Embers of Sword

Chapter 159 Master and Disciple

After half a stick of incense.

In the courtyard of Lotus Peak, the Spark Portal opens.

"Boom!"

A tall old man in a lotus robe, with thunder all around him, walked back slowly. The moment he stepped into the courtyard, all the sword energy in his body was restrained. At first glance, there seemed to be no trace of a battle, but if you looked closely, you would find that the robe was torn in several holes and stained with blood.

Seeing this scene, Qing Falcon, who was enduring the pain of the sword energy, felt terrified.

He could feel... the pure golden blood stained on the lotus robe contained an extremely powerful martial arts aura.

Even a drop.

It also made him feel palpitations and fear.

The aura of this drop of martial arts essence blood seems to be even more powerful than that of Lord Wu Zexian!

The thought flashed through my mind.

Qing Falcon was completely hopeless. The martial arts essence and blood that was more powerful than the exiled immortal was...

"You went to the Imperial City to fight?"

Xie Xuanyi also had a complicated expression. He spoke carefully. When he saw Master Chunyang stepping into the jade talisman formation so fiercely, Xie Xuanyi was a little worried.

But for now.

Master didn’t seem to be seriously injured. Did he win the fight?
"When old friends meet again, I can't help but feel emotional."

Zhao Chunyang saw through the young man's thoughts and said calmly, "When a sword cultivator meets a warrior, they naturally have to fight each other... A small fight is nothing."

These words made Xie Xuanyi fall into silence.

He looked at the blood on his lotus robe, not knowing what to say.

"Qing Falcon, you are lucky."

Zhao Chunyang glanced down at the man curled up on the ground and pointed out his name: "It's not easy to find a good master in the imperial city... I promised that person to spare your life."

Qing Suan's face was pale and his lips were trembling. He didn't even dare to look up at the Sword Palace Master.

It was just a light pinch before.

Countless sword energies entered his body... He could feel that this great man didn't use much strength at all.

The next half hour.

Qing Suan felt what it meant to "live a fate worse than death". Every special envoy of the Imperial City Division needed to have extremely strong resilience and be able to endure pain that ordinary people could not endure... But Zhao Chunyang's "pinch" was not just as simple as crushing his bones. His soul almost collapsed, and he only recovered a little now.

Qing Suan would rather endure the pain of the Nine Deaths Ban than be pinched by Zhao Chunyang again.

Zhao Chunyang said expressionlessly: "Why don't you get out of here?"

The green falcon seemed to be pardoned, and it rolled and crawled towards the starfire portal.

Soon the door closed again, and the entire Lotus Peak courtyard returned to silence.

Xie Xuanyi looked at Master Chunyang with some worry...the two of them just stared at each other for a moment.

"Why do you look like that? Are you worried?"

After a brief silence, Zhao Chunyang spoke with a smile.

"...In recent years, the Xie family of Jiangning has soared to the sky, running rampant in the Great Chu Dynasty, and dominating all the noble families, because King Jiangning has a Yangshen warrior protecting him."

Xie Xuanyi said softly: "Almost everyone knows that behind Xie is Wu Zexian."

"However...behind Wu Zexian is the Qin family's ancestor, the number one martial artist in the Great Chu Dynasty."

Xie Xuanyi said seriously: "So the blood on your robe is not from Wu Zexian, but from the Qin family's ancestor."

Zhao Chunyang smiled and looked at the young man in front of him: "Why do you think so?"

"It only takes sixty years for Wu Zexian to be promoted to Yang God." Xie Xuanyi said softly, "He is not qualified to tear open this robe."

Zhao Chunyang sat opposite the stone table.

He raised an eyebrow and said, "So you're worried that I'll lose to him?"

"It is said that the Qin family ancestor has been in charge of the martial arts of Da Chu for many years and has reached the realm of heaven and man. Ordinary Yang Gods are no match for him."

Xie Xuanyi couldn't help it and asked worriedly, "Are you okay?"

"Stinky boy!"

Zhao Chunyang cursed with a smile.

Snap!
The headmaster fluttered his sleeves and pressed his palm towards Xie Xuanyi's head. The palm seemed to be coming with great force, but when it actually landed, there was no force at all.

In the end, this palm landed lightly on Xie Xuanyi's head.

But Xie Xuanyi just knelt on the ground.

"You don't think that your master is just an ordinary Yang God, do you?"

Zhao Chunyang looked at Xie Xuanyi with no anger in his eyes, only heartache. He gently stroked his apprentice's head and said softly, "What the number one martial artist in Da Chu... That old guy is not as mysterious as you think. The martial arts fortune of the Da Chu Dynasty has been declining for many years, and a lot of incense was divided to allow the exiled immortal to complete his promotion. In my opinion, he is only half an empty shell left."

Xie Xuanyi knelt in front of his master and couldn't help but stretch out his hands to pinch and knock.

This old bone is surprisingly strong.

He looked up in surprise and blinked: "You are not hurt."

"joke……"

Zhao Chunyang smiled and said, "Master, I will never fight a battle that I am not sure of winning!"

"..."

Xie Xuanyi was silent again.

He had imagined the scene of meeting his master countless times, but he never expected it to be like this.

The master and the disciple reunited.

It was not as sensational as I had imagined, on the contrary, it was as plain as water.

It seems like I just saw it yesterday.

even……

No need to introduce your identity.

When that ray of divine thought pressed the [chronic illness] back into the sword energy cave, Xie Xuanyi knew that it turned out that the master knew everything.

Nothing needs explanation.

Xie Xuanyi took off his appearance as a living being and just stared at his master. After thinking for a long time, he finally said, "Master, I'm still alive."

"I saw it..."

Zhao Chunyang's reaction was surprisingly calm, even a little too calm: "Master is not blind."

Say it.

Zhao Chunyang twitched his chin and signaled with his eyes that Xie Xuanyi should quickly bring him a comfortable chair and make a pot of hot tea. After all, he had just fought a fierce battle with the number one martial artist in Da Chu... It was really tiring. Xie Xuanyi sighed.

A moment later, the old man in the lotus robe sat comfortably on the wooden chair, took a sip of tea, and let out a long sigh of satisfaction.

Xie Xuanyi was busy running around, and when he was done, he finally had the chance to speak: "Why are you so calm? I should be the 'dead man'."

"You really should be 'dead'."

"If it were anyone else, they would have died in the North Sea incident."

Zhao Chunyang smiled and said calmly: "It's just that I have the 'Immortal Fountain' on me. If I want to die like this... I'm afraid it won't be that easy."

"???"

Xie Xuanyi looked stunned and dazed.

Since resurrection.

It was the first time he felt so confused.

Wait, Master knows about the Fountain of Immortality?

In this case, Master should know that in the situation in the North Sea... he will not die.

But according to Lu Yuzhen, it was he who saved himself.

So how do we explain this Fountain of Immortality?

Xie Xuanyi rubbed his brows, feeling that countless thoughts were tangled together in chaos. He took a deep breath, sat down, and after sorting out his thoughts, he told the story of Yuzhu Town's awakening and then returning to Dasui Sword Palace in detail.

Master Chunyang listened very patiently.

After listening.

Zhao Chunyang put down the teacup in his hand, narrowed his eyes and said, "Interesting... You mean, there was a Taoist priest named 'Lu Yuzhen' who intercepted you in Lichao City and told you that it was actually him who saved you and gave you the Fountain of Immortality?"

Xie Xuanyi looked at his master in bewilderment.

The master and disciple fell into a brief silence.

The next moment, Zhao Chunyang raised his hand.

Wow!

A drop of pure water slowly appeared in the palm of Zhao Chunyang. The power contained in this drop of water was much stronger than Xie Xuanyi's. In terms of the vitality contained in this drop of water, it was even many times stronger than the complete immortal spring water in Xie Xuanyi's dantian.

"The Fountain of Immortality...you have it too?!" Xie Xuanyi couldn't believe it.

"In the Battle of Drinking Poison, the Great Master Mozhen died and all the people along the northern border drank his blood."

Zhao Chunyang lowered his eyes and said calmly: "This battle was extremely brutal. Although only Mo Jue was killed... the Great Chu Dynasty still paid a heavy price. In return, the 'main force' who participated in this battle, several top Yang Gods, divided up the treasures on the body of the Great Venerable Mo Jue."

Xie Xuanyi murmured: "You mean... among the relics of this battle, there is the Fountain of Immortality?"

"Of course... no."

Zhao Chunyang smiled and said, "Everyone wants the Immortal Spring, but is it so easy to get it?"

Back then, the Great Master Mo Zhi used the Immortal Spring as bait to sow discord among the Taoist sect.

Even the great Taoist masters who had reached the realm of Yang Shen could not withstand the temptation and chose to betray.

"Then this Immortal Fountain..."

Xie Xuanyi looked at his master.

"When the fighting on the northern border was at its most intense, I went to the demon country in person and killed a great lord and a human traitor, and obtained two drops of the Immortal Spring in total."

Zhao Chunyang raised his eyebrows and said with a little pride: "No one knows this news yet."

"???"

Xie Xuanyi's expression was somewhat complicated and shocked.

"Remember you said...you wanted to learn two sword arts at the same time?"

The head teacher of Chunyang said softly: "Because of the limitation of your innate talent, your physical body cannot be used to forge a 'golden body of martial arts'. Even if your talent for swordsmanship is strong, it is difficult to practice both ways."

Xie Xuanyi was stunned.

"After you take over Lotus Peak, I will inject a drop of the 'Immortal Spring' into your body."

Zhao Chunyang said in a deep voice: "Xuan Yi, your path is to live towards death, and to destroy before creation. This is a path that even my teacher did not walk on. If you keep walking on this path, you may be the enemy of the whole world, but this drop of the Immortal Spring can allow you to live one more life... The regrets that could not be fulfilled in the first life can be made up in this second life."

This news was like a bolt of lightning to Xie Xuanyi.

After taking over Lotus Peak.

Xie Xuanyi just felt that his master seemed a little older.

Is it because of the gift of the Fountain of Immortality?

"..."

Xie Xuanyi opened his mouth and wanted to say something.

But all the words seem so pale.

He looked at his master. Ten years had passed and his master seemed to have more white hair.

The wind blows through the courtyard and the banyan tree drops its leaves.

This moment is just like that moment.

The young man and the old man sat under the shade of the tree.

When I was a rookie, I went to ask for sword skills, full of high spirits. Although I defeated all my opponents, I also made countless enemies.

Now that I think about it, I did a lot of wrong things back then...

Master has pointed it out, taught me, and guided me.

But I am "naughty", "obstinate" and "stubborn".

After all, you are still too young.

Apart from his master's teachings on the way of the sword, Xie Xuanyi had never really taken them to heart.

It turned out that at that time, the master had already decided to give the "Immortal Fountain" to himself. If anything went wrong...

Then do it again.

"I don't know who Lu Yuzhen you are talking about."

Zhao Chunyang smiled calmly and said, "But I know very well... Even if you fall into the North Sea, you will not die. Because you still have a second life. That drop of immortal spring is hidden in the deepest part of the Sword Qi Cave Heaven. When your soul flies away, it will protect your soul and cover your body."

"With my master here, how could you die so easily?"

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(PS: 1. There will be another update tonight, after 2 o'clock. . The content of this chapter has been greatly modified, mainly the origin of the Immortal Spring in Zhao Chunyang's hand. Please focus on the modified content.)
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