Chapter 59 A Wisp of Sword Qi on the Mountain

To Li Fuyao, climbing Sword Mountain was what he most wanted to do these days. Although Chen Sheng talked about climbing Sword Mountain as if by the way, in fact, Li Fuyao might not be so sure.

He started to climb the mountain at the foot of Menchen Mountain. Because the cloud and fog covered the mountain path all the time, Li Fuyao couldn’t see anything in the distance. After he walked a few steps, he was astonished as he suddenly raised his head and saw the white clothes not far away.

Especially when he saw an ancient long sword on that man’s waist, Li Fuyao thought that man in white was not ordinary. He stopped and looked at the man whose back was to him, staying absent-minded for a moment. He closed his eyes slightly, as if he saw that the man in white brandished his sword to cut the rivers and stars at one blow and even chopped off the head of a great demon with a length of several hundred meters, while the man in white looked indifferent all the time and it seemed that something like this was insignificant and a piece of cake, so he didn’t need to have an emotional fluctuation. After seeing that, Li Fuyao had some special feelings but couldn’t speak out. However, he just felt joyful from the bottom of his heart.

At last the man in white looked at Li Fuyao calmly.

Li Fuyao was stunned and opened his eyes, to see that the man in white had turned around and was staring at him.

Li Fuyao looked up at the sky subconsciously.

The man dressed in white clothes suddenly asked, “What did you see?”

The man’s voice was lonely like the fallen leaves in autumn, but it was also like the morning sun in spring which made people feel energetic. These two different feelings shouldn’t appear on one person, but Li Fuyao somehow thought so and it was not affected.

Seeing that there was a sword on this man’s waist, Li Fuyao thought this man was probably a master on Sword Mountain, so he didn’t dare to ignore him. After the man asked, Li Fuyao naturally answered honestly, “Master, I saw you cut the rivers and stars at one blow and at last chop off the head of a tall and big demon.”

The man in white asked peacefully, “Do you believe it?”

Li Fuyao smiled. “I don’t know why I always think that even if you didn’t do something like this, you are capable of doing these.”

The man in white didn’t give a response in a hurry. He just walked two steps downward and came to the stone stair where Li Fuyao was standing, saying gently, “I have never done the first two things you mentioned, but I did the last thing. When that great demon was like a person, it was close to a cultivator at the peak of the Ascending Stage, and after it returned to what it was, one of its legs had stepped into the Ocean Stage. The reason why I killed it was simple. Because it had killed a swordsman at the Revelation Stage in the past, I killed a great demon which had partly entered the Ocean Stage to punish them as a warning. After I killed it, a big shot from the demonic land which had entered the Ocean Stage wanted to reason with me. What reason could I talk about with it? I just stabbed it but at last, I only cut off its arm and let it go. After all, it had never done anything unreasonable.”

This man in white said that casually.

While Li Fuyao turned pale as if he were struck by lightning.

He asked with uncertainty, “Sword Immortal Chao?”

Who could kill a great demon randomly except the number one swordsman in the human world?

Chao Qingqiu stood next to Li Fuyao and smiled calmly. “I’m not him but merely a wisp of sword Qi. After you reach the mountaintop, this sword Qi, me, will scatter and disappear.”

Li Fuyao swallowed. Since he started practicing swordsmanship, Chao Qingqiu’s name was like a huge mountain in front of him. This only Sword Immortal in the human world was admired by countless swordsmen and was the goal that many swordsmen were determined to attain. Although Li Fuyao was just a swordsman at the second stage, he couldn’t keep calm when he faced Chao Qingqiu.

They climbed the mountain side by side, but since Chao Qingqiu stood next to him, Li Fuyao felt that every time he took a step, it seemed that he was stabbed many times. After walking several steps, he had sweat all over his head. Chao Qingqiu didn’t urge him and just said, “Every time you take a step, it seems that I stab you one thousand times at the Sword Qi Stage. You won’t die, but you just feel the pain.”

Li Fuyao asked with a bitter smile, “Master, is this the first pass on the mountain?”

He thought that he guessed almost right, but soon Chao Qingqiu shook his head. “I’m just a wisp of sword Qi Chao Qingqiu left on impulse ten years ago. The real test is the stone stairs on Sword Mountain behind. Don’t feel that you can’t resist it. The sword Qi of mine won’t be exposed to anybody. Since you have seen it, it’s your lucky chance. When you climb this mountain, you will be stabbed about one million times by me. Who do you think is so lucky except you?”

Li Fuyao looked up at the mountain path under the cloud and fog and still couldn’t see clearly how far it was before he walked to the mountaintop. He felt sad. This Sword Immortal said that he would stab Li Fuyao about one million times. Would he have to walk on one thousand stone stairs?

Li Fuyao looked depressed, while Chao Qingqiu showed a peaceful expression.

Chao Qingqiu stated, “You have learnt swordsmanship before climbing the mountain. Although you are only at the second stage, it is helpful anyway. Scatter your vital energy to the meridians all over your body, and maybe you will get an unexpected result.”

Li Fuyao nodded and did as Chao Qingqiu said, but in an instant, his legs softened, and he almost fell on the stone stairs. It turned out that after he scattered the vital energy to the meridians, when the sword Qi stabbed his meridians, he would feel much more pain than before.

Li Fuyao looked at Chao Qingqiu in astonishment.

Chao Qingqiu smiled peacefully. “If you suffer more, you will gain more. As long as you reach the top of Menchen Mountain today, you can surely enter the third stage of swordsmen, the Sword Qi Stage, no matter if you can climb Sword Mountain successfully, but I am not sure how long it would take, and it depends on yourself.”

After a moment, Chao Qingqiu asked, “You have a demon core which is not low. Why don’t you use it?”

Li Fuyao paused for a minute and then laughed. “A friend gave it to me, and I don’t want to waste it.”

Chao Qingqiu had thought that this teenage boy would say that a swordsman should be down-to-earth without using anything outside when he moved ahead, but he heard these words. He didn’t get angry but felt pleased. Under the situation that there were so few swordsmen, it was great that an interesting boy showed up here.

Chao Qingqiu walked across several stone stairs with Li Fuyao and sighed with emotion. “Those shameless old things from the three religious sects just want to see how few swordsmen there are. They think that I don’t know the tortoise in Green Lake was their intentional act. But I just don’t care, and I even want to see if there are some people who can come from Green Lake. I don’t care about their plots. If I do care, how can a cultivator below the Ascending Stage afford to make me draw my sword?”

Li Fuyao was annoyed by the countless sword Qi, but Chao Qingqiu’s every word entered his ears, which made him absent-minded. He thought, “You are a Sword Immortal, but why do I feel that you don’t have the masters’ demeanor when you do something? Instead, you are like the gang leaders in society and do everything straightforwardly.”

Chao Qingqiu hesitated for a short while and then waved his hand. “Perhaps there is something wrong with this sword Qi?”

Chao Qingqiu’s sword Qi explained, as if “he” knew what Li Fuyao was thinking about, but this explanation made him unable either to laugh or to cry.