"Shut up, or I'll use you to refine my sword!" Veins popped out of Yan Sen's forehead. He stood up and stared at Duan Qingming with sinister eyes, "Did you take what you just said seriously?"
Duan Qingming said: "Of course."
"I don't believe it!" Yan Sen said this, but he didn't leave. He paced back and forth for a few times, glancing at him suspiciously, "You better not lie to me."
Duan Qingming smiled: "Only sincerity can lead to cooperation. The Sword King Pavilion has always been honest and trustworthy."
"Wait a minute!" Qi Wan'er finally understood and interrupted the two of them, pointing at Yan Sen and asking him, "What do you mean, you want to cooperate with him?"
Duan Qingming asked back: "Is there a problem?"
Qi Wan'er said angrily: "You knew he killed my brother-in-law!"
"You mean the season?" Yan Sen laughed, "He didn't marry your sister, so he can't be considered your brother-in-law."
Qi Wan'er waved away Yao Feng who was trying to stop her and pointed her sword at Yan Sen: "No matter what, Shi Ling saved my sister. How can I just sit there and watch him die at your hands?"
Yan Sen deliberately said slowly: "I wanted to use your sister to refine the sword. I had no intention of touching him. He wanted to die on his own. Who can you blame? Your sister didn't say anything. What's the use of you shouting? Besides, he is your brother-in-law, not your father. If one dies, you can just find another one."
"You are full of nonsense. You are hateful for killing people and forging swords!"
Duan Qingming reached out and used the jade slip to suppress Qi Wan'er's sword: "Sword Master Yun, calm down. When will the cycle of revenge end? We in the Sword King Pavilion have always been tolerant. Since Senior Yan said it was a misunderstanding, I believe your sister will definitely forgive him... Cousin, what do you think?"
"Ah?" Qi Yanfeng didn't cry. She was silent for a moment and nodded slightly, "Okay."
Qi Wan'er said: "Sister!"
Qi Yanfeng whispered: "Shi Ling is gone, Yan Sen is alive, and my cousin is useful."
The hand holding the sword tightened again and again. Qi Wan'er was speechless in the end. She stamped her feet and sighed, and barely managed to say "It's up to you", then she put away the sword and walked away.
Two Su disciples hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Master Gu, Yan Sen is a fickle person and cannot be trusted."
"It's okay, I have my reasons," Gu Pinglin comforted the two, and turned to ask Qi Yanfeng, "Miss Qi, do you want to stay or go to Changming Mountain with us?"
With his beautiful eyes wandering, Qi Yanfeng said uneasily: "I have just formed my inner elixir, and my realm is not stable. I can't help you if I go. I'm afraid I will cause trouble to you..."
Seeing this, Qi Wan'er hurried back and said, "Jiang Daxiu and the others are going to stay and hold back the Wanfa Sect. It's very dangerous. You should come with me."
Duan Qingming smiled and said, "It might be more dangerous to follow you."
Qi Wan'er thought he was mocking her, and tried to persuade her again with a stern face, but Gu Pinglin said, "It's even more unsafe to go to Changming Mountain. Miss Qi is a smart person, and her realm is not stable. She doesn't need to follow us to take risks."
Qi Yanfeng nodded: "I won't go."
Qi Wan'er pondered for a moment and said, "Forget it, then you stay here and don't run around."
Qi Yanfeng reluctantly pulled him, his face full of envy: "Your move 'Spiritual Mountain Bathing Rain and Singing and Dancing' is really good, much better than the original move, can you teach me?"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone around stopped what they were doing and looked over.
Qi Wan'er hesitated to speak and did not answer.
Qi Yanfeng seemed to understand something, and immediately let him go, whispering: "Forget it, you must have had a hard time creating new skills over the years, I shouldn't have said that, don't be angry."
Qi Wan'er was silent for a moment, then smiled and said, "It's okay. If you want to learn, I'll teach you."
Sword moves and skills are so important. Seeing that he was going to give away his years of hard work in vain, Yao Feng frowned and wanted to speak, but Qi Wan'er waved her hand to stop him. He summoned the Jade Emperor Sword, drew a sword pattern on the ground with the tip of the sword, and whispered a few words: "Do you remember it?"
Qi Yanfeng closed his eyes briefly, then opened them again and nodded happily: "I'll remember."
"You always remember things quickly," Qi Wan'er destroyed the sword diagram and said solemnly, "This move 'Spiritual Mountain Muyu' is our Qi family's famous move. I have spent decades improving it, but it is not yet complete. I feel it can be even stronger." He put away the Jade Emperor Sword and held Qi Yanfeng's arm with both hands: "Sister, you are alone now, so be careful."
Going to Changming Mountain to break the formation, success or failure is unpredictable, and life or death is unknown.
Qi Yanfeng's eyes turned red again: "I'll be careful, why don't you not go?"
Qi Wan'er shook her head: "Brother Gu and the others are all working hard for the cultivation world, how can I just stand by and watch? Take care, sister." After saying that, she decisively let go of her, nodded to Yao Feng, and the two of them stepped onto the wooden kite.
On the other side, Nanzhu arranged the guards and turned to look at Ji Qinnan. Ji Qinnan ignored her and walked straight towards the wooden kite. Nanzhu's face was extremely ugly. She flicked her sleeves and stepped onto the wooden kite next to her.
"I'll leave this to you," Gu Pinglin patted Jiang Wu's arm suggestively, and then ordered, "Let's go!"
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Because of the Wanfa Gate, the group did not take the shortest route to Changming Mountain, but chose to take a detour. The wooden kite flew low, driven by a spirit stone, and was very stable, saving everyone a lot of true energy.
Gu Pinglin was looking at the changing scenery below, thinking about something, when he suddenly heard someone behind him ask, "What important matter are the two sword masters discussing that I can't hear?"
"What's it to you?"
"The Pavilion Master is asking questions, what is Master Yun Jian's attitude?"
Qi Wan'er was already in a bad mood, and when she heard that, she immediately exploded. She stood up and sneered at him: "Pavilion Master? I haven't had the chance to ask you yet, you already knew the conspiracy of the Wanfa Sect, and you asked me to go to Wuyin Mountain. What's the meaning of that?"
"Aren't you staying here peacefully?" Duan Qingming asked gently, "Do you think that Wanfamen really didn't notice your whereabouts during the time you were walking in Duyin Land?"
Qi Wan'er thought about it for a moment, still doubtful: "You knew it a long time ago?"
"Lu Zhiren is afraid of the Sword King Pavilion and wants to cooperate with me, so he won't attack you," Duan Qingming said, "I am the Pavilion Master, how could I harm you?"
Qi Wan'er hummed softly.
Yao Feng pulled him to sit down and looked at Gu Pinglin again.
Lu Zhiren did not kill Qi Wan'er and Yao Feng. Duan Qingming was right, but he skipped the most important point: Master Lu was afraid of the Sword King Pavilion because his action failed. If he succeeded in subverting the cultivation world, the first target would be the Sword King Pavilion.
Duan Qingming seemed not to notice Yao Feng's reaction, and asked with a smile: "Master Yun Jian is like a firecracker today, no wonder, you have painstakingly created a move for decades, but due to the consideration of friendship, you let Miss Qi take it away with just one sentence, are you reluctant to let it go?"
"What do you mean by being embarrassed? Why should I be reluctant to give it up?" Qi Wan'er said proudly, "Even if I am reluctant, she is my biological sister. 'Spiritual Mountain Muyu' is a Qi family sword move. I will give it to the Qi family if they want it. What's more, it is just an unfinished move." At this point, he raised his eyebrows and mocked, "Who is as stingy as the Pavilion Master? He always makes excuses, haggles, and makes conditions for everything he does. I will create more new moves."
"Oh—" Duan Qingming said, "More new moves from the Qi family."
Gu Pinglin's eyebrows jumped when he heard this and he turned to look.
Qi Wan'er's swordsmanship foundation comes from the Qi family. Being able to create new moves based on old ones is already an amazing achievement. If he is asked to create new moves out of thin air, it is tantamount to giving up his previous swordsmanship. Qi Wan'er has already reached the inner alchemy realm, and changing his path midway is a big taboo.
Qi Wan'er blushed: "Who said I want to..."
"Thirteen!" Yao Feng shouted at him.
Gu Pinglin said, "Master Duan studied Taoism in the Lingxin Sect in the past. Gu Ying's swordsmanship is a combination of the best of many schools. He must have been influenced by the swordsmanship of the Lingxin Sect. Why don't you be generous and give it back to our Lingxin Sect?"
Without waiting for Duan Qingming to answer, Qi Wan'er laughed first: "Well said! All sword techniques in the world come from ordinary sword moves. Your sword technique, Duan Liu, also has its origin. Why are you only asking me?"
Duan Qingming smiled and did not refute.
Yan Sen was also listening nearby. He was very proud when he heard this and laughed, "My Soul Sword Style was created by myself. Do you youngsters accept this?"
Soul Sword Style is indeed unique. He has lived for thousands of years, and no one knows his origins. Qi Wan'er, Yao Feng, Gu Pinglin and others did not refute, only Duan Qingming said slowly: "Yin."
Yan Sen stared at him as if he had seen a ghost, with a murderous gleam in his eyes.
Gu Pinglin seemed to be thinking about something.
Duan Qingming smiled and said, "Now you should believe what I say."
Yan Sen looked at him for a long time, and the murderous aura gradually faded: "It's just a few low-level sword techniques, anyone can do it, it's nothing! The Soul Sword Style was created by me."
"Yin family?" Qi Wan'er was surprised when she heard the words, "You are from Huaxi Yin family?"
Yan Sen laughed, "Why, I don't look like the pampered noble of your family?"
When Qi Wan'er was about to say something, Yao Feng suddenly remembered something and whispered, "It's not this Yin family, it should be the Yin family of Huanjian Lake."
"Huanjian Lake?" Qi Wan'er was stunned for a moment, then remembered, "I have heard my grandfather mention it, but the Yin family has long been in decline and is not even ranked among the aristocratic families. What is the origin of this old demon?" He looked at Yan Sen in surprise.
"What are you looking at?" Yan Sen grinned. "You want to know my origins? You are still young. Even your grandfather would call me senior! The more you know, the sooner you die. Do you understand?"
Qi Wan'er snorted coldly: "I'm not afraid of you!"
Yan Sen didn't take it seriously. Instead, he looked him up and down. "At first, I thought you were just a bit more talented. I didn't expect you to leave the Qi Clan and create your own sword moves. You're quite a character, but it's not that easy to beat my Soul Sword Style."
Qi Wan'er raised her eyebrows: "My sword moves can be perfected. No matter how powerful your soul sword style is, you still have to rely on others' sword souls to improve. This is not the right way."
“I don’t care about the righteous path or the evil path,” Yan Sen said sarcastically, “With your limited cultivation level, you should go to Huanle Tian and practice dual cultivation for a hundred years before you can defeat me, hahahaha!”
Qi Wan'er was embarrassed and annoyed: "Stop using dirty words!"
"Boy, I can tell from the looks of it that you've never had meat before." Yan Sen laughed.
"What's the meat?" Cheng Yi ran over curiously.
"Don't listen to his nonsense!" Qi Wan'er said angrily.
…
A few people over there started to make a noise. Gu Pinglin turned around and looked ahead. In a moment, the wooden kite sank slightly.
“Master Gu, don’t you mind if I give you a ride?” White robe sleeves appeared at the edge of his vision.
"Of course," Gu Pinglin put a few feather coins into the groove on the wooden kite's head, "Who is as stingy as the Pavilion Master? He always makes excuses, haggles, and puts forward conditions for everything he does."
"What happened today? You all started to make sarcastic remarks to me." Duan Qingming sat down.
"If you don't stop playing tricks on people, sooner or later there will be no one left around you."
"So you're feeling sorry for Qi Wan'er."
Gu Pinglin said: "Qi Shisan is a pure person, he treats you sincerely, he saved you, and he is also the sword master of your Sword King Pavilion."
"Qi Shisan is really pure, but his sister is the opposite," Duan Qingming said, "Feelings are people's biggest weakness. If you give away your feelings, you are giving your weakness to others. Poor Shiying."
Gu Pinglin said: "He is not pitiful."
"oh?"
"The deputy leader of Huanle Tian is the strongest fighter in the sect, but there has never been a power grab in Huanle Tian, which shows that the leader must have a way to control the deputy leader. When Shi Shi betrayed Huanle Tian, he must have made the worst plan. Others only saw him protecting Miss Qi, but in fact it might not be Miss Qi who was accompanying him. Otherwise, why wasn't he anxious when he didn't see any breakthrough in his cultivation over the years?"
Duan Qingming sighed: "In the eyes of lovers, they always think that others also have feelings."
Gu Pinglin asked: "There is a lover, who is it?"
Duan Qingming said: "Me, am I not a monster with emotions?"
Gu Pinglin looked at him sideways.
Duan Qingming sat beside him, slowly opening the jade slip in his hand, with faint small words floating in the slip.
Gu Pinglin looked at the words and said, "Since you, Duan Qingming, have feelings and can control people's hearts, do you think Miss Qi is heartless?"
Duan Qingming laughed when he heard this and asked back, "Since you, Gu Pinglin, have feelings and can use them, do you think she has feelings?"
Gu Pinglin retracted his gaze: "Maybe not, maybe yes."
"Maybe, but not enough to make her regret it," Duan Qingming said, "but from the moment she ran away alone, she chose the sword path."
Gu Pinglin said: "You help her, you are interested in her."
"It's rare to see a woman who can achieve this. She's worthy of admiration," Duan Qingming said. "Why, are you jealous?"
Gu Pinglin didn't even think about it: "Jealous, very jealous."
Duan Qingming read the jade slip: "Your ability to lie is getting better and better. I really don't mind helping her, but I'm more curious about how far she can go. Don't you think she's not worth it?"
Gu Pinglin said, "It's worth it. If she was born somewhere else, she would have a future. Unfortunately, she is in the Northern Qi clan. She is a woman, and she has already shown her natural talent. It is impossible for her to join another sect. If you had not concealed your talent of the ninth level of Na Yuan, how could you have been successfully accepted into the Xuanming sect?"
"I can't enter the Lingxin Sect either," Duan Qingming said, "I have to thank my caring mother Qi and my good brother for this."
Gu Pinglin said, "You are like this, let alone Miss Qi. I have never heard of her in my previous life. At that time, you were not in Lingxin Sect, and you did not go to the ancient forest of Mount Yi..." After saying this, Gu Pinglin realized something and was silent for a while before continuing, "You and I did not go to the ancient forest of Mount Yi together. If we did not meet Yuan Xiao and the others, Miss Qi would not have the chance to follow us, let alone meet Shijie."
Duan Qingming said, "Yes, she couldn't escape, and was later married to Yuan Xiao. Before she got married, Qi gave her a Qi-transforming pill, which was a secret recipe of Qi. It could help people break through the Wai Dan realm, and it could also quietly destroy people's Dao meridians. It was a pity that she was so self-righteous and endured it, and naively thought that Yuan would do something else, but she was destined to stay in the Dan Xing realm for the rest of her life."
Gu Pinglin had almost guessed what happened to Qi Yanfeng in his previous life, and he couldn't help sighing when he heard this. Aristocratic families have their own rules, and the Yuan family probably wouldn't mind. "If it weren't for Qi Shisan, she might have had a chance in the Qi family. Unfortunately... now she has given up everything to come this far. Her swordsmanship is so firm, it's rare."
Duan Qingming said: "The season is the last straw she can grasp. She is very lucky this time."
"She is very lucky," Gu Pinglin shook his head, "No one will offend Qi for her, including you and me. Except for Shi Ding who is also determined to escape from Huanletian, only Shi Ding truly pities her."
Duan Qingming said: "In your opinion, when she becomes successful in the future, will she ever think of this straw that once served as a saving grace?"
Gu Pinglin still said: "Maybe, maybe not. She gave up everything and embarked on the ruthless path. She is destined to endure more and suffer more."
"You sympathize with her?"
"Only the weak need sympathy, but she doesn't," Gu Pinglin said, "Besides, compared to her, you were just as dangerous in the Duan family back then."
Duan Qingming was a little surprised. He finally turned his eyes away from the jade slip, tilted his head to look at him, and smiled: "Really? I don't remember."
"You don't have to remember." Gu Pinglin was silent for a moment, "You are the most suitable person to practice the ruthless way."
Duan Qingming asked: "So, you want to terminate the cooperation?"
Gu Pinglin did not answer.
Duan Qingming retracted his gaze: "You want to draw a clear line, but you still need me. Now you still have a chance to choose."
"I'm not drawing a line in the sand," Gu Pinglin said with a complicated expression, "but now that I think about it, what you said is not without reason. If there is no weakness, maybe you have already broken through and ascended to heaven."
"These words are so sincere that they make people cry."
"Duan Daxiu is crying?"
"Want to see it?" Duan Qingming said casually, "There will be no chance in the future, but you can refine the Moon Tracing Light Scroll and go back to my childhood. Maybe I can even show you how to cry loudly - ah, I'm two years older than you, you still can't see it."
Gu Pinglin finally laughed: "Duan Qingming, you are really a funny person."
Duan Qingming said: "It's a funny, emotional monster. Sect Leader Gu will not be lenient in making use of it."
"You are also a petty monster," Gu Pinglin said calmly, "As you said, weaknesses are to be exploited. When you played with the Duan family and the Xuanming Sect, did you never take advantage of feelings? Or are you unable to accept failure?"
Small characters kept appearing and disappearing in the jade slip. Duan Qingming smiled and said, "I accept it, but it's inevitable that I feel strange when I fail for the first time. I have to reflect on myself and learn from my mistakes. Sect Leader Gu is probably used to this kind of thing, so he must understand me."
Gu Pinglin clenched his hands in his sleeves and was about to speak when Bu Shuihan, who had gone out to explore the way, flew back on his wooden kite with a serious look on his face: "There seems to be someone in Jinmao Village. Could it be that the Wanfa Sect has discovered our whereabouts?"
Everyone stood up at the same time and became alert.
Gu Pinglin calmed down, stood up and straightened his robes: "Don't be nervous, everyone, it should be Guangling Sect's Master Zhou and his men."
Hearing that they were their own people, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Bu Shuihan remembered something: "That's not right. Didn't you say that we were going to meet up at Changming Mountain? Why are they here?"