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night.

There is a moon on the river.

The bed beneath me shook with the river water.

At a certain moment, the wind and waves suddenly became violent, and the official ship stumbled suddenly on the river.

On the dark bed board in the cabin, the slender black figure who was sleeping on his side suddenly jumped up like a grasshopper in distress.

In the already narrow cabin, he jumped more than ten feet high and pressed against the ceiling of the cabin.

And the slender black shadow stuck tightly to the ceiling, never falling down, as if it was adsorbed on it...

Ouyang Rong woke up and forgot what he had just dreamed about.

Feeling the feeling of suspension, he glanced at the ceiling in front of him, his face was speechless, and he released his two palms that were attached to the ceiling.

His body "fell" lightly back onto the bed.

Ouyang Rong sat up, sighed, put his palms together, buried his face in them, and rubbed his face vigorously.

On the bumpy bed, his body without the support of his hands swayed strangely and slightly.

If anyone were to look carefully at this moment, they would find that the swaying amplitude of the slender young man's body was equal to the swaying amplitude of the official ship beneath him, achieving some strange coordination.

It is vaguely consistent with the realm of the boxing masters in the martial arts world, where oneself and nature are integrated and connected with each other, and the inside and outside are in harmony.

Moreover, in the small and medium-sized sects in Tiannan Jianghu, only a good youngster who is talented and has practiced pile skills and horse steps since childhood can have a chance to touch this realm.

Of course, Ouyang Rong has never practiced it, but he only benefited from the strange Qi refining technique of the Yuxi female fairy.

No wonder people in the world admire the qi refining technique of the mythical meridian. It is almost the same as opening up the Ren and Du meridian. It is worth more than ten years of hard training by others...

So as soon as he got on the boat yesterday, he felt as stable as a rock, which directly eliminated the possibility of seasickness.

The only small drawback is that I was woken up by a bump in the middle of my sleep, and my subconscious vigilance jumped up and stuck to the ceiling...

This is actually the ability Ouyang Rong gained after entering the eighth level. He can control his own muscles and bones to a certain extent.

But now, it is getting stronger.

After experiencing the ritual of killing Lin Cheng, Wei Shaoqi, and Wang Lengran with his sword, Ouyang Rong also understood the Twin Sword Technique.

As a result, the spiritual energy cultivation that had previously been stagnant due to the bottleneck of the Sword Technique has successfully broken through to the late eighth stage, and is close to perfection!

The eighth-grade dark blue spiritual energy in his body became increasingly pure.

Ouyang Rong's ability to control his own muscles and bones has been strengthened. If he was "slightly accomplished" before, he is now "perfectly accomplished".

Ouyang Rong took a long breath and glanced at the creaking hatch.

He puts on his clothes and gets up at night.

He took out the chamber pot, relieved himself, and glanced at the strong but flawless water column. Someone coughed. He was a proficient person, and he had no difficulty in aiming in the dark, bumpy and difficult environment...

In fact, in addition to the strange alchemist's Tao Meridian, with this advancement in eighth-level cultivation, the ability of the sword wielder's Tao Meridian has also been strengthened to a certain extent.

The range of deploying the sword is wider, and the time to deploy the sword is shortened by one breath when killing enemies with the same level of cultivation.

But after all, it's just from the entry level of the eighth level to the late eighth level, and there is no qualitative improvement like a step up.

In contrast, Ouyang Rong paid more attention to the subsequent promotion ceremony to the seventh rank.

The abilities gained from each promotion are double, including the ability of the sword wielder's path, and the ability of the strange alchemist's path that the Jade Demon Fairy belongs to.

But the corresponding promotion difficulty is also doubled.

It requires both a sacrificial ceremony and a new sword technique.

In particular, Ouyang Rong only swallowed one golden elixir of transformation, which was one third of the effect of the Six-Winged Summer Cicada.

Strictly speaking, the efficacy of one-third of the six-winged summer cicada is not a simple calculation of one divided by three, but a significant discount.

It's like a pair of good bows and arrows, which are separated into three parts: the bow body, the bow string, and the long arrow. If you take them out individually, you can find ways to kill people, but they all have normal killing power, but the three parts are integrated into one.

, the range and lethality of the bow and arrow have more than tripled...

These factors limited Ouyang Rong's spiritual energy cultivation and improvement.

If he were allowed to cultivate Dantian spiritual energy on his own, without the natural and flawless innate physique of his little junior sister Xue Zhongzhu, he would have to cultivate the first level of it alone for a period of Monkey Years and Horse Months.

Talent is really a matter of fate. If Ouyang Rong can get a golden elixir that slightly changes his destiny and complements his leaky body, he is already half lucky.

At least now, he can also practice Qi refining, right? Spiritual Qi cultivation can always be improved slowly.

Therefore, until now, Ouyang Rong's every major promotion or promotion has relied on sacrificial rituals to collect the deified spirituality of the deceased's sacrifices, feed back the massive spiritual energy in his Dantian, and improve his cultivation step by step like steps.

It can be regarded as taking the extreme path of the Alchemist.

In addition, there is something more difficult than the sacrificial ceremony, and that is the New Cauldron Sword Jue!

Ouyang Rong obtained the first sword art in Longcheng County, which gave him the ticket to be promoted to the ninth grade sword wielder.

Obtaining the second sword art, that is, the twin sword art of [Craftsman's Work], is the ticket to the eighth level. Now he has no bottleneck in the entire eighth level. Otherwise, even holding a sacrificial ceremony will be in vain. Next, he only needs to

By practicing step by step or holding a small sacrificial ceremony, you can reach the eighth level of perfection.

To advance to the seventh level, a new sword art is required.

Ouyang Rong has no clue at the moment.

No, actually not entirely.

When Ouyang Rong was pretending to be Wei Shaoxuan before, he got a piece of news from the late Boss Li:

The Prince of Wei's Mansion prepared [Emperor Wen's] sword art for Wei Shaoxuan, just waiting for him to return to Beijing.

It can be seen that [Emperor Wen]'s sword skills are in the hands of the imperial court, and Ouyang Rong heard from Li Xian's family that [Emperor Wen] was based in Luoyang, and the sword and sword skills were top secrets in the Zhou court.

But at present, it seems that Ouyang Rong cannot let the court reward him with sword skills. Just hiding the identity of the sword holder is not allowed.

However, there is another official way... If King Xunyang Lixian can return to Luoyang and even touch the position of emperor's heir, Ouyang Rong can ask Xunyang Prince's Mansion to help him win this sword art.

After all, if the Wei Palace can get the treatment, why can’t the Xunyang Palace?

In addition to the [Emperor Wen] sword technique that is still missing.

Ouyang Rong could only continue to pick the wool of a certain old man.

It is the known legendary swordsman Tao Yuanming.

As the legendary sword wielder of [Hanshi], Tao Yuanming must be more than just a ninth grade swordsman.

It is speculated from this that Tao Yuanming should have at least two sword tactics. In addition to the "Hanshi" sword tactics "Returning to Come Xi Ci", there are also new sword tactics.

If he could secretly leave the "Return and Come Back", he would have the motive to leave other sword techniques as well.

Therefore, we can follow this idea and investigate the authentic poems or activities left by Tao Yuanming before he retired to seclusion...

While Ouyang Rong was deep in thought, he put on his clothes and walked up to the bow deck.

The dark river breeze whistled through his randomly tied sideburns.

Ouyang Rong reached into his arms and touched a bachelor's token in his coat pocket. He touched the pattern on the token with his fingertips.

"It's the turn of this thing to come in handy. Xiuwen Guan is the highest official palace of culture in the Zhou Dynasty. Bachelors of Xiuwen Guan should be able to access some of Tao Yuanming's original works in the imperial palace's inventory."

That's why when Ouyang Rong changed his mind and accepted the order from Khu Fu, Zhang Yu and others, he suddenly asked the strange question whether the Xiuwen Museum had the authentic work of Tao Yuanming.

He held the token in his hand and narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Tao Yuanming was a famous scholar in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He left a lot of works and was highly respected by many people in the world. Some of the original works should be in the secret vaults of aristocratic families. Well, as a bachelor of Xiuwen Museum, I borrowed them from them because of my infatuated love for Tao's poems.

, it makes sense...

"Well, for this information, it's best to ask Prince Xunyang's Mansion to help find out...wait a minute, does Tao Yuanming's original work include a story about the Peach Blossom Spring?"

Ouyang Rong murmured to himself, and suddenly remembered something.

When Li Zhengyan and others passed by Xunyang City, they remembered an incident.

Li Zhengyan and others brought a picture of the Peach Blossom Spring painted by the painting saint Wu Taoist, and privately found Yuan Huaimin, a descendant of the Northern Wei royal family, and asked for the original text of another work "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" by Tao Yuanming, who passed down the family history of the Yuan family in the Northern Wei Dynasty...

"Picture of Peach Blossom Spring... Story of Peach Blossom Spring... Is it also a sword technique?"

Ouyang Rong's eyes flashed.

While thinking about it, he was alone on the deck and suddenly saw an eye-catching light on the river bank in the distance.

It's Xunyang City.

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"Why did Tanlang come back so quickly?"

Prince Xunyang's Mansion, in Li Xian's study.

Ouyang was sitting on a wooden chair, drinking tea and waiting. He had just gotten off the boat and had not even changed his dusty clothes.

Li Xian, Wei Mei and others came one after another. Ouyang Rong stood up to greet them, but was helped back to his seat by Li Xianxu.

Judging from their clothes and hairstyle, they must have just gotten up and came here in a hurry.
To be continued...