Tianlong Sword Guanghan

Chapter 73. Chapter 72.

The next day, on a mountain road fifty miles west of Lingzhou City, two fast horses galloped past. One was completely black with shiny fur. The rider on the horse was dressed in black and had a black sword. The wind was fierce. He opened his clothes and held a small gourd in his hand. , While galloping wildly, he still drank non-stop.The other one was like a ball of flame, and immediately sat a person in a red dress, with a red cloth on her face, judging from her figure, she was a woman, but she wrapped herself tightly, not even a piece of skin was exposed.

The two walked side by side, turned around a mountain ridge, and there were more than ten riders strung out beside the road. The leader was a burly man, who was Boss Wu. Shouted in unison, the dozen or so people, such as Cave Master Chen and Xiong's brothers, were all masters of martial arts. With a loud shout, the sound shook the whole field, and the leaves in the surrounding forests fell down.The black-clothed knight shouted quickly: "Damn you, keep your voice down, if someone overhears you and those idiots from 'Yipintang' surround you, I'll discount all your lone crutches!"

Boss Wu laughed and said: "The young master's sword is invincible, what are those wastes in 'Yipintang' afraid of?" Li Xiaoyao reined in his horse's head and let the reins go slowly.Looking at the red-clothed knight beside him, he lowered his head and said, "I've been killed this time." Boss Wu wondered, "Who else in 'Yipintang' can embarrass the young master?"

Li Xiaoyao said with a mournful face, "It's easy to say, now I'm the No. Your girl?" Li Xiaoyao sighed, feeling extremely tired, waved his hands, and didn't want to talk.

The woman in red smiled lightly and said, "Little cousin, this is your subordinate? Why do you look so dumb?" Boss Wu and the others turned pale when they heard her address Li Xiaoyao like that.Boss Wu tremblingly said: "Young master, why did you tie up Princess Xixia?" Princess Yinchuan excitedly said: "You know me?" Boss Wu nodded quickly, and said cautiously: "Princess, let us let you go back now." ,is there time?"

Princess Yinchuan was covered in clothes, only her two big black eyes were exposed, but her eyes were extremely expressive, frowns and smiles, joy, anger, sorrow and joy, everyone could feel it immediately just by looking at her eyes.A group of people saw that Princess Yinchuan's eyes showed the triumphant look of the prank, and said cheerfully: "That's not okay, I finally found an opportunity to come out and play, how can I go back here?"

She looked vigilant and said: "I warn you, don't use your brains to send me back. I did your young master a big favor. He helped me take the blame, but it's a fair deal. You also You don’t want your young master to break his promise, do you?”

Boss Wu and the others all looked at Li Xiaoyao, Li Xiaoyao sighed: "That's right, Murong Fu's proposal to marry the princess is hopeless, but Murong Bo is nowhere to be seen. Old Wu, please quickly pass this news to Yu Teacher, just say that I am lucky to live up to my life, but I am in trouble now, and I can't protect myself. In the past few months, let them stop looking for me." Boss Wu bowed to accept the order, and went to the summons without mentioning it.

Everyone rested for a while and ate some dry food.When Boss Wu returned, he mounted his horse again.A group of people avoided towns along the way and headed west all the way to Tianshan Mountain.

After walking for another half day, it was getting late, and no one dared to enter the city to invest in the shop, so they had to sleep in the open.Boss Wu and the others were lighting the fire, but they saw a firework signal light up in the sky. Boss Wu saw it and said to Li Xiaoyao, "That's the warning signal from Zhu Tianbu."

Li Xiaoyao ordered Boss Wu and others to protect Princess Yinchuan, and then he took the black iron sword and jumped away.He exerted all his strength, like a stream of black smoke, in the night, no one could see his figure clearly.Princess Yinchuan was speechless and said: "I know that my little cousin is very good at martial arts, but I didn't expect it to be so powerful."

Boss Wu said: "Back then we were deceived by lard, and all the masters from Cave 36 and Island 72 besieged the young master together. As a result, the young master showed great power and killed us all by himself." Princess Yinchuan saw Boss Wu speak At that time, his tone was submissive, his admiration was beyond words, and he looked convinced.He couldn't help but secretly admire his young distant cousin in his heart.

Li Xiaoyao ran for only a moment, and saw a small road where more than ten men in black were besieging five women.The clothes of these five women are all dressed up by people from the Vulture Palace. The leading middle-aged woman is about forty years old. She holds a ghost knife in her hand. She is powerful and exquisite in knife skills. She can catch it alone Stopped the siege of five men in black.

The other four young women held long swords and protected her back.The men in black continued to besiege, but they were still unable to break through the circle formed by the four swords.

Li Xiaoyao saw that the five members of Zhu Tianbu did not fall behind, so he hid himself and watched from the side.Suddenly, his eyes lit up. It turned out that a man in black was looking for an opening, stepped forward and slashed down with a knife in his hands. The woman from Zhu Tianbu in front of him blocked with a horizontal sword, but the woman was born weak and could not block the slash with both hands. , had to take a step back, seeing that the circle guarded by the four was about to be broken.

At this time, a small hand was stretched out from behind the woman, holding a short sword in it, and weakly stabbed out from the woman's waist, hitting the armpit of the man in black.It's a pity that this sword has no strength, it only pierces the flesh, and has no strength to go further, the man in black screamed in pain, and hastily retreated, the danger of the Zhu Tianbu woman was relieved.

It was only then that Li Xiaoyao discovered that there were two children hidden in the circle surrounded by the four Zhu Tianbu women back to back.The older boy, about ten years old, was taller and longer than his peers. He held a dagger in his arms and held the young girl in his arms. The girl was only four or five years old, but she was bold. He hugged his brother tightly with one hand, covered his mouth with the other, and stared boldly with both eyes.

As soon as he made a breakthrough with a sword, that elder brother stabbed out with a dagger.Li Xiaoyao could tell that this young man had been instructed by a master, and his foundation in swordsmanship was very solid.But it's a pity that he is young and lacks strength, and he hasn't learned any brilliant swordsmanship moves.

He continued to wait for a while, the group of men in black attacked very quickly, and threatened the girls of Zhu Tianbu several times, but every time, this young man could always stab a sword and help the girls of Zhu Tianbu to retreat from the enemy, but his strength Insufficient, vision and knowledge are too shallow, the man in black is on guard again.After three more stabs, he could barely retreat from the enemy, and was no longer able to hurt others.

Li Xiaoyao saw the four young women holding swords from Zhu Tianbu, their swordsmanship gradually became disorganized, and knew that they were not strong enough, so he stopped watching.He slammed forward and used "Lingbo Weibu" to walk among the men in black. The woman with the ghost knife saw "Lingbo Weibu" and said happily: "Young master!" Before the word "Young Master" was finished, four men in black covered their throats and collapsed to the ground.

The rest of the men in black had never seen such martial arts before, they thought they had met a mountain ghost, they turned around in fright and wanted to run away, but Li Xiaoyao quickly caught up with them, one sword at a time, and they were all punished.

The middle-aged woman put away the ghost knife, came to Li Xiaoyao, prostrated herself on the ground, Li Xiaoyao held her palm empty, the middle-aged woman only felt a warm and gentle force, firmly holding herself up, not allowing herself to bow down.She has always been stubborn, and as a gift to all her subordinates, she actually mobilized her whole body's internal strength to forcefully break Li Xiaoyao's palm, knelt down on the ground, bowed, and said: "Zhu Tianbu, Cheng Tianbu, you have seen the young master."

Li Xiaoyao bent down to help her up, and asked, "What's your name, auntie? What's going on?" The middle-aged woman stood up and replied, "No, my servant's family name is Ning." She pointed Pointing to the young brothers and sisters at the side, they said: "The mothers of these two children are sisters of my Chengtian Department. They met a lover more than ten years ago and married out. A few days ago, we were ordered by the Lord to find the young girl. The Lord sent a message. On the way here, we came across a warning signal from this sister. We rushed to check and saw that their parents were besieged. We tried our best and only saved these two children."

Li Xiaoyao asked: "What is the origin of the enemy, do you ever know?" Aunt Ning shook her head and said: "It happened suddenly, and we didn't have time to ask in detail. My sister and his wife were already dead, but her husband's family made spices with the Western Regions." If you are a wealthy businessman, you may offend a lot of people."

Li Xiaoyao looked at the pair of brothers and sisters, and said, "What are you going to do with these two children?" Aunt Ning wondered, "It's okay if there are only girls, since the Lord has taken in orphan girls in the Vulture Palace since he came. ..." The young man had been listening to them quietly, and now he said hastily: "Please take my sister in, Li Sansi is very grateful!"

Li Xiaoyao almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, one step in front of him, and asked, "What did you say your name is?" The young man said: "Grandpa, my name is Li Sansi, my sister didn't have a name, and my parents called her Xiaonan." Li Xiaoyao said, "I've made the decision, and I will definitely take your sister in, but you have to change your name, okay?"

Li Sansi tilted his head, thought for a while, and asked, "Grandfather, may I ask why you changed your name?" Li Xiaoyao said with a grim expression, "Don't ask, you'll be dead if you ask!" Li Sansi shook his head and said "A good man doesn't change his surname when he sits, and he doesn't change his name if he works, but my name can't be changed." The little girl on the side also cried: "Brother, I'm not going anywhere, I want to be with you."

Li Xiaoyao took out a handful of jewels borrowed from the Western Xia Palace from his bosom, handed them to the young man, imitating Prince Zongzan and said in a haughty manner: "Change the name, here you are." Li Sansi snorted and said: " Engong, my family has been in the spice business for three generations, and this stuff is not enough for me to use for a month." Li Xiaoyao said with a dark face, "Smelly brat, I insist on you changing this unlucky name."

He looked at Aunt Ning and asked, "What news does Master Uncle have for me?" Aunt Ning replied, "Two days ago, the sisters of the Youtian Department sent news that there was a powerful enemy and they wanted to find King Zhennan of Dali." Mr. Duan is not worried about the trouble, and has already gone down the mountain."

Li Xiaoyao said: "The third younger brother has magical powers to protect his body, and his internal strength is far superior to mine. Miss Wang who accompanied him in Tianshan has learned martial arts for a long time. He doesn't bother others. Everyone else has to burn incense and worship Buddha, and chant Amitabha Buddha. Yes. Let the sisters of Jiutian Jiubu inquire about the news for him, but his own father, of course he has to deal with it by himself."

Aunt Ning nodded in obedience, and asked the four daughters of Zhu Tianbu to go back to make an interrogation, while she followed Li Xiaoyao.They packed up and brought Li Sansi brother and sister back together.When Princess Yinchuan saw Xiaonan, and heard Aunt Ning tell her about their brother and sister's background, she became very compassionate, and held Xiaonan in her arms, glaring at Li Xiaoyao.

Li Xiaoyao didn't care about her, and fought with Li Sansi on his own. One tried his best to force the other to change his name, while the other was like a stone in a latrine. Put your neck down, just don't change.

He stared and quarreled for a long time, Xiaonan was young after all, she fell asleep in the arms of Princess Yinchuan.Princess Yinchuan ran away from home for the first time in her life. She was so excited that she couldn't sleep.Then he grabbed Li Xiaoyao and said, "Cousin, did you just use 'Lingbo Weibu'?"

Li Xiaoyao coerced and lured Li Sansi, but he couldn't let Li Sansi change his name. He was depressed at the moment, and he replied casually: "Yeah, your grandma didn't teach you?" Princess Yinchuan blushed, but through the red mask, she didn't people found out.She shyly said: "Of course she taught me, but I think the "Book of Changes" is obscure, and I still can't understand it after studying for half a month."

She suddenly said with bright eyes: "Biao uncle, you are the master of martial arts with your swordsmanship, and your lightness kung fu is so good, isn't your swordsmanship invincible?"

At the side Li Sansi heard the word "Swordsmanship", his little body trembled violently, but he had just quarreled with Li Xiaoyao, he was embarrassed to go over, so he secretly pricked up his ears and listened intently.Li Xiaoyao has been paying attention to this young man all the time, seeing that his body is stiff and he is slightly sideways.With a look of eavesdropping, there was a sudden movement in his heart.

He chuckled, and said proudly: "What Invincible Under Heaven said is too much. But in terms of swordsmanship alone, except for those three in Vulture Palace, your cousin and I have never lost a single defeat since our debut."

A certain eunuch far away in Kaifeng suddenly shivered at this moment, and the little eunuch beside him quickly put on a fox fur and said respectfully: "Godfather, it's getting colder, so you have to be careful." The old eunuch stretched out his hand with a smile on his face. , Turned out to be a tea bowl, took a sip of hot tea, and said: "Little boy, you have a heart."

Princess Yinchuan's big eyes flickered, and she asked cautiously: "Cousin, can you teach me some sword skills?" Li Xiaoyao smiled and said: "You have already used two of my three promises, this is the first one. Three?"

Princess Yinchuan shook her head quickly, and said: "I am a junior, and I humbly ask you for advice, and you are ashamed to take advantage of this junior?" Li Xiaoyao peeped and saw Li Sansi pretending to fall asleep and turning over, lying on the ground, squinting, Peek at yourself.Then he said: "Okay, I see that your swordsmanship has also worked hard and has a solid foundation, so I will teach you a trick with the sword. If you encounter an enemy stronger than you in the future, you will not be defenseless." force."

When Princess Yinchuan fought with Li Xiaoyao for the first time, Li Xiaoyao used his strength to break the move and knocked her long sword into the air. She was very excited, nodded repeatedly, and said, "Thank you, cousin." Everyone on the side saw Li Xiaoyao Li Xiaoyao shook his head and said, "We are all on our own. This is not some peerless martial art. It doesn't matter if you look at it." The big guy sat up quickly and listened carefully to "One Sword" "Zhenxi Rong" passed the sword by word of mouth.Only Li Sansi's face was pale, and he felt embarrassed, just lay there and peeked.

Princess Yinchuan handed over the little girl in her arms to Aunt Ning, and stood in front of Li Xiaoyao holding a long sword.Excitedly said: "Cousin, tell me quickly, what should I do?" Li Xiaoyao stood up, picked up a branch from the ground, and said, "You use the trick you used to attack me last time again."

Princess Yinchuan drew out her sword as she said, and the long sword stabbed straight at her. When the tip of the sword was about to reach her body, it shook violently and split into five parts, covering all the vital points on Li Xiaoyao's chest.It was the "Red Plum Blossom" move of the Wuliang Sword School.Li Xiaoyao stabbed straight with a simple twig, and the branch was stabbing Princess Yinchuan's wrist.

Princess Yinchuan quickly changed her tactics, and Li Xiaoyao stabbed repeatedly, every time the branch stabbed Princess Yinchuan's wrist.Princess Yinchuan turned her eyes, and the long sword stopped attacking Li Xiaoyao, but kept slashing, trying to cut off the branch in his hand.As a result, Li Xiaoyao changed the thorns for wiping, sticking the branch to the sword, and wiping Princess Yinchuan's fingers holding the sword.Forcing Princess Yinchuan to change her tactics constantly.

On the other hand, Li Xiaoyao held the soft branch and never confronted the long sword. Instead, he used the simplest sword techniques such as stabbing, wiping, picking, etc., and kept attacking Princess Yinchuan's right hand holding the sword. However, if Li Xiaoyao was replaced by an enemy, and the branches were replaced by ordinary steel swords, the fingers of Princess Yinchuan's right hand would have already been cut off, and she had to abandon the sword and wait to die.

Princess Yinchuan changed five sword techniques in a row, more than ten sword moves, and every time Li Xiaoyao restrained her right hand, she was secretly startled, she jumped back fiercely, put her long sword back into its sheath, and softly shouted: "Don't fight!" No more, no more." Li Xiaoyao asked gently: "Do you understand?" Princess Yinchuan had something in her heart, and was about to answer, but she saw Li Xiaoyao's eyes looking straight to the side, she turned her head to look, then Li Sansi lay on the ground with piercing eyes, unaware of Li Xiaoyao's question, obviously lost in thought.She quickly shut up and stood aside.

After a long time, Li Sansi woke up suddenly, seeing everyone sitting quietly, Li Xiaoyao looked at him with a smile on his face.He hastily turned over and knelt down on the ground, knocking his head on the ground, and under the force of his heart, he also smashed a small hole in the dirt on the ground with his forehead.With tears in his eyes, he said, "Thank you, Mr. En, for your great kindness!"

Princess Yinchuan coughed quickly, and said, "Silly boy, what should your name be?" Li Sansi's heart was shaken, and he kowtowed "bang bang bang bang" again and again, shouting in his mouth: "Master, please be a disciple!" Bless!"

Li Xiaoyao dropped the branch, waved his sleeves, and gently lifted Li Sansi up with gentle strength.He said softly: "Wait a minute..." Li Sansi's face turned pale, and he looked at Li Xiaoyao sadly, but he heard Li Xiaoyao continue to say: "If you want to worship me as a teacher, there are two problems. Listen first, if it doesn't work, you can Don't knock your head off."

Li Sansi hurriedly said: "Master, please show me." Li Xiaoyao laughed secretly when he heard that he still called him "Master", but he didn't expose it.Slowly said: "The first thing is, my swordsmanship is not a gifted and intelligent person, so I can't force it, otherwise, painting a tiger will not be a rebellious dog. When I face the enemy, I am afraid that I will die even worse. So I want to Let's see how smart you are."

Li Sansi nodded again and again, and Li Xiaoyao said, "Use the short sword in your hand to attack." Li Sansi reacted immediately, he didn't dare to draw the sword, and stabbed straight at him with the scabbard. The sword slashed fiercely, Li Sansi rolled along the trend, unexpectedly broke into the circle of Li Xiaoyao's long sword, and the short sword in his hand sliced ​​towards Li Xiaoyao's wrist.

Seeing Li Xiaoyao, he burst out laughing, Xuan Tiejian turned half a circle, blocked the short sword with the hilt, and flicked his wrist, Li Sansi felt a strong force coming, he quickly rolled back, turning over three times in a row Somersaulting, the huge force seemed to support him, he used the strength to straighten his waist, and unexpectedly stood up.

Li Xiaoyao nodded and said: "Okay, okay, okay. After reading it once, it will be like this, enough, enough." Li Sansi was overjoyed, and quickly said: "Master, what is the second problem?"

Li Xiaoyao had a stern face, and he was about to break his stomach with laughter in secret. He said quietly: "You enter my sect, but you have to know that the founder of my sect once had a weird rule, even if you are an apprentice, you have to change your name. Only then can you learn the swordsmanship in my sect. I asked you to change your name because of this before."

Li Sansi wondered, "Why is the patriarch so strange that he established such rules." He knew in his heart that this person in front of him was his best chance to learn martial arts and avenge his revenge. If he missed it, where would the world go? Find another master with superb swordsmanship to take me as an apprentice?
He gritted his teeth and said, "Master is above, this disciple is willing to change his name." Li Xiaoyao mobilized his inner strength and controlled his facial muscles so as not to burst out laughing and miss the point, he said in a deep voice, "Okay, now my apprentice There are also two names, one is called Dongfang Bubai, and the other is called Dugu Qiubai, you just choose one."

When Li Sansi heard this, he was stunned and said, "What a domineering name! Master, when I hear the words 'Dongfang Bubai', my heart trembles. Although this name is good, it doesn't suit me. Call it Dugu seeking defeat."

Li Xiaoyao coughed twice violently, his shoulders shook a few times, his internal energy had reached its peak, and he quickly pretended to be deep and said: "Okay, Dugu seeks defeat, just kowtow."

Dugu Qiubai quickly knelt down and knocked down neatly all the way.Li Xiaoyao waited for him to kowtow eight or nine times, then stopped him, Dugu Qiubai raised his head, his forehead was already red, swollen and bleeding.Li Xiaoyao was happy in his heart, but he wanted to put on the airs of a master and asked Boss Wu to bandage him, then he took out the blue light sword he won from Murong Fu from the backpack on his horse's back, and threw it to Duguqiu defeat.

Dugu Qiubai hastily caught it, this blue light sword is four feet long, Dugu Qiubai is young, although he is taller and longer than his peers, but holding the blue light sword is still very inconvenient.

Li Xiaoyao said: "Qiu Bai, when you enter my door, do the first homework first." Holding the sword, Dugu Qiu Bai was already ecstatic, and he nodded repeatedly as he didn't care about anything else.

Li Xiaoyao said: "From now on, whether you eat, sleep, or walk to the toilet, you must hold this sword, and you must not allow any dirt or damage. When do you feel that this sword will not hinder you in your daily walking, sitting, lying down?" Now, I will teach you swordsmanship, maybe you can do it?"

Although Dugu Qiubai didn't understand what he meant, he didn't dare to complain, so he quickly agreed.

Seeing Li Xiaoyao receiving the sword from his apprentice, everyone stepped forward to congratulate Dugu Qiubai.Boss Wu's eyes were full of envy, and he wished he could replace him.

Princess Yinchuan said: "Congratulations, cousin, you have accepted Kaishan's great disciple. But I don't know who the founding master you mentioned is? Why haven't I heard of such a strange rule in our sect?"

(End of this chapter)