(five)
As expected, Yan Changge easily won the first episode of "Martial Arts Master". After Liu Tianyun, Li Chenyi and Xu Zhizhen, the three masters, were defeated one after another, the remaining guests were not enough for Yan Changge to fill his teeth, and he was politely eliminated by Yan Changge almost at the first encounter.
As for the other stars, since Yan Changge moved too quickly, they had no chance to meet up with their partners and fell into the hands of Yan Changge and Qu Lian and were escorted back to the gathering place. From beginning to end, Yan Changge did not try to take off the name tags on their chests, but led a large group of people back to the gathering place. All the opponents were knocked down by him. Although the name tags were not taken off, the people were sent back. The winner of this event must be him alone.
The trip to the snowfield recorded a lot of rich material, enough for the program team to edit several episodes. The next episode will be recorded in a while, and the guests also need to go back to rest, so Yan Changge and Qu Lian returned home and quietly waited for the first episode to be broadcast.
Lincheng has entered winter, and fallen leaves are scattered on the ground, causing some trouble for sanitation workers. The whole street is rendered bleak by the fallen leaves, making people feel a little dizzy.
I don’t know why, but as soon as I returned to Lincheng, Qu Lian felt as if his heart was being tightly pulled together and felt uncomfortable.
"What's wrong with me?" After returning home, Qu Lian immediately told Yan Changge how he felt.
Yan Changge first felt Qu Lian's pulse and confirmed that he had no cardiovascular disease or other problems. Then his face became serious: "There are two possibilities. One is that your close relatives may be in trouble or have already been in trouble. The other possibility is..."
He did not continue, but hesitated for a moment before saying, "Go contact Mr. Qu and ask them to be more careful recently. I will ask about the current situation of Shen Yifei and Ning Buzhe."
Qu Lian didn't know what the other reason was that he didn't mention, but since it concerned his family, Qu Lian didn't continue to ask, but quickly contacted Qu Feng.
Qu Feng has been going smoothly these days, and everything in his work and life is on track, without any abnormalities. However, when he heard Qu Lian's instructions, he did not neglect them, but took them very seriously. When Qu Yan passed away, Qu Feng had this feeling of being particularly sad. At that time, he didn't understand why he was so irritable, and he quarreled with his wife because of a trivial matter. It was simply unlike him in his daily life. When he heard the news of Qu Yan's death not long after, he realized that when his mental state was particularly unstable, it was the moment when Qu Yan died.
Therefore, Qu Feng attached great importance to his sixth sense. After hearing Qu Lian's sudden palpitations, he immediately contacted a trustworthy security company and hired a lot of people to protect himself and Qu Rui. He also ordered people to check the company's accounts to see if anyone had falsified the information.
Seeing that Qu Feng valued his opinion so much, Qu Lian felt a little relieved, but that frightened feeling still did not disappear.
He rubbed his right eye, which had been twitching a few times, and seeing that Yan Changge had finished his call, he immediately asked, "My eldest... How is Ning Buzhe doing?"
"It's calm," Yan Changge said. "Shen Yifei said that Ning Buzhe and Lin Chenbing got along well with the new recruits and police officers. They are both highly skilled in martial arts and have rich practical experience. They are willing to study political issues with the soldiers and have a very good relationship with them. The defense of the Armed Police Brigade is very good, and outsiders cannot get in at all. I reminded him to pay attention to his diet, and Shen Yifei immediately contacted the Armed Police Brigade."
"Then it shouldn't be a big deal," Qu Lian pinched her brows and covered her chest when she heard him say that, "but why do I still feel so panicked? What was the second possibility you mentioned before?"
Yan Changge looked solemn, holding Qu Lian's hand and said, "It's already the end of the new year, and New Year's Day is coming soon."
"So..." Qu Lian didn't understand the significance of this day.
"Your doom is not over yet. In these days of transition from the old to the new, I'm afraid there will be a great disaster." Yan Changge said.
"Is that so?" Qu Lian still felt uncomfortable.
"It's okay, don't worry." Yan Changge hugged him and said, "I'm here, you have to trust me."
"Hmm..." Qu Lian nodded, trying to dispel the discomfort in her heart, and leaned her head in his arms.
Yan Changge coaxed Qu Lian to sleep, and walked onto the rooftop with a serious expression. The solar generator had been fully charged in the past few days. Yan Changge placed his hand on the electrode, but it did not absorb any electrical energy.
In fact, when Qu Lian felt uncomfortable, Yan Changge also felt it a little bit, but Qu Lian had palpitations, while he felt like a heavenly calamity was approaching.
Ning Buzhe and Lin Chenbing had been training newcomers these days, and merits had been coming to them more or less. But suddenly one day, when Yan Changge arrived at the snowy mountain, he suddenly gained a large amount of merits, so much that it was unbelievable. He had no idea why the Heavenly Dao suddenly gave him so many merits.
Yan Changge was on the snowy mountain at the time, and did not directly gain any merits. The indirect merits came from the training base and Yan Changge's Weibo. These days, Yan Changge often posts some good deeds on Weibo, and many haters say he is a fake good person, but some people, influenced by the idol effect, will take the initiative to do a little bit of insignificant good deeds. Some of the merits from these good deeds will be counted on Yan Changge, but the amount is very small.
Another possibility is that Yan Changge had assisted the police before and helped them solve the case successfully, which earned him a lot of merit. However, after he called Shen Yifei to inquire, he found that the only way to solve this case was for Wang Linzhi to be executed, but there was no substantial evidence to incriminate Chang Yixiu. Wang Linzhi refused to confess no matter what, and the investigation of the case entered a state of stickiness. Even Wang Yanfeng had not been sentenced, so it was impossible for him to get merit.
After much deliberation, the merit finally returned to the training base.
At this time, Yan Changge no longer regarded the Way of Heaven as supreme. It was just an energy law, or a supercomputer. The calculation capacity of this supercomputer far exceeded human imagination, and it could even calculate the future through some unknown methods. The sudden acquisition of such a large amount of merit could only be that Yan Changge's actions had a huge impact on the future, so he obtained so much merit.
So what is it? Of all the sources of merit he has now, it seems that only the training center will have an impact on the future.
Teaching and educating people is a matter of changing the future, and what kind of changes will happen in the future depends on the students of this period. According to Shen Yifei, there are a total of 350 people participating in the first training session at the training center, of which only 50 are new police officers, and the rest are all members of the armed police brigade. The detachment commander has brought everyone in his detachment to learn martial arts. Among these people, will there be a person with great luck, and will this person have unlimited achievements in the future?
And because of the teachings of Ning Buzhe and Lin Chenbing, this person's future is even more limitless, so the Heavenly Dao has given him so many merits that he is about to pass the tribulation.
All spiritual practitioners who want to transform into human form will encounter thunder tribulations. This is a transformation that will completely change one's body. Some spiritual practitioners have already reached the Mahayana stage but are still unable to transform into human form. Transformation sometimes has little to do with the level of cultivation, but rather with the sudden enlightenment of the world of mortals. Some demon cultivators have high spiritual power but are still just prototypes, while others can transform into human form even with very low power.
But no matter how high or low the cultivation level is, as long as one transforms, one will experience the tribulation of thunder.
Yan Changge was an accident. He didn't even have the initiative to cultivate, and the evil spirit in his body forced him to transform. His transformation did not draw the energy between heaven and earth, and it was an incomplete transformation. The evidence is that although he is in human form, he does not have a heartbeat, body temperature, and other physical signs that humans should have. This is because he has not experienced the thunder tribulation and has not been completely reborn.
The merits he had gained before made Yan Changge feel the impact of a heavenly calamity, but the impact was not very good.
Even though Yan Changge has been doing good deeds since he came to modern society, he has finally taken on the form of evil spirit. The blood evil spirit is the negative energy that has accumulated over the past two thousand years. The positive energy he has gained from the good deeds he has done now cannot compete with the blood evil spirit. The energy law cannot accommodate such a strong negative energy. His heavenly tribulation must be very terrible.
Even though his body is made of metal, he is more resistant to thunder than other cultivators and can conduct the power of thunder into the earth. But when the thunder is too strong, even conductive metal will be burned black. Even if it can conduct electricity, it depends on whether it can withstand it.
Facing the calamity at this time is extremely dangerous, but it is also an opportunity.
Once he survives the catastrophe, he will be truly reborn and become a person of flesh and blood. At that time, he and Qu Lian...
That's right. The reason why Yan Changge firmly rejected Qu Lian was not only because Qu Lian's physical condition did not allow it, but also because of Yan Changge's body. He already had human emotions in his heart, but his body did not have normal physiological reactions. If he forced this impulse on Qu Lian, he would not be able to control the sword energy in his body. By then, blood would flow like a river, and Qu Lian's death would probably come true.
Yan Changge had a feeling that Qu Lian's palpitations were caused by the thunder tribulation he had experienced.
If we use the law of energy to explain it, it is because Qu Lian cares too much about Yan Changge that his brain waves sense the ever-changing energy between heaven and earth directed at Yan Changge, and he interprets this energy as an ominous premonition. When this energy comes into contact with his brain waves, a small part of it also enters Qu Lian's body, speeding up his blood flow, accelerating his heartbeat, and causing a palpitation.
This is why humans feel their hearts pounding when they encounter bad things. It’s all because of energy.
Now comes the problem.
When I was going through the tribulation, I absolutely could not bring Qu Lian with me. But if he left me, what would happen to Qu Lian's death? But if he followed me, Qu Lian would definitely die.
In fact, Yan Changge had thought of a safe place, which was the training center. The training center was the Armed Police Brigade, which was full of soldiers and policemen. This was the noblest profession in the world. The positive energy contained in the army was second only to the location of the dragon vein in ancient times. All negative energy could not cause trouble in the army, so it was best to send Qu Lian to the army.
But will Qu Lian go obediently? How can I persuade him to leave me and join the army alone?
Feeling the thunder tribulation approaching, Yan Changge was in great torment and didn't know how to explain it to Qu Lian.
If he fails to survive this thunder tribulation, his spiritual consciousness will completely dissipate, and the Changge ancient sword will become a truly ordinary sword without a sword spirit. Even if he absorbs more evil spirits, he will not be able to take human form.
This is what humans call death, the scattering of the soul, and the never-to-be-reborn.
Perhaps this encounter with Qu Lian is a permanent one. How should I explain this to him?
Is it a lie or telling the truth?
Yan Changge sat on the rooftop and for the first time felt undecided.
He has always been upright and firm. Once he has determined his goal, he will never change it. Hesitation has never occurred to Yan Changge. This is determined by his nature. But why is he hesitating now? Is it because he has bent?
As expected, love made Jian degenerate. He has now degenerated into a sickle and no longer has the firmness and decisiveness of the past.
Qu Lian slept very uneasily. In his dream, there was always a sharp edge pressing against his back, making him afraid to move. In his dream, Qu Lian wanted to turn around to see who was pointing the sword at him, but his head could not move. In his dream, he had a feeling that... it seemed that he was not afraid of the sword, but was afraid that the sword would disappear.
When Qu Lian woke up, he broke out in a cold sweat and found that it was already dark and there was no light in the room. Yan Changge didn't seem to be in the room. He didn't call for help, but quietly got up and looked for him in the room.
He looked around and finally found Yan Changge on the rooftop. But strangely, Yan Changge, who was known for hearing all the sounds in the land of Lixu, did not react at all until Qu Lian approached him.
Yan Changge was slightly stunned and asked, "Are you awake?"
"It's dark, why are you still sitting here?" Qu Lian asked curiously.
Yan Changge was silent for a while before he spoke: "I'm thinking about something."
"Really?" Qu Lian looked at him strangely. He always felt that Yan Changge seemed absent-minded today.
This is incredible. Yan Changge is the image of a traditional hero. He is always full of energy and focused. How could he be in such an absent-minded state?
Qu Lian felt a little uneasy, and didn't want Yan Changge to stay on the rooftop like a lightning rod, so he pulled him up and said, "I'm hungry."
"I'll go cook for you."
While eating, Qu Lian thought of the sword on his back. He felt that the dream seemed to be telling him something, so he said to Yan Changge, "I had a dream. I seemed to dream of the ancestral sword hidden in the basement of the old house."
The sword that made him feel safe and reluctant to part with it must be the Qu family's ancestral sword, right? Qu Lian thought secretly.
Yan Changge paused for a moment and asked, "What kind of sword is it, and how long has it been passed down?"
"During the Song Dynasty..." Qu Lian recalled, "The Qu family genealogy starts from the Song Dynasty. The Mysterious Shadow Sword is said to have been made by a swordsmith in the late Southern Song Dynasty. It is said to be as famous as The Heaven Sword and the Dragon Saber."
"Oh, descendants of more than a thousand years..." Yan Changge murmured.
"What did you say?" Qu Lian didn't hear clearly what he was muttering.
"It's okay," Yan Changge said, "Why did you dream about Xuanying?"
"I just feel like I'm about to lose it, and I feel very sad. Do you think my palpitations are because something might happen to the old house? The old house is for the heirs of the Qu family's martial arts to live in. After my eldest brother went... missing, no one lived there. My uncle would send someone to take care of the old house every year, and it can be moved in at any time." Qu Lian explained to Yan Changge, "The Xuanying Sword only recognizes the head of the Qu family. After my eldest brother, no one will be able to unsheathe the sword. Do you think the sword will get rusty after being left unattended for such a long time?"
"The sheath is used to protect the sword. The sword will be fine inside the sheath." Yan Changge's voice seemed a little unhappy.
"But I'm still worried. Can we go and check it out tomorrow?" Qu Lian asked.
"Tomorrow... should be possible." Yan Changge calculated silently. He expected that his thunder tribulation would occur at midnight on New Year's Day. There were still two days left, so tomorrow should be safe.
"Okay, then it'll be tomorrow." Qu Lian set the time.