Gu Chen helplessly tapped Baili Dongjun.
"Dao cannot be passed on lightly. Don't tell me you don't understand that principle?"
But at that moment.
Jiang Mu Ming, who had finished packing his belongings, spoke up. "Baili Dongjun is a heaven-blessed genius. I do indeed possess a dao to pass on to him."
"But now is not yet the time."
Jiang Mu Ming smiled mysteriously. "It must wait until he truly takes Li Changsheng as his master."
"Until he understands what true swordsmanship is."
"At that time, I'll pass on to him a move embodying the ultimate realm of true sword dao!"
That was... a sword that came from three thousand li away.
That was... a sword capable of scattering the clouds and mist shrouding an entire mountain!
It was also... a sword that could move mountains, overturn seas, subdue demons, suppress fiends, command gods, pluck stars, sever rivers, crush cities, and split open the heavens!
Ten days later.
Just as Baili Dongjun was bidding farewell to the people of Marquis Zhenxi's Manor.
Jiang Mu Ming had already set off.
He had embarked on the road to Tian Qi City.
Others had their own jianghu.
Jiang Mu Ming had his own jianghu as well.
By the roadside stood a teahouse.
A group of jianghu heroes had gathered there.
Yet what they discussed was not blades, spears, or cudgels, but a novel that had just arrived from the Southwest Dao.
Its title was Lin Ye!
It told the story of a youth named Ning Que Wu Lan, who entered the Academy and opened the door to cultivation.
Just as the fate of the nation was in peril and the realm was beset by storms.
A group of people did everything in their power to turn the tide and save the crisis.
In the book, there was the Sword Saint Liu Bai, the Sword of the Mortal Realm who wielded the Great River Sword Intent.
There was also Li Manman, who heard the dao in the morning and entered the dao by evening.
And then there was The Master, the strongest existence throughout the ages, who disregarded all rules and had lived in the mortal world for a thousand years.
They had all given the people far too many shocks.
They had also shattered people's imaginations of the strong. It turned out that there truly could be a sword that brought the waters of the Great River down from the heavens.
It turned out that there truly could be someone who, through his own power alone, stood against the entire world.
When had the people of the Shaobai World ever seen such a magnificent world? Thus, as soon as Lin Ye was released, it caused a sensation throughout the land.
Even though the Yan Family of the Southwest Dao had increased its printing efforts.
It still could not meet the overwhelming demand.
Who knew how many people fought simply to obtain a copy of Lin Ye, or to read its continuation.
Some even came to blows.
There were also some jianghu travelers who wanted to read the rest of the book.
They ran straight to the Yan Family of the Southwest Dao.
They wanted to meet the person who had written Lin Ye and signed it under the name Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng, and find out who he really was.
The Yan Family, already badly weakened by the earlier Gu-Yan Conflict, could hardly withstand the questions of so many jianghu travelers.
But at the critical moment.
The current head of the Yan Family, Yan Liuli, stepped forward.
Although she was a woman.
No one knew where she had learned such powerful martial arts, but with only a few moves, she beat those jianghu travelers back.
It was said that some of them were even experts of the Free Earth Realm.
And Yan Liuli, the head of the Yan Family, had only been practicing martial arts for a month.
She was truly a heaven-blessed genius.
"Have you heard? They say someone once saw the Heavenly Stream God Finger from the book."
"It happened at the wedding banquet between the Gu Family and the Yan Family in the Southwest Dao."
Inside the teahouse.
Someone suddenly spoke in a hushed voice.
He sounded as though he were revealing some earth-shattering secret.
Everyone was drawn over. Though they were utterly fascinated by the world in the book, claiming that such a world truly existed—
That was obviously a joke.
Although the Nine Provinces were vast, Northern Li, where they lived, occupied only a remote corner.
No one even knew how large the world really was.
But did the world in Lin Ye truly exist? That was simply too absurd!
The powerful figures in it were genuine cultivators with abilities that reached the heavens and penetrated the earth!
"You don't believe me?" The man immediately grew indignant.
He raised his voice. "Quite a few people saw it that day! In front of everyone at the wedding banquet, that person used the Heavenly Stream God Finger."
"And according to what I heard, that person only struck because the current head of the Yan Family, Yan Liuli, requested it!"
The crowd was stunned.
This truly was an earth-shattering secret!
If the Heavenly Stream God Finger had genuinely appeared in this world—
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