Chapter 535
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Chapter 535: The Forbidden Realm of the Sword Saint
“Instructor Yuan.”
“Hello, Instructor Yuan.”
“Instructor Yuan, what happened to the Rolex I gave you before? Why aren’t you wearing it today?”
“…”
Yuan Gang’s mouth twitched slightly, “You little fatty, how dare you bring up that Rolex? You secretly stuffed it into my pocket, and I almost got a reprimand because of it.”
Baili Pangpang laughed carelessly, and everyone took their seats in turn.
Yuan Gang shouted towards the barbecue shop behind him, and soon, plates of barbecue were brought out from the shop.
“Instructor Yuan, I didn’t expect you to like this kind of food!” Lin Qiye asked curiously.
Yuan Gang smiled, “After being a soldier for so long, I’ve come to enjoy the lively atmosphere of eating like this. The ambiance of high-end restaurants makes me feel uncomfortable; unless necessary, I generally don’t go to those places.”
“Exactly! Why go to fancy restaurants? Isn’t barbecue delicious?” Baili Pangpang chimed in.
Cao Yuan silently rolled his eyes at Baili Pangpang, the fence-sitter.
Yuan Gang pulled out some beers from a box and handed them to everyone, while he sighed:
“You little rascals, when you first entered the training camp, you were just clueless kids, especially you, the money-spending fatty, and the rebellious Shen Qingzhu. You two were simply the nightmares of that batch of instructors; every time I saw you, I got angry…”
Shen Qingzhu took the beer bottle, smiled awkwardly, and pulled out a cigarette from his pocket. “Instructor Yuan, want one?”
“I don’t smoke.” Yuan Gang waved his hand, “You should stay away from this stuff too. You’re all going to be special team members; you shouldn’t be messing around every day…”
Shen Qingzhu silently tossed the cigarette pack into the trash can.
“Who would have thought that in just two years, you’d already be qualified to challenge our team…” Yuan Gang said with a smile.
“Thanks to your excellent teaching.” Baili Pangpang threw in another compliment.
“Where’s Jiang Er?” Yuan Gang looked around, “Isn’t she in your team too?”
“Hello, Instructor Yuan.”
A girl’s voice came from the MP3 on the table, and Yuan Gang froze in place.
He only had the list of the fifth reserve team members but didn’t have any information about them, so he was not familiar with Jiang Er’s situation.
The others briefly explained Jiang Er’s situation, of course, omitting the bloody parts, but after Yuan Gang listened, he still fell into silence.
“Jiang Er, you…”
After a long while, Yuan Gang finally spoke slowly, wanting to comfort Jiang Er.
At that moment, the girl’s light laughter came from the MP3, “Instructor Yuan, you don’t need to worry about me. I’m doing well now; at least I’m much freer than before and can do many things I couldn’t do before… By the way, who is that ‘29,163,36D Li Xiaomei’ you have pinned on WeChat?”
Yuan Gang’s expression suddenly froze.
The expressions of everyone became subtle.
“Just a friend… just a friend…” Yuan Gang quietly took a sip of beer, trying to brush it off.
Everyone burst into laughter, eating the fragrant barbecue on the table and chatting about the interesting things from these years, as time passed little by little…
Finally, Lin Qiye put down the beer bottle in his hand.
“Instructor Yuan, how much do you know about the Sword Saint?”
Yuan Gang was slightly taken aback, “I know a bit. I’ve met him twice; apart from not liking to communicate with people, I don’t know much about his personality…”
“What else?”
“Anything else?” Yuan Gang thought for a moment, “I also attended a meeting related to him once.”
“A meeting?” Lin Qiye and the others exchanged glances, “What meeting?”
“It was a meeting with several experts on the Forbidden Ruins and some high-level Night Watchers to discuss the Sword Saint’s Forbidden Ruins. We assessed his Forbidden Ruins and named it, agreeing on the sequence of the Forbidden Ruins.”
The Sword Saint’s Forbidden Ruins?
Everyone immediately became interested.
“What exactly is the Sword Saint’s Forbidden Ruins?” Cao Yuan couldn’t help but ask.
Yuan Gang looked at them suspiciously, “He’s been your teacher for a few months, and you don’t even know what his Forbidden Ruins are?”
Lin Qiye and the others shook their heads, “It’s not that we didn’t want to ask; it’s just that he doesn’t even know what his Forbidden Ruins are…”
“No wonder.” Yuan Gang nodded, seemingly not surprised by this.
“The Sword Saint’s Forbidden Ruins is a unique existence in human history; it has never appeared before, and this Forbidden Ruins… is quite peculiar.”
“Peculiar?”
Lin Qiye asked curiously upon hearing this description.
What does “peculiar” mean?
“The strength of this Forbidden Ruins is not determined by the Forbidden Ruins itself but by the owner. If you say it’s weak, it can still create a Sword Saint; if you say it’s strong, it seems to have no substantial lethality.
In fact, we’re not even sure if the Sword Saint really has a Forbidden Ruins.”
Yuan Gang paused and slowly said:
“His Forbidden Ruins is of sequence 333…【Glazed Heart of a Child】.”
“Sequence 333? That’s too low, right?” Baili Pangpang’s eyes widened.
“That’s why this Forbidden Ruins is so peculiar.” Yuan Gang nodded, “The only function of this Forbidden Ruins is… to make a person’s mind and thoughts as pure as glass, free of any impurities, not lying, not doing evil, and not harboring evil thoughts, allowing them to fully immerse themselves in whatever they do.
Do you know how the Sword Saint learned to wield a sword?”
“By reading novels,” everyone answered in unison.
“Exactly, by reading novels.
When he reads novels, he subconsciously immerses himself in the role without any reservations, allowing himself to become the character and experience everything depicted in the book in another world… Although these experiences are fictional, in his world, they are real.
He reads the book as a participant, feeling the joys and sorrows of each character, and among all these characters, his favorite is the sword cultivator.
The sword is clear, pure, gentle yet powerful,
Just like him.”
Yuan Gang took a sip of beer and continued, “Thus, he began to immerse himself in the role of the sword cultivator in the book, experiencing their every moment of joy and vengeance, every despair, every breakthrough in battle, and every moment of dedicated cultivation…
Although the sword techniques and sword energies recorded in the book are fictional, he truly comprehended the essence of the sword, which is ‘intention.’
Through the snippets in the book, he created various sword techniques and realized sword energy, subtly relying on a clear sword heart, breaking through to become the pinnacle of humanity…
If it weren’t for a ‘mysterious’ entity from the ‘Sea’ realm suddenly appearing in Xijin City a few years ago, which he casually killed with a sword, perhaps the Night Watchers would never have discovered that such a genius was hidden in an ordinary local restaurant.”
