place old fifth took her to play when she was young, every place..."
"How vast the world is, anywhere can be ho."
"How small the world is, it must be this place, it must be this place..."
Yan Chunqiu's lips trembled slightly, as if crying or laughing:
"She was willing to take this burden from elder brother's hands to preserve these things."
"In the end, it was what she always wanted to protect that struck her down."
The elderly man slamd the wine bowl heavily against the straightforward elder, raised his head, tears streaming down his face, and cursed: "What a sin..."
......
Li Wu led Dongfang Ximing and others up the mountain. Any Western Region expert who saw this old man's qi chanism wasn't apparent and thought to capture Dongfang Ximing as a hostage was beheaded by the old man in one swift sword stroke. They proceeded unhindered to a higher place, but could go no further.
A massive qi chanism clashed, continuously pressing down, almost making it difficult to breathe.
Li Wu raised a white eyebrow and said: "I can only take two people up. Everyone else must retreat, or their internal organs will be crushed by that qi chanism, even an immortal couldn't save them."
Zhou Shen glanced at the sky almost within reach, sighed regretfully, clasped his hands in salute, and said:
"Thank you, Sword Immortal, for accompanying us this far."
The others were startled and only now realized this old man's identity.
Li Wu felt a chill in his heart, shook his body, cursed, "Sword Immortal, my foot! I'm not much older than you, what do you an old senior, hurry and leave, don't stand around here."
Zhou Shen smiled and complied, leading the One-Leaf Pavilion disciples downward, while the eunuchs and suicide squad behind Li Changxing also went down, leaving only Dongfang Ximing and Li Changxing behind the old man.
The old man took the famous sword that once severed five feet of cold steel without damage from Li Changxing's suicide squad, raised it, slashed, causing the locked qi chanism to collapse backward. He continued slashing repeatedly, finally slicing open a passage, allowing the three to pass through the sea of clouds.
At this mont, within hundreds of li from the First Estate, there was a dark gloom.
Crossing the oppressive sea of clouds, the light suddenly burst forth, and Li Changxing looked around. He saw the endless white fog and cloud qi rolling, like a vast ocean, yet even more vast and boundless, drawing him in.
But just then, a thunderous palm power exploded again, booming incessantly. Li Changxing only felt his ears ringing, nearly falling into the sea of clouds below. Fear surged in his heart, as a hand reached out, clutching Li Wu's robe tightly, just like Dongfang Ximing beside him, afraid that the vigorous qi would blow them off the mountain peak, smashing them into a pool of flesh.
The old man did not respond, his white hair flying, his eyes wide, locking onto the sky that seed empty in the children's eyes. His pupils moved rapidly from side to side. Li Changxing, puzzled, suddenly heard a thunderclap beside him, his body trembling, as two figures appeared in the void.
Li Wu looked at the sinister old man with a hooked nose, his expression icy.
The Western Regions elder, seeing Li Wu, was montarily stunned, then laughed wildly, saying:
"I thought it was soone else, turns out it's the Sword Immortal descending from the Kunlun Mountains."
"The grudge of that sword from years ago, after dealing with The Number One Manor in the World, I'll definitely seek you out for another lesson!"
Li Wu spat, sneering, "A lesson? For twenty years, I've spent half a month each year roaming the Western Regions, yet I've never seen you, old turtle? The Number One Manor in the World is right here, plain as day, yet I've never seen you show up either!"
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