Taiping Inn

There are many islands on the East China Sea. If you count the reefs, there are 36,000 islands. However, this is just an imaginary number and cannot be taken seriously. If you count carefully, there are about 360 islands that can be inhabited, and 108 islands with names, including 36 large islands and 72 small islands. Among them, the 36 large islands are directly under the jurisdiction of the Qingwei Sect, with 36 hall masters, and the 72 small islands are respectively governed by 72 island masters, who are attached to the Qingwei Sect, similar to the Fenglei Sect's attachment to the Shenxiao Sect, and they have to pay tribute to the Qingwei Sect every year.

This shows how powerful the Qingwei Sect is. No wonder the entire East China Sea is regarded as the backyard of the Qingwei Sect. Any merchant ship that wants to pass through this place must pay a sea crossing fee of 3,000 taels in exchange for the Qingwei Sect's flag. If there is no Qingwei Sect flag, no one can go.

The reason why the major sects have the confidence to intervene in the internal affairs of the court and are even cited as support by many court dignitaries is that the major sects are not just a group of warriors and alchemists, but also a powerful place with abundant money and food, even more than the aristocratic families. The fact that the five sects in the northwest can start a rebellion and establish a country is a good example.

Among the seventy-two islands, there is an island called Zizhi Island. It is rumored that in ancient times, an immortal practiced Taoism here and eventually ascended to heaven. It is regarded as a paradise. Masters of Qingwei Sect often come here to sit and refine their qi. Therefore, the island owner here is very frustrated and often becomes a post station postmaster.

There is also an island called Shajing Island, which is not far from Zizhi Island. The island owner here is even more nominal and is not on the island all year round. Because there were two swordsmen who fought with swords on the island, unlike the lush vegetation of Zizhi Island, this place is only a wasteland. Later, this place became a place for many swordsmen to fight with swords. Even in the history of Qingwei Sect, a fight between two factions called "Big Sword Competition" also took place here. Therefore, there are countless surging sword energy and heroic sword intent here, more like a battlefield, with countless broken or unbroken long swords slanting on the ground, like swordsmen who died with swords, and their sword energy is still rising to the sky before they die.

Countless scattered sword energy enveloped the entire Killing Whale Island. These sword energies did not distinguish between enemies and friends, and turned into sword winds. As long as they had not set foot in the Return to the True Realm, they would not escape the fate of being completely dismembered after landing on this island.

Because of this, many swordsmen from all over the world like to come here to temper their own sword intent, or to practice swordsmanship on the edge of Killing Whale Island. In this regard, both the Qingwei Sect and the island master of the Killing Whale Island are happy to see it happen and never stop it.

However, many swordsmen were left here forever. The ownerless sword energy condensed here was like a sudden gust of cold wind, leaving no trace and penetrating everywhere. Sometimes it was as warm as the spring breeze of willows, and sometimes it was as sharp as the biting north wind. Many times, the change was only in a moment. If you couldn't respond in time, you would be blown by the sword wind, which was as miserable as the punishment of slow slicing, or your bones and flesh would melt directly without leaving any trace.

A female swordsman in the eighth floor of the Return to the True Realm, relying on her Return to the True Realm cultivation and the unique secret method of her master, went deep into the interior of the Killing Whale Island and tempered her sword energy and sword intention here. She has been staying here for many days.

At this time, she was constantly attacking a half-grown boy with a sword, and the sword energy was like purple lightning.

This half-grown boy was at most seventeen or eighteen years old, just between a teenager and a young man, but he had not yet reached the age of a crown, so he could not be considered an adult, and his realm cultivation was only the Xiantian realm.

For an ordinary Xiantian realm, let alone taking the woman's sword strikes continuously, even the sword wind here is enough to completely wipe him out.

But this young man not only walked here unscathed, but also faced the woman's sword strikes, still strolling leisurely, without any injury.

Sweat beads oozed from the woman's forehead. She had been striking the sword dozens of times in a row, and each sword was used with all her strength. Even though she was at the eighth floor of the Return to the Realm, it was a little difficult to continue, but even so, she still did not hurt the young man at all.

This is the premise that the young man did not fight back. If the two of them attacked each other, the woman would probably have no chance of winning.

The cultivation realm of this young man in white is indeed only the Xiantian realm, but he has just recently ascended from the Kunlun realm in the Xiantian realm to the Yuxu realm.

The Xiantian Yuxu realm is almost equivalent to the ninth floor of the Return to the Realm, and is not far from the Tianren realm.

One cannot help but sigh that people are so angry when they compare themselves to others. Some people have spent their entire lives and still cannot reach the threshold of the heavenly realm, while some people have already reached the heavenly realm before they are twenty years old.

The woman used to not believe in evil, but after seeing two such people in succession, she has gradually become numb, and even lacks some jealousy.

After the woman handed out the 99th sword, she was finally exhausted and had to lean on the sword to catch her breath for a while.

The young man in white put his hands behind his back and smiled, "Fifth Senior Sister, your sword is almost not hot enough."

The woman gritted her teeth and said nothing.

The young man walked around the woman leisurely with his hands behind his back and said, "I heard that Fifth Senior Sister met Fourth Senior Brother not long ago? And then she lost to Fourth Senior Brother?"

These two sentences were like two swords piercing the woman's chest fiercely, making her face pale and speechless.

The young man looked at the sword winds that suddenly appeared and disappeared around him, shook his head and sighed, "If Fifth Senior Sister had met Fourth Senior Brother back then, that would be fine. After all, even Third Senior Brother had to give way to Fourth Senior Brother back then, and even Second Senior Brother couldn't say he was definitely better than him. At that time, Fourth Senior Brother was at the peak of his sword intent, sword energy, and his own spirit. It can be said that when the time comes, the heaven and the earth will be on your side. It's no wonder that you are no match for him."

The young man stopped in front of the woman and suddenly changed the subject: "But now the fourth brother has fallen into the mud at the bottom of the valley. Not only has the sword spirit and sword intention been abandoned, but his heart is also dragging his feet. He is obsessed with the Confucian justice of the world. A sword is a sword, and it emphasizes the word "pure". If the sword is tied, it will slow down. Such a fourth brother can almost be regarded as a useless person. As the saying goes, a hero is not free when his luck is gone. You still lost to him. This is a bit unreasonable."

The woman still stood with the sword, not speaking.

Because the woman half lowered her head, the boy could only squat not far in front of her, then looked up at her and said, "What does this result show? Is the swordsmanship of the fourth brother too high? Or is the fifth sister too useless?"

The woman suddenly stood up, pointed the "Purple Chi" in her hand at the boy's eyebrows, and said angrily: "Li Taiyi, don't go too far."

The tip of the "Purple Chi" was like the tongue of a poisonous snake, only an inch away from the boy's eyebrows. As long as it moved forward a little, it could pierce the boy's eyebrows, but the boy was not afraid at all. He stretched out a finger to press against the tip of the sword, and continued to say slowly: "In fact, the senior sister does not need to be too concerned. The fourth brother's aptitude is indeed good. Back then, the master said that his swordsmanship was three feet higher than that of the third brother, which almost broke the third brother's state of mind, but Fifth Senior Sister has no such worries. Anyway, among the six of us brothers, you are destined to be the last one. Whether you are three feet taller or three feet taller, it doesn't matter. "

Speaking of this, the white-clothed young man called Li Taiyi flicked his finger and flicked the "Purple Chi" away, and said with a smile: "This is the misfortune of Fifth Senior Sister. The eldest brother Situ Xuance, the second brother Zhang Haishi, the third brother Li Yuanying, the fourth brother Li Xuandu, and me, the sixth brother Li Taiyi, are in the same room with so many geniuses, and they have to be humble to the dust. If it were another sect, with the qualifications of the senior sister, it would definitely not be like this now. "

The woman was Lu Yanbing, who was defeated by Li Xuandu in "Tianle Taoyuan", and Li Taiyi was their master's sixth disciple and also the last disciple.

Li Taiyi's aptitude is so high that it can no longer be described as a genius. He was enlightened at the age of three, held a sword at the age of four, stepped into the third realm of the entrance realm at the age of nine, and stepped into the threshold of the innate realm at the age of twelve. The speed of breaking through the realm is almost faster than that of Li Xuandu, who was the first on the Shaoxuan list.

The reason why he has not set foot in the return to the true realm now is not because he can't, but because he doesn't want to. He deliberately suppresses his realm and is almost paranoid about laying a solid foundation. Because he never doubted whether he could set foot in the heavenly realm from the beginning to the end. He had only one goal, that is, the realm of longevity.

This is a realm that Li Xuandu did not dare to aspire to when he was at his peak.

The reason why Li Taiyi dared to think so was because his master once commented that his swordsmanship was three inches higher than Li Xuandu's.