Chapter 8 Chapter 8 The way of dual cultivation.
Deep in the alley, two people were bickering childishly.
"Why do you suddenly feel guilty?"
"How could I? Young Master, please don't slander good people!"
"You call me 'young master' again, and you say you have no guilt."
“…You, you are making excuses!”
"Yeah, I'm making excuses, but you're saying one thing and thinking another."
Jiang Yan was not good at speaking and was speechless for a moment, trying desperately to think of an excuse.
Gu Jingyun crossed his arms and waited for him to think of words with a smile, and even said considerately: "Don't worry, take your time."
Jiang Yan didn't know how to curse, so he got angry and glared at Gu Jingyun viciously.
It feels good to be swept by the eyes of a beautiful woman. Gu Jingyun was not afraid at all. He had already believed Jiang Yan's words in his heart. He just thought Jiang Yan's panic and guilty look was funny and he couldn't help but tease him.
But you still have to coax him.
"Don't be angry, Immortal Lord." Gu Jingyun said humbly, "There is a deep blood feud between me and the demon clan, and we cannot live in harmony, so we cannot afford to be careless. Although I believe you, I still have to ask you. If you are angry, you can hit me or scold me, I am willing to bear it."
I see.
No wonder the people in Zhuangzi are so taboo about the word "demon", it turns out that the master has a grudge against the demons.
"What grudge?" Jiang Yan asked.
Gu Jingyun hesitated for a moment and sighed, "Forget it, it's not a secret anyway, everyone in the world knows it."
"My parents were attacked by the demons while traveling. They were cursed and seriously injured, on the verge of death. Now they are frozen in an ice coffin made of ten thousand year old black ice to slow down their injuries. Since there is no way to save them, they cannot be awakened."
Jiang Yan asked: "Your family——"
"Sword Sect." Gu Jingyun said, "I am not only a disciple of the Sword Sect, but also the young master of the Sword Sect."
Jiang Yan had guessed it a long time ago, and now it was just confirmation.
He remembered what Gu Jingyun had said in the Chamber of Commerce before.
'I have not inherited the position of head of the family', 'I am temporarily managing it for my mother and will return it to her in the future'.
Obviously, although Gu Jingyun is the one in power, he is unwilling to let his subordinates change their titles because he still has hope for his parents' recovery.
I read books all night yesterday because I was worried that the runes on the crucible were some kind of curse, and I was afraid that he would get hurt like his parents.
After discovering that the runes were demonic writing, he did not immediately turn hostile and look for clarification. Instead, he treated him well and treated him well, and waited until now to ask.
Jiang Yan pursed his lips.
If the demons harmed his parents, and someone suspected of being related to the demons suddenly appeared and approached him, and was hiding a lot of secrets, Jiang Yan would have given the person a truth serum and interrogated him clearly.
Young Master Gu treats him...
Very kind indeed.
He's a good person worth making friends with.
Jiang Yan's voice softened unconsciously.
He took out the magic wand and said to Gu Jingyun: "In my hometown, it is called a magic wand, but it does not refer to the magic of the demon clan, but to magic. It is the medium for casting magic, which can save the magician more effort when casting spells."
"So-called magic—"
Jiang Yan waved his magic wand and said to a large stone in the corner, "Break it."
The stone exploded violently and broke into pieces.
Jiang Yan added: "Recover as before."
Gravel flew up from the ground, gathered together, and returned to its original state in the blink of an eye.
Jiang Yan put away his wand: "That's it. I can use it without a wand, but it will be more tiring."
Gu Jingyun exclaimed in amazement: "This kind of exquisite magic is indeed not something that the inexperienced demons can learn."
"Is there anyone in the world of immortal cultivation who knows similar techniques?" Jiang Yan asked.
Gu Jingyun shook his head: "I've never heard of it."
Jiang Yan knew what was going on and the answer was what he expected, so he wasn't too disappointed.
Gu Jingyun asked hesitantly: "...So, you are actually looking for the whereabouts of your tribesmen. Are you separated from your family?"
"Yeah." Jiang Yan nodded.
"So, you also..." Gu Jingyun spoke in a very soft voice, which gradually became lower and lower. When he reached the end of the sentence, only he could hear it clearly.
It was just a small misunderstanding, and the two of them quickly cleared it up.
At the beginning of a friendship, because you don't know each other, there will be barriers and misunderstandings of varying degrees. Just explain it clearly and neither of you will take it seriously.
It's just that "making friends" is not a concept in the minds of the two.
Gu Jingyun gently stroked Jiang Yan's hair, with a hint of pity in his eyes.
Jiang Yan's eyes met his, and for some reason he felt very uncomfortable, and he turned his head away unconsciously. Gu Jingyun stopped at the right time, withdrew his hand, and said softly, "Excuse me."
Jiang Yan didn't know where he was being "rude". It was normal for good friends to help each other tidy up their hair and clothes.
But his hair wasn’t messy, so I wondered why Gu Jingyun was trying to fix it.
How strange.
"I'm hungry." Jiang Yan said hurriedly, turned around and wanted to leave this alley full of strange and awkward atmosphere.
Jiang Yan raised his leg to leave, Gu Jingyun did not stop him, but followed him silently.
The road in the alley was uneven. Jiang Yan walked in a hurry and tripped over a protruding stone brick. He staggered, but Gu Jingyun was quick to hold him. Jiang Yan also quickly held Gu Jingyun's arm and leaned on him to stand firm.
It happened in just a moment.
Originally, one was falling and the other was helping, but because Jiang Yan was initially walking quickly outside, in the eyes of outsiders, it looked like one was trying to escape and the other was trying to catch him.
"Be careful--" Gu Jingyun was interrupted before he could finish his words.
A loud shout suddenly came from the entrance of the alley.
"That shameless pervert in there! What are you doing? Let him go!"
The voice sounded extremely familiar.
It was his junior fellow student who tried to bribe him to cheat the day before yesterday.
Gu Dengtuzi Jingyun: "..."
The young man shouted "Let me go" and rushed in with a sword in hand.
When he saw the face of the person in the alley clearly, the young man's passion to be a hero and save the beauty quickly cooled, and the hand holding the sword trembled slightly.
"Master, Senior Brother..."
Gu Jingyun smiled and repeated, "Master?"
The young man quickly became timid: "...Master Gu, you are the master."
Gu Jingyun glanced at him coldly and ignored him. Jiang Yan had already stood firm. Seeing this, he pushed Gu Jingyun's arm. Gu Jingyun let go and gently reminded him: "Be careful when you walk."
The young man was shocked when he heard his tone. Then he seemed to have figured something out and his expression became even more horrified.
Jiang Yan asked: "Who is this——"
Gu Jingyun said, "My junior fellow apprentice, Ling Hanzhang." He turned around and said to his junior fellow apprentice, "This is my good friend, Jiang Yan."
It can be considered as a mutual introduction and greeting.
"Hello, Mr. Ling." Jiang Yan said politely.
"Sister-in-law... Ouch!" Ling Hanzhang was stepped on hard by Gu Jingyun, and almost flew off in pain. He quickly changed his words: "Mr. Jiang, hello, hello, I am honored."
Jiang Yan was puzzled: "My last name is Jiang, but not Da Jiang."
Ling Hanzhang smiled apologetically: "I'm dumb, I called the wrong name."
Jiang Yan believed it: "Oh."
Gu Jingyun said coldly: "If you don't want to get rid of the monster, why are you wandering around the street?"
Ling Hanzhang argued, "We are here to find you. I worked all night and found the monster this morning, but the examiner is not here, so it's hard for us to take action."
He seemed to have caught something, and glanced at the silent Jiang Meiren beside him with deep meaning, and immediately raised his head and said:
"Who would have thought that Senior Brother would have such leisure time? I was wondering why I couldn't see a single person there. It turns out that he secretly made friends."
Ling Hanzhang emphasized the pronunciation of the word "friend".
Gu Jingyun was so angry that he almost laughed.
Relying on two legs to wander around to find him? Is the sound transmission note just for show? It was obvious that he was lying, and he dared to threaten him with Jiang Yan.
Ling Hanzhang loves to read plays and listen to storytelling. His favorite scenes are those where one sees injustice and helps others, and those where a hero saves a beautiful girl. He likes to wander around when he has nothing to do, and goes wherever there is excitement.
Gu Jingyun knew it and was too lazy to care about it on weekdays.
But now the monster outside the city has not been eliminated, the assessment has not ended, but he is not doing his job properly and is really useless. Gu Jingyun wants to kick him twice.
Gu Jingyun's voice was slightly cold: "I have left a spell on the monster. If there is any unusual movement, I will be able to detect it immediately and rush over. What about you? You just barely found the trace, and you are still trying to lie to me. You are over a hundred years old, and you are still ignorant!"
Ling Hanzhang lowered his head and accepted the scolding, wishing he could crawl into a crack in the ground.
Because I am extremely concerned about the word "monster",
Jiang Yan, who was eavesdropping with his ears perked up:?
who?
Who is 100 years old?
Jiang Yan looked up and down at the person in front of him.
The young man was wearing the sect disciple uniform and carrying a sword on his back. He was tall and handsome, with a fair and tender face, and looked to be about eighteen or nineteen years old.
Jiang Yan thought he was younger than him!
……etc.
Gu Jingyun is Ling Hanzhang’s senior brother. Ling Hanzhang is over a hundred years old. How old is Gu Jingyun?
Jiang Yan continued to eavesdrop while pondering this proposition.
Ling Hanzhang muttered, "You're not much older than me."
Gu Jingyun said: "So doesn't it make you look even less talented?"
Ling Hanzhang flattered: "That's because you are too talented."
Gu Jingyun didn't fall for this trick: "It's good that you know."
Jiang Yan: “…”
Very good, it turns out that Gu Jingyun is also over a hundred years old.
A full hundred years older than me.
"You've definitely failed the exam this time. Just wait for the make-up exam." Gu Jingyun snorted coldly.
Gu Jingyun ignored his junior brother's wailing and turned to look at Jiang Yan. "Come on, I'll take you to Zuixianlou for dinner."
Jiang Yan was led to walk two steps, then turned around and asked, "Isn't Master Ling coming?"
How can I refuse a beautiful woman’s invitation?
Ling Hanzhang suddenly stood up and was about to say something naughty, but when he opened his mouth, he caught a glimpse of the coldness in Gu Jingyun's eyes and quickly wilted.
He forced a smile and said, "Come on, of course I'll come."
Jiang Yan and Gu Jingyun walked in front, and Ling Hanzhang followed reluctantly like a kid being led by them. Sometimes he would lose them while walking and disappear in the crowd.
Jiang Yan couldn't understand why a 100-year-old man would get lost. He was worried and would look back from time to time.
Ling Hanzhang had a lot of grievances. He wanted to get lost on purpose because he didn't want to stay under the eyes of his angry senior brother to avoid being scolded again.
But Jiang Xianjun always turned back sharply when he was about to escape, and found him from the crowd, so he couldn't escape even if he wanted to.
After this happened so many times, Jiang Yan felt very tired.
Why is Young Master Gu's junior fellow disciple so unreliable? Young Master is more reliable.
Once again, Jiang Yan's spiritual vision discovered that Ling Hanzhang was lost, and he quickly turned around to look for him.
Gu Jingyun was upset, so he stopped, grabbed his junior brother, and said, "Hanzhang, go to the restaurant first, we will be there soon."
Ling Hanzhang agreed immediately and ran away as fast as an arrow.
If the city had allowed sword flying, he could have flown directly to Zuixian Tower!
Jiang Yan looked at the young man's flustered back and asked Gu Jingyun: "...He was walking so slowly just now that he was even interested in the ants on the street. Does he not want to be with us?"
Gu Jingyun nodded: "He is afraid of me."
Jiang Yan hesitated: "Then I will call him along. If I keep looking back to catch him, wouldn't that offend people?"
Don't be hated.
"He dares?" Gu Jingyun said disdainfully, "Just wait and see how I deal with him later."
"I hope he won't suffer from indigestion if he eats with us." Jiang Yan was a little worried.
"He deserves it." Gu Jingyun was very cold, and frowned and asked, "Why do you always care about him?"
Ling Hanzhang's appearance is indeed good and very pleasing to the eyes.
Gu Jingyun felt his fists hardened, and he would not calm down until he beat his junior fellow apprentice brother till he had a black eye and a swollen face.
Jiang Yan blinked and said, "Because he is your junior fellow apprentice. And you two seem to have a very good relationship."
Gu Jingyun: "..."
The clenched fist slowly loosened.
Let’s not fight anymore. I’ll reward you with a chicken leg later.
Gu Jingyun smiled and said casually, "Well, I brought him up."
No wonder they are so intimate.
Jiang Yan took two steps and suddenly remembered, and asked, "You raised me? Then how old were you?"
Gu Jingyun’s body stiffened.
"What about you?" he asked back.
"Twenty-one." Jiang Yan said.
Gu Jingyun: “…………”
Gu Jingyun said calmly: "I am also twenty-one."
Jiang Yan said, "Mr. Ling just said that you are not much older than him."
Gu Jingyun insisted: "He is talking nonsense, I am twenty-one."
As expected, the junior brother still needs to be beaten.
Jiang Yan suspected it was one hundred and twenty-one.
Is this also taboo? His father is already a thousand years old, and his mother is over seven hundred years old. What is there to be ashamed of about a mere hundred years old?
"Don't think too much, it's twenty-one!" Gu Jingyun emphasized.
Jiang Yan responded obediently: "Oh."
His expression was obviously disbelieving.
Gu Jingyun was already thinking about how to beat up his junior fellow apprentice.
As the two of them walked to the entrance of Zuixianlou, Gu Jingyun's face suddenly changed and he turned his head abruptly to look towards the outskirts of the city.
The next moment, Ling Hanzhang rushed out of the store with a half-burned sound transmission note in his hand.
"Brother! Duan Yuefa sent a message saying that the monster has awakened and now seems to be coming down the mountain to eat humans."
"I have sensed it." Gu Jingyun turned to Jiang Yan and said, "Ah Yan, I will take my junior brothers and sisters to exorcise the monster. You can go in and eat first. You don't have to wait."
"I can help." Jiang Yan said.
"Young Master, you have just established your foundation. That monster is at least at the Nascent Soul stage. It is better for you to stay in the city to avoid being accidentally injured." Ling Hanzhang spoke very quickly.
Jiang Yan stopped talking.
"Shut up."
Gu Jingyun glared at his junior brother and said in a gentle voice, "You won't get hurt. I have already reached the state of spiritual perfection, and the monster can't make any waves. This is their midterm test, and I will be responsible for grading it."
How could a mere test paper turn the world upside down?
Jiang Yan nodded: "I know."
"Senior Brother! Duan Yue is urging me, I'll go first." Ling Hanzhang drew his sword from its sheath, leaped lightly, and jumped onto the sword. The tip of the sword was raised at an angle, and the next moment, the whole person flew away.
The strong wind messed up Jiang Yan's hair.
Gu Jingyun even took the time to help Jiang Yan smooth his hair.
Jiang Yan urged him: "Go ahead."
Gu Jingyun warned: "If anyone comes to ask you, just tell me my name, and I will pay the fine later."
fine?
Jiang Yan didn't understand why, so he nodded, "Okay."
In the blink of an eye, Gu Jingyun also flew away on his sword.
Jiang Yan stood in front of Zuixian Tower and watched them go away.
Just as he was about to turn around and enter the store, several people on horseback suddenly came from a distance at an extremely fast speed and caught Jiang Yan red-handed.
Those men were all tall and strong with broad arms and waists.
He also has a loud voice.
They stared at the sword in Jiang Yan's hand and shouted, "Brother! Was the person who just flew away on the sword your companion?"
Jiang Yan nodded: "Yes."
"That's good! I thought the sword cultivators had escaped again!" The sturdy man said unceremoniously, "Flying with swords is prohibited in all cities in Zhongzhou, and all flying magic tools are also prohibited! Are you breaking the law again?"
Jiang Yan said: "There is a monster that eats people, and they are in a hurry to get rid of it."
"Oh, so that's the case? That's understandable. But rules are rules." The sturdy man said with difficulty.
Jiang Yan probed: "Is there a fine?"
The sturdy man looked at the instrument in his companion's hand and said, "Yes. Not only did they fly illegally, they also exceeded the speed limit. They will be fined two thousand medium-grade spirit stones or twenty high-grade spirit stones. Don't refuse to pay! We have the image-keeping beads and will find your sect to ask for the money!"
The conversion ratio between high-grade spirit stones and medium-grade spirit stones is one to one hundred, and the conversion ratio between medium-grade spirit stones and low-grade spirit stones is also one to one hundred.
For ordinary monks, this is actually very expensive.
But Jiang Yan is not an ordinary person.
He has a very rich father. Although no one knows how his father got the spiritual stones here, his father gave him so many top-quality spiritual stones that they could be piled up into a mountain.
Jiang Yan did not buy on credit as Gu Jingyun had suggested and wait for him to pay.
He took out twenty high-grade spirit stones and handed them over.
The sturdy man softened his attitude and said, "Sir, they are two people, you have to pay two."
"good."
Jiang Yan paid the fine according to the rules.
The strong men then put away their notebooks and left with satisfaction.
"It looks like a traffic police." Jiang Yan said with emotion, "It turns out that there is also traffic control in the world of immortal cultivation."
Jiang Yan turned and entered Zuixian Tower. The waiter had received Ling Hanzhang's instructions in advance and was ordered to bring the young man, who was "as handsome as a banished immortal and whom you can recognize at a glance," to the seat by the window.
"Sir, please sit for a moment. Master Ling has already ordered the dishes and the kitchen is preparing them." The waiter brought tea and said respectfully.
Jiang Yan: “Yeah.”
The waiter asked, "Sir, do you have any other instructions?"
Jiang Yan shook his head slightly.
The waiter then left.
Jiang Yan tilted his head to look at the clouds outside the window, imagining the scene of them exorcising demons in the distance.
He realized the gap in strength between himself and Gu Jingyun, and felt unwilling to accept it.
As he grew older and his cultivation became more advanced, his spiritual power and magic power, which were originally perfectly compatible, gradually became incompatible. He had to be careful every time he practiced, trying to keep a balance, and he had to be even more cautious when he made a breakthrough, lest one of them suddenly surged and set off a war in his meridians.
If the balance is broken, at best your cultivation will regress, at worst your body will explode and you will die.
If it weren't for the gentler magic of nature, the current situation would be even more difficult.
It is impossible for Jiang Yan to give up cultivating immortals. Both his parents are immortals, and the life span of mortals is no more than a hundred years. Even if he has half elf blood in his body, it only doubles his life span.
But if he was asked to give up magic, that would be impossible.
He was blessed by the spirits of nature and had a strong affinity with natural elements since birth. He learned nature magic at the age of three.
No one taught him specifically.
Jiang Yan was watching his mother using magic to make him laugh and he recited along with her. Magic power surged and magic patterns flashed by. Because he was too young, the magic was only half released and he yawned and fell asleep.
When he was a little older, he took the initiative to learn swordplay from his father. He loved swordplay as much as he loved nature.
Jiang Yan's parents once asked him to choose between the two.
Little Jiang Yan asked his parents seriously, "Swordsmanship and magic, do I have to choose one? Can't I have both?"
Jiang Yan had such courage when he was young. Now that he is an adult, he should be even more "greedy".
Sword and magic, he wants it all.
But, how can the two be integrated without fighting? Is there no dual cultivation method in this world?
Jiang Yan was very worried.
Just when I was feeling confused about the future, I suddenly heard two people sitting next to me discussing something in low voices.
Jiang Yan had excellent hearing and heard their conversation clearly.
"You don't understand! If you want to master the art of dual cultivation, you have to look at the Hehuan Sect!" said one of them.
Jiang Yan: Hmm?
Jiang Yan's eyes lit up.
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