Poor Taoist Qiu Chuji

Chapter 202: Heaven does not give birth to a lonely person, the sword is like a long night

Bang!Bang!Bang!
Boxes flew down from the sky hundreds of meters away and landed on the small dock one after another.

There are boats moored on both sides of the pier.

It seems that there are other visitors on Peach Blossom Island.

Guo Jing stood on the dock, his Qi sinking into his Dantian, and then he shouted loudly: "Island Master Huang! Guo Jing is here to visit!"

The sound spread to the peach forest not far away, but after echoing in the peach forest, it was digested and absorbed by the peach forest like a special sound wave energy.

Anyone who has lived on an island, especially a small island, knows that on nights near the sea, there is always the sound of crashing waves. Falling asleep listening to the sound of the waves for a night or two occasionally can be a nice experience, but after a long time, you might get used to it, but occasionally you may find it annoying.

Therefore, the peach forest on Peach Blossom Island not only serves the purpose of beauty and forming a Qimen Dunjia formation to resist foreign enemies, but it can also absorb sounds and reduce the noise of the surging waves hitting the beach or reefs, so as not to affect the people on the island from enjoying the quiet.

"It's no use shouting like that, let's just go in." Dugu Qiubai dropped the rope in his hand, and didn't care about the dozen or so boxes full of gold, silver and jewelry. He just pointed to the smallest one and motioned Guo Jing to take it.

The father and son walked into the peach forest, and saw the changing of yin and yang and the mystery of the five elements. The two people who were originally very close to each other were separated in the blink of an eye.

Guo Jing was in a hurry to find the whereabouts of his adoptive father Dugu Qiubai. After running only ten feet away, he became even more lost. He saw small paths in all directions, but he didn't know which one to go.

However, Dugu Qiubai suddenly appeared from where he was originally, and found that Guo Jing was no longer there, and frowned slightly.

Guo Jing walked alone for a while, and felt as if he was back to the same place, yet it seemed not exactly the same as the place he had been before. Everything he saw around him was so similar, yet subtly different. This contradictory feeling of familiarity and strangeness could easily drive people insane if they looked at it for too long.

Guo Jing had heard Huang Rong mention before that the formation on Peach Blossom Island had the magic of the opening and closing of yin and yang, and the inversion of heaven and earth. However, Huang Rong did not explain it in detail at the time, and Guo Jing knew nothing about these things. Even if Huang Rong had explained it in detail at the time, he would probably still be confused at this moment.

But Guo Jing was not stupid. He knew that if he continued to rush around like this, things would only get worse and worse, so he sat under a peach tree and waited for Dugu Qiubai to come looking for him.

But after waiting for more than an hour, Dugu Qiubai still did not show up. There was silence all around, and there was not a single person in sight.

Guo Jing became anxious, so he jumped to the top of a tree and looked around. To the south was the sea, to the west were bare rocks, and to the east and north were trees and flowers in all colors, with no end in sight, which made him dizzy.

He gathered his inner strength and shouted a few more times, but still got no response.

There were no white walls and black tiles between the flowers and trees, nor was there any smoke from cooking or barking dogs. The silence was extremely strange. Guo Jing suddenly felt a little flustered, but he was not afraid. He had learned swordsmanship from Dugu Qiubai for more than two months, and his courage and character had been strengthened. However, he and Rong'er had agreed to a three-month period. Based on his understanding of Huang Rong, she should often look around at the dock and naturally notice their arrival. How could there be no reaction for so long?

"Could something have happened to Rong'er?" Guo Jing thought to himself, and couldn't help but recall the other boats he had just seen at the dock.

His mind became restless, and he climbed down the tree and ran wildly. In the blink of an eye, he was deeper into the bushes and began to wander around in the forest.

Although he has always been calm and steady, and now has some courage, he is still just a young man after all. He is now worried and confused, and has gradually lost his sense of proportion.

On the other hand, after Dugu Qiubai and Guo Jing were temporarily separated, they didn't care at first.

Don't think that just because Dugu Qiubai is best at swordsmanship, he has no knowledge of Qimen Dunjia.

Many things involved in Dugu's Nine Swords are related to Qimen Dunjia and Yishu Bagua. It is not easy for Dugu Qiubai to break the Peach Blossom Formation of Peach Blossom Island in a short period of time. However, with Dugu Qiubai's knowledge, coupled with his profound sword skills, it is not difficult for him to find Guo Jing if he wants to find a way out.

But at this time he came with his adopted son Guo Jing to ask for the hand in marriage of another family's daughter, and he removed the threshold before even arriving at the door. This was totally unacceptable.

Therefore, Dugu Qiubai was thinking that he would walk out of the formation first, greet the host, and then come together to pick up Guo Jing to go out into the battle.

Dugu Qiubai was very confident in Guo Jing's current strength and knew that he would not be in any danger, so he flew straight towards the center of the island.

Those dazzling flowers and bizarre changes are all false in the eyes of Dugu Qiubai.

He didn't even need to draw his sword to split the obstacle in front of him. He could break through the peach blossom formation in a straight line.

After passing through the peach forest, Dugu Qiubai suddenly paused and then narrowed his eyes.

Not far in front of him, he saw a large number of poisonous snakes, which were gathering somewhere as if attracted by something. Although these poisonous snakes were not as magical as the Bosuqu snake, they were also extremely rare poisonous snakes. If an ordinary person was bitten by any of them, he would probably die.

“Why are there so many poisonous snakes on this island?”

"Moreover, some of these species obviously shouldn't appear here." Dugu Qiubai thought in his heart, but he had already turned into a straight sword and rushed towards the construction area not far away.

Further ahead, the snakes became even more dense, with many even twisting and tucking into each other, wriggling forward like a wriggling carpet, making people feel uncomfortable just by looking at them.

Dugu Qiubai has been living with snakes for many years, but in his eyes, snakes are just food, not "pets" that can accompany him. If he had walked along the path he had walked in the past, with his sword whistling, he would have crushed them all, no matter how many snakes there were.

But at this moment, the situation was unclear and he didn't know where the snake came from, so he didn't act rashly.

However, Dugu Qiubai is an old man after all. Although he has lived in seclusion for many years, he still has experience in the world. However, he noticed some changes on the island, so he restrained his breath, lowered his body, and quietly sneaked into the building area, intending to take a look at the situation first and then make a decision.

On both sides of the cobblestone road, thousands of green snakes lined up in long queues and meandered forward.

There were more than a dozen men in white holding long poles to drive away snakes, and they kept picking up the green snakes that escaped from the team and bringing them back into the team.

Following the direction of the spreading team, Dugu Qiubai sneaked to the edge of the bamboo forest, leaned sideways to listen carefully, the forest was silent, there was a pavilion made of bamboo branches in the bamboo forest, the banner on the pavilion was clearly visible in the already dim setting sun, it was the three characters "Jicui Pavilion", and on both sides hung a couplet, which read "the magic sword flies in the shadow of peach blossoms, the jade flute is played as the tide rises in the blue sea".

Looking at the word "Excalibur", Dugu Qiubai's eyes revealed a hint of interest.

It has been a long time since he had a real fight with anyone, but judging from this, the formations and mechanisms on this island are quite good, and the owner of this place should not be a boaster. Perhaps after the marriage of his children is arranged, he can have a long-awaited sword fight with others.

There are bamboo tables and chairs in the pavilion. They are all many years old and are well worn. They glow with a faint yellow light under the setting sun.

There are two big pine trees growing side by side on the side of the bamboo pavilion. Their branches are twisted and twisted. I'm afraid they are hundreds of years old. The lush pines and green bamboos are extremely quiet and peaceful.

Looking outside again, I saw that the snakes were still pouring in in rows. This time, they were no longer green-bodied vipers, but huge, long-tailed, strange snakes with shining golden scales. After the golden snakes left, the black snakes came.

On the big lawn, thousands of snakes were shaking their heads and their tongues of fire were dancing.

The snake charmer divided the snake team into east and west, leaving a passage in the middle. Dozens of women in white holding red gauze palace lanterns came slowly, several feet apart.

"Wow! What a grand ceremony!" Dugu Qiubai continued to move closer without any hesitation, not worrying at all about being heard and noticed by others.

As I got closer, I saw a man wearing a white satin robe embroidered with gold thread, holding a folding fan. He was dressed very fancy, and although he didn't look very young, his dress was even more frivolous than that of a boy of seventeen or eighteen years old.

Not long after, among the two middle-aged men who were talking further away, the tall and burly man also wearing white clothes waved to the man who was dressed flashily.

The flamboyant young man immediately trotted forward and kowtowed to the middle-aged man in green robes: "I, your son-in-law Ouyang Ke, greet my father-in-law. I wish you the best of luck."

The middle-aged man in green robe looked the fancy young man up and down, then turned his eyes away and said, "Forget it!"

He waved his sleeves and went to support the fancy young man. Seeing this, Dugu Qiubai thought, "Could it be that someone is competing with my adopted son for a wife?"

As soon as the thought came to his mind, the old Sword Demon became unhappy.

There are only wrong names in the world, but no wrong nicknames.

Dugu Qiubai is proficient in swordsmanship, but he is called the 'Sword Demon' instead of the 'Sword God' or 'Sword Saint' because he has never been easy to deal with.

If someone competed with his adopted son for his wife, he would carefully consider this person's qualifications.

If you are unlucky and die by his sword... then all you can say is "you deserve it".

"Wait a minute to acknowledge your relationship!"

"Who are you? How dare you come to snatch my son's wife?" Dugu Qiubai strode out, and his temper, which he had just restrained, was now released without any restraint.

Don't step on the threshold because it can be your own.

If the cabbages you like are about to be dug up by others, why would you care about anything else?
In the gradually dimming light, the East Evil Huang Yaoshi and the West Poison Ouyang Feng both saw a scene that they would never forget.

In the dimming light, a tall man whose exact age could not be determined, who looked to be middle-aged or old, dressed in coarse grey clothes, stepped out from the bamboo forest. With every step he took, it was as if an invisible sword from heaven and earth was approaching them, making them feel creepy.

The feeling of life and death crisis that they had not experienced in many years was now invading the nerves of the two Five Supreme Masters, making their backs cold, but they did not dare to act rashly.

It's because, at this moment, the bamboo leaves, grass leaves, flower petals, tree branches... everything that can be seen by the naked eye, seemed to have turned into sharp swords, worshiping this man, like all swords returning to their origin, and everything in the world can be turned into a sword.

As the sun sets, the sun, the moon, and the stars are parallel in the sky.

However, the light of the sun, moon and stars now seemed dim in front of this man.

He seemed to be releasing light instinctively, and the light was like a sword. The sword turned into light again, and in the interweaving of light and shadow, the tall figure became even taller, no longer like a mortal, but gradually transformed into a god.

At this moment, these two top people in the world had only one thought: Who is he?
They didn't know who the newcomer was, but they knew that his best skill must be the sword.

Before this, they never had a narrow understanding of "Kendo", and only thought that it was a form of martial arts. A true martial arts master should be proficient in fists, weapons, and internal strength.

But at this moment, they realized that they were the ones who were truly narrow-minded.

When a path reaches its extreme, no matter how different kinds of martial arts are, they can all be unified.

Everything in the natural world will converge towards a core.

Ouyang Ke was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground, trembling all over.

He couldn't understand Dugu Qiubai's sword, but the murderous aura that was coming towards him was enough to frighten him.

All his past viciousness and evil nature seemed laughable and pathetic under this murderous aura that was as condensed as substance.

Ouyang Feng and Huang Yaoshi stood side by side, jointly resisting this enormous pressure. At the same time, they kept swallowing their saliva and tried hard to speak.

In the end, Huang Yaoshi took advantage of his home field advantage and raised his head, maintaining his already precarious pride and asking, "Who is coming?"

Dugu Qiubai laughed when he heard this!

When he smiled, the whole world seemed to be switched on.

The light instantly changed from its original sharpness to a brighter and more natural one.

"A certain family, the Sword Demon... Dugu Qiubai!"

There was a hint of confusion on Ouyang Feng's face. He certainly had never heard of this name.

However, Huang Yaoshi's expression changed again, as if he was puzzled, surprised, and suddenly enlightened.

"Master Huang Yaoshi from the East China Sea... Greetings to Senior Dugu!" Huang Yaoshi clasped his hands together and bowed slightly.

He is so proud that he will never bow his head.

But if the one who came was the Dugu Qiubai who was once invincible and the killer of an era, he would be willing to do it.

When the Five Great Masters became famous, most of them were only around 30 years old. The youngest of them, Huang Yaoshi, was only 27 or 28 years old when he met at the Huashan Sword Meeting.

They are so young, yet they are already the best in martial arts. Not only because they are all extremely talented, but more importantly, the martial arts world has been cut off from their predecessors, and all the seniors who could be called "mountains" above them have been slain.

Who killed it?
Dugu Qiubai!

It was precisely because Dugu Qiubai took the lead that the five most outstanding talents came into being.

Otherwise, even if they reach the summit sooner or later, it will take a few more years.

This name is a taboo in the underworld.

Those big sects and famous families subconsciously rejected and denied this name, because the mention of this name would remind them of humiliation and fear.

"You're welcome! Maybe you and I could have a chance to become in-laws!" Dugu Qiubai relaxed a little.

Ever since his true qi underwent a qualitative change with the help of Guo Jing, his spirit could also be infused into the true qi, allowing his will to manifest to a certain extent in the outside world.

In this way, there will be a momentum of taking one step forward and all the swords returning to their origin.

"I don't know... who you are, young master? I'm just a weak girl and I'm afraid..." Huang Yaoshi tried hard to choose his words. His tongue, which was originally quite clever, became a little restrained for some reason.

He has a bit of the "speaking fast but not knowing" style.

Dugu Qiubai is at least ten years older than Wang Chongyang, so wouldn’t his son also be an old man?
Even though Huang Yaoshi was a little... afraid of Dugu Qiubai, he would never push his daughter into the fire.

"My son Guo Jing!"

"He is my newly adopted son!" Dugu Qiubai directly revealed the answer.

(End of this chapter)