It had not been used for many years, and the lock core seemed to have rusted. Yu Shiqi gritted his teeth and turned the key with great effort, but the lock did not move at all.

Xuan Yue looked a little anxious from the side, looking around furtively and found that there seemed to be no one else, so she suggested to Yu Shiqi that she might as well just break the lock.

"Hey, hey, after all, it was left behind by Senior Liu, please show some respect." Yu Shiqi didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Xuan Yue pursed her lips and suddenly thought of something: "Do you think that Senior Liu is dead or alive somewhere where no one can find her?"

"I don't know either." Yu Shiqi said, no longer using brute force, but trying to adjust the angle and force of turning the key.

"It stands to reason that since she is so strong, no one should be able to kill her."

"If you can't be upright, you may have conspiracies." Yu Shiqi finally unlocked the door.

Signaling Xuan Yue to step back first, Yu Shiqi slowly opened the door and quickly raised his hand to cover his nose to avoid inhaling the falling dust.

After opening the door, what appeared in front of them was a deserted courtyard covered with dead leaves. The path leading to the nave had been buried. Unpruned shrubs naturally grew into a large clump. There was also a conspicuous swallow's nest under the eaves of the nave.

"Senior Liu left behind her former residence?" Looking at this scene, Xuan Yue felt very surprised.

"Go over and take a look." Yu Shiqi said and took a step forward.

The two walked forward on the dead leaves on the ground. When they heard the crunching sound of broken leaves under their feet, they couldn't help but look at each other and smile.

Only idlers like them have such leisure and can experience unique pleasure from such ordinary things as stepping on fallen leaves.

The room in the middle hall has a strong Japanese style. The wooden sliding door is not as old and unusable as the two imagined. It is opened to both sides to reveal a simple and simple dojo inside the house.

Two short couplets hang on the wall in the middle, with "Taichang" on the left and "Tianli" on the right. The left and right support a "Liu" character written on a square white paper in the middle.

"There is a sword and a heart in the word." Yu Shiqi said, looking at the cool and unrestrained Liu character.

Xuan Yue nodded slightly: "It seems that this is the training dojo that Liu Yike once used."

"To be precise, it is one of the branches of the Liu Sword Sect, the dojo of the Liu Sect's Tianli Taichang." Yu Shiqi introduced to her, "I heard that Liu Yike was in this branch before he became the acting chief of the Desolate Sect.

The acting master of the family sect.”

"Why are you all acting as an agent?" Xuan Yue was a little surprised.

"The chief sect leader of the Desolate Sect needs to be selected by all members of the sect leader association. And due to some reasons that I am not sure about, the Cangming sect leader has been absent for many years..." Yu Shiqi's eyes showed confusion.

He thought, sighed and said: "Without his consent, the chief master of the Desolate Sect can only be the temporary master. As for why senior Liu Yike is the acting master in this dojo, I guess it is because the previous master did not step down but just left temporarily.

Reason."

"It's unimaginable that she never came back after leaving." Xuan Yue paced slowly on the flat and smooth wooden floor, her eyes scanning the surroundings one by one, "If the law of heaven is too common, will there be no heir after her?"

Have you? Since she became an acting master back then, she should have some disciples, right?"

"Yeah, I'm also wondering why this dojo is so abandoned." Yu Shiqi looked at the Liu character in trance, "Senior Liu later became a world-famous sword master. A disciple of Tianli Taichangliu should be

She can use her reputation to promote the school. Why is this..."

He remembered what Spider said when he handed the things to him on the Dragon King's ship. This dojo seemed to have been closed when Liu Yike came to Beijing and was granted the title. Even if she was not so famous at that time, she should not be there again in the future.

She never returned home once, unless she took all her disciples with her when she left.

"Yu Shiqi, look here is a pair of swords." Xuan Yue stopped under the word "Taichang" on the left couplet. She opened an unlocked cabinet and saw two cold swords lying on the shelf.

"I'd better not touch the sword." Yu Shiqi shrugged. He didn't want to suffer the backlash of the secret spell unnecessarily.

"Don't be cowardly, I'm here, what are you afraid of?" Xuan Yue turned around and winked at him playfully, seducing: "This may be a sword left by a legend. You are a swordsman after all. Don't you be curious?

?”

Yu Shiqi's heart skipped a beat when she mentioned his identity as a swordsman. Although he often said that he was an unknown wandering painter, he had been frequently involved in battles where he had to draw his sword since he broke the law in the Western Wilderness. Speaking of which,

The first time I violated my oath against swords was because of this girl, alas...

"Come on, let's see something together." Xuan Yue continued to wave to him.

Yu Shiqi was finally persuaded by her, and walked forward to stare at the pair of swords. At first glance, he opened his mouth slightly in surprise. The pair of swords looked strange. The swords were rare white-edged cherry-red scabbards.

The Fuso sword is a four-foot-long sword with a simple white wood scabbard.

Xuan Yue unexpectedly pulled up his right hand, and then a cool finger poked his palm, and the six-edged snowflake turned into a shimmering light and enveloped his palm.

"This will temporarily prevent you from suffering the backlash of the Desolate Sect's secret curse. Come on, Yu Shiqi, obey the desires in your heart and pull out these two swords...ah!" Xuan Yue, who was talking big words with a beaming face, suddenly screamed.

There was a sound because Yu Shiqi hit her on the head with a palm knife.

"Don't talk to yourself there alone." Yu Shiqi put away his palms and taught her a serious lesson: "This is not the Western Wilderness, and it is not your territory anymore. You must be careful in your words and actions."

Xuan Yue closed one eye and rubbed her forehead, muttering: "I know... this is your territory..."

"Of course not." Yu Shiqi said while reaching for the knife rest, "Tongfengmen is the territory I am familiar with."

"You haven't been back for a long time, haven't you?"

"Well, it's been three years." Yu Shiqi replied.

He carefully held the handle of the imitation Fuso knife. Under the protection of Xuan Yue's secret technique, the secret spell did not backfire as usual, so he pulled the knife out of its sheath with confidence.

The cold-forged steel blade is decorated with beautiful patterns, and the name of the blade - Cun Ying - is engraved on the tail near the guard.

At the same time, Xuan Yue also picked up the remaining sword on the shelf and unsheathed the sword beside Yu Shiqi.

"Autumn leaves." She read out the inscription on the sword.

"I didn't expect that the names of Senior Liu's swords are all so poetic and picturesque." Yu Shiqi murmured.

"This sword is so strange." Xuan Yue suddenly said in surprise.

"Huh?" Yu Shiqi looked sideways, not realizing for a moment what she meant by strange.

The next moment, Xuan Yue swung the sword towards him.

Yu Shiqi closed his eyes subconsciously, and the cold sword gently touched his forehead. The edge felt dull and smooth.
Chapter completed!