Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Zuo Shaoqing’s entire body shook – he felt the mana come back as it circulated in his body, he felt that he could overcome any trouble with his sword.
He lowered his voice and said, “Shen Zhenren, let me have this fight outside the hall with your student. I am afraid that I may accidentally mess up the hall.”
Shou Jing laughed, “We will feel more embarrassed if you will even mess up anything in this hall with the little mana you have. We might not even have the qualification to call Qing Xuan one of Xuanmen.”
Zuo Shaoqing laughed, “Then I will not try to be careful.”
Shen Lian laughed and he swung his arm – the hall all in a sudden appeared to be rather spacious. It gave a lot of space to Zuo Shaoqing and Choushi. Choushi was already right opposite Zuo Shaoqing. The rest were standing at a distance.
There were multiple restrictions in Qing Xuan Hall. Given Shen Lian’s cultivation, he could surely keep it under control. To him, the mana of the two was not worth much, and hence he was not afraid that they could cause any damage.
In addition, the True Wandering Light Sword was not known for being powerful but for its multiple forms, which lacked a pattern.
Zuo Shaoqing’s eyes glistened as if some sword rays just escaped from his eyes. It was worth mentioning about his sword aura. He lifted his palm, and a ball of white sword ball appeared rolling at an inch above his palm.
It was the sword ball which he relied his life on – it could even make up for the bluntness of the True Wandering Light Sword.
The battle mattered a lot and naturally, he had to try his best.
Choushi was initially anxious under the influence of Zuo Shaoqing’s imposing manners, but the sword aura which was pumped into his body by Shen Lian had an indestructible spirit. It was far more influential than Zuo Shaoqing’s imposing manner.
He calmed down quickly. The sword aura allowed for the circulation of his mana, behaving like a centralized order system. It was ordering his mana like a General.
Choushi cupped his hands and said, “Please.”
He did not know what to do, but as the chief wanted him to do it, there should be a reason. He would react after Zuo Shaoqing took the first move. He wanted to see how the sword aura played out. In addition, as he was now at Qing Xuan Hall under the watch of the chief, it was unlikely that he would meet any great danger.
With that thought, he was much more relaxed.
Zuo Shaoqing took note of the sight of it and he took the opinion that Choushi did not bother about him as he was full of weaknesses everywhere.
He sneered in his heart. There was a saying among the common swordsman, where if a person was full of weakness, it was actually more difficult for anyone to seize the opportunity. It could then be considered as not having a weakness at all.
For someone like him who was extremely talented in swordcraft, he treated the statement as a joke. To him, weakness remained a weakness regardless of how many there were. It did not change the fundamental truth that it was a weakness.
He pursued swordcraft with devotion. He was even more devoted than Meng Xunzhen. Once he entered a battle of the sword, he had no other thoughts.
The sword ball in his arm shook and a sword ray escaped. It crossed the distance between the two in the blink of an eye. The sword ray was unpredictable.
Choushi suddenly could feel the sword aura in his body had exploded. When the sword ray was attacking his right shoulder, a ray appeared, and a sword lotus was born. The sword lotus swallowed the sword ray.
Zuo Shaoqing did not lose his focus and the sword ray subsequently twisted like a snake. The part which was not blocked by the sword lotus turned into a crescent shape and it went towards Choushi again.
Another sword lotus blocked the sword ray. As Zuo Shaoqing had become one with the sword ball, his mind and spirit were shaken as the sword ball was trapped.
What came next was a powerful sword aura whizzed towards Zuo Shaoqing by Choushi.
The flow of the sword aura stirred up the Qi of vitality. All of a sudden, a seemingly turbulent storm was stirred up but it was extinguished quickly.
The light ray which was swimming between the sword aura of the True Wandering Light Sword soon ‘swallowed the cloud and destroyed the water’.
Regardless of how much True Wandering Light Sword aura there was, it was kept in check by the light ray. In the end, there was nothing left in the air. A sword aura was circulating around the body of Zuo Shaoqing, as if he was tied up by a rope.
Zuo Shaoqing, in reality, felt that his mana was all beaten up by the light ray as if he met his mortal enemy.
From the moment Zuo Shaoqing brought up the sword ball, to sword rays running wild, to how the light ray trapped up Zuo Shaoqing in the end – they all happened in the blink of an eye. Ge Yuan too found it to be rather astonishing.
It was not because of how crafty Choushi’s sword aura was, but it was clear to everyone present that while the sword aura might not be perfect, it was the real mortal enemy of the True Wandering Light Sword.
As a result, when the two came in contact, Zuo Shaoqing’s True Wandering Light Sword aura all turned into mere decoration.
Meng Xunzhen and Jiang Shuijie were panicking. Their fundamentals were built on Wandering Light Sword. Even if they had other techniques to refer to from other sects, it was difficult to change the fundamentals of the mana. Unless if one managed to go beyond mortality and repair one’s own system, that would also be something that could happen when one reached immortality.
The light ray returned to Choushi, and the sword ball of Zuo Shaoqing fell to the ground. Its color was dull as if a great pearl had been covered in dust.
Choushi smiled, “Thank you for letting me win.”
Zuo Shaoqing spoke in a bitter voice, “What was the technique called?”
Choushi responded, “It was created by our chief recently. I am not sure.”
Zuo Shaoqing looked towards Shen Lian. He was not brainless and he knew why Shen Lian created it – to keep Wandering Light Sword under control.
Shen Lian nodded, “I am still far from completing it. It is not sufficient to use it to achieve immortality, but it has the ability to keep Wandering Light Sword under control.”
When Meng Xunzhen heard what Shen Lian said, he thought on one occasion all of a sudden. He spits out some blood, and with blood in his mouth, he spoke angrily, “When you keep us here, you have stolen our secret.”
He still did not know how and what did Shen Lian do to steal their secret. With the secret, Shen Lian, in turn, created the technique to restrain it.
The only thing he did not think of was that it was not so simple to steal someone’s secret and find out about its weakness and design a system to restrain the other’s technique.
It was because he did not understand Taixu Strategy. Taixu Strategy was built based on the eight Qis. It could blend in well with most Daoist techniques and imitate their power.
That was where the restraint came from, from the principle of interpromotion and interrestraint. Once he understood the basis of the power, he could use the restraint principle to create something that could keep the other technique in check.
If one could reach the highest level in Taixu Strategy, there were only a few techniques in the world from the very best Daoist sect could be prevented from being restrained.
The more Jiang Shuijie thought about it, the more he realized if Qingjiang Sword Sect did not change their fundamental technique, they would be under restraint forever.
