My Sword Has a Way

Chapter 42: The Strangeness of a Small Town

The young man also poured a glass of wine and took a sip and said, "Why do you say that?"

The young man looked out the window and said calmly, "Don't you notice the difference between this place and the outside world? For example, this moon."

Xu Zhian also looked out the window. The moon was high in the sky, surrounded by mist.

Xu Zhian frowned and said, "This moon is very round."

The young man took another sip of his drink and said softly, "The moon waxes and wanes, and people are subject to misfortunes and blessings at any time."

Xu Zhian suddenly realized: "The moon here has never been missing!"

The young man smiled and said, "You are not stupid, so, do you still insist on practicing swordsmanship at Jianya?"

Xu Zhian frowned even deeper: "What's going on here?"

The young man smiled faintly: "What happened here has nothing to do with you, Xu Zhian, and you can't change anything. Knowing too much will only confuse your Tao heart. Are you sure you still want to ask?"

Xu Zhian nodded.

The young man raised his lips and said, "Have you noticed that your current realm is improving very quickly, especially the transformation of sword energy."

Xu Zhian nodded: "I feel like I'm about to reach the third realm. No matter how I suppress my realm, it has no effect."

The young man nodded and said, "This is the abnormality of this place. I call it an illusion. In fact, as long as you give up your spiritual power and use yourself as a sword, you can return to your true self. Otherwise, your realm will reach the fifth realm within three months, and then your body will be blown up by the sword energy. In the end, all the sword energy you have worked hard to cultivate will return to the sword cliff and become a part of the sword cliff."

Xu Zhian frowned deeply, feeling a little scared. The young man thought he was gifted and had great luck, so his cultivation speed was particularly fast. It turned out that all this was an illusion.

The young man saw the boy's gloomy face and quickly joked, "What? Are you scared?"

Xu Zhian nodded, then shook his head and said, "I still say the same thing. I will not leave this town until I have mastered the sword energy."

The young man laughed bitterly: "You are really stubborn! Aren't you afraid of death?"

The young man grinned: "Don't be afraid, I have been facing death every day for the past five years, but I am still living well."

Lin Jianyi sneered: "Fools have their own luck, that's good."

Xu Zhian said seriously, "What about the people in this town? Why are they unwilling to leave this strange place?"

Lin Jianyi sneered: "They want to leave, but unfortunately they can't."

The young man asked curiously, "Why? Isn't this place very close to Qimu City?"

The young man looked at Xu Zhian and said sternly, "Xu Zhian, I'm telling you this because I'm half your friend, but you have to agree to one condition."

Xu Zhian nodded and said, "What do you say?"

The young man stopped playing around and said seriously, "If one day I am dying and you save my life, no matter who in the town asks you where I am, you must say you don't know."

When the boy heard this, he felt that the town was hiding a shocking secret.

Xu Zhian nodded.

Seeing the young man nod, Lin Jianyi slowly said, "Actually, I am not a villager in the town. My original name is Lin Qingyun. Sixty years ago, I was a Jinshi in the East Sea Kingdom. Because I couldn't stand the darkness in the court, I offended some people, so I was demoted to Qimu City and later sent to guard the town."

Lin Jianyi took a sip of wine and continued, "At first, I thought this town was just an ordinary town, but after living here for a while, I suddenly found out that this place is weird because the people here never leave the town. Later, I accidentally learned that this place is ominous and is a cursed land."

Xu Zhian heard the seriousness and asked curiously: "What happened next?"

Lin Jianyi smiled bitterly: "Later I found out that I was also infected by the karma of this place. Although I can leave the town, my vitality and luck will be lost very quickly. This is why I was so poor when you saw me."

Xu Zhian was puzzled and asked, "So if you say so, then you are over a hundred years old?"

Lin Jianyi smiled helplessly, "Yes, it's been almost two decades. In the beginning, many sword cultivators and outsiders would come to the town every year, but later on, most of them became possessed and died on the Sword Cliff. I was also lucky enough to meet a senior who passed on his skills to me before he died, but I still didn't survive in the end. Later, I changed my name to Lin Jianyi and practiced swordsmanship to protect myself. Later, for various reasons, my body turned back into a young man, which is who I am now."

Xu Zhian listened to the experience of the young man in front of him as if he was listening to a story and was shocked.

The young man drank a glass of wine and said, "Lin Qingyun is dead, and everyone who once knew this name is also dead. Xu Zhian, do you know how much I hate this town?"

Xu Zhian shook his head.

The young man smiled faintly: "I would be very happy if this town disappeared. Immortal graves, immortal graves, are all burial places for greedy people."

Then the young man turned to the boy and said, "Xu Zhian, you must not kill anyone in this town, and do not have too much contact with the people in the town. If you focus on practicing swordsmanship and do not use spiritual power, everything will be fine. Otherwise, I will be a lesson for you."

Xu Zhian frowned, but nodded and said, "Thank you for telling me this. I will keep it in mind."

The young man took a sip of wine and patted the boy on the shoulder and said, "The reason why I didn't tell you before was actually because I was betting on you as a friend. There's nothing to be afraid of here. Just treat it as a dream. As for whether you can wake up, it depends on you."

Xu Zhian nodded, looking at the smiling face of the young man in front of him, the young man raised the wine glass in his hand and drank it all.

Tonight the young man did not go into the mountains, but stayed in a small courtyard. The cold wind blew into the house, and sparks exploded and scattered.

Xu Zhian leaned against the bed, suffering from insomnia for a while.

The town was so strange, but the eldest and third brothers never mentioned it. The boy thought that there was probably no big danger.

The next day, at daybreak, the boy got up early and returned to the hill.

There is always fog in the mountains in winter. The boy, wearing straw sandals and carrying some items purchased in the town, walked carefully in the mountains and forests.

When the fog dissipated and the morning sun was shining, Xu Zhian came to Jianya again. At this time, the young man kept thinking what the scenery of Jianya at the top of Xianren Peak would be like. Perhaps that was the real Jianya.

Xu Zhian regained his composure and, as Lin Jianyi had said last night, hid his spiritual power and practiced sword skills. An hour later, the young man was surprised to find that his realm was no longer improving, and there was even a slight downward trend. This made the young man happy instead of angry.

Just as the young man was about to continue practicing sword, a loud bang was heard, followed by waves of spiritual power and the sound of metal colliding, which echoed for a long time in this empty valley and sword cliff.

The young man quickly put away the black sword, and without even having time to pick up the goods beside him, he ran towards the sound of fighting.

Xu Zhian endured the sword energy and squatted behind a bluestone, looking at the chaotic scene in the distance with some surprise.

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