"Dugu Bai?"
Gu Xichun's haggard face became paler, and her pupils suddenly shrank like a deep black well.
He is recognized as the fastest-growing student in Shadow Mountain Sword Grotto in the past few decades. After practicing for one month, he was able to master the mysteries, and in March he broke through to the second level of refining Qi.
It is precisely because of this speed beyond the imagination of ordinary practitioners that he has already become famous in Changling, and he stands out among all the students from all the academies who watched the sword sacrifice trial that day. Since a few months ago, he has also been allowed to go to this shadow sword wall to study and practice.
But apart from the two monsters An Baoshi from Lingxu Sword Sect and Jing Liuli from Minshan Sword Sect, he also knew very clearly that among all the young talents in Changling, there were still a few that he could never match.
Dugu Bai was one of those people.
Dugu Bai's father, Dugu Liangsheng, was the youngest of the thirteen marquis generals of the Great Qin Dynasty.
The blood of the Dugu family is somewhat unique. Dugu Liangsheng is exactly the same as the previous generations of the Dugu family. He was weak and sick when he was young, and he was often a medicine jar when he was twelve or thirteen years old. Gradually faded, the talent of practice soon appeared.
Not only is the speed of breaking through the realm very fast, but also the people of the Dugu family often have unexpected comprehension and application of some simple sword styles.
Some seemingly ordinary sword moves can often exert powerful power in their hands.
When Dugu's family reached Dugu Liangsheng's title of marquis, the family power naturally reached its most glorious peak, and Dugu Bai's encounter naturally became different from all the previous members of the Dugu family.
If it were someone else, maybe they would look for a lot of elixir and famous doctors, so that Dugu Bai would no longer be sick when he was young, or his body would grow up earlier.
However, Dugu Liangsheng had his own considerations. He didn't take any means to push the seedlings, but sent several of his most trusted generals and servants to travel around with Dugu Bai since he was a child, not only to famous mountains and great rivers, but also to various places. Planting in the barren, bitter cold and extremely hot land, going to various places of war.
According to Dugu Liangsheng, it is to use the vitality of heaven and earth and the battle spirit and war spirit as medicine, and to nourish people naturally with the way of heaven.
Regardless of whether there is any reason or basis for his practice, his approach has indeed achieved very good results.
The environment that Dugu Bai experienced was obviously worse than that of any member of the Dugu family before him, but his sickly body became stronger faster, and a lot of experience in his childhood seemed to give him a better intuition for using a sword.
The most important thing is... Although the body grows up at about the same time as all the Dugu family members in the past, when they were thirteen or fourteen years old, they were only about the height of ordinary people around twelve years old, but they did not use much medicine to strengthen their bodies early, But it made his thoughts a little beyond ordinary people.
According to the legend, the movements of the people in front of Dugu Bai's eyes will be slower than the normal eyes of ordinary people.
It's just a little bit slower, in the battle of practitioners who are not much different in realm, there is a huge gap.
Gu Xichun knew that he was definitely not as good as Dugu Bai because he had seen Dugu Bai fight.
In that battle, Dugu Bai only used the simplest "Long River Slash" to defeat a practitioner who was slightly higher than him.
To this day, recalling that scene, Gu Xichun still can't fully understand how Dugu Bai was able to break the opponent's exquisite sword posture with such a move.
If you don't understand, there is a huge gap.
Gu Xichun knew that the uncle named Li Muyan in front of him was doing it for his own good. On weekdays, this uncle who held a high position in the sect had given him many pointers, but he still shook his head slightly.
Seeing his shaking his head, Li Muyan frowned immediately, and said: "I admire your determination and perseverance, but the reason why my Yingshan Sword Cave has a middle-level cultivation base of the fourth level is that I can enter the forbidden area. The reason why Jianbi came to understand the door rules is because many sword intents on the shadow sword wall are too sharp, just like the mind power of the senior masters pointing directly at them, and these many sword marks imply the movement of the vitality of heaven and earth, just like The runes will naturally gather some energy from the heavens and the earth. A student like you, who has not reached the level of cultivation, will practice here for too long, and his mind and body will be injured by this shadow sword wall."
"I know your heart." Gu Xichun raised his head, and said respectfully, "It's just my interest in cultivation, which comes from my pride."
Li Muyan asked doubtfully, "Why?"
Gu Xichun said sincerely and softly: "I don't know how you feel as a powerful practitioner, but for me, I really like people around me who feel strange when they see me, envy and admire, and even look up to you. Eyes. I like this feeling... so at least for many years before me, the motivation to support me to work hard and endure loneliness came from this."
Li Muyan couldn't help frowning, and said: "This feeling is abnormal, you should have a longer-term perspective, because we are practitioners beyond ordinary people, not those girls in Changling Hualou. Our strength and realm , should not be like their beauty and clothes, just want to win admiration."
"Master, I understand what you said." Gu Xichun continued respectfully and sincerely: "Cultivators should have higher pursuits, and should not just try to be more glamorous than others in front of people. I have read in the practice books that the best method of practice comes from the original heart, and the best method is the one that can most stimulate the feeling of self-cultivation.”
Li Muyan thought about Gu Xichun's words silently, and felt that there was some truth.
"I know that I can't compare with An Baoshi, Jing Liuli and Dugu Bai, but at least in front of the rest, I must stand out from the crowd."
Gu Xichun said calmly: "Besides, when I went to the Ivy Sword Academy to watch the ceremony, the young man named Ding Ning from the wine shop in Baiyangdong really made me feel threatened. His behavior even made me suffer a lot in front of those people. Humiliation. The threat from the boy in the wine shop, and those humiliations, are some of the strongest stimulations for me. If I take advantage of this momentum, I still can't comprehend anything here. It is even more impossible to gain some insights here. And my pride does not allow me to lose to a young man who has just practiced. No matter how good his aptitude is, after all, he started much later than me... Even if I don’t lose to him, it’s just If I can't let him look up to me, and I can't comment on him wantonly from above, I will feel very bad, and the biggest motivation to support my practice will disappear."
"So, uncle, please don't stop me."
Gu Xichun kowtowed to the ground, saluted Li Muyan, and begged: "As long as I can get any benefit here, it doesn't matter how much pain and torture I suffer."
Li Muyan thought of the recent incident between Ding Ning and Xue Wangxu, and seeing Gu Xichun's appearance at this time, he sighed softly and stopped talking.
When the footsteps of the uncle who cared about him gradually moved away, Gu Xichun, who was kneeling on the ground, slowly got up.
He faced the Shadow Sword Wall again and sat upright.
In fact, the Shadow Sword Wall is not left by the former sages of the Shadow Mountain Sword Cave, but a relic from an unknown ancient practice place.
The earliest group of practitioners in the Shadow Mountain Sword Cave discovered the Shadow Sword Wall, and took painstaking efforts to transport it to the Shadow Mountain Sword Cave, because everyone can be sure that the practitioners who left these sword marks are too high in their realm. many.
Shadow Mountain Sword Grotto is not considered a first-rate sect in Changling so far, but the sect that Mianyingjianbi belonged to must be an extremely first-rate sect.
Since getting this Shadow Sword Wall, each generation of true disciples of Shadow Mountain Sword Cave will spend a lot of time comprehending it. However, for hundreds of years, only three of them have comprehended the true meaning from it.
One of them, Qu Li, comprehended the strongest sword scripture in Yingshan Sword Cave so far, Liuying Sword Scripture.
The other two have become grand masters who have successfully stepped through the seven realms.
One of them, Song Hanshan, realized a Hanshan Sword Talisman here.
The other person, Xiao Yanyu, gained many important insights about the vitality of heaven and earth here, and it only took a few nights to break through the five realms to the six realms.
Gu Xichun knew that his talent was no worse than those three, and he didn't expect to be as explosive as those three.
As long as he can get a few exquisite sword moves, even some changes that can make the true essence run faster and the sword gather the vitality of the world more violently, he is already satisfied.
It's just that he has been sitting here for more than 30 days, and he supported it with a breath of energy. The sword marks in his eyes are still extremely messy. traces, to explore the connection... He tried all kinds of methods, but he didn't realize anything.
What Li Muyan said was right. Shadow Sword Wall caused great damage to the mind and body. At this time, he bowed deeply and stood up. Looking at the countless sword marks in front of him, his mind sank, and the hands exposed outside his sleeves Shaking uncontrollably.
He felt something was wrong, and wanted to take his eyes away from the shadow sword wall, but just this struggle, he only felt his eyes darken, his throat sweetened, and with a puff, a mouthful of reverse blood spewed out uncontrollably.
"Looking at the sword wall and seeing blood spitting out of the mouth, you can be regarded as the first person in the ages."
A mouthful of blood spurted out, Gu Xichun didn't think about his body immediately, instead, the faces of Xie Changsheng and Ding Ning appeared in his mind, imagining the mocking expressions of Xie Changsheng and Ding Ning beside him.
"puff"
His breathing became even more difficult, and another mouthful of blood mist shot out from his mouth.
Warm blood sprayed on the wall of the Shadow Sword in front of him, and countless tiny drops of blood flowed down slowly.
Many drops of blood fell into those deep and wide sword marks, which only dyed the inside of these sword marks with a little color.
However, Gu Xichun's eyes suddenly brightened like stars.
On the wall of the Shadow Sword in front of him, several extremely thin but extremely bright red lines appeared.