Chapter 77 Get the Sword (I)

The three people from the shabby temple at the foot of Sword Mountain had their own thoughts, but in the end, since Xie Lu said that, Liu Yibai didn’t want to say anything. He was carefree and didn’t mind anything, and he just followed his heart to promote his stage. Since Xie Lu made the decision, he wouldn’t say more.

So after the three made the decision, Xie Lu got up and returned to the shabby temple, unwilling to get involved in this matter. At the same time, Liu Yibai looked at Xian Chunan with a smile and murmured, “Xian, you are our senior fellow apprentice, and you need to do this job. We don’t know if it is a nice thing. Anyway, if there is something wrong in the end, Chen Sheng wouldn’t dare to stab Xie Lu, so when he wants to vent his anger, he would come to you.”

Xian Chunan laughed helplessly and didn’t say more. He just went to the path to the mountaintop alone. After Li Fuyao went down the mountain, Xian Chunan talked about this matter with him.

Li Fuyao was surprised. “There is a sword at the foot of the mountain?”

Xian Chunan smiled. “To be precise, it’s not at the foot of the mountain but under the cliff. When the war broke out after Sword Mountain was built, three Sword Immortals on Sword Mountain risked their lives to fight against those big shots from the demonic land. One Sword Immortal died on the spot and his sword fell down the cliff and couldn’t be sent to the Sword Washing Pool in time. After the war ended, the sword under the cliff seemed to be forgotten. In fact, there may be more than one sword, but anyway, you want a sword and can’t go to the Sword Washing Pool, so you have to find one under the cliff. To be frank, even after you find the sword, you can’t get it forcefully if it is not for you. But you have wasted a lot of time at the second stage, the Focus Stage. It would be helpful to promote your stage after you toughen yourself under the cliff. A Sword Immortal’s sword is a great chance. You can decide if you will go.”

Li Fuyao asked cautiously, “Is it dangerous and difficult to survive under the cliff?”

Xian Chunan glanced at Li Fuyao in surprise. After staying with him these days, Xian Chunan could almost see through Li Fuyao. This little guy was not pure and honest, but he was not a coward anyway. Why did he ask if it was dangerous? But Xian Chunan was not inflexible, and he just joked with Li Fuyao. “As a matter of fact, it’s hard to say if it is dangerous. The common people may fall to death while walking or probably drown when they take a boat and it turns over or even choke to death when they are eating. Is it difficult to survive? Of course it’s not. But you will die some day, and what’s the difference? It’s just that when you are doing something, you don’t need to worry, and in the other case, you are worried and scared all the time.”

Li Fuyao showed a sad face. “Master, you are telling me that I will suffer a lot under the cliff and let me make a plan earlier.”

Xian Chunan shook his head and hinted that he didn’t say that. “I said if you are unwilling to, you can still practice swordsmanship at the foot of the mountain every day. If you can’t get a sword, you can find one in the human world after you go down the mountain as well.”

Xian Chunan didn’t speak more to Li Fuyao. With his character, even though he wanted to see Li Fuyao get that sword he wanted to get when he was a teenager, he didn’t want Li Fuyao to make a decision because of somebody else’s wish. Whether Li Fuyao would go to get the sword should be up to himself.

Li Fuyao pondered for a long time and came to the shabby temple at last. He asked hesitantly, “Shall I have a try?”

Liu Yibai patted his shoulder and said with disdain, “You won’t climb a mountain of swords or plunge into a sea of flames. Why are you like this? Don’t worry. If you can’t come up, I will light incense and pray for you every Qingming Festival. I am your master’s junior fellow apprentice and won’t ignore you.”

Li Fuyao had a headache. This master was straightforward in speaking and didn’t want to conceal himself at all.

Xie Lu held the famous sword Light Snow and stated casually, “That sword once belonged to a Sword Immortal and is arrogant. I won’t lend my Light Snow to you, in case that the two swords meet and cause unnecessary trouble. You bring the wooden sword to get it under the cliff. Not to mention anything else, as long as you don’t provoke it intentionally, it must be unwilling to fight against a wooden sword.”

Li Fuyao pressed the wooden sword on his waist and thought for a while before nodding.

Liu Yibai unprecedentedly exhorted him. “After you meet that sword, if there is something strange, don’t lose courage, so that you don’t even dare to unsheathe your sword. You might escape from a disaster, but perhaps it would look down upon you and even your will of swordsmanship in the future would be influenced. With my way of swordsmanship, no matter who the opponent is, I will draw my sword and attack him first. It’s one thing if you can defeat the opponent, and it’s another thing if you dare to draw your sword and attack, so my sword Qi is boundless, like a great river entering the sea.”

It was rare for Liu Yibai to be serious, but soon Xie Lu exposed him. “When you wave your sword, it will be like a stream at most. How can you say that a great river enters the sea?”

Liu Yibai who was stabbed by the old man raised his head helplessly and didn’t say more to his junior sister apprentice. He just prayed secretly that his senior fellow apprentice Chen would come back to teach her a lesson.

But it was uncertain who would teach a lesson then.

As a matter of fact, Sword Mountain was a peak above the top of Menchen Mountain. Seen from the distance, Menchen Mountain was like the foundation of a sword, and Sword Mountain was the blade. The place under the cliff was behind the shabby temple. If Li Fuyao wanted to go there to find that sword of a Sword Immortal, he would have to go down behind the temple. Standing in front of the cliff, Li Fuyao couldn’t see its bottom clearly but the prominent mountain stones around. At the thought that he would go down from here later, he didn’t look well.

Xie Lu held her sword and saw him off. Standing next to the cliff, she said in a low voice, “If you jump down from here, you will be smashed to pieces, which is the better. And you will be miserable if nobody collects your dead body.”

Li Fuyao turned to Master Xie, and his expression changed slightly.

Xie Lu stated seriously, “I have never been to the bottom of the cliff, but Xian didn’t tell you everything. There are many broken swords except that Sword Immortal’s sword under the cliff. In the great war that year, many swordsmen died here and their swords were under the cliff. The sword Qi under the cliff won’t be less powerful than that in the sword grave, but many swordsmen didn’t realize their ambitions, and the sword Qi is resentful, so you should be careful after you go down.”

Li Fuyao had sweat on his hand which grabbed the wooden sword’s handle and he wiped it with his clothes, saying with distractions, “Master Xie, I have never thought that it is so difficult.”

Xie Lu comforted him rarely. “Have you forgotten that you promised a girl you love that you would succeed in swordsmanship?”

Li Fuyao asked automatically, “Master Xie, how did you know that?”

Xie Lu didn’t explain but laughed. “Everybody in the world says that the swordsman has nothing but a sword and they are most carefree, but it won’t have an influence if there is something added on the sword.”

Li Fuyao stopped talking and pushed up his sleeves, stepping on a mountain stone to walk downward slowly.

Xie Lu stood by the cliff and said peacefully, “Li Fuyao, if you can’t come up, I will send somebody to tell the girl that you love her, but you are incapable and unable to come from under the cliff. I will tell her not to keep you in mind.”

Li Fuyao had disappeared, and she just heard the boy’s voice from the distance. “Master Xie!”

Xie Lu stood next to the cliff and laughed loudly, regardless of a woman’s fine manners.

In the distance, Liu Yibai looked at Xian Chunan seriously and said gently, “Xian, you lay too much hope on Fuyao. He shouldn’t have it. Moreover, he didn’t reach the mountaintop, and according to the rules on the mountain, he is not a real disciple on Sword Mountain.”

Xian Chunan smiled. “Liu, how do you think he would go on the road if we don’t let him go down?”

Liu Yibai kept silent and was unwilling to reason with Xian Chunan. He was inferior to his senior fellow apprentice in this aspect, so he didn’t want to speak. Anyway, from the bottom of his heart, he didn’t want to drive Li Fuyao who was only at the Focus Stage to the bottom of the cliff.

Xian Chunan looked at the mountain and smiled peacefully. “Under the cliff, it doesn’t matter if the stage is high or low, but the will of swordsmanship matters. After he comes back without difficulty, it’s fine if I teach him everything I know. Anyway, I can’t take it away. But if he can’t come back, he doesn’t have the chance yet, and we can’t force it.”

Liu Yibai was numb and speechless and then turned around, walking into the shabby temple. There were three statues inside with different expressions. The one in the middle looked calm with a short sword on his waist. On both sides of him were an exalted woman holding a sword and a middle-aged man with a long sword with no sheath on his waist.

If Li Fuyao was here, he could recognize the statues of the three masters at the foot of the mountain.

But why were their statues displayed in the shabby temple?

He didn’t know!