The canon said, "The hawk of Wenshan turned into a dove, but forgot and cried like a hawk, so the flock drove it away."
In other words, a hawk turned into a dove, but forgot what it was and continued to cry like a hawk. As a result, the flock drove it away.
Having lost the support of a hawk, yet still crying like one—that was an unwise act.
As the third interval of the Awakening of Insects Sword, this style carried the meaning of spring's decline.
Turn the hawk into a dove, and make it unable to cry!
With a distant point, he brought down this style. The Geng Metal Sword in Deng Qi's hand began to waver, its frame crumbling and its Sword Qi scattering!
But Deng Qi simply thrust forward with the momentum. The entire Geng Metal Sword scattered into thousands upon thousands of strands. Countless streams of Geng Metal Sword Qi surged like a swarm of bees, charging toward Yin Wenhua.
Though the hawk had turned into a dove, how could a dove not kill?
If he could not kill as a hawk, then he would kill as a dove.
The densely packed Geng Metal Sword Qi swept through the air like golden needles, piercing awls, and a rain of arrows streaking across the sky.
It filled his field of vision, its killing intent soaring to the heavens.
Yin Wenhua held his sword upright before him, joined the fingers of his left hand, pressed them to the blade, and swept them upward from its base.
A paulownia tree rose tall before him, and white paulownia blossoms bloomed across the sky. They fell like flower-rain, drifting and scattering.
The white paulownia blossoms unfurled by the Sword Qi collided, one after another, with the dark golden threads.
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