This sudden change stunned not only everyone watching in the city, but also Dan Tianling.
A well-built young man stood in the air, his eyes as sharp as a fierce tiger's, and his aura extremely ferocious.
He held a blade in his hand, two fingers wide, as black as ink, with a straight hilt.
A single-edged weapon is a blade.
A double-edged weapon is a sword.
Dan Tianling said in a deep voice, “Who are you?”
The young man in the gilded robe didn't even look at him, his sharp gaze piercing through the Guardian Grand Formation and sweeping over Ye City's walls. “I know you’re here. What? A mere eighth-grade Wolf King made you scared and afraid to come out?”
Everyone looked at each other, not understanding.
Dan Tianling's eyes narrowed slightly; this person gave him a feeling of dominance.
A dominance that charged forward, a dominance that cut down everything.
“I swing my blade ten thousand times every day.”
The young man in the gilded robe's voice was like a booming bell, “By my master’s command, if I meet you, I shall strike you down!”
Upon hearing this, Zhou You sighed, “This person has such strong patience.”
“Anyway, I’m quite annoyed with drawing my sword.”
Seeing no response, the young man in the gilded robe suddenly swung his blade again, and the ground cracked in response, leaving a long, narrow fissure. “What a cowardly fellow. If you only have this much courage, then why did you come down the mountain? You should go back to the mountain and stay there until you die. That way, my master won’t be annoyed, thinking you’re meant to deal with him.”
Zhou You smiled, looking at Zhou Chen beside him, “This is the first time I’ve seen someone talk to themselves to this extent. Did this guy cultivate himself into a fool?”
Zhou Chen smiled, unable to answer.
The young man in the gilded robe gave a flick of his Right Hand, and the black blade disappeared.
Someone with sharp eyes instantly exclaimed, “Oh my god, he has a storage ring!”
“Good heavens, is this a prodigy from some family out for training? No wonder he could slay the Wolf King with one strike.”
“He’s too powerful. How can we rogue cultivators compare to such a strong person??”
The young man in the gilded robe had a cold expression, his face flickering with the light of contemplation.
Something’s not right.
How could this guy be so timid?
Just an eighth-grade Wolf King, and he was scared into retreating?
He had already wandered around in the wilderness and indeed saw some corpses killed with a single sword strike.
From the cutting wounds, this person’s sword technique was clean and decisive, sharp and overbearing.
How could a guy capable of displaying such skill be so useless?
“It’s too strange.”
The young man in the gilded robe secretly thought, “My master even came out of seclusion for this matter, just waiting for him to come. But I’ve provoked him so much, and with my blade technique, there’s no reason he wouldn’t recognize it.”
His gaze once again overlooked Ye City, but he still couldn't find any powerful presence.
In fact, it could be said that besides Dan Tianling, he couldn't even sense anyone in the Yin Yang Realm.
Dan Tianling’s face darkened a few shades; he had already resolved the matter, but now it had turned into this. “Who exactly are you? And what are you yelling about here?”
The young man in the gilded robe glanced at Dan Tianling disdainfully, “What are you? Even your Chief Commander has to be respectful when he sees my master.”
“You!”
Dan Tianling was furious, but in the end, he could only swallow his anger.
From the other party’s words, it was not difficult to judge that the other party’s master had an extremely high status.
After all, the Chief Commander was a disciple of a certain Town Guardian Envoy.
“Don’t meddle in other people’s business; it has nothing to do with you anyway.”
The young man in the gilded robe shouted at Ye City again, “If you are still here, I will wait for you in this wilderness. If you can’t even defeat me, don’t even think about dealing with my master, because you are simply not worthy!”
“This kid must have cultivated himself into a fool.”
Zhou You said with a look of pity, “Such a good person, how did he become so foolish?”
It was truly a great pity.
Old Dog was very puzzled, “He’s looking for someone, right?”
Xiao Jing whispered, “It seems he doesn’t even know the person he’s looking for.”
Old Dog chuckled, “Isn’t that just typical foolish behavior? If you don’t even know them, how do you find them? At the very least, there should be a name, right?”
Xiao Jing pondered, “He should be looking at the way they attack. The moment he swung his blade just now, if it were someone familiar, they should have recognized it.”
Old Dog thought for a moment and agreed with this point.
If two strangers want to recognize each other, they must do so through some special means.
And for cultivators, techniques are the best way to prove identity.
Zhou You reminded, “Old Dog, the carriage.”
“Oh, oh.”
Old Dog then reacted, “Wait a moment, I’ll be right back.”
Xiao Jing hesitated for a moment and looked at Zhou You, “Young Master, what do you think of his blade technique?”
“His moves are simple, but they are naturally perfected, showing he has put in a lot of hard work.”
Zhou You pondered for a moment, “In short, he’s very powerful. If he wanted to, he could split Dan Tianling with one strike.”
“Dan Tianling?”
Xiao Jing was puzzled.
Zhou You pointed with his lips, “The one from the Demon Subduing Master.”
Xiao Jing was surprised, “Killing a Tian Yuan Realm expert with one strike? Is that… possible?”
Zhou You said, “Actually, all moves go from simple to complex, and then from complex to simple. No matter how fancy a sword technique is, it ultimately cannot avoid the core basics like parrying, thrusting, sweeping, and striking. It’s just that following a certain trajectory makes it easier to comprehend the true essence of sword techniques. It’s inherently difficult to define who is stronger or weaker.”
Xiao Jing became even more astonished, finding these words somewhat profound and enigmatic.
Zhou You looked calm, because these words…
Of course, he couldn't have thought of them himself.
Instead, his master would say them every time he was about to give up on the Sword Stream.
He had heard it so many times that he remembered it.
If it were him, he wouldn't understand anything about going from simple to complex, or complex to simple.
One more move means one more guarantee.
Believe in Niu Dali’s way?
No one would visit his grave next Qingming Festival!
Zhou Chen was curious, “Then if you learn the simplest, does that mean you start directly from the end? Can you skip the process?”
Zhou You nodded, “All roads lead to Rome, but once complex sword techniques are mastered, the benefits are huge. Conversely, if you only simply thrust and fail to cultivate successfully, it means you haven’t learned anything.”
Zhou Chen was confused and said she couldn't understand.
Zhou You chuckled, “Just do as you think; don’t believe what I say, because I don’t even believe it myself. It’s like what that guy said, swinging his blade ten thousand times a day. Do you know what that concept means?”
Zhou Chen shook her head, “I don’t know.”
Zhou You whispered, “He needs an indomitable will and a strong inner heart capable of resisting all temptations. Moreover, he doesn’t look old, but he might already be two or three hundred years old. Swinging a blade ten thousand times a day, persisting for two or three hundred years, and also consuming a massive amount of cultivation resources—just ponder on that slowly, and I guarantee you'll be speechless.”
“However…”
Zhou You changed the subject, “His cultivation method is too aggressive, and his personality is too unyielding. If you had observed carefully just now, you would have noticed that his Right Hand arm is three times thicker than his left arm; it’s just not that obvious because his clothes are loose. Such a large difference also means that his left arm is as good as non-existent.”
