C202 The Mystery of the Sword Sage
C202 The Mystery of the Sword Sage
Those who cultivated the sword paid more attention to the nurturing of their hearts and nature. They would not easily be angered, but the same type of people paid much attention to rules and regulations. Any intruders who had previously landed in the hands of the Jiannan City and did not have any special background would be directly sent to the sword kiln to be labourers.
Upon entering the inner city, there was a giant plaza, enough to hold tens of thousands of people. In front of the plaza, was the sword-shaped landmark structure that Weiqing had seen in the sky earlier, towering like a flock of chickens among the surrounding palaces.
"Did you see that stone carving in front of the Hidden Sword Pavilion Tower? It's the Sword Saint Chengfeng's stone carving!" Weiqing and the other two didn't look like prisoners at all, but were looking around like tourists instead. In the end, the three of them walked across the long plaza and arrived in front of the sword-shaped building.
It was an old man with tattered clothes. He had a crew cut and a hunchback. He was bending over while sweeping the floor with a broom. His face was kind and his facial features were blurry. It was as if he had hit a mosaic. Under the stone statue, there was a neat row of incense candles, as well as various fruits and cooked chicken, duck and fish. However, in the middle of the golden pot was a big steamed bun!
Weiqing asked in confusion: "Why is this steamed bun placed at its most important location?"
Shan Xiong walked forward a few steps and said: "This is the only thing that Sword Saint Chengfeng ate back then when we went back to Jiannan City. At that time, the people of Jiannan were busy fighting with the people of Xichuan. The people of Jiannan were either out of their houses or packing up to escape, no one would care about an old man who could not even walk steadily. According to what was said at that time, it seemed to be a little girl. Seeing that Sword Saint Chengfeng was starving to death on the road, he had hidden a white bun from his family members and gave it to Sword Saint Chengfeng, preventing him from starving to death.
"Right now, there is also a piece of beautiful talk about Sword Saint Chengfeng and this little girl in Jiannan City!"
The little girl gave the steaming hot steamed bun to Sword Saint Chengfeng, and said with a smile: "Old grandpa, this steamed bun is for you to eat. Don't let my parents see it, or else they will beat me to death!"
Sword Saint Chengfeng caressed the little girl's head and said: "You are really a good child. What do you want me to help you with, Grandfather will not take advantage of you."
The girl said naively, "My parents said that this place is almost gone. It's all because of those bad guys outside."
Sword Saint Chengfeng asked with a smile: "You want me to kill them?"
The little girl shook her head and said, "No, if we kill them, what will happen to the Kid in their home? Let them go home!"
Sword Saint Chengfeng chewed on his steamed bun and walked away shakily. Only then did the scene in the square take place.
It was said that Sword Saint Chengfeng had been sweeping the plaza the entire time, and no one had noticed his existence. As for why he was sweeping the plaza, no one knew.
Only when a monk, covered in blood, ran towards the Hidden Sword Pavilion Plaza and shouted "The city is going to break" and "The city is going to break" did Sword Saint Chengfeng casually snatch the monk's sword and wave it in a shocking way. He had saved Jiannan City and fulfilled his promise to the little girl!
The three of them were muttering behind them, so Tuoba Yun and the other two could naturally hear them, but they did not say anything.
The Sword Saint Chengfeng was the pride of the entire Jiannan City, and every time these people of the south of the sword heard the foreigners talk about the Sword Saint Chengfeng, they would always have a kind of prideful premonition.
At this time, Yang Erlang was also excited, he could not help but ask: "Since it's such a respected person, then why is his face so blurry?"
"Hehe, like I said before, Sword Saint Chengfeng is a very low-key Jiannan City that comes back. At that time, who could guess that this old man who could not even walk steadily had such an earth-shattering cultivation, so regarding the appearance of Sword Saint Chengfeng, many people would try to describe it even if they claimed that they were witnesses. As for the most clear little girl, because she was young, she was unable to describe her age, so in order to respect Sword Saint Chengfeng, she blurred the face of the sculpture. Of course, there was another way to describe this kind of indistinct face, which was to create the mysteriousness of the Sword Saint Chengfeng. Some people even said that because they felt that they did not have the face to see Sword Saint Chengfeng, they did it. I heard that every year on the fifteenth day of the first month, people from the entire Jiannan City, Taoists from the other three cities, and even people from the other Profound Realm would queue here to burn incense.
Weiqing let out a long breath, looked at the stone statue, and a sense of admiration rose in his heart.
Many people could not understand why Sword Saint Chengfeng whose swordsmanship was superb would nearly starve to death on the streets.
Was it a coincidence, or was it intentional for the Sword Saint Chengfeng to return after the Jiannan City was destroyed?
And how powerful was the Sword Saint Chengfeng?
Does he have any descendants in the Jiannan City?
And what did the Sword Saint Chengfeng sound like?
Back then, he had disappeared. Had he returned to the human world or had he gone somewhere?
Most importantly, the Sword Saint Chengfeng s from a hundred years ago had already passed away, or were they still alive? Where is it now?
[I'm afraid no one knows about this?]
Weiqing quickly thought of another question. If it wasn't for the little girl's childhood words, would Sword Saint Chengfeng have intervened to save his Jiannan City?
Weiqing felt that he wouldn't.
Why do you say that?
In the ordinary world, rich people value their lives, and in Taoism Realm, similarly strong practitioners with higher cultivations would similarly value their own lives.
Back then, if it wasn't for the little girl's steamed bun, perhaps Sword Saint Chengfeng would have starved to death on the street.
Of course it was also possible that the Sword Saint Chengfeng would not starve to death. After all, his cultivation was still there.
A person with extraordinary skills would rather starve to death on the streets than be greedy. How resolute must this Sword Saint Chengfeng be! A peerless master who could even take his own life so lightly, had long seen through life and death, how could he so casually take care of others?
Therefore, Weiqing felt that the one who had saved the entire Jiannan City was not the Sword Saint Chengfeng, but the little girl!
With a single sentence, Tong Yan saved a city and let go of another city. This little girl should have obtained quite a few Light of Merit, right?
At this moment, Weiqing felt that the little girl's stone sculpture should also have appeared in the plaza. But why not here? Shan Xiong also seemed to be deliberately avoiding this question.
"Let's go, we're here." Shan Xiong seemed to understand what Weiqing wanted to ask, he patted his shoulder and revealed a bitter smile.
Weiqing smiled at Shan Xiong.
Shan Xiong, this protective god of Xiao Group, was he really just an ordinary monk training in the mortal world?
Weiqing didn't think so. He was clearly a member of the Profound Realm at Mount Kunlun, yet he knew so much about the Jiannan City?
Also, don't forget, when Weiqing and the other two people had just arrived at East China Sea, Tuoba Yun had looked at the Eastern Ocean Licensing Token in Shan Xiong's hands twice. His attitude was obviously fearful of something, if not, how could these three intruders always have been tolerated by Tuoba Yun and the other two?