Chapter 041 – Fog Drops (Next)

Xu Fengyen has taken a poor and lowly teenager as his disciple.

In can see the East China Sea but not before entering the Wudi City, met a small group of cross-border roaming horse, save a family of orphans and the elderly, which has no connection with the young man, don’t know the sky and the sky, almost to the horse thieves a spear to pick dead, Xu Fengyen casually save people continue to drive to the Wudi City, the young man’s nature is free-spirited, strange and witty, somehow stared at Xu Fengyen, probably think that this is the walking in the world of heroes and heroines, cowhide like running behind the carriage for a few days. Heroes and heroes, like a cowhide in the carriage behind the run for a few days, running, can not afford to wear out the bottom of the boots, simply take off the tethered belt, the teenager’s feet are not bad, coupled with Xu Fengyen’s carriage is not in a hurry to catch up with the road, walk stop, even if briefly far away from, always to the teenager to catch up with. Xu Fengyen set up a campfire on the beach overnight, the exhausted teenager did not dare to approach, curled up in the distance and fell asleep, the teenager woke up early the next morning, only to find himself lying in the carriage, carefully lifted the curtain, sat cross-legged against the wall of the carriage, for a moment he did not know how to address the gentleman, hesitated whether to call out to the chivalrous man or the gentleman. Or the gentleman took the initiative to open, asked two questions, the teenager is desperately shaking his head, the third question is even more puzzling to the teenager, is to ask himself if he wants to do his disciple, the teenager did not nod, just red face, squirming that he can not afford to pay the teacher’s gift money, the man said that it does not matter. Along the way inexplicably became master and disciple of the two, not much to say, the teenager called Wang Sheng, is a native of the seaside into the fisherman’s son, his parents died at sea fishing, with his grandfather dependent on each other, the old man died of illness, the teenager will be away from his home town, he has been far more than the age of the people’s strength since childhood, in addition to begging, to people crying, carry salt, almost what can earn the copper money of the work have done, and also did not starve to death.

In the end, the young man Wang Sheng just do not know what the city of the age, learned that this seems to fall from the sky “cheap” master to go to the city of Wudi, will be very excited, can not control the tongue chirping up. Junior nature is simple, with the heart of a child, recognize the depth of people than the old geezer, but recognize the good and bad, but to be accurate, he spent a few days with the master, he knew that the master should be a good person to talk to, respect is far more than fear. But let the teenager some regrets, this looks better than the woman seems to be good-looking young master, not too much like chatting, most of the time is where he is talking to himself and self-answer, pulling out the stomach of those hearsay anecdotes about the jianghu anecdotes, can only say some from the elders of the countryside where I heard the old words of the old, good in the lack of purity of the master does not care about him, taught him a set of obscure recipe and the Sheung Shui boxing. Recipe is not too remember, let him headache, boxing is a soft and feeble posture, but young people know enough to be happy, can really practice martial arts, will be satisfied. The year before last, only left his hometown, in the sword state a stall, see an old man selling secret books, he put the hard to save three taels of silver are a brain hand over, the old man also good to talk, open the bamboo basket, let him pick, he can not read and write, but listen to the old-timer reported the name of the book, are very much like the world’s best martial arts, give a person the feeling of which even if you practiced into the book of a move or two, you can make a name for yourself on the jianghu, wang sheng finally picked the book of the sword, the young boy is not familiar with the world, but the young man is not familiar with the world’s best martial arts, the young boy is not familiar with the world’s best martial arts. The fledgling teenager is not familiar with the world, but after all, is not a fool, soon know the secret manual is fake, but also not annoyed, that the dog shit sword spectrum has been hidden in the arms, as recognized a hundred words.

Only one day away from that Wudi City, the sea breeze Xi Xi tide to tide, easily will be brushed away the point of early summer heat, teenager Wang Sheng is the seaside grew up, do not feel the sea breeze slightly fishy, only feel familiar and ironic, probably a few years away from his hometown, remembered the relatives who are not alive, Wang Sheng silent.

The reason why Xu Fengyen did not talk to this disciple, not to regret accepting the first disciple in his life, disliking his mediocre qualifications, but because of the heart of some tears and laughter, after the contact, only to realize that this sturdy teenager is actually a daughter’s body, the strange thing is strange in her qi pulses, half unlike the flow of women’s trajectory. Women practice martial arts, compared to men to be more bumpy bottlenecks, Buddhism in the body of a woman shall not become a Buddha, Taoism in the women’s real estate is also a phoenix feather, there is a lecture and reasoning, a hundred years, the women’s sword fairy on his mother a, and then pushed up to the three hundred years, there is only one, if no sword, women among the first grade masters are also still only a handful of the year’s one of the four great masters of the Fengdu green robes, today’s jungle is more heavy than ever! A little heavier Yin Qi, there are Luo Yang and Xuanyuan Qingfeng, and that never masked Wang Xianzhi disciple Lin Crow. Women’s male phase, the reasoning is similar to the south people north phase more fortune, disciple Wang Sheng’s qualification is actually quite good, but Xu Fengyen practiced martial arts before and after, see more than the scenery of the top of the jianghu, the qualification of the colorful, often the hours of the big may not be good, the matter of practicing martial arts, the vital importance of the backbone, backbone enough, the chance of more than the two are indispensable to make a big success.

The reason why Xu Fengnian accepted him as a disciple, in the final analysis, very simple.

Wang Sheng has a wooden sword on his waist.

When Xu Fengyen asked Wang Sheng if he was willing to exchange his wooden sword for food, he refused to do so. Wang Sheng refused. Xu Fengyen then asked if he was willing to exchange his wooden sword for silver, Wang Sheng still refused.

Late at night, only thirty to forty miles away from Wudi City, Xu Fengyen did not continue to drive the horse forward, and instructed Wang Sheng to pick up dead branches, and set up a large bonfire on the seashore. The blazing flames reflected the two faces of master and disciple, Xu Fengyen gave Wang Sheng a half sheet of dried beef the size of a child’s palm, the night sky was bright and starry, Wang Sheng lowered his head and chewed the beef, when he looked up, he saw his master gazing at the starry sky, he quietly licked his oil-soaked fingers before pointing at the starry sky and smiled, “Grandpa said, there is a big lantern there. On the ground, when people die and the lantern goes out, it goes to the sky and lights up.”

Xu Fenian calmly said, “There is also such a saying on my old home side.”

Wang Sheng waited for half a day and saw that his master was silent again, so he spoke to himself, “Master, besides you, I admire that martial arts ally of Hui Mountain the most.”

Wang Sheng revealed a smiling face and asked, “Master guess who is next?”

Xu Fengnian shook his head.

Wang Sheng hemmed and hawed, “It’s the boxing master of Wudi City, Lin Crow!”

Xu Fengyen smiled, “She is the senior disciple of the world’s number one person, Wang Xianzhi, and she is also a beautiful woman on the Rouge Review, you are far worse than her in both categories.”

Wang Sheng couldn’t wait to dig a hole in the ground and timidly asked, “Master you know?”

Xu Fengnian nodded.

Seeing that his master did not look like he was angry, Wang Sheng lowered his head and said, “My parents have always wanted to have a younger brother, but it didn’t work out, and then they didn’t want to, and raised me as a boy. Moreover, my family can’t afford to save up for a dowry, and I don’t want to get married. Besides, who would be happy to live with a woman who looks like a man, just think about it and listen to the stifling. Whoever marries me must be a flower picker who did too many bad things in his past life, so God is punishing him for marrying a man in this life.”

Speaking of this, the peaceful and happy Wang Sheng amused himself.

Xu Fengyen tore off a piece of beef and put it in his mouth, softly said, “When your eyebrows grow open later, there will always be some women’s appearance.”

Wang Sheng suddenly couldn’t help but say, “If I look half as good-looking as Master, I can live half a life less.”

Xu Fengyen said flatly, “Go and play boxing for an hour.”

Knowing that she said the wrong thing, Wang Sheng took off the wooden sword on her waist and went to the beach to practice boxing with a bitter face, and honestly played boxing six times, which was full of loopholes, and often forgot the routines, but out of the corner of her eye, she glimpsed that her master was not too attached to her own stupidity, and did not show any unusual look.

Wang Sheng practiced boxing for half an hour more, before sitting down opposite her master, picking up her wooden sword and placing it across her lap.

Xu Fengnian asked, “Walking around the world with a wooden sword, you don’t mind being ashamed?”

Wang Sheng was a bit perplexed and asked in return, “What’s so humiliating about it?”

Xu Fenian did not say anything.

Wang Sheng joyfully laughed: “It’s the wooden sword that grandpa made for me, even if master wants it, I won’t give it.”

Xu Fengyen, who had never called himself “Master”, said in a bad mood, “A broken wooden sword, what do I care?”

Wang Sheng hemmed and hawed.

Xu Fengyen joked, “In the future, if someone blindly falls in love with you, you might as well take this wooden sword as a token of love, even if it’s your dowry.”

Wang Sheng was bitter and did not say anything.

Xu Fenian said, “You now feel that the wooden sword is expensive, that is because you have not seen a really good sword, I am going to Wudi City to fetch some things, I can give you one at that time, but you can only leave a sword, how to choose. You decide yourself, ugly words in advance, I will not take a only wooden sword poor disciple to break into the world, can not afford to lose this face, not to mention the use of wooden swords can not be practiced what superior sword art. Wang Sheng, do you want this broken wooden sword, alone in the jianghu bumps and bruises, head broken and blood, a lifetime of not make a name for yourself. Or do you want to take a sword that might be the world’s most famous sword that everyone covets, and learn advanced martial arts from me, and make great strides in the martial arts path. Don’t be in a hurry to reply to me, tell me what’s in your heart in the morning.”

Xu Fengnian walked back to the carriage to rest after he finished speaking, leaving behind a disciple who was struck by lightning.

The next day, dawn was foggy.

The majestic Wudi City in the distance fell into the clouds and mist, either hidden or visible, like a perilous situation at sea.

Xu Fengyen walked to the seashore and saw Wang Sheng with his eyes closed, carrying a wooden sword pointing towards the sea, probably because he had been gathering his arms to carry the sword for a long time, and the tip of the sword was adorned with a mist droplet.

Prior to this, Wang Sheng’s mind was focused on practicing her sword, Xu Fengyen didn’t pay much attention to it, and only taught her this bland sword starting position.

She practiced it as if it was a world-class martial art, tirelessly.

The onlookers would look at it funny, and it wasn’t funny.

Wang Sheng finally realized that his master had appeared at his side, and without putting away his wooden sword, he turned his head to look at his expressionless master, and suddenly tears rolled out of his eyes as he choked, “Master.”

When a child encounters a threshold that he can’t cross, it is always natural to think of pleading with his elders.

Xu Fengnian said in a cold voice, “Loosen your sword.”

Wang Sheng’s face was bleak, “Master, I really want to practice the sword, I want to use the wooden sword to achieve great success. Because grandpa said that there are people in the jianghu who have made a name for themselves with wooden swords. I will definitely follow master to practice martial arts properly in the future ……”

Xu Feng Nian sneered, “Where under the sky is the best of both worlds, you can’t even throw away a broken wooden sword, how can you pick up those good objects that everyone desires, gold ten thousand taels, jianghu fame, martial arts evaluation rankings, starting a clan, which is not countless more precious than your wooden sword? So what if the wooden sword is your grandfather’s legacy? I do not know how many people in the jianghu newcomers for a secret book of a martial arts, not to say that not hesitate to dump their families, even parents can not recognize, even the master dared to kill, and even the daughter-in-law can be handed over. You are so stereotypical do not know roundabout and roundabout, still want to practice sword?!”

Speaking later, Wang Sheng had clearly felt her master’s stern voice, although she had not been with her master for a long time, she also knew that her master had always been a gentle and respectful person who could make her heart feel close to her.

For some reason, she also knew that if she missed this master in her life, she would never have to think about any sword fighting again.

Her arms trembled, turned her head away from looking at this master, gambling in general, softly sobbing, “Master, I’m not practicing martial arts anymore!”

Wang Sheng put away her wooden sword and placed it at her waist, knelt down and heavily kowtowed three times to this master who had only been around for a few more days.

As she put away her sword and knelt down, Xu Fengyen stretched out a finger and stopped the droplet of mist that fell from the tip of the sword on the belly of his finger.

Xu Fengyen looked at the cohesive and unbreakable mist droplet and said softly, “I also practiced sword, but I always feel that I can’t compare to many of my predecessors’ swordsmen, such as Li Chun Gang’s Sword Dao, Deng Tai’a’s Sword Technique, and Wang Xiaoping’s Rune Sword.”

Xu Fengyen smiled, “But I think the ones I feel most sorry for are not yet them, it’s one called Old Huang, and another nicknamed Wen Bu Sheng.”

Xu Fengnian continued, “I have always felt that people who are too smart and too calculating, no matter how good their talent is, no matter how high their sword skills are, and no matter how expensive the sword in their hands is, they are not considered true swordsmen.”

Wang Sheng stood up, at a loss for words, and could not understand what this man, who was probably no longer his master, was saying.

Xu Fengnian slightly snapped his fingers, then reached out and pressed his hand on Wang Sheng’s head, rubbing it, his smile warm and mellow, “All of these people are Master’s seniors and old acquaintances, who gave up a lot of things, especially that last ranger child who sat on a wooden sword just like you, who just happens to have the same things you want, and things you don’t want.”

Xu Fenian took a step back and said in a deep voice, “I, Northern Liang Xu Fenian, accept Guihua County Wang Sheng as my disciple today.”

Wang Sheng was dumbfounded.

Xu Fengyen blandly said, “What Wen Hua gave up back then, you take it.”

Wang Sheng was still confused, but finally knowing that Master was still Master was enough.

As for those names in her master’s mouth that were one after another like thunder or that she had never even heard of, she didn’t bother to think deeply about them, and just assumed that her master was bragging.

The master and disciple duo traveled to Martial Emperor City.

“Master, not angry with me anymore?”

“Uh-huh.”

“Master, I’ve heard of the Peach Blossom Sword God, and I know about the Wudang Sword Fiend, they are all sword immortals who are generally supreme experts, but who are the others?”

“You will naturally know in the future.”

“Master, there is a sentence that I don’t know whether to speak or not?”

“Then don’t say it.”

“Uh, Master, I still can’t hold it in, don’t be angry if I say it out, although you are definitely an expert as well, but isn’t the cow’s skin blown too far? Do you really know those two immortals? It can’t be that you’ve seen them from afar, right?”

“……”

“Master, it doesn’t matter, as long as I think you’re the most powerful expert in the world.”

“Master, I heard that you have many masters in Northern Liang, General Yuan who uses a sword, General Xu who uses a gun, and the new King of Shu who has left Northern Liang, have you seen them from afar? Oh yes, there’s also that young Beiliang King, even more remarkable, alas, but they are vassal kings, I think Master has never seen them.”

“Master, I see you also did not wear a sword and knife, this trip to Wudi City is to buy a hand weapon before walking in the jianghu?”

Master and disciple were mostly apprentice Wang Sheng there chattering to himself.

Horses hooves slowly, the carriage slowly, finally arrived outside the city of Wudi.

The fog inside and outside the city turned from thick to light, but that wall of hundreds of famous weapons, most of them fell with fog droplets, and then each dripped down to the corner roots, making the water under the wall deep and heavy.

This carriage stopped outside of the city, Xu Fengyen finally opened his mouth and said to the disciple beside him who was sitting cross-legged outside of the carriage, “Lift up the curtain, remember to keep your body out of the carriage doorway next.”

Wang Sheng didn’t know why, but still honestly did as he was told, hand-carrying the foot of the curtain, bending his knees and squatting to the side.

Xu Fengnian sat cross-legged and looked towards the Wudi City whose gates were wide open.

Wang Sheng snapped his eyes wide open, only to see his master’s sleeves swaying without wind.

The fog of Wudi City even melted away in an instant.

Inside the city, the wall that once symbolized who exactly was the number one person in the world began to tremble imperceptibly, and then the amplitude grew larger and larger.

First, a splash of purple color swept out of the city gate and crashed into Xu Fengnian’s arms.

Followed by the famous sword Yellow Lodge which was inserted high above the city head, detached from the wall and crashed into the purple sandalwood sword box.

Another eight swords of varying lengths, in turn, crashed into.

Xu Fengyen sat holding the box.

Apprentice Wang Sheng, who was still carrying the curtain, stared in disbelief, what’s going on here?

On the wall of the city, hundreds of masterless and famous weapons were trembling coincidentally, seemingly struggling to resist.

Xu Fengnian raised his arm and said softly, “Come.”

The Dormouse Fish Fine Sword, the Painted Eyebrow Sword, and the Junjie, the South Sea Guanyin Sect’s Half-Shoulder Small Tip, the Wu Family Sword Graveyard Reassured and Earnest, the Sword Immortal Chen Qingmei’s Zi Buyi from two hundred years ago, and the list goes on and on.

Sword after sword swept out of the city.

Dantian sword, Jia Shu sword, Gu Jiantang master’s peeling and pecking, four hundred years ago whoever gets it is invincible Great Frost Long Sword, and so on and so forth, in an endless stream.

One knife led the other out of the city.

The world’s top eighteen weapons all left the walls and went out of the city, above the walls.

They bypassed Xu Fengnian, sliding out a subtle arc, sliding into the carriage, no matter how thunderous the momentum of the flying swipe was, they all came to a sudden halt after passing the curtain, gently falling down.

The carriage was stuffed with weapons, after stopping for no reason, the later ones were nailed into the ground around the carriage.

Half an incense stick later, the four hundred and eighteen weapons on the walls of Wudi City had all become the property of their owners after leaving the city.

Wang Sheng was stagnant on the spot, his mind had completely turned around.

Her master, was really an expert who knew many experts?

Xu Fengnian, at this moment, was like a jianghu in hand.

A new Martial Emperor of the Jianghu, a new invincible.

It was only at this moment that Wudi City, which had only recently gotten the horrifying news of the city lord’s death in Beiliang, believed that the young feudal lord had indeed won against Wang Xianzhi.

It was only after this that the entire world had to pinch their noses and admit that that son of a human butcher was the new number one in the world.