Chapter 1365 — Slaying Foes in Succession
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In Wendao Academy, the talented gathered like clouds: Earth Virtue Primordial Sovereign Gongsun Yan, Emperor Yunluo Wei Suifeng, Village Head Su Muzhe, and Yun Juanshu, Yu Chenzi, and others—all geniuses rarely found in the world. At this moment the Village Head was playing chess with Crown Prince Youming, discussing sword arts and divine abilities along the way, while Yu Chenzi sat to one side watching the game.
When Xiao Chujue entered, the Village Head rose, scattered the chess pieces, and said with a laugh, "Everyone, this is Xiao Chujue, a peerless genius I discovered recently—his swordsmanship is divine! " Crown Prince Youming was quite displeased and said in a muffled voice, "You—when you cannot beat me at chess, you resort to tricks. Yu Chenzi, you tell me, who won this game?
" Yu Chenzi said modestly, "My chess skill is too poor to tell. Xiao Chujue is indeed a prodigy of the sword.
He once went to pay respects to Dao Lord Lin Xuan; in half a year he comprehended our Daoist sect's Dao Sword up to the seventeenth chapter. Dao Lord Lin Xuan praised him greatly as well. " Crown Prince Youming looked Xiao Chujue up and down.
"So remarkable?
" "About the same as Jiang Baigui in his day.
" The Village Head was also very pleased with Xiao Chujue. Taking the stack of books from his hands, he said, "Chujue's aptitude and comprehension are both excellent. When Jiang Baigui studied the Dao Sword and the Buddhist Dharma, he too mastered them with ease, grasping one thing and inferring the rest—that is how he became the Sword God of his day.
" Crown Prince Youming thought of Shen Mu and asked curiously, "Comparable to Jiang Baigui—that would be the aptitude of a sage born once in five hundred years. Then how does Chujue's aptitude and comprehension compare to Heavenly Venerable Mu's? Heavenly Venerable Mu is also a genius of the sword; I have seen his swordsmanship, and it is formidable indeed. I hear Sword Eighteen and Sword Nineteen were both his creations!
" "Shen'er's aptitude and comprehension are not quite top-tier—a bit inferior to both Jiang Baigui and Chujue.
" The Village Head said, "What makes him strong is his boundless curiosity—anything unknown, he must investigate.
" He opened the books and saw that they were all his own works, writings on Sword Twenty and insights into the domain of the sword. Though Xiao Chujue was the finest genius of Jingping's younger generation, he had after all been born only recently, and Jingping's sword arts and sword dao advanced with each passing day—no sooner had one learned the old than the new appeared, so that even he could not master it all in a short time.
Especially the sword dao. Jingping's sword arts and divine abilities numbered in the countless millions, and its attainments in the sword dao were terrifying beyond measure. The most formidable among them was Su Muzhe, head of Wendao Academy, who had been Heavenly Venerable Mu's first teacher in the sword dao.
After Kaihuang traveled through Jingping and brought Sword Twenty back to Jingping, Village Head Su Muzhe's sword dao reached an unprecedented height—especially after the Dao Realm spread to Jingping as well, which elevated him enormously.
His becoming head of Wendao Academy was also because he wrote books and spread the dao; his General Explanation of Basic Sword Forms set forth Sword One through Sword Twenty with perfect clarity. Beyond that, he had also written the Sword Canon and Sword Domain, as well as, in collaboration with Zaifu and Kuisou, the Dao Realm and Dao Domain and other works.
A few decades ago, these books would have been secret manuals enough to plunge the world into chaos! Even if taken to today's Heavenly Court, they would be enough to provoke one bloody storm after another!
If they spread to all the heavens and myriad worlds, who knew what terrifying slaughter they might cause! Yet the Village Head and the others had made them public, not forbidding others to read them.