Volume 2: Tian Nan ? Xuan Qing Chapter 31: Stolen Floating Life Midday Leisure

  But Heng Fan, Cheng Man and Gong Sun Li naturally also noticed that it was Shen Que's sword that had been opened by Chu Jiu. However, the three of them saw that Shen Que was already tottering behind him, thinking that Shen Que was finally "at the end of his strength, unable to penetrate Lu Xun's defenses!" It was nothing remarkable for Chu Jiu to be able to open up Shen Que's sword, it was just a normal thing.

  "The Hundred Knives Sect" leader Wang Knife Cut, "The Hundred Mighty Pawnshop" General Manager "Iron Gallbladder Golden Gun" Zhou Weimeng, and the Qingcheng Sect's "Three Hands Fire Sword" He Duanbao also shared this view. The rest of the people, such as junior sister Lin Ming'er, didn't even see clearly that it was Chu Jiu who made the move, they just thought Chu Jiu went to support Shen Que.

  Gongsun Lie said in a low voice: "Heng Shibo, Cheng Shibo, look at Shen Que's current state, it turns out that the 'Xuanyang Tianjian Jue' still has such a weakness!"

  Heng Fan nodded slightly, but said: "However, the martial arts of this big disciple Shen Que can already control the 'Xuanyang Heaven Sword Manual', which is already very astonishing!"

  "Little sister Qian, come on! Let's go see Big Brother!" Lin Meng'er hastily said to Lian Wanrou.

  Lian Wan's soft voice accompanied a gentle smile as she said, "I'm afraid you're going to see Xiao Shi Xiong on the ninth day of the new year!"

  Lin Meng'er gently pushed her and said: "You're so bad! You also want to go, don't you?" The two girls quickly left.

  Everyone witnessed Shen Que's mighty display, using the "Xuanyang Tianjian Quan" to defeat the newly appointed leader of the Five Poison Sect, Bai Zhuye. Although she was just a young woman, after all, she was still the leader of a sect!

  Everyone was satisfied and pleased, feeling that this trip up the mountain was not in vain. They all hurried to congratulate Ding Zhongshu's three sons!

  "Amitabha, I can finally see the 'Xuanyang Tianjian Quan' again after 18 years. It's truly not a wasted trip! Ah... they're all good kids, Lian Tian, Shen Que, Chu Jiu, Lin Meng'er..." The master suddenly opened his eyes and congratulated Lin Ruochi and Gu Baiyun.

  At this time, the grand ceremony of granting the sword had passed through the disturbance of Bai Zhuye and others, and the day had already reached noon.

  And then, what kind of old friends will there be in the grand ceremony of granting a sword?

  Everyone in the world is excited and knows that it's time for the masters of various schools to guide the disciples of the Qingyun Sect to practice the exquisite swordsmanship of the Qingyun Sect!

  To be able to appreciate a little bit of exceptional skill is indeed one of life's greatest pleasures in the world of martial arts!

  At this time, Liu Chenfei came forward again, facing the group of heroes with a fist and bowing to all sides: "All good friends today can climb Mount Diancang, it is indeed the blessing of our sect!"

  Everyone immediately responded: "Liu Daxia, you are really too polite and humble!"

  Liu Chenfei looked up and smiled, then said: "The time is already late, now please invite all the seniors, brothers to our sect's dining hall for lunch. After lunch, the master of our sect and the seniors of various schools will also comment on the martial arts of these ten disciples. I hope that the seniors and friends will not hesitate to give advice!"

  Everyone listened to him and suddenly felt a little hungry, so they followed his words and went to the Diancang Temple's dining hall. This meal, as expected, was filled with Diancang's unique flavors, with vegetarian dishes and fragrant wine filling the air.

  Shaolin Changkong Master, Wudang Liuyun Daoist, Kunlun Jianceng, Kongtong Pai, Qingcheng Pai and other masters had two tables set up in the side hall of Diancang, accompanied by Lin Ruoqi and Gu Baiyun.

  Lin Ruo Chi's eight disciples, Huang Kou Fu, had predicted that today's kitchen would be heavily responsible, so he invited the owner of Yun Lai Ke Zhan in Shanxia Town to come and help. The people heard that it was a matter of the Diancang Sect and thought of the reputation of the Diancang Sect for over a hundred years. If it weren't for the protection of the Diancang Sect, there wouldn't be such peace. Everyone naturally wanted to come and help willingly.

  Huang Koufu, however, absolutely did not take advantage of his power for personal gain. Every person he helped would naturally receive the silver they deserved in return. The reputation of his sect, Tian Nan, was excellent, and it all started from small things.

  The shopkeeper came and went, serving dishes, when he suddenly saw Luo Zhihan, remembered past events, felt moved in his heart, and thought of thanking Luo Zhihan today.

  At last, he saw Luo Zhihan had finished his lunch, so he took the opportunity to pull him over to the corner of the wall, bowed and said: "Luo Gongzi, it's been a long time!"

  He lowered his head and continued, "That night, it must have been Lord Luo who took action to punish Zhang Lao Hu. Now the town of Fengyin is truly a peaceful and prosperous world. I would like to thank you on behalf of the people of Fengyin Town!"

  Luozhi's heart felt a pang, and he couldn't help but think of his master. His eyes reddened, and he quickly helped the shop assistant up, saying: "Little brother, this is just a trivial matter on my journey, no need to be polite!"

  He had already helped the shop assistant up and said, "Thanks for not reporting our master's and brothers' situation to the authorities."

  The little shopkeeper's face turned red with excitement and said: "Don't worry, sir. Even if the government uses severe punishment to force a confession, I won't betray you!"

  Lu Zhi was deeply moved in his heart, thinking: "This Tian Nan is indeed a man with a pure and simple heart, with justice in everyone's heart! It seems that being influenced by the Jianghu sect is enormous!"

  The young shopkeeper said, "The next day, I saw Mr. Chen wearing white clothes and leaving, and asked the lord to... mourn and change." He knew that Zhao Yunfeng had passed away, but he absolutely did not know about the matter of the "Liangzhou Five Wolves".

  Luò Zhǐ Hán nodded silently, his heart filled with inexplicable sorrow. He then saw Lián Wǎn Róu walking towards him from a distance and quickly grasped the shopkeeper's hand to bid farewell.

  At this moment, Lian Wanrou arrived in front of Luo Zhihan and asked strangely: "Luo big brother, that shop assistant, do you also know him?" She and her big brother Lian Tian, as well as Shizun's junior apprentice Chunjiu, had stayed at the Yunlai Inn in Fengyuan Town several times before, so they knew the shop assistant.

  Luo Zhi said hastily: "My master and my fellow disciples lived in the Yunlai Inn, and we often got his care, so today, taking advantage of this good opportunity, I thanked him."

  Lian Wanrou didn't even know about Luo Zhihan's previous encounter at Zhangjiazhuang, and Luo Zhihan hadn't mentioned it in "Shenmang Mountain Villa", so she just smiled and said: "But the way you two were acting earlier, it didn't seem like you were thanking him, but rather he was thanking you!"

  Luò Zhǐ Hán's face turned red, and he didn't know how to respond. Luckily, Lián Ruò Yù added: "Let's go, Luò Dàgē, we'll go take a look at Lin Qiāng'ér Shījiě, see what she's up to."

  Then, the two of them went to Lin Meng'er's side house, one in front and one behind.

  Inside the house, Lian Tian, Xiao Qi Zi, Chu Jiu, Xiang Ru, and two little junior sisters Shui Ping were present. Lin Meng Er was in the room, carefully playing with Chu Jiu's Tian Xuan broken wooden sword.

  Jianlian Wanrou pushed open the door and entered. Lin Ming'er smiled, "Wanrou, you've arrived just in time. Look at your 19th junior brother's sword."

  Lian Wanrou smiled slightly and said: "Do I still need to look? When forging swords at home, I don't know how many times I've seen it!"

  Yu Jiu smiled and said, "Of course, what doesn't our 'Shen Mang Mountain Villa's' little princess know?" Lian Wanrou then turned her head, looked at her brother Lian Tian, and with a glance from Luo Zhihan, she raised her fist to hit Yu Jiu.

  Xiao Qi Zi laughed and said, "Why doesn't Miss Qian Rou use this sword to greet Shi Xiong on the ninth?" Lian Wan Rou pretended to be angry and said, "This is his sword, I don't want to touch it!" However, her words were clearly fake, as she immediately took Lin Meng Er's Tian Xuan Su Mu Jian and began to play with it.

  Lian Tianjian saw Luo Zhihan come in and said, "Luo Shidi, this afternoon I heard people from the mountain talking about the Zhang family village affair, it must be your doing!" Luo Zhihan hastily bowed his head and said, "It was indeed my fault, I was reckless and implicated our sect."

  Lian Tian busied himself holding him up, and said seriously: "Luo Shidi, you don't know, even if you didn't take action, I was planning to go to Zhangjia Village after the sword ceremony to get rid of that evil old tiger!"

  Lin Meng'er chimed in from the side, "Second Brother's words are true. If it weren't for the importance of the Sword Conferring Ceremony, we would all be focusing on practicing our sword skills on the mountain. I'm afraid I would have been the first to leave! Father said back then that 'to go down the mountain and eliminate evil, one must wait until after the Sword Conferring Ceremony!' Therefore, if it weren't for this, Second Brother would have probably gone to deal with Zhang the Old Tiger already!"

  Luò Zhǐ Hán nodded slightly, thinking: "Fēng Yì is indeed under his feet, this statement must be true."

  At this moment, Lin Meng'er, Lian Wanrou, Xiang Ru, Shui Ping and Chu Jiu were laughing together, when the door was pushed open again. Lu Lun rushed in and said: "Everyone is here! I have a secret to tell you all, I'm sure none of you know!"

  "What's wrong, doesn't Eldest Sister know?"

  Lü Lun smiled and said: "Just now, I unintentionally overheard Master and Great Master saying something related to the Divine Guardian Tree we saw yesterday!"

  After listening for a while, he pretended to be very serious and said: "Sixth brother, you should be punished. Master is speaking, how dare you eavesdrop?" Chu Jiu, Lin Man Er, Lian Wan Rou, Xiang Ru, and Shui Ping all burst out laughing upon hearing this.

  "Second Brother's words are right, my Tianxuan shattered wood sword has not been used yet. Now that Sixth Brother has made a mistake, I'll use this sword to punish his butt for the first time!"

  Lin Meng'er, Lian Wanrou was even more delighted and hastily said: "Good, good! Second Master has already said so! Ninth Junior Brother, hand over your sword to me, let me carry out the punishment."

  At this moment, everyone burst out laughing. Lin Meng'er, Lian Wanrou, Xiang Ru and Shui Ping were even more so, covering their mouths with laughter.

  Xiang Ru also smiled and said: "This is just right, we still have some white medicine that can be used to treat Liu Shixiong's injury."

  She pointed at the disciples of the Cangpai sect, who had been together since childhood practicing swordsmanship and living together. Their feelings for each other were extremely deep. Today's joke was really just a normal one.

  After a while, everyone stopped laughing, and Lin Meng'er said: "Sixth Brother, how did you unintentionally hear it? What's going on?" However, she knew that her father was skilled in martial arts, if he had really been eavesdropping, wouldn't her father have discovered Lu Lun?

  Lu Lun hastily said: "How could I have the ability to eavesdrop on my master's conversation? Moreover, even if I had this ability, I wouldn't have the guts to do it!"

  As soon as he said this, Lian Tian and Chu Jiu also laughed.

  Lü Lun continued: "I was taking a nap on the bench in the backyard garden after lunch, and I didn't go back to my room to sleep. Just as I was about to fall asleep, Master and Mistress came over, walking and talking."

  Lian Wanrou hastily inserted a question: "What did Master Gu and Master Lin say?"

  "I wanted to get up, but I was afraid of ruining the conversation between Master and Mistress, so I just sat there quietly, and they didn't even notice me!" Ruru didn't hastily respond to Lian Yuanyu, instead continuing to explain.

  Eavesdropping on Master's conversation is a great taboo in the Diancang Sect, so Lu Lun naturally had to make an explanation.

  Lin Meng'er couldn't wait any longer, and laughed as she called out: "We all know you didn't mean to eavesdrop, Sixth Brother, so just quickly tell us what you heard Father and Eldest Master Aunt say!"

  Lü Lun suddenly lowered his voice and said, "It seems that Shifu showed Shibo the dark red small flower that opened on the 'How Ancient Tree' given by Little Martial Sister yesterday evening. I heard Shifu say: 'Big Martial Brother, it's really seven petals! The Guardian Deity Tree is blooming, what a good omen!'"

  Everyone heard that Lin Ruochi also said it was a good omen, how could they not be happy? Lin Ming'er happily said: "I thought so too yesterday!"

  On the ninth day, he was overjoyed again and asked: "What's next?"

  Lü Lun thought for a moment and said, "I heard Master Bo say that there's something strange going on!" Master asked, "What kind of strange thing?" Master Bo replied, "Yesterday you were meditating in your room and didn't see it, but I saw the colorful clouds filling the sky above the Guardian Tree!"

  Lin Meng'er interrupted him, laughing: "Even Master Lian saw it, so it seems we're not dreaming. When I woke up this morning, I thought I had just dreamed it all!"

  "Exactly, exactly. Little sister always thinks about this cloud and mist, so much that this morning in the side hall she kept asking me if the cloud and mist that Second Brother and I saw yesterday were real or not?"

  He said this and remembered the big bird he had vaguely seen yesterday, so he looked up at the sky. The sky was also looking forward to the ninth day of the first lunar month, and the two of them smiled at each other without saying a word.