Ma Zhibin froze, then asked Chen Xun, "That line has quite an imposing air. Where did it come from?"
"Old Xun, apart from you, everyone in your Chen Clan is a literary talent, roaming freely through the world of words."
"Who wrote that? I don't believe you could come up with a line like that."
The third-generation patriarch, Chen Shiwen, had built upon the Sword Shadow Form created by his father, the second-generation patriarch Chen Qian, to develop its advanced application, the Singing Chant Method, which used poetry as incantations.
Chen Shiwen had loved reading and enjoyed writing. He had even concealed his identity and spent a long time at the Heaven Dou Empire's Wenhua Academy.
Before his death, he had left behind a couplet: "A martial soul carries the family legacy far; poetry and books sustain its generations long." It told his descendants that inheritors of the Seven Kill Sword martial soul should not only read widely, strengthening their mental resolve to effectively suppress the sword's corrosive influence, but also keep learning, carrying forward the past and opening the way to the future. Only then could their family flourish and prosper without decline.
From then on, the Chen Clan had embraced a family tradition of passing down poetry and learning, one that continued to benefit the entire family immensely.
Members of the Chen Clan were educated from childhood, gradually studying poetry, songs, rhapsodies, and beautifully crafted prose.
Their studies covered five main fields: literary composition, textual research, philosophical principles, exegesis, and statecraft-the art of governing a nation and aiding the world.
Thus, the Chen Clan had always embodied the saying that a heart filled with poetry and books naturally shone with refinement. Combined with the swordsman's aura imparted by their martial souls, their bearing and sheer presence were off