Chapter 156 Sword Will (2/2)
The Daoist was Grandmaster Yuan Qing, and Shen Lian had realized that too. In fact, the Grandmaster Yuan Qing used to be the sword that was buried in the raging sea of blood.
When he realized that, the ”Yuan” jumped off the page and imprinted itself on the back of his right hand. The blood-red ”Yuan” started to fade away, and it became a sword will that was hard to describe.
The sword will be full of life and seemed as though it can wipe off any living creature in the world. It traveled in his body and the Qi of resentful spirits that were hard to pinpoint appeared without any premonition. The Qi was immediately wrecked apart by the sword will, and no trace of it could be found. This was the resentment left behind by Xiao Shiyi after his death, and Shen Lian finally understood it. So this hint of resentment was the trigger used by the person in bloody clothes.
It was a sin to kill, and the resentment of the living creature would attach itself to the killer. Some used the resentment to power themselves up, just as how the tiger made used of the spirits of those whom it had killed. Some needed different techniques to eliminate the resentment in order to stop it from affecting their cultivation process.
Most expert Daoists would refrain from killing too many living creatures, as the resentment of the living creatures was considered as a karmic hindrance. In small amount, the karmic hindrance was negligible to cultivators. However, a huge amount of karmic hindrance would serve as a significant obstacle. Unless one had special martial exercises and remained unaffected, otherwise it would not be worth it to waste both time and effort to search for methods to eliminate it.
Chen Jianmei had killed a significant amount of living creatures and yet he remained unaffected. It would seem that it was related to the sword will that he mastered. The sword will could wipe out the resentment completely.
When the resentment was eliminated, Shen Lian felt that he was relieved of a great burden. Even more so, he was intrigued by the person in bloody clothes’ techniques. To think that he was able to invade into Shen Lian’s body through the resentment of the living creatures, and to beat Shen Lian with the Mana he stole from Shen Lian.
The person in bloody clothes probably had laid down some sort of techniques on the person killed by Shen Lian. This was how he was able to control the resentment left behind with his mind and to send it into Shen Lian’s body in an unnoticeable manner.
Everything happened for a reason. Shen Lian knew about this, but he could not understand the person’s motive.
Moreover, the Blood Dissipating Sword had something to do with Grandmaster Yuan Qing’s sword will, and this was even more confusing for Shen Lian. It seemed that the meaning of Dharma was activated by the essence of the Blood Dissipating Sword, and was turned into sword will. Shen Lian was benefited from it.
Chen Jianmei might have wanted to leave behind the meaning of Dharma to Shen Lian, or anyone who came from Qing Xuan back in that day. Shen Lian was not sure if Chen Jianmei predicted this, or if he was merely acting on instinct.
The door swung open slowly. It was Qianmo who opened the door by creating an air current through the flapping of its wings.
The winter snow fell, and the mountain was quiet. This was the kind of peace and quiet that Daoists often talked about.
Shen Lian saw Xiaoxun flying out to look for food. Indeed, the early bird gets the worms. But in this case, the early bird was catching worms for another bird.
The incident last night seemed to have taken a toll on Qianmo. It looked sickly even after it had woken up. It leaned on the door without much spirit.
Despite that Shen Lian still had not recuperated, he was not exhausted. With a wave of his hand, he sent Taixu Divine Qi in front of Qianmo. Qianmo was excited and opened its mouth to consume the Taixu Divine Qi immediately. Qianmo looked satisfied.