[Comprehensive] Proving the Way with the Sword

The cold moon is in the sky, and the floating clouds either cover the moonlight or scatter in the sky.

On a winter night, everything is silent.The waterfall flew straight down, only the roar of the water was heard.

In the water curtain, Yun Shanyuan held the Qingming Sword, and with the momentum of a long rainbow piercing the sun, he swung the sharp sword towards the waterfall, and the sword's momentum was continuous.I saw the waterfall rushing down, breaking and flowing again, flowing and breaking again.

The icy water in winter freezes to the marrow of her bones, but she is able to keep a drop of water under the waterfall, allowing the sword to completely isolate the waterfall from her whole body.

This went on and on again, and after an unknown period of time, the sharp sword and the waterfall collided, making a roar, accompanied by the vibration of the air, and the water curtain lake splashed in all directions.

Yun Shanyuan tapped his feet lightly, and flew over the bottomless pool, leaving behind the sudden falling and high splashing water drops, he had already landed on a rock hundreds of meters away .

With the sword back in its scabbard, Yun Shanyuan looked at the waterfall and stood with his hands behind his back.

It has been ten years in a flash.That year she went straight to the north of Sichuan, and she was not familiar with the place. She spent more than half a year looking for Ye Yingying's trace, but she didn't find any people living in the mountains.

Deliberately planting flowers and flowers will not bloom, but unintentionally planting willows and willows to make shade, there are often similar coincidences in the world.When she was hunting a rabbit, she saw that the rabbit jumped off the cliff abruptly, and only then did she realize that there was a universe under the cliff.There is a prominent stone platform more than ten meters away from the top of the cliff.A thick vine was fixed on it and went down the cliff, and at the bottom of the cliff lived Ye Yingying, whom she couldn't find so hard.

"Xiaoyun, the night is very dark. If you don't sleep now, how will you leave the mountain tomorrow?" Ye Yingying came out from the woods, holding a light purple cloak with fur trim in her hand, and handed it to Yun Shanyuan, "Put it on, it's late at night and the dew is heavy. I said that I don't need to come here to practice swords on such a day."

Yun Shanyuan took the cloak and put it on her body, and put the hat on her head. The cold wind blew the rabbit fur on the edge of the cloak, making her cheeks itchy.

"Thank you, master. Master didn't sleep anyway, is it because he is reluctant to let me go?"

Ye Yingying shook her head and smiled lightly. Compared with the young and stable appearance when she first met Yun Shanyuan, she has really changed a lot in the past two years, she has become younger.

It might be a bit strange to say this, since it is not considered to be old if she grows from a seven or eight-year-old girl to a young girl, but it is true for Yun Shanyuan.

Ye Yingying still remembered the first time she saw Yun Shanyuan, and she really didn't recognize her as a girl. When she heard that she was instructed by the second senior brother's friend to come here to study as a teacher, she couldn't believe it.Ye Yingying thought at that time, what was she like when she was seven or eight years old?

At that time, she had just joined her master Xuanji Yishi. The master was not too kind. Fortunately, the three senior brothers took good care of her. She was no different from most children of the same age. She was innocent and mischievous, with a lively personality.The master will accept her as an apprentice, so her talent and comprehension are not bad, but as a child, she did not have the will to persevere in hard training, and she was criticized by many masters for this.

After learning swords for ten years, she felt that she was successful in swordsmanship, but the master didn't let the brothers and sisters learn martial arts from each other, but taught them different swordsmanship.When her curiosity reached its peak, she forced the third senior brother to fight with his sword. The third senior brother said nothing and drew his sword against her. She stabbed the third senior brother with a sword, and was punished by her master to be imprisoned in Xiaohan Mountain for 15 years.

This accident was just a few words, but it really changed her life.

In two more years, the 15-year period will expire.Ye Yingying recalled the past. Before the age of 17, she was a teenager who didn't know how to feel sad. She regretted it when the sword pierced the third senior brother's chest and the blood flowed out. After that, she was no longer ignorant of the world. girl.

During the three years when she was confined to face the wall in Xiaohan Mountain, Ye Yingying thought a lot, which wore away her youthful arrogance and self-willedness, and also made her feel deeply lonely.How is the third brother?What happened to Master and other fellow apprentices?She missed them, but she didn't dare to take a step towards Xiao Hanshan. It was her fault and she was going to be punished.

At this time, a seven or eight-year-old girl came to the deep mountains and wanted to worship her as a teacher.This was completely beyond her expectations. The fact that she was asked to be an apprentice was unexpected, and the girl's perseverance was also unexpected.

In fact, Yun Shanyuan's character is not the type that Ye Yingying likes, she prefers lively and innocent girls, probably because she can find the shadow of her former self in them.However, after Yun Shanyuan lived next to her for a year, she accepted Yun Shanyuan as her apprentice.

Yun Shanyuan has some martial arts foundation, just like most people in the Jianghu, his martial arts mentality is not deep enough.Even so, she has never stopped practicing internal skills, lightness skills, and some hidden weapons.Diligence can make up for one's weakness, Yun Shanyuan used her perseverance and good thinking to bring that unsophisticated kung fu to its extreme.

Ye Yingying sees all this in her eyes, Yun Shanyuan is completely different from her back then, calm, determined, and self-disciplined, on the way to become a master, what she lacks is an opportunity, an opportunity to learn advanced martial arts.

Ye Yingying had to admit that she was moved, and Yun Shanyuan deserved this opportunity, so she taught her the ever-changing Yin-Yang Xuanji swordsmanship and Liuyun sleeve technique taught by Xuanji Yishi.

Since then, Yun Shanyuan practiced martial arts hard in this Xiaohan Mountain, regardless of the cold, heat, spring and autumn, without stopping for a single day.More than two years ago, she finally achieved something in her studies, a height that Ye Yingying never imagined.

Yun Shanyuan was pursuing her own sword intent in practicing swordsmanship, it was not as cold as snow, nor as warm as spring, it was cold but peaceful.Under Yun Shanyuan's sword, the ever-changing Yin-Yang Xuanji swordsmanship had a different interpretation.

Ye Yingying vaguely felt that this deviated from the original intention of master Xuanji Yishi to create this set of sword techniques, but she did not stop Yun Shanyuan from exploring her own way of martial arts.

The master leads the door, and the practice is personal.

If a person wants to become a master, if he blindly learns the martial arts of his predecessors, he will fail in the end. No matter how well he learns, this person will lose his heart to become a master.When Ye Yingying accepted Yun Shanyuan as her apprentice, she knew very well that her apprentice was different from her, and Yun Shanyuan was ready to enter the rivers and lakes.

"If you want to leave, I will always be reluctant." Ye Yingying said with some melancholy in her heart.

Two years ago, Yun Shanyuan could become a teacher if she had achieved some success in swordsmanship, but she thought that her cultivation was not stable enough, and she wanted to stay in the mountains for a few more years, and then it was time to leave Xiaohan Mountain and go to the rivers and lakes for a trial.

Perhaps because of the success of his studies, the oppressive sense of urgency that Yun Shanyuan has been carrying has finally dissipated a lot.She is still practicing martial arts as diligently, but without the heaviness that feels like the last day of her life every moment.

This finally relieved Ye Yingying.

Yun Shanyuan said at the beginning that she had completely forgotten the past, and this name was chosen by herself.Ye Yingying speculated that it might be this experience of losing the past that made Yun Shanyuan feel depressed and uneasy, and she didn't know how to relieve a young and mature child, so she could only give more care to resolve this uneasy.

The two have been together for ten years.In terms of martial arts, Ye Yingying taught Yun Shanyuan; in terms of life, Yun Shanyuan took care of Ye Yingying, including food, clothing, housing and transportation.

From unfamiliarity to familiarity, both of them have changed a lot. Ye Yingying thanked Yun Shanyuan for making her no longer lonely, and Yun Shanyuan also regained the vigor that young people should have at this time.

Yun Shanyuan will leave tomorrow, Ye Yingying really can't sleep.

Yun Shanyuan was also reluctant to let go of Ye Yingying.

When we first met, Ye Yingying was only a woman in her twenties, but she looked a little more sad and lacked perseverance.This is a bit far from the master Yun Shanyuan envisioned in his heart, but there is a priority in learning the Tao, and there are specializations in the arts, and those who have mastered become teachers.

Yun Shanyuan would not be biased because of this, and he was ready to wait patiently for Ye Yingying to accept her as his apprentice.Fortunately, this day did not come too late, she was really grateful to Ye Yingying for teaching her martial arts wholeheartedly.

This martial arts created by Xuanji Yishi not only brought her the improvement of martial arts, but also allowed her to touch the threshold of advanced martial arts, and even made her realize the deviation in her mood.

Two years ago, she had achieved a lot in her studies. When she was able to graduate from martial arts, she suddenly looked back and found that the highly toxic psychological influence in her previous life had always existed, making her suppress and force herself to live every day as if it were her last.Entering the world and being born in the world, she has not done enough. If she sticks to her heart too much, she becomes obsessed with one thought and loses her freedom and ease.

How to realize the Tao by thinking for the sake of thinking?

After Yun Shanyuan figured it out, she suddenly realized that she is not a person who fights for the sword's sake, and she has not actually gone deep into the real arena. Now she should be a "young chivalrous man, making friends with Wu Duxiong."Liver and gallbladder hole, hair towering.In a conversation, life and death are the same, and a promise is worth a thousand dollars. '

Of course, this does not mean that she should throw away all her rational judgment, but to experience the present moment, and hope that one day she will be able to realize that she has come, lived, and loved.

Yun Shanyuan admits that he does not want to let go of Ye Yingying, and they are not only master and apprentice, but also like family.If it wasn't a letter from Ji Bingyan, she had originally planned to wait for Ye Yingying's confinement to end and go to Tanggula Mountain to meet her master Xuanji Yishi together, but now she had to adjust her plan and leave first.

Two years ago, Yun Shanyuan had achieved something in her studies. At that time, there was only more than a year left before the ten-year agreement between her and Ji Bingyan. She left Xiaohan Mountain and went to Chuanbei City to inquire about Yanzi's business. She really found out about the dead rooster Everyone in the northwest area knows the name of Yanzi, and the Yanzi firm actually has a semicolon in the northern city of Sichuan.

Yun Shanyuan asked the caravan to send a letter to Ji Bingyan who was far away in Lanzhou, and the two got in touch again.

In his reply letter, Ji Bingyan didn't say much about the hardships he went through to become a wealthy businessman from a poor young man. He mostly talked about the Northwest style, and he also invited Yun Shanyuan to visit him.

Yun Shanyuan also didn't say how much pain she had suffered, and she learned martial arts only through countless bone-piercing cold and scorching heat. She only said that the scenery in northern Sichuan is beautiful, and Ji Bingyan is welcome to come here for a walk when she has time.

But despite what the letter said, neither of them planned to go out for a walk at that time, maybe it was not the time yet.Later, the two also chatted about some Jianghu affairs. Yun Shanyuan talked about her experience of apprenticeship, and naturally mentioned Bi Daofan and Monk Chaoyin.

Ji Bingyan's latest reply was about Monk Chaoyin.In the past ten years, there has been no news about Monk Chaoyin, but who would have thought that half a month ago, someone saw the crouching wand in a brothel in Hangzhou, which was Monk Chaoyin's weapon.

Yun Shanyuan remembered what Bi Daofan said back then, that he and Chaoyin had made an appointment to meet in Xiangyang, but Chaoyin broke the appointment.I'm afraid something has gone awry.

This is the reason why she came out of the mountain ahead of time. Monk Chaoyin is her second uncle. Although she has never met him, she should investigate it out of reason.

"Master, you don't have to miss me too much. We will meet in Tanggula Mountain in two years." Yun Shanyuan and Ye Yingying walked back to the wooden house together, and said to her, "My apprentice will not let you stay here It's embarrassing in front of the master."

Ye Yingying laughed, she really didn't feel ashamed to have Yun Shanyuan as her apprentice, just saying that she felt much more comfortable in life.While practicing martial arts, Yun Shanyuan did not turn herself into an ascetic monk. She also has a set of skills in business. She has no plans to become a wealthy businessman, but she is enough to live comfortably.

"I know your way of doing things and your character. Although you should be at ease, you will always worry about it. But walking in the rivers and lakes, no matter whether it is sad or happy, it is an experience. We, master and apprentice, will see you again in Tanggula Mountain in two years."

In the early morning of the second day, Yun Shanyuan said goodbye to Ye Yingying, and left Xiaohan Mountain with the Qingming Sword that Ye Yingying passed on to her, and took the waterway from the Jialing River to the Yangtze River, all the way east to Hangzhou.

When Yun Shanyuan entered Hangzhou City, it was already the first month of the 15th year of the orthodox history. What is different from the official history is that there was no change in the civil fort last year.

She only knew about the official history, but didn't study too much in depth, and she didn't have time to familiarize herself with the 24 histories in her previous life.What's more, this is a world that doesn't exist in history as far as she knows, so there is no need to follow the old ways.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Hangzhou City has been snowing heavily for several days.

Tingxue Pavilion is by the West Lake. Although the fifteenth day of the first lunar month has not yet passed, people should rarely go to brothels for family reunions at this time, but the business here is better than usual.Only because of the heavy snowfall in the past few days, the city of Hangzhou has been turned into a vast expanse of whiteness.

Tingxue Pavilion is not an ordinary brothel, but the most elegant brothel in Hangzhou. As the name suggests, it is located in a location where you can see the snowy scenery of the West Lake. In the private room on the third floor, you can lean on the window and look at the snow on the broken bridge.

During the snowfall season, if you go to Tingxue Pavilion, you can enjoy not only the beauties, but also the snow lake that is difficult to keep in a year.

The boss is obviously very good at doing business. Whenever the cold snow falls, he will no longer follow the old rule that the brothels are mostly open at night. He will open the five private rooms on the third floor in the afternoon. Only one is allowed to be reserved, and the other four are not. Tao is reserved for fate, so that visitors can make friends in the snow.The elegant room is reserved for the snow, and even the beauties have to take a step back for it.

To translate, except for the private room that can be reserved, the other four private rooms do not allow one person to occupy it exclusively. Other guests can share a table together, and the beauties in the private room will only play the piano with you. Move on to another place.

Although it is said that it is waiting for the predestined people to gather together to enjoy the snow, in fact, the number of guests that can be accommodated in the four private rooms is different. Among them, the Anxiang private room is the most expensive because it can only entertain two guests.

"The clear lake is not as good as the rainy lake, the rainy lake is not as good as the moon lake, and the moon lake is not as good as the snow lake. I have never seen it before, but now I know that Tingxue Pavilion really lives up to its elegant name."

"It seems that Xiangshuai really likes snow. If it weren't for this snow scene, I'm afraid I would have forgotten to come here."

As soon as Yun Shanyuan walked to the door of Anxiang Yajian, he heard these two lines of dialogue.