Madam, please ascend.

Chapter 168 It's all in the wine
This puzzled Yun Yi. Since he entered the world in the painting, he had bought firewood, rice, oil and salt, but had never thought of adding some fine wine to the Sumeru Ring.

Song Xinci never drinks alcohol, and he doesn't care about what's in the cup.

Unexpectedly, a familiar voice suddenly came from behind. It was Wang Shenlai who had followed me at some point.

"I have wine, I have wine!"

He suddenly produced two bottles of fine wine and handed them to the sword servant and Yun Yi respectively.

The sword servant sniffed it and said: "You are really stingy, why don't you take out the things your father collected and give them to me as a filial gift."

Yun Yi didn't understand this and couldn't tell the difference between good and bad wine. But when he saw Wang Shenlai conjure up another bottle of fine wine and hurriedly drank it, he was immediately filled with emotion.

The young master was nothing like Wang Shenlai of later generations, except for his drinking ability.

I've been an alcoholic since I was a child!
Wang Shenlai said anxiously, "Here's the wine. Brother Yun just asked you a question, and you haven't answered it yet?"

Upon hearing this, the sword servant sat down on the ground, took a sip, and replied, "Three hundred and twenty-one, no more, no less."

Yun Yi and Wang Shenlai also sat down. He was surprised and said, "Senior, you should have reached the Hedao realm by now. Wouldn't it affect your own cultivation if you were exposed to other great ways?"

Wang Shenlai felt the same way. "That's right, you always say Yun Yi bites off more than he can chew, but isn't your behavior a million times worse than his?"

"What do these two little kids know?" The sword servant waved his hand and said, "The path I combined is boring. I'm too lazy to practice it."

Yun Yi: "So you want to switch to another sword technique?"

"Not really, I just want to broaden my horizons."

This statement was truly unconvincing. A cultivator who could reach the Hedao realm would undoubtedly have lofty ambitions. How could they willingly destroy their own future? Unless, like Kuhaha, he had suffered a hidden injury, there were unavoidable reasons.

Yun Yi thought about it. For a cultivator at the Hedao realm, if the sword servant did not comprehend his own great Dao and recognized this great Dao from the bottom of his heart, it would be impossible for him to "combine the Dao". It can be seen that his previous words cannot be taken seriously.

Wang Shenlai asked, "What do you mean by broadening your horizons? You're clearly searching for a way of the sword, but you still haven't found any clues!"

The sword servant laughed hoarsely, "As expected of the Young Master, I can't fool you."

"You've been in this building for so many years. What you said just now can only fool newcomers like Brother Yun who have been here for a short time."

"Boy, I haven't asked you yet, why do you want to dabble in so many sword arts? You should know that these sword arts are all taken, and most of them have no place for you to merge with them. If you want to surpass them, it will be extremely difficult!"

Yun Yi explained, "Firstly, I wanted to see what the sword arts in the world are like, so that I wouldn't always be sitting in a well and watching the world from afar. Secondly, my wife was injured by a strange sword energy that contained ninety-nine kinds of sword arts."

The sword servant's eyes widened: "A sword energy that contains ninety-nine kinds of sword arts?!"

"Exactly."

"I don't believe it!"

Wang Shenlai echoed, "I'm not lying to you. My senior brother and I went to visit Brother Yun's wife a few days ago. That sword energy was truly bizarre, it was simply the work of a god!"

The sword servant finally believed what he said, "Horrible! I have painstakingly studied the sword's essence for many years, but now I can only perform five sword techniques at the same time in one breath, that's all!"

After he learned about the sword energy in Madam Yun Yi's body, he suddenly felt that there are always people better than you, and he took two big gulps of wine.

The old man exhaled a breath of foul air and said soothingly, "Don't be anxious, boy. If the immortal really wanted to kill your wife, he could have just killed her directly. Why would he bother leaving behind such a sword energy?"

Wang Shenlai and many people in Zhujian Villa said similar things, hoping that Yun Yi would not give up. As long as he persisted, he would be able to cure his wife's illness one day.

Yun Yi nodded and smiled, "I know. I will definitely keep working hard." Although he knew this was just a world in a painting, Yun Yi had developed a sense of belonging to the Sword Forging Villa these days. The people here were simple and pure, and that really pleased him.

Wang Shenlai suddenly said, "Old man, isn't it time for you to tell your story?"

The sword servant's face darkened. "My story is old-fashioned. What's so good about it?"

Yun Yi: "Junior wants to listen too."

Wang Shenlai: "If you don't tell me, give the wine back to me!"

Of course, the wine would not be returned. The sword servant was in a rare good mood today. Looking at the two juniors who were eager to learn, he knew that if he didn't say anything, these two would definitely come to annoy him from time to time.

So he drank the wine in one gulp. Seeing this, Yun Yi wisely handed over the bottle which was still half full in his hand.

The sword servant took the drink and continued, "When I was young, I practiced in a low-ranking sect with only a few dozen people. The one with the highest cultivation level at the time was my master, who was at the Return to Void Realm."

Although he said this, his expression was full of memories of that insignificant sect, and he was full of respect when he mentioned his master.

"Master has a daughter, who is also my junior sister. She was in love with me at the time, and we even got engaged. Unfortunately, this incident caused dissatisfaction among a beast. He was dissatisfied but did not speak out. Instead, he colluded with outsiders."

The sword servant was right, this was indeed a bloody story.

The place he regarded as his home was brutally wiped out overnight, leaving no one alive. He was the only one in the family who managed to survive.

That was the glimmer of hope that his master and his mistress had fought for him at the risk of their lives, hoping that he and his junior sister could escape, and that this would also leave a spark for the sect.

It’s a pity that the junior sister was seriously injured. Although the two of them escaped alive, she could not hold on and died soon after.

In the end, only the sword servant was left.

But since he survived, he would not be a coward and pretend that nothing had happened.

After that, he practiced hard and planned revenge every moment.

First, he killed his enemy who was in the Qi Refining Realm, and then followed the clues to find the master in the Spirit Transformation Realm behind him.

Then he killed those cultivators in the Spirit Transformation Realm, and was then targeted by cultivators in the Void Return Realm.

After countless life-and-death battles, he finally cultivated to the Return to Void Realm and personally killed the enemy who had killed his master.

But the people he killed also included relatives and friends.

After taking revenge, the sword servant himself became the target of revenge.

Moreover, the person who wanted to seek revenge on him this time was a Hedao Realm cultivator. He had no chance of winning against this person, and he didn't even have a chance of escaping.

Upon hearing this, Wang Shenlai slapped his thigh, as if he understood everything: "I know. You came to Zongheng Tower to browse through the books just to find this person's swordsmanship!"

The sword servant looked at him as if he were a fool: "I have already seen this person in the Hedao realm, why should I look for him in the book?!"

"Oh, that seems to be true."

Yun Yi said, "Senior, you were only at the Return to Void Realm at the time. How did you escape from the clutches of the Hedao Realm?"

A glimmer of reminiscence flashed in the sword servant's eyes.

(End of this chapter)