Chapter 373 – Polishing the Sword Before the Battle (Part Two) (2/2)
When Su Li heard this, he understood why this deranged fellow dressed in this red bridal gown wanted to kill him. Turning to Chen Changsheng, he declared, ”This person really wants to kill me, so you must kill him.”
Listening to this very short conversation, Chen Changsheng had not quite understood its full meaning, but he had a rough idea of what was going on—this assassin in a red dancing dress presumably had some relation to Liang Wangsun.
Seeing the approaching Liang Hongzhuang, watching the silk ribbons of his dress dance in the wind, Chen Changsheng's brain rapidly worked, continuously observing, analyzing, and calculating, seeking a gap in that dancing dress.
In order to obtain victory over an opponent, one must understand the opponent. Whether it was the Intellectual Sword or the most ordinary battle, all battles required this. He did not know who this dancer called Liang Hongzhuang was, but he knew about Liang Wangsun.
Liang Wangsun was an expert who ranked very high up in the Proclamation of Liberation, a truly famous person. What sort of famous person could be called a truly famous person? A truly famous person was a person that even an ignorant guy like Chen Changsheng knew of them. That was a truly famous person.
Chen Changsheng had very little understanding of the sects and schools of the cultivation world, but he had a very clear understanding of the Liang bloodline because the Liang clan was the previous Imperial clan. Their cultivation, lifestyle, and blood legacies were all recorded in the annals of the Orthodoxy.
Liang Wangsun's resplendent and extravagant manner, Liang Wangsun's achievements, Liang Wangsun's style of swordplay, Liang Wangsun's attitude towards Wang Po and Xiao Zhang, Liang Wangsun's age, Liang Wangsun's three wives… countless fragments of information floated up from the floor of his sea of consciousness and then flashed before his eyes.
Just like the myriad stars in that star region, they descended down from the night sky to in front of his eyes and began to flicker. In these stars, he needed to find the most crucial space, that single path.
”Can you do it?” Su Li asked.
Chen Changsheng shook his head. His Intellectual Sword had still not reached a polished edge. No, it was more appropriate to say that not even the shape of a sword had begun to form. He couldn't even use it to see the weakness of a Star Condensation cultivator, so how could use it against his enemies?
”If you can't see it, you still have to guess.”
”Senior, since you can do it, why can't you instruct me like before?”
”As I said before, in order to block Xue He's blade, I used up all the strength that I saved up.”
”Does seeing through a Star Domain require strength?”
”How else?”
”I always felt that it didn't make sense.”
”Only when you're so tired that you can't even open your eyes will you have the qualifications to understand this reasoning.”
”Fine, then what should we do next?”
”As I said, you have to guess.”
”Guess?”
”It’s also a wild guess.”
As they were talking, Liang Hongzhuang had already arrived.
Chen Changsheng could no longer hold back. His dagger flashed like lightning out of his sheath, thrusting at the dancing silk ribbons.
On a distant hillside, two furry deer had their heads lowered as they grazed, not even glancing at their location.