When Li Guxian withdrew her long sword, the motion flowed on without end, like a long rainbow drawing in its head and tail one after another. Her movements were smooth as drifting clouds and flowing water, steady and exceptionally resilient, yet the sword technique itself was utterly absent of restraint, carefree and unrestrained. Within that archaic zither music, it seemed as though time itself had been wiped away, leaving me endlessly savoring it.
The final note came to a halt. The time that had been still seemed to recover all at once. Li Guxian's skirt, light as willow catkins, once again billowed in the wind, while He Caoqin, dressed in black, slowly carried his zither onto his back. After standing, he nodded at me.
I clasped my hands and bowed in return, counting it as having made his acquaintance. This man's cultivation was astonishingly high. Aside from being certain that he had reached the Chaotic Realm, I actually had no idea which stage of the Chaotic Realm he had attained. I only knew that his every movement was ethereal, as though he might ascend to immortality at any moment, carrying a uniquely unrestrained elegance.
"You understood it?" Li Guxian flicked her sword and sent it into her sleeve, a faint, refined smile appearing at the corners of her lips.
I slowly nodded. "The Heavenly Dao Laws. Like a single leaf of reincarnation, like the myriad phenomena of the forest of hell."
"Hehe, it seems you comprehended quite a few of the truths within it. All the sword paths under heaven evolved from the Heavenly Dao, transforming into ten thousand sword paths. Taking the sword path as law gave rise to the myriad laws under heaven. When the sword returns to its origin as the Laws, it becomes the ancestor of