382 The Spring Radiance of Xunyang City

Continuing south, they met another three waves of assassins. Chen Changshengcontinued to kill before collapsing. It repeated like this for just a fewtimes, but every time was extremely dangerous. In the process, the assassin LiuQing who always hid in the wilderness never appeared, even to the point whereChen Changsheng sometimes suspected whether they had shaken off the assassin ornot. Although they had already met six assassination attempts, compared to thedifferent forces that were currently searching for them in the surroundings ofthe Tianliang County, it was already the best outcome. Su Li grasped thesituation very well, and also knew very clearly as to where the people thatwanted to kill him would appear. He knew even better on how to handle thesituation, but just where did this skill come from? The choices of the route were all arranged by Su Li. They never went to placeswith a lot of people, but it did not mean that they always traveled in thewilderness. Most of the time, they disguised themselves as ordinary travelers,traveling south with the ordinary people on the road. Chen Changsheng admiredhis arrangements more and more, and began to feel puzzled. One day, when hefinally could not hold back his question, he asked why it was like this. Su Lisaid, “It’s difficult to hide people in the world, but the best place to hidepeople is amongst people, so traveling with people is the safest, and also themost dangerous. The outcome between the two relies on how devoted you are toit.” Chen Changsheng also asked, just what did the heart in ‘relies on how devotedyou are to it’ refer to, and how to make the judgment. Su Li thought about itand replied with, “Just wait for you to kill as many people as me, and have hadas many people try to kill you, and you will naturally develop this ability.”Chen Changsheng thought about it and said that if he needed to be like that tolearn it, it was better to not learn it at all. Regarding the stories and skills for an assassin in the night, Chen Changshengcould not learn it even if he wanted to. He was obviously rather lacking intalent in this area, but his talent in the aspect of the sword began to showits edge with Su Li’s teachings. His grasp of the Intellectual Sword becamegreater and greater, it was just that his spiritual world could not supportitl. His use and control of the Blazing Sword became better and better, but hewas obviously still unable to avoid the great price paid for the blazing trueessence. However, there were another two Star Condensation experts who werefelled by his sword. With this, he had already succeeded in surpassing cultivation realms fivetimes in total. Also, the five times occurred one after another. His opponentsincluded Xue He, a Divine General expert whose name had been renowned long ago,and a tyrant of the north like Lin Pingyuan. Right now, he was still a teenager who was not even sixteen. No one knew whether something like this had occurred in the history of thecultivation world, nor did they know if it was going to occur again. However,at least in the several centuries after Su Li had left the mountain, somethinglike this had never happened. Even he himself could not do it. Of course, thisdid not mean that Chen Changsheng was stronger than Su Li back then, becausethere were many specific differences. These differences included how Su Liplaced most of his efforts on the Garden of Zhou back then, and that he did nothave the chance to undergo so many life-or-death battles with Star Condensationexperts one after another. However, Chen Changsheng’s performance was alreadystrong enough, strong to the point where Su Li was emotionally moved, and thenfelt moved in his heart. One night, Su Li began to teach Chen Changsheng the third sword style. ChenChangsheng only used the time it took to heat the cold meat soup from the nightbefore to memorize it. Su Li looked at him and sighed emotionally, “You reallyare suited to learning the sword.” Chen Changsheng found it rather embarrassing and said, “Senior is flatteringme.” To be suited to learning the sword. This was an extremely high level ofpraise, let alone the fact that it came out of Su Li’s mouth. Su Li looked at him and said, “If I didn’t have Qiushan and… to inherit mylegacy, perhaps I really would have chosen you.” Chen Changsheng clasped his hand, “No need, no need, Junior is the successorof the old school of the Orthodoxy, unable to accept a different master.” Su Li understood Chen Changsheng’s personality. Declining was inevitable andright, just that he declined so fast, without even the slightest hesitance fromshowing fake sincerity. It still made him rather uncomfortable. As a result, he analyzed the six battles that Chen Changsheng had fought. Heused detailed and accurate numbers and calculations, before finally coming upwith a conclusion, “You are just lucky, otherwise you would be dead long ago.What right do you have to be pleased with yourself?” Chen Changsheng thought about it and could not help but admit that this wasso. The most important reason as to why he and Su Li could survive until nowwas not because of Su Li’s insight, the techniques Su Li had taught or histalent in the path of the sword, but rather luck… along the way, Su Li hadalready praised his luck, or in other words, his good karma, several times. Hesaid with certainty that since both Chen Changsheng and he were people of greatkarma, if they traveled together, it would have been difficult to even thinkabout death. He had become slightly numb from how many times that Su Li hadsaid this, and during this time, Chen Changsheng had even already begun toaccept that his fate was very good. It just was that he thought how hisfate was really was not good at all, which often made him feel great perplexity. After eating the leftover meat soup from the night before, Chen Changshengpulled his clothes tightly, and rubbed his cheeks that were pale because he wasfrail. He began to quietly comprehend the third sword that Su Li had taughthim, unwilling to waste even a bit of time. Su Li leaned on the back of thefurry deer, looked at the teenager and said nothing for a very long time,before looking to the south and thinking silently. “Qiushan, a pretty good guy appeared behind you. You must run a little faster,otherwise, you really will be caught up by him.” The flight through the wilderness and main road finally ended. The two of themhad arrived outside Xunyang City. Chen Changsheng gifted the two furry deer toa farmer outside the city and took out silver taels and the dagger. Hethreatened and bribed the farmer to not reveal any information, and to properlylook after the two furry deer. Su Li looked at the scene with a face ofridicule, but he did not say anything. Xunyang City was the first major city in the north of Tianliang County. Thecity was bustling and very lively. Su Li and Chen Changsheng disguisedthemselves as ordinary travelers and snuck into the city soundlessly. Theyfound an inn to live in, and actually were not discovered by anyone. This wasthe first time Chen Changsheng had slept in a bed after entering the Garden ofZhou. He laid his head on the pillow and began to snore, just like how Su Lislept soundly in the hot springs of the snowy mountain range. He slept for anentire day and night. From this, it could be seen just how great of a mentalpressure he was under during the journey, and just how exhausted he had become. After waking up, Chen Changsheng walked to the window. He looked at the livelystreet of Xunyang City without saying a word for a very long time, and feltthat they could not continue like this, because he really was very tired, veryweak—he did not want to continue the journey, and then wait for the assassinsand experts to appear wave after wave. He disliked waiting for the unknown, anddisliked the feeling. He found Su Li and said, “There have been a lot of peoplewho have come to the Tianliang County. I believe the people of the Mount LiSword Sect would have already received the news, and since it’s like that, whyare we still concealing our tracks?” Su Li said, “I said, I only trust myself.” Chen Changsheng said nothing. On the journey, he saw very clearly that on the surface, Su Li was a veryunorganized, or even sometimes loveable Senior, an able person. However, he wasactually just like his name, very detached from the world. Su Li did notbelieve in human nature, did not believe in the will of the people and did notbelieve in his world. He did not communicate with the world, so he would neverask the world for help. He had already traveled by himself for centuries. However, Chen Changsheng did not want to travel like this. He always believedthat if he was kind to the world, the world would be kind to him. When he sawthe green mountains to be charming, the green mountains would also find himpleasing to look at. “If we continue like this, we will suffer great losses. All the people we meetwill be enemies, without a single helper at all.” “Where are the helpers?” “The world is formed from the dark night and the daytime. In the days before,we always traveled in the dark night, so all we saw was the color of the night,and all we met was darkness. However, if we walked under the sun, perhaps wecan see sunlight.” Chen Changsheng looked at Su Li and said very seriously,“Why is Senior unwilling to try it?” Su Li said, “Where did you find this rotten poetic act? I don’t want to use mylife to go prove that you’re wrong.” Chen Changsheng said, “But I really want to prove that Senior is wrong.” Su Li raised his eyebrows and said while looking at him, “Don’t even think ofacting unruly.” Chen Changsheng asked, “What is acting unruly?” Su Li was very angry and said, “I know what you’re up to, brat. Don’t forgetthat this is my life, and my life belongs to me and not the heavens, let aloneyou!” “But… isn’t it because of my hard work that Senior is able to live until now?” Chen Changsheng looked at him earnestly with bright eyes. He seemed very cute,but in Su Li’s eyes, he seemed very repulsive. Su Li felt his hand go slightly cold, and yelled with a suppressed voice, “Youcrazy bastard, I…” Before he had even finished, Chen Changsheng directly walked to the window andused his two hands to push open the window. In the Xunyang City of late spring, it was filled with noises, and the springsun shone brightly. As the window was pushed open, sunlight and the spring breeze flowed into theroom, illuminating the gloomy, dark night. A yell that was clear and bright like the spring radiance resounded in thestreet of Xunyang City.