There were a total of one hundred and thirty genius disciples invited to attend the Yaochi Banquet, belonging to forty-five families.
In addition to the top 100 people who belong to forty schools, the additional thirty people invited are from the Great Sun Tathagata Sect, Huanxi Sect, Xiaoleiyin Temple, Baijiayuan, Zhuzi Academy, etc. - the Fairy Palace in the past
When the Yaochi Banquet is held, invitations are also sent to other Taoist sects, including these five, but because Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism co-founded the Liushui Banquet, they have never participated in the Yaochi Banquet in the Fairy Palace.
But this Yaochi Banquet is obviously extraordinary.
The gold content is much higher than previous ones.
However, the experience of successfully hosting Yaochi banquets in the past was not in vain, so after a short period of fuss, Gong Xiaotang arranged everything in order: in just over a month, she directly arranged the inner city
The layout was re-planned and fifty new villas with similar specifications were built.
The reason why we say they are similar is because although these villas appear to be the same size and area, there are actually subtle differences due to issues such as surrounding environment and internal space decoration.
For example, the garden where Su Anran is staying now is located in the northeastern area of Daofang inner city. It is surrounded by a large area of blue spiritual bamboo. This kind of spiritual bamboo has no medicinal value, but because of its beautiful appearance, its market price is very high.
It's quite expensive, one plant is almost equivalent to a True Transformation Pill - in addition, this villa is located on a high ground, it can overlook most of the island, and there are no other villas within a few hundred meters around it.
, it can be said to be a truly quiet environment.
Of course, these are just external values.
The real intrinsic value of this villa is that it is located on a spiritual node of Daofang. Through the adjustment effect of the spirit gathering array, the spiritual energy inside this villa can reach up to five times that of Daofang - the entire inner city.
Of the fifty newly planned villas, only ten have this size, and the others range from double to four times the size.
Who is qualified to stay in these ten villas is very particular.
But basically, the leaders of the five major cultivation systems must have this qualification.
There are five schools, including the Wanjian Sect in the Holy Land of Sword Cultivating, the Wandao Palace where martial arts originated, the Dahuang City where martial arts originated, the Hundred Schools of Thought contending, and the orthodox Dainichi Tathagata Sect in Lingshan.
The remaining five were assigned to the three major aristocratic families, Xizhou Ji Family, and Taiyi Valley.
No matter what, the Five Emperors are still around today, and these five sects must enjoy certain privileges.
The only one who has any controversy is the Xizhou Ji family.
But when someone comes out who is No. 3 in the world, most people really can’t say anything.
…
"So, did anyone really go to challenge Ji Si?" Qingyu asked Su Yanran curiously.
Su Yanran not only went to Daofang Ferry to pick them up in person, but also accompanied Su Anran and others all the way to Bieyuan, and then personally accompanied them. Su Anran was speechless when she saw this. This guy really didn't care at all.
She became a saint herself.
"Yes." Su Yanran smiled and nodded, "The day after Zhuge Wu arrived, he made an appointment with Ji Si to fight."
"Lost?" Su Anran was interested in this kind of news.
"Losed." Su Yanran nodded, "The ranking set by Wanshilou for Ji Si really does not contain any water. I was lucky enough to be on the sidelines at the time. Zhuge Wu's style is fierce and unmatched, so he should be able to move with all his strength.
The way to surrender to the Tenth Society. But Ji Si is not simple either, his style should be cunning..."
"Trouble?"
"The Dark Night Palm Technique is famous for its dexterity and weirdness, and it follows a light and agile route. But the White Night Palm Technique is mainly about fierceness and is as powerful as the bright sun." Qingyu interjected, "The disciples of the Ji family in Xizhou are really
If you want to practice this hand skill well, you cannot stick to one style. You must be dexterous and fierce at the same time. Only in this way can you truly switch between fists and palms freely and achieve the integration of 'yin and yang'.
That is the state of perfection.”
"You know what?" Su Anran looked surprised.
"Senior Sister taught you well." Qingyu said with a serious face, "Do you really think I haven't done anything during this time? Senior Sister knows that you can't remember these, so when the Tianbang is new, start
You have given me homework, otherwise why do you think Senior Sister would trust me to follow you out?"
Su Anran smiled sheepishly.
Senior sister Fang Qianwen obviously knew Su Anran's temperament, so she didn't let Su Anran memorize the talent list by rote. Instead, she let Qingyu get familiar with it. Of course, this can also be said that Fang Qianwen wanted to let Qingyu know it this time.
It took a lot of effort to come to the Yaochi Banquet with Su Anran, but no matter what the possibility was, Qingyu had indeed suffered for a long time.
"Yes." Su Yanran also smiled and explained for Qingyu, taking the credit for her, "When Ji Si punched, his boxing technique was majestic and majestic, with an upright and fierce momentum, and was not inferior to Zhuge Wu at all. But he changed
When the fist becomes the palm, the whole person's
The breath will also change accordingly. In addition to the sharp wind of the palm, the whole person also becomes ethereal and agile. If you don't pay attention, you will even completely disappear in the perception of your consciousness... I suspect this should be the mystery of the "Day and Night Yin and Yang Sutra"
place."
"Day and Night Yin and Yang Sutra" is one of the inherited skills of the Ji family in Xizhou. Its supporting martial arts include "White Day Boxing Technique", "Dark Night Palm Technique" and "Yin Yang Sword Technique". Among them, "White Day Boxing Technique" emphasizes rigidity.
fierce, "Dark Night Palm Technique" emphasizes agility and independence
Practicing these two martial arts can only achieve the state of entering the palace. If you want to truly reach the state of perfection, you need to master the essence of the styles of these two martial arts and achieve the "yin and yang" concept of "hardness and softness". Only then can you truly master these two martial arts.
The two techniques have been elevated to the state of perfection.
Only after these two techniques are cultivated to perfection, can the "Yin Yang Sword Jue" be also cultivated to perfection.
However, few disciples of the Ji family in Xizhou can achieve the state of "hardness and softness", so they can only practice martial arts inherited from another family, or practice single boxing or eccentric sword techniques.
Palm technique.
Ji Si's ability to become the third best player in the world is not without merit.
After listening to Qingyu's explanation, and Su Yanran, who had watched the battle between Ji Si and Zhuge Wu, added from the side, Su Anran had a somewhat better understanding of Ji Si's style: "This person hasn't given his full strength yet...
…Third in the rankings is a bit underestimating him.”
"Why do you say that?" Su Yanran was a little confused, "Is it because he hasn't drawn his sword yet?"
"Yeah." Su Anran nodded, "What this person is really good at should be swordsmanship...not the swordsmanship of a swordsman, but the swordsmanship of martial arts."
The swordsmanship of swordsmen can generally be divided into two categories.
That is, sword control and sword energy.
Among them, sword techniques, sword tactics, invisible sword energy, sword formations, etc. are just subcategories subdivided from these two categories.
Martial arts swordsmanship, on the other hand, mainly focuses on lethality.
Compared with the various sword-control techniques and invisible sword energy that are the most representative of sword cultivators, martial arts sword techniques are much simpler and cruder: killing techniques.
Whether it is clever and tricky swordsmanship, broad-opening swordsmanship, epee, rapier, long sword, broad sword, any style of sword will do. For martial arts swordsmanship, it is all just for
Serve by killing your opponent.
Martial arts swordsmen feel that swordsmanship is quite pretentious as swordsmanship emphasizes such behaviors as "thinking about the relationship between myself and the sword", "people are with the sword", and "falling in love with the sword".
Sword cultivators, on the other hand, believe that martial arts swordsmen who only consider "a swordsmanship that can kill the opponent is a good swordsmanship" are a bunch of brainless fools.
Therefore, swordsmen who practice martial arts swordsmanship look down on swordsmen who practice swordsmanship, and swordsmen who practice swordsmanship also look down on martial arts swordsmen - the conflict between the two sides has been long-standing, which is why the swordsmanship lineage separated from martial arts.
But in Su Anran's view, this is simply quite a lunatic behavior.
Because in his understanding, whether it is a sword cultivator or a swordsman, they are actually just two manifestations of swordsmanship: the former emphasizes "skills" and the latter emphasizes "power". There is no distinction between the two.
And there are many overlaps between the two.
For example, in swordsmanship, those who really need to hold a sword against the enemy's swordsmanship, many have martial arts-style swordsmanship.
Even if you use your spiritual mind to control the sword technique to fight against the enemy, the flying sword attack actually follows the sword style routine.
If I really want to say that the simplest and crudest thing is sword energy.
If you can stop it, you will live; if you can't, you will die.
However, since Su Anran redefined the word "sword energy", even the disciples of Lingjian Villa now dare not say that they are good at sword energy.
Why?
In the past, sword energy attack methods, even if it was invisible sword energy, that is, a sword energy entwined with spiritual thoughts, it could be blocked as long as it was sensed.
But Su Anran’s sword energy?
You can't stop it at all.
Because you might still be alive if you don't block him, but as long as you dare to take his sword energy, the word "sauce" will be added to your name in minutes.
"I heard that Ji Si is now a guest of the three major aristocratic families?" Su Anran asked.
"Yes." Su Yanran nodded, "When people from the three major families, Dongfang Family, Nangong Family, and Ximen Family, came, they immediately asked me about Ji Si's Villa. However, Dongfang Family also asked me about it.
Are you here, and you said you wanted to visit me?"
"I have been a guest in the Oriental Family, I guess it was a courtesy." Su Anran shrugged.
He could probably guess why people from the Dongfang family came to visit him.
After all, Taiyi Valley is now one of the nineteen sects, and Huang Zi also went to the Dongfang Family because of the Peeping Immortal Alliance, so as long as the people of the Dongfang Family are not stupid, they will definitely take advantage of this Yaochi Banquet
Use your name to build a good relationship with yourself. After all, for a long time in the future, everyone is likely to have to "look up but not look down", so using the previous incense to deepen the relationship is the most common method used by aristocratic families.
After hearing Su Anran's words, Su Yanran just responded with a smile.
She had also heard about the eager reactions of the three major aristocratic families after Ji Si became third on the new list.
And by being a member of the reception party this time, Su Yanran also had observations about the people carefully selected by the three major families. Whether it was Dongfang Yue, Ximen'e, or Sister Nangong Qianying, these people were all suitable
A proper evil beast from the era. Even if it was carefully prepared by their Fairy Palace
The people were also suppressed by these people, and there was no room for survival in the crowd - the Fairy Palace was not a place for charity. Since Ji Si was so strong, of course they were thinking of just in case, so they gave Ji Si a place to live.
The disciples arranged in the villa are all former candidates for the saint.
It's a pity that these people were trampled to death by people from the three major aristocratic families before they could compete for beauty.
Among them, the one who impressed Su Yanran the most was Dongfang Yue.
This woman's skills are quite superb.
With just a few words, she succeeded in inciting hostility between sisters Nangong Qianying and Ximen'e. Moreover, the maids arranged by the Fairy Palace were jointly pressured by Ximen'e and Nangong Qianying in just a few words of hers.
Chased away.
What's funny is that those three stupid women didn't realize that their actions were actually influenced by Dongfang Yue's verbal cues. Instead, they had a very good self-perception and even felt that Dongfang Yue's performance was mediocre and he was no match for them.
Totally nothing to worry about.
Su Yanran wanted to laugh when she saw it.
But after that day, she also knew that the saint carefully selected by her master would never be able to get favors from Dongfang Yue. Instead of wasting time to conquer Jisi, it would be better to choose another target - this kind of secret observation
In fact, it is one of the main tasks of the previous Yaochi Banquet leaders to provide the sect saints with a target that is relatively easy to capture and has high potential for participating in the Yaochi Banquet, and to collect various related information.
But this time, because Su Yanran was a temporary replacement, the person actually doing the work was Gong Xiaotang.
Su Yanran just took advantage of her status to communicate with these talented people at the meeting, understand some of their situations, and then reported it to Gong Xiaotang, who made the final integration. As for the sect's final decision on which talented person should be selected,
Spending a lot of effort on it is not something Gong Xiaotang can decide.
However, Su Yanran does have the right to make recommendations.
The candidate she recommended was Zhuge Wu.
It is not without reason that the outside world is rumored to be Shangguan Xin's successor.
The skills he practices are very similar to Wang Yuanji's "Shura Jue" predecessor, "Ten Thousand Weapons Jue". He also has palm knives, finger swords, fist hammers, leg axes and other skills, but they are not as severe as Wang Yuanji's.
"Shura Jue" pays more attention to technique. But because of this, his technique has stricter requirements for the cultivation of the treasure body, and it happens that the treasure body technique he practices is the innate treasure body.
The treasure body cultivation method was passed down from the first era.
Among them, Shengyang, Hunyuan, and Netherworld are called the three superior divine bodies of the First Era, because many of the subsequent treasure bodies are basically born out of these three. It can be said that these three are the roots of countless treasure bodies.
And Dahuang City has basically inherited all the cultivation secrets of the first era. It is naturally normal to have an innate treasure body that emerged from the Hunyuan treasure body.
When the innate treasure body has been cultivated to a great level, as long as the innate air is not dispersed in one breath, it can be invulnerable to water and fire, invulnerable to all evil spirits, and invulnerable to sword damage. When combined with Zhuge Wu's cultivation method, he can turn himself into a humanoid weapon, and his power will be naturally tyrannical.
Unparalleled.
As long as his treasure body cultivation is complete, Zhuge Wu doesn't say whether he can defeat Shangguan Xin, but it should be no problem to draw with Wang Yuanji.
The premise is that Wang Yuanji has not cultivated the Thunder Shura King Treasure Body.
Su Yanran stayed with her for most of the day. As she wanted to make friends, Su Anran wanted to inquire, and Qingyu wanted to show off her knowledge, the three of them had a very happy conversation.
After all, Su Anran has almost figured out the situation of all the participants in the entire Yaochi Banquet.
The little butcher was not interested in these topics at all.
So I left the main hall early and wandered around the villa by myself.
"Excuse me, is this the villa where Mr. Su Anran lives?"
A soft voice suddenly sounded.
The little butcher turned his head and looked at a woman in white standing at the door, blinking curiously.
However, due to the etiquette principles that Su Anran's "Fist and Sword Teaching" impressed upon her deeply, the little butcher nodded and said, "Yes."
The woman in white's eyes lit up, and then she smiled sweetly and said, "Then, could you please go and report it? Ma Xiaolian, a member of the Immortal Island Sect, is here to visit."
"No, daddy is talking to Aunt Su, I can't disturb him."
"Dad?" The woman named Ma Xiaolian couldn't help showing surprise on her face, "Are you... Mr. Su's daughter?"
"Yes." The little butcher nodded, but soon her eyes lit up, "Are you my elder! Are you the same elder as Aunt Su?"
"Uh..." Ma Xiaolian looked a little confused when she saw the little butcher's suddenly excited expression.
But she soon noticed the word "elder" mentioned by the little butcher.
An elder like Aunt Su?
Ma Xiaolian chewed this sentence over and over again, and she suddenly understood.
She took out a high-grade magic weapon from her storage bag and handed it to the little butcher: "It's a small meeting gift. Please don't dislike it, Miss Su."
But the little butcher didn't pick it up. She just looked at Ma Xiaolian blankly, and then said, "Don't Aunt Ma have a flying sword? The butcher only wants a flying sword."
"Feijian..." Ma Xiaolian suddenly became very embarrassed.
She is a disciple of the Xiandao Sect. The Xiandao Sect is a sect that cultivates magic. Although it is not an orthodox Taoist sect, it still focuses on the Five Elements magic. Most of the magic weapons she carries with her are magic weapons. Naturally, there is no way to have a flying sword.
.
"Ha, I have a flying sword."
A hearty chuckle rang out, and immediately a flying sword was thrown out, flying towards the little butcher.
Although this flying sword is controlled by him, as long as his mind changes, the flying sword will naturally stop.
But this kind of behavior is obviously not a good behavior.
To put it harshly, this person even came with hostility.
Ma Xiaolian frowned and looked unhappy.
It was time to intercept immediately.
But the little butcher's movements were obviously faster than Ma Xiaolian's.
I saw a breeze blowing by.
The little butcher rushed past Ma Xiaolian, raised his hand and firmly grasped the hilt of the flying sword.
A look of surprise appeared on Ma Xiaolian's face.
She didn't know the little butcher's true identity. Judging from the surface, he was only about ten years old, but the speed and strength he showed were not inferior to hers at all, and the action of directly holding the flying sword was even more...
It's light and heavy, and it looks like there is no smoke and mirrors.
It was as if what she was holding was not a flying sword flying towards her, but a branch that was thrown out at will!
This strength...
Is this the daughter who is number one on the heavenly list?
