Chapter 178

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　　However, he actually didn’t have any good reason to refute this. The Seven Peaks Tournament is held once every six years. It’s normal for new disciples to want to go and take a look.
　　“Today, I’ll grant you a holiday.”
　　As the Three-Three Layman said this, he raised his hand towards the rusty sword on the cliff wall.
　　Just listen to the sound of “zheng”, the rusty sword was suddenly pulled out from the cliff, and then flew back to the hands of San San Jushi with a “shua” sound.
　　“However, the next practice will be more and more difficult day by day. To become a real sword cultivator, the first thing is to control this sword more freely than your arm.”
　　As he said this, he held up the rusty sword with his hand and then suddenly swung his arm.
With the sound of a sword cry exploding, the flying sword in the hands of San San Jushi immediately turned into a streamer and flew straight towards the cliff.
And at the moment when it was about to Pierce the cliff, San San Jushi raised his arm and swept his sword finger sharply in front of him.
　　In an instant, the rusty sword turned into countless sword lights, and these sword lights converged into a colorful gust of wind and blew violently over the cliff.
　　“Boom！”
In the loud noise, the originally bare cliff was suddenly covered with a dense array of characters.
“One sword with three thousand characters. When your sword control technique reaches this level, you can come to learn my Sword Nine.
　　San San Jushi folded his arms across his chest and looked at the cliff in front of him with pride and said.
　　……
　　The main peak of Qingxuan Sect.
　　In front of the Fifth Ancestor Pool.
This is the place where the Green Mysterious Sect sacrifices the five ancestors who founded the Green Mysterious Sect. In the emerald pool water, there are huge statues of the five ancestors. These five huge statues form a circle and in the center of the circle is an extremely wide sword-testing area.
　　Looking down from a high place, it is like the five ancestors are sitting around a huge stone table.
And the layout of this sword-testing square is similar to that of the Sword Suppressing square on the First Peak. In the center is a huge open space, and on the west side are cloud towers that can be used as grandstands.
　　Today’s match, although it is the least important match of the Great Competition, the seats in the cloud towers are also filled with disciples from the seven peaks early.
　　The Great Competition of the Seven Peaks, which is held once every six years, is actually a competition held by the five ancestors to solve the disputes within the sect. At the beginning, it was said to be held once every sixty years, but later the peak masters thought the time was too long, so it was changed to once every six years.
　　However, although the time has changed, the number of matches and the rules have not changed.
　　For example, according to the rules set by the five ancestors, there are a total of seven matches in the Great Competition of the Seven Peaks, and the entire competition will last for almost a month. The fourth match that Taiping will participate in now is called ‘Drop by Drop Wears the Stone’. If there is no accident, it should be in half a month.
　　Zhao Linglong, who had already sat down in her seat early, carefully told Xu Taiping about the origin and some rules of the Great Competition of the Seven Peaks.
　　“The general rules of these seven competitions were told to me by Senior Qingxiao. It seems that except for the last one, Asking the Sword Qingxuan, the others are not direct confrontations between disciples.”
　　Xu Taiping asked Zhao Linglong a doubt in his heart.
　　“That’s right.”
　　Zhao Linglong nodded and then explained to Xu Taiping：
　　“At that time, in order to avoid the casualties among the disciples in the sect, the Fifth Ancestor did not arrange too many competitions like direct fighting. Even in Asking the Sword Qingxuan, after one side admits defeat, no more killing is allowed.”
　　“This kind of approach seems completely different from the selection of the Seven Peaks.”
　　Xu Taiping said thoughtfully.
　　“The Fifth Ancestor was benevolent. How could he be as self-willed as some people, not caring about the lives and deaths of the disciples under his door when doing things.”
　　Zhao Linglong snorted coldly with a pointed meaning.
　　Xu Taiping naturally knew who the “some people” in Zhao Linglong’s mouth referred to.
　　“Was Qingxuan in the past not quite the same as it is now？”
　　Xu Taiping was a little curious about what Qingxuan looked like in the past.
　　“I heard some senior brothers say that during the time of the Fifth Ancestor, the mountain gate of Qingxuan Sect was not in Yunlu Mountain, but in a secret realm dozens of times larger and dozens of times more abundant in spiritual energy than Yunlu Mountain. Later, for some reason, it was forced to move into Yunlu.”
　　“It was also from that time on that Qingxuan Sect declined day by day, and even some of the sect’s internal cultivation methods and classics were snatched away by other sects.”
“And in my father’s generation, Senior Brother Su Chan was born, with one person and one sword, reaching the top of the swordsmanship among the nine mansions. This originally made Qingxuan see the hope of rejuvenation, but unexpectedly, Senior Brother Su Chan finally fell into depravity and joined the way. If it weren’t for Little Martial Uncle’s return after self-destruction and turning the tide, I’m afraid Qingxuan would no longer exist.”
　　Zhao Linglong said in a low voice with some emotion.
　　“What are you two whispering about？”
　　Just then, a beautiful face suddenly leaned close to Zhao Linglong.
　　“Senior Sister Ziyan, why are you scaring me！”
　　Zhao Linglong, who was startled, gently punched the woman on the shoulder.
　　The person who came was none other than Xu Ziyan, a disciple of the Sixth Peak.
　　And behind Xu Ziyan, there was also Lin Buyu, whom they hadn’t seen for a long time.
　　“Senior Sister Ziyan, Junior Sister Buyu, you sit here.”
　　Xu Taiping gave up his position to let Xu Ziyan and Lin Buyu sit down.
　　However, Lin Buyu did not go to sit in the position between Zhao Linglong and Xu Ziyan, but directly walked to the left side of Xu Taiping and found an empty seat to sit down.
　　The little girl has always been independent and does her own thing. Everyone didn’t think there was anything wrong with it, so they let her be.
　　“Taiping, you seem to have grown taller again.”
　　Xu Ziyan, who sat down on the right side of Xu Taiping, gestured with her hand in surprise.
　　“Well, I have indeed grown a bit taller recently.”
　　Xu Taiping nodded and answered very seriously.
　　I don’t know if it’s because of practicing the Flame Emperor’s Furnace Body Forging Technique. In just one or two months, his height has increased by a noticeable amount. Now he is already as tall as Senior Brother Qingxiao.
　　Xu Ziyan was first amused by the serious look on Xu Taiping’s face when he answered.
　　“Sister Buyu seems to have grown a lot recently too. She is almost as tall as me.”
　　Zhao Linglong’s gaze then fell on Lin Buyu on the left side of Xu Taiping.
　　“Really？”
　　Lin Buyu raised her head when she heard this.
　　However, she didn’t look at Zhao Linglong but instead cast an inquiring gaze at Xu Taiping.