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Li Hanyi sighed, "What an awful name! Neither of your masters has any talent for naming things. Sword Rise!"
The sword (cdbj) that he had inserted into the pavilion flew back into his hand, its blade gleaming with a white light.
Sword Name Group 852 Iron Horse Ice River, Tian 1042 Under Heaven 78 ranks third among the ten famous swords!
Li Hanyi brandished his longsword: "I too have a sword, named Moonlit Evening and Flowery Morning!"
Unlike the sword strikes with Li Hanyi, this one was beautiful, gentle, and slow, like rising smoke with willow branches swaying in the smoke, like morning flowers or the bright moon at night, so tender that one could only want to be intoxicated by it.
The sword strike was both beautiful and dangerous. In an instant, all the camellias in Snow Moon City floated up, with millions of petals surrounding Li Hanyi's longsword, creating an indescribable beauty.
"A swordsman's strike!" Sikong Changfeng exclaimed.
"May this love endure for a thousand years." Yin Luoxia closed her eyes and inhaled the fragrance of flowers that filled the city.
Fiery thunder and boundless celestial energy, a red light and a purple light, the two sword techniques converged into an incomparably domineering sword strike.
But Li Hanyi, who had knocked them down with a single sword strike, suddenly switched to a sword of exquisite beauty and gentleness.
Lei Wujie thrust out his sword and almost lost consciousness.
Li Fansong gritted his teeth and desperately tried to raise his sword energy, but all he saw was a rain of flowers, and their two sword energies were unable to break through.
The pageboy Feixuan finally couldn't hold on any longer and knelt down. The dragon-elephant aura dissipated in an instant.
Lei Wujie and Li Fansong's sword energy was completely dissipated. Both of them were exhausted, and their longswords flew out of their hands and hovered beside Li Hanyi.
"I still can't beat them." Lei Wujie gave a bitter smile.
Sikong Changfeng sighed and called out to Li Hanyi in the air, "Hanyi!"
Li Hanyi snorted coldly, and with a slight movement of her hand, countless camellia blossoms scattered down, enveloping Lei Wujie and Li Fansong. The two still landed heavily on the ground, the camellia blossoms shattering.
Li Hanyi landed slowly, staring coldly at them.
Sikong Changfeng, Xiao Se, Fei Xuan, and Sikong Qianluo also rushed over.
"Oh dear, Hanyi, don't be angry, don't be angry. Why get upset with the children?" Sikong Changfeng quickly said.
Li Hanyi took a few steps forward: "You want to see me?"
Lei Wujie and Li Fansong exchanged a glance and hurriedly nodded.
"Why?" Li Hanyi flicked his finger, and the peach wood sword flew into his hand. "What's this sword called?"
"I carved it myself from peach wood, and I haven't named it yet. Why don't you give it a name, Sword Immortal?" Li Fansong said with a smile.
Li Hanyi flicked her finger, and the peach wood sword fell to the ground and broke into pieces: "Too lazy to retrieve it."
Li Fansong didn't dare to feel sorry for him, he just kept nodding: "The Sword Immortal is right."
"Why do you want to see me?" Li Hanyi asked.
Li Fansong hesitated for a moment and said, "Well... I've heard Master talk a lot about the Snow Moon Sword Immortal's great name. I'm quite fascinated by him. I've come out to travel on Master's orders and I really want to meet the senior."
"You've seen it now?" Li Hanyi's eyes sharpened.
"I've seen him, I've seen him. As expected of a sword immortal, I am in awe," Li Fansong said hurriedly.
"Now that you've seen me, why don't you get lost?" Li Hanyi waved his long sleeves, sending Li Fansong flying.
Fei Xuan snorted coldly and waved his right hand, sending Li Fansong onto the exhausted old horse.
"The power of a great dragon elephant?" Li Hanyi frowned slightly.
Fei Xuan ignored him, turned around, and led his horse out of the city.
Li Fansong, still on horseback, coughed up three mouthfuls of blood, yet smiled and said, "This trip to Snowmoon City was truly worthwhile!"
"Junior Uncle, you almost got beaten to death, and you still think it was worth it? Did you break your head?" Fei Xuan glared at him.
Li Fansong laughed and said, "To be able to face a sword immortal head-on and survive a single sword strike is better than practicing swordsmanship for years. If you don't even understand this simple principle, how will you learn the Boundless Sword in the future?"
"Pah! If it weren't for my Great Dragon Elephant Technique, you would have been killed by the fall." Fei Xuan said disdainfully, "The Gun Immortal just said that I am the real master."
"Expert? You can become an immortal in the future. You want to be an expert?" Li Fansong closed his eyes and said nothing more.
Fei Xuan silently pulled on the reins, and the scholar and his page slowly swayed out of the city.
Sikong Changfeng watched the two figures and sighed, "The martial and heavenly fortunes of this generation of Qingcheng Mountain have been perfectly divided. It seems that in the future, Qingcheng Mountain will take half of the martial world from Xueyue City."
“Who cares?” Li Hanyi looked at Lei Wujie again and asked, “Then what about you? Why do you want to see me?”
"I humbly request the Snow Moon Sword Immortal to accept me as his disciple!" Lei Wujie suddenly knelt down!
"Don't you already have a master?" Li Hanyi asked in return, her expression shifting slightly.
“My master is seriously ill and will not live much longer. He asked me to come and become your disciple,” Lei Wujie said.
For a fleeting moment, Li Hanyi's eyes flickered, but she quickly regained her composure: "Lei Hong is going to die?"
“Yes.” Lei Wujie lowered his head.
Li Hanyi was silent for a moment, then said coldly, "Change your clothes, and I'll come to find you in a few days."
"Greetings, Master!" Lei Wujie knelt down and bowed.
Li Hanyi turned and left.
However, as he left, he couldn't hold back and a trickle of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.
Only Sikong Changfeng witnessed this scene.
"Are you okay?"
"Having just gone through such an intense battle, he's already gotten angry again. Even as a sword immortal, he still has such a bad temper."
"Clang!" The sound of a sword being drawn rang out.
"Alright, alright, I won't say anything more. Go and rest for a while," Sikong Changfeng said with a wry smile.
After Li Hanyi left.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief; this earth-shattering challenge to the pavilion had finally come to an end.
The elders and disciples of Snow Moon City who had come out to watch the battle returned to their respective halls. The merchants in the city felt that they had no regrets in their lives for witnessing such a scene. Only Xiao Se, Sikong Changfeng, Sikong Qianluo, and Lei Wujie, who was lying on the ground, remained in place.
Chapter 82 Xiao Se's True Identity! The Hidden Truth of the Celestial Immortal!
Xiao Se gently kicked Lei Wujie: "You're already a disciple of the Sword Immortal, you owe me eight hundred taels of silver. Can you settle the debt now so I can go back to my Snowfall Manor?"
Lei Wujie rolled his eyes and said listlessly, "Do I look like I have money now?"
"Why don't you... ask my senior master?"
"Who?" Xiao Se asked.
“Right in front of you.” Lei Wujie shook his head at Si Kong Changfeng.
Sikong Changfeng smiled slightly: "All financial expenses of Snow Moon City will be handled by me."
Xiao Se spread his right hand: "Eight hundred taels."
Sikong Changfeng directly avoided the name: "I heard that your name is Xiao Se?"
"How is it?" Xiao Se raised an eyebrow.
"This surname is a bit unusual," Sikong Changfeng nodded.
"Stop flattering me, just pay back the money you owe. I'm in a hurry to get going," Xiao Se said impatiently.
"How dare you! Believe me or not, I'll kill you with one spear!" Sikong Qianluo angrily swung the spear in her hand.
Sikong Changfeng smiled and pressed his daughter's gun down: "The money will naturally be returned. I just would like to invite Brother Xiao to stay in the city for a while. I have some doubts in my mind and would like to ask Brother Xiao to answer them."
"So what if I don't comply? Are you going to use force to coerce me?" Xiao Se sneered.
Sikong Changfeng shook his head: "Of course not."
Xiao Se was silent for a moment, then said, "I can answer your questions, but you also need to answer some of my questions."
Sikong Changfeng smiled and said, "Of course. Whatever you want to ask, I will tell you if I know the answer."
"Who is in that golden coffin? Why did you say that the person in the coffin would kill me as soon as they came out?" Xiao Se immediately asked the question that had been bothering him the most.
Sikong Changfeng countered, "If I'm not mistaken, you must be a member of the Xiao royal family of Tianqi City, right? And of a rather high status."
"However, the Xiao clan was wiped out more than 20 years ago, leaving only one posthumous child. But that posthumous child is currently in the palace. What is your true identity?"
Upon hearing this, everyone around was taken aback.
"What?! Xiao Se is actually a member of the Xiao royal family?" Everyone's gaze towards Xiao Se changed instantly.
"The Xiao royal family? How could there still be a Xiao royal family besides the one in the palace?!"
Xiao Se's expression turned cold: "So what if it is? So what if it isn't?"
Sikong Changfeng said calmly, "The person in that golden coffin is the one who slaughtered the Xiao royal family more than twenty years ago. If you were a member of the Xiao royal family, do you think he would kill you first if he came out?"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Se's pupils contracted sharply. Although shocked, he did not show any fear on his face.
"Alright, now it's your turn to answer me. Who exactly are you?" Sikong Changfeng asked.
After a long silence, Xiao Se said in a hoarse voice, "I am not a member of the Xiao royal family."
Sikong Changfeng frowned slightly: "I'm afraid you don't know that there is a secret organization in Snow Moon City called Spider Web."
“Your identity was thoroughly investigated the moment you entered Snowmoon City.”
"Ten years ago, you were secretly sent out of the Tianqi City Imperial Palace. For the past ten years, the Beili National Treasury has been secretly supporting you and helping you cultivate."
"If you are not a member of the Xiao royal family, why are you receiving this kind of treatment?"
Xiao Se said coldly, "I told you, I am not a member of the Xiao royal family."
Sikong Changfeng finally realized the meaning behind those words.
"You are Queen Lü's illegitimate son?!"
The words fell.
The atmosphere in the entire room instantly fell into a deathly silence.
Everyone stared wide-eyed at Xiao Se's figure in disbelief.
"No... that can't be, right?"
"Hiss! This is a capital offense!"
"Oh no! Is this something I can hear?!"
Everyone gasped.
Xiao Se's expression grew increasingly cold.
No one would feel good if they were told in public that they were born out of wedlock.
Sikong Changfeng also realized what was happening: "Sorry."
"How about we find another place to discuss this in detail?"
Xiao Se nodded slightly.
"Keep everything you just heard buried. If it leaks out, don't blame me for being ruthless," Sikong Changfeng warned those around him.
The next moment, Sikong Changfeng grabbed Xiao Se with one hand and flashed to a room on the top floor of the Dengtian Pavilion.
Xiao Se slowly walked to the window, gazing calmly in the direction of Tianqi City.
"He is my half-brother, born a year earlier than me."
"My mother claimed to the public that he and I were twins, but anyone with eyes could see that I was actually an illegitimate child. As for my biological father, he was secretly executed by the people in the palace at the first opportunity."
"At the age of ten, under the arrangement of the Imperial Preceptor and the new Five Great Supervisors, he successfully took control of the court."
"The first thing he did after seizing power was to get rid of me, his illegitimate son."
"Later, it seems that my mother made a three-point agreement with him, which allowed me to escape Tianqi City, but I could no longer appear as a prince."
"Therefore, I am not a member of the Xiao clan."
Sikong Changfeng put down his spear and said slowly, "In that case, you're still lucky. At least the person in the golden coffin won't kill you first."
"Being a prince is not an advantage."
"This seal will not be permanent. When the time comes, the Xiao clan will suffer the same fate."
Xiao Se smiled and said, "So, my more than ten years of wandering alone has actually been pretty good?"