Hanbei.

An island in the middle of a lake somewhere in Songzhou.

In the center of the island surrounded by water is a quiet pavilion. A figure sits there silently at the bottom of the pavilion. The whole person looks like a wood-plastic stone sculpture. The stone platforms and tables nearby are covered with a layer of stone visible to the naked eye. The dust had obviously not moved for a long time, but the simple cloth on his body was not stained by dust.

In front of him, a knife floated quietly in the void. It looked very simple and seemed to be extremely silent. The blade was thick and had mysterious patterns, but it seemed to be weightless and suspended in the air.

Warriors who have cultivated to the realm of blood exchange are truly transcendent beings. One person is a force, and one person can support a sect like the Qixuan Sect sitting in the state capital. But when it comes to the strongest in the world, Among that group of people, there are only two people in the eleven Hanbei states. One of them is Yuan Hong, the king of Zhenbei, and the other is Tiandao Gongyang Yu.

For these peerless figures who have fully understood the third step of the artistic conception and reached the realm of unity between man and nature, it is difficult to clearly distinguish between them, and there is no public opinion like the list of celebrities and the genealogy of masters. Ranking.

but.

There is still a rough ranking distinction.

Whether Yuan Hong's strength can rank among the top ten in the world is controversial. Most people think that he is among the top twenty and has difficulty making the top ten. However, Gong Yangyu is recognized as being able to rank among the top five in the world, or even among the top ten. three!

The line of Heavenly Sword he opened up is the ultimate realm of swordsmanship. It brings together all the swordsmanship in the world and finally transforms and sublimates it. It is almost as good as the Heavenly Sword Clan's Heavenly Sword Clan, and it is also one of the top existences in martial arts. .

But as for where it can be ranked, there is no conclusion, and no one dares to rank it.

suddenly.

There seemed to be an invisible ripple in the void, and there seemed to be some news in this ripple.

Under the stone pavilion, Gong Yangyu, the 'Heavenly Sword' who seemed to have been sitting for several years, finally slowly opened his eyes. His eyes were old and simple. There was no sword accident anywhere on his body, as if he was just an ordinary man. old man chopping firewood.

He stood up slowly and looked in the direction of Bingzhou from a distance, with a ripple in his eyes.

"Junior Brother Tuoba, are you leaving?"

The old man sighed.

Tuoba Xi came from the same sect as his master, and when he was young, he always competed with him. They competed in everything, and they also won in every battle. However, only in the path of swordsmanship, he never surpassed him by half. Step by step, always below him.

In fact, he had never regarded Tuoba Xi as an opponent, and he had never considered a sword fight at all. He only followed his own path and practiced only his own sword.

As the saying goes, if you don't fight with your husband, you can't fight with him.

Tuoba Xi has always had his 'Heavenly Sword' in his heart, so he has never been able to cross that step and has been stuck at the master level for more than a hundred years. From the beginning, he has never put Tuoba Xi's 'Excellent Sword' in his heart.

Perhaps on his deathbed, Tuoba Xi finally understood what the way of the sword was and why he was so rampant.

"Chen Mu..."

The ripples in Gong Yangyu's eyes gradually calmed down, and he muttered another name.

In this troubled world,

An extraordinary character indeed emerged.

Gong Yangyu gently raised his hand and held the Heavenly Sword floating in the air, which had frightened the world for more than a hundred years. The moment he took the sword into his hand, his whole aura suddenly changed.

Originally, he looked like an ordinary and simple old man chopping firewood, but when he held the heavenly sword, the rolling blade on his body was like the Milky Way falling from the nine heavens. Although he was only holding the long sword in disguise, he gave people a sense of power. The feeling of splitting the sky.

He stared down at the heavenly sword in his hand.

His sword intention was not directed at Chen Mu, because Tuoba Xi did not die at Chen Mu's hands, but died at the end of his life. He died at the end of his life. He died at a lifespan that mortals cannot violate. Gongyang Yu was also commonplace before the years.

Tuoba Xi has been a hundred and fifty years old. He has ruled the world with his sword, but he has never held on to his own essence. Even though he is a top master, his life span is naturally only the same as that of ordinary masters. And he, Gongyang Yu, has entered the After entering the realm of blood exchange, his lifespan will naturally be much longer, but the Heavenly Sword he practices is an extremely domineering and rampant way, and he does not pay attention to health preservation, so his lifespan is only more than two hundred years at most.

"Grub the skin, train the meat, relax the tendons, forge the bones, refine the internal organs, temper the internal organs, wash the marrow, and exchange blood."

"But even in this state of blood exchange, it still cannot resist the erosion of time."

Gong Yangyu murmured.

After a warrior enters the blood exchange realm, although he can completely lock his own essence and blood from being lost, as long as he is between heaven and earth, he will inevitably have to interact with heaven and earth, and it is impossible to completely isolate himself from heaven and earth.

As long as there is contact with this world, as long as it is still flesh and blood, it will gradually lose its activity as time goes by, and eventually reach the end of life and death.

"Martial arts, why is it immortal?"

Gongyang Yu looked up at the sky.

This is a question that he began to explore decades ago. In other words, most people will explore it when they reach his realm, when they reach the unity of heaven and man, and when they reach the end of the true martial arts.

The eight realms of body-tempering martial arts are never achieved overnight. They were worked out step by step by countless martial arts sages. It is a process that is constantly broadened outwards, constantly summarized by others, and finally completely established.

As far as Gong Yangyu knows, the birth of the blood-changing realm has a history of nearly ten thousand years, while the marrow-washing realm cannot be scrutinized.

The ancients were able to go from skin grinding, to finessing, to meat training, to muscle reshaping, bone forging... until the final marrow cleansing and blood transfusion, but today's people are unable to find a way to the realm of blood transfusion.

In the past ten thousand years, the only slight breakthrough in the martial arts was the birth of the "Qian Kun" way, and the appearance of the first person to aspire to the throne with the "Qian Kun" way, the founding Martial Emperor of Daxuan, Ji Hao.

But Ji Hao spent his whole life and failed to explore the ninth realm of martial arts.

The biggest problem here is not that there is any lack of talent, but that there is a lack of direction for reference, because after reaching the unity of heaven and man in the blood exchange realm, it will be the pinnacle of the world, enough to rival those tenth-level peerless heavenly monsters. .

And throughout the ages, the most powerful monster in the world is only the tenth level.

The road after the blood exchange should lead to true immortality, but the peerless demons of the tenth level also have a lifespan, and they cannot live forever in the world. They will also age and die one day, so there is nothing to be found from them. direction.

but.

After decades of exploring the martial arts, Gong Yangyu has not found nothing. At least he has two paths in his knowledge.

The first is to create heaven and earth on its own, allowing the inner breath to arise on its own.

The reason why practitioners still age after practicing in the blood-transformation realm is that warriors cannot create inner breath out of thin air. As long as they still exist in the world, they will inevitably draw power from the world. Even if they reach the level of 'bigu', they will always breathe in the heaven and earth. Yuan Qi is used to maintain itself, and in the process it will be eroded by some kind of underworld force from heaven and earth.

Unless the warrior can completely isolate heaven and earth and not have any interaction with heaven and earth, this is a state that Gong Yangyu cannot figure out, because even if the warrior maintains absolute silence and does not move, the heart in the body is beating and the blood is flowing. No matter how slowly you release it, you will still lose Yuan Qi, and the loss must be replenished from heaven and earth.

If a warrior can do it, make Yuan Qi grow on its own and form a world of its own, then maybe it can work.

But how to create a world of its own?

Gongyang Yu can't find the direction.

Although he could think of the "Qian Kun" way that encompassed everything in the world, Ji Hao, who was in charge of the Qian Kun, was not able to do this, which shows that it is not possible to simply comprehend the Qian Kun and use the Qian Kun to enter the Tao.

Second, the body is integrated with heaven and earth.

From the beginning of cultivating the internal organs, a warrior gradually merges with heaven and earth, reaches the marrow-cleansing state to break through the mysterious entrance, and then exchanges blood to communicate inside and outside the country. The entire practice is a process of constantly adapting to the power of heaven and earth.

Since it is difficult to isolate oneself from heaven and earth, the other way is to completely integrate with heaven and earth, and let the flesh and blood body be completely transformed into a body condensed by the power of heaven and earth. From then on, it will be separated from the category of flesh and blood, and the essence of heaven and earth will be the same. Naturally, It will not decay.

But the road is also difficult.

When a warrior reaches the realm of blood exchange, it seems that his whole body has been completely tempered by the power of heaven and earth. However, after tempering and completely transforming into the essence of heaven and earth, they are completely different things. Just like when practicing in the five internal organs realm, the more tempering times, the The harder it is.

The more you want to reach the limit, the harder it will be.

Although now, the martial blood flowing in his body is almost transformed into the pure power of heaven and earth. The power of heaven and earth condensed in the martial blood accounts for almost 90% of its essence, but this last 10% wants to be tempered. , but it is difficult!

In Gong Yangyu's view, the concept of tempering the martial body to the extreme, to the point where it is completely composed of the power of heaven and earth from the inside out, blending heaven and earth, and completely separated from flesh and blood, is actually an incredible concept. realm.

but.

Compared with the self-contained world of the first road, this second road is after all less mysterious and can actually be seen. It’s just how to walk it and how to get through it. He has gained so far. Very few.

Gong Yangyu looked up at the sky, and the sword intent on his body gradually calmed down.

"Can you enter the blood exchange realm?"

Chen Mu's name rose in his heart.

The only progress in martial arts in the past ten thousand years is the birth of the Tao of Heaven and Earth, but there are too few people who have taken this path. So far, there is only one person, Ji Hao, the founding martial emperor of Daxuan, and he is still a figure from more than a thousand years ago. He cannot compete with him. On the Road.

As for those Qiankun Grandmasters who cannot even enter the realm of blood exchange, they are naturally far from reaching the limit he has reached, and they are even less likely to be of any help to the martial arts he pursues. From the perspective of vision, they are on a completely different level.

Chen Mu,

Can you enter the blood exchange realm?

In the future, can we discuss the end of martial arts with him?

…

Yujun.

After many years, the outer city is still chaotic.

Many years ago when Chen Mu was still in Yu County, the chaos in the outer city was due to the quarrel between the four major families in the inner city. Their influence extended to every corner of the outer city, and gangs formed and disputes continued.

This is still the case today.

Although the four major families have long become history, the presence of many sects such as Tianyin Sect and Hehuan Sect has made the situation in Yu County complicated. For many people, the water is deeper than before, and they have to be more cautious in their actions.

After all, an incident in the past would only involve the four major families at that time, but now it may break the connection all the way and eventually involve a large sect, far beyond what the four major families of the year could compare to.

inner city.

Yu family's residence.

Today, the Yu family is the undisputed number one family in Yu County. Even in just a few years, when it comes to the family's descendants and their apparent power, it is still not as good as the Xue family that once controlled half of the county. But when it comes to Due to the hidden background, both the Xue family and the Xie family have to stay away, and even those sect forces will hesitate to touch the Yu family.

Because there is a big mountain behind the current Yu family, and the name of that mountain is Chen Mu.

The elder of the Qixuan Sect, the master of the Lingxuan Peak, the third person on the Billboard Ranking, Master Qin Mengjun is now one of the two supreme masters of the Qixuan Sect. He is an existence in the blood exchange realm that stands at the pinnacle of martial arts. To ordinary people, he is simply a legendary figure. .

In a courtyard somewhere.

Yu Jiujiang was leaning on a recliner. His beard and hair were white, his face had more wrinkles, and his blood was weaker. He was almost not as good as some Yijin realm warriors, but his expression was very leisurely and his eyes were easy-going. Holding a cup of tea.

Suddenly, he raised his head, looked towards the door, then sat up with a smile and said, "Why are you suddenly interested in coming to my place today, Mr. Yan? Someone will prepare tea and take a seat."

As the words fell.

Not far away, a maid immediately responded respectfully.

The person who walked in from outside the courtyard was wearing the robe of the inspector. It was Yan Jingqing. He looked calm. After entering the courtyard, he did not stop the servants in the courtyard. After several servants moved the chairs, he stood in Yu Jiujiang's room. Sit down opposite.

He didn't say anything for a while, and waited for the maid next to him to make tea, then picked up the teacup and took a sip.

Yu Jiujiang looked at Yan Jingqing, with a flash of surprise in his eyes. He couldn't figure out what Yan Jingqing's purpose was for a moment, but he was not nervous at all. On the one hand, he was getting old, and on the other hand, the Yu family's current situation Yan Jingqing is no longer as confident as he was in the past. In recent years, Yan Jingqing has even discussed many matters with the Yu family.

certainly.

Yu Jiujiang knew very well that the source of all this was the existence of Chen Mu.

"..."

After Yan Jingqing finished drinking the tea, he suddenly sighed.

This sigh made Yu Jiujiang feel inexplicably. After all, he was very familiar with Yan Jingqing's temperament. He always went to the Three Treasures Hall for no reason. He came here today because something big must have happened, and with this weird attitude and appearance , and it made him vaguely think of many bad things.

"But what happened to Chen Mu?"

Yu Jiujiang looked at Yan Jingqing and asked tentatively.

It’s no wonder that he immediately thought of Chen Mu. If it was something that was not related to Chen Mu, he wouldn’t let Yan Jingqing come to the door in person. He even bypassed Yu Zuyi and came directly to him.

"I asked casually at the beginning, but I never thought that it would turn out to be a prophecy... No, it's too early to say that, but in just a few years, it feels like a dream."

Yan Jingqing didn't answer the question. For a moment, his tone seemed to be sighing, and he seemed to be in a trance.

Just when Yu Jiujiang was confused, he saw Yan Jingqing gently raising his hand, and a page of information letter fell in front of Yu Jiujiang.

Yu Jiujiang raised his hand and took it.

After taking a closer look, the whole person was suddenly shocked, as if he had seen some fantastic news.

"this……"

Looking at Yu Jiujiang's shocked expression, Yan Jingqing closed his eyes slightly, but he recalled that a few years ago, he asked Chen Mu how to calm down the troubled times.

Chen Mu's answer was that perhaps there would be another figure like the founding king of Daxuan, a peerless martial sage.

The words spoken back then are still clear to this day.

But what is unimaginable is that it has been less than ten years since then, but Chen Mu acted on his will, and quietly, he was only one step away!

"This information..."

It took a long time for Yu Jiujiang to recover from the shock. Although he knew in his heart that the information Yan Jingqing gave him would not be false, he still couldn't help but ask one more question.

After all, the content in this information is really shocking.

"The information is correct."

Yan Jingqing sighed with a sigh.

"This is really..."

Yu Jiujiang looked at it carefully a few more times before looking away. He didn't know how many words came out for a while, but he didn't know which one to say. Finally, he smiled bitterly.

Originally, the Yu family had prospered in recent years because of Chen Mu. Although he felt that the end of his life was getting closer and closer, he had long been at peace in his heart and died without regrets.

Can bear fruit.

Things are always going to be unexpected.

If he died at the end of his life, he would definitely die with tension and regret, because he could not see whether Chen Mu in the future would be able to take the step to the pinnacle of martial arts.

After all, after the Dao of Heaven and Earth has passed the Marrow Cleansing Realm, there is really only one step away from becoming the world leader!