Qin Shi: I went astray in the Heavenly Sect

Chapter 221 Branch Picks Jade Liquid River, Entering the Game
On a large blue stone by the Jade Liquid River, two men sat, one wearing a straw hat and the other dressed casually in a robe.

Looking at the shimmering surface of the river, the casually dressed man spoke up: "In the past few years, I know you have gone down the mountain several times. Once you went to the Yin-Yang School, once you went to Xianyang, and once you went to the State of Yan."

“I’ve heard Nongyu mention the Yin-Yang School and the Yan State before. It’s because of two people. But there was no news about Xianyang. Judging from the movements that came from the Empire later, you must have gone to see Ying Zheng. I’m very curious about his answer.”

The man wearing a straw hat sat on a large blue stone, his gaze fixed on the river, motionless.

The man beside him didn't urge him. He leaned back, clasped his hands under his head, and felt the gentle breeze blowing past his ears. His brows relaxed.

After a while, the man spoke again: "Actually, even if you hadn't said it, I would have guessed it. Given his personality, he would naturally not agree to that kind of thing."

"With the unification of the seven kingdoms, only one kingdom remains on this land. Having accomplished such a feat, he will only become more determined on his path, rather than trusting a reclusive martial arts master."

Upon hearing the other person's words, a flicker of emotion finally appeared in the eyes of the other man sitting on the large blue stone.

A successful person is unlikely to listen to others' advice; only those who fail reflect on where they went wrong.

Watching the fishing float bob up and down on the river, he said softly, "Time will give this world a more accurate answer."

The lazy man lying on the large blue stone shook his head.

"But by then, it will be too late; there's no going back in this world."

Suddenly, a wave surged up beneath the fishing float. The man wearing a straw hat exerted a slight force in his hand, and a huge grass carp was flung up.

The man smiled as he looked at the grass carp on the shore.

"I'm lucky today."

The other man who had been lying on the large blue stone scrambled to his feet and then ran off to pick up the fish.

"Our farmer friends are coming over soon, so we can use this to entertain them!"

Upon hearing this, the man in the straw hat chuckled and shook his head.

"I'm curious, which of the farmers is your friend?"

The man didn't care when he heard this; he simply waved his hand and left the other person with his back turned.

"There's no need for Master Qingxu to worry about that. I have friends all over the world!"

Then, the frail-looking man picked up the large fish, which weighed several dozen kilograms, and ran towards a shop located by the river.

The man in the bamboo hat was Qingxu. Seeing the other party's appearance, he narrowed his eyes, and then a voice appeared in Qingze's heart.

"The gears of fate have begun to turn; it's time to meet with those old friends."

Upon hearing this, Qingze suddenly stopped, but he forgot about the big fish on his shoulder. He then stumbled and fell flat on his face.

"asshole!!"

"Qingxu, did you do this on purpose?"

Qingxu chuckled and gave the other person a disgruntled look.

"For someone at the Innate Realm to fall like that, I think you did it on purpose!!"

Upon hearing this, Qingze gave an awkward smile.

However, thinking about what was to come, the shopkeeper didn't care anymore. He then picked up the fish again, took small steps, and ran towards the shop.

As he ran, Qingze started singing.

"Today is a good day, today is a good day, oh my god!!"

Seeing the other person like this, Qingxu's lips twitched. Sometimes, when people are shameless, they are invincible.

After a while.

On the other side of the large blue stone, the space trembled slightly, and a graceful figure appeared. Upon closer inspection, it was a young woman with silver hair flowing in the wind, eyes like a calm, clear pool, delicate skin, and a perfectly proportioned figure. A light green dress accentuated her ethereal and otherworldly charm.

"Junior sister, your cultivation level has become increasingly profound. Even Qingze didn't notice your presence just now."

Qingxu's nostrils flared slightly, a faint fragrance lingering. Then he shook his head and said with a touch of emotion.

The girl glanced at him dismissively.

Looking at the river, she said softly, "Senior brother, Ying Zheng has sent people over again."

Upon hearing the name Ying Zheng, Qingxu frowned slightly. Now that Qin had become the sole hegemon of this land, the weight of those two words had naturally increased considerably.

"What's wrong with him?"

After a while, Qingxu asked softly.

The girl raised her head and looked up at the vast blue sky, which stretched as far as the eye could see. Then she said, "Although he used different reasons, his goal has never changed. Doesn't Senior Brother know that?"

Qingxu casually broke off a willow branch and began to whip it aimlessly across the water, creating ripples on the surface.

He then spoke softly.

“I have heard that there are eight kinds of suffering in a person’s life: birth, old age, sickness, death, being with those you hate, being separated from those you love, not getting what you want, and the five aggregates burning. All these sufferings arise from attachment.”

"Lao Tzu, the founder of Taoism, once said in the Tao Te Ching, 'No misfortune is greater than discontent, and no fault is greater than greed.' He attributed the root of all suffering to a person's desires. In fact, these two arguments are quite similar. When a person is attached to something, he will be blamed."

"Therefore, the patriarch later said, 'The sage does nothing, therefore he is without failure; he does not cling, therefore he is without loss.'"

Hearing Qingxu's words, the girl beside him had a ripple in her eyes. She had been cultivating Taoism for many years and naturally understood the principles, but even now, she had not completely transcended them.

She seemed to know what Qingxu was going to say next, so she didn't interrupt but listened quietly from the side.

Immediately afterward, Qingxu's words came over.

"He asks for too much, yet is unwilling to give up even the slightest thing."

“Everyone has their own attachments. His path is different from mine, so I will not see him again, at least not now.”

With a gentle sweep of her whisk, the girl swept all the fallen leaves from the bank into the river.

A shower of fallen leaves suddenly fell on the river. Looking at the leaf in front of her, the girl said again, "Life is short, like grass and trees in autumn. He wants to see you, that is his obsession. He can pursue it, and no matter what the outcome, he will have no regrets in this life."

"But I don't think my senior brother should run away from this matter."

Qingxu narrowed his eyes, a hint of mockery suddenly appearing at the corners of his eyes.

"Does Junior Sister mean I should kill him?"

The girl was taken aback and remained silent.

To disregard a monarch is something perhaps only this young man in the world could do.

"what ever."

Two more chilling words came from the mouth of this seemingly calm girl.

Qingxu paused in his movements, his lips twitching. He had forgotten that his junior sister's personality was very much like his own; neither he nor she had any sense of loyalty between ruler and subject.

"Did he offend you?"

Upon hearing this, the girl gently shook her head, but then immediately nodded.

"Every time those people come, I have to greet them, even though they're there to see you~~"

Qingxu rubbed his nose and said with some sympathy, "You're the sect leader~"

Upon hearing this, the girl's face darkened, and her eyes twitched uncontrollably. "That's because you don't want to do it; you don't want to do anything."

"The Heavenly Sect does not tolerate idlers!!"

Seeing that the girl's expression was not quite right, Qingxu sighed softly.

"Junior sister, you are mistaken!"

The girl's eyes were deep and unfathomable, which made Qingxu feel a little uneasy. At first, Beimingzi wanted him to be the sect leader, but he declined the position, so the responsibility fell to this girl.

Therefore, to a large extent, this girl became the leader of the Heavenly Sect because of Qingxu. However, after becoming the leader, there were some things she had to do, and over time, she accumulated a lot of resentment.

"Senior brother, you'd better have a reasonable explanation."

Qingxu shook his head.

Then he grasped the willow branch in his hand and gently dipped it into the Jade Liquid River.

The air between heaven and earth churned, like clouds rising above a vast marsh. The moment the willow tips touched the water, the river surface suddenly froze.

The willow branch was reflected on the river surface, and under the sunlight, it showed the scene of "the willow shadow in the water leading him to grow longer".

Then the boy gently lifted the willow branch, causing it to bend slightly. As the willow branch bent, the hundreds of feet of Jade Liquid River were raised by half a foot, as if an invisible giant hand was pulling up a transparent glass ribbon in the air.

The spray burst in mid-air, forming a sudden rain, while fish and shrimp at the bottom of the river swam frozen between the amber-like water walls.

The boy slowly stood up, raised his arm again, and countless waves exploded on the calm river surface, roaring like thunder. The river water surged back, turning into a water curtain tens of feet high.

Thunder rumbled again in the sky and earth. The two girls who were still talking in the small courtyard on the shore seemed to have sensed something and turned around to look back.

With just one glance, the two of them froze on the spot.

Qingze, who had just arrived at the shop entrance, suddenly felt a twitch in his eye. After dropping the large fish, he turned around again.

But when he saw this scene, he plopped down on the ground again.

After a long pause, he managed to squeeze out another sentence.

"Is this kid even human?"

Meanwhile, the people along the Jade Liquid River who witnessed this scene felt as if they were dreaming, and finally exclaimed that a deity had descended to earth and displayed a miracle.

On that unassuming large blue stone, Qingxu turned to look at the girl and asked with a smile, "Is this answer satisfactory, Junior Sister?"

The girl sat there, stunned and speechless by this incredible feat.

In fact, what she said before was just an angry outburst. The fact that Taiyi Mountain can now become a paradise on earth is largely due to the two grandmasters within the sect: one is the Supreme Elder Bei Mingzi, and the other is the person in front of us.

However, seeing the methods the boy displayed, the girl was even more shocked.

As the boy let go, the river water returned to its bed.

"Did you break through again?"

Qingxu tossed away the willow branch in his hand, then sat down again. Hearing the other person's words, he replied in a deep voice, "The way of heaven and earth is vast and profound, and has no end. Perhaps it won't be long before Junior Sister can do it too!"

The girl sighed, a rare look of helplessness on her face.

She has a good sense of whether she can do it, and whether she can do it in a short period of time.

Looking at the rainbow that appeared in the sky, the girl suddenly frowned.

Because a voice resounded in her heart.

"The game that we've been waiting for for seven years has begun. My junior sister has her own things to do, and so do I."

The girl looked away and then at the uncrowned young man beside her. A faint but warm smile appeared in her eyes.

Then, the girl used the same heavenly means to send her words into the boy's heart.

"understood."

After a while, when Qingze returned to the place, it was already deserted. Looking at the Jade Liquid River, which had returned to calm, Qingze couldn't help but shake his head.

"How old are you? Why are you so easily startled? That's not good."

After saying this, he glanced at the fishing rod on the large blue stone, then turned and left.

At the shop's entrance, Mo Xuan watched the earth-shattering scene unfold before him. A powerful aura flashed by, followed by a voice that vanished with the wind.

"The martial world is finally about to be stirred up!!"

At the headquarters in the cape, the manager, Zixuan, looked at the intelligence in her hand with a strange look in her eyes.

She then summoned a subordinate and instructed, "Send the message to Sanhepu!"

The person took the note, didn't dare to delay, gave a slight bow, and then turned and left.

In the Qin Kingdom, at Crescent Moon Valley, Gai Nie tightened his grip on the Abyss Rainbow Sword as he watched the Qin cavalry chasing after him. If he were alone, he would not be afraid of these people. Even if they were well-trained and he could not kill them head-on, he could choose to strike from the shadows.

But a person in his life forced him to confront the situation head-on. This person was none other than Tianming, a young man and descendant of his close friend Jing Ke.

Tianming, destiny—he wasn't sure if the name was a coincidence, but what he needed to do most right now was to remove the cover curse seal that the Yin-Yang School had placed on the other party.

Therefore, his route has never changed: Mount Taiyi.

Along the way, he led the boy on a frantic escape, while secretly observing the boy's aptitude. Fortunately, the boy's aptitude did not disappoint him, so in order to help Tianming survive better in this era, he also began to teach him by example.

Today, he taught Tianming the first thing.

Face the difficulties head-on and forge ahead.

The Hundred-Step Flying Sword once again revealed its fangs to the world. Right here in the Valley of the Crescent Moon, that Abyss Rainbow Sword took the lives of five hundred Qin soldiers.

Watching Gai Nie kill five hundred Qin soldiers single-handedly with a sword, Tianming's mouth gaped open. He had never seen such exaggerated combat power before!

"Uncle, you're really amazing! I heard from those people that they brought a full five hundred people this time!"

"Even five hundred men couldn't stop your sword. I think you're the most powerful person in the world!!"

Upon hearing Tianming's words, Gai Nie took out two pills from his pocket and put them in his mouth.

He has now entered the late stage of the Grandmaster realm, and his combat ability is not weak, but he does not have many large-scale attack methods.

While protecting Tianming, this battle was a Pyrrhic victory.

"There are countless masters in the martial arts world. My skill level is at best above average, far from being the best in the world."

Tianming followed Gai Nie and continued walking into the distance. He glanced at the long sword in the other's hand, his eyes full of curiosity. At this moment, Yuanhong was still stained with blood.

At such a young age, he truly couldn't understand why such a powerful person would admit that he wasn't the best in the world.
"Does that uncle know who is the best in the world?"

Facing the setting sun, the two figures stretched out long, and Gai Nie sighed softly.

"I don't know who is the best in the world, but I do know who is the greatest genius in the world."

“Who is it??”

"He was a highly accomplished Taoist master named Qingxu."

(End of this chapter)