Chapter 67

"Be quiet! Get lost!"

Dugu Jian圣 grabbed Qi Feng's arm and, riding on a sword beam, swooshed away, leaving only a large hole on the roof of Han Yixian's house. Well... Uncle Han, your house might need to be rebuilt.

Qi Feng felt a sudden brightness before his eyes and instinctively squinted. Then, the green mountains and clear waters came into view.

He had actually come out? Not forcibly logged out, but broken free from the constraints of the shop area, stepping into the world of Immortal Sword for the first time! Well, "stepping" wasn't quite accurate; he was still floating—several dozen meters above the ground!

Was it his special ability that had upgraded? Qi Feng didn't think so. It was most likely that Dugu Jian圣's sword riding skill had carried him through some invisible rule or checkpoint.

Qi Feng had always been unclear about his special ability, understanding it only superficially. So, he was even more at a loss to analyze the current situation.

After all, it wasn't easy for a science student who firmly believed in science to deeply understand something as mind-bending as transmigration. Just thinking about how a large mass of matter could disappear from one plane and appear in another, the enormous energy required for such a transformation, or the fact that it might contradict the theory of relativity, was enough to make one's head spin. This wasn't something a sophomore science student's brain could solve.

Fortunately, Qi Feng wasn't the type to get stuck on a problem. If he couldn't figure it out, he wouldn't waste much effort on it.

Qi Feng was now holding up a thumb, using basic trigonometry to estimate his current flight speed. Although the numbers wouldn't be very precise, he could roughly confirm that Dugu Jian圣's sword riding was at least on par with a typical jet.

Sword riding was a proprietary technology of the Shushan Immortal Sword Sect, a high-level application derived from their sword riding technique, known in this era as an "ultimate skill." This skill... no, this ultimate skill, fully embodied the "immortal" nature of the Immortal Sword Sect. Many people in the world referred to this move as "Sword Riding Immortal." In this era, it was likely that only Jiuxian Situ Zhong (who used a variant of the technique with a wine gourd) and Sword Saint Dugu Yuyun could perform this flashy and stylish skill.

Qi Feng couldn't help but marvel that many things could only be truly understood through personal experience. At such a high speed, the wind pressure would normally be enough to kill a person instantly, even if Qi Feng had practiced the third level of the Dragon Elephant Bodhimanda. But now, he only felt a gentle breeze, less intense than the wind from a car window.

"Um... Senior," Qi Feng had to be more polite now, as he was in mid-air and couldn't afford to be disrespectful. If he kept poking Dugu Sir's sore spots, who knew if he might let go and "accidentally" drop him.

"What is it?" Dugu Jian圣, standing on the sword beam, didn't even turn his head. He always maintained a high and cold demeanor, his tone indifferent, neither warm nor cold, making it hard to gauge his thoughts.

"Can you teach me this sword riding...?"

"Ha ha!" Dugu Jian圣 was somewhat pleased and said, "Can the ultimate skill of our sect be passed on to outsiders?"

Qi Feng pouted and retorted, "I wonder if you noticed a young man under twenty in the room just now?" Qi Feng thought that with Dugu Sir's keen senses, he probably didn't see the protagonist. "Situ Zhong passed on all your sect's ultimate skills, from sword riding to the Ten Thousand Sword Technique, and even the Heavenly Sword and Sword God, to a bottle of watered-down sour wine."

"Hmm? How do you know this in such detail?" Dugu Jian圣 countered.

"Well... I travel back and forth through the Immortal Dream, so I know a lot of things." In the Immortal Sword world, Qi Feng didn't hide his special ability. He simply changed "transmigration" to "Immortal Dream" and used it to bluff all the NPCs, which had been quite effective so far.

"Oh?..." Dugu Jian圣 pondered for a moment, then chuckled, "Since that's the case, I'll be straightforward. That young man was a long-time chosen successor by my junior brother, just an opportunity to pass on the mantle."

"Ah?" Qi Feng was shocked. This was a shocking revelation. It turned out that Li Xiaoyao's acquisition of the ultimate skills for a bottle of wine was just a well-designed facade!

Dugu Jian圣 turned his head slightly and asked, "Did you really meet Nan Gong Huang, Master Xu Changqing, and Jing Tian?"

"Of course!" Qi Feng replied firmly and confidently, "Actually, I even met you when you were young. You were much handsomer back then. I guess you don't remember."

Dugu Jian圣 didn't press further and continued, "Have you met Li Sansi?"

"Of course!" Qi Feng thought, "Trying to test me? Li Sansi was just a cheap disciple Jing Tian took in. Oh, right, he also became friends with Nan Gong Huang after a misunderstanding. Wait... He's Li Xiaoyao's father! Could it be... No way?!"

Although Qi Feng knew these facts, it was only after Dugu Jian圣 mentioned them that he realized there was a problem.

"Ha ha!" Dugu Jian圣 shook his head and laughed, but Qi Feng couldn't tell what his laughter meant.

"Jing Tian is the former sect leader and a friend of Master Xu Changqing. So, his disciple Li Sansi is naturally a peer to me and my junior brother. Moreover, Li Sansi's friend Nan Gong Huang is also a friend of my junior brother. Given that Li Sansi died tragically, my junior brother and I, out of respect and duty, would not let his son wander in the world and waste his life."

Damn! Qi Feng was speechless. He sighed, "I'm still too young, too naive, and too innocent." Qi Feng had always thought that Li Xiaoyao in Immortal Sword 1 was a typical example of a small character's rise to success, but upon closer inspection, he realized that Li Xiaoyao was also a second or third generation elite!

What did that song say? Oh, no one can succeed easily! Just like how Warren Buffett's story doesn't tell you that he was taken to the New York Stock Exchange for lunch with financial tycoons from a young age, and Bill Gates' story doesn't mention that his mother was a high-ranking executive at IBM when he started his business.

It turns out Li Xiaoyao wasn't from a simple background either! Qi Feng felt almost speechless about this second-generation world.

"Damn! So you guys also play the 'dad game' here?!" Qi Feng felt another part of his childhood being destroyed and couldn't help but vent his frustration.

Dugu Jian圣 hadn't heard this term before: "Dad game?"

Qi Feng explained weakly, "It means that studying well in math, physics, and chemistry isn't as good as having a good dad..."

This was a bit ahead of its time, but after repeating it a few times, Dugu Jian圣 roughly understood Qi Feng's meaning. He didn't argue but stroked his beard and smiled, "Regardless, Li Xiaoyao is indeed a genius with a naturally open spiritual meridian. He mastered our sect's sword techniques in one night, something I couldn't do even when I was young."

Qi Feng scratched his chin and asked, "Is it really true that like father, like son? Is it all about genes?"

Dugu Jian圣 replied, "That's not something I know. My junior brother used to secretly watch the child, so he might know more."

"Li Xiaoyao as a child?" Qi Feng thought, "I've seen him in the game. He was just a little boy who liked to play with swords and knives, nothing special. In the end, he traded a Water Spirit Pearl for a wooden sword. I wonder if Li Sansi would be angry if he knew that the Water Spirit Pearl he risked his life to steal was traded for a wooden sword."

But at least the Water Spirit Pearl was eventually given to Li Xiaoyao ten years later, so it wasn't a complete loss.

"Hmm? Water Spirit Pearl?" Qi Feng's mind raced, and he quickly asked Dugu Jian圣, "The five spirit pearls in heaven and earth contain immense spiritual power. Would keeping them close help one's cultivation?"

Dugu Jian圣 nodded, "Of course. As you said, the Red Demon King used the Earth Spirit Pearl to cultivate his demonic powers."

"Then, if a child played with the Water Spirit Pearl as a toy from a young age, would it change his constitution?"

"Of course!" However, Dugu Jian圣's expression became strange, "But that's absurd. Such a precious treasure is hard to come by. Who would give it to an ignorant child as a toy? It's ridiculous!"

Qi Feng held his forehead in exasperation, "Parents' love is truly boundless. Li Xiaoyao's father was really something."

"Ah? You mean..." Dugu Jian圣 wasn't stupid. With Qi Feng's clear hints, he couldn't miss it. "Li Sansi stole the Water Spirit Pearl and gave it to his son to help him cultivate his meridians from a young age?"

"Probably so..." Qi Feng recalled the vague plot, "I only heard that Li Sansi stole the Poison Dragon Gall and died from poisoning. But I always found it strange. The Poison Dragon Gall isn't an extraordinary item, and Li Sansi was so powerful. Now I think about it, he must have died after stealing the Water Spirit Pearl."

As the past events were unraveled by Qi Feng's reasoning, Dugu Jian圣 seemed to be lost in memories of the past, silent for a long time, with a strange expression on his face.

"Um... Senior! Senior!" Qi Feng couldn't help but poke the seemingly lost in thought Dugu Jian圣.

"What is it?!" Dugu Sir seemed a bit annoyed at being interrupted. "If there's nothing, just stay still."

"Actually, there is something..."

Dugu Jian圣 was somewhat impatient, "What's so important?"

"Have we... flown too far?"

"Ah?" Dugu Jian圣 quickly stopped the sword beam and looked around, "This... where are we?"

Qi Feng covered his face and asked, "Are you asking me?" r1152

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