Chapter 62 Hello, I Am Chao Fengchen

Before Li Fuyao climbed the mountain, it rained, but the spring rain seemed to know that a young man would climb the mountain later, so it stopped after seven o’clock in the morning. When Li Fuyao walked to the shabby temple as he agreed, the rain had stopped, but there were rain drops left on the leaves of a phoenix tree next to the big bluestone. However, the phoenix tree looked much clearer than before obviously after the spring rain scoured it.

Li Fuyao came to the temple, and he didn’t see the middle-aged man who looked ordinary with a short sword on his waist, but a swordswoman with a white-snow long sword held in her arms walked out.

Li Fuyao had seen her. This was the swordswoman who came to him and asked him some questions after Xian Chunan left last night, but the short meeting made Li Fuyao think that she was not easy to get along with. As she showed up in front of him again, he thought that he could only see her before climbing the mountain.

Li Fuyao called her “master” cautiously, and the woman nodded slightly to show that she heard him. Then she walked two steps forward and stated, “I planned to take you as my disciple. Of course, the precondition is that you can climb up Sword Mountain successfully, but since you are Chen Sheng’s disciple, I can do nothing. But do you know that you will regret for a lifetime after you miss the chance to be my disciple?”

Li Fuyao opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but soon he found that under the situation, no matter what he would say, it would be improper, so he was sensible and shut his mouth.

Looking at this confused boy, Xie Lu asked gently, “Do you know Chen Sheng’s identity?”

Li Fuyao suddenly got depressed. He knew that it was true that the man who had picked up a sword from Baiyu River was a swordsman from Sword Mountain, but he didn’t know if that swordsman was expelled from Sword Mountain because he had caused trouble. Although it didn’t look like that, judging from Chen Sheng’s appearance, it seemed that anything was possible.

Xie Lu wasn’t in the mood to beat around the bush. She walked a few steps and gestured for Li Fuyao to follow her. Then she revealed the mystery. “There is an old guy on the mountain who has accepted four disciples all his life. Although he often says that he would accept the fifth one, in fact, he didn’t do that, so he has only four disciples in total. All the four were told to be coolies at the foot of Sword Mountain. What is a coolie? It might be just like me. We have to talk nonsense with the young men who are determined to learn swordsmanship like you. But why are there only three people now? You should know the answer, right?”

Li Fuyao was not stupid, and he immediately understood. “Chen Sheng was the fourth one, and he went down the mountain.”

Xie Lu held Light Snow and looked calm, but the sword Qi revealed occasionally was enough to show that this swordswoman should have extraordinary skills, and even her momentum was almost the same as Chen Sheng’s in Li Fuyao’s eyes. Nobody in the human world said that women couldn’t practice swordsmanship, and even one of the Sword Immortals who died on the battlefield six thousand years ago was a swordswoman.

Before dying in battle, that female Sword Immortal had killed two great demons at the peak of the Ocean Stage, who were big shots on the demonic land.

Xie Lu seemed to know what Li Fuyao was thinking about and expressed peacefully, “That female Sword Immortal who died on the battlefield, her family name was Xie. She happened to be my ancestor. Why is my family name Xie? Probably nobody wants to let the ancestor’s family name disappear, so the children of the members from the Xie family can only inherit this family name no matter if they are men or women. And some people even place great expectations on the Xie family and want to see another Sword Immortal from my family. It doesn’t matter if it is a man or a woman.”

After saying that, Xie Lu rolled her eyes soon and added with self-mockery, “I’m sorry to say so much.”

Li Fuyao obediently walked behind this weird swordswoman and didn’t dare to speak.

Xie Lu laughed with self-mockery. “I don’t know if Chen Sheng didn’t want his future children to have the family name, Xie, or he had been fed up with the life on Sword Mountain and wanted to travel around the world. Anyway, he went down the mountain at the wedding night and has never come back these years.”

Li Fuyao pursed his lips in secret and just thought that Chen Sheng was so playful but almost got married. However, if he really married this weird swordswoman, wouldn’t she tell Li Fuyao to call her Mrs. Chen?

Li Fuyao looked odd, but fortunately, the woman in front of him didn’t turn around, so she couldn’t see his expression.

When they walked to a stone wall, the woman unsheathed the long sword Light Snow she held and then penetrated the wall at one blow. A narrow passage which could hold only one person was revealed.

Xie Lu pointed at this passage and stated calmly, “You can climb the mountain through this passage.”

Li Fuyao cupped his hands to thank her. When he was about to enter it, Xie Lu grabbed his collar and stared at him, saying impassively, “It is difficult to walk on the mountain path, which is dangerous. The reason why there is no new comer on Sword Mountain these years is that this mountain path is really difficult to walk on. There are few swordsmen in the world. Apart from the few unofficial swordsmen, there is only one place, Sword Mountain, to pass down the orthodox swordsmanship. Sword Mountain chooses the disciples in a much stricter way than you imagined, so not many swordsmen can reach the top of Sword Mountain. Even though you were accepted by Chen Sheng as his disciple and have entered the second stage of swordsmen, we can’t say that you can definitely reach the mountaintop. If others climb the mountain and die on the path, I won’t say anything, but you, I will give you a chance. Bring Light Snow with you all the way. If you can’t insist halfway, you throw this sword down the cliff, and I will save you once, but there is only one chance. After that, you won’t have the qualification to climb the mountain.”

After speaking, Xie Lu gave the snow-white long sword in her arms to Li Fuyao without demur and then retreated to one side.

Li Fuyao said hesitantly, “Master…”

Xie Lu waved her hand and stated impatiently, “Just take it. You are so wordy.”

Seeing Xie Lu’s reaction, Li Fuyao was sensible and held Light Snow before entering the passage.

At the same time, Xie Lu sat next to the passage and didn’t prepare to return to the temple.

In the temple, Liu Yibai looked at the senior fellow apprentice Xian Chunan dressed in shabby clothes and couldn’t help laughing loudly.

Xian Chunan sighed. Why didn’t he tell her after he got the news about Chen Sheng? The junior sister apprentice had stabbed him several hundred times last night. Even though he was close to the Revelation Stage, he couldn’t avoid that so many times.

However, as for that junior fellow apprentice who was the most talented but the most unconventional among the four, even if Xian Chunan wanted to say a lot, Chen Sheng didn’t want to listen.

After a moment’s silence, Xian Chunan stood in the open space in front of the shabby temple and shouted at somebody in the distance, “Xie Lu, you can’t ruin the rules on Sword Mountain!”

He didn’t see anybody but heard a voice from the distance. “Big brother.”

Liu Yibai’s hair stood on end. This was the second time that the junior sister apprentice called him big brother these two days, which never happened in the past ten years.

He showed a sad face and looked at Xian Chunan not far away. “Xian, how about I watch them?”

Xian Chunan shook his head helplessly, but at last, he returned to the shabby temple. He knew better than anybody else that if they irritated Xie Lu, it would be more serious than ruining the rules on Sword Mountain.

When the morning sun was rising, a man who was busy warning the water demons in the rivers within one thousand miles was running about. The first thing that this man who was determined to be a good person wanted to do was try to prevent others from doing something evil. But today the man who was supposed to walk continuously stopped next to a cliff of displacement today. In front of him, there was a man dressed in a white robe with a sword on his waist looking at the great river before him silently. Feeling that somebody came to his back, the man in white turned around and looked at the most powerful man within one thousand miles, saying with a smile, “Hello, my name is Chao Fengchen.”

Feeling the fierce sword intent all over the man in white and looking at the sword on his waist, this man who should fear the swordsmen most spoke rarely. “I am Bai Qi.”

The man in white said, “Oh.” And then he touched his face. Although he didn’t know why he hadn’t disappeared and even wasn’t going to scatter, he still responded happily, “Hello, I am Chao Fengchen.”

“Right, I am not Chao Qingqiu.”

He didn’t say these words to the man, but to the human world, the demonic land in the north, the Buddhist land in the west, and to everything in the world.

“Hello, I am Chao Fengchen.”