Chapter 38: What did you say, my old friend?
"Fellow Daoist Chu Sheng, Fellow Daoist Chu Sheng?"
Someone nudged her lightly, and Chu Sheng opened her eyes, a strange yet familiar scene appearing in her vision.
Is this... the villa she built in the Canglang Mountains when she left the sect?
At this moment, no, before, she should have just gotten off the flying boat with Qi An and others and stepped into the territory of Canglang Mountains?
What’s going on? Could it be that the abnormality is caused by the Tianjiao Ranking?
Chu Sheng stood up in a daze, then looked at the person who woke her up: "...Ling Fengzhi? Why are you here?"
The furnishings of Canglang Villa had already been reduced to ashes when those demon cultivators arrived, and it was impossible to reproduce the original appearance no matter what.
With Chu Sheng's eyesight having reached the Golden Core Stage, he could still tell whether this was an illusion created by some force or a real scene.
Chu Sheng looked around at the surrounding environment, and her expression gradually changed from doubt to certainty. Her mood gradually calmed down, and her face naturally showed a happy expression because of the reunion with old friends.
"Long time no see! Ling Fengzhi, I haven't congratulated you on your promotion to the Golden Core stage yet. I didn't expect you to make it onto the Tianjiao Ranking as well?"
Ling Fengzhi's expression looked even more surprised than Chu Sheng's.
"Tianjiao List? What Tianjiao List? What are you talking about?"
"We are only passing through the Canglang Mountains this time. We happened to have some free time so we decided to revisit the old place, Fellow Daoist Chu Sheng."
Ling Fengzhi stretched out his hand with concern and waved it in front of Chu Sheng, wanting to confirm whether she was normal.
"Just now you said you felt a little tired and wanted to rest. Did you suddenly have a prophetic dream?"
Chu Sheng was stunned.
"What did you say?"
Sword Palace.
Changfeng Duji looked at the blade of the heavy sword in front of him for a long time before putting it back into the sheath.
"Buwang is truly a good master. He even used heavy iron to prepare the magic sword for his disciple. He really put a lot of thought into it. What a pity..."
Who would have thought that he would casually accept a future sword master as his apprentice? "
"Hasn't it been confirmed that Ling Fengzhi has lost contact with the supervisory team?" the head officer asked in a low voice.
"The demons are rioting, all the guides have perished, and even the soul lamps are about to go out. In this situation, there's no way to survive..."
"My eldest disciple Buwang's soul lamp is still burning brightly, but before that, there was a time when it was almost completely extinguished."
Changfeng Duji spoke slowly.
It was precisely because Ling Fengzhi’s soul lamp dimmed but did not go out for a long time that Changfeng Duji became more certain that there was a great probability that this boy could return to the Sword Palace!
"Do you think that guy could have stayed in one place peacefully after all these years?"
Most people don’t know who Buwang’s eldest disciple is, but Changfeng Duji obviously knows it.
Thinking of someone he didn't want to mention at the moment, Changfeng Duji put the heavy sword aside in boredom and didn't even have any interest in reading the letter.
"Put them away. If anyone really comes looking for him, just deliver these two things as Ling Fengzhi instructed. There's no need to inform me."
He waved his hand and put the matter behind him.
At this moment, the Sword Palace Master faced a more important matter:
In the Canglang Mountains, the list of geniuses appears!
Although the requirements for the Tianjiao Ranking are very strict, every cultivator on the list is a genius that is well-known in various continents, but...
This is the Sword Palace.
As the number one sect that all sword cultivators yearn for since the first day they embark on the great road, even a genius that can only appear once among thousands of people can only reach the threshold of outer disciples here.
Even if not every sword master in the Three Mountains and Six Veins possesses one, at least five or six out of ten have one. Naturally, there are young talents who meet the requirements in their sects.
His life span was no more than 150 years, and he had reached the late stage of the Golden Core Realm. He was also very powerful and at the peak of his powers, capable of going to the Canglang Mountains to compete with the geniuses from other continents.
For the Sword Palace, this is how it should have been.
But on the list of geniuses there is Qi An, the master of Luoshui Sword.
The disciples looked at his name with admiration, and then like docile lambs following a flock behind the leader, they walked back and forth in the same place.
That’s Senior Brother Qi An!
Just over a hundred years old, in the late Jindan stage, he deserves the title of the Sword Palace's first disciple.
Even if all the sword masters were certain that he would not be able to go far on the path of cultivation.
Even though countless people believed that Qi An was not a genius with extraordinary talent in swordsmanship.
Even the first disciple of the Sword Palace did not have a famous magic weapon in his hands.
But it still cannot be denied that he single-handedly suppressed the entire younger generation of disciples in the Sword Palace at that time!
“…It’s really trash.”
Changfeng Duji pressed his brows in a state of annoyance.
“Even Qi An himself is ready to become the future Shao Gong’s sharpening stone.
Who could have imagined that in this vast Sword Palace, there isn't even a single sharp sword capable of youthful vigor! "
How can you sharpen a knife without a sharp blade?
All this was really beyond Changfeng Duji's expectations.
He looked through the sect's mission records for the first time in a long time, hoping to find a few hidden talents.
Turning one page, five pages, ten pages, twenty pages, all that came into view was Qi An...
It’s like twelve volumes of military books, and his name is in every volume!
Didn't it mean that by unintentionally letting Qi An do too many tasks before, he was also indirectly helping him to establish his authority among the disciples of the sect?
Changfeng Duji was shocked as he read through Qi An's battle records, and gradually understood the feelings of his disciples.
Qi An, who began to show his talent in the middle stage of foundation building, has been growing at a very fast pace. It is common for him to fight against three people at the same level, and fighting against opponents of higher levels is even easier for him.
Changfeng Duji's gaze shifted away from Qi An's record of defeating two demon cultivators in the early Jindan stage at the middle Jindan stage by defeating them alone.
It was during that mission that Ling Fengzhi accidentally obtained the Frost Sword.
The fact that the Master of the Frost Sword betrayed the sect with his sword and joined the evil cultivators should be a stain that no sect would want to mention.
But both the other protagonist, Jile Sect and Jian Palace, knew that there was another hidden story involved.
In the past ten thousand years, the number of cultivators in this world who can successfully ascend to the upper realms has suddenly dropped sharply.
The old monsters in the Tribulation Crossing Stage sensed the secrets of heaven and had some guesses about the reasons behind this, but they were always unwilling to explain the cause and effect.
The previous master of the Frost Sword was a Mahayana cultivator and was the main person in tracking down the key clue.
Similar to the choice of the righteous path, the Mahayana demon cultivator from the Bliss Sect undertakes the same mission as the Frost Sword Master.
The two of them met on the way to investigate the truth. After several exchanges, they felt a sense of mutual admiration and gradually wanted to become friends.
At that time, the boundary between good and evil was unclear and ambiguous. The Lord of Frost Sword and the demon cultivator became close friends, and gradually developed a relationship that was strong enough to rely on life and death. The Sword Palace and the Bliss Sect just turned a blind eye.
Who would have thought that at this critical moment in the investigation, the Frost Flower Sword Master and the demon cultivator would both experience a drastic change in their personalities after entering and exiting a secret ruin...
Even after the death of the Master of the Frost Sword, the Sword Palace had secretly never given up searching for the traces of his reincarnation for so many years, not to mention the Bliss Sect.
This is because once a demon cultivator dies, most of them will be reduced to ashes, and even fewer can be reincarnated and cultivate again.
Rather than taking such a gamble on finding a needle in a haystack in a vast crowd, it would be faster to just stake out a spot and search for the Master of the Frost Sword together.
Before this, everyone in the Sword Palace secretly suspected that Qi An was the reincarnation of the fallen Frost Sword Master.
It was not until the news of the Frost Sword's recognition of its master came out that they realized they had been observing the wrong person all along.
Ling Fengzhi accidentally became a disciple of Buwang Jianzun, but after Buwang's death, he strangely chose the Supervisory Team as his place of stay for the next sixty years.
If it is true that the Master of the Frost Sword was reincarnated, Ling Fengzhi's behavior can only be inferred that his memories of past lives have not been awakened, so he made a choice after exercising his supervisor's will.
But if he had already regained some of his memories and acted intentionally, combined with the sudden demonic uprising...
Changfeng Duji and others had to think deeply about whether there was some connection between them.
Due to the power of the Heavenly Oath carried by the Supervisory Team, the people in the Sword Palace cannot act rashly, but this does not mean that they are indifferent to Ling Fengzhi's choice.
The two sword masters who have already hung up their travel badges and left the palace are the most vivid example.
But Qi knows...
Previously, the Sword Palace had always believed that he was the reincarnation of the Frost Sword Master. Once the Frost Sword Master awakened, returning to the Mahayana stage would be as easy as eating and drinking water, so they did not pay much attention to allocating resources to him.
Now that the truth has been revealed, Qi An is like a chicken rib. He can neither serve as the ideal whetstone as imagined, nor does he have the courage to lead the entire sect into battle. He is unable to shoulder the responsibility of the Shaogong.
Changfeng Duji let out a breath.
Just wait a little longer, it will only take sixty years. When Ling Fengzhi comes back and meets Qi An, there will probably be some unclear things that will become clear by then.
He marked off a whole list.
"Send these disciples out to the Canglang Mountains to carry out missions. If they are destined, they will be selected by the Tianjiao Ranking...
If there is no chance, there will be a solution for those surrounding demons that have not yet been completely eliminated."
"yes."
Qi An squatted by the sword-washing pool in a daze.
Go, don’t go, go, don’t go, go, don’t go…
"Brother, what are you doing here?"
The girl with black hair and dark eyes patted his shoulder casually.
"Didn't Master say that many disciples failed the assessment last time? If the same thing happens again this time, they will all be punished by having to build a new sword-washing pool, right?
Why are you still sitting here in a daze? If you don't practice well, if you are punished, I can't help you!"
Qi An said, "Huh?"
He looked at the familiar face, pointed at her, then at himself. "You are my junior sister, and I am your senior brother?"
"Yes, is there any problem, brother?"
The girl walked up to him curiously and even touched Qi An's forehead with great concern.
"I don't feel feverish either. Why do you feel so strange today, brother?"
"Is it strange?" Qi An smiled. "Maybe it's because I feel... this scene happening right now seems to have happened many times, right?"
The Luoshui sword was unsheathed, and with a flash of light, it pierced the girl's chest.
"What a crude illusion, even worse than that half-step divine dragon." He commented.
"--Even if you're transforming someone else, at least make it look similar. Junior Sister Chu Sheng's eyes don't look like this at all! You should go back and refine your skills before you try to deceive people again!"
Everything around him disappeared the moment Qi An drew his sword.
Have I been disturbed by a nest of illusionists lately? Why does it always start with illusions no matter where I go?
Qi An put away the Luoshui Sword in a depressed mood, and then looked around at the flowers, plants and trees unique to the Canglang Mountains.
It seems that he is still in the Tianjiao Ranking. How unique...
The Sword Palace's chief disciple, who had been nagging Changfeng Duji for a long time, yawned slowly, randomly chose a direction, and walked over.
——Let’s first find out where Junior Sister Chu Sheng is!
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