Chapter 2018: Heartless Sword
Chapter 2018: Chapter 2018: Heartless Sword
"Stop."
The Heartless Inn Master stood up, "I don’t like owing others anything."
"Moreover, how am I not free in this region?"
Xiao Yi’s steps paused slightly, but he did not turn back and said, "Heartless Inn doesn’t owe me anything."
"As for this free region, do you really think it’s truly free?"
"How is it not free?" The Heartless Inn Master squinted his eyes.
"What do you think?" Xiao Yi sneered indifferently, "This place is nothing more than a lawless land."
The Heartless Inn Master said in a deep voice, "Precisely because it’s lawless, everyone here can be unrestrained, free."
"Whatever one wants to do, they do it, without being shackled, carefree and at ease."
Xiao Yi shook his head, "That’s not freedom, that’s indulgence."
"Inner freedom is unrestrained, but it’s definitely not lawless, nor is it doing whatever one wishes."
Yes, this region is called the free region.
Here, there is no law, everyone can act without constraint; it seems free, but in reality, it’s merely indulgence.
"Ridiculous." The Heartless Inn Master sneered coldly, "In the free region, everyone is free, unbound by laws."
"The martial artists here can pursue their martial arts endlessly according to their hearts."
"Furthermore, the so-called chaos, the so-called lawlessness, isn’t the entire Central Region also like this?"
Xiao Yi once again shook his head, "The Central Region is indeed equally lawless, equally filled with slaughter."
Yes, the Central Region is inherently lawless, inherently a place of constant slaughter.
Guisha City here, this free region, it’s but a microcosm of the Central Region; just that this particular microcosm seems even larger, with even more shocking slaughter.
"But." Xiao Yi spoke indifferently, "The chaos of the Central Region, the lawlessness of the Central Region, is due to rules, is due to human nature."
"Yet the free region here is exacerbated by Guisha City, making this area even more uninhibited, even more perilous, even more bloodthirsty."
Indeed, the Central Region, though lawless, though filled with slaughter.
That’s because this vast, boundless Central Region, with numerous forces, is inherently full of strife; where there are people, there is Jianghu, and with strife, comes human nature.
But the free region here, due to the existence of Guisha City and Ghost Hunters, adds a hundredfold more to the slaughter.
Not every slaughter in the free region is related to Guisha City.
But at least several tens of percent are related.
The existence of Guisha City allows the forces here to more easily issue bounty tasks, more easily incite conflict.
Guisha City is the source of enmity breeding among the forces here.
Revenge, counter-revenge, thus entailing further revenge, further slaughter... never-ending.
A stone can stir a thousand waves.
A single Ghost Hunter’s task can foster eternal hatred between two forces.
Several tasks by one Ghost Hunter?
Two Ghost Hunters... more Ghost Hunters, countless Ghost Hunters in Guisha City, countless tasks?
To put it simply, the Central Region is indeed lawless, but that’s survival of the fittest, the strong pursuing it.
But the free region here is Guisha City intentionally stirring things up, intentionally making this region chaotic and unpredictable.
These two have a significant difference.
Of course, Guisha City is undoubtedly a behemoth, but it can only affect the free region here, unable to affect the entire Central Region.
"True freedom is upholding the heart, following the heart, carefree and at ease; it is not... losing one’s heart."
Xiao Yi’s tone was indifferent to the extreme.
The Heartless Inn Master trembled, but his eyes grew colder.
"When you first arrived at Guisha City, someone must have told you if you want to truly gain something in Guisha City, you’d better lose that heart of yours..."
Xiao Yi interrupted, "That heart called humanity, called the conscience’s bottom line, if lost, if obliterated, is one still human?"
"Just like those Ghost Hunters you and the Guisha City Lord deliberately trained, those willing to do anything for their purpose?"
"Should the entire Central Region become like evil ghosts, turn into Purgatory?"
"Are you preaching to me?" The Heartless Inn Master’s eyes grew cold.
Xiao Yi shook his head, "In fact, I don’t think you’re wrong."
"It’s just that I don’t acknowledge it."
"What do you understand." The Heartless Inn Master already admonished.
"Only by losing that heart can one pursue the endless martial path."
Clang...
A dried branch appeared out of thin air in the Heartless Inn Master’s hand.
It was a dried branch.
Yet the sharpness it emitted seemed very much like a Divine Sword gleaming to the sky.
Xiao Yi glanced at it.
If he wasn’t mistaken, the Heartless Inn Master must be cultivating the indifferent Sword Dao.
Of course, indifferent Sword Dao is just a vague term, encompassing countless styles, which specific type it is, is unknown.
The dried branch in the Heartless Inn Master’s hand had already been swung out, but it stopped mid-air.
"I have contemplated this sword for countless years."
"Ever since I discarded that heart, I have advanced daily, achieving half success."
"Over countless years, I have seen all manners of life in the free region, have witnessed all the carefree indulgences here."
"This is the Heartless Sword, also the Divine Ghost Sword, the Sword at the End of Limitless."
"Only by completely losing that heart, can one achieve perfection, reach the end of Limitlessness."
"Oh." Xiao Yi interrupted, "Have you achieved perfection now? Have you become complete?"
"Not yet." The Heartless Inn Master said proudly, "Martial Arts Limitless, its end is not easily perfected, but it has reached Small Achieved."
"Oh." Xiao Yi shook his head, his head turned for the first time.
His footsteps abruptly stepped.
His palm swiftly extended and seized that dried branch.
Xiao Yi held the dried branch and swung it; the dried branch crossed the air and descended heavily.
This sword appeared to possess no power.
"Oh, Heartless Sword? Divine Ghost Sword? Nothing more." Xiao Yi sneered coldly.
"You... how is it possible." The Heartless Inn Master’s face changed drastically.
"Who said that heart must be lost?" Xiao Yi sneered defiantly, casually tossing the dried branch.
That dried branch was in fact just an ordinary dried branch, not what it seemed, a Divine Weapon.
Xiao Yi’s silhouette turned again, and departed indifferently.
"I think, I know who you are." Xiao Yi said indifferently, without looking back.
The Heartless Inn Master recovered from shock and squinted his eyes again, "The illustrious Black Robe Xiao Xun, indeed lives up to his reputation."
Xiao Yi’s indifferent silhouette ignored this and left straight away.
Suddenly, his footsteps paused again.
"Oh, right." Xiao Yi said indifferently, "You reneged on the Ten Thousand Poison Fruit."
"But my Ghost Hunting King’s reward, your Guisha City won’t renege?"
"No." The Heartless Inn Master shook his head.
"It seems, I am not qualified to guide you."
"But still, that statement, you might have a better choice, that Ten Thousand Poison Fruit may not be unattainable."
However, Xiao Yi’s indifferent silhouette had no further hesitation, he left without looking back.
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Third update.