Trapped in Duyin for many days, Qi Wan'er looked not very good, but she was not embarrassed at all. She looked more energetic in her golden sleeves. Under the golden headband, her eyebrows were hidden with pride, and her movements showed her nobleness. He helped the unconscious Yao Feng sit down beside the corridor column, and said in a somewhat anxious tone: "Did you hit too hard? Who taught you to hit!"
"He was the first to attack!" Cheng Yi felt very aggrieved and stabbed the sword to the ground, "Luckily I dodged quickly, you didn't even ask me if I was injured..."
Qi Wan'er said, "You know he's in a bad condition, why take it so seriously?"
Cheng Yi argued with him: "He almost killed me, are you being reasonable?"
"Didn't I help you too? Shut up!" Qi Wan'er barely endured it and calmed down for a while. She seemed to have thought of something and her expression became serious. "Brother Yao doesn't really want to kill you. There must be something strange about this. He might have met someone from the Wanfa Sect."
"Ah, those ghost cultivators?" Cheng Yi looked around quickly, "I hate Duyindi, luckily there are no ghosts here."
Qi Wan'er sighed, "The story of Duyindi turned out to be true. I was almost scared to death at that time." He thought of something, "By the way, why are you here? Did Duan Qingming come here for you?"
"Yes," Cheng Yi answered honestly, "but he didn't ask me to come find you."
Qi Wan'er snorted coldly: "I didn't expect him to save me, where are the others?"
Cheng Yi said: "He asked me to deliver letters to many people, and then go to Guangling Sect to wait for him."
"So, he will come too," Qi Wan'er breathed a sigh of relief, "I don't know any medical skills, and Brother Yao's injury still needs him..." He didn't finish his words, his face slowly darkened, and he sat down next to Yao Feng.
After hearing what the two said, Gu Pinglin roughly guessed what had happened. He thought that he was kidnapped to the Sword King Pavilion. Yu Wuxue and the others were caught up in a sudden change and had no idea what to do. Yao Feng was worried about Qi Wan'er's safety, and couldn't wait for them to discuss the result, so he broke into the Duyin land alone to look for someone, and the two of them happened to meet.
Gu Pinglin reminded the people around him: "The Mist Sword Master is injured. This is a good opportunity to win people's hearts. Why don't you, the Pavilion Master, go out and save him?"
Duan Qingming said: "I, the Mist Sword Master, have been moved by you. I will follow your lead, Sect Master Gu."
"I was able to persuade the steady and thoughtful Lord of Mist Sword to follow my lead. Isn't it because you, the Pavilion Master, are too unsuccessful?" Gu Pinglin said, "If you treat people with sincerity, why worry about your subordinates being alienated?"
"I have always been sincere to others."
"Harming people sincerely."
"People are only harmed by their own choices. It's not me. I also care about my subordinates," Duan Qingming said, "Don't make it sound like I'm a bad leader. You're the only one who cherishes talents."
Gu Pinglin changed the subject: "You do have a lot of talented people under you. Rain Sword Pavilion should be ranked last, and anyone can be the Rain Sword Master."
"You can see this too," Duan Qingming said, "The swordsmanship is full of loopholes. It's inevitable that you will die quickly when you go out on a mission. The Rain Sword Master changes frequently."
Gu Pinglin said: "Qi Wan'er is the Cloud Sword Master who will leak sooner or later. Cheng Yi learned the sword from hunting. When he draws the sword, it is invisible and traceless. The name of Wind Sword Master is quite appropriate."
Duan Qingming said: "Once blown, it is gone. Once it goes, it cannot come back. This is more appropriate."
The biggest flaw of Cheng Yi's swordsmanship is the lack of successors. This comment really hits the nail on the head. Duan Qingming, who never draws his sword, has always been humorous and has many friends in his previous life. It is rare for Gu Pinglin to discuss swordsmanship with the real him calmly, so he can't help but bend his lower lip: "Is there a reason why Yao Feng is the master of the mist sword?"
"No," Duan Qingming said casually, "Special Sword Technique is just a trick to deceive people. The sword technique itself is not very advanced."
Gu Pinglin disagreed: "The Yao family has always had a good reputation outside the mountain. Although the reputation of the special swordsmanship is not as loud as the Li family's Yinlan swordsmanship, it is actually not inferior. It is pure and simple, indifferent and true. It has always been respected by the cultivation world. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the highest swordsmanship."
Duan Qingming glanced at him with a half-smile: "You call this the highest? When did your vision go wrong?" He turned to Yao Feng again: "The way of the sword is the way of killing. If the Yao family is really so kind and benevolent and does not fight with the world, they should just chop wood and farm. Why bother to learn swords? Oh - is it better to learn swords so that they can chop wood, or do they like murder weapons? This indifference is not true, so it cannot be called the highest."
Gu Pinglin pursed his lips and did not refute: "The Shushi swordsmanship cannot be called the highest, and the Yinlan swordsmanship probably cannot be called the highest either."
Duan Qingming said, "Yinlan's swordsmanship is pretty good, it's Li Moqing who's not good enough. For a swordsman who is controlled by the sword, it's useless to practice the most advanced swordsmanship."
Gu Pinglin asked: "Then what do you think is the supreme swordsmanship?"
Duan Qingming thought without hesitation: "Of course, the kingly way is supreme."
"Kingly Way, Sword King Pavilion?"
"Who can match my swordsmanship?"
Gu Pinglin finally looked at him sideways: "Did you see that? In your eyes, everyone else is trash except yourself. This is your sincerity."
"No, it should be," Duan Qingming smiled and pointed at him with the jade slip, then at himself, "You, me, and the waste."
Gu Pinglin didn't smile: "How is my swordsmanship?"
“Worse than me.”
"Without a sword, can I defeat you?"
Duan Qingming was even more pleased when he heard this. He used the jade slip to lift up a strand of black hair on his temples and said, "Sure. You can try to use emotions again."
Gu Pinglin remained motionless: "So, I am also a waste."
"Hmm?" Duan Qingming said, "Of course you are not."
"What's the difference?" Gu Pinglin said, "You are just interested, an interest that has never failed. Without this interest, I will be a waste in your eyes." Noticing the jade slip leaving, Gu Pinglin continued, "Not everyone has your talent, and this is not their choice. As you said, maybe I can never beat you, maybe those people can't reach the inner alchemy realm in their entire lives, but the efforts of the weak are equally valuable and more worthy of praise." He paused and said, "Duan Qingming, you don't actually deny this in your heart. You said Qi Wan'er was a waste, but you also admired his pure persistence in swordsmanship and helped him perfect his skills. Isn't it this kind of struggle that overestimates one's own abilities that you are interested in?"
There was no response in his ears, but the gaze falling on him seemed to have weight. Gu Pinglin took a step forward: "I am different from them, probably only because I can not be controlled by you, try my best, and play games with you one after another."
As soon as he stepped out of the barrier, Qi Wan'er and Cheng Yi saw him immediately.
"Brother Gu? You are here too!" Qi Wan'er was surprised and happy. She stood up and walked quickly towards him, bowing.
"Hello, Master Gu!" Cheng Yi also greeted happily, and was even happier to see Duan Qingming behind him, "Master, I have delivered the letter."
Duan Qingming smiled and nodded: "Very good, I know you can complete the task."
Gu Pinglin stepped forward and looked at Yao Feng: "What's going on?"
Qi Wan'er didn't bother to be polite and simply told what happened: "I originally went to Wuyin Mountain Range to investigate your whereabouts, but I didn't expect that something unexpected happened in the cultivation world and I was trapped here. The dark land is conducive to ghost cultivation. I guessed that this matter was related to Wanfa Sect, so I didn't dare to act rashly. I also thought that our Jianwang Pavilion had done a favor to Guangling Sect, so I came to discuss with them. It happened that Brother Yao also wanted to ask Guangling Sect to help find me, so we happened to meet, but I didn't expect that Guangling Sect didn't see anyone."
Gu Pinglin secretly admired.
Qi Wan'er had a simple personality, but was smart. With the experience gained over the years, he acted more cautiously. He guessed that the Wanfa Sect might kill the cultivators along the way, so he did not flee, but wanted to seek help from the Guangling Sect. He had no mount along the way, and he was able to get here so quickly, probably because he brought enough feather coins and spirit ingots to replenish his true energy.
Cheng Yi also explained: "I just arrived outside the hall and met the two of them. After a few words, Yao Feng suddenly wanted to kill me, as if he was possessed by evil spirits, so we knocked him unconscious."
Qi Wan'er held Yao Feng's shoulders and said in a deep voice, "Brother Yao may have been tricked by a clever trick. He may have met Master Lu before. Brother Gu, do you have any solution?"
Without waiting for Gu Pinglin to answer, Duan Qingming stepped forward and leaned forward slightly to check on Yao Feng's situation. "Someone from the Sword King Pavilion is in trouble, and I'm here too. Why did cousin Wan'er bother Master Gu? Does he not trust me as the Pavilion Master?"
Qi Wan'er sneered, and finally couldn't hold back her anger: "Who is your cousin! I haven't asked you yet, are you colluding with the Wanfa Sect? Is this matter related to you? Did you ask me to go to Wuyin Mountain to investigate on purpose? Now you see Brother Yao come in alone to find me, what are you thinking!"
"There are so many questions. Which one do you want me to answer first? Don't worry." Duan Qingming put away the jade slip and stretched out his hand to feel Yao Feng's pulse. "It is true that his mind is injured. I didn't expect it to be so serious."
Hearing him speak seriously, Qi Wan'er put away her anger and asked, "Is it serious?"
Duan Qingming let go of Yao Feng's hand and stood up: "It's okay, let's find a place to settle down first and heal slowly."
Qi Wan'er secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but still with a tense face, she and Cheng Yi helped Yao Feng up: "There are two or three empty rooms over there. I guess they belong to the night watch disciples. Anyway, there is no one in Guangling Sect, so let's borrow them for the time being."
Mr. Lu's clever words only take advantage of people's weaknesses, take advantage of the opportunity and bewitch the mind, the damage is actually not as great as Yan Sen's Soul Sword Flow. Ordinary methods of clearing the mind and concentrating the spirit have a certain resistance effect. Nanzhu has been practicing magic for many years, and in the end Ji Qinnan coaxed him to practice the Penglai Qingxin technique, and he will recover soon. What's more, Yao Feng was not deeply affected, so everyone helped him into the room, Duan Qingming personally gave him acupuncture and medicine, and Gu Pinglin did not intervene. The "Bu Tian Jue" technique is closely related to the "Nine Chapters of Refining the Soul", and the "Nine Chapters of Refining the Soul" is the technique of the ancestor of magic, which can be regarded as the ancestor of the magic technique. Soul injury is nothing, and dealing with such mental trauma is a piece of cake.
Sure enough, Yao Feng woke up in less than an incense stick of time.
Qi Wan'er was always paying attention to what was going on. Seeing this, she showed joy and walked forward to help him up: "How are you?"
"Wan'er!" Yao Feng saw him clearly, his expression changed drastically, and he subconsciously grabbed his hand, "Are you... okay?"
Although Qi Wan'er felt puzzled, she could hear the worry in his words and was touched. She patted his arm and looked very ashamed: "I'm fine. Thank you for your worry, Brother Yao. If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have fallen for this trick."
"Qiao Yan?" Yao Feng was stunned for a moment, then he saw that there were people around. He finally reacted and quickly let go of his hand, "I am..."
"Did you meet Master Lu?" Cheng Yi asked curiously.
Yao Feng was silent for a moment, then nodded: "He didn't attack me at that time, I was careless." He bowed to Gu Pinglin again: "You are right, thank you."
Duan Qingming said slowly, "I was the one who saved you, but you thanked him. What? Do you want to switch to the Lingxin Sect?"
Gu Pinglin naturally understood that Yao Feng was referring to the fact that he had ensured Qi Wan'er's safety, and he laughed, "I really have to thank you, Pavilion Master. Young Master Lu did not kill you, but only used clever words to influence your mind because he was afraid of the Sword King Pavilion."
Yao Feng looked at the two of them and finally bowed: "Thank you, Pavilion Master."
Duan Qingming raised the jade slip to stop him, as if puzzled: "Clever words can only affect those with weak minds. Master Yao Jian has always been steady, could it be that he also has a demon in his heart?"
Qi Wan'er frowned when she heard this: "Brother Yao, what's wrong with you?"
Yao Feng shook his head: "No."
Duan Qingming warned him: "This matter is not insignificant, it will affect your path, Master Yao Jian must not take it lightly and avoid seeking medical attention."
Yao Feng had a blank expression on his face, but still insisted: "Thank you for your concern, Master. I'm fine."
"Of course I care about my subordinates," Duan Qingming did not press the issue any further, and sighed, "If you don't want to talk, that's fine. Although I can make you sober, you still need to practice the Yao family's Qingxin Heart Method ten times a day for seven consecutive days to stabilize your state of mind, so that you can completely get rid of the influence of the trickery."
"Let's do the practice now, I'll protect you." Qi Wan'er suddenly said.
"No need." Yao Feng wanted to refuse.
Cheng Yi kindly asked, "If you don't want him, do you want my help?"
Qi Wan'er seemed not to hear anything. She lifted her skirt and sat down on the stool in front of the couch.
Yao Feng wanted to say something but stopped himself and just remained silent.
Duan Qingming said, "Friends and brothers don't need to be polite. Let Wan'er come to protect the law. I hope Master Yao will recover soon, so that I can rest assured." He turned to Cheng Yi and said, "Don't you have something to report? Go out and tell me."
"Oh, yes, I almost forgot." Cheng Yi walked out immediately.
The three of them went out, Duan Qingming and Cheng Yi went to the side to talk about something, and Gu Pinglin prepared to look around. The two of them didn't say much, and then returned to the steps.
Duan Qingming instructed Cheng Yi: "Just stay here and protect Master Yao Jian."
Cheng Yi was puzzled: "Thirteen is in there."
Duan Qingming said: "Wan'er will be out soon."
"Really? Okay then." Cheng Yi really picked up the sword and stood at the door in an orderly manner.
Hearing this conversation, Gu Pinglin frowned, and seeing Duan Qingming also coming this way, he slowed down. As soon as they reached the corridor, they heard a noise behind them.
Qi Wan'er slammed the door and walked out, looking very unhappy. Seeing Cheng Yi standing at the door, he reluctantly nodded and walked to the other side as if nothing had happened: "I'll go outside to see what's going on."