You Really Don't Know?

Boom, boom—the rumble of muffled thunder interrupted Shi Feizhe's sword practice.

He now practiced the Sword Stance in the morning, trained his fists and kicks before noon, and practiced sword techniques in the afternoon. At night, he meditated, then reviewed the day's training to see what he'd missed and make up for it.

The sword techniques in the "Twelve Story Building" were incredibly complex and cumbersome to practice. Only after mastering them could one simplify them, until every sword strike was like a blade wielded by an immortal exiled from the heavens.

At the moment, he was practicing with that guy's long saber. He was training sword techniques anyway—what did it matter what he used?

Fan Jianqiang had told him that this saber was the Night family's ancestral treasure, the "Night Blade." It could slice through iron like mud and kill without a drop of blood staining it.

It would probably fetch a few thousand taels of silver!

Shi Feizhe had wanted to sell it right away, but Fan Jianqiang had said, "The Night family is a tyrant in Jin Yang City to the west. Are you sure you want to sell it?"

"What's wrong with that?"

"After you sell it, you might attract the Night family's attention. With a puny body like yours, heh..." Fan Jianqiang hadn't finished, but Shi Feizhe understood what he meant.

So he kept the saber and used it as a practice weapon, planning to sell it once he was far away from Yi Province. The Night Blade looked ordinary, and only when paired with the Night family's "Night Blade" technique would it display its power. Ordinary people wouldn't recognize it anyway.

"Feizhe! Feizhe! Come out and see the commotion!" Shi Feizhe had just finished maintaining the Night Blade and put it away when he heard Fan Jianqiang shouting from the courtyard.

Damn, no wonder people in this world liked using their fists.

Blades and swords needed to be maintained to keep them from rusting, but fists didn't need a damn thing! Besides, many martial arts techniques were bolstered by true qi, making a punch or kick as deadly as a divine weapon. It was just so convenient.

He wondered whether anyone in this world could make stainless steel by hand and forge famous blades and swords. They'd surely sell like hotcakes and make a fortune!

"Coming! Coming! What's all the commotion?" Shi Feizhe opened the door and saw Fan Jianqiang gazing into the distance, eager for action.

He knew Fan Jianqiang recognized the Night Blade, had seen a lot, and seemed to have a mysterious past. Yet he spent all day lying in bed, too lazy to go outside. It was rather odd.

He only ever went out to watch a commotion!

"They're fighting! They're fighting!" Fan Jianqiang stared toward the distant rumbling.

"It's too far. I can't see anything!" Shi Feizhe looked in that direction too, but couldn't make out a thing.

"Come on! I'll take you to see the show!" Fan Jianqiang said, patting Shi Feizhe on the shoulder.

"Huh? Didn't Yin Tieyan tell us not to leave this compound?"

"Ah, who's got time to worry about us now? Come on, come on!" As he spoke, Fan Jianqiang pulled Shi Feizhe toward the wall and began climbing.

After this stretch of martial arts training, Shi Feizhe was no longer the weakling who'd just left Yi Yang City. He nimbly followed Fan Jianqiang up the wall, and the two of them leaped across the rooftops. After crossing about seven or eight courtyards, they spotted two martial artists fighting in the distance.

"Circulatory Heaven Experts?" Shi Feizhe had seen Circulatory Heaven Experts fight at Three Talents Manor. In the garden courtyard, the two combatants were each surrounded by a colored sphere, and their violent shockwaves had flattened the garden into bare earth.

"You can even recognize the Circulatory Heaven Realm!" Fan Jianqiang said.

"I've seen it before, that's all! Who are they? This is Sun Moon Radiance Sect territory. Aren't they going to do anything?" Shi Feizhe asked.

"Heh... Those two are the sect leader and vice sect leader of Sun Moon Radiance Sect!" Fan Jianqiang said cheerfully. "The older one is Leng Qingqiu, and the one who's a little younger is Leng Qianye. Whoa, that was one hell of a palm strike!"

Shi Feizhe looked over and saw Leng Qingqiu's palm, wrapped in a green sphere, slam into Leng Qianye's head. Blood streamed down Leng Qianye's forehead.

"Not enough! It's still not enough! Brother, this physical pain is less than one ten-thousandth of the pain in our hearts!" Leng Qianye said, his face covered in blood. He countered with a palm, a black sun surrounding it, and struck Leng Qingqiu in the chest, making him cough up blood.

"Little brother, do you think my heart doesn't ache too? Do you think I didn't love her?" Leng Qingqiu shouted angrily.

"Go to hell!" Leng Qianye spun his palm around like the sun and moon, struck Leng Qingqiu across the face, and said, "We've heard enough of your bullshit!"

"You loved her, yet you sent her to that bastard Lan Xuan!"

"But if I hadn't, our Sun Moon Radiance Sect would've been finished!" Leng Qingqiu said, his face streaked with blood. "On one side was the sect our master passed down to us, and on the other was A Ya! How were we supposed to choose!"

"How were we supposed to choose!" He roared, channeling energy through both palms and bringing the sun and moon together as he attacked Leng Qianye. "You're not the sect leader. How would you know the burden of carrying on the sect's legacy?"

"Burden? Burden my ass!" Leng Qianye used the exact same move.

One of them wielded a green sun and a red moon; the other, a black sun and a blue moon. A thunderous boom erupted in the courtyard. The cloud of dust was so immense that Shi Feizhe had to shield himself with his sleeves. The Sun Moon Radiance Sect disciples trying to intervene were no help at all; the blast sent them tumbling in every direction, and some of those who'd been too close were injured.

At their level of cultivation, they were useless against the two sect leaders going at each other. They could do nothing but shout.

The two elders anxiously watched the brothers fight and cried, "Stop fighting! Stop fighting! Talk it out!"

But through the cloud of dust, all they could hear was Leng Qianye's furious roar: "A sect that has to sell a woman to carry on its legacy can go to hell!"

"We'd rather die on our feet than live on our knees!"

"You're so noble, so great! Why don't you go find Lan Xuan!"

"After we beat you to death, we'll go kill that bastard Lan Xuan!"

Then the rumble of another exchange of blows rang out through the smoke!

"Uh... Why do the two leaders of Sun Moon Radiance Sect seem so weird?" Shi Feizhe couldn't help asking after watching for a while.

"They're not weird! They've just gone crazy!"

"Huh? You can go crazy and still become a sect leader?"

"They didn't go crazy in order to become sect leaders. They only started acting nuts in the last couple of days!" Fan Jianqiang looked at Shi Feizhe and said, "You really don't know?"

Shi Feizhe looked utterly bewildered. "What am I supposed to know?"

"That they went crazy after practicing the 'Sun Moon United Heart Art'!"

"Practicing the 'Sun Moon United Heart Art' makes you go crazy?" Shi Feizhe said incredulously.

"Forget it. Pretend I never asked!" Fan Jianqiang couldn't quite tell whether Shi Feizhe genuinely didn't know or was pretending. From his experience wandering the martial world, Shi Feizhe was either hiding his abilities incredibly well or a complete novice.

The scary thing was, a novice like him could accidentally cause trouble for another sect!

Absolutely terrifying!

"Does practicing the 'Sun Moon United Heart Art' really make you go crazy?" Shi Feizhe was still hung up on the question. He continued, "Why did I feel refreshed after practicing it? Nothing happened to me!"

"Don't ask me! I don't know either!" Fan Jianqiang felt exhausted. He couldn't figure it out either.

"Just watch the show. Don't talk!"

Gua! Isn't this exciting!