Chapter 1534 — A Single Sword Pierces the Firmament, the Heart of Dao Mirrors the Cold Frost
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Yan Yunxi and Emperor Shitian hurried to follow him. Yan Yunxi said softly, "Did Your Majesty yield to him? He cut off a strand of your hair — with his strength, that should have been impossible."
Kai Huang shook his head and said lightly, "I yielded to him in cultivation, but not in the sword dao. The sword dao is the way of attack; he had the qualification and the strength to sever a strand of my hair."
His face was calm. "I do not wish to become the Ten Heavenly Venerables of the sword dao. Not now, and not in the future."
"The Ten Heavenly Venerables of the sword dao?"
Yan Yunxi was startled, then understood his meaning: to shackle those who come after, to grip power firmly, to hold the resources, to control everything, to leave those who come after no hope of surpassing him — was that not precisely the Ten Heavenly Venerables?
Whether Kai Huang had yielded a move to the village head Su Muzhe, Yan Yunxi could not tell; both Kai Huang and the village head surpassed her by far in sword-dao attainment.
But she could feel that state of mind in Kai Huang — the state of mind of one who has attained the dao.
Such a realm was beyond the reach of the Ten Heavenly Venerables.
Emperor Shitian Li Youran looked back toward the Heaven Yin Realm. In the Dao Fire Ancestral Ground of the Heaven Yin Realm, a towering, mighty figure stood amid layer upon layer of dao fire, his dao-realm growing ever deeper.
He could feel the way of forging advancing without cease, perfecting itself without cease.
He was no longer the First Heavenly Artisan.
Someone who came after had surpassed him — and yet in his heart there was endless joy.