Chapter 397 - Exhortation (1/2)
Chapter 397: Exhortation
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Old Man Mu’s corpse still could not be found After the fire had died down, le row and co to find evidence of his body, but all they could discover wereto the dozens of soldiers from the Great Snow Formation
As such, Gu Shenwei had to remain in the capital for two e numbers of his men to search for any reround where the forest used to stand, but to no avail
Eventually, everyone had to agree with Shangguan Fei’s deduction: “As the fire raged on, Old Man Mu panicked and triggered one of his booby traps He ended up being cut to shreds by his very own for that pile of bones”
This seemed like the only possible outcome for the old devil Gu Shenwei decided that he could not delay his departure any longer and heto catch up with the uan Ru would stay behind in the Land of Fragrance and rule over the re slave soldiers, the elderly, women and children on behalf of the dead swordsuan Ru had still not given a reply to his unexpected request
Shangguan Fei was evenand more proactive than his sister on this matter He tried to persuade her no less than three tireat opportunity and you shouldn’t o any further, you’ll end up in the sea Stay and be King, no, Queen of the Land of Fragrance Isn’t that a great idea?”
“You won’t find any place better than here See, each season is like Spring and the flowers are flourishi+ng The fruits and vegetables grown here are so abundant that no one can try them all; you only need one kind of food to survive here Furtherreat as well Everyone is educated and polite They are all obedient slaves and knohat they should or shouldn’t do; you needn’t worry about therance is blessed in its current geographic location; easily defensible and surrounded by mountains everywhere To its northwest is a forest inhabited by savages, and the only accessible route is a narrow e to its northeast If you erect a checkpoint there, you can easily defend against a strong army of thousand men even with a hundredthat his sister was not particularly angry, he decided to coovern a country, letand let me stay behind instead To be honest, I have so rance prosper and that its royal line will forever bear the Shangguan name When that happens, why do we even need to return to the Stone Castle for? Here is a bigger, safer Stone Castle”
“Just do it, sister It’s not easy to win the Dragon King’s trust, and if you hesitate further, who knows, souan Ru had been pestered by her brother until she reached her breaking point “Invite the Dragon King and Maid Lotus over,” she told hihted and shouted with joy He was so excited that he was glowing “That’s good We have to work hand in hand i but youngHowever, the e and we cannot welcome them into our country We can only solve this with onesoldier take up to five wives and push theeneration… Oh, you wish to see the Dragon King”
Once the two guests arrived, Shangguan Ru chased her brother, as still feeling excited, away
Shangguan Ru invited the Dragon King and Maid Lotus in She did not want to discuss her decision to stay, rather, she wanted to speak to them about the Blessed Child “I wrote down a copy of his incantation Take it and tally it against the docuh priest; you should be able to piece the eighth chapter together”
She had deduced that when the Holy King was betrayed, he had not believed in anyone again and hence divided the th fro up with an incantation that was ether the entire manual
She placed the stack of papers on her desk but she knew that both the Dragon King and Maid Lotus were naturally suspicious As such, she called the Blessed Child out and asked him to recite the incantation once more “I wrote it down a little hastily and there are probably a few errors We’d better check my copy with the source”
Gu Shenwei believed in Shangguan Ru Furtherh priest were kept in the military camp, and even if she wanted to come up with a fake incantation, there was nowhere for her to begin with Even so, he agreed to let the Blessed Child recite the incantation again
It was one thing to trust soether Gu Shenwei felt that he did not have to offer preferential treathout the past two days, the Blessed Child re to becohtened after having been terrorized by Old Man Mu and stammered as he talked After every few sentences, he would twist his head to look at Shangguan Ru and continue reciting only after being encouraged and comforted by her
He quickly recited the entire incantation, which was a few thousand words long Shangguan Ru had taken perfect dictation Gu Shenas especially interested in the second half of the incantation
The first few hundred words were exactly the sauan Ru had predicted – they seemed like a clue written in some sort of code Not only was it mixed with truth and falsehood, the content was also ju parts within it
But that night, everyone realise so in the first half of the incantation if the Blessed Child had recited more than the first 50 words
However, the content of the incantation changed after 600 hundred words or so; it was no longer a juth cultivation, but a set of exhortations which actually made sense
The creator of the incantation was exhorting his disciples not to practice the Dajue Book of Swordcraft without good reason
Gu Shenwei and Maid Lotus were finally convinced that ‘Dajue Book of Swordcraft’ was the proper title for this unique manual, and that ‘Death Scripture’ was only a description used after
According to the incantation, good and evil come from the sa steel as an example: It could be used to make tools and equipment for the benefit of mankind, such as hoes and picks, but it could also be made into weapons which could harm others and the users as well It also exhorted that the swordcraft taught in the manual was extremely powerful and was the only one in the world, only so force
As for what constituted great wisdom, the incantation provided a simple analysis: if one practiced the Dajue Book of Swordcraft and there were any signs of its effect backfiring, then one should i it
Not only had Gu Shenwei and Maid Lotus experienced said signs while practicing and using swordcraft taught by the book, in fact, but they had also experienced its effects first hand
The insight offered by the incantation was not quite the same as the afterword of the Death Scripture The latter had been painstakingly translated by Master Lianhua into Central Plains Chinese, and it explained that there were sixteen types of possible interpretations andthe scripture No matter which method one chose, one would have to kill to improve on it, and as one’s powers increased, it would only be a matter of time before the effects backfired The way to prevent it would be to decrease the rate of one’s killing to only one per year