Duan Qingming narrowed his eyes slightly after hearing the original words: "It seems that you are going to stick with me all the way."
"It should be." Gu Pinglin had completely calmed down. He walked to his side and looked at the sea with him.
Duan Qingming didn't seem to mind: "You are worried and keep your eyes on me, but have you ever thought that in this way, you can only passively accept the attack, which is not favorable. Are you sure you can keep an eye on me all the time? Or do you think Qi Wan'er can really restrain me? Maybe I have already made arrangements, maybe I am deliberately attracting your attention and want to restrain you with myself, maybe you are the one who really fell into the trap."
Gu Pinglin's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately taunted, "Perhaps, if you write this calculating eloquence into a secret book, it will be better than your swordsmanship and will surely be passed down for generations."
Duan Qingming smiled and said, "I don't deserve it. Thank you for the compliment."
"These words are very disturbing," Gu Pinglin raised his head slightly and said leisurely, "But you are wrong about one thing. Who said I can only passively accept it?"
"Oh?" Duan Qingming was surprised, "Do you have any other plans?"
Gu Pinglin tapped the railing lightly: "Instead of testing me, it's better for you to guess."
"That's right," Duan Qingming retracted his gaze and sighed as he looked at the sea and sky, "As you said, whether it's swordsmanship or games, they are just a little fun in boredom. The law of reincarnation, death means rebirth, and life is the road to death. This road seems to be nothing more than this."
In his previous life, he caused chaos in the cultivation world because he was boring. I didn't expect that he would have such thoughts in his mind. Gu Pinglin was surprised to hear this. He couldn't help but wonder if he really ascended to heaven in the end. After a while, he frowned and said, "The weak will never know the scenery at the top. The strong have their own way to become strong. How can they be compared? It is a taboo to be on the path of Tao without reverence for the Tao."
Duan Qingming asked with interest: "Are you concerned?"
Gu Pinglin said: "Because you haven't tasted failure yet."
"Oh - it seems I should be looking forward to you defeating me as soon as possible," Duan Qingming smiled at him for a while, and suddenly said, "The road is difficult and dangerous. The loser will also fall into the six reincarnations, but will inevitably lose all memories of the previous life. Do you think there will be an exception?"
Gu Pinglin was not surprised: "What was our relationship in the previous life? You have been testing for so long, and there is any result?"
"I originally thought you were my opponent," Duan Qingming paused and smiled, "but you always care about me so much that I wavered."
Concerned? Gu Pinglin pursed his lips.
"Neither a relative nor a friend." Duan Qingming seemed to be thinking about something. After a while, he suddenly lowered his head and pressed down on him.
Gu Pinglin was confused at first, and refused to take a step back, until he felt a warm breath on his face. Shocked, he immediately stepped aside, his whole body bursting with sharp sword intent: "You..."
The sword intent dissipated before it got close. Duan Qingming stood there with his hands behind his back and said with a smile, "Hey, why get so excited? I just want to see if we had a relationship like the Hanying Twin Swords in our previous life."
This person really acted recklessly and didn't care about the secular world's eyes. Gu Pinglin never expected that he would have such a guess. His face darkened immediately and he sneered: "If so, do you think you can stand here alive?"
"If so, it would be very interesting." Duan Qingming laughed and walked down the bow.
Do you want to get rid of surveillance like this? Gu Pinglin followed him to the corner, but saw Yao Feng standing alone by the railing. He was facing the sea, and seemed to be concentrating on looking at the scenery. However, his stiff back and fingers tightly grasping the railing showed that he was deliberately pretending not to see.
Duan Qingming, damn it!
Gu Pinglin greeted him calmly and passed by him.
Yao Feng let out a light breath, looking at the direction where the two people disappeared with embarrassment and confusion. In fact, he had just come out of the mountain not long ago, and he didn't know that being too close to his fellow disciples was a problem. He just instinctively felt that it was wrong.
Qi Wan'er happened to walk over and looked around: "Did you see anyone?"
Yao Feng pursed his lips and stared at the waves on the sea.
Qi Wan'er couldn't remember his name, so she asked directly, "Where's Duan Liu?"
Yao Feng uttered two words: "Gone."
Qi Wan'er asked anxiously: "Where did you go?"
Yao Feng said: "I don't know."
He had just been irritated by Duan Qingming's words and turned around to look for him, but he was nowhere to be found. Qi Wan'er asked impatiently, "What about Gu...his junior brother?" He really forgot to ask Gu Pinglin's name.
Yao Feng looked a little subtle, and after a long silence, he said, "He left too."
"Where did you go?"
“I don’t know.”
"Where did you come from? Why can't you speak clearly?" Qi Wan'er was impatient and left with a wave of her sleeves.
Yao Feng was not angry and continued to look at the sea in silence.
In a hidden corridor not far away, Xin Ji turned around and muttered to himself: "Relationship in the previous life... What does that mean?"
Among all the people on the boat, he had the highest cultivation level. He concealed his aura and eavesdropped on the conversation, and no one noticed from beginning to end.
After thinking for a long time and still not understanding the meaning of the words, he simply gave up guessing, stroked his beard and laughed twice: "I knew that these two guys are not as harmonious as they seem, humph."
After saying this, he walked away with his hands behind his back.
The group sailed on the East China Sea for several days without encountering any danger. This was a frequently used route, and the seas they passed through were all owned by others. There were no ferocious beasts, and only low- and medium-level monsters were seen occasionally. As for ordinary storms and waves, they were not a concern for the cultivators, and the Fishbone Boat was fully capable of handling them.
The boat followed a fixed route and gradually approached the Qizi Reef area.
The Chess Reef is composed of thousands of circular islands of similar size. Each island is covered with black or white stones, hence the name Chess Reef. There are many undercurrents in the middle, and ships can easily get lost. The terrain is easy to defend but difficult to attack, so it often triggers battles among maritime sects.
That day, Gu Pinglin was meditating on the bed when he suddenly heard the sound of a zither. The air around him began to fluctuate. Gu Pinglin couldn't help but open his eyes: "Hmm?"
The ship shook violently, the bow was lifted high, and then fell down with a "bang", and the whole ship shook violently.
Gu Pinglin immediately stood up: "What's going on?"
Duan Qingming was still lying steadily opposite him, with his eyes closed, and the book was just half opened, with his hand turned upside down on his chest.
Gan Li hurried in: "Uncle Gu, there seems to be a fight ahead, the Thirteenth Young Master has already passed by."
"You stay on the boat, I'll go take a look." Gu Pinglin took two steps forward and turned back, "Are you not interested in such a lively scene?"
Duan Qingming said, "The Qin and Jian practitioners are all familiar faces, nothing new."
Gu Pinglin said: "Their opponents are very fresh."
"Alas," Duan Qingming sat up, "You just want me to go with you so that you can monitor me more easily. Why do you have to make it so tempting?"
"As long as we have achieved our goal," Gu Pinglin said unceremoniously, "Let's go."
The scene was the same as Gu Pinglin had guessed. In front of him was a gray-black space, with an imbalanced spiritual energy. The sea surface kept tilting left and right, and the seawater was turbulent. The sound of the piano continued, becoming more and more intense, with an undisguised murderous intent. There were many sword shadows in the sky, and the sword energy was grim, wrapping a huge pearl shadow. The pearl shadow was spinning, emitting a dark blue gem light, competing with the sword energy. This kind of power was clearly a battle between inner alchemy cultivators.
When Gu Pinglin and the other arrived, Qi Wan'er, Yao Feng and Jiang Ruoxu were already there. In the distance, dozens of cultivators dressed in Penglai Island costumes were watching the battle. Faced with a true battle between two great inner alchemy cultivators, no one dared to intervene.
"Using the zither to guide the sword, practicing both the zither and the sword, the Guangling School's swordsmanship is also unique." Qi Wan'er watched seriously, but there was not much admiration in her eyes.
He was looking at the "acquaintance" that Duan Qingming had mentioned, the two swords of Han Ying. Feng Ying sat cross-legged on the sea, bowing his head to play the zither, with huge waves surging beside him; Yan Han held the zither in his left hand and flew in the air, plucking the strings with his right hand to make a sound of metal and stone, and sometimes he bent his fingers to make sword gestures, and the two swords brought out countless sword shadows, trapping the people opposite.
Gu Pinglin looked at the pearl in the air: "Sea Exploration Dragon Pearl."
Qi Wan'er was from an aristocratic family and had heard of the name of Dragon Ball. She was surprised and asked, "Is that man Lord Liu Yu?"
As the leader of the Three Dukes of Penglai, the Sixth Duke Guo Fengsheng was of burly stature, with thick eyebrows and a beard, fierce eyes, and a sharply downturned lip corner. His face looked very unfriendly. At this moment, he stood in mid-air, holding the pearl in one hand, with a brocade robe fluttering on his back. Facing the attacks of the two men, he was not at all at a disadvantage.
The two sides were deadlocked and neither was willing to give in.
The sound of the zither stopped abruptly, and Feng Ying circled into the air, the zither and the sword becoming one. Yan Han had retreated to his side, and the two of them raised their hands and formed sword gestures almost at the same time, ready to attack together.
Guo Feng showed no fear when seeing this. He snorted coldly, added true energy, and the shadow of the sea-exploring dragon ball became larger. A column of water suddenly rose from the sea, forming the spectacle of a dragon taking water. A large amount of sea water was absorbed by the dragon ball, and the sea level in the space dropped instantly.
Gu Pinglin's face slightly changed, and he shouted quickly: "Retreat quickly!"
Before he finished speaking, both sides used their ultimate moves at the same time! The dragon ball rotated, shooting out countless sharp water spikes, overwhelming the sky and the earth and attacking the Hanying double swords! Gu Pinglin and others were originally standing far away, but the incident happened suddenly, and the attack range of the inner alchemy cultivator's ultimate move was too wide, and several people were affected. Gu Pinglin and Duan Qingming reacted the fastest, Yao Feng, Qi Wan'er, and Jiang Ruoxu didn't pay attention, and it was too late when the moves came out. Fortunately, Guo Feng mainly targeted the Hanying double swords. The power contained in these water spikes on the edge was not that strong, but it was definitely not weak. This made Qi Wan'er suffer. In the past, Qi Zhen was defeated in the East China Sea, and the Qi family couldn't raise their heads in front of Penglai Island. If he made a move at this time, he would be recognized as Qi's swordsmanship, which would surely lead to humiliation in Penglai Island.
The current situation is critical and we have no choice but to stop it.
Qi Wan'er gritted her teeth and was about to draw her sword when there was a sudden sound of breaking air behind her. A ray of sword light fell from mid-air, and the heavy sword energy swept across the sea, causing large waves to surge.
It’s Yao Feng.
This level of cultivation should be close to the fifth level of Qi transformation. Gu Pinglin made a judgment secretly, and couldn't help but sighed that the Yao family outside the mountain was well-deserved.
If one were to describe the swordsmanship of the three families, Gu Ying's swordsmanship would definitely be called "complex", ethereal and gorgeous, with intricate changes and being unpredictable; Qi Wan'er's swordsmanship would be called "noble", with fierce momentum, but each move is extremely beautiful, revealing an air of dignity and showing its status; and the Yao family's swordsmanship can be described in one word: "indifferent".
Completely opposite to Gu Ying's swordsmanship, the Yao family's swordsmanship is the most authentic sword art that is most respected in the world of cultivation. It is light, generous, grand, with simple moves, returning to nature, and dispelling murderous intent invisibly.
Yao Feng lowered his head slightly, clasped one hand between his eyebrows, and made different sword gestures. His whole body slowly spun in the air. His human breath disappeared without a trace, leaving only the heavy and majestic sword energy.
The jet-black sword slashed three times in a row, and after the water spikes penetrated layer after layer of waves, their momentum gradually slowed down. By the time they reached the three people, they no longer had any harm.
"What kind of sword energy is this?" Qi Wan'er's face changed slightly. He never thought that this ordinary cultivator in the team would have such outstanding swordsmanship.
Yao Feng retracted his attack and retreated to the side of Gu Pinglin and the others.
Over there, Han Ying used both swords together to absorb the power of the dragon ball. Everyone was surprised to see this. Feng Ying recognized Gu Pinglin first, a look of joy appeared on his face, and he hesitated to speak, obviously not wanting to implicate everyone.
Gu Pinglin bowed to the two of them from a distance: "Why are you two here?"
Guo Feng stopped attacking for the moment and looked at everyone.
He took the initiative to greet them, and Yan and Feng were very moved. Feng Ying was about to speak when Guo Feng suddenly spoke in a loud voice: "Special Sword Qi, is there a friend of the Yao family here?"
Yao Feng took a step forward, cupped his hands, and said briefly: "Yao Feng, from the Yao family outside the mountain."
"The Yao family outside the mountain?" Qi Wan'er had been looking at him and was shocked when she heard that.
Not to mention that the Yao family is taboo for many sects, even ordinary sects are not easy to make enemies. The Hanying Twin Swords were expelled from Guangling Sect and had nothing to rely on, so Guo Feng had no scruples to fight against them. Although Guo Feng has reached the sixth level of Danxing Realm, he can't take advantage of the twin swords, and he doesn't want to offend the Yao family at this time, so he nodded and said: "Since you are the descendants of the Yao family, Penglai Island will not make it difficult for you. As for the other few small fry, I will let you go for the sake of the Yao family children, but if you want to get involved with those two gays, don't blame me!"
Qi Wan'er was furious at being called a "trash fish", but her identity was inconvenient and she gritted her teeth.
Yan Han sneered and said to Gu Pinglin, "You go first, and we will deal with this old turtle first." He also sympathized with the lack of cultivation of Gu Pinglin and others, so he urged them to leave.
Seeing that they knew each other, Yao Feng hesitated and tried to persuade them: "Senior Liu Yugong..."
"The Yao family motto hasn't changed, right?" Guo Feng said with a smile.
Yao Feng was choked.
The Yao family does not interfere in external affairs. If Penglai Island does not let them go, the Yao family has reason to blame them, but because other people are against Penglai Island, the Yao family will never come forward to help.
In this gap, a flute sound suddenly came from afar.
The sound of the flute was small but not dispersed, as if it had condensed into a line, and it was clear to the ears. Those with lesser cultivation present felt the true energy in their bodies surge, as if it was somewhat out of control.
At the junction of water and sky, a small silver boat came speeding by. Two young men stood at the bow facing the wind. The one in the lead was tall and thin. He wore a black wide robe and a dark gold dragon crown on his head.
He was playing a purple flute.