The falling winter snow is falling, covering the heaven and earth with silver.

Gusts of cold wind blew through the pass.

In the small fenced courtyard.

Ren Qianqian was practicing sword practice in the snow. The sword wind whistled and rolled up the flying snow around her. Her body moved with light steps, shuttling back and forth like a butterfly, and her sword movement was light.

"Sword moves are just appearances, you have to understand the charm and true meaning of the sword's trajectory."

Next to him, Li Hao was squatting in the snow, carefully piling up a snowman.

He patted and trimmed it with his palms. From time to time he would look up at the girl practicing the sword and give some advice.

Ren Qianqian stopped when he heard this and asked in confusion: "The trajectory of the sword?"

"Um."

Li Hao nodded and saw that the snowman was missing two branches for hands. He immediately stood up and bent down to pick up a branch outside the nearby woodshed:

"Look, like this."

He took the branch and shook it gently, and the snow on the branch shook off. Then he flicked it gently, and the branch swam back like a flower, catching all the snow that had just been shaken, and it returned to its original state.

It looks like it was just picked up.

Ren Qianqian was stunned.

"Your sword must be linked to the surrounding environment so that it is close enough and sharp enough." Li Hao said.

He returned to the snowman, gently shook the snow off the branches, and then inserted them into the snowman to serve as two small hands with dead branches.

Ren Qianqian fell into deep thought and looked down at the sword in her hand. After a while, she started practicing again.

In the past few days, in addition to Li Hao's occasional advice, Li Hongzhuang and Song Qiumo would also give her some advice in their free time.

But their guidance, like Li Hao's, will not stop at superficial sword moves, but will start from the perspective of a master and explain their respective understanding of the way of swordsmanship in a deeper way.

This kind of advice has its advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantage is that it is difficult to comprehend and understand.

The advantage is that if your understanding is high enough, once you understand its meaning, the progress of the sword will be rapid. Controlling the sword with the sword's intention is equivalent to understanding and pursuing your own master's path in advance.

Ren Qianqian continued to practice swordsmanship.

Li Hao continued to build a second snowman.

Outside the pass, suddenly an old horse galloped towards me.

The red-blooded horse galloped into the pass and stopped outside the small courtyard.

Li Hongzhuang, who was looking after the fire in the kitchen, noticed the situation and rushed out of the small courtyard.

"Are you... Liangzhou Xuanzi Camp?"

When Li Hongzhuang saw the silver brand on the veteran's armor, her eyes suddenly brightened and she said, "Fifth brother has come to Liangzhou? Is he here to help?"

The veteran turned over and dismounted, quickly bowed and saluted, and handed over the military report with both hands:

"The general has just arrived in Liangzhou and has specially sent me to deliver military reports to the commander-in-chief."

Li Hongzhuang raised her hand to take it and quickly looked through it.

Soon, her face changed slightly, and her eyes suddenly became sharp and cold:

"These monsters actually dare to plot against Liangzhou!"

After closing the military report, she took a deep breath and said to the veteran: "It's a long journey, why don't you come in and take a rest."

"No, the general is still waiting for my reply. Commander, do you have any news for me to bring back?"

The old man lowered his head and said respectfully, feeling surprised in his heart. He rushed all the way from outside the pass and saw many demon corpses along the way. Even the once majestic Cangya City was destroyed by demons as rumored.

I thought this place was a miserable military camp, but unexpectedly it turned out to be a cozy little courtyard with a fence.

Reply to the letter... Li Hongzhuang thought that in addition to the information about the demon in the military newspaper, there were also letters home filled with concern.

She was told to be wary of monsters, asked about her current situation, and asked her to take good care of Hao'er and retreat at any time... She didn't say much, but she could feel the warm concern of the fifth brother.

"Wait a moment."

Li Hongzhuang turned back to the hospital and asked Li Hao for pen and ink. She quickly wrote a letter home and handed it to the veterans waiting in the snow outside the hospital.

The veteran stuffed the rolled-up letter home into his sleeve, got on his horse, said goodbye to Li Hongzhuang, and drove away with a whip.

After the veteran left, Li Hongzhuang called Li Hao and handed him the general's report.

"Fifth brother said that the demons outside Liangzhou are ready to move, and some cities have even been infiltrated by demons. These demons plan to cooperate with the inside and outside, and have the tendency to invade Liangzhou, so they came here specially to take control."

Li Hongzhuang glanced at Li Hao: "At Tianmen Pass, there may be a large-scale attack by demons in the near future!"

Li Hao picked up the military newspaper and read it. When he saw the care of the fifth uncle mixed in it, he immediately thought of the impression left by the family dinner that day and a few words with him.

He recovered his thoughts and responded to Li Hongzhuang: "The soldiers will block it, the water will cover it with the soil, and when the demon comes, we will make a big pot!"

"..."

Li Hongzhuang smiled bitterly, and then thought that there were two Si Lijings standing guard, so there was no need to panic. If a situation really happened, it would still be possible to retreat in time, but she didn't know when these demons would invade.

The general newspaper was put away, and Li Hao invited a few people to have lunch.

After the snow, Guanzhong here also has abundant water sources.

Li Hongzhuang's hair, which was originally greasy and coiled, had not been invaded by demons in the past few days, and she had relaxed. After washing, it became as silky as green ink, floating behind her shoulders.

The bright red battle armor stained with blood has also been cleaned, and he is still wearing the battle armor, ready for battle at any time, but with his hair flying, he is much fresher than before, like the female general walking out of the painting.

Li Hao built several large wooden barrels and boiled snow into water at night to create his own hot spring.

Soaking in the wooden barrel, eating barbecue, drinking wine, and casually chatting with Mr. Feng, the life was very pleasant.

This borderland seems to have become a holiday and leisure place.

There is heavy snow on the ground, which makes it miserable and cold, but because there is shelter, there is no need to worry about the wind and snow.

In the following days, Li Hao took Song Qiumo out to hunt and hunt monsters during the day, and then returned to the small courtyard to rest at night. His life was very regular.

The monsters he hunted gave him a lot of painting experience, and he was about to upgrade to the sixth level.

During the hunting process, his fishing experience was also slowly increasing, slowly extending towards the bottleneck of the sixth stage.

Unfortunately, the three immortal demons nearby seemed to have heard some news and evacuated from the vicinity of Tianmen Pass.

Li Hao found several caves, which were smelly and contained the breath of three immortal demons. However, he learned from the torture of the little demons caught nearby that the big demon inside had been gone for many days.

Li Hao casually knocked down these caves and left a mysterious fish mark here. If a demon passes by, he can come and investigate next time.

The days passed day by day.

When Li Hao was hunting monsters, his master's state of mind was slowly improving.

At the beginning, he was arrogant and asked the master about all things in the world.

This is much more difficult than the ordinary master path.

The world behind the heavenly door he kicked open was vaster than he imagined.

What are all things?

What is the origin of all things?

Li Hao has been thinking about this issue.

Mountains, rivers, fish, insects, animals, etc., are all living things.

But there are too many. If we learn from them one by one, even if they have a life span of 100,000 years, ordinary people will not be able to learn them all.

Li Hao has the understanding of the six stages of the physical world, and can understand its artistic conception at a glance. It is not difficult to master them one by one, but what Li Hao wants is not complexity, but unity!

He wants to integrate the artistic conception of all things into one, but he is looking for trouble in this regard and can only accomplish it by himself.

While hunting around, Li Hao and Song Qiumo were also traveling around the mountains and rivers outside the pass.

From enlightening oneself to having a glimpse of the world.

Li Hao saw shrubs, flowers and grass, the bright moon and the stream.

I saw the snow melting in the sunshine, and I also saw the stubborn young leaves under the heavy snow.

Everything has a force, but what does this force have in common?

Snow can freeze everything, but it is penetrated by a ray of sunlight.

Although the young leaves are weak, snow cannot kill them.

Although birds and beasts can walk and destroy big trees, they shiver in the snow and scurry back to their nests after foraging for food.

Therefore, what is the power of all things?

A gust of cold wind came and blew across his face. Li Hao looked at the distant mountains and nearby forests. He seemed to touch something in his heart, but it was fleeting.

As the weather gradually turns to winter, there are more and more snowy days.

Today, we hunted two more demons from the fifteen-mile realm, and Li Hao and Song Qiumo returned together.

The number of demons in the wilderness outside this pass is still much greater than within the territory.

Outside the small courtyard, Li Hao built some houses one after another.

Nowadays, there are no demons to attack, and these houses are built without fear that they will be destroyed soon.

Li Hongzhuang asked: "Are you planning to build the original city again?"

Li Hao just smiled: "If the demon never comes, it's not impossible."

Li Hongzhuang was thoughtful.

These days, she occasionally leaves the camp and goes outside to look for traces of demons.

However, all the demons nearby were wiped out by Li Haoqing. She went deep into the outskirts of the Wanshan Demon King's territory and did not risk going deep. However, the number of demons in that area seemed to have decreased a lot, and there was no sense of an army of demons gathering.
To be continued...