Ch 60: Tales Of The Bamboo Sword Immortal
“It was her!”
Tang Wanshu and Lang Xiaoyun were extremely shocked to see this person.
Many people at the riverside dock saw this scene and exclaimed in surprise.
More importantly, this woman is truly beautiful!
One glance is unforgettable.
Her beauty is completely different from the Immortal of Unfeeling’s. This woman’s beauty is more mature.
The Immortal of Unfeeling’s beauty is exquisite, her aura compelling.
But this person’s beauty is very natural, a single glance is easily imprinted in one’s heart, unforgettable.
“Who is she?” Li Hanzhou could sense that this woman’s strength was very strong.
“Bamboo Sword Immortal, Su Nianyi.” Tang Wanshu said, “She is from the Valley of Unfeeling, one of the Sword Immortals, and her strength is very strong.”
“Sword Immortal?”
This was not the first time Li Hanzhou had heard this title, so he couldn’t help but ask, “In other words, her cultivation level has reached the Esteemed Immortal Realm?”
However, Tang Wanshu shook his head and said, “It is not enough to reach the Esteemed Immortal Realm to be called a Sword Immortal.”
“The so-called Immortal, is not only about reaching the Esteemed Immortal Realm, but also about forging one’s own path, only then can one be called an Immortal. There are few strong individuals in this Heaven and Earth who can be called Immortals, precisely because they cannot forge their own path.” Tang Wanshu earnestly explained to Li Hanzhou.
“Path?”
Li Hanzhou nodded.
Entering the Esteemed Immortal Realm is already a difficult task, forging one’s own path is even more difficult.
But the woman just now was actually a Sword Immortal.
This was the first time Li Hanzhou had encountered a Sword Immortal.
With just one glance, Li Hanzhou could clearly feel that her strength was completely incomparable to strong individuals like Zhao Qianqiu and Jiang Yixuan.
They were not even in the same league.
After bidding farewell to the couple Tang Wanshu, Li Hanzhou took Shi Ming onto the boat. However, once on the boat, one could no longer travel by carriage, so Li Hanzhou could only find a place to sell his horse.
After noon, Li Hanzhou and Shi Ming finally boarded the ship, heading towards Lingyan City.
“Did you hear? Lingyan City is fighting again.” On the ship, the content of a conversation between several people caught Li Hanzhou’s attention.
“It must be those people from Great Zhou again. In recent years, the friction between Great Zhou and our Divine Palace Kingdom has been constant, especially in several border areas, where such incidents frequently occur.”
“This time it’s not a simple harassment; it’s said that they almost breached the city. It is said that someone saw the Bamboo Sword Immortal heading towards Lingyan City this morning.”
“If it weren’t for the Bamboo Sword Immortal these past few years, Lingyan City would have been breached long ago.” A martial artist with a long sword hanging from his waist shook his head helplessly.
Li Hanzhou, curious about their conversation, joined in, “Why is the Bamboo Sword Immortal protecting Lingyan City? Was the Bamboo Sword Immortal perhaps from Lingyan City before?”
Seeing Li Hanzhou’s completely awestruck expression, one of them happily said, smiling, “This brother seems to rarely go out, you don’t even know this.”
“The Bamboo Sword Immortal was once a supreme genius of the Valley of Unfeeling, named Su Nianyi. Later, when the war broke out in the Divine Palace Kingdom against Great Zhou, Su Nianyi, as a Disciple of the Valley of Unfeeling, participated in the Divine Palace Kingdom’s defense war. It was during that time that she met General Shen Zhu of the Divine Palace Kingdom. Their long-term cooperation led them to fall in love.”
“But disciples of the Valley of Unfeeling are not allowed to have feelings; otherwise, the Song of Forgetting Emotions Art will make no further progress in this life.”
“Su Nianyi’s Master, the Valley Master of the Valley of Unfeeling at that time, had cultivated her with the hope that she would represent the Valley of Unfeeling in the struggle for the Heavenly Mandate. Now she had fallen in love with a man. How could this be tolerated? They wanted to sever their relationship.”
“So cliché?” Li Hanzhou said while listening with gusto.
“Let me tell you the rest.” An old man nearby interjected, “Su Nianyi’s Master wanted to kill Shen Zhu to sever Su Nianyi’s feelings and allow her to focus on vying for the Heavenly Mandate. However, upon learning that her Master intended to kill Shen Zhu, Su Nianyi, in front of her Master, actually crippled her own cultivation, completely ruining the 《Song of Forgetting Emotions Art》 she had painstakingly cultivated to the seventh level!”
“Whoa!”
Li Hanzhou was shocked.
What a ruthless person!
To cripple one’s own cultivation!
And it was the seventh level of the 《Song of Forgetting Emotions Art》, didn’t that mean Su Nianyi had crippled her Heavenly Gang Realm cultivation at the time?
Such a lovesick fool.
“Unexpectedly, Su Nianyi’s action actually angered her Master to death.” The old man sighed.
“Wow.” Li Hanzhou smacked his lips, “She’s got quite the temper.”
“Seeing her Master dead, Su Nianyi was filled with remorse, and thus she stopped contacting Shen Zhu. Shen Zhu visited the Valley of Unfeeling many times, but Su Nianyi never saw him. Later, the war broke out again, and Shen Zhu went to the Valley of Unfeeling one last time, but he did not see Su Nianyi. After that, he left and went to Lingyan City, which was the most dangerous place at the time. He defended Lingyan City for forty-seven days, repelling 300,000 Great Zhou cavalry, but he died in Lingyan City, exhausted.”
“After Shen Zhu’s death, Su Nianyi personally came to Lingyan City, took Shen Zhu’s body, and buried him. From then on, Su Nianyi, with a bamboo sword, embarked on the path of a Sword Immortal, thus gaining her title, the Bamboo Sword Immortal.”
“And since then, whenever something happens in Lingyan City, the Bamboo Sword Immortal will come to help.” The old man finished, sighing, “Such a pitiful woman.”
“Sigh.”
Li Hanzhou also sighed.
This Master is just like Abbess Miejue of Emei!
But Su Nianyi’s talent is terrifying enough. After crippling her own cultivation, she could still embark on the path of a Sword Immortal with just herself and her sword.
If she hadn’t fallen in love with Shen Zhu back then and had diligently cultivated, she might have already obtained the Heavenly Mandate and ascended.
By the time the ship arrived at Lingyan City from the dock, it was already the next morning.
Along the way, Li Hanzhou read books and listened to the gossip on the ship, finding the Jianghu quite interesting.
After disembarking, the two bought two horses and traveled north for half a day before finally arriving at Lingyan City.
However, upon reaching the City Gate of Lingyan City, Li Hanzhou and Shi Ming discovered that the entire city was on high alert.
And injured soldiers could be seen everywhere.
The city was in chaos, with collapsed houses everywhere, as if it had been looted.
“Martial Uncle, it seems the people on the ship were right, something really happened to Lingyan City.” Shi Ming looked around and saw many commoners displaced, sitting by the roadside with their children, silent.
Their eyes had lost their light.
And most of these people were women.
It goes without saying that their men must have died on the battlefield.
Shi Ming showed a look of distress.
“War,” Li Hanzhou took a deep breath, sensing the solemn killing atmosphere.
In his past life, the country he lived in was largely free of war. This was the first time he had truly experienced the cruelty of war.
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