Chapter 329

The video continues.

[That’s quite insightful; my knowledge was shallow.]

[Then, brother Hearing Yanqing, I’ve been on the Luofu for a long time, but I haven't had the chance to see the venue for this Wardance.]

[Now that I hear you talk about it, I’ve become curious; could you take me to see it?]

After chatting with Hearing Yanqing and Miss Yunli for a while,

Seeing Jiaoqiu suddenly wanted to see the venue of the Wardance.

So he requested Hearing Yanqing.

[Mr. Seeing Jiaoqiu wants to see the Competitive Edge Ship? Sure!]

[Miss Yunli and Miss March must not have seen it either.]

[How about this, I’ll take you all to see it.]

Stelle: "Speaking of the Wardance..."

Stelle: "Didn't Seeing Jiaoqiu just say tomorrow is the Wardance?"

March 7th: "Uh... that means this is my last day of sword practice?"

March 7th: "I have to get on the arena tomorrow?"

Miss Yunli: "What?"

Miss Yunli: "You’ve practiced for so long, are you still nervous?"

Hearing Yanqing: "It’s inevitable to be nervous when stepping onto the arena for the first time using swordplay."

Hearing Yanqing: "But since Miss Yunli and I highly approve of you in the video, it means Miss March’s swordplay has really achieved some success."

Hearing Yanqing: "Winning a few matches definitely won't be hard!"

Furina: "Miss March 7th, have a little confidence in yourself!"

Stelle: "March, you have to stand tall!"

Stelle: "Let the contestants at the Wardance see the prestige of our Express crew’s sword master!"

March 7th: "You guys really have a lot of confidence in me!"

March 7th: "I just hope that after I get on the arena, I can win at least one match no matter what!"

March 7th: "Otherwise, losing my own face is a small matter, but I’m afraid I’ll lose all the face of my two little masters."

The video continues.

The four followed Hearing Yanqing to the Starskiff Haven,

and from there, they looked out at the venue of the Wardance, the Competitive Edge Ship.

[I didn't expect so many people to be looking at the Competitive Edge Ship.]

Seeing Jiaoqiu looked at the people around,

and couldn't help but say.

[....Eh?]

Just then, Seeing Jiaoqiu saw a group of people not far away,

sniffed, and seemed to smell a familiar scent.

This made him frown slightly.

[Mr. Seeing Jiaoqiu, what’s wrong?]

Hearing Yanqing saw Seeing Jiaoqiu’s strange behavior,

and couldn't help but ask.

[Nothing... it’s nothing.]

Hu Tao: "That group of people just now..."

Hu Tao: "Mr. Seeing Jiaoqiu seemed to have discovered something unusual about them?"

Paimon: "But Mr. Seeing Jiaoqiu seemed to be sniffing!"

Paimon: "Is there something wrong with the scent of that group?"

Robin: "Does everyone remember?"

Robin: "At the beginning, those unidentified individuals disguised as Cloud Knights."

Robin: "Those people, it seems, haven't been exposed even now!"

Hearing Yanqing: "Terrible!"

Hearing Yanqing: "On the eve of the Wardance, that group of suspicious individuals hasn't been weeded out!"

Hearing Yanqing: "This could lead to a major disaster!"

Lumine: "Could the people Mr. Seeing Jiaoqiu was observing just now also be disguised?"

Furina: "Hard to say, from the outside, they look completely like normal fox-people."

Furina: "Sigh, I just hope no major trouble occurs."

The video continues.

[Do you see that flying ship in the distance? That is the arena for this Wardance—the Competitive Edge Ship.]

Hearing Seeing Jiaoqiu say it was nothing,

Hearing Yanqing pointed at a huge flying ship in the sky,

and told the three to look.

[Looking from afar, it doesn't seem particularly special.]

Seeing Jiaoqiu looked up,

at the flying ship that seemed quite common to him,

and commented.

[This Competitive Edge Ship was converted from a retired Luofu ship.]

[Before the Wardance officially begins, people are not allowed to board.]

[But tomorrow, when the bell rings and the fireworks bloom, Hearing Yanqing will represent the Luofu Cloud Knights, stand on the arena, and accept challenges from brave warriors from all over.]

[Hearing Yanqing has been by the General’s side since he was a child, learning swordplay and military strategy.]

[Every day, I swing my sword ten thousand times, thrust ten thousand times, repeating it over and over...]

[I understand, I seem a bit different from ordinary children.]

[I never envied the toys and freedom they had, nor did I ever feel that focusing on sword practice was boring or difficult.]

[Even when stepping onto the battlefield to kill enemies, when clashing with those hideous monsters, I felt no fear.]

[Every day I could feel myself constantly getting stronger, stronger, and stronger...]

[Holding victory in my hands time and time again, there is nothing in the world happier than that.]

[But later, I took a sword strike from someone.]

[That strike shattered my once perfect confidence into pieces.]

[In the moment that strike arrived, I felt fear for the first time.]

[This is perhaps what Mr. Seeing Jiaoqiu called life and death in an instant, all thoughts vanishing.]

Paimon: "Ah??"

Paimon: "Swinging ten thousand times, thrusting ten thousand times every day?"

Paimon: "Sword practice... is it really such a hard thing?!"

Lumine: "Little Hearing Yanqing probably didn't say everything."

Lumine: "Footwork and other things have to be practiced too; adding those, it must be even harder."

Miss Qingque: "This is what happens when someone more talented than you works harder than you!"

Miss Qingque: "How are you going to catch up to them?"

Furina: "Little Hearing Yanqing didn't find sword practice boring since he was a child, and even found it interesting..."

Furina: "If it were other children, they’d probably be thinking about how to slack off every day."

Stelle: "This is the innate Sword Saint body!"

Stelle: "The Luofu’s destined next Sword Master!"

Miss Yunli: "With his current state of mind, he’s still far from being the Sword Master."

Miss Yunli: "He just took one strike and he’s already fallen into a slump."

Miss Yunli: "Are you not ashamed?"

Hearing Yanqing: "Easy for you to say."

Hearing Yanqing: "If you could take that person’s strike, you’d probably understand how I feel."

March 7th: "Speaking of which, is that former Sword Master really that strong?"

Hearing Yanqing: "Strong, extremely strong!"

Hearing Yanqing: "Her swordplay is the only one I’ve ever seen in my life."

Dan Heng: "Jingliu’s sword is indeed extraordinary."

Dan Heng: "It has reached a higher level."

Dan Heng: "For most swordsmen, having the fortune to witness her sword strike might be a tragedy."

Dan Heng: "Because after seeing her sword, it will cause a deep sense of frustration in the hearts of these swordsmen."

Dan Heng: "Thinking that the sword they practiced for a lifetime is actually nothing more than this."

Dan Heng: "But with Hearing Yanqing’s talent, I believe he will eventually be able to walk out of it."

Dan Heng: "At that time, his swordplay will have a great improvement."

Stelle: "Wait, speaking of which, I seem to remember..."

Stelle: "That former Luofu Sword Master is actually General Jing Yuan’s master, right?"

Stelle: "That makes her Hearing Yanqing’s grandmaster."

Stelle: "Since she’s the grandmaster, what are you sad about, Hearing Yanqing?"

Stelle: "In terms of swordplay, your master can't beat your grandmaster, and you can't either, isn't that a matter of course?"

Hearing Yanqing: "Ah, this..."

Furina: "Huh?"

Furina: "There’s this kind of unbelievable relationship?"

Furina: "I didn't expect even a big shot like General Jing Yuan to have a master?"

Jing Yuan: "Hahaha, that’s nothing strange."

Jing Yuan: "Even the Arbiter-General had a time when he was as young and powerless as Hearing Yanqing."

Jing Yuan: "Without the guidance of a powerful mentor, how could one achieve even more illustrious accomplishments?"

Hu Tao: "Then since she’s General Jing Yuan’s mentor, how did she become a major criminal now?"

Lumine: "This should involve a lot of very complicated things, probably secrets of the Luofu Xianzhou Alliance."

Lumine: "We shouldn't ask around casually."

Hu Tao: "Oh, oh, that’s true, I was being abrupt."

Jing Yuan: "No matter, the past is the past."

March 7th: "Then from this perspective..."

March 7th: "Maybe Jingliu’s strike was teaching Hearing Yanqing?"

March 7th: "Hahaha, you should thank your grandmaster!"

Hearing Yanqing: "Hmm... I really should thank her."

Hearing Yanqing: "Because if it weren't for that strike, I might still be lost in my own world, feeling smug every day."

The video continues.

[After that, Hearing Yanqing had to lower his head, pick up these fragments one by one, and try to piece together the happy self from the past.]

[But no matter what I do, I seem unable to recreate that state of mind.]

[I ask myself from time to time, why do I swing my sword?]

[If I’m destined to face the next failure, why should I continue to swing my sword?]

[Is it to regain the joy of victory?]

[To respond to the General’s expectations?]

[Or to leave behind Cloud Knight merits?]

[The General can teach me swordplay, but he cannot teach me the reason to swing the sword.]

[He said to me: The reason for swinging the sword must be found by myself.]

[For this, Hearing Yanqing was troubled and restless.]

[But after this conversation with Mr. Seeing Jiaoqiu, Hearing Yanqing has the answer in his heart.]

[As a member of the Cloud Knights, the General’s disciple, I carry a lot, and I’m destined to carry more.]

[But only when I swing my sword can I feel that I can let go of everything.]

[I like the me who gives his all to swing a sword at the obstacles ahead, moving forward without hesitation.]

[And it is for this me that I swing my sword.]

Stelle: "Good grief, Hearing Yanqing is really speaking from the heart, saying so many things in a row."

March 7th: "A conversation with Mr. Seeing Jiaoqiu?"

March 7th: "But what did Mr. Seeing Jiaoqiu say?"

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "What I said doesn't matter, he suddenly had an epiphany himself."

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "Tsk, children these days are really something."

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "At such a young age, they’re more sentimental than adults."

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "The key is that he can really realize something from it."

General Feixiao: "Amazing, Seeing Jiaoqiu, you should just change your profession to a psychologist."

General Feixiao: "You don't even need to say anything, just following along is enough to help people resolve their inner knots."

General Feixiao: "Isn't this much more brilliant than your medical skills?"

Furina: "So little Hearing Yanqing has found the meaning of swinging his sword now, and has gotten rid of the shadow brought by that strike?"

Black Swan: "He should have gotten rid of most of it."

Black Swan: "For that kind of deep-seated fear, it’s not that easy to get rid of it completely."

Black Swan: "It still needs an appropriate opportunity."

Black Swan: "But when this opportunity will come, it’s hard to say."

The video continues.

[Hearing Yanqing, oh Hearing Yanqing, you’re old at such a young age... speaking of which, how old are you exactly?]

Hearing Yanqing was feeling so emotional,

he almost stunned Seeing Jiaoqiu.

[This has nothing to do with how old I am.]

[As long as you are a sword practitioner, you will naturally understand how I feel.]

Hearing Yanqing shook his head.

[Sigh... I understand, the children of the Luofu are really too miserable.]

[Then do you have anything you want to say, Miss Miss Yunli?]

Seeing Jiaoqiu nodded,

and then looked at Miss Yunli.

[No matter which Luofu Xianzhou you are on, asking a girl’s age is impolite.]

Miss Yunli said with slight dissatisfaction.

[I’m not asking about age!]

[I’m asking... do you have a dream like brother Hearing Yanqing?]

Seeing Jiaoqiu waved his hand and explained.

[You don't look like a chef, you look more like a host.]

General Feixiao: "Hahahaha!"

General Feixiao: "Seeing Jiaoqiu, don't say that, the way you ask about everything really has a bit of talent for hosting."

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "Sigh, fine, I’m almost becoming an all-rounder."

Miss Qingque: "Mr. Seeing Jiaoqiu, I think you misunderstood one thing."

Miss Qingque: "The children of the Luofu are not miserable, most of them are happy every day."

Miss Qingque: "Little Hearing Yanqing is just an exception on the Luofu, you can't generalize!"

Hearing Yanqing: "But I don't feel miserable either?"

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "Fine, I was wrong."