Chapter 364 – Sharpening the Sword
Three riders and a donkey, around the summer town, to the foot of the Wudang Mountain that pagoda, Xu Fengyen Fan Xiaochai and Chen Tianyuan together rolled off the horse, Deng Tai’a landed on the ground after patting the old donkey’s back, flabbergasted.
Chen Tianyuan looked up at Lu Zu’s handwriting “Wudang Dangxing” four words, unlike ordinary sword practitioners that exudes a mountain look of admiration, but instead, the spirit of the wind, fighting spirit.
Xu Fengyen suddenly turned his head to Fan Xiaochai and said, “You go to the southeast of Liyang, if you can find that guy within two years, help me take a message to him, saying that the silver money owed to me back then has to be paid back.”
Fan Xiaochai frowned, “According to the spy report from the water whisking room, the villages and towns over there are scattered, with different sounds for ten miles and different customs for a hundred miles, so with those fragmented clues from earlier, it’s not good to find him.”
Xu Fengnian nodded, “Finding a needle in a haystack can only depend on fate. Just treat it as doing your best, I actually don’t expect you to really find that guy.”
Fan Xiaochai asked with an ancient face, “Can you change the spy? I’m good at killing people, and I only know how to kill people, and there are a lot of people in the Water Whisking Room who are better suited for the matter of finding someone.”
Xu Fengnian laughed, “Can’t.”
Fan Xiaochai had some hidden anger between her eyebrows, like water plants swaying in those long autumn eyes. She naturally dared to be angry.
Xu Fengnian flirted, “Maybe it won’t take two years for you to hear about my death, won’t it save your heart and energy?”
Fan Xiaochai said in a raw voice: “The first and foremost pleasure in the world is nothing better than killing the head of an enemy with your hands.”
Xu Fengyen sighed and said helplessly, “You only dare to show your heart in front of me like this, if Luqiu’er was present, do you have the guts?”
Fan Xiaochai smiled sweetly and asked in return, “Is Chu Lushan present?”
Xu Fengyen said in a humorless manner, “That’s why, the only thing that is evil is an evil man.”
Fan Xiaochai gazed deeply at the young vassal king, re-turned on his horse, hesitated for a moment, reached out and held the hilt of the sword at his waist, “This cross river pawn?”
Xu Fengnian smiled, “It’s just a temporary loan, but it will be returned just the same!”
Fan Xiaochai left quickly.
Chen Tianyuan, who had been immersed in Lu Zu’s four words of magnificent sword intent, was awakened back to his senses by the sound of a series of hoofbeats that were traveling farther and farther away, and queried, “Why did she leave?”
Xu Fengyen said blandly, “I asked her to do something over in the Central Plains.”
Chen Tianyuan let out an oh sound and waited until the one person and one rider completely disappeared from his sight before he mounted his horse and eyed the direction where her figure passed away, his bravado grew and he laughed loudly, “I wish that the only three people in the world who know my sword are the green mountains, the green water, and Fan Xiaochai!”
Xu Fengyen snorted, “If you have the ability to say such words to her in person.”
Chen Tianyuan mounted his horse and slightly corrected the famous sword on his waist, “What would I say if this kind of words annoy her?”
Xu Fengyen said, “But your half master and I don’t like to hear it either.”
After Chen Tianyuan put on that rooted face, he put down a sentence of “None of my business” and left with his horse speeding up.
Deng Tai’a smiled, “I’m fine.”
Xu Fengyen blankly said, “I really can’t stand this young immortal’s temper.”
Deng Tai’a lamented for no reason, “Maybe Li Chun Gang was as annoying as this when he first started out. As far as I know, the female immortals in the Jianghu are partial to this.”
Xu Fengnian bared his teeth and said resentfully, “It can’t be, can it?”
Teng Tai’a laughed it off.
Xu Fengnian sighed heavily and muttered, “At the moment …… there is some melancholy ah.”
Deng Tai’a asked, “You are waiting for someone?”
Xu Fenian hmmmed and tersely said, “Although Song Nianqing once killed me with his fourteen new swords back then, it didn’t stop me from always feeling good about the East Vietnam Sword Pool, and as for Chai Qingshan, who took over the Sword Pool, it was a no-brainer. There is a kind of person in the jianghu, regardless of the enemy, can not hate. This is true of Chai Qingshan, it is also true of Wang Mingyin outside of Xiangfan City, and it is even more true of the man-cat Han Shengxuan outside of Shenwu City.”
Teng Tai’a was silent.
That old ancestor of the Wu family’s sword mound, who had deep ties with both him and the young feudal king, had returned to the Central Plains after delivering the sword, and it was thought that he should have withdrawn from the Jianghu completely.
As if it was an afterthought, Teng Tai’a asked with some curiosity, ”Why did you let that woman leave Northern Liang at this time? Is it in the hope that she can take Chen Tianyuan to the Central Plains?”
Xu Fengnian laughed, “The main reason is to look for someone, and by the way, it just so happens that that obtrusive exiled person will be led away, killing two birds with one stone.”
The young Vassal King pressed the hilt of his sword and stood under that pagoda, the fresh wind blowing on his face, floating in the air.
Peach Blossom Sword God accompanied him side by side looking into the distance, Ta’a hanging on one side of his waist, the number one Sword Immortal in the world.
Xu Fengnian asked softly, “The old man in sheepskin fur, the old monster Wang and Cao Changqing, they all had left their qi on earth, old Huang also left a sword manual to me in the beginning, Deng Tai’a, what about you?”
The Peach Blossom Sword God, who entered the Dao with sword art and then stood at the top of the sword forest with Lu Zu and Li Chun Gang, said calmly, “I, Deng Tai’a, do not want to do anything after death.”
Xu Fengnian envied, “How dashing.”
Seeing Chai Qingshan and his party slowly arriving in the distance, Deng Tai’a clearly had no intention of accompanying Xu Fenian and waiting for the others, leading the donkey and turning around to take the lead in climbing the mountain.
Chai Qingshan accompanied with Qi Xianman, the Central Plains Divine Fist Feng Zongxi and those fairies from Misty Peak also put together this hilarity, but the Snow Lodge gun saint Li Houzhong and his disciples did not show up, high and low temperament, visible at a glance.
Xu Fengyen left shoulder suddenly gave someone a heavy tap, he turned his head to look, no one, turn to the other side, still no one.
Xu Fengnian pretended to be surprised.
Soon there was a squatting little girl who jumped up with a crash and laughed, “Scared yet?”
Xu Fengyen narrowed his eyes and smiled, the corners of his mouth curling up in an especially gentle smile.
Every time he saw her, from the first encounter to reunion to meeting again, he was only happy.
Xu Fengyen reached out his hand and rubbed her hair, “Yo, you’ve grown.”
She crossed her arms, lifted her chin high, and vigorously lifted her chest, not hiding her smugness.
Xu Fenian asked with a smile, “Where is the little monk in the north and south?”
She blankly said, “Stupid north and south ah, is with a small Taoist boy called Yu Fu chattering, I am not happy to take them to play, you do not know, a small bald head, a small pedant, these two stay together, most like to talk with the ducks, than in the past, our family those big bald old bald head together to preach and quarrel with the scriptures is still boring.”
“What about your parents?”
“Worried me, not long ago there is a mountain from Jiangnan to the female incense, somehow recognized my father, crying that called a tearful pear with rain, my mother to the angry that called a seven smoke Yo, my father has taken the initiative to wash the clothes for several days does not matter, yesterday also with the Wudang Mountain Niubizi old Taoist priests borrowed some coins, said that the mother went down to the mountains to buy some rouge and powder! ……”
“And then your mother did not willing?”
“Which can it, you and not do not know, my mother and who will not fight with rouge and powder, get the money to go downhill to the foot of the town, full of back to the mountain, in the house pounded almost a hour before they are willing to see people.”
“Your father was scared?”
“Shit, my father said that my mother is as beautiful as heaven. Unfortunately, my mother was not easy to get rid of the anger, that female incense guest on the pretext of resignation to find my parents, see my mother’s makeup, the woman did not say anything, is oblique glanced at my mother, and then the corner of the mouth, and finally do not pay attention to my mother, just focus on pleasantries with my father, she was leaving, I saw quite real, and quietly skimmed my mother. So, then, there was no then.”
“Li Zi, your mother has met her match.”
“Alas, at that time did not feel, now think back, indeed quite hurt, in fact, also blame me, my mother to face hard to smear rouge powder that time, I did not pay much attention, otherwise my mother will certainly better look.”
“It’s fine, as long as your father thinks your mother looks good.”
“The words are so, but there is no way he has stupid north and south so a disciple ah, at that time my father really can’t help, asked a, stupid north and south, you are not also think that your mother is the most good-looking woman under the sky. Guess what, stupid north and south replied a master you said, monks do not deceive. Next is my mother pull my father’s ear, my father pull stupid north and south ear, alas, these three are really, are like a child who never grows up, put me to worry. Xu Fenian, why don’t you take me to Mount Qingliang to have some fun? The meat buns in Liangzhou City are delicious, just a bit expensive.”
Xu Fengyen looked at the young girl with a crooked head in tears and laughter, but he didn’t want her to be disappointed, so he bent his finger and gently knocked on her forehead, “Going to Qingliang Mountain to play can be done, but it has to be agreed by your parents.”
She nodded her head like a chicken pecking rice, then tugged on Xu Fenian’s sleeve, lowered her voice and said, “When you get to the mountain and see my father, remember that as long as you see my father turn around and go back to the house, you immediately run away.”
Xu Fengyen was confused.
The young girl snapped, “In these years, my father likes to sharpen his sword when he has nothing else to do.”
Xu Fenian was speechless.