But this young man stood on the Power Upanishad Formation of the Way of the Sword, holding the stone sword as streams of brilliance converged, embodying the Unity of Man and the Heavens, and softly uttered the Taoist music:
"Na like fire."
"Fire adeptly burns all things to ashes and resides where everyone desires, thus contradicting the Path."
These words left millions of spectators from the Golden Apricot in confusion, but face to face, Hua Changdeng was stirred, grasping sothing:
The young ghost in front, was he truly defining "na"?
He was treading a brand new path, one that no one in the Ancient Sword Cultivation World had ever ventured!
Indeed, what this young man said was not incorrect.
Na is like a raging fire, best at burning everything down, and extinguishing alongside what it burns.
Yet in the mundane world of thousands, with spiritual cultivation pursued, who hasn’t chased after fa and fortune?
Dynasties turn to graves, beauties to skeletons.
Who doesn’t know that in the end it’s all just a dream, all becos void, but would one abstain from pursuit during the process?
To speak of nothing else, just the three words "Bazhun’an," if given the faith of the five regions, observed to form notion, the gain in Cultivation Na, one can glimpse a corner.
It is exactly the allure of "na" moving the world, fostering thousands, that makes everyone chase it despite knowing its benefits and dangers.
To succeed is due to na, and to fail is also due to na.
Hua Changdeng certainly crafted the outco of "Bazhun’an’s Na Falling at the Holy Mountain" with his own hands, yet he never expected that a youth of such age before him could understand this layer as well.
However...
He uses "na like fire" to crown his own Way of the Sword.
His path contradicts the Path, claiming na as fire, but displaying it as na like water; it’s like water and fire being incompatible, so how could it bring forth a world-shocking sword, a sword that cuts others?
Hua Changdeng wanted to laugh.
He laughed at the young one’s arrogance, whose words and actions are contradicting, utterly incomprehensible, choosing self-destruction!
But Xu Xiaoshou did not stop.
After his phrase "na like fire," he swung the stone sword in his hand.
The previously gathered streams entwining the sword body shattered into waves, spreading over a hundred miles, a thousand miles, ten thousand miles...spreading infinitely!
At this mont, the ground of the Central Yuan world shifted, seemingly turning into a sea surface.
Under the moonlight, the sea surface glittered with waves, splitting here and there, exuding steam, the vapor ascended into the sky, enveloping all things.
Not just the Central Yuan world!
The entire Ghost Buddha Realm started to ripple with water mist, the vapor rising in the glow of this sword.
Not just the Ghost Buddha Realm!
Soon, in all corners of the five domains, from each place of dirt and filth, places no one cares about, waves of illusion stirred and fa brewed.
"This is..."
Hua Changdeng hesitated.
A lifeti of sword cultivation, he had never witnessed such a scene.
Na gathered from all over the five regions, like sunlight over rivers and seas, mist rising, with the ultimate point of convergence being the unadorned stone sword in the hand of the youth in front!
"Na like fire?"
This wasn’t "na like fire" at all!
This kid was saying the opposite, speaking with beguiling words, attempting to deceive this sword path senior like himself, in order to achieve an "One Sword" to slay the enemy?
But...
Was Xu Xiaoshou really lying?
No, his path, Hua Changdeng could not comprehend.
Or rather, as strong as Hua Changdeng was, he only saw the tip of the iceberg above the sea, only knew where the path of "Ming Sword Skill" lay in superficial fa, without knowing why it rose to fa above.
"Buzz!"
The swords in the five regions sang in resonance.
Xu Xiaoshou held the stone sword, slowly lifting it from his chest, pointing straight at the sky.
The stone sword’s surface revealed Dao Chains.
Amidst the rumbling, the Dao Chains shattered, the sword body leaked silver, the na-light flourished.
At this mont, not just the millions of Golden Apricot spectators, even throughout the five domains of the Shengshen Continent, each Spiritual Cultivator, whoever looked up...
In the Second World, built above the Shengshen Continent.
On that vast sea of Na Mist, enough to cover five regions!
The silver moon hanging high was visible, the fa rose, appearing like a tall building, at the peak stood the Number One Sword Deity, wielding a sword, crowned with "Upper Na" saying:
"Upper na like water!"
"Water adeptly benefits all things yet contends with none, residing where everyone abhors, thus near the Path."
With these words, Hua Changdeng’s color changed drastically.
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