Martial Cultivator

Over the following days, Chen Chao recuperated in the Sword Sect while also comprehending the Sword Sect’s Sect Master’s sword dao insights. Though he was not a sword cultivator, having reached such a high realm, even without approaching it from a sword cultivator’s perspective, he could still understand the Sword Sect’s Sect Master’s sword dao insights more easily than ordinary sword cultivators.

Afterward, Chen Chao was even permitted to enter the Sword Sect’s Scripture Library to browse through the various sword scriptures left behind by successive generations of sword cultivators.

Compared to the Sword Sect’s Sect Master’s sword dao insights, this matter was actually even more precious, because the former was merely the Sword Sect’s Sect Master’s personal matter, while the latter concerned the affairs of an entire Sword Sect.

However, Chen Chao could also understand why the Sword Sect ultimately agreed to this matter. They were simply giving him an enormous favor. This martial artist at the height of his glory was clearly someone who, so long as he did not die at the hands of the Demon Emperor, would very likely become the most influential person in the world for the next several hundred years. With this favor in place, the Sword Sect could rest even easier.

Moreover, the Sword Sect had already cooperated with Great Liang before. Now, this merely deepened the relationship further.

Chen Chao was not polite about it either. He entered the Scripture Library and read through all sorts of sword scriptures. The more he read, the more he understood why the Sword Sect’s Sect Master had become the number one figure in sword dao over the past thousand years.

Those sword scriptures were mostly similar. Each had its own path, but overall they were still products born within the same broad framework. Yet the Sword Sect’s Sect Master had clearly broken free from those constraints from the very beginning and walked an entirely different path. Forget cultivation talent, this courage alone was already incomparable to ordinary people.

Afterward, his becoming the number one figure in sword dao of the present age had naturally become an inevitable matter.

Judging from this alone, although Yu Xiyi had once defeated the Sword Sect’s Sect Master while in the same realm, there was still a considerable gap between them.

Chen Chao sighed emotionally. Those powerhouses who could reach this step today truly had all once been the outstanding figures of their respective eras.

After reading those countless sword scriptures, although Chen Chao was not like Autumn and had no plans to cultivate another dao, the young martial artist now developed some thoughts of taking on another disciple. Originally, he had thought that accepting three disciples to pass down the martial dao was already enough.

But now, Chen Chao suddenly wanted to accept another disciple and pass down sword dao instead. Perhaps in the future that disciple could become a great sword immortal. At that time, it could be said that a disciple taught by a martial artist had even managed to overpower all the other sword cultivators in the world.

Just thinking about such a thing was interesting.

But it was only a thought.

There were already too many matters to deal with at the moment. As for the martial dao cultivation of his three disciples, aside from the period when he had personally tempered them with his fists, most of the time it had been entrusted to Song Lian. His own time truly was insufficient.

Still, although Chen Chao was recuperating in the Sword Sect, the official reports sent to him never stopped. News from the Northern Frontier arrived once every two days, and Chen Chao paid attention to every bit of movement.

After all, by the time he had headed south, the demon army had already fully assembled. Barring surprises, the second great war could break out at any moment.

Compared to that, all other matters seemed far less important.

However, among all those official reports, Chen Chao still received one special letter. It came from Mount Xi.

Chen Chao placed the letter on the table, but for a long time, did not open it.

Yu Xiyi swayed his way over to the residence the Sword Sect had prepared for Chen Chao. After entering, he dropped himself into the seat opposite Chen Chao, then glanced at the envelope on the table and clicked his tongue. ”That girl Zhu Xia really still can’t forget her Big Brother Chen. Didn’t she send another letter already?”

Chen Chao glanced at Yu Xiyi but said nothing, merely looking somewhat troubled.

Yu Xiyi asked, ”Why not open it and take a look?”

Chen Chao did not speak.

Not getting an answer, Yu Xiyi was not too angry. Instead, he turned to another question. ”Surname Chen, logically speaking, only Zhu Xia has a chance of healing your injuries. Why won’t you go to Mount Xi and see her?”

Chen Chao looked at Yu Xiyi and shook his head. ”I cannot go to Mount Xi.”

”Why?”

Yu Xiyi could not understand.

Chen Chao said calmly, ”Yun Jianyue has definitely already told Zhu Xia about my situation. I know clearly just how bad things are, and I also know what kind of person Zhu Xia is. ”If she becomes determined to save me, even making me eat her might not be something she couldn’t do.”

Yu Xiyi frowned. ”If you refuse, how could she force you?”

Chen Chao looked at Yu Xiyi and said, ”By threatening me with her death.”

”If she insists on dying in front of me and forces me to eat her, then what would I do?”

Chen Chao reached out and tapped the letter on the table with his finger. ”Some things, if you don’t know about them, then there is no beginning. But once you know, there is no stopping them anymore.”

Yu Xiyi had not expected things would happen like this either. He merely said somewhat strangely, ”That girl is usually so carefree and thoughtless. She’d actually be this resolute?”

Chen Chao gave a bitter smile. ”Precisely because Zhu Xia is simple, she would do something like this.”

In the eyes of a girl like Zhu Xia, so long as Chen Chao could be healed, it did not matter if she died. It was exactly this kind of pure feeling, without any impurities mixed in, that left people not knowing how to deal with it.

Moreover, girls like this usually seemed carefree and thoughtless, but once they made up their minds, nobody could change them.

Chen Chao said calmly, ”Zhu Xia cannot die.”

”Yu Xiyi, you have to understand, there are some people whose very existence makes others happy, makes people feel that the things they do have meaning. Zhu Xia is that kind of person. If even Zhu Xia were gone from this world, then this world would not be lovable at all.”

Some beautiful things simply needed to be protected.

Yu Xiyi seemed to half understand, but still cursed, ”Why the fuck is it that every time you bring up this person or that person, it never has anything to do with me?”

Chen Chao smiled and did not speak.

But very quickly, Yu Xiyi frowned and looked at Chen Chao, his eyes carrying a meaningful emotion. ”Surname Chen, you might not go look for her, but she has legs. Nobody can stop her from going wherever she wants.”

Chen Chao raised his head and looked at Yu Xiyi.

Yu Xiyi said helplessly, ”That girl has come. She’s already outside the mountain pass gates.”

Chen Chao furrowed his brows.