Who says those who retire at the speed of light are not heroes?

"If you have anything to say, let's talk after lunch."

The woman came close to Ji Chongshan, with some worry in her eyes, "Hubby, they are..."

"The younger generation of the Ji family." As soon as Ji Chongshan answered the woman's words, his voice immediately became extremely gentle. The woman hesitated for a while, looked at the two people in front of her, and smiled, "Have you had lunch? Do you want to eat together?"

Ji Zhezhi shook his head, "I've eaten."

"Then come in and sit down. We can talk slowly if you have anything to say." The woman took Ji Zhezhi's hand and welcomed her and Lin Cheng in.

254 The Same Road

The atmosphere in the living room was a little subtle.

Lin Cheng originally thought that he and Ji Zhezhi came here to seek revenge and beat someone up, but now they were sitting in someone else's house. The hostess poured hot tea for them, Ji Chongshan was busy in the kitchen, and there was a little boy of about eleven or twelve years old sitting at the table in the living room doing his homework.

It’s a very heartwarming picture.

Ji Chongshan quickly prepared the meal, and the family of three sat at the dining table. The woman tried to invite Ji Zhezhi and Lin Cheng to eat together, but Ji Zhezhi didn't say anything and Lin Cheng politely refused. The two had to sit on the sofa and wait silently. After they finished their meal, the woman cleaned up the dishes and asked the children to go back to their room to do their homework. Only the three of them were left in the living room.

"Why are you looking for me again?" Ji Chongshan did not hide the impatience in his eyes.

"Take the Sword Shadow Stone."

"Your talent in swordsmanship is indeed good, but it is not yet mature enough. Practice for a few more years. When you can defeat me, the Sword Shadow Stone will naturally be yours. I will stay in this city and will not go anywhere else."

"I'm not the one who came to get it from you." Ji Zhezhi looked at Lin Cheng, "It's him."

Ji Chongshan glanced at him and asked, "Who are you?"

Lin Cheng put his arm around Ji Zhezhi's shoulders. Ji Zhezhi's body suddenly stiffened for a moment, and then Lin Cheng said, "She is my wife, so... I came to you to ask for the Sword Shadow Stone."

Ji Chongshan frowned, and after a moment he naturally noticed the Pisces pendant hanging on Lin Cheng's neck, but his eyes inevitably revealed a bit of disdain, "Do you know the Ji family swordsmanship?"

"A little better than you."

...It is very boring to pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger, so Lin Cheng is very honest.

"It's endless, one after another..." Ji Chongshan stood up, "This is the last time this year. After this, don't send anyone to bother me again. If you really want to fight, call your father and see if he has improved over the years."

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Ji Chongshan went to the kitchen to report to his wife, and then led Lin Cheng and Ji Zhezhi downstairs. His car was parked downstairs. Ji Zhezhi and Lin Cheng sat in the back seat. Ji Chongshan drove silently without saying a word. Lin Cheng leaned close to Ji Zhezhi's ear and asked, "How are we going to fight later?"

"Just don't beat him to death."

"Okay." Lin Cheng nodded slightly.

Ji Chongshan drove the car to a forest outside the city. There was a lake in the forest. The last time he and Ji Zhezhi had a sword fight, it was here. Ji Chongshan first glanced at Lin Cheng and said, "Your aura is much weaker than this little girl, so I will reduce my power to the same as yours. You only have one chance. I will not take your life. If you lose, don't come to entangle me again."

Lin Cheng always felt that something was a little bit wrong, so he asked, "What is Ji Zhezhi's relationship with you?"

"I have severed ties with the Ji family and am no longer a member of the Ji family, but if we really want to count generations, she is my niece."

"You were too harsh on her last time." Lin Cheng frowned.

But after hearing this, Ji Chongshan just smiled and said, "Last time, I also reduced my energy to the same level as hers. She had already lost to me in the first ten moves, but she insisted on a fight. I'll just teach her a lesson. Swords have no eyes. These are just common things in the Ji family. When we were young, we suffered much more serious injuries when we practiced swords. There is no porcelain doll in the Ji family who can't bear any hardship. Besides, her mother is a medical fairy from a paradise. When she goes out, she must carry a Nirvana Pill with her. As long as she has a breath, she will not die."

When Ji Chongshan said this, there was a hint of resentment in his voice.

"What is Nirvana Pill?" Lin Cheng asked curiously.

"It's a pill made by my mother, made from special medicinal herbs grown in the paradise. Although it's not as exaggerated as the revival of the dead, it's not much different. It can cure most diseases and injuries in the world. I have two of them with me." Ji Zhezhi explained silently to Lin Cheng.

"Those are treasures from her mother's lineage. There are only a few of them. No matter how much I begged, he wouldn't give them to me. Even though his father and I are brothers, he still refused to show any mercy." Ji Chongshan's voice became very cold, as if he was still full of resentment about what happened that year.

"My mother said that the Ji family has its own rules. If you wanted to use the Nirvana Pill, we would naturally give it to you. But if you want to give the Nirvana Pill to an outsider, even if my mother is willing, the entire Ji family will not agree."

"She is willing to marry me, but she is still not a member of the Ji family in your eyes!"

Ji Zhezhi simply replied calmly, "Rules are rules."

She saw the curiosity in Lin Cheng's eyes, so she calmly explained to Lin Cheng, "Twenty years ago, he met his current wife in the outside world, but his wife was in poor health and could never have children. So even if the woman was willing to marry him and follow him back to the paradise, the Ji family was unwilling to accept her... The identity of the outsider was secondary. What was more important was that the woman could not leave him with children."

What Ji Zhezhi said was true. Ji Chongshan glanced at Lin Cheng and said, "Your last name isn't Ji either, right?"

"My name is Lin Cheng."

"Have you been to Ji's house?"

"Getting ready to go."

"When you get there, you'll understand what a corrupt and stupid family the Ji family is." Ji Chongshan did not hide the disdain and resentment in his eyes at all, but Ji Zhezhi just glanced at him indifferently.

"Uncle, my father always said that you are stupid and have only one mind." Ji Zhezhi's words were a little sudden, but Ji Chongshan was not angry. "Your father is indeed right, so even if my swordsmanship is better than his, he is still the head of the family."

Ji Zhezhi remained silent, as if she didn't want to say anything more. She took a few steps back and glanced at Lin Cheng, "I'll leave it to you."

She drew her sword.

Zhezhi was not her sword. Her sword was named Youxue, which was also one of the top weapons in the Ji family. There were alchemical runes engraved on it, and the sword body was snow-white all over. Lin Cheng took her sword, drew it out of the sheath, and held it tightly in his hand.

Ji Chongshan also knew that there was no point in saying more, so he took out the weapon, Chongshan, which originally belonged to him when he left the Ji family.

It was forged for him by the blacksmith of the Ji family when he was sixteen years old. He was once the most outstanding genius of the Ji family, but he left the Ji family angrily because of a woman. Everyone in the Ji family was heartbroken and hated him for not fighting for it.

Ji Zhezhi is a genius, and so is Ji Chongshan, and he has worked twenty years harder than Ji Zhezhi.

Twenty years is enough time to change so many things.

Lin Cheng clenched the sword in his hand, and when the sword tip came to his neck, he moved back an inch to avoid the sword tip. However, the sharp sword energy seemed to pierce his skin, and in an instant his eyes became serious for a rare moment.

He can barely be considered an opponent worthy of being taken seriously.

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Ji Chongshan's eyes changed from being nonchalant at first to becoming extremely serious after a minute of fighting.

When he got serious, he put away all his contempt and all his previous resentment. All he had in his eyes was Lin Cheng in front of him and the sword in his hand. The tips of their swords touched in the air, sparks flew, and the crisp sound shook the birds in the mountains and forests.

Lin Cheng was actually quite surprised.

Ji Chongshan's understanding of energy mobilization has almost reached a level as natural as breathing, so Lin Cheng cannot rely on the special feature of concentrating power at one point to defeat him. The final competition will naturally be about swordsmanship.

The bodies of the two men fell from the forest by the lake to the calm lake surface, with energy supporting them to prevent them from falling to the bottom of the lake. However, fighting with swords on the lake surface was a completely different posture from that on the ground. The energy emanating from the swords caused waves to surge in the lake, and the sparks from the swords touching each other almost jumped into Lin Cheng's eyes.

"Good swordsmanship." A hint of admiration flashed in Ji Chongshan's eyes.

"You're not bad either." Lin Cheng responded.

Neither of them used the rigid Jingshui Sword Technique as recorded in the sword manual, but rather their own improved Jingshui Sword Technique, which added many variations to the moves, and required constant changes and changes of moves when the swords touched. Ji Chongshan changed from contempt to solemnity at first, and now he began to test carefully, but no matter how he drew his sword, his moves could always be broken up by Lin Cheng, and Lin Cheng's sword was getting faster and faster, so it became a little difficult for him to break it up instinctively.

"Do you want to know what's inside the Sword Shadow Stone?" Ji Chongshan suddenly asked him.

"I'd really like to see it."

"That girl was injured because of this move. Once you strike your sword, you can't stop. Be careful."

"it is good."

In an instant, Lin Cheng sensed Ji Chongshan in front of him, and it seemed that the air around him had some inexplicable changes. He activated his ability to deconstruct fate, trying to understand the source of this change.

It was as if Ji Chongshan had merged with the lake at this moment. The originally turbulent lake surface became extremely calm, and he seemed to have become a part of the world, with all the energy around him at his disposal.

When the energy condensed on the tip of his sword, Lin Cheng suddenly understood.

The eleventh move on the Sword Shadow Stone is no longer about the sword moves, but about allowing the energy core to communicate with the energy between heaven and earth in a special way, and to master everything in this world in a short period of time. Although his energy points are exactly fixed at 100,000, at this moment, the energy of the sword tip is far more than that. The energy within a radius of ten miles is drained at this moment, and everything is just for this sword.

But at the moment he drew his sword, Lin Cheng suddenly whispered something.

“It turns out that the roads are all the same.”

He held the Youxue in his hand, and everything in the world seemed to have stopped at this moment. He no longer needed to analyze the eleventh move, because at this moment a sense of familiarity had already surged into his heart. The snow-white Youxue sword suddenly became brighter.

It was an energy so dense that it was almost tangible, and it was energy within a radius of one hundred miles.

When Ji Chongshan's eyes showed astonishment, his sword had not yet been swung, but Youxue had already pierced his lower abdomen. When he tried to appear, Lin Cheng had already pulled out the sword, and the blood gushing out of his lower abdomen fell into the lake, while the snow-white sword body was not stained with a single speck of blood.

"How... could you...?"

"I realized it accidentally several decades ago, but at that time it was a resonance with the spatial energy in the abyss. I haven't tried it in this world, but it's much simpler."

Lin Cheng used the energy of this world for this sword, so that energy was still in Ji Chongshan's body at the moment, rushing around in his body, so he was no longer able to support himself floating on the lake. Even if he unlocked the seal of 10w energy points, the injury was still there, and he fell into the lake.

Lin Cheng flashed to his side, grabbed his hand and dragged him to the lake, but at this moment Ji Chongshan could only lie on the ground. All his mind was used to suppress the chaotic and violent energy in his body, and he lost the strength to move.

255 I'm kidding

The outcome has been decided.

Lin Cheng looked down and saw that Ji Chongshan didn't have the strength to stand up at the moment.

Ji Zhezhi came in front of Ji Chongshan, lowered his head, and said softly, "Second Uncle, it's time to return the things to me."

"Leave it at home. Come with me later and I'll get it for you." Ji Chongshan sat up slowly, gasping for breath. He stretched out his hand to cover his lower abdomen. The energy had begun to repair his injuries. Lin Cheng took a look with Destiny and found that his energy points were 350,000.

Lin Cheng has never paid much attention to energy points. In fact, it is really not very important. What is important is the use of energy. But if Ji Chongshan directly uses all the energy points at the beginning, it will be difficult for him to win.

Although in the end you won't lose.

"This guy hasn't entered the Ji family yet, right?"

"No." Ji Zhezhi replied calmly, "But he will be a member of the Ji family sooner or later, according to the rules."

"You are just as evil as your father." Although Ji Chongshan looked pale at the moment, he smiled and tried to stand up. "Let's go."

"Take a rest for a while." Ji Zhezhi said lightly.

"This little injury is nothing."

"Your wife will be worried if she sees this."

"That's true." Ji Chongshan sat down again.

He looked at Lin Cheng and suddenly sighed helplessly, "I never thought... Your father and I, before we were twenty years old, had never been able to comprehend the eleventh move no matter how hard we tried, but a young man who did not belong to the Ji family figured it out by himself."

Ji Zhezhi's eyes were still cold, and she said indifferently, "Second Uncle, do you really not understand?"

"What don't you understand?"

"Twenty years ago, when you escaped from the Ji family, it was my father who tried to stop you. You defeated him and were able to escape." Ji Zhezhi looked at him calmly, "After you left, my father became the head of the family."

"After my father became the head of the family, the strict family rules were gradually softened, and the elders retired one by one and no longer held power. That's why you can roam freely outside without being hunted down by the elders of the Ji family."

"Six years later, my father came to you in person to ask for the Sword Shadow Stone back. He challenged you to a duel with a Nirvana Pill as a bet, and lost to you again. You used the Nirvana Pill to heal your wife, and you had a child. You now have your own family."

"Second Uncle, have you forgotten that in the Ji family, if you are not strong enough, you will not be able to win the support of the people? Do you know why no elders came to hunt you down?"

Ji Chongshan was stunned for a moment, he raised his head, with only confusion in his eyes.

"My father mastered the eleventh move when he was eighteen years old. That's why the elders gave him more privileges according to the rules. But you never knew that when you went to the outside world together, it was supposed to be you who should have been the head of the family. My father was never interested in the position of head of the family. But after you left, if my father didn't become the head of the family...you wouldn't have had such an easy time in the outside world these years."

"My father never wanted to be a genius in the eyes of others. The greater the ability, the more responsibilities one has to bear. So he gave you all the opportunities to shine when you were young. But who would have thought that you would insist on leaving later. Someone has to take the responsibility of the Ji family. It was my father who took care of everything for you. The Nirvana Pill was also obtained by my father from my mother. The reason he asked for it was that he was injured in the forest of strange beasts, so it was in accordance with family rules."

"Rules are dead, but people are alive. There were obviously better ways to handle it back then, but you were too reckless and that's why it became like this. Those elders watched you and my father grow up, and they are actually people who are soft-hearted and not hard-hearted. It was you who insisted on causing a scene in the ancestral temple, making everything impossible to resolve."

Ji Zhezhi looked at Ji Chongshan, who had a look of surprise on his face, turned his head and said calmly, "When I came out, my father asked me to tell you something. My martial arts competition will be held in a few days. You should go back to the Ji family to take a look. Those old guys have become very old and are no longer as stubborn as they were in those years. It's no big deal to admit your mistakes in the ancestral temple."

"When you left, he buried two jars of fine wine under the tree. After twenty years, it's time to open them."

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"That's not right?" Lin Cheng came to his senses.

"What's wrong?" Ji Zhezhi turned his head and looked at him.

"Didn't you tell me at the beginning that you were going to kill him?"

"Yes, he violated the Ji family rules. According to the rules, I went to kill him."

Lin Cheng seemed to have figured it out a little bit. "But that said, in fact, it's just a discussion and a conversation, right? Rules are dead, but people are alive."

"That's it."

"Then your injury..."

"It's not serious. I was debating whether to take the Nirvana Pill. You happened to feed me the medicine, so I saved one pill and gave it to you." Ji Zhezhi took out a wooden box, and inside the box was a white jade pill.

Lin Cheng looked at her dimly.