Chapter 62 Admit your mistake
In the small courtyard of Taiping Medical Clinic, crows were hopping on the branches, as if they had seen something incredible.

Old man Yao stood up from the bamboo lounge chair, and was so shocked that he kept saying "you, you, you" several times.

Chen Ji sat cross-legged on the ground, feeling the looming sword energy in his body.

Old Man Yao bent down and twisted Chen Ji's ear: "Wake up, what happened just now!?"

"It hurts, it hurts," Chen Ji grinned.

Originally, he was full of pride and high spirits, but was immediately brought back to reality by Old Man Yao's twist.

Just like all children, when they grow up, no matter how successful they are outside, they will still be nagged by their parents when they return home.

Chen Ji hurriedly asked, "What's wrong, Master?"

Old Man Yao loosened his hand that was twisting his ear, stood up straight, and said unhappily: "Let me ask you, what sword technique did you just cultivate?!"

"hold head high."

Old man Yao stroked his beard, not knowing what to ask for a moment and was at a loss for words.

It's not that he is ignorant, so he was shocked by this incident.

It was precisely because he knew what the sword technique meant that he was shocked.

Old Man Yao was silent for a long time: "How did you cultivate the sword technique?!"

Chen Ji said innocently: "Didn't you say that I can chop officials and princes with my sword skills, and the two methods complement each other..."

Old Man Yao was shocked again when he heard this. He stared and said, "Don't talk nonsense. I was just talking. Don't do anything rash! I tell you, the best way to practice the Shanjun Sect is to wait for those high officials to die. This way, you won't get into trouble."

Then he patiently advised: "The entire cabinet has less than ten teeth in total. They are all old things that are about to decay and will not live for too long. You should wait a little longer. There is no need to be so anxious."

Chen Ji realized that his master was really worried about him doing that!

He quickly smiled and said, "I'm just kidding you. I don't kill innocent people indiscriminately."

Old Man Yao corrected him, "Those ministers are not innocent people... but you kill too many people, and there will always be times when you make mistakes. Which minister doesn't have a high official guarding him?"

"Yeah, got it," Chen Ji nodded.

Old Man Yao had recovered from his shock by now. He sat on the bamboo recliner and asked seriously, "Where did you learn the sword skills? This is the biggest secret of the Jing Dynasty Martial Temple. How could you have learned it? Could it be that the person Jing Dynasty has been looking for is you... No, the age doesn't match. You weren't born yet."

"Could it be that your uncle or your mother passed it on to you? That's not right. How could they have the chance to come into contact with the secrets of swordsmanship..."

Chen Ji answered calmly: "Master, it was the immortal in my dream who taught me."

Old Man Yao rolled his eyes and said, "If you don't want to talk, don't make up lies. Get out of my way."

However, Chen Ji said seriously: "Master, I did not lie. The immortal in the dream was named Xuanyuan. I have often dreamed of him since I can remember. But I couldn't see him clearly and couldn't talk to him in the past. Now I can have a good conversation with him."

Old Man Yao carefully observed Chen Ji's expression. The young man was extremely sincere.

He took out six copper coins from his sleeve and scattered them on the ground, but this time, no matter how many times he scattered them, the hexagrams were always different.

"The hexagram is messed up, is it really the immortal who is helping you?" Old Man Yao smacked his lips and said, "I didn't expect you to have such a wide network of contacts."

Chen Ji: "..."

Old Man Yao sighed deeply, "...You can learn sword skills with this, how can I justify this? Do you know that if the cultivation methods in this world are divided into different levels, the sword skills are ranked second, and no one dares to claim to be the first."

"Do you know that Lu Yang was obsessed with martial arts all his life and never married or had children? How many young talents of Jing Dynasty entered the Martial Temple, hoping to wait for Lu Yang to pass on the sword skills when they lost hope in the great way? As a result, how many people waited from youth to old age, and their hair turned white in vain."

As he spoke, he looked at Chen Ji and said leisurely: "If Jing Chao knew that you were practicing the sword technique, he would use the entire military intelligence department to kill you. Aren't you afraid?"

Chen Ji whispered: "Master, I will practice quietly... Will Lu Yang come to kill me personally?"

"That won't happen. Lu Yang has practiced all his life, not to achieve immortality after achieving the Great Dao, but to find new opponents." Old man Yao shook his head: "He may even expect you to reach the Divine Dao realm and fight with you again. But even if he doesn't take action, you won't survive. Come, let me see your lifeline. I may have seen it wrong before..."

Chen Ji said: "Master, I won't let others know that I am practicing the sword technique."

Old Man Yao looked directly into Chen Ji's eyes: "But I know."

The small courtyard became quiet, and the crows stopped jumping around. It was as if a big hand was holding the place, and even the air pressure became tight.

Old man Yao said slowly, "I can see that you are a very cautious person. You were so cautious that you held the broken porcelain piece all the way from Zhou's house to Taiping Clinic. I asked you if you killed anyone, and you said no. But if you are so cautious, why do you dare to practice in front of me? Do you know that the most unpredictable thing in the world is the human heart? How can you be sure that I won't betray you? If I tell Jing Chao this news, I might get a lot of gold, and maybe even let Jing Chao build a golden house for me."

Chen Ji sat cross-legged on the ground, bowed his head and thought for a moment: "A person who carries too many secrets is like carrying a mountain, which will make him unable to breathe. I want to believe that you will not harm me. Anyway, you have saved me twice. If you really want to exchange me for gold, then do it."

Old Man Yao looked at Chen Ji for a long time, and finally said slowly: "Don't tell anyone else, no one."

The crow also looked at the old man and the young man under the tree, and felt that the relationship between the two... had finally gotten better, and there was more trust.

Old Man Yao said, "You have learned the sword skills, let me see your sword energy."

"Okay," Chen Ji urged the sword energy in his body, allowing it to flow through his meridians and finally shoot out from the fingertips of his right hand, hitting the ground.

Some dust was stirred up.

“Oh,” Old Man Yao sneered, “So it turns out that a person will actually laugh when he is speechless. Even She Dengke’s fart is more powerful than your sword energy. But Liu Quxing is no match for him, because he always farts weakly.”

"...How mean of you! I have only been practicing for less than an hour."

Old man Yao thought for a moment: "Lu Yang cultivates his sword in the North Sea of ​​Jingchao, what do you cultivate your sword with? Back then, Lu Yang's father took him to travel all over the mountains and rivers, and it took him a whole year to choose the North Sea. You just chose a place to cultivate your sword too casually. Did you choose my Taiping Medical Clinic?"

At this point, Old Man Yao was furious: "Since you have the secret of sword cultivation, you should have told me earlier so that I can take you out for a walk and choose the best place to cultivate swords. Whether it is the Hundred Thousand Mountains in the southwest or the Seven Gods Mountains of the Tantric Buddhism, they are better than here! How can such a thing be decided casually!"

Chen Ji pointed to the east and said, "Master, I chose the sun as the place to raise my sword."

Old man Yao's expression froze, and he slowly raised his head to look at the rising sun: "You..."

……

……

At this time, a sneaky voice came from outside the courtyard wall: "Bai Li Bai Li, you step on me to climb up, slowly, slowly, don't fall."

The crows flew into the sky and left early.

Chen Ji turned his head to look at the courtyard wall and saw Princess Baili sticking her head out and quietly looking around the courtyard.

"Wow, Chen Ji, Doctor Yao, are you awake? Good morning," Bai Li stepped on the prince's shoulder and greeted them staggeringly.

Chen Ji was puzzled: "Princess Baili, you and the prince also got up so early?"

Princess Baili explained with a smile, "We all went to Mr. Wang's morning class. Mr. Wang is very fierce. My brother got spanked on the palm of his hand again this morning."

Outside the courtyard wall, the prince urged, "Bai Li, turn over first and then we can talk."

Bai Li pushed himself up with his hands, turned over, and climbed up the ladder to the yard.

Old man Yao looked at the other person's familiarity with the place, raised his eyebrows, and looked at Chen Ji with a serious expression.

Chen Ji hurriedly said: "Master, I've given you the toll."

"I almost forgot." Old Man Yao's brows relaxed, and he stood up and carried the bamboo stick into the apprentice dormitory: "You guys chat, I'll go wake up She Dengke and Liu Quxing."

After a while, the ghostly howlings of the two senior brothers were heard in the room. One of them covered his butt and went to fetch water, and the other covered his butt and went to sweep the floor. Liang Maoer happily went into the kitchen to light a fire and cook.

Surprisingly, Princess Baili also rolled up her sleeves, went into the kitchen, skillfully scooped a spoonful of lard and threw it into the pot, apparently ready to help cook.

Chen Ji asked in confusion, "Why is the princess so skilled?" Bai Li smiled and said, "We were all like this when we were in the academy. The teachers didn't allow us to bring book boys with us, so everyone had to be self-reliant."

"Everyone is self-sufficient?"

"Not really," Bai Li thought for a moment and said, "Some people from very wealthy families would pay their classmates from less well-off families to help with laundry and cooking, so they can live a more comfortable life. My brother wanted to do the same, but I wrote a letter to my father and reported him to the police!"

The prince leaned against the door frame outside the kitchen and said weakly, "Bai Li, think about it this way. Some students from poor families want to go to Donglin Academy, and the tuition alone costs the whole family. But they still have to take the provincial examination in the future, and after the provincial examination, they have to go to the capital to take the metropolitan examination. If they pass the metropolitan examination, they have to buy a house in the capital, which all costs money. We save effort and they earn money, what's wrong with that?"

"No way!"

With a sizzling sound, the princess skillfully heated the oil in a pan, poured the washed and cut cabbage into the pan, and made a dish of spicy and sour cabbage, the aroma wafting into the yard.

The Taiping Medical Clinic used to be like a corner forgotten by the world, but now it seems like a large slum full of the atmosphere of fireworks.

The smell of fireworks pulled Chen Ji back to the human world from the world of officials.

He struggled to get up, lay down on the bamboo chair, and slowly closed his eyes tiredly.

Chen Ji gathered the molten flow from the sixteen furnaces, allowed the icy flow to spread to every corner of his meridians, fell into the depths of the dark sea of ​​clouds again, and returned to the ancient battlefield.

……

……

Chen Ji landed on the green hill and opened his eyes, only to see Xuanyuan wearing golden armor, sitting on the edge of the cliff with the royal flag in his hand, looking into the distance.

The flags no longer fluttered, and the golden armor no longer made a clanging sound.

He followed the other person's gaze and saw a snowy mountain over there, covered with snow that had not melted for thousands of years.

Every time he came in the past, the opponent fought among thousands of troops like a god of war. But this time, Xuanyuan was like a lonely traveler, sitting in his own amber.

Chen Ji came to the edge of the cliff and stood beside Xuan Yuan: "What are you looking at?"

Xuanyuan suddenly turned around, his eyes like lightning, and he was extremely determined: "Why are you here again? If you want to cultivate a sword, you need to work hard for hundreds of years. Didn't I tell you that you don't need to come until you choose a good place to cultivate the sword?"

"I've chosen it," said Chen Ji.

"It's useless to just choose it. You need to calm down and spend time to communicate with it across the sea of ​​stars and turn it into your sword-raising star," Xuanyuan said slowly, "Then you will understand that all the painstaking efforts of more than four hundred years are worth it."

"The communication is complete."

Xuanyuan stood up slowly: "You used to be able to tell lies... Which star did you choose? Let me guess. With your personality, you should choose the brightest one in the sky, Sirius. But even for Sirius, it takes several years for the divine consciousness to reach it. How could you complete it in one hour?"

Chen Ji was silent for a moment: "I chose the sun, it's quite close. You may not realize that the sun is also a star."

Xuanyuan was stunned for a long time: "The sun...you actually chose the sun? You once picked the brightest star in the sky, but didn't cherish it, and now you picked another one..."

"Ok?"

Above the green hills, the majestic wind blew across the flags. Xuanyuan stood on the cliff, motionless, as if he had turned into a sculpture.

Chen Ji asked seriously, "I borrowed the fire of the sun and cultivated the first ray of sword energy. But the power of sword energy is very small, and it is gone once it is used up. I saw your sword on the battlefield before, it was moving like a shuttle, extremely sharp, and indestructible. How can you forge a sword like that?"

Xuanyuan suddenly said, "Go back, I don't want to teach anymore."

Chen Ji looked up in astonishment: "You said you won't teach me, so you won't teach me!? People should be honest. An hour ago you said you could teach me, and the next hour you said you wouldn't teach me. Isn't that a bit too hasty?"

"Whatever you say, I won't teach you anymore," Xuanyuan held up the royal flag and walked down the mountain, "Don't come here again."

Chen Ji became anxious, so he followed Xuanyuan all the way down the mountain.

Xuanyuan could cover more than ten feet in one step as if walking on flat ground, but Chen Ji could only follow the mountain path and stumble down to catch up.

Fortunately, he was healthy and unharmed in this dream, otherwise he would have been in so much pain just running down the mountain.

"Hey, walk slower, let's discuss this," Chen Ji shouted, "Why don't you teach me anymore? Is it because I chose the wrong place to raise the sword, or is it because of our past grudges?"

"You don't need to know," Xuanyuan said as he walked away, "You and I have a grudge, and I don't want to teach my enemy."

Chen Ji said quickly: "Although I am not the person you know...but I see that you are handsome, strong and upright. I think you have a grudge against him, and it must be his fault. If he did something inappropriate, I apologize to you on his behalf."

Xuanyuan suddenly turned around at the foot of the mountain and looked at Chen Ji calmly: "?"

He was stunned, in disbelief: "You apologize to me? You apologize so easily?"

Chen Ji nodded: "Very sincere."

Xuanyuan burst into laughter: "Did you hear that? He apologized to me! He actually apologized to me!"

Chen Ji: "..."

"Do you want to learn the sword skills so much?" Xuanyuan asked in a serious tone.

"Want to learn."

"Okay," Xuanyuan waved his hand.

The frozen battlefield came alive. A burly soldier walked out of the battle formation, holding a halberd and kneeling on one knee. "King, what do you want to summon me for?"

Xuanyuan pointed at Chen Ji and said, "Kill him."

After that, he looked at Chen Ji again: "I won't take advantage of you. His realm has been lowered, only one level higher than yours now. If you beat him, I will teach you."

"Eh?" Chen Ji looked at the sturdy man swinging the halberd. The huge bronze halberd made a whistling sound in the air, which hurt his eardrums!

hiss!
Chen Ji gasped and woke up from the bamboo lounge chair.

Before he could react, he was hacked to death by the giant halberd warrior. The pain was so real, as if everything that had just happened was not a dream, but a real death.

Is Xuanyuan taking this opportunity to take revenge?
At this time, Bai Li was still cooking in the kitchen, while the prince was sitting next to him on a bamboo recliner, eating melon seeds. When he saw Chen Ji waking up in shock, he asked curiously, "What's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?"

Chen Ji shook his head: "It's okay."

After saying that, he gathered the molten flow again, quickly fell into the dark sea of ​​clouds, and landed on the green mountain.

However, this time, the giant halberd warrior was waiting here early, and before he could react, he was stabbed in the heart by the bronze halberd again.

Xuanyuan sneered, "Have you even forgotten your combat awareness? All battles in this world are fought with all your might, and if you have even forgotten your combat awareness, what is the point of learning my sword skills?"

However, Chen Ji let the blood spurt out of his mouth, turned to look at Xuanyuan and said with a smile: "Come again!"

"Hmm?" Xuanyuan raised his eyebrows, and a light appeared in his eyes.

The next moment, Chen Ji calmly opened his eyes on the bamboo lounge chair, closed them again, and returned to the battlefield.

He ducked down at the moment of falling from the dark sea of ​​clouds, avoiding the whistling wind above his head. The iron halberd swung across the sky, but missed.

Chen Ji actually picked up a piece of stone from the ground and held it in his hand, and taking advantage of the moment when the bronze halberd's power had weakened, he pounced on the giant halberd warrior.

When he got closer, he saw the giant halberd warrior suddenly abandon the bronze halberd, draw a bronze dagger from his waist, and stab at him.

The giant halberd warrior thought that the sword would pierce Chen Ji, but it didn't.

He looked up in shock and found that Chen Ji had picked up the discarded bronze halberd on the ground and ran down the mountain...

Xuanyuan showed a hesitant expression for the first time: "...Did I admit my mistake?"

(End of this chapter)