Chapter 728

Hearing Yanqing: "Easy for you to say, standing there."

Hearing Yanqing: "If you could take one sword strike from that person, you'd understand how I feel."

March 7th: "Speaking of which, was that former Sword Champion really that powerful?"

Hearing Yanqing: "Powerful, extremely powerful!"

Hearing Yanqing: "Her swordsmanship is the finest I've ever seen in my life."

Brother Dan Heng: "Jingliu's sword has indeed transcended the mundane."

Brother Dan Heng: "It has touched a higher realm."

Brother Dan Heng: "For most swordsmen, being fortunate enough to witness her draw her blade might be a kind of sorrow."

Brother Dan Heng: "Because after seeing her sword, a deep sense of defeat rises in those swordsmen's hearts."

Brother Dan Heng: "They come to believe that the sword they've spent their whole lives practicing is, in truth, nothing special."

Brother Dan Heng: "But given Yanqing's talent, I believe he will eventually break through."

Brother Dan Heng: "When that day comes, his swordsmanship will greatly advance."

Stelle: "Wait, now that you mention it, I seem to remember..."

Stelle: "That former Luo Fu Sword Champion was actually General Jing Yuan's master, right?"

Stelle: "Which makes her Yanqing's martial grandmother."

Stelle: "If she's your martial grandmother, what is there for you to be upset about?"

Stelle: "When it comes to swordsmanship, your master can't beat your martial grandmother, and neither can you — isn't that only natural?"

Hearing Yanqing: "Ah, this...."

Furina: "Huh?"

Furina: "There's such an outrageous relationship involved??"

Furina: "I never expected that even a great figure like General Jing Yuan had a master."

General Jing Yuan: "Hahaha, that's nothing unusual."

General Jing Yuan: "Even the Divine Bow of the Sky General was once as young and helpless as Yanqing."

General Jing Yuan: "Without a formidable mentor to guide one, how could one achieve even greater glory?"

Hu Tao: "If she's General Jing Yuan's mentor, how did she end up becoming a major criminal?"

Lumine: "There must be a lot of very complicated matters involved — probably secrets of the Xianzhoulian Alliance."

Lumine: "We'd better not inquire into it casually."

Hu Tao: "Oh, right, fair enough — that was abrupt of me."

General Jing Yuan: "It's fine, the past is the past."

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

March 7th: "Maybe that strike from Jingliu was meant to teach Yanqing?"

March 7th: "Hahaha, you really ought to thank your martial grandmother!"

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

Hearing Yanqing: "Because without that strike, I might still be lost in one's own world, pleased with myself every day."

The video continues.

【After that, Yanqing had no choice but to lower his head, picking up the fragments one by one, piecing them together, trying to reassemble the happy self he once was.】

【But no matter what I did, I seemed unable to recapture the state of mind I once had.】

【From time to time I would ask myself: why do I swing my sword at all?】

【If I am destined to face another defeat, why should I keep swinging it?】

【Is it to recapture the joy of victory?】

【To answer the General's expectations?】

【Or to leave behind Cloud Knight merits?】

【The General can teach me swordsmanship, but he cannot teach me the reason for swinging my sword.】

【He told me: the reason for swinging the sword must be found by myself.】

【For this, Yanqing agonized endlessly, tossing and turning.】

【But after this heart-to-heart talk with Mr. Jiaoqiu, Yanqing already had an answer in his heart.】

【As a member of the Cloud Knights and the General's disciple, I carry a great deal on my shoulders, and am destined to carry even more.】

【But only when I swing my sword do I feel I can set everything down.】

【I like that version of myself — pouring everything into a single strike against the obstacle ahead, pressing forward without hesitation.】

【And it is precisely for that self that I swing my sword.】

Stelle: "Goodness, Yanqing really spoke from the heart there — he said so much in one go."

March 7th: "A heart-to-heart talk with Mr. Jiaoqiu?"

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

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "What I said isn't important — he suddenly had an awakening on his own."

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "Tch, kids these days are really something."

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "So young, yet already more sentimental than my lord."

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "The key is he can actually glean something meaningful from it."

General Feixiao: "Impressive, Jiaoqiu — you might as well switch careers and become a therapist."

General Feixiao: "You don't even need to say anything; just being there helps people untie their knots."

General Feixiao: "Isn't that far more brilliant than your medical skills?"

Furina: "So Hearing Yanqing has now found the meaning of wielding a sword, and has already shaken off the shadow cast by that one strike?"

Black Swan: "Should be most of it, I suppose."

Black Swan: "When it comes to a fear etched that deeply into the bone, completely shaking it off is no easy thing."

Black Swan: "It still needs the right opportunity."

Black Swan: "But when that opportunity will arrive — that's hard to say."

The video continues.

【Hearing Yanqing, Hearing Yanqing — so young and yet already so old.... Speaking of which, how old are you this year?】

Hearing Yanqing sat there sighing with feeling,

nearly leaving Seeing Jiaoqiu dumbfounded.

【That has nothing to do with how old I am.】

【Anyone who practices the sword will naturally understand my feelings.】

Hearing Yanqing shook his head.

【Sigh.... I get it, the children of Luo Fu really have it tough.】

【Then do you have anything you'd like to say, Miss Yunli?】

Seeing Jiaoqiu nodded,

then looked toward Miss Yunli.

【No matter which Luofu Xianzhou you're on, asking a young lady her age is impolite.】

Miss Yunli said, a touch displeased.

【I wasn't asking about age!】

【I was asking.... do you have a dream like Hearing Yanqing's, brother?】

Seeing Jiaoqiu waved a hand and explained.

【You don't look like a cook — more like a host.】

General Feixiao: "Hahahaha!"

General Feixiao: "Jiaoqiu, don't laugh it off — the way you keep asking this and that, you really do have a bit of a host's talent."

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "Sigh, fine then, I'm practically becoming a jack-of-all-trades."

Miss Qingque: "Mr. Jiaoqiu, I think you've misunderstood something."

Miss Qingque: "The children of Luo Fu aren't miserable — most of them are happy every single day."

Miss Qingque: "Hearing Yanqing is just a special case on Luo Fu — you can't lump them all together!"

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

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "Alright, my mistake."