[Xianjian + Ancient Sword Colleague] Being a master is also a kind of practice

The slight sound came from nowhere.It was faintly audible at first, but later it became a melody.

The sound of the zither is faint, like weeping and complaining, with three parts tactful and three parts sad, as if the qin player has infinite sadness hidden in his heart, so he has to put it all into the rhyme of the piano.

Shen Bailing still remembered Ruan Ci at the beginning, but the sound of the piano became more and more clear, as if it was approaching from all directions, and he couldn't help but listen to it.

The sound of the qin became more and more mournful, and the strings became sharper between setbacks. It was obvious that the person who played the qin could no longer contain the pain in his heart, but was instead drawn by the sound of the qin. Above the apex of the heart, even Shen Bailing, who has no rhythm, can't help but feel a sense of despair.

Gradually, a burst of sobbing caught in the strings, seemed to be a young woman, probably the person who played the piano.Her voice was delicate and tender, even though she was crying, it was as euphemistic and melodious as an oriole weeping blood.I only heard her cry: "...you have forgotten all the feelings of the past, so why should I remember it! You...you are so cruel, okay, okay, you will definitely owe me what you owe me in the future." Come back for everything!" The words were full of resentment, obviously deeply hurt.

Shen Bailing heard it in his ears, but his mind moved, thinking: Who is this woman?This voice... this voice is so familiar.

Just at this time, only a few sounds of "Zheng, Zheng" were heard, and the string of the qin was finally unbearable and broke.The sound of the piano stopped abruptly.The woman's crying disappeared immediately.

The sky was filled with white mist, and Shen Bailing walked for an unknown amount of time. There was no sound in the surroundings, and there was no one around, so his heart gradually became anxious.Suddenly there was a breeze in front of him, and there was a very elegant sweet fragrance in the wind. Shen Bailing was very familiar with this fragrance. He followed his mother to make incense every day, so he could tell that it was the iris that Shen Danqing often used to smoke his clothes. fragrant.

Shen Bailing hurriedly followed the scent and ran forward a few steps, but unexpectedly, there was a sound of splashing water under his feet, and the last step was actually stepping into the water.The fog gradually thinned, revealing the scene behind.But seeing the sparkling water, the clear water, and the soft yellow sand gradually spreading out, it vaguely looks like the beach of Bailingzhou.

Shen Bailing walked up to the lake beach, walked a few steps forward on the gravel, and saw red flashes behind a big rock. Turning around the big rock, he saw a person lying on the sand, half of his body lying in the gravel, half of his body submerged in the lake water, full of blood. The body is vermilion, and the qiluo robe flutters with the water.

Before Shen Bailing could get closer to take a closer look, the man suddenly struggled to half sit up from the gravel, his hair like a dark cloud poured down behind his head, revealing a pale face with furrowed brows and dull autumn eyes. Shen Bailing's mother, Shen Danqing.

"Aniang?" Shen Bailing's shock was no small matter, but Shen Danqing didn't hear it.

She opened and closed her lips and couldn't stop panting, her face showed a look of extreme pain, but her hands were clasped to grasp the clear green lake water, there was a splash of water, and a white foam slowly floated up. Wisps of blood, the blood mixed in the lake and gradually spread, but Shen Danqing's hands seemed to find something underwater, holding something out of the water.

Before Shen Bailing saw what it was, he heard a cry, the voice was very loud, and it came from Shen Danqing's hand.He was stunned, thinking blankly: This baby...could it be that this baby is actually me?

Now that this idea came into his mind, he paid extra attention to Shen Danqing, after a few glances, he felt that although his mother's face was haggard like he had never seen before, she was indeed younger than he remembered.

Could this be Aniang's dream?Shen Bailing thought to himself, and couldn't help taking a few steps closer, wanting to see what he looked like when he was young, but there was another strange wind, and the white mist came up like a curtain, covering the lake beach.The lake, the beach, the mother in red and the little baby all vanished into nothingness in an instant, and they went nowhere.

At this moment, the fog in Shen Bailing's mind was probably much more unpredictable than the dense fog in front of him. He couldn't figure it out after thinking about it in every possible way. If it was all in his own mind, this dream would be too bizarre.

Just as he was thinking, another human voice could be heard in the mist.

This time it was a young man with a completely unfamiliar voice, and he said loudly: "Brother Qingyang, we have a teacher on our side, so we should go to Huangshan quickly and don't delay, the matter of Shouyang will not be delayed until another day."

The person who answered was probably a young man, and he sighed: "Killing demons and harming people, and saving the people from fire and water, is what we should do. How can it be too late? If we don't know about it, it's fine. Now that our nephew’s message has been seen by us, how can we ignore it? Besides, Huangshan Mountain is so big, we don’t know what year and month it will be until we find the thing, how can the people of Shouyang wait?”

Shen Bailing walked along the sound, and the cool mist in front of his eyes gradually transformed out of the courtyard of the house, but he arrived in a courtyard.The two people who were talking were standing in a room on the east side, the window was wide open, Shen Bailing looked through the window, both of them in the room were wearing wide-sleeved robes with blue patterns on a white background, the slightly thinner one was probably the boy, and the other The tallest one is that Qingyang.Both of them had their backs to the window, so they didn't notice Bai Ling.

The young man hurriedly said: "Water Lingzhu is the most precious treasure in the world! If it weren't for the rebellion of those Nuwa survivors in southern Xinjiang, how could they be exiled to the Central Plains? Thanks to the master's supernatural powers, he can figure out the whereabouts of the orb. If it takes a few more days, teach me If Shizhou Sandao or other sects on Kunlun Mountain notice it, we will be a step too late, and we may miss it."

Qingyang shook his head and said: "That's not necessarily the case. Sigh, the water spirit bead is originally from the southern border. Although the head master is for our sect, this move is quite suspected of taking advantage of people's danger. It is very inappropriate, very Not right."

The young man flicked his sleeves, and was about to persuade him again, when he turned his face away suddenly, he caught a glimpse of Shen Bailing standing in the court, and immediately scolded angrily: "Who are you, how dare you spy here?!" Before Shen Bailing could answer, he pinched With the sword formula, the sleeves of the robe bulged up like the wind, and a blue light flew out of the sleeves like lightning, and shot straight towards Bai Ling's face.

"what--!"

Shen Bailing sat up from the low couch in shock, her chest was throbbing non-stop, and she only said in her heart: that man is so powerful, he can create a blue light to frighten demons with just a pinch of his fingers, could it be that his mother had mentioned it before? The most vicious cultivator among the human race?The last scene in the dream was really terrifying, he stayed for a long time before he suddenly realized that he was still staying in the bedroom perfectly.

It was already late at night, and there was silence in the house and outside the courtyard.Shen Bailing felt at ease, and remembered that he was still sleeping in his mother's room, fearing that he would wake her up, he hurriedly looked back, but saw the moonlight cast mottled on the board wall, the lotus leaf bed was empty, and the quilt had already been thoroughly cooled. Shen Danqing actually disappeared.

Shen Bailing suddenly lost all sleepiness, staggered and jumped on the ground, put on his coat and ran out of the house.At this time, all the monsters in the city were still in a deep sleep, and Shen Bailing couldn't seek help, so he had to look for it by himself.

Although Juchao Country was a small country thousands of years ago, its ancient city occupies a large area at the bottom of the lake.There is a temple built on a huge stone platform in the city for the Nest God, and there are hundreds of dwellings on the other four sides in the southeast, northwest, and algae, bronze human faces, and ancient green tripods. If you search carefully, you may find it at dawn.

Shen Bailing swam around, startling shoals of fish in the water, even the backs of the faces and the belly of the cauldron were never let go, but her mother was still nowhere to be seen.Shen Danqing has never been good at socializing with monsters. Over the years, he has never even stepped out of the threshold a few times, let alone mentioning the city.So in the beginning Shen Bailing never went around the city gate to look around.

It wasn't until he turned around in several alleys in the northeast of the city, and when he passed the east gate unknowingly, there was a sudden burst of fragrance. He had smelled this fragrance once in a dream, and it was the iris fragrance that his mother usually used. There is also the smell of vanilla.He followed the fragrance to the gate of the city, and saw the moonlight shining brightly on something on the ground, he walked up to him and picked it up, it was the sachet that Shen Danqing was carrying with him, and in the sachet was the fragrance of Li vanilla that he had personally used. made incense pills.

He was even more suspicious: Auntie didn't like to go out during the day for many years, why is she still at the gate of the city at night?Did she go outside the city?She thought again: So, it is possible that A Niang has never gone out for a walk. She doesn't like places full of demons, so it is possible to hang out at night to relax. I sleep in my own room on weekdays, and even if she goes out, I don't care. I don't know, if she hadn't been sick these few days, how could I have realized that my aunt wasn't so withdrawn... That's right, I also like to sneak out of the house very much, so this temperament followed her.

After thinking wildly for a while, he put the sachet in his arms and swam out of the city gate with a kick on the sand.It's just that Chaohu Lake is eight hundred miles wide, and the bottom of the lake is even wider and wider. Although the moonlight is bright, the lake water is still dim after a layer of water, not to mention the dense algae outside the city, like a forest. as easy?

When he stepped on the water and looked around blankly, he suddenly glanced at the top of his head as if he felt something. At this moment, the lake was turbulent. Stir, even the bottom of the lake was disturbed.Shen Bailing had lived in Chaohu Lake for 19 years, and had never seen such a scene before. She was stunned for a while, and then floated towards the surface of the lake.

The full moon is bright and white, and the clear light can't stop swaying through a thin layer of lake water, revealing a crystal green light color, which is very beautiful.Shen Bailing only exposed his head to the surface of the lake, but seeing the moonlight like water, he almost wanted to merge with the waves of the lake, and the surface of the lake was covered with a layer of silver, making it even more desolate and secluded.

At this moment, there was a sudden loud noise, which seemed to ring in the ears.As soon as Shen Bailing raised his head, he saw a huge thunder smashing down from the sky, and the waves of the lake were more than ten feet high. It was stirred into a ball, and the white mist in the center of the lake was also blown away by the strong wind.

It is clear that the night is clear and the full moon is in the sky, this thunder is so strange!Shen Bailing wiped away the water droplets splashed on it, stabilized his figure in the water, raised his eyes, and couldn't help being stunned——

But seeing the sky like a curtain, three or five figures are reflected under a jade plate, all with wide sleeves and long robes, jade crowns and white robes.The strangest thing is that those people stepped on the void, hanging there without moving, surrounded by several narrow and long strange lights, which were quite similar in shape to the long swords under their feet, and shuttled back and forth like sword shadows.The moonlight was like water, illuminating the sternness on these people's faces, making it difficult to match them at first glance.

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All of a sudden, the lake was changing, and the dark clouds gathered on the dome. From time to time, there were purple lightning that shuttled between the clouds like a snake, and the rumble of thunder was hidden behind the clouds, although there was no deafening sound after the thunder explosion. However, there is a chill between the world and the earth, and there is a tendency of storms to come.

Shen Bailing stood in the water blankly, he had no time to care about the weather above his head, he could only keep looking at those figures, and couldn't help crying in his heart: Who are these?What are you doing here?The clothes they were wearing...why were they so similar to the two who had emitted the strange light in the dream?

Each of those people had a long sword under their feet, and there was a faint blue light on the sword, which was very eye-catching at night.The sky was like ink, and the dark clouds gathered more and more, and the lightning between the clouds could not flicker, illuminating the lake as bright as day.The leader faced east and said loudly: "Your Excellency has followed us since we entered the city, and now you have brought us here again, what is your intention?"

Shen Bailing was startled, and thought: Who are they talking to?Following the young man's gaze, he couldn't help being stunned again.

But seeing the turbulent waves in the lake, there was no other figure in it, because it was close to the lake surface, it was not conspicuous, so Shen Bailing didn't see it at first.Suddenly, a flash of brilliant lightning swept across the sky, just passing the man's head, but seeing the graceful figure, the hair on the temples like clouds, and the red dress like fire burning in the water, it made his complexion pale, Shen Bailing was so familiar with that face, he almost closed his eyes At a glance, he can figure out, who is his missing mother, Shen Danqing?

I saw Shen Danqing slowly growing lotuses, walking gracefully on the waves, but seeing the red clothes unfolded by the wind, like lotus flowers blooming on the lake, it is indeed a bit more beautiful than usual.Although she walked slowly, she was already in front of those people in just a few steps, and she was not afraid even though she was living below.

Those people followed her closely, seeing that Shen Danqing was able to walk on the lake like walking on flat ground, and they were a little surprised.One of them suddenly said: "I heard from my junior brother that there are many evildoers on Chaohu Lake, but I have never heard of any monks with profound morals... You look very mysterious, isn't it some kind of monster?" If Shen Danqing dares to act preemptively, he must strike first.

Shen Danqing sneered, and said: "If you don't distinguish between indiscriminate and indiscriminate, you will be charged with a crime first. Sure enough, there is no good thing for the real people!" Although the voice is not very loud, it is very clear from a distance.

There was no kindness in her words, and the faces of those people were even more serious. The person who spoke earlier said angrily: "What kind of human race... so they are really monsters! Monster girl, you are responsible for these whirlpools on Chaohu Lake? You know, Shou How have the people in Yangcheng been harmed by you?" Now that Shen Danqing was determined to be a demon, those people were no longer as polite as before, and their words were even more aggressive. The above strange things are all attributed to Shen Danqing Yiyao.

Shen Danqing sneered again: "You human people are injured or dead, and your bones are eaten by wolves, so what? I don't see human beings in my life, and I hate you cultivators the most." After a pause, he sternly He continued, "My marriage was ruined by Taoist priests all my life. I made a poisonous oath when I was young. Whenever I see people practicing Taoism, I will kill one if I see one, and kill the other if I see two. If I don't teach you what to do." Come back, let me die on the spot!"

Shen Bailing hid far away and could hear it clearly.He had never heard his mother say these things, and doubts suddenly arose in his heart: Why did A Niang make such an oath when she was young?That's right, she said, "The marriage of my whole life was destroyed by the hands of the Taoist priests." A Niang had been married before.Thinking of this, he couldn't help showing a wry smile, and thought: What am I thinking, where did I come from, A Niang, who has never been married before?Ah, that's not right, could it be that the marriage she said...could it be that my father was actually a human race cultivator who...

Shen Danqing never talked about the past with his son, let alone Shen Bailing's biological father.Shen Bailing only knew whether her father was dead or had abandoned their mother and son, so she didn't dare to ask more questions in front of Shen Danqing, lest she would arouse her mother's grief and anger.

Here he is still thinking wildly, the first few human Taoist priests are already furious, the leader said: "What a monster, how dare you be so rampant, if you don't kill you by the sword today, how can you stand against Shouyang The people in the city?" As he said, he leaned back and leaned back, only heard a clear cry, but saw a flash of sword light, and the young man already had a long sword in his hand, it turned out that he was carrying two swords, and stepped on one , there is still one handle left in the scabbard carried on the back.

When the people behind him saw it, they started to move together, and suddenly there was lightning and thunder on the dome, and the gloomy night against the Huo Ran's long swords was even more powerful.

Shen Bailing couldn't help feeling a little anxious, fearing that these people would hurt her mother.Shen Danqing was not afraid at all, instead he took a step forward, squatted slightly, and even jumped into the air, but seeing the red skirt fluttering, he was already in mid-air at the same level as those people.

Those Taoist priests of the human race could only stay in the air with the skill of controlling the sword and the famous utensils under their feet. Shen Danqing was helpless, but he was also hanging more than ten feet away from them, and his figure was graceful and elegant. .

"Heh... Now let's see who killed who!" Shen Danqing let out a long laugh, and suddenly a red light flashed all over her body. Dance, but every move is extremely fast, gradually producing countless double images, Shen Bailing saw from a distance below, only to be dazzled.

Those young people in front of them also opened their eyes wide and couldn't help but see the red sleeves fluttering like a lotus wind, and the slender waist swaying like a dragonfly's wings. It seems that the posture is beautiful, but gradually they become dizzy and feel dizzy, chest tightness and want to vomit. There is a sense of unreasonable irritability in my heart.The Taoist priest at the head saw the opportunity quickly, turned his face away in a hurry, and shouted: "Several juniors, don't look at it any more! This demon girl has a secretive body technique, she seems to be able to disturb our inner breath, hurry up and kill the general with the sword, I won't be able to teach her to dance." This strange dance!"

This cry finally woke up the other Taoist priests. The Taoist priest at the head moved very quickly. He had already pinched his hand formula while speaking, and waved his other hand vigorously, saying: "Here!" The sword buzzed, and the green steel The sword flew towards Shen Danqing's face like flying.

Shen Danqing snorted coldly, stretched out a snow-white jade hand from his sleeve, with just a flick of the onion finger on the edge of the sword, the green steel sword was forced to turn around, and flew straight towards one of the Taoist's juniors.

The young Taoist priest was shocked, he stretched out his hand to draw it in front of his chest, and the speed of the long sword's flight slowed down. The junior brother was already panic-stricken, he was so frightened that he swung his senior brother's green steel sword with the long sword in his hand. I even forgot.

Now, even a child like Shen Bailing who doesn't understand magic already knows that these young Taoist priests are far different from his mother, so he naturally has a smile on his face, and his heart falls back into his chest. Looking at the people in the air, they were not too scared, thinking: Ah Ci once said that in Shouyang City, there are people playing with monkeys during festivals, and there are many onlookers, but I don’t know which one is better than the people playing with his mother. more fun?

Shen Danqing was also very calm in the air, and said with a sneer: "You human monks really underestimate our monster race, how dare you let such useless people out? I haven't killed anyone in 19 years, I can't think of this time. I want to kill a few pustule rats!"

Those Taoist priests were startled and angry, they were fledglings, following the orders of their masters to go down the mountain to eliminate demons was just an experience, and they never expected to encounter such evil stars in the first battle.The Taoist priest at the head knew that he was invincible as soon as he made a move, but if he wanted to show weakness and retreat, he absolutely couldn't, so he had to throw out his trump card, urge his sword to retreat to the edge of Chaohu Lake, and shouted: "Junior Brothers, hurry up, Formation of swords!"

Shen Danqing sneered: "If there is any other trick, just use it, I'm afraid you won't succeed?"

I saw the young Taoist priest as the main seat, and several Taoist priests were all standing with long swords on their feet, each finding a position to stand.In an instant, with Shen Danqing as the center, a figure stood in the southeast, northwest, forming an encirclement trend, enclosing Shen Danqing.

Just listen to those Taoist priests still chanting words: "Respecting the green dragon in the east, the water will never stop; worshiping the red bird in the west, the fire will never stop burning; worshiping the white tiger in the south, the wind will be unimpeded; inheriting the basalt, and all things will be born on the earth!" In the voice of chanting mantras, one hand Squeezing the sword formula, the movement of the other hand is uniform, shaking the long sword, and suddenly stabbing the sky above the head.

The Taoist priest at the head stood directly in front of Shen Danqing, holding the sword formula in his hand, and pointed the green steel sword in the other hand at the banshee in front of him, and said loudly: "Sihe sword formation, knot!"

Shen Bailing raised his head, and he could hear those people muttering about dragons and tigers, like singing but without rhythm, like praying but the posture was really monotonous, just feeling a little bored, when he suddenly saw dark clouds over the lake It seemed to have sensed it, and it started spontaneously, spinning faster and faster, like the vortex that appeared on Chaohu Lake recently, and formed a huge cloud vortex in the sky.

The lightning flashes that were only occasionally seen shuttled by the edge of the dark cloud suddenly became denser and flourished along the vortex in the cloud. The thunder rumbled, and as the cloud vortex became lower and lower, there was a sudden thunder explosion, and a bolt of purple lightning disappeared. Punch into the lake, and the lake water is raised high, as if it is about to splash on the clouds.

Hearing the sound of thunder behind the clouds, several flashes of brilliant lightning flashed across the lake one after another. Chaohu Lake seemed to be a broken bowl. The water in it was beaten and stirred by the violent wind and lightning. It has become a small piece of grass, but it just drifts with the waves.Fortunately, he was born in Chaohu Lake since he was a child, and his water skills are very good, but he suffered a lot of frights, but his life was not affected.

When he poked his head out of the water again, the scenery on the lake changed drastically.

I only heard a chaotic noise and flashes of lightning around me, and I don't know what those Taoist priests did. The thunder clouds above the Chaohu Lake were covered by thunder clouds, and the walls of electric lights surrounded Shen Danqing and the entire Chaohu Lake. The wind is calm and the grass is calm, not affected in the slightest.

Those Taoist priests hid outside the sword array, and the young man in charge pointed his sword at the sky and swung it down towards the center of the lake.

Seeing the purple lightning flying down from the clouds like a stream of fire, Shen Bailing stared up, looking at the intertwined purple glow in front of him, like a giant net that was pouring down on the entire Chaohu Lake, as if the entire sky would also collapse with this big net down.

Note: "Sihe" has two meanings, one refers to encirclement on all sides, and the other refers to the combination of heaven, earth, human and self in the horoscope.The Sihe Sword Formation here was fabricated by a certain grass, which means encirclement on all sides.