Chapter 81 Get the Sword (Ⅴ)

Li Fuyao didn’t know what was going on. Seeing that the sword came to stab him, he was at a loss for a short while. Then he drew the wooden sword on his waist soon. With the sword in front of his chest horizontally, he uplifted it and made the coming sword No Return fly away. Then he stabbed its blade with his sword to make the former shaky, as if it were drunk.

Li Fuyao walked a few steps backward. Looking at this strange sword, he was not much surprised. Before he walked out of Baiyu Town, he saw that Chen Sheng grabbed the Baiyu Sword in Baiyu River. That sword even turned into a big white fish, and it was much more terrifying than this sword with rust all over.

However, the sword didn’t give up. After it failed in stabbing Li Fuyao, it didn’t shrink back but rallied and then tried to stab again. Li Fuyao leaned and avoided it, and the wooden sword patted that sword’s blade, with a slight sound. Then he wanted to reach out his hand to grab this sword’s handle. Unexpectedly, the sword instantly went away. After it stopped in the distance, it didn’t attack randomly but pointed to him with its tip.

Li Fuyao looked at this sword in confusion and asked helplessly, “Bro, we talked happily, but why are you angry?”

It was unmoved when Li Fuyao didn’t say anything, but as soon as he started to speak, it seemed to itch for a try. He smiled bitterly and then kept quiet. It was strange at the bottom of the cliff, and it appeared that he could do nothing but go to see the old master in the bamboo cottage.

Li Fuyao looked up at the bamboo cottage on the opposite bank in the distance and then walked into the stream again at last.

As soon as he stepped in, he felt the sword Qi in the water. There were countless wisps.

Li Fuyao took a few steps, and then some blood floated in the stream. After he walked several steps, the sword Qi entered the blood in his meridians through the cut wounds. At the moment, Li Fuyao finally frowned, with sweat on his forehead. He walked forward for several steps and then went ashore.

But the scene in front of him changed, and he returned to this side of the stream.

Li Fuyao was stunned and speechless. If the wounds on his soles didn’t remind him that it was not a dream, he would think that what was happening was an illusion.

But since he would return here after going to the opposite bank, he would never believe that there was nothing set here.

He turned to that sword and asked hesitantly, “What should I do?”

It seemed to be still angry and turned around, ignoring Li Fuyao.

Li Fuyao scratched his head and asked with a smile, “Can you instruct me?”

The sword pointed to the stream unwillingly. It seemed that it wanted Li Fuyao to go there again.

Li Fuyao pursed his lips. “You didn’t cheat me?”

This time that sword didn’t move at all.

Li Fuyao lowered his head and looked at his feet with blood. He smiled and then entered that stream for the third time, but this time, when he walked to the opposite bank, he returned to this side of the river again.

Li Fuyao looked helpless and turned to look at that sword, which ignored him.

Li Fuyao found a big rock randomly and sat down. He wiped away the blood stains for himself and then said helplessly, “It must be an illusion or magic array, but how can I break it? Bro, you have been here for so long, and you don’t tell me what to do. Forget it. If you tell me, you will probably tease me.”

The sword was in the distance and ignored Li Fuyao who was talking to himself all the time.

Li Fuyao continued to sit in a daze. After a long time, he looked at the sky and suddenly cursed in a low voice.

He sat for almost four or six hours, but the sun didn’t move to the west at all.

It was an illusion obviously.

So Li Fuyao seemed to figure out something and walked into the stream for the fourth time. Then unfortunately, when he almost reached the opposite bank, he returned to where he had been.

It annoyed Li Fuyao. He turned his head again to look at that sword and then took a breath before entering the stream once more. In the end, he returned to his original spot as expected.

Li Fuyao was desperate.

What did it mean?

Sitting at the bank, Li Fuyao lowered his head to look at his feet. Then he turned to glance at that sword No Return.

There was still no answer.

“What does it mean?”

Li Fuyao looked up at the sky and felt confused.

After sitting with boredom for an hour, Li Fuyao started to walk on the way back. He looked at that broken sword and that stone where the sword lay, but after he checked them, he didn’t get anything helpful. In the end, he still went back to the bank of the stream.

If the masters hadn’t told him before he went down to the bottom of the cliff that he shouldn’t unsheathe his sword randomly, he would have tried to stab this stream. However, in this situation, if he couldn’t go to the opposite bank, perhaps he wouldn’t have a chance to see that sword.

So after Li Fuyao got nothing and returned for countless times, he entered that stream once more.

The bamboo cottage not far away from the opposite bank of the stream was located on a bluestone. It was not easy to build a bamboo cottage under the cliff where there was no bamboo. Two people were sitting opposite each other in the cottage. They were not great masters with long white hair who stayed secluded as Li Fuyao had imagined but two young people.

They were one man in grey and one woman in white.

The young man dressed in a grey robe said with a smile, “I thought that some disciples from Sword Mountain should have come to get it soon after the sword fell and then worshiped it in the Sword Immortal Hall respectfully, but we didn’t see them after waiting for long, so I felt resentful as I thought that the people on the mountain forgot it. Liu Xiang’s sword Qi was unmatched, and he was the most unrestrained and carefree Sword Immortal in the world those years. After he died on the battlefield on Sword Mountain, nobody came to collect his relic, so didn’t they disrespect him? But nobody came after so many years, and I had some expectancy. However, they let such a boy to get it, so I think that Sword Mountain is more cheerless after the battle.”

The woman in white chuckled. “Even so, you make that teenage boy come after walking in Sword Stream for one hundred times and you have gone too far. You put the sword in front of the stream in order to remind him that a determined man won’t be disappointed, but is he so determined?”

The man in grey responded impassively, “Anyway, even if he wants to see me, I need to test him at least, and we will talk about anything later. It’s just that I have been staying here for too long. Otherwise, how would I care about a swordsman at this stage? Any opponent of mine in the past would kill this boy after taking a breath. How would I give a damn about him?”

The woman in white shook her head and sighed. “If he has a promising future in swordsmanship and a chance to become the second Liu Xiang, how would you not give a damn about him?”

The man in grey asked calmly, “There is only one Liu Xiang in the world. Why did you say that there is the second Liu Xiang?”

The woman in white seemed to think of something in the past and felt emotional. After she kept silent for quite a while, she didn’t speak but looked out of the window. Although she couldn’t see the scenery on the other side of the river clearly, she knew through the sword Qi that the boy entered the stream again.

She sighed with emotion in a low voice. “Anyway, there are so many swords under the cliff, and you need to give him one.”

The man in grey was almost stubbornly heartless. “If he is not somebody on the same way as us, he can’t get one sword under the cliff. He can’t blame me or you but himself.”

The woman couldn’t speak a word.

The man in grey stood up and laughed. “Before the war that year, Liu Xiang’s sword Qi could spread several thousand miles, and it was said to be the most powerful sword Qi by the swordsmen in the world. It was peerless since the ancient time. Nobody knew how many swordsmen gave up the sword intent and swordsmanship they had been studying and started to ponder over the sword Qi, but what happened as a result? When Liu Xiang whose sword Qi was the most powerful resisted the enemies on Sword Mountain, he couldn’t kill a great demon, and even that woman Xie Lu killed two great demons. People said that Liu Xiang’s sword Qi was peerless in the world, but he was so weak. Didn’t he humiliate himself? Nobody can be said to be full of high spirits, but I think only Liu Xiang was one. In this case, how could he die on Sword Mountain?”

The woman in white frowned. “What do you think?”

The man in grey smiled silently and just walked out of the bamboo cottage to see that teenage boy who had finally come over after stepping into the stream for more than one hundred times.

It was uncertain if this boy was in the same boat as him, but at least, the man in grey thought that the boy had the qualification to talk with him.

But when he got out of the bamboo cottage,

Sword chirps could be heard endlessly and became higher and higher under the cliff.