She stared at Xi Heng, clenching her left hand tightly, as if trying to grasp the last straw. "I have sworn." Xi Hengyan said: "I will devote my entire life to martial arts and practice it wholeheartedly." "Why swear?" She stared at Xi Heng, her tone seeming a little uneasy. "Because I want to get this done." Xi Heng said as a matter of course. This matter-of-fact sentence made the other party look surprised. "Just because you want to?" "of course." "Are you willing to devote your whole life to these two words?" Yan Hongji obviously didn't want to believe it. "Yes." "Just because you made a vow, can you insist on doing this?" she continued to ask.
Xi Heng nodded. “…” leaving the other party speechless. Yan Hongji clutched the fabric of her clothes, took a deep breath with a slight tremor, and then exhaled slowly. "You're such a weirdo." She shook her head. "is it?" "If possible, I would also like to be as strange as you, but unfortunately I can't do it." Yan Hongji's voice became lower and lower, and his clenched hands slowly loosened. "I can't become a warrior, so I might as well face reality and return to my family business." She said, "I will leave tomorrow morning. Tonight is my farewell. We will meet again in the future..." She lowered her head, and her breathing became weaker as she spoke. After saying that, he turned around and walked away slowly. Xi Heng looked at the other person's back and thought of the person he met a few days before his death in his previous life. At that time, she heard Hongji say with great regret: "If I could have persisted in practicing martial arts for a few more months..." "If you give up like this, you might regret it later." Xi Heng looked at the other person's back and persuaded him. "Regret it or not." But now Yan Hongji is already sad: "I have made up my mind, please don't persuade me anymore." Ok. Xi Heng answered in his heart, and then watched the other person leave in silence. It turns out to be useless. Forget about trying to persuade him. Even if you move the other person's future regrets to this moment, his choice will not change at all. Xi Heng shook his head, took off his clothes and went to sleep after a while. ……
I woke up at dawn the next day to do morning exercises, but Yan Hongji was gone. It was just dawn when the other party left. Xi Heng continued practicing his moves as usual, without stopping for a moment. She thought about the appearance of qi and blood she saw yesterday, and tried to tighten her muscles, trying to squeeze out a little qi and blood. Throughout the whole day, I didn't feel any different changes in my body, let alone my qi and blood. During lunch on the way, Li Anxue, who was sitting with her, asked to borrow money. As the last few days approached, the bad-tempered female apprentice became increasingly restless, and practiced martial arts every day with red eyes, regardless of her physical condition. After such a vicious cycle, this person's spirit has become a mess. As a result, Xi Heng could often hear the other person mumbling to himself when he got close: "It's just that I didn't succeed in the first three months... Just give me some more time... I have a sense of energy in my body, and I will be able to enter the energy after practicing hard..." Xi Heng moved further away from this person. As for borrowing money, I naturally refused it directly. After three days, Li Anxue was unable to raise much money, nor was he able to sense the qi and blood, and he walked out of the Sword Academy in a daze. Xi Heng watched the man go away, his mind calm. After sending Li Anxue away, the eldest sister came to her again and said according to the rules: "You have been practicing martial arts for three months. Do you feel the blood and qi?" Xi Heng shook her head and prepared to pay the money to continue practicing, but the senior sister first placed her hand firmly on her abdomen. "Take a deep breath and hold your breath." The other party said, "Imagine the blood flowing through the veins in your body, and use the breath you hold to move downward to try to sense your Dantian and see if you can feel the fetal breath flowing." Xi Heng followed the other party's instructions, held his breath, closed his eyes and felt the breath flowing in his body. The consciousness goes deep and downward, flowing from the chest to the taut abdomen, and then inward to perceive the so-called Dantian. In the warmth brought by Senior Sister Hong Miao's palm, Xi Heng seemed to really sense something this time... but also seemed not to have sensed anything. This illusory feeling made Xi Heng a little confused. He groped again, and that fleeting feeling was gone. At this point, he had reached his limit of holding his breath. Xi Heng let out a long sigh, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that the senior sister had raised the corner of her mouth. "Yes, I do feel something." She said, "I originally thought you had no hope, but now you have a 10% chance." "That trace just now, was it qi and blood?" Xi Heng asked. "Maybe, maybe not." The senior sister said something that was hard to understand, and patted Xi Heng on the shoulder: "However, as long as you can grasp that little feeling, you will be close to mastering the Qi and blood." Xi Heng hesitated for a moment before he felt happy and nodded gently to the senior sister. "But you still have to pay." Hong Miao held out her hand: "Twenty taels of silver as a gift." The girl sighed, took out two small gold cakes from the pocket on her waist and handed them to the other party.
Businessman Hong Miao weighed the item and nodded to accept it. "Keep practicing," she said and walked to the other end. Xi Heng rolled his eyes at the other person's back, then turned around and tried to close his eyes again, attempting to sense the energy in his dantian again. I tried several times, but couldn't experience it again. Just as I was wondering what was going on, a lot of noise suddenly came from the far end of the Sword Academy. "stop!" The sounds of shouting to stop, running on the ground, swords being drawn and robes fluttering in the air merged into one. Mixed in with it was a male's roar and a rough, panicked, trembling voice of pleading, which reached Xi Heng's ears one after another. The girl opened her eyes and looked back, heading towards the gate of the Sword Academy. "Get out of my way!" As the loud roar sounded, a figure wrapped in a black robe suddenly attacked and slapped forward, causing a thunderous sound out of thin air. The guard in front of the courtyard knew he was no match for them, so he immediately stepped back a few steps and shouted towards the sword training ground: "Hurry up and call the senior sister!" Before she finished her words, Hong Miao had already drawn her sword and arrived. The blade in her hand stopped steadily while moving, pointing directly at several black-robed men who suddenly attacked her. "People from Dong Huangmei Mountain?" She said in a cold voice, "I don't know when my small martial arts school offended you all." "Help, help me..." A big man in a black robe grabbed a fat man with his hands and feet tied, pale face, and pig-like body and shouted for help: "Lady, help, save me——" The sturdy man slapped the fat man in the face, causing him to scream like a slaughtered pig. After this warning, the captives dared not say anything more. "We came here just to find out one thing!" The black-robed man at the front raised his arm, revealing a jade pendant on his fingertips, and said loudly: "Who pawned this item at Chen's pawnshop three months ago?" …… …… A breeze blew by, blowing up the red and white robe of the eldest sister. Hong Miao stepped on the stone floor, holding the sword in her right hand and pointing it steadily towards the front, with the tip of the sword pointing straight at the several men in black robes who were attacking her. The burly man in a black robe at the front showed her the jade pendant in his hand with a loud, ear-shattering voice. "Hand him over immediately! We will leave!" Hong Miao was not afraid at all, and said coldly, "I don't know what you mean. You come to my sword academy to rob people with just a broken jade token. Isn't that too unruly?" "Or does Huang Meishan rely on his current strength to bully our scattered sects? If this matter spreads in the martial arts world, I wonder how you fellow heroes will view it!" "So what?!" The sturdy man took a step forward, and a spider web-like crack ten feet wide appeared on the stone slab.
"This is a matter of great importance and we cannot afford to make any mistakes! If you refuse to hand over the person, we will break down your gate immediately!" "How shameless!" Hong Miao frowned and said angrily, "Do you dare to fight me?" "Why not?" The sturdy man in black robe swung the fat man in his right hand towards him, causing the man to wail. Then he took a stance, with two iron-gray palms blocking in front of him, one in front and one behind. "Nonsense!" A strong female voice came from the black-robed man behind: "Steel Palm, you step back." The sturdy man was stunned for a moment, and another thin man in black robe walked forward from behind. This person took off his hood to reveal his face, and clasped his fists towards Hong Miao who was holding a sword ready to fight, and said: "I am Zhang Luoyi, the commander of the Jinghong Sword Faction stationed at the Jinshi City Gate. I am sorry that I do not know the etiquette, so please forgive me!" Hong Miao frowned, snorted coldly, but still gave face and lowered the blade slightly: "Master, you broke into our Red Line Sword Sect without informing us in advance. This is not the righteous way that you, the Jinghong Sword Sect, uphold." "Today's situation is very urgent. I hope you will bear with me. I will compensate for all the losses today, and I will give you 100 taels of gold as compensation afterwards!" "He's rich and powerful." Hong Miao sneered. Zhang Luoyi didn't care about this and continued to ask urgently: "The owner of this jade pendant is extremely important to our Huangmeishan Army. Recently, we followed her trail and found that she is a woman. The last trace she left behind is where your clan is. So we came here to make some inquiries. We hope that your clan can provide some help." "Are you asking questions with all this?" The eldest sister snorted coldly. "The situation is urgent. This jade pendant once fell into the hands of a court official. They are also investigating this matter. I don't know when they will arrive." The other party continued: "We are one step ahead of them, and we must end it as soon as possible! As a fellow warrior, I hope you will stand on our side!" "Otherwise... we have to fight!" Zhang Luoyi said in a firm tone, his right hand already on the sword at his waist. "Well, no one has ever dared to bully my Red Line Sword Sect like this." Hong Miao was not willing to accept this kind of soft and hard tactics: "You want to break into my sect with just a piece of broken jade, and you want to show off your power with a sword." "If we don't defeat all of you, how can we maintain our dignity in the martial arts world?" She shouted, "Draw your sword!" "You still want to protect me like this? It turns out you are a court dog!" Zhang Luoyi put a hat on the other party in public, and then the long sword in his hand was unsheathed with a buzzing sound. ---- Chapter 9: Know Yourself and Understand the World Under the broad daylight, the three-foot green peak gleamed with silver light. The sword blade had no flaws at all and the surface was bright white. It looked extremely sharp and could cut iron like mud. Hong Miao took a breath, and swept the sword across the people in front of him, ready to defeat them one by one. Several black runners took out heavy hammers, one used his fists, and the strong man who was good at palm techniques also practiced external skills, so he needed to find the key points to defeat them... Hong Miao took a stance, showing no fear at all.
Zhang Luoyi faced him, slowly retracting his sword to gather momentum. All the noise suddenly turned into silence at this moment, and everyone was on the verge of a storm. "Wait!" Just as Hong Miao was gathering her strength and about to step forward and slash with the sword, a familiar shout interrupted her action. "Wait, wait." Xi Heng ran over quickly, patting his chest and taking a breath. "It's me!" After taking a break, she admitted directly: "I pawned the jade pendant!"