The 30th year of Shengde, on the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month, on the night.

With the sound of a ferry colliding with the shore, seven or eight crew members on the boat carried an iron anchor weighing hundreds of pounds and threw it into the distant river. The cables as thick as arms were also thrown to the shore, and the crew members on the shore tightly fixed the cables to the stone pier beside them.

"The Tianmen Mountain Ferry has arrived, and we have all got off the boat." The boat board was put down, and the crew on the big ferry shouted. After hearing the sound, the guests on the boat came out of the cabin and walked down the boat one after another. This is the last stop of the Qin Dynasty's eastward Da ferry, and the Tianmen Mountain in the distance is also the birthplace of the distant river.

Many passengers who got off the boat chose to stay on the nearby house for a night, and an old man with a long cloth bag was also among the crowds who got off the boat. His beard was gray and his whole face looked energetic, with a hint of worry in his eyes. His thin body was wearing a gray cotton coat and a dark blue strap was simply tied up on his head. Several young people who traveled with him asked him to leave first. They felt that it was really not easy for the old man to run like this when he was old.

After getting off the boat, the old man saw the bright spots that looked like stars and lights in the distance. He asked the crew member who was about to rest, "Hello, I don't know what is ahead?"

The crew member saw the old man ask him this and smiled and said, "Brother-in-law, this is your first time here."

The old man said, "Yes."

The crew member said, "That is the highest mountain here, or it can be said to be the highest mountain in Qin - Tianmen Mountain. There are five peaks in this Tianmen Mountain, four of which have inexhaustible snow. When they flow and gather, they become the source of the distant river. The largest fifth peak is not covered with snow, but is surrounded by clouds and mist all year round, like a residence of immortals. The highlights you see are the location of a sect above. Speaking of this sect, it is really amazing. The sect is called the Yinjian Sect, which has had immortals back then. They were originally the owners of the entire Tianmen Mountain, but later the Qin officials sent people to communicate with them, and finally decided that the fifth peak of Tianmen Mountain belongs to the Yinjian Sect, and outsiders are not allowed to enter. Travelers can watch and play anywhere below a thousand feet."

After hearing this, the old man nodded, said thank you and left.

The cold wind blew, and the old man tightened his cotton coat. He was Ada who came from Qindu overnight.

Outside the Tianmen Mountain Ferry Crossing, the coachmen waiting to take passengers to the city were gathering together to make fires to keep warm. The wind in the night was too cold. If they were alone in the carriage, they would say hello to the officers and soldiers patrolling nearby, and found a brazier and dry firewood to burn it, so that everyone could be warmer.

When Ada came here, there were other guests here talking about the price. Perhaps they thought the price from here was too high. After asking, they went back to the other side of the houseboat to spend some time.

As Da thought about himself and wanted to ask the coachman here for some information, he said to an elderly coachman smoking a dry tobacco beside the fire: "I wonder how much it costs to go to Tianmen Mountain?"

When the other party heard Ada say he was going to Tianmen Mountain, he looked at him in surprise and said, "Customer, it will take at least an hour to go along the river. And it's midnight, and there is nothing fun there. If you are attracted by those beautiful highlights, I advise you not to go there. There is a sect of immortals and cannot be reached."

Seeing that the elderly coachman didn't bother him, Ada decided to take the lane: "You just need to take me to the bottom of the mountain and chat with me on the road to relieve my fatigue."

The old coachman saw that he had to go to Ada when he said that he had to go, and said, "It's true. But we have agreed that even if it's time to be in the middle of the day, it's cold and cold. This trip of fifteen taels of silver is not a small amount."

"Yes, if we had a happy chat on the road, maybe I would give you more money." Ada said.

The people around the old coachman smiled and congratulated him: "Oh Lao Luo, okay, you're here to open it first, and you're still a big customer."

The elderly coachman named Lao Luo bowed and said, "Brothers, I'll get out of the car first. Brothers and wait, there are also customers coming."

"Thank you for your good words."

"Thank you for your good words."

Those coachmen who were burning for heat all hugged Lao Luo and clapped their fists.

When Ada went up to Lao Luo's carriage, he found that only hay was weaving a mat in the carriage. Lao Luo apologized: "Customer, I'm sorry. Cotton is expensive here, so you can just do it."

Ada didn't care about these things. He saw that the cotton coat Lao Luo was wearing was washed one piece in the east and one piece in the west, and sat into the carriage and said, "You are very far from Anjun. I think it costs a lot of silver to transport the cotton. Moreover, your terrain is higher than that of ordinary places, so it will be colder in winter. Clothing such as cotton must be very tight, and the price will be much more expensive than other places."

Seeing that Ada was very talkative, he was not very concerned about the money he drove. He thought Ada was here to do business, so he replied, "Who said no, this place is the only good place, Tianmen Mountain, there are many people coming here to visit this place every year. After all, it is the birthplace of our Qin State's long river. The spectacular scene of the four peaks falling waterfall sounds fascinating. However, most of the guests here come to play in summer. This is the first time I have met a guest who runs to Tianmen Mountain in the evening like you in winter."

Ada was interested and said, "Since that's the case, then tell me about those sects with good-looking highlights? Are there any rumors there."

Lao Luo took a sip of dry cigarette while driving and warmed up his body, saying, "Guest, you are not here to seek immortality and become a disciple, right?"

"Seeking immortals and becoming a disciple?" Ada pretended to be puzzled.

Lao Luo said strangely: "So you don't know. There is a man named Hidden Sword Sect on Tianmen Mountain, and an old god came out. On the day the old god became an immortal, the mountain people nearby saw the colorful clouds of Tianmen Mountain all around the sky, surrounded by cranes. Finally, a huge figure appeared in the sky, saying that it was coming to pick up the old god. The old god also turned into a huge figure in the next moment and ascended in the sun. Later, the Hidden Sword Sect became the sect of gods mentioned by the common people here."

"Ascend in the sun?" Ada wondered why Jin Wei did not reveal this information to him. But he couldn't care about this anymore. Anyway, the immortal from the Hidden Sword Sect had ascended, and Teng Jie was just an innate warrior. However, he also had a little more attention to the Hidden Sword Sect.

When Lao Luo saw that Ada in the carriage did not make a sound, he thought he was scared, so he said, "Guest, don't be afraid. As long as you don't cross the fifth peak, a thousand feet high and mountain high, and don't disturb their sect, they will not pay attention to you. However, if someone dares to break through the boundaries, they can kill them. This is an agreement they made with the Qin court. Therefore, those who seek immortality and apprenticeship are kneeling outside their sect, but few outsiders who are taken to the sect by them."

"Oh, I understand. It was the first time I saw such a beautiful night view and suddenly felt fascinated that I asked this question." A Dadao.

Lao Luo smiled and said, "Stop talking about you, even those of us who drive trains at the Tianmen Mountain Ferry every day will be fascinated by what it looks like when we see it. Imagine how free and comfortable you would be if you were an immortal."

Ada pretended to be curious and said, "Then no one has been there?"

"You can't say that there is really a capable person who has been here and has returned safely." Lao Luo said mysteriously, "But, guests, this matter is circulating in our business and cannot be easily told to others."

Ada handed out a hundred taels of silver bill from the carriage and said, "It should be not light now."

It was darker. At first, Lao Luo thought that Ada had given out a silver note, but when he saw that the silver note was bigger than what he had seen. When he took it, he found that it was Zhang Bailiang silver note. His hands holding the reins were trembling. He took a few sips of dry tobacco and tried to calm his mind.

After almost another mile, Lao Luo calmed down. He knew that the old man in his car could take out a hundred taels of information at once, and he must be a character outside. He thought to himself that he had to speak well, otherwise he would be an unhappy person in the room, and maybe there would be more murders at the foot of Tianmen Mountain.

Naturally, Lao Luo thought so much and said, "You seem to have accepted the money."

"Guest, I'm wondering how to tell you well." Lao Luo knew that Ada was urging him, so he said, "If you want to say that man was raised by us, we have grown up since we were young. He has been very powerful since childhood. His father used to be a car-driver like us. He was only seven or eight years old at that time. When we came here, we were all tamed by Xinma. His arm strength was really not comparable to ordinary people. When he was sixteen, he could already raise a 200-pound cauldron with one hand. We

He was called a god and descended to earth. He also thought he was the reincarnation of an immortal, so he wanted to worship the Hidden Sword Sect. He repeatedly begged the other party at the mountain gate, but he didn't even look at him directly. Just when he was trying to show his skills with brute force, he was knocked down the steps by the little master who was guarding the door. Only then did he know how powerful the other party was. The little master also said that their sect would not take over the man bull and asked him to go down the mountain quickly. Later, he was ashamed and felt uneasy in his heart, so he was brave enough to come out from the back mountain."

Ada asked in confusion: "Didn't it mean that the cliff in the back mountain is steep and more than 500 feet high, so how did he get up?"

"Customer, don't worry, I'm going to focus on the key points." Lao Luo said, "He specially found someone to create two mountain nails, which are like hammers, but with sharp nails in front of them. He tried several times at the foot of the mountain and found that the mountain nail could reach two inches of a rock every time he hit. He practiced at the foot of the mountain for several months, and used the mountain nails to climb five hundred feet high every day with amazing arm strength."

Ada praised: "This child is tough."

Lao Luo took it and said, "Who said it was not? He saw that this trick was feasible, and after practicing, he became more confident. On a dark and windy night, he took the mountain nail and brought dry food to jump off the stone steps below the Hidden Sword Sect, and climbed five hundred feet high on the cloud-smoked back mountain with two Hidden Sword Sect. To be honest, if I had changed, I would have been scared to death, but he really wanted to see what Hidden Sword Sect looked like. With that belief and arm strength, he finally climbed to the top of the fifth peak of Tianmen Mountain. According to him, Tianmen Mountain looked down from the fifth peak like a huge door, and there was a building similar to the Hidden Sword Tower on the top.

He also saw the disciples practicing swords in the distant square. The master who taught them to practice swords was like an immortal, and he could even swing the sword energy from the air. He peeked there for three days and remembered many sword moves. But on the third day, the master of the Hidden Sword Sect who taught swords in the square had several sword energy, saying that it coincidentally hit the side of his hiding place. He knew that the other party might have discovered him, and he had finished eating the dry food he carried, so he climbed down little by little. But since then, he has never used this method to go up again. He ran to the gate of the Hidden Sword Sect and knocked three times on the second day and went down the mountain. He said that those three days of experience had benefited him greatly in this life."

"It's rare to stop when you see it, it's rare. This child should be the number one figure in the world now." A Dadao.

Lao Luo praised: "Yes, I don't know if the guest is a person in the world. The young man who secretly attacked him back then is now Qiu Zhong, a martial arts celebrity, "Tianyin Sword".

Ada laughed and said, "I am just an old man who passed by sightseeing, I have never heard of it."

Seeing that Ah Da was reluctant to say it, Lao Luo didn't follow the truth and said, "It's nothing, I just often hear people passing by mentioning him. I thought the guests had heard of him."

Ada changed the topic and said, "But he probably won't say this kind of thing himself."

Lao Luo laughed and said, "It's not his idle father. When we drove the car together, his son went to the world with those sword moves. When his son made a name for himself in the world, he took him to the city to enjoy his happiness within a few years."

A Dadao: "Didn't the Hidden Sword Sect go to cause trouble for him?"

Lao Luo said: "First of all, this Hidden Sword Sect has a peerless and independent meaning, and does not like to involve things in the world. Secondly, Qiu Zhong is a chivalrous and righteous person and has a good reputation in the world. I think the Hidden Sword Sect doesn't pursue anything."

"Famous, haha." When Ada heard the word "Famous" and couldn't help laughing. Yes, how many people live and die, aren't they all for the word "Famous".

Lao Luo didn't know what Ada was laughing at, so he advised: "Customer, you probably aren't going to the Hidden Sword Sect."

"Don't worry, look so thin, I don't look like someone who can enter the Immortal Sect or climb up from the back mountain with my arms." Ada said self-deprecatingly.

Lao Luo thought about it, so he said to himself: "Look at my head, I'm thinking about something messy all day long."

Ada told Lao Luo that he wanted to sleep for a while, and then called him when he was about to wait.

Lao Luo said a word and focused on driving along the main road along the distant river.

Ada closed his eyes and meditated, passing everything Lao Luo said in his heart. The information he received from this hundred taels of silver is worth it!

An hour later, Lao Luo drove a carriage to the foot of the fifth peak of Tianmen Mountain. It was already half past midnight, and there was no ghost near Tianmen Mountain. The north wind blew, causing Lao Luo, who was not wearing warm clothes to desperately wrap his cotton coat. He thought that he met a big customer tonight, and when it was dawn tomorrow morning, he would buy a warm cotton jacket. He gently knocked on the carriage and said, "Customer, Tianmen Mountain is here, are you going to get off here?"

Ada opened his eyes and exhaled, "Yes."

When Ada got up and left the carriage and was about to give the money to Lao Luo, Lao Luo hurriedly pushed his hands and refused. He said that he had already received Ada's 100 taels of silver notes. If he took his money again, he would be struck by lightning if he didn't open his eyes.

Seeing that he insisted on not wanting it, Ada had to give up. He looked at the fifth peak of Tianmen Mountain, towering into the clouds, and the highlights above were faintly visible in the clouds. He took out a dry and hard steamed bun from his sleeve, broke it off a small piece, put it in his mouth and chewed it carefully, and walked up the steps into the fifth peak of Tianmen Mountain.

Lao Luo knew that there was no need to say anything now. Since the customer got off the car, it was the customer's own business. He turned the front of the car and looked at Ada again, and found that Ada's figure was gone. Lao Luo was shocked, and then chanted Amitabha Buddha and drove the carriage away.

Ada's body sprinted on the steps of Tianmen Mountain. The higher he went, the lower the temperature, and a sense of oppression brought by the height of the mountain appeared. When you could see the Hidden Sword Sect from afar, General Ada bit off the few steamed buns left in his hand, and held the Duanshu on his left hand, and pointed the killing sword in his right hand and responded with a sound. Ada looked at the blood-colored long sword on his right hand, and had a question in his heart, that is, what has the killing sword experienced since he lost consciousness, and how strong it is now.

The disciple who guarded the mountain gate of the Hidden Sword Sect suddenly saw a bloody color appearing on the stone steps below the mountain. He was so scared that he hurriedly asked the senior brother of the same sect to take a look. When the senior brother looked over, there was no bloody color there. He said to his junior brother: "Little brother, don't be shocked. Our here is Hidden Sword Sect. Even if there are any evil spirits and ghosts, he would not dare to come here."

The junior brother said oh, took a deep breath and patted his chest, and continued to guard the mountain gate.

But on the side of the sect they guarded, a figure had already shined blue with his left hand and blood with his right hand, climbing the mountain. The clouds on the mountain were thick and foggy, and the mountain wind was even cold and bone-like. Ada held the remaining steamed buns in his mouth, chewing them all the way up. It took him half a moment to get up, but it took him half an hour to reach the five hundred feet from the cliff on the back to the top of the mountain. When he came up, he felt his arms sore and his cotton coat was soaked in the mountains.

Ada looked at the Hidden Sword Sect in the night, and there was a faint sound of swords in his ears. It was thought that there were still people practicing swords late at night. But this Hidden Sword Sect looked completely different from other sects in the martial arts world. Next to the scattered houses, there seemed to be a building like a cave. The most eye-catching thing was the building in the distance that was like a sharp sword inserted into the mountain. Ada put away the sacred sin, jumped down on the cliff and hid his body, and quickly shuttled through the shadows beside the wall.

The most important thing for Ada now is to find out where Teng Jie is. According to the current layout of the Hidden Sword Sect, the most likely thing for Teng Jie is to enter the sword tower. After Ada made a decision in his mind, he walked along the dark wall and stopped at a place similar to a martial arts field. He saw a young man practicing swordsmanship, and an old man who entered meditation beside him. The more he looked, the less it looked like a sect in the Jianghu Sect. The old man entered the meditation was surrounded by green spots, which was somewhat similar to the spiritual energy that Yang Yifan displayed at that time.

Just as Ada was observing, the young man who was practicing sword said with his sword: "Uncle Peng, you said that the sect leader has been in seclusion for so long, when will he become a god?"

The disturbed old man opened his eyes from meditation, and all the green spots condensed around him were sucked into his body. He slowly pressed his hands on his chest and said, "Have you been in seclusion for three months. This time it is the sect master's life and death pass. If he can break through the pass and reach the state of foundation building and ascension, the first master of this sect will lead him to heaven."

"Life and Death Pass?" the young man scratched his forehead and said, "Isn't the sect leader only at sixty years old? Why are he so anxious to close the life and death pass?"

The old man surnamed Peng sighed and said, "The Sect Master was restless some time ago and he dug up a divination for himself. The hexagram shows that he is not alive for sixty-one."

"Ah? Will the sect leader calculate wrongly? Didn't he say that people can't calculate themselves?" the young man retorted.

The old man surnamed Peng said: "The so-called "Love in the world knows fate and does not worry. The sect leader said that those who are not sure of themselves do not think of themselves as third persons. The sect leader calculated three times and all showed that he could not survive 61."

The young man asked, "I wonder what day the sect leader's birth date?"

"The 28th day of the twelfth lunar month." The old man surnamed Peng replied.

The young man couldn't bear to say, "Isn't that..."

The old man surnamed Peng looked to the sword tower into the ground and said, "The sect master calculated that this retreat was even related to the safety of the Hidden Sword Sect, so we should not disturb us. I hope the sect master made a mistake. God bless me Hidden Sword Sect."

The young man said firmly: "The sect leader will definitely not be a problem, and the Hidden Sword Sect will continue to flourish!"

The old man surnamed Peng turned around and said, "These are not things you need to consider. You have been going up the mountain for three years, and you haven't even achieved a level of Qi training. If you continue like this, I think you can only go down the mountain and travel around the world."

The young man said nervously: "Uncle Master, please don't urge me. I'm already stepping up my practice. Maybe one day I will ascend in the sun like the first master and be guided by the immortals."

The old man surnamed Peng knocked the boy in the head and said, "If you have time to think about this, why don't you practice the martial arts quickly!"

The young man dared not slacking off and continued to practice sword skills. Ada strangely discovered that while the young man was practicing sword, a stream of air surged around him with his sword moves, but this was obviously not innate energy.

The old man surnamed Peng looked at the location of the sword tower entering the ground again, and prayed for the sect leader Teng Jie in his heart.

Ada, who was hiding in the dark, now completely did not understand why Jin asked him to kill Teng Jie. The Hidden Sword Sect did not participate in the disputes in the martial arts world, and according to the disciples in the Hidden Sword Sect, the other party was in the stage of impacting the pass. Once it succeeded, it could be led to heaven, which is what Yang Yifan said. Ada really didn't believe that people who were going to the cultivation world would compete for the reputation of the number one swordsman in the martial arts world. Jin Wei's reason was very far-fetched.

Ada was full of doubts. He found that he seemed to have fallen into a net by Jin Wei. The fog that had been cleared up gathered again, but this time even Ada himself was trapped in it.
Chapter completed!