Chapter 5

Sunlight falls, autumn wind is warm.

Shihe Village back mountain.

The cliff, originally full of creepers, is now gently vibrating.

An ancient, profound, and vast charm is gradually emanating from the cliff.

In front of the cliff, a young child is gently performing sword moves with a tree branch.

The movements are not fast, but they have their own artistic conception.

Carefree, dashing, arrogant and uninhibited!

Vaguely, it seems that from the child's body, one can see the shadow of a gentleman who is addicted to alcohol and is wild and unrestrained.

"Do you not see the water of the Yellow River coming from the sky, rushing to the sea and never returning."

"Do you not see the bright mirror in the high hall grieving for white hair, like green silk in the morning and snow in the evening."

"Life should be enjoyed when it is proud, don't let the golden cup be empty facing the moon."

"Heaven gives me talent, it must be useful, a thousand gold scattered and will return."

Three-foot green sword in hand, I travel the world of nine continents.

The sword momentum is like a person, dashing and extraordinary, just like a banished immortal.

The child swings the sword, vaguely reflecting the figure of the swordsman who traveled the world and was wild and uninhibited back then.

【Ding! You are deducing the Great River Sword Technique into the Green Lotus Sword Song, current progress 70%】

The more he deduces, the more Li Xiang feels that this sword intent is very similar to Li Bai, whom he learned about in books in his previous life.

That kind of dashingness that is transcendent and carefree in the heart, isn't it the ultimate romantic sentiment of Li Bai.

Thoughts turn, and the deduction speed of the Green Lotus Sword Song is getting faster and faster.

【Ding! You are deducing the Great River Sword Technique into the Green Lotus Sword Song, current progress 85%】

【Ding! You are deducing the Great River Sword Technique into the Green Lotus Sword Song, current progress 90%】

【Ding! You are deducing the Great River Sword Technique into the Green Lotus Sword Song, current progress 99%】

【Ding! Deduction failed! Current progress 99%】

"Hmm?!"

Li Xiang exclaims, and the wooden stick in his hand breaks in response.

"Strange, with such high Comprehension, will it still fail?"

Casually picking up a wooden stick, he continues to deduce.

Ten minutes later, when the sword move hits the last style, the wooden stick breaks again.

【Ding! Deduction failed! Current progress 99%】

"Hmm huh?!"

"This sword momentum seems to be a bit wrong."

Under the blessing of Comprehension, Li Xiang quickly finds the problem.

When he was deducing the sword technique, he was too subjective, completely deducing according to Li Bai's kind of dashing emotion.

It seems that because of his subjectivity, his deduction had some problems.

"Could it be that this sword technique was not left by Li Bai?"

He is a bit surprised.

Such a carefree and dashing sword momentum, could it be unrelated to Li Bai?

With questions, Li Xiang holds the wooden stick in his hand and starts to deduce again.

This time, he follows his heart, turns his heart to the sword, empties his thoughts, and operates the Great River Sword Technique with the posture he feels is the smoothest.

He completely empties his thoughts and enters the state of heaven and man as one.

He deduces the sword technique in the smoothest and most natural way, without any subjective bias.

Under the blessing of Comprehension, Li Xiang's understanding of the Great River Sword Technique begins to start from another angle.

【Ding! You are deducing the Great River Sword Technique into the Green Lotus Sword Song, current progress 99.5%】

【Ding! Triggered Grade D Encounter Event "Shameful Life"】

【Task: The inheritance on the martial arts stone wall seems to belong to someone else; explore the secrets that exist within it!】

【Reward: Attribute points x3】

【Hint: You can ask Wang Tiejiang, Village Chief Zhang Wu, and hunter Liu Xian about the history of the stone wall.】

"Hmm?"

"Is there really a story behind this sword technique? There is even an encounter event."

Li Xiang hums, his curiosity growing stronger.

Carefree, sure enough, is not the core of this sword technique; the final core of this sword technique has other changes!

"Indulgent and uninhibited, drinking today and getting drunk today, not serving imperial power, not respecting heaven's mandate, is not the life attitude of the owner of this sword technique."

"Then what is his life attitude?"

After thinking for a while, Li Xiang didn't come up with anything.

He silently picks up the wooden stick and starts to continue deducing the "Green Lotus Sword Song."

As for going to the village to ask people about the history of the stone wall to complete the encounter task, he doesn't consider it at all.

No need, anyway, with such high Comprehension, he will deduce it after a while.

Why bother with that old effort?

The sword technique is deduced bit by bit, and Li Xiang's heart becomes clear bit by bit.

The Great River Sword Technique is a carefree sword, a sword of indulgence that drinks today and gets drunk today, and worries tomorrow when tomorrow comes, it is the ultimate romantic sword.

But the "Green Lotus Sword Song" is not!

When Li Xiang operates it with a carefree mentality, he always feels that his thoughts are not smooth enough and the sword momentum is not perfect enough.

Now that he is deducing it again, he has discovered some problems.

The person who inherited this sword technique is definitely not Li Bai.

"If it were really Li Bai, how could he leave behind the Great River Sword Technique?"

"Li Bai is romantic, extremely carefree, a transcendent person who is not encouraged when praised by the world, and not discouraged when blamed by the world, distinguishing between inside and outside, and distinguishing between honor and disgrace."

"How could such a dashing person as Li Bai specifically study some sword technique, telling people to get drunk and dream, and walk the world carefreely?"

"If it were really Li Bai, how could he seek any carefree, such a posture?"

"He just wants a cup of wine."

This sword technique seeks carefree, so it is highly likely because he did not live carefreely!

People only pursue what they lack!

This is a sword of regret, this is a sword of unwillingness, where is it a carefree sword!

With one thought clear, Li Xiang slowly exhales a long breath.

"Your sword looks very dashing, but in the connotation, it is a resentment."

"Your carefree is avoidance, is unwillingness, is indulging in sound and color, getting drunk in the world, so your sword momentum is flawed, and your sword moves are obscure."

"You are not Li Taibai, then who would you be?"

Accompanied by Li Xiang's low whisper, the cliff vibrates more and more intensely.

The next instant, gravel falls on the cliff, and the creepers fall down with the stones, revealing an ancient biography.

Countless years ago, someone carved this autobiography on the wall with a sword.

Li Xiang doesn't recognize the characters on it, but he can naturally feel the meaning within it.

Writing carries the Dao, the Dao is in front of his eyes, how can he not know the rhyme in it?

【Zhang Dai of Shu, Tao'an is his name.】

【Young as a dandy, extremely loving prosperity, loving fine houses, loving beautiful maids, loving **, loving fresh clothes, loving delicious food, loving fine horses, loving gorgeous lanterns, loving fireworks, loving pear gardens, loving drums and music, loving antiques, loving flowers and birds, combined with tea addiction and orange abuse, bookworm and poetry demon, worked hard for half a life, all became dreams.】

【At the age of fifty, the country was broken and the family was destroyed, avoiding traces in the mountains, what remained were broken beds and broken tables, broken tripods and sick qins, and only a few volumes of residual books and a missing inkstone.】

【Cloth clothes and coarse food, often reaching the point of running out of food.】

【Looking back twenty years ago, it is really like a different world.】

【If there is an afterlife, definitely should……】

The biography ends here, and Zhang Dai did not give a follow-up.

Perhaps the sword technique left here is his answer, walking the world carefreely, dreaming life.

"So that's it, you are not Li Bai, you are Zhang Dai!"

"How could carefree be your answer?"

"The country is broken and the family is destroyed, unable to turn the tide, with such an ending, how could you possibly give a carefree answer."

"Ah! I understand, you have resentment in your heart, you resent yourself for being born in a wealthy family, resent yourself for being shallow, resent yourself for indulging in sound and color, resent yourself for being short-sighted, resent yourself for working hard all your life without doing anything, until the country is broken and the family is destroyed, but you cannot bear a fraction."

"Living in the mountains, regretting the rest of your life in a dream."

"The so-called carefree is self-mockery."

"I have always been curious, why the system would judge the advancement of the Great River Sword Technique as the Green Lotus Sword Song, how could a carefree sword carry the name of Green Lotus, now I finally understand."

"Green Lotus, out of the mud without being stained, independent from the world, a gentleman among flowers."

"Zhang Dai, oh Zhang Dai, you clearly regret to death, but you are good at face and dare not speak, really, laughable!"

With one thought clear, Li Xiang holds the wooden stick and gently waves it in front of him. On the cliff, a line of simplified characters is carved.

【If there is an afterlife, definitely should be diligent, dare not slack off at all.】

【Heaven is vigorous, a gentleman should strive for self-improvement!】

As the last word falls, the system's prompt sound rings in Li Xiang's mind.

【Congratulations to the host for completing the Grade D encounter event "Shameful Life"】

【You have obtained attribute points x3】

【Ding! You are deducing the Great River Sword Technique into the Green Lotus Sword Song, current progress 100%】

Boom!

The next moment, a deafening sound rings in Li Xiang's mind, and the past of Zhang Dai's life appears before his eyes.

Young arrogance, middle-aged debauchery, old age loneliness, living in seclusion in the mountains alone, living out the rest of his life, unable to stop being panicked all day long, at the end of his old age, he broke the mountain with one sword, recorded the biography here, and threw himself into the river to die.

The so-called inheritance is the condensation of sword intent, transformed by the spiritual beauty of heaven and earth.

It is just that Zhang Dai himself cares about face and did not finish writing his final regret.

This inheritance lacked the essence, only recorded the arrogance of youth and the debauchery of middle age, lacked the regret of old age, so the sword momentum was not perfect.

Now Li Xiang has deduced it, and the sword momentum is naturally perfect.

"Heaven is vigorous, a gentleman should strive for self-improvement!"

With one thought clear, Li Xiang holds the sword and swings it casually towards the distance, and a vast sword intent, like the pouring of a great river, pours out.

This sword intent is amazing, emanating a firm belief of going forward without hesitation and stepping over mountains and rivers.

If there are thorns blocking the way forward, then break through the thorns and go!

If there are gullies blocking the way forward, then step over the gullies and go!

A gentleman strives for self-improvement, not complaining because the situation is small, a gentleman strives for self-improvement, not slackening because the situation is big, his behavior is like a lotus, out of the mud without being stained, washing away the clear ripples without being demonized.

With one sword delivered, the sword momentum goes across the sky.

Ten thousand miles away.

Qingyun Sect, Sword Hall seclusion place.

An old man with white hair and beard wakes up suddenly, his eyes staring fixedly at the southeast direction.

"What amazing sword intent!"

"Heaven is vigorous, a gentleman should strive for self-improvement?!"

"In the territory of Great Liang, has another Sword Dao Grandmaster appeared?"

(End of chapter)