Volume 12 is missing Chapter 7: A Thousand Miles Journey Just for Food
At the beginning, Chu Mushen was given the title of Tianhe Sword Immortal because he guarded Tianhe City.
But later on, in the eyes of more people, Tianhe City was called Tianhe City precisely because of the existence of Tianhe Sword Immortal.
——How can Tianhe City be considered Tianhe City without the Tianhe Sword Immortal?
Chu Mushen has long become the symbol and symbol of Tianhe City.
Therefore, Lu Qingshan never imagined that he would meet the most legendary, powerful, and greatest swordsman in Chang'an in such a situation.
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"Chu Jianxian is waiting for you up there." After the old monk brought Lu Qingshan all the way to the bottom of the city wall facing Tianhe Sea, he left first.
Lu Qingshan did not hesitate and climbed up the city wall at a leisurely pace, and saw this scene.
A low table stood on the top of the city wall, and on the other side was the endless and magnificent sky and sea.
There is a small copper tripod on the table. There is charcoal fire burning under the tripod, and there is water boiling in the tripod.
The golden fish rolled in the boiling water of the bronze tripod. The steam was bubbling and rising, and the golden fish was floating and swaying in it.
There was a man in front of the table, holding chopsticks, and there were several porcelain bowls in front of him.
The man turned his head, his eyes were deep, his eyebrows were sharp, and he looked very sharp.
He saw Lu Qingshan coming and nodded, "Are you here?"
Although it was not the same as expected, Lu Qingshan quickly reacted, clasped his fists and saluted, saying, "Greetings, Chu Jianxian."
Chu Mushen picked up a piece of fish from the bronze tripod, put it in one of the bowls containing the dipping sauce, and then put it into his mouth to chew.
He chewed the fish with his eyes closed, looking very intoxicated. After a moment, he opened his eyes, looked at Lu Qingshan, and made a gesture of invitation.
Lu Qingshan hesitated for a moment, then walked forward and sat down at the table.
"Try it too, it tastes delicious."
“Don’t be fooled by the bland taste of the soup. This is the ancestral fish that is only found in the Tianhe Sea. It itself has the most delicious taste in the world, so you just need to boil it like this. There is no need to add any seasoning, otherwise it will destroy its own flavor.” Chu Mushen served Lu Qingshan a bowl of fish soup and motioned him to eat more.
"Senior, do you like to eat fish?" Lu Qingshan took the bowl, looked at the fish soup in the bowl, and showed a surprised look.
Wisps of golden mist spread out at the bottom of the bowl, very primitive and hazy, containing an extraordinary power.
Lu Qingshan took a sip of the fish soup, and his mouth was filled with the fragrant and fresh aroma. In an instant, his mind became clear and his mood became peaceful.
"Good fish, good soup." Lu Qingshan couldn't help but praise.
"Yes, I like fish the most. When I was a child, my family was poor and we couldn't afford meat. The only meat we could eat was one or two fish that my father would catch in the river and bring home to make soup. That was the most delicious thing I have ever eaten."
Chu Mushen looked at Lu Qingshan and talked incessantly. At this moment, he didn't look like a sword immortal, but more like an elder in the family.
"Are you interested in listening to my story?" he put down his chopsticks and asked suddenly.
Lu Qingshan was startled, then nodded: "Of course."
The world only knows that there is Chu Mushen in Tianhe City. Chu Mushen is the strongest swordsman and even the strongest cultivator of the human race. However, few people know the story of Chu Mushen and his origins.
But such a character must have a very exciting and magnificent story, right?
At least that's what Lu Qingshan has always thought.
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Chu Mushen pointed in the direction from which Lu Qingshan came.
"Many years ago, in a small state in the Sky Region, there was a very small country called Sheep Country."
"I was born in a small rural village in the Sheep Country. My father was a shepherd."
It really fits the name, Lu Qingshan thought.
“I was born a very ordinary person…”
Lu Qingshan wondered, are all sword immortals so "humble", even Chu Mushen is no exception?
"Although my family is a shepherd, we can't afford mutton. The only meat I have ever eaten is fish because it is free."
"I am just an ordinary person, so I should be like other ordinary people. When I grow up, I will inherit my father's business and continue to be a shepherd."
"Even my name is Muyang, Chu Muyang," Chu Mushen smiled and explained, "The current name was changed for me later."
"But then something unexpected happened, and everything changed. One day, an old man came to the village with a sword on his back. He said he was an immortal and wanted to find a qualified apprentice to teach him sword skills."
"I'm definitely not interested. I have to look after sheep, so how can I have time to learn swordsmanship? But he said something else. He said that if I learn swordsmanship from him, I will have delicious food and fish every day."
"I asked him, if I really learn sword from him, will I have fish to eat every day?"
"He said, yes."
"Then, I followed him to learn swordsmanship."
"In fact, he didn't lie to me." Perhaps because it happened so long ago, Chu Mushen recalled it carefully before continuing.
"I am grateful for what I have done, so I took the sword he taught me seriously. In fact, I don't need to take it too seriously, because it's not difficult at all."
"Learning such simple things, I can eat fish every day. This kind of life is simply heaven to me." Chu Mushen said with emotion, and then sighed, "It's a pity that the good times will not last long..."
Although he could sense that something was wrong later, as a listener, Lu Qingshan still understood the necessary etiquette, so he immediately asked, "What happened?"
"After one or two years, or two or three years?" The time was so long ago that Chu Mushen's memories became fuzzy and he couldn't be sure. "Anyway, it was about one or two or three years. He suddenly told me that he had nothing to teach me."
"I immediately panicked, wondering if I had eaten too much and made him broke, so I told him not to chase me away and that I only had to eat fish once every three days."
"He was silent for a long time, then asked me if I wanted to continue eating fish. I nodded, and then he gave me a token and asked me to go to Chang'an."
"I don't know where Chang'an is, but it's okay, I can ask for directions."
“So I set out.”
"But I didn't expect Chang'an to be so far away."
"It took me seven years to finally reach Chang'an."
"Wait," Lu Qingshan asked in surprise, "You mean you spent seven years walking to Chang'an just to eat fish every day?"
"Didn't I tell you that I like eating fish?" Chu Mushen nodded as a matter of course.
Then you really like eating fish, Lu Qingshan was speechless.
"And then?" Lu Qingshan expressed his understanding. Successful people are always paranoid, and this sentence makes more or less sense.
"Then, I will continue to learn swordsmanship and eat fish in Chang'an City."
This is indeed a very reasonable development, so reasonable that he has no place to complain, Lu Qingshan thought in his heart.
"And then what?"
"Then, many years passed, Tianhe City was built, and suddenly one day, someone said to me, "Don't you like eating fish? Then go to Tianhe City! There is the largest sea in the world, and there are the most and most delicious fish in the world." I asked him if he was lying to me, and he said no, if you don't believe it, you can go and see for yourself. Then I believed it, and then I came to Tianhe City, and I haven't left for 20,000 years."
"Senior, the person who asked you to come to Tianhe City...is his surname Xia?"
"Yes," Chu Mushen recalled the scene of the past, with a nostalgic look on his face, "The days when I first came to Tianhe City should be my happiest days."
“The fish in the Tianhe Sea are all fish I have never seen or eaten before.”
"It's just a pity that no matter how big the Tianhe Sea is, and no matter how many types of fish there are, if you stay here for a long time, you will eat them all."
"Then how did you become a sword immortal?" Lu Qingshan asked again.
Chu Mushen pointed to the vast Tianhe Sea and said, "You see, on the other side of the Tianhe Sea is the abyss, so when I go fishing in the Tianhe Sea, I always encounter demon cultivators from the abyss from time to time."
"As soon as they see me, they attack me and want to kill me."
Lu Qingshan thought again, humans and demons are inherently incompatible, so when the demons see a human cultivator who is alone, how can they not take action?
"Then if they attack, I will have to fight back."
"They are very powerful, so I have no choice but to become stronger than them."
"In those years, I had many fights with the demon cultivators in order to catch fish."
“I’ve never lost.”
"Then, I became a sword immortal."
Lu Qingshan was speechless again.
In fact , when Chu Mushen began to tell his story, Lu Qingshan fell into silence frequently.
From a shepherd boy in the countryside to the Tianhe Sword Immortal who guards Tianhe City, the road in between is more than ten thousand miles long.
But it seems that in Chu Mushen’s story.
A journey of thousands of miles, just for food.
