heart pole

With one sword strike, the world returns to its heart.

When the sword is destroyed, the world will be divided.

During the Kaiyuan period, the Tang Empire ushered in an unprecedented prosperous age, and at the same time, the martial arts in the Tang Dynasty also ushered in a stage of flourishing.

The luxuriant flowers and leaves quickly turned into a situation where a hundred flowers compete with each other. Among the martial arts factions, there were mergers before and divisions. Many disputes in the land of China arose because of the martial arts. Get up again.

The establishment of the martial arts alliance is to end the martial arts disputes in the Tang Empire and establish a martial arts world that is no longer turbulent.

The martial arts alliance was proposed by the "No. 15 sect in the world" Yunxuanmen and Hedong Yanjia. It was established in the 1th year of Kaiyuan in conjunction with the eight sects of the Central Plains. [[-]]

Should the martial arts factions stand alone, or should they unite and advance together?

Use the sword to decide.

[The tenth day of the fifth lunar month in the 24th year of Kaiyuan]

In May, when the sun was shining and there were no clouds in the sky, the Tiandu River shone with light blue water, and the clear river surface swayed with the reflection of the pontoon bridges on the north and south banks.

The cypress bridge piles dug deep into the bottom of the river are connected by straw ropes, and the pontoon bridge shakes due to the rapid flow of water.

An unpretentious wooden chess table is placed on the dark brown wooden board in the center of the pontoon.

The person in red carries a black sword, wears a scarf, and walks steadily.The breeze blows, and the long dark blue hair is flowing, coming from the south bank.

The person in the gray robe holds a folding fan and even has a hood, half covering his face.The shadow of the sun was shining, and the strange eyes were shining, coming from the north bank.

Surrounding a huge warehouse on the south bank, there are hundreds of archery towers and sentry towers, and red flags flutter like maple leaves.

The team on the north bank lined up in a long snake formation, the largest number of people in blue and white and black clothes.

The gray-robed man was a young man. He took off his hood, held an ebony folding fan, and smiled lightly, "Ye Fengting, behind me are members of the twelve sects of the martial arts alliance. It is very rare for you to come alone."

The man in red was a little older, but he was not too young. He bowed politely, "I haven't seen Eleven Young Master for a few months. Ye has been thinking about it for a long time, so he naturally wants to come here with sincerity."

The young man in gray robe known as Yan Eleven Young Master is Yan Lingxi, the No.11 current head of the Yan Family, the second largest force in the Wulin Alliance.

He raised his folding fan and covered it below his eyes.There was no word written on the gray fan, it was empty, "Play chess, are you interested?"

Ye Fengting had the style of a prudent Confucian, with the black sword in his left hand leaning against the chess table, he raised his hand and gave a slight salute, "Very good, Eleven please."

The two sides sat down, Yan Lingxi held the black, Ye Fengting held the white.

"Eleventh Young Master's little flying star is very subtle."

"Since Brother Ye is using Samsung, I will be the corner of Star Single."

The turbulent water was hitting the pontoon bridge, causing the bridge body to sway, but these two people were as stable as Mount Tai, and the current layout and momentum were not broken, and the moves in their hands were not scattered.

Unknowingly, when the chess reaches the middle game, the black and white chess pieces are calm and arranged with each other, rarely killing each other head-on.

In the central battle situation, Yanlingxi's Heizi laid heavy siege, he smiled confidently, and said again, "The situation has completely turned to our side."

Ye Fengting calmly dropped a white piece, lifted the three blacks, and the situation of the battle changed, "Three kalpas cycle, how can eleven masters break it?" The three kalpas cycle is the only scene that can be judged as a draw.If it goes deep, it means that the method for both sides to preserve their strength is over, and the next step is a matter of life and death.

Yanlingxi frowned slightly, and resolutely abandoned the situation in the center, "Our side is superior, how can we draw?" Then he turned to the corner, "Brother Ye responds by blocking the river with ice and cutting off the reinforcements?" Heizi paused, forming a double-team formation.

Ye Fengting pondered slightly, and said: "Ning Jingyuan's ice sword technique has surpassed his teacher, and he is alone in the martial arts world. It is indeed difficult to understand." Then he cast a glance at Heizi, "Wait and see how it changes, and the ice will disappear after a long time." After speaking, He reached out to the chess pot and took out another white piece.

Yan Lingxi seemed to have already counted on Ye Fengting's step, and pressed down a sunspot on the other corner with his backhand, "Fire dance and sword robbery, disturbing the army's morale, how should I respond?"

Ye Fengting fell into deep thought again, and said: "Li Qingzhou's flaming sword is indeed enough to incite mania." After a while, sticking to the white in the center, "The wind scatter, the path is lost and the fire disperses." on the knee.

The moment Yan Lingxi responded with Ye Fengting's pawn, he pressed the chess piece that had been prepared in the center, "The two of them, as the two masters of Yunxuanmen, can indeed control the situation of the battle, but it is still necessary to make a final decision. The end of the world lives forever."

"Heh." Ye Fengting looked at the situation and let out a chuckle. "Cheng Tianya's sword power is indeed the best in the world."

"Brother Ye lost." Yan Lingxi also smiled, stood up and saluted.

Ye Fengting's face showed no frustration or embarrassment of failure, but a modest smile, "Well, yes. Eleventh Young Master gave in."

Seeing Ye Fengting's calm expression, Yan Lingxi's eyes flashed suspiciously, and his eyes fell back to the chessboard inadvertently, but he didn't feel anything wrong.

"The key to winning or losing is never in the chess game itself." Ye Fengting said lightly, holding the sword leaning on the chess table, turned around and walked back south.

"Yes, the victory that can be seen on the chessboard is not considered a victory." Yan Lingxi looked at the back of the red-clothed man, and smiled coldly, with a deceitful look in his eyes.

"Sword Two, Bingyun."

The water surface under the pontoon bridge seemed to suddenly become turbulent, and two white waves slapped on both sides of the pontoon bridge, shaking waves several feet high.The moment the snow-white waves splashed, the waves turned into pale ice crystals and shattered, turning into hundreds of thousands of ice ridges.Frost blossoms all over the sky came from the two wings, and rushed straight to Ye Fengting.

Ye Fengting was about to draw his sword, but felt that his movements were extremely stiff. The blue boots under his feet were suddenly covered with a layer of light blue frost from the sole, and quickly spread and froze the entire pair of boots, and then turned like a white creeper. Climbing up, the light blue ice crystals froze him below his knees!

The black long sword was unsheathed suddenly, two black winds swept across, shattering the frost under the feet, and then a sword slashed horizontally, the strong gray-black sword wind was like a tornado that rolled up the breath, twisting the thousands of ice thorns into one piece , thrown into the river, suddenly foggy.

The ice thorn attack dissipated, and the surrounding fog suddenly turned into a crystal clear ice layer, which refracted five-color glazed light under the sunlight, covering Ye Fengting completely like an ice hell.

"Small tricks!" The black sword in Ye Fengting's hand flew out, piercing the top of the ice prison, "Bang!" Immediately, pieces of ice scattered like pieces of jade, and fell like snow-white pear blossoms.

Immediately afterwards, Tranquility, who was in the previous layout, fluttered in white clothes, and the silver long sword in his hand pierced through the air, approaching his back.The black sword fell back, and Ye Fengting held the sword in his backhand to separate them, the gray and the white clashed, the sound of the sword's cry echoed on the water surface, and dozens of whirlpools were blown in the water.

Tranquility used the momentum to flip backwards and landed on the left side of Yanling Creek.

"Moon Sword No. [-], Obscure Flame."

Ye Fengting had just deflected the attack of Ning Yuan and Han Shuang with a sword, but two rows of fire walls lit up on both sides of the entire pontoon bridge, and the burning fire snake rose to a height of one foot, turning the southern part of the pontoon bridge into a prison of fire.From time to time, the flames that flowed to the top turned into a continuous rain of fire, hitting his chest and back imperviously.

The black long sword slashed the wind, Ye Fengting's body turned sharply at the moment of the sword slash, forming a gray-black circular wind wall, cutting off dozens of fire snakes, and breaking through the surrounding fire prison.Ye Fengting walked forward slowly while swinging his sword, the strong wind of the sword blew out several gaps in the wall of fire, and the fire instantly subsided.

"Boom!" A piece of plank on the pontoon bridge was shattered, and Li Qingzhou came out from under the bridge with a flying blue shadow and a crimson long sword. Ye Fengting unhurriedly returned the sword to defend, and the crimson sword blade was almost touching his right cheek. But, "Bang!" The black sword collided with the scarlet sword, bursting out blazing fire.

Li Qingzhou took advantage of the situation to retreat and stood on the right side of Yanling Creek.

"Ningjingyuan, Li Qingzhou." Ye Fengting turned around and looked at the white-clothed boy and the green-clothed boy in awe-inspiring eyes one by one. His left sleeve was burned off by the flames, and the tin iron armor on his right boot was frozen and cracked.

Before he had time to say more, a black shadow covering the sky and the sun suddenly enveloped the place where he was standing, Ye Fengting took a big step back, a very strong burst of energy exploded at his position just now, and the overflowing sword energy made him feel uncomfortable Do not raise your sword to fight.

A rampant pitch-black sword energy, like black lightning, struck from the north of the pontoon bridge, splitting the chess table placed in the center into two pieces.Then the sharp black sword energy clashed with the gray defensive sword energy, and the sky and the earth turned pale in an instant. The raging tide of Tiandu River slammed into the bank, and the whole pontoon bridge shook violently.

Cheng Tianya slowly stood up in black ink shadow, he was a young man with a weak crown who was about the same age as Ye Fengting, with a fair and heroic face under his long black hair.His expression is cold and arrogant, his dark robe with a round collar painted in gold complements the black pupils that occasionally flash a gleam of gold, and his long sword hangs slantingly, showing an air of loneliness.

"Ye Fengting, today you and I will decide the winner." Cheng Tianya's height is nine feet, taller than the others by a head.After finishing speaking, without making any polite words, the left hand gathers energy to form a blade, and the right swings a sharply polished long sword. The two swords merged, like a pair of sharp scissors, and attacked Ye Fengting.

"Boom!" After the two swords intertwined, Ye Fengting turned into a red figure and rose from the ground, like a fireball piercing the sky, leaving the intertwined area, Ye Fengting's words came from midair, "Cheng Tianya, eager to separate Winning or losing is meaningless to the situation."

Cheng Tianya looked at the afterimage of the man in red going away, a small bunch of broken dark blue hair floated down in the air, which was cut off by his sword energy just now, "Hmph." He glanced coldly, showing disdain expression.

"Let him go." Yan Lingxi stepped forward and patted Cheng Tianya on the shoulder. "The next step is the official duel."

At the end of the chess game, when the water subsides, a middle-aged man wearing a black crane cloak came to the pontoon bridge, gently closed the split chess table, and put the scattered chess pieces back on the board step by step, as if It's a replay.

There were still the last nine white and nine black stones left, but the vigorous palm stopped, "This is..." He recounted all the black stones, but the nine white stones did not move for a long time.

"It's Xinji." He gave up the idea of ​​putting the nine white pieces on the chessboard, and left with his hands behind his back.

In the center of the somewhat damaged plain chessboard, there are nine empty squares surrounded by black chessmen.Connecting these nine grids together is like a "nine" character.

The ninth sword heart is the heart pole.

[1] The Martial Arts Alliance was proposed by Yunxuanmen and Hedong Yanjia, the "No. 15 sect in the world", and was established in the [-]th year of Kaiyuan in conjunction with the eight sects of the Central Plains. Eight years later, the Martial Arts Alliance absorbed Shudi Shenjianmen, Western Region Loulan Saber Club and other sects to join, and its forces spread all over the north of the Yangtze River, the south of the desert, the east of Suiye City, and the west of Canghai.

The Martial Arts Alliance believes that the unification of martial arts in the world is just around the corner, so they set their sights on the two major sects in Wu Chudi - Jiangyuelou and Jianshi.

However, Jiang Yuelou, who has always regarded himself as neutral and located in the south of the Yangtze River, refused to join the martial arts alliance.Coincidentally, the Jianshi faction located in Xianshi Mountain in Southern Chu also rejected Yunxuanmen's invitation on the grounds that Yunxuanmen was too domineering in the martial arts alliance.