chapter 48 – not for saints

The man in black was The Shadow. Of course it was Shadow.

The two of them, he and Fan Xian, quietly entered Dong Yi City and disappeared after arranging everything with the subordinates of the Supervisory Court. He wasn’t there when Fan Xian broke into the Sword Lodge because Fan Xian knew what this head of the Sixth Division of the Supervisory Court would do once he saw the Four Guards Sword.

And suddenly, the shadow appeared in the city lord’s mansion, appearing behind the city lord’s corpse.

The Four Gu Swords had slaughtered the City Lord’s Mansion again this night, and he didn’t know how many people he had killed, but regardless of whether a person was alive or dead, as long as his physical body existed, it would always give birth to shadows underneath the sunlight, and the shadows were the ones that were hidden in those shadows.

Being able to hide from a Grand Master’s perception, being able to appear before the three of them so abruptly, and being able to capture the most vulnerable moment of Four Gu Swords, Shadow, the most powerful assassin under the sky, without a doubt, today’s cultivation has already been raised to the peak state of his life.

The Four Gu Swords coughed and coughed up blood in his wheelchair, trembling, his body shrinking slightly, his face pale. Beheading seven people with a single sword had caused the Grand Master, who had been dragging himself hard for nearly three years after being seriously injured, to feel a hint of fatigue, but what had drained him the most was behind the wheelchair, Fan Xian’s hands that were infused with overbearing true qi.

From the time he stepped into the city lord’s mansion, Fan Xian’s mind was in opposition to the Four Gu Swords, and the Four Gu Swords were extremely strong in releasing their power, forcibly subduing the thoughts of Fan Xian’s mind. However, nowadays, after all, Fan Xian was a bit of a ninth ranked powerhouse, and the Four Gu Swords, in addition to killing people, also had to bet on their minds on his body, controlling his mind and soul, and after spending too much time on it, he couldn’t help but be a bit weakened as well.

Of course, the most critical is still three years ago on the Great Eastern Mountain left behind injuries, Ye Liuyun like a dragon in the clouds of a claw, the Emperor of the Kingdom of Qing dynasty of the King’s Road to kill fist, so that the four Gu Jian this great master seriously injured as such, the residual breath so far, has been to the exhaustion of the time.

The Shadow was the one who chose to strike at this moment, he chose a most desperate moment.

In his hand was an ancient sword, cold as autumn water, sword light in a moment, illuminated the entire City Lord’s mansion, stone steps in the next moment as if turned into jade general crystal.

The shadow’s toes stepped on these jade-like stone steps, gently pointing. With each point, his person seemed to brighten up by one point.

Occasionally, a few green leaves in the mansion flew up at this moment, accompanied by the sword in his hand, adding a few points of killing.

Kill.

The ancient sword in the shadow’s hand stabbed at the chest of the wheelchair’s Four Gu Swords. This sword is extremely simple, there is no variation, there is no momentum, not even a trace of trembling, in the high-speed stabbing process, the bright sword body of autumn water without waves, smooth to the extreme stabbed over.

Just bending the elbow, just flat wrist, just stabbing out, just the simplest sword in this world.

Because of its simplicity, it was focused and therefore powerful.

The shadow didn’t need to build up his momentum, because he had been waiting for this sword for more than twenty years, he had been building it up for more than twenty years.

It was so fast that when the green leaves floated up, he was stunned to realize that he had landed behind the man in black, so fast that the air inside the City Lord’s Mansion was too late to deform and make a whistling wind sound after this ancient sword cut itself.

Because it was fast, the surroundings were too late to make any changes, and the courtyard remained as quiet as ever. The only thing that had changed was the position the shadow was in, the tip of his foot that stepped over the jade steps, the light on his body, the front end of the light, the sword that had the most light.

At this moment, the tip of the sword was only a foot away from Si Gu Jian’s chest. A sword of wind and thunder!

Fan Xian only had time for the pupils of his eyes to narrow by a fraction of a second in such a short period of time. He recognized this sword in the Shadow’s hand;when he had assassinated His Majesty the Emperor on the Hanging Temple back then, the Shadow had held this sword in his hand.

Fan Xian was even familiar with this Wind and Thunder Sword of the Shadow’s, because outside the Hanging Temple, under the tall buildings, lined with the golden chrysanthemums that roamed the mountains, the Shadow had once jumped out of the sun wearing a white suit and stabbed the Emperor right in the face.

The shadow of that day was dressed in white, like an exiled fairy in the sky, great splendor, plain ancient sword in hand, floating.

Today’s shadow was dressed in black, still with the plain ancient sword, and the luster of his body was still blossoming, but with the coldness of the netherworld from the deepest part of the earth, like an imprisoned soul that had been imprisoned for tens of thousands of years, and was going to release all of its grievances with the help of this sword.

Fan Xian’s hand was still holding the waist of the little emperor, and the pupils of his eyes shrunk slightly, but his body couldn’t make any movements in time, and his mind was in a state of shock. The sword that stepped on the stone steps and came across the green leaves was so unstoppable, so fast, so fast that even he himself could not make any reaction at all, and even vaguely had broken through the limitations of time!

Shadow is the most powerful assassin under the sky, is the monitor before and after the two masters of the closest night protector, since the escape from the city of east barbarians, has been immersed in the darkness, never walk in the sun, even if the last time in the hanging temple assassination, the seemingly brilliant sword, in fact, hidden or small intention and caution, a hit is not hit, immediately withdrew.

But today’s shadow, completely different from the usual shadow, his whole person seems to be immersed in darkness and negative emotions, this sword is stabbed incomparably bright and upright, decades of cultivation are all condensed in this sword, did not leave any backward path for himself, any way to retreat!

He only thought of advancing, choosing to advance with supreme courage and persistence, only seeking to send this sword into the chest of the Four Gu Swords. At this moment, Shadow was no longer an assassin, he was a swordsman, a vengeful swordsman, a swordsman worthy of respect and admiration.

The Wind and Thunder Sword was more gentle than wind, more trackless, more rapid, more dazzling and more shocking than thunder. This was the strongest sword that the Shadow could execute, and whether it was Fan Xian, Haitang, or whoever was sitting in the wheelchair at this moment, suddenly facing this sword, I was afraid that they would not be able to escape.

Because this was the first sword that Shadow had really struck in twenty years, a sword that had been tempered with the river of time and the ghostly emotions of resentment for countless times.

Even in that final moment when the tip of the sword broke through the air, it had even vaguely reached another level, just as the Four Gu Swords had taught Fan Xian earlier, that the only way to do so was to be in touch with one’s mind.

Nothing was faster than a person’s mind, no one was more resolute, darker, or brighter than the shadow’s mind at this time.

The darkness lay in hatred and complex emotions, and the lightness lay in the determination to defy all odds.

The muscles on Fan Xian’s body were tense, and his body’s hegemonic true qi was running rapidly, only waiting for the first moment that his mind reacted, he would take the little emperor and flee from this place. However, in front of such a sword, it was too late for him to make any reaction.

Four Gu Sword Energy.

Although he had already run out of oil, although he had been suffering from serious injuries for three long years, although he had massacred the City Lord’s Mansion today and had greatly depleted his mind, he was still a Grandmaster, a Grandmaster that could not be judged by common sense.

It was just that Four Gu Jian’s expression was different from any time, his face was pale to the extreme, his eyes were bright to the extreme, and the right half of his shattered cheek was like an ugly and terrifying heavenly god at this moment, exuding awe-inspiring might.

Even a Grand Master would not take such a sword lightly. But the Grand Master was unable to move easily, and with only one hand left, the only thing he could move seemed to be this hand.

Therefore, the Four Gu Swords moved his hand, raised his left arm, spread his middle and forefinger four inches in front of his chest, and then held them together.

He used his two fingers to clamp the Wind and Thunder One Sword.

Then his face became even paler, his eyes even brighter, and his expression even more solemn, because the sword between the two fingers was still protruding forward.

Ah! The shadow was like the shadow of the Four Gu Swords, clinging to the wheelchair, with a wild scream, like madness, like idiocy, like sobbing, like joy, like anger, stepping on the path he fled twenty years ago, holding the bitterness of his family’s loss and the death of his parents together, he fiercely stabbed down!

With a poof sound, the ancient sword that was as cold as autumn water, rubbing against the Four Gu Sword’s knuckles protruding from his knuckles, emitting a squeaking sound, carrying a palpitating burnt flavor, it forcefully and incomparably broke through the Four Gu Sword’s finger swords and pierced into the Four Gu Sword’s chest!

The tip of the sword entered the Grand Master’s body by only two inches, and then it could no longer move, because Four Gu Sword’s eyes had brightened to the extreme, like two stars were spreading their light, striking the Shadow’s similarly pale face, while his fingers were like two large mountains, holding the Shadow’s Wind and Thunder Sword hostage between the rocks and rocks, no longer able to advance an inch.

A momentary pause.

The pale-faced Fan Xian stifled a grunt, grasped the waist of the little emperor beside him, and swept up diagonally like a large bird, detaching himself from the back of the wheelchair, cutting through the air, and drifting toward the green tree beside the mansion.

If he had remained behind the wheelchair, he might only have been injured, but the little emperor would have definitely died with his heart and veins broken under the dual attack of the Four Gu Swords and the Shadow.

Floating towards the green tree, Fan Xian’s face was pale as he forced himself to turn back in the air, and then saw a scene that was so shocking that he would never be able to forget it.

Four Gu Jian s face is extremely pale, the shadow s face is also extremely pale, this pair of brothers, since that year after the rainy night in Dong Yi City, never see each other again, at this time but close together, cold face reflecting each other, is not interesting, just chilling, their bodies close to each other, just in the middle of the …… middle separated by a sword.

Above the chest of the four Gu sword, the tip of the sword brought out a puddle of blood, tenaciously trying to drill inside. And yet, this great master seems like he doesn t feel anything at all, just looking at the shadow with those bright and somewhat terrifyingly old eyes, the two fingers of his left hand, steadily and terrifyingly holding the sword.

Will, mind, just a glance, a moment, the courtyard of the city master’s mansion, but the air suddenly changed, as if for no reason born countless wind blades, cutting the air, issued a snorting sound, from all directions, along the disappearance of a wonderful, naked eye can not see the trajectory, chopped to the center.

It cut towards the shadow’s body.

The Shadow’s body was still wearing the Monitor’s special lotus clothing, which was a product that the three divisions had developed for many years before obtaining, but under the assault of these roiling sword qi, it still only resisted for a few moments before it began to fragilely rupture, blossoming into a small mouth, with the material of the clothing flopping open, like the mouth of a baby.

Countless mouths, appearing on the shadow’s body within a split second, began to ooze blood outwards.

And the real counterattack of the Four Gu Swords was not outside of his body, but inside of the shadow’s body, that powerful cold blood devouring sword intent, along with this finger, this glance, mercilessly disappeared inside of the shadow’s body, causing his five organs and six bowels to quake at the same time at this moment, blood seeping out of his body, following his lips, gurgling outwards.

On the shadow’s pale face, blood kept dripping outward from his lips. It was dripping not flowing, and it seemed to never stop for a moment.

And the shadow didn’t have a trace of fear, he instead laughed, a bitter and strange laughter spreading on his pale ordinary face, the laughter resounded around the City Lord’s Mansion, the laughter held a crazy cry.

“Ah!”

Shadow howled madly and harshly, like a maddened beast was crying because of some pain, he sent his entire body’s true qi to the sword in his hand, not caring at all about the pain he suffered on his body’s skin, only caring about the distance between the tip of the sword and the heart of the Four Guards Sword.

A powerful wave of qi exploded between the two people, shocking the green leaves around the wheelchair to shatter into wisps and turn into nothing!

The wheelchair was not a human’s legs after all, and with the shadow’s full-blown explosion, the wheelchair quickly fell backward, faster and faster, while the sword that Si Gu Jian’s fingers were holding was probing into his body at an extremely slow speed.

Si Gu Jian’s face grew paler and paler, his eyes grew brighter and brighter, the shadow’s face grew paler and paler, and the blood dripping from his lips grew faster and faster, and a path of blood dripped from the ground!

Fan Xian saw exactly this scene. Two pale men, one spitting blood, the other silent, engaged in the most frantic, and calm, fight. His hands couldn’t help but tremble, he didn’t like the Four Gu Swords, he should rightfully help Shadow, it’s just that if he wanted to make a move, earlier behind the Four Gu Swords, he would have already made a move, with the crippled body that the Four Gu Swords had now, Fan Xian and Shadow, two great powerhouses, bursting into action at the same time, would only have a few possibilities to make it work.

The shadow would not be as bitter, as sad, as painful as it was now!

However, Fan Xian hadn’t been able to make a move, only trembling, indifferently watching the scene. This had nothing to do with the agreement between Nanqing and Dongyi City, nothing to do with the Four Gu Swords’ love for his mother, Uncle Wuzhu, or Mr. Fei Jie back then.

He promised to create an opportunity for Shadow to take revenge, but he would not be involved in the process of Shadow’s revenge. Although he was not clear about what kind of past stories and secrets were involved in the tragic case of the extermination of the Dongyi City Lord’s Mansion many years ago, he respected Shadow.

Shadow was a proud swordsman, and at least today, he was not facing his elder brother, the pride of Dong Yi City, the eternal fear and pain in Shadow’s heart, as an assassin.

If Fan Xian made a move at this moment, Shadow would not agree. Fan Xian understood this very well, so he chose to stand by and watch, trembling.

With a thump, the wheelchair finally retreated to the back of the courtyard, under the stone steps on the other side, and there was no longer the slightest way back. With such a high-speed impact, the wheelchair instantly broke into countless pieces of broken wood, and the blood-covered shadow, with madness in his eyes, finally passed the sword in his hand forward another inch.

For this one inch, the shadow paid a great price.

Si Gu Jian’s lips trembled and laughed in a strange hoarse voice, and in the midst of the laughter, he, who had fallen to sit at the bottom of the stone steps, exerted force with both of his fingers, and the sword that was stuck in his chest snapped and broke!

The shadow did not laugh, the tip of the sword broke in the chest of the Four Gu Swords, his hand was still holding half of the remnants of the sword, the momentum seemed to not have any pause for a split second, that half of the remnants of the sword naturally and incomparably, along with the trembling tip of the sword that stood in the chest of the Four Gu Swords, once again plugged in, and inserted deeply into the chest of the Four Gu Swords.

From appearing behind the body of the city lord, to stepping down the steps, from stabbing the chest of the Four Gu Swords, to rushing the wheelchair and retreating for ten feet, until the last remnant of the sword stabbed down, the shadow’s brilliant wind and thunder sword, in fact, there is only a total of one sword, unbroken, the sword intent continues to this day, the only one sword.

Because the shadow in this life, only once may have the opportunity to make such a sword.

The not-so-sharp break of the broken sword poked into Si Gu Jian’s chest, it was not smooth, on the contrary there was a kind of astringent feeling, it seemed to be cutting the flesh and blood, it hurt, it hurt a lot.

The shadow seemed to be able to feel the other’s pain as well, for he himself was in pain, trembling with pain, his head lowered, stabbing and slashing in silence.

Cutting through the past, the past of twenty years ago. In a this instant, the shadow seemed to see many things, saw that many years ago, that idiot brother in the outskirts of the city on a piece of wasteland, secretly built a small grass hut, and then smugly said, this will be the world’s holy land of martial arts in the future.

Still a small child himself, on the sidelines of some disdain to look at that broken grass hut, looking at the blind man and woman who occasionally enter that grass hut. Then one day, the small child on the sword this thing began to be interested in, the idiot big brother said very seriously, you want to learn? If you want to learn, I can teach you.

Learning the sword, is a very bitter and boring thing, the two brothers in the hut became a fool in the eyes of the people, all said that the lord of the city house do not know whether it is not offended by the temple, there are two idiots. The brothers and sisters in the mansion, no one paid attention to these two idiots. Maybe there was something horrible at that time, but one didn’t know, one was just a little kid.

Then it was that night, all the people died, the people the little child hated died, the people he loved died, the cats and dogs he raised died, his brothers and sisters, uncles and uncles died …… The parents who loved him also died!

Not a single person could survive.

Only he stood trembling behind the curtains of the mansion, looking at the blood dripping sword in the hands of his idiotic elder brother, looking at those eyes without any expression, and began to feel afraid, because he was sure that if he did not leave, this idiotic elder brother would definitely kill himself.

That was perhaps the night when the Four Gu Swords truly became a Grand Master, and the night when the youngest man in the City Lord’s Mansion began to run away. After that night, Shadow became a shadow and could only ever live in the darkness of the night, never seeing a ray of sunlight again.

Because his chest was filled with anger hatred resentment, and fear. He didn’t dare to sleep at night, because every time he fell asleep in the night, he always seemed to see those expressionless eyes.

So Shadow’s face grew paler and paler, and he knew that if he couldn’t kill that man, he would have to spend his life in darkness. That person became the Sword Saint, became the master of Dongyi City, whenever he heard these news, he would feel that he could only ever be that little child who was covered in blood and trembled and did not dare to speak.

Many years later, the sword that had accumulated twenty years of resentment and vengeance and fear, finally stabbed into that person’s body, this sword Ling Ran traveled through twenty years of time, with incomparably complex emotions, finally tasted the taste of that person’s blood. But the shadow was not completely relieved, he was still trembling, because he realized that his body was still so much blood stained.

It was because the Four Gu Swords were still alive.

Four Gu Swords’ body was also covered in blood, he just didn’t know which was his own and which was his brother’s. Brothers’ blood could often be exchanged with each other, but it shouldn’t look like this scene of exchange right now.

The clothes on the two men were torn into countless pieces by the sword qi that was currently running across the mansion, hanging on their bodies in a sorry state. Four Gu Swords’ eyes were slightly drooped, seemingly on the verge of not being able to open them, but his skinny body began to tremble dramatically just like the shadow.

Four Gu Swords held the half-tip of the sword between his two fingers and pulled it out like lightning, slashing at Shadow’s neck.

The shadow didn’t avoid it, his left hand merged his fingers into a sword and stabbed it towards the bloody hole that was revealed after the half cut sword tip was drawn out.

A life for a life, not a death for a death.

Snapping with a muffled sound, the two people’s bodies sharply separated, the shadow was like a stone, being shaken up all the way to the smoke, quickly swept back along that bloody path, heavily crashed on top of the stone steps, spitting out blood, gasping for breath.

Four Gu Jianji sat under the stone steps on the other side, half of the sword stood on his chest, and half of the tip of the sword was between his fingers. He looked indifferently at the shadow under the stone steps on the opposite side, and a stream of blood slowly flowed down from between his lips.

The courtyard of the City Lord’s Mansion fell into a frightening silence.

Fan Xian and the Little Emperor stood far away under the green tree, watching this scene of brothers killing each other with pale faces. The young emperor didn’t know who the man in black was, but he could at least tell that the other party was extremely powerful, or else he wouldn’t have been able to hold on to the Four Guards Sword for so long.

However, Fan Xian knew very well that the Shadow had lost after all, and although the Four Gu Swords had reached the moment of exhaustion, a great master was a great master, and as long as there was still a breath left in him, he was still able to stand proudly above the pinnacle of personal force on earth, and even though he was being blown strongly by the winds of the mountains, and was always in danger of falling into the dust, he still stood firm in the end.

However, the shadow should be proud, Fan Xian’s eyes were slightly moist, and his heart was also proud of him, a ninth ranked powerhouse, seemingly powerful, but able to injure a great master to such a sorry state in a one-on-one frontal duel, was really a super level of play.

And in that last moment, Four Gu Swords had already used the realm of a Grand Master, strong will, to control the situation, and obviously could have killed Shadow, why didn’t he do so? With the intention of pitying his own brother? Fan Xian did not believe that this bloodthirsty and murderous Great Master would have this too warm feeling.

After the scene had been quiet for a long time, the Four Guards Sword suddenly opened his mouth in a hoarse voice and asked, “If you seriously count, you should be the first disciple of the Sword Lodge.”

The shadow lay in a pool of blood, not answering, just looking at him emotionlessly and senselessly. Four Gu Swords coughed and said, “You are proud enough to be able to make a sword like today.”

After a long time, the shadow suddenly opened his mouth and said, “Why …….”

Why that year Four Gu Swords would be sexually insane, killing in all directions, slaughtering all of his relatives, not even sparing his own father, even his own youngest brother also refused to let go, this question does not know how many years in the shadow’s heart hovering in the heart, in today’s scenario, he finally asked out.

The Four Gu Swords knew what he was asking, and so did Fan Xian, however, the Four Gu Swords didn’t answer this question at all, and only said indifferently, ”Anyone who stops in front of me must die. …… You’ve been following us for a day, and you’ve watched us for a day, and I thought that if you were able to make that sword, that you should be the one to understand what’s going on, and I didn’t thought that you still ask such childish questions ……”

“Little brother, you really disappoint me.”

When these words came out, Fan Xian was shocked, so it turned out that the Four Gu Swords had long ago noticed that the shadow had been following around! This day, the Four Gu Swords’ teaching of himself turned out to be not only directed at himself, but he also hoped that the Shadow, who was secretly spying on him, would be able to sense something from it!

The shadow was also silent, those unusual eyes staring fiercely at the Four Gu Swords at the bottom of the stone steps in the distance like a wild beast, not saying a word. Between the tragedy of that year and today’s words, he didn’t need to split hairs about what he should believe, only to confirm what he believed.

Fan Xian followed the shadow’s gaze and saw the horrifyingly large wound in Si Gu Jian’s chest and abdomen, a blur of flesh and blood with a vague greenish glow, like some kind of toxin, but extraordinarily marvelous in maintaining the last vestiges of life in that piece of viscera that should have rotted to death.

This was the punch that Emperor Qing had given to Four Gu Swords on the Great Eastern Mountain. Four Gu Jian should have died a long time ago, but he managed to survive until now, there must be a hidden meaning, especially that horrible wound in his chest and abdomen.

Four Gu Swords indifferently used the last of his clothes to cover the wound in his abdomen, glanced at the shadow, then at Fan Xian, and said his last words, “The sword is a murderous weapon, and cannot be used by anyone other than a saint.”

Fan Xian was silent, and he immediately understood the meaning of Si Gu Jian s words – the sword is a ferocious weapon, and non saints can t use it, and saints …… are supposed to be merciless.