Su Yun followed Xue Qingfu into the Sage's Residence. The Sage's Residence was still in the era of more than a hundred years ago, with wooden pavilions and terraces, not many rooms, but many garden corridors. Compared with the Immortal's Residence, it was not very big, but it was very elegant.
There were not many people in the middle of the saint, most of them were from the Xue family and some servants.
Su Yun followed Xue Qingfu as they walked down the corridor. Every few steps they could see a mask hanging on the wall, with a human face painted on it.
Su Yun stopped to observe and saw that the features of these masks were very delicate, like real human faces. When he touched them gently, they were actually elastic.
Xue Qingfu slowed down his pace and said with a smile: "When I have nothing to do, I like to make something like this. When people get older, they don't like making friends or moving around, so they have to find something they like to do."
Su Yun walked forward and looked at the masks hanging in the corridor. These masks were vivid and showed different expressions. Some were kind, some were gentle, some showed shy smiles, some had sinister eyes, some were grinning, some were hideous, some were gloomy, and some were innocent.
He followed Xue Qingfu all the way and saw dozens of faces, but not a single one was the same!
"Mr. Su, when you turned around, the mask was secretly looking at you." Yingying whispered.
Su Yun turned around suddenly, only to see that the masks were still hanging on the wall intact.
He turned around and suddenly turned around again, only to see that the masks were still hanging there, with nothing unusual.
Su Yun's eyes flashed, and his vital energy condensed into a sword light.
He looked at the mirror-like sword light, which reflected the scene behind him. Just after he turned his head, the eyeballs of all the masks hanging on the wall in the corridor began to move!
The eyes on the wall glanced at him secretly!
Su Yun turned his head, and the masks on the wall turned their eyes back again!
Su Yun found it interesting, but also a little uneasy. He thought, "Could it be that these masks were made into spiritual tools by Saint Xue? They can even move their eyes."
Xue Qingfu led him to the waterside pavilion, sat on the ground, and said, "I thought that Mr. Su would come to my place a year ago. Mr. Qiu taught you the skills of Xiaolou, but I didn't teach you. I feel really guilty."
There is a peculiarly shaped stringed instrument placed under the water pavilion. When water flows through the stringed instrument, it makes a sound. The sound fluctuates as the speed of the water flows.
Su Yun listened to the music and looked around the waterside pavilion. He saw a mask on the wall of the waterside pavilion and said with a smile, "Senior, you misunderstood me. I was passing by here and remembered that I had never visited you, so I came here in a hurry."
That face was that of an old man, with a look of detachment from the world and yet also a hint of cynicism.
A maid came forward to make tea, and Su Yun quickly withdrew his gaze and sat up straight.
The tea was placed in front of him. Su Yun looked down at the tea and was slightly startled. He saw that the tea reflected the old man's mask. The eyeballs of the old man's mask were also quietly moving, secretly looking at him who was sitting below.
"Are you here to look for horses?"
Xue Qingfu laughed and said, "I didn't see the dragon horse. I just heard something under the bridge at night. If you go under the bridge to look, you might find something."
Su Yun blinked and asked tentatively, "Why did Longxiong run under the bridge?"
Xue Qingfu's eyes flickered as he said, "Maybe someone rode him away and he accidentally ran under the bridge and got hung there. I just came back from Tianshiyuan, so I don't know much about this matter."
Su Yun's face straightened, and he asked, "Saint Xue, may I ask who Zhou Bo is?"
Xue Qingfu smiled and said, "The emperor thought of my old age and sent some guards to protect me. Over time, they became my neighbors here."
Su Yun suddenly realized that the Emperor of Dongdu was worried about Xue Qingfu, so he sent people like Zhou Bo, ostensibly for protection but actually for surveillance.
"I have one more thing to do."
Su Yun pondered for a moment and said, "I have an unwelcome request. I would like to ask the saint to point out my shortcomings in cultivation."
Xue Qingfu uttered an "oh" and put down the teacup. Su Yun saw through the water surface of the teacup that the mask above him had turned gloomy and was staring at him intently, seeming to have some resentment.
"You mean you want to challenge me to see if there are any deficiencies in your cultivation progress during this period, and use this to make up for them. Right?"
Xue Qingfu said amiably: "I must fight you at the same level so that you can see the gap."
Su Yun withdrew his gaze from the teacup and said sternly, "If the Saint doesn't want to, then forget it. I will challenge Mr. Shui Jing."
"How could that be?"
Xue Qingfu laughed and said, "Qiu Shuijing is willing to teach Xiaolou, so I naturally cannot fall behind, otherwise he will look down on me. I have fought with him for so many years, and if he looks down on me in this matter, it would be a failure. However, I cannot seal my own cultivation, so I can only fight you with my spirit to restrain the suppression of you by my flesh."
He raised the teacup and gestured, and Su Yun quickly picked up the cup and drank the tea.
When Su Yun put down the teacup, he saw Xue Qingfu, who was sitting opposite him, disappeared.
Su Yun was surprised. He looked up and looked around. Everyone else in the Sage's Residence had disappeared. He stood up and walked quickly out of the pavilion. He saw that he was the only one left in the entire Sage's Residence!
"Senior Xue!" Su Yun shouted, but no one answered him.
“Yingying!”
The book monster Yingying didn’t respond either!
At this moment, the mask on the wall of the corridor behind him suddenly seemed to come alive, with a smile on its face. A body grew out from behind the mask and flowed down from the wall.
The masked man lay on the ground, supported himself with his limbs, and stood up in a strange posture. Suddenly, he moved his feet, and the next moment he came in front of Su Yun.
In front of Su Yun, the sun and the moon alternated and transformed, the sun rose and the moon set, the moon rose and the sun set, whistling in rotation.
"boom!"
He was caught off guard and was hit by the Sun and Moon Wall Magical Power. Su Yun flew backwards. The yellow bell above his head was spinning. The bell wall was extremely thick. As it turned, the broken sun with blazing flames flowed around the bell!
Another big sun flew out from the flames and turned into a golden crow. It clasped its claws on the nose of the yellow bell, flapped its wings, and actually picked up the big bell.
"Are you Senior Xue? Are we in your spiritual world now?"
Su Yun fell out of the corridor, flipped his palm, pointed the bell upwards, and a bell sound shattered the Golden Crow.
The masked man said nothing, but pounced forward with both hands. A bright moon rose behind him, and in the moon sat a six-eyed golden toad. Rays of light shot out from the six eyes and slashed towards Su Yun!
Su Yun held the yellow bell above his head upside down to block the attacks.
The palm of the masked monster changed and turned into the wings of the Golden Crow. It slashed continuously at an extremely fast speed. The next moment, it broke the defense of the Yellow Bell, and the Golden Crow rushed into the Yellow Bell.
Su Yun moved and the two men fought in close combat. After just two moves, a bell rang from overhead. The masked man looked up with a look of horror on his masked face, and saw twelve mythical beasts emerging on the inner wall of the Big Yellow Bell, vividly alive, and wandering around on the inner wall of the bell!
The sound of the bell was the combined power of the twelve magical powers of Yinglong, Chongming and others. The masked monster was under the bell, and the impact of the bell sound was equivalent to Su Yun's full-strength attack on his forehead!
“Bang!”
The masked man exploded and was shattered, leaving only a mask that fell to the ground and rolled twice.
Su Yun reached out to pick up the mask, but saw the mask squeak strangely, and many legs grew from underneath, and it ran away, and no one knew where it ran to.
"Senior Xue?"
Su Yun asked loudly: "Is this your spiritual world?"
He walked quickly forward along the corridor, and the masks on the wall turned their heads away when they saw him coming. When he ran past, they secretly glanced at him from the side, as if they were a little afraid of him.
Su Yun frowned and quickly ran out of the Saint's Residence of Xue Qing Mansion. Looking outside, he saw another Saint's Residence. He was now in the waterside pavilion of another Saint's Residence!
However, what made him feel a little relieved was that there were people in this saint's residence and many servants were working inside.
Su Yun walked forward, stopped a maid, and said with a smile: "May I ask Xue..."
The maid raised her head, revealing a masked face. Su Yun was startled, but saw other servants flying up and turning into masks attached to the wall. The masks whispered to each other and laughed, "He found us!"
The masked maid suddenly roared and attacked him. It was no longer the magical power of the Sun and Moon Wall, but another kind of magical power. Sword lights lined up in a row, flying around Su Yun up and down. The sword lights broke through Su Yun's Huangzhong Defense in the next moment!
"My magical power did have a big flaw, and it was caught in an instant!"
Su Yun dodged the sword light, and the sword light from the masked maid was as gorgeous as a phoenix spreading its wings. The intensity of her attacks was overwhelming.
When she waved her hand, sword lights flashed, and the sharp swords seemed to fly out of her body, making it impossible to defend against them.
Dragons were flying in front and behind Su Yun, attacking the sword lights that were coming at him. Bells kept ringing, and he was forced to retreat again and again.
The maid chased him into the corridor, and the two used their magical powers to cause the corridor to explode continuously. The masks on the wall looked happy as they watched them destroy everything along the way.
Su Yun tumbled and rolled, and suddenly broke through the eaves of the corridor. He jumped up, burst out with his magical powers, and punched out!
The yellow bell above his head suddenly disintegrated, and the next moment it reassembled in front of his punch. With a loud bang, the masked maid and countless sword lights were shattered.
Before the mask on the maid's face fell to the ground, two white wings grew out and flew away.
Su Yun landed above a house and stared at his hands in a daze.
The attack he just used was learned from the masked maid. The magical power of the masked maid came from within her body. When she attacked with her moves, her magical power exploded.
After he learned it, he found that this magical attack was even more powerful!
"Saint Xue is using this fight to teach me the secret of using my magical powers! Yes, this is the technique of using magical powers in the Theory of the Miscellaneous Uses of the Soul!"
Su Yun's heart moved slightly, "On the Miscellaneous Uses of the Soul" was exactly written by Xue Qingfu!
Although Su Yun had learned it, in the battles these days, he had only used the Huang Zhong to kill his opponents and had never tried the fighting techniques in the book.
"Although I don't know the saint's intentions, he probably has no ill intentions."
Su Yun thought to himself, "He really doesn't want to be outdone by Mr. Shui Jing."
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