370 A Conversation Between Two Geniuses

The glow of the sunset near the horizon slowly disappeared, as did the sunsetglow on the lake. The breeze that blew across the lake became colder andcolder, and the bonfire on the lake shore was already put out. Only ashesremained and there was not much residual heat. Chen Changsheng pulled hisgarment tight, and looked at the lake and mountains for a long time withoutspeaking. Just where was the assassin who did not appear in the end, but couldsuddenly appear at any time? Su Li understood his current feelings and proclaimed, “I have already said,since he decided to wait, he will always continue waiting, waiting like aweak-minded person, all the way until he waits himself to death.” What he said obviously implied some hidden meaning. Chen Changsheng was worried about what would happen if the assassin could notcontinue waiting? He did not believe he had any chance in front of an expertlike that. “Senior… still has some strength?” In the journey from the snowy plains to the south, Su Li did not even walk. Inthe most important moment at dawn today, he had used the Yellow Paper Umbrellato block Xue He’s last blade. This could not help but make Chen Changsheng feela little hopeful. Su Li lectured, “In the past few days, I accumulated a little bit of strengthwith great difficulty, and all of it was used to save your little life in themorning. How can I still have strength? Do you think I am those two tirelessfurry deer?” The two furry deer were on the lake shore not far away. They slept with theirfront legs bent, and seemed to be very warm. “Speaking of which, the final sword you used to heavily injure Xue He… wasvery good. It was actually able to suddenly flick upwards after the swordenergy was used and directly reversed the battle situation. What sword move isthat, actually so awesome?” When Chen Changsheng heard Su Li’s question he felt very speechless. Hethought that there was no way he couldn’t tell what sword move it was? However, just like the other conversations he often had with Su Li, he knew hehad to answer. “It’s… the Burning Heaven Sword.” When he said these three words, he felt very awkward, revealing anuncomfortable expression on his face. However, Su Li seemed to be much more thick-skinned than him and praised, “Theperson who could come up with such a sword move should be very outstanding.” Chen Changsheng could no longer continue. He hugged his knees and lowered hishead, treating it as if he did not hear anything. The Burning Heaven Sword was a secret sword technique of the Mount Li SwordSect. Like the Secret Sword of the Golden Crow, they were all sword techniquescreated by Su Li. He was unwilling to say anymore, so Su Li was no longer able to brag abouthimself. After saying nothing for a while, his expression became stern. Helooked at him and asked expressionlessly, “Why do you know my Burning HeavenSword?” This, indeed, was a problem. Cultivation sects always paid particular attention to not divulging theirtechniques to outsiders. Those who learned their techniques would definitely behunted till death. Besides, the Burning Heaven Sword was not an ordinary swordtechnique of the Mount Li Sword Sect, but a secret move that Su Li had createdhimself. “The Burning Heaven Sword… was recorded in the secrets of the Mount Li Style.” Chen Changsheng’s expression was rather nervous as he explained it to Su Li. Su Li thought back to hundreds of years ago, before the great war had ended,before he had exceeded his master. He was still a naive little boy, and he gavea copy of the extremely powerful sword technique he had created to his teachersunder their request… He looked at Chen Changsheng and said blankly, “So mysecrets of the Mount Li Style are in your hands.” The Mount Li Sword Sect disciples who had participated in the Ivy Festival andthe Grand Examination, such as Gou Hanshi, Guan Feibai and so on, had alreadyconfirmed this matter long ago. However, Su Li travelled everywhere and did notcare about these matters at all, so this was the first time he found out. Whenhe said the secrets of the Mount Li Style, he stared into Chen Changsheng’seyes, and he stressed each of his words extremely clearly, seeming rathersolemn. Chen Changsheng grew up reading in the old temple of the Xining Village, andhe was also by himself after he had entered the Orthodox Academy. He did nothave any teachers or schoolmates, and did not have any understanding of schoolsand sects at all. He naturally did not know what the secrets of the Mount LiStyle meant to Mount Li, so he nodded his head, “I learned Senior’s BurningHeaven Sword from there.” Su Li raised both eyebrows and said, “Only the sword manual is recorded in thesecrets, with only the moves and sword paths. However, there is no method forcirculating the sword essence in there. There is only the form and not theintent, so how did you learn it?” Chen Changsheng answered honestly, “I designed two paths to circulate the trueessence myself, and after my own calculations and deductions, as well as usingit twice, the strength is definitely not as great as Senior’s true BurningHeaven Sword, but it can be used.” Hearing that, Su Li went silent for a very long time. Chen Changsheng asked, “Senior?” Su Li looked at him and said, “No wonder when I saw you use it, it feltslightly weird… you designed it yourself… since when did designing a path forthe sword become such an easy matter? Perhaps you actually are a genius in thepath of the sword?” Chen Changsheng did not dare accept it and said, “It’s all Senior’sintelligence, I just made a few changes.” “Sometimes, changes are even harder than creating it originally. I created theBurning Heaven Sword when I was fourteen, and improved it when I was fifteen. Iam an exceptional genius, so then you could you still be an idiot? To be ableto create your own pathways to circulate true essence, you obviously are agenius, or even a great genius rarely seen even in a thousand years. It’s justthat the people in the capital are idiots, never realizing what they shouldhave been attaching importance to. Probably even Gou Hanshi did not realizeit.” Su Li looked at him and praised, “Only the demi-humans who have differentmeridians from humans but want to use human cultivation methods can roughlyunderstand how great the thing you have done is… no wonder the White Emperorcouple allowed their beloved daughter to become your student, even giving youmy secrets of the Mount Li Style.” Chen Changsheng had never felt that he was very outstanding, other than beingfluent with the Daoist Canon. It was only because people said that Gou Hanshi being fluent with the DaoistCanon was very outstanding that he understood his senior Yu Ren and he himselfwere also very outstanding. Instead, today, there was someone who said that hewas very outstanding in the aspect of cultivation and the path of the sword,even calling him a peerless genius. Also, the person who had said it was apublicly renowned genius himself. This made him feel very surprised, very happyand also slightly disappointed. Afterwards, when he heard Su Li mention the secrets of the Mount Li Styleagain, he finally returned to his senses. He said, “Senior, the secrets of theMount Li Style were given to me by Luoluo, but it’s not mine, so I can’t giveit to you.” Su Li saw that he finally understood what he implied, and was ready to smileand extend his hand to receive the secrets of the Mount Li Style from ChenChangsheng respectfully in an unmindful fashion. At this moment, he wasinforming his master’s spirit in heaven, but something unexpected actuallyhappened… this made him very mad. He thought that he had just praised him, butwas it instead heard by a pig? Chen Changsheng saw that his expression was unpleasant and wanted to ease theatmosphere. He smiled, “Senior cannot fight over stuff with juniors.” He really was not good at speaking. This joke was not funny. If Su Li was about to act at this moment, he would definitely directly takethe secrets of the Mount Li Style off him. As a result, the atmosphere did nottake a good turn, and instead became even more awkward. “My secrets of the Mount Li Style were stolen away by the White Emperor clan.I am only taking it back from them.” Su Li looked at him and said. The way he said it was so righteous that itseemed like it reached the clouds, and pierced a hole in the clouds so the mooncould be seen. However, he knew it was just an excuse, or in other words, a wayout of an embarrassing situation. At this moment, he could not even defeat ChenChangsheng so he was unable to steal it. As a result, he could only not stealit, and leave the matter for later. The problem was that Chen Changsheng did not know. He thought Su Li reallythought like this and asked out of curiosity, “Senior, why haven’t you gone toWhite Emperor City all these years to get the secrets of the Mount Li Styleback?” To him, with Su Li’s level of cultivation and personality, even if the secretsof the Mount Li Sword Style were lost to the White Emperor City, he should havealready killed his way there for it ages ago. As a result, when he asked thisquestion, he had directly pulled Su Li’s path out of the embarrassing situationfrom under his feet.