Chapter 914: The exiled princess conquers the floating sword god
Ximen Chuixue put his palm lightly, and the porcelain bowl fell firmly onto the stone table.
The sun was just right and the weather was slightly cold. He stared at Shu Ange and persuaded him again: "Winter is coming soon, can't we wait for spring to go to Nanzhao?"
"It's always inconvenient to train troops in winter."
Shu Ange pursed his lips and chuckled, suddenly holding Ximen Chuixue's finger and pinching it naughty: "Master Ximen, you seem to have forgotten that Nanzhao is far in the southwest, and the winter there is warmer than Jiangnan. of."
The slightly bitter fragrance of flowers drifted away in the wind, Ximen Chuixue looked down at Shu Ange's slender fingers like jade, and suddenly retracted his palms, holding her pair of soft weeds in his cool big hands.
"I'll go to Nanzhao with you."
Shu Ange hummed softly, and Ximen Chuixue raised his other hand to tighten the cloak for her: "I don't know how to march and fight, and I don't know how to train and form formations, but I will always protect you."
Simple words are worth more than ten thousand confessions. Shu Ange stood on tiptoe, rested his cheek on Ximen Chuixue's shoulder, and asked, "Where is your sword, are you willing to let go of your obsession for me?"
She looked at Ximen Chuixue's black and white eyes with a serious expression and a serious tone.
What Shu Ange wants is not a moment of happiness, but a long-term relationship. If Ximen Chuixue regarded everything between the two as an experience, she would rather never have it.
Ximen Chuixue unconsciously put his finger on the hilt of the sword, and there was a hint of hesitation in his eyes.
He took her to heart, and began to have the joys, sorrows and sorrows that belonged to people. The title of Sword God seemed to be a distant past.
Do you really want to give up? When he was not yet at the height of the sword, he already fell in love with the sword. Now more than 20 years later, the sword is already a part of his body.
"I--"
Ximen Chuixue said my words, frowning slightly, looking at Shu Ange with a little more struggle.
Ximen Chuixue's figure was reflected in Shu Ange's clear eyes, he suddenly took off the sword from his waist, glanced down, and handed the sword to her.
"This is?"
"A certain student learned swordsmanship at the age of seven, and he succeeded in seven years. Before you, he had never met an opponent."
Having said that, Ximen Chuixue added: "Only with sincerity and justice can you reach the pinnacle of swordsmanship. When I was seven years old, I swore that I would pursue swordsmanship in my life, and sacrifice my life for the sake of the Dao."
He seemed to be explaining something, and it seemed that it was just his mental journey when he was a teenager.
Hearing that Ximen Chuixue took an oath at the age of seven and sacrificed his life to prove Kendo, Shu Ange felt a little melancholy in his heart.
"Sword, for you."
Ximen Chuixue put the cold black-sheathed sword in her palm, his brows suddenly stretched out, and the coldness of Ruoshuangxue lightened a lot.
A person who loves the sword like his life is willing to hand the sword into the hands of his lover. Who else has the heart to doubt this sincerity?
Shu Ange took the black sheath sword in her hand and moved her head away from Ximen Chuixue's shoulder. With a slight movement of her wrist, half of the sword was exposed with a cold light like water.
The sword body reflected her pale jade face and clear water eyes, and Shu An singer touched the sword body, and then she drew the sword back into the sheath.
"Ximen, who told you that in pursuit of kendo, you must end your love and love?"
Even though Ximen Chuixue clearly expressed her willingness to let Shu Ange's obsession with kendo for Shu Ange, she still wanted him to realize that there was no conflict between sword and love.
"Sincerely with the sword, if you want to achieve something, you must endure loneliness and pain."
Facing Shu Ange's question, Ximen Chuixue didn't dodge and gave the answer directly in his heart.
In fact, after getting to know her, his unshakable faith in the past has begun to slowly disintegrate.
Ximen Chuixue has always felt that if you want to achieve success in kendo, you must pay a hundred times of hard work and not be burdened by the world.
But the appearance of Shu Ange was like a mirror, allowing him to review himself.
She loves life, never hides her admiration for him, is happy to help others, and at the same time punishes her opponents.
UI.
Shu Ange's sword is extremely fast, but at the same time he leaves behind, which is completely different from Ximen Chuixue's style.
The last time Ximen Chuixue lost to Shu An Singer, he always thought it was an accident. After all, he had already acted at that time, and he couldn't fight with the mentality of perpetual death as usual.
But after witnessing the battle between Shu Ange and Huo Xiu, Ximen Chuixue finally understood that if the two really fought a life-and-death battle, he would definitely be the one who fell.
Therefore, when he said that sentence, Ximen Chuixue was not sure.
"Swords can be merged into bone and blood, and people and swords can be one. But people are the soul of the sword, and there is no one, and the sword is always just the sword."
Shu Ange put Ximen Chuixue's sword on the stone table, and then walked towards him empty-handed.
"Where is your sword?"
"My sword?"
Ximen Chuixue murmured, his eyes were confused at first, and then suddenly lit up.
"My sword, in my heart!"
Shu Ange finally smiled, she stretched out her arms and hugged Ximen Chuixue tightly, leaned close to his ear, bit his earlobe, and said in a hoarse voice, "My sword is on you."
Ximen Chuixue's body froze suddenly, and then two suspicious red clouds rose on his pale and bloodless cheeks.
"The target character's favorability is +10, and the current favorability is 95. The host should not forget to complete the main task!"
"Before going to Nanzhao, let's go to the church to get married."
Shu Ange never doubted Ximen Chuixue's ability to act. She believed that as long as she nodded now, Ximen Chuixue would be able to set up the wedding hall within three days.
Unfortunately, she couldn't agree for the time being, Shu Ange put her lips on Ximen Chuixue's ears: "After the triumph, it's not too late to get married."
In the end, it was Ximen Chuixue who made a concession. Getting married was a matter of mutual happiness, and he couldn't tie Shu Ange to worship.
It was a long journey from Jiangnan to Nanzhao. Shu Ange and Ximen Chuixue bought a lot of specialties from the Central Plains, disguised themselves as business trips, and brought the recruited private soldiers to Nanzhao as escorts.
No matter in any age, as long as you can afford the money, you can always buy people to work for yourself.
Ximen Chuixue once suggested that Shu Ange should be mainly from Jianghu people when recruiting people, but she refused.
He was very puzzled about this, after all, in Ximen Chuixue's view, Jianghu people were very good at fighting, and when they moved their hands, they would use one to ten. Ordinary people were too fragile and had low combat effectiveness.
Shu Ange did not dislike Ximen Chuixue's naivety either. She used the sand table to explain to him in detail the importance of tacit cooperation between soldiers on the battlefield.
People with higher kung fu are cross-country, and masters from different sects gather together, and it is very easy to cause trouble if they are not convinced by each other.
By contrast, ordinary people are better managed and easier to train into a tight-knit organization.
Shu Ange will hire people with strong martial arts skills, but she will not directly incorporate these people into ordinary teams and send them to fight on the battlefield, but will arrange special tasks for them.
The so-called special mission is actually an assassination.
Just imagine that the two armies are at war, and the leader of the enemy army is suddenly assassinated, and the soldiers below will be in chaos.
Although Nanzhao claimed to be a state, it was actually just a few ethnic minorities proclaiming themselves kings.
There are constant disputes between them, and fighting over territory and population is a common occurrence.
Shu Ange spent a lot of money to buy a vast land in Nanzhao, which has mountains, water, and land that can be cultivated and grazing.
She adopted the method of military colonies, and in less than a year, the Jianghu people and soldiers who arrived in Nanzhao from Zhongyuan can already be self-sufficient.
In the beginning, Ximen Chuixue, who was shocked by Shu Ange's whims from time to time, had already become numb.
When she saw that Shu Ange had skillfully drawn many kinds of weapons and drawings of siege equipment, Ximen Chuixue didn't know what else she couldn't.
Zhu Ting and Hua Manlou came to Nanzhao to help when spring was about to pass, and then Lu Xiaofeng also arrived.
The Jinpeng Army has already begun to take shape, and Ximen Chuixue has participated from the beginning to the end. Influenced by Shu Ange, he does not think it is very difficult to build an army.
But for the three of them, Lu Xiaofeng and Hua Manlou, the army in front of them had completely refreshed the three views they had built up over the years.
Did such a well-trained, tacit understanding, and powerful army really only take more than half a year?
This kind of speed, this kind of effect, is really terrifying.
Lu Xiaofeng is very fortunate that the enemy of Jinpeng Army is not the imperial court, otherwise there is such a strong enemy as Shu Ange, the current sage must not sleep peacefully until he gets rid of her.
The Cossack cavalry would never have imagined that they had such a brave, scheming and martial arts opponent.
He is now suddenly looking forward to what kind of prestige Shu Ange will be when Jinpeng's army is trained, and how inspiring she will be when she wipes out the brutal and greedy Cossack cavalry.
Zhu Ting didn't think so much like Lu Xiaofeng, he was completely immersed in all kinds of improved siege equipment and couldn't extricate himself.
This time, he came with Lu Xiaofeng and Hua Manlou to visit Shu Ange and Ximen Chuixue, and to help Jinpeng Army build various organs and siege equipment.
Lu Xiaofeng had mentioned before that Shu Ange was very accomplished in mechanical techniques, but Zhu Ting didn't take it to heart because of his confidence in the inheritance of his teacher's sect.
Now that he has witnessed the miracle with his own eyes, Zhu Ting's first thing is to rush to Shu Ange and ask the senior who taught her the tricks if he is related to Lu Ban.
Shu Ange answered yes, Zhu Ting looked clear and excited, and happily discussed with her the siege equipment she made.
Zhu Ting's body is too fat, it is easy for people to associate him with non-producing members.
In fact, he did have unique insights in the production of mechanical techniques, weapons, and siege equipment. Shu Ange worked with him to optimize the previous inventions.
Long before the official military training, Shu Ange asked Yan Tieshan to send someone back to the Jinpeng Dynasty to investigate the situation in the name of doing jewelry business.
Everyone knows that the Cossack cavalry is extremely ferocious.
Shu Ange wanted to find out about how many enemies there were, and at the same time to explore Jinpeng's remnants' views on the counter-offensive.
If the Jinpeng survivors have completely accepted their fate, and they would rather survive rather than break the boat and drive the foreign invaders out of the country, Shu Ange will also adjust his strategic deployment accordingly.
The Jinpeng Dynasty is very far away from Nanzhao, and it takes almost half a year to come and go. When nearly a hundred young and middle-aged people of the Jinpeng Dynasty arrived in Nanzhao, Shu Ange was excited and personally greeted them.
This group of passionate young people burst into tears when they learned that Princess Danfeng, the descendant of the little prince who left decades ago, was finally going to lead the troops to attack their homeland.
At the risk of being discovered by the Cossack cavalry, they secretly returned to the Central Plains with the caravan sent by Yan Tieshan.
With the presence of local people who were familiar with the Cossack cavalry and the terrain of the Jinpeng Dynasty, the Jinpeng army became more powerful, and Shu Ange was very happy.
In the process of military training, Shu Ange did not forget to train deputies who could lead the overall situation in case of emergency.
Facts have proved that Shu Ange's precautions are very necessary.
When she and Ximen Chuixue were getting better in their training in Nanzhao, the gauntlet of Ye Gucheng, the master of Baiyun City, came across the air.
In front of the whole world, he sent a gauntlet to Ximen Chuixue, and such a gauntlet would not allow any **** man to refuse.
Ximen Chuixue has always longed to fight against Ye Gucheng, who became famous earlier than him and was known as the Sword Fairy.
However, Ye Gucheng's people in Baiyun City have less access to the WTO than him.
Finally looking forward to this battle, Ximen Chuixue suddenly found that he was not as excited as he had imagined.
In the past, he longed to compete with masters, and longed to improve his self-explosive potential and find the true meaning of swordsmanship at the dying moment.
But now, Ximen Chuixue has understood that there are more important things in the world than winning or losing.
He originally wanted to postpone the battle, and after he and Shu Ange triumphed, he would fight Ye Gucheng decisively.
However, Ye Gucheng's anxiety was a little abnormal. Before Ximen Chuixue could fight, he issued the second letter of war.
This time, Shu Ange offered to let Ximen Chuixue take up the challenge, which surprised him.
"I said that I would fight side by side with you. The competition is not in a hurry. I will send someone to reply to Ye Gucheng and make an appointment for the decisive battle."
When a cold sword **** was banished from the mortal world and turned into a human being, his sincere and touching emotions were no different from those of men in the world.
Shu Ange, who was wearing bright armor, took off his helmet and looked at Ximen Chuixue with a smile: "We will set off from Nanzhao in March next year and arrive at Jinpeng's homeland around July, where snow falls most of the year, and July happens to be the worst month. when it's warm."
Ximen Chuixue looked at Shu Ange in a daze, as if she didn't quite understand what she was talking about.
"I'll accompany you back to the Central Plains. On the night of the full moon in August and fifteenth, the decisive battle on the top of the Forbidden City will make people want to miss such a grand scene."
"You want to go back to the Central Plains with me?"
Ximen Chuixue asked in surprise, Shu Ange nodded: "It's still early until August 15th, if the talents I had worked so hard to cultivate at that time would not even be able to lead troops to train temporarily. Why should I travel all the way to be shamed? Better to surrender sooner."
"Okay, then we'll go back to Kyoto then."
After the news of Ximen Chuixue's challenge came out, the entire martial arts and even the world were shaken.
If they didn't have absolute courage, how could the two of them dare to meet for a decisive battle on the top of the Forbidden City.
For ordinary people and martial artists, the Forbidden City is a place where majestic and mysterious trespassers die.
Two of the world's top swordsmen meet for a decisive battle at the top of the Forbidden City. What a frenzy it is.
Lu Xiaofeng and Hua Manlou immediately decided to postpone their trip back to the Central Plains. They also wanted to watch this wonderful battle.