Xilan's sober time after sobering up is when he teaches Du Yuqi. His teaching method is also very unique. For example, when both of them are eating with chopsticks in hand, Xilan suddenly taps the chopsticks to knock off the meat splinter that Du Yuqi is holding. No matter what method Du Yuqi uses to dodge, as long as he picks up the food, he will definitely not be able to avoid Xilan's stab.

For example, when Du Yuqi was walking, Xilan would suddenly use the bamboo stick with his wine jug to touch his toes if he felt anxious. If Du Yuqi didn't want to be hit, he could only step back, and then he would have to find a way to move forward under Xilan's blockade.

For three whole days, Du Yuqi hadn't touched a sword, and Xilan hadn't touched a sword either, but Du Yuqi felt like there was a sword being sharpened in his heart. He now understood even more why Xilan was so strong. He had applied the methods of practicing sword skills to his life. He was practicing sword skills when he was picking up food, and he was practicing sword skills when he was carrying a wine jug... Practice had even been integrated into his bones and would not stop for even a moment.

On the fourth day, Du Yuqi was sweating profusely. He had been sprinting forward for seven hours facing Xilan. The ground was full of his footprints, but there seemed to be an invisible barrier in front of Du Yuqi. None of Du Yuqi's dense footprints on the ground could cross that line! As soon as he took a step forward, his toes would be hit by the bamboo stick held by Xilan, and he would automatically retract. It was as if he was actively using his toes to hit Xilan's bamboo stick.

At this time, Du Yuqi's heart seemed to be burning with a fire, and her mood was mixed with resentment, frustration, and anger...

Suddenly, he took a step forward. When he took this step, it seemed as if something in his heart was shattered, and a surging torrent rushed down, making him feel extremely comfortable!

At this moment, although his eyes could not catch Xilan's action of handing out the bamboo stick, he already had a kind of understanding in his heart, knowing the trajectory of Xilan's stick! Du Yuqi's body instinctively gave rise to an instinct, and the foot that stretched out in front of him actually slowed down, and then suddenly accelerated and stepped down, but just after stepping down a few centimeters, it accelerated again, and slowed down again!

The distance of this step was only less than 40 centimeters, but during the stepping process, the speed changed five times! !

The last kick actually landed on the tip of the bamboo stick that Xilan was stabbing with a "pa" sound. Xilan shook his wrist and wanted to exert force, but Du Yuqi seemed to have foreseen it and also exerted force with his toes to offset Xilan's force. Seizing this opportunity, Du Yuqi stepped out with his other foot, and the invisible barrier was finally broken!

After Du Yuqi took this step, he immediately let out a long roar and sat down cross-legged. At this moment, the memories of Sodros' swordsmanship experience in his mind were completely shattered. The figures of Sodros dancing with swords began to blur gradually, and when these figures began to become clear again, they had switched to Du Yuqi himself swinging the sword.

Then Du Yuqi simply leaned over and fell into a deep sleep on the ground beside him, snoring loudly in the next instant.

Xilan was looking at his bamboo stick at this moment. A crack appeared on the top of the bamboo stick that had accompanied him for hundreds of years! Xilan seemed to be thinking about something, and muttered to himself:

"So, this is the sword intention of Sodros? It's really overwhelming..."

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Du Yuqi, who had achieved a breakthrough, slept for two whole days. During these two days, the mysterious man supported by the Holy Temple was like an ant on hot pot. He spent every day like a year and seemed to have aged several years.

Because at this time he had already obtained the information of the other three competitors, he immediately discovered something sadly, that his true strength was actually at the bottom! Even if he got a powerful epic weapon like the Shadowless Sword Eleno, it is estimated that the probability of being eliminated in the first battle is as high as 80%, and the probability of winning in the end is less than 50%.

Therefore, almost all the hopes of this mysterious candidate are now placed on the "fake" Du Yuqi. But Du Yuqi happened to be in this situation at this time. How could he not be anxious?

However, Du Yuqi finally arrived in time, and after being blessed with the illusion technique, he successfully participated in the duel.

The four candidates only need to fight two battles to decide the final winner, and in order to show that they are the descendants of Barn, these four people will definitely use daggers to fight. In this case, Du Yuqi, who uses the shadowless sword, will undoubtedly have a great advantage.

However, even so, Du Yuqi made full use of the resources of the temple, took the time to learn about the backgrounds of the other three people, and then after the draw began and the duel opponent was determined, he decisively used his tricks on the opponent.

How did Du Yuqi trick his opponent? He deliberately fought with his opponent to a draw, and finally defeated him when he was almost exhausted. At this time, the other two had already decided the winner. The candidate who was secretly watching the fight was really nervous and clenched his toes. At the critical moment, he wanted to jump up and pull Du Yuqi's ears and shout, "Can you do it? No, I'll do it!"

According to the rules, the decisive match started immediately. Although Du Yuqi's opponent was not careless and was not allowed to watch the match from the sidelines, he also inferred from the time he waited that Du Yuqi had experienced a tough battle.

Therefore, this unlucky guy thought that Du Yuqi, the opponent, would probably adopt a passive style of play and use the tactic of defensive counterattack. This tactic is also one of the tactics with the highest chance of victory for the weaker side, such as the bus-parking tactic in football where the weaker team defeats the stronger team, or the tactic of defending the city in war...

However, his judgment, which he thought was a sure win, was still wrong. Du Yuqi launched a fierce attack on him right from the start! He suppressed him from beginning to end, and in the end, until he lost, this unlucky guy was always running around dodging and parrying, and he didn't even have a counterattack. It can be said that he lost very aggrievedly.

So much so that after he lost, he was so unconvinced that he shouted that he wanted Du Yuqi to compete with him again... But how could this be possible! Unless he could come up with a bet that would tempt Du Yuqi, and the cruel fact was that even a behemoth like the Holy Hall fell under Du Yuqi's calculations, this guy would definitely lose if they competed again.

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After winning the duel, Du Yuqi removed the illusion spell on his body, and then accompanied Xilan to drink a lot of wine, and got drunk to his heart's content.

When he woke up the next morning, Du Yuqi found that Xilan had also left without saying goodbye. He walked away as casually as a gust of wind. However, along with Xilan, the seven or eight bottles of Moutai that Du Yuqi had placed next to the wine table also disappeared.

"This guy is really rude..." Du Yuqi muttered while pressing his temple. "It's not like I didn't give it to you, but he left without even saying hello."

He struggled to get up, buried his face in a basin of cold water for half a minute, washed his face, and then drank a bowl of hot oatmeal porridge sent by the inn. Finally, he recovered from his hangover.

Then Du Yuqi sat in a daze on the lounge chair on the terrace for a while - the terrace where Du Yuqi was was a platform woven from the branches of a giant umbrella-shaped tree. It was extremely lush and had been carefully maintained. Even if you jumped on it, it would only shake slightly.

At this time, Du Yuqi calmed down and looked at the surrounding scenery, and realized that the Alvin Line was really beautiful.

At this time, the sunlight shines through the branches and leaves, forming mottled spots of light on the ground. When it shines on people's bodies, it seems as if the heat is filtered out, and they feel warm and comfortable.

Under the sunlight, you can see that the leaves of the trees are divided into different colors such as light green, emerald green, dark green, etc., arranged in an orderly manner, making people feel as if they are in a beautiful oil painting.

In the distance, you can see towering elf-like trees rising from the ground. The branches and leaves above the trees are dense and full of vitality, and there are birds flying. The hollowed-out tree trunks below are used as shops and are crowded with people. It retains the ruggedness of the primeval forest, but also has the prosperity of the human world.

Not only that, there is a light sweet fragrance in the air. This is the golden gardenia unique to the Alvin Line. This season is its flowering period. The flowers of this flower are very bright, similar to yellow camellia, and the fragrance is as sweet as laurel. Clusters of them are blooming in the east and west, making the early summer of the entire Alvin Line very sweet.