The Heavens Begin with Detective Di Renjie

Chapter 176 The Ruthless Sword
Wudang Mountain is a sacred place of Taoism, with towering mountains, mysterious terrain, 72 peaks, 36 rocks, 24 streams, eleven caves, three pools, and nine springs.

In the past, Zhenren Zhang traveled all over the world and saw the two elephants of tortoise and snake here. He also learned the "true meaning of Tai Chi" from the dream of Emperor Zhenwu, and finally founded the Wudang School.

After the establishment of the Wudang School, it was highly respected by the royal family, so the construction was flourishing, and there were many Taoist temples, including nine palaces, eight temples, 36 nunneries, 72 rock temples, 39 bridges, and [-] pavilions.

So far, the Wudang sect, which is only more than a hundred years old, has been able to stand side by side with Shaolin, a thousand-year-old temple, which shows its status and prestige in the world.

Today is the succession ceremony of the head of Wudang, and all the famous people in the world will naturally come to congratulate and watch the ceremony.

There are always rules in Wudang, unless the head of the sect is appointed, the successor head is the person with the highest status in the sect.

Originally, the highest status in Wudang was naturally Shi Yan's uncle Mu Taoist.

In the original book, Taoist Mu took advantage of this and became the head of the Wudang School for a short time.

But now, Shi Yan, the head of the house, has appointed Shi Hu as the successor head, so Mu Taoist naturally has no loopholes to take advantage of.

Shi Hu, Shi He, and Shi Yan, these three people are of the same generation, but they have different backgrounds.

Shi Hu's master is Taoist Mu's senior brother, Shi He's master is Taoist Mu's master, and Shi Yan's master is Taoist Mu's junior Mei Zhenren.

On the high platform, praying for the heavens, fasting and offering sacrifices has already begun. Accompanied by the chanting of your high-level skills, the elegant Taoist sounds floated leisurely throughout the entire Wudang Mountain.

Soon, Shi Hu, who was wearing a purple gold crown and seven-star sword, stepped up to the high platform step by step, took over the imperial talisman from the former head Shi Yan, and officially became the new head of Wudang.

Everyone watching the ceremony under the stage was waiting to congratulate, but suddenly felt a chill that penetrated to the bone marrow.

This feeling is different from the coldness that comes from the outside to the inside in winter. It seems to be the chill that comes from everyone's heart, and then spreads to the surface of the skin through the flesh and bone marrow, and spreads to the whole body from the inside out.

It is not so accurate to say that it is a chill, but it is not so fierce to say that it is a killing intent. It is more like a sharp and piercing sword intent, a sword intent that naturally blends with heaven and earth.

"What a terrifying sword intent!" Hua Manlou couldn't help sighing: "I can't feel a little bit of anger from it, it's like a piece of ice that has been ten thousand years old, piercing through the bone marrow!"

Just because his eyes can't see, he has a stronger perception of the surrounding sword intent than ordinary people. The chill that seems to freeze everything is even colder than the ten-thousand-year snow on the top of Kunlun!
Lu Xiaofeng's expression was also extremely ugly. Although he hadn't seen anyone yet, he had already guessed the identity of the person coming from this icy sword intent - Ximen Chuuxue.

Only Ximen Chuuxue can cultivate such a cold and ruthless sword intent!
Lu Xiaofeng still remembered the agreement between Ximen Chuuxue and Liu Mengxun——

When Liu Mengxun succeeds in the way of swordsmanship, and when Ximen Chuuxue retrieves Jianxin, there will be a decisive battle between them for the leader of the way of swordsmanship!

Unexpectedly, this day finally came.

What's more, I didn't expect that the location of this decisive battle would be in Wudang Mountain, and the time of the decisive battle would be at the succession ceremony of the head of Wudang!
Lu Xiaofeng knew that it was impossible to change the time and place of this decisive battle.

Because there is no one and no reason to stop Ximen Chuuxue, he is no longer a "mortal" person, but has truly become a ruthless sword.

In fact, not only Ximen Chuuxue is like this, but Shen Youzhi is also like this.

Just like now, Shen Youzhi feels the ruthless and desireless sword intent, but his heart is extremely calm, without the excitement and joy of meeting his opponent in the past.

This is because the sword heart of "Dao Sword" has been planted, so his whole person, both in spirit and temperament, began to gradually change, slowly transforming into "Dao Xing".

Taoists, like light and dust, seem to exist or not.

This "Taoism" is actually harmony, always between existence and non-existence, so it can blend with everything without any contradiction.

When everyone was instinctively resisting Ximen Chuuxue's sharp sword intent, Shen Youzhi was able to calm down, understand and feel it from the bottom of his heart, and appreciate its characteristics.

At this moment, a snow-white figure slowly came from the horizon, really like the snowflakes flying in the winter, coming with the wind with a chilling chill.

It wasn't until Ximen Chuixue fell on the eaves that everyone really saw his snow-flawless clothes, his blood-pale skin, and his sharp sword intent that killed the world.

If it was said that everyone felt the icy chill before, then at this moment, it was as if they were in a field of swords, and what was flying all over the sky was no longer snowflakes, but sharp swords!

Everyone's bodies stretched involuntarily, not daring to make the slightest movement, for fear of being cut off by the falling sword blades.

After Ximen Chuuxue appeared, he didn't say a word, but looked at Shen Youzhi coldly.

Those eyes could no longer see any tenderness, only endless sharpness remained, which was more terrifying than all the swords of magic weapons in the world.

Only then did everyone realize that Ximen Chuuxue did not carry a sword.

Everyone in the Jianghu knew that since Ximen Chuuxue practiced swordsman, he would bring his sword with him no matter when he was eating, sleeping, or even taking a bath.

But now, he has empty hands.

Did Ximen Chuuxue abandon his sword?
Everyone was surprised and uncertain.

Only Shen Youzhi knows that Ximen Chuuxue has reached the state of "No Sword"——

Although there is no sword in his palm, his sword is still there, everywhere.

His person has merged with the sword, his person is the sword, as long as his person is there, everything in the world is his sword.

The world is ruthless, if one wants to use everything in the world as a sword, of course one cannot have any feelings.

This is the "ruthless sword" that Ximen Chuuxue pursues.

It seems that he has completely let go of his love for Sun Xiuqing, leaving only his "sincerity" for Jian.

Lost in love and forgetting about love, Ximen Chuuxue at this moment has truly achieved the word "ruthless".

In other words, what is standing there right now is not a person, but a sword with a human shape.

Of course this sword came to find Shen Youzhi, but it didn't come to fulfill the so-called "promise", it was just out of instinct.

Since it has become a sword, how can it care about any "promise"?
It just instinctively sensed that there is another sword in the world that is not inferior to itself, so it wants to have a showdown.

Ximen Chuuxue didn't have a sword in his hand, and Shen Youzhi didn't have a sword in his hand either.

But Shen Youzhi is different from Ximen Chuuxue. His sword is not a ruthless sword, but a sword of Tao.

So he didn't turn into a human-shaped sword like Ximen Chuuxue.

Even if the "Tao Seed" in his heart really germinated and grew into a towering giant tree, what he got would not be a sword, but a Dao fruit.

(End of this chapter)