My enemies became my companions

Chapter 598: The Tenth in the World (Two in One)

Above the altar, a strong wind suddenly blew, and the previously bright sky gradually faded, and dark clouds gathered together to cover the entire dragon and tiger temple.

The lightning was like a dragon or a unicorn, rolling and folding in the clouds. The thunder roared alternately, and the dark shadow was blown into a bright light. Before it could fade, another flash of lightning appeared, shaking the heaven and earth, and it seemed as if thunder dragons were dragged out of the rain.

The forest swayed in the wild wind. The old Taoist priest held up a talisman with both hands, raised it high on the altar, and then kowtowed and said:

"In the holy land of Jade Purity, in the Qingwei Heavenly Palace, we, the ministers, respectfully burn true incense and kowtow devoutly, begging the benevolent Jade Emperor to show his light and save us from the disaster. We humbly hope that the holy gods will have mercy on our sincerity, and thunder will unleash divine power and wind will return with blessings.

I heard that there is an evil immortal in heaven, claiming to be the master of the three realms, the only one who can tell good and bad fortune, and is eyeing the supreme path. Now, I obey the order of the Supreme Lord, and the heavens will punish the evil. The stars of the Southern Dipper and the great gods of the Central Sky will lend you armor and soldiers to guard the four directions. Open the way and go up, hurry up and obey the order!"

As soon as the words fell, the heaven and earth roared.

The lightning exploded and split the dense electric grid, making the sky white. It was as if there were thunder dragons alternating in the sky, tearing apart the layers of clouds with their roars. A ray of white light came down from the sky, and a big hole suddenly appeared in the clouds, like a "Gate of Heaven".

Seeing this strange scene, all the heroes were shaken in their hearts and their hands and feet trembled. No wonder those Taoists gave up fine wine and food, confidantes, parents, wives and children, and insisted on becoming immortals. Compared with this scene, no matter how many dragons and tigers fought in the world, they were nothing but drizzle.

"Everyone, please go to heaven!"

The old Taoist priest shouted loudly, pulling everyone's hearts back. As he raised his hand toward the sky, they could see heavenly soldiers and generals standing guard on both sides of the "Gate of Heaven" through the drifting clouds and mist, clearing the way to welcome them.

The sword formation on the cliff was ready to go. Stealthy sword energy rose up as the Taoists waved their whisks, condensing into tangible magical weapons, shining with golden light and floating with fireworks.

Everyone held the magic weapon, and the next moment they found that their bodies were pulled by the sword energy and were flying up with the wind.

Soaring up to 90,000 miles.

Like tadpoles returning to their nests, they filed in through the Tianmen Gate.

The clouds and mist were free under my feet, the sky suddenly became clear, and as the wind and rain intertwined, spots of light in the distance were unpredictable, and dense black spots were approaching from afar.

That is the evil immortal.

Someone was so impatient that he ran forward on the clouds and slashed with a sword.

A huge wave of energy rose up into the sky, vigorous and mighty!
Almost everyone was stunned by this scene. They swung their swords, threw their fists, or chopped with their knives. Scenes that were dozens of times more magnificent than before appeared before them one after another.

This is heaven, a world completely different from the mortal world.

Everyone was silent for a long time.

Immediately, with great passion and enthusiasm, he rushed straight towards the evil immortals.

...............

When it's about to rain,
Someone was walking slowly up the mountain.

Naturally, some people came down the mountain slowly.

The tree crown, as big as a car hood, swayed under the strong wind, sometimes leaning to the east, sometimes falling to the west, and the branches and leaves danced wildly in the wind, stretching the two figures on the long mountain road. From a distance, they looked like two drops of ink.

The roofs of the hilltops were lost in the increasingly hazy air. The rain had not yet fallen, but was about to fall, so the swords of the swordsmen were still in their sheaths, as were the arrows of the archers.

It was getting dark.

It was a windy day and it started to rain heavily. It was not a good time to go up the mountain. However, the old beggar holding an umbrella in the town at the foot of the mountain ignored the dissuasion of the shopkeepers and insisted on going up the mountain with the umbrella. He let the wind tear him all the way and still lowered his head facing the stairs at his feet. At this moment, he looked up and saw the fallen leaves swept away by the strong wind, which suddenly blew away the umbrella. In a trance, it seemed as if he saw a figure in the wind that was so ordinary that it couldn't be more ordinary. It didn't attract much attention, but at first glance, it was too ordinary.

What's unusual?

It’s because I am clearly blind, but I can still “see” him.

It was like coming to a new world, where his eyes were still intact and not blind.

Blind Arrow suddenly felt curious. In the seventy years since he was born, he had not met many people like him. One of them was named Xu Qi, who was the best in the world today.

He was curious, and Chen Yi's eyes also showed a strange look, and his hand unconsciously pressed the scabbard lightly.

He had seen many top people like Blind Arrow, so he didn't find it new. He just felt the danger was so dangerous that it made his skin shudder.

It's like a person who knows the flaw in his opponent's move and the solution, but no matter how hard he tries, he is still defeated by the opponent.

This kind of crushing situation is the most helpless.

But Chen Yi still wanted to go down the mountain without stopping.
Blind Arrow stopped and the umbrella stopped in the wind, waiting for the heavy rain to pour down.

People going up the mountain hold umbrellas, perhaps because they really want to go up the mountain; people going down the mountain sheath their swords, perhaps because they really don't want to go down the mountain.

then,

The rolling sword energy was like a dragon, rolling down from the mountain!

Heavy rain fell in an instant.

The mighty sword energy pierced through the entire rain curtain and created a large hole. Wherever it passed, the wind swept away the clouds and twisted them violently, making it difficult to distinguish whether they were raindrops or sword energy. However, as the sword energy got closer and more powerful, there was no need to distinguish whether they were raindrops or sword energy.

Sword energy is the raindrops, and raindrops are sword energy.

Rainwater turns into a blue dragon.

The blind old man frowned and without saying a word, a sword came down on his head. He did not introduce himself, did not explain the cause of the fight, and did not even leave a will in advance. They first became close friends and then fought to the death. This way, when killing someone, they realized the impermanence of the world and the insignificance of life. It would also give them something to talk about while drinking later. He did not expect that the younger generation in the martial arts world today were too arrogant and too ignorant. In this case, there was no need for him to be polite. He took the bow in his hand, and even the Heavenly Wolf was within his reach.

He stretched out his arms, exhaled, and took another deep breath. This breath actually caused the wind lines around him to twist, like a taut bowstring.

An arrow shot out.

Amidst the strong wind and huge waves, this arrow was as small as a blade of grass. To the outsiders, it was shocking that the so-called tenth best in the world actually drew his bow and shot such a crooked arrow. However, such a childish arrow could fly against the wind and hit Chen Yi.

This arrow seemed alive, it jumped in the air flow. Chen Yi saw the clue. He kept the sword in his right hand and drew the sword from its sheath with his left hand. He did not easily make a swift and powerful cut with all his might. It was obvious that the other party was trying to use only a little force to defeat you with a great force. Do you really want to exert a great force?

He used the sword technique with a knife, and the living sword of Yinjian Mountain was integrated into it. He spun out rounds of sword dances without any distractions. The knife light kept chasing the trajectory of the arrow, entangled with it, and gradually dissipated the arrow's momentum. When the latter was exhausted, he cut it down with a knife. The arrow broke into two pieces, and fell to the ground. Chen Yi's left-handed knife did not hinder the sword's momentum with his right-hand sword.

The front of Blind Arrow was covered by surging sword energy. The sword energy was so strong that he immediately drew his bow and put an arrow before the first arrow was halfway through its flight. Instead of retreating, he advanced. His body seemed to be driven by his arms and the entire bow. When the mighty sword energy rushed in front of him, the arrow shot out like a needle tip against a wheat awn.

The arrow was like a powerful dragon emerging from the sea, crashing into the mighty sword energy. The entire mountain road was shaken, and even the old Taoist priest standing in front of the Jade Emperor Temple on the top of the mountain felt the mountain shake.

It's disturbing.

The old Taoist priest in robes did not watch the battle in the sky, but cast his gaze towards the Jade Emperor Palace.

The weapon furnace retrieved from the Holy Emperor was burning with fire, burning red, as if it was about to melt. The face of the mouthless Taotie was distorted and hideous.

The one-armed woman standing in front of the furnace had a calm expression throughout her expression. She had kept her eyes closed and rested since she entered the Jade Emperor's Hall.

The broken and shattered Ruoque sword was melted and recast in the furnace. The Taoists from Longhu Mountain protected the eight directions and recast the sword. Originally, it was intended to fill the vacancy of Taisha Sword in the sword formation. Now that the Taisha Sword has temporarily returned to its place, the purpose of recasting the sword has become to help Master Tongxuan return to the ranks of the top ten in the world.

But it will take some time.

That's why Chen Yi tried to stop the drunkard from going up the mountain with the blind arrow, who had other intentions than drinking.

When the transmitted shock gradually subsided, no one breathed a sigh of relief. On the contrary, the old Taoist priest's heart was in his throat.

On the other side of the mountain road,
Blind Arrow let out a slightly surprised sound.

After his second arrow landed, the sword energy did not disintegrate as he had imagined, but most of the sword energy dissipated on the spot as the two arrows collided. However, the remaining sword energy dissipated in all directions and then turned back, as if revived by a spring breeze, and entangled and fought with him. The thorny and persistent nature of these remnants of sword energy surprised Blind Arrow.

There was no distance to draw the bow, so Blind Arrow simply drew the arrow in his hand and intercepted the incoming sword energy horizontally. The sword energy went around the arrow, looking for a gap and waiting for an opportunity to move. Blind Arrow was blind but not deaf, but he could hear the slightest changes in the sound of the wind, and then he would use the arrow to chop, lift, stab or smash, and quickly disperse the incoming sword energy. However, the sword energy in a radius of several feet seemed to be endless, inexhaustible, as if there was a world covering him.

Blind Arrow caught a clue, and with his left hand holding the bow behind him to protect his back, he held the arrow in front of him with his right hand, chopped and swept across an empty area, so that he had space to draw the bow and put the arrow. But since he had both hands holding the arrow, how could he draw the bow like a full moon?

With your feet, of course.

A pair of old feet with calluses and worn-down nails pinched the bow and bowstring. He half-lay on the ground in a strange and twisted posture, and shot out another arrow.

In an instant, the sword-filled world that enveloped this place was broken.

After getting out of this dilemma, Blind Arrow stood up and laughed, "What a good sword! What a good sword! I thought you were a silver-plated spearhead, but today I know your great reputation."

In the midst of the storm, Chen Yi finally spoke: "Senior is truly worthy of the title."

The attack he just made was a killing move, without any reservation at all. All the tests and exchanges of courtesy were thrown out of the window. It was truly shocking, but even so, Blind Arrow still managed to break them one by one in a short period of time. The two seemed to be fighting back and forth, but in fact, Blind Arrow had not used his full strength.

The tenth in the world, truly the tenth in the world.

Chen Yi couldn't help but think that even if Zhou Yitong, the former Sword Armor, came, he could only win by a narrow margin.

As if in order to "see clearly" the person in front of him, Blind Arrow climbed up the stairs and slowly approached. Chen Yi neither retreated nor moved forward.

When the martial artists' qi touched each other, Blind Arrow said in a hoarse voice: "I have seen two martial arts masters who have lived for seventy or eighty years. I can't remember how many masters I have won and lost, but there are as few as three-legged toads with swordsmanship like you. The sword energy just now was so powerful and extraordinary that it was surprising. It's hard to believe that the sword energy behind you is like a stove ant that can't be swept away. Where did you learn it from?"

An old beggar in ragged clothes was discussing martial arts with his juniors in a serious manner, which showed the demeanor of a great man.

The Tenth in the World was a man of great magnanimity. Even though the two of them had just been fighting each other to the death, he stopped for a moment.

After the sword struck him on the head, Chen Yi also followed the rules of the martial arts world and did not strike back with another sword.

"I figured it out myself." Chen Yi said calmly.

Blind Arrow snorted coldly, his white hair sticking together in the wind and rain fluttering like a cape, and said, "If a person knows a little martial arts, it is easy for him to boast. The world is big, everyone has his own little piece of land, and everyone is a frog in a well. I think you have a spirit that your predecessors can't match, and you think you have seen the vast world. Without grain, you can't grow rice, and without a net, you can't catch fish. I advise you to tell the truth. Who taught you these sword techniques?"

After a moment's silence, Chen Yi responded, "Two. One is Jian Jia, from Yinjian Mountain. He taught me a few sword techniques privately, which laid the foundation for my swordsmanship. The other is Wu Buyu, I don't know who he is from, but I met him in the Sword Pond. I heard he's very famous."

Hearing the sword armor in front of him, he still had a look of as expected, but when he heard the one behind him, Blind Arrow paused visibly, his hair and beard stood up, and after a long while he murmured, "Are you kidding me?"

Chen Yi did not answer, his attitude seemed to be that he didn't want to believe it or not.

Wu Buyue's reputation seemed to be very important in the heart of this old beggar who was in his seventies or eighties. The story of the former number one in the world being defeated by the current number one in the world was not just a story to him. Now Xu Qi had dominated the martial arts world for many years. People in the martial arts world in the past sixty years regarded this story as an anecdote and thought that the victory of a true god was natural. However, for Blind Arrow who had experienced it personally, it was just the opposite. Wu Buyue's defeat shocked the whole world.

After a while, Blind Arrow came back to his senses. He was neither too skeptical nor completely convinced. He suppressed his astonishment and said slowly, "It is not gratifying to have a younger generation like you in the martial arts world. Instead, it is terrifying."

Chen Yi did not respond to this, because the wind and rain around him suddenly became chaotic and he became alert.

Blind Arrow's killing intent was even stronger than before. He said, "I challenged you to a duel just to find an excuse to go up the mountain. I didn't come to kill you, but I have to kill you now."

Chen Yi smiled lightly and asked, "Why?"

"If I don't kill you today, you will become a disaster for the Mother of No Birth in the future. When the Red Yang calamity ends, the White Yang will rise, and the world will be in chaos. Maitreya will be born at that time. Only when the sky dies and collapses can the Mother of No Birth return to the highest heaven."

As he spoke, Blind Arrow attacked again.

At a distance of only ten feet, he drew his bow and arrow, and a full moon reappeared on the mountain path of Longhu Mountain.

Chen Yi had a sword and a knife in his hands and attacked at the same time.

The rain curtains all stopped for the two of them.

It's like holding your breath, waiting for the opportunity to breathe again.

.........

Inside the Jade Emperor Temple at Mount Longhu.

The one-armed woman who had been resting with her eyes closed suddenly opened them, causing the fire in the stove to stagnate.
"Can't wait any longer."

(End of this chapter)