Chapter 626 - 269: Child-Mother Life Sharing Gu
Chapter 626: Chapter 269: Child-Mother Life Sharing Gu
"What’s wrong with my personality?"
Fang Shuwen felt there was something wrong with what Luo Shuqing just said.
Luo Shuqing glanced at him and said seriously,
"Given your style, you wouldn’t bother with this so-called Profound Celestial Iron Mirror. You would have followed your original plan, gone straight to Wuxia Island, and slaughtered every last one of them.
"Going to all this trouble, intimidating the heroes, and now searching for the Profound Celestial Iron Mirror... it’s not like you."
"You say that as if you know me so well."
Fang Shuwen shook his head lightly.
"Using slaughter to stop slaughter is never the best strategy.
"If it weren’t for the variable of Shui Tianxin, that would have been fine. But now that this variable exists..."
"And?"
Luo Shuqing looked at Fang Shuwen.
"Then I’ll gather them all in one place and solve every problem, once and for all."
Fang Shuwen said with a smile,
"Do you think this will lure your brother out as well?"
Luo Shuqing froze for a moment. The gaze visible through the eyeholes of her mask was tinged with a complex emotion.
’There were some things she had been deliberately ignoring, unwilling to dwell on them before the dust settled.’
’But if Luo Shuyang really were to come...’
’...then there were certain things she would be forced to confront.’
Fang Shuwen didn’t wait for her answer, nor did he seem to care. His gaze swept over the large ships nearby before he turned and went back inside the cabin.
His two days of seclusion had been quite fruitful.
His True Qi had been refined, and his Inner Strength was much purer.
While organizing his own Martial Arts, perhaps due to his quintupled comprehension and Talent, his thoughts flew, and all sorts of ideas came to him in a flurry.
They were fragments of inspiration for Martial Arts, not yet forming a complete system.
Fang Shuwen didn’t let them dissipate. Instead, he captured as many as he could, jotting them down on paper.
Although it wasn’t as complete as when he had previously meditated on martial techniques using the wind at the ship’s bow and conceived a full move, these fragments, if studied deeply, could still yield many exquisite Martial Arts.
He spread them casually across the table, glanced at them, then sat on the bed and re-entered a state of meditative trance.
...
...
Just as Fang Shuwen had said, the great ship of the Celestial Water Palace came up behind his.
Aboard the great ship, in its most exquisite room.
Shui Tianxin sat before a long table. She picked up her teacup but did not bring it to her lips, lost in thought.
At one end of the table, Granny Xuan Yi knelt in attendance.
Seeing Shui Tianxin’s dazed expression, she asked cautiously,
"Palace Master, did your trip not go well? Did that Fang Shuwen not agree?"
Shui Tianxin slowly exhaled and set down her teacup.
"He agreed."
"Then why are you still so distracted, Palace Master?"
Granny Xuan Yi found this strange and guessed,
"Could it be that you’re worried about the other Forbidden Lands?"
Shui Tianxin shook her head.
"My seeking out Fang Shuwen will certainly give them all sorts of ideas.
"But with Fang Shuwen present, none of it is worth worrying about."
Although Granny Xuan Yi had heard Shui Tianxin praise Fang Shuwen like this more than once, she still couldn’t help but ask,
"Palace Master... he is so young. Does he truly possess such profound skill?
"He may have killed Suhe Zhen, but even Suhe Zhen was no match for you, Palace Master, was he?"
"Suhe Zhen was indeed not my match."
Shui Tianxin looked at the teacup before her and flicked it lightly with her finger, producing a soft DING.
"But as for Fang Shuwen... I am absolutely no match for him.
"Most of what is known about him in the East Sea comes from the mouths of those in the Eastern Domain Martial World.
"But, because of Rou’er and Liu’er, I once personally sent people to the Eastern Domain to investigate this Fang Shuwen.
"Since he first appeared in the Jianghu, in battles great and small... he has never known defeat."
"That part..."
Granny Xuan Yi said in a low voice,
"...doesn’t seem all that surprising, does it?"
Shui Tianxin gave her a faint, unreadable smile.
"Likewise, he has never suffered even the slightest injury."
"He... has never been injured?"
Granny Xuan Yi’s heart went cold, her aged eyes filled with disbelief.
"That is what’s so terrifying about him."
Shui Tianxin said slowly,
"’Never known defeat.’ Those four words are extremely rare.
"In the Jianghu, those who can achieve these four words are either very cunning in choosing their opponents—only picking those they are confident of defeating and having extremely good luck—
"or... they are truly invincible, and any opponent who appears before them can only kneel, bow their head, and accept defeat and death.
"Fang Shuwen is the latter.
"He first made his name in the Jianghu at the Zhuji Pavilion in the Eastern Domain, where he killed many experts from the Black Death Sect. No one could withstand more than a few of his blows.
"Later, on his way to Flying Snow City, he killed Cao Jiuyin of the Hundred Ghosts Hall with two palm strikes. Within Flying Snow City, he executed Shangguan Ying with his palm! That Blood-Sinking Sword Demon of the Eastern Domain didn’t even manage to draw his sword.
"In every battle since, no matter who the opponent was, their status, or their Martial Arts—from the Hundred Ghosts Hall Master of the Eastern Domain to the Sword God Palace Master of the Northern Domain—
"without exception, they were all like playthings in his hands, completely unable to fight back.
"In the Northern Domain Martial World, so many people came after him. Anyone else would have been drowned in their spittle alone, but for him, killing was as easy as reaching into a bag to grab something. Countless people threw themselves at him, one after another, yet none could even touch the hem of his clothes.
"We, here in the East Sea, possess the legacy of the Profound Celestial Sect and consider our Martial Arts superior, a cut above the rest.
"But when Suhe Zhen fought with all his might, what was the result?
"Back then, when Taishi Cheng went to Hengyang Island, he still fought Old Freak Huang for three days and three nights.