In the Blade

Cui Yuan remembers clearly that the first time he met Du Chengfeng was when he went to find someone to sharpen his sword.

At that time, he was still preparing for a fight with his old enemy Liu Qingyun, so he had to use a complete attitude to defeat this inner demon that had been engraved in his heart since childhood. With hundreds of lives on his back, it was impossible for him to find government grinding craftsmen, so he could only try his luck with these private craftsmen.

Then he met Du Chengfeng.

To be fair, Cui Yuan felt that he was not a murderous person. It is true that he kills many people, but every time he attacks, no matter how poor his level is, the target will be on par with him - he will only swing his sword against opponents who are equally matched, and will only swing his sword against strong men who are more powerful than him, just because this way he can defeat them. His swordsmanship improved.

As for wielding a sword against a weakling, this kind of thing is mostly just a waste of physical strength. Unless he needs to deliberately train himself to fight against many, otherwise, this kind of battle that does not improve the swordsmanship is meaningless. Word.

But at that meeting, Cui Yuan felt the urge to wield a sword against the weak for the first time.

An unarmed grinder is undoubtedly weak, especially when facing a swordsman who has been practicing swordsmanship for more than ten years.

But facing such a person, Cui Yuan could hardly control his hands.

"This is a master!"

Cui Yuan's intuition was reminding him crazily.

If you want to draw the sword, you must draw the sword. No matter what reason you find, you must draw the sword.

"If I have to describe it...I couldn't quite understand it before, but now, it's probably some kind of invitation."

Seeing the confused look of Carpenter Li next to him, Cui Yuan couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.

"You're not a martial artist, so you probably can't understand this situation. After all, it's difficult to describe this thing in words... When our eyes meet, I have to take action. Otherwise, I'm afraid my swordsmanship will stop here for the rest of my life. It’s hard to make any progress.”

Cui Yuan thought for a while. He really didn't know how to describe this feeling to an ordinary person. He only knew that if he didn't take action at that time, it would be equivalent to denying his swordsmanship and admitting that this swordsmanship was not strong enough.

A swordsman who lives by his sword cannot accept this.

Fortunately, he finally pulled out the sword. Although he just used the lame excuse of "testing it out," his fighting will at that moment was not half false - and the result of this fight also made Cui Yuansong relieved. In terms of tone, the two sides were barely evenly matched. The man named Du Chengfeng was not as strong as he thought.

As long as he continues to hone his sword skills, he still has a chance to surpass his opponent.

Cui Yuan once thought this way.

But after entering the house, he realized that what he saw as a life-and-death fight was just an ordinary fight for this man named Du Chengfeng.

This man who is good at wielding a knife didn't even draw a knife.

So he must fight again, he must fight again with full strength, and he must climb this insurmountable mountain, so that he can go further in the swordsmanship!

Otherwise, he may never have a chance to defeat the opponent again in this life.

But the facts proved that his intuition was right.

A quarter of an hour later, the sword was sharpened. At that time, he was already in the strongest posture he could imagine, but the man named Du Chengfeng only used one sword to cut off his proud long sword. Cut into two pieces.

At that moment, Cui Yuan clearly realized that although only a quarter of an hour had passed, this man named Du Chengfeng had suddenly become several times more powerful.

It wasn't just the reason for picking up the knife. Cui Yuan could feel that although the thick sword was indeed ferocious enough, it was only as good as the sharp sword in his hand.

The people who really make a difference are the people who use the knife.

Cui Yuan couldn't understand what happened just now.

But at least one thing can be explained clearly, that is, his intuition just now is indeed right. Although it has only been a quarter of an hour, this man named Du Chengfeng has indeed become something that he will never be able to overcome in his life. Big mountains.

"Fortunately, he is still willing to give me some advice."

Cui Yuan gave an ugly smile.

"It is because of his advice that I know that breaking the sword is not the end of everything. In other words, it is precisely because I have broken my attachment to the sword that I can move towards a new beginning."

"He actually did such a thing..."

Carpenter Li couldn't help scratching his head. He had never thought that Brother Du himself would have such a side without him knowing about it.

He competed with a skilled swordsman, and after winning the battle, he didn't kill him, but let the opponent live, and even gave him some advice... No matter how he sounded, he sounded like a master with great bearing.

So is his brother Du actually such a person in private?

"So, this can be considered a good thing."

After probably going over the matter in his mind, Carpenter Li nodded.

"Any ordinary person who was assassinated twice in a row would definitely get angry and even want to kill you to vent his anger... Since Brother Du didn't kill you, doesn't it mean that he is actually a good person?"

"A good person? Is this what you understand?"

Cui Yuan smiled helplessly.

"That's right. For you ordinary people, this may indeed be considered a good person..."

But for warriors, this is not the case at all.

At the beginning, Cui Yuan didn't realize this. After being prompted by the man named Du Chengfeng, he even used only half a broken sword to kill his old enemy Liu Qingyun in a duel, and understood He found a way to turn the evil spirit into sword light - but it was only after winning this duel that Cui Yuan realized that the matter was far from over.

Indeed, he defeated the shadow of his childhood and the Liu Qingyun who had always been his target, but his swordsmanship and his state of mind were still stagnant.

Just because the new mountain blocked his way.

If you want to climb this mountain, you must have sharper swordsmanship. If you want to defeat this nightmare, you must practice harder. So in order to continue walking, in order to take a step forward in swordsmanship, he continued to wander the land of Jizhou, just to one day be able to fight this powerful enemy again.

Fortunately, he had waited for this opportunity.

That was when he trained a group of horse thieves to defeat many, and that unattainable and powerful enemy happened to come to his door.

Was it a coincidental encounter? Or is it a fateful reunion?

Cui Yuan couldn't care about that much anymore. He just wanted to know whether the five-foot sword light on the broken sword, as a result of his practice over the past few days, could cross this mountain.

Then he failed again.

This time, he used a new trick, and the man named Du Chengfeng was holding Liu Qingyun's horse-breaking sword - the previous holder of this weapon, but his men were defeated, and now he was defeated again Appearing in front of him, how else could he lose?

But just when Cui Yuan thought he could finally defeat this powerful enemy, the hard scabbard hit him in the chest and abdomen.

He studied new moves, and the man named Du Chengfeng also used new techniques, which were obviously improvised.

But the effect was better than his five-foot sword light.

"Then he gave me a way out and gave me some advice."

At this point, Cui Yuan sighed.

It was at this time that he realized what the man named Du Chengfeng was doing.

"Like an old farmer in the field, he plants seeds again and again, and when the seeds grow into rice, he harvests the grain... He has no need to kill me, after all, I will still plant the grain. Bring more moves back to him. He only needs to harvest them again and again. As long as he challenges him again and again next time, he will always be able to harvest new martial arts skills, and he will become stronger and stronger. ”

"this……"

Carpenter Li became more and more confused.

What kind of seeds, what kind of old farmer, what on earth was this swordsman named Cui Yuan talking about? He couldn't understand it at all.

"Anyway, he let you go, right? Then he is a good person. At least he doesn't kill people randomly."

"Don't kill people indiscriminately?"

Cui Yuan couldn't help but shake his head.

He still remembered how the man named Du Chengfeng looked at him when the sword in his hand was cut off and when he was let go for the first time.

That look was clearly saying, why don't you just find a reason and kill him.

If only because he wasn't wearing a hat.

A person who will chop off people's heads just because they don't wear hats is a bit too obtuse to say that such a person will not kill people indiscriminately - such a person only needs a reason or excuse to kill people. , even if it’s just something as small as not wearing a hat.

As a person who loves swords very much, Cui Yuan also knows that compared to ordinary people, he has a weird personality. But compared with Du Chengfeng, Cui Yuan actually felt that he was more like a normal person.

After all, in the final analysis, he was just looking for an excuse to hone his martial arts skills.

But Du Chengfeng...he was hard to say.

So Cui Yuan, who had become wiser, simply admitted his failure. Indeed, he had become stronger after understanding the way of not killing, but he did not want to fight with Du Chengfeng anymore - as for which The reason, on the one hand, is that he doesn't want to be harvested any more, and on the other hand, it's because he really doesn't want to deal with a psychopath.

"So you shouldn't have persuaded him to leave just now."

Thinking of this, Cui Yuan couldn't help but glance at Carpenter Li.

"Perhaps in the eyes of ordinary people, this is indeed the most normal idea, but for this kind of person... you have cut off his excuse for killing people."

"……ah?"

Carpenter Li became increasingly confused.

"Here, what are you talking about? What do you mean by giving up his excuse for killing people? Why did he kill so many people?"

Hearing Li Carpenter's question, Cui Yuan shook his head and was too lazy to answer.

Why do you kill people? Do you still need to ask about this kind of thing?

Of course, killing people makes you stronger.

In the decisive battle of life and death, in the bloody fight, you have to make up for your omissions again and again, and defeat powerful enemies again and again... As long as you kill people, you will become stronger, and if you kill more, you will become stronger.

"As long as you kill people, you can become stronger..."

Those bloody fighting scenes surged in Cui Yuan's mind, and finally turned into a sigh.

Du Chengfeng, who was far away in the Yanzhou arsenal, also sighed the same way.

"Can you become stronger just by killing people?"

In the deepest part of the arsenal, looking at the huge word "benevolence", Du Chengfeng was silent for a long time.

With his fingers gently touching the Founder's Sword hanging below, Du Chengfeng closed his eyes and meditated.

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