The speed of chasing the wind was so fast that almost no one in the Immortal Land could keep up.
But there is always someone who can keep up.
Not long after they flew out of the Immortal Relics Land, they found someone waiting for them ahead.
On the side of the road, there was a ragged, unshaven man sitting under a poplar tree, holding a sword.
He closed his eyes and waited quietly.
He is waiting for someone, or rather, he is waiting for a failure.
Zhuifeng dropped from the sky and landed beside him. He changed his body shape to a suitable size, raised his two front paws, clasped them together and saluted, saying, "Brother Lu!"
Lu Junxing opened his eyes, which were cloudy. He looked at Zhuifeng, smiled, and nodded, saying, "It's very fast."
"Senior brother is the fastest." Zhuifeng laughed and said teasingly.
Qin Ran came over, took out a pot of wine from his Qiankun bag, threw it to Lu Junxing, and asked, "How did you get into this state?"
"I practice the Mountain and River Sword, so I naturally need to experience this land firsthand." Lu Junxing said, "Measure the world with your feet."
He took the wine jug, broke the seal, and took a sip.
Lu Junxing looked to be thirty years old, but his temperament now showed that he was very old, as if he was about to die.
Looking at him, Qin Ran sighed, "We haven't seen each other for more than forty years."
After the war with the Wuyin Sword Sect, Lu Junxing did not return.
"There are still many years to come." Lu Junxing said with a smile.
Qin Ran also took out a pot of wine and raised it to signal Lu Junxing.
One person was standing, the other was sitting, and they drank a pot of wine together.
In fact, people who practice cultivation don’t need to care too much. Life is just about cherishing every moment. At most, you can put all your feelings and sorrows into the wine and drink it all.
After drinking, they talked about the past. Qin Ran held up the wine pot and finally asked Lu Junxing, "Are you still afraid of failure now?"
Lu Junxing gestured to him with his appearance, and the result was already obvious.
How could he not be afraid of failure when he is tortured like this by his inner demons
Lu Junxing was too invincible, no one could beat him. But he thought he would not always be invincible, and the later he failed, the greater the cost would be.
So he wanted to fail, then he was afraid of failure, and then the fear of failure became his inner demon.
… He desperately needs a defeat.
“I’ll wait for you here…” He looked past Qin Ran and towards Li Shiyin behind Qin Ran, “I’ll wait for you to defeat me.”
Li Shiyin stood up straight, like a sword unsheathed. She looked back at Lu Junxing, and something called fighting spirit burst out from her almond-shaped eyes.
After the battle with the Infinite Sword Sect, she hadn't had a proper battle since then... She had just survived the catastrophe and killed Young Master Yang, but that was just a warm-up.
For more than thirty years, as a wife and a mother, she has been attached to tenderness and motherhood, turning into a scabbard that locks her up and conceals her sharpness.
At this moment, she met Lu Junxing, the strongest swordsman in this immortal land, and her fighting spirit was revived. She drew her sword again.
She's sharp again!
The two top sword masters stared at each other from a distance, their gazes transformed into sword intent that clashed in mid-air. Qin Ran, who was standing in the middle, could not bear it, so he silently stepped aside and handed the stage to them.
"Junior sister, can I lose?" Lu Junxing asked.
"My master once taught me a poem, and the poem goes like this..." Li Shiyin stretched out her right hand in front of her, her slender fingers slightly clenched, and the palm of her hand lit up with starlight. She stared at Lu Junxing and recited slowly, "I have been sharpening my sword for ten years, but I have never tried it. Today I will show it to you, who has any grievances
"I have been sharpening this sword for thirty years, just to show it to you today."
The star in her palm lit up, and she shouted in a clear voice, "I will give you a defeat!"
As the starlight in her palms brightened, Lu Junxing's cloudy eyes also brightened.
He was still sitting on the ground, but his hand was already grasping the hilt of the sword in his arms.
"Chiying..."
No sword was unsheathed.
But there was clearly the clear sound of a sword echoing in people's ears.
The wind is blowing...
That's not wind!
It was the dense sword energy spreading out from the two sword cultivators. The fine sword energy dispersed, confronted, and intertwined to form wind.
"Huh..."
The wind blows away!
“Puff, puff, puff…”
The poplar tree that Lu Junxing was leaning against was broken by the wind, and the trunk was instantly worn away by the dense sword energy. The big tree fell down with a "boom", and in the process of falling, it was turned into sawdust by the ubiquitous dense sword energy.
The powder-like sawdust was blown up by the wind and spread outward.
Wherever the wind passed, flowers, trees, rocks and soil all turned into powder.
The powder mixed with sawdust was blown along by the wind.
Qin Ran couldn't withstand the sword energy, nor the pressure created by the confrontation between the two great sword masters. He pulled Zhuifeng's tail and retreated again and again, retreating two miles.
A terrifying field was formed inside the two-mile radius with sword energy. Everything in the field was crushed into powder by the dense sword energy, and the ground was suddenly shrunk by more than ten feet.
The outside is bounded by a powder mixed with grass, wood, and rocks. The powder is spinning and boiling rapidly, like a grinding wheel, forming a powder barrier from the ground to the sky.
The powder barrier rotated, driving the airflow. The surrounding clouds were attracted over and then captured by the pressure in the field, wrapping them up in layers within the two-mile range.
Some clever little animals had already avoided that place, but there were always some foolish ones who rushed forward. A second-grade flying monster flew over and crashed into the powder barrier, and was instantly turned into blood foam.
The weather changed dramatically, and the clouds in the sky continued to pile up, layer upon layer, becoming dark and pressing the ground very low.
There was thunder and electric snakes were moving.
Qin Ran stood outside holding Zhuifeng's tail. He looked up and saw that it was dark.
"Dad..." Zhuifeng said, "Is there a possibility that they can't beat me? I don't have to run with you."
Qin Ran glanced at him without saying anything, and Zhui Feng calmed down and let Qin Ran pull his tail.
… Daddy pulled his tail, obviously not to save him.
"Splits..."
Inside the barrier, an electric snake suddenly emerged from the dark clouds. It stretched out its neck and instantly struck from the sky to the ground.
At the same moment, the madly spinning grinding wheel-like powder barrier stopped, turned into powder and suspended in the air.
“BOOM!!!”
The next moment, a huge thunder roared!
The pressure within the barrier suddenly rushed outward, forming a strong wind that blew the powder suspended in the air.
The powder blew and Qin Ran narrowed his eyes subconsciously. As soon as he narrowed his eyes, he saw two sword energies light up inside the barrier...
"when!"
The sword energies collided, making a clear sound that echoed through heaven and earth.
The blinding dust had not yet dissipated, and the huge noise made people's ears tinnitus. Qin Ran stood in the dust and powder, feeling that the world was quiet.
And he hasn't recovered from the tinnitus yet...
“Dangdangdang…”
The sound of metal and stone colliding could be heard.
The dust cleared, he opened his eyes, looked forward, and saw two streams of light shooting up into the air from the ground.
… The ground had become a neat cylindrical pit with a diameter of two miles and a depth of ten feet.
They moved and fought between heaven and earth at such a fast speed that it was difficult for him to follow them. They attacked too quickly, and in just a split second, they could deliver more than a hundred moves.
Two top sword masters fought each other. There was no gorgeous sword energy or fancy moves. They both condensed their sword energy and attached it to their swords, fighting in a simple and unpretentious manner.
During a close combat, Li Shiyin failed to follow Lu Junxing's moves and was chopped away by Lu Junxing's sword, crashing into a hill. Her body sank directly into the hill, piercing through it.
Lu Junxing chased after her, and the sword in his hand slashed through the cave where Li Shiyin had crawled out, and the rocks were cut like tofu.
When he chased to the other side of the mountain, the cave had expanded several times, forming a huge hole that penetrated the mountain.
Li Shiyin on this side was already prepared. When Lu Junxing chased him out of the cave, she slashed him with a sword. Lu Junxing parried with the sword and was slashed into the mountain by the sword.
"Fairy from the sky!"
Li Shiyin didn't dare to chase in, and summoned two huge star sword energies to blast into the human-shaped cave created by Lu Junxing.
Suddenly, rocks splashed and smoke and dust rose up!
Li Shiyin couldn't see the situation clearly, so she waited outside with a sword.
"The mountains and rivers are coming!"
But before the smoke and dust dissipated, a mountain and river of sword energy rushed out before the smoke and dust, enveloping her in it.
"Ten thousand swords return to their origin!"
Facing the approaching mountains and rivers, she turned the sword in her hand, and countless sword energies shot out, colliding with every sword energy in Lu Junxing's mountain and river domain.
A ray of star sword energy collided with a ray of mountain and river sword energy, breaking up Lu Junxing's mountain and river domain. She stretched out her body, rushed out, and faced Lu Junxing with a ray of sword energy.
The sword energy split the smoke and dust, Lu Junxing stepped aside, and slashed with his backhand...
"Sword walks on mountains and rivers!"
The black and white sword energy splashed out like ink and spread towards Li Shiyin.
"Dream Star!"
Li Shiyin, who was flying at high speed, stopped forcibly, waved his left hand, and threw hundreds of stars onto the landscape painting, which then exploded with a loud bang!
“Bang! Bang!! Bang!!!”
While the landscape painting was still being painted, the dreamy stars blew it up.
The dense star sword energy mixed with the mountain and river sword energy shot randomly like rain from the sky and the ground. Li Shiyin, carrying the sword intent of protection, crashed into the chaotic sword energy and started close combat with Lu Junxing again.
Qin Ran... and Zhui Feng didn't dare to get close, they just watched from afar.
When they saw the sword energy shooting out and turning the hill into a sieve, they couldn't help but mourn for it in silence.
Li Shiyin and Lu Junxing were fighting fiercely, their state was liberated, the fight became faster and faster, the fight became more and more intense, the territory they included in the battlefield became larger and larger, their figures gradually moved away.
Wherever they fought, there would be sharp sword energy and invisible sword intent left behind. Qin Ran had to be careful when passing by. As a result, he slowly couldn't keep up with them, so he had to ask Zhuifeng to go over and look after them.
He followed the sword energy for three days and three nights, and finally caught up with them at the edge of a cliff at dusk one day.
At this time, Li Shiyin and Lu Junxing were leaning against the sides of the cliff. Both were seriously injured and only managed to avoid falling down by relying on the huge rocks and the swords in their hands.
Zhuifeng was also covered in sword wounds. He lay between the two of them, wagging his tail out of boredom.
Looking at this scene, Qin Ran asked, "Who won?"
Both of them shook their heads helplessly.
“Who lost?”
Still shaking his head.
Zhuifeng raised his paw and said, "Me!"
Qin Ran looked at his injuries and asked in confusion, "What does it have to do with you?"
"If I don't take action, all you'll see are two corpses." Zhuifeng sighed with a sneer.
Qin Ran understood.
He looked to the left at Li Shiyin, looked to the right at Lu Junxing, and then walked to the right and came in front of Lu Junxing. He looked at Lu Junxing and sighed, "It's a pity that I still can't get rid of your inner demon."
Lu Junxing closed his eyes, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he shook his head slowly.
"What?" Qin Ran was puzzled.
Lu Junxing opened his eyes and looked at Qin Ran. His eyes were no longer cloudy, but clear and smiling.
He said in a hoarse voice, "There is no loss, and there is no win. There is no defeat, and there is no victory."
"So..." Qin Ran asked, "Have you figured it out?"
Lu Junxing nodded.
"Congratulations!" Qin Ran congratulated with a smile.
After treating Lu Junxing's injuries, he came to Li Shiyin, carefully held her in his arms, and then carefully cleaned and treated her wounds.
When he was healing her wounds, she stared at him with sparkling eyes, with a faint smile on her face. It was obvious that she was very proud and happy.
Qin Ran looked at her and said, "Are you happy?!"
"Yeah!" Li Shiyin nodded.
Lu Junxing’s inner demon is his invincibility, but for all the sword cultivators in the Immortal Ruins Land, the inability to defeat Lu Junxing is the inner demon of all of them.
Now, she has fought him head-on and is not at a disadvantage, so her inner demon can be gone!
Qin Ran treated her wounds, held her in his arms, and sat together on the edge of the cliff, watching the sun set over the mountain.
"Master, will you continue to help me heal my injuries?" Li Shiyin asked.
"Yes." Qin Ran nodded.
"Master, will we become immortals?"
"meeting."
"Master, will you always love me?"
"meeting."
"Master, will we be together in the next life?"
"No, because we will live until the end of time."
"Master~"
"Um?"
"I like you so much."
"I like you, too."
"Don't you dare imitate me!"
“The sunset is so beautiful.”
"What?"
"If you want to confess your love to a girl you like, it's not good to just say you like her. You can compliment the weather. For example, the moonlight is so beautiful."
"Eh~"
"Hey! Dad!" At this time, a little golden tiger nearby raised his paw and shouted, "I'm injured too, have you forgotten about me?!"
Qin Ran didn't hear it.
"Hey!" A century-old bachelor raised his hand and shouted, "You two should pay attention to your influence. I'm still here!"
Li Shiyin didn't hear it either.
As the sun sets, warm yellow light shines on the cliff. On the left, there is a wandering swordsman leaning against a rock, holding a sword, with a wanton smile on his face; on the right, there is a couple snuggling together, whispering in each other's ears, with happy smiles on their faces; in the middle, there lies a little tiger dyed golden by the sunset, swinging its long tail back and forth, looking very happy.
When the wind blows over, this scene is frozen into eternity...