IS Chapter 29
by VolareSu Yizhen discovered something.
The Red Dust Sword Immortal Senior, sometimes, couldn’t receive Dragon Li Yuan’s sword.
The first time, the Senior received six thousand of Dragon Li Yuan’s swords.
The second time, he received six thousand four hundred swords.
The third time, the Senior directly used his full-strength Tribulation Transcendence cultivation to discuss the Dao of the sword with Dragon Li Yuan.
And Dragon Li Yuan could still receive them.
Just watching such a battle situation felt like the insights into swordplay were pouring down like the Milky Way, flooding into one’s mind.
Finally, when the Sword Immortal Senior and Dragon Li Yuan’s sword competition barely came to an end, and he wanted to close his eyes and quietly comprehend it, he saw Second Palace Master Ye launching a sword from mid-air towards the Red Dust Sword Immortal.
The Red Dust Sword Immortal seemed to have anticipated this, and with a backhand, he unleashed a sword as natural and flawless as a spring breeze and rain, dissolving the attack.
However, the words from his mouth were not as elegant as his swordplay.
“My ancestor!” the Sword Immortal said, “Next time you attack, can you please give a warning first!”
Ye Zhuo’s eyes were completely indifferent, as if he hadn’t heard him speak at all, and in a flash of lightning, he unleashed the next sword.
The Red Dust Sword Immortal’s figure was graceful as he fought with him.
Second Palace Master Ye and Dragon Li Yuan don’t seem to make a sound when they spar with swords, Su Yizhen thought.
The only difference was that Second Palace Master Ye wouldn’t talk to him after the spar either, while Dragon Li Yuan would tell him to take a break.
“Do you want something to eat?” Li Yuan walked to Su Yizhen’s side, bringing a plate of pine nut pastries.
“…Thank you, Dragon Li Yuan.”
“You’re welcome,” Li Yuan said.
Su Yizhen picked up a pine nut pastry and tasted it, finding that it unexpectedly suited his taste.
If he hadn’t spent so much time together, he really wouldn’t have imagined that someone like Dragon Li Yuan existed in the world.
“Dragon Li Yuan,” Su Yizhen said, “There are some parts of Sword Immortal’s sword that I don’t understand.”
Perhaps Dragon Li Yuan could give him some pointers.
Unexpectedly, Dragon Li Yuan smiled calmly.
“It doesn’t matter,” he said, “There seems to be a true meaning in the Senior’s sword, I can’t see it clearly either.”
“My sword? The celestial door’s geniuses do not touch the mortal world, and are unfeeling and indifferent all their lives, how would they understand. Your Second Palace Master Ye doesn’t understand either. If you want to understand, come be my Red Dust Sword Dao disciple, and enter the world to cultivate.” The Red Dust Sword Immortal, who had finished sparring with Ye Zhuo, answered in this way.
Ye Zhuo said calmly: “There’s no need to understand, just win.”
“I have nothing to say to you,” the Red Dust Sword Immortal said.
Then he looked at Su Yizhen, his gaze seeming to have anticipation: “Little friend Su, come.”
However, after Su Yizhen received four thousand moves from the Red Dust Sword Immortal at the same realm during their first sword comparison –
There was a little bit of world-weariness in the Red Dust Sword Immortal’s whole body.
“Again,” the Red Dust Sword Immortal said.
On the main peak, a new round of sword discussions began.
Fourth Palace Master Feng had long been dizzy from watching the sword cultivators fight, and now no matter who fought with whom, it couldn’t arouse any interest in him.
And that damned Wei Sheng Xian, every day he watched people fight and claimed to have “gained some enlightenment”, woke up from the enlightenment and watched a few more times, and said “some insights”, but he hadn’t taken a step out of his pavilion for so many days.
“You better really be enlightened.” Fourth Palace Master Feng evilly fiddled with the pill furnace, medicine pot, and countless bottles and jars in front of the palace.
Whenever he made something, he would smilingly offer it to Li Yuan for his inspection first.
“Dragon Li Yuan, how long do you think this one can make someone sleep?”
Li Yuan: “Maybe ten days?”
“What about this one?”
“Sixteen or seventeen days.”
“I changed the formula, this is a new one, how long can it make someone sleep?”
“Twenty-five days.”
Su Yizhen inevitably heard some of these conversations when he passed by.
–Were they refining some kind of medicine to help people sleep?
Cultivators also have the trouble of being unable to sleep at night sometimes.
Perhaps, he could buy some from Fourth Palace Master when he said goodbye, to show respect to his teachers.
In the blink of an eye, another three days passed.
This night, the moon was round, and Ye Zhuo was exchanging moves with Su Yizhen.
Su Yizhen’s sword moves had been quite mixed recently. In addition to his own swordplay, he had also gained some influence from Ye Zhuo and Li Yuan, and sometimes, one or two hints of the Red Dust Sword Immortal’s aura could be vaguely seen.
His and Li Yuan’s sword styles actually appeared on one person’s sword at the same time, perhaps some enlightenment could be gained from it, which would be useful for killing that dragon.
Ye Zhuo had decided to spar with Su Yizhen a few more times.
Among the staggered eaves of the Micro-Snow Palace’s main hall, on a flat ridge of the hall, Li Yuan was watching Su Yizhen’s sword moves.
“Dragon Li Yuan, what are you looking at?” The Red Dust Sword Immortal sat down beside him, bringing a jar of wine and three wine cups.
“I’m watching Su brother’s sword,” Li Yuan said hesitantly, “There’s a bewilderment in his heart…”
“There is confusion in his heart,” the Red Dust Sword Immortal said.
“Should we remind Su brother?”
“I don’t think so. Who doesn’t have a bit of chaos in their heart when they are alive? It’s just difficult to tell outsiders.” The Red Dust Sword Immortal filled a cup of wine for Li Yuan.
“Little Su’s origin and temperament determine that he has many things to care about. In terms of progress, he can’t be like Second Palace Master Ye, with nothing external in his heart, and in terms of retreat, he can’t be like you, Dragon Li Yuan, with a vast world. But precisely because of this, he can absorb and integrate the sword techniques of both of you. This is also a good thing.”
“After all, looking at the Immortal Dao, whose Dao heart can be as self-consistent as Dragon Li Yuan and Second Palace Master Ye?”
This wording sounded strange.
Li Yuan attributed it to the fact that he had not completely mastered human language.
Li Yuan looked at the Red Dust Sword Immortal: “What about you, Sword Immortal brother?”
“Me?” The Red Dust Sword Immortal also poured wine for himself, and smiled, “Just living in harmony with the world. Dragon Li Yuan, let’s drink.”
The wine was strong.
According to the human rules of drinking together, the Red Dust Sword Immortal drank about as much as Li Yuan did.
“Can I look at your sword?” Li Yuan said.
He hadn’t understood the Red Dust Sword Dao, and he also wanted to explore it.
The Red Dust Sword Immortal handed him the sword.
Under the moonlight, Li Yuan carefully observed the sword.
“Fleeting Life” was a very special sword.
From the hilt to one side of the blade, it was completely snow-white, but the snow-white color gradually dissolved and turned to dust in the sword, and as the snow dust scattered little by little, the quality of the blade tip and the other side of the blade had become extremely clear and transparent.
“It’s a sword that’s been reforged, so that’s how it is,” Li Yuan muttered to himself.
The Red Dust Sword Immortal was greatly surprised.
“Dragon Li Yuan, you can even see this? It’s hard for even an immortal to tell that this sword has been reforged.”
“Not really.” Li Yuan said, “It’s just that the swordsmith recorded this matter.”
The Red Dust Sword Immortal was speechless.
Li Yuan returned the sword to the Red Dust Sword Immortal: “Why did you reforge your Life-Bound Sword?”
“Because twenty years ago, I changed my Sword Dao.”
The Red Dust Sword Immortal stroked the sword, his eyes seeming to have reminiscence.
“Dragon Li Yuan, look at this white. The Immortal Dao values white, and the world also values white. They all say it’s spotless and the most pure.”
“But sometimes when I look at this white, I find it terrifying,” the Red Dust Sword Immortal said, “A vast expanse of white, nothing is in it, it’s said to be pure, but isn’t it actually a kind of chaos? I don’t want to cultivate such a Dao.”
The Sword Immortal’s finger gently slid across the sword blade, from snow-white to clear: “Being in the red dust, observing all things, from chaos to clarity, is what I seek.”
Li Yuan had some enlightenment.
“I guess you were previously cultivating the Ruthless Sword Dao.”
“Exactly. It’s just that I didn’t want to cultivate it halfway through. So I abandoned the Ruthless Sword Dao and created the Red Dust Sword Dao, and my Life-Bound Sword had to be reforged.”
The full moon shone brightly, and the Red Dust Sword Immortal refilled their jade cups again.
In the distant mountains of the night, Ye Zhuo had already had another match with Su Yizhen.
The Ruthless Sword Intent was as cold as frost and snow.
Perhaps, it was like this.
Some people simply did not belong to the Ruthless Sword Dao, even if they came, they would leave.
And some people were born ruthless.
After drinking a cup of wine, Li Yuan withdrew his gaze.
“Sword Immortal brother,” he asked the Red Dust Sword Immortal, “Where is the key to Tribulation Transcendence in the Sword Dao?”
Such humility and open-mindedness truly made the Red Dust Sword Immortal feel flattered.
It would be fine if others asked him about his Tribulation Transcendence experience, as the leader of a sect, he was naturally happy to teach others. But for people like Li Yuan and Ye Zhuo, did their realm require him to give guidance?
The Red Dust Sword Immortal had to think for a long time.
“Dragon Li Yuan, I think, you are not from this world,” the Red Dust Sword Immortal finally said.
Li Yuan: “Why do you say that?”
“This human world is not a big world. Tribulation Transcendence is already the peak, and at most, you can take another step to the Human Immortal realm. If you want to climb further, you can only ascend to the Immortal Realm.”
“But Dragon Li Yuan, if I see correctly, among the people who are sparring with you, there are some – I’m afraid even the Immortal Realm can’t contain them, right?”
Li Yuan was silent.
Indeed, this human world was not conspicuous among the many human Dao realms.
And the Dragon Realm had been an upper realm since ancient times.
“But the Sword Dao isn’t calculated like that,” Li Yuan said softly, “Sword Immortal brother, if you were born in the upper realm, you might not be inferior to my elders, and if I were born in the human realm, I might not be like you.”
“Dragon Li Yuan, you are too modest to say such things, I can’t believe it when I hear it.” The Red Dust Sword Immortal smiled and passed it off, “Then what do you think of Second Palace Master Ye?”
“He naturally–” The words that were about to come out were swallowed back by Li Yuan.
He naturally knew what Ye Zhuo was like.
Among the many human Dao realms, the most prosperous Dao tradition should be the Hongmeng Great World.
In the Primordial Ancient Realm, he had also seen many human geniuses from the Hongmeng Great World come to experience the world.
To be honest, he had no impression.
In this world, there was such a person, and when other people from other worlds were mentioned, they seemed ordinary.
After the incident in the East Sea, many times, when he saw people of the same generation and the same realm, he would unconsciously compare the other party with the human who pulled out his reverse scale in his heart. If he felt that there was no need to communicate, he would continue to concentrate on cultivating, waiting for the day of revenge.
Because of this, he seemed to have gained a reputation for being arrogant and disdainful in several other great worlds.
But no one cared.
“Isn’t it normal for us dragons to be arrogant?” The ancestor replied when someone complained.
But that person–
In the end, Li Yuan said: “…If he was in the Great World, I’m afraid he would make too many enemies, and it would be difficult to deal with in the end.”
In this human world, no matter how many enemies he made, at most he would provoke him.
In the Great World, the water was as deep as the sea, and at that time, the scene was really unimaginable.
The Red Dust Sword Immortal laughed loudly after hearing this.