I began to understand the myriad things by chopping wood

Yunzhou Prefecture was naturally not far from Yunshan. With Xie Yuan's walking speed, even if he didn't walk very fast, he reached the gate of Yunshan in less than half a day.

He still kept Yunshan's disciple token, and easily passed through the mountain gate and walked up the mountain.

However, whether it was the guards at the mountain gate or the disciples he met along the way, Xie Yuan was a little confused.

Strict guarding is a must, after all, the world is in chaos, and even the foot of Yunshan Mountain is not as peaceful as before.

However, there were far fewer disciples on the road than before, and those who were seen all had serious expressions and hurried steps, none of the clear-minded looks of the past when all the disciples on Yunshan Mountain were united in swordsmanship.

Moreover, Xie Yuan also vaguely saw white curtains hanging in front of some disciples' residences.

His eyes were slightly gloomy and filled with worry. He hurried to the main peak and soon reached the top.

The main peak was not that easy to enter, so Xie Yuan had to reveal his identity, which immediately shocked the disciples on duty:
"You are Xie... um, you are Zhang... Well, please wait for me, I will pass the message right away."

The disciple used his Qinggong skills and ran away like flying.

Xie Yuan, or Zhang Shan, had long been known throughout Yunshan. He was one of the most legendary disciples in recent years, or in the entire history of Yunshan Sword Sect. Naturally, he attracted discussion among all the disciples, and almost everyone knew about him.

Xie Yuan only waited for a moment before he saw a figure walking out and appearing in front of him in a few flashes.

"Junior Brother Zhang, let's go, Master is waiting for you."

Qin Zhenyang said politely.

Xie Yuan bowed respectfully towards Qin Zhenyang:
"I've met Senior Brother Qin."

Qin Zhenyang returned the salute, and the two of them walked towards the sect master's study.

On the way, Xie Yuan pondered for a moment and asked:

"Brother Qin, has anything major happened in the sect recently?"

"event?"

Qin Zhenyang raised his eyelids, thought for a moment, and shook his head:
"No. Why do you ask that, Junior Brother Zhang?"

"I saw that the disciples were all in a hurry, and there seemed to be quite a few white curtains."

Xie Yuan's voice was low.

He subconsciously stroked his sword.

If the Yunshan Sword Sect encountered big trouble, he would probably unsheathe his sword and kill all the enemies. The Yunshan Sword Sect helped him a lot, and now was the time to repay them.

But to his surprise, Qin Zhenyang shook his head:

"Nothing serious. Those are our fellow disciples who sacrificed their lives in slaying demons and monsters at the foot of the mountain these days."

His voice was a little low:

"The whole world changed in an instant, and the imperial court did not intervene. I heard that the Central Plains was in chaos, and the border states were even more so. Robbers and bandits were everywhere, and rogues were violent. Even some things that were buried in the mud came to the surface again. Ghosts and monsters, flies and dogs are scheming.

"How can the Sword Sect disciples sit back and watch the people suffer? The Master has already issued an order that all disciples who are qualified to go down the mountain should go down and eliminate violence and protect the good.

"It's just that this chaos is not an ordinary chaos. Master said it was a disaster. This is true for the common people, and it's also true for the Sword Sect, or it should be said that it's the same for everyone. Monsters and demons are walking the earth, and many of my fellow disciples have been injured. A month ago, a monster appeared in the Western Desert and crossed the gourd mouth to cause chaos. Uncle Luo went to kill it, but he was also seriously injured and is still recuperating. I haven't seen such a powerful monster for many years. Usually, there are only a few small cats, which are only slightly stronger than ordinary beasts."

Xie Yuan understood it clearly, and it also felt heavy.

The Yunshan Sword Sect is practicing the sect's traditional sword art, but the situation is so big that it is not something that the Sword Sect alone can reverse.

Xie Yuan sighed and looked up at the hole in the sky:

"The sky is leaking inspiration, but all things are not competing, but going crazy. Senior Brother Qin, in the current situation, it is too dangerous for the sect to disperse all the disciples."

"I know, and Master naturally knows it, and so do my fellow disciples. But holding a sword in hand always gives me more strength than ordinary people."

Qin Zhenyang's tone was low but frank:

"We will take care of things that the court is unwilling to take care of. If we can protect a city or a place, it will be worth it. Only then will we be worthy of the sword in our hands and our martial arts skills."

His words were so powerful that Xie Yuan could not help but remain silent, thinking back to the days when he was seeking the truth on Yunshan Mountain. At that time, he was gradually influenced by the atmosphere of the sect and gradually fell in love with this place.

"Junior Brother Zhang, we're here."

Qin Zhenyang opened the door of the study, interrupting Xie Yuan's trance.

Xie Yuan looked at the great swordsman in the spacious study, who seemed to always be sitting among a mountain of documents, and walked in and bowed respectfully:
"Xie Yuan meets the Sect Master."

"sit down."

Li Xingtuo put down the file and pen in his hand, looked at Xie Yuan opposite him, and said with a smile:
"What trouble are you in this time?"

Li Xingtuo obviously understood him.

Xie Yuan was silent for a moment, not knowing how to respond.

But Li Xingtuo's tone was a bit teasing and joking, but the rest was gentleness and patience. He didn't mean to refuse at all. Instead, his relaxed words made Xie Yuan feel less burdened.

Xie Yuan let out a breath, and started from the beginning, from the great catastrophe to the Black Book of Heaven, and told everything he knew, including that he had long known that there was a Black Book of Heaven on the sword peak.

Li Xingtuo listened quietly without interrupting.

Some of these were things he knew, and many were things he didn't know. But no matter how secret Xie Yuan told him, he remained calm.

After Xie Yuan finished speaking, Li Xingtuo nodded and said slowly:

"If you put it that way, a lot of things make sense. A fight between heaven and man?"

He tilted his head slightly and looked through the large window of the study at the gaping sky outside the green hills.

"The second generation patriarch laid the foundation for Yunshan. He realized the truth in one day and had few rivals in his life. He transformed Yunshan from a small sect into one of the most powerful sword sects in the world overnight. However, the sect's scriptures have always been vague about his later years. It is only said that he challenged a powerful enemy and disappeared."

Li Xingtuo said slowly:

"I once read in the obscure sword scripture in the Sutra Library that the second generation ancestor wanted to go against the will of heaven, but he didn't specify how to go against the will of heaven. Now that I think about it, maybe he has taken the same path as many of his predecessors.

"In fact, many famous practitioners in history had brilliant lives and their deeds were known to the world, but their endings were always vague. Even if someone noticed it, they would just think it was omitted in the pile of old papers. Now that I think about it, maybe it has something to do with this world."

Xie Yuan nodded:
"Perhaps it is the heaven and earth that restrict the development of martial arts. These powerful grandmasters have nowhere to go and can only seek the way forward from the way of heaven. Without destruction, there is no creation."

"Maybe so."

Li Xingtuo nodded slightly.

Many things cannot be known unless you reach that level.

But both of them actually felt in their hearts that maybe it wasn't just that simple.

Li Xingtuo looked at Xie Yuan:
"I understand the situation now. So you are saying that you do have five pages of the Black Book, and you also want to take the page on the sword peak to find a way to end this chaos?"

Xie Yuan nodded.

Li Xingtuo looked at him:
"Then can you let me take a look at your Black Book?"

Upon hearing this, Xie Yuan took out the Mountain and River Cauldron, Bagua Lotus, etc. without any hesitation and placed them on the desk.

Li Xingtuo looked at the various unique treasures, and a flash of surprise flashed across his face. Obviously, even if he was as calm as he was, he couldn't ignore the Black Heaven Book, or so many Black Heaven Books.

But he just looked at it for a few seconds without touching it, then looked at Xie Yuan and said with a half-smile:
"You told me that you have so many Black Books and you took them out so openly. Aren't you afraid that I will take them all for you?"

Xie Yuan shook his head slightly:

"The Sect Master is not such a person. I can trust him." "These are five pages of the Black Book. I don't even know what kind of person I am in front of this thing."

Li Xingtuo smiled faintly:

"Take it back."

Xie Yuan quietly took the things away, and then saw Li Xingtuo looking at him, his eyes gradually became sharper, as if they were real, as if two sharp swords were pointing at him, and he smiled and said:
"You don't trust me. I think you trust yourself."

Xie Yuan paused for a moment and said without comment:
"I have always respected the Sect Master. I trust the Sect Master and believe in the Sword Sect's swordsmanship. This is what I sincerely say."

"Haha, what a cunning boy."

Li Xingtuo suddenly laughed, and then showed a look of emotion:
"I took you in on a whim, but I never thought you would be able to learn to this level and be on par with me one day."

"The Sword Sect is where I started my path. The Sect Master, all the teachers, brothers and sisters have helped me a lot. Xie Yuan has never forgotten it."

Xie Yuan said sincerely.

Li Xingtuo nodded with a smile:
"I also believe that you are not a person who forgets your roots. But... since you care about the good things of the Sword Sect, why do you want to dig up the foundation of the sect and take it away?"

His smile gradually faded and he stared at Xie Yuan.

Xie Yuan was silent for a long time under Li Xingtuo's sharp gaze, then he slowly said:
“I took this sword not for myself, but for the world and for all living beings.

"Before coming here, I hesitated for a long time and felt guilty, but after going up the mountain, I knew that the sect master would definitely agree."

Li Xingtuo raised his eyebrows, and saw Xie Yuan looking straight into his eyes:

"I see that the Sword Sect's disciples are still holding on to the sword in their hearts, upholding justice, putting people first, and not betraying justice. I understand that when the world is in chaos, I am still a fellow disciple of the Sword Sect. I am going to get the sword only to eliminate all disasters in the world and the suffering of the people, not just for myself, not just for the Sword Sect."

Hearing Xie Yuan's words, the sharp sword in Li Xingtuo's eyes slowly retracted, and a smile and emotion appeared instead.

"If I disagree with what you said, wouldn't that be a betrayal to the world?"

He smiled and waved his hand, stopping Xie Yuan's explanation:

"No need to say more. As you said, perhaps the things on Jianfeng are now in your hands and can play a greater role, not only for Jianfeng, not only for anyone.

“Go ahead, I’ll allow you to go up to Jianfeng.

"This time, you can go straight up to the ninety-ninth floor."

Xie Yuan stood up, bowed solemnly to Li Xingtuo, and left the study.

Li Xingtuo looked at his back until he disappeared, then he moved his gaze upwards to the portraits of the ancestors hanging in the study, and remained silent for a long time.

The main peak is probably where Yunshan has the most disciples now.

Even though the disciples were in a hurry and had a lot on their minds, when someone happened to catch a glimpse of the figure on the top of the sword peak, they could not help but stop slowly.

Then one person tells ten people, and ten people tell a hundred people.

"Who is that person? Which elder is he? He can be seen from here, so he must be on the 60th or 70th floor, right?"

"He's still going up! Look at his pace. Each step is at the same distance. He never stops!"

"Impossible? The sword wind on the sword peak is like a sharp sword storm. Even many elders can't stand it. How can he still go up?"

"Where on earth is he going?"

Under countless gazes, Xie Yuan took one stone platform at a time, moving up at a constant speed, and finally reached the highest step under the shocked gazes of the Sword Sect's disciples.

Of all the people in the Yunshan Sword Sect, only Li Xingtuo has been to this level.

Xie Yuan looked at the top of the highest sword peak in the entire Yunshan Mountain. It was bare and only three or two people could stand on it. There were a few exquisite sword marks on it, but nothing else.

Xie Yuan first studied the sword marks carefully, which contained the Sword Sect's top skills, such as the essence of the Fleeting Light Sword. One sword represented a whole experience.

He only looked at it for a moment and felt that he had gained a lot. His heart was moved slightly, and there was a sign of a breakthrough in swordsmanship.

Although this is worth celebrating, it is obviously far from achieving his main purpose.

However, perhaps others and many predecessors of the Sword Sect were unable to make any other discoveries here, but Xie Yuan was different.

With five pages of the Black Book in his possession, he had an extremely strong sense of the Black Book.

Xie Yuan took a deep breath and slowly reached out to the top of the mountain, as if he wanted to grasp the tip of the sword that looked like a giant sword.

Rumbling--

A dark cloud suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and the sword peak began to shake. The sword wind blew violently, bringing about an unprecedented terrifying storm that surrounded the entire mountain.

Some of the disciples on the main peak were staggering, but even so, they were still looking at the shaking sword peak surrounded by the storm in shock, looking at the dark clouds pressing down on the sword peak, looking at Xie Yuan standing on the top of the peak and pulling out a sword from the peak.

It was an illusory giant sword, a giant sword with the same shape and size as the entire sword tip.

Everyone stared in a daze at the giant sword that was as huge as a mountain, or rather the shadow of the sword's tip, which was slowly pulled up by Xie Yuan using some unknown means and rising up.

call out--

A sword light that stretched from sky to earth lit up, piercing through the layers of dark clouds, revealing the high blue sky.

Everyone in the Sword Sect had shocked, dazed, and fanatical eyes. They had never seen or even imagined such a sword light or sword technique.

But they wanted to see more, but they found that the shadow of the giant sword had disappeared.

Feeling lost, they suddenly discovered that the sword tip was motionless, as if it had completely lost its soul and its former magic.

This moment made many disciples panic. As everyone knows, Jianfeng is the foundation and confidence of the Sword Sect, the basis of the sect and the only holy place. If the soul of Jianfeng is taken away, will Yunshan Sword Sect still be the same Yunshan Sword Sect?

A panic spread quietly, and there was a dead silence throughout the Sword Sect, and no one broke the atmosphere.

Suddenly, Li Xingtuo appeared on the top of the sword peak. He looked around and said loudly:
"Jianfeng is still here, why are you all worried?"

He drew his sword, and an extremely powerful sword light flashed, leaving a new mark on the sword tip.

It was like dropping a huge rock into calm water, causing huge ripples.

The entire sword peak trembled again, and then the sword marks and broken swords on it emitted sword energy at the same time, slowly, slowly surrounding the sword peak and forming an endless sword wind again.

Jianfeng was originally a magical place left by the Black Book and countless predecessors of the Sword Sect. Although the Black Book was gone, the sword intent of the ancestors on Jianfeng has always been here. Even without the Black Book, this place is still a sacred place of swordsmanship that belongs exclusively to the Yunshan Sword Sect.

"From now on, the Sword Peak will be the place where all the disciples of the Yunshan Sword Sect learn sword skills. If you gain something, you can leave sword marks to show the later generations. One day, the Sword Peak will be covered with sword marks, and each mark will be a top sword technique passed down to future generations.

"The people of my Sword Sect do not rely on others or things, but on themselves, and turn Jianfeng into a holy place of endless swordsmanship!"

Li Xingtuo raised his sword high and said loudly:
"I started it, and you will carry it on!"

He suddenly circled the sword tip and kept striking with the sword. In an instant, he made countless sword moves, leaving marks from top to bottom.

This is his life's work, and every sword mark will accelerate the whirlwind around the sword tip by one point.

By the time Li Xingtuo's sword came to rest, the momentum of the sword tip was almost the same as before.

He looked up at the sky, laughed loudly, and suddenly swung his sword straight into the sky.

A dazzling sword light flashed, and everyone subconsciously narrowed their eyes.

When he opened his eyes again, Li Xingtuo had disappeared. (End of this chapter)