Chapter 328: Killing Without Killing! [Requesting Monthly Tickets]

"Sect... Sect Leader!"

Seeing the figure blocking her path, Yang Xiao spoke in surprise.

The old woman, who had previously been dazed with drool streaming down, now possessed sharp hearing and sight, gazing at the youth before her with piercing eyes.

Not only her demeanor, but even the old woman's appearance had become somewhat younger.

"It... It is truly a peerless grandmaster!"

The old woman's tone was somewhat stuttering, seemingly caused by years of silence.

She looked at Fang Can with a sharp gaze and said, "I can feel that the opportunity to break through to the Fifth Turn lies within you."

With the appearance of Dongfang Wuji, the atmosphere on the scene rose once again.

The Demonic Path, originally somewhat dispirited, also remembered their half-mad Sect Leader, and it seemed the Sect Leader's demeanor was no longer mad.

Seeing the Sect Leader's current demeanor, Yang Xiao recalled how she looked when he found her in the secret passage.

Ninety-five years ago, atop Cloud Peak, Dongfang Wuji, only five years old, began practicing martial arts.

The previous Sect Leader, who was her own birth mother, asked her a question on her first day of practice.

"Wuji! Why do you want to learn martial arts? Or rather, what is your goal in practicing martial arts?"

To this, Dongfang Wuji pondered for half a day before saying, "I want to become the number one grandmaster under heaven."

Regarding her answer, her mother made no evaluation, but instead had the Dharma Kings protecting the Holy Sect teach her.

Her childhood was spent learning the eighteen weapons of knives, spears, swords, and halberds! As well as Fist Techniques, Palm Techniques, Finger Techniques, and Body Techniques.

At the same time, Dongfang Wuji also understood the duty of her surname: restore the nation!

On the day she turned eighteen and broke through to the First Turn, the former Sect Leader approached her to test her martial arts.

Facing sparring with fellow disciples within the Holy Sect, no matter what weapon the opponent used or what technique they employed, she effortlessly broke them with the same martial art.

Undoubtedly, she was a martial arts genius!

Surrounded by a circle of fallen fellow disciples, she looked hopefully at her mother and asked:

"Sect Leader, I have passed the trials of all the masters; should I not be able to leave the sect now?"

Facing the young girl's inquiry, the Sect Leader shook her head lightly and said:

"Relying solely on this is far from enough; you are facing tangible enemies who are prepared. Anyone could defeat such opponents."

"Only when you can fight freely and defeat enemies even when your five senses of sight, hearing, mouth, nose, and body are lost will you be considered graduated."

After returning home, she seriously pondered the Sect Leader's words.

After one night, Dongfang Wuji covered her eyes, sealed her five senses, and began practicing martial arts in the mountains.

Indeed as the Sect Leader said, after losing the five senses, she could not see with her eyes nor hear with her ears.

Without the sense of touch, she could not even determine if she held a sword in her hand.

In this situation, the only thing she could rely on was her own intuition; she had to train her intuition to its peak.

After years of tempering, her intuition grew stronger day by day.

From initially covering her eyes and barely parrying and blocking thrown pebbles, to finally, even with all five senses lost, dodging arrows shot faster than the speed of sound by relying on feeling.

Several more years later, she had become completely indistinguishable from ordinary people!

She could distinguish the color of objects without sight, enjoy the pleasant sound of the zither without hearing, taste the deliciousness of delicacies without taste, and distinguish the cold hardness of blades without touch...

She could now perceive a world even richer than ordinary people, even with her five senses sealed!

Even in her sleep, facing an enemy's sneak attack, she could subconsciously hold her sword and block it.

Whether poison or traps, without using her eyes to look, relying solely on her sixth sense, she could distinguish them immediately.

That night, she sealed her five senses and traveled down the mountain; for several consecutive months, when she returned to Huishan, she was covered in blood, holding the head of the current Abbot of Shaolin in her hand.

That year, Dongfang Wuji was thirty years old, at the peak of the Third Turn!

Hearing of this matter, the Sect Leader approached Dongfang Wuji and said:

"You have officially graduated and possess the 'seeing without seeing' and 'hearing without hearing' of a grandmaster; next, I will transmit the Qi Kun Da Nuo to you, allowing you to achieve the 'weapon without a weapon'."

The so-called 'weapon without a weapon' is the effect of the sixth layer of Qi Kun Da Nuo.

Even without a weapon in hand, one can strike with the power of a divine artifact; after all, how could a weapon be such an inconvenient thing?

Thus, after obtaining Qi Kun Da Nuo, the legend of Dongfang Wuji resounded throughout the Jianghu.

Rampaging through the Jianghu for another thirty years, the number of people Dongfang Wuji had killed at this point was enough to fill several separate courtyards, and the blood shed by her enemies could form a small stream.

Those who died under her hand included both the Righteous Path and the Demonic Path; killing had become integrated into her life.

Finally, on the day she turned sixty-two, after comprehending the true meaning of 'weapon without a weapon', she broke through to the Fourth Turn! She became the Sect Leader of the Mo Sect!

But she felt no joy, because before her lay a vast abyss.

She had already learned all the techniques and moves of her predecessors.

Whether the techniques of Shaolin or Wudang, she had already learned them all.

There was no road ahead!

Just like the predecessors who opened the road, the road ahead needed to be opened by her.

Regarding this, she asked her mother, who had reached the hundred-year limit, how to proceed next.

The previous Sect Leader of the Mo Sect, on her deathbed, told her that the unopened seventh layer of Qi Kun Da Nuo was called 'Killing without Killing'.

Thus, another twenty years passed; at eighty years old, she had some realization.

To comprehend this so-called 'Killing without Killing', she had killed throughout the entire world; heads rolled, and no one under heaven was beyond killing!

Finally, the court, unable to endure any longer, designed a trap to confine her in a valley, charging at her with a massive army of cavalry.

That battle was the one where she came closest to death.

Although perilous, reaching her limits time and again allowed her to achieve sudden enlightenment.

When she, critically wounded and near death, was rescued by her subordinates back to the Holy Sect, in order to seize that faint spark of awareness between life and death, she immediately declared a death-seclusion.

Subsequently, within the Forbidden Land, nineteen years passed in the blink of an eye.

After the battle between the Holy Sect and the Righteous Path began, the various Geda Sects, unable to hold back any longer, were forced to storm into the Forbidden Land.

Inside the Forbidden Land, Dongfang Wuji had lost his former spirited vigor, resembling a senile, dull old man lost in a daze.

After she emerged from seclusion, during a brief moment of clarity, Yang Xiao reported the current situation of the Holy Sect to her.

On the way, Dongfang Wuji saw a man draped in red gauze lying motionless on the ground.

This scene made Dongfang Wuji feel extremely familiar.

It was as if she had seen it countless times before, yet now she could not recall it at all.

"Why is she lying here?" Dongfang Wuji pointed at the man draped in red gauze and asked.

Initially, facing her inquiry, Yang Xiao and several Dharma Kings showed confusion in their eyes.

But amidst her repeated questioning, this confusion immediately turned to shock:

Yang Xiao asked with a trembling voice: "Sect Master, your divine skill covers the world, and the number of people you have killed is incalculable; how can you not even recognize a corpse now?"

With Yang Xiao's words, Dongfang Wuji suddenly saw the light!

Where was the red gauze draped over that man? His entire body was dyed red by fresh blood!

She had actually forgotten how to kill!

At this moment, she could not even remember the appearance of a corpse!

(End of this chapter)