Chapter 63: The Three Great Swords of Western State

  At the foot of Mount Hua, it belongs to Jiangyin Prefecture.

  Jiangyin Prefecture Jiangyin County

  This Jiangyin County is a big county nearby, and the magistrates of this county are all sixth-rank officials. Although they are sixth-rank magistrates, which is higher than ordinary magistrate status, no one likes to come here to be a magistrate. In other places, being a magistrate means you're the parent official of the region, but in Jiangyin County, it's different. On the surface, you appear to be the parent official of the region, but Jiangyin County is actually too close to Huashan. Many people in Jiangyin County have relatives and friends within Huashan, and some have even become sworn brothers. This is not something that a magistrate of Jiangyin can afford to provoke.

  So, this Jiangyin magistrate is a first-class difficult post. Normally, it's only for those who have lost out in the imperial court of the Great Jin Dynasty, or those who have stood on the wrong side, or those who have offended someone, that they would be sent here.

  Although Jiangyin County Magistrate is a very difficult job, Jiangyin County is still quite prosperous.

  The entire county town is two or three times larger than other county towns. Along the streets, there are rice shops, cloth shops, hotels and business establishments, with peddlers calling out their wares from time to time. It's truly bustling. Although this place near the Immortal Gate is considered a hardship post for the county magistrates, it's actually quite good for ordinary people. The Five Great Immortal Gates have strict rules, and the disciples under them would never dare to cause trouble for the people. Moreover, no evil spirits dare to come here, making it a decent place to live and work in peace.

  In the southeastern part of the county town, there is a wine house called "Letian Wine House". The main business of Letian Wine House is selling wine, but it mainly operates mid-to-low-end wine, mainly targeting ordinary people. What makes Letian Wine House most famous is its Letian Huangjiu (yellow rice wine), which has a fragrant and mellow taste when entering the mouth, with a good flavor, and most importantly, it's not expensive.

  A catty of wine for just fifty cents, at this price, can you find a better value anywhere else?

  "Good plank, bring thirty catties of Le Tian Huang wine, thirty catties of Qingliang clear wine, and thirty catties of Shao Daozi." A young man stood at the wine-selling counter of the hotel, speaking to the elegant wine-selling woman. As soon as he opened his mouth, it was ninety catties of wine, which made all the people waiting behind him gasp in surprise. This young man really is a drunkard.

  That slender wine-selling woman had long recognized the young man, knowing that he was a disciple of Mount Hua. It was rare for him to come down the mountain, so she had prepared nearly a hundred catties of wine. "Alright," she said, taking the three large wine skin bags handed over by the young man and starting to fill them with wine.

  Lu Yuan stood here waiting.

  That's right, I'm just down the mountain to buy wine now.

  Although practitioners of Taoist alchemy are not prohibited from drinking and eating, they must consider their reputation. Therefore, there are no wine shops on the mountain, and if you want to drink, you have to go down the mountain to buy wine honestly.

  Down the mountain a trip, the mountain is high and the road is far, so once hit a hundred or two hundred pounds back.

  Standing idly here, appreciating the scenery that is completely different from the mountain top. Of course, my eyes will also take a glance at the elegant wine-selling woman, not with any ulterior motives, but purely with an appreciative gaze, just like looking at a painting, a plum blossom tree, or a strange rock, with the same eyes used to appreciate the beauty of nature.

  At this time, three big men came over from the street in front.

  The three big men, all robust and muscular, walked on the street with their upper bodies exposed, each carrying a huge broadsword behind them, walking quite majestically.

  When these three men with huge swords on their backs walked by, the surrounding area was in an uproar for a while, with chickens flying and dogs running away, horses shying and people avoiding them. It's clear that these three have some notoriety in Jiangyin County.

  "That is the Three Great Swordsmen of Western State."

  "Yes, I heard they are loose cultivators from the Western Prefecture, each with astonishing strength."

  "Not long ago, I heard that Jiang Bufan, the eldest of the three great swordsmen of Xizhou, had a fight with Yunping, the second disciple of Huashan North Peak, and was slightly at a disadvantage." In Jiangyin County, many cultivators come and go, and everyone is used to it, so they won't feel like they've seen a celestial being like in other places.

  Lu Yuan also swept his gaze over these three burly men, but didn't pay them any mind. He focused on drinking his own wine, why bother with other people's business?

  He is born with a lazy temperament and doesn't bother with anything.

  Lu Yuan continued to wait at the entrance of Letian Wine House for the elegant young woman to buy wine. At this moment, a huge gust of wind suddenly struck him, and Lu Yuan swept his eyes over to see that Jiang Boran, the leader of the three great swords of Xizhou, had already drawn his giant sword and was charging straight at him.

  Lu Yuan immediately dodged to one side and didn't ask any questions. Since his opponent wanted to attack him, it was clear that he had ulterior motives.

  Since it's like this, why bother talking nonsense.

  Don't talk nonsense, you have to defeat your opponent first.

  With a flick of his hand, Yang Chen's sword was unsheathed and made contact with Jiang's massive sword. This slight touch allowed him to sense a surge of immense power, but his own spiritual energy was not weak either, having reached the seventh level of Qi Refining. Judging from this, he estimated that his opponent should be at the eighth level of Qi Refining, making his spiritual energy only one level stronger than his own.

  Jiang Boran was slightly stunned, not expecting a junior to be able to withstand his sword. Jiang Boran immediately changed his move and launched the Earth Splitting Sword Technique, which was unmatched in its power. The technique's movements were grand and expansive, with each strike resembling an earthquake, exuding an aura that intimidated many opponents who had faced him before, rendering them unable to counterattack.

  Jiang Chuan raised the Nourishing Me Sword in his hand, and his opponent's swordsmanship was fierce. He himself used a soft move to slowly wear down the opponent, drawing him into his own swordsmanship.

  "Clouds with a hint of melancholy"

  "Clouds entwine the sword"

  "A gentle breeze on the face"

  "Uncertain and unpredictable"

  "The Wind and Clouds Dispersed" were some soft-looking moves, usually such moves would not be taken seriously by Jiang Bufan, who thought that as a man, he should use big and powerful sword moves. However, as Lu Yuan displayed these soft moves, they gradually wore down the power of his sword, and soon Jiang Bufan found himself unable to freely wield his sword, as if trapped in a cloud of softness, unable to execute his moves at will. At this point, Jiang Bufan was shocked, he had been entrusted with dealing with Lu Yuan, thinking that taking on a twenty-year-old youth would be easy, even though he was a true disciple of the Huashan Sect's Northern Peak. But who would have thought that this junior's swordsmanship was so astonishing, and he had unknowingly fallen into his sword intent, unable to freely wield his own sword moves, and was even somewhat restrained by Lu Yuan's long sword, feeling like he was not in control of his body.

  No way, Jiang suddenly and violently released his sword energy, and saw that his long sword sprayed out yellowish-brown sword energy. He was in the eighth stage of Qi training, but found that his swordsmanship couldn't deal with Lu Yuan, so he simply used his sword energy instead. After all, the information provided by the person who asked him to deal with Lu Yuan was that Lu Yuan was just a junior disciple who had only reached the sixth stage of Qi training and hadn't yet mastered sword energy.

  The sword's aura has a significant impact on the duel.

  Once he possesses the sword energy, his long sword is like a flexible and changeable thing, with many strange changes in it. When he thinks that he has exerted his sword energy, he must have won.

  The result was immediate, and Jiang Boran soon felt tears streaming down his face.

  At this time, Lu Yuan unexpectedly also released his sword energy, white sword energy spewed out from the Nourishing Me Sword, similarly using sword energy to control sword energy. Everyone has sword energy and understands the changes in sword energy, so it's still a comparison of sword techniques. In this comparison of sword techniques, Lu Yuan once again emerged victorious over Jiang Bu Ran. (It's already so late for the first update, what a tragedy.)