But ask the people

Chapter 11 Xue Mei

Ten days passed quickly, and the retest came in the blink of an eye. Jiang Yi sat alone under the stage, surrounded by people who took part in the retest like her, but she was different from the noise around her, holding the sword in her arms alone.

Shen Chao told her the day before his death that some unresolved matters came up before he left, and she would come back in a few days. Jiang Yi was alone these few days, going to the field when there was a competition, and practicing swordsmanship in the house without a competition. My daily life seems to be idle.

Until one day, Jiang Yi met a familiar person on the sword-testing platform.

"No. 76, Jiang Yi, yes, No. [-], Xue Mei."

Jiang Yi looked at the woman in red who was walking towards the stage, and Xue Mei also looked at her in surprise.

Xue Mei seemed to be as arrogant and bright as when she first saw her. Compared with her spiritual breath, she had been restored to its original state, but this time when she came to the stage, she was not holding the sword that looked like an ornament, but a long black knife.

The disciple of Yun Qing Sect who was in charge of judging the winner was a little embarrassed: "Senior Sister Xue, how can you use a sword in the sword test?"

But Xue Mei waved her hand and said very coolly: "Everyone knows that the sword is better than the sword. I use the sword to compete. It is my own disadvantage. What does it have to do with others?"

"What's more." She paused and said, "I use a knife, but what I'm really practicing is the way of the sword. It's just a knife instead of a sword. It doesn't seem to be wrong."

The Yunqing Sect disciple couldn't speak, so he looked at Jiang Yun as if asking for help.

Jiang Yi's expression didn't change, and he said, "No problem."

Since there was no disagreement between the two sides of the competition, the Yunqingmen disciples had no choice but to announce: "No. 20 three sword trials, let's begin!"

This time, Xue Mei took a quick step towards Jiang Yi, raised the knife and jumped up, and was about to chop Jiang Yi, but Jiang Yi did not avoid it, and raised his sword to confront the knife. Only then did she realize that Xue Mei's knife was even thicker than it looked. It must be heavy, and Xue Mei's strength is tenacious, as if he is good at physical training.

A knife is not as light as a sword, and every move consumes a lot of energy, but at the same time, every attack will bring oppression to the opponent.

Jiang Yi relied on several years of strength practice, so he didn't feel strenuous. If it were someone else, he might not be able to hold on to the three moves and would be out of breath.

Taking advantage of the gap between Xue Mei's saber change, Jiang Yi swung his sword and stabbed at her. Xue Mei reacted immediately. Can avoid Jiang Yi's blow.

Seeing that the move would not work, Jiang Yi turned his wrist and turned the sword behind his back, just cutting off a strand of black hair from Xue Mei.

Xue Mei distanced herself, adjusted her breath and said with a smile: "I knew you were extraordinary when I first met you, but I didn't expect to be able to defeat my long sword."

Jiang Yi breathed calmly, and was not proud of it: "Teacher Xue is superb in sword skills, I was just looking for a coincidence."

Xue Mei seemed to be more energetic when she heard the words. As she stepped forward, she shouted softly: "What a coincidence, come again!"

The swords collided, making the sound of contention.

At the same time, there was a stand not far from the audience, on which were several swordsman elders and clan masters from various sects, who were in charge of surveying the competition and commenting on swordsmanship.

While watching the contest between Jiang Yi and Xue Mei, the elder of Xuanminmen was the first to speak: "Xue Mei is superb in swordsmanship, he is already the best of this generation, and the person on the other side is good at coping, even a little better than her."

"The sword base is extremely stable, who is she?" The members of the Chang sect showed admiration.

And the people in the clan found clues.

"The person who confronted Nephew Xue Xian, her swordsmanship is somewhat familiar."

"There is a certain amount of advance and retreat, especially the swift withdrawal of the sword, there is a faint shadow of a person."

"Quite like..."

They fell silent.

And the aged head of the Bai Family Yutang, staring at Jiang Yun with heavy eyes, silently pierced through a thousand miles chasing voice: "The sword appeared on the sword testing platform."

At this time, in the Bai family in Changzhou, a man was sitting in front of the case, and after hearing the voice transmission, he replied: "Got it."

Xue Ning, who was sitting down, asked, "Whatever?"

Bai Wuyan said: "The Shen family doesn't care, so what do I care about."

"Have you found any trace of Duan Yunshu?"

Xue Ning shook his head.

Bai Wuyan sighed: "My weak and very weak sister..."

……

Here, Xue Mei's speed became faster, and Jiang Yi responded calmly one by one, and finally found a flaw when she threw the knife upwards, jumped up, staggered half a point away from Xue Mei one step ahead of her, and knocked the knife aside with his sword.

Xue Mei was a little startled, but quickly accepted the result, turned around and took a few steps to pick up her knife and hold it in her hand.

And the disciples of Yunqingmen who had been staring blankly for a long time realized this, and said in disbelief: "Jiang Yi, win!"

Xue Mei stepped down from the stage with Jiang Yi, and she said to Jiang Yi: "I use a knife as a sword, and I think I have entered the realm of perfection. I didn't expect that you are a hundred times stronger than me."

Jiang Yi was neither humble nor overbearing, and was not overjoyed: "Teacher Xue accepted the concession, but the victory lies in the advantage of the sword and sword."

Even though Jiang Yi said so, Xue Mei still thought that even if she was holding a knife, or those people in the clan who had the best swords for a while, such as Xie Wenlin, Han Shu, Lin Mianshuang, etc., might not be able to beat her.

After stepping down, Xue Mei did not leave, but called Jiang Yun: "I am not a few years older than you, you and I are of the same generation, why do you call me the hall master?"

Then she brought up the previous incident.

"Wu'an, I was frustrated for a while, and I didn't realize that he was in danger."

"Among the Zongmen, some people who disobeyed the righteous way were hunted down, and he was well-known, and he was among them."

"He was blessed by the evil formation at that time. The seal script on the formation is different from the ordinary seal script. It may have something to do with the Demon Realm. The four families are having a meeting these few days."

The Demon Realm is a strange realm born in ancient times, and was later sealed by the power of the fairy world. Until more than ten years ago, a boy born with demon bones was born.

The four families did not let him go, but when he found his location, he had already noticed the clues, disappeared, and chased and killed him. In the end, he still fled outside the boundary of Xiuxian Mountain and disappeared without a trace.

"Although I don't know how you broke the formation, but thanks to you, otherwise we would all be exhausted."

She folded her arms and approached Jiang Yi. Seeing Jiang Yi subconsciously backed away, she raised her eyebrows and said, "I like you very much. I wonder if you can make friends with me?"

……

In the next few days, Jiang Yi's winning streak led more people to notice her, and even threw spiritual treasures at her in an attempt to include her in his own family.

But Jiang Yi seemed to be devoted to the Tao, except for the occasional meal with Xue Mei, most of them disappeared.

Jiang Yi felt that he had made a breakthrough recently, so he had been practicing alone in the house until Shen Chaosheng came back, and this kind of life changed.

Shen Chaosheng, as an expert in slack, walks birds and teases cats, and pulls Jiang Yi to do all the things he usually does when he is bored.

For example: "Ginger, guess what animal it is."

Shen Chaosheng showed Jiang Yi a short-legged fur animal that looked like a puffer fish.

Jiang Yi: "A puffer fish that can walk."

It was hard to hear such amazing words from Jiang Yi.

But Jiang Yi has been asked continuously in the past few days. After seeing the swimming chicken, the fairy eyebrow mouse, the cat snake and many other strange animals that Shen Chaosheng brought along from the Spirit Beast Pavilion, she said these words are very reasonable.

But Shen Chaosheng was always unexpected, and said with a smile: "Wrong, this is a fat sheep."

But it obviously has shark fins...

Jiang Yi raised his forehead, and ended the conversation after Shen Chaosheng was approached by the Spirit Beast Pavilion again.

But sometimes, Shen Chaosheng also handles some letters or documents.

Those documents are usually contained in very delicate and expensive boxes, embroidered with golden cloud patterns.

Jiang Yi never asked about Shen Chaosheng's life experience, but now he can guess one or two, probably he is the same clan master as Xue Mei.

But she didn't care too much. After all, Jiang Zongyue had a lot of money. Although he was frugal, he stuffed her with several pockets of spirit stones when she went down the mountain.

Jiang Yi thought of Jiang Zongyue telling her a few days ago that she went down the mountain and met a person she had taught before.

Jiang Zongyue also complained that that person was really less able to take care of herself than Jiang Yi, and she was dying, so she had to stay for a while.

Jiang Yi remembered that Shen Chaosheng made some calculations that day, and suddenly mentioned to her: "Ah Yi, do you know that Kyoto is not peaceful now."

But Shen Chaosheng didn't care, he just said: "It's just a change of dynasty, but the weather is a bit strange."

When Shen Chaosheng handles documents, Jiang Yi usually reads a few books on sword theory, but Shen sometimes complains to her: "Forget about anything else, why Fang Bo is more than 200 years old, and he doesn't leave with my great-grandpa. If you are willing to send me a letter, even if you send a letter, I am a junior who is entrusted with high expectations. I know that I am strong, but doing geometric arithmetic is a bit too much."

Or: "Three shops lost four of their money, and begged me not to throw it away, it's unbelievable..."

There were also some important documents. Shen Chaosheng never avoided her when he read them, but he seemed not very interested and in a bad mood, and she didn't cross the line to ask.

But once Shen Chaosheng read a few books and suddenly asked Jiang Yi: "Ah, what if behind some seemingly bright and magnificent things, countless means are needed to build them."

"If I had to get involved, would you think I was the same as those people?"

Jiang Yi closed the sword book and looked at her: "You are different from them, I will recognize you."

"And you should be the one to bring the light."

Shen Chaosheng lost his mind for a moment after hearing this, but quickly recovered his usual casual expression, and said, "Actually, you imagined me too well."

Just as Jiang Yi wanted to refute, Shen Chaosheng said: "In the betting competition with you, I secretly used illusion."

Jiang Yun: "?"

Jiang Yun: "Come again."

Shen Chaosheng waved his hands quickly, and was just about to get up and abscond when he was dragged out of the yard by Jiang Yi.

In the end, Jiang Yi won easily.