Lifting his hands for support, Shui Qingru stood up with a happy face, and Zhang Wenfeng stepped into the central courtyard decorated with flowers and green plants.
The spring sunshine was shining on him, making him feel warm and comfortable. He asked the disciple who was following behind him: "Did the Earth Protector ask you to come here? How long have I been in seclusion?"
"Master, you have been in seclusion for three months and twenty days. Today is the eighth day of the second lunar month. On the first day of the first lunar month, at the invitation of Zhou Guanshi, Protector Earth came from Lingxing Island with Elder Chu. Protector Earth sent a message back to the sect, saying You have spiritual enlightenment and need to retreat for a period of time, so the mountain leader sent me to serve you."
Shui Qingru told the story in a concise and detailed manner.
There was no need for her to explain it in detail, Master could understand the meaning.
Zhang Wenfeng nodded slightly. The Lihuo Sword Intent demonstrated by True Lord Merlin that day was a new method of "controlling magic with swords".
What he learned was not just sword intent, but a set of methods for dismantling spells and converting them into sword intent, which took a lot of time. Of course, for him who was immersed in it, there was no difference between three months and three years. However, Just close your eyes and open them once.
Learning the sword is practice, and concentrating on it is of great benefit to sharpening one's state of mind.
"Yan Jing, Tie Jinlin and the other five have been going to Ji Cang Secret Realm for some time to practice. Do you know any news about them?"
"I received a message from Junior Brother Zhuang a few days ago. He said that Chen Zhong has left the secret realm and has advanced to the realm of freedom."
"I remember that among your batch of apprentices, Chen Zhong succeeded in transforming Qi by swallowing Qingqi Powder three times, and he was ranked last. The mountain leader mentioned it to me once later. He is not bad. Those who come after him will be the best. I became the third disciple to advance to the realm of freedom."
Zhang Wenfeng walked along the corridor to the door and chuckled.
He does not need to take care of his disciple's mood. If he is resentful or jealous because others have become stronger, then he cannot be his disciple.
Shui Qingru added with a smile: "He secretly doubled the amount of medicine that Chen Zhong swallowed for the third time. I heard from Pumpkin that Chen Zhong ran into the latrine countless times that night and almost didn't fall into the latrine..." Cover your mouth and stop talking, it's not very elegant.
"It's difficult to get in. Once you really enter the door of practice, it's even harder after that. It all depends on personal nature."
Zhang Wenfeng did not look back and said: "Your path of cultivation is different from theirs, and it is different from your enjoyment. Even if you fall behind the sixteen of them, don't be anxious. Walk slowly. This is the beginning. It's still early for the spiritual energy to ebb."
"Yes, disciple, don't be in a hurry."
"Is Zhuang Yu working in Dayi Dynasty?"
"Junior Brother Zhuang is running around. He occasionally comes to Dayi Dynasty and will communicate with me."
The two of them talked and walked out of the courtyard gate. After hearing the news, the two Lingbaoguan disciples came to greet them and quickly went to Elder Zhou to preside over them to inform them of the matter.
Half an hour later, Zhang Wenfeng was sitting in the side hall of the main peak of Lingbao, drinking tea and chatting with Zhou Fushi, who had rushed back from the capital, and the host and several people in the prison. He did not mention to the three of them that he had seen the image of True Lord Merlin and received advice. thing.
Zhou Fushi and others did not ask each other too much about the reason for the retreat, and agreed on a specific date for the ceremony.
Zhang Wenfeng suggested that it should be done simply without having to mobilize a large number of people. In fact, he is a person who is afraid of trouble.
In the days that followed, during his free time before the ceremony, he often went to the library hall to read, and came back to give instructions on how to practice swordsmanship with his apprentices, relaxing his mind after years of practice.
Yunyong Peak will be his territory from now on. He asked Yao Siwen and Su Qin who were assigned to the top of his mountain to find hoes, shovels, poles, baskets and other tools. Together they rolled up their trousers and sleeves to work, carving out a few acres on the south slope of Chaoyang. In the spiritual garden, we burned grass and trees to make soil fertilizer. We went to Lingzhi Hall to get some seedlings of common elixirs such as ginseng, polygonatum, and sapphire root, and planted dozens of spiritual peaches, spiritual grapes and other fruit trees.
The large sect has a large mountain gate array to gather spiritual energy. Compared with the outside world, the spiritual energy is more abundant. It would be a pity not to plant some spiritual plants.
With his current status, he goes his own way and doesn't need to care about other people's opinions. Even if he goes to work in the fields, it will only make other mountain monks think that Elder Zhang's actions are unpredictable and have deep meaning.
After the ceremony was over, Zhang Wenfeng was in no hurry to return to Da'an to visit the Immortal Spiritual Temple. He declined the host's offer to assign some more disciples to Yunyong Peak. Two people helped him take care of the mountain, and the spiritual grass and spiritual plants were enough.
In the open space in the front yard of the back mountain, Zhang Wenfeng held a mahogany sword, and he and Shui Qingru performed the same Jiugong Step sword show.
Two figures wandered back and forth in the wide yard, the sword light shuttled between the trees without picking up a single green leaf.
After being stabbed on her robe with a wooden sword by her master over and over again, Shui Qingru stopped and held the sword, listening to her master's teachings. In just ten days, she learned many new understandings of swordsmanship.
"Your swordsmanship, boxing skills, and footwork are not bad. You have also gone to the border town for a year to practice. You have experienced the bloody cruelty of the battlefield. Your mind is tough enough. You have been stuck in the late Yijin realm of the second level of martial arts for many years, and your martial arts has grown on its own.
'Eye vision' related."
After many days of feeding, Zhang Wenfeng knew it well, and said: "When you calm down and observe, everything in the world will slow down, which is a good thing for you. It is also an invisible confusion in practice. You didn't notice it, and you drew the sword."
In fact, the speed cannot keep up with the speed you see with your eyes, which puts your cultivation in a subtle state of imbalance. Your cultivation level is too high, which has caused your current troubles."
Shui Qingru had a look of astonishment on her face, but because of the darkness under the lamp, she ignored this.
"Disciple understands, we need to speed up the speed of drawing the sword, or let the eyes see the speed not so slow."
"It's a solution. You can try this. Sword training and cultivation are all based on the same principle, 'fit yourself and find balance'. Sometimes you have to break the balance."
"Excuse me, Master, is there any other solution?"
"have."
Zhang Wenfeng laughed and said: "It is not good to know too many methods. It is easy to be half-hearted and try according to your own ideas."
He also knew how to strengthen the sword cultivation method of "sharpening the sword's mind and transforming it into a sword with one's body". He learned the experience from He Guangjun. If Shui Qingru still couldn't break through the "hand-eye barrier" within a year, let Shui Qingru walk for another day.
Follow the path of pure sword cultivation.
Shui Qingru resigned and went to practice swordplay.
Zhang Wenfeng walked back to the quiet room in the atrium, activated the formation, took out the bronze figurines, and took out the two rare chalcedony he received from the Lingbao Temple, and used the secret method taught by True Lord Merlin to hit the suspended in the air with each hand.
On a bronze figurine.
The bronze figurines reacted quickly, emitting a misty bronze luster, and the Bagua runes on the back shone brightly.
He meticulously used secret techniques to refine it, stamped the bronze figurines, and then transferred the soul to the core of the puppet's back. This process failed twice, and he only succeeded the third time after repeated attempts.
Five days later, with a bronze figurine puppet in his sleeve that could be released at any time, he said hello to the host and the prison. He heard that Wan Boqi from Kaiyuan Peak had gone out to escape the world and really became a beggar.
He left with Shui Qingru floating in the air and flew towards the southeastern seaside.
More than five months have passed since the war, and the initial panic is no longer there, and the fields are now busy with farming.
After traveling more than two thousand miles to the sea, they flew to the scattered islands where the city was built. A monk took off to check the identity token. Zhang Wenfeng led his disciples to the streets of the simple city and walked into the tallest round stone tower.
Zhang Wenfeng was surprised when he saw Monk Fayuan, who was described as old and thin, with gray eyebrows.
"Master, why is this happening!"
He did not expect that Fa Yuan would use a secret method to exchange the souls and bodies of several fourth-level thieves and cultivators captives, and would suffer such a terrifying backlash from heaven, which would cost him hundreds of years of life.
And when the thieves massacred the city and killed tens of thousands, how come there was no retribution from heaven?