Evil Master and Disciple

If we were to ask who in this world has the broadest knowledge, then Su Xiaoli, who has lived in the Tianyun Mountains for tens of thousands of years and now runs a brothel, is the undisputed winner.

After all, human lifespan has an end. Even a powerful being like Dugu Chan, who has transcended the Three Realms and is not bound by the Five Elements, is not immortal. It is rare for him to live for more than a thousand years.

Most monks can only live for one or two hundred years.

He has a higher level of cultivation, about three or four hundred years old.

For a group of top-notch experts like Ye Feng’s fat master, living to 500 years old is not a big problem.

However, in front of the demons with long lifespans, the human age of one thousand to eight hundred years seems so insignificant.

Su Xiaoli, a nine-tailed celestial fox, lives for over ten thousand years.

The events of ten thousand years ago are legends to humans and history recorded in ancient books.

But for Su Xiaoli, it was just a part of her life that she had personally experienced...the life of a demon...the life of a fox.

This extremely beautiful old vixen, who has slept with as many men as a small country, not only witnessed history, she is also a part of history.

Even the leader of the Yunhai Sect was not quite clear about what happened to Dugu Chan more than 800 years ago, but Su Xiaoli knew the whole story.

This is a very long story, so Su Xiaoli sat on a smooth rock in the valley.

She looked towards the south, the direction of the bamboo forest and the ancestral hall.

Gradually, the eyes of this woman who was almost the most beautiful woman in the world became a little blurred.

Su Xiaoli sighed softly and said, "Dugu was born to cultivate the Dao. I have lived for tens of thousands of years and have never seen a human being with his talent.

He returned to his origin at the age of seventeen, became a celestial being at the age of fifty-eight, and reached the pinnacle of heaven at the age of one hundred and ninety.

Xuanjizi of the Xuanzhen School recently broke through the realm of heaven, which is not surprising because Xuanjizi is almost six hundred years old this year.

Xuanjizi was also an unparalleled genius in cultivation, but it took him more than five hundred years to reach the pinnacle of heaven. This shows how talented Dugu was.

Today, Dugu's cultivation and combat power are both the best in the world. Even in the battle of hunting immortals, the powerful God Emperors who came down from heaven might not be Dugu's opponents now.

Dugu Ben could have ruled the three realms and dominated the sky. He had the qualifications, but he chose to retire at the age of 243 when he was in his prime.

As for the reason, it is related to the Three Swords of God-Slaying that you want to learn.

The Three God-Slaying Sword Styles were developed by Dugu himself, not by the Yunhai Sect's ancestral sword techniques. Originally, there was only one style, called Dawn Breaking. It was created after he reached the Celestial Realm in his sixties and gained a deeper understanding of the sword.

Ye Feng frowned and muttered, "Dawn? Not domineering at all."

Su Xiaoli said slowly, "What do you know? Darkness enveloped eight thousand miles, and a single sword shattered the dawn and turned it into light. Back then, this single sword cut off the left arm of the Demon Cult's top expert, the Cloud Demon Patriarch.

The second of the three styles of beheading gods is called Heaven's Descent. It is the supreme sword intent that Dugu comprehended after he turned 100 years old. The power of this sword is more than ten times stronger than that of Dawn.

At this time, Dugu was very young and full of pride. When a sword fell from the sky, all living beings bowed to him.

Dugu knew that this was not the limit of swordsmanship, and he always wanted to comprehend the third form of sword intent.

But in the following decades, he was never able to achieve his wish.

He thought that because he had not reached the limit of heaven, he could not reach the highest realm of swordsmanship.

So he practiced very hard, and finally at the age of 190, he reached the pinnacle of heaven.

However, he did not feel happy about it.

Because the End of Heaven still couldn't allow him to comprehend a sword intent more powerful than the one from Heaven."

Ye Feng interjected, "So he gave up on himself and chose to live in seclusion? That's not right. Legend has it that Dugu Sword God has three methods of beheading gods. He should have comprehended the third method."

"Yes, he figured it out. But unfortunately, he would rather not have figured it out."

"Eh? Senior, what does this mean? Did our ancestor pay a huge price to comprehend this move? This doesn't make sense. I see that our ancestor has no missing arms or legs, so he doesn't look disabled. Did he... castrate himself? No wonder our ancestor's Red Sun Heart Thunder Art is so powerful!"

Su Xiaoli said angrily: "Castration? What are you thinking, kid? Do you think the price is just physical disability?

To be honest, for human beings, physical disability is actually the smallest price to pay.

The price Dugu paid was much heavier than having his hands and feet severed, or even having his own body castrated."

Ye Feng nodded thoughtfully and said, "Our ancestor reached the pinnacle of heaven at the age of one hundred and ninety, but he disappeared from the human world at the age of two hundred and forty-three.

Something must have happened during these fifty-three years.

Since the price does not come from the body, it must come from the heart.

The only thing that could make a man abandon himself for over eight hundred years is... love... Is it related to love?"

Su Xiaoli was slightly startled, looked at Ye Feng in surprise, and said: "I have to say, you are smarter than I thought.

Yes, it was love. After reaching the Heaven's End, Dugu had been cultivating on the top of Luoxia Peak, trying to comprehend the third sword move.

Because this place is very close to Luoxia Peak, we occasionally visit each other. Dugu has been practicing alone on the top of Luoxia Peak for about thirty years, but still has no progress. So he asked me, is Tianjiang really the ultimate swordsmanship?

It was here that we made our move, and he urged the Sky Drop, which was indeed incredibly powerful, but… I still managed to catch it.

I told him that since I could forcibly catch something that fell from the sky, that something that fell from the sky was not the limit of kendo.

You haven't comprehended the higher meaning of swordsmanship, perhaps because you lack the understanding of the worldly affairs.

The worldly world is very important for monks. It can sharpen their minds and allow them to experience the seven emotions and six desires.

Immortal cultivators seek the art of eternal life, hoping to see through the mundane world and escape the cycle of reincarnation. However, to see through it, to escape it, you must first be in it.

In the past two hundred years, Dugu has either been practicing in seclusion or challenging powerful people of both good and evil, and rarely interacted with others.

I don't deny his talent for spiritual cultivation, but he lacks understanding of the secular world. How can he see through it when he has never been in it?

So, I suggested that he put down his sword, go out into the world, gain some experience, make some friends, and hopefully find a girl he likes.

He accepted my advice and left Tianyun Mountain that same day."

After hearing this, Ye Feng could already guess what happened to his ancestor after he came down the mountain.

It is probably similar to the plot in novels, movies and TV dramas, where the proud male protagonist meets the quirky female protagonist.

At first, the two disliked each other, but after spending a long time together, they fell in love with each other.

But in the end, the lovers did not get married, nor did they become a family.

If we follow the Korean drama version, one of them will definitely die.

Another person is in agony...

As Ye Feng imagined the story, he heard Su Xiaoli sigh softly, "The Free and Easy Sword and the Red Dust Tribulation, even a brilliant figure like Dugu would be deeply trapped in it.

In the first ten years or so, he has been experiencing the world.

At that time, although he was more than two hundred years old, the powerful spiritual power of Tianzhijing washed over his body, and he looked like a young man in his twenties, truly a man of extraordinary elegance.

Until he was two hundred and forty years old, he met a girl..."

Ye Feng grinned and said, "I knew it! This girl must be a rare and beautiful woman!"

Unexpectedly, Su Xiaoli slowly shook her head and said, "No, no... This girl is an ordinary woman, not particularly good-looking, and she's mute."

"What?"

Ye Feng was dumbfounded.

That’s not right. Why don’t you follow the script?

According to the normal plot, the handsome and dashing male protagonist will definitely meet the beautiful female protagonist.

How come the girl our ancestor met was actually a mortal, and a mute one at that?

Su Xiaoli said: "At that time, Dugu passed by a city and met a mute girl who was selling herself to bury her father at the city gate.

Dugu casually threw a hundred taels of silver to the other party. He wanted to do good deeds and had no intention of buying the mute girl. After all, having an ordinary girl around would be a burden.

Unexpectedly, the mute girl has been following him since then.

Although Dugu chased her away several times, the mute girl refused to leave. So the mute girl became Dugu's maid, taking care of Dugu's food and daily life. The two of them traveled the world together..."

Su Xiaoli's subsequent narration was basically the same as Ye Feng's guess.

During the years when Dugu Chan and the mute girl roamed the world together, their lives seemed ordinary, but in fact, they both fell deeply in love with each other without realizing it.

But Dugu Chan has been practicing since he was a child...

Even though he is two hundred years old, he still doesn't understand the love between men and women.

His greatest pursuit is still to comprehend the ultimate mystery of swordsmanship.

When passing by Tianjian Mountain, Dugu Chan had some insights into the way of the sword when he saw the countless strange straight peaks in the Tianjian Mountain Range that looked like sharp blades.

The two stopped at the foot of Tianjian Mountain.

They lived in seclusion in a valley in Tianjian Mountain.

Dugu Chan told the mute girl that this time he would definitely be able to comprehend the ultimate sword art. Then he would take her back to Tianyun Mountain and ask his master to preside over their wedding.

The mute girl was very happy.

However, Dugu Chan was so absorbed in comprehending the ultimate way of the sword that he almost became possessed.

Just a little bit...

Just this little bit almost drove him crazy.

Every day I repeat to myself, "Seeing through the cycle of reincarnation, severing the worldly affairs, letting go of worries, cutting off all emotions and love, is called an immortal. Why can't I cut off, can't I cut off..."

Until one day, he lost his mind and acted like a madman.

The mute girl wanted to comfort him, but was stabbed through the heart by a sword by Dugu Chan, who had almost gone insane.

As blood slowly dripped down the Yuntie Sword, Dugu Chan finally woke up from his madness.

Looking at his beloved girl falling in his arms, Dugu Chan felt for the first time in his life... pain.

“Dugu once told me that when he regained consciousness, he looked at the already cold body in his arms and his heart ached so much. He regretted it so much!

Over the years, he has neglected sleep and food, and practiced hard day and night, just to reach the pinnacle of swordsmanship.

But the moment he killed the mute girl, he suddenly realized what he had been doing all these years?

He missed so much for the illusory sword path.

He once promised the mute girl that he would take her back to Tianyun Mountain, take her to the East China Sea to watch the sunrise, to the West Sea to watch the sunset, to the South China Sea to collect pearls, and to the North Sea to fish for giant whales.

However, until the moment the mute girl died, he had not completed it.

He regretted and felt remorse. He held the mute girl's body and sat in the valley for seven days and seven nights.

On the eighth day, he returned to Tianyun Mountain with the mute girl's body and came to me.

Because of the death of the mute girl, he gave up his obsession with kendo, but letting go... made him successful.

I saw with my own eyes that he figured out the third move right in front of me.

I tried my best and could barely catch his second move from the sky, but I couldn't stop the third move he figured out.

Originally, he wanted to name the third move "Asking about Love", but I thought it was too weak, so I suggested that he change the name of this move to "Unparalleled Sword Intent".

So he changed his plan to kill gods.

This sword can kill all the gods and Buddhas in the heavens.

Afterwards, he chose to retire and stayed in the ancestral hall. In total, he had been guarding the ancestral hall alone for nearly 830 years.