Taiping Inn

The night is getting deeper and the rain is getting heavier.

The raindrops hit the steps, eaves, and the ground in front of the hall, making an endless sound of rain falling.

Zhou Shuning couldn't help but feel sleepy and cold, so she went to bed early, leaving only Li Xuandu and Hu Liang sitting in the main hall.

The layout of the main hall here is quite regular. A long table is placed directly opposite the door to the wall. In front of the table is a square table of four immortals, and a Taishi chair is placed on each side. The right is the left guest, which is the main seat.

There is a landscape painting scroll hanging in the middle of the wall above the table, which paints the style of Nanshan Garden. The two central halls on both sides are: "Crane Flying Rocks and Smokes" and "Deer Singing and Fragrance of Grass".

The walls on both sides are covered with banners, mostly Confucian benevolence and Taoist tranquility.

Symmetrical tables and chairs are placed on both sides of the center of the hall, which are the seats of the younger generation or subordinates, that is, the seats.

At this time, neither Li Xuandu nor Hu Liang sat on the Grand Master's chair in the main seat, but sat nearest from the seat, one left and one right, sitting opposite each other.

Hu Liang put the great master on his knees and said, "Jiuhe Prefecture is a very critical place, because it is too close to Jiangnan and is just a river separated from Jingzhou. To the west is Zhongzhou, where Jingzen Buddhism is. Now you plan to Should I continue to go to Zhongzhou or to Jingzhou first?”

Li Xuandu held the handrail and said slowly: "At the junction of the three states, even if it is Qingluan Guard, it is difficult to mobilize a large group of troops to encircle and suppress us. It is almost the same as the governor of Jingchu, but the governor of Jingchu can be sold to How great is Qingluan Guard's face? It depends on who the Qingluan Guard is. If it is the governor of Qingluan Guard, it would be similar, but if it is just a few commanders and deputy commanders of Qingluan Guards , I think it's difficult."

Li Xuandu turned his head and looked at the rain outside and continued, "So I chose to detour from Fengyin Mansion to Jiuhe Mansion, then from Jiuhe Mansion to Jingzhou Shuiyang Mansion, and then take Jiangling Mansion to Beiyang in Zhongzhou. The mansion finally arrived at Longmen Mansion.”

Hu Liang said: "Qingluanwei will not have thought of this, so after they intercepted Wushu in Fengyin Mansion, they will definitely guess that we will turn to Jiuhe Mansion, and then they will soon follow us to Jiuhe. Mansion. Old Li, if Qingluan Guard dispatches a master in the innate realm, plus three masters in the Xuanyuan realm, it will be difficult to defeat them if my injury is not healed now."

Li Xuandu asked, "If you face a master of the innate realm alone, do you have a chance of winning?"

"I have a chance of winning, but I dare not say I will win, even if I have this great master in my hand." Hu Liang said frankly: "Old Li, you are at your peak when you enter the world. You often do things that are few and dominate the masses, but I can't do anything with you. Compared to you. Especially for every innate realm master, the biggest difference between it and the Xuanyuan realm is that there are many strange secret techniques in the innate realm. These secret techniques may not be very powerful, and they are for the three realms of enlightenment. For experts, it may not be worth mentioning, but the success is unexpected. In the struggle between the same environment, it can often perform miraculous effects."

Li Xuan listened very seriously, without any disapproval of the situation.

Hu Liang put the grandmaster on his knee upright next to him and said, "So when I face a great master of the innate realm who doesn't know the depth, I can only say that I have a chance of winning, but I dare not boast about how big the chance of winning is. It depends on what their secret technique is, or whether there are any powerful treasures."

Li Xuandu nodded and said, "It's reasonable."

Hu Liang asked in confusion: "You didn't know anything before?"

Li Xuandu asked back, "If it were you, you could solve the opponent with just one sword, would you still go into the deepest way they have?"

Hu Liang was stunned, and then sighed, "That's true. Since you can defeat all your tricks with one effort, why bother yourself?"

Hu Liang suddenly asked, "Old Li, what was the situation when you were at the peak of swordsmanship?"

Li Xuan was silent for a moment, got up from the chair, his index finger and middle finger of his right hand closed his sword and pointed to the rain curtain outside, "I can only draw my sword now, but I can only break through the rain curtain but it is fleeting, and it is difficult to last. If I change it You can use the knife to connect the dots into lines, and divide the rain curtain in front of you into two."

Li Xuandu changed from the finger of the sword to the action of holding the long sword in his hand, twisting his wrist, as if he was holding a sword in his hand, "If I had used to use this sword before, it would be one side."

"One side?" Hu Liang said in confusion.

Li Xuandu's expression was calm and his tone was also calm, "Drawing a sword to the sky, and relying on the sword force alone, the rain curtain here can be lifted back to the nine heavens. With the sword energy alone, the rain clouds can be dispersed and the clouds can be cleared to see the sun. ”

Hu Liang looked at the rain outside and murmured, "It is said that a master of the Return Realm can call the wind and rain, but that is just a matter of using the weather to follow the trend. It is said that water flows to the lower part, and it is easy to follow the trend, and it is possible to go against the trend. It's hard, no wonder you could have been able to rush across the river and river in Jiangbei with just one sword."

Li Xuandu put away his sword and said to himself, "Everyone is gone."

Hu Liang smiled and said, "It is recorded that Mr. Xie has a reputation for his youth, and he has not won the opportunity to resign and resign. He lives in seclusion in Dongshan, Kuaiji, and returned to Sima after being over forty years. He has been transferred to important positions such as Zhongshu and Situ. The imperial family relies on the danger to turn the crisis into safety. It is an allusion to come back from the east. Lao Li, you are still in your thirty years old and you are still more than ten years away from your 40s. Is it still too early to say whether you have gone?”

Li Xuandu smiled faintly and said, "I hope so."

Hu Liang suddenly remembered something and said, "I heard General Qin talk about the masters of the times. He would not talk about the masters of the old Xuan List who could not be guessed by common sense, but only talked about the top ten masters who topped the Tai Xuan List, except for In addition to the Zifu Sword Immortal who was listed on the list as the Return Realm, the rest were all in the Heavenly Realm. General Qin said that the Heavenly Realm actually has a distinction between high and low level. What is the specific statement? General Qin didn't say it, Lao Li, do you know? "" "

After thinking a little, Li Xuandu said slowly, "There is a difference. After I reached the peak of Guizhen Realm, I realized that the Heavenly Realm above Guizhen Realm is actually a new world, because the Heavenly Realm is also called The realm of unity between man and nature, so according to the degree of unity between man and nature, this realm can be divided into three levels, namely: free and unlimited, and fortune. The realm of free and unlimited in heaven and man is taken from the famous Taoist chapter "Xiaoyaoyou" and is the sixth. The debate on qi is about traveling infinitely. When you reach this state, you can travel to the vast sea and the evening of Cangwu. The infinite realm of heaven and man, as the name suggests, can transform the essence of heaven and earth for your own use, so the energy is infinite, almost infinite. As for the deeper realm of heaven and man, it is wonderful. I can't speak, I dare not speak lies."

Hu Liang asked softly: "Old Li, did you have one foot cross the threshold of the Heavenly Realm?"

Li Xuan hesitated for a moment and said, "I have already vaguely seen the threshold of the Heavenly Man Freedom Realm, but that step has not been taken yet."

Hu Liang, who had seen how glorious Li Xuan was back then, sighed countless times: "The Purple Palace Sword Immortal was walking in the world, with his swordsmanship and unparalleled style, which made many women fall in love with him? Unfortunately, that worldly life was destroyed in the imperial capital. After the battle, the Sword Immortal of the Purple Mansion was completely lost. Some thought it was dead or dead. I don’t know how many women were heartbroken.”

Li Xuandu turned his head and listened quietly to the sound of rain, and said softly: "Now, only Li Xuandu is in the world."