Beichen Sword Sect's Headmaster's Secret Records

Chapter 8: Three Melons and Two Dates
Chen Huzi returned to Swallow Cave with a pile of heads. He called two sword-teaching disciples to ask them, and they were immediately overwhelmed.

"The boy we just recruited is gone in less than three months?"

Zhou Feng narrowed his eyes, "Liu Xiaoliu has been rescued."

Chen Huzi breathed a sigh of relief. "Okay, it's good that they're rescued. Are there six left?"

Yue Peng looked at his fellow apprentice, then at his master.

"Oh no, there are only three left."

Chen Huzi: "What?"

Zhou Feng remained silent.

Yue Peng had to count on his fingers.
"Those kids were obsessed with seeing blood, and became possessed. Two days later, two of them became possessed. One had his heart meridian severed by the sword qi, and the other had his head chopped off by the sword wind. They couldn't be saved.

The remaining one was so frightened that he ran away in the middle of the night. However, in the dark, he slipped and fell off a cliff, and was covered in blood...

So now the only boys left in our sect are Tiedan, Jianjia, and Xiaoliu."

"Wait, sword energy?"

Chen Huzi frowned when he heard this.

"It's been less than a year since they started learning, but they're already feeling the Qi. Their foundation is not solid, so how can they cultivate sword Qi? How did you teach them?"

Zhou Feng lowered his head, feeling very guilty.

Yue Peng also smiled bitterly.

"I have told you many times that you are not allowed to practice the Qi Sword without three years of hard work. But... well, if everyone's abilities are similar, then it would be fine. But if someone in the same school and class is far ahead of the others, the nature of this young man is bound to be competitive and not want to be outdone.

I guess, maybe, perhaps, probably, they see that others can go smoothly, refine sword qi, improve their Taoism, and have no pressure at all, so they think that they can enter the mountain gate, or they are also the chosen ones of heaven, with spiritual roots and Tao bones that are not inferior to others, so they think that if they work hard and catch up, they may also succeed..."

Chen Huzi understood and said, "Oh, what's going on? Tiedan is refining sword energy, so you should follow him and practice it too."

"Forget it. There are geniuses and fools. If you have no talent, no family inheritance, and don't listen to advice, how can you stay on this path for long..."

But thinking of the remaining clowns, Chen Huzi also had a headache. He waved his hands and scattered three sound transmission notes.
"You three, come up the mountain."

So the three of them waited for a while, and the unlucky Liu Xiaoliu, who had broken his leg in his dream and whose legs were buried when he woke up, came up limping on crutches to pay his respects.

Chen Huzi was helpless.
"Xiao Liu... do you want to continue practicing, or go down the mountain and go home?"

Liu Xiaoliu immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
“Master, there was a flood in my hometown and the whole village was destroyed. It was only my two senior brothers who saved my life.

Please don’t chase me away, Master. I’d like to stay at the foot of the mountain to look after the herb garden.”

Chen Huzi sighed and helped him up.

"That's not necessary. Guangxia Mountain is your home. Don't be discouraged. Our Sword Sect originally practiced self-sacrificing flying swords. It doesn't matter if the Dao body is slightly damaged.

Your aptitude is not bad to begin with, just proceed step by step, don't rush for success, and you won't follow the old path of those people. When you reach the Nascent Soul stage, you can find a Taoist body and reincarnate to cultivate again.

In this way, you don't need to practice the inner alchemy method. It will damage your Taoist body and your achievement will not be great. I will teach you a sword-wielding technique to see if you have the aptitude.

Zhou Feng, you come and personally guide Xiaoliu's practice. No more mistakes can be made."

"Thank you, Master." "Yes, Master."

Then Chen Huzi waited for a while.

"...Huh? Where are those two? Xiaoliu is already here, why haven't they come yet?!"

Yue Peng looked at his master and fellow apprentices, stroking his chin.
"Perhaps they were fighting with swords?"

"Ah? Sword fight? What kind of sword fight is this in the Qi Refining Stage?"

"You bastard! Die!"

On the mountain road of Yanzi Peak, Jianjia took advantage of the opportunity and occupied the terrain. She used a set of neat and fierce sword skills. With one sword, she stabbed out twelve sword winds, up and down, left and right, covering the sky and the earth, like thousands of troops, floods and landslides, rushing down from a high place to kill.

Tiedan made a seal with his left hand and made a sword with his right hand. He gathered a three-inch long Qi sword at the tips of his index and middle fingers, and stabbed left and right to disperse the sword winds. At the same time, he imitated the Xuannv in the scroll and jumped like a crane. He dodged left and right along the mountain path, his Taoist robe fluttering like a green leaf falling in the wind. Although he was hit in the face by the fierce sword wind, he avoided it without any damage.

"You bastard! Why are you hiding?"

Jianjia was furious, but the two of them had fought many times and she had some experience. Seeing that the bastard was trying to escape by drifting far away, she immediately turned her wrist, put away her sword, and pulled out a horn bow from the storage jade. She also took out a yellow talisman, attached it to her palm, and rolled a lead ball into her waist bag. She used her true energy to draw the bow and put an arrow on it.
"Go!"

With a light cry, a ray of golden light shot out and went straight to Tiedan's left eye!

"Humph!"

The ball came with great force, like wind, thunder and lightning, and arrived in front of him in an instant!

However, Tiedan was prepared. He spurted out a stream of sword energy from his nostrils and cut the lead ball into two halves!

However, although the lead ball was broken, the fire talisman exploded. With a "bang", it turned into a fireball and exploded in the air! The broken lead ball was blown away like flowers from heaven! In an instant, the broken lead hit Tiedan all over his body and face! He was knocked down from the clouds! He rolled down the mountain road!
"Die!" The strike was successful! Jianjia roared angrily, drew her sword and rushed forward! She stabbed Tiedan in the heart!
Then the golden bell on her waist rang loudly!
Jianjia's heart sank, thinking that the elders from the sect had arrived, but now that the chance for revenge was right in front of her, she was not willing to give up! She immediately recited the formula silently, and used the golden bracelet to form a shield, blocking behind her to prevent her brother from intervening to save people!
However, just as she rushed forward, stepped on the ground, and gathered all her strength to prepare to cut out his heart with a sword! Suddenly, she felt a sharp pain in her foot!
Jianjia had fought with this bastard many times before, and was only holding back some of her strength. She immediately became alert, stopped suddenly, and turned around to dodge!
What a close call! A sword qi! It was just a hair's breadth away from piercing through her feet! A sword passed through her chest and across her forehead! The vestments blocked the sword qi, but it didn't cut her in the stomach, but it cut off a large part of her bangs in front of her forehead, and almost cut off half of her cheek!

"Look at the sword energy!"

Tiedan, who had fallen to the ground and pretended to be dead, immediately turned over, roared, and raised his hand to slap.

Jianjia had no time to dodge, so she blocked with her sword, and with a thought, she recalled the Qi shield to protect her torso!

But she didn't expect Tiedan to throw a pebble at her! Boom! It hit her head with a bump!
Even though Jianjia had built her foundation and refined her body, she was hit unexpectedly and her head was bleeding. She felt dizzy and her feet were injured by the sword energy. She was unable to exert any strength and fell sideways on the mountain path!

So the situation reversed!

Amid the ding-ding sound, Tiedan turned around and rushed over, holding Jianjia's wrist with his right hand, controlling the sword, and pointed with his left hand! Condensing the three-inch sword energy! He stabbed it with one blow!
This strike, until he passed through the divine energy wall with his bare hands! He gathered the divine energy of the sword at his fingertips and stabbed it into Jianjia's throat! Directly stabbed a bloody hole!
"Ahh-!"

Faced with despair, Jianjia became extremely ruthless. She gathered all her strength and flipped her hand to strike back!
At this time, the two of them were entangled together, and Tiedan knew he couldn't dodge. He just had time to turn his waist to avoid the vital parts of his lungs and heart, and used his ribs to take her palm!
But the other party had built the foundation first, and then refined the body! With overwhelming power, he blasted Tiedan away with one palm! Rolling down the mountain road!
This fierce battle of two or three rounds was actually over in the blink of an eye.

When Chen Huzi arrived, he looked at Jianjia, who was hit by two swords and was covering her throat with blood spurting out. He then looked at Tiedan, who was hit and had obviously broken ribs and was pale. He was speechless for a moment.

"Why are these two like this every day?"

Yue Peng came up to perform first aid expertly, stuffed Qi-tonifying and Blood-replenishing Pills into their mouths, and pasted bone-healing charms on them, saying helplessly,
"That's right, they are simply in conflict with each other. They quarrel every few days. If you are not careful, you will end up in such a miserable state. I have never seen such a fierce fight when I was in Benshan..."

Seeing this situation, Chen Huzi knew that he couldn't keep these two together anymore. There were only a few of them, and sooner or later someone would die.

"Tiedan's realm is one level lower than his, which is a huge disadvantage. You should take him with you, and after he recovers from his injury, go down the mountain to train and find some great treasures to build your foundation."

"It's Master."

So Chen Huzi personally carried Jianjia back to Yanzi Cave, gave her true energy to prolong her life, and took her pulse to check her progress.

In terms of the cultivation level of all the boys, Jianjia is currently the best, having built his foundation in just a few months with the help of the treasures from the Marquis' Mansion. However, this is not a good thing either.

After all, Xuanmen practices inner alchemy, and refining Qi emphasizes laying a solid foundation and progressing step by step. However, in order to seek revenge, Jianjia abused the elixir, forced herself to take drugs, and used the external elixir of the Demon Palace to build the foundation. Although the realm has been broken through, the Taoism has been improved, as if it were divine help, but it is inevitable that the Taoism is unstable, and the upper limit will not be high in the future.

However, she was the second generation to inherit the family tradition, and she remembered the lessons of her family. She did not aim too high or practice nonsense like Laozi Beichen sword qi. She only honed her true qi and qi repeatedly, and supplemented it with the family's inherited light sword skills, practicing qigong and body training, and concentrating on consolidating her foundation.

To be honest, despite the friendship with the Shen family, Chen Huzi didn't want to accept her as his disciple at first.

This is not only because of what happened when one first entered the sect. Ultimately, it is because the sword sect's methods are mostly passed down to men, not women.

As a result, the disciples of the Sword Sect had to go through a life of killing, with hearts disemboweled and heads beheaded at any time, leaving them in a bloody mess with broken limbs. There were not many serious female cultivators willing to endure this training, and most of those who originally joined the sect were rough men from the military and the underworld.

Secondly, the tradition of master-disciple inheritance is usually that men teach men and women teach women. If they are not Taoist couples, then it is not easy to teach the secrets of meridian acupoints and internal energy cultivation. Many secret manuals of the Heart Sutra that are passed down orally are also inconvenient to practice because of the difference between men and women.

However, Jianjia was still young, and her family had already taught her many basics. So it was not a big problem to build a foundation, but if she wanted to practice further, Chen Huzi would not be able to give her guidance.

Therefore, if Chen Huzi's idea was followed, he would send Jianjia to Hengshan to be a nun. It would be equally authentic in the Xuanmen sect and would not hinder her future.

Of course Jianjia refused. After all, she had a duck-sized purse in her arms. She had to take it out and look at it every night to remind herself not to forget to avenge the young marquis.

Therefore, considering the relationship between her and the ancestors of the Shen family, Chen Huzi couldn't just abandon her. What's more, she had successfully established her foundation and refined her Qi well, so she was qualified. Chen Huzi didn't want to see her waste her cultivation, so he brought up the old matter again.

"Jianjia, you used the external elixir of the Demon Palace to build your foundation, so your future achievements will be limited. However, you are still young, so it is not too late for you to start over.

I have an old acquaintance with Huilan Zhenren from Huangting Temple in Hengshan. She is very advanced in Taoism. Why don’t I send you to practice under her? Hengshan is one of the nine great sects. It is the ancient sect of Shangqing Dao. It is a famous and authentic sect. Your future is limitless..."

Jianjia just remained silent.

Chen Huzi advised,
"I thought you were just angry before, but you should calm down now, right?

People like us who practice cultivation seek the Tao against the will of heaven. Life and death are unpredictable and we are surrounded by disasters. If we cannot overcome the test of life and death and the disaster of the earthly world, we will not be able to practice the ultimate Taoism.

Besides, even if you really want revenge, if you continue like this, are you sure you can beat him?"

Jian Jia bowed and said,

“What the Immortal has pointed out is that it is hard to find an opportunity to become an immortal, and I also want to cultivate to the Great Dao.

But I also heard from my mother that people live with a breath, and if they can't breathe, they will not be at peace.

If you don’t resolve this cause and effect, I’m sure you won’t be able to improve your Taoism.”

Seeing that she had made up her mind, Chen Huzi stopped trying to persuade her.

"Okay, then continue to study under me. But since you have already built the foundation, you can't waste your time.

Anyway, I will personally take you to Hengshan and ask Master Huilan to teach you internal skills for three months, and then I will teach you the sword skills of our sect.

Until you have mastered the swordsmanship, you are not allowed to challenge Tiedan to a duel."

"...Yes, thank you for your help, Master."

(End of this chapter)