Nightfall

The clouds and thunders had disappeared .

The wooden sword shakily flew back from the Verdant Canyon, quietly suspending in the air .

Ye Su slightly raised his eyebrows .

He knew Jun Mo was strong, but not that strong .

Only after getting surpa.s.sing the Five States, one was able to make his own rules in Haotian"s world .

Second Brother hadn"t yet crossed over the Five States, but he had turned the rules into his own by his strong faith .

In a sense, his way had exceeded the Five States .

Ye Su gradually calmed down .

He had finished his attack, and it was Second Brother"s turn .

Looking at the Verdant Canyon, he put his hands behind his back and calmly said, "Please . "

Second Brother moved .

His sword was simpler .

The broad straight iron sword flew away from his right hand, over the Verdant Canyon .

As long as a person"s height when set on the ground, the iron sword slowly flew toward the field .

The ground from the Verdant Canyon to the field was covered with blood .

It was the blood of the cavalrymen and the horses from two days ago .

It looked b.l.o.o.d.y and gave off an terrible smell .

The soil in front of the field even turned black as ink .

The iron sword flew over the b.l.o.o.d.y ground, without being contaminated .

On the contrary, it became more a.s.sertive .

Determinedly a.s.sertive .

Cold and aggressive .

Second Brother and Ye Su had never fought before .

They had met each other, but their swords hadn"t .

This time, they finally had the chance .

The iron sword had killed hundreds of people .

Hundreds of people"s blood dyed the ground .

Therefore, the blood belonged to the iron sword .

It was fostered and urged by its own blood .

It moved after Ye Su, which was for the sake of etiquette .

Even Ye Su could not dodge this powerful sword .

He had to defend .

In the south, Liu Bai slowly stood up by the carriage . Looking at the iron sword, he said, "Finally, it is getting interesting . "

The battle in Verdant Canyon had lasted for two days and the strongest man was waiting for Jun Mo at his strongest .

Looking at the iron sword, he finally felt interested, which meant that Second Brother at this time was in his strongest phase .

The iron sword was indeed interesting .

More interesting than Liu Bai expected .

It still represented Second Brother"s rules .

Black or white, no gray .

Alive or dead, one or the other .

To fight or defeat, no one could evade .

Facing such an aggressive sword, everyone should make a decisive choice .

There was only one way, going in one direction .

There was no third way in the world and no weeds on the wall could stand still .

The sword had gone beyond all expectation .

It gave its enemies a chance to choose, and then it would smash and eliminate them .

This was a kingly way .

How would people choose between life and death?

Even if they didn"t care for it, they had to choose .

Just because they had too much in sight, they didn"t know how to choose .

It was also a failure if they didn"t choose .

This was the puzzle from the iron sword to Ye Su .

Ye Su didn"t answer to the iron sword .

Since the sword represented Second Brother"s rules, if he took it, it was equal to accepting his rules which could not be changed no matter how he tried .

However, the iron sword needed to be taken .

What could he do?

Ye Su made the field to take the sword .

The field was his rule .

Before the iron sword came out of the Verdant Canyon, he had been putting his hands behind him .

The breeze created by his sleeves slightly blew over the field .

Then the iron sword flew into the field .

The field of rice divided in two, waving like a lake, a sea, and green pines in the mountains .

The weeds on the ridge were stained with blood .

The matured rice was stained with blood .

The iron sword flew over the weeds, smas.h.i.+ng them into dust, which flew up and fell on the ground .

The matured rice fell down as the sword flew .

Losing its heavy seeds, the rice straightened up, rebounding its leaves into the air .

The ears of rice fell to the ground and the seeds bounced into the sky along with the leaves before they touched the ground .

The bran covering the seeds cracked, revealing the round crystal grains .

The grains flew around, reflecting sunlight like pearls which looked extraordinarily beautiful .

The grains in the sky, burned by the suns.h.i.+ne, smelled fragrant .

The grains on the ground, being dyed b.l.o.o.d.y, immersed in the earth .

Green rice leaves grew in the soil .

They st.u.r.dily grew up to the sky .

In an instant, the field of rice had experienced harvest, death, and rebirth .

The rice"s life just happened in front of people .

It was a continuous processes in the perfect harmony circles with no boundary, which even the flying iron sword could not find the dividing line .

It was still flying forward in silence .

The growth of rice suddenly speeded up, whoos.h.i.+ng .

The iron sword created a hurricane over the rice .

Ye Su"s wooden sword suspended in front of him and was swayed by the hurricane like a frail boat in the rice sea .

The boat had no power and was swayed by the push of the rice and wind .

No matter how strong the waves were and how fierce the wind was, the small boat had never sunk, rising and falling in the dark sea with white waves .

A moment ago, it disappeared in the sea .

The next moment, it showed up once again .

The boat had no deck nor cabin .

It was the wooden sword, the simplest piece of wood .

It aimlessly floated in the sea of life and death .

It asked for neither survival nor death .

Therefore, nothing could control it either .

Some time pa.s.sed .

The wind stopped and the sea calmed down as if nothing had happened .

Only the seedlings on the ground could prove what had happened .

Ye Su reached and caught some grains .

They were full and burned by the sun, turning yellow and having a good smell .

He put a grain into his month .

He slowly chewed with a smile on his face, carefully tasting it .

"Over ten years ago when I traveled around many countries, I believed I had stopped caring for life and death and stopped being scared . I believed I and my sword had merged together, and it knew me as a second me," said Ye Su .

Ye Su sprinkled the rest of the rice to the ground and said with a smile, "If I faced your sword at that time, I would have taken it and lost . "

"Until a few years ago, when I stabbed Mr . First across s.p.a.ce against the sun on the Snow-capped Peak with my pure sword intent, I realized that I was completely wrong . "

Ye Su stopped smiling and calmly said, "Because that sword I was proud of, never hit Mr . First . It didn"t even stir up the water in the pool . "

"Mr . First was reading books by the pool and he didn"t even look at my sword or think of it at all . Until that moment, I realized that . . . seeing through was a joke . "

"After that, I went to Chang"an and lived in a small Taoist temple for a long time . I saw the Taoist temple collapsing and my neighbor"s roofs breaking . I was no longer supermundane . I was feeling them . I began to repair the temple and houses for them and finally understood the truth of "first destroy and then build" . "

Looking at the blood in the field, he continued, "Blood represents death, but it can fertilize the field . The blood-rice must be delicious . "

"Frist destroy and then build . This is the circle of life . "

"There is no death in the world . "

Second Brother looked at him and suddenly said, "There is . "

Ye Su said, "I know . But in our time, there is no death . "

Second Brother said, "Life and Death, how can you break them?"

"The Buddhism and Taoism both ask for the last great peace . "

"Seeing through life and death is aimed toward the last peace . However, at this moment, I understand death is eternal and life is lucky, both of which are full of joy . Why should people have to be in peace?"

"That kind of peace is false . "

"Facing life and death, people should follow their hearts . That is real . "

"This is my view of life and death now . "

"It seems simple and powerless, but it can"t be broken . "

"Neither by your sword nor by anything in the world . "

Upon hearing this, Second Brother thought for a moment and said, "You have approached the Tao . "

Ye Su said, "But I haven"t attained the Tao . "

Second Brother said, "However, your Tao has deviated from Haotian"s . "

Ye Su said, "Tao exists in the heart of Heaven . Maybe this is the Tao Haotian teaches me . "

Second Brother asked, "If it isn"t, what will you do?"

Looking at the rice and seedlings, he answered after a long silence, "I have my sword . "

He reached out his hand to the golden rice sea .

He held the wooden sword .

Everyone had his own Tao .

This was irrelevant to faith and piety .

Someone like Ye Su was bound to develop his own Tao .

Second Brother"s question was practical .

So was Ye Su"s answer .

He was prepared .

This represented a shocking fact .

If Haotian agreed with his Tao, he would remain pious .

If not, he had his sword .

Since his Tao had been built, he would like to hold on to it .

Ye Su was a genius as well as a determined believer of Haotian, because of which the Abbey Dean took him as a disciple .

However, he had changed .

Maybe since he was in the wilderness, or in the temple in Chang"an .

Anyway, he held his own sword .

The sword dared to question the Heavens .

How powerful he must be .

At this moment, he was a believer of Haotian .

The Wayfarer of the Haotian Taoism .

He didn"t need to question the Heavens .

Instead, he asked Jun Mo .

Was Jun Mo able to take it?