Chapter 60 A Wisp of Sword Qi Went down the Mountain

It was difficult to climb the mountain.

This Menchen Mountain which was not a part of Sword Mountain yet was difficult to climb because of a wisp of sword Qi left by Chao Qingqiu. When Li Fuyao moved forward after he took more than twenty steps, he heard the creaks from his joints, as if he would fall apart at any time. In his meridians, there was sword Qi flowing everywhere. The Sword Immortal intentionally lowered his stage and only made this sword Qi show the power as if he were at the Sword Qi Stage, but it was the Sword Immortal’s method, and Li Fuyao was just a swordsman at the second stage, so he was tortured in unspeakable pain.

Chao Qingqiu stood beside Li Fuyao and walked with him to the mountaintop step by step. At first, he said something, but later, when he saw that the teenager was really exhausted, he didn’t want to talk to distract him. He just pressed the handle of the long sword on his waist, as if lost in thought.

After he walked about one hundred steps, Li Fuyao had sweat all over and his legs trembled. He couldn’t walk forward anymore. Chao Qingqiu finally said, “I thought you would walk at least five hundred steps. It seems that I was too optimistic. Forget it. You have reached the extreme. If you continue to walk up, your foundation would be injured. How about you sit down and have a break?”

Li Fuyao didn’t plan to insist and sat on the stone stair directly. He wiped the sweat on his forehead and wouldn’t say more. The man in front of him was not the Sword Immortal who could kill a great demon with his sword. However, in fact, even if “he” was just a wisp of sword Qi, when he used his sword randomly, he could probably make Li Fuyao go to see the masters in the history on Sword Mountain earlier.

Chao Qingqiu in white stood next to Li Fuyao and asked with a smile, “Boy, what’s your name?”

Li Fuyao answered, “Li Fuyao.”

Chao Qingqiu seemed to be satisfied and nodded. “The roc flies with the wind and can go up to ninety thousand miles away in one day. Li Fuyao, your name is nice. Only judging from your name, you will have a chance to be the most famous swordsman in the world. Li Fuyao, your name is almost on a par with mine, Chao Qingqiu.”

The corners of Li Fuyao’s mouth twitched. Although this was a wisp of sword Qi of Chao Qingqiu, he always felt that this sword Qi had a greatly different temper from that Sword Immortal.

Chao Qingqiu stood in front of Li Fuyao and continued, “Chao Qingqiu started to practice swordsmanship at the age of ten and entered the Sword Qi Stage in that year. He entered the Dawning Stage when he was twenty years old. Then he didn’t make any progress in the next thirty years. After twenty years more, he entered the Revelation Stage. Later he didn’t promote his stage within one hundred years. He didn’t even make a little progress at the same stage, let alone breaking through. When Chao Qingqiu was one hundred and seventy years old, he stood in front of the cliff of displacement by North Sea. Can you guess what he did?”

Li Fuyao pursed his lips. “Master, then you made the sea water surge with the sword, and all people in the human world knew that there was another Sword Immortal?”

Chao Qingqiu laughed loudly and looked weirdly at this teenager who could walk only more than one hundred steps on the mountain, asking crossly, “Do you think he is such a talented genius?”

Li Fuyao laughed. “Master, isn’t he you?”

Chao Qingqiu frowned and ignored this saying. He just continued, “At that time, Chao Qingqiu was on the cliff of displacement by North Sea and jumped to the sea. You can say that this guy wanted to commit suicide after he failed in breaking through for many times, but after this guy fell in the sea, he was swallowed by a huge fish. Chao Qingqiu stayed in the huge fish’s body for three days, regardless of anything. Then he broke the stomach of the huge fish with his sword and came out. In the next ten years, he finished the Revelation Stage and entered the Ascending Stage. Later he was close to a Sword Immortal and went to an unspeakable place. Anyway, you should know that his road of swordsmanship was not smooth. Although it was smoother than most swordsmen’s, at least, he suffered hardships.”

Li Fuyao was at a loss whether to cry or to laugh. “Master, are you telling me not to feel frustrated?”

Chao Qingqiu nodded. “You are a good student.”

Li Fuyao smiled bitterly. “But after you said these words, it would frustrate anybody.”

Maybe only Chao Qingqiu didn’t know how shocking it was that he became a Sword Immortal within two hundred years.

Chao Qingqiu sighed and then suddenly squatted, explaining in a low voice, “Li Fuyao, I am not Chao Qingqiu.”

Li Fuyao blinked and asked with concern, “Master, are you worried about something?”

Chao Qingqiu took off the long sword which also turned from the sword Qi from his waist and threw it randomly. Then he sat next to Li Fuyao and smiled. “Chao Qingqiu is the only Sword Immortal, and all the other swordsmen in the world admired him. All the cultivators from the three religious sects are in awe of him. However, I am not him but only a wisp of sword Qi. After you reach the top of Menchen Mountain, I will disappear from the world. Maybe he can make another wisp of sword Qi exist in the world, but that is not me. I have stayed on this mountain for ten years and feel bored. You are the first one to climb the mountain and also the last person I have seen.”

Li Fuyao didn’t know what to say. He just felt confused.

Chao Qingqiu stood up and stated casually, “Even if I will scatter and disappear, I need to live a wonderful life. From now on, I won’t be named Chao Qingqiu but will change my name. What will be my name? Right, I will be named Chao Fengchen. Chao Qingqiu likes most to say these words from a poem. ‘I have a pot of wine and it can comfort me from the hardships in an unstable society (fengchen).’”

This sword Qi decided to change his name in just a few words but soon got depressed. “No matter what name I will have, after you reach the mountaintop, I will have to scatter and disappear.”

Li Fuyao stayed silent for a long while and then suddenly suggested, “How about I have a break for half a day on the mountain path? Then you go down the mountain to have a look and walk as far as you can.”

The sword Qi whose new name was Chao Fengchen giggled with glitter in his eyes. “Right, I will go down the mountain to have a look, but it’s not okay with me if you stay here for only half a day. You stay at least one day. I need to walk farther and have a look in the places that even Chao Qingqiu hasn’t seen.”

Li Fuyao pondered for a while and nodded in agreement. “Okay, one day. I won’t climb the mountain within one day.”

Chao Fengchen burst into laughter and stood up. He patted his white clothes and expressed, “Li Fuyao, thanks. I will keep your kindness in mind.”

Li Fuyao waved his hand with a smile. He had no idea what kind of person Chao Qingqiu was, but he didn’t dislike Chao Fengchen at all.

Chao Fengchen jogged to pick up the sword and waved at Li Fuyao. Then he ran down the mountain quickly and disappeared from Li Fuyao’s sight in an instant.

After Li Fuyao couldn’t see him, there was no piercing sword Qi on the mountain path. He was relieved and sat down with his legs crossed. He started to watch his heart with the inward vision and suppressed all the sword Qi in his body.

On the top of Menchen Mountain, after the sword Qi went down the mountain, Xian Chunan walked out of the shabby temple and looked at the mountain path, to find that the teenager didn’t climb the mountain but sat on the path with his legs crossed without doing anything. He was confused, and before he could speak, Xie Lu came out of the temple and said coldly, “Chao Qingqiu’s sword Qi has scattered and disappeared, and it’s certain that the boy would climb Menchen Mountain. If he can reach the top later, he will be my disciple, and you can’t grab him from me.”

After saying this, Xie Lu returned to the temple silently and didn’t care what reaction Xian Chunan would have.

Liu Yibai in cyan showed up outside the temple and looked at Xian Chunan with indignation.

Xian Chunan laughed helplessly. “I can do nothing.”

After Chao Fengchen went down Menchen Mountain, he saw Green Lake in front of him but didn’t see any boat, so he drew the long sword from his waist and waved it.

The water was split by him into halves and the land was revealed in the middle, with sprays which were several meters tall on both sides.

This man who was merely at the Sword Qi Stage walked in the middle in a great mood. He raised his head and looked around, nodding with a smile.

He never thought that the world was so beautiful.